staga:
■Fasting requires abstinence from all bodily pleasures such as food and sex. There is nothing abnormal and it does not have to take Pastor Ibiyeomie to tell his followers who should know what fasting entails what to do.
■Christians who want to fast should know what it entails. How can you be fasting and having sex?

5 Do you think I want to see people punish their bodies on those days of fasting? Do you think I want people to look sad and bow their heads like dead plants? Do you think I want people to wear mourning clothes and sit in ashes to show their sadness? That is what you do on your days of fasting. Do you think that is what the Lord wants?
6 “I will tell you the kind of day I want—a day to set people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off others. I want a day when you set troubled people free and you take the burdens from their shoulders.
7 I want you to share your food with the hungry. I want you to find the poor who don’t have homes and bring them into your own homes. When you see people who have no clothes, give them your clothes! Don’t hide from your relatives when they need help.”
8 If you do these things, your light will begin to shine like the light of dawn. Then your wounds will heal. Your “Goodness” will walk in front of you, and the Glory of the Lord will come following behind you.
9 Then you will call to the Lord, and he will answer you. You will cry out to him, and he will say, “Here I am.” Stop causing trouble and putting burdens on people. Stop saying things to hurt people or accusing them of things they didn’t do.
10 Feel sorry for hungry people and give them food. Help those who are troubled and satisfy their needs. Then your light will shine in the darkness. You will be like the bright sunshine at noon.
11 The Lord will always lead you and satisfy your needs in dry lands. He will give strength to your bones. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water, like a spring that never goes dry.
12 Your cities have been destroyed for many years, but you will rebuild them and their foundations will last for a long time. You will be called “Fence Fixer” and “Builder of Roads and Houses.”
13 That will happen when you stop sinning against God’s law about the Sabbath and when you stop doing things to please yourself on that special day. You should call the Sabbath a happy day. You should honor the Lord’s special day by not saying and doing things that you do every other day of the week.
14 Then you could enjoy the Lord. As the Lord himself says, “I could carry you up to the highest mountain and let you enjoy the land that I gave to your father Jacob.” - Isaiah 58 vs 5 - 14

staga:
■The reason why modern day Christians function without power is because they argue everything and always come up with excuses not to do the very things that empowered the first church in Acts of the Apostles. Prayerless, powerless and unfocussed Christians everywhere.

papagiddy:
chairman.... Ramadan is out of here oo..just skipping lunch u dey call that one fasting The pastor is on point o

vivaAfrica:
Misleading heading, bloggers and journalists should mo d how they twist news to attract clicks and visitors. He Never banned anyone from having sex. He only suggested that fasting will be more effective whe couples abstain from sex during fasting.

5 Do you think I want to see people punish their bodies on those days of fasting? Do you think I want people to look sad and bow their heads like dead plants? Do you think I want people to wear mourning clothes and sit in ashes to show their sadness? That is what you do on your days of fasting. Do you think that is what the Lord wants?
6 “I will tell you the kind of day I want—a day to set people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off others. I want a day when you set troubled people free and you take the burdens from their shoulders.
7 I want you to share your food with the hungry. I want you to find the poor who don’t have homes and bring them into your own homes. When you see people who have no clothes, give them your clothes! Don’t hide from your relatives when they need help.”
8 If you do these things, your light will begin to shine like the light of dawn. Then your wounds will heal. Your “Goodness” will walk in front of you, and the Glory of the Lord will come following behind you.
9 Then you will call to the Lord, and he will answer you. You will cry out to him, and he will say, “Here I am.” Stop causing trouble and putting burdens on people. Stop saying things to hurt people or accusing them of things they didn’t do.
10 Feel sorry for hungry people and give them food. Help those who are troubled and satisfy their needs. Then your light will shine in the darkness. You will be like the bright sunshine at noon.
11 The Lord will always lead you and satisfy your needs in dry lands. He will give strength to your bones. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water, like a spring that never goes dry.
12 Your cities have been destroyed for many years, but you will rebuild them and their foundations will last for a long time. You will be called “Fence Fixer” and “Builder of Roads and Houses.”
13 That will happen when you stop sinning against God’s law about the Sabbath and when you stop doing things to please yourself on that special day. You should call the Sabbath a happy day. You should honor the Lord’s special day by not saying and doing things that you do every other day of the week.
14 Then you could enjoy the Lord. As the Lord himself says, “I could carry you up to the highest mountain and let you enjoy the land that I gave to your father Jacob.” - Isaiah 58 vs 5 - 14

basork:
Pastor imposition is not mutual consent don't add what is not added. Bible said a woman should respect her husband and man love his wife.

nick50:
Na ibiyomie dey marry my wife abi I borrow money from him to pay d dowry??..all these pastors should calm down oo make dem no do pass oyimbo wey teach dem work

Sweetplum:
And your types are so coward you dare not talk against Mohammedans!

Kobojunkie:
So finally he concedes that the starvation-diet ritual fasting exercises no dey do anything for anyone so that is why he wants to add sex deprivation to the ritual list. Next year, you will ask them all to shave their heads and they will do it too, those gullible numbnuts who listen to these men are unbeweavable

Siscooh:
Have you read the Bible on thus subject matter?

lomprico:
Sex is not a sin.

It's not bad if he preaches abstinence from it for those who can't do without it but banning it entirely because of the fasting season get as e be.

Kobojunkie:
Sure! why do you ask?

Siscooh:
You response says the contrary. We ought to abstain during fasting. Pastor shouldn't even remind us

5 Do you think I want to see people punish their bodies on those days of fasting? Do you think I want people to look sad and bow their heads like dead plants? Do you think I want people to wear mourning clothes and sit in ashes to show their sadness? That is what you do on your days of fasting. Do you think that is what the Lord wants?
6 “I will tell you the kind of day I want—a day to set people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off others. I want a day when you set troubled people free and you take the burdens from their shoulders.
7 I want you to share your food with the hungry. I want you to find the poor who don’t have homes and bring them into your own homes. When you see people who have no clothes, give them your clothes! Don’t hide from your relatives when they need help.”
8 If you do these things, your light will begin to shine like the light of dawn. Then your wounds will heal. Your “Goodness” will walk in front of you, and the Glory of the Lord will come following behind you.
9 Then you will call to the Lord, and he will answer you. You will cry out to him, and he will say, “Here I am.” Stop causing trouble and putting burdens on people. Stop saying things to hurt people or accusing them of things they didn’t do.
10 Feel sorry for hungry people and give them food. Help those who are troubled and satisfy their needs. Then your light will shine in the darkness. You will be like the bright sunshine at noon.
11 The Lord will always lead you and satisfy your needs in dry lands. He will give strength to your bones. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water, like a spring that never goes dry.
12 Your cities have been destroyed for many years, but you will rebuild them and their foundations will last for a long time. You will be called “Fence Fixer” and “Builder of Roads and Houses.”
13 That will happen when you stop sinning against God’s law about the Sabbath and when you stop doing things to please yourself on that special day. You should call the Sabbath a happy day. You should honor the Lord’s special day by not saying and doing things that you do every other day of the week.
14 Then you could enjoy the Lord. As the Lord himself says, “I could carry you up to the highest mountain and let you enjoy the land that I gave to your father Jacob.” - Isaiah 58 vs 5 - 14

TimT:
Lols... Religion in Nigeria is heavy oooo.....
But come to think of it, biblically, having sex during fasting is quite wrong, becoz the aim of fasting is to deprive yourself of the good things of the flesh....
Now the issues be say why have sex during fasting..?? Before fasting una no do?? After fasting una say Lai Lai e no go sweet.. na the one during fasting una want....

Arise O Compatriots..........

Jossymekoos10:
■Good morning sir . Your submission is understandable but it's a choice. If husband and wife choose to abstain, then it's fine. It's not for the pastor to impose it on them
■If you actually study the passage that pastor quoted, you will see that Paul said that he was not imposing it on anybody
■You must understand that people have different spiritual levels. In as much as you won't die because of sex deprivation, would you rather that the Christian that can't abstain from sex for such a long period should go and commit adultery or masturbation?
■Everything must be done in love to keep fellow Christians from committing sin
Thank you sir

Kobojunkie:
Are you certain you have ever read scripture yourself cause your statements here actually reveal you have never in fact done that for yourself.

God Himself explained that you cannot please Him by torturing your body — starving yourself of food and of sex— so there is nothing scriptural about your starvation-diet exercise nor your pastor there who even advises you to add a lie upon another lie. According to God, your fasting is meant to show Honor to Him and the only kind of fasting that can do that is one that is according to that which He commands - Isaiah 58 and Zechariah 7.
See, God said He will only answer you if you do what He commands, so why continue to engage in these meaningless rituals that these lying mogs and pastors spew at you? Who do you please by these foolish traditions? Certainly not God!

Siscooh:
■Been saved from over 10 years ago. I am not even just a religious church goer; sound born again. ■Bible says if they agree just to seek Him. 1Cor 7:5-&6

1. Now I will discuss the things you wrote me about. You asked if it is better for a man not to have any sexual relations at all.
2 But sexual sin is a danger, so each man should enjoy his own wife, and each woman should enjoy her own husband.
3 The husband should give his wife what she deserves as his wife. And the wife should give her husband what he deserves as her husband.
4 The wife does not have power over her own body. Her husband has the power over her body. And the husband does not have power over his own body. His wife has the power over his body.
5 Don’t refuse to give your bodies to each other. But you might both agree to stay away from sex for a while so that you can give your time to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not be able to tempt you in your weakness.
6 I say this only to give you permission to be separated for a time. It is not a rule.
7 I wish everyone could be like me. But God has given each person a different ability. He makes some able to live one way, others to live a different way. - 1 Corinthians 7 vs 1 - 7

Kobojunkie:
1. Is this some way of insisting that God must have lied in both Isaiah 58 and Zechariah 7 regarding the kind of fasting He wants instead?

2. Did Paul, in 1 Corinthians 7 say they should engage in starvation-diet fasting to please God in the manner that your pastor and mog there commands his followers to?
As you rightly said, Paul's opinion he meant as a mere suggestion. Paul didn't imply that by abstaining from sex while they pray instead, the married honors God. However, the same cannot be said of your pastor's claim, can it?

Siscooh:
■Everything I know the Lord taught me by the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. I don't follow any Mog foolishly
■neither should I continue to argue in a platform that rather needs evangelism than your efforts to prove me wrong.
■I don't attend his church and I don't live in Nigeria. Thank you. God bless you

Kobojunkie:
1. Surely, the Lord can't teach you that which is contrary to His very own Word, can He? I mean no one who was in fact taught by God's very own Spirit of Truth would confuse the starvation-diet rituals of men with that which honors God, to begin with. So, how certain are you that the spirit you claim witnessed to you in your heart is of God?

2. The Gospel is God's Law and Truth in the Kingdom of God. How can you preach to others if you yourself aren't equipped with the Truth in the Kingdom of God?

3. You don't attend the man's church yet you stepped in to affirm his lie as scriptural truth when it isn't, why?

Siscooh:
The word of God is Truth, it doesn't matter the church. Again I don't live in your country

Siscooh:

Read the Bible

Kobojunkie:
Stop lying! Where did God tell you that is what fasting is about? By the way, where did God inform you that He wants you to engage in starvation-diets as fasting for Him?

lomprico:


Sex is not a sin!

kingreign:
■If you know nothing about a topic, it’s best you keep quiet rather than exhibit foolishness. In Matthew 17:20-21, Jesus asserted prescribed prayer and fasting as an antidote for some problems.

So Jesus said to them, “Because of your [e]unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Matthew 17:20-21 (NKJV)

5 Do you think I want to see people punish their bodies on those days of fasting? Do you think I want people to look sad and bow their heads like dead plants? Do you think I want people to wear mourning clothes and sit in ashes to show their sadness? That is what you do on your days of fasting. Do you think that is what the Lord wants?
6 “I will tell you the kind of day I want—a day to set people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off others. I want a day when you set troubled people free and you take the burdens from their shoulders.
7 I want you to share your food with the hungry. I want you to find the poor who don’t have homes and bring them into your own homes. When you see people who have no clothes, give them your clothes! Don’t hide from your relatives when they need help.”
8 If you do these things, your light will begin to shine like the light of dawn. Then your wounds will heal. Your “Goodness” will walk in front of you, and the Glory of the Lord will come following behind you.
9 Then you will call to the Lord, and he will answer you. You will cry out to him, and he will say, “Here I am.” Stop causing trouble and putting burdens on people. Stop saying things to hurt people or accusing them of things they didn’t do.
10 Feel sorry for hungry people and give them food. Help those who are troubled and satisfy their needs. Then your light will shine in the darkness. You will be like the bright sunshine at noon.
11 The Lord will always lead you and satisfy your needs in dry lands. He will give strength to your bones. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water, like a spring that never goes dry.
12 Your cities have been destroyed for many years, but you will rebuild them and their foundations will last for a long time. You will be called “Fence Fixer” and “Builder of Roads and Houses.”
13 That will happen when you stop sinning against God’s law about the Sabbath and when you stop doing things to please yourself on that special day. You should call the Sabbath a happy day. You should honor the Lord’s special day by not saying and doing things that you do every other day of the week.
14 Then you could enjoy the Lord. As the Lord himself says, “I could carry you up to the highest mountain and let you enjoy the land that I gave to your father Jacob.” - Isaiah 58 vs 5 - 14

kingreign:


It depends. Sex with someone who’s not your spouse is a sin, sex when unmarried is a sin, strange sexual practices such as same gender sex, bestiality, rape, etc are sins and are taboos.

Kobojunkie:
None of what you claim — starvation-diet fasting or sexual abstinence during fasting — is scriptural! You seem to practice idolatry while carrying a flag that says "Jesus" on it. Remember it is impossible to serve two masters in the Kingdom of God.

Pimine:
This robot no dey quote me abeg. I nor follow for people wey dey engage you. I know who you are - voice of Jacob, hand of Esau.

Kobojunkie:
1. According to God, your fasting ought to be to honor Him, and not for what you claim is your personal spiritual upliftment, and to seek Him, God says you are to do only that which He commands. These starvation-diet rituals which many call fasting aren't even commanded by God so, who instead commands you to do something else when fasting to please and seek Him - Isaiah 58 and Zechariah 7.
See, God said He will only answer you if you do what He commands, so why continue to engage in these meaningless rituals that these lying mogs and pastors spew at you? Who do you please by these foolish traditions? Certainly not God!

2. Pay close attention to what God asks in verse 5 in the passage above. You don't please God when you torture your bodies in any way.

3. It is highly doubtful that a man who cannot stay away from sex even knows God let alone His Law, Jesus Christ. Self-discipline if essential when following God.

GreatrAnalyst:

Junkie, stop expecting replies from me based on junks you always narrate using Scriptures to pacify your blinded, twisted, self-willed, self-originated intention.
I don't have replies for you. But mark my handle. Take your last attention. Go, teach babies.

SmartPolician:
One of the biggest threats to marriages in today's Christendom is marrying ladies who obey their pastors more than their husbands.

These pastors should know their limits.