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BIBLE COURSES STARTED!!!

The Branch of ''The Bread Of Life International Bible Correspondence Institute'' in Ivory Coast together with PASTOR ELIJAH OKEYODE, Founder of APWEM (the Apostolic and Prophetic Word Evangelical Ministries) inform that bible Courses (both Basic and Advanced) have started since Monday 1st October 2007 for all the members of APWEM and others that are willing to take part.

God bless you as you are endeavouring to study the Word of God.

Note: To reduce the high cost of postage from the USA, all the Ivorians or West Africans who are willing to enroll should get in touch with Pastor Elijah Okeyode (Associate School Director in Côte d'Ivoire

STUDENTS WHO HAVE ENROLLED AT THE SCHOOL

  • Olivier OYESOLA
  • John OLADEPO
  • Ebenezer OYENYI
  • Samson OYEWOLE
  • Segun OYEWOLE
  • Moses OKEYODE
  • Joel OYEWALE
  • Alfred OJEWUMI
  • Julius OKEYODE
  • Salome AMAO
  • Valérie YAO (Pastor)
  • Peter AKEE
  • Samuel ADIGUN
  • Zephaniah OYENIYI
  • Frédérick BOLI BI
  • Jonathan OLALEKE
  • Ezechiah OJEDIRAN
  • Akoun Hervé DJEBE
  • Charles ABEDA ****************

    Get enrolled TODAY!!! and get equipped with the WORD OF GOD

  • If you a Côte d'Ivoire citizen, just write Pastor Okeyode Elijah
  • If you are from any other French speaking country, just write him and precise your country and you will be given assignment on how to process.

    CRUSADE OF EVANGELISATION IN SINFRA

    This very month, the APWEM has decided to tour as many areas as possible for a Crusade of Evangelisation. The very first Rural Area which is going to be visited is the Local town of Sinfra (Ivory Coast) where all is being made to make the program a huge success.

    The APWEM Board of Leaders invites you all to the occasion. Remain watchful and rapturable till He comes.

    For further information about the event or any assistance for the success of the program, kindly write or call Pastor Elijah OKEYODE

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    EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

    FOUNDER & DIRECTOR:
    Pastor Okeyode Elijah
    Members:
    Pastor Buraimo Daniel
    Pastor Olumuyiwa Timothée
    Bro. Oyeniyi Gideon
    Bro. Oyeyimika Zephaniah
    Bro. Okeyode Julius

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    A FOUNDER WITH A VISION AND A MISSION                        

    ABOUT THE FOUNDER

    Pastor Elijah Okeyode is the Founder of APWEM (Apostolic and Prophetic Word Evangelical Ministries). He got a BA in English and then a Bachelor in Theology.

    He was ordained Pastor at Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide (CAC) and has been serving under CAC various local churches in Côte d'Ivoire as Assistant Pastor, Youth Coordinator and he is now an active member of the National Executive Council of the above named church in Côte d'Ivoire.

    He has the vision of spreading the Gospel of Salvation all over the world and this vision has led him to found an inter-denominational ministry named APOSTOLIC and PROPHETIC WORD EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES.

    FACTS ABOUT APWEM

    The APWEM (Apostolic and Prophetic Word Evangelical Ministries) is an inter-denominational Evangelical mission which aims at reaching the world with the Word of God and preaching the Word of Salvation.

    At APWEM, all the emphasis is put on fulfilling the Great Commission of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Spreading the Good News.

    To reach our purpose we do organise crusades and revivals and outreach programmes of the mission are planned to reach and win more souls. Bible training programmes and courses are carried out to provide members with good biblical education. Sound Teaching are prepared and taught to improve the spiritual growth of members and sustain their faith.

    Thus, we are partnering with some Bible institutes and colleges like ''The Bread Of Life International Bible Correspondence Institute'' and we are still ready to cooperate with any other Bible school or institution with the same vision.

    Any invitation for Revivals, Crusades, Bible Conferences,Outreach programmes or evangelisation will be welcome.

    OUR VISION

  • To exalt the Lord by dynamic, Holy Spirit-Inspired Worship, Praise and Prayer, and to give our time, talents and gifts as an offering to the Lord. (WORSHIP).
  • To equip the Church to fulfill her destiny through Godly vision, biblical teachings and pastoral ministries. To bring believers to maturity and effective ministry in Christ, resulting in a restored, triumphant Church. (DISCIPLESHIP).
  • To extend the Kingdom of God from the Church to our neighborhoods, our cities, our nations and the world through aggressive evangelism. (EVANGELISM).
  • To demonstrate God’s love to one another by encouraging every believer to develop deeper relationships with other believers resulting in mutual encouragement and accountability. This is practical through gathering groups of different Church services. (MINISTRY).
  • To incorporate God’s family within the body of Christ. This is expressed in our commitment to strong emphasis on family in our preaching and other social activities organized by the Church to bring us closer to one another. (FELLOWSHIP).

    OUR MISSION

  • To reach people of the various ethnic group within the community, to see them become part of Christ’s Church.

  • To equip and mobilize those people to function fruitfully both in the local Church and in every aspect of their lives.

  • To win the un-churched and to assimilate them into a committed body of Spirit-filled Christian.

  • To equip people under the leadership of qualified ministers enabling them to fulfill their God-given purposes, to achieve a level of growth and maturity in these Christian that they may influence the community, the state and the world.

    In our assembly, our objective is to build:

    1. A powerful Church (Acts 1:8)
    2. A praying Church (Acts 1:14)
    3. A Unified Church (Acts 1;14, 2:1)
    4. A Spirit Filled Church (Acts 2:1, 4:38)
    5. A Word Church (Acts 2:42)
    6. A Fellowship Church (Acts 2:46)
    7. A Worshipping Church (Acts 2:46, 15:15-17)
    8. A Growing/Expanding Church (Acts 2:42-46)
    9. A Witnessing Church (Acts 1:8)
    10. A Society-Influencing Church (Acts 6, 7)
    11. A Leadership Training Church (Acts 4, 11, 13, 15)
    12. A Fervent Church (Acts 2:43)

    THE APWEM TENETS

    At APWEM (Apostolic and Prophetic Word Evangelical Ministries) we strongly believe in the following tenets to be biblically sound:

    1. We believe in the Unity of the Godhead and the Trinity of the Persons therein.
    2. We believe in the utter depravity of human nature, the necessity for repentance and regeneration and the eternal doom of the finally impenitent.
    3. We believe in the Virgin Birth, Sinless Life, Atoning Death, Triumphant Resurrection, Ascension and Abiding Intercession of our Lord Jesus Christ, His Second Comind and Millennial reign on earth.
    4. We believe in justification and Sanctification of the believer through the finished work of Christ.
    5. We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost for believers, with signs following.
    6. We believe in the Nine Gifts of the Holy Ghost for the Edification, exhortation and comfort of the church, which is the body of Christ.
    7. We believe in the sacrament of Baptism by immersion, and of the Lord's Supper.
    8. We believe in Divine Inspiration and Authority of the Holy Scriptures.
    9. We believe in Church administration by Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers, Elders, Deacons.
    10. We believe in the possibility of falling from the grace.
    11. We believe in the obligatory nature of tithes and offerings.
    12. We believe in Divine Healing through obedience to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ and Faith in His Name and Merit of His Blood for all sicknesses, diseases and infirmities.
    13. We believe in Faith in God, the ''Jehovah Jireh'' to supply all financial needs without going into debt or borrowing money on interest; to be content with having food and raiment: "Godliness with contentment is a great gain, and the love of money is the root of all evils". Phil. 4:19, Rom 13:8, I Tim 6: 6-10

    WEEKLY SERVICES

    1. Sunday 07am - 08am: Sunday School Service
    2. Sunday 08am - 10am: Thanksgiving Service
    3. Tuesday 06:00pm - 08:00pm: Bible Study
    4. Friday 06:00pm -08:00pm: Prayer of Intercession
    5. Saturday 10:00 - 12:00: New Converts Programme
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    SERMON FROM THE FOUNDER'S DESK 

    If God Puts You On Hold-Don’t Hang Up


    Pastor Elijah Okeyode

    James 1:2-1:4

    A. INTRODUCTION

  • There is a bumper sticker, “If God puts you on hold—don’t hang up.”
  • Survey: a. How many have ever been put on hold? b. How many have ever gotten mad when you were on hold? c. How many have hung up?
  • This sermon is about what to do when God puts you on hold.

    B. PEOPLE WHO WERE PUT ON HOLD

  • Moses was on hold for forty years on the backside of the desert, before God spoke at the burning bush.
  • David was chased by Saul for sixteen years in the wilderness, before he was crowned King of Judah.
  • Jesus let Lazarus die, and then waited before showing up at the cemetery. He kept Mary and Martha waiting four days.

    C. SOME PEOPLE GET THROUGH IMMEDIATELY

  • Jairus came to beg for the life of his daughter, Jesus went with him immediately.
  • The nobleman came to beg for the life of his sick son, Jesus healed him immediately.
  • The man who was lame 37 years at the Pool of Bethesda, immediately walked.

    D. WHY GOD PUTS US ON HOLD

  • You are on hold because God is testing your character. “My brethren count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations (different kinds of testing), knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience” (James 1:2,3).

    Here’s the way the NIV interprets this passage: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testings of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything (James 1:2-4 NIV).

    We are to hold on by faith, which means we bring honor to God; but it also means we develop stronger faith in Him. WHY We are on hold to make us more like Jesus.

  • You are on hold because God is purifying your motives. Sometimes we are put on hold because God wants to check the motives of why we ask, or why we work. Note what James says, “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lust” (James 4:3). In the NIV James says, “When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (James 4:3 NIV).

  • You are on hold because God is focusing on your faith. There are many times when we lose our focus. It may be because of fear, impatience or doubts. Mary and Martha sent a message to tell Jesus that their brother Lazarus was sick. The sisters expected Jesus to heal from a distance, but He did nothing for two days. Then Jesus took approximately two days to get to Bethany. Lazarus had been dead for four days. In the interim, Mary and Martha both kept saying to one another, “Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother had not died” (said by Martha, John 11:21). “Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother had not died” (said by Mary, John 11:32).

    Mary and Martha doubted the Lord could raise him from the dead. They were weeping because Lazarus died, and they lost their faith in Jesus as the miracle worker. They had more faith in death, than they had in Jesus who said, “I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live” (John 11:25).

    James tells us something about how to focus our faith. “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like the wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the LORD” (James 1:6,7). NIV puts it like this: “But when you ask, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like the waves of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think that he will receive anything from the LORD” (James 1:6,7 NIV).

  • You may be on hold because God may be dealing with an unconfessed sin. Sometimes we do not hear from God, because of sin in our life. Isaiah says, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1,2).

    The psalmist also said, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me” (Psalm 66:18). The blind man said, “The LORD heareth not sinners” (John 9:31). Remember, God forgives both known and unknown sin(s).

  • You may be on hold because God may be dealing with a broken relationship. Sometimes God does not hear us, nor does He communicate with us because we have sin in our life that has caused broken relationships, or we have allowed broken relationships. “Whosoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger of the judgment: whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, thy fool shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest thy brother have ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, offer thy gift” (Matthew 5:22- 24).

    Sometimes God has you on hold because you have problems brother to brother, spouse to spouse, parent to child, or child to parent.

    If you are on hold because of broken relationships:

  • Pray for forgiveness. “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).
  • If you have wronged a fellow Christian, go and make it right.
  • If a fellow Christian has wronged you, you have “ought” in your heart toward a brother.” You must go and make it right. “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother(Matthew 18:15).
  • If they will not hear you, take someone with you. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established” (Matthew 18:16).
  • Make it a church matter. “If he shall neglect to hear him, tell it to the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican” (Matthew 18:17).

  • You may be on hold because of spiritual warfare. The Bible tells us that sometimes when God does not answer our requests, it is because there is satanic opposition. Daniel prayed for an answer from God but didn’t get it for twenty-one days, even though he fasted. “I set my face unto the LORD God to seek thy prayer and supplication with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes” (Daniel 9:3)

    “I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came meat nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled” (Daniel 10:2,3).

    Daniel did not get an answer for three weeks until Michael came to him. “Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; . . . now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days” (Daniel 10:12-14).

    E. WHAT TO DO WHEN GOD HAS YOU ON HOLD

    Hang in there…don’t hang up. Too often we are impatient when a business puts us on hold, we just hang up. Remember the words of Scripture, “Faithful is He that calleth you who also will do it” (I Thess. 5:24).

  • Find out why you are on hold. God may have you on hold for one of the above reasons. Check them out thoroughly.
  • Last orders are standing orders. Even though we don’t like it, a computer that has us on hold will eventually get to us. We may not like computers, but they are not imperfect like people nor do they get frustrated like people. If God has you on hold, wait patiently for what He has for you.
  • Know what happens when you take your eyes off God. There is usually a 4-step down from fellowship with God.

    (1) First doubt causes us to look away from God.

    (2) Did we get discouraged with God?

    (3) We deny what God has done in the past.

    (4) We turn away from God.

  • When you are on hold, trust the sovereign plan of God in your life.

    “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Whereas the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8,9).

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