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27/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Faith Capital.   Text : ```1 Kings 17:8-10 AMP Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” So he set out and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks [for firewood]. He called out to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a jar, so that I may drink.”```  COMMENTARY Elijah did not place his life on the brook but hung his life and future on the word of God. So he waited on God to hear the next thing God has to say to him. Faith Capital is enough to start with, be sustained on and complete all your projects on. Your business and possessions should not inform your opinion on what sufficiency is all about. Whenever you feel scarcity what is your usual reactions? Do you not always blame it on yourself or on some other person? S...

26/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Mind is a channel.   Text : ```Ephesians 4:22‭-‬24 NLT throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.```   COMMENTARY Our mind is a spiritual channel. What you think determines the type of spirit that visits you. Our minds are doors and spirits enters into our lives through our minds. _Psalm 119:130 said that: "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple"_ The question is how does the word enter and where does it enter? The word enters into our hearts through our minds. The word of God is a spirit. Each time we sit to hear the word of God the spirit of God is being deployed into our hearts through the channels of our minds. _In John 6:63 (NKJV) Jesus said: "It is the Spirit who gives life; th...

25/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Sacrifice opens and Shuts Spiritual doors.   Text : ```Numbers 23:1‭-‬4 AMP Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams here.” Barak did just as Balaam had said, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate hill. Now God met Balaam, who said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”```   COMMENTARY Sacrifices are tools for attracting Spiritual favour.  Sacrifice opens and also shuts Spiritual doors. It can activate blessings and can also activate curses. While going to meet the Spirit or have a meeting with the Spirit(divinity) you must arrange yourself properly. In the Jewish tradition, they don't go to the S...

24/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Consequences of displaying wealth.   Text : ```2 Kings 20:14‭-‬18 AMP Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say [that would cause you to do this for them]? From where have they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.” Isaiah said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything that is in my house (palace). There is nothing in my treasuries that I have not shown them.” Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord. ‘Behold, the time is coming when everything that is in your house, and that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. ‘And some of your sons (descendants) who will be born to you will be taken away [as captives]; and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”```   COMMENTARY It is common wit...

23/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Life on mission.   Text : ```Matthew 28:18‭-‬20 NLT Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”```   COMMENTARY A life spent with Jesus is a life on a mission. When Jesus was on Earth, He was actively looking to bring the kingdom of God onto Earth: light into darkness, life into death. This is the mission He has given us. We live for others. Jesus Christ lived serving others even to the point of paying for sins of others not with other commodities but with His very own life.  In 1 Corinthians, Paul describes his mission as knowing Jesus and making Him known. In Matthew 28, Jesus tells us to share the Gos...

22/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Deliverance.   Text : ```Luke 11:4 AMP ‘And forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us [who has offended or wronged us]. And lead us not into temptation [but rescue us from evil].’”```   COMMENTARY   We wish to look at the prayer guide of Jesus popularly called: "the Lord's prayer." Particularly we will meditatively go through the deliverance part of the Lord's prayer. I was thinking about the Lord's prayer to see if there is provision for our deliverance and safety in the prayers. Until I saw that portion: "deliver us from evil." As I meditatively kept quiet, thinking about many evils that occurs around people. How people harbor and hatch evil against their neighbors. I come to conclusion that truly humans deserve deliverance through the omnipotent God who sees all the secret movements and traps. The entire Verse 4 of Luke chapter 11 is dedicated to deliver...

21/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Fellowship with light   Text : ```1 John 1:5‭-‬7 KJV This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.```   COMMENTARY The essence of fellowship is to learn and adjust our lives and become like the one we are learning from.  People who follows same road in same ship will have virtually their slogans become same. There are gathering of believers that uses such greetings like "bless you" "we bless God" "peace be unto you" "Shalom" etc. As little as these noticeable style of greetings, deeper changes also occur in fellowship. One of those changes is the pattern of our t...

20/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Testing of our faith.   Text : ```Genesis 22:1‭-‬2 AMP Now after these things, God tested [the faith and commitment of] Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.” God said, “Take now your son, your only son [of promise], whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”```   COMMENTARY Our faith is the engine and membrane of our soul. It means our beliefs and our confidence. The Bible says that "..as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." Many times trials come to prove our faith in God. The time of trial is a crucial and important time that would determine what would become of us thereafter. It is like an exam period. Those who did well in the exam are promoted to next level and those who didn't do well keep repeating and rotating life in the same level. Did Abraham's level change after the ...

19/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Accessing the Secret Place of the Most High. Text  ```Psalms 91:1‭-‬2 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” ```   COMMENTARY In this Bible passage, we are going to examine how to dwell in the secret place of God. In doing so, we should ask ourselves, is there a secret place in God's courtyard? I mean is there a secret, hiding place in God? If there is, who are those that can access it? How is it accessed? Wherever the people of God gathers, Satan also tries to find his way into the place. _Job 1:6 NKJV Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them._ Even as a church member, you might feel that you have run inside the Church to gain security but here reverse has become the case. Right inside the Church...

18/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Mortifying Self . Text : ```Colossians 3:3‭-‬6 KJV For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:```   COMMENTARY The root of the verb mortify is from the Latin word mors, which means “death.” Mortificacioun, is a process of "mortifying  the flesh, act of subduing the passions and appetites, suppression of bodily desires," For our spiritual lives to attain its original status, mortification of the flesh is necessary. Flesh wars against the spirit and drives so crazily hard to cripple our spirit man. It takes men and women who goes out of their way to subdue their appetite and de...

17/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Standard of God.   Text : ```Isaiah 59:19 KJV So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.```   COMMENTARY   If you have ever prayed and expected the power of God. You cannot expect the power of God over nothing. Enemies' presence also invite the presence of God and His standard. Enemies are not gentle. They are violent and display some touch of madness. The scripture used the imagery "shall come like a flood" to describe the enemy. When such is happening, it is an evidence that the standard of God is present with you. You only need faith and courage to ignite the fire that displays his standard. Learn how to switch on the standard of God. The standard of God is switched on through righteousness, fervency, humility, hospitality, and holiness. You may need an ex...

16/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Church mob.   Text : ```Acts 17:5‭-‬7 KJV But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.```   COMMENTARY Poised with hatred for Paul's light and bright Apostolic exposition, certain persons arose with competitive mindset against Paul. They stirred up the hooligans and hoodlums in the society against the Church. Those who engineered this are members of the synagogue. They organized mob to attack Paul and Silas. Today certain persons play th...

15/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Wisdom and Understanding   Text : ```Proverbs 4:7‭-‬9 AMP The beginning of wisdom is: Get [skillful and godly] wisdom [it is preeminent]! And with all your acquiring, get understanding [actively seek spiritual discernment, mature comprehension, and logical interpretation]. Prize wisdom [and exalt her], and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a garland of grace; She will present you with a crown of beauty and glory.”```   COMMENTARY Understanding is all encompassing. Understand your environment, understand the people around you. Understand every of their speech, why they made the speech and so on. It is with wisdom that we comprehend and have logical interpretation of every actions taken by people around us, be it our superiors or our subordinates. In the book of Judges Chapter 8, we saw the wisdom Gideon displayed in relating with the people of Ephraimites. Navigating ...

14/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Consequences of displaying wealth.   Text :  ```2 Kings 20:14‭-‬18 AMP Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say [that would cause you to do this for them]? From where have they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.” Isaiah said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything that is in my house (palace). There is nothing in my treasuries that I have not shown them.” Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord. ‘Behold, the time is coming when everything that is in your house, and that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. ‘And some of your sons (descendants) who will be born to you will be taken away [as captives]; and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”```   COMMENTARY It is comm...

13/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Hearkening to the voice of God.   Text : ```Deuteronomy 28:2‭-‬6 KJV and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.```   COMMENTARY Have you seen anyone who diligently hearkened to the voice of God overtaken by evil? Throughout generations and all ages, God has always been faithful and abiding to His promises. His words is yes and Amen. Blessings run after and overtake everyone who truly and sincerely surrendered to the will of God. The trying times could be tough, tearing and wearing, howeve...

12/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Economic Challenges.   Text: ```2 Kings 4:1 NLT One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”```   COMMENTARY What should be our stand in the face of economic meltdown? As Christians should we borrow to feed our family? Should we give ourselves to borrowing or begging to be able to foot our bills? Debt could turn one into a slave. When you live the life of yes, yes yes. What do I mean, you say yes to everything provided it bring food to your table. Have you not seen people accepting to do something worth 100k for just 10k? Hunger could make you look haggard, tattered and beggarly. Never accept everything goes lifestyle. There might be in practicality no slaves in the strict sense of it this days but we still have modern slaves. The type ...

11/02/2023: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Poor management   Text : ```Proverbs 21:5 AMP The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance and advantage, But everyone who acts in haste comes surely to poverty.```   COMMENTARY Poor management is a product of poor decision. Poor decision is practically demonstrated in hasty actions. Hasty to talk, hasty to react in a clumsy and cloudy situations. Have you realized that decisions taken when the weather is foggy and that taken when the coast is clear are never the same? 99% of our successes lies on the choices and decisions we make everyday the remaining 1% would be luck. Leaving your success to come by luck could amount to wasting your precious time. Poor management as we discuss range from management of information and opportunities down to financial management. Decisions you take upon every single information or opportunity that hit your door. Every good manager must be a diligent person. The Bible text we read...

10/02/2023: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: What killed him?   Text : ```2 Kings 4:1 NLT One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”```   COMMENTARY A certain woman, a widow ran to Prophet Elisha to help her family. Financial crises looms on almost every family. The question of management is very important to sustain the present and equally have something for your children's future use. Looking critically into the family of this widow, one would be tempted to ask, "what killed her husband?" The answer will not be far fetched. The man might have died out of depression for his debts. Even death did not wipe the debt automatically. Dying and leaving this world was not a solution because his family became exposed to a bigger problem. The children are now being threatened to be ...

09/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Teach me your ways 3   Text :  ```Isaiah 55:8‭-‬9 NIV  “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.```   *COMMENTARY*  Moses saw into the glory and he chose to dwell in glory all the days of his life. For him to raise such a prayer point in time that there should be other things to bother about it means that he foresee the meaning of knowing God's ways. In the figment of your imagination, have you considered how God's ways would look like? It could be rough, rugged but full of glory and testimonies. No one ever walked with God and partake in shame. _Romans 10:11 NIV As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”_ This particular prayer point of Moses about God's way manifested  throughout his ministry. Ther...

08/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Teach me your ways 2   Text : ```Exodus 33:12‭-‬14 NIV Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.” The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”```   COMMENTARY Those that are desirous of God's ways must first abandon their own ways and esteemed God's divine direction more important than their personal gains. Moses had a flourishing livestock keeping business. He kept his personal interest aside to fulfill God's agenda for a generation. Have you asked what is God's agenda for your family? Moses led the entire Israel out of Egypt, that is to say he led them out of darkness into the marvelo...

07/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Teach me your ways   Text : ```Exodus 33:12‭-‬14 NIV Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.” The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”```   COMMENTARY The dept of every man's journey with God is traceable to their prayer points. Shallow prayer points produces shallow and peripheral Christians. People shouting Holy Ghost fire without fire. Moses was a man of God who engages God in conversation intimately. What we are considering particularly in this exposition is "teach me your ways." Someone who came and asked God to teach him His ways was not joking. The next line of conversation t...

06/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Value of God's presence 2 Text :  ```1 Samuel 5:1-4 AMP:The Philistines brought the ark of God from Ebenezer to Ashdod. They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon [their idol]. When they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon had fallen upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him in his place again.But when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had again fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and [his] head and both the palms of his hands were lying cut off on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left him.```    COMMENTARY Everything valuable is also costly to achieve.  So is the presence of God. Not only cost to afford but also costly to maintain. _Exodus 33:14‭-‬15 NIV The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence ...

05/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: _Value of God's presence_  Text : ```1 Samuel 5:1-4 AMP:The Philistines brought the ark of God from Ebenezer to Ashdod. They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon [their idol]. When they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon had fallen upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him in his place again.But when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had again fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and [his] head and both the palms of his hands were lying cut off on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left him.```    COMMENTARY Few days ago we dwelled on the topic " value of my existence." The topic was extensively taught in sequence. It is also important that we look at the scripture and understand the value of God's presence. The ark of the covenant represent the presence of God and conseque...

04/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: The place of God Text : ```1 Samuel 5:1-4 AMP:The Philistines brought the ark of God from Ebenezer to Ashdod. They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon [their idol]. When they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon had fallen upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him in his place again.But when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had again fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and [his] head and both the palms of his hands were lying cut off on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left him.```    COMMENTARY   The ark of God In the Hebrew Bible is the Ark of the Covenant which is the large golden chest that carries the tablets the Ten Commandments. In addition to its physical attributes, it was also imbued with mystical and spiritual significance which shows that the ark carries the pres...

03/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Illegal Structures 2   Text :  ```Jeremiah 1:7‭-‬10 NKJV But the Lord said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”```   COMMENTARY Illegal Structures such as this that Prophet Jeremiah was commissioned to pull down, destroy and throw down are Structures that hinder spiritual awakening. Structures that uplift darkness and cover light. Such kind of structures hinder Spiritual maturity and civilization. There is a level of civilization in the realms of the spirit that God wants Hi...

02/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Illegal Structures.   Text :  ```Jeremiah 1:7‭-‬10 NKJV But the Lord said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”```   COMMENTARY One of the foundational significant difference between Prophetic ministers and the rest of the people in the society is eyes. God gives ability to identify original architectural master plans to the Prophets. God give them ability to read and interpret geographical and geological map of families and individual persons lives. God's purpose and plans a...

01/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Value of my existence 4 Text : ```I Corinthians 11:8‭-‬9 NKJV For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.```   COMMENTARY   In terms of use and serving a purpose, pressing iron will have no value in the kitchen. Nothing in the kitchen needed ironing. When a person identifies his purpose in life, then he optimizes his value and use. As a manufacturer has a particular problem to solve with each of his manufactured items, God has a particular need he designed everyone to meet. The scripture passage we read states that: "woman is created for man..." Aside the gender purpose which is for procreation, companionship, love, warmth etc. There is yet other purposes for everyone God created. Did you notice that natural alignment with the will of God and purpose in life increases one's value? Have you noticed that the moment a woman submit herself under a man, her v...