By Pastor Oloruntimilehin Joshua Daramola

THERE is need for people to move forward in their deeds and examine how big or great they are. In view of the above, let us examine two statements or expressions made in the scripture by Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ.

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The former had the power to free the latter from the hands of the Jewish peo-ple that wanted Jesus crucified when he said in John 19:10 “…Don’t you realize I have power ei-ther to free you or to cru-cify you”. Imagine the extent of power Pilate had to do whatever he wanted to do without any challen-ge.

Similarly Jesus Christ expressed the extent of power He had when He told the Samaritan woman that refused to give Him water to drink. John 4:9–14 “…Jesus answered her if you know the gift of God and who it is that ask you for a drink, you would have asked him and He would have given you living water…”

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Jesus exercised the power in Him. Therefore, it is necessary for a per-son to exercise occasion-ally the power he or she has. Brethren when you are experiencing poverty use the power in you to cast away by pronouncing its rejection and God would put His authority on the pronouncement.

You must check and try yourself to enable you know who you are. You must stand by your au-thority. Imagine a person was given a spiritual message that he or she would be rich and wealthy. If the person fails to work and move to actualize the message, it won’t come to reality.

So whatever a person wants to become in life is in the person’s hand to actualize all the positive messages that come your way. If you want to be great, sitting down at home will not bring fort-une or solve the problem. Imagine a widow who had five children. . Initially she could not survive with the gratuity of her husband. She became a person that depends on family to live. In fact she lost one of her children in the course of her poverty.

Wonder of total freedom for every captive (3)

On a particular day she decided to take the bull by the horn when she decided to start a load carrier job in one of the markets in Lagos. She started carrying loads for people who came to buy goods into their vehicles. One of her customers’ vehicle developed a fault that required the attent-ion of a motor vehicle re-pairer.

Her female customer beg-ged her to stay till the vehicle was fixed and even requested her to follow her home in case the vehicle developed problem on the way. She obliged and the woman compensated her with cash and material gifts.

On getting home in the night, she and the children had a delicious meal. The children had stopped go-ing to school due to lack of money. One fateful day her wealthy female cust-omer came searching for her in the market.

In the course of their dis-cussion, she knew she was a widow. The woman changed her life, stopped her doing load carrying job and hired a shop for her, bought goods in the shop and made the child-ren to resume their school.

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