Apostle Joel Obuobisa

15 Reasons Why You Can Expect God to Use You To Build This Church

1. God uses failures. Inspite of what has not worked at all before, or semi worked. Exo 3:11 - Moses felt he wasn't the type that could do what God was asking. He's tasted this type of thing before. 2. God uses unworthy people. 3. God uses people who have been rejected. 4.God uses people who are not credible. Exodus 4:1 - Moses did not think people would believe him. 5. God uses people with an inferiority complex. Exodus 4:10 - Moses thought he was not able to speak well to lead people. 6. God uses people who have failed at earlier attempts in ministry. Do not allow your past ministry bombs keep you from giving yourself to the service of the LORD. Exodus 5:22-23 7. God uses people who are not eloquent. God is not limited by our inability... Jeremiah 1:6 8. God uses young people Jeremiah 1:6 9. God uses people who are afraid. Jeremiah 1:8 10. God uses people who are in difficult circumstances. Judges 6:13 When times are tough we feel abandoned by God - for if He were with us, He surely would have lightened our burden.

The Legendary Wealth of the Jews

- Prov 10:22 - The blessing of the LORD maketh rich and He addeth no sorrow with it. - Riches that come from God do not also land you into trouble at the end. The devil also gives wealth but makes you compromise and cut deals to make you bow to him. Like you have to cheat, steal, prostitute yourself, etc - that is the sorrow that is attached to the blessing. - Gen 18:17-18 - The blessing proclaimed on Abraham - Gal 3:29 - Christians engrafted into Abraham's blessing. -The Jews are not confused by the scriptures that seems to prescribe poverty for believers. e.g. Jesus said it is easier for camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom. - Gen 12, 13, and 15 describe Abraham's wealth - Philemon 6 - acknowledge every good that is in you in Christ Jesus.

Encouraging Yourself In The LORD

Judges 6:1-7:15 The LORD can send even that which is bitter to our taste to get it to achieve a specific end. We must not think that only the good comes from the LORD. Rom 8:28 says all the things of the LORD work together for good to those... not that the things themselves are good, but their end is good. God sends a messenger at the time when He has prepared you. God sees and  knows us better than what our circumstances have made us to be like or to think of ourselves. It is a good time to give an offering when you realize the presence of the LORD. When God is with you, you do not need to worry about what else is missing. He will fill up for it. He may even strike down some of what you are counting on to help.

How to Be Blessed - Tithing

(Genesis 26:1-4 KJV) And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; - The Jews take Gods word literally and so God has blessed them. - Christians who have been engrafted into Gods family by the blood of Jesus and we become heirs of the promise made to Abraham and his seed. Gal 3:29 - And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. -Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. -If you have some faith take God up on this challenge.

7 Steps to Encouraging Yourself

1 Sam 30:6 In life you need how to motivate and encourage yourself to continue in whatever endeavour God has given you to undertake. We often depend on external factors, like opinions of others. 1Sam 30:1-6 The account of the raid. 1. Develop a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. Developed by faith. Holy Spirit is the Comforter. 1 John 4:4, John 14:16-18 2. Recieve living messages from God by simply reading the scriptures. 3.  Remember other problems that God has delivered you from. Deut 8:3 The intensity of the experience that the LORD subjected Israel to was strongly imprint the lesson that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD. The raising of Lazarus in John 11 was an extreme case that would teach us something that we will not forget. Mark8:18-21 4. Make Positive Confessions. Your faith is a shield Eph 6:16 5. Learn to listen to appropriate tapes and get fired up. The word is God. John 1:1 6. Play the right music at the right time. Use music to create the environs you need. 7. Avoid depressive and discouraging people. Ps 43:5 Ps 42:1-11

The Word of God Is Wisdom

Ps 119:98-100 What you need in a war more is to be wiser than the enemy and act before he acts. The strength of the artillery is not as important as that in winning. If the enemy is superior in arms, and you are smarter, you can be steps ahead of him, getting away before he strikes. Bible talks of two kinds of wisdom: James 3:13-17 The wisdom that we need is that which is from God that begins by fearing God - Prov 9:10 It is the fool that denies the reality of God in his heart. Ps 14:1, 53:1. It shows in how we live our lives. The one who even goes on to vocalize it, its an extreme case. Characteristics of The Wisdom of God: James 3:13-18 -pure -peacable -gentle -easy to be intreated -merciful -full of good fruits -without partiality -lacking hypocrisy

The Word of God as Light

- Psalm 119:105 - Light is so important to function that it were better not to do some things because of lack of light, than to attempt it in the darkness. - Ps 132:17 - John 8:12 Jesus said that He is the light of the world. There are other things in the world but they are not the light. - John 1:1 The Word is God!

The Love of God

The Love of God - John3:16 - Rom 8:28-39 - 1John 4:7-21, 5:1-5 - Matt5:43-48 - Luke 6:27-36 - Mark12:30-34 - John 8:1-12 - 1 John 2:9-11 - Eph 3:17-19 - 1Cor 13:1-7 - 1 John 3:18 - 1 John 2:5