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Ekejoestar:
This is my testimony

That shows that great things are happening.

YourFavEvangeli:
Yes I have severally but let me share one.
Some years ago, at Ido-Ile prayer mountain, I was fasting for self deliverance as I have been eating alot in the dream and I noticed it was affecting my spirit man. As we began serious warfare prayers, I felt a very hot hand grip my head, I got dizzy and fell to my knees. I began to vomit, I could taste what I was vomiting, it wasn't the usual repulsive cold taste, this one was very bitter. After about 2mins of vomiting, the hot hand left me and the dizziness and vomiting stopped immediately. I opened my eyes to see what I vomited, only to see that there was nothing on the floor. But I can swear that I felt it and tasted it and it was bitter. I got up and felt very very light. My spiritual life was changed from that day.

Ok.

Brendaniel:
In have encountered the power of God, it must not necessarily be in a church and you don't have to wait to get to the church before you encounter the power of God...

I've seen things revealed to me before they happen, I've asked God for guidance and I got and so on.

There is a God of creation...

Ok.

Thanks.

Also, there was a Sunday that I had a minor disagreement with someone. She started cursing me. I didn't do anything but she started cursing me.

I wore my clothes and went to one church.

Immediately I entered the church, one pastor who was preaching looked at me and asked all the youths to stand up. He said "I cancel any curse placed on you by anyone"


I knew on a high state of conviction that it was me he was talking about because he looked at me before he asked the youths to stand up. I was also a youth. That time I was an undergraduate.

When I returned home, the woman called me and began to apologise for cursing me. She said she had cancelled the curse immediately I left for church.


I later learnt that the pastor did not like calling only one person out for prophecy but like calling people in group whenever the prophecy is for one person because he said he didn't want to expose the person to some evil people whom he said had infiltrated his church.

One day, during the Uyo miracle convention by Rev Uma Ukpai, One pastor was invited to preach.

When he started praying for people to get healing, people started vomiting.

Suddenly, I felt power hit my stomach and it was as much as I could do not to throw up.


The man explained that the power was destroying every sickness and evil that was in our belles and bodies.

Share your experience.

thatigboman1:
it's qualifier, not the main competition

Ok. I understand.

How come there are now 12 groups.

Initially, it used to be 4 groups.

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I believe that the food cannot physically harm someone since the fire has destroyed any germs in it.

The same way fire destroy germs in the entrails of a cow when you are boiling cow meat.

If someone eat raw entrails of a cow, it would be so disgusting and dangerous.

But when cooked, it is very ok to eat.

Saliva is not even as dangerous to eat raw as the entrails of a cow or goat.

But the issue is the spiritual angle to it.

Maybe the person wants to enslave her customers spiritually.

She may be deceiving herself thinking it may work, but it may not work.

Whether what she is doing works or not, we should pray to cancel any evil she is doing.

Since she believes she is doing something spiritual, you must also do something spiritual by speaking with your mouth that any evil in the food cannot affect you.

I saw a front page post here on Nairaland of how some women use menstrual blood to prepare food for their boyfriends.

I think I posted something like this on Nairaland before on how I once caught a lady spitting into a pot she was using to prepare soup for sale.


I tell you the truth that this world is so evil that you don't even know what someone is doing.

Pray before you eat any food because you don't know what they use to prepare it.

A word is enough for the wise.

I think I posted something like this on Nairaland before.

I once caught a lady spitting into a pot she was to use to prepare soup for sale.

I tell you the truth that this world is so evil that you don't even know what someone is doing.

Pray before you eat any food because you don't know what they use to prepare it.

Katsina United has been having poor results.

I watched their match with River United on Wednesday. Katsina United was playing at home. It was nothing to write home about.

I left after first half because the match looked like primary school game. No ball control, no correct passes, Nothing.

I later heard they lost 0:1 to River United.

Janosky:
Oga,you are typing gibberish & exposing your ignorance.

Greek Theo's mean "a god /God."
The same thing in John 1:1 of new world translation & Emphatic Diaglott & 14 other Bibles is the same thing in your own Bible at Acts 12:22-23.

Those 15 Bibles gave the correct translations of John 1:1.
Oga, go & learn, I have given you 2 examples to help you.

Stop deceiving yourself.

It is you and Jehovah witness that are deceived.

Just browse Jehovah witness in goggle and read what they will say.

Goggle says that Jehovah witness is full of doctrinal inconsistencies and reversals.

If they admit something today, tommorow, they will change it in their bible to conform to a new idea.

Everything is just the idea of the founder and the leadership.


You don't care for the truth.

Janosky:
Jesus Christ is not the God, his Father,John 5:37, na him talk am.

Jesus retained his God nature yet has no idea of Matthew 24:36
God wet no know Matthew 24:36

Jesus Christ is not God. Never !!

Agreed.


1 Timothy 3:16, Greek "Hos" (He/Who) is not Theos.
Your Trinity mentors DUBIOUSLY put "God" in verse 16 of 1 Timothy chapter 3.

John20:28 in all Bibles ends with exclamation sign (!),showing surprise when you say "oh my God!"
John 20:18-27, Thomas did not believe in Jesus resurrected until verse 28 when he touched Jesus Christ & exclaimed!

Did you read John 20:17?
Did Jesus Christ say Thomas referred to Jesus?

Definitely not.
John 20:17 Jesus Christ rebuked the false claim of Trinity devotees in verse 28.

You are a Jehovah witness. I am not surprised. The scripture has been around for nearly 2000 years.

One day, not up to 100 years ago, one man came and started changing some things written in the Bible.

He changed everything that shows that Jesus Christ is the Son of God/God. He did not believe that there is hell. He didn't believe in the immortality of the soul. He didn't believe in other things which the Bible affirms. So he changed and twisted the Bible to align with his unbeliefs.

He then formed it into a book which is now what Jehovah witness uses as their bible..


But your bible is adulterated. It is different from the Bible which has been in existence since and by which thousands of people throughout the centuries have been saved.


That your founder cannot come few years ago and be lying about something which has been in existence since the time of the Apostles.


There is a belief that he wanted to start a group which will be different from other Christians because he wanted a group just like there are Lutheran, Methodist, etc.

So he sat down in his room and began to go through the Bible changing things.

Infact, he is one of the few people on Earth who have falsely altered things in a large scale without any form of scholarship or research.

Infact, everyone who is a researcher knows that the man's book which he calls a " bible" is the most manipulative abuse of freedom.

He just sat down and change things so unashamedly without any research or scholarship.


It is such a shame.

Janosky:
Colossians 1:15 Jesus Christ is a creature.
God's first born of all Creation.
Christendom DUBIOUSLY put " OVER " in Colossians 1:15, the word "OVER" is NOT in any Greek manuscript.

Romans 11:35-36, Jesus Christ came through his Father.

Colossians 1:15 & Romans 11:35-36 proven Christendom's fraud of "not Created."

That verse you are quoting also says that Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God. It also says that by Jesus Christ all things were created.

It shows you that Jesus Christ is God because God is invisible and any time He makes Himself visible, He comes as Jesus Christ.


That's why He is called the image of the invisible God.

Image of something. You cannot see the something but you see it's image.

Also the verse says that by Jesus Christ were all things created.

It shows you that He is God because He created all things.

It is only God who can create. If it is acknowledged that He created all things, it shows He is God.


The thing is this, if I create somethings in my room. The knowledge to create those things is from God. The things I created are also the creation of God because God gave me the idea on how to create those things. Let's say I create some plates for my personal use. Those plates can say it's God who created them. And they are correct because God creates something through another thing.

If I create a car, I know everything about the car. If the car needs maintenance or any help, I am the one who will provide it. So to the car, I am God.

Infact, every intelligent being is a creator. As human beings, we have created so many things for our use.



The same thing is with Jesus Christ. Everything was created by Him and for Him. God created everything through him.

That was why even while on the Earth, Jesus Christ was able to create things like new eyes by using sand and His saliva.


Every intelligent being can create something according to his ability and wisdom. Everything so created is from God. But the Creator of all things is God the Father because the ability to design and create things is from God.


That is how Jesus Christ created all things.



There is an ancient belief that demiurge created all things. It used the Knowledge God gave him to create everything including human beings. It didn't know that there was a God somewhere who gave him the ability to create.

He thought he was the only one who existed before he created things. One day, God appeared to him and made him realize that it was He who gave him the ability to create all things.


He started worshipping God.


Even ancient people seem to realize that there was a being who created all things by the power and knowledge of God.


As Christians, we recognize that being (who created all things) as Jesus Christ. But it was by the power and wisdom of God, His Father.

haekymbahd:
Maybe you explain why he also called himself son of Man



Both son of God and son of Man are both metaphorical....

The thing is that the Israelites believe that the judge of the world must be a man and the saviour must be God Himself.

In order to get a saviour who is also a judge, the person must be a God and a man.

That is why Jesus Christ was born through a human being while still retaining His God nature.


So He was both the Son of man (so that He can judge the world) and the Son of God so that He can save the world.

He is the Son of man because He came through man. God gave Him authority to judge the world because He is the Son of man.

1 Tim 3:16, Apostle Paul wrote that God was manifest in the flesh. That is: God came as a human being.


So He was both the only begotten Son of God and the Son of man.

Also, so many times, Jesus Christ was called God and the Son of God. He accepted it because He knew that is who He is.

Thomas called Him "my Lord and my God"

Nathanael called Him "The Son of God, the king of Israel"

In 1 Tim 3:16, Apostle Paul wrote that God was manifest in the flesh.


So Jesus Christ was God who came in the flesh as a human being.


If Thomas, John and every apostle who were with Him, called Him God, who am I to say otherwise?



How can someone come 2000 years later to say He is not God?

It's like someone coming 2000 years from today to say that Jonathan was never a president in Nigeria.


It is better to believe those who lived when Jonathan was the president rather than believe someone who is arguing over what happened 2000 years before he was born.


So I would rather believe the apostles who lived when Jesus Christ lived, rather than believe someone who come many years later to argue on something he doesn't even know much about.

NuclearReactor:
7victor great insight... If i may ask whats the difference between Jesus- The Son of God and any other true christian who the bible acknowledges is a "A Son of God" In other words what's the difference between Jesus- A begotten Son and every other christian who is also a son of God

Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ is called the Son of God because he now abides in Jesus Christ.

Spiritually, he abides in Jesus Christ who is the only begotten Son of God.


Since he spiritually abides in Jesus Christ, he is called the Son of God because he is abiding in the Son of God.

Our beliefs have power. We abide in God simply by believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who is the saviour of the world.

sholay2011:
Interesting.

Also, acknowledging the Sonship of Jesus is at the same time acknowledging the Fatherhood of God. Which was one of the reasons the Pharisees etc. hated Jesus.

And this is the greatest revelation in the bible: JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD. The whole bible is actually about Him. The church is founded on this revelation. This is the revelation you must get to partake in the greatest miracle to happen to man (salvation).

Jesus was once the only begotten Son of the Father. But through Him, we can and have become begotten sons. He is now the first begotten Son, not the only (1 Peter 1:3).

Ok.

Thank you Sir.

Jesus Christ Himself called Himself the Son of God.

After He healed the man who was born blind, He asked the man whether he believed in the Son of God. When the man asked who was the Son of God, Jesus Christ confirmed He was the one.

Even Apostle Peter acknowledged before Jesus Christ that he and other disciples believed that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.


Son of God does not mean that God had intercourse with Mary in order to born Jesus Christ, as one religion like insinuating.

As Christians, we know that Jesus Christ has been the Son of God before He was born on the Earth.



He existed with God His Father before the world was created. He was the Son of God before the world was created.



Everything was created except Jesus Christ.

He is the only thing that was not created.

HE WAS BEGOTTEN, NOT CREATED.


As in, God spoke whatever He wanted and it came into existence. That is what's called creation.


As for Jesus Christ, God brought Him out from His own self. That's what is called "Begotten"


Jesus Christ was begotten, but not created. Just like a woman gave birth to a child, God brought out Jesus Christ from Himself.

Jesus Christ has always been one with His Father until God separated Him just as a baby is separated from the mother by coming out of her womb.


During His last prayers, Jesus Christ asked God to glorify Him with His (God's) own self with the glory He had before the world was created. Although Jesus Christ came out directly from God, He is still one with God.


He said "I and my Father are one.

Share your thoughts on this.

Today marks the day that Jesus Christ showed his love by laying down His life so that those who believe in Him should have eternal life.

I believe in Him that He is the son of God who gives me salvation, therefore I know I have eternal life.

Thank you Jesus Christ my love.

If you want to do MSc in computer science, you will be required to do a PGD in computer science.

Although Mathematics statistics and computer science are all one department and in a normal University, any graduate in Mathematics should be very good in computer science, because you would be offering computer science courses.

So you will not need a PGD to do MSc in computer science.


But in Nigeria, you need PGD in most Universities because they know you didn't acquire enough computer science knowledge as a Mathematics student.

The problem is on the students.

Covid 19 took one year and now it's strike.

People Who started a four years course in 2017 are still in school because of these things.

I praise those who are already graduates.


Now it's hot cake to graduate.


It is reminiscent of the 80s and 90s during the military era when to graduate was very hard due to so many factors.


I still remember how people used to spend years in the universities and polytechnics.


That's what I was told sha.

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Emperor Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus(164-238 AD) ordered all Christians to be hunted down and killed.

Among those killed were:

Pontianus, bishop of Rome who was exiled to Sardinia and killed for preaching against idolatry.


Anteros his successor was also killed after 40 days in office.


The same day, a Roman senator Pammachius and his family and 42 other Christians were beheaded and their heads displayed on the city gates


A Christian minister Calepodius was dragged through the streets of Rome and then thrown into River Tiber with a milestone tied around his neck.


A refined, beautiful young virgin named Martina was beheaded.


Hippolitus a Christian minister was tied to wild horses and dragged along the ground until he died.


Maximus died in 238 AD and was succeeded by Gordian, who was succeeded by Philip.


During their reigns, the church was free from persecution.


However, a violent persecution was instigated by a pagan priest without the Emperor's knowledge.


During this persecution, an elderly Christian, Metrus was beaten with clubs, pricked with needless and stoned to death for refusing to worship idols.


A Christian woman named Quinta was scourged, dragged over Flint stones by her feet and then stoned to death.



A seventy year old woman Appolonia was fastened to a stake to be burned.


After the fire was set, she begged to be set free, which the mob did thinking she was going to recant Christ.


To their amazement, however, she hurled herself back into the flames and died.

During the reign of Emperor Lucius Septimus Severus (193-211 AD), the following people were martyred:

Victor the bishop of Rome in 201 AD.

Leonidus, the father of Origin, the Greek Christian philosopher known for his interpretations of the old testament.


A woman named Rhais had boiling tar poured on her head and was then burned.


Her mother Marcella was also burned. Her sister Potainiena suffered the same fate, but during her torments, an army officer named Basilides who was ordered to attend her execution was converted to Christianity when he saw how she held onto her faith.

He was later beheaded for refusing to swear an oath on Roman idols.


Irenaeus(130-202 AD) was a Greek Church father and the bishop of Lyons. He was beheaded in 202 AD.

Still during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Germanicus, a young man and true Christian was delivered to the wild lions on account of his faith.


He behaved with such astonishing courage that several pagans were converted to the faith that inspired such bravery.


Polycarp was a student of Apostle John and the overseer of the church in Smyrna.

Remember that Apostle John established the 7 churches mentioned in the book of Revelations.


He made Polycarp the overseer of the church in Smyrna.


When Polycarp was captured and was about to be killed, the governor asked him to deny Christ so that he could be released.

He answered "86 years I have served Him, and He never once wrong me. How can I blaspheme my king who has saved me?


He was tied to a stake in the market place because he told them he would stand immovable in the fire.

As they put sticks around him and lit the fire, it circled around his body but didn't burn him.

He was then killed with a sword.

Persecution of women

Since the time of Peter the apostle, women were persecuted and killed as much as the men.

But there are specific women being named in the Foxes book of martyrs.

Their persecution happened during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus(162-180 AD)

The women were:

1. Blandina.

She looked so weak in body that people thought she would not be able to withstand the tortures. But she stood her ground and refused to deny Jesus Christ. Her tormentors became exhausted.


She was taken into an amphitheatre and suspended on a piece of wood and exposed as food for wild lions.


The lions refused to eat her. She was then taken out and put into prison.

Later, she was taken and subjected to the severest punishments and tortures.


She was torn by lions, scourged, put into a net and tossed by a wild bull, and placed naked into a red hot metal chair.


When she could speak, she exhorted all near her to hold fast to their faith.


When her torturers were unable to make her recant her faith, they killed her with a sword.


2. Felicitatis, a well-known lady of a wealthy Roman family was a devout and pious Christian.


When she refused to deny Christ, her 7 children Felix, Philip, Januarius, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis and Martial were all killed.

During the reign of Emperor Trajan who ruled from 98-117 AD,Ignatius was sent to Rome to be eaten by lions. Yet on the way to Rome, he was preaching the gospel to everyone.


When he was thrown to the lions, and heard the lions roaring, he said "I am the wheat of Christ: I am going to be ground with the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread".

He said this with joy and gladness as the lions tore him to pieces.


During the reign of Emperor Adrian who ruled from 117 AD,

about 10,000 Christians were were martyred, with many of them crowned with thorns, crucified, and had spears thrust into their sides in cruel imitation of Jesus' death.


Eustachius a brave Roman commander refused to join in an idolatrous sacrifice to celebrate his victories, because his faith in Jesus Christ was greater than his vanity.

Emperor Adrian was so enraged that he had Eustachius, his wife and children killed.


Two brothers Fausines and Jovita bore their tortures with such patience that a pagan named Calocerius was so struck with admiration that he cried out in a kind of ecstasy "Great is the God of the Christians!".


He suddenly believed in Jesus Christ because he knew that it only needed a strong belief in something before someone can suffer so much and refuse to cry or deny the thing.

For this, he was immediately arrested and put to the same tortures.