STOP SABOTAGING YOURSELF

On Sunday, 2 February 2020, the sounds of Heaven sounded in the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations Thessalonica, and joined the voices of the worshippers, creating an atmosphere of jubilation. The attendees drifted into the stream of God’s presence and as a result, found comfort and relief.

Right afterwards, evangelist Maria Sachpazidou preached a message entitled, “STOP SABOTAGING YOURSELF”, in which she mentioned that there are two categories of people. In the 1st category are the people who believe in what they do and that are able to make it, which results in them progressing all the time.

On the contrary, in the 2nd category are those who do not believe that they can make it and as a result, their morale decreases every day more and more. After explaining that the 2nd category includes people who sabotage themselves, she emphasized that as we sabotage ourselves we are going to live in obscurity, we will pass unnoticed and no one will ever acknowledge us. Subsequently, the evangelist read from 1 Samuel 17:32-37 and noted that David did not sabotage himself when he was found in front of the giant Goliath, but he set a high standard. “The highest we set the standard, the fewer people will agree with us and will encourage us to continue”, she underlined. So, while Saul was trying to discourage him, he did not compare himself with the others, neither did he allow the negative thoughts to trap him, but he believed in himself.

Wanting to show, afterwards, how important it is not to sabotage ourselves, the evangelist read a verse from Philippians 4:13 “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength”. At that point, she emphasized that we can do the things we have not done before through Jesus Christ who strengthens us. So, it is not right to combine where you are coming from with where you are going because success that comes from God’s kind of success has no biological attachment, but it springs from Heaven. So, the way to stop sabotaging yourself is by disciplining the negative thoughts and by starting to think right. In particular, the evangelist emphasized that: “We think right when, by an act of faith, we begin to think not of our limitations or shortcomings but of our righteousness in Christ Jesus”. Closing her message, she encouraged us to believe that we are going to make it because the reward and the prize are not for those who quit but for those who endure!

GOD GAVE HER A NEW AND PAIN-FREE HEART

On Sunday, 2 February 2020, Mrs. Antonia Pasioudi came to the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations Thessalonica, to glorify God through her wonderful testimony, revealing that God’s forgiveness brings peace and freedom in the heart of the one who forgives!

Mrs. Pasioudi started by describing that she grew up without her parents but with the care of an old relative of hers, whom she called “grandma”. Her parents immigrated to Germany for financial reasons and trusted the care of their 2.5-year-old child to relatives who loved and sought God and also taught Mrs. Pasioudi to do the same. In the years that followed, each time she would meet her parents, she was full of hope and joy, but when they would leave she would feel sorrow, disappointment, and pain. Their promise resonated in her ears, that they would go and live all together as a family and have a beautiful life where she would have whatever she needs and everything that belonged to them would be hers too. This was going on until the age of 12 when her mother came back and later on, her father. However, her parents were absent for too long and a noticeable gap had already been created in their relationship. A gap that wasn’t easy to fill! In order to replenish the love she was lacking, she decided to have her own family at the age of 18, so she got married to her husband and they both promised to have a beautiful life and stay together forever. In the course of her life, Mrs. Pasioudi continued to seek God and when she learned that she can build a relationship with Him, by inviting Him into her heart, her joy led her to share it with her husband and parents. Yet, to her surprise, the beginning of her relationship with God set off the destruction of her relationship with her parents and later on her husband. Her parents became hostile towards her because of her faith in God and as a result, they ended up turning their back on her, cutting off any communication. They would only communicate if she pursued it. As the years passed by, the same thing happened with her husband, he also became hostile, disrespectful, causing things to worsen. Until 2016, when the definitive blow came and her husband left her to start his own life.

All of these unpleasant experiences that constantly evolved since her childhood made Mrs. Pasioudi feel emotionally abandoned and rejected by people. She felt alone, helpless, unworthy and like she had no future. Furthermore, because of the pain she felt, she could not even enjoy raising up her children. All these negative feelings and thoughts that worried her led to various psychosomatic symptoms. Suddenly, she began to suffer from migraines, inexcusable pain in her bones, fatigue and insomnia. She could not sleep at night and when she finally managed to fall asleep, she had nightmares. In her dreams she could see snakes and dogs attacking her, a giant black man chasing her and men sleeping with her. Moreover, because of the pain and the rejection, she felt offense and unforgiveness burrowed into her heart. Nevertheless, Mrs. Pasioudi knew from the Word of God that keeping offense and unforgiveness sorrows God. So, she wanted them out of her heart and struggled to achieve that. Yet, in this battle, she realized that there were deep roots even from her childhood years and that the help of God was required!

It was then that Mrs. Pasioudi started visiting the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations Thessalonica, and as she was hearing the messages of the man of God Harry, she decided that she has to change the unpleasant turn her life had taken and turn it to the direction that God wanted. So, the more the Word of God she would put in her heart, the more delivered she would get from all those destructive feelings that had crushed her soul! She felt that gradually she was taking over a new level of joy and freedom; the darkness was leaving, and little by little the light was entering her! However, she could still locate pain hidden inside her. Until one day she received the impossible! During a Sunday Service, while the mass prayer was going on, she decided to focus on the pain she felt. Thus, at that moment she wholeheartedly asked God Almighty to give her a new heart that has never felt pain, and take every offence and unforgiveness that was hidden in her! God instantly heard her prayer and when the man of God Harry started praying for the congregation and her turn was approaching, she felt something being uprooted and forcefully coming out of her body!

Since that day her heart overflows with love and joy which she wants to transmit to everybody around her! Indeed, God gave her a new heart full of optimism and new dreams for the future. Now, free from every bitterness and offence, she does not feel the need to talk or think about the pain of the past. Actually it seems like it never existed! Jesus Christ healed her scars in just a moment, He helped her release forgiveness and now there is no emptiness in her heart. When she contacted the people who had hurt her in the past, it was like nothing had ever happened. Furthermore, when her mother got sick, immediately Mrs. Pasioudi rushed to take care of her, and since then the relationship with her parents has been fully restored! At the same time, the migraines, the pain in the bones, the sleep disorders and the fatigue she used to have vanished, while explosive energy took their place making the people around her wonder how she is so energized! Having felt the delivering power of God, she advised the congregation to release forgiveness because forgiveness strikes the root cause of all pain, and she promised to turn her life towards the direction that God wants for her!

Jesus Christ is able to resurrect every dead area of your life and give you a thorough reformation of heart and life. So, if your heart is full of scars and pain, do not despair; God can turn your scars into stars!

GENERATIONAL CURSE REVEALED BY THE ANOINTING OF GOD!

On Sunday, 2 February 2020, Mrs. Anna Morgan, who lives in the British Virgin Islands, on the island Tortola, attended the SCOAN Thessalonica to confirm that God found the root cause of her problem, even though she had to come to receive prayer for other issues that were worrying her.

A week ago, during the prayer line, the Spirit of God located her, and the man of God Harry gave her the following prophetic word: “There is this spirit of mental disorder that attacks your family members. In some of you it comes and goes. Somebody is normal and the next moment behaves like a crazy person. This is an attack. Doctors say that this comes from your DNA but this is not a DNA issue. It is a generational curse that we must break so that it will not continue to affect your family”. On that same day, this chain was broken, in the name of Jesus Christ!

Mrs. Morgan confirmed that, indeed, everything that the man of God said is true! The spirit of mental disorder was attacking both her family members and her. Some of these members were her grandfather, who had committed incest in the family and lost his mind ending up dying in this state, and her grandmother who was hospitalized for a mental disorder. Her sister was also affected by this evil spirit until one day she reached the point of chasing Mrs. Morgan with a knife in order to kill her! Furthermore, the 12-year-old nephew of hers was hearing voices that were telling him to misbehave. All these things also affected her! She began to have negative thoughts, she would hear voices and cursing, she felt rejection, had suicidal thoughts and would shut herself in her room for hours. The spirit that was tormenting her would many times tell her to fall into the sea and drown or run into a vehicle to get killed. All these also had an impact on her marriage since she would stay alone in the room for hours. Her husband understood that something was not going well but could not help her in some way. At the same time, she did not like herself and did not get along with other people.

In all these situations, Mrs. Morgan would fast, read the Bible and pray but she could not be delivered from this unclean spirit… But now she is happy and she thanks God who preserved her life in order to come and receive her freedom. When she received prayer from the man of God Harry, she felt peace, calm and received a new life! Full of joy, she praised God by testifying that if she had not been delivered from this spirit, she could not stand in front of a big audience for God, to whom belongs all the glory! Her advice to people who face similar problems is to seek the face of God because only His Spirit is the One who can reveal the root cause of the problem and set them free! Finally, Mrs. Morgan promised to move forward with Christ and not to sin anymore.

As a child of God, your situation should not affect your relationship with God. Faith comes when the Word prevails upon the procedure of thinking, upon the voice of your situation and upon the voice of your challenges. And then, indeed it is confirmed that you and God are majority!

In the following photographs, we can see people receiving prayer from the man of God Harry, as they took the decision to make an act of faith and surrender their failure, sickness and their limitations to the hands of the Living God. In that way, they attracted the attention of Jesus Christ, just as Zacchaeus did.