original manufacturers intention? I guess not! God had an intention before He created man, and its sad to see that very few people are functioning based on His intention. This book has thirteen parts that will enlighten the eyes of your understanding. By the time you finish this book, youd not only discover Gods intention for man, youd become zealous to work in Gods plan for your life. I pray that at the end of this book, God will give you understanding! Cheers! Gods Intention
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Part One In Genesis 1:1, the bible says "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth". But have you asked yourself, what happened before the beginning? If we would add Genesis 1:0 to the bible then the verse would say "before the beginning was, God is". God was there before the beginning. This means, God must have carefully planned creation from the beginning to the end even before he began the creation process. God had an idea of what to do when the earth was without form and void, God knew that light would be the solution. God knew where the fishes, animals and plants would be created from, He also knew that even though man would be created from dust, man must live like Him, so He breath life into man to differentiate man from every other creature. From that singular act, I understand that I carry a part of God inside of me. Please understand me, God didn't breathe life into animals and yet they are living. The life that God breathe into man is His kind of life, His Spirit. That's why Adam lived for 930 years even after his disobedience against God; God's Gods Intention
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personality was resident inside of him. That's why Adam could name all the animals and creatures even without going to school. Man was supernatural, he knew all things! The reason why Jesus came is to restore this glory to man. So I'd like to encourage you today, you're in God's plan; none of God's creation exists by chance, no! They exist for a change! It doesn't matter how you came into this world, God has a plan for you. The devil does not give children, children are heritage from God. The way you came into the world might not be pleasing to God but what matters to God is the fact that you came and He has a plan for you. Come to think of it, if God didn't want you in this world He wouldn't have allowed your conception! Remember that no one is good for nothing, everyone is good for something, you only need to stay FOCUS! May God give us understanding!
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Part Two The potentials of a thing are related to its source. "Myles Munroe" A product can only produce based on the demand its manufacturer had placed on it. A car will never run at a speed of 200km until its manufacturer designs it to do so. The capacity of a product is based on the features loaded into it. When God wanted to create plants and animal, He spoke to the ground, that's why every plant needs soil to grow. No product would exist without its source. Animals feed on other animals while some feed on plants, because they are all made up of sand. When plants and animals die, they return back to the ground. Also, when God needed to create fishes, He spoke to the water; no aquatic creature would survive outside water. When God needed to create man, He spoke to Himself "let us make man in our own image - Gen 1:27". And God is a Spirit, that also qualifies man to be a Spirit, and that also means man cannot actualize his potentials without God because every product must rely on its source for proper functionality. Man is not a body and soul, man is a Spirit Gods Intention
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that possesses a soul and lives in a body. A plant without soil is dead already, so also is a man without God! You cannot know your actual capacity until you know your source. I didn't know I could write, sing and teach until three years ago when I gave my life to Christ. Helen Keller was deaf and blind at the same time, and because of that she couldn't speak. But today she's is a world known writer, this is possible because man should not depend on the disability of his body to maximize his God given potentials, man is not a body, man is a Spirit. Your body was made from the earth and that means it would go back to the earth, but your Spirit should go back to God if you remain connected to God! I'd like to encourage you; there is more to what you can do, but the secret is in your Source! May God give us understanding!
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Part Three No one can fix the parts of a product like the products manufacturer - "Emeka Anslem" When God created the Spirit, soul and body of man, He called the triune nature of man "human being". He also designed a manual for man's functionality; in this manual He described the potentials or the Spirit, soul and body of man. Every manufacturer of a product would always draw your attention to the manual of a product to know its purpose and full functionality. If you don't read the manual you'd not know the full potential of the product. I believe this is why God had to make the believers manual available to the human race. The manual contains all the possibilities of man and all the atrocities man should not commit. God gave Adam this manual when He told him "eat from any three in the garden except the forbidden tree". But man disobeyed God, and became faulty in operations; he could no longer function well. Now, instead of man to return to his Manufacturer for repair through the "warranty seal of forgiveness", man Gods Intention
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went to the devil who is an unauthorized dealer. Now, the devil destroyed several parts in man, and man lost his warranty to go back to God. Man lost complete function on the earth, but the Manufacturer was concerned, He needed to get back His product and repair man even though man had been infringed. The Manufacturer sacrificed His only son Jesus for a ransom to get back His products. And after His son died a new manual was written for new functionality. This manual tells us that the only way to access God is through His Son, And that without faith it is impossible to please God. That further explains that God functions by faith, and for man to function like God man has to function by faith. A man that functions outside faith is malfunctioning! If God has said in the manual that "as you think in your heart, so will you do", He means nothing is impossible to man as long as he can think it, but man has to do this by faith! Remember that God is the source of man's creations, if the source functions by faith, the product must also function by faith. The potential of a product is related to its source! May God give us understanding! Gods Intention
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Part Four "Don't make God look like a liar, you need to rise up and obey His commandment" - Emeka Anslem In Ecclesiastes 12:13, the bible says "let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: FEAR GOD, and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: for this is the whole duty of man". It's lucid that the word "fear" in that context doesn't mean "to be afraid" but "to have reverence for". Man's duty is to reverence God and do His commandments, but it appears man has grossly neglected the "duty" part of this scripture. It's also lucid that many people reverence God but do not keep His commandments. God's commandments is not just the Ten Commandments that you're familiar with, God's commandment is in every verse of scriptures! For example; the bible says "we should be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth... And have dominion over the earth". There are very few individuals who are keeping this commandment! Many people are not having dominion over the earth; rather the earth is having Gods Intention
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dominion over them. Cigarettes, hard drugs, alcohol, money and jobs are all products of the earth, and yet they are having dominion over many individuals. It might interest you to know that fornication is a product of the earth, because the body of man was made from the earth, and it's the lust of the body that leads to fornication. Abraham was a man that had reverence for God in every area and he also kept God's commandments. When God commanded him to possess a land, he did accordingly. When God told him it was time to have a son, he had the son. When God told him to be the father of many nations, he did accordingly. The same God has told you to have dominion over the earth! Listen to this; If you're not having dominion over those issues of your life then you're being disobedient! And the next verse of that scripture says "God will judge every work". I can imagine God asking a man why he didn't get a job when he was alive. Hmm, if you live by the Ten Commandments alone then you might never be prosperous. The Ten Commandments were given to humanity so that we won't disconnect from God just like Adam disconnected from God because he disobeyed God's Gods Intention
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commandment. But asides that singular commandment, God gave Adam many other commandments that guaranteed his fruitfulness on the earth; God told him to work, to eat from any tree except the forbidden tree, and many others, and Adam was keeping all the commandments. Listen to me; if God has commanded you to be prosperous then you have no choice than to obey Him. If God had said "it shall be well with the righteous, he shall eat from the fruit of his doing", it means you can't be jobless for any reason! Don't make God look like a liar, you need to rise up and obey His commandment. Remember! Obedience is better than sacrifice! May God give us understanding!
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Part Five
"Everyone is pregnant with something" - Emeka Anslem Abortion is the ignorance of responsibility. Abortion is not just when a woman terminates a fetus; it's a complete denial of obligation. Many politicians make promises with great potentials before they get elected into power, but as soon as they are sworn in they abort these potentials, thereby putting the lives of their followers at risk. It might interest you to know that abortion itself is as old as time! God deposited a potential to rule over the earth in the first man, and instructed man never to eat from the forbidden tree else he'd surely die. Death is the termination of potential, and that's what the first man did, he aborted the potentials of many generations and left humanity to run life at a risk. The reason why I used the word "risk" is because the reproductive system could be destroyed in the cause of the abortion, and this is why many individuals are not productive in life. Everyone is pregnant with something, Gods Intention
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Satan stole the first pregnancy, Jesus came to make up for what the devil stole, and all you have to do is to give Him a chance. Because in other to be pregnant again there has to be a re- process, and that's why God sent His Son Jesus to impregnate humanity with new potentials. But remember, what you're pregnant with can only be valued when it has manifested in the physical, it's therefore not enough to be pregnant with something but also to do something to deliver in a grand style. Let me leave a word for Doctors who abort lives, "your mother did not abort you", if she did you won't be a Doctor today! May God give us understanding!
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Part Six "The wrong attitude confuses your source" - Emeka Anslem
The strength of a thing is dependent on its source. God spoke to me in a dream this morning, He said "many individuals have been blessed by Me but they walk away from the blessing through wrong attitudes". And I remember that it was a wrong attitude that separated Lot from his source of blessing. Lot was supposed to have internal control towards his herdsmen but he was reluctant, perhaps he was rubbing shoulders with Abraham, and that's why he lost it! Listen, you're not permitted to rub shoulders with your source! When you do that you'd rub your blessing away completely. God is your source, and He has told you the conclusion of the whole matter, "fear Him and keep His commandments". If you're not reverencing God then you must have an attitude problem, likewise if you're not keeping His commandments then your attitude needs to be checked! There are many believers who don't pray, and yet God has said they should pray without Gods Intention
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ceasing. There is no pleasure in disobeying God; you only have an attitude problem. God has reasons for every commandment He gives to you; for example, the reason why God said we should pray without ceasing is so that He can cease the enemy from coming to us! It was when Abraham saw that Lot could not control himself that he decided to separate Lot from him, and as soon as Lot separated from Abraham things started going down. I pray, things will not go down for you! But remember, maintain the right attitude towards your source! God didn't stop blessing Abraham until Lot lost control; it was after Abraham separated himself that God spoke to him again, so Lots problem was also a problem to Abraham. In Romans 1:28 the bible says "Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do". That was exactly what happened to Lot, he was given over to corrupted people because of wrong attitude, and that was where his downfall began. I pray again, you will not fall! May God give us understanding!
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Part Seven
"The quality of a thing is determined by the quality of its source" - Myles Monroe God was not joking when He said "without Me you can do nothing". A plant would naturally have a weak growth if the soil is weak. It is not the seed that guarantees the growth of a plant, no! It is the soil! No matter how rich and beautiful a seed may look, it completely depends on the soil to fulfill its beautiful potentials. The plant depends on the soil because plants where originally made from the ground. And everything ever created is always related to its source. Now, man was made from God; God spoke to the source of everything He created. He spoke to the ground to produce plants and animal, He spoke to the gases of the air to produce all kinds of birds; He spoke to the waters to produce aquatic organisms. But when it came to man, He spoke to Himself saying "let us make man in our own image", so man came out of God. And just like the seed depends on the ground to fulfill destiny, a man must also depend on God to Gods Intention
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fulfill destiny. If the quality of a product depends on the quality of its source, then the quality of man should be dependent on the quality of God. An healthy soil would produce an healthy plant, a mighty God would not produce less than a mighty man. If nothing is impossible for God then nothing should be impossible for man. The baby in the womb can be likened to a seed that is still within the ground and has not germinated. The upshot of the seed towards the surface of the soil can be likened to the delivery of the baby. Now the fact that the plant is now visible doesn't mean the plant can be disconnected from the soil, it would dry off its potentials. The same way, no man should disconnect from God otherwise he'd never fulfill his potentials on earth. You are of more quality than man rates you. Stand up and release your inner qualities! May God give us understanding!
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Part Eight "The original purpose of a product is the initial intention of its creator" - Anslem Emeka
People who see problems never solve them; people who solve problems never see problems as they appear. In every nation, there are a percentage of people who work hard, watch hard and talk hard. In Nigeria, 5 percent work hard, 15 percent watch hard, while 80 percent talk hard. So we have more of people who talk things out than people who work things out. Development should not be talked or watched out, it should be worked out! Nigerians abroad practically deny their country, many of them hate to be identified as a Nigerian, many of them complain about the happenings in Nigeria. Even back in Nigeria, almost everyone talks about the happenings. We need to stop talking and start working towards the development we seek! If God created you a Nigerian and placed you in America, He didn't make a mistake, He must have had very good intentions for that, and His intention is definitely not to complain, because God hates Gods Intention
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complains.
Now let's do some analysis; If Benjamin Carson denied his black race, I'm sure he won't be the famous Benjamin Carson today. I think he was focused on achieving rather than defending his nation, where he was notwithstanding. Achievement naturally breaths defense. If I become the president of America tomorrow, I'm sure all these mediocritic communications would stop. Nigerians abroad, did Obama deny his country before he became a president of America? Does it mean his country is not corrupt? And even more than Nigeria? God didn't make a mistake when He made you a Nigerian, wake up and begin to see reasons rather than problems. I believe God wanted unity between America and Kenya, that was why He made Obama the president of the united state of America.
The moral of this message is; whoever you are, whatever you are in wherever you are, God had an intention before He created you. May God give us understanding!
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Part Nine "Every product has an identification number that links it to its source" - Emeka Anslem
The idea of a serial number is to identify a product with its manufacturer. And its important to let you know that "God started the identity process". The bible says and I paraphrase "for whoever God created, He did fore know, He also predestined and called". In that context, the word "foreknow" means "God's intention before He created you", the word "predestined" means "your purpose or destiny", while the word "called" means "your identity". After a product is purchased, the next step is to register it with its serial number so that its manufacturer can identify with it and send possible updates or troubleshooting skills. If you refuse to register the product, the manufacturer would not recognize that the product is in use and therefore would not send any update or help kits to you. The same way, every believer has to register with God Whom is their Gods Intention
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manufacturer. Man had an automated registration process, but the devil came and stole the generation of man, and man began to operate without registration. But Jesus came as a new Manager of man; He came with His sweet and mighty word to retrieve these stolen products. Jesus created a new platform for the registration of man, and that is salvation. The day you give your life to Christ is the same day you register with God. Many people have neglected this fact, they feel they can operate without due registration. You can't pretend to be registered; once you're not in God's database then you're not there. A product that is not registered would run in a trial period and afterwards expire. The reason why many individuals cannot achieve their full potential is because they are living a life of trials and error. They've not been activated to function properly.
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has been registered. May God give us understanding!
Part Ten "Every manufacturer creates a fail-safe feature on their product" - Emeka Anslem
A church was not part of God's creation in the beginning. God primarily designed the body of man to worship, serve and give God glory. God had no plan to build a church during the first generation. The reason why we go to church is to re-learn what we lost to the devil through ignorance. Man knew everything he ever needed to know Gods Intention
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about God; man didn't need to pray to God because God comes down in the cool of the day to talk to man. Man didn't need to fast; man was living a supernatural life naturally. Man knew everything by the Spirit of God. But when man disobeyed God, his Spirit could no longer connect to God, as a result he had a dormant spirit. And for that reason his soul began to seek for knowledge. As a born again, going to church is very vital because you need to re-learn what you've lost to the devil. Don't get me wrong, man can still communicate with God like he used to, but he has to learn his way to that level. God's ultimate plan is to see that man has a full knowledge of Him again. Asides learning, there are many other spiritual benefits you get when you go to church. A church is a place where the word, works and personality of God is preached without compromise. A church was not designed to throw parties and do launchings or harvests; a church was designed to know God! So if you're not learning adequately about God from that church or congregation, then change church. God said His people perish because they lack knowledge; He didn't say the Gods Intention
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sinner, He said His people. So the reason why many believers are perishing is because they lack adequate knowledge about their Creator. Your greatest investment would be your thorough engagement in knowing God! A church should be a practical school that teaches you how to come out of relative situations. The moral of this message is; we all belong to The Church Of Christ where Jesus is the Head. But as part of God's expansion plan, He divided The Church into subsets or segments, that's why we now have different denominations and congregations that are formally called churches, and every believer must be identified with one. But the main goal of a congregation should be to build their knowledge of God and work in it. May God give us understanding!
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Part Eleven "Every product has an operational environment" - Emeka Anslem Many people have asked; "why did God put the forbidden tree in the garden of Eden when He knew they'd disobey Him?". To be candid, I've also asked that question over and again, and no one seemed to have a positive answer, rather their response confuses me the more. Many people say you cannot know the mind of God, that He shows mercy to whom He will show mercy. That's scripturally true, but that response has nothing to do with knowing God's intention for that tree, afterall the bible says we have the mind of Christ, and that also means we can know the intention of God concerning any confusing thing in scriptures. I didn't believe God was wicked, I believe He is a good God and He loves every of His creations, and He will not do any harm to His creation. First, I found out that "God's people perish because they lack understanding". Man is a creature of choice, he has the right to choose between good and evil, and this concept has been laid down since the Gods Intention
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inception of man. But one beautiful thing about God is that; He will tell you that evil exists, and He will also tell you the price to pay when you engage in it. It's just like the manufacturer of a car telling you those oceans of water exist, but a car was not designed to drive on it, and if you rebel the car will be damaged. Evil is the outcome of disobedience against God. God told Adam to eat from any tree in the garden except the fruits from the forbidden tree, that if he eats from it he'd surely die. In other words, "do not disobey me because if you do, you'd be exposed to the wyles of satan".
Secondly, God loves man, and He also wants man to love Him, reverence Him and give Him glory. Man would have no reason to love, reverence or give God glory if man was created without a choice. Man would be like a toy that can be controlled by a remote, that's not what God wants. I've heard testimonies of individuals that were involved in fatal accidents and yet nothing happened to them. By that act they'd know that there is a God that loves them, and that would also boost their love for God. I've heard of the dead being raised back to life, I've Gods Intention
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heard of people being delivered from terminal diseases. Recently I saw a lady that came to testify of God's goodness; she had cancer, and according to her the Doctor said she should go home and die. But instead she went to church to seek God's face, and she was delivered! If Adam had repented and asked God to forgive him, I'm sure God would have restored him. But he didn't go to God to restore him rather he went to an unauthorized dealer to fix his problems. A car was not designed to ride on water; if it does enter water then it would sink. And the car cannot give the manufacturer any glory while in the water except the manufacturer brings it out and repairs it. A man was not designed to experience evil, but as long as he operates in the wrong environment he'd continue to experience evil. Remember! Man is not a toy; he is a creation of choice! May God give us understanding!
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Part Twelve "If your heart is not involved, then the promises would not become" - Emeka Anslem
I've heard Christians that complain about the attitude of other Christians. Many of them even judge believers for their actions. Many of them think the Bible has been compromised because according to them "the bible doesn't meet their needs". Each time I hear people talk in that manner, I'd always say that their understanding is unfruitful. Because if you're wise enough to know that another Christian is doing wrong then you should be able to approach this Christian and reprove him. Somebody has complained that some churches preach only prosperity. Well if they do, that's probably the mandate God gave to the Pastor. I was in a very long argument last night, the people I was arguing with are Christians but they've began to see things differently because of the recent challenge they went through. They made a lot of unscriptural arguments and I want to share some with you.
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First, they told me they've been working for a church for years and their life has not changed. And then I asked them "were you working or serving in the church?", and from their arguments they were serving in one of the service groups of the church. And then I told them; "serving in the church doesn't mean youre working in the church. You are working for God, and so you should focus on God for your rewards".
Secondly, they said "the church has built three schools, and they've not benefited from these schools, as a matter of fact they are not graduates". Over 5,000 people followed Jesus, but the bible didn't record that He gave them businesses, houses, except food and the word of God. He had the capacity to provide all those things, but that was not His purpose on earth. If he does that, the people won't follow Him because of the word but because of the supplies. If the church gives everyone scholarship then it won't be long before the school and church crashes, because people would come to church because of what they can get.
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no changes". I believe the secrets of a man are in their story, and these stories are usually translated into books so that others can benefit from it. Moreover, Paul planted, Apollo watered but it is God that gives the increase. Don't just read a book because you like the title, read them because they can tackle your current need. And lastly, they said "the Holy Spirit does not exist, that no one is filled with the Holy Spirit". They said "people who are filled with the Holy Spirit are people who will see a dead man and raise him back to life; they are people who will see a mad man and recover him". If I were a baby Christian I would have given up faith by that statement. That statement made me to understand that they have been serving God with their soul and body. God is a Spirit; they that worship Him must worship Him in truth and in Spirit. Moreover, the gifts of the Spirit are diverse! The moral of this message is; God is too faithful to fail, it is man that fails. Distributing fliers, preaching, evangelism and most of these activities are bodily exercise. And the bible has warned that bodily exercise profits little, but spirituality is profitable unto Gods Intention
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all things. So if you ever want to live a profitable Christian life, then you must engage your heart, otherwise you'd be sweating for nothing! May God give us understanding!
Part Thirteen "The source of a thing determines it's potential" - Emeka Anslem
Man without The Spirit of God is not different from an animal. Because animals were created from dirt or the ground, while the body and soul of man was also created from the ground.
Hey, the soul of man was created from the ground? Yes! The soul of man is the intellectual and emotional part of man that helps the man to react or respond to Gods Intention
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happenings in the world. The soul of man can only act based on what it has learnt or read. The soul doesn't have the capacity to bring new innovations, it can't think of new things, it can't imagine things that do not exist, and it is difficult to release your potentials without your soul because all that it can do or think is all that it has learnt. The reason why I said the soul was made from the ground is because animals were also made from the ground, they also have the intellect and emotion to reason and to feel, and yet God did not breathe in them. In other words, every animal has a soul. Now, man is a triune being, he has a spirit, a soul and a body. But the spirit of man is dormant without a connection to its source, which is God. The spirit of man cannot function the way it should without its source. Man's spirit was made out of nothing, but his body and soul was created out a raw material called "dirt". The reason why I said man's spirit was made out of nothing is because the spirit of man was made out of God, and God is not a physical being, He is a Spirit. So man's spirit was made out of what cannot be seen. The law of creation states that "the Gods Intention
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fulfilling of the potential of a thing is related to its source". No matter how beautiful a plant is, it would die as soon as it's disconnected from the soil. God told Adam not to disconnect from Him otherwise he'd die. The plant can no longer fulfill its potentials once it has disconnected from the soil, the spirit of man can no longer fulfill its potential once it has disconnected from God.
The spirit of man without the Spirit of God is an empty spirit. And the bible says that "if a man be cleansed, and the demon which possessed the man returns and finds him empty, the demon would multiply and occupy the man so that his present state would be worse than the initial one". Wow! When the Spirit of God is absent from man, demons take over man's Spirit to commit all kinds of atrocities. Your body and soul would therefore be used to fulfill the devil's potential instead of God's omnipotence. The reason why God put His Spirit into man is because He wants to continue His omnipotence with man. He wants man to continue His mighty works on the earth. The bible says the Spirit of God bares witness with our spirit; this means the Holy Spirit needs to witness Gods Intention
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God's creative agenda to man's spirit. Man's spirit cannot be creative on its own; it needs the Spirit of God! Man's spirit without God's Spirit is a destructive spirit! The moral of this message is; you might think you're very creative because you've been able to scale certain heights in life. If you connect properly to God, you'd yet scale greater heights! May God give us understanding!