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Politics / No Need For Protest by bory09(m): 8:01pm On Oct 21, 2020
AN URGENT MESSAGE FOR BELIEVERS DURING THIS CRISIS

Any Believer who dies for the impossible course of setting human government right is not DYING AS AN HERO but GOING TO HELL. Can human controlled by flesh ever get things right? ```ask yourself```
During the time of Jesus Christ, Israelites were under an uncomfortable political era of subjectivity to the Romans so the Jews nation expected a messiah like Moses who will confront government either by dialogue or by force to get them freedom and set their political climate right but Jesus understands how wasteful such EFFORT will be and hence didn't measure up to the expectations of the average Jewish person and that was the reason for his REJECTION AS SAVIOR. What protest against a government will achieve is transfer of government to another human and do you know what that means CONTINUOUS CHAIN OF FAILURE. But this is our expectation as a BELIEVER
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Acts.10.36 - The Message he sent to the children of Israel--that through Jesus Christ everything is being put together again--well, he's doing it everywhere, among everyone.
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The only assured government of peace and equality can only be found in Jesus Christ. The kingdom of God is the only government we must strive Everything for because that's the only place things can be assuredly set aright. So the gospel is that WE MUST LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH ALL MEN, DO GOOD TO FELLOW HUMANS WITH THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES GIVEN TO YOU IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER. Whatever position we find ourselves in the society ensure you live incorruptible and Holy. Infact if all BELIEVERS could ensure the lifestyle of Jesus, the pressure of human evil will greatly reduced. More lives will be won to the kingdom due to our very kind and charitable living resulting to more percentage of good men over bad men ruling over us. Do not covet too much riches at the detriment of the survival of others. Too much millions and billions is a waste instead of accumulating those excess figures invest it in other lives, help the society in providing good structures. Do your own capable quota, live a simple life and die in righteousness.
THIS IS NOT A COWARD MESSAGE BUT THE GOSPEL OF TRUTH.
Religion / The Living Dead, A Gift From The Holy Spirit by bory09(m): 12:40pm On Jun 03, 2020
Hey nairalaanders, i just launched my new E-BOOK and the good thing is that, it is free.

ABOUT THE BOOK
The living dead is a powerful book written from the depth of God's revelation and punctuated with real life experiences. It encompasses the disintegrated portions of the big mystery enclosed in the book of Roman 6.

The journey of Christianity is laid with lots of obstacles and challenges and sometimes these things tighten the success in our spiritual growth. This book is written with the consideration of these realities and in it have been prepared essential simplified knowledge that will be our guide in the long unknown Journey of faith.

The book started with two powerful experiences, the first experience which was a dream opens our mind to an occurrence which every reality of nature is against. How can we explain a body who escaped death after encountering an experience with atomic bomb. The survival might have been a subject of grace and luck if his skin was not dangerously impacted by the bomb. By the view of the disfigured body, we can rightly say we have a living dead man.

The following chapters that come up after the narrative of the experience were seasoned studies to enable us to understand the reality behind the living dead man. At a point you get to realise that this unpleasant picture is the reality that every Christians must be disposed to in order to overcome the demanding challenges of life. And the book got choky with it's explanation by relating this reality to every living being on earth, it all depends on the standpoint we viewed it.
I got to realised that in one way or the other, we are all a living dead. no matter how that word gets you irritated but that's the truth and there is no more pleasant way to express it. By now I expect your curiosity to have been increased and get charged to have a hand on this book. Explore that curiosity and feed your knowledge with a new powerful reality.
You are welcome.

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Religion / Law And Grace by bory09(m): 4:59pm On Mar 27, 2020
Law and grace

Introduction
There is this line of divergence or let me say confusion among Christians and this line is between Grace and law. People doesn't understand the difference or the similarities between the two. There is actually a big difference between law and grace and we are going to deeply examine that in this post.

Starting with

We will be making our study from the book of Galatians 3, in this chapter of the Bible, Apostle give better explanation on law and grace and by the help of Holy Spirit I was able to derive this revelation deeply.

Living by law every detail of result is breeded based on effort inputed, the reason why in old testament I.e the era of law it is hardly you see miracles or sign and wonders because such is reserved for the anointed, and some specially graced people, only few have the capability to do it. When you are lame you are lame, when you are blind you are blind and these misfortunes are usually attributed to sin that is why when Jesus wanted to heal the blind man He said oh man your sin is forgiven. Another thing that gives more concern in the era of law is the tendency to suffer the consequence of a parent sins or probably a person in the family and we can observe this in the life of Achan in Joshua 7, look at the story of Eli and his sons. The law is so cruel, if you don't conform to it you are damned.

But look at the era we are now we are heir and so we are free. Not our work determines our result or righteousness but just our faith in Jesus Christ

Understanding work and faith
Law is based on work while grace is based on faith. In law you have lots of task to achieve to be a qualified person, you don't dress anyhow like mixing different fabrics at a go, you don't eat anything like eating the creeping things because you might be disrupting the ecosystem, you don't talk anyhow, you act this way and you must observe this and that, ooooh, can't we see there are too much to obey. Ok, If i fail one so what am I going to do? I need to sacrifice as in make huge sacrifice to God through the priest but how many sacrifice will I be making with this generation where almost all things are against the law, you can't just expect me to stay at home for 40 days just because I give birth, my work place won't understand that, this day people are Keen on efficiency so there is no time to waste. Wearing just a pattern of fabric won't work any longer since fashion industry has moved on, so what happens to rocking varieties, you can see the too much constriction that we have in the law, it will only tie human to one spot and that is why law is hard to obey because humans are dynamic organism.

When i see churches clamping down on some set of rules which maybe it is because it favors them, i just shake my head for the error, there are lots of rules to obey in the book of deuteronomy aside the ten commandments but most of those things are not comfortable with us any longer because it could only work with the Israelites then as a system of governance since the priest rules them in that era, but now many people of different cultures and backgrounds has been integrated into Christianity, how comfortable will it be for a forty years gentiles to go under the knife for a circumstition just to fit into some law, if you remember vividly, the belief on circumstition caused big problem in the early church. Obviously the law is too particular it can't carry everyone along so Christ have to come and take away the barrier so that there will be dynamism where Faith in God can relate to everybody and every tribe.

The law was an interim for grace. The law is a system to bend life to a pattern while grace is a path of life. When under grace there is no fear for Christ has taken all that away, Christ has finished that work for us. The difference between law and faith can be illustrated between me and a wealthy man son let's assume Dangote child with the name Jack. My success In life is determined by the foundation and structure of work that I do, I need to work hard to succeed, if I don't work hard I will never enjoy comfort of life because I need to start from scratch since I have not big inheritance from my parent so my good life is totally depended on my work (my life just exemplify the life in law). Now let's us look at our other guy Jack who everything have been made ready for, either he works or not everything is on track. He does not need to wake up early even though I need to wake very early, he doesn't need to queue at the bus station for he has his private car but I have to, he does not worry of what to eat and how to pay the bills but i have to everyday and night but yet he has the potential to be more successful than i do. He has a good starting foundation, because of this good foundation we can't regard him being lazy, he is just enjoying a leverage and leverage is one thing that a man must not lack in order to be successful in life easily, another name for leverage is favour. Just as Jack enjoyed leverages from his wealthy father so also Christ came to the world to ease our work of faith and He has paid all the price so just like Jack, all we need to do is to bear that name by accepting him as our Father then obey his rule and follow his lifestyle and day to day instruction. Please note that I can be Jack with Dangote name on my head and still suffer, only if I don't do the will of my father and that will separate me from him and this relates us to Christain who still suffers although they thought they accept Christ when their life is a total divergence from Christ life and also the second category of people who still live in law, law is good infact there is nothing bad in it however, you can't compare the privilege that jack have to be successful with the privilege I have to be successful, those in grace will always do higher.

People in the old commandments lived the same life I lived in the illustration and they have the same thought I had when I thought about the ease Jack enjoys, they are like wow is it just for me to say yes sir and follow the will of my father will I not wake up early at 4am, eat unfitting food, queue at bus station then get late to work due to some hiccups on road caused by some unforseen situation and still get to work to be served with query which will take me begging upon begging to wave, I won't have fear of how will I pay my house rent at the end of the month, infact no fear at all. If those people could be under this dispensation where just faith makes all things happens they will have seen it as more than a privilege but a buyout for life.

That is why it is a said in John 3:16 as we all know that Christ so much love the world and he gave us his life to buy us a privilege. Grace has opened us to a new reality where what we only do is to accept Jesus Christ, have his name and do wonders with it because that name has bought us a space of authority with God.

Law is the foundation of grace
Law is an experimental phase for the birth of grace. Before a big project is done, I mean enormous project although that is relative though because to me now maybe renting a flat is my big project, there will be the planning period. If renting a flat will be the next big project of my life, I need to know basic things on how to care for a home as I am learning it now. So with law, God knew where men is lacking and what men need, to live a good and holy life. The lapses of law birthed the perfection of grace, if you are still living under the law then you are still leaving in the past, and the past is imperfect.

Law is the foundation as it was said before while grace is the structure. What I am trying to say is that the process of the law was the building of Christ as the structure.

When building a foundation, there are rules and if any rule is trivialize the structure is at risk. That is why God clamped down on the men of the old, immediately you do something that affect the foundation you are taken off immediately, it is an instant judgement. I have worked as a bricklayer before and I know what it means by following details when building a structure, although we see those bricklayers as illiterate but actually they are smart, they understand measurement to the mixing of concrete, laying the lintel and following the plan layout to achieve a strong building. So the building of a house is a process of work, and that's what happens with law. Law is a foundation so you need great work to build the structure on it, you need detailed attention in following the plan in order to prevent the slightest error. Glory be to God Christ came to earth to live an exemplary life, he came to show us how to live in the ready made structure which he used his blood as the grand opening for it.

If law is the foundation and grace is the structure, there is a similarities between the two. Grace does not discard the law but it modifies it, it step down our hard work and attach us to a finished work. Even in a flat which has been build there are basic rules that guided the building and the living in it. When building a structure, the engineer understand there is a portion for bedroom and there is a measurement for it, there is a place for toilet and there is a different way to build that and that is the procedure that will control their work, they also understand that structure differs, in the sense that the input or resources needed for a duplex will be different from that of 3 bedroom flat and the expertise needed to build a skyscraper is totally different from that of a magnificent duplex, these are the rules that guild the building of a structure so also when we live in the structure we are conscious of these rules since we recognize the difference between a bedroom and a kitchen. For the reason that you own a house and the things in it, you can't place your bed in the kitchen then cook in the bedroom, the same reasoning will make you to understand that, what is needed in furnishing a two bedroom flat is totally different from that of a duplex or expect the same resources needed to live in a duplex for a skyscraper, there is a difference in sophistication.

So by now we all understand that both law and grace are controlled by same foundation, the difference is just that in grace we need not to work for we just live in it but in law we need to work hard to build the structure we needed and also live in it although living in it won't be a problem since we build it ourselves but we never can tell. Summary is that there is hard work needed in law while there is less work needed in grace.

What does grace implies
Grace means an opportunity we enjoyed without earning it, it is more like having to live in a luxurious mansion of free things. Since our work is not what earn us this opportunity, there need to be something that will get us into it and that is faith and who supervise that faith is Christ that is why it is a said that Christ is the author and finisher of our faith.

What does faith implies
Faith is a system of believe. Abraham faith in God was regarded to him as righteousness, Abraham righteousness was not because he did not steal or he did not lie but because he had faith in God. Therefore faith supercedes work. You can be that spiritual lady in the means of wearing long gowns, doing natural hair and being very outwardly respectful, all those things connect you to men which is also good however there might be a lady who is free in her dressing, wears little bit elaborous makeup and act so sharp that people judge her disrespectful (I use the word people judge her deliberately, for i understand that people can be biased) but she have faith in God by achieving God's purpose for her in being a good and creative fashion designer which designs gives people modesty and takes them away from shabbish dressing and you know build good moral in them hence won the battle against indecency among ladies, we shouldn't forget to note that she might also be using the opportunity to preach to ladies indirectly while the holy sister who suppose to be a hairdresser but couldn't do it because hair dresser is a career that will affect her holiness but she forget to understand that the hairdressing is God's purpose for her that when done will through that set a new God's standard that will make people move away from doing worldly hair style and through that she is evangelising but her holy holy character will warp her brain from thinking straight, I have come to realise that most Christians are so selfish that they care about the healthiness of their own personal faith and they are doing nothing to reach out to people who are seriously sick and need urgent care in their faith. most believers are like Peter when he was sent to minister to Cornelius the gentile, you know Peter fought with God's will just because of a standing law, the same law that was made by who send him. If law has no problem, Christ need not to come to make a repair. Law will limit our righteousness. Christ said that the greatest law is love God and love man and that's the law that we need very importantly so other don't do or do that should be decided to us by God based on personal relationship with God. Do you know that it takes a man that loves God to love his fellow man correctly. You can be so respectful to your fellow men or be so humble that they appreciate you for that but you are unknowingly hurting them if you fail to do God's purpose which will make life better for them and draw them to unity with God, It might not be through being a pastor, it might be just being a food seller that you serve God purpose but your success in that food selling will effect love of Christ in men and if your life effect love of Christ in men and it is reproduced by another believer the chain of Christ love continues and becomes more longer, you will see that we will have a better world. Failed Christians is the problem of the world that we are living now.

Carrying megaphone doesn't change lives again or wearing uniform to shout on the street makes people better, those actions will not bring food to People's table and take away the hunger that subject men to sin. Let your life, your career, your life philosophy talks about Christ and we can only come to that reality if we can live out of law and live in faith. Living in faith makes us more obedient than living in law. For example when you have a little tantrum with someone although you aren't guilty but the spirit says that go to that person and beg, remember that by law you didn't do something wrong but by faith when you refuse to go and beg that person you have sinned, infact begging that person is a way of relating Christ love. Sometimes we battle with our spirit with the points we made from law, for example God told you to forgive your fiancee who cheated on you then makeup the relationship but you will tell God that the law doesn't permit that. Faith takes us above the law and not below the law, you can't tell me that you are in grace and you still commit fornication, how will that happen like how can that happen when Christ the structure we live in never does that, you are surely living in a wrong structure.

Grace doesn't makes us free to sin rather it makes us free with God and his righteousness. After I read the book of Hebrew 11, I discovered that the great men of the old testament weren't men of law but men who had faith in God word and follow it sincerely.

When we walk in faith we walk in particular with God, we receive direct law that involves us directly and do things that God want from us in particular. The law generalise everything and makes us common but the truth is that humans are not like that so we need grace.

Receiving under grace
This days people have this serious belief on prayer and fasting, like prayer and fasting is all it takes to be blessed. People that are greatly blessed never merit it with prayer and fasting, Abraham never, David never, Gideon never, Elijah never, Daniel never, Meshach Shadrach and Abednego never however, prayer and fasting build our spirit man up and charge us up. Our faith and believe in God then our obedience drives us with God and earn us mercy. When you do God's will and you follow his purpose for you, you are already in a path where your already made blessing is placed. It is in the old commandments that you need to sacrifice a child for a victory or fast to engage your mind with God but in this era Christ has done everything just follow the path and the path will lead you to your place of blessing, I am a living example in this regard, I discovered that never has fasting or too much prayer alter anything in life but it has sharpen my spirit man though but faith and obedience have done more for me than I can imagine.

Commandments and holy Spirit Spirit
During the time of law, we need the commandments in order to be right with God but now we need Holy Spirit, for He is the commandments in our heart, so the temple has no need anymore. The temple lies in our heart. The holy Spirit will guide you with God, it will direct your belief with God and makes you holy in God. It is the spirit that makes us holy, we need it and we must.grow in it.

Conclusion
Grace and law are two things in the race of righteousness that we ought to understand. When we walk in grace we live superiorly to the law but when we walk in the law we downgrade our capability and our benefit with God, it like adding extra baggage to ourselves. I hope we learn to live by grace and not by law.

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Literature / My Unanswered Prayer Became My Answered Prayer by bory09(m): 4:02pm On Mar 19, 2020
MY UNANSWERED PRAYER BECAME MY ANSWERED PRAYER

I am devoted Christian who is very careful to do the necessary things to be holy. I am an undergraduate of geology, this is my two years in the university, in this two years I ensure to create a balance between my academics and faith in God oh I forgot to tell you that I am also a determined worker in a church around my campus, I don’t miss any church program even those that collide with my academics, it almost seems I prioritize going to church than going to class but it is not really like that am just trying to follow the word that says “God first” and please note I am not stupid to neglect the main reason of my being in Ekiti for my studies and this is evident in my results, although I am not a first class student but my grade is not bad either, I can say I am in between doing fine.

At 200 level I was made head of a department in my church, everybody see that coming so it was just a confirmation of everyone's mind. This new position I was given put me into more hard work. Now I know, how uneasy it is to be a leader. I am virtually always present at church every day if not for mid week service, it will be for special service or some exco’s meeting. As I said before I need to increase my hard work and shed more from my free time so my activities will not encroach on my academics. By the end of 300 level when the full session result comes out I discovered that my result had a boost, an unimaginable boost in my performance that I couldn’t achieve even in those days when I have less responsibility and coupled with the fact that there are different complexities that comes in 300 level. At some point, I almost give up that I might be having my worst result that year but here I am with this surprise, hmmmm, truly no one serve God and God will not reward the person, I am a living testimony, I shouted this loud, oooops, I forgot that I am at the faculty, so everyone focus their gaze on me including those who were hit by catastrophe of “F” fatai as we always call it then, I felt pity for them.

The next Sunday was a testimony day for me, I wish you can see the way I shared the testimony with an unimaginable joy, it almost looked like I am being proud but yet why won’t I pride in God that made me the best worker in his vineyard that year and also crowned it for me with excellent result even when I less expected it.

Fast forward to 400 level first semester, I discovered that we have less course workload just the project that look challenging here but I have no problem with that, one of those skills that I am sure of, is the ability to write great content and make great research, there is even this common mantra among students in my school then that says that when you scape through 300 level without F, nothing will make you to have carryover again and thereby spill. I have this confidence in me that I have already succeeded my 400 level already and this confidence is not because of what believe people but based on strong belief on God, I know I am not serving a God of failure, yes I know it, so I need not to panic, the one that cooked good result for me in 300 level even when I less expected it is still at the fireplace doing his work.

Then 400 level first semester result came out and to my greatest shock, I had a “F” in an unimportant course, it all look like a joke to me till I went to meet the lecturer and the lecturer emphasized to me that I failed the course and he has nothing that he can do about it, I was totally devastated, I don’t know where to start from, I don’t know how it happened. I was drowned in this thought as I was going home, I almost collided with an incoming bike, God have mercy. How will i tell my friends and hostel mate that I, the Mr Godly brother that advise them to be serious, has gotten a carryover at the terminating point of graduation with a risk of having extra years or how will i tell my church mate and my group members where I was a leader that their brother has a carryover and is on the verge of spilling. This endless thought create a mask of hatred over my zeal for God, my once buoyant faith lost life and becomes lifeless.

Oh lord! Why will you leave me to be reproached and shamed, this was the words coming from every audible channel in my body to God. You won’t know the enormity of my pain until i tell the part I skipped in the story where my brother has been admitted in a big federal University that year and would be in 200 level, the same little brother that just entered Jss 1 when I was in SS 3, I have to struggle with Jamb and the rest to get admission to the university and here I am again, common to graduate I cannot graduate.

I didn’t go to church the Sunday of that week and the subsequent weeks, my church members called and called I did not pick, when they try to visit I am always lucky to see them afar as they approach and I run away but there was this day I was so unlucky, my path crossed the pastor path, like not the members or other people but the pastor. seriously!!!, what da heck. You know I still have some good amount of conscience in me although I have lost my love for God so I have to tell the pastor the truth as he interrogated me concerning my not coming to church, my pastor could be a good detective when it comes to asking questions. After I narrated the whole story my pastor couldn't understand how everything came to happen, He understands my hardwork and seriousness at church activities and he can easily relate to the fact that I won't also be slothful in my academics, at some point he had to succumb to the believe that all this situation was a devil work even though my pastor doesn't believe in such most time but this time story has changed. The pastor word of ''This is a devil's work" drove me into a very deep thought of why should God made me laboratory experiment for this very shameful incidence by the devil, though the story of Job keep flipping in my mind but....... But..... But.... God this is not right, so my days of prayers, worship and service with you can just be neglected so easy, even one of my close friend that I have been advising and preaching for since 100 levels till today about you God, that I force to read and study made good result. At the climax of this thought, my mind dropped in a deep ditch, It made me struggle to breath, I don't know what happened but I remembered that I saw my pastor holding my hand and supporting me with his other hand, ooooops, what has happened, I asked within myself. Anyway I came back to my normal sense all to know that it was just a figure who had been standing since in front of the pastor, like I did not hear sixty percent of our conversation, I was just nodding my head in attestation involuntarily, lost in thought I guess.

My meeting with the pastor ended with an assurance, since he is a lecturer, I mean a professor with a high position in my school so if he said that he will see the lecturer that failed me and see if it can be reversed, I know he can and I have no doubt on it, this assurance aroused my hope but at the other end of my thought, I asked myself why should it be me.

The Sunday came when pastor said he will give me feedback, that Sunday I need to go to church so I go to church, my going to church that day was like a stranger just getting to a place, all the shyness, gentility and calmness, this was not me, I know that. The worst part I thought time should had shrinked out was when people keep coming to me asking what happened, we didn't see you for past three weeks in church, you aren't picking our call, are you sick and I was at the middle been hit by this hail of questions, I almost feel like bursting out and shout please guys chill, Biko, make una no kill me with questions. No I can't do that, I need to be diplomatic, also In my list of action is that I don't want to lie, what will I say, please help guys. Lastly I just have to give them this complicated answer that I am facing a serious matter now so it need me time to heal, that answer was true but it is like an ambiguous riddle that is hard to crack.

Then the much anticipated time came, time to hear feedback from my pastor, I was so positive on this but pastor called me and said the unexpected, the same response I got several attempts after to beg the lecturer with my friends and other people that I think could influence the change of the matter, same response I am still having as I wrote my final exam in my second semester after an almost completed outstanding project. Everything is settled already if not for the No response I am having from the evil incarnate lecturer. A day after my final paper I started three days marathon prayer hoping to see God provoked over my situation and save me from the imminent shame coming on me.

And the result came out with fear I started the checking from my second semester exam because I had the man course to do in second semester, this time a very important course with 4 units, he gave me a B wow, l was almost celebrating before my mind gossip to me, "hey bro, have you check the rest?" Then I checked the rest, and what is left is just that one but, the same but all the while, nothing was changed over that issue. This time I was angry within me, I walked to the faculty with a sharp and arrogant walk, people who saw me were like, was wrong with this brother? I don't care again, I must confront this evil lecturer, then I got to his office, I began to shout and making complain, telling him how I begged and begged, Don't he have someone like me at home. After my whole shout, the man was sitting there calmly looking at me then he said something "hey son, I gave you what you did and nothing can be done on it, if I was wicked I would have repeated the same over your second semester result or give you a worst result but you worth a good result and that replicate in the grade, I hope you have seen it, so I am not a wicked lecturer. If you have a carryover in my course due to whatever reason be humble to resit it or spill in whatever case it may be but I assure you that I am not going to wave it and nobody I mean nobody can change my mind so good bye. At the fullstop of this word, I know what I am in for, I looked all round the office like I am finding something, more like I am finding a club to hit this man to dead, as I was looking then I discovered that we are even three in the office, didn't discover and the third person is this girl, this girl can obviously gossip anything in the world, she is so pathetic, she is like a moving satellite. Now I know my final fate and I have gotten a medium that will distribute the good news to the world.

As I moved out from the office, my life experienced a great transition. I became carefree and i loose my character constraint. immediately I got home I took my phone and I called my parent and everybody that needs to know that I am spilling, though it was a shock to them, what followed their conversation was how did it happen and all other questions of that kind, mtchew!!! I don't have time for too much interrogation, i jus tell them simply that I don't know what happened. The following days, week and months was the moment of revelation to people about my extra year to be used. At first, the extra year make me seclude myself from People, the extrovert me becomes introvert. Woooo at a point, I shed off those thought of shame and insult and I become big brother to other undergraduate in my compound, truth be told I am a big brother, these little young undergraduate might not have a brother as old as 28 years old me.

I dropped alot in my going to church and downgraded to just a regular good bench warming member. My extra years does not bother me any longer, just sometimes I feel bad when people act insultive.

Fast forward to almost four years, alot has happened, I have become older, 31 years old and have become wiser just that I am still walking the corners of University finding a way out. I have champions the argument that life after school is scrap many times, I have gone advanced to advice people that no work after school so me myself I have become a good business man, owning different small business like cyber café and business centre. It's been two years now that money was sent to me last, I don't even know because I am living fine, infact more than those days I was mummy and daddy child. I got a spill after the spill I first had on the same course, this one was due to missing script, who knows maybe the evil lecturer orchestrated it. This time I become chairman of the extra year circle, almost everyone know me, every corner I go you see them hailing, that was fun though But I still need to move with my life and those are the days I am sober a little. My extra year was aided with the academic delay in my school, the strike and all.

Then.... I heard my younger brother who was in a better school with good academic calendar was to be writing final exams before me, the delay in my school has shrink more than one year gap between us. I did not even cry about it, since I have developed an addiction to those everybody have their time motivational speaker.

Many days after he became graduate based on the end of exam and hopefully he will be graduating since I heard that he is on a journey of a first class so no D in his result before talkless of F. I almost thought it was generational curse that was at work in me but my brother case make me discard that lazy thought.

. Yeah!!! I am through with the exam again and this should be the last because any other failure means either I will be sent off from school or handed a certificate of attendance as they call it.

The result will be delayed this time since all public University went on a general strike, some schools couldn't continue with the four months old strike and my younger brother university was one. When I walk around the school environment, I use to hear people complaining about the strike, I just look at them and shake my head, i have been in this school to experience two generations and I know one thing for sure that strike is a regular ritual in Nigeria University, more like a regular two - two years thing. We pray our government will one day have sense to make plans in regulating our educational system.

In the afternoon of 19th April 2014 when I was in shop, I received a call from my parent, specifically my Daddy, I was very shocked because it has been longed he called me, let's say he do call me annually, I suppose you know the date the call will be and I have received this year call. Something serious would have happened for him to call me, I prayed it is positive, so I picked the call. After he said hello, he paused for a while like he is finding the next word he want to use , after the break some powerful word come out "see your life, you are just waste of money and a bad example and nothing but a failure, your brother has been certified graduate today but you for four years you can't study common geology, you better go learn vulcanizer and the call was hanged'. I can't explain the sensation that came over me after the call, I was so mad that I have to break the innocent plastic table in front of me.

God! Is this what you want for me, to make me an object of reproach. I couldn't wait till evening to close shop before I go home that day. As I got home, I jumped on the bed, buried in thought and tears was flowing from my eyes. I was in this agonizing thought when I switched off, the next thing that woke me up at 5am the second day was the ringing of my phone, who could be calling me again this early morning. As I looked at the phone, I discovered the caller was my mum, never will I pick this call, never will I hear part two of yesterday insultive talk. I immediately silenced my phone and I resume back to part two of my sleep.

6:30 am I finally wake up, my phone has been flooded with calls from my family members, including my street friends. So what could have happened, everybody couldn't have hate me or is it that my Daddy asked people to apologise on his behalf over what he did yesterday, alot of thoughts hover in my mind. There is even a message, I quickly opened the message since I discovered it is from my close friend at home. As I read the message, I shook my head to discard the message. No, this can never be true. I immediately dial my mum's number but she didn't pick, I called my dad, same thing. Hey, could this be true? Then I dialed the phone number of my other brother at home, this time the call was picked. Immediately he picked, I was hearing noise at the background, hey bro what is happening? Why is everyone calling my no?. His answer was the same thing my friend told me. My just graduated younger brother slept yesterday night and in the midnight he shouted for help, gasping to breathe, he was rushed to the hospital and that was it. At 4am this morning he died. The boy that graduated just two days, What could have happened? How could a boy who just graduated with first class, who became the joy of my parent and their pride, who is so intelligent and smart die just like that. Why will the best just die and we, I mean failed people like us still leave strong, hmmmm seven wonders of the world. Today was the finishing of yesterday terror so I resumed fully back to my sorrow.

Two weeks after the sad news, our result was posted and this time I become a graduate with 2.1 grade, and I was so happy, my happiness is not because I am graduate today but because of a better reason.

This is the real story behind my today's joy; if I had graduated the time I should graduate, i mean fours year before now, I would have died because of the cursed my father earned during his service year when he impregnated a lady which he refused to take responsibility and forced the lady to do abortion which later bounced back and led to the life of the lady to be on the line, during her moment of pain, he cursed my dad that whoever among his child in the future that becomes the first to graduate shall die and that is the reason why my younger brother died. So all prayer, service and sacrifice to God was never a waste as I thought, the delay that made me far from God was actually God blessing me and I am replying back as evil, ooooh Jesus forgive me. I choose to love you back with all my life.

Today I understand that the four extra years which made me study geology a four years course for eight years was a buyout for my life. My fellow graduate were surprised how a pitiable person like me who struggled for years to graduate from a course could be this happy. They never know the story, they never know the blood and pain that birthed today. They see me as a pitiable ordinary graduate but I can see a very lucky guy whose answered prayer has just been approved.

Sometimes delay in life is actually a blessing, we usually blame God when things are not working as planned but we forgot to understand that our God is a the Alpha and Omega, He knows the end from the beginning. What might be keeping your request might be what is still keeping you alive.

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Religion / Perspective Of View by bory09(m): 1:09pm On Mar 15, 2020
Perspective of view

I remember a day when I was teaching a subject in science, it was a topic on matter. According to the study on matter it was said that every solid is made from very tiny rough particles, what surprised me most was when it was said that even the most smooth one with a shiny surface e.g. glass is made with rough particles if observed with a special electron microscope. After I keep reading and reading on this topic then it dawn on me that a rough stone and a smooth glass has a similar origin which is a rough particles, the difference is just the composition and the size of the particle.



Even a rough rock when seen afar can give an impression of smoothness to the point of even shining like glass. As a graphics designer one of those techniques use in print project is to make materials of closer view like pamphlet, flyers etc. Of high resolution while works like banner which are view from far distance with a small resolution and this is done based on the fact the ones which will be viewed closely need to have very tiny resolution in order to look well printed while those with far view like banner does not need such details because it doesn't matter as it will be viewed from afar and by that distance our eye will not be capable to decide the details of the smoothness of an object. In all this situation I discovered that every object have their point of smoothness and point of roughness it all depends on the distance of view. You can say a object is not smooth because you are too close to it while someone viewing it from afar will say that the object is smooth, both of you are correct, just your perspective gives your view a difference.



Same thing happens in life, why most people will not experience good time of joy is because they apply constant perspective in viewing a life that is not constant. When you magnify your view on everything that comes your way you will always be caught up in negativity, when things of big particle comes your way you will judge them rough instead of you to change your view and move a little bit farther to enjoy the beauty of the situation. Most of the situation we regard as problem are usually the result of our wrong perspective.



We can't control what our eye see, neither can we control what the brain interpret but we can control what we understand and that understanding is what controls our action.


This situation can be more illustrated with a research on mindset made with a cup half filled with water. When this half filled water was shown to Mr A and Mr B and asked the level of the water in the cup, Mr A said that the water is half to the buttom while Mr B said that it is half to the top, the both are actually correct however there is a difference in answer and that difference as inconsequential as it is really matters alot. This difference is a matter of the perspective.

we have to understand that our mindset is that path and the destination of our reality. The Mr A that said that the water is half finished has built into himself a path of pressure, fear and hopelessness unknowingly, when you have the mindset of something is about to finish, there is this restlessness or fear you feel in making sure the water did not finish, at this moment you are not battling with the future but you are battling with the past, this particular situation defines most people problem in life, they judge their present situation with their past experience, instead of them to take on the situation forward rather they fight to differentiate today from yesterday, there is no problem with this approach but the only issue is that the fight against the past is determined and easy but the fight for the future is undetermined and not easy. People unknowingly choose the easy battle and that's why their life lack movement. Energy wasted on the past could have been invested in achieving the future. Mr B that saw the cup have filled, have build his life on hope and optimism.



Our understanding of what happens in our life determines the result we will have in life. Have once said that the same thing that makes one cry can also makes us smile. The same sack letter that breaks Mr. A down is also the sack letter that gives Mr B the opportunity to explore a better opportunity, it all depends on how we plan our future and how we relate our mindset to every situation of lives.

One thing we must understand in life is that we shouldn't view things with one perspective. I know when camera men shoot video they will take the orthographic view, side view, back view and any other view simultaneously all to expand their options in determining the most beautiful view. A scene might be captured well in front view while another scene might be captured well in orthographic view all with the same camera. Every situation in life have their own view.


I understand the fact that life is not a bed of Rose and this means that not all time life will make us happy but nevertheless not all unpleasant situation should take sadness out of us because the truth is that most situation in life are usually unpleasant so your responsiveness to these situations determines your reality.

There are some things in life you need to look closer while there are somethings that you need to look from far away. No matter how rough and unpleasant they are, move a step farther, if they still retain their unpleasant look, move more step farther, it is either they become smooth or pleasant or you move so far that you see them no more physically but you see what you want with the picture in your mind.



Your prespective in viewing life will determine the reality of your emotions, spiritual growth, financial status and lot of things. Never get drown in frustration on things that does not matter, or sell yourself to depression because you cannot change your view standpoint of life.



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Foreign Affairs / Re: Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidential Election by bory09(m): 8:18pm On May 07, 2017
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Celebrities / Re: Oritsefemi And Wife, Nabila Fash At The Beach For 'Honeymoon' (Photos, Video) by bory09(m): 10:24pm On Apr 23, 2017
and then what happened..

Crime / Re: 72-year-old Man Caught With Human Skull In Osun Says “na Mistake" by bory09(m): 5:28pm On Dec 30, 2016
baba don't give me that flimsy excuse.. that's how you will mistakenly sell it and mistakenly collect the money

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Career / Turning Idea Into A Gold Mine by bory09(m): 3:31pm On Oct 17, 2016
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In this battle, country like the US has employed the opportunity in online service to create job for their citizen. However it is not a surprise that Africa are still loosing grip of this opportunity due to their level in technology usage and maneuvering.
Although, online platform could be a solution to the reduction of employment owing to the innovating advantage that it posses but we can't overlook the fact that this platform has already been saturated by ideas and lot of competitors. To swim in this ocean of competition one need to be extra vigilant and innovative.
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Pets / Re: Any Cat Lovers Here On Nairaland?? by bory09(m): 7:02am On Sep 29, 2016
genieluv:


The lady resides in the UK and probably she was born there, so what do you expect. LoL
that is the reason... you will specified the type of cat... because most nigeria cat are seriously possessed
Career / Re: The Myth Behind ICT Career Skills In Nigeria – Jethro Theo Paul by bory09(m): 6:55am On Sep 29, 2016
would really like learning computer programing.. please any advise for me
Politics / Re: Edo Election: Benin-Ore Expressway Blocked (Photos) by bory09(m): 10:22pm On Sep 28, 2016
donj84:



hope say na your mind you use to talk am,if something happen to you as you the pass there, you go say na devil work..
wetin wan happen... am covered joor
Celebrities / Re: Photo Of Ebube Nwagbo And Her Six Packs by bory09(m): 10:19pm On Sep 28, 2016
what is the essence... six pack to me is an act of stinginess

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Pets / Re: Any Cat Lovers Here On Nairaland?? by bory09(m): 10:16pm On Sep 28, 2016
of all pet na cat u chose as pet.. girl u neva watch ologbo iya agba before.. it is real ooo.. cat are fetish shit of animal

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Politics / Re: Edo Election: Benin-Ore Expressway Blocked (Photos) by bory09(m): 10:07pm On Sep 28, 2016
without blocking road they can't do election bah... this buhari seriously need some brain revitalisation why did he like blocking blocking things like his life depend on it... same way rice was blocked from being imported and look where we are now.. with all this demo there will still be inconclusive election.. i bet it with bag of rice

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Celebrities / Re: The Most Stylish Actor In Nigeria Is Jim Iyke by bory09(m): 10:06pm On Sep 28, 2016
why won't he be stylish.. when last has the idiot featured in a film sensible or not sensible.. this flat bungalow gan i no know their problem

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Phones / Re: Apple Unveils Iphone 7 (Features in PICTURES) by bory09(m): 10:50am On Sep 08, 2016
not my taste.. am okay with my window phone for now

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Celebrities / Re: Ini Edo Flaunts Official Car From Akwa Ibom State Government by bory09(m): 7:02pm On Sep 06, 2016
wetin make i do with the news. shey make i because of the news make i leave my garri and waka go third mainland bridge and reciprocate teeybliz action

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Crime / Re: Man Chops Off Relative’s Hand Over Land Dispute (graphic Photo) by bory09(m): 10:38pm On Aug 01, 2016
Ptoocool:




Biko, make una manage that half liter of brain naa..
and you are using the three quarter of yours well
Crime / Re: Man Chops Off Relative’s Hand Over Land Dispute (graphic Photo) by bory09(m): 10:30pm On Aug 01, 2016
this sons of jews again. but why? shey dem use money curse una. anything that money is involved they loose control. anyway na dem dem

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Politics / Re: Amosun Visits Ebute-Ibafo And Ogijo Ravaged By Militants (Photos) by bory09(m): 10:21pm On Aug 01, 2016
this armies small na. why he no kuku carry thr whole battalion come there and beside this place is too clean for a place been stone by bomb. abi it's my eye or the pics is already photoshoped

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Politics / Re: Osinbajo And Fayemi Sign Ajaokuta Agreement by bory09(m): 10:12pm On Aug 01, 2016
i don't think ajaokuta problem is signing MOU. because for the past year alot of MoU has been signed and nothing to show for it. i think the problem there is beyond physical maybe the government can sign MoU with some multi national pastor to do a powerful revival on the site.. if that is done those spirit breaking down work at ajaokuta will pick race naked. then we can now decide to chose who next to invest there.

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Education / Re: Eviddy, Tallest Student In The University Of Abuja (Evidence Ebuka) by bory09(m): 9:31pm On Jul 31, 2016
girls dies for tallness and longness of things like their life depend on it... anyway the guy no need to stretch neck before duplication.. he is naturally endowed he just need tinted glass dats all. exam is done

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Celebrities / Re: Basketmouth Meets Dangote At Lenox Mall by bory09(m): 9:51pm On Jul 30, 2016
dangote too dey shop.. oga ooo. waiting for that he will come buy ewedu for my hood
Politics / Re: Operation Awatse: Navy Battles Pipeline Vandals, Blocks Escape Route In Lagos by bory09(m): 10:10pm On Jul 29, 2016
thank God.. even though the response was slow but it later came. ipob people hope you have enough coffins for this una fallen soldier.. i don't even know their gain in the first place.. bunch of criminals

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Politics / Re: Alhassan "Mama Taraba" With Clutches At Jalingo In Airport by bory09(m): 10:05pm On Jul 29, 2016
plz am lost... is she posing for a photo shoot or she has injury

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Celebrities / Re: Caitlyn Jenner And Bisi Alimi Step Out Together by bory09(m): 10:03pm On Jul 29, 2016
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Crime / Re: Family Steals Pot Of Soup In Mpape by bory09(m): 9:54pm On Jul 29, 2016
this flat head people with stealing of pot of soup be like 1&2.. the oduduwa rather prefer drinking garri than getting involve in such mess like this. reporting from abuja NCAN news channel

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Celebrities / Re: Wizkid Collaborates With Alicia Keys by bory09(m): 9:53pm On Jul 29, 2016
wizkid my guy... remember when we gather start this hustle. if na just yaaaga u sing for my song. it don ok me.. jah bless

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Politics / Re: When The Inspector General Is Your Friend (hilarious Photos) by bory09(m): 2:45pm On Jul 28, 2016
the man is feeling on top of the world. his purnishment is in reserve waiting for him
Family / Re: Oya Dab: See Grandma In Action by bory09(m): 1:03pm On May 17, 2016
dis happens when grandma believes every leaf na vegetable... wish her fast recovery from her highness

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Celebrities / Re: Who's Tee Billz Barber, The Guy Is Just Good.. PHOTO by bory09(m): 4:06pm On Apr 30, 2016
na tee billz season we dey ba.. we don finish with mercy aigbe.. who knows who is next.. and before i leave... shebi i heard that tee billz is jobless now, i think starting from a humble beginning, like being apprentice under dat barber won't be bad as he can be barber to other celebrities like dem don jazzy and rest maybe

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