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    How Great Is Your Fall?
    How Great Is Your Fall?
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    How Great Is Your Fall?

    By Pastor M. D. Umar

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    Religion frowns at sinners, disdain, and spite backsliders and treat them like lepers. But what does the bible says? Does God hate backsliders or those of His children who fall into sin with an unrepentant hatred? Is God done and finished with you because, you being a child of God, has been overtaken by the scheme of the devil and has fallen prey into his web of sin that he has skillfully spurned for you?

    So many giants of faith, vibrant Christian brothers and sisters, and mighty men of God in every ramification all through history, have fallen into one sin or the other. Countless numbers never rose again or recover from their fall.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateSep 20, 2011
    ISBN9781456785949
    How Great Is Your Fall?
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    Pastor M. D. Umar

    Pastor M. D. Umar was a Muslim called into the glorious saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ when the Lord appeared to him in a vision in 1992. And since that living ‘Damascus Road’ encounter, he had through the grace of God, never soft pedaled in his Christian faith and calling. He is born into the humble family of Mairiga Ebiloma in Etutekpe village in Dekina Council Area, Kogi State, Nigeria. He is the resident pastor of God’s Banner Missionary Assembly, a fast growing Church in Lagos Metropolis. He is also the President and Vision Coordinator of Revival Agents International Network (R . A . I . N), a Ministry that is committed to Revival Outreaches and Campus Evangelistic Campaign. He is a gifted Revivalist, conference speaker, Teacher, and Preacher of the undiluted word of God. He has the passion for the Revival, Restoration, and Reformation of the Church back to its Original Apostolic Pattern. He belief that, God would raise ‘The Remnant Church’ that would spark off the fire of Revival culminating in the emergence of ‘The True Church’ out of the midst of ‘The Harlot Church’ before the second advent of the King of kings and the Lord of lords – Jesus the Christ. He is happily married to Naomi, Hope Umar (Mrs.), and they are blessed to be the custodian of God’s lovely children that He sent into the world through them: Ene-kojochi Prudence David, and Anenyowa Anointed-Jephthah. . . He is a graduate of Accounting (HND) from Benue Polytechnics Ugbokolo, Nigeria. He also holds a Diploma in Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism from God’s Army Bible College, a theological school established by The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) Lagos State, Nigeria. His ultimate passion is to see Jesus exalted in every nation of the world as Saviour, Lord and King.

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      How Great Is Your Fall? - Pastor M. D. Umar

      © 2011 by Pastor M. D. Umar. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse   09/16/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-8593-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-8594-9 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Hello my dearly beloved, it is not by sheer coincidence that this book finds its way into your hands. God has predetermined to bless you and enrich your soul through the content of this book. As you read through it prayerfully and meditatively, God would surely minister to your broken spirit and lift you up from that pit to your next level in Him.

      Thank you for choosing to pick up this book, from amongst the other books on the shelves. I am so sure; you will never remain the same after you had prayerfully read through this book.

      I BELEIVE GOD WITH YOU, YOU CAN

      RECOVER FROM THAT FALL…

      DEDICATIONS

      This book is dedicated to:

      God almighty that choose me in grace to communicate His eternal counsel through me.

      All the heroes of faith who chooses to rise after their fall to march into the thick of the battle ‘again’ and became champions of the Cross. By your life testimony, we are encouraged to know that, it is possible to rise up ‘again’ after our fall and still go ahead to become all that God has destined us to be in Him and for Him.

      The blessed memory of my beloved parents; Mairiga Ebiloma Umar, and Ayeh Obaje, through whom God has predetermined to bring me into the world. You played the principal part in God’s eternal plan for my life. Your hands rocked me from the cradle, and I was preserved in you for this self same purpose. To me, you still lived on…

      All those who would be restored back to their right standing in God through this book. You are the reason why this book was given. I cannot wait to see you on fire for God again. In addition, my Joy would be full when we shall meet at the reward seat of our Lord Jesus Christ on that glorious day.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I acknowledge with immeasurable thanks:

      God Almighty who choose to first write this eternal message in my bowels with His living fingers, and afterward, reproduce them in written form for the blessing of humanity.

      I acknowledge, and thank thee O Lord for all the people, events, trials, and circumstances either positive, or negative, that you allowed coming my way as your divine messengers and teachers, to help guide and bring me to my place in you. They all serve to sharpen, polish, toughen and strengthen me to be at my best. How unsearchable are the depth of your understanding and your wisdom is to be praised in all. Your invisible hand was at work from behind the scene to perfect your eternal counsel in my life. Lord thank you for joy and pain that you choose to mingle together to bring about the realization of your eternal purpose in, and through my life.

      My dearly beloved wife Naomi, Hope Umar, who stood beside me like a pillar in all the stages, and seasons of my life. In you, I found the true meaning of love.

      I acknowledge with profound gratitude God’s own children that He chose to bring into the world through us Ene-kojochi David and Anenyowa

      Jephthah . . . thine they were O Lord, you only gave them to us as a gift in trust as your steward. They are the reason for our daily joy.

      My dear uncle, Lawrence K. Obaje who painstakingly took his time to meticulously proofread and edit this work. I remain eternally grateful to you. Your encouragements are eternal motivations that make my hands stronger on the paper. Your reward for this shall not elude you at the reward seat of our Lord Jesus Christ.

      And to all my teachers from the cradle, through my secular education, and my spiritual tutors. I owe them all, an eternal weight of gratitude. I came to understand by and by, that they were all God’s instruments designed to make me ready to fulfill my destiny.

      Contents

      Dedications

      Acknowledgements

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Dry Bones Can Live Again

      Chapter 2 An Enemy Hath Done This

      Chapter 3 He Put No Trust In His Angels

      Chapter 4 The Power Of His Grace

      Chapter 5 The Veil Is Torn For You

      Chapter 6 Now That You Are Down (There Is Still Hope For You)

      Chapter 7 The Devil’s Strategy

      Chapter 8 God The Re-Maker

      Chapter 9 The Unstoppables

      Chapter 10 Jesus Had No Stones

      Chapter 11 Refuse To Be Killed

      Chapter 12 Only You Can Stop You.

      Chapter 13 Get Up! And Get Going

      Chapter 14 The Way Of Restoration

      Chapter 15 Draw The Iron Curtain Over Your Past

      Conclusion The Multi Faced God

      Author’s Closing note

      About The Author

      References

      PREFACE

      Religion frowns at sinners, disdain, and spite backsliders and treat them like lepers. But what does the bible says? Does God hate backsliders or those of His children who fall into sin with an unrepentant hatred? Is God done and finished with you because, you being a child of God, has been overtaken by the scheme of the devil and has fallen prey into his web of sin that he has skillfully spurned for you?

      So many giants of faith, vibrant Christian brothers and sisters, and mighty men of God in every ramification all through history, have fallen into one sin or the other. Countless numbers never rose again or recover from their fall. While some though they rose, never really came back to their full self in God. Some became so cold, and half-dead in the things of the spirit bringing about the death of their ministry, their calling and their place in God. While some gradually slide back into apostasy (denying the faith), and die tragically in that condition, and loss their precious soul in the process.

      Unscriptural church discipline, and the holier than thou mentalities, or idiosyncrasies of some brethren and the entire Christian community, has helped plunged some backsliders deeper and deeper into the quicksand of sin into which they had fallen. What should be the churches (believers) attitude towards a fallen saint? Should the church still have anything to do with him? Should we still embrace him in love, and look at him in the light of what he can still become for God, or treat him like a leper? Is there still hope for a fallen saint? Does God still love or have anything to do with him or her? Can anything good still come out of him? Can such a one still fulfill his calling and ministry, and still bring glory and joy, to the heart of God? Can such a one, receive free forgiveness from God upon genuine repentance, and still go ahead to accomplish anything meaningful for God that would warrant a standing ovation from the angelic hosts, and the cloud of witnesses who had gone on before, when he walks through the gates of heaven tomorrow?

      This is what this book is out to address. Speaking with the mind of Christ, and the authority of the scripture, I’m happy to announce to you that, regardless of the height from whence you must have fallen, God still cares, and loves you. And His desire is to have you return home with a truly broken and penitent heart and you would receive pardon. You can still rise from that great fall, recover all that you might have lost, and become all that God had originally intended you to be, and nothing less. For the Lord God is a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. (Neh 9:17)

      INTRODUCTION

      Who says that you cannot rise again? Who had bewitched you into believing the gospel that says once fallen, you are forever out of favor with God? The true gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ announces to us that, we can still recover from that fall into sin, forge ahead into the thick of the battle and still emerge as victors and champions of faith. Am here to announce to you that regardless of the height from whence you have fallen, you can still rise to the highest height imaginable. God can still heal you of every wound you must have suffered in the event of your fall. His compassion demands that He hear you when you cry out from that horrible pit of sin into which you have fallen. If only you can lift up your voice and cry from a truly penitent and broken heart. He heard Jonah from the belly of the fish. He heard David from the pit of adultery and murder. He heard Peter who denied him. He even forgave them all after they renounce their calling, forsook their assignment and took to their old fishing trade. His arm was long enough to reach down to Samson in the grinding mill of the Philistine. He would hear you too and reach down to you in that pit of sin into which you have fallen.

      I want to say there is hope for you. You are not finished yet. God is still very much interested in you. No matter how bad the thing you must have done is, God is merciful and gracious enough to forgive you all your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. The blood of His dear Son Jesus is powerful enough to absolve all your sins. And His grace is rich enough to freely forgive all your most terrible sins put together. What God did for one, He can do for all. So your case is not different. God is giving you a pat of encouragement on the back through this book saying unto you, son, don’t feel down, let not your soul be downcast, I know your frames, I know that you are made of but clay. All you need do is get up and be heart broken for your sins. Acknowledge them and be truly sorry over them, confess them to me sincerely and get going. And I would forgive you and strengthen you for the rest of the way.

      There are no any good people born by nature. Scripture is replete of bad people made well, (sinners made saints) by grace. Almost all the generals of God regardless of the dispensation and age, in which they lived, are people with flaws in one area or the other of their lives. All who succeeds and became champions of the faith once failed in one way or the other. But the good news is that, regardless of what you might have done, you can receive free forgiveness, justification, and restoration of all that you have lost including your right standing with God. Check out all the names of God’s heroes of faith in Hebrew chapter eleven, they are all men and women of limitations and flaws. Yet God forgave them, cleansed them, and went ahead to use them to fulfill His eternal purpose. It is a clear demonstration of the power and beauty of God’s immeasurable grace. That the Excellency of the power might be of God.

      Therefore, you don’t have to die in that state of spiritual backsliding and coldness in your spirit because of your sins. You can rise up now and choose to return to the bleeding side of Jesus and receive forgiveness, put the past behind you, and move ahead. The compassionate arms of God are ever opened to receive you back home to His bosom of Love. It is not all over yet. You are still very important to God and you are still the object of His divine love. His desire is to see you return home for that second touch for refining, reformation, and re-clothing. You can still get up, get going, and fulfill your calling, your ministry, and your God given destiny. You are not finished yet. Don’t die in self-condemnation. That is

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