This site, ‘Reconciled Family Church’, belongs to the ‘Reconciled Family of Christ Mission’, which headquarter is presently at No. 30, zone 3A, Akingbola, Bodija, Ibadan. The proposed new headquarter ground is at Akanti village, off Moniya-Apete road. The church is presently having assemblies at various locations in Ibadan and part of Osun State.
The vision that gave birth to the Church was given to me, Brother Diekola Gabriel Akinwale, by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ somewhat around 1989 while I was reading my Bible in one of the laboratories of the animal science department of the University of Ibadan where I was a student of animal science in the University during the time. It came as gentle whisper into my heart when I came to verse eighteen precisely as I studied from the book of II Corinthians, chapter five. I heard it audibly in my heart, ‘If you ever had the grace of God to lead my people in the future, I am given to you the ministry of reconciliation when the verse itself says, ‘Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,’ (II Cor. 5: 18, 19, NKJV.).
I did not pen the message down for remembrance because it had meant not so much to me as at the time it was given to me. This, in the first place, is because I never at any time in my life anticipated to become a leader of the Church before that time. Neither was calling of God into the ministry anything to me. I never knew that anyone could be called into the ministry as a leader and I had never known anyone of such that was called into the ministry as a leader that time though I was a church member myself and I was having one or two things done for the leaders f my church that time. I simply thought of what I was doing as a normal thing and that those who were leading the church that time had made their profession of it.
Nonetheless, I could understand from the message that it would not be accidental of me to find myself as a church leader in the future. It is therefore not surprising to me that the knowledge of the call which I never knew anything about as at the time the idea of this ministry was given to me is every day from that time making itself known to me more and more. And, eventually, the call which I never had when the idea of the ministry was born into my heart came three years after which the idea was born. My call into the ministry as a servant of God to partner up with the Apostles of Christ whom it was first given and the various ministers of God that have been called and used in the ministry after them came in the year 1992, around the month of June, to be precise.
It was thereby a wonderful moment in my life on 31st August, 1994, when the people that witnessed the inception of the ministry came to me after the first service that was held on that day to ask from me for what the name of the assembly that was formed that day would be. It was to me a day of fulfilment of what I never conceived in myself that it would be and never knew anything about how it was made to be. It was a day I saw God as a God of determined purpose and a faithful God to do what He has decided to do in His heart singlehandedly without any assistance from any man. It was also a day that I saw it clearly that I have indeed received grace from God because He had told me by His gentle whisper that I would be a leader of His church if only I had had the grace from Him to lead His people. I was quickly reminded by the Spirit of God of what I was told about the event of that day about six years before the time. I quickly answered them without any hesitation that the name should be ‘Christ Ministry of Reconciliation’ in the word of the Spirit of God that announced the birth of the ministry to me before the time.
So, you need no one to tell you as I needed no one to tell me that the ministry whose site you have opened is a product of the prophetic utterance of God. And, indeed, everything about the ministry is God from the conception of its idea to the fulfilment of the purpose of God regarding to it and even to the present time. We have done nothing in the ministry without God and we cannot do anything without God. This is the uniqueness of the ministry. This is the uniqueness of the message which you will hear from God in this ministry from the site as the call of God upon his servant that is being used by the Spirit of God to proclaim the message of reconciliation to the world is that of a novice man like that of many others servants of God in the Scripture that were brought from the fields where they knew something and could operate better to operate in the very area where they know nothing.
This, of course, was what the call of Amos was all about (Amos 1: 1). He was never a prophet before he was called by God to be (Amos 1: 1). He was not even a son of the prophet like both Joel and Abijah; the two sons of Samuel, that he would say that he had learnt to be a prophet from his father (I Sam. 8: 1 – 3). He was a sheep breeder and tender of Sycamore fruit (Amos 7: 14). But he was called by God from the office of sheep breeder and tendering of Sycamore fruit where he was a professional and could operate efficiently better by experience to a field of prophecy where he knew nothing to be made a prophet (Amos 7: 14). I can understand also that the same is the story with Peter and his brother, Andrew, also when they were called by the Lord Jesus with a promise to make them a fisher of men (Mat. 4: 18, 19). Jesus knew they were never a fisher of man when they were called and that they had had no knowledge of what they were called to do from anywhere before the time (Mat. 4: 18, 19). So, they were a novice with respect to the knowledge of what Jesus had laid His hands upon them to be made of them (Mat. 4: 18, 19).
I have realized from this that it is not impossibility for God to make use of a man that is a novice with respect to the knowledge of what He wants to use him for to do such things perfectly well. It is even in this that the glory of God is made manifested and perfected more than when man has already acquired little or more knowledge about what he is to be used for. This is the sole reason it has been possible for God to make use of people that are thought by the wise men of this world because of the versatile knowledge they had about what is being sent with the fools of the world that have virtually nothing about what they are sent to prove these wise people of the world foolish on what they thought they know. This is not only evident in the Scripture. It is also established by God in the Scripture when Paul said by the Spirit of God that was in Him, ‘For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence’ (I Cor. 1: 26 – 29, NKJV.).
This is the glory which the Jews of the days of Jesus should behold in Jesus when they saw the wisdom with which He was handling the Law of Moses and they knew He never went to the same school which the Pharisees of the time had gone (Mat. 13: 54 – 57). It was the glory which the Jews also should behold in the Disciples of Christ when they saw the wisdom with which they were handling the word of God and they knew that they never unschooled (Acts 4: 13). But spiritual blindness did not permit them to do so as they, rather than glorifying God for it, they were offended at Christ because of it (Mat. 13: 54 – 57). It is believed, however, that God will help you to see this glory of God which is being presented to you by the Spirit of God in this introductory message by virtue of the foolishness of his servant whom He has committed this great message of reconciliation into his hands because I know that you are a favoured one from the Lord Jehovah when you see the great wisdom of God that is being displayed by God through him (I Cor. 1: 26 – 29). Halleluyah! Therefore, when you see it, believe God because of it that His is God that makes wise foolish by the foolish people of the world and praise Him for it to be better (I Cor. 1: 26 – 29).
I have realized also that those who are novice in the office which they are called by God only have to listen to God and follow Him steadily in everything which they are doing to be better than those who have thought of themselves to be learned in the same office (Mat. 4: 19). This is the power of the message that was preached by Jesus to His chosen Disciples that were to be used in the office of fishing of men where they had known nothing about (Mat. 4: 19). He said, ‘Follow Me and I will make you fisher of men’ (Mat. 4: 19). To me, these two sentences are not two – it is one (Mat. 4: 19). It is one because it is by following Him that He intends to make those that He called what He wanted to make them (Mat. 4: 19). So, to follow Jesus is the only way to be made what He wants to make of man, especially in those areas where he knows nothing about (Mat. 4: 19).
I know this very well and I have armed myself with strength to follow Christ so closely in everything that He is doing (Mat. 4: 19). I know this is the only way I could become what He wanted to make of me and fulfil the purpose of the ministry which He has committed into my hands (Mat. 4: 19). I know also that is what I needed to do if I would not waste the grace which He has thrown upon me to be made messenger of His gospel to the world (II Cor. 6: 1, 2). Of course, I could not forget from the first message that brought the awareness of this ministry of reconciliation into my heart that the possibility of me finding myself in the church as a leader is of the gracious decision of God for me. And I needed no one to warn me to know that I should not waste this grace (II Cor. 6: 1, 2). I know it could be wasted (II Cor. 6: 1, 2). But I have resolved never to make a waste of it (II Cor. 6: 1, 2). It is for this reason that I know that I have had no choice than to watch so closely at Jesus to see what He is doing clearly and follow Him so closely in everything that He is doing to be doing likewise (Mat. 4: 19).
If you understand this (Mat. 4: 19), you will then need no one to tell you before you will know it that this site which you have logged into is that which brings the message of God from God to you as received from God in the right spirit which it is spoken because of the perfect emulation of Christ. This site is thus the right site for the people who are in dear search of the knowledge of truth about the true God, the truth about God and the truth about men. It is also the right site where you can know the mind of God regarding to His expectation from you in regards to your needs as a way of meeting them. And above all, it is a site for the people that want to know how to handle Bible in such a way as to bring life for them as intended of it by God.
This, of course, is the utmost aim of God through the Bible and all His word entirely. It is to bring life to all men by salvation. But, it has to be understood that this requires proper handling if it will be fulfilled in anyone. It has to be understood also that many people have been destroyed by this word of God that is meant to save them in their days because they lack proper handling of it. It is in this wise that Moses was right when He said that He has laid before the children of Israel the way of life and that of death. He said, ‘See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess’ (Deut. 30: 15, 16, NKJV.).
How can a message which brings life brings death and at the same time? …… This is the truth about every word that is spoken by God in the Bible. It is also one of the mysteries that characterized the word of God. But the explanation of this is not simply in the obedience or disobedience of man to it in the first place. It is rather in the handling of it. This is what determines whether the word of God would be obeyed or not. People who have ever applied the word of God obediently in the Bible are those who could handle it appropriately. How could Cain apply the word of God obediently to save himself from the evil which he had brought upon himself when he could not handle it in the right way to see the good intention of God in what He was telling him? …… This, of course, is the reason many of the people who have found it difficult to believe in the Bible and the word of God in general and have been destroying themselves by the wrong usage of it have been doing so.
It is thus a blessing of life onto life for you and everyone in this world to have this kind of site on the global networks that they may be helped by the Spirit of God to handle Bible in a way to bring life to them, and not death. This is the whole essence of this site. It is for this reason and to the glory of God the Father, the son and Holy Spirit that I can say to you and every one that is logging on to this site that, ‘You are welcome to the Ministry where the Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is helping us to handle the word of life in the way it will bring life’.
This is what the Lord Jesus has trained me for as a leader by His Spirit. This is what the Lord Jesus is training everyone of the member of this ministry for as a leader. It is also the same feat that the Lord Jesus is set to achieve in everyone that has been enabled by the His spirit to locate this site on the world web as you have done. So, I can boldly say in the Lord Jesus that you are about to be reading through pages of messages and listening to various tapes that are bound to bring life of Christ into you, your family and your business and ministries and churches and everything that is yours as a person.
This is not only meant to be from me as a person only, but from every trained ministers of the word that has been trained to handle the word of God with the same efficacy as to bring life in the ministry. These ones are the people that are constituted into the Reconciled Family members in the mission. This site is as a result such where you can meet with collection of ministers of God who can handle the word of God with the same efficacy with which Peter and Paul and all the rest of the Apostles of Christ had handled it to bring life. This is what the Spirit of God has promised to do through the ministries; and this, really, is what he has been doing. I am sure that you too will soon give the same testimony about the faithfulness of God to this His promise which He has made to us in the ministry.
Here in the site are various messages from the various programmes that have been organized in the past as well as those that are being presently staged in the ministry. The various messages comes from Reconciliation Week programmes, Seminars and Conferences on leaders and leadership of the Church, Crusade messages from open-air or internal and Sunday messages at the Ministry’s Pulpit of Reconciliation from our various assemblies anywhere in the world. The website also offers the opportunity to the users to get connected with special messages on such occasions like naming, wedding or burial and other forms of activities fro9m other churches or ministries outside the ministry of reconciliation where the message of reconciliation which is committed into our hands is preached or taught. The site is thus that which enables you to have so much from the messages of reconciliation that is committed into the hands of able men that are able to bring people into reconciliation with God as a way of making them to inherit eternal life in Christ Jesus.
I thereby wish you all the best of this site as you log into it now and always. May God grant you life and all other blessings pertaining to life as you are doing so in Jesus name. Amen.
Akinwale Diekola Gabriel
President: Christ Ministry of Reconciliation
General Overseer: Reconciled Family of Christ Mission