Pentecostal Fellowship of Madonna, Okija

FOUNDATION SCHOOL DAY 2013

THEME: SECOND TOUCH

SEEK GOD IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH

by

EKPO ANIEMA

GVMC.

A life centered on God is fulfilling, and can be richer and more bearable when we are faced with disabilities, sickness, or handicaps. Being young is exciting. But excitement of youth can become a barrier to closeness with God if it makes young people focus on passing pleasures instead of eternal values. Make your strength available to God when it is still yours during your youthful years. Don’t waste it on evil or meaningless activities that become bad habits and make you callous. Seek God now!!!

    The bible says in Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you”

We must put God first over all we do and in how we behave because without Him we have nothing. Realizing that life is useless without Him.

    No matter what mysteries and apparent contradictions of life are, we must work towards the single purpose of knowing God. As a youth enjoy life but this should not exempt you from obeying Gods commands. The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom. Heed his words in your heart and it will guide you, search for purpose and meaning in life, but these cannot be found in human endeavors.

   Finally, in all these maintain a positive attitude and strong faith in God, remember, He says in Revelation 22:12 “and behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be”. GOD BLESS YOU.

 

PROMISED LAND

by

AKPOWAN SANDRA

The only way to get to your promised land is through the wilderness, you must learn to:

Ø Trust God daily for what you need.

Ø Discover His power in situations of life.

Ø Learn how to be lead by him.

Ø Keep your eyes on your destiny and move steadily towards it.

Refuse to become like those who murmur, complain, and never make it.

WHAT IS SHADOW BELIEF?

This is the committee in your head that tells you are not able or worthy or that you’ll never make it.

  “What is your shadow belief?”

THE STAGES TO SUCCESS

First and foremost, “winning can only start with beginning”. A person who wants success must be ready to pay the price I.e. see success where others see only failure. In order to achieve your purpose in life, you must be ready to follow the “God of season”.

Stage1: Now there is a WINTER time in GOD. It is also season for preparation, revelation and direction. It is also the time the roots grow. God wants to establish the right foundation in you during this season, but there is no harvest now.

Stage2: There is a spring time in God. It is a time for planting, hoeing and nurturing, in other words, hard work, God wants you to work your plan, but yet there is no harvest in springtime.

Stage3: There is a SUMMER time in God. It is a time of great growth. Now, it is a time when activity interest and people begin to surround your God given idea. For all the activity of summer, there is only a minimal harvest.

Stage4: This is the stage of AUTUMN, and this is Gods harvest time. It is during this season that the harvest is reaped in much greater proportion than the work or activity expended, but most people often end up quitting along the way because they didn’t know which season they are.       

                       

ME AND YOU: MYTH OR REALITY

by

UYAI, K

No matter how long you stay,

The perfect lady will always stand you up.

Wanna know why this is fate?

She doesn’t exist.

Every promise made gives room for another break.

The blindness of love doesn’t let you what is at stake.

You have a right to be happy.

I just love the sons of Issachar,

They understood time.

It’s more than her cute face, her stunning smile,

Her wonderful curves and even how spiritual she is

Shola, Sheyi, Funke, Ashley and Anita

Will make you happy, but the end is kata kata

Chioma, Chinyere, Ada, Amaka, Ijeoma and Ifeoma will look so perfect, but you’d still say at the end,

They won’t they be?

When they are the judge of their own cause.

If you don’t wanna make it work,

Why waste your time

If you are not ready

Why waste her time

Relationship is not Bollywood or Nollywood

Please stop acting drama

No more tears, no more walking out on her

No more slapping her in public or even in private

No more getting angry and not able to read or eat.

If you can’t handle it, please get out.

Again, you have a right to be happy

Wisdom is profitable to direct

Paul would say

“All things are lawful,

But not all things are expedient”.

Even marriage is not for all.

TATAFOR KORNER

As usual we don show today, my people una good morning oh!!! How una dey??, I believe say everybody weekend bam wella sake of say my own been make sense , I believe say everybody own suppose make sense too. Make we start from Sunday as of 3^rd November 2013, If I tel una ay I no enjoy am I de lie be that. Starting from sisiters day, the drama to the preaching, everything make sense because me I learn plenty things!!. I gree say baba God go gire them the grace to continue to encourage us.

    As of afternoon time weather begin form face o!! Cloud began change cloth from white to blue and to navy blue, I remember say them been talk of eclipse of the sun, una for need see girls for main hostel, them began shout like say na angel Gabriel come down come share money. Some of them start to use bucket of water dey check whether the moon don dey chance the sun while people wey get sun shade use their own dey look. I no say I follow jump sake of say once in a while person get to play for this ground. We praise baba God say we dey alive to witness the eclipse of the sun.

As of memory the elele movement commence I think God say people gree go because on how them no gree go, dem for start to pursue and I for take race because I no fit go suffer for that place again lai lai!!!. As of ….them done come back and in all we thank God for the success of another week. I even hear say na serious mata for charging center for new hostel yesterday sake of say father Linus ball in the hostel begin tell security man say make them scatter the whole place. I hear say many people wound o!! but the reson for the kata kata, I no know we just pray say make Baba God guide us and him protection no go commut from where we dey for this ogbonge university.

   Today wey be Sunday na beginning of another week and we believe say Baba God go guide us for this week and also this service go carry blessings boku for us. Until next week we say love you and God love sure pass.

A POEM

by

MISS SOPHIA-KATHRINE HARUNA

In the dark of the night

When the senses abandon their defenses

Mind is reasoning and souls locate their genesis

Then the heavens gates appear

And the image of truth guarded by angels of light

The aura is unusually bright and fair – mortals would not dare the chosen ones, the angels raised, are in promised

Paradise lips filled with praise.

The earth returns back to normal, them not chosen pounder in heart they hear wails from afar; it passes unsafe messages to the heart.

The work of the conscience is to judge yourself If you have failed yesterday that was Saturday we married and played all day this Sunday and it brings the end of days

The Sunday brings the end of days

The blood bath those who won’t receive the mark the massacre of followers of the faith Satan’s blood bound has been released and the sky turns red, the reign of the anti-Christ only the strong in faith will live in the latter at the end of this red Sunday, then will bring the joy of the latter reign

Let he who reads take heed

Amend your evil deeds

SECOND TOUCH

by

DIM PRINCEWILL

Second touch is always for born again, those who are part of the body of Christ. Second touch is part that connotes additional power and context your salvation is a product of grace

Believers let this be known to you that the devil have no power and dominion over you because you are a higher authority and principality, if you are a believer and you are still afraid of the devil and still committing sin as a believer and you are still afraid of the devil and still committing sin as a believer you need a second touch. The woman with the issue of blood has this touch of anointing with the garment of Jesus and she received her permanent and perfect healing, the blind man had a contact with the anointing behind the second touch perfectly have a spiritual life and your life will never remain the same both to your finances, business, and relationship. They will move from one level to a higher level of product and liberation.

                                                                        Remain blessed, love you all……

                                               

TO UNDERSTAND AND BE UNDERSTOOD

By

                                                                      OHANU CHIZOBA SANDRA

Many people are beginning to realize that all is not well with the in which we relate to each other, they are experiencing difficulties in their family relationships in their closest friendship, and with their wider circle of acquaintances, both in their private lives including their working lives before proceeding what does it mean to understand and be understood?

   “To understand” means a psychological process related to an abstract a physical object {person, situation or message} passed to a person, an audience or congregation has been effectively taken acknowledged or registered. It can simply be the end product of to understand or past tense of to understand depending on the context.

    For you to understand and be understood effectively without being misinterpreted. Looking at the context of Anger there are some things you have to put into consideration, there are

Ø Decide for purer motives: this consist of four points which are:

a.     Excuse

b.     Attention

c.      Superiority

d.     Retaliation

All these not only increase our understanding to each other, but can lead, often in unsuspected ways, to be more harmonious positive and peaceful relationship.

BELIEVE MORE STRONGLY: this has to be done in order to convince the person, audience or congregation.

THE INNER SENSES: which are act, do not react, look beneath the surface leave the part behind, neither quarrel nor give but understood and want to help also distinguish between the doer and the deed.

Talk to each other

Agree despite your differences

RESPECT EACH OTHER: by ignoring back biting and also respect yourself.

DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF: by forgetting your ego, practice what you preach and avoid double standard

COOPERATE: look for the positive, put yourself neutral, turn big mistakes to smaller ones, admit your mistake, do not expect a reward for good deed and so many others.

To understand and be understood will change the way you look at your friends and family, change your relationship and ultimately change your lives if being applied {above points} in all spheres of life.

                                            

THE IN- ACTIVATED SPIRIT

To activate means to make something to start working or functioning, it is putting things into action.

   Many things remain in-active in our life until we activate it then it starts functioning. The holy spirit remains in activate until we activate him, then he can start functioning.

Once we’ve heard the word of God and we believe and receive salvation, we are sealed with the holy spirit, Ephesians 1;13

That is, when we are born again we receive the holy spirit but the problem is we do not know of this power we now carry, we walk in ignorance and so we just leave the holy spirit in- activated in our lives and he just stays, watching us, hoping that one day we will realize that he is actually there waiting for a cal, and by doing this we grieve the holy spirit. Eph 4:30

    We have to be aware of the power we carry in us, it’s a super-natural power, we have the holy spirit himself, we have the ability to do great and mighty things, because the holy spirit is wonderful and when we have him we have everything there is a manifestation of the fruits and his gift in our lives, Gal 5:22, 1cor 12:18-10,

In fact we become simply amazing as God now dwells in us, 2cor 6:16.

  A blackberry phone cannot be fully enjoyed if we don’t configure it, we cannot browse or do anything if it is not activated, it is almost useless and can be compared to a normal Nokia torch light phone, as all the benefits are wasted, that is how the holy spirit is yours, we cannot enjoy his presence, if we do not ask for him and so we cannot enjoy the gifts and benefits.

   We need to know who we are in Christ and the inheritance we have as children of God the bible says, men die because of ignorance, because they do not know and this is very bad, because we have power but we don’t know and this causes lack in our lives.

   If we are thirty and need to get some water, water will not come out until we put on the tap, there we can get water to our satisfaction, it is of utmost importance we know the power we carry inside of us and use it.

Activate the spirit of God in your life, he is waiting for you to take a step and he will run coming toward you, just ask we need to know that we carry Gods grace, in 2cor 12;9, the bible says “God’s grace is made sufficient for us…” in john 1 “out of his fullness we have received, and grace for grace, therefore God’s grace works for us, so there is nothing we cannot command because greater is he that is in us, just activate the spirit

The holy spirit is standing still like a solider waiting for the command of the master, take the bold step and activate this spirit today by just asking him to take control.

The sand and stars

by

Rainbow and Ogochukwu

Just one afternoon God said to Abraham “And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any man can number the dust of the earth then shall thy seed also be numbered” Gen 13:16 another day he took him outside and “look at the sky and try to count the star, you will have many descendants as that”. Gen 15:14

Now here is understanding: we have two descendants of Abraham THE DUST OR SAND AND THE STAR but all raise their hands claiming the blessings of Abraham.

THE SANDS

They are vessels of dishonor meant to be marched upon. “there are trillions of them and much more in number than the STARS”. They are the crowd and their end product is DUST TO DUST, ASHES TO ASHES. They do not have hope in the sky though they are descendant of Abraham but for just for being sake. They are the people of the world.

   THE STARS

They are the vessels of honor, meant to be up there in sky, they have their individual purpose unlike the SAND. “ they stand out and shine, though they are many but one heavenly body binds them. “they are heavenly conscious, their end and product is the sky they do not believe in the law, “they do not believe in the law, “dust to dust ashes to ashes just like Jesus Christ their author demonstration by not allowing himself to be hold by sands of the earth but rather resurrection and took off to the sky because that is where He and other STARS belong. Though they are in the world but they are not of the world.

REMEDY

But oh, ye SANDS, there is good news for you: you have chance now to purge yourself out and become a vessel of honor, A STAR “if a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be vessel unto honor, sanctified and meet for the master’s use…. Tim 2;21

MY DEAR SANDS after this second touch join foundation school today and be a vessel unto honor and be ready for the master’s use.                                                                               

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