Preached on 25TH JANUARY 2013 AT CELEBRANTS’
RESIDENCE (Michael okpara university of
agriculture, UMUDIKE) By
APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE ROCK OF AGES” “Truth has no substitute” © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
I am the
Fountain of the Living Water. Whosoever shall come to Me and drink, shall never
go thirsty again, but have everlasting life. Believe it if you can.
The
Son of Man.
DISPUTE
AMONG BRETHREN VOL. 1, PG. 3
Nobody makes a success until he creates a new road. if you follow the
path established by your father, you must stop where your father stopped. But
when you create your own path with your own vision, a way which nobody knows
but you, it has no limit. Pursue it vigorously by being self-discipline.
When you are self-discipline, discipline yourself and then be focused.
let your whole attention and cares be towards attaining your goal. Give no room
to any distraction; do not allow distractors to come your way. Do not even
mingle with fools for they have nothing to offer you but foolishness.
–The Son of Man
From the Message:
1
FACTS OF LIFE
To God be the glory
now till eternity. Only eternity will be enough for us to praise God. See, I
tell people wherever I go. Forget about whatever you are passing through, no
matter how horrible your condition maybe; you are better than the person in the
mortuary.
2.
I don’t care the way the devil is buffeting
you about, sometimes, compelling you to change your confessions. You know
temptation may sometimes come in a very hard way. But in all, God has given us
the strength to overcome.
3.
When He said because I over come, you must
surely over come. I keep on telling people that whatsoever has a beginning must
have an end.
4.
Once there is a beginning of any problem
rejoice for the end is near. You were not born with it, it is not inherent. And
whatever situation you think you are in, it is not peculiar to you; it is
common among all men.
5.
So, when you get up in the morning and you
see yourself healthy and alive; praise God. There is no treasure greater than
sound health. Some have the money, but the health is not there. They have
everything you can think of, but the live is not there.
6.
You see, you know the case of My landlord a
young man in his early forties to under go horrible situations. You know it is
not easy? From diabetes to kidney transplant without any hope of tomorrow. That
he is still breathing, he has acknowledged it is because of the prayers of the
saints. We have never ceased from making intercession for him.
7.
We thank God that we are in this family;
this has been the day I have been looking forward to see. I have stepped My
feet here twice, today is the first day I have seen the landlady of this
compound with My eyes.
8.
And today is the first day I have seen the
first son. I do discuss with him but not always because I appeal to people and
I apologise wherever I go, count it not against Me; I don’t know how to make
calls.
9.
Not that I am not having credits, no! I have
enough credits; but I can hardily make calls. If I make, they are short-lived.
Why? My brain is ticking like a clock every minute. And what it is processing,
I see it as something greater than making calls.
10.
Sometimes, answering calls maybe disturbing.
To Me, if I don’t call you it doesn’t mean I am avoiding you, no! I don’t avoid
any human being; all human beings are My friends. We are friends because we are
all mortals.
11.
Our lives here on earth are tied to time. My
life here is tied to time; your life is tied to time. What is the essence of
making troubles here and there? How many years do I have to stay and then pass
to oblivion?
12.
Another thing I want you to understand is
this: worry. Go back to the message titled “Worry, the greatest silent killer.”
Please go through that message once again.
13.
And then, “Maintaining a healthy
relationship in the bride of Christ Worldwide.” You will learn a lot from those
messages.
14.
Worry has never solved any problem; rather
worry has compounded problems. The
reason why people cannot worship God with pure conscience is worry. And most of
the times what they are worrying about may be something that is temporary. Something
that has temporary value.
15.
If I should trouble
myself, it should be on something that will give me eternal life. Something
that has everlasting value. If it is something that is temporary, which means I
will enjoy it a little while and that is the end of it all.
16.
My late father
cannot enjoy this life again neither will he shake your hands.
17.
THus, I owe it as a
responsibility to be happy at all times. Once you are happy, you are prolonging
your life.
18.
Your greatest enemy
is yourself. DO NOT hate yourself to the point that you cannot be happy. You
know some people hate themselves to the point that they cannot be happy. Why
are you not happy?
19.
No, no, I don’t
want to be happy, how can I be happy? No, no, no you are your own enemy. Love
yourself, love yourself. Your life has no duplicate, love yourself. When you
love yourself, you will aim at making yourself happy.
20.
Then how do you do it? Because when I talk
of happiness, happiness, it is a factor. The
secret of being happy lies in making people around you feel happy. If the
people around you are not happy, you can never be happy. If you feel you are happy, go to bed and sleep.
21.
The most wicked can never be happy if the people
around him are not happy. He may pretend that he is happy but the bed doesn’t
give him rest. His eyes are fixed on the roof to show that he has no happiness,
no rest; no peace.
22.
So, make people
around you feel happy. How do you do it? Is it by giving them food or money?
No, no, no. Share the good news; let your life be a testimony; a heart warming
testimonies to others. Share your experiences, share you joy together; share
your woes together.
23.
Be happy! Be happy.
when you are happy, you are tolerant. Once you are always happy, you are
cheerful. Your heart is broader than your size. I mean, you have a larger
accommodation than this space.
24.
You know the secret
of My composure? I regard every
human manifestation that is negative as a mere demonstration of love.
25.
That you are angry,
I know that you are demonstrating your love for me now. And whether you like it
or not, you must be happy. And when I am going for happiness, I stop at nothing.
26.
See, we are happy because of today. We have
been praying for it. What is more, we presented five candidates. It is a joyful
thing. A joyful thing. And I am the most blessed, I mean the Almighty has
reasons why He should bless Me more than you because I praise God more than any
of you; I am happier than any of you.
27.
Look at all of them there, Oluebube is
senior to Chiamaka, Chiamaka is senior to Wisdom. The same biological parents,
three securing admission in the same institution at the same time. I mean, it
is rare. It is one in a million. It is one in a million, admission without
controversy! Admission without going through crooked paths because they know
what I have taught them and all of you.
28.
Every crooked path
makes the journey longer. So, the shortest distance between two ends is a
straight road. Go through a straight line, you will enjoy life; you will enjoy
your studies.
Amen.
2
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE OF LIFE
Now, pay attention. I
have given you motivational messages, you have some of them.
2.
Strive to be a star. When I mention the message
you know the contents, all of you. You were not kids when I gave you the
booklet. Always strive to be a star, always strive to
be a star. Another message I want you to put under your bed is commitment.
3.
Commitment. Let me use Abia State. Few years
ago Abia State became very much notorious and pronounced in the history of
Nigeria because few individuals became die-hard criminals and terrorised the
entire state.
4.
They were in the minority but because they
were committed to a course, Abia State that was called “The city of God” was
renamed “The city of kidnappers” because of few disgruntled elements that were
committed to achieve their noble objective. Noble in their sight.
5.
So what am I saying? Be committed. If you have no commitment, forget about success.
Remember the message; remember the messages not even one. There are too many
messages I have given you on greatness. Go through all of them. Success is not
a gift; success is a reward for hard work.
6.
If you know what it
took you to secure admission, nobody will tell you to be committed to your
studies. While you are committed to your studies, remember the message “In the
beginning God.” If God does not support you, you are making a wasted effort. It
takes God to help you achieve success.
7.
Today, thousands matriculated. Some will
drop on the way, some will voluntarily withdraw. Some will be expelled, some
will die, some maybe crippled. I mean, become incapacitated as a result of one
sickness or the other. Among them are mad people, drug adicts are there. As
they journey through life, these things will come out. All of them
matriculated. I hope I am making sense?
8.
Some will even roam the streets. Some will
become brilliant criminals. This is true and the law enforcement agent will use
them to test their rifles. So they are cannon fodder. Among them are great men
and women.
9.
I will not be surprised that a president
must come out of you today. The president in the making, the governor in the
making, the chairmen in the local governments in the making.
10.
A Senator in the making, a member of the
house of representative in the making. Even a Vice Chancellor (V.C) in the
making. A professor in the making. All of them are there, all of them
matriculated today. Good wives matriculated, bad wives matriculated. All of them
today.
11.
Now, the
choice you make will determine where you will land. No matter how you desire a profession in life,
if you refuse to do what you ought to do; you will never attain it. Refuse to
do what you are supposed to do, you will land where you never expected.
A life of regret.
12.
Remember the message, “The greatest
disappointment in life is self disappointment. The greatest of all disappointments is self disappointment. So, DO
NOT disappoint yourself.
13.
How do you
disappoint yourself? By constituting your own self obstacles. By hewing down
oaK trees you cannot surmount, you can constitute your own self obstacle.
14.
Go back to the message
“Preserve your youth and achieve your dreams.” Then you will see that all these
things had already been highlighted.
15.
To others that matriculated today, they
might be thinking that today is the end of their career but this is just a
stepping stone. You are only being admitted in the school today for your
careers.
16.
Now, you are taking
off. Today marks the beginning of your greatness, today also marks the
beginning of your downfall, depending on the way you see university education.
17.
If you see it as
the end, that is the beginning of your downfall. If you see it as the means to
achieving the end, tomorrow is going to be brighter. From tomorrow, I know the parlance all of you
will be saluting yourselves graet; great. No, no, no. You are not great.
18.
What makes you
great is your achievement. For now, you have not achieved anything. But we are
looking forward to the day we will see your achievements, both academically,
morally, and otherwise.
19.
When you are doing
everything, remember your career transporter.
20.
Many people have
lofty ambition but poor characters hindered them from achieving their lofty
ambition.
Is that not true? That is true Sir. Is that not true? It is sir. That is why I
still tell you, I’m still maintaining it. If
you are academically brilliant and morally bankrupt, you are a potential
brilliant criminal.
21.
I repeat it, if you
are academically brilliant but morally bankrupt I want to nail it down. The
product is, you must become a brilliant criminal. Too many of them abound
in our society. Some of them come from noble families but because of wrong
influence.
22.
Go back to the message “Who is your
masterpiece” and then “Influence.” The
situation you find yourself can never make you what you are but will reveal who
you are. You are now in another “kalakuta republic”, for it is believed
that only adults come to the university.
23.
Your lecturers cannot speak to you on morals
any more; if you want to kill yourself, kill yourself. You want to walk naked,
walk naked. They must be paid for delivering their lectures. If you want to
read, read; if you don’t want to read, up to you.
24.
If you want to remain in the university and
develop gray hair up to you. You want to read a program that is to take maximum
of four years, six, seven or eight up to you.
25.
So, do not ever tell Me that this is the norm
in the school. In every environment you find yourself, remember what God said,
“You either conquer the environment or
the environment will conquer you.” when the environment conquers you, you
become a victim to that environment. When
you conquer it, you become a victor.
26.
Remember, you
cannot be wise without desiring wisdom. The determination to be wise is the key
towards attaining wisdom.
27.
Make up your minds
to be wise and to be wise is to follow the instructions you received from your
parents and guardians. Instructions you received from God through your
preachers, the person’s relationship with you not withstanding. This is the
only way you can over come.
28.
Remember you have enlisted in a program that
will overhaul your whole system. A program that will change your future either
for good or for worse, it all depends on you. I said it and I still affirm it. Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter
of choice.
29.
If you choose to be
a hooligan, no human being can stop you and it becomes your destiny. God has
fashioned us supernaturally with creative ability.
30.
That is why we can manufacture aeroplanes,
cars, ships and all worth not. So He doesn’t expect us to begin to worry Him
over minor things. As a creative human being, you are to fashion your own life
style. You are to fashion your own life style.
31.
Develop a principle that will be called your
own principle and don’t negotiate it with anybody. It is personal. Personalize
your character. I hope I am making sense?
32.
So please, in
conclusion, in conclusion, there are too many academic fools in the society,
don’t be one of them. And because you have a standard that is raised already in
your heart and that standard is the word of God, you will be stupid tomorrow to
lower down the standard. Once you lower down the standard, academic fools will
use you to experiment their foolishness.
33.
I am saying that if
you want to avoid the trouble of the lecturers, pin them down by studying their
courses, making sure that you do not fail a course for that will warrant you
moving from one door to another nocturnally, in the night.
34.
But the all seeing
eyes of God are seeing you. You will become another cockroach: “Let me go and
fetch water, I want to buy fuel, I want to buy kerosene.” You think you are
deceiving people around you; you are deceiving yourself for you are spoiling
yourself. If you perform very highly, no lecturer will be so harsh on you even
the most wicked of all.
35.
DO NOT win the love
of your lecturers by knocking at their doors asking for one help or the other
simply because you didn’t do your assignment. Rather impress your lecturers by
performing very well in their courses, finish. Amen.
3
STRIVE TO BE A STAR
I’m nailing this
down for all of you. You know the material you are made of; you know your
family backgrounds. Some of you are here by privilege, if not all. In short,
all of you are here by privilege.
2.
You must see it as a personal challenge but
it is not your right. It is not a right that I must to train you. After all My
father never trained Me. My parents never trained Me. So it is not your right.
3.
If I decide to train you it is a privilege. You
are not the only kids I have, so you cannot use another kid’s opportunity. This
is your own time, justify the confidence that is reposed on you by the church,
by your parents and by the society.
4.
Wisdom, you are My first son. Remember My
words before you left for Umuahia. I
said, “Wisdom, you know I don’t have the heart; your mummy doesn’t have the
heart, strive to make us proud as the first son.
5.
I made My parents
proud and I am still making them proud, you know that. And they blessed Me.
Make us proud.”
6.
I am not talking to
your sisters; you are going to make yourselves proud. if you make yourselves
proud, you are indirectly making your husbands proud.
7.
Let Me tell you, your husbands attended this
matriculation, your husbands attended this matriculation. I am a father, too
many people showed interest but I halted them.
8.
I told them it is all students affair but I
know their reasons. It is not a sin, it is not a crime. But to you, too many
things are awaiting you. Remember, we have been friends from home. Don’t make
us enemies out there for if I begin to hear bad report I will hate you.
9.
And once I hate you, you know what will be
My reaction. I will switch off. You have broken our agreement. I am no longer obligated
to keeping the agreement. You know I love you and we chat. We sleep together
and we have many things in common.
10.
So make sure that the confidence I repose on
you is not a misplaced one. Justify it by all means. so when you are giving Me first
class, give Me first class in academics and first class in morals. Yes, I
challenged you and I said you should challenge Me.
11.
You were a disciplinarian in your school but
you didn’t win award. Another person won the award. But I wasn’t a
disciplinarian, yet won award-the best disciplined student of the graduating
class. The award is still in My house till today. So, challenge Me.
12.
Once you are
disciplined, you must be brilliant because too many things will no longer
occupy your mind. Now, remember what God said in that “Practical steps
to greatness.” “Practical steps to greatness” both volumes one and two.
13.
The worst friend is
a school friend. The worst friend is a school friend. If you want to survive,
if you want to hit the sky, operate according to my instruction “No friend, no
enemy.”
You are not in Umuahia for sight seeing, you are here for a course.
14.
Remember the tendency is there for you to
come back to Umuahia again and sojourn. It happened to Me, it happened to Moses
in the Bible.
15.
So,
all eyes are on you. There is no height a bird can fly without one on the
ground seeing the abdomen. A fast moving leg is caught by a fast moving eye. You
know snail behave foolishly? When a snail is thrown into the fire, instead on
storing its energy, it will be killing itself thinking that it is extinguishing
the fire, thinking that it is doing great harm to the owner of the fire.
16.
Do not extinguish your fire because every
negative action has a negative effect on you. If you are idling away your time,
your result will tell you that you wasted that session. There is no other way
parents can assess your academics performance if not through your result. There
is no other miracle there. Jumping into the university is not the end, it is
now that your eyes of understanding will be illuminated to see a wider world
with wider opportunities.
17.
Avoid useless friendship, unnecessary
friendship for that will take a lot of your precious time. Time waits for no
one but one waits for time. If you must redeem anything, redeem the time. The
bible said, “We should redeem the time for the days are evil.”
18.
So, be very, very careful. For you to take
any action, reason properly. Don’t just open your mouth for opening sake. Don’t
act for acting sake. Visualize the future consequences of your action. Before
you take any action, check the future consequences.
19.
Don’t be narrow minded, don’t be selfish. Be
liberally minded after a godly sort. After a godly sort, it means birds of the
same species flock together. That is what I am saying because to isolate you
completely means putting you in the grave.
20.
For no man is an island, there is no way a
human being can survive without the help of others. You need their help, they
need your help. So the relationship should be symbiotic.
21.
But you must be watchful. Watch with your
faith, watch with your spirit. Once the spirit in you says no, stop there. I
say stop there. If you must have a defence, and that defence is not as a result
of your faith, it is a false defence.
22.
I keep on telling you, no matter how I love
people and mingle with them, I make them understand the extent I can go with
any human being. And a sensible fellow will stop there. We are not given the
right to do everything. I don’t believe in that type of freedom.
23.
God
has given us freedom but not freedom to do everything. Even the constitution of
Nigeria guarantees freedom of movement, is that not true? It is. But there are
places you will step your feet into and you won’t come back. You will be
arrested. It guarantees freedom of speech. There are certain things you will utter,
you will be arrested and detained. Is it not true? It is.
24.
So, we
are given freedom with limits. So, operate within the limits of the
freedom established by God for His children. So you don’t just begin to yoke
yourselves anyhow so that tomorrow you begin to give unnecessary excuses.
25.
Remember every excuse is a part of your
problem. So don’t try to adduce excuses for you will compound your problem. If
you are intelligent, wisdom demands that you do not roll into that expensive
error. Guard against it. Instead of fabricating excuses, there is no good way
of doing a wrong thing.
26.
There is no good way of doing a wrong thing
and you can never be wrong and right at the same time. Once you are wrong, you
are wrong. If you are right, you are right finish.
27.
That is why I don’t believe in pampering
you. If I pamper you, I know tomorrow I will suffer it.
28.
I am of the opinion
that, if parents will train their children very well and give them good family
background, at their old age, they will have rest. The troubles of old age is
enough for us to visualize and begin now to tell you the hard truth.
29.
From now henceforth, nobody will talk to you
as infants again. You are now potential graduates. So, we will be dealing with
you as graduates. We will be dealing with you as adults. For that reason, you
should learn to endure hardship. If I say we are going to provide everything
for you, I am a liar. We will make provisions within our capacities.
30.
Some
of you are here courtesy of the help of the brethren because we know you are
brilliant. We don’t want you to waste, we decided to allow you to take the
exams and you succeeded. Don’t frustrate us, especially you, don’t ever
frustrate us.
31.
Because I do talent hunting, anywhere I see
that talent I owe it as a responsibility to develop that talent. I don’t care
where you come from, you are a human being. Miracle, you are a talent, you know
that. And being an orphan, we are your parents.
32.
Remember you are indebted to us. If we begin
to hear bad reports, our stomachs will begin to trouble us. You have been good,
remain good. You have been quiet, remain quiet.
33.
To two of you, well I don’t need to talk. The
reason why I don’t need to talk is that the landlady has made Me understand
that God blessed her with sons and not daughters. So, Mama distance is not an excuse.
34.
God has given you daughters indirectly at
least for the next four five years, you will be having the feelings of
daughters in your kitchen, everywhere. So their mother is here. Instead of
calling you, I know the person I will call and that is My caretaker. Enyim(my
friend), remember My first plea. Keep your eyes on them for good and not for
evil. Give Me accurate reporting please, please; please. See, the first two.
35.
Dr Ojiakor who is our Apostle and their
family, they were the custodians of the first two. You know Onyedika, the one
that used to come from Enugu. She is now at Owerri at a burial ceremony. She
could have been here.
36.
My first daughter is married there in Port
Harcourt with the husband. Two of them graduated in the University of Nigeria
Nsukka. You are looking at Me as a boy, I’m not a boy; I am papa lolo. I am nearing sixty (60) at least I have crossed
fifty-five. By twenty-seven December last year I marked fifty-five years. And
by His grace, I hope to mark another fifty-five.
37.
So, keep your eyes on them. Give Me accurate
reporting. Don’t ever pamper any of them. If they err, rebuke them. If they
prove stubborn, call Me. if they err, don’t wait for Me. the same way I am
training children everywhere, let Me tell you,
38.
I am hooked up with not less than fifty
million people worldwide. I am connected to not less than fifty million people
worldwide that look up to Me. I will be stupid to mess Myself up. More so when
they have entrusted not only their children but the saving of their lives into
My hands. You know I am likened to a captain. I cannot mess up, otherwise the
ship will capsize. I signed My life in. Sign your life in.
39.
Be My landlord, be the custodian of My kids.
Even if I have nothing to give to you in return as a reward, the Almighty who
knoweth all things knows how to reward you. So to your most senior, Ikenna, I
thank God I have seen you and you are in the same school with your mummy. Praise
God for that.
40.
The same way I served in the same office
with My wife for twenty-seven years. Brother Ojiakor is serving in the same
school with the wife. He is a Medical Director of the Medical Centre UNEC. The
wife is a Chief Accountant and also a (Phd) holder. She is a doctorate Degree
Holder. We better face the realities of life. When you see a cock that is using
its leg to scatter faeces, somebody that is there should drive it away because
nobody knows who will eat the legs tomorrow. Human beings do scatter like oil
bean, do I know this place? Today, I have become an integral part of this
family whether people will believe it or not. After all, the family that
harboured Me at My tender age at Ogbunike, up till today I maintain a link with
them. Brethren, you know the family. I mean when I was too tender before I
entered the secondary school, a family natured Me. Till today, I have never for
one day forgotten them. Now look at what life did. I was just his house boy. He
natured Me. From there, I entered the secondary school. Look at how God turned
the table upside down. My master now became My servant. His business crumbled. He
started living from hand to mouth. And there was no other place he could go
other than to come to Sunday (Myself). I received him with all My heart and My
family and then employed him in a place of work and started taking care of the
family even till now. He was My master, today I am his master.
41.
Let Me tell you. You may be privileged
tomorrow to be a lecturer to somebody that tutored you. Well, I cannot forget
My experience when I wrote My Advanced Level General Certificate of Education. The
man that tutored Me in geography came into the same examination hall with Me.
Mr Anyika from Orlu. I said, “Sir, are you the invigilator?” He said, “No.” I
said, “Sir, why are you here?” He said, “We will discuss after.” Such is life. There
is no age limit to education. Once education is concerned, age is rubbish. If
you refuse to study, you become old.
42.
To God be the glory. We would have stayed
longer if not for the traffic jam. The distance is rubbish. If the road is
okay, we can make it in less than three hours. But the road is jam-packed. I am
looking forward to another day I will come here when everything is calm and Mama
will be at home. I will come with My wife and the rest that will accompany Me,
just to pay you homage. And then introduce Myself officially to you. But for
now, I am officially here for matriculation. It has given Me first hand
opportunity to see faces I have never seen before and for them to see Me also.
43.
So that by the time I will be leaving with
My wife and My brethren here, you will be saying “Thank God, I have seen the
parents of these kids.” Brethren, it is a miracle ooo. Pure miracle. Three
kids, securing admission in one university at the same time and are privileged
to live in the same compound. I mean, when you look at the way things are
going, I have many, many reasons why I should praise God.
44.
Assuming three of them secured admission
into three different universities, that will keep Me running from one school to
another. I may even loose control of their administration.
45.
So for the uniqueness of the family to
continue, oh God, I say thank You God. Coming to a residential family like
this? I learnt that the owner of this place was a late traditional ruler.
46.
No students are admitted in this compound. They
happen to be the first. And it was not because of any other thing but God. I
say God. And when I came, I was satisfied. Now you can see that the continuity of
the family is there. So, I praise God. Amen.
4
DISCOVER AND DEVELOP YOUR POTENTIALS
To you students, see
your brothers, see your mother. All of you, I say all of you, including the
potential matriculants. About this time next year, you will be matriculating.
2.
That you are undergoing a pre-degree program
can never offer you automatic admission in any university.
3.
You see this admission, especially in
Nigerian universities, liken it to gold. It is found in the soil, not on the
surface. You must do a lot of digging. If you do not pass sleepless nights, if
you do not marry you books; you can never secure admission in this school.
4.
I am telling you the truth, I lie not. Remember,
even if you have six (6) A’s, that will not give you admission into this
school. Pay attention to what I am saying. Write your JAMB very well. I am
saying that there is no substitute for JAMB. Even if it is direct admission,
you must obtain JAMB direct entry form.
5.
If you do not have any admission status with
JAMB, you are not a student in any university in Nigeria. Do not allow any
school to fool you into making a bad arrangement for you. You will have difficulties
at the end. So, bend down, bend down, bend down.
6.
While you are writing pre-degree, write JAMB
with all your life and then get ready to face the Post UME. That is where your
pre-degree will give you an edge.
7.
So, please I am appealing with you. How I
wish Emmanuel is here. Carry this information back to Emmanuel. I know I am
making some recordings. Please, at the end of the day; make sure the boy
collects the tape.
8.
I
don’t want someone that will come to Umuahia and stay three, four, five years
by the time he will come back he will be telling us how he ate Achara soup, ate
Okazi soup; ate “Ejuna” (snail). No! No!
9.
They are all good quite alright but come
home with something great. Beauty does not count. If you like be as beautiful
as a mermaid.
10.
If you are not academically brilliant and
morally up-to-date, no man will price you. If he prices you, he must return
you. You know it is My teaching. You are not married until you marry the desire
of your heart; somebody who has met your physical and spiritual requirements. When
God presented the woman to Adam, Adam heaved a sigh of relief.
11.
Do you understand what I am saying? I have
paused and watched to see an educated woman that also received a good moral
training and happened not to be a good house wife, I have not seen.
12.
Go and see a woman that is giving her husband
trouble, she is an illiterate fellow. She is given out as a gift to the man. And
the reason why she was given out as a gift is because the husband said, “She is
the apple of my eyes, sugar in my tea.”
13.
He forgot that the breast that stands up
must one day go flat. By the time she will display what is in her, the man will
be on the run.
14.
So, remember we have a message; we believe
in returning wives. Yes! It is not an abomination. So, behave well. Behave
well!
15.
Somebody is monitoring you, somebody is
monitoring you. Man, the same thing, man the same thing. What I am telling you
people is the truth. The time has gone when the man will think that because he
has money, he can now get any woman cheap.
16.
Any sensible woman will still tell you, “no”;
that it will be better for her to eat palm kernel and have peace than to have money
and will be passing sleepless nights. That is what I am saying. People now know
what they want. Nobody is given a choice to make and he takes trouble.
17.
Do you boast with hardship? No! You are
asked to make a choice and you choose hardship. Is it done? No! So please, this
is the much I want to tell you for now. We cannot exhaust everything at a
stretch.
18.
With time, you will be getting My letters.
With time, you will get My publications. But pay heed, don’t joke with your
fellowship that is where your life lies.
19.
To you Bishop Nath, I have charged you before;
I want to introduce you officially to the family. Here is the Bishop that is in
charge of our fellowship at Umuahia; a native of Isiala-Ngwa here. He has been
a very fine young man.
20.
He was in charge of water project here in
Umuahia before he was transferred to Isiala-Ngwa. He is now in charge of the
water project there. He is a civil servant in the state. Well disciplined, a no
nonsense administrator.
21.
So, I can stand for him by day and by night.
Having been with him without separating for over thirty years. I believe we
have mastered ourselves.
22.
They are your children, from time to time
when you have the time know their faith in the fellowship and outside the
fellowship. You know I have a policy.
23.
In our company’s policy, we stipulated it inter-alia
that your behaviour will be such that will promote the image of our company
both within and outside. So if we begin to receive bad reports about you after
dismissing from work for that day, we will dismiss you from our employment
because you are portraying a very bad image of our company.
24.
You are the image maker. So you are all
image makers of your families. Am I making sense? Your family is your faith;
your family is your nuclear family. If your parents are mad people, let Umuahia
know. Whose child is this? is a question thrown to somebody.
25.
Who gave birth to this child? Is it not a
human being that they ask? If you have received a good teaching from your
parents, display it here that you are in Umuahia for the credit must go back to
your parents. If it is good, it is your parents. If it is bad, it is your
parents.
26.
They have seen Me, they have heard Me; they
will see Me more. So the court is very wide, the ball placed at the centre.
When you look at the eighteen-yard box and the net, you think it is very close.
But people miss penalty shootouts. Sometimes with narrow margins. Sometimes the
thing will hit the vertical bar and then bounce back.
27.
You know you have not right to strike again;
you have lost it. Don’t allow your kick to hit the vertical bar. If the goal
keeper will capture the thing, it is a shameful thing. Shake the net. That is
what I am saying. I want you to do what? Shake the net!
28.
Let it be noised abroad that Umudike
University that finds it difficult to award first class, change the record
immediately. I say change the record. I say change the record.
29.
They find it difficult to award first class
degree to their students simply because the right materials have not come. Prove
to them that the right materials have come. Change the record, shake the net,
finish. You know I believe in making noise.
30.
Wherever I go, I hold My head high because I
don’t believe in failure. I don’t even think failure. I decree it out of My
dictionary. So don’t listen to what weak students are saying.
31.
Because to a weak student every course is
very difficult, every lecturer is wicked. That is a weak student.
32.
Do not listen to them. Listen to yourselves.
So, that is the much we will take.
33.
May the good Lord bless all of you that have
come to grace this occasion with your presence. And this family, may the peace of
God reign supreme here. I can see these young men; before I will come back
again you will have your testimonies.
34.
I have noted your name. If I don’t have
anything to do, I will lift you up in prayers. You are young men, you need
prayers. Especially My friend who is newly married. Let Me tell you, you have
taken a noble step, a very good step. We will pray for you.
35.
I will assemble some materials that will
reach you with time. That will help you to know what family life is all about. If
you want to catch a bird, you set the trap early. When I give the materials,,
you and your wife will be reading them together.
36.
You begin now to blend. When people see you
and your wife, they will call you people twins. That is how My wife and I are
marrying ourselves.
37.
We are nearing twenty-six years of marriage
and we have blended so such that we are now looking like twins. Are you hearing
what I am saying?
38.
Mama,
hold the one that you are holding. What gladdened My heart more was when My
children told Me that you are a civil servant and you are still in service. Your
son, a civil servant still in service.
39.
While I am a senior citizen. I am the most
senior here now. I am a senior citizen. Yes, I am a pensioneer. So I am a
senior citizen. I am saying that we are all in the same system, we can
understand ourselves.
40.
Mama, you don’t have any problem. If you
know where you placed your children, place Me there. Place My wife there and
also place My children. You will never regret. You will never regret.
41.
If I leave this place today, write today’s
date for a memorial. I said, you will never regret. I know all of you will join
hands to say “May God bless the day we come in contact with this man.” you will
say it with time. You will say it with time. Any moment from now, you will come
and know My house. It is a forty-five minutes drive. Let me stop there.
42.
The Kola nut is brought to all of us. They
say it doesn’t understand English. Whether it understands Igbo or not, it is a
fruit from a tree.
43.
The Yoruba people plant it, Hausas eat it
while the Igbos worship it. The Yoruba people plant it, Hausas eat it while the
Igbos worship Kola nut. May God bless the fruit of the land as we eat through
Christ out Lord, Amen.