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F.B Obende
Friday Babatunde Obende is a prolific writer, bible teacher and expositor with special insight into the word of God.
Presently, he pastors the Foursquare Gospel Church, Egbe District Headquarters having previously pastored the Gowon Estate and Association Avenue branches of the same organization.
Tonight’s midweek service is a form of deliverance service; deliverance from all forms of curses because after we would have taken time to talk about curses and its devastating effect, we will pray them out of our lives.
Our objective of throwing up this very interesting, though controversial subject is for us know about curses and their effects on our lives, receive our freedom and begin to enjoy the blessings which salvation in Christ Jesus offers.
In our previous teachings, we have seen that every one that is into a covenant relationship with God through Jesus Christ is blessed (Ephesians 1:3).
You however need to make the choice to live a life of total obedience so you can enjoy the blessing (Deuteronomy 11:26-27).
In the scripture, curses are always discussed in relation to blessing and both are regarded as key biblical concepts.
In fact, Deuteronomy 27 and 28 present the covenant blessings and curses expressed in materialistic terms, but the point to note most importantly is that it is a blessing to be in relationship with God, while to be out of relationship with God is to be cursed.
A proper understanding of the causes of biblical curses is therefore as important as the basis of receiving blessing.
Study Points * What is a curse? * What are the effects of curses? * What are the causes/sources of curses? * What is the pathway to living a curse-free life?
Sermon for Sunday, 9th August 2020 at Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, Egbe District Headquarters.
Today, we want to continue from where we stopped last week by looking at the channels for the flow of uncommon blessings and we sill so that by considering:
1) The Source of God’s Uncommon Blessings
2) The Purpose of God’s Uncommon Blessings.
3) The Pathway to Accessing God’s Uncommon Blessings
You were created and wired to prosper and you have no excuse.
We will be examining this topic which is “The Uncommon Blessings of God” under three sub-headings namely:
1) The Concept of God’s Uncommon Blessings (Ephesians 1:3)
2) The Composition of God’s Uncommon Blessings (Ephesians 1:4-14)
3) The Channel of God’s Uncommon Blessings (Proverbs 10:22, Genesis 12:1-3)
Tonight, we shall be moving to chapter 4 which dwells on the promise of God’s rest amongst others.
We will be looking at the exposition of Hebrews 4 under the remaining two subheadings namely:
1) Significance of Perseverance in order not to lose the promise of Rest (Hebrews 4:1-13)
2) Sympathetic High Priest, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:14-16)
We want to thank God for bringing us to the 7th month of the year which is our month of completion and rest where the Lord will give you and your family rest on every side.
Over the next few weeks, we shall be doing an expository teaching of the Book of Hebrews chapters 3 & 4 on entering into God’s Rest with special emphasis on the Revelation of Jesus Christ who is the giver of Rest (Matthew 11:28-29) and we shall be dealing with this exposition under the following sub-headings namely:
1) Superiority of Christ, the Giver of Rest to Moses (Hebrews 3:1-6)
2) Sin of Unbelief as a Hindrance to entering God’s Rest (Hebrews 3:7-19)
3) Significance of the Fear of God in entering into God’s Rest (Hebrews 4:1-13)
4) Sympathetic High Priest, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:14-16)
Since the beginning of this month, we have been considering the issue of loyalty with the theme “Abounding Grace for Abundant Harvest” taken from the Book of 2 Corinthians 9:8-9.
We have seen that the harvest is plenty, ripe and in abundance; ready and urgently waiting to be to be harvested (Matthew 9:36-38, Luke 10:2, John 4:35).
We have also seen that God has made available for us the abounding grace which is the power and ability of God in us through the Holy Spirit to accomplish the task of soul winning which He has committed into our hands.
Tonight, we shall considering the topic “Retaining the Abundant Harvest through Abounding Grace for Follow up.”
Truth is that there is more to the Great Commission than leading people to say the sinner prayers which is very important. We shall be examining this topic under three broad headings namely:
- The Place of Retaining the Abundant Harvest through Abounding Grace for Follow up
- The Pattern of Retaining the Abundant Harvest through Abounding Grace for Follow up
- The Profit of Retaining the Abundant Harvest through Abounding Grace for Follow up
Tonight, we want to look at the topic “Abounding Grace that the Holy Spirit offers for Abundant Harvest” and we shall be examining the topic under two subheadings namely - The Revelation of the Abounding Grace through the Holy Spirit for the Harvest & The Role of the Holy Spirit for Abundant Harvest
This is our loyalty month in the Foursquare Organization; the month we emphasize some deep truths of concerning God’s requirement of loyalty.
We are to be loyal to God, leadership, one another and our organization.
We thank the Lord for another month of June which is our month of loyalty in the Foursquare organization. Like many of us already know, we try to emphasize some deep truths of concerning God’s requirement of loyalty concerning His servants.
By the grace of God, we shall continue our discussions on the subject of “Healthy Family; Healthy Church” by looking at 21 reasons why you and your family members must be saved/born again through the saving grace offered by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary.
Rather than purse things that are worthwhile, important and of value to God, the church is busy pursuing worthless, perishable, materialistic things with no lasting value and I say that is the greatest challenge of the church today.
Our God is a God of purpose. There is nothing that you are passing through (whether good or bad) that is not for a reason or purpose (Romans 8:28). As true believers, we must learn to see God in whatever crisis of our lives that we are passing through
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; (2 Corinthians 3:5)
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. (Psalm 127:1)