Culture - Discipling Nations Preacher: Pastor Laju Iren Acts 19:10 The impact of the early church was evident and it is something to emulate, replicate and admire. The days of impact of the Gospel have not passed. There was an impact in medicine and because people were getting healed. There was also an economic impact (Acts 19:20). There was also impact on leadership. Acts 12:21-24 8 things that the early church did that culture could not ignore 1. It was a listening church. One of the first thi...
Nov 03, 2024•1 hr•Season 8Ep. 64
TACTICS: HOW TO CATCH MEN ❤️🔥 He emphasized that where the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable. We were also made to understand that God's priority is SOUL WINNING. Here are a few things we learnt: 📌 God's priority is salvation, Romans 10:1. There is a difference between what God can do and what God prioritises. God gives bread, but He is bread. 📌 Everyone considered a great man was someone who did something for God. Genesis 12:1-2. When God wants to use you, don't shy away....
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 8Ep. 63
How to Pray During a Retreat. Here are some key points: 📌Luke 11:1. The will of God isn’t always good versus bad it’s always good versus God. 📌The best way to pray is to “Pray for the will of God to be done”. 📌Psalm 106:15. The permissive will of God is a dangerous place to be.
Oct 13, 2024•59 min•Season 8Ep. 62
We received the powerful ministry of our apostle, Apostle Emmanuel Iren in the morning session🔥🔥 We learned that there has to be more to our devotion than the regular. We must set aside time to recalibrate in a retreat. 4 things you must do in a retreat: 📌 Cast your cares upon Him. Matthew 13:1-14. You must leave the place of prayer lighter than you came. Know that as long as you’re alive, there is hope for you in God. Romans 8:37. 📌 You must forgive. There are a few things that corrupt the ...
Oct 13, 2024•1 hr•Season 8Ep. 61
‘Evangelism’ 🔥🔥 We learnt that the core of evangelism is sharing something we are passionate about, and just like how we talk about things that excites us, even more, we should be eager to share the good news. 📌 Here are some notable points from this sermon; - To be an evangelist is to be zealous about any course. - There is a sense to which everyone of us are passionate about something, so if you do not actively tell people about Jesus, that’s a passion problem. - Evangelism is not just a t...
Oct 06, 2024•52 min•Season 8Ep. 60
ENVOY: TAKING TERRITORIES This is the best way we can show true discipleship ✍🏾 Some highlights from the sermon: 📌The believer must learn to be abased and to abound. Philippians 4:10-13 📌Tough times present a great opportunity to show the world where our treasure is. Philippians 2:5 📌One of the most powerful ways to demonstrate discipleship is to live without possessions. Learn to be abased. 📌There is a secret unspoken rule - the more money you have, the more transcendent you become. Popula...
Sep 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 8Ep. 59
CURRENCY - THE ZEAL OF THE LORD We learnt how the key things in the Bible are often emphasized to draw your attention and how God’s plan is sovereign. Here are some key points to take note of: 📌 For many that received him, to them he gave the power to be called the sons of God. John 1:12 📌 This tells you there’s nothing special about you or intrinsic that makes you entitled to God’s plan and promises. 📌 Your relevance is in alignment to God’s sovereign plan. It’s aligning yourself to God’s pu...
Sep 22, 2024•59 min•Season 8Ep. 58
Envoy: A life of Ambition'.🔥🔥 We learned fundamentally about two important questions that must be answered if we are to understand purpose. 1. What is worth living for? 2. What is worth dying for? And in answering these questions, we learned that whatever is worth living for, is also worth dying for, which births purpose. For us as Christians, we should believe the radical idea that death is gain. Philippians 1:21 Here are some more notable points from this sermon; 📌 Living a life of purpose...
Sep 15, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 8Ep. 57
Purpose 101. He explained that purpose refers to the reason why we were created. He went on to give us four principles of purpose from the book of Genesis Chapter 1: 📍 There is a sun before the sun: God wants us to understand that purpose comes first. Purpose takes preeminence over everything else. (Genesis 1:5) 📍 God is man's source: When God wanted to create man, He spoke to Himself, signifying that God is the root of our existence. If you live without God, you live life like the living dead...
Sep 08, 2024•48 min•Season 8Ep. 56
Envoy: An Exceptional Life.”🔥🔥 He emphasized that purpose is a double-edged sword, providing clarity and direction while also setting boundaries. Matthew 15:24 Here are some key points from the sermon; 📌Purpose tells you what you must do and what you must not. 📌Purpose determines your boundaries. John 6:35 📌 Even when you know your purpose, waiting is essential. It’s important to wait for the right time, and discipline is required. 📌 Not every passion deserves your attention. 📌 Avoid push...
Sep 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 8Ep. 55
Explore: Understanding the Scriptures.’ 🔥🔥 He emphasized three main points, namely: 📍 Proper Bible interpretation is spiritual warfare. 📍 You need a teacher. 📍 Interpretation is necessary. On proper Bible interpretation as spiritual warfare, here are a few points to note: - When it comes to warfare, the primary warfare in the Word of God is the battle of the mind. - Knowledge is a powerful weapon of war. 2 Corinthians 2:11 - The devil will try to outwit you and catch you unawares. - How you...
Aug 18, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 8Ep. 54
IMAGING CHRIST ON PRAYER pt1 Text: Phil 2:5, Matt 20:26, Phil 2:9-10, John 6:33, Ezekiel 22:30. NOTE 📌 If you want to image Christ, make your life about purpose, not about status. 📌 Your yardstick for measuring prosperity should be based on how much you have done for God. 📌 The paradox of God is that it is those who are poor in Spirit that inherit the kingdom of God. Only those who seek God find all things. 📌 In the kingdom, greatness is measured in service. 📌 Giving and generosity is God's...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 8Ep. 52
DEEPER DAY 1 TOPIC: Who do you image? Understanding delegated authority TEXT: Eph 3:14 MINISTERING: Apostle Emmanuel Iren Part of the privilege of theology is to start learning what you cannot finish knowing. The greatness of God surpasses knowledge. There is something about the natural creation that gives us an idea of the greatness of God. (Eph 3:19) Holiness means excellence, something that stands out, indescribable. (Exo 15:11) ➡️How do we know what is beyond knowing 📌Anthropomorphic attrib...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 8Ep. 51
Explore: The Inspiration of Scripture. He introduced the sermon by highlighting the importance of understanding what we believe and being able to defend it. The Bible is inspired by two key ways: 📌 God chose the writers of the Bible, handpicking each one to share His message with the world. 📌 God provided divine direction, guiding the lives of every author in the Bible to ensure they wrote His words without error. We also learned that the Canon of the Word of God started with God Himself writi...
Aug 11, 2024•38 min•Season 8Ep. 50
EXPLORE: The Purpose of Scriptures” 🔥🔥 He emphasized that the Bible doesn't just tell us what to do but also how to do it. We learnt that we as Christians should have an athletic commitment to devotion even much more than athletes being so devoted to receiving corruptible awards. Here are a few things to note about being devoted to the word; 1. We must honour the word and prioritize it in our lives. 2 Thessalonians 3:1. 2. We must grow in the word and allow the word of God to grow in our lives...
Aug 04, 2024•57 min•Season 8Ep. 49
Believers’ Authority IV Here are a few points from the sermon: Guiding Laws on Believers’ Authority is a matter of legality (1 Kings 18:38, NKJV). ➡️ SALVATION ➡️ KNOWLEDGE ➡️ SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD 📍 There are some things that remove you from God’s protection, and unforgiveness is one of them. It makes you vulnerable to attack. 📍 Do not dishonour those whom God has called. Avoid constant disobedience towards God-ordained authority. 📍 Sexual perversion still has consequences. Be mindful of wh...
Jul 31, 2024•35 min•Season 8Ep. 48
Recharge 🔥🔥 There are two lessons we can learn from the creation story. ✨ 📌 Priority. Mark 2:27. On Priority, here are a few things to note; - Everything had a reason for being created. - By the order of creation, you see a crescendo that points to priority. - You must value your rest in God above all things. Revelations 4:11. - You were created for God so you must therefore prioritise him. - Seeking first is a heart matter. Matthew 6:33. - In order of priority whose opinion are you seeking t...
Jul 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 47
Believers’ Authority III Here are a few points from the sermon: Guiding Laws on Believers’ Authority is a matter of legality (1 Kings 18:38, NKJV). ➡️ SALVATION ➡️ KNOWLEDGE ➡️ SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD 📍 There are some things that remove you from God’s protection, and unforgiveness is one of them. It makes you vulnerable to attack. 📍 Do not dishonour those whom God has called. Avoid constant disobedience towards God-ordained authority. 📍 Sexual perversion still has consequences. Be mindful of w...
Jul 25, 2024•53 min•Season 8Ep. 48
Regaining spiritual form. Genesis1. Before you create anything, you must create infrastructure to sustain it. Atmospheres before activities. Whatever spiritual experience you want to encounter, you must create the discipline to activate the atmosphere. Galatians6:7 The realm of the spirit works with investment. You are not beyond the principles that protect your vulnerabilities. Sobriety will protect you from being vulnerable to the devices of the enemy. One of the marks of maturity is that you ...
Jul 21, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 8Ep. 46
Believer's Authority II God wasn’t trying to help the Israelites escape. He wanted to humble Pharoah. To effectively exert your authority as a believer, you must first understand the God that’s on your side. God wanted to expose Pharoah’s frailty and prove to his people that he was just a man Exodus 11:4-11, Exodus 12:40-41. The contest between God and Pharoah wasn’t close. The book of Exodus wasn’t just about an exodus but also about establishing God’s unequivocal power and authority overall. T...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 8Ep. 45
Airplane: When I Don’t Feel Connected to God. 🔥 He emphasized that there is no other way to do Christianity. You’re either serious or an imposter. Here are a few things to note: - When we observe your emotions, we must see that no one commands your chief joy except the Lord. - When you pray, pray well. This is one simple hack to change your walk with God. - In prayer, the posture of your heart matters. There is a type of prayer that gets the job done. (1 Peter 5:8) - Learn to spot the enemy. (1...
Jul 14, 2024•51 min•Season 8Ep. 44
When I don’t feel close to God Symptoms can sometimes be 50/50. We can feel something and be wrong about it. Feelings are not always a true determinants of things. What to do when you don’t feel close to God: 1. Gaze on the constant nature of God. Jam1:17 Regardless of what you feel or what’s going on in your life, God is always constant. You might feel far from Him but He isn’t. Ps139:7-12, Eph2:4-8 2. Feast on your knowledge of God. Your feelings don’t matter as much as His nature. In difficul...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 8Ep. 43
Regulate Your Emotions’. 🔥 He emphasized that soul maintenance is one of the yardsticks for measuring spiritual growth (2 Timothy 2:15-16). Here are key points to note from the service: - In spiritual growth, learn what to emphasize and de-emphasize (Philippians 4:8-9). - It is part of your spiritual growth to master how to handle distractions. - You must not have an opinion on everything. - You can be intentional about what you think. Not everything deserves your attention. - Forgetting is par...
Jul 07, 2024•44 min•Season 8Ep. 42
The Believer’s Authority “Exodus”. We can connect the workings of the Gifts of the Spirit with the miraculous display of God’s power at the initial stage of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. 1Cor 12:1-7 Important Things to Note; 📌In paganism, every idol is a specialist, there is a god for everything (e.g., fertility, war, commerce, etc) There are a plethora of different spirits and powers working together. 📌In Christianity, there is only one God who is diverse in power. Divers works, sa...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 8Ep. 41
Faithful Steward 🔥🔥 He established fundamentally that when it comes to financial stewardship, the most important thing is the alignment of the heart with our actions. So, this helps us see that generosity is not just about what you have or don’t have but a thing of the heart. 2 Corinthians 9:7. Here are some notable points to note from this sermon; - When it comes to generosity, there are weightier matters, and a heart matter is a weightier matter. - We must recognize that all we have comes f...
Jun 30, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 9Ep. 40
Financial Stewardship: Welfare He emphasized that there are times and seasons in this world. It is our duty as believers to build capacity and work hard. Genesis 8:22 Here are key points to note from the service; - Miracles will never take the place of principles. - If your financial story must change, you must build capacity and learn a skill. - Proper management will give you an edge even without prophecy. Genesis 41:34-36 - You don't build and sustain wealth by praying alone. Proverbs 24:3 - ...
Jun 23, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 39
New Testament Giving and Metaphors. He emphasized that Christ was God’s best and he gave us his best freely. Here are key points to note from the service; - When you understand the fatherhood of God, you know there are things inconsistent with His nature. - We give to God because he has blessed us not so that he blesses us. - God gives us things freely without us meeting any requirement. - As God gave himself to us in salvation, we give ourselves to him in consecration. 3 types of tithes in ...
Jun 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 38
Durable Riches: The Believer & Money🔥🔥 Here are key points to note from the service; - He emphasized that it takes resources to influence culture. - It is also important to know that contentment is not complacency. - Our reason for acquiring wealth is what really matters. - God wants us to be ambitious for a selfless cause - His cause. That only happens when we learn to share His burdens and see life through His eyes. - It is important to always examine ourselves and think of how we can be...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Season 8Ep. 37
Treasure Chest We were reminded that the goal of theology is worship, and without love, our efforts are incomplete. When your goal is worship, even when you're not perfect in theology, your errors will be minimized. Here are some notable points to note from this sermon; - In the kingdom, not all things have the same priorities. There is something called weighter matters. - Generosity is a heart issue, not just about the action. - The New Testament principle is to give cheerfully, consistently,...
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 36
It is a fundamental truth that we are all Children of God, and when we understand God as our Father, and not just a boss, our relationship with Him changes for good. Here are some key points to note from this sermon; - Your walk with God has not started until you begin to call God Father. - The revelation of the Fatherhood of God changes everything. - Our children are a reflection of God’s glory, and raising them to know and praise Him, is one of the most powerful things we can do. - When chi...
Jun 02, 2024•56 min•Season 8Ep. 35
