{"id":272603,"date":"2011-01-01T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44296"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:14:10","slug":"2011-is-a-year-of-righteousness-otabil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/01\/2011-is-a-year-of-righteousness-otabil\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 is a year of righteousness &#8211; Otabil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_44297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44297\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44297\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/01\/2011-is-a-year-of-righteousness-otabil\/otabil\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44297\" title=\"otabil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/otabil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Mensa Otabil,<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGeneral Overseer  of the International Central Bible Church (ICGC), has declared 2011 as a  year of righteousness, saying those who seek God in righteousness shall  never lack.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the Church\u2019s Crossover Service at  the Accra Sport Stadium on Friday night to usher in the New Year, he  said, if Christians got their lives right with God and make him number  one in all their endeavours, He would do unto them things that they had  never imagined.<br \/>\nDwelling on Mathew 6:28-33, Pastor Otabil said God would always add unto those who seek him.<br \/>\nPastor Otabil said striving to achieve hopes and aspirations were  legitimate, but \u201cwhat God is saying is that we should make him the top  most priority this year\u201d to pave the way for him to pour out his  blessing according to riches in glory.<br \/>\nHe encouraged the large gathering to make it a priority to know God better this year.<br \/>\n\u201cFor this reason it is important to leave our old ways and enter the  New Year with righteousness. If this becomes the cry of our hearts then  God has something special for us\u201d he said.<br \/>\nGiving examples  of the importance of righteousness, he mentioned Noah whose  righteousness saved his household from perishing in the flood that  destroyed the earth.<br \/>\nHe also cited the fact that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of the absence of ten righteous men in that land.<br \/>\nPastor Otabil noted that if few people in the country lived  righteous, Ghana would be exalted. He added that righteous people were  bold and feared by the devil, adding that 2010 was just a chapter of the  story of every believer and urged them to stand firm until it was  finally over.<br \/>\n\u201cIt takes the grace of God for man to be  righteous,\u201d he said and he called on Christians to ask God for the grace  that makes man straight before his maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Overseer of the International Central Bible Church (ICGC), has declared 2011 as a year of righteousness, saying those who seek God in righteousness shall never lack. 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