Today's Prayer Sunday 9th March

Father, thank you for giving me your word, the Bible. I know that it is true and it has the power to change my life. I trust your word and I ask you to help me to remember your word when negative thoughts of worry and doubt begin to fill my mind. Today help me to have eternal perspective and focus knowing that your joy is my strength and it is only through you I find true happiness! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Today's Prayer

Father, thank you so much for your great love towards me! I don’t deserve that love, but I thank you because of your son Jesus I received it. Help me to remember and meditate on that amazing love throughout this day and help me to freely give that love to others who need to know you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Today's Prayer

Father, thank you for your promises and the power of your word. Today, I submit to your authority in my life and confess that I cannot be successful apart from you. Help me to demonstrate Christ-like humility in all my ways so that people will see you in everything I do. May whatever success you choose to bless me with be a stage to point people to Jesus and to glorify His name. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Welcome to our Prayer Conference

WELCOME!

Beloved! We welcome you specially to this Cathedral Prayer Conference; the gathering of God’s people and a call for intense prayer.

The Call to Come “Back to Bethel” (Gen 35:1) is a message from God to us to remind us of our responsibility to Him, the church and the society. In the text God called Jacob to arise and go up to Bethel and live there.

Bethel was significant--Abraham dwelt near Bethel, built an altar and called on the name of Lord (Genesis 12:8; 13:3,4), Jacob encountered with the Lord there while running away from the wrath of Esau after the deception (Genesis 28:19,20), and God kept reminding Jacob of Bethel.

Bethel simply put means the house of God. The house of God is the place of encounter with God. And most people encountered with God at the place of prayers as Jacob did. It is also place of the renewal of covenant. For when there is communion/communication with God either COVENANT is renewed or strengthened. Hence, we are called to back to God.

When we have an encounter with the Lord it will affect the following:
Our relationship with the Lord. We will know Him more closely, more deeply and more highly. Then, our ultimate goal is to be like Him and to please Him.
Our Church will become a place of divine encounter. The church will be a home for the transformation of men and women, a crucible to raise godly men and indeed a house of prayer.
Our society will change. The issues plaguing our society—corruption, kidnapping, injustice, and other forms of decadence will be curbed as God use transformed men to transform the society.


We call on every cathedralist and those joining us in this conference to return to God wholeheartedly and pray earnestly for restoration of God’s glory and power as of old. We plead with you to follow the program and in between 7.30am and 4pm the church will be open for personal retreat and counseling. God bless you.


Ven. John Chukwuemeka Adubasim
Archdeacon




CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Ven. John C. Adubasim          -    Archdeacon
Canon Kingsley Ogbonda
Canon Obinna Ochulor
Rev. Prince Charles Ezeanochie
Rev Dr.  B.U. Okafor
Engr. Ikechi Nwogu
Sir. Vincent Ekoko


CONFERENCE CHAPLAIN:  Rev. Canon Obinna Ochulor
ASSISTED BY:             Evang. Felix Chika



PLENARY SESSION CO-ORDINATORS

Morning Session Evening Session

Wednesday Uche Agbaeze
Thursday Christian Ojukwu Chukwunwendu Okafor
Friday Chituru Ali Peace Gogo
Saturday Rev. C. Oguzo Josiah Iheanacho

CENTRAL CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Mrs. Chika Okoli - Chairman
Bro. Josiah Iheanacho - Secretary
Evang. Kelechi George - member
Evang. Felix C. Amaechi  -     “
Sister Patience Anele  -     “
Mrs. Stella Chuku
Mrs. Vivian Wokekoro
Rev. Friday Amaechi

Rev. Canon Obiina Ochulor        Chaplain

New month message

I thank God for bringing you successfully to the end of Feb. God has been faithful and He will continue to be. In the name of Jesus, I declare 'Access', 'Acceleration' and 'Accomplishment' into your life as you go into the new month. YOU WILL GO FAR IN LIFE! YOUR DESTINY WILL NOT BE CUT SHORT IN JESUS NAME. 

Sermon for Sunday 23rd Feb. 2014

Topic: Your season of Flourishing and Enlargement

Key Scripture Genesis 26:12-22


22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."

“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1

We serve a God of season. We see it in creation. God created the four seasons that are based upon the rotation of the Earth as it orbits the Sun.

The seasons change as the earth moves, but the sun in our planetary system remains constant, and everything revolves around it.

1. Stepping into a new season brings NEW CHANGES

Change is inevitable. It’s going to happen. We look outside at the world around us and notice things are different today than they were 10 years ago, last year or even yesterday. But remember we serve a God of seasons.

Even in His creation, He created the seasons. And each season is different than the others. Some are meant for things to grow, and others for things to die off. Hello, anybody. In some seasons the days are longer, in others the night.

Some times it seems your days, your mountaintop experiences with God last a long time, but then there are those seasons when the nighttime seems as if it will never end. In those long nights when the tears seem like they will never stop flowing, but it might have taken a little longer in some seasons than others, but the morning did come, and the tears ceased and joy returned to your spirit.

But God gives us revelations and truths to propel us into new and different seasons. Why? Because we are creatures of habit and if He didn’t change things we would become complacent in one place.

2. Stepping into a new season brings NEW CHALLENGES

There is no doubt that when Isaac called to stay Gerar, he was faced not only with many changes in his life, but many challenges.

3. Stepping into a new season births NEW CHAMPIONS

Isaac was transformed from poverty and lack  into a prosperous man. I believe those who knew Isaac three years before were amazed to see the new champion that he had become.

4. It is your Season to flourish

A. Psalm 92:12-15: “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; to show that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”


1. Flourish (Hebrew) = to flower, blossom, bloom, break through, spread out
2. Enter into a state of prosperity
3. Increase in wealth, favor and honor
4. Grow vigorously and exuberantly, enlarge and expand
5. Become extremely successful

B. Proverbs 14:11: “The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”

C. Psalm 52:8: “I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.”

1. Green (Hebrew) = flourishing

D. Psalm 112:3: “Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
endure to for ever.”

E. Jeremiah 17:7-8: “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”

1. Leaf shall be green—prospering, thriving, flourishing

2. NLT: “...Their leaves stay green [and flourishing], and they never stop
producing fruit.”

3. MSG: “...They’re like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the
rivers—never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, serene and calm through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season.”


F. Psalm 36:7-9 (AMP): “How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They relish and feast on the abundance of Your house; and You cause them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light.”

G. Song of Solomon 2:4: “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner me was love.”

Proverbs 11:28: “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch

5: Conclusion

Look at somebody and tell them, “God didn’t save me to be a chump, but he saved me to be a champion.”

God has transformed us by His power. And God is calling His champions to step into a new season.

We are stepping into a season of power and prosperity

We are stepping into a season where all the peoples of the earth shall see that we are called by the name of the Lord

We are stepping into a season where the Lord is going to open up His good treasure to you and bless you, where we’re gong to lend and not borrow, where we will be the head and not the tail, where we will be above and not beneath

We are stepping into a season where God is about to tear back the veil off of the heavenlies to release some things

Those who were once held under are now going to be coming over

Those who were once forgotten are now going to be remembered

Those who were depressed will once again begin to rejoice

Those who were once rejected are now accepted

Those who are down trodden will have their heads lifted

Those who grieve will have their joy made manifest

Those who were once poor will say I am rich

Those who are afflicted will once again walk in wholeness

We are stepping in to a new season where those things that have been taken from you will be restored 100 fold.

I believe I’m talking to some people this morning who have been through some seasons

Some of you had to learn how to praise God all by yourself

You had to praise God through a lot of tears

Some of you had to learn how to lay hands on your own head

Some of you had to hold up your hands while you were praying for somebody else, hoping somebody was praying for you.