THIS TOO SHALL PASS

   Let me start by welcoming you into this GREAT week! God has been sooooooooooo good. Regardless of how rough and challenging the previous week has been. In it all He has been FAITHFUL. I just want to encourage you today. You may be going through a whole lot and your thinking, “how much longer God?”.  He knows it all, He sees it all. Remember He cannot give you more than you can bare. Just hold on in there and keep your FAITH alive, cause without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6.

         Don’t EVER think you’re too deep in that issue, problem or sin and so God will not listen or save you. He is not like man, He understands you. People may laugh at you now and call you all sort of names now, tell you how much of a terrible person you are, and the devil may keep echoing his lies in your head, telling you you’re too deep to get help. I want you to scream back at that liar, and tell him, “THIS TOO SHALL PASS”.  You may say,” Joann, this is different, am too deep in it, besides, it’s all rosy for you so it’s easy for you to say”.  Well, you’re wrong with a big X to it!

I know exactly how it is to lay in bed at night and cry. I have been hurt, broken, I trusted too much and ended up disappointed, I have failed severally, been messed up. Matter of fact, when am totally bashed I will run back to my Father and He was ALWAYS standing there with open arms, ready to receive me even with all my mess. He showed me that love that no man can ever show me. And then, a little distraction comes my way, and I slip out of His embrace and run back into my mess, and you know what, He was still there tugging on me to come back. Waiting! And more waiting! The moment the temporal pleasure gets sour and I get hurt and messed up, I run back to Him and that God that I left, I ignored, I rejected will still PICK me up and CLEAN me like I never faulted. He cleaned me from my scars that where so deep within. He is the only one that’s patient when I fall, He never laughs at me when I make mistakes and cry, but always ready to fix me back up. Now I can never leave cause He is all I have and ever need. And look, my life is moving from glory to glory. When the devil challenges me, and frustrates me, am glad, cause it only means I have something great heading my way, so I will shake it off cause my testimony (future) is far better than my present. Am not asking and praying you walk in my shoes, or go about the way I went. You’re special!

You have a great opportunity and please don’t joke with it. Whenever you call, He is ALWAYS listening, no matter how bad the situation is, you may not see an immediate result or even the sort of result you hopping to get, but I assure you, He is working backstage and very soon it will all be over. He said, I will NEVER leave you, nor forsake you”. Hebrews 13:5.    Ahhhhhhh!!!! What a privilege to know the owner of the heavens and the earth got our back. Has He ever lied before? Numbers 23:19. So if HE says He will NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! Leave you nor forsake you, then who or what are you afraid about? He got this one! He did it for me, He will do it for you too, even more! He has not forgotten you. His angels will watch over you. Luke 4:10-11. Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Remember, He is the potter, we are His clay. Isaiah 64:8. When the potter wants to make something pretty and priceless, he has to twist, bend, break, remold and so on, its very painful and a hard experience for the clay, but when he is finished, Ahh!! Everyone around looks and praises his work. Right now we in the twisting stage, its hard, its difficult, its painful but I got good news for you! WE WILL COME OUT PRETTY! Hang in there and stay put. Say no to that secret sin because its pulling you back away from His blessings and all the good things He has in store for you. Shun the devil, and he will flee. James 4:7. He wont come to you as his ugly self, but will send his agents, people or things all around you to distract you from your Creator. Be alert!!! 1 Peter 5:8.

I release peace into your heart now in the name of JESUS CHRIST. Whatever your going through, God is right there in the mist of it all. Ready and waiting for you to tell Him. He said make your request known. Philippians 4:6. Tell Him that problem and watch Him take charge. HE IS ABLE!!!

I love you but JESUS loves you more…

     JOANN ENE-ITA

39 STRIPES

                   When I sit back and remember all our Saviour went through to make us whole, it makes me sad! Why? Because we have refused to know that He died for a cause. He gave Himself up for our sake. Got down so we can rise up. Why do we still let the devil creep into our hearts, mind and body and get us beat down? Remember how He was beaten, spat on, He carried ALL those burdens just to make us WHOLE! Do you know we were created with divine health? Genesis 2:7 says, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED into his nostrils the breath of LIFE; and man became a living soul”. It was the breath of God that was responsible for the supernatural health man enjoyed in the garden. Divine health is supernatural health!

 WHAT IS DIVINE HEALTH?

      This is “God’s-like” body. (You must a have connection with God to enjoy divine health). Now, as children of God we are entitled to divine health. God put supernatural life in us; His own kind of life in us, that we may enjoy God’s kind of health. He created us in His image and likeness. Genesis 1:26.

      It may interest you to know that only ONE thing can cut us from divine health. And that is………………. SIN!!! (Genesis 2:16-17).

When I was sold out to the devil, dwelling in all that filth and disgust, I was saying yes to him destroying my body, soul, and spirit man. A healthy spirit is what guarantees a healthy mind and body. (3 John 1:2), so when man’s spirit dies, his mind and body becomes exposed and subject to the forces of death. When I was saying yes to the devil, I was exposing myself to those forces, which are:

·         Sicknesses

·         Affliction

·         Physical death

        When Adam and Eve gave in to the devil by eating the forbidden fruit, they realized they were naked and hid themselves, (Genesis 3:7-8), man suddenly became responsible for his well-being via natural provision. (Genesis 3:7-9, 15). You see, SIN put us under the dominion of satan. We lost divine health to sin, therefore making us vulnerable to sicknesses, diseases, even death because divine health was its defense against all that.

Now, that was why JESUS came!

1.       To save us from our sin (Colossian 2:13).

2.       By His blood redeemed us, brought us back from sin and satan (Hebrews 9:11-12, 1 Corinthians 6:20).

3.       He gave us back the God-kind of life.

4.       He remained committed to man’s health all through His ministry (Acts 10:38).

     When I gave my life to Christ and accepted Him as my Lord and Saviour, I never had anything to do with sickness anymore. The devil has no power to put sickness in me. I am now more powerful than sickness.

              In Isaiah 53:1-5 talks of how He was rejected by men, He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; and by His stripes we are HEALED! He was given 39 stripes. It has been recorded that all the diseases in this world has been categorized into 39. So it will interest you to know, each stripe He bore for us represent each disease. Why do we still ignore all this privileges? Sickness isn’t for us! God’s will for us is DIVINE HEALTH (3 John: 2, Jeremiah 29:11, Exodus 23:25, Isaiah 33:24, Joel 3:10).

     This sickness is not just limited to physical sickness of the body, but also sickness of the spirit (Proverbs 15:13), emotional sickness e.g., anxiety, bitterness, sorrow, unforgivness, frustration, etc.

HOW DO WE ACQUIRE THIS HEALING?

    Some of the ways are:

1.       Recovering by laying of hands. (Mark 16:17-18)

2.       Healing through the name of JESUS.

3.       Through the power Jesus has given us. (Luke 10:19; 9:1; 10:1).

4.       Healing through the word of God.

5.       Through communion.

6.       Through the anointing oil.

7.       Through the blood of Jesus.

8.       Through mantle and feet washing.

9.       Confession of faith.

10.   Curse the sickness.

11.   By faith, prayer and praise.

The devil will always try to hinder us through sin, doubt and unbelief, impatience, unforgivness and bitterness, absence of love, fear, religious misconception, anxiety and unthankfulness, etc. But it’s our place not to give in. Jesus has given us this beautiful benefit, let us stop living this world’s way. We are saved that we may be made whole.  When I caught this rhema in 2010 after I gave my life to Christ, it was goodbye to sickness for LIFE!!! Till date, I have not had any reason to lay on any sick bed, not even headache, I will work myself hard, but never break down. I don’t remember what it’s like to be sick with any sort of common illness. Who says the devil never still attempts to break me down? Of course he sends all sort of aches n pains my way, but I remind him, because he is too dumb to remember that my JESUS bore ALL my sicknesses and diseases, so I can NEVER fall into his trap.

       You too can live your remaining days in TOTAL HEALTH, therefore, the last health crisis you saw is the last you will ever see again In JESUS name. Amen. Whenever the devil comes by to make you feel down and ill, remind him Jesus died for your sake, and took away some alllllllllll sicknesses. Remember Jesus lives in us, His Spirit is alive in us, so sickness can never dwell in your body. Unless you don’t know why Jesus died or He didn’t die for you, then you are permitted to be sick. But if He did, I tell you, you are free!!! Have you ever heard our Lord God had fever, or malaria, or cancer or asthma? Remember, we are created in HIS IMAGE and LIKENESS! What is not found in Him is not permitted to be seen in us ever!

  

       But if you’re not SAVED, you’re not SAFE! If you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, or peradventure you had, but fell back into sin, divine health can never be your! So take a moment and surrender to Him or rededicate your life to Him again. Repent of your sins and accept Him into your heart as Lord over your life and watch divine health locate you.

         LORD JESUS, I PRAY FOR YOUR CHILDREN TODAY, I ASK LORD YOU HEAL THEM OF EVERY FORM OF SICKNESS OR DISEASES THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO TRICK THEM WITH. YOU DIED FOR OUR SAKE AND BY YOUR STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. LORD, WE BELIEVE YOU’RE OUR HEALER, AND DELIVERER. FOR NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU. JUST LIKE YOU HAVE BLESSED ME WITH DIVINE HEALTH THAT I AM ABLE TO TESTIFY TODAY, I ASK YOU RELEASE HEALING TO THEIR BODIES, SOUL AND SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY HAVE EVERY REASON TO GLORIFY YOU AND TESTIFY OF YOUR AWESOMENESS. THANK YOU FATHER, FOR WE BELIEVE WE ARE MADE WHOLE NOW. IN JESUS BLESSED NAME. AMEN!!!     Celebrate your health today.

         I love you but JESUS loves you more…….

                 

                            

                    This was in 2010 (with my many illnesses), before I got saved. 

                     Me now in EVERLASTING DIVINE HEALTH…….. GLORY!!!!
                           JOANN ENE-ITA

DESTROYER OF DESTINY

                      First of all, have you discovered your purpose for living or being on this earth? Well let me REFRESH your memory. 1 Corinthians 6:20 states, "For ye are bought with a price: therefore GLORIFY God in your BODY, and your spirit, which are God's". Now we were all bought with a price and we are created to glorify our Father God with our bodies. We are still existing because we have a HUGE purpose on earth. We are still alive because God has a reason for our existence.
Growing up as a child, I never valued myself a single bit. I thought I could do anything I wanted with myself because it was my body. I grew up in a pastor's house but I was never saved. I lived in filth and did whatever I wanted, even my parents never found out. I felt, "my body, my decision" until I found Christ and became complete in Him. I will lust over many, thinking I could find love and be made complete, little did I know the one who died for my sake was willing to make me complete and give me all the love I desired. What was the problem? I lacked understanding! God was merciful enough to not wipe me out of this earth because of my gross living. Even when I had not discovered my purpose for my existence yet. You may wonder, what this is all about and where I am getting to? I had just finished having HOT midnight praise with my God sister /roomie. As I laid down to sleep, God wreaked my heart and was deeply feeding me what to blog about, I may not know who this blog is for, but I want you to know God got your back and is ready to FIX everything you're going through. YES! Even when you're deep in it.
Now, it will interest you to know the devil is roaming the earth to steal, kill and destroy. John 10:10. And we must be very careful not to fall prey. SEX is an open doorway for demons to come in. When I mean sex, I mean premarital sex. Sex outside of wedlock, you may say, "Joann, I'm a Christian, I can't have demons". Yes! You can be a Christian and still have demons in you. You may be in a relationship and having premarital sex, thinking its good and God is 'okay' with it. Remember you were bought with a price, your body is not your own. You go to church, sing in the choir, serve in a unit, shout and sing how much you love God. If you love your husband/wife, you will always do whatever makes him/her happy no matter what, if you offend him/her, you feel like your world is clashing. How much more our heavenly Father? He said in John 14:15, "If ye love me, keep my commandments". You can't claim to love God and still dwell in sin. Your only lip singing. Your boyfriend/girlfriend tell you they love you and try to get In your pants, think again, they don't love you, they LUST you! Because if they love you, they will help you remember that your body is Gods temple and He dwells in it. 1 Corinthians 6: 13-20. I taught I was in love when I was fornicating, I was just being deceived by the devil and he was having a swell time using me as his tool. I thank God for SALVATION. 2 Corinthians 4: 3-4. 

You may say, "Joann, sin is sin, there is no big deal!" Well let me tell you, it's BIG DEAL enough because SEX is a destroyer of destiny. Every other sin committed is without the body, but he/she that committed fornication sins against his/her own body which is the temple of the Holy Ghost. 1 Corinthians 6: 18. If you keep yourself pure, the Holy Spirit comes and abides in you. Guide your destiny jealously, the devil is so envious of your vision (your purpose for creation) he will do everything in his power to ruin it. Rather than comparing sins and weighing sins, ask yourself if whatever you're doing brings glory to God (you choose to love) or to the devil (you say you hate)? When you open up yourself for sexual immorality, you are not only sleeping with that man/woman but also with every other person they have slept with. It's a network of soul ties, and whatever runs in their families will also run in you. You see yourself suffering inside and out, hating, always bitter, having all the demons running inside you, not knowing you called for it.
So my sisters and brothers, let us break all this soul ties and show our Father that we indeed LOVE Him and we are ready to make Him happy. It's not easy, but with God ALL things are possible. Mark 10:27. He is always ready to help us. Now let me give you a few tips on how to avoid this sin.
        HOW TO AVOID SEX

1. Surrender your life to Christ. Rededicate your life to Him. John 1:12. (I told you in my 1^st blog, I did that, and till date, my life has never been the same) Yours too can change forever. Let Him in.
2. Be an addicted bible reader. John 6:63. (Get an easy translation, study your bible daily). The more you do, the deeper you get into Him and He will flush out every sex craving and desires.
3. Be prayerful. Matthew 26:41. Cause if you're not praying, you're playing.
4. Reject any negative thought. Philippians 4:8. Romans 12:2.
5. Control your eyes.
6. Control your words. Ephesians 4:27.
7. Watch your friends (choose your friends). Proverbs 27:17.
8. Control your hearing.
9. Control your gadgets. Satan has gone I.T. 2 Timothy 2:19-20.
   You may be reading this blog, and you know this word is for you. And a voice in your head is telling you to ignore everything you have read, the bible says in 2 Corinthians 2:11, we should not be ignorant of his devices. Do not let the devil make a meat out of you. You can never tell what may happen to you today or tomorrow, don't make the wrong decisions that may leave you regretting tomorrow. God loves you crazy, run to Him before it's too late, quit that relationship that is making you go astray and destroying your destiny, GOD is the only one that can complete you, love you, heal you, fix you, etc. and not all those boyfriends/girlfriends that are making turn you away from Him. If you willing to make a new turn and show Him how much you love Him, please pray this prayer from your heart now;
   DEAR GOD, FORGIVE ME. I KNOW AM A SINNER, JESUS, FORGIVE ME, COME INTO MY HEART, CLEANSE ME, PURIFY ME, AND WASH ME BY YOUR BLOOD. I CONFESS AM A SINNER, I BELIEVE YOU DIED FOR ME TO SAVE ME. PURIFY ME, WRITE MY NAME IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. SATAN! I REJECT YOU. I REJECT YOU. I REJECT YOU. JESUS HELP ME TO WORSHIP YOU. PROVE YOURSELF TO ME, TURN MY LIFE AROUND. IN JESUS NAME. AMEN.
   Welcome to your new season, for a new start. You have the mark of Christ now, start living to please Him ALONE. You rather please God and displease people, He created you, not them.
   
   I love you but JESUS loves you more. Stay BLESSED!!!
     JOANN ENE-ITA