jesusjnr2020:
You could be hardworking and still die of hunger.

Being hard-working doesn't guarantee the lack of hunger.

Peter and Andrew toiled all night in the sea but caught no single fish. Luke 5:5

iCauseTrouble:
Religion / Christianity is not an assurance to good life. I have seen so many holy and born again people die of sickness, depression, hunger, accident, building collapse, plane crash and so on.
Don't let anyone fool you!!!

Porksupplyib:


Interesting success story. I have one question though . How did he become top in his set when according to you he had "family background problem".
His family background problem forgot to attack his academic success?

Eriokanmi:
Good question. Evil people could allow you to get to a point in life and wait for you with close monitoring until when you get to a point where your efforts of many years would start to pay off and truncate it.

Most of the problems we all have or face in life can be traced to our backgrounds while some were caused by us cos of either our negligence or naivety. That's human nature. There are several of such examples in the bible and in our generation too. There are many first class graduates today who are roaming the streets. It's not ordinary my brother. I attended one interview years back, during which we were discussing generally as applicants...we were just rubbing minds together. One guy said people get employed every day despite how though it has always been in the Labour market and without even influencing it. That's why we should pray always

AngelicBeing:
l agree with your post, Your background, family-Line, Familytree, family root, Foundation and Ancestral lineage must be addressed properly via Foundational cleansing Prayers, skeptics, will disagree but the Truth is this, the strength of a building lies in it's FOUNDATION, Your background and Faulty family Tree plays alot of role on how far the building (your life) will stand or crumble

jesusjnr2020:
You could be hardworking and still die of hunger.

Being hard-working doesn't guarantee the lack of hunger.

Peter and Andrew toiled all night in the sea but caught no single fish. Luke 5:5

Eriokanmi:
Very correct, especially when you pray amiss. I worked in a popular telecom company years back. I wasn't making a headway despite all the accrued benefits. I now resigned and went to inform the man of God, a successful first generation chartered accountant in Nigeria, who stood as my guarantor and informed him I had left the company. He now said, hmmm! I was thinking you were doing very well as I wasn't hearing from you since you joined the company.

He said to me, please, pray that the Lord should lead you in the right direction and show you the right path to your career freedom. God answered that prayer. Meanwhile, before then I had always been praying that God should provide a better job for me, which payed much better and with much more benefits in same sector, not knowing I was directing my prayer elsewhere.

In the bible, Peter and his brother had toiled all through the night but caught no fish. But Jesus said, put down your net and they said master, we've toiled all through the night with no catch (still telling stories) but at your word, we'd cast down the net. We knew what happened next. You can imagine they had been applying their same usual experience as fishermen in catching fish and without listening to Jesus when he spoke. They'd have left for home with fruitless efforts.

Pastor Adeboye was praying for just a house to be built for God for the gathering of His people and God told him stop asking me for a house. because I can give you a city and he changed the prayer point. Today, anyone who visits the redemption camp would know its a city indeed. Its bigger than the entire VI and lekki put together. One auditorium alone is 4x4 km in size, not to talk of the old ones and where people built houses and live. There's nothing you'd look for in a city that you'd not find there, except an airport but there's a helipad. They had their own power plant.

A friend of mine had a problem traceable to his family background. He's very intelligent and graduated top of his set. He'd write aptitude tests but they'd not call him. There was one in which he was second on the list of those who applied to Nigeria breweries job in those days. I was the one who collected the parcel which their rep who was driving a brand new Toyota condor brought to him cos he wasn't around to receive it. He asked me, where's our new colleague? He was one of the finalists selected from across Nigeria. They were just 6 in number. I was so happy for him. He just got married too and his ex wife was so happy. In the letter, they told him they'd invite them soon for a chat before resumption. That was the last he heard of them. All the 5 were employed except him. Today, one of them is an oga at the NB.

My friend was very prayerful but always prayed amiss. The day he tackled the family background war as exposed to him by a man of God during an intense prayer session, and those evil people told him they've left him alone ooo when the unseen fire of God hit them, was the beginning of his freedom. He has recovered all. His family relocated to UK but he stayed back home due to his thriving career. He never knew the problem was his family background. He was always praying for better jobs which he'd never get, though great opportunities kept coming his way. I have several similar stories but time won't permit me to tell it all.

Thundafireseun:
There is no work in Nigeria

Don’t blame people because God did it for you

Umsworld:

wetin be god of men man of God handiwork

Just asking for a friends grandma

Nsogbu001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTBLbOML5Q

According to Rev. Mike Okoh, prayers are good, fellowships are good but all these things without handiwork is a waste.

Stop wasting your time in the church praying and fasting without engaging in any handiwork. It doesn't work that way.

You don't expect God to fall down from heaven and help you when you are not doing something meaningful.

Listen carefully and mediate over it as you go to church today.
Got bless us all.

jesusjnr2020:
You could be hardworking and still die of hunger.

Being hard-working doesn't guarantee the lack of hunger.

Peter and Andrew toiled all night in the sea but caught no single fish. Luke 5:5

Abemy:
Many people especially Nigerians don't know the difference between fasting and starving.

Kobojunkie:
Christianity in Nigeria is no different from traditionalism at all at all. See how this one just dey spew tales as if from the lips of a babalawo while lacing it all with mentions of God.

Eriokanmi:
■ Mr atheist, I hail you. I never expected anything different though. People who don't expect any favour or gains by any means and from anybody, but taking their time to make such true-life expressions can't be said to be lying.
■ You'd undestand how far your ignorance had led you someday. I can only pray for lost souls like you cos your atrocities never reaches one-quarter of Paul's yet, he was saved. So I won't condemn you.

jesusjnr2020:
You could be hardworking and still die of hunger.

Being hard-working doesn't guarantee the lack of hunger.

Peter and Andrew toiled all night in the sea but caught no single fish. Luke 5:5

Modified:

To all those who can't comprehend my point, kindly read and understand.

Jesus who made it easy work for them to catch many fishes than they'd ever done with all their hard work in life, used the illustration of the birds of the air who don't toil but God feeds to prove to them that it's not by hard work but obedience of God's Word. Hence the saying, "seek first the Kingdom of God and everything shall be added to you".

After all, God made it easy for man in the beginning when man didn't need to work hard to feed but just to obey God's Word. God made feeding free for man, but man only had to work hard to feed after he disobeyed the Word of God and God told him he will have to toil and sweat to be able to eat of the ground.

So obedience is the most important thing spiritually speaking. If all you have in this world is hardwork but you don't obey God's Word, you have gained nothing in Truth.

God bless.

Agoziemoses:

God blesses the works of your hand. Peter and Andrew got net breaking miracles when God intervened in their handiwork.

Raph82:
Peter & Andrew might have toiled trying to catch fishes as fishermen, when Jesus came to the scene, he gave them the direction to which they should cast their net, they did and harvested bountifully. They had handiwork which Jesus could give them direction on. God says " I will bless the works of your hand". If one doesn't have a work or be hardworking in whatever he's doing, what then will God bless?

InvertedHammer:

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Peter and Andrew lived thousands of years ago. So don't justify your laziness with their lifestyles.

The citizens of the great and progressive countries in the world do not waste their time praying and fasting for divine Providence. They work. They are the ones actually supporting the prayerful nations like Nigeria littered with unproductive prayer warriors.

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jesusjnr2020:
Do not confuse God for man. Hard work means nothing to God if you're not obedient to His Word. God didn't intend for man to work hard but to obey His Word. Hard work only came from disobedience in the beginning. So stop speaking as though God cares about working hard as men do. Men love to work hard but hate to obey God's Word.

Nsogbu001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTBLbOML5Q

According to Rev. Mike Okoh, prayers are good, fellowships are good but all these things without handiwork is a waste. Business Card

Stop wasting your time in the church praying and fasting without engaging in any handiwork. It doesn't work that way.

You don't expect God to fall down from heaven and help you when you are not doing something meaningful.

Listen carefully and mediate over it as you go to church today.
Got bless us all.

Nsogbu001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTBLbOML5Q

According to Rev. Mike Okoh, prayers are good, fellowships are good but all these things without handiwork is a waste.

Stop wasting your time in the church praying and fasting without engaging in any handiwork. It doesn't work that way.

You don't expect God to fall down from heaven and help you when you are not doing something meaningful.

Listen carefully and mediate over it as you go to church today.
Got bless us all.

jesusjnr2020:
You could be hardworking and still die of hunger.

Being hard-working doesn't guarantee the lack of hunger.

Peter and Andrew toiled all night in the sea but caught no single fish. Luke 5:5

Modified:

To all those who can't comprehend my point, kindly read and understand.

Jesus who made it easy work for them to catch many fishes than they'd ever done with all their hard work in life, used the illustration of the birds of the air who don't toil but God feeds to prove to them that it's not by hard work but obedience of God's Word. Hence the saying, "seek first the Kingdom of God and everything shall be added to you".

After all, God made it easy for man in the beginning when man didn't need to work hard to feed but just to obey God's Word. God made feeding free for man, but man only had to work hard to feed after he disobeyed the Word of God and God told him he will have to toil and sweat to be able to eat of the ground.

So actually loves to work hard but hates to obey God, but obedience is the most important thing spiritually speaking. If all you have in this world is hardwork but you don't obey God's Word, you have gained nothing in Truth.

God bless.

Raph82:
While you obey his injunctions, you must be diligent in whatever you do too. God himself did hard work when he created the world and everything in it, including man (he got his hands dirty big time in molding man from the dust), he worked so hard to accomplish the work in no time, and he rested on the seventh day, can't you see that was a hard work taken by God himself? U can't hide under obedience to dodge hard work or diligence. God does not condone laziness in his kingdom.

Eriokanmi:
Mr atheist, I hail you. I never expected anything different though. People who don't expect any favour or gains by any means and from anybody, but taking their time to make such true-life expressions can't be said to be lying.

You'd undestand how far your ignorance had led you someday. I can only pray for lost souls like you cos your atrocities never reaches one-quarter of Paul's yet, he was saved. So I won't condemn you.

Kobojunkie:
I am not an atheist. Rather, I am not gullible enough to swallow the tales you lot like to spew.

2. Pray for lost souls? God said He does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; the prayers , praises,offerings, vows, seeds, good works, etc., of the unrighteous are made filthy by their sins and hence never reach God. So what good are your so-called prayers for "lost souls" when you are just as removed as they are from God?

orisa37:
THE BIBLE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
WE DON'T DIE BY THE BREAD, WE LIVE BY THE BIBLE.