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02/09/2025

PORTRAITS OF COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY

2. BEING GOVERNED BY NATURAL AND UNGODLY APPETITES
Paul the apostle says,
“Now every athlete who goes into training conducts himself temperately and restricts himself in all things. They do it to win a wreath that will soon wither, but we (do it to receive a crown of eternal blessedness) that cannot wither. Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking an adversary. But (like a boxer), I buffet my body (handle it roughly ,discipline it by hardships) and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit (not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit)” (1 Cor 9:25-27 AMP, emphasis added).

Jesus began His ministry after a forty-day fast and the first temptation the devil brought His way according to Matthew’s gospel was related to His need and appetite. Jesus overcame and this remains a lesson for anyone who would go far with God.

In the kingdom, it is expected that we grow to the point of ruling over our natural appetites and proclivities by the power of God; a point where our passions and desires are fine-tuned and refocused so that nothing mundane or external can remote-control them.

When we talk kingdom, we are talking tariff, territory and influence. What influences the territory of your life? What governs your universe? Who do you spend your resources on?

The cost of discipleship is suffering. The high point of discipleship is when you meet the King. Like we have established so far, it is possible for you to be born again without ever meeting the King who is supposed to dictate the pace and outcome of your life. This means anything at all that tickles your fancy can determine how you act at any given time and place.

The spirit realm is a legalistic one. Spirits (whether demons or angels) operate by the principle of law and order —demons are against, while angels are for, law and order. So, when you see demons moving in full swing and having a field day in a believer’s space, you can be sure the principle of law and order has been violated by the believer. This is why certain demons would simply not stop unleashing torment on some believers not because the name of Christ is not powerful enough, but because they have a legal ground of the believers’ rebellion to act. Deliverance for these ones can only come when they fall back to order. This is because if they do not bow down to Jehovah the king, another authority would most definitely lay claim to their souls and determine seasons in their destinies.

A person who is under a shade suddenly decides to go outside it for sight-seeing. The rain catches up with them and begins to lash on them mercilessly. What should they do to escape further whipping? Simple, they should go right back to the shade. It was this realization that took the prodigal son back to his father.

Anywhere God does not rule He overrules. Yet, He does not struggle. That’s why if there is anything contesting for His place in a believer’s life, He simply gives way. He is a gentle King.

To be continued…

CULLED FROM MY BOOK, KINGDOM RECALIBRATION

With love from your brother,
Arome Osayi

30/08/2025

PORTRAITS OF COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY (CONTINUED)

2. BEING GOVERNED BY NATURAL AND UNGODLY APPETITES

Such type of Christianity promotes indulgence as against restraint. Here, people act like wild beasts and the right atmosphere is continually created to play host to their untamed appetites. They cannot behave normally anytime hunger or thirst exerts pressure on them. They live by the drive of their instincts instead of the leadership of the Holy Spirit. They lose their identity anytime a need arises or an opportunity presents itself for them to soil their royal oath.

They don’t care how they fare before God and do not sufficiently weigh the consequences of their decisions as long as they can gratify their ephemeral desires. These folks are called ravening wolves–once hungry, nothing else matters, but their need for meat (Matthew 7:15).

For instance, they won’t adjust to the ups and downs of the Christian race. Anytime they are down, they subscribe to short cuts, cutting as many corners as possible to remain afloat. They won’t stand the rigors of spiritual discipline. They always have a way of accepting the truths of God’s revealed word selectively.

Even the great God-King cannot lay the weight of kingdom responsibility on their comfort. Why? They are too fragile to be inconvenienced.However, no serious minded man or woman can amount to anything in the kingdom if they do not learn to imbibe the discipline of the spirit.

Bastards in the Old Testament were those without fathers. In the New Testament, bastards are those without discipline. The Bible says,
“And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.”

(Hebrews 12:5-8, NIV)

To be continued…

CULLED FROM MY BOOK, KINGDOM RECALIBRATION

With love from your brother,
Arome Osayi

10/07/2025

TRAUMA: A MAJOR ENTRY POINT THAT DEMONS USE TO PE*****TE PEOPLE’S LIVES (3)

Human beings are tripartite: spirit, soul and body and these 3 component parts are held up in a delicate balance. Hebrews 4:12 sheds some light on the fact that there is a separation point between the spirit, soul and body which the word of God can powerfully pe*****te. I'll like to add that if the word of God is not given room to pe*****te and illumine this balance, demons will surely pe*****te it and bring chaos and darkness.

When the delicate balance that supports the coordination of the spirit, soul and body is tempered with by external shock(s), demons seize the opportunity to plunder. Some situations take people beyond their pain threshold and then they crack in their souls.

There is a level of pressure that can negatively affect this delicate spirit-soul-body balance and which can set up an entrance for demons: When people lose loved ones or something important to them like a job, rare opportunity, important relationship etc. and the alignment of their delicate balance is negatively thwarted, they become exposed to demonic manipulations and oppressions.

For instance, those who cannot sleep in the dark at night, people who can't sleep alone because of fear of something they cannot explain, people who are agonisingly depressed and sad are folks who possibly, at one point in their lives, have suffered a terrible traumatic experience that has affected their capacity for normal thinking and given access to demons to invade their souls and gain control over their sanity.

When people at childhood witness scenes of gruesome murder, heinous killings or wanton destruction, they become emotionally frayed and sustain cracks in their souls. The bolt of trauma overwhelms their natural shock absorbers. They become unhinged inside and demons can actually capitalise on those experiences and create a gateway into their lives that will facilitate demonic exchanges and operations in the forms of panic attacks, phobias etc.

To be continued…

CULLED FROM MY BOOK, DECIMATING DEMONIC DEVICES

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi

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14/05/2025

THREE KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD AND PEOPLE

3. LETTING GO OF BITTERNESS (ii)

Jesus said,

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38 NKJV).

Your heart cannot possibly release dead, bitter water and sweet living water at the same time. For the rivers of healing to flow out of you, they must flow into all compartments of your heart and administer healing to you first before they flow out of you to bless others. You cannot be a blessing if you are not first blessed. I’d like to let you know that these rivers from God’s throne in heaven have God as their origin/source and so are the trees along their banks. The leaves on these trees are for the healing of the nations (Rev. 22:1-2). Let them heal you my friend.

Finally on this subject, the writer of Hebrews warns thus:

“Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled” (Heb. 12:15, NKJV).

Falling short of God’s grace is like running out of fuel in the middle of the highway with no house or human soul to come to one’s aid. Don’t you want to experience that grace? God’s grace can be enjoyed and can be lost. One of the quickest ways of losing God’s grace is by harbouring bitterness. The root of a plant is its life support without which the plant dies. Dealing with bitterness is not only done by positive confessions and positive thinking but by yielding to the Holy Spirit and opening your heart to His healing by forgiving past hurt and equally yielding to Him as well as presenting fresh ones as they shall never cease coming at us. Forgiving hurt is a badge of honour.

Let Him work on your hurt today; for indeed to err is human and to forgive is divine.

To be continued…

Culled from my book, BIRTHING HIS EXCELLENCE

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi

09/05/2025

How do we measure the impact of a ministry?

The quality of lives that are transformed by the ministry’s labors. Evidence of change in character and thinking to reflect more of kingdom life as believers do hunger and thirst more for righteousness. This should be so visible to the community in which the ministry is domiciled that the believers connected to it can be called Christians indeed. When people love Jesus more, look like Him more and depend on Him more than they do the minister.

What is your take on ministers who negotiate their honorariums before responding to an invitation?

Such are hirelings who are in service of themselves, not Jesus Christ. Their reward is confined to the earth. They would be materially wealthy but spiritually wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked, like the folks at the Laodicean church (Revelation 3:14-17). Mammon is their Lord and they are building with wood, hay, and straw. Nothing of their labors would matter on that Day.

Culled my book, A TREATISE ON CHRISTIAN MINISTRY

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi.

08/05/2025

THREE KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD AND PEOPLE:

2. DEALING WITH HUMAN FAULTS (ii)

“With all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians. 4:2, NKJV).

Bearing one another in love in practical terms means creating space in our heart to endure and tolerate people’s weakness. The more often we do this, the larger our hearts become. So, no matter how bad people hurt us, though we feel the pain, the love of God which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit wells up within us like a monsoon and neutralizes the power of the hurt; thus enabling us to forgive. In a nut shell, we feel good when we forgive.

I’m saying we feel God’s peace flood our hearts when we forgive. The moment we forgive, we open the doors of our hearts for healing to flow. That is why the unforgiving heart is like the Dead Sea having no outlet but keeps accumulating toxic chemicals. An unforgiving heart cannot bear God’s excellence – it is too toxic. Just like the Dead Sea has no form of life in it, so can an unforgiving heart not bear any trace of God’s beautiful virtues. That is what makes non-forgiveness a terminal spiritual disease.

Some people find it difficult to let past hurt go not because they do not want to, but because the hurt is like fresh wound etched in their memories.

God’s wings overflow with healing, yet they cannot bear closed, bitter hearts. The Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus because His heart was large enough to forgive the sins of the world. That is why in giving Him the Spirit, God did not hold back – God gave Him all of the Spirit (John 3:34).

To be continued…

Culled from my book, BIRTHING HIS EXCELLENCE

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi

07/05/2025

THREE KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD AND PEOPLE:

2. DEALING WITH HUMAN FAULTS (i)

In human relationships mistakes abound, and sometimes people get hurt. If it is not the husband cheating on the wife, it is the wife refusing to submit to the man’s authority; if it is not a brother feeling bad about being talked down at, it is a sister whose heart has been broken after putting time and energy into a five-year long relationship that suddenly hits the rocks.

If it is not the pastor using people’s confidences as raw materials to preach, it is the members making life difficult for the pastor by leaving him to do everything himself; if it is not the church failing to be there for the people in their most lonely moments of despair, it is a church leader stealing from the purse of the church. I could go on and on because in our world of over seven billion souls, there are over seven billion unique problems with the church taking more than to one billion of those problems.

No human life placed under the microscope of scrutiny is without faults. Our differences should remind us that we are humans after all. God’s divinity within us as members of His body unites us regardless of our differences. However, whenever two or more people relate, friction is naturally bound to occur. Paul presents a solution to this ever-lingering problem:

“With all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians. 4:2, NKJV).

If we allow the Holy Spirit to teach us to tolerate and bear with one another in love, our perspective of human differences will change. We soon learn to see our differences not as a curse but a blessing. We will then begin to celebrate our differences.

To be continued…

Culled from my book, BIRTHING HIS EXCELLENCE

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi.

06/05/2025

THREE KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD AND PEOPLE:

1. THE AWESOME POWER OF FORGIVENESS (iv)

It is natural to get angry. Jesus Himself got angry a few times in the days of His earthly ministry, but it is totally deadly to hold on to anger. That is why Scripture enjoins us not to let the sun go down on our anger (Ephesians 4:26). This is because given time; anger is like a freshly tapped palm wine –it ferments. When anger ferments, it gives rise to bitterness.

Bitterness is the by-product of fermented anger. If you have ever experienced heartburn before, you will agree with me that it is like fire put in the middle of your chest. Medical experts say most heartburns result from food not properly taken care of in the stomach. In the lay man’s explanation, these food substances “ferment” and produce unpleasant substances that set the chest on fire.

In this journey of faith, offence will always come from those who hate us and those who love us, those we do not know and those we trust. Sometimes in anger, we feel like strangling someone or breaking their bones. It is okay to feel that way. It is, however, not okay to continue feeling that way.

To be continued… Culled from my book, BIRTHING HIS EXCELLENCE

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi

05/05/2025

THREE KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD AND PEOPLE:

1. THE AWESOME POWER OF FORGIVENESS (iii)

The sun scorched mercilessly on the blood-drenched wooden cross where Jesus hung between two criminals. His hand and feet hurt greatly from nails refusing to let them go. His nostrils managed to scoop oxygen from the air filled with taunting rage from onlookers.

His lung felt like over inflated balloons at the verge of exploding. High fever from partial respiration made His head pound like the feet of ten thousand troops marching. As if that was not misfortune enough, someone handed Him vinegar to drink. His body could hardly house His spirit.

On this summit of pain; very unlikely and most unexpected, He said these golden words:

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke23:34, NKJV).

Jesus did not only preach forgiveness, He led a life of forgiveness. It was from the abundance of His life that all His sermons came. He did all He taught setting precedents for all those who will follow in His footsteps.

Forgiveness is a major prerequisite to living a life of excellence. It is a mechanism set by God to take care of all roots of bitterness so that the devil does not take advantage of unpleasant experiences to make us self-destruct.

To be continued… Culled from my book, BIRTHING HIS EXCELLENCE

With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi

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