5 Reasons God allows Problems Comes our way even after Salvation


While old things had passed away and all things have become new, we must develop capacity to withstand in the evil day. The moment you became a Christian, you are set apart for God and the devil had sworn to keep pitching his tent against God and all that belongs to Him.

These are some of the reasons for the problems you are facing as a Christian. These 5 points are coined from Daddy Adeboye's book titled "Joseph - A study of Divine Faithfulness"

1. To test you faith - Your faith must be tested by problems. According to 1 Peter 1:6-7

New International Version

6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

God wants to find out how solid your faith is. Nobody appreciate you in your crude form. We are all sent in crude form, we need to be refined over time to become useful in the hand of the Lord.

The above scripture talks about the refinement of gold which has to go through the heat of the furnace in order to start shining.

The house built on the sand and the house on the rock both seemingly looks solid until there comes a storm. It's storm that will show the difference. Just like gold, your faith in the heart will be refined to shine.

2. God may be preparing you for a blessing - Without examination, there can not be promotion. The trials or test of your faith is what birth your testimonies (test precedes testimonies).

God will not give you something pleasant until He found out you are reliable. No one uses any iron to build a bridge that trailers carrying many tonnes of good will move on. In the book of 1 Peter 3:14

New International Version

14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats[a]; do not be frightened

The main reason God placed you in Time is to become a problem solver. Do not be afraid of challenges, develop capacity to quench them. 1+1 can be a problem for the pupil of crenche, but not for someone already in secondary school.

3. To teach you Obedience - As Bishop David Oyedepo always says, obedience may be costly but the end result is priceless. As soon as God knows that you will obey Him, He will replace your suffering with blessings.

For example, a Christian with a weak prayer life can begin to pray when troubles looms. I am not advocating for this kind of attitude. We should always pray without ceasing. In order to solve problems that the world throws at us, we are sometimes compel to pray or to work hard. The Hebrew boys in Daniel chapter 2 prayed to solve the king's problem and they were promoted.

4. To make us Perfect - We are always striving towards perfection. When we are relaxed or comfortable in a present situation, we might not develop our full potentials. The book of Hebrews 2:10

21st Century King James Version

10 For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Hebrews 5:8-9

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8 though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.

9 And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all those who obey Him,

5. To bring out the diligence in us - Challenges can compel you to become diligence and diligent makes you to be richer and become a ruler. In Proverbs 10:4

21st Century King James Version

4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 12:24

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24 The hand of the diligent shall exercise rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Proverbs 22:29

21st Century King James Version

29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before men of low estate.

All the above scripture shows us the power of diligence. Small money is okay for the poor man, but not quite for the rich man.

We need to pray for change in mindset so that we can see the giants in our promise land as breads for us.

OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026

OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026 MONDAY: BANISH UNBELIEF

OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026 MEMORISE: "Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, It ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done." Matthew 21:21

OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026 READ: Matthew 17:19-20

19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: EZRA 1-4

OPEN HEAVENS 18 MAY 2026 MESSAGE:
Hebrews 4:12 says that the word of God is living, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. Also, John 1:1-3 tells us that all things were created by the word of God. As powerful as God’s word is, however, when it is spoken in unbelief, it cannot be expected to produce results. In 1 John 4:4, it is written that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

God lives within you, and He is greater than every problem or challenge that
the world can throw your way. This is the absolute truth about you; you are above poverty and destruction because God’s power resides in you, and you can leverage it to subdue negative situations.

Despite this, unbelief can hinder the power of God from flowing through His word in your mouth. It is possible to be a Christian and be tormented by the
spirit of doubt and unbelief. What this spirit does is that it undermines the power of God’s word in your heart and makes you feel that the word of God is ordinary.

It also makes you begin to think that God’s word is not true, thereby filling your heart with uncertainty. If the spirit of doubt and unbelief is tormenting you, I pray that it will leave you right now, in Jesus’ name.

Jesus raised Jairus daughter in Mark 5:35-43 with His word. When He got to his house, He drove out those who were weeping and commanded the dead girl to arise. Peter followed the same pattern when God used him to raise Dorcas in Acts 9:36-42; he sent the mourners out of the house and commanded the dead woman to arise.

Beloved, there is no limit to what you can achieve when you proclaim God’s word in faith. As Jesus said in today’s Bible reading, nothing shall be impossible to you if you speak the word of God in faith without any doubt or unbelief. God wants you to believe His word and act upon it. He wants you to go to places where there are hopeless cases so He can show the world that there is still hope through you. He wants to use you mightily and shine His light through you so that He will be glorified (Matthew 5:16).

However, you must learn to trust in His word completely and proclaim it boldly over every situation you encounter. May you be a conduit of God’s mighty power everywhere you go henceforth, in Jesus’ name.

OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026 KEY POINT:

Doubt and unbelief undermine the power of God’s word, making it ineffective in a Christian’s mouth.



OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026 HYMN 3:

ANCIENT WORDS

1 Holy words long preserved
For our walk in this world
They resound with God’s own heart
Oh, let the ancient words impart

Chorus:

Ancient words, ever true
Changing me and changing you
We have come with open hearts
Oh, let the ancient words impart

2 Words of life, words of hope
Give us strength, help us cope
In this world, where e’er we roam
Ancient words will guide us home

3 Holy words of our faith
Handed down to this age
Came to us through sacrifice
Oh, heed the faithful words of Christ

4 Holy words long preserved
For our walk in this world
They resound with God’s own heart
Oh, let the ancient words impart

PRAYER POINTS ON OPEN HEAVEN 18 MAY 2026

BANISH UNBELIEF

Let Us Pray:

1 Father, I adore You for You are the word from the beginning, living, powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Your word creates, sets free, and delivers to the uttermost.

2 ‎Father, please help me to deal with every bit of doubt in me, increase my faith in You and help me to speak the word in faith so it can produce the expected results, in Jesus’ name.

3 ‎Father, please help me to abide in You and let Your word live in me. Make me overcome every problem or challenge that the world may throw at me, in Jesus’ name

3 ‎Father, because You are greater in me than he that is in the world, I receive the truth of Your word that I am above poverty and destruction, and I subdue every negative situation around me, in Jesus’ name.

4 Father, I banish every unbelief in my life, please let nothing hinder Your power from flowing through Your word in my mouth, in Jesus’ name.

5 ‎Father, please deliver me from the torment by the spirit of doubt and unbelief. I believe Your word in my heart, for Your word is real and true, and I dismiss every uncertainty in my heart right now, in Jesus’ name.

6 ‎Father, I command anything that is hindering the manifestations of Your word in my life to vanish now, in Jesus’ name.

7 ‎Father, I speak increase into every area of my life; my portion on earth is good health and all-round prosperity, in Jesus’ name

8 ‎Father, through my life, please let it be evident to the world that there is still hope when we hold unto Your word, in Jesus’ name.

9 ‎Father, please use me mightily and let Your light shine through me, that Your name will be glorified, in Jesus’ name.

10 ‎Father, help me to trust You completely, and to proclaim Your word boldly over every situation I may encounter. Henceforth, please make me a conduit of Your mighty power, in Jesus’ name.

11 ‎Father, thank You for the life of Your son, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye.‎ Please make him a conduit of Your mighty power allthrough His lifetime, in Jesus’ name. Bless his children (biological and spiritual). Help him to continue to produce sons and daughters to Your glory, in Jesus name

12 Thank You, Lord, for everyone working in this community (RCCGONLINE.ORG). Lord, please bless all those who have been rebroadcasting these prayers and declarations; give them the grace to keep up with this good work of faith in the name of Jesus.

13 By faith, appreciate God for answered prayers. Your testimonies are undeniable in Jesus’ name.

14 Father, please let every challenge, hindrance, and obstacle of getting these prayer points across to Your children timely and on a daily basis be removed, in Jesus’ name.

15 Submit yourself and your personal petitions to God. Cast all your cares on Him, for He cares for you (Philippians 4:6)

16 In Jesus’ name, I pray. (John 14:13–14; 15:16)

17 Thank you Father for answered prayers. (1 Thessalonians 5:18).

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These prayers have no expiry date! Please join us in prayer, irrespective of the time they get to you. Remain blessed, in Jesus’. name.

Note: These prayers are spiritual and can only be understood and fully enjoyed by God’s children.

To fully benefit from these prayers, you must first accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior by saying this prayer:

Lord Jesus, I come before You today with a broken and contrite heart full of repentance. Please, forgive me for all my sins. Today, I surrender my life to You, I believe that Jesus is Lord and I confess it with my mouth. Jesus, come into my life and save my soul from eternal destruction. In Jesus’ name, I pray. AMEN!

If you participated in that 👆 life-changing prayer! Congratulations! we are so excited you surrendered your life to Jesus!

Bible in one minute

MR. CRITICAL
Once I led a man to the Lord who had a pretty rough background. After being born again, he joined our church and began criticizing everything. He criticized people for using soap because it wasn't natural. (He could have used a lot of soap too—he needed it!) He criticized people because they peeled their potatoes, and the skin was the most nutritious part. This guy just had an opinion about everything!
I didn't find out until later, but this fellow had been the first person ever indicted by the California Grand Jury three times before he was a teenager. He had lived in reformatories since the age of five. Because of all this, and growing up around so much strife, there was a tremendous amount of anger and resentment in him.
After a couple of months, he came to me one day and said,
"I'm leaving this church. I'm going back out into the desert because there's too much strife here."
I just got bold and told him, "Yes, there is strife in this church, but it's all coming from you. There wasn't any strife among the members until you came in here and started criticizing
everybody. You're the source of this strife!"
"Really? I didn't realize it."
"You didn't realize that when you criticize people over everything they do that they aren't going to like that?"\
This brother just sat down and began to tell me about his background. Then he said, "I guess I just didn't realize it was strife. I just thought it was normal." Then he continued, saying,
"If you were to tell me to act healed when I feel sick, I can do that because I've felt healed before. But when you're telling me to walk in love, I guess I don't know how to do that. I've
never felt love before." I had to take this guy and start teaching him through the life of Jesus what it's like to love people.
Some folks come from a background where screaming, yelling, and throwing things were normal. There are plenty of families like that, but it's not the way God wants us to be.
(James 3:16.)
Do you treat strangers better than your own family? Many people wouldn't dare to treat me the way that they treat their own children, yet they wonder, Why am I having these lousy kid!" scream at me, "Why haven't you done this yet?"
and see how our relationship gets along. If that's how you treat your family, you have a double standard.
When you blast your family members—the people you're supposed to love more than anybody else—it's no wonder you're dealing with rebellion, strife, and division. If you want
godly relationships, you have to start guarding your tongue.
You have to realize that you can't tolerate such strife. Satan comes in through the doors of envy and strife and works every evil work in your life.
Would you allow a poisonous snake to run loose in your house? If it got into the heating vent, perhaps you wouldn't see it for a week or two, but if you knew it was still lurking there,
somewhere, you'd probably say, "I don't care how long it takes, I am not going to live in a house with a dangerous, venomous viper on the loose!" It might not be an immediate
threat, but if you never knew just where it was... hunting.....
Strife is much more deadly than a poisonous snake! Along with envy, strife opens up an inroad for every evil work in your life. It's time you snap out of complacency and recognize that you're in a spiritual battle. You can't tolerate envy, strife, unforgiveness or any other negative emotion.
Some people look at pornographic images and think, Well, I'll never act that out. Every time you indulge your flesh, you are releasing spiritual powers into your life. As you give more and
more of a place to the devil, I guarantee that it will cost you something. Sin will take you further than you want to go, cost you more than you want to pay, and keep you longer than you
want to stay.
Every one of us is exposed to the forces of the kingdom of darkness each and every day. We aren't on R&R (rest and relaxation). We aren't in a secured area where our actions
don't really count. We're in a spiritual battle, with a real enemy who wants to take advantage of us any way he can.
God's Word says, "Neither give place to the devil," (Eph. 4:27).
You are the one who gives Satan inroads into your life. He takes whatever "place" you give him through your thoughts, words, emotions, and actions.
- Andrew wommack (Believers Authority)

Fruitfulness is productivity. Traffic leads to revenue. Until your productivity results in value creation. It is just physical exertion.

People are interested in the value that your product can provide. Consciously create the value and give yourself to the process.

People drops their money to eliminate or reduce a pain. Our job as entrepreneurs is to give ourselves to the process and inject vitality into once painful experience.

Keep creating

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Jesus is more than enough

AFTER DEATH—WHAT?
When God began to perform mighty miracles in Kathryn Kuhlman's meetings, it would have been easy for her to change her message. Yet she never did.
In virtually every service she called sinners to repentance. Why? Because she knew that physical healing is temporal, salvation is eternal.

In her book A Glimpse into Glory, Kathryn answers the question, "After Death—What?"

As long as I'm still in this body of flesh I am susceptible to sickness, disease, sorrow, and heartbreak. It's a body of corruption. It is a mortal body. But one of these days it shall no
longer be a vile body. It shall be changed from corruption to incorruption. It shall be changed from mortal to immortal. It shall be raised, not as a vile body, but as a body fashioned like unto His body, the body of our wonderful Jesus.

We thrill to the glorious fact that our sins are covered with the Blood. But my redemption will never be perfected until that day when that which is now corruption, that which is now
mortal, shall be raised in incorruption and immortality. One day I shall stand in His glorious presence, with a glorious new body.
When the trump of the Lord shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and those which are still alive shall be caught up to
meet Him in the air, so shall I ever be with Him.
Those who have gone before are not lost, not separated from us permanently. One of these days I'm going to see Papa again.
One of these days I'm going to see Mama again. One of these days I'm going to be with my loved ones.

I won't exchange that glorious hope for a title deed to all the world. My place in heaven is prepared. My hope is secure. I'm ready to go. I'll see you on the other side. For Kathryn Kuhlman, "one of these days" was much closer than she realized.

~ Pastor Benny Hinn || Kathryn Kuhlman her spiritual legacy.
- Spiritual Notes

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HOW TO END THE STRUGGLE.
Some years ago, I was pastor of a church in western Pennsylvania. In that church, there was a beautiful young lady, a high school girl, who came to me and said, "Brother Schambach, I've come to tell you good-bye. I am not coming to church any more. I just can't live this life. There are too many pressures in high school. I am not going to be a hypocrite. I
can't live it, and I am not going to come to church and pretend that I am a Christian."

I said to her, "Sit down there. I have something I
want to tell you. I appreciate your honesty, and I am glad that you came and told me instead of just .dropping out. But I want to tell you something about living the Christian life. I can't do it either!"
That almost knocked her off her chair. She said, "What! But you are the preacher! You can't mean that!"
I said, "I am made of the very same stuff that you are, flesh and blood. I learned my lesson a long time ago. There is no way that I can live it, but you can find somebody that will come into your life and live it through you! His name is Jesus!"
Isn't this beautiful?

I believe that we need this kind of teaching. When .you recognize that you can't do it, and turn the whole struggle over to Jesus and let Him do it, He will do it right! That old you has to die! Mortify your members that are upon the earth!
But there are still people in the church that are living like the devil. You know it's the truth!
You say, "But I am doing all I know how!"
Well, now, if we could get by on doing all we know how, Jesus would never have had to die. God was looking for a man that would live this life in the world, but He couldn't find one.

There was David, a man after God's own heart, but you know his story. He got his eyes on another man's wife, and sent that man off to battle and got him killed so that he could marry the woman. David! There is that old battle again. Flesh!

Samson, a man who had supernatural strength, but for the unlawful love of a woman, he lost all his power.
God was looking for a man who would live this
life. Finally, Jesus said, "Father, let me go down there! I will show you how to live this thing!"
Jesus Christ, in the fullness of time, was born of a woman. Mary did not have a husband at the time. He was conceived of Holy Ghost seed.
When He was conceived, Jesus was stripped of His divine power. That statement may amaze you, even shock you, but look at the record.

II Cor. 8:9: "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."

Hebrews 2:17:
"Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be
made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people."

Phil. 2:8:
"And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."

His life on earth was like your life and mine. As a man, He did not become a miracle worker until after the Holy Ghost came upon Him when He was baptized in Jordan. He suffered temptation as a man, and overcame temptation as a man.

Hebrews 4:15:
"(He) was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin."

When He was offered up on Calvary, His blood became the perfect, acceptable sacrifice for sin because there was no sin, no guilt in that blood. He was a spotless Lamb, slain before the foundation of the world.

I want you know that Jesus lived this human life, from His birth to His crucifixion, without sin. He died, and the grave could not hold Him! Can you say praise the Lord?
He was resurrected in the fullness of time, and took His seat on the right hand of God the Father, where He is now making.intercession for you and for me.
He told the disciples to go to Jerusalem and wait until they received the Holy Ghost. He said, "He can't come until I send Him to you, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me."
Jesus said, "I am going to walk in you and talk in you, and I am going to be your God, and you are going to be my people."

You say, "Well now, if Jesus is the only one that
lived this life, how in the world can you say that I can live it?"
You can't! But when you are dead, crucified with Christ, He will live it through you!

Did you ever hear somebody stand up in church and say, "Thank the Lord, I am saved and sanctified and living holy and blameless. Nobody can point a finger at me!"
I would say, "Why don't you sit down and shut up?
You aren't doing a thing! You are supposed to be dead, crucified. Dead folks don't brag!"
Everything is "I." Let us glory in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.

"Crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life that I
now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
Gal. 2:20.
Then Paul goes on to say,
"I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if
righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (v. 21.)

This is the first step. As a Christian, know that it is not you living it; it is Christ living, walking, talking, moving in you. I learned this secret a long time ago.

I told that young lady who came to me
discouraged, "I know I can't live it, but I have learned that I am to identify myself with Christ, upon that .cross. Jesus not only carried Schambach's sins to the cross; He carried Schambach! I am crucified with
Christ through identification. I have been buried with Him in baptism."
Thank God, when we baptize you, we are not going to leave you under the water. We are going to bring you up. There is a resurrection that takes place.
The old man is left behind, dead. The new man rises to walk in newness of life with Christ Jesus. He said,"I will never leave you nor forsake you, even to the end of the age!"

You say, "Do you mean to tell me that I won't be
tempted any more?"
Of course you will be tempted! You will be
tempted more than ever before. But you can look the devil right in the eye and say, "You are dealing with my big Brother! Go ahead, Jesus! You have been this way before. I am just going to stand here and rejoice while you fight the battle for me!"
When the temptation comes, don't you try to fight it. Remember, Jesus won this battle before, and He is going to win it again.
Newness of life!
Born again!
A child of God!
Now you don't have to struggle, because you have learned that somebody is going to fight your battles for you.

- RW Schambach ( WHAT WILL THE WELL-
DRESSED CHRISTIAN WEAR?)
- Spiritual Notes