Presenting Your Body As A Living Sacrifice was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 18th day of July 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
In his teaching, Rev. Dunamis made mention of the following important points:
Acquisition of knowledge is not enough; understanding is what empowers you to do. The degree to which you understand a thing is the degree you enjoy the benefits of that thing
If you don’t present your body as a living sacrifice, you will never be all that God has created you to be.
How Do You Present Your Body?
You present your body by killing it; by deadening it.
For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.
Romans 8:13 (AMP)
You do not retrieve your sacrifice. Each time you go back to your sins, you are contradicting your destiny. Dead people don’t fornicate. Dead people don’t retaliate.
Your flesh has a voice, and if you lack self control, you will follow whatever it says.
When your body is presented as a living sacrifice, it cannot dictate to you, rather you tell your body what to do.
Do you want your worship to be accepted by God? Then present your body. Your worship does not exist until your body is presented.
I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1 (AMP)
The fact that you presented your body as a living sacrifice does not mean that temptations will not come; but you do not hearken to the voice of the flesh when it speaks.
There is a relationship between deadening your body and your bank account. If you wish to prosper the God kind of way, then you have to kill or deaden your flesh so that it doesn’t stand as a hindrance to your blessings. Therefore you must work at presenting your body as a living sacrifice.
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Five Things About Falling In Love And Staying In Love was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 11th of July 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
In his teaching, Rev. Dunamis made mention of the following important points:
As a single, stop falling in love with more than one person at a time.
If you STAY with God, everything will be beautiful. But what happens most times is that we don’t want to stay with God; we want to follow our feelings and emotions.
However, you cannot survive in the realm of your feelings; you must come to the realm of reality.
When God communicates with you, He does not do it through your feelings; He does it through your spirit.
Your feelings would eventually become your decisions if your dwell there.
When you see terror and minimize it to fun, you are in deadly trouble.
In falling in love, the first order of things is to RENEW YOUR MIND. Your mind is everything.
The moment you start having more than one person in mind, confusion has set in. Stop falling in love with more than one person at a time.
In his teaching, Rev Dunamis talked to married couples on How To Deal With Attractions For And From Others Who Are Not Your Spouse. He made the following points:
Ignore, Refuse, And Reject
Open up to your spouse
Five Things About Falling In Love And Staying In Love
Love Can Intoxicating
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth– For your love is better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:2 (NKJV)
Love can can make you lose your mind. Before you taste the wine of love, make sure you are of age. Before you allow him/her to kiss you with the kisses of the mouth, make sure you are married.
Kissing awakens love, and when love is awakened at the wrong time, you will do the right things at the wrong time. Kissing and sex is good, but only within the confines of marriage.
As a single if you don’t learn how to wait then you are headed for doom. Waiting is powerful.
The place of maturity is the place of discipline – you tell yourself you won’t do this despite the urge to do it.
Kissing wakes up unnecessary feelings. Say no to kissing before marriage – it’s easier to kill the seed than attack the harvest.
Rev Dunamis ended the sermon by talking to the married couples on a few tips that will help them rekindle their love:
Take yourselves out from time to time
Keep speaking your love language
Don’t stop wooing each other
Forgive quickly
Have a mentor over your marriage
To listen to messages of Rev Dunamis, go HERE or HERE
12 Demonic Strongmen That Must Be Overcome (Part 3) was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 27th of June 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan. Read Part 1 of this teaching HERE, and Part 2 HERE
In his teaching, Rev. Dunamis made mention of the following important points:
12 Demonic Strongmen That Must Be Overcome (cont’d)
7. The Spirit of Infirmity
This demonic strongman is responsible for bent body/spine, asthma, lingering disorders, etc.
When you bind this spirit, you loose the Spirit of life and the gifts of the healing
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2 (KJV)
8. Deaf And Dumb Spirit
When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, [Thou] dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
Mark 9:25 (KJV)
This spirit controls epilepsy, convulsions, speech loss, stuttering, deafness and dumbness.
It can manifest as unteachable spirit, lack of comprehension.
This kind of demons come with stubbornness and arrogance
9. The Spirit Of Fear
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
This spirit is in control of anxiety, phobia, compulsive behavioural patterns, insomnia, terror, anguish, nightmares and every form of fear.
It manifests in heart attacks, nightmares, terrors, fear of death, anxiety, etc.
When you bind this spirit, you then loose the Spirit of love, power, and a sound mind, because perfect love casts out all fears.
10. The Spirit of Pride
Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18 (KJV)
There is pride behind every form of destruction.
This spirit is in control of arrogance, haughtiness, self-righteousness, refusal to listen, and all aspects of Jezebel spirit (which controls the feminist movement and is in direct opposition to God’s word.
Every time you fight your head, you fight your vision
If you cannot submit to a man then don’t get married
This spirit manifests in rebellion, idleness, arrogance, etc.
When you bind this spirit, you then loose humble and contrite spirit.
11. The Lying Spirit
Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.
Proverbs 12:22 (KJV)
This spirit controls exaggeration, craftiness, false religions, false doctrines, etc.
It manifests in strong deceptions, flattery, superstitions, religious bondages, false prophecy, accusations, slander, gossip, lies, false teachers, etc.
When you bind this spirit, you then loose the spirit of truth, because truth sets free.
12. The Spirit Of Bondage
Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
John 8:34 (NKJV)
This spirit controls manipulation, addiction of any kind, obsessive-compulsive disorder, domination, control, all forms of cult, religious mind control, personal control and bullying in relationships, and a corrupted core belief system.
It manifests in fears, addictions (drugs, food, cigarette, alcohol), fear of death.
This is the end of the sermon titled “12 Demonic Strongmen That Must Be Overcome.” We believe you were blessed.
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Overcoming The Stronghold Of The Mind was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 27th of June 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan. This was during the second service of the day.
In his teaching, Rev. Dunamis made mention of the following important points:
You can’t afford to be careless as a child of God. The sooner you realize that we are fighting against principalities and powers, the better for you.
The belt of truth is the application of God’s Word.
Righteousness (Right Living) is what covers your heart. When you do wrong, your heart becomes exposed to the vile of the enemy.
What happens or goes on in your mind will eventually play out in your life.
Fiery darts are arrows shot at your mind – lustful thoughts, evil thoughts, etc. They are not physical; they are spiritual.
What you meditate on is what you see. Negative thoughts will always come, as long as you are in the days of your flesh. The only way to stop thinking permanently is to remove your mind; but we both know it is not possible. Therefore the only way out is to cast down those thoughts as they come.
It is your responsibility to cast them down; and casting down is a forceful, violent exercise.
You don’t negotiate with negative thoughts or the devil. You cast them out. That’s where ‘Overcoming The Stronghold Of The Mind’ comes in.
You can only conquer negative thoughts by using the Word of God. Constant meditation on the Word, prayers, and fellowship with God blocks negative thoughts.
Everything that happens in life begins with imagination; whether you will be wealthy, great, poor or wretched is a function of your imagination.
Rise and stand!
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Principles of Relationship was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 23rd of June 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
In his teaching, Rev. Dunamis made mention of the following important points:
Marriage is all about principles. If you are a born again Christian and you don’t work the principles, you will have a very good spiritual life but a very bad marriage.
A wife must submit to her husband, and a husband must love his wife.
The Principle Of Timing
God has a timetable for every man.
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV)
Life is not lived anyhow, accepting whatever comes. It is lived by deliberately following principles.
You can’t get busy for God and God will not get busy for you.
You must deliberately pray not to miss your timing.
Every relationship/marriage has a purpose.
When you plan with God and follow Him squarely, you can’t make mistakes.
The Principle Of Crucifying The Flesh
Nobody succeeds in marriage without dying to the flesh. When you carry your flesh into a relationship, you will mess things up.
The flesh is designed to stop you from co-operating with God.
Inability to forgive is flesh
Double dating is flesh
Having an affair outside marriage (adultery) is flesh.
When the flesh is not put to death, it gets you in trouble. The flesh is stubborn; so you don’t negotiate with it! You just kill it!
The broken becomes masters at mending. When you overcome something (lust, smoking, bitterness, etc), you receive a special anointing to also help people overcome that thing.
The Principle Of Attraction
Don’t marry a person you are not attracted to.
You need someone you can focus on; someone you desire.
Don’t marry him because he has money; marry someone you are attracted to.
The absence of attraction is the beginning of deep seated issues.
The attraction must be mutual; otherwise it is dangerous.
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