The Bishop of the Diocese of Jalingo, Rt. Rev. Foreman Nedison who was the main speaker for the 11th edition of the Divine Commonwealth Conference (DIVCCON 2021) has called on Christians to be different in all doings.
He spoke while delivering the Bible study to those attending the Divine Commonwealth Conference ( DIVCCON) at the National Christian Centre, Abuja.
Bishop Nedison warned ; ” If you don’t live differently, you will die like the others who have no Christian virtues”
He called on his hearers to shun conformity with the world but rather ” be renewed in your minds”.
Nedison frowned against the idea of forging certificates and changing dates of births,just because others are doing it.
To the clergy, he said ” It is better you were not born than mess up with women in the church”.
He reminded bishops and other Clergymen that they will one day stand before the Bishop of their souls. Also,he wondered why some archdeacons behave like ‘ archdemons’
Bible Study Quotes From Bishop Foreman Nedison
- You cannot act like men if you do not know your identity.
- To fulfill destiny in a grand style you must never confuse whom you are.
- If you don’t know whom you are, satan, circumstances and the world will tell you whom you are not.
- You are not whom the world says you are, you are whom God says you are.
- As a child of God, you are not spiritual but you are a spirit.
- Satan should not determine your movement. When you move, you move as wind.
- If you are a conqueror, you may conquer today and be conquered tomorrow but a more than conqueror can never be defeated anytime, any day.
- Every ambassador of Christ enjoys heaven’s immunity.
- As a child of God, you are to give face to this faceless world.
- Anywhere you enter, people must know that a child of God has entered. Sinners must stop sinning.
- Being born again is a shift. A shift from weakness to strength. A shift to dominion. A shift from inferiority to superiority.
- You are empowered to reign over satan and his cohorts.
- You are not like them. Your case is different.
- What harasses others is not permitted to harass you.
- If you do not know where you are going, everywhere will look like the place.
- In the hierarchy of the spirit, you are superior to the devil.
- You cannot have Almighty God in you and be threaten by mighty men. There is only one Almighty God.
- Fear fears you when it sees the presence of God.
- Nothing imparts confidence in a man than the presence of God.
- Courage is pursuing what is pursuing others.
- Always interested in the dividend of assessment and not in the dividend of soul winning.
– Bishop Foreman Nedison @ DIVCCON 2021