adminAt The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua declared 2015 to be “the year of good morning”.In a service broadcast live on Christian television station Emmanuel TV, Joshua preached to his congregation a sermon titled, “Discovering Your Real Value”.
He told worshippers that merely observing religious ceremonies does not signify genuine Christianity.
“If you are expecting a New Year, you must be pure in heart,” he stressed, reminding the faithful of Jesus Christ’s words in Matthew 5:8. “If not, the troubled year of 2014 will continue in 2015,” he warned.
“No matter what this coming year brings, if you are more of God, your trials are the soil in which your faith will flourish,” he enjoined the congregation.
“You just need a Word from God to change the course of your life. God said I should give you the Word – Good Morning! Instead of saying ‘Happy New Year’, say ‘Good Morning’. 2014 was the afternoon but now we are going to the morning. This Word is anointed.”
“Joy comes in the morning. Open your lips and begin to decree this joy to your life,” Joshua instructed the congregation. My heart is Heaven! Good Morning my destiny, health, business, family, marriage – live in the morning throughout 2015!”
Two thousand foreign guests attended the “crossover service”. Of those, 44 family members who tragically died when a building collapsed within the church compound on September 12, 2014 also attended.
Joshua asked his Facebook followers to submit their prayer requests for 2015; over 100 000 responses were posted in a matter of hours.
Some of the requests that were posted on his Facebook page were:
1. To get a decent job, buy a car, get married and be pregnant.
2. Spiritual and financial breakthrough.
3. Deliverance from ancestral curses and limitation.
4. To be a true Christian. To worship God in spirit and in truth
5. Positive matric results. —vibeghana.com.
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