THE MYSTERY OF TITHING UNVEILED

"... Then Abraham took a tenth of all he had won in the battle and gave it to Melchizedek. Melchizedek's name means "Justice," so he is the King of Justice; and he is also the King of Peace because of the name of his city, Salem, which means "Peace." … See then how great this Melchizedek is: (a) Even Abraham, the first and most honored of all God's chosen people, gave Melchizedek a tenth of the spoils he took from the kings he had been fighting. One could understand why Abraham would do this if Melchizedek had been a Jewish priest, for later on God's people were required by law to give gifts to help their priests because the priests were their relatives." (TLB Heb 7:2,4-5)

"And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord." (BBE Lev 27:30)

BENEFITS OF TITHING

• => Tithing Brings Lifting.
• => Tithing Brings Favour.
• => Tithing Brings Helpers.
• => Tithing Brings Flavour.
• => Tithing Brings Solution.
• => Tithing Brings Increase.
• => Tithing Brings Long-Life.
• => Tithing Brings Elevation.
• => Tithing Brings Blessings.
• => Tithing Brings Protection.
• => Tithing Brings Promotion.
• => Tithing Brings Exemption.
• => Tithing Brings Fruitfulness.
• => Tithing Brings Open-Doors.
• => Tithing Brings Testimonies.
• => Tithing Brings Opportunity.
• => Tithing Brings Open-Heaven.
• => Tithing Brings Manifestation.
• => Tithing Brings More Than Enough.
• => Tithing Rebukes Pains.
• => Tithing Rebukes Tears.
• => Tithing Rebukes Shame.
• => Tithing Rebukes Failure.
• => Tithing Rebukes Labour.
• => Tithing Rebukes Accident.
• => Tithing Rebukes Devourer. 
• => Tithing Rebukes Demotion.
• => Tithing Rebukes Reproach.
• => Tithing Rebukes Barrenness.
• => Tithing Rebukes Stagnations.
• => Tithing Rebukes Untimely Death.
• => Tithing Rebukes Satanic Opposition.
• => Tithing Rebukes Satanic Depression.
• => Tithing Rebukes Satanic Oppression.
• => Tithing Rebukes Promised And Failed.
• => Tithing Brings God's Finger upon your Life.
• => Tithing Brings God's Finger upon your Health.
• => Tithing Brings God's Finger upon your Ministry.
• => Tithing Brings God's Finger upon your Marriage.
• => Tithing Brings God's Finger upon your Business.

WHAT T I T H I N G IS NOT

Is not A Pastors Decision.

Is not A Religious Doctrine.

Is not A Religious Fulfilment.

Is not A Pastors Prescriptions.

"As for the tribe of Levi, your relatives, they shall be paid for their service with the tithes from the entire land of Israel. "From now on, Israelites other than the priests and Levites shall not enter the sanctuary lest they be judged guilty and die. Only the Levites shall do the work there, and they shall be guilty if they fail. THIS IS A PERMANENT LAW AMONG YOU, that the Levites shall own no property in Israel, for the people's tithes, offered to the Lord by the gesture of waving before the altar, shall belong to the Levites; these are their inheritance, and so they have no need for property."" (TLB Num 18:21-24)

B U T

√  A covenant avenue to tap into supernatural abundance. 

"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts." (KJ'1769 Mal 3:10-12)

******"UNTIL YOU ARE A TITHER, YOU CAN'T BE A TESTIFIER"*******

God bless you in Jesus mighty name

Aps Tim. OLUWAJOBA

Lamshem International

https://lamshem.blogspot.com

MYSTERY OF THE EVENING AND THE MORNING SEASON

 "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING were the first day… And God called the firmament Heaven. And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING were the second day… And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING were the third day. … And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING were the fourth day. … And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING were the fifth day. … And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING were the sixth day." (KJ'1769 Gen 1:5,8,13,19,23,31)

In the Bible days, the day starts from evening to morning, not morning to evening. You looking at the characters of successful people on earth, their day starts from evening to morning. They make their plans at these period, only implement them in the day time, that is, morning to evening.

We see in the Scriptures, Jesus plans in the evening and handover his plans to God in players. He committed his plans and ways into the hands of God.

"Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." (KJ'1769 Prov 16:3)

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE STARTS PRODUCTIVITY AT NIGHTS, IMPLEMENTATION ONLY BEGINS IN THE DAY TIME.

SUCCESS BELONGS TO THOSE WHO WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AND PURSUE THEIR DREAM'S REGARDLESS OF THE HARDSHIP. 

SUCCESS IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE MADE UP THEIR MIND NOT TO GIVE UP, NOT TO GIVE IN AND NOT TO THROW IN THE TOWEL. 

IT'S FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SAID "IT IS NOT GOING TO BE OVER UNTIL I WIN", 

SUCCESS IS FOR THOSE WHO DON'T SUFFER FROM "WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY SYNDROME".

SUCCESS IS FOR YOU, NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE ABILITY AND THE POTENTIAL THAT HAS BEEN INVESTED IN YOU. YOU'VE GOT GREATNESS WITHIN YOU AND YOU DESERVE TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

"Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday." (KJ'1769 Ps 37:3-6)

Aps Tim OLUWAJOBA

Lamshem International, Ghana

Jesus, Our Healer! - Series One

God had one Son without sin, but He never had sons without trials. It is not known what quality grapes yield until they come to the wine press. When we are squeezed what comes out indicates what's on the inside! When you came to "Marah" this week, what came out? Grumbling like Israel or crying out like Moses?

For now, if you want to see Jesus you need the eyes of faith. And if you haven’t met him yet, I want you to meet him this morning. He’s here, speaking through these words, calling you to believe. Do you see him with the eyes of faith? Believe him.

We can also access His healing power through prayer. I’ll never forget an experience that Sister Nelson and I had about three decades ago with President Spencer W. Kimball and his beloved Camilla. We were in Hamilton, New Zealand, for a large conference with the Saints. I was not a General Authority at that time. I had been invited to participate in this and similar meetings in other Pacific Islands while serving as general president of the Sunday School. And as a doctor of medicine, I had attended President and Sister Kimball for many years. I knew each of them very well—inside and out.

Now, dear friends, in answer to prayer God has often healed your bitter waters and made them sweet. I am about to appeal to your personal experience, you that are truly pilgrims under the guidance of your heavenly Lord. Has it not been so with you? I should have no difficulty in refreshing your memories about Marah, for very likely its bitterness is in your mouth even now, and you cannot forget your sorrow. But just now I wish to refresh your memories about what came of that sorrow. Did not God deliver you? Did he not, when you cried to him, come to your rescue? I appeal to facts, which may be stubborn things, but they are also rich encouragements.

"Then he touched their eyes and said, 'According to your faith let it be done to you.' And their eyes were opened."The Good News: In the inspiring words of “Amazing Grace,” “I once was blind but now I see!”

Isaiah 57:18 "I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners, 19 Creating the praise of the lips. Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near," Says the LORD, "and I will heal him."

Warren Wiersbe adds "Life is not always battles and bitter waters. God brings us to the refreshing oases from time to time, and for this we should praise Him. However, we can never claim our inheritance if we linger at Elim. We are pilgrims, not residents. Life is a combination of the bitter and the sweet, triumphs and trials. If we are following God, however, we never need fear what comes our way. And after the trial there is often a spiritual “Elim” where God refreshes us. We must accept the bitter waters with the sweet, knowing that God knows what is best for us."

Aps Tim. Oluwajoba
https://Lamshem.blogspot.com

WHO IS JESUS CHRIST -Part One

Jesus' life becomes ours. It's in the Bible, Galatians 2:20, NKJV. "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."

He said to , "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven."

Luke (2.1-2) also links the birth of Jesus with a census for taxation purposes ordered by the Roman Emperor Augustus and driven by Quirnius, the Syrian governor. Such an enrollment took place in 6 CE, when Judea was made the property of Augustus and the taxation system had to be restructured. The problem with this reference is that this enrollment did not affect the population of Galilee, where Joseph and Mary lived. Furthermore, if Jesus had been born around 6 CE, it would be inconsistent with Matthew placing Jesus' birth during the time of Herod the Great.



He also descended into hell, and truly rose again on the third day. Afterward, He ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. There He forever reigns and has dominion over all creatures.

After baptism, Jesus went into the Judean desert to fast and meditate for 40 days and nights. The Temptation of Christ is chronicled in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke (known as the Synoptic Gospels). The Devil appeared and tempted Jesus three times, once to turn stone to bread, once to cast himself off a mountain where angels would save him, and once to offer him all the kingdoms of the world. All three times, Jesus rejected the Devil's temptation and sent him off.

9 Bible prophecies, Jehovah’s own words, and the sign He gave at Jesus’ baptism prove that Jesus is the Messiah. But where did Jesus come from, and what was he like? Let us see what the Bible says.

This subject becomes all the more important since, in its most common form, Christianity is proclaimed as a message about Jesus. What a person believes about Jesus, then, informs his understanding of the religion itself. We can see the result of this process in the thousands of Christian denominations in all parts of the world. While they all proclaim to be Christian, the individual sects emphasize different aspects of Jesus in their teaching. For instance:

There is very little written about Jesus's early life. The Gospel of Luke (2:41-52) recounts that a 12-year-old Jesus had accompanied his parents on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and became separated. He was found several days later in a temple, discussing affairs with some of Jerusalem’s elders. Throughout the New Testament, there are trace references of Jesus working as a carpenter while a young adult. It is believed that he began his ministry at age 30 when he was baptized by John the Baptist, who upon seeing Jesus, declared him the Son of God.

Most theological historians, Christian and non-Christian alike, believe that Jesus really did walk the Earth. They draw that conclusion from textual evidence in the Bible, however, rather than from the odd assortment of relics parading as physical evidence in churches all over Europe.

Jesus was born circa 6 B.C. in Bethlehem. His mother, Mary, was a virgin who was betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter. Christians believe Jesus was born through Immaculate Conception. His lineage can be traced back to the house of David. According to the Gospel of Matthew (2:1), Jesus was born during the reign of Herod the Great, who upon hearing of his birth felt threatened and tried to kill Jesus by ordering all of Bethlehem’s male children under age two to be killed. But Joseph was warned by an angel and took Mary and the child to Egypt until Herod’s death, where upon he brought the family back and settled in the town of Nazareth, in Galilee.

Jesus was born towards the end of the reign of Herod the Great (died 4 BCE) and brought up in Nazareth, Galilee. He was named Jesus (Yeshu’a in Aramaic, Yehoshua or Joshua in Hebrew, Iesous in Greek, Iesus in Roman) and was conceived between the engagement and marriage of his parents whose names were Mary (Miriam in Hebrew and Mariam in Aramaic) and Joseph (Yossef in Hebrew, Yosep in Aramaic). In Matthew 13.55 it is said that his father was a carpenter, and Mark 6.3 says that this was also Jesus’ profession. It was a common practice during that time that sons would follow their father’s occupation, so it would be safe to believe that Jesus was a carpenter. Although not certain, it is probable that Jesus' education included a detailed study of the Hebrew Scriptures, a very common practice among the devout poor in Israel.

Perhaps the most famous religious relic in the world, the Shroud of Turin, is believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus. The 14-by-4-foot linen blanket, which bears the ghostly image of a man's body, has been worshipped by millions of pilgrims in a cathedral in Turin, Italy. But scientifically speaking, the Shroud of Turin is a fake.

Jesus returned to Galilee and made trips to neighboring villages. During this time, several people became his disciples. One of these was Mary Magdalene, who is first mentioned the Gospel of Luke (16:9) and later in all four gospels at the crucifixion. Though not mentioned in the context of the "12 disciples," she is considered to have been involved in Jesus's ministry from the beginning to his death and after. According to the gospels of Mark and John, Jesus appeared to Magdalene first after his resurrection.

His public ministry began after being baptized by John the Baptist. According to the gospel of Luke, this was when Jesus was about 30 years of age. According to Mark (11.27-33), Jesus saw John the Baptist as an authority and possibly a source of inspiration. It seems that he performed baptisms parallel to John the Baptist (John 3.22). After the arrest of John the Baptist (Mark 1.14), Jesus began a new kind of ministry, spreading the message of the kingdom of God approaching and stressing the importance of repentance by the people of Israel.

Jesus, the Prince of Peace Part 1

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV, "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. – Isaiah 9:6-7

But will this do as an explanation? There is overt and intentional grandeur in Isaiah’s use of the title for the messiah. This messiah, the Pope would no doubt agree, is none other than Jesus Christ. Christians boldly proclaim that Jesus is the incarnate son. He reconciles the world to Himself, and in this way he brings peace. He alone is worthy of the exalted titles ascribed to him in Isaiah 9:6. These titles should be reserved for the Lord of hosts who accomplishes these things, though he accomplishes them in part through the sons and daughters he has redeemed.

John 16:33 - These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.

This is when life begins to be what God intended it to be. So this is where God brings us. We've been climbing with Paul, step by step, up a great mountain. And now we have come to the very summit: "For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father." We can go no higher. Life with the Father is the most delightful of all experiences, for all that we need is provided by a Father's heart, and a Father's love. This is the way God deals with us and our hostility. What separates us from each other is our insistence that they are wrong and we are right, that there is never any reason for an admission of guilt on our part. But as soon as we admit that we are wrong in the very areas where we think we are right, and that there is no way of justifying ourselves before God in any area of our lives, other than being forgiven, then the hostility ends, and God brings us into that glorious relationship of freedom and enjoyment of life with the Father.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

A few months ago I was in another city, and a young man came up to me and said, "I want to tell you about my marriage. I haven't been married very long. After we were married I discovered that my wife was not a virgin before we were married, though I was. I had a tremendous struggle with this. I forgave her; I understood the situation, understood that she needed to be forgiven. But emotionally I continued to wrestle. Then I began to see that my behavior had been no better than hers, before God. Though she violated the external precepts of sexual morality, I had violated them also, internally, in my thoughts and attitudes. And, before God, there was no difference. I began to see that I was just as much in need of forgiveness for my failures as she was. When I saw that, then there was healing."

And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Once again, we are dealing here with a very profound psychological insight. The strength of any hostility is demand. This is what the apostle is saying. What creates hostility? Why, a self-righteous demand upon someone, a demand without any admission of guilt on the part of the one demanding, a one-sided justice, a holier-than-thou insistence. This is what creates hostility. The Jews despised the Gentiles because they considered themselves better than Gentiles. "We have the Law of Moses," they said. "The Law is right and true; it reflects the character of God. You Gentiles don't have the Law." And in their blindness and self-righteous hypocrisy, they thought they were keeping this Law because they didn't do some of the outward, external acts the Law prohibited. And so they hated and despised the Gentiles because they thought they were superior. The Gentiles, on the other hand, hated the Jews, because they knew they lived in self-righteous hypocrisy. So there was intense hostility between them. Jesus' solution is to take away the Law. Remove that from the picture -- help them to see that the Law judges both alike -- and you'll end the hostility. Put them on the same level -- so they both need grace, both need forgiveness -- and you remove hostility.

Hebrews 7:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

Apostle Tim Oluwajoba

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