Author: Bishop Mike Okonkwo

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:28 (KJV) Man was able to rule and control his world when Adam was made. Whatever he spoke, that...

“In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.” Isaiah 54:14 (KJV) Until you are established in righteousness, there is no way you will be able to reign in this life. God’s design for every believer is to have dominion. There is a dominion mandate over our lives....

“For He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV) Your righteousness does change because it is of God in Christ. It has nothing to do with what you did or didn’t do. Imagine me as a man coming out wearing a lady’s gown, and makeup, putting...

“The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.” Ps 34:15 (KJV) Beloved, you must understand that righteousness is unearned and undeserved. You do not labour for it. God gave it to you. Romans 5:17 says: “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith.”...

“For He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV) From the scripture, you can see that you did not keep any rule to be righteous; neither did you obey anything nor made any effort to be righteous. He who knew not sin became sin that you...

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek...

“And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;” Hebrews 10:11-12 (KJV) Adam, the first man, fell. Then man started struggling and suffocating because he lost his identity. If you release a lion inside the jungle,...

“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” Romans 1:27 (KJV) The world is now virtually celebrating homosexuality and lesbianism. This is wrong. There is nowhere in the scriptures where God, who made and initiated...

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Colossians 2:8 (KJV). Your philosophy of life is your value and your standard. It is your value that motivates you to do what you do. If you allow the world to mould your philosophy, you are not going anywhere. And...

“But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared.’’ Psalm 130:4 (KJV) It is God’s forgiveness that causes us to fear Him. It is not His judgment. This sounds contradictory. I thought that you take people for granted when they easily forgive. I thought that it was the man with the cane that is feared and not the one with a heart of love....