Live with Rev. Emmanuel 'Osuiniabasi' George

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Great time at Praiseplace church Oron

Celebrating a man whom God has helped

Rev. Emmanuel OsuiniAbasi George at 50.

Date: November 13, 2022
Venue: Grace Cathedral Odobo road, Okobo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State.
Time: 3.pm

Preferred Dress code: White & A touch of blue.

Please come, let us celebrate God for the man He has made!

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THAT NEGATIVE PRONOUNCEMENT IS NOT FINAL: YOU CAN CHANGE IT.

When God told Cain that he was going to be a fugitive and a vagabond, Cain protested and the declaration was aborted.
This supposedly cursed man went ahead to get married and built a city.
He became successful family man and raised one of the most pious figure in existence, Enoch.
Check out Gen 4:14-18.

What is this excuse that it is because of generational curse, you are struggling.

Isaac pronounced that Esau will serve Jacob and be a slave to his younger brother.

You know what?
It never happened.
By the time Jacob returned from his maternal uncle place after 20+ years, Esau had become so successful that he had 400+ bodyguards, Jacob had to bribe him to save his family.

You know the secret?
They took hold of the present and change the future.
During the time of Jesus Christ, a descendant of Esau ( Herod and his family) were the ones ruling over Jacob.
How come?
The key is in Gen 27:40.... the day you can't take it anymore, you will break loose and throw the yoke off your neck.

A young man who was always told that nothing good will come to him, went to consult a spiritualist.
The spiritual asked him to sit down and draw two circles on the ground.
One with white chalk and the other with charcoal.
He then brought out a millipede and put in a third circle.

He proceeded to tell the young man that he is going to make incantations and call the millipede by his name.
If the millipede crawl into the white circle, it means he will be prosperous. But if the millipede crawl into the dark circle, it means he is doomed.
As the baba was doing his thing, the millipede began to crawl towards the dark circle, the young man got up and picked the millipede and dropped it in the white circle.
The babalawo shouted out, whaaaaat?, You have just changed the future.
In response, the young man responded; you expected me to sit here and watch you manipulate my destiny?

Listen to me my dear, if Cain could get married and build a city, if Esau's descendants could rule over Jacob..... YOU CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE TODAY.
Get up and do something with your life.
Don't allow Nigeria to happen to you and turn you to a statistics.
You are a record breaker
You are a trailblazer

Please, if not for anything, please succeed for your mom and your siblings.
Quit explaining yourself and start doing something.
You will not die small.

If you want me to talk with you, you can call me straight on 08036411280.
I am Emmanuel OsuiniAbasi George, I am sent to you as a catalyst.

Say after me: I REFUSE TO BE A BURDEN TO ANYONE.

Yes you can say no to that temptation!
With the benefit of hindsight (memory), insight ( contemplation) and foresight (imagination), count the cost of pursuing that particular course of action.

I have been wondering why African Christians are poor compared to the Jews who both worship Yahweh Adonai.
The answer is not farfetched.
The Jews pray and work, invest in opportunity and avoid extravaganza.
The African believers pray and fast and sow seeds and sit back waiting for a financial miracle.
Presently, Bill Gates is investing millions of dollars on research into renewable energy.
In five years time, Bill Gates will be selling clean energy to the world.
We believe too much in luck, financial breakthrough through wealth transfer ( someone just dash you without you doing anything)
Nature operates strictly on a reward system.
You get paid for solving problem.
The more people you solve their challenges, the more money you earn.
Steve Jobs pioneered the personal computer, billions flowed into his account.
Mark Zuckerberg identified the need for a social media to connect people...... Facebook was born that gave him .
Same with Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
I don't know the amount of anointing oil they drank to get to that point.
Look around you......
Late Otunba Gaddafi discovered the need for mobile toilets in social events, he made millions from s**t.
Yes, there is money in s**t.
Please I don't want to go further because I am getting angry.
If you want to be a millionaire, please pray this prayer aloud.
Prayer:
Dear FATHER, Nigeria has light problems, water shortage, inadequate healthcare and food preservation. I humbly request that you show me what to do to generate electricity efficiently and cheaply. Spirit of God, show me that particular plant that can wipe out HIV AIDS.
Father Lord, I covenant with you that 20% of the profit will be for the widows and orphans. Thank you Jesus Christ for granting my request.
Now get your jotter handy for the revelation that will change your generation.
You can't die small.

From _The Preacher_

*A LIGHTHOUSE ON THE DUMP*

_And the city shall be cursed, even it, and all that therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house: because she hid the messengers that we sent._
Joshua 6:17.

*1. Treasures in a Stained Vessel*

Do roses grow on dump sites? Can messiahs proceed from notorious Nazareth? Can the discarded jawbone of a dead donkey become the salvaging weapon of mass destruction in the hand of a strong man?

Rahab was a harlot; even the Holy Bible named her by that appalling trade, but she was a good person at heart, and very hospitable, too. She had probably been forced into the s*x trade by the troubles of life. She hid the men that came her way and, against her own government, would not deliver them to harm. She was not a killer, like some of her kind. Every harlot is not a devil. Some are great souls sadly stained for a fleeting while by the constraints of a hard existence.

After divine mercy had relocated her from accursed Jericho into covenant Israel, she married a wise noble man of Judah called Salmon, and gave birth to a noble son called Boaz, who became the husband of faithful Ruth, the woman from Moab. The roots of King David, King Solomon, and Jesus the King of kings are traced through that apparently reprehensible lineage (Ruth 4:17-22; Matthew 1:4-7, 15-16). So, Rahab carried royalty in her womb. The s*x trade had merely been a moment’s stain. When mercy washed the stains away, it revealed the treasure in her soul, opening a path to her marvellous future.

*2. A Future Bought with a Hospitable Past*

In Joshua 6:17, Israel’s commander is heard announcing that Rahab had bought her future with a past in which she had done a kind deed to strategic strangers. Had she not shown that kindness, she would have lost a great future, never even knowing what she had missed. Those men of Israel had come her way not really as spies; they carried her destiny. They were her bridge between harlot Jericho and holy Israel, between the brothel and the temple, between her past and her future, between darkness and light.

We never know how far a good deed can go. Every good deed is an investment that someday will yield a blessing. Keep sowing (Ecclesiastes 11:1-6). Even when there may be nothing to give because life has taken everything away except your very honour, there will still be kindness to give. Kindness is one gift that nobody is too rich to refuse.

*3. Saved in a Harlot’s House*

Joshua announced that death was coming to everyone in Jericho, except those that would be found in the harlot’s house. Holy folks might have wondered what blessed refuge might be found for saints in a harlot’s room. God’s ways are a mystery. The rest of Rahab’s unspoilt household was going to be saved by relocating from their decent homes into her soiled brothel; they were going to be saved by humbly presenting themselves in a particular place at a particular time.

Where time finds a person sometimes defines their destiny. Had those purer relations of Rahab been anywhere else than in her cramped and erstwhile unblessed room when Jericho fell, they would have died; killed not by the sword of the enemy but by proudly missing a divinely righted place which used to be wrong.

O God, direct my feet in Thy path. Deliver me from seemingly secured cities mysteriously marked for destruction by the finger of prophecy. Amen.

*4. Saved by a Harlot Sister*

Rahab was a harlot, but her family’s future lay in connection to those ‘mistakes’ of her earlier days. They might in the past have sneered at her unsocial ways; they might have mocked the ‘nothing’ that she often had to offer when respectable others brought their silver and gold to the family coffers. At last, she had much more to give than they all: their desperate preservation. She was the rejected stone that had become the crucial corner stone.

Look beyond Rahab’s stains. You might see a great soul awaiting the crucial encounter with messengers from God, to guide her from the brothels of Jericho into the palace of Israel, from an abused present into a royal future. Jealous Jericho had schemed to spoil the royal seeds in Rahab’s womb and waste her before her day would come, but then came those messengers from God, and she would not waste another chance. She grabbed it with hands and legs and promptly signed with them the covenant of the scarlet thread signalling her break from the scarlet trade. God still makes queen mothers out of Rahabs who won’t waste a timeless encounter.

God sees great treasures sometimes where earthly eyes would never guess; sweet roses blooming on soiled soils despised pious eyes. Jesus found one such woman by a well in Samaria. His disciples despised her as a mongrel Samaritan. They did not know that that woman held the key to her city, a key that even the men of her city respected. May God find you. May you find see what He sees. Amen.

_*From The Preacher’s diary,*_
_*May 7, 2015.*_
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From _The Preacher_
(culled from the book _*Forgiveness,*_ page 87-91)

*REPENT AND RETURN*

*1. Impossible Peace*

Some people are near impossible – if not impossible – to please or reform, even when they are the guilty ones. That is implied in Paul’s remarkable admonition in Romans 12:18, to _“live peaceably with all men,”_ but to do so _“as much as”_ lies within one’s ability. In other words, be notified that you will not succeed to win the peace in every case or with every person, no matter how much you try. You should not blame yourself for such folks, for trying much but not succeeding. Even if you died trying to please them, your carcass still won’t soften them. They will ever find fault. That is probably also why St Luke adds the “if” clause in his scriptures on forgiveness. It might seem a humbling act to return and request forgiveness, but the action is the offender’s important part of the ‘investment’ into the peace process. It is no cheap investment. The father of the Prodigal Son did not, as a show of his magnanimity and ‘fatherliness,’ go after that strayed son in the Far Country with flowers of forgiveness, begging him to come back home.

In Luke 17:3-4 it is said that the trespasser should be forgiven _“if he repent,”_ and if he _“turn again to thee.”_ In other words, two things are expected from the truly penitent trespasser; two things that *he* should do, not what should be done for him: first, to *repent,* and next, as a mark of his repentance, to *return,* and that _‘to *thee,’*_ not to a different ‘address’; to return with his own legs. That creates at least four scenarios:

1) he could repent and return
2) he could repent but not return
3) he could refuse to repent but wish to return
4) he could refuse to repent and refuse to return.

*2. The Four Scenarios*

_*Scenario 1: Those Who Wish to Return but won’t Repent*_

Those who wish to return to the bountiful palace of pardon but are unwilling to pay their due sacrifice of repentance are a dangerous breed, less honourable than the Prodigal Son. They want back their lost glory, but on their own terms, in their own court or pigs’ pen. They want the father’s honour while they continue their prodigal lifestyle. They want back the proclamatory family ring of honour on their rebellious finger, and the protective shoes on their blistered feet, but in their distant prodigal land while they still frolic with swine. They expect the father’s fatted-calf meaty party, but in their Far-Country rather than humbly under his roof. They expect the father’s ‘forgiveness’ for a lifestyle that they are not prepared to change. They take no responsibility for their waywardness. Finally, if they don’t get it as they want it, they blackmail the father for being wicked and ‘unfatherly’; for being very unwilling to ‘forgive’ – forgiveness according to their dictionary. For them, forgiveness is a right that you must concede to them in the interest of your righteous soul that should not go to hellfire – as if they cared that much. They see no wrong in what THEY do but won’t miss the smallest detail of the wrongs in what THE OTHER does.

Forgiveness should not concede to blackmail. It should not appear to endorse the prodigal lifestyle. Forgiveness is not an appeasement. Forgiveness on the Prodigal’s terms is a tacit endorsement of his prodigal ways. Good fathers are careful not to send out such a signal so that they don’t turn other sons into that apparently ‘profitable and pardonable’ prodigal path. Strayed prodigals should repent and then return – in that order; not *return* in the hope that they would or could later *repent.* If they return (or are returned) without repentance, there is little guarantee that they will repent thereafter. They might then hasten the old man’s death for a fresh and faster ration of the ‘inheritance.’

_*Scenario 2: Those Who Would Repent and Return*_

Those who will repent and return with their own legs back to the house that they abandoned, are noble. They had been good students of the Far-Country College of Practical Suffering. They deserve the fatted-calf party. Their ‘homeward’ actions match well with their confession of sin to Heaven and to earthly father. In the past, they had taken their selfish steps away from the house, now they are taking the same steps penitently back towards the same house. It is commendable *repentance* and then *return.*

‘Returning’ might not necessarily be physical, so far as relationship is re-established. It could be an emotional ‘return,’ especially in an age of technology. A soul can return and reconnect while the body is still distances away, separated by mountains and oceans and other circumstances beyond personal and immediate control.

_*Scenario 3: Those Who Would Repent but Wish to ‘Move On’*_

There are also those who will verily repent yet not wish to return. They probably have seen that the father they fled from was and still is a hireling, not a shepherd. They are unwilling to risk their souls again in his prison house – or slaughterhouse. They have repented, but won’t return. Their safety is not guaranteed in that house, and the ‘father’ or the ‘Other’ knows it.

_*Scenario 4: Those Who will Neither Repent nor Return*_

These break your heart and walk away, claiming their right to hurt you so badly so often. They will not repent; they will not return. They still have an unfinished fight with the father, so why would they return! These don’t hide their malice.

It is safer for the grieving father that these remain where they are. They probably need to take a few more practical classes in suffering, in the prodigal Far-Country of lack and pain. Some of them, long resisted by their own pride that will not let them make the saving journey back home, will be buried in their adopted Far Country – among their ‘swine’ kin.

*3. Conclusion: Attracting the Father’s Blessing*

Those who return without repenting usually cause more harm than before, and often depart again. Those who repent and return are blessed. They are likely to remain; less likely to carelessly offend again. Those who repent but choose not to return are not unwise. They might be taking precautions against future outbreaks in a home that has not made sufficient efforts to not offend again. Those who repent but ‘return’ to a different address probably have some inner struggles that they are yet to overcome. They may not have told all the truth about why they left in the first place. Repentance plus voluntary return is what attracts the Father’s feast – in the Father’s house.

_*From The Preacher’s diary,*_
_*October 13, 2018.*_
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From _The Preacher_

*DELIVERANCE AND ESCAPE*

_*Deliver* me in thy righteousness, and cause ME to *escape:* incline thine ear unto me, and *save* me._
Psalm 71:2.

Two modes of preservation are highlighted in our text: *deliverance* and *escape,* both being types of *salvation.* God is involved in all, but to different degrees. ‘In His righteousness,’ that is, usually without reference to my rightlessness or any significant input from me, God can *deliver* me. At other times, however, He merely opens the door and lets me use my legs to complete the salvation process. That is, He causes ‘ME’ to consciously get myself out of the obvious danger. That is *escape.* Either way, God has ‘saved’ me.

Pastor Paul Enenche told of his member who was abducted in Abuja by ritualists. She had converted from Islam only two weeks before. In the den of the ritualists, she prayed a simple prayer to the Jesus she had come to know, if He was there. Next thing, she found herself on the streets of Abuja, walking home. That is deliverance.

Apostle Johnson Suleman told of a member who had also been abducted in Benin City by ritualists. In that strange place of no particular address, she also prayed her simple prayer. Next thing, she found herself in her room, the door padlocked outside as she had done when she left the house, with the keys in her handbag. That is deliverance.

Rev Samson Ajetomobi told of a brother who had been similarly abducted. He called on God to save him but felt rebuked that he was wasting the powers he had. He got up and started to walk out of the room, into the open yard, and towards the iron gate. Another abducted woman followed him, emboldened by his action to escape. The guard saw her out in the yard and shot her dead. The brother froze in fear at the gun shots, but he was unseen. The voice of God urged him on. He continued his steps towards the metal gate, which opened to him. The noisy iron clangour caught attention. “Who’s there!” the guard bellowed, seeing no one. The brother went out of that compound, out into the woods, out to a road, then found his way to the retreat in the city at which the Reverend was preaching. There, he told his story to the outburst of praise. He escaped.

_Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped_ (Psalm 124:7).

A snare is a small animal trap, like a wire noose, to catch the leg or head of the animal. When that wire is broken, any wise animal should use its legs or wings to flee that scene, or foolishly linger still until the trapper comes for it with a different weapon. When God breaks a snare, He expects you to escape with your legs. To remain there expecting the wonders of deliverance, will be stupid su***de. Many times, even when God had provided us windows of escape from lingering dangers, we have ignored them to our peril because we had been expecting a more dramatic ‘divine’ deliverance, something more fitting and entertaining as ‘testimony’ to our audiences.

When Daniel was thrown into the lions’ den, God delivered him. According to the king, the Lord _*“delivered* Daniel from the power of the lions”_ (Daniel 6:27). Daniel could have done nothing by himself to escape that danger. His salvation from that den of lions depended entirely on God. When you are faced with an enemy too strong for you, you need deliverance.

_He *delivered* me from my *strong enemy,* and from them that hated me: for they were *too strong for me*_ (2 Samuel 22:18).

When the Jews at Damascus were out to kill Saul the new convert, God gave the disciples in that city wisdom, which you might call common sense. They got a big basket and ferried Saul across the city wall at night (Acts 9:24-25). That was escape. There was no point expecting deliverance by a chariot of fire when God had made _“a way to escape”_ (1 Corinthians 10:13). The action of the disciples meant that they had people on the other side of the city walls, they also had people watching the gates where the wicked Jews were stationed to kill. They did not need to pray about what size of basket was best for the project, what time of night was best for the escape, what section of the city wall was safest for the operation. They had smart heads and smart legs inspired by God for the escape.

Sometimes, salvation might come by deliverance; sometimes, by escape; at other times, by a combination of both. For example, God delivered Peter from Herod’s prison when his angelic assistance caused the iron gates to open to them like an automatic door. Beyond the gates, when they had got into the street that night, the angel disappeared. It was up to Peter to complete the process by escaping with his legs and his sense. He did (Acts 12:1-17).

In career, business, relationships, or dangers of any kind, it is foolish to seek deliverance where God has opened a door of escape. It is unwise to judge as canal the salvation that God grants through escape with legs enabled by uncommon grace.

In this season, may God deliver you where He would, and cause YOU to escape where you should. Amen. Even when God opens a Red Sea, He does not ferry His people across. They use their legs to get to the other side. When the rivers open unto you in this season, may your legs receive strength to cross to the other side. Amen.

*_From The Preacher’s diary,_*
*_December 8, 2021._*
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From _The Preacher_

*GOD’S REGRETS* _(part 4 of 4)_

*11. The Parable of the Potter*

It sometimes happens that things turn out differently than initially envisaged, even with God; yet, if God is allowed the charge, regrets can still turn into newer joys. That was one important lesson that God was going to pass through Prophet Jeremiah; so important that He chose to do it practically. As a result, God gave the prophet an appointment at the potter’s house.

When the prophet got there, he found the potter forming a vessel at the wheel, but suddenly, there was an unplanned hitch. The clay got spoilt in the master potter’s hands. The potter did not get mad at the clay, throw it down, walk away. He settled down and repurposed the same ‘failed’ clay into a different design than was being originally attempted. That was possible so long as the clay remained in the potter’s hands. Then came the word of the Lord to the prophet, _“Cannot I do with you as this potter?”_ (Jeremiah 18:6). In other words, Trust me to turn unplanned failures and regrets into unplanned vessels of a different beauty.

Divine regrets may have their consequences, but they may not lead in every case to irredeemable disaster. They can become the gateway to a different wonder if the clay remains submitted in the Great Potter’s hands. After all, Rahab of Jericho was a public pr******te of a social regret who made the most of her encounter with the two ‘angels’ from Israel. They were her divine bridge out of that shame into Messianic glory (Joshua 2:1; Hebrews 11:31; Matthew 1:5-6). To faltering Peter, Jesus said, _“when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren”_ (Luke 22:32). In other words, Beyond your shameful fall, there is still a divine purpose with your name on it.

Don’t be stopped where you slipped. God still makes miracles out of mistakes. Even the broken end of a pencil can be sharpened into a fresher writing point.

Come to think of it, the potter ‘failed’ initially, not because he was not good at his trade. A Spirit had purposefully engineered his failure despite his best efforts, because there was a secret prophetic watcher to whom that Spirit was going to convey an eternal message. In other words, there are even ‘failures’ that have their origin in God; worrisome public failures that could not have been wished, yet allowed or designed by God for higher purposes of which the actors might never know (Job 1:1-22). Prophet Hosea is an architype, with his prophetically allegorical home and a most embarrassing wife than any good prophet could have wished. He was a Message; a message he never wished. So also was Peter, supported stoutly in prayers and trusted by the Master to _*“STRENGTHEN* thy brethren”_ after he shall have been _“converted”_ from his fall (Luke 22:32). Out of his weaknesses and regrets, he was to become a strengthener of other ‘holy’ weaklings who, more luckily, never fell like him. His fall, in other words, was merely going to be a rite of passage to the next phase of a divine mandate to many more.

Sometimes good plans turn out bad, even with God involved. It does not make God less God; it does not redefine Him as planless or loveless or evil. If even God, with the Trinity, could make ‘very good’ choices that He was later to regret bitterly, should mortals kill themselves because good dreams turned out differently? Yet, even failed dreams can be repurposed into alternative forms of glory if they would stay in the Potter’s hands.

Sometimes it is not so much with the mourner whose dreams turned out differently; it is with us bystanders, who think that the fact of ‘regrets’ means that the mourner does not deserve to live. We harangue them with holy woes and creeds of accusation, like the unfortunate friends of Job, until they should sacrifice themselves on the altar of some su***de tree to appease our merciless pharisaic selfishness.

*12. Beyond Regrets*

Peter did not manage well a dream that the Master had committed to him. The failure brought deep regrets for which _“he went out, and wept bitterly”_ (Matthew 26:75), but he rose up beyond those tears to ascend the more noble international podium at Pentecost (Acts 2:14). He did not, like Judas, kill himself.

Jesus lamented Jerusalem’s tragic failure, but He would not stop or be stopped at the place of those public tears. He went ON, and _“went INTO the temple”_ (Luke 19:45), and then _“the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them”_ – there (Matthew 21: 14). What if He had spent the rest of His life regretting Jerusalem?

Rise up. Go *on,* and go _*“into* the temple.”_ There is much more waiting to be done.

There will always be something to regret on this side of living; something small or something great, in marriage, finances, ministry, career, relationships. That is where the Great Potter can be trusted, to make a new beauty out of the old mess. *_“God is faithful_* [He really is], _who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able”;_ and, programmed into every temptation, is the very _“way to escape”_ out of it, if only the tears are not a blinder (1 Corinthians 10:13). Regrets along the streets of Jerusalem should not stop one from arriving at the Temple gates. Keep going – unstoppable – go _”on”_ and _“into the Temple”_ (2 Samuel 12: 19-20); there’s so much awaiting your reviving potter’s touch. Amen.

*_From The Preacher’s diary,_*
*_December 3, 2021._*
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Impartation is the transfer of virtue (power, gifts,graces, anointing) by the Holy Spirit from one human vessel to another.

Deut 34:9..... and Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses, the servant of God laid hands on him

Rom 1:11.... Paul said, I long to see you that I might impart to you some spiritual gifts, to the end that you may be established.

Number 11:17....I will take the spirit that is upon you and put it upon the seventy elders, that they may help you carry out your assignment.

Heb 7:7....and without contradiction, the less is blessed by the greater.

Several scriptures alludes to this intangible transfer that births tangible results in the life of the recipient.
Let me say a few words here ( I stand to be corrected because I am speaking based on the level of understanding I have now);

1. You can't drew from a vessel you don't honor

2. You can consciously desire the grace that is upon another vessel

3. There's no level of Grace that you desire that is not already at work in another human vessel.
4. You can be imparted once but it takes daily spiritual exercise to maintain the anointing.
5. A man may be used by God to stir up a certain grace that he himself is not manifesting (Ananais to Paul)

6. Graces can be polluted by wrong association.
7. Anointing once received cannot be lost ( it either becomes dormant or become polluted and used to work for the belly)
8. Constant usage increases the anointing.
9. The anointing upon a vessel can be activated by the environment ( prayers, worship or when the anointed is shown honor)
10. Anointing has nothing to do with character. One can be heavily anointed but has a bad character.( Charisma/anointing is a gift, character is a responsibility).

I pray for you, may you become a powerful channel for the flow of the power of God towards your generation.
May the Lord Jesus Christ keep you insulated from fire extinguishers

May your presence convey the awesome atmosphere of healing, deliverance and wisdom.

I pray that the Lord bring you in contact with servants of the Lord that you desire to meet.