Oracle 360 degrees, Pastor Emmanuel Irame

Calm down, God is aware of what is happening around you.

In a dream I saw unripe fruits falling down from a tree. In prayer I asked God not to allow the remaining fruits to fall down unripe.

Fruit is life, fruit is power. When you cultivate a crop and it does not produce fruit, that is an abomination. If your fruits fall down from the tree premature and unripe you cannot make good use of them. That is not a good thing.

If you had a mango tree and it flowered and bore fruits and one day a mild breeze blew and all the unripe fruit fell down, you won’t be happy because you will not have ripe mango fruits to eat.

The revelation of a mango tree and the concern I had over it showed that the mango tree was mine otherwise I wouldn’t care. But I kept praying to God not to let the remaining fruits fall unripe so that we could have a good harvest.

That implies that our spiritual life should not fall. Any time we talk about first fruit people often think about first money. This thought is influenced by the advent of financial gospel.

When we talk about fruits we are talking about the spirit of God. We open church for God, God is a spirit so when we talk about fruit we are not talking about harvest of physical fruits. Harvest means the account you will give to God when you die..

Your first fruit is love. Submit your love to your neighbours and to God. When we talk about first fruit it is all about love….if I say give me your first fruit, I am saying give me your faithfulness; do not go and pack your money for me.

Your faithfulness is what I need. I chosed you, I need your faithfulness. Your faithfulness is your first fruit. When I had the revelation I pondered whether it was about the wellbeing of my business. But God said no, LG,D is the tree, tell your people so.LGD is a mighty tree with branches which represent the members called LGDists. Anyone who is an LGDist is a branch of the tree of LGD.

So, when we talk about fruit we are talking about ourselves, including even me; I am a branch of LGD and I am going to give account of my performance in terms of production of fruits. But some of our fruits are falling premature.

You came here and made a mountain of promises saying you were going to be holy, you were going to be faithful but not too long you began to backslide. It is not over yet. Your fruits are considered to be ripe only on the last day when you die. So you have to pressure your fruits to be mature until the day God will call you.

God calls you to give account on your earthly performance report and all you could say was all your fruits fell away; then you go straight to hell fire, that branch ought to be cut off out of the LGD tree, put into the fire and burnt to ashes.

Jesus Christ made a comment regarding this when he said any branch that does not bear fruit will be cut off and cast into the fire. (Matthew 7: 19-27).

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are well spelt out in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. If you can get these fruits the material fruits in your life will produce for you. That is why you are commanded to seek the kingdom of heaven first and every other thing will be added to you.

If any of your physical fruit fell, it is wasted because it cannot stand to defend you when you die. These are the only fruits that can defend you; these fruits are what God will harvest from you on the last day.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. (Galatians 5: 22).

The first fruit is love. The second which I changed to the third is peace and joy. When you are asked to bring your first fruit you are simply asked to give love to the people, give love to the world.

But today when I preach of first fruit because of the doctrine of money in modern day Christianity, everybody will begin to package their first salaries–who told you to do so? Those are material things, they cannot save you.

Your first fruit is love, if you can give love that is your first fruit. Give love before you talk of your salary.

You see why I say I am not a Christian? This is because issues are not treated indepth as required by God. But in LGDISM we look at issues critically with spiritual lens. That is why we bring this out to let the world know that first fruit is not about material things but love.

Anything without love is useless. Your wealth is for yourself, your popularity is for yourself. Only love is the key that will open the gate to heaven. It is when you have love before you will talk about peace and joy.Long suffering is patience. If you do not have patience you will lose the love, the joy and the peace. These three fruits are your crown.

You could fall in love with someone now but before the next day, the love is dead.You could have joy right now but only by a phone call the joy disappears.Peace could be in your house and suddenly quarrel starts.These fruits are easy to get and hard to keep. Jesus is coming soon, be patient and with endurance hold on to what you have so no one will take your crown.

This is a common chant of LGD.There is a difference between patience and endurance. You can be patient to be in church, can you endure for two hours. Two things are involved, patience, but can you endure LGD Ministry?

Many boasted that they will die in LGD but they could not endure. They run out and say let me run before I die here in LGD. You will not die the more you endure the more your fruits get ripe.

Do not let Satan deceive you, what I teach is the best. Why complain that I preach only holiness. He doesn’t package us, he doesn’t want us to enjoy our lives, let’s go and make money, let’s go to the church where they will bless us to make money.

You do not know God. You don’t even know what God needs from you. It is a business transaction between you and your God. Christians, this is what Jesus Christ taught us so why are we changing it?

It means that we don’t know God. It is a transaction, we opened the church to obey the will of God and I am commissioned to teach you the will of God. If you obey the will of God, God who owns material things will release them to you.But you must work first practice the holy commands.

Practice love, joy, peace and be patient. Endure longsuffering and then exhibit gentleness. Calm down, gentleness urges you to calm down all time. Don’t be in a rush, don’t be too fast to speak, don’t be in a hurry to run—calm down.

Goodness occupies the sixth position in the line up of the fruits. Everybody boasts of goodness, why do you think if you do good you would go to heaven when you forgot to love, have joy, pursue peace and couldn’t be patient and endure? Don’t you know that some people are crying and have begun to sell their property? They anticipate commiting suicide because they don’t have joy and peace. They spend billions of naira on birthday parties so they could have joy in the midst of musicians and dancers. That will not take you to heaven. Only the peace in your heart, the joy, love will do.

Do not complain, no murmur, if you murmur you are insulting God saying God did not do well bringing you to life. Believe what I teach you, have faith in them. Faith is the basket to carry your fruits to God.