By Sam Adeoye
Even though it was said in Zechariah 4:6 that; “not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts. It is also required that we depend heavily on our inner being if we ever want to make anything meaningful out of our lives. As it was clearly stated in Job 32:8 that; “there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.”
Before mankind was given the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:1-4 it was said that; “when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance”. God gave Man a breath of Life, as it was written in Genesis 2:7; “and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”
The spirit in man is the breath of the God Almighty that was breathed into Man’s nostrils in Genesis and part of the duty of the breath is to give Man, I mean human beings understanding.
Where understanding is lacking, failure prevails. No Man born of a Woman can succeed in this life without understanding. Understanding is the glue that firmly joins together the divine and the reality. But understanding will not come unless the knowledge of the subject is well understood. As it was said in Hosea 4:6; “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” “Because you have rejected knowledge,” God went on to say; “I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
Without having proper knowledge of who you are, there is no way you can understand what is happening to you in life and this has nothing to do with your faith or religion. It is Man who needs faith and religion to determine the doings of the Lord. God supersedes religion and He does not need one to manifest Himself here on earth.
Rather, He needed a Man regardless of his faith or religion; whose heart is right with God, as it was said in 2 Chronicles 16:9; “for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.”
To understand how important 2 Chronicles 16:9; God said in Ezekiel 22:30; “so I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.”
Why did God find no one? God couldn’t find anyone because the heart of Man is Evil and Wicked and this God made clear in Jeremiah 17:9 which says; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
To be found by God, a person must be of clean hands and a pure heart as it was said in Psalms 24:3-5 that; “who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”
Seeking God is a waste of your time because you don’t know where God is and if you think God is in whatever religion you believe in, you deceived yourself. Only God can find you and fetch you out wherever you are and it doesn’t matter who you are, what you have, what people think or say of you, your level of education, family background or what have you.
In Psalms 89:20-25, God said; “I have found My servant David;” please pay attention. It was God who found David, not David who found God. “I have found My servant David; with My holy oil I have anointed him,” when God finds you, He anoints you for a purpose. The reason why His looking for you is because He needed you to do something for Him. And in whatever He wants you to do for Him is what your establishment in life lies. As God Himself further said; “with whom My hand shall be established; also My arm shall strengthen him.
Tell me, how can you fail when God is the one strengthening your arm as King David testified in Psalms 18:32-45 saying; “it is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of deer and sets me on my high places. He teaches my hands to make war so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great. You enlarged my path under me, so my feet did not slip. I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed. I have wounded them so that they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet. For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose against me. You have also given me the necks of my enemies so that I destroyed those who hated me. They cried out, but there was none to save; even to the Lord, but He did not answer them. Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like dirt in the streets. You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the head of the nations; a people I have not known shall serve me. As soon as they hear of me they obey me; the foreigners submit to me. The foreigners fade away, and come frightened from their hideouts.”
No one can stand before you when God is the one strengthening your arm. And God made this a covenant with King David in Psalms 89 as well as with everyone He found saying: “The enemy shall not outwit him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him. “But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him, and in My name, his horn shall be exalted. Also, I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.
The same applies to you if and when God finds you. The enemy will not outwit you, the son of wickedness will not afflict you. God will beat down your foes before your face, and plague those who hate you. His faithfulness and mercy shall be with you, and in His name, your horn will be exalted. He will set your hand over the sea, and your right hand over the rivers; if and when you are found by God.
None of these will ever be yours if you are ignorant of who you are. Self-awareness is key to finding purpose in life. A person who does not know what he or she is capable of doing will always live life below his or her capacity. Exploits in life begin by knowing who you are and what you are capable of doing.
When Apostle Paul said to the Philippian church in Philippians 4:13 that; “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” He was talking spiritually as many of us are doing today, he was speaking facts. He was talking as a Man who knew who he was and what capacity God had given him and in 1 Corinthians 4:12-13 he made that clearer when he said; “we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.”
The day you realize that you can do more than just one thing to make a mark in life will be the beginning of your greatness in life.
The day we realize that the capacity we carry within us is bigger than the defeats going on in our heads will be the beginning of our freedom.
Everyone on the Earth is built with the capacity for greatness but religion has been the main cause of limitations over us all with the Masterminded religious leaders developing systems of controlling and manipulating their victims to stay put to their dictates and falsehood.
The system of the world is the system of the dead controlling the living. If you find that hard to believe ask yourself where is the founder of your religion; dead I believe. Or in case you don’t believe in any religion, bring out the money in your pocket, look at the picture of the person in the money you are holding, and ask yourself, where is the person? I believe the person is right there in the grave, dead.
The world religions and economy are being controlled by the dead. Individuals with some questionable traits and inhumane characters. Well, don’t blame the dead controlling the living, blame the living that failed to live up to their potential and capacity.
This made me remember the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 25:29 saying; “For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”
Even though this sounds self, it’s the laws of life, business, and great success. The poor always make the rich richer. Bill Gates is not making his money from wealthy individuals like him, he makes his money and wealth from the lower and middle-class citizens of the world. The same applies to all the wealthy in the world. If we should have a little twist to this, I could boldly say that all the wealthy individuals in the world are individuals who had been dead to self and live for humanity and services just as Jesus Christ said in John 12:24 that; “u a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain”. Until you die to self (living life intentionally in service to humanity), you remain a slave to the dead (the world system of worshipping and serving God and the financial system).
If there’s anything that got me worried more in this life, is how the living dedicated their lives, energy, resources, and everything they got to worship and serve the dead thinking they’re serving God.
Yeah, you heard me; serving the dead.
All religions in the world and I don’t care what name you call it, worship and serve the dead even when they claim to be serving God, the creator of the heavens and the earth.
In Luke 4:8 Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.”
How many people can boldly say that the only being they worship and serve is God and God alone?
I’m not judging anyone and I’ll never do such. But over the years, I’d discovered that the majority of us who are claiming to serve worship and serve God are worshipping our religious leaders and serving our choice of faith (religion) and that is the reason why it is easier for us to believe our religious leaders when they go out of their ways to condemn other people’s choice of religion and makes their look superior and we think they are right, no they are not. They only using you.
Apostle John said in 1 John 4:8 that; “he who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
You cannot place your love for your religion above your love for your fellow Human being and still claim to love God. My dear, you don’t. The moment you place anything above love towards your fellow Human being, you’re nothing but a killer and the love of God is never in you.
This, Apostle John made clear in 1 John 4:20-21 saying; “if someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”
My question to you is, do you love that fellow sitting or standing beside you even when you are not of the same faith, tribe, or nationality? Do you?
You cannot claim to be serving God and be filled with hatred towards others. My dear, you’re not serving God, you’re only serving your religious demons that kept asking you to hate anyone that is not of the same religious ideology as you, and this Apostle John clearly stated in 1 John 4:16 saying; “we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”
I don’t care what religion you belong to.
I don’t care how anointed you think you are.
I don’t care how much of God you claimed to know.
I don’t care how anointed you claimed to be.
If you fail to love and be sincere with it, you’re nothing but a Devil in the flesh.
In 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, Apostle Paul said; “though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”
You’re a dead person if you fail to love. Your conscience is dead. And a dead conscience is a dead soul and a dead life. No wonder you are worshipping and serving the religion of dead beings. No wonder other people’s lives, feelings and destiny means nothing to you.
Your entire life is been controlled by the dead and it takes the dead to know the ways of the dead, and this is the reason why you see that some of our religious leaders are dead conscience. They have no human feelings. Their interest and attention are only on what they want to get from us.
I love the way Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 described them saying; “For I considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred by anything they see before them. All things come alike to all: One event happens to the righteous and the wicked; to the good, the clean, and the unclean; to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath as he who fears an oath. This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that, they go to the dead. But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun.
The dead conscience nature of the world leaders made them turn humanity against each other just to take control of their lives and use them for selfish reasons. God is never the founder of any religion in the world, humanity is, not God.
Religion I’ve come to realize is the creation of Man to keep Man under subjection and deception of what divinity is not; drawing individuals that fall for the trap to be drawn away from God with the fear of God killing them or punishing them on the slight of mire mistakes which they usually tagged sin. Creating the image of the unreachable God and themselves as the only access to which any human being can reach God; having the personality of a thin god with the power to determine the life and the affairs of their subject. Religion is nothing but a platform to clutter the destiny of mankind and render their lives useless to themselves. Only the wise and the prudent in search of the truth and true knowledge break away from religion and build a relationship with God.
Sometimes, I saw the image of a father who happened to be a Muslim Cleric and his son a Catholic Priest; in the person of Rev. Fr. Moses Ibn Idris, based in Jalingo, Taraba State flying all over the Blue App.
Is this the first time I’ve seen a thing like this? Not at all.
A distant relative of mine, who was born a Muslim, went to Arabic School and Graduated as one of the best students in Arabic decided to become a Priest in the Catholic Church and he rose gradually until he became the Personal Assistant to the Head of the Catholic Church in Ogun State and later went to Rome to further his Priestly education.
I wrote an article some years back where I pointed out that all religion in the world was created by Man to reach God, God never created or established any religion to reach Him; and the first religion in the world was idolatry, worshiping Idols.
If you are a good student of the Bible, you will discover that everything about the Ark of God, the Tent meeting, the Outer Court, the Inner Court, the Holy of Holies, the different acts and practices of the remission of sins or appeasing God in the Old Testament of the Bible are all practice of Idol Worship. This is one fact both Christianity and Islam will ever open your eyes understanding to.
Now, before you display your knowledge of ignorance, please go back to your Bible and study it well, with references, study materials, and an open mind.
Now, when God called Abram out from His Idol worship family in Genesis Twelve, God never told him to stop worshipping Idols, Abram decided to do so and he decided to do something different from the Idol Worship ways and methods of reaching God, so, Five Times a day, he goes to the field to meditate and seek the mind of God.
Isaac and Jacob married from the same Idol Worship family Abraham came out of and Joseph the son of Jacob and the very person God used to prepare a place of refuge for the children of Israel in Egypt during the firming was practical of Idol Worship and act he learned from his mother who stole the family Idol from Laban her father when Jacob was leaving Laban’s house.
This act of Abraham meditating and seeking the mind of God Five Times a day later metamorphosed into what was then known as Abrahamic Religion. The Abrahamic Religion continued until the time of Moses when it was changed into Judaism after Aaron was made a Priest. This continued even to the days of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ Himself practiced the same religion in His days, He never stood against it or condemned it. He only condemned the ways and manners the Pharisees were exploiting the people and making God look bad in the eyes of all, the same that so many religions in the world today are still doing.
After the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, His disciples decided to do something different from what the people who were practicing Abrahamic Religion and Judaism were doing. So, they came up with Church in the House system; holding meetings in each other’s houses and breaking bread from house to house. Joining faith together to pray, fast, and stand by each other in times of crisis. Something that is no longer in some churches anymore.
Tithes and offerings were not being collected in those days. There were no Pastors, Bishops, or one person building a hall to house millions of people and task them with compulsory tithes and offerings, prophet offerings, special offerings, and many other offerings. That we have in the church today; and when you don’t have to give, they make you feel as if you’d sinned. Some will even tell you never to come to the church if you don’t have offerings to give. The people in those days gave what they had to support one another and everyone had enough to live by; and the Bible confirmed it saying, “They all have all things in common”.
This new system of serving God attracted so many people to join them and before you knew what was going on, the church was growing in millions, the Abrahamic Religion totally faded and relegated to the background, and Judaism was solely for a selected few that refused to let go of their religious background.
The act of Idol Worship was still in existence. The practice of serving God in the Old Testament gave more power to Idol Worship as they later inculcated some of the acts of worship in the Old Testament into the practice of idolatry.
For years, idolatry and Christianity were the two major religions that dominated the world until greed stepped into the church and things began to fall apart; then some members began to seek relevant knowledge, truths, and facts and some people began to establish what we knew today as independent ministries.
It was In this era, that the young Muhammed, who was of the Idol Worship background like Abram decided to seek out relevant knowledge and information about God as well, and in the course of that, he stumbled on Abrahamic Religion. Studied the religion very well, and then resurrected the Abrahamic Religion from the dead and gave it a different name “Islam”.
The religion began to spread like widefire, and of course, the church was against the religion because the religion had no leader with a title. Young Muhammed then made himself equal with his followers, then, when the followers noticed that they were being addressed as a religion with a leader, the followers started calling the young Muhammed “Prophet Muhammed”, just like Prophet Moses, Prophet Samuel, and every other known and unknown prophet both in the Bible and in the Quran. Prophet Muhammed himself never called himself a Prophet.
In peace and harmony the three religions, Idolatry, Christianity and Islam were operating without any issues until the spirit of superiority, competition, and greed entered the hearts and minds of some church leaders and Islamic leaders and they began to cause division, sentiments, and hatred in the heart and mind of their followers toward anyone that is not part of their religion; this is the very reasons why the world is In a big mess today.
Of these three major religions, only the Idolatry is not in any form of competition with either of the other two.
Do you know the reason why?
Most members and leaders of the popular and well-accepted religions patronize the Idol Worshipers behind the scenes and they are the only religion on the Earth today that doesn’t meet on a daily or weekly basis, or ask anyone for anything. Their religion is a service to humanity. It is pay as your situation and circumstances demand.
Friends, I’m not against any religion and I will never be. But be sure that religion is never a path to God or a safe heaven for eternity. When you live to enjoy your choice of religion, leave others alone to enjoy theirs. We are all seeking ways to reach God; and our paths in life, just as our destiny in life are not and can never be the same.
Whatever makes you hate people has already made you hate God. God is love and the only way to worship and serve God is to love your fellow Human beings, not religion.
I love you and I’ll always love you.
Sam Adeoye