Missions: God's Own Project

By Adewunmi Makanjuola

Engaging in missions has been in the outlook of God right from the beginning. A careful study of the Bible reveals that His ultimate agenda was the sending of Jesus as a blessing to all the families of the world.
Why? Sin had crept into the otherwise innocent and worship life of man, with its resultant negative upshots.
God found in Abraham the sort of man through whose lineage He could Send Jesus, His blessed blessing into this sin-infested world for reformation. So, God sent Abraham to go and reprocreate a world of obedient and fruitful humanity that would carry and appropriate God's blessings. This resulted in the birth of Jesus.
Jesus in turn founded the workshop of missions and missionaries the Church.
This book clearly points to the all-time truth that engaging in missions and missionary activities is crucial, urgent and imperative for all Christians, especially in these last days. God has therefore always remained committed to it.
This book will open your eyes to the business of wealthiness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Dec 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514464724

Adewunmi Makanjuola

A holder of LL.B, LL.M and Called to Bar in 1990, Adewunmi Makanjuola practiced law for ten years and is presently the High Court Deputy Chief Registrar, having traversed all Magisterial cadres in Osun State, Nigeria. He imbibed the conception of “saved to serve” immediately after he met the Lord on January 28, 1989, and with his unique gift of evangelistic teaching, he grew with the passion of winning souls and teaching others to win souls. He pioneered witnessing teams in his earlier local assemblies in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria. He now pastors a local assembly in a rural setting under Victory Life Ministries, Ilesa, Osun State, from where he embarks on mission trips and other missionary activities. He is happily married to Pharm. Adetayo. Their union is blessed with delightsome children.

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MISSIONS:

GOD’S OWN PROJECT

Adewunmi Makanjuola

Copyright © 2015 by Adewunmi Makanjuola.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5144-6473-1

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 What Is Missions After All?

Chapter 3 God’s Intention, Scuttled?

Chapter 4 The Coming Of The Blessing

Chapter 5 … and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. – Gen 12:3.

- Jesus As The Blessing

- Glimpses Of The Blessing

Chapter 6 A Christian, An Evangelist

Chapter 7 Go Ye …

Chapter 8 Disciples Scattered

Chapter 9 Perpetrating The Blessing

Chapter 10 Paul The Missionary

- Paul’s First Missionary Journey.

Chapter 11 God’s Providence

Chapter 12 How Wealthy Are You?

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to

Uncle Bayo Famonure,

the man

from whose mouth

I first ever heard about missions.

He will live long.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All glory, thanksgiving, praises honour and gratitude go to the Almighty God of heaven and earth for the so much grace and extensive patience that He expended on me on the writing of this book.

I must also affectionately acknowledge His Eminence, Rt. Rev. Mike Bamidele, the Presiding Bishop and Overseer of Victory Life Ministries International, Ilesa, Nigeria for His loving fatherliness and first class bible teachings, which I have hitherto immensely drunk from.

I cannot, but also acknowledge Rev. Mrs. Mary Titi Bamidele, the Deputy Overseer of Victory Life Ministries, Ilesa, my very own Auntie Naomi Famonure of Agape Missions, Gana Ropp, via Jos, Plateau State, Rev. Olusola Ayodele Areogun of the Dream Centre, Osogbo, Rev. Odun Orioke of Christ Life Church, Ile-Ife, Mama Ruth Elton of Coming Kingdom Outreach (Inc.) Ilesa, Pastor John Ladega of Kingdom Gospel Mission, Ilesa, Rev. Fred Adigun of FOLMO Missions, Ibadan, Rev. Andrew Abah of Grace Foundation Inland Missions, Jos, all Directors, Senior and Zonal Ministers of Victory Life Ministries, Ilesa, Nigeria and a number of other ministerial leaders and friends that cannot be mentioned here for space, for their diverse support and encouragement over the years, which have contributed to the making of this book. I earnestly appreciate you all Sirs and Mas. The Lord bless and reward you all. Amen.

I must also heartily appreciate my dear God sent wife - Tayo, who has always been in it all with me, for her much encouraging belief in me. Not only did she accompany me on all my mission trips, her thoughts and counsels have always been apt. My God will surely bless her.

Lastly, I acknowledge my peaceful children – Obalolu, Joshua and Nini-Peace for their Godly comportment and prayers. They are blessed.

PREFACE

The writing of this book is borne out of a deep-seated, die-hard desire in my heart of heart to show the whole world the conviction I came about through the study of the Holy Bible and the understanding of true Christian living, that missions is the outlook in the main of the almighty God, the creator of heaven and earth.

That is to say, right from before the foundations of the earth, missions has been in the outlook of God. Throughout the Bible days, Missions featured in the thinking and workings of God. More especially in the present dispensation, missions has remained in the centre stage of (true, real, sincere) Christian endeavour, and it is going to be the crucial climax of it all.

I am also to show in this book that engaging in missions and missionary activities is crucial and imperative for all Christians in these last days.

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

The book Bible remains the best seller of all time. It is unique in many ways. Talk of its content (message), its object, its thrust, its volume, its characters, its accuracy, its correlation, its correctness, its currentness, its infallibility, its sweetness and its power. It sure remains unbeatable in quality. For the purpose of this chapter however, we are interested mainly in its style, i.e. the style in which the bible is written.

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