Rccg Upper Room Assembly Zonal Parish

COPIED! BUT VERY INTERESTING

"Long time ago in the Animal Kingdom, a sheep was passing and saw a lion crying inside a cage trap and the lion begged the sheep to save him with a promise not to kill and eat it but the sheep refused.

After much persuasion and for the sheep's gullibility it opened the cage for the lion.
Now the lion was very hungry having stayed in the cage for days without food.
It quickly grabbed the sheep to kill and eat but the sheep reminded him of his promise.
They were still there arguing when other animals came passing and they sought to know what happened.

Both the lion and the sheep narrated their own side of the story but because of fear and in trying to gain Favour in the sight of the lion, all the animals took side with the lion except the Tortoise who claim not to understand the whole scenario.

Now the Tortoise asked the lion to show them where he was before the sheep rescued him, he pointed at the cage.
He asked again, "were you inside or outside when the sheep arrived"? The lion said he was inside.
The tortoise again said "ok, enter lets see how difficult it could be inside".
The lion entered and the tortoise locked him back inside.

In amazement the other animals asked tortoise "why" and he replied "if we allow him eat the sheep today, he will still go hungry tomorrow and we don't know the next amongst us to be eaten tomorrow.

Moral:

Don't support evil today because it doesn't affect you directly, tomorrow it could be your turn".

COPIED!!!!

I NEVER GET TIRED OF READING THIS STORY...

During World War 2, a soldier was separated from his unit on an island.
The fighting had been intense, and in the smoke and the crossfire he had lost touch with his comrades.
Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction.
Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves.
Although safe for the moment, he realised that once the enemy soldiers looking for him swept up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed.
As he waited, he prayed, "Lord, please spare my life. Whatever will happen, I love you and trust you. Amen."
After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close.
He thought, "Well, I guess the Lord isn't going to help me out of this one."
Then he saw a spider begin to build a web over the front of his cave.
"Hah" he thought, "What I need is a brick wall and what the Lord has sent me is a spider web. God does have a sense of humour."
As the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his hide out and could see them searching one cave after another.
As they came to his, he got ready to make his last stand, but then he heard the leader of the soldiers say:
"you may as well ignore looking in this cave ...if he had entered here this web would be broken!" So they left and he was delivered!
To his amazement, however, after glancing in the direction of his cave, they moved on.
Suddenly he realised that with the spider web over the entrance, his cave looked as if no one had entered for quite a while.
"Lord, forgive me," he prayed. "I had forgotten that in you a spider's web is stronger than a brick wall. He will use the most foolish things in this world to confound the wise!
God is your protector, if you believe in him. Bless someone with this story.

THE RESURRECTION

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernel – A plentiful harvest of new lives.
(John 12: 24 NLT),

The purpose and eternal plan of God for human race is to reconcile them back to Himself. Man, at one point in time became completely banished from his creator because of the sin of disobedience, which led to the severance of our access to Him. We were not only disconnected, we also lost our authority and power to rule on earth. For this very same reason, were we also subjected to God’s wrath.
(Eph 2:3).

But God’s love was so great for mankind that He had to send his only begotten son Christ Jesus (Matthew 3:17) to be sacrificed as a living offering for our sin, to deliver us from the grip of the evil one. This he did by first putting on sin (Gal 1:4) for these same reason as to bringing humanity to God, through himself a living sacrifice; a lamb slain for the sin of all.
(Eph. 1:4-7).

God could only achieve this through the sacrifice of his only begotten. His resurrection after crucifixion, proof of his VICTORY over death.
(1 Cor 15:17-19)

If Christ had died without resurrecting it would have meant;

 our faith in God through Him (Jesus) would be unfounded
 we would still be guilty of sin,
 we would be lost, and hopeless (more to be pitied)

But glory be to God, Christ resurrected and He is alive. Hence, our faith in Him is sure,
 Our guilt has been wiped off,
 We are now reconciled to our heavenly father and
 We now have a hope that cannot be put to shame
Okandeji Lawrence

Read and Be Blessed:

THIS IS THE STORY REV. DR UMA UKPAI MIGHT NEVER TELL YOU....
Truly, he slept with the lady several times ...
Later, the lady wanted more, but he had moved...
And told her he was done with sin and sinning...
But perhaps, his approach infuriated the lady...
And she felt used and dumped...
If you were the one, maybe, you will even feel worse...
The same person that used to sleep with you now calling you devil...
Just because he has encountered revival...
Whatever happened next, I know not, but all I know is that ...
She went straight to the church and told the pastor the young man of God was under...
How his youth pastor was sneaking into her room in the night to sleep with her...
How after night vigil, she would hide at the back of the rusted water tank behind the church to 'finish work' ...
Perhaps, if she was sure that the guy had encountered God afresh, she would have taken it easy...
But she thought the guy had used her and dumped and started doing it with someone else...
Don't blame her so much...
Her pride was on the run...
Nobody would want to be in the number of the census of ladies a man has slept with...
With the help of Satan, her pride got a voice...
And the young man was suspended publicly and disgraced...
He sat in the church back seat for many months...
His head pastor ejected him from his house where he was given a one room apartment...
With the fear that he will someday see his young daughters appealing and defile them...
He had no place to go to...
When he gave his life to Christ, he went straight to the village shrines and destroyed all of them...
The villagers gathered began to worship the living God...
The village elders passed judgement on him and banished him..
His parents didn't want yo set their eyes on him again...
When they heard that his church has ejected and suspended him for fornication, they jubiliated...
That the gods of the land have caught up with him for discerecting them...
The only place he could stay was inside an old uncompleted building, without roof...
Any night it rains, he will be soaked...
All he had there was his bible and few cloths...
But he was there looking for God...
He had failed both men and God...
God had forgiven him, but men didn't want to set their eyes on him...
The villagers will gather everyday mocking him...
Some of his close pals abandoned him...
But whenever we passed that old building, we will be hearing his voice...
Crying: "Lord, give me power...If truly You have forgiven me, give me Your anointing..."
Months rolled by, he was still praying that same prayer...
My late mum would cook everyday and give me to go and send to him...
Sometimes, when I come to bring another food, I would see that he has not eaten the one we brought previously...
He was always fasting and praying and crying...
Later, the church restored him...
But the stigma refused to go...
Nobody called him pastor again...
In church, they were avoiding him like a disease...
Some of those sympathising with him didn't come open...
Because he has failed them...
One December period, A great man of God was supposed to preach in that community that Christmas period ...
Everyone was waiting for him...
The sick, the blind and the lame had gathered, waiting for him...
But a news came that he wasn't coming again...
All the pastors in that community were disappointed, because no one could do what they expected God to do through this great man of God...
The crusade was on...
The choir was ministering, yet, they did not have anyone to preach...
The crowd was much and their expectations were high...
No pastor felt adequate to step into that shoe...
Someone was moved to call this young man Rev Dr uma ukpai to come and preach...
Not because they believed in him...
But so that if he preaches and nothing happens, the shame will go to him alone...
The young man didn't know what to do when they told him to go and preach...
How can he face every one that knows how he failed...
Everyone there knew that he was just suspended and released for fornication...
He was crying...
But he gathered courage and climbed the stage...
When people saw him on the stage, they started leaving one after the other...
The man that was supposed to do the interpretation dropped microphone and went down from the podium...
All The crowd almost left...
Because they could not imagine what a fornicator had to offer...
I was there...
Few of the people reading this now were there too...
No matter how I arranged this story for it not to expose the identity of the person, they will still remember ...
The young man was crying as he was watching the crowd leaving and even some of the choristers climbing down the stage the moment they saw him on the stage...
Tears began to roll down his tears...
He started a song and nobody, including the pastors joined him to sing...
But about 10 minutes later, something happened...
One of the known crippled that came for the crusade began to shout...
Every attention went to that side...
Lo and behold, he had stood up from his wheelchair...
Jumping all over the place.. God had healed him...
People were still surprised...
Few seconds later, a known blind woman started shouting from the other side...
"I can see... I can see... I can see..."
Yet, the young man on the pulpit had not opened the bible...
It was only the songs he was singing with tears...
Few minutes later, noise filled the whole places...
People with Chronic diseases started shouting that they have been healed...
The pastors there could not understand what was going on...
"How can God use this small boy?"
But More miracles were being recorded...
The crowd that left started hearing the shout from the crusade ground and began to run back...
Some thought the great man of God had finally come...
But when they got there, they saw the young man on the stage, crying...
The interpreter that came to interpret for him was crying...
As he wanted to start preaching, the noise of more miracles could not let him.preach...
As he wanted to get close to tell the interpreter let them.climb down and start preaching to people, the power of God hit the interpreter...
And he fell.under the power of God...
He laid slain like a dead man...
As the organiser of the crusade who is also reading this now wanted to climb the stage to take the microphone that fell down from the interpreter, he too fell under the power of God...
The young man was just standing, and looking at the salvation of the Lord...
The crowd had increased more than those that came to listen to the big man of God...
People had rushed home to bring their people...
That something was happening in the market square...
Many pastors that had sick people started sending messages to their members to bring all the sick people in their churches...
And without this boy laying hands on anyone, they were being healed...
Some villagers who were chronic idol worshippers saw the mighty works of God and ran to the altar for repentance...
He didn't preach from any verse of the scripture...
But the power of God was present to heal and to deliver...
As he was standing there, not knowing what next to say, with tears all over...
Some pastors began to run to him...
Some holding his shoe....others dragging his shirts...
Crying: "Lord, we are sorry..."
Some were crying: "We need this anointing...Please, give it to us..."
I was there friends...
The crusade that was supposed to end by 8pm ended around 12 in the midnight...
Healings and incredible miracles...
After that crusade, God restored that young man of God...
He became the sought for...
Every man of God wanted to host him...
Nobody Remembered he was suspended...
That was how God introduced that young man...
And till today, he is still one of the most sought men of God in his denomination...
I don't know the name they are calling you because of your last fall...
I don't know the shame you are swimming in because of what you did or what you did not do...
Can you go inside and cry to God to pay you back with something money can not buy?...
Can you stop begging people to come back to your life and look for God afresh?...
With fasting and praying?...
God sad: "For your shame I will give you double..."
Are you ready to engage God for restoration, until He falls upon you in His power?...
I see power taking the place of shame ii your life.
God will give you power that will silence all the shame of your past in Jesus name. Amen
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