Confused Why I Saw My Husband Walking Out Of The Room In His Spirit After He Died, Can You Give Me A Reason?

Why Did I See My Husband Spirit Walking Out Of The Room After He Died Of Cancer?

Question: I had my wonderful husband for fifty eight years, that photo you see was our Fifty Year Anniversary photo. Paul passed away from cancer, we were at the Hospice Care House and at the moment my husband died I saw his spirit walk in front of me, his thigh had healed for he was walking quickly he was still in his hospital gown and he looked neither way, and it was only seconds which my mind just couldn’t wrap around this. Can you dear Brother give me a reason why I seen my Husbands spirit walking out of the room? I have been very confused. Thank You so much.

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

So glad to hear from you. I understand how faithfully you have lived with your husband for fifty eight years, and I first of all appreciate your love and commitment towards your husband which you have showed.

When you say that when your husband passed away from cancer, that when you were at the Hospice Care House, at the moment of your husband's death, you saw him alive in his spirit walk in front of you with his thigh healed as he was walking quickly which he was not able to do before because of the weakness of his body, and further he was in his hospital gown and he looked neither way, and you were able to see him like this only for seconds, which your mind couldn't grasp and understand, I tell you that because it was a supernatural experience from God, where God for a fraction of second of time He opened yours eyes in a vision to see the spiritual realm where your husband did not really die, but lives because of the promise Jesus gave to all believer saying, "whoever lives by believing in me will never die" (John 11:26). In other words, there is no death for a believer in reality, whether they die by cancer, accident, or because of hunger or suffering, as Jesus who holds the key of death chooses to call his child to Himself at that time when they die, even though it might look like they have died naturally without anybody choosing to intervene in to their lives (Rev 1:18).

One of the main reason God showed your husband in the spirit to you, is to encourage you to believe, that he is leaving the place of sorrow and crying on this earth [i.e. Hospital gown], and is entering in to a glorious place in heaven with God by his side [i.e. where healing and health is normality for all], where He Himself will comfort him for the trials he has gone through in this earth and to appreciate for eternity of how he still kept his faith through it all (Rev 21:3-4; Luke 16:25; 2 Tim 4:7-8).

There is a very thin line that seperates the natural world from the spiritual world, and when God gifts us a chance to see in to it for a moment of time by removing the veil that closes the eyes of our heart, then with a momentary vision we are able to gaze in to eternity and get reassured of what lies ahead for each and every one of us as believers in Christ. Hallelujah!

Your husband looked neither way because his eyes has been opened to the glory of heaven already which he was able to see before him.

I believe God wanted you look forward to seeing your husband alive in heaven soon and very soon, and not be grieved for him anymore in your life. God wants you to rejoice in Him and know that he has a great plan of reunion for you in heaven that He wants you to look forward in faith (Php 4:4). Above all God wants you to be filled with the wonder of heaven, which is God the Father Himself who loves you and His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior who has expressed His love to you by dying for you on the Cross (Rom 8:31-32).

Here is the great hope God wants you to hold about our great future as believers, "13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, Christians, concerning those who have died already, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again when we are alive, even so God will bring with Him those who have died as believers in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means rise up in our glorious eternal bodies before those who have already died and are asleep in Jesus. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ who have already died before us will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thess 4:13-16, Paraphrased By Me).

The above verses of hope is the doctrine of rapture that comforts the heart of all believers, irrespective of how they have died. We as believers could not take it positively, when we pray for healing and experience death at the end of the journey. When we desire for the best job and see that we do not get it after all our prayers. When we pray for a match we have desired, and later find that they marry someone else. How to digest these things properly and have good healthy faith at the end of it all? The only way is to believe the Word of God, and know that God works all things together for our good, as we love God and know that we are called by God to fulfill His eternal purpose in our lives on earth. So it is better to understand, when God says no, He has something better for us. That is why even Jesus when he understood that He needed to die carrying the sins of the world and for a moment of time in eternity have to be cut off from the eternal fellowship of the trinity which has been in eternal unity, Jesus felt so bad, but He wisely chose to trust in the never ending faithfulness and wisdom of God and said again and again three times to God saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." (Matt 26:39, 42, 44).

We learn from Jesus that when we find no answer for our prayers, even when we do it for a third time which means up to the full limits of persevering in spiritual perseverance of prayer, it is better not to get confused but to give in to the will of God, because He knows what is the best for our eternal profit than just a temporal one. God answers us when He finds something is the best, He says no when something better is in store for us, He says later when He knows that we are not ready spiritually to receive His answer as it might destroy our faith or keep us stagnated where we are.

God know our needs, and only answers according to His purposes, and will not give us our wants until we come to know that we want nothing more than God who is our provider and shepherd (Psa 23:1). So God showing your this vision shows that He is your shepherd in your life, and wants you to be satisfied always in Him even when you do not receive His answers for your prayer, because He has a great eternal future awaiting you in the world to come in which even the unanswered prayers of you fit in to His overall plan to bring you the best of His plan to get fulfilled. Praise the Lord!

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Sick With My Besetting Sins, Is There A Way Out?

I Am A Christian Minister Struggling With Pornography And Masturbation, Why I Fail And Help Me Overcome?

Question: I Thank God for this ministry of teaching that has blessed me with. Today I want to share some serious concerns in my spiritual life that I have been struggling with. First of all, I am a born again Christians who love Jesus with all my heart, I believe. I have faced so many trials and tribulations in my life, but Jesus has helped in all of it and still helps me in overcoming many many things in my life, and I am thankful to God and praise Him for His awesome power to convict and rescue in all situations. But the area of struggle in my spiritual life due to pornography and masturbation has continued for the past 25 years of my life. Actually this makes me sick, because when I am free in my thoughts and full of liberty I love God with all my heart, but when the thought of temptation in this area comes upon me, I feel like I lose the love of God at that moment of time, and this thought of sin makes me bold without even an iota of the fear of God. Then automatically I choose to sin and lose the peace of Jesus within my life. After which I confess this sin, and run again in to the love of Jesus. And many times after falling in to the above sin I would feel guilty and ashamed of myself as a poor example of a Christian, sad to say that I have been in ministry for more than 15 years of my life serving Jesus. But to share with you I feel so bad because I have not been able to overcome the above sins for nearly two and half decade of my life. When ever I return back to Jesus in hopelessness, He will always say to me from within my heart, 'Do not worry, I will help you overcome!' I will believe His word and return back to Him and will get my peace back. Can you suggest any particular Biblical reason for my failure in this area, and also help me in a Biblical and practical way to resist it and overcome it for the Glory of God. May God bless you abundantly!

Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus glorious and wonderful name!

Thanks for sharing your struggle. I hope this post will bless many other saints around the world who are struggling in the same kind of temptations and bondage, but are not able to come openly seeking for solutions and victory over these besetting sins in our generation.

Whether you are a minister of God or a normal saint, temptation comes to all. And when we do not handle temptation properly by the grace of God, we will struggle in our Christian life. Yes when we become born again, it not based on our performance that Jesus saved us but based on our belief that Jesus has carried our sins, sorrows and sickness on to the cross of Calvary to die for us and redeem us from it all (Isa 53:4, 5). Because we have come to tell God that we cannot save ourselves from our sins as sinners by birth, God by His mercy and grace has chosen us to freely give us His salvation for us who deserve nothing but hell fire for our works which are not good at all but looks like filthy rags before the eyes of God (Isa 64:6; Eph 2:5, 8).

Besetting sins are a sign of our spiritual weaknesses developed over a period of time by neglecting to deal with it in our lives, but we must take it all to the foot of the Cross and humble ourselves before God to overcome the sin and break the habit of it (Jam 4:8-10).

There are certain sin that even though we might hate it (Rom 7:14-15), do it and then confess the sin, do it and confess the sin, do it and confess the sin repeatedly over and over again, these are that which we call as "our personal entangling sins," or "our personal besetting sins," "our personal habitual sins." It is true that we all sin in various areas of our lives, but the above mentioned types of sin are very close to us because they do not attack us from the outside, but rather from our deceitful heart (Jer 17:9), and through the flesh reaches our mind to entice us over a time to birth a particular feeling of desire that are lustful (Mark 7:20-23). Once desire comes to take over our mind, it gives birth to sin in our mind and then full grown sin brings actions of death that separates us from God (Jam 1:14-15). Temptation in itself is not sin, but giving in to temptation is sin, first in our mind, then in our external actions. The sin which so easily make us fall in to it, is the besetting sin that we must deal with in our lives with the first priority to see victory over it by the power of God (Heb 12:1).

The following points will be some practical tips I will give for you to overcome this habit in JESUS mighty name. Masturbation and Pornography is just a name, but there is a name that is high above all names, that name is JESUS CHRIST, He will help you become sanctified and wait for His Coming with eagerness in your heart towards Him as you continue to please Him and do His work for His Glory!


1) KEEP YOUR HEART FREE FROM DEFILEMENT : Guard your heart, for out of it comes the issues of life which are your usefulness for God in this life, which influences your destiny and eternal success in your after life (Prov 4:23). There are three important gates that you must open and close by the power of the Holy Spirit consistently. It is your eye gate, mouth gate and ear gate, these gates must be closed when it needs to be closed, and opened when it needs to be opened daily. So seeing lustful things, will go in to the heart to start to conceive more lust, and will try to take over your mind. Once lust is conceived, it brings sinful things like masturbation, fornication and adultery which are the external actions that come because of our internal thinking in our soulish heart. So GUARD YOUR HEART! Ask the Holy Spirit to help you stay as guard internally, so that by cooperating with Him you might keep yourself safe from the pollution of the world externally.


2) SEE THE INSTRUMENT THAT DEVIL USES AND DO NOT USE IT WHEN THE TIME OF TEMPTATION COMES, INSTEAD USE IT TO FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD : Right from the days of our first parents Adam and Eve, Satan has used certain instruments as the source of temptation to feed our lust for more of self which leads to sin, which when involved leads us to Satan, to make us do his will that further leads us to destruction and death ultimately. For example, the serpent was more cunning than all the beast that the Lord has created (Gen 3:1). So Adam and Eve were spending more time with the serpent than with the Lord Himself (Gen 3:8), and thus Satan negotiated with the serpent to make a deal to use his body, and through it made our first parents to fall in to sin and rebellion. If Adam and Eve were watching and praying within them, immediately they would have recognized that this serpent which was taking the time of fellowship with God is the problem that will bring the very temptation for them to fall in to sin, they would have realized within them this truth even before the temptation came through Satan who used the instrument of entertainment which was the serpent to make them fall in to sin. If television, desktop computer or cell phone is taking the place of entertainment more than the personal time of fellowship with God, then beware that it might cause you to sin because anything that is loved more than God is the idol that will drive your life on any particular day, though Jesus might be the Lord of your life (Col 3:5). Covetousness is a strong desire for anything more than for God which is idolatry. So learn to spend time with God and give him the first hour after you wake up and before you go to sleep as a gratitude for keeping you alive for one more day. So shut off these instruments like television, desktop computer or cell phone that has the ability to become a substitute, which eats in to the personal quiet time of fellowship with God. Intentionally move away and keep these instruments in a public place in your home where people are there to keep a watch of how you are using it. If you try to isolate yourself with these instruments in privacy, it means that you have failed to keep yourself away from the temptation that you know is killing your abundant life of joy, peace and righteousness by isolating you (Prov 18:1). If you are alone by yourself in your home or anywhere else where there is no one to see you, then ask God to watch over you and keep you away from temptation that so easily make you fall in to sin that never pleases Him anyplace and anytime (Matt 6:13; Heb 12:1).


3) DO NOT TRUST YOUR OWN SPIRITUALITY BUT THINK OTHERS BETTER THAN YOURSELF : One of the main reason we fall and fall and fall in to sin is because of the wrong state of mind that makes us become inflated in pride before God. Such proud heart fails to submit to God humbly, so God allows us to fall in to temptation and fail in our spiritual journey of life, in order to make us understand that without His help we cannot become truly spiritual and remain a over comer to inherit His blessings and reward for eternity ahead (Jam 4:7-8; Luke 22:31-32; 1 Cor 10:13; John 15:5; 1 John 5:4). God gives us victory over sin when we maintain our heart in the humility of faith which easily submits itself to God all the time. The word of God says, "3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For each one shall bear his own load." (Gal 6:3-5). This does mean that all prideful inflated thinking comes to us, when we start to trust that we are spiritual because of what we do for Jesus Christ. We are never something and can never become something spiritual by what we do, but only by what Jesus Christ has done for us already by his life, death and resurrection (Gal 3:1-9), so except for the grace of God we are actually in ourselves are nothing spiritual (1 Cor 15:10; Isa 53:6; Rom 3:23, 26). If it is the grace of God, what is there to boast except to boast in our God who has provided us with His grace to walk in His will and way for His glory (1 Cor 1:31; Eph 2:8-9). Never trust your spirituality, but rather when you obey God, and by His grace great things happen, tell God that you are a unprofitable servant who have only done your Job because it was your duty (Luke 17:10). When you are tempted to think great about yourself and lose the grace of God, think yourself less and others better than yourself in your own estimation, so that you will stay safe spiritually and be kept by God from falling in to temptation by lack of grace (Gal 5:4; 6:3; Php 2:3; 1 Pet 5:5; Jam 4:6). Even the slightest feeling of failing and falling in to temptation we should ask God saying, 'Without your grace I can never overcome this temptation Lord God, so I ask for your grace now! In Jesus name!' Even the slightest hint of victory and overcoming sin we should say to God, 'I thank you and praise you for the grace, without it I can never be able to overcome my temptation, Lord God!' Acknowledging God's grace is very important for a overcoming life over sin.


4) REJOICING IN THE WEAKNESS NOT TO SIN BUT TO OVERCOME IT : Apostle Paul said, "7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong." (1 Cor 12:7-10, NASB).

In the above verses we see that there are times in the lives of great men and women of God, and all saints alike, times when God allows us to fall in to certain sins out of the weaknesses of flesh, which causes insults, which brings distresses, which leads us to persecutions, further pushing ourselves in to difficulties for Christ's sake even when we ask God to give us victory, protection, overcoming power, happy times, encouragement instead of insults which brings shame in our lives. Then when we ask God why Lord why?, why me Lord?, why I should suffer like this?, why I keep falling in the same sin confess sin cycle which I hate?, why do I need to undergo shame when I do ask you to help me and hear no answer?, etc...God stays silent until we come to realize the hidden power that gets released with a name called "Grace," where lies the solution for eternity ahead. The "grace that is greater than all our sins",...Dark is the stain that we cannot hide, what can avail to wash it away? The answer comes loud and clear from God, 'Look! There is flowing a crimson tide, brighter than snow you may be today. Marvelous grace of your loving Lord Jesus, grace that exceeds your sin and your guilt! While...sin and despair, like the sea waves cold, threaten the soul with infinite loss of reward; grace that is greater, yes, grace untold, points to the refuge, the mighty cross. Grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that will pardon and cleanse within; grace, grace, My grace, grace that is greater than all your sin! Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, freely bestowed on you who believe! You that are longing to see My face, will you this moment My grace receive?' Shall we say a loud, AMEN!!!

God does not want us to be lost in the pride of Satan, who fell from heaven because of this great sin which God hates more than all. That is the reason we fall again and again, and in spite of it all, God keeps lifting us up time and time again to make us realize that His grace is more than enough in our failures as much as in our success stories that we exhibit marvelously through the same grace acting in different dimension.

God uses us not in spite of weaknesses, but because of our weaknesses that keeps us stable with out spiritual heels on the ground to make us stay humble before Him. God hurts us in our weaknesses until we completely come to lean upon Him, give Him glory for our weaknesses and learn to rejoice in it, so that the power of God may continue to flow through our lives to bless us and many others through us. At the end of it all, God is able to give a grace to overcome the same sin that has made you fall and get tripped again and again under its power. GLORY TO GOD! Fight against the power of sin, until the time comes for you to reign over the very sin that has humiliated you (Rom 16:20; Psa 105:17, 18-19, 20, 21, 22; Rom 6:14).


5) TAKE YOUR THOUGHTS CAPTIVE TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST BEFORE IT TAKES YOU CAPTIVE BY ITS LUST : We see the great apostle Paul who lived a exemplary Christian life that is pleasing to God all the time, shared one of the great secrets to his spiritual victory by saying, "3 Though we live in this body of flesh, we cannot wage spiritual warfare using our body to wage war unspiritually. 4 But our weapons are powerful through learning God's truth for the demolition of strongholds of sinful arguments in our mind 5 by taking every thoughts of lust which leads to sin be taken captive within our mind of flesh, which when left in liberty builds itself up as a wall against the knowledge of God to make us rebel against God's authority and be lost in the darkness of sin by making us stand beside its shadow to be blocked away from His perfect will of staying in the light of His Presence through the meditation of the truth of His word. 6 When we use such powerful spiritual weapons on ourselves by saying within our mind, 'I take this thought captive to the obedience of Christ', and learn to stand in freedom Christ has given us, then we experience spiritual victory over temptation and likewise use the same on rebels who stand against Christ in others mind by declaring to them this truth to make them surrender to Christ's rulership in their lives too." (2 Cor 10:3-6, Paraphrased By Me).

So the battlefield for a Christian is their mind, the weapons are God's truth and the incantation and recitation within our mind about taking captive the thoughts that leads to sin to the complete obedience of Christ, of which God sees it and gives us victory. In other words, we take the thoughts of lust and sin captive to the obedience of Christ, before it takes us captive to the lure of sin in action. This is very powerful against porn and masturbation because such sin first gets conceived as lust in the mind, then become a action of solo-sex. Take preventive measure in your mind, and be vigilant to overcome the weakness of the flesh by the power of Christ that gets activated by the renewal of your mind.


6) CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS AND DO NOT LET YOUR THOUGHTS CHANGE YOU TO ACT TO ITS WHIMS AND FANCIES:

It is impossible to expect a change within us when we do the same old stuff expecting a different result every time, it is nothing but insanity.

We need to start thinking the God thoughts intentionally, so that it will replace our soulish thinking more and more, day by day to help us become better and better to live a life that glorifies God more and more progressively, in a greater and greater capacity (Prov 4:18). Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect in any period of time and in any place you are in (Rom 12:2, NLT).

Apostle Paul said, "22 Throw away from you the old pattern of selfish thinking which thinks apart from God and His will to always promote your own benefit first, which only grown corrupt day by day through lust and deception. 23 Change the way you think, by letting the Holy Spirit fill you mind with thoughts and attitudes that renews your soul and body, and gives prime priority to God and the godly benefits which pleases God first and foremost. 24 By thinking such heavenly, righteous and holy thoughts of God-likeness, you are letting God work out his character in to you day by day so that you can be a new and different person, holy and good, being clothed with this new nature." (Eph 4:22-24, Paraphrased By Me).

We ought to work out our salvation in fear and trembling, because in reality it is God who works within us so that we can cooperate with Him to work out that which He works in His will and pleasure to transform us in to His likeness day by day (Php 2:12-13).

Always fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right according to the Word of God. Think about things that are pure and lovely revealed by the Spirit of God, and dwell on the fine, good things in others even though they may not deserve to be seen in such way except for the grace of God. Think about all you can to praise God for, and be glad about it, because what we think by positive thinking of faith today is what will happen in reality tomorrow through the grace and mercy of God in which we trust and stand (Php 4:8). God is never moved by our pleading or need or works we do for Him in his name, but rather God is always moved by what we believe about Him, (i.e.) whether we believe God is there, and that He rewards those who diligently seek to please Him. While faith in itself pleases God, but only the prayer of faith moves God to make Him work for us. When God arises, our enemies and His enemies, whether it is pornography or masturbation or every other demonic thing that makes us fall in to sin, flees out in different direction (Psa 68:1-3, 6). Praise the Lord! In short, learn to change your thinking and change the world you live in around you for the Glory of God.


7) TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR FALL AND FAILURES, AND FEED THE WORD OF GOD DAILY TO YOUR SPIRIT TO OVERCOME THE SOULISH FLESH :

Never blame God or your circumstances or others around you or your spouse with limited libido, for your failure of falling in to lustful sins like Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:12-13). But rather agree with the accuser of brethren who is Satan and his demons, that you have sinned when you sin before it is taken to the heavenly court by them to pass on the righteous verdict of punishment you deserve (Matt 5:25-26; Rev 12:10; Eph 4:26-27), and also at the same time if God chooses to chastise you because of his love for you and his hate for any sinful behavior in your life which takes you away from Him, embrace it with joy because his anger stays for a moment but his favor over your life will stay with you for a lifetime (Heb 12:7, 10-11; Isa 54:7-8; Psa 30:5; Jam 1:2-8). Always pray to God that His will be done in your life even when you do not understand how it can be fulfilled with what seems to be a failure to your natural eyes, and remember that God is able to turn even curses in to a blessings (Deut 23:5; Neh 13:2), and works both the good and the bad in your life in to something only good for your eternal good (Rom 8:28).

Jesus Himself said to his disciples movements before His disciples were to desert Him and run away fearing for their life, "Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For the spirit indeed is willing, but how weak the body is!" (Matt 26:41). In other words, many times when you will fail and fall in to the temptation of pornography and masturbation, it is because even though spiritually you might be strong within to hate these sins, but the fleshly body is weakened enough by the sin nature so it fails when lust overpowers you from within the soulish nature to fulfill its lust.

So what is the way to overcome such temptations?

Feed the Word of God and pray by faith consistently so that the spirit will rule over your soul, and your soul will obey the spirit and rule over the body, which is the right way in which a believer can discipline and rule over the body (1 Cor 9:27). What we feed will grow, and we make starve will get weakened to be ready to die. Thus when we feed our spirit with the spiritual food of milk and meat of the Word of God (1 Pet 2:2-3; Heb 5:12-14), and drink the living water of the Holy Spirit joy, peace and righteousness more and more (John 7:37-39), then our spirit man will begin to rule over our soul man, which in turn will rule over the lust and desires of our body and bring it in to subjection for the Glory of God.

One time when I was falling again and again in to fleshly sin, I asked God, 'Lord help me die to my flesh!', what the Lord has answered me changed the way I think recently, that is, God said, 'You are already dead in Christ Jesus, stop feeding the dead man and start feeding the man in Christ who is alive and well (Rom 13:14)! If you continue to feed the dead man, you will only let out the deathly decaying smell of decomposition to become exposed to yourself and others to become discouraged by its stink.' In other words, God has done everything in Christ for me to think in this victorious way, (i.e.) to consider myself and my body dead by believing Christ's death as mine in my mind, to make sin's appeal of lust lose its power over the spirit-man (Rom 6:5, 17). Thus a Christian led by the Spirit will not plan to sin, but rather will ask the Lord Jesus Christ to help him live as he should, and doesn't make plans to enjoy evil (Rom 13:14). Always the Lord Jesus will help us to not only hear the Holy Spirit, but obey with His strength only the Holy Spirit's instructions (Jam 1:22), who will tell you where to go and what to do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong things your evil nature wants you to (Gal 5:16, LB).

So I believe as you apply these above principles in your life, sooner or later you will inculcate the principles of Christ through which the power of Christ's grace will be revealed to you to overcome the sin of pornography and masturbation, and live for the Glory of God.

Until then daily remember to keep these small steps along with the principles discussed above to live a Christian life,

1) Accept your sin as sin before God, humans and demonic angels, but run to God and confess your sin to Him as soon as possible (1 John 1:7, 9), then testify your faith in the blood of Jesus that has cleansed you from all sins.

2) Never give up your fight against the power of sin, and lethargically let the presence of sin in its rebellious attitude continue to stay without your heart felt confession to God for long (Rom 6:12, 14), which will weaken your faith to paralyses it (Heb 3:12-15; 1 Pet 2:11; 1 John 2:1-2).

3) Remember, salvation is a event which is given by God to us all as a gift freely on the day we believed the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 6:23; 10:13; Acts 16:31), but sanctification is a process that takes years and decades because it is a process that is continued until the day we die and go on to be with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8; John 17:17; Psa 119:9, 11). The spiritual strength that comes through taking in the revelation of God's word happens over a period of time. So store in the Word of God in your heart, and you will automatically overcome the besetting sins that are bothering you for a long long time. We are not saved by our performance, but rather by our belief. So be patient and work out your salvation until God gives you a dominant victory over the besetting sins that bother your spiritual life.

Keep thanking the Lord Jesus for having already saved you, praise Him always for He only leads us in victorious path of life (2 Cor 2:14), though to us it may seem like a path of defeat, never focus on your short term performance to become discouraged, instead allow the Lord to lead you by His wisdom which see years ahead even in to eternity. And try your best to do what you can sincerely by your faith, leave the rest to Him, He is able to keep you in His peace and give you rest spiritually within you by what He has already achieved on the Cross which is able to take you to heaven. God sees your motive, to reward you eternally for the spiritual performance which you have performed on earth, so keep working with all your heart for the Lord Jesus, you never know what great reward is waiting for you now and for eternity ahead (1 Cor 4:5; 1 Thess 2:4).

Run patiently your race of faith and humbly serve Him (Luke 14:11), and look for big victories in your future. Until then continue serving the Lord faithfully, that is where your faithfulness will bring reward to you eternally (Heb 10:35-36; Luke 12:37-38, 39-40; Matt 25:21, 23). Discuss and confess your sins to the one whom you can trust with or with your senior Pastor or mature minister of God with whom you can freely discuss you struggle and take help, so that Satan may not be able to make you guilty and make you believe that you are unworthy to serve the Lord, when in fact you are fighting the fight of your life and are going to see great victories in your life, ministry, nation and nations around the world for the Glory of God (Jam 5:16). Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!   


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Why A Christian Leader Should Qualify Himself As One, With One Wife?

Can A Christian Have Two Wives At A Time?

Question: What I would like to know from you is whether or not it is wrong to have two wives as a Christian? So what are we to make of polygamy from a Christian perspective?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

At the time of the ministry of Jesus, it was an accepted fact that if someone who is a wife does not live a life pleasing to the husband, according to the tradition of Moses, they interpreted that a person can divorce a wife legally and marry another one without breaking the law of Moses in any way (Matt 19:7). But originally, Moses said that if a woman doesn't find favor in her husband's eyes because of some uncleanness in her or some kind of habit that he doesn't like, he can write a certificate of divorce and put it in her hand, and can send her out of his house (Deut 24:1-4). This instruction Moses gave, so that men who are hardened in their heart towards a woman may not practice polygamy but at least choose a wife to stay with her faithfully in his next relationship in the sight of God, if what he had put forward is truth, so that this may not become a reason for their sinful life of polygamy to be practiced openly (Matt 19:8, 9). Then when the disciples heard the standard of Jesus setting a new high of one wife for life except for immorality on her part, they told that it is better not to marry at all if that is the case of a man who gets caught in marriage with a woman he does not like and there is no way out, then Jesus relaxed what He said and further told that what He uttered was said only to those people who take such dead lock of wed lock as a cross to carry to attain a higher standard of righteousness within marriage where they suffer in their life because of it, where a person chooses to sacrifice his sexual urge for the Kingdom of heaven's sake and accepts such ineffective woman not fit for active sex life by asking God the gift of overcoming sexual desire which is in him by requesting Him to take out the urge for fulfillment sacrificially, just like apostle Paul as a bachelor did for the sake of fulfilling the apostolic assignments which concerns churches and the Kingdom of God which gave him no time to think about any need for having a family at all (Matt 19:10-12; 1 Cor 9:5; 7:9, 10-16, 27, 29, 37; 2 Cor 11:28).

I believe Paul himself faced such a fight over this matter in his personal life in his thirties and even may be up to forty years or a little more, where at the end of it all God gave him victory over his sexual urges which he has not able to overcome until then (Rom 7:15-25; 1 Cor 9:27; 2 Cor 12:7-10). When God granted Paul his sincere desire of struggle over temptation with his flesh, he received a gift from God to exercise self-control supernaturally over the passions of his flesh (1 Cor 7:7-9). Thus Jesus Himself said that there are three categories who overcome the sexual desire to have fleshly satisfaction, 1) Eunuchs of emasculated men who were born from mother's womb, 2) Eunuchs who were made by men because of becoming a slave for a rich man's house or in a king's palace for the sake of employment through undergoing voluntary castration and finally, 3) like in the life of Paul who had the right to take a wife along with him in his ministry but chose to ask God sincerely to overcome his desire for sexual satisfaction by making himself a eunuch supernaturally by heaven's gift of castration which is taking away the desire for sexual fulfillment and get loaded instead by a overcoming power of grace that gave a spiritual satisfaction instead of it within his heart (1 Cor 7:7). Paul considered married life with sexual satisfaction as a gift of God, and also considered those who overcome the sexual urge for the sake of deep intimacy with God and for serving God to fulfill specific assignment in their lives for the Kingdom of God and heaven's sake also as those who find a different kind of grace and spiritual fulfillment instead of a sexual one which He told as also a gift from God ( 1 Cor 7:32, 34). Thus we know that Jesus was speaking specifically to certain people who are in a deadlock of wedlock, who have been called to sacrificially live by carrying their own cross for the Kingdom sake without divorcing their wife (Luke 9:23-26), but rather by fulfilling their assignment that the Lord has for them to live in fulfillment of spiritual satisfaction instead of a physical one which will be given to them as a gift from God specifically when they ask for a overcoming life over flesh sincerely for the sake of Kingdom assignments that Christ wants them to get it fulfilled. But such specific call of God does not lessen the value of married life in any way, which was the perfect will of God for all humans before the fall of humans in to sin. The bottom line is, no matter whether we are married or not or even though married live as though we are not because of the unavoidable circumstances forced upon us (1 Cor 7:27-31), God wants us to live for Jesus Christ who had given His life as a ransom to redeem us from sin and death, so that we could live in the will of God and in friendship with Him for eternity ahead and be rewarded for it richly now and in the life to come for the Glory of God.         

Thus when people questioned the permanence of marriage or its validity according to the law of Moses, Jesus "4 ....answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Matt 19:4-6).

In other words, Jesus was saying that God did not make Eve and Eva for Adam to share in the beginning of time, but rather only only Eve for life, which means the perfect will of God for any human is to have one wife for life, unless the man or the woman runs away from the home of marriage unfaithfully in infidelity which gives the aggrieved spouse the right to annul the marriage as void legally in the sight of God (Matt 19:9).

So I believe this as something less than the perfect will of God, which is now forbidden as sin in the New Testament by Jesus.

The most mean-spirited sarcastic mockery of God's mercy came from the mouth of an unbeliever, after he has given himself in to polygamy, citing Cain his forefather and saying if God could show mercy to a sinner like Cain, I deserve more mercy from God for being a sinner more than him, and I hold the right to sin as long as I feel it as right in my own sight just like he did and justified himself as right (Gen 4:23-24; Gen 4:5-15, 16-17). Even so, as things are getting so bad, people are now multiplying wives and even the wives agree to it to make us understand that we are inching closer and close to the day of judgment as it happened in the days of Noah (Luke 17:26-27). The grace and mercy abusers who throw their ugly taunts at the face of God by both extreme of ascetic life or indulging in hyper grace have been prophesied to come by the apostles, and the very happenings before our very eyes prove these prophesies are being unprecedentedly fulfilled in our times and generation like never before (2 Peter 3:3-9; 1 Tim 4:1-4; 2 Tim 3:1, 13). The time for the door of repentance to life is being closed slowly by God day by day and there will be no way out for the mockers before the Tribulation to escape in the rapture of the Church which is the only way out for those who are eagerly waiting for the coming of the Lord (Acts 11:18; Luke 17:27-30; Heb 9:28; Luke 21:36).

The truth about a husband and a wife as being a type of Christ and the Church in intimacy, fidelity and oneness is being compromised by Christians who believe polygamy to be ok in their lives. They are not a good example to the Church of Jesus Christ to lead them (Eph 5:31-32; 1 Tim 3:2, 5).

We know that God allowed polygamy because of the hardness of human heart in the times of the Old Testament, and also have given law to restrain the injustice being meted out to the next generation which becomes affected by the sins of the previous generation (Matt 19:8; Deut 21:15; Exo 20:5-6). Thus it shows that a man cannot divide his affection equally among his wives, and therefore will tend to sin when in polygamy, which stands against the perfect will of God that He has planned for all humans to prosper in this life and in the life to come. God permitted in the Old Testament times a life of polygamy because of the lack of power and revelation of the love and salvation of Jesus Christ, which had hardened their hearts to make them live just as the heathens of their times lived around them, but just at least with a faith for salvation from such sins and weaknesses which they confessed to God regularly. But now in the New Testament times, Jesus Christ has revealed Himself in His fullness to all His people as the Bride Groom and the Bride, which is the Lord and His Church which shows us that we are given more in revelation and power to live a godly life of monogamy in love towards God and one wife, to reveal the Trinity in unity acting within the family life of a Christian. Because God has given more to us Christians, he will expect more from us (Luke 12:48).

May God help us live according to His perfect will, and be pleasing to Him to be considered worthy by His grace and mercy to be raptured during the event of it!

Much Blessings.....

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Dream Interpretation: New Creation Execution!

What Does This Dream Mean? Any Input...!

Question: I saw that some posted something about a dream they had about a ox. I had this dream around 2006-07.

Here is the dream...any input will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

My dream...

I was standing before a lagoon and I was butt-naked. It felt like early in the morning. I was surrounded by huge trees and I saw rays of the sun coming in. As, I am standing there, I begin to see little birds being formed from the dirt... a lot of them (I think they were sparrows). I saw birds (all kinds of birds) parrots...etc. flying around. All kind of animals were being created as I stood there.

Even though I was standing before this lagoon; I saw the creation of all animals being formed under the water... Whales, Sharks, Fishes...etc. As, I am seeing this; I can hear the birds singing, the Lion's roar, and other animals running around... just full of activity.

Then right before my eyes, I begin to see a animal being formed before me: I saw the internal organ and all being formed (sort of like a decaying process; but backwards) then after this animal was fully created,...It shook it self and walked past me. I felt the wet skin of it, and it was brown; It was an Ox.

That was the dream.

God bless.

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Thank you for writing to me. I cannot interpret on my own anything, but I thank God because "...It is God who gives the ability to interpret dreams," (Gen 40:8) and that is why I write back interpreting dreams. Mostly I try interpreting according to the scriptural symbolism that I see and I use it as a pattern to bring out the meaning as much as possible.

As lagoon is a shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs, and you are completely standing naked shows that in your spiritual life you want to go in to deeper water to swim and experience God, but you are always in uncertainty of not obtaining what you want yet while feeling that you can always keep trying. You are feeling that it's more attractive to try to confront a problem in private. Feeling good about an advantage that feels good confronting uncertainty all on your own. Enjoying an uncertain situation privately with no challengers or someone to whom you can share what you are feeling about the situation you are going through.

When it is a morning breaking forth with sun coming in and you see all around you are trees, God is there sending more and more clarity to you regarding the situations that you have been in and all the obstacles that kept you in deep darkness around you, God has infact used it to protect you from harms and those obstacles of life cannot withstand against the light that is piercing through it all. The very obstacles of darkness will now become a shade of comfort for you in the morning of new creation that God is bringing in to your life. Light over your life that is dawning and breaking forth will make those obstacles of curse become an object of comfort.

God created the birds and the sea creatures and everything that moves on water on the fifth day of creation, and 5 symbolizes God's grace, goodness and favor toward humans and is mentioned 318 times in Scripture. Five is the number of grace, and multiplied by itself, which is 25, is 'grace upon grace' (John 1:16). God is going to show his grace so abundantly and bless you with blessings to be fruitful and multiply greatly in your spiritual desire for Him and your will prosper on earth like the way God wants you to prosper by breaking out of all limitations that has limited you until this time. A pure life of heaven and the creative power of new creation is going to flow through your life like never before, and this grace is that which have covered your natural weaknesses of your sin nature that you hated so much but were not able to overcome it as you had no power within you to overcome it. But God is saying, "I have covered you not with leaves that withered away for Adam and Eve but with the very sinless Lamb's blood who has been slain for you, and that which has redeemed you forever (Gen 3:7, 21; John 1:29, 36; 1 Peter 1:18-20). You cannot cover the nakedness of your failures and sins by your own strength and labor, as it will only make you afraid of me because of your spiritual nakedness, and you will only want to run away from me and hide yourself (Gen 3:10). I will cover you and keep you more than conqueror over sin through Christ Jesus (Rom 8:35, 37, 34)."

The number 6 symbolizes man and human weakness, the evils of Satan and the manifestation of sin. Man was created on the sixth day. Men are appointed 6 days to labor. You also hear the lion's roar which means the grace that comes to you from God will not just stop with His blessings, but will roar with the roar of the lion of Judah which will prevail over all oppositions that is against blessings that comes to you from God by His grace (Rev 5:5). By grace breaking through your human weakness that you have been facing until now, your weakness will become the very channel of God's power to manifest in your life, which will make you to rejoice in your weaknesses. The very human weaknesses that Satan used to afflict you with his demonic attacks which made you to cry to God but found no immediate answers or deliverance, will now become the thorn in the flesh of Satan and his demonic cohorts as they will not be able to stand before the power of God that is going to flow through you (2 Cor 12:7-10).

God's plan for your life will prevail through the Lion of Judah's roar of the new creation that He is doing in your life. The power of new creation that God is working in you and through you cannot be able to be stopped by the human weakness, the evils of Satan and the manifestation of sin that seemed to have prevailed until then, it will now prevail no more over you as God's creative power will rush in to dust of nothingness of no value areas of your life, and it will give so much value to the valueless commodities and gifts within you to become so valued as God continues to create new things in the sixth day of creation in your earthly life which will be full of activity through God's power, which will flow through your life because of your weaknesses and not in spite of your weaknesses as you previously thought. God will amaze you, till you start to rejoice in your weaknesses, so that the power of Christ will manifest more and more in your life.

Adam the human have been made with dust of the earth by God as like all the animals that has been formed by God on the same day (Gen 1:24-31; 2:7). There was no difference between the animals that God created on the sixth day and the humans that God made, until He chose to breathe in to him the breath of life which brought a Divine connection and a image of God in to him, through which he was forever separated and kept as the crown over all creation (Eccl 3:18-19, 20-21). Human is the only created being able to reason and make a choice of volition for which there are eternal consequence.

So when you saw a animal formed before your eyes, it was the animal nature that taunted you to bring limitation to all your spiritual faculties, mocking its power that God began to release through you when the natural and spiritual creation began to act together in your life. Sometimes you felt as a saint, and then sometimes you felt as the world's worst sinner who is unworthy of receiving any of God's goodness in your life. So it was like you were taking a step forward and again going backward two steps like you were decaying through sin and its lure from the world, but in fact you were growing in to a better human by the new creation of God as the new nature within you was opposing the decaying process (Gen 5:17, 16), indicating to you that God is in the process of making you better and better through the new creation that He has made you to be (2 Cor 5:17). When the new creation is perfected through the process of God's creative power acting through you more and more, that is when you begin to see from the vantage point of view of your old self this new creation's power of transformation, you begin to realize that it was not your hard work that made you live in the power of heaven, nor the hard labor that you did for God that made you different, but it was the grace of God that acted through you that made you to work as an ox in God's service as a servant of God that carries extraordinary load of people's burden because of the greatness of your spiritual strength (1 Cor 15:10). And at the end of it all when the new creation shakes itself by the power of God within you and walks past your old man, then you can feel the wetness of the new creation power which has transformed this useless animal in to a spiritual force to reckon with for the Glory of God. Then you remember this animal which has been used by God is not but a worthless brown and red dust taken from the ground, but used by the power of an ox and the anointing of an ox to be a glorious servant of God. In short, A new OX ANOINTING HAS COME YOU WAY (Psalm 92:9-11), which not only has made you a tireless servant of God, but a powerful man or a woman of God to help you first carry your own load and also carry along with it the load of others and give them spiritual rest by the mighty grace of God that flows through you, which often make you soaking wet like you have been overwhelmed by a river of water which flows out of you (Gal 6:2, 5; John 7:38). As a mighty OX with the anointing of heaven and its strength, you confidently shake yourself off and walk past any obstacles that has hindered you in the past unhindered, carrying the load of yourself and others without any self effort on your part which makes people get amazed again and again. Praise the Lord!

The great things about your dreams is, it is not only given for you only, but through you to the body of Christ as a encouragement to all, that God not only creates the new creation on the fifth day by His grace, and continues to create us in to fullness on the sixth day to work through our lives by His grace and the anointing of an ox, but as He works in and through our lives, we start to experience the rest of heaven within our souls on the seventh day that will gladden us in this journey of life to strengthen us and inspire us to fulfill the will of God for our lives, without any effort on our part by His strength (Exo 33:14). May the name of the Lord be praised! He is worthy of our love and adoration and worship!

O thank the Lord who daily loads us with innumerable benefits of his grace to make us His eternal trophies of His grace (Psa 68:19).

Your dream is a divine sign of the spiritual life of God acting through you, that speaks about volumes of the grace you have received from God and that which is increasing more and more in your life, and also in all the believers who are thirsting for God and His righteousness more and more (Matt 5:6, 8; Heb 12:11, 14; 2 Tim 2:22, 21). May God bless you more and more, as you walk with the mighty grace of God, and grow in the flow of it through you as God continues to use you for His Glory (2 Pet 3:18)!

Much Blessings...

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What Is The Name Of Christ's True Church?

Does The Name Of The Church Matter?

Question: Does the name of the church matter? If its matter then what is the name of Christ Church?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

It doesn't matter what name a Church holds, as long as we know it is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, of whose Spirit, must be present there among believers as the evidence that it belongs to Jesus Christ (Rev 3:22).

Nearly two thousand years ago Jesus Christ thundered to Peter the apostle saying, "I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." (Matt 16:18). Still the Church has not changed one bit, because though there might ten thousand teachers, apostles, evangelists, pastors and prophets who might be building it in various places of this planet earth, yet they are only the co-workers who are building the Church along with the Lord Jesus Christ who is the only foundation on which the whole Church stands (1 Cor 3:11, 9).

What is the real Church?

Is it the building made of brick and mortar? By no means, the real building of the Church are the people who are in it, that God is spiritually building to glorify them for eternity in heaven (1 Cor 3:9; Rom 8:30; 1 Peter 2:3-5).

In other words, Jesus described the real Church as a place "where two or three are gathered together in [His]... name" (Matt 18:20), Jesus by His Presence has promised to speak and be in that place to shine the light of his revelation to all those who are part of it (Rev 2:7). Jesus walks in the midst of his Church and guides them to the destination of heavenly Jerusalem (Rev 2:1; Heb 12:22-24).

So in the mind of Jesus, when He sees a Church in a particular area, he does not see all the different Churches that operates under different names in that area, but according to Him He sees only one Church and a lone main gateway leader and under him many many leaders through which God wants to continually speak to a particular city or a village or even a nation (Rev 2:1, 7). God sees a regional Church, while the local church is seen by humans locally which together make up the regional Church a reality (1 Cor 16:19).

So the name of the Church in a house might matter much to the man of the house whom God has raised up as a gift to a group of his saints within that spiritual house of God through which truth is dispensed, it is not of prime importance in a corporate level where they are all considered as a Church in a city, or a state or a nation or even a group of nations (1 Cor 4:1; Phile 1:2; Eph 4:8).

The individual Church name may have a divine inspiration according to the vision that God has given a particular man or woman of God through whom He might have raised it to bless a group of saints in a particular area locally, or they might even use their own name to represent the network that God has raised through them, or a Bible name might be used to describe the ministry God has given to them or a particular name might be used to reveal the main emphasis of their message within the Church. It is not wrong to do that, as long as they in their mind know that they are only part of the One Church that the Lord Jesus Christ has in the heaven and earth (Eph 3:14-15), so that the local Church might not get deceived in to thinking that they are exclusive and become deceived to become a cultist pond of stagnation where death will slowly creep in rather than new bubbling life of heaven through Christ Jesus which normally flows like a river in any of His healthy churches.   

Paul called the churches in the city of Corinth as "to the church of God which is at Corinth" (1 Cor 1:2), when he was writing his epistle letter to encourage, build and warn them (1 Cor 14:3). This does not mean that all the churches in the city should be called as the "Church of God", and none should name any other Church with any other name. But rather Paul the apostle was calling the churches of the city of Corinth as the Church which belongs to God and this was not the set name for all the Churches because we know that in other places apostle Paul was describing the Church happening in the houses by the name of the leader of the Church (Rom 16:1, 3-4, 5). So the same apostle Paul when speaking about local churches, he described it as "the churches of Christ" (Rom 16:16). Apostle Paul speaks about the regional Church and the local Church in the same verse in 1 Cor 16:9.

God entrusts his mysteries to certain apostles and prophets (Eph 3:5), in order that they might empower the whole body of Christ with the wisdom of God, so that the Church as a whole might make it be know to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places which are constantly working against the Church (Eph 3:10; 6:12). The divine order of the Church which God has appointed for the dispensation of the gospel ever since it has been established by Him has been pointed out by apostle Paul in 1 Cor 12:28, where he says the divine order of the Church where the ministry starts first with apostles, second prophets, third teachers, fourth evangelist and fifth pastors (Eph 4:11).

So you cannot expect me to say that the name of the Church is "Church of Christ" or "Christ church" only, and thus expect me endorse only that as the legal name, and all others names as not scriptural. If you are believing like that, you have not understood the concept called "The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ" universal, which we have discussed above, and that you have been under the pressure of some denomination that have dogmatized you to accept what they believe as the only doctrine of the entire Church of Jesus Christ of the whole world.

I tell you, that the Church of Jesus Christ is too big for anyone to stake claim to themselves as the real Church, God has a lot of varieties, differences, uniqueness, in his Church that it has become the pillar of truth and a place of unity in diversity which I believe is the greatest spiritual university in the entire world to learn about living a life of character and excellence (1 Tim 3:15).

But if you can be able to think out of the box in to the scriptural ocean of understanding that God can give, then you must have understood the plan of God in the establishment of the local church, city church, regional church, national church and international church which are all part of the One Church that Christ Jesus is building, of which some are in heaven and some are in earth till now and will continue to remain until rapture (Eph 3:14-15).

Much Blessings....

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