I tell you again repentance is free but very expensive

SOME PEOPLE SEIZED OUR PROPERTY IN ANOTHER NATION THROUGH A STRONG MAFIA.

BUT GOD GAVE US VICTORY! THE PROPERTY IS NOW READY FOR DEDICATION.

WHO WOULD BELIEVE THAT WE WERE ONCE ONLY FOUR IN THIS CHURCH?

IN THE RACE OF LIFE, THERE IS NO CHAMPION WITHOUT CHALLENGES.

- Bishop David Oyedepo on UNVEILING THE BREAKTHROUGH POWER OF LOVE (2A) at Covenant Day Of Marital Breakthrough Service || 13th July 2025 || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland|| First Sunday Service || Part D

Every true lover of Jesus emerges more than a conqueror in every battle if he sustains his love for God. The problem now is, people are challenged and they disconnect from God. Now, who will help them? Their challenges manipulated them to disconnect from God their Helper, so where will there help come? Church Gist. Job stayed through and came through. Isaiah 43:2. There is no champion in the race of life without challenges. Champions are made out of challenges. It's like a student crying during an exam, they say why, he says "Exam, exam has come. (crying)" You know that's a problem. Genesis 22:1. He (Abraham) passed the test.

Now, who would believe here that this Church was once 4 and then 6 and then 10, all kinds of things along the line, but no disconnection, no disconnect. You see us celebrating 10 people, you'll be wondering, are they mad? No disconnect. Total income of this Ministry 1984 for the whole year was 18,000 plus. Church Gist. You have heard that too many times. No need to say, 'It should have been working now' Are you the one to set the exam? How can you set the exam and be marking it yourself? Yet, I've signed a Covenant of Love since 1976. I heard a call in a broad vision 1981 and He said go ahead to Church ministry, 1983 and the Church is crawling 1984, yet the love is burning. Wake up my friend, wake up!

- Somebody's story is changing.

Don't let challenges cower you. You're in command. With the love of God at work in your heart, you're in command. Don't let challenges cower you. Church Gist. You're in command with the love of God in your heart. Every true lover of Jesus emerges more than a conqueror from every battle. You can't kill love. Songs of Solomon 8:7.

- Somebody's story is changing.
- May your love remain unbreakable.
- May your love for God remain unbreakable.
- May your own love for God remain unbreakable.

What is in love that engenders breakthrough? Please, listen.

1. Our love for God enhances access to revelation. Every true lover of God accesses revelation without stress. Revelation is not a product of mental exertion. Deuteronomy 29:29. Genesis 18:17. "Abraham, come. The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has ascended to me and I've come here to destroy them" I mean, your love for God and my love for God makes us His confidant. Church Gist. He confides in us, He unveils to us what others may not access. John 15:15. Revelation flows like a river in the life of true lovers of Jesus. It flows like a river, revelation flows like a river and what is it? Behind every supernatural turnaround is access to revelation. Isaiah 60:1-3. So, when you are in love, you gain natural access to revelations. You are not struggling, when you take your Bible, light flows. Church Gist. You take a book to read, light, wow! Because you are in love. Thank you, Jesus. 2 Corinthians 3:18. Revelation changes our stories from one level of glory to another.

2. Love empowers our faith to deliver maximally. Why? Faith works by love. Our faith will deliver to the level of our love for God. 1 Corinthians 13:1,2. So, it is the quality of our love for God that defines the delivery of our faith. Church Gist. The quality of our love for God is what determines the outcome of our faith. All this is God showing us love is the master key to all-round breakthroughs in life. Amen.

3. Love facilitates answers to our prayers. When you are truly in love with God, you will hate to toy with what displeases God and that gives express access to our prayers. Isaiah 59:1,2. Psalm 66:18,19. When we turn from whatever God hates, line of access in prayer is opened. Church Gist. David committed a grevious sin but he repented and now verily, God has heard him. Every true lover is fast at repentance. Thank you Jesus. That blind man said, "I know that know God heareth not the prayer of sinners. I know. Whether I be a sinner or not, I know not. Once I was blind, now I can see. But I know God heareth not sinners." When you are in love, you are all out to want to please Him at all times.

4. Finally, Love enhances access to wisdom from above. Paul the Lover was acknowledged by the Apostles as a man of wisdom. Romans 8:35-37. 2 Peter 3:15. The Apostle recognised him as a man of wisdom. He is in love. You know, when you are in love, you dwell in God and God in you and our God is the only wise God, now He lives in you. Church Gist. So, you have the right answer. Many times, silence is the best answer for victory. Praise God! Silence is the best answer for victory. There was a year we had an issue in a particular nation where through a strong mafia, they seized our property and had a court judgement that we are not the owner of the property and so, they called me and I said, God is big enough to defend Himself. No mention, no nothing, silence. No contact with anybody under Heaven. Silence! And God stood up to it. Now the property is ready for dedication. Church Gist. Glorious victory! I saw the picture this last week of the new structure we are building there. God fought the battle like no man else can. He fought and won the battle in grand style. There was no contact with anybody. God stood in there. The wisdom of God is a mighty weapon of war.

DUNAMIS SEEDS OF DESTINY DEVOTIONAL FOR 15TH JULY, 2025 BY DR PAUL ENENCHE

TOPIC: LIVING WITH ETERNITY IN VIEW

SCRIPTURE: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night… 2 PETER 3:9-10.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The end of earthly life on earth is the beginning of an endless life in eternity.

Genesis 1:27 makes it clear that man is an eternal being made in the Image and Likeness of an eternal God. The meaning of that is, everyone you see will live forever. To further buttress this, James 4:14 reveals that man’s life on earth is a temporary adventure, just a fraction of man’s overall life.

So, man’s life on earth is a temporary adventure. This implies that the end of earthly life is the beginning of an endless life in eternity. (Daniel 12:2). And it is to in 8 to to to either an everlasting life with God in Heaven or an everlasting contempt with satan in hell. The truth is, God does not desire for anyone to be lost in hell; rather, He desires for people to live with Him forever in heaven after their sojourn in the earth. In other words, God is not looking for whom to send to hell.

It is possible to hear some messages that sounds as if God’s satisfaction is how many people can end in hell. Scriptures make it clear that hell was not created for man (Matthew 25:41). Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels. It is only those who reject Christ and decide to end with the devil that will follow him to hell.66y But the point is, God has no desire for the loss of any soul (2 Peter 3:8-9).

Now, wisdom demands that we pay attention to our eternal destination, the place where we will spend the bulk of our lives.

That is why today, we are looking at what it means to live with eternity in view.

1. It is living in the present with the end in mind. Living in the present with the end in perspective (1Peter 4:7). You are alive today, but the end is in your mind.

2. It means living and conducting our life’s actions with eternity as a major consideration. Ecclesiastes 12:13 says, Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of a man. For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.

Everything we do on the earth has eternal consequences.

3. It means living in the now with readiness and preparedness for eternity. That is, you are not trying to get prepared; you are living prepared (Matthew 25:13, Matthew 24:44-45).

4. It is living as strangers and pilgrims on the earth. This is living with the full knowledge that this world is not our home (1 Peter 2:11).

5. It is living in the world without forgetting yourself in the world. Living in the world without forgetting your eternal and heavenly citizenship (Philippians 3:20).

Beloved, don’t forget yourself in this world because one day, the curtains of eternity shall be drawn, and the world shall end.

Remember this: The end of earthly life is the beginning of endless life in eternity.

ASSIGNMENT(S):
1. Live ready in anticipation of Christ’s coming. Keep your spiritual temperature high.

2. Refuse to live in sin

3. Ask God for mercy if you have erred and make amends.

PRAYER: Lord, help me to live on earth as a pilgrim. I refuse to conform to the pattern of this world. Draw me closer to You Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: LIVING WITH ETERNITY IN VIEW

DAILY BIBLE READING: Isaiah 1-3

QUOTE: If you want to look like Christ, then look at Christ. What you look at determines what you will look like. Culled from the book, The Essence of Christianity by Dr Paul Enenche.

AMAZING FACT: A lion’s whiskers are highly sensitive, helping it to detect movement and objects in the dark.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: Receive grace to live with heaven in perspective always in Jesus Name.

The Lord counsels,
"Enter ye in at the gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

The 'strait gate' is the narrow way; the way of salvation that leads to eternal life in Heaven. It accommodates only those liberated from their heavy weight of sin, which they have offloaded at the Cross of Calvary.

The 'wide gate' on the other hand, is the broad way. It is the way of easy and self-indulgence; it accommodates excesses of all sorts, and sin, in its wildest range. It is the way of destruction, because it terminates in Hellfire. Unfortunately, many people are heading there, because of the life they have chosen to lead - a life of sin, a life without Jesus Christ as Saviour

The only one to eternal life in Heaven is the way of repentance from all sins; and faith in Jesus Christ. He has completed the work for your redemption. All you need do is to repent and get this saving grace. Amen.

*BREAKING OF CURSES 3.*

*SCRIPTURE READING Gen 4:4-10.*

*KEY VERSE:* As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Prov 26:2.

Brethren, there are reasons for curses.
The Bible clearly states that curse causeless shall not come, which means there must be a reason for a curse to be placed on individuals, families, communities and Nations.
Behind every curse there is a cause.
To every affliction in a man's life, there is a root; and when the root is discovered and rooted out, then comes refreshment.

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Ecl 8:10.
For a curse to be in operation, it is either, you break the hedge or your parents break the hedge for the curse to show up in your life.

A curse is little different from a spell, a spell is cast from the region of the occult, from witchcraft, from satanic altar, you don't need to offend anybody, as long they don't want you to be blessed, they will just cast a spell to punish you or to frustrate your destiny.
But for every curse there must be a cause.

*FOR EXAMPLES*

1. Adam suffer a curse because he disobey God by eating the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden. Gen 3:17

2. There was famine in the days of David, year to year because Saul killed the Gibeonites. Israel had sworn in the name of the Lord to keep them alive but Saul break the oath of the Lord by killing them and it's resulted to a curse on the entire Nation of Israel, year to year famine was prevailing, David have to go and appeal to the Gibeonites for the curse to be removed 2 Samuel 21:1-3.

*WHAT TO DO.*

1. Since there is no smoke without fire, if you want the smoke to stop, look for the fire and put it off. The same with a curse, you need to find the cause. Who did you offend? Who did your parents offend?

2. When you find the the reason why you or your family members are under a curse (who you offended) then go and apologise, ask for forgiveness, make restitution where necessary.

3. Go to a deliverance minister to break the curse or go to God in prayers on curse breaking deliverance prayers.

For counselling and prayer requests contact at Christ Royal Evangelical ministry on phone/wassap +2349044906193,
I will get back to you.

*MORNING PRAYERS*

1. Lord, reveal to me what area of my life I need repentance or restitution, in Jesus' name

2. Lord, exposed the root cause of the curse ravaging my family in Jesus' name

3. Lord, forgive me for the Sins of my ancestors and delivered me from inherited curses in Jesus' name

4. Lord, I take authority over inherited curses and command them broken now, in Jesus' name

5. Lord, I take authority over any curse emanating from my past associations and relationship, i command them broken now, in Jesus' name

6. Lord, I break every curse that have been in my family even to ten generations before me, in both father and mother sides of my family, in Jesus' name.

7. Lord, i renounce and break every curses in my family lineage in Jesus' name.

8. Lord, I command the spirit behind curses in my family, be bound and get out, in Jesus' name

9. Lord, I break the curse of automatic failures working in my family, in Jesus' name

10. Lord, I take authority over the curse of (sickness, infirmity, deformity) in my family, in Jesus' name

11. Lord, I command every curses that was issued against me, be broken, in Jesus' name

12. Add your personal prayers

*NIGHT PRAYERS*

*SCRIPTURE FOR MEDITATION: Genesis 12:2-3.*

1. Lord, I take authority over every curses that is unconsciously working against me, break, in Jesus' name

2. Lord, let the root of my life be purged by the fire of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus' name

3. Lord, let my foundation be washed in the blood of Jesus in Jesus' name

4. Lord, I break every curse in my family, that was placed on the children to punish their parents, in Jesus' name

5. Lord, I break every curse placed on me out of jealousy, in Jesus' name

6. Lord, I break every clinical and medical curse in my family, in Jesus' name

7. Lord, I break every curse issued against me by satanic ministers, and false prophets, in Jesus' name.

8. Lord, I break every curse from evil prophecies, in Jesus' name

9. Holy Ghost Fire, burn to ashes every sacrifices offered against me, in Jesus' name

10. Lord, I command all evil spirits associated with any curse, to get out of me now, in Jesus' name

Have a great night rest🏿👋

*JESUS IS LORD*

"NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED”? NO, SIR. JUST THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT
A Truthful Dissection of Gen. Gowon’s Crocodile Tears

✍Ugochimereze Chinedu Asuzu

"I always remember the Civil War. It was the most difficult period of my life. It was not my choice…” So says General Yakubu Gowon: decades after the fact, as if the burden of memory alone could exonerate a man from the burden of responsibility.

But memory, stripped of remorse, becomes theatre. And this latest performance by the old General, wrapped in prayerful tones and wistful platitudes, is exactly that a theatre of moral evasion. What was presented as reflection was in fact deflection. A man who presided over the darkest chapter in Nigeria’s history now seeks to launder his conscience with the sponge of spirituality, mouthing prayers as if that were enough to bury three million truths beneath the soil of forgetfulness.

No, sir. You did not pray. You played. You played politics with people’s lives. You played Russian roulette with the destiny of a region. You played central command while entire communities burned. You stood at the gates of peace and walked away. The blood did not flow because you had no choice, it flowed because you made a choice. And the choice was war.

You stood beside Odumegwu Ojukwu at Aburi in Ghana. There, both of you spoke, agreed, shook hands and made a pact. You returned to Lagos to a hero’s welcome, but before the ink of trust could dry, you tore it apart. You listened to federal hawks, buried Aburi under the rubble of Decree No. 8, and turned your face from peace. You betrayed a solemn covenant for the sake of power. That betrayal, not the first shot fired, is where the war truly began.

The records are stubborn. They do not bend to nostalgia. They remind us that before a single Biafran soldier took up arms, thousands of Igbos had been hacked down in the North. Pregnant women butchered. Children beheaded. Men dismembered in full daylight. Railway stations were turned into morgues. Churches, into chambers of death. Kaduna. Kano. Jos. The North descended into madness, and the East was served grief on a plate of silence.

You, sir, presided over that silence. You were Commander-in-Chief, not a curious passerby. You issued words but withheld justice. You gave speeches, but not shelter. You watched a people bleed and called it unfortunate. And now, years later, you whisper: "It was never out of hatred." But hatred needs no introduction when its fruit is genocide.

And then came your famous phrase, carved into Nigeria’s post-war psyche: “No victor, no vanquished.” It sounded noble. It rang loud. But it rang false. Because the war ended, yes, but justice never began. Biafrans were not vanquished by force alone, they were buried beneath the rubble of reconstruction. Their economy was stripped. Their currency devalued. Their children starved. Their land mined and their dignity mocked. What you called reintegration, we lived as retribution. What you labeled reconciliation, we endured as marginalisation. The victor danced in national attire. The vanquished crawled through national amnesia.

Sir, you had the chance to become a Mandela long before South Africa birthed one. You had the moment. The world watched. The African continent stood still. But you chose empire over empathy. You chose command over compassion. You chose to keep Nigeria one by breaking a people in half. And now, the same mouth that sanctioned the guns says, "I prayed to God." Perhaps you did. But God is not mocked by crocodile tears. Not when the skulls of infants still haunt the red soil of Nsukka, Aba, Umuahia, and Onitsha.

Prayer is not repentance. Repentance begins with truth. And the truth is that you, along with others, enabled a war that was avoidable. You squandered the peace we almost had at Aburi. You enabled pogroms with your silence. You denied justice its wings and handed the world a bullet instead. And when it was all done, you wrapped the pain in poetry and hoped the music would make us forget.

But we remember. Not because we hate. But because we bleed.

This is not a call to bitterness. It is a call to honesty. To name what happened. To look the children of Biafra in the eye and say: Yes, you were wronged. Yes, we failed you. Yes, the war was avoidable. And no, it should never have happened.

Until then, sir, do not cloak yourself in prayer while justice lies unclothed. Do not speak of love when you could not uphold truth. Do not say “it was not my choice” when history has proven otherwise. And above all, do not try to rewrite what we lived.

You may now carry the Bible in one hand. But the other hand still drips with memories. Your legacy may wear the robe of elder statesmanship. But it remains stained by silence, by betrayal, and by the bones of those who trusted your word at Aburi.

So here, General Gowon, is what history truly says:
You may cry now, but the tears do not wash the blood away.
You may kneel today, but that does not undo the horror of yesterday.
You may pray, but the ghosts still answer with questions.
And until Nigeria confronts its past with courage, it will never know peace that lasts.

We forgive. But we do not forget. We move on. But we do not move blind.

Because truth, bitter as it may be - is still better than convenient lies.

✍Ugochimereze Chinedu Asuzu
Social Cum Political Analysis|Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The story of the two thieves on the cross is a poignant moment in the New Testament, specifically found in the Gospel of Luke (23:32-43). When Jesus was crucified, he wasn’t alone; he was flanked by two criminals, often referred to as thieves.

As they hung there, one of the thieves mocked Jesus, questioning why he couldn’t save himself if he was truly the Messiah. The other thief, however, had a change of heart. He rebuked the first, recognizing that they were being punished justly for their crimes, while Jesus was innocent. This thief then turned to Jesus and asked to be remembered when He entered His kingdom.

In a beautiful response, Jesus assured him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” This moment highlights themes of repentance, grace, and salvation, showing that it's never too late to seek forgiveness and that Jesus’s mercy is available to all, even in our final moments. It’s a powerful reminder that faith can lead to redemption, no matter our past

Before, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was sitting in a corner while President Bola Tinubu was praying in a mosque (Sanwo-Olu is a Christian and MFM member)

Now, Governor Sanwo-Olu is joining the prayer and praying the Islamic way.

What a way to show true repentance and prove your loyalty

Even though God is universal for all mankind, yet He accept praise from those who draw near to Him in holiness and repentance.