{"id":3752,"date":"2021-10-01T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:51:00","slug":"understanding-pathways-to-godliness-pt-3-pastor-julius-owobu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=3752","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Pathways To Godliness Pt. 3 &#8211; Pastor Julius Owobu."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3745\" src=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot_20210918-204059-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot_20210918-204059-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot_20210918-204059.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Godliness profitable in all things and God cannot tell us what He has not empowered us to be (1st John 5:3). Jesus lives in you and give you power to please the father (1st Peter 1: 15-16).<\/p>\n<p>Without holiness no one can see the Lord and He has empowered believers through the ministry of the holy spirit. God is not trying to make you a robot or deny you good things of life, rather, He&#8217;s doing his part to preserve you via holiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cost Of Ungodliness ?<\/strong><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t follow the crowd, for there&#8217;s a cost for living unholy.<\/p>\n<p>1. It block access to supernatural breakthrough. We all want breakthrough, we all want open door, but the key is holiness.<\/p>\n<p>2. Its destroy destiny (Proverbs 16:18). Those things the devil bring your way is to trap you, he is aware you have a glorious destiny and will want to truncate it. Even Jesus the Christ was tempted by the devil and offer things that would have ended his ministry on earth.<\/p>\n<p>3. It&#8217;s block access to live eternity with Him (1st Corinthians 6:9). Our goal is to reign with Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The way out to Godliness is Repentance. When you hear His voice, don&#8217;t harden you heart. Repent, turn away from it and make a decision like Joshua did to serve the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Demands Of Godliness<\/strong><br \/>\n1. You must crave for the spirit of holiness (Matthew 5:6). Hunger and thirst after righteousness and you will be filled. Be on your toes, not entertaining sin, not living in sin.<\/p>\n<p>2. You must continue to engage the power of the blood (Hebrews 9:14). Jesus offered his blood once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>You have to stop evil thoughts in order to stop evil acts. Guide what&#8217;s in your mind per time, don&#8217;t allow unfruitful things in your mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED POST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=3743\">Understanding Pathways To Godliness Pt. 1 &#8211; Pastor Benjamin IfeanyiChukwu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=3750\">Understanding The Pathway Of Godliness Pt. 2- Pastor Benjamin Ifeanyi-Chukwu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godliness profitable in all things and God cannot tell us what He has not empowered us to be (1st John 5:3). Jesus lives in you and give you power to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}