BACKSLIDING-

A translated revelation of the death experience of Pastor Abraham Yakubu.
 BACKSLIDING
As a Christian, I backslid five times: I backslid twice when I was working in the office and thrice as a Pastor. It i s possible also that you may have backslid before. A Pastor that’s beating his wife, has he not backslidden? He that embezzles Church or public money, has he not backslidden? If you have backslidden in any way, the Lord is calling you back to return home. He told the children of Israel to return to Him: “Return, you backsliding children and I will heal your backsliding ...” (Jeremiah 3:22) “Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to retur n.” Jeremiah 8:5)
 TYPES OF BACKSLIDINGS
 1. The first type of backsliding is when such an individual has backslidden in the heart and yet nobody knows it. You may have backslidden in the heart and still preaching and conducting evangelisms. “They made (Him ) the keeper of the vineyards; but (His) own vineyard have (He) not kept.” (Songs of Solomon 1:6b; Proverbs 14:14).
 2. The second type of backsliding is when there are noticeable physical evidences. It is the situation when you used to be a prayer warrior and a very strong man of God, such that when you go on your knees to pray, you can pray from morning till evening before standing up. But now, the only time you pray is when you are in the Church and leading prayer session, or the prayer session being lead by someone else. If you find yourself in that position, you have already backslidden. A Christian or a man of God, who enters a car and can no longer preach the gospel; a Christian or a man of God who can no longer do personal evangelism, has he not backsl idden? “Once I was in a vehicle going to Lokoja, I was not preaching but listening to a message. But I heard, “Abraham, you are now a big man for you can no longer stand to preach.” Immediately, I stood to my feet and started preaching, not knowing that th ere was a man in that vehicle who was going to commit suicide because of what he was going through in his life. If a Christian or a minister of God has become so big that he can no longer do personal evangelism again, that person is already a backslider. W hen such individual has been reading the Bible very well before, but now he no longer has the urge to read the Bible anymore. Anytime he makes an attempt to read, he will just sleep off; that is a sign of backsliding. That person may be behaving anyhow in the Church and will not even take any correction. He or She will be living an untruthful and or immoral life.

3. The third type of backslider is that, that person has out rightly and stubbornly stopped coming to Church and is deliberately “forsaking the as sembly of ourselves together.” (Hebrew 10:25) In the name of Jesus, I pray for all backsliders, that the God who returned me to Himself after backsliding, will return you in Jesus name