Fortune's Sermons

₦Sermon 44 LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED “Don’t let your hearts be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in me”                                          —John 14:1, ISV. Text John 14:1-15, Psalm 91:15-16, Matt. 6:25-34 We have seen from the scripture, a general caution which Christ gave his disciples against troubles of heart. The disciples were probably troubled at heart when Jesus Christ told them just for a little longer he would be for them. The disciples were troubled at heart because they felt that Jesus Christ was leaving them behind. They might conceivably be thinking at heart, how they abandoned everything in their lives and followed Christ. Now he was leaving them behind and the world will make mockery of them. The apostles’ anxiety was inwardly noticed by Christ. Though your family or business may be troubled but keep possession of your souls when you hav...

₦Sermon 42 _ HAS THE WORLD REJECTED YOU? “For they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me”— 1 Samuel 8:7    Read 1Samuel 8:1-8, Ps. 27:10 I bring to you today a message of hope and comfort. First, let us wave our hands to God in thankfulness of His goodness and mercies. Praise God! Chorus —                     I love that man of Galilee         For he has done so many things for me He has forgiven me all my sins And sent the Holy Ghost to me I love that man of Galilee Brethren, we should always be joyful even when we feel that our people have rejected us. It may be that you have been neglected, abandoned or seen as an ordinary person who is not worthy of living. But I want to assure you that when the world has cast you off, that is not the end of your life for the Lord will not forsake his people. He’ll not abandon his heritage – Psalm 94:14. My dear, you are the God’...

₦Sermon 41   WILL YOU BE FAITHFUL AT A TIME OF TROUBLES? Indeed, the Lord will not always reject us. Though he causes grief, his compassion abounds according to his gracious love  — Lam. 3:32                Scriptures – Psalm 77, Lam. 3:32, Isaiah 50:10 Praise God, Almighty father who gives victory over tragedies that befall on man. Shall we sing this hymn together? When peace, like a river, attendeth my way When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say It is well; it is well with my soul Refrain: It is well; it is well, with my soul, with my soul, It is well; it is well with my soul. Brethren, we should not forget one important thing in life. Any man born of a woman is full of troubles and sorrows. It is a normal thing that at times happens to a man. Believers of God should always expect both good and bad which may at any time befall on a man on earth any time. They ought to anti...

₦Sermon 40        YOUR KINDNESS WILL REWARD YOU               “Your kindness will reward you, but your cruelty will destroy you”                                      — Proverbs 11:17 NLT Scriptures: Prov. 11:17, Matt. 18:23 – 35, Luke 10:30 – 37. Kindness is a term that pictures out righteous deeds of a person towards a neighbour. It is what God desires to see His children do to one another and it has a reward attached to it. We see that the opposite of kindness is cruelty, wickedness, evil, nefariousness, maliciousness and malevolence. The scripture says: “Your kindness will reward you, but your cruelty will destroy you — Prov. 11:17. Do good tidings unto men, and one day your good deeds will return unto you. As it’s acclaimed in Ecclesiastics 11:1 “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days”. ...

₦Sermon 39                                THE GOD OF RESTORATION  “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.  – Joel 2:25KJV.                                                Texts: Joel 2:1-32, 2 Kings 5:1-15. Restoration is the act of bringing back an object, health, riches, or things that have been lost to their original state. _        Almighty God is the Creator of all things on earth and He restores to his people whatever thing they might have lost in life. Though, we suffer as a result of wonderful opportunities we have missed but such disappointments in life are usually caused by the principalities and powers of the wicked ones on ...

₦Sermon 38                                                     A STRANGER AT YOUR DOOR POST  “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me – Revelation 3:20 NLT.                         Texts: Rev. 3:1-20, Luke 16:19-31, Judges 36:1-40. A stranger is one in a strange land. A man may stay in a city that is not his for so many years but it does not mean that he is no longer a stranger in that land. At times our own blood brothers and sisters could also be strangers standing at our door post in need of our helps. Our background stranger who is standing at our door post is that same Jesus Christ who is preached to you yesterday, today and the years to come. It is the high time to receive Ch...

₦Sermon 37             ARE YOU READY FOR OUR LORD’S SECOND COMING?  “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of man cometh” – Matt. 25:13KJV.                 _                                                Text: Matt. 25:1-1         A photo displaying the coming of Jesus Christ by Msgr. Charles Pope Brethren, I would use this time to tender my sincere greetings in the mighty name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I thank God and laud Him so much for His love for mankind, salvation of our ruined souls and the establishment of his spiritual kingdom here on earth. May His name be adored and glorified.         It is a great opportunity for me to share this message of the coming of Our Lord Jesus with you in form of a qu...

TAKE UP YOUR CROSS “If a man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me”                                               —— Matt. 16:24.                   Texts: Jer. 20:7-9, Romans 12:1-2, Matt. 16:21-27                                 Simon of Cyrene helps to carry Christ’s cross, a photo designed by Lloyd Cannaday _       Let someone praise God for his unfailing love bestowed on us because we cannot exist without him. Our lives are borrowed from Him and He may decide to take it at any time. So let the living worship God!  Taking a cross is a difficult task to do. It requires determination, courage and the grace of God. The Christians should always exercise their spiritual instinct...

₦Sermon 35   THE CHARGES AGAINST HUMANITY  “The LORD has brought charges against you saying: There is no faithfulness, no kindness, and no knowledge of God in your land” (Hosea 4:1) Texts: Hosea 4:1-19, 2 Kings 15:1-10, Chronicle 24:1-21 Our message today will be focusing on the most costly omissions of the essential duties which cause Israelites, on one part, to sin unto God and how we, on the other part, should endeavour to amend our ways. We shall look at the sins that the Israelites or the people of God committed which prophet Hosea foresaw.         The Israelites were charged with national omissions of the most important duties of righteousness. There is no truth or mercy, neither justice nor charity. These neglected aspects of human duties are very important to Jesus Christ. He said to the band of Pharisees: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier mat...

₦Sermon 34 SELL NOT YOUR BIRTH-RIGHT       “And Jacob said: Sell me this day thy birth right” (Gen. 25:31)           Esau foolishly sells his birth-right, a photo designed by Mike Day in his LDS Scripture Teachings. Texts: Gen. 25:27-34, Hebrew 12:16 Brethren, there is one tangible and visible thing I have discovered under the sun: So many people have compromised their faith for worldly things. I want to take you this moment to the story of Esau, how he thoughtlessly sold his birth right to his younger brother Esau. Humanly speaking, Esau was the supposed man to be entrusted with the property and blessings of Isaac but he in fact despised them being the things of heaven. He took his birth right as a conventional thing without knowing that it was a thing that is heavenly designed and fully clad with the fruits of spiritual blessings. Thus; it was through the birth right Esau despised that the Messiah would come or born from. C...

₦Sermon 33 _ WHO IS YOUR SHEPHERD?       A sermon delivered during Mr.Hycent Chikodi’s Child Dedication — Miss Kindness Hycent “The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want” – Psalm23:1 KJV.       Text: Psalm 23:1-6 _Every individual needs to know who his shepherd is. But if we fail to know the right shepherd of the man’s soul, we shall starve our souls to death. When David was wandering in a boondocks popularly called deserts the one particularly associated with the herdsmen and shepherds of Nabal tending his sheep, he became hungry and it happened that it was when a man called Nabal a descendant of Caleb who dwelt in Maon (1 Samuel 25) held his annual sheep-shearing, David sent his servants to beg Nabal for his own share.  Disappointingly, David was gravely treated regardless of his countless effort and services to guard Nabal’s sheep in the wilderness.         David identifies God as his great shepherd who safeguards ...

₦Sermon 32 THE CRIES OF THE POOR “Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them”.  Exodus 3:9       Reading Text: Deut. 26:5-9 The poor in spirit are the God’s own children whose needs are always taken care of by their Creator. They are the ones that Christ came on earth to save. The Scripture says: “He was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich. Helping the poor was one of the gospel messages that Christ preached. He having seen the infirmities and afflictions of the poor, tried to comfort them in his sermon on the mount: “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God”. _Our emphasis today is on both the rich and the poor who are irrationally condemned and abused for the sake of the Messiah. The Israelites who were in Egypt were severely oppressed day and night but when they sobbed and cried out to God, He heard their cries and...

₦Sermon 31                  REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE THE SALT AND LIGHT OF THE WORLD           “Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor?”——Mark 9:50 ISV.                               Reading Text: Matt: 5:13 – 16 If Christians are not reminded of whom they are, they may be lost here on earth. Today, I want to remind you about whom you are and what you ought to do that seem to be lacking in you. The sermon on Mount which our Lord Jesus Christ preached made us to know whom we really are particularly for those pursuing the kingdom of God. He tells us that we are the salt of the world.         Salt is a substance that has good taste. We use it for cooking and in eating and in drinking. This taste of the world is in the hands of the Christians. We are expected to show our good taste t...

₦Sermon 30                     THE OPPRESSION MUST CEASE!       (A sermon delivered at a crusade ground in Umuozoche Igbodo in Etche Rivers State.)        “He will redeem them from oppression and violence, since their lives are precious in his sight”—Psalm 72:14       Reading texts: 2 Chronicles 20: 1-21, 1 Samuel 17:1 Our Society is full of oppressors – those that exercise their power and authority over the weak ones. No one cares to execute justice and help the poor even in the law court. This is because we live in a corrupt and wicked society –a society where all sorts of evil immensely flourish, a society where people are always willing to take whatever belongs to the poor, a society where men and women live conjuring evils to their fellows. Tonight, all these forms of oppression must cease in Jesus name, amen!       I would like to firstly point ...