| POWER OF GOD’S COVENANT IN STORMS OF LIFE We are required to obey in faith God’s covenant, as God is committed to His covenant. We are children of Abraham, as like Abraham we put our trust in God, therefore we are set apart for God, made holy .We are required to obey God's word in faithfulness, remembering our redemption, and to love whole heartedly Isa.59:20-21 states -“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the LORD. “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD was also quoted by the Apostle Paul in Romans 11:26-27 - and in this wayall Israel will be saved. As it is written:” The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. This indicated that the redeemer (Christ) will come to Zion and turn away ungodliness from Jacob to fulfil the covenant. Falsehood motivated in the start of a covenant without truthfulness and faithfulness from on set does not hold a covenant blessing but attracts curses as revealed in Jeremiah 11:2-4 “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. Tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. Examples of this are : - People who manipulate a man or a woman with love portion or demonic force into marriage and want to enjoy the covenant of marriage vows. Forgetting that the word of God said no man can put asunder what God has put together and not what self, evil priest or Satan has put together. God prevails in His time to set that man or woman free from such bondage.
- People calling themselves to ministry and saying God called them. In no time God prevails and you begin to see the manifestation of who called them by the fruit they bear, as by their fruit you will know them.
Disobedience arises in the heart of man through greed, impatience, fear, pride and arrogance, unbelief and lack of love. All these can be seen in Jonah 1…. Leading to God controlling storms to get Jonah to come back in alignment to his command in verse 4…Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. 5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. Why did Jonah go the opposite direction? He probably thought he would be made fun of or sent out of town. Perhaps he would be physically beaten or even executed. After all, these were dangerous and wicked people as revealed in the book of Nahum 3:1-4.
The prophet Nahum gives us some insight on what caused Jonah to go the other way…Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims! The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots! Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses—all because of the wanton lust of a harlot, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft …. We are in an era of wickedness of high level that disobedience and falsehood is a way of life as Nineveh whose cruelty was known throughout the world. So Jonah held no compassion for Nineveh and frankly, Jonah hated them! He did not want them blessed. They could be condemned forever as far as he was concerned. He had no desire to see these people turn from their sin. He wanted them to receive the judgment that they so richly deserved. So, he was not going to give them the opportunity to make it right with God. Jonah is chased and surrounded by God and awakened to the consequences of his disobedience ….. His rebellion, as with most rebellions, is not a private affair as some of the storms of life we go through. His act has put innocent people’ lives in a compromising position and accepts personal responsibility in Jonah 1:11-13 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?” “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.” Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. How many people admits they are the cause of the storm in their household because of their disobedient act or their enslaving of a soul in bondage of marriage that was a falsehood from the start as Jonah admitted it is his fault God is controlling the storm. He did not shy away from giving testimony of the truth though trying to resign his commission, but he could not change his heart. He was the prophet of the Creator God and he learnt that his actions affected more than himself. Can you see yourself as Jonah as his resistance continued, to the point he rather die than do God’s will. Is the Lord telling you to wait for His rightful man or woman for you, but because you feel time is against you or you are left amongst your friends or siblings that you are encaging another soul by all means in a falsehood of marriage from the start? Are you going into ministry when God has not asked you to because you feel it’s a means of making money or bewitching people with your manipulating power and is your act putting innocent people’ lives in a compromising position in your self made ministry or are children now involved in this marriage of falsehood from the start ? … Beware as God will release a storm to vindicate His covenant word, for no one can alter, deter God’s covenant word and only He prevails in the life of His children, for He will unveil the evil veil of falsehood and set the enslaved free, this is one of the reasons there is a high level of divorce and disgrace of certain ministers today – covenant curse of falsehood as God was not involved in it from the start. You can see that Jonah has become so hardened, he doesn’t even pray. He won’t even run any longer but asking to be thrown in the sea…because Nineveh is not where he was going. Whether he liked it or not, God will prevail and others watching God’s pursuit to vindicate His covenant against your falsehood will learn and fear God. A lot of people are the cause of ailments in their lives because they live in falsehood from the start and are disobedient to God’s covenant. Whatever you do in the dark shall be heard in the roof top in fullness of time, for God can not be mocked. Remember that God’s presence is unseen, but it is more real than life itself. He is omnipotent- nothing he cannot do. He is omniscient - knows everything. He is omnipresent.- everywhere.WE CANNOT ESCAPE GOD - God is here with us right now and everywhere we go. God accepts us as we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way so gives us second chances …..…retract from falsehood and disobedience by making amends before God show you up himself.
Beloved,You see, the Lord who can calm the troubled waters of your life is the same Lord who can stir them up to a great storm. if you persist in disobedience, God gets rougher and awakes you to see the consequences of your actions as we can not go where God is not, or did not send us. · Reflect on your ways? Are you running from God by doing your own will? · So, do you have a Nineveh - a place God is sending you, but you are not going? · Is there something God has for you and you are refusing it? Be encouraged to take the time today to turn around and Run with God…for when we do His will, we find no greater joy that can be found being His companion, His co-worker and His friend and above all His beloved child. By Rev Sophy Wahab @ 13/07/11 |
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The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, sec 43; Married Women's Property Act 1882, sec 1; and Married Women's Property Law 1959, sec 1 (applicable in states created out of the former Western and Mid-Western Region of Nigeria, namely Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo) guarantee this freedom. It has been a dilemma over years whether such rights are possible to be exercised and exercising this right is a separate issue. Married Women's Property Act of 1882: ... Marriage Act of 1990, Chapter 218 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria: - The married woman under the Act enjoys equal rights to the family assets acquired during the marriage and to be involved in their disposal during or after the marriage or upon the death of her husband (11). The phenomenon of exercising this right was a reality on Friday 1st March 2019 by Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola at a court held in Ibadan, Oyo State. Where a woman that has children for her ex-husband under a customary marriage before a house is built has the right to live in the house with her children even after divorce under the provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882, A headline "Divorce Your Wife, Lose Your House To Her, Oyo Court Rules" [2/3/2019, Nigerian tribune] has been a shock to so many women in Nigeria, but the truth about Nigeria as a whole is that a lot of people do not know their rights and those that do, do not believe in the judicial system because of corruption. To those who still think exercising this right is a separate issue, should brace up with this precedence that has come to stay and set a lot of women free from systematic abused rights in marriages. The case precedence states - The provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882 formed the basis of the pronouncement of the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Friday in a property suit between a divorced couple, Toyin Arajulu, formerly known as Mrs Toyin James and her former husband, Mr James Monday. The court held that “a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home.” Justice Abimbola, while ruling on the matter, emphasised what is known in law as the “palm tree justice,” which indicates that it does not matter in whose name the property stands or who pays what (on the property) and in what proportion as determination of such matters transcends all rights, legal or even equitable, but simply what order is fair and just in the circumstances of the case, citing the case of Home Vs Home (1962) 1 WLR 1124 at 1128.S 17 Married Woman Property Act 1882, which is a statute of general application. Toyin Arajulu had filed the suit against her ex-husband, Monday James, who she married under Native Law and Customs in 1997 and for whom she had four children.She claimed that while she was married to him, they had put resources together and built two flats of three bedrooms at Ayedun in Akure, Ondo State and procured a plot of land at No 7, Fadana Biala Estate, Olodo, Ibadan, where they built a three-bedroom flat and a storey building which is still under construction before their divorce in July 2014. She averred that before the divorce, her husband had moved out of their matrimonial home in Olodo but only came constantly to try to forcibly eject her and the children, usually accompanied by thugs who attacked her and her children. She added that on August 15, 2014, one of her children, Bidemi James, was wounded in one of the episodes of attempted violent eviction and the sum of N530,000 from her business taken by her ex-husband and his accomplices. She claimed that he had concluded plans to sell off the joint property without her consent and had continued to victimise her and the children, asking the court for a declaration that the property is jointly owned by the two of them and an order that the landed property with the three-bedroom flat and uncompleted storey building be sold and proceeds divided equally between them and an order of perpetual injunction restraining James from harassing her and the children. In his counter claim and defence, the ex-husband stated that when he bought and constructed the Akure property, his wife was a full housewife and had no contribution to the project, adding that the situation was the same for the Ibadan property as his wife only signed as a witness as she had no job and only depended on what he gave her to take care of the children when he travelled out of the country. According to him, she was only trying to fraudulently take over his property, adding that her claims were vexatious, gold digging and an abuse of court process. He also asked the court to declare that the receipts of purchase his ex-wife presented were forged and that she should vacate possession of the property which she had refused to give up despite service of statutory seven days owner’s intention to recover possession and perpetual injunction restraining her from occupying the building. Justice Abimbola, while ruling on the case, held that the landed property at No 7, Fadana Biala Estate, Olodo, Ibadan, together with the three-bedroom flat and uncompleted storey building is jointly owned by the two. On the second relief that both buildings be sold as requested by Toyin, Justice Abimbola held that, “I will not give such orders in respect of the two buildings. Particularly, Section 17 Married Women Law of Oyo state Cap 83, Laws of Oyo state 2000 gives a court the discretion as it thinks fit on the issues of title of possession to property. “Section 18 also enjoins the court to treat such property as a joint property if the issue has to do with the maintenance of a matrimonial home. My order to this effect is that the completed three-bedroom flat on the land be retained as the matrimonial property and the four children are entitled as beneficial owners by way of a resulting trust created for them by their parents. The mother, as long as she remains unmarried, is directed to be in possession undisturbed in order to take care of her children. “The uncompleted storey building is ordered to be sold by both parties and the proceeds divided in equal share. The half share shall go to the wife for the maintenance of the children. A divorced wife has no business being maintained,” Justice Abimbola held. The court also restrained James from harassing Toyin any further or disturbing the quiet possession of the property by her and the children, holding that, “the rationale is that a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home. Also, a divorced woman is not entitled to any maintenance allowance but maintenance of the children by way of settlement.” |
ANOINTING
Anointing is powerful. You can anoint by oil, Holy Spirit, and word of GOD; Through, the blood of the Lamb. The book of Isaiah says, by anointing of the oil; The yoke is destroyed. The book of Psalms says, by anointing my head with oil; My cup runs over. Day and night I anoint everything that concerns me, and My family, near and far. Anointing broke the yoke out of my family. It works by faith and confession of the word. The book of 1John says, with the anointing From the holy one, we know all things. The book of revelations says, anoint your eyes with eye salve; That you may see. Book of Mathew says, anoint your head; When you fast and wash your face. Anointing breaks the yoke. Anointing sets you on fire through the Holy Spirit; To speak in tongues; in understanding Only to our FATHER in heaven. Anointing heals us. Anointing protects us. Anointing blesses us. By anointing lives are saved. By anointing, lives are delivered. By anointing, family are restored. By anointing, barren have children. By anointing, impossible is possible. Overpowering Feeling @ 2001 Extract from POEMS OF HEALING EMOTIONS (c) Sophy Wahab. |
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