₦airaland Forum

‘Teach me to receive Your love’

WED, 4 SEP 2019

‘We love Him, because He first loved us.’ 1 John 4:19 KJV

We know how frustrating it is to try to give a gift to somebody who keeps refusing it. Insecurity and feelings of unworthiness keep many of us from being good ‘receivers’. We think we must earn or deserve everything we get. We even go so far as to mistrust the giver and think: ‘Why would you want to do that for me? What’s your real motive?’

Now if we feel that way, imagine how God feels when He extends His love and we refuse it because we feel undeserving, or we’re harbouring a false sense of humility. Or worse, we question His motives. The truth is, none of us deserves God’s love. But when He reaches out to you in love, He’s attempting to establish a cycle that will bless you as well as others. His plan is simple. He wants you to:

(1) Receive His love.

(2) Learn to love yourself in a balanced and healthy way.

(3) Love Him in return.

(4) Extend His love to those He sends into your life. And learning to do those things takes time—in most cases, lots of it! And just as God did when the Israelites entered the Promised Land, He will help you to conquer your hang-ups ‘little by little.’ (Exodus 23:30 NKJV) Change happens gradually as you continue to pray, read His Word, and act on it (see 2 Corinthians 3:18).

He’s ‘the author and finisher of our faith.’ (Hebrews 12:2 KJV) The Bible says God initiated this ‘good work’ in your life and He will complete it (see Philippians 1:6). So today ask Him to help you receive and embrace His unconditional love for you.

magicminister:
I laugh at the ignorance of Nigerians that call for Attacks on South African businesses in Nigeria. Their false sense of pride has made them delusional.

South African businesses are some of the highest employers of Labour in Nigeria. They hire Nigerians.

Mtn, multichoice (dstv) and shoperite are some of the more popular South African owned businesses that have generated billions in taxes, employed thousands of Nigerians which in turn has made life better for millions of Nigerian families that rely on the income of their family members that work In those places.

South African business pay rent to us, they pay taxes to us and most importantly, they employ us. The fact that you are so stupid to think that attacking a few Nigerian branches of a Multinational company will hurt them more than it hurts us is just amusing at best.




Having said that, it’s time to hold our government accountable. Nigerians are like the pariah of this world. Nobody wants us. We have to fix us to and liberate the black nation. The biggest Black Country on earth should be on a global pedestal as the leader in everything.
We should be the leaders in this world!! Let’s rise up!!

Xenophobia in South Africa, hate and discrimination in europe and America are all off-shoots of human ignorance and lack of respect for Nigeria and blacks in general.

We have to hold our government accountable, we have to hold ourselves accountable, we have to build a great nation that other nations will want to deal with. Then, we’d turn them away!!

The biggest answer to hate is success. Nigeria has to succeed if we must be feared and respected!!

Our house of rep and senate will spend over 5 billion on cars alone this year.
Our president took over 3 months to appoint ministers.
Our cost of government is too high.
Our poverty and unemployment is one of the highest in earth.
Ignorance is rampant........
if Nigeria was working, no Nigerian will be in South Africa. We have to succeed!


#freeSowore
#FreeLeahSharibu
#Nigeriamustbegreat

magic minister, what do you suggest? where do you think we can start from, because as it is, we don't have leaders that listen to us at all.

I'm so so much unhappy for this country.

......too much stories. What are the 2 demands? Spell them out here for all to see a beg. Government should know that other people children are been killed ooo

Factboyz1:
Seize the carts and give them jobs... Clueless Government

Exactly. You could hire them to work as a picker at the dumping sites.

frosbel2:
My advice ?

Come home and invest in the east, you do not stand a chance

I think I will support this idea too.

Come to think of it. If igbos should go home and invest in their heavily in their region. People will be going to them to trade with them like buyers use to travel to China now.

They only need to build a business and secure environment that will accommodate all business minded people that comes to their region.

Imagine the numbers of buyers going to Onitsha & Aba from the South West daily to trade with them, and such is it with others traveling from other regions to trade with them.

Let all the South Eastern governors come together to invest more on their harbour, roads, securities and other amenities needed to grown their commerce. I strongly believed that Igbo as a nation within Nigeria can do better than any region in the country.

I wish them all the best.

Doing Right By Your Children

TUE, 3 SEP 2019

‘Teach your children right from wrong, and when they are grown they will still do right.’ Proverbs 22:6 CEV

Parents who smoke can pass on some of the toxins to their children through the air they’re breathing. Unintentionally they can pollute their children with their own vices. And it’s the same when we pass on things like bitterness, guilt and insecurity to our kids. That’s why we need God’s help; only He can bring healing to the root of our problem and break the cycle.

No one else can teach faith to your children like you. The foundation must be laid by you and built on by them. And don’t just teach them your doctrine; expose them to your faith. Tell them Who brought you through the tough places. That way, when they encounter their own tough places they’ll be armed with more than a set of religious rules; they’ll have confidence in God for themselves. And stop beating yourself up over past mistakes; there are things all of us wish we’d done differently. The truth is that God can alter the effects of your past and prevent tragedy in your future. He’s the God of restoration who makes ‘all things new.’ (Revelation 21:5 NKJV) He can bring right out of wrong, good out of bad, and enable you to pour His wisdom and love into your children.

This is your chance of a lifetime—seize it! Let go of yesterday and take hold of tomorrow. Your children are your tomorrow; they’re being shaped by you. Give them a taste of the things of God when they’re little, and when they grow up the world will never satisfy them.

devlishGINGER:
God wanted to reveal his glory through the baby

....please God reveal your glory through me too in Jesus name. And cause all the storms in my life to be ceased in Jesus name.

When You Have A Vision

MON, 2 SEP 2019

‘I was not disobedient to the vision.’ Acts 26:19 NIV

When God gives you a vision for your life, you need to know how to:

(1) Hold it. Your vision is governed by a time frame: ‘If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place.’ (Habakkuk 2:3 NLT) Some of us can conceive a vision, but we can’t carry it to full term because we’re not willing to endure the stretching and discomfort involved. We rush ahead of God and our vision is stillborn, or too weak to survive. Jesus said, ‘That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.’ (John 3:6 KJV) When your vision is born of the Spirit, it’ll be sustained by the Spirit. But when it’s born of the flesh, you’re on your own!

(2) Hide it. It’s a mistake to share your vision with those who can’t appreciate it. Joseph did that, and he landed in a pit. Not everybody will celebrate your success, especially if your light shines brighter than theirs. So ask God for discernment. Judas may seem like your friend right now, but inevitably he’ll betray you.

(3) Water it. Read these two Scriptures carefully and prayerfully: ‘David encouraged himself in the Lord’ (1 Samuel 30:6 KJV); ‘Building up yourselves on your most holy faith.’ (Jude 1:20 KJV) You must know how to encourage and build yourself up spiritually and how to water your vision. God told Habakkuk, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain.’ (Habakkuk 2:2 KJV) Write your vision on a card and carry it with you. And start acting like the person you expect to be when it becomes reality—and it will!

A Father’s Prayer

SUN, 1 SEP 2019

‘Teach us what we should do for the boy who will be born to us.’ Judges 13:8 NCV

The following prayer was written by General Douglas MacArthur, a hero of World War II, on behalf of his son whom he loved dearly. If you’re a parent you may want to use it as the basis for your own prayers for your children:

‘Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know You… Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail. Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the lessons of the past. And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humour, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.”’

awon l'omo.... naa dem get the wahala.

Live For What Matters Most

FRI, 30 AUG 2019

‘I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave.’ Job 1:21 NLT

Have you ever heard the saying, ‘Old too soon, wise too late’? Don’t let that be your story. Three of the titans who built America were Vanderbilt, Carnegie and Rockefeller. After attending Vanderbilt’s funeral, Carnegie and Rockefeller did a rethink and spent the rest of their lives seeing how much money they could give away to do good. Death has a way of showing us the brevity of life and changing our perspective.

Carnegie died in his eighties and Rockefeller in his nineties. But they both died! We all do. The question is will you merely make a living or will you make a difference? One businessman told his friend: ‘I don’t think I’m trapped on this treadmill forever, but I’m certainly involved with it right now… it’s the old merry-go-round of how much money is enough? And it’s never enough. Three years ago I thought: “Just a little more… now I make twice as much, and it’s still not enough.”’

Solomon writes, ‘He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income.’ (Ecclesiastes 5:10 NASB) Have you told yourself that when you get a certain amount of money you’ll be happy and secure? Maybe and maybe not. When you trust in anything other than God, you live fearfully because you’ll always be vulnerable to circumstances you cannot control. Jesus bottom-lined it this way: ‘Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.’ (Matthew 6:33 NLT)

Racoon:
Just imagine how shameless politicians can be.So he confidently wants to port after his infamous "we cant take it" circus show of 2015? Tufiakwa!

that's a proof that politicians are always after their own interest and not fighting for the masses as they claimed.

God Has Promised To Be With You

THU, 29 AUG 2019

‘As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.’ Joshua 1:5 NIV

The Bible says, ‘After the death of Moses… the Lord said to Joshua… “Moses My servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them.”’ (Joshua 1:1–2 NIV) Joshua knew Moses was dead, and the Israelites knew it too. So why did God remind him? Because Joshua wasn’t just following a leader, he was following a legend. Moses had been Israel’s security blanket for forty years. He was the definitive go-to guy. He’d led an entire generation out of 400 years of captivity in a single night. He’d parted a sea with the wave of a walking stick. He’d prayed and God rained down bread from Heaven each day. When the nation was about to die of thirst, he’d struck a rock and water filled canteens.

By any measurement, Moses was a massive success. But why? Was it his ingenuity? His creativity? His genius? No, it was the presence of God in his life. But now Moses was gone. For Joshua, that was bad news. But the good news was that God remained. ‘No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.’

You say, ‘But that’s an Old Testament promise.’ Then read this: ‘For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.’ (2 Corinthians 1:20 NIV) Today God has promised to be with you. Believe Him!

Spiritual Yet Still Carnal

WED, 28 AUG 2019

‘Until Christ is formed in you.’ Galatians 4:19 NIV

When you become a Christian you discover that part of you wants to walk ‘in newness of life’ (Romans 6:4 KJV), while another part wants to walk ‘after the flesh.’ (Romans 8:5 KJV) And you would, if it weren’t for God’s Spirit who lives in your divided house and ‘convicts’ you when you do certain things, challenging you with God’s Word (see John 16:7–14). The truth is, your new heart is still living in your old body.

Some people expect that, when they first come to Christ, an instant and radical makeover will transform them. It’ll be like a grub-to-butterfly metamorphosis, so massive that a radiant holy self will fly up effortlessly, after struggling out of the cocoon of fleshly desires. So they try to punch the cocoon out of existence, believing that when it’s gone, they’ll be the kind of dazzling person God could really love.

But God’s love isn’t dispensed like that. God doesn’t want do-it-yourself righteousness. The Bible says, ‘He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.’ (Philippians 1:6 ESV)

Paul writes, ‘My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.’ God alone knows the process it will take for the Christ who saved you to be formed in you! We each travel our own paths at our own pace, but our goal is the same: to bear a greater resemblance to our heavenly Father. And getting us there is God’s job—so let Him do it. Your job is to keep walking with Him day by day as He does it.

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Adams12345:
Bros, truth talk kai calling Sanwo-Olu a lunatic is painful shall but governor sanwo-olu is a humble man, is Tinubu, that man tinubu has unforgiving mind, but fashola gave Tinubu fire for fire and he left him alone quickly, Ambode should toll the same line, just thinking out loud.

you are very very right.

stupid.... when the ratio of men to women is 1:7?
naa him sabi. he be like say death dey hungry him before jare.

Mutemenot:
Time for Ambode to explode . He should expose every loopholes favouring the state political godfather . He shouldnt be a coward forever

If he wants to do that. He should go to the US with enough evidences though and talk through the Washington Post or the Times.

Everything will be yanpepe scatter scatter..... lol.

finally finally.... lol. I knew Tinubu & Sanwo-Olu will never forgive Ambode for calling Sanwo-Olu a lunatic during the prelim to their primary election.

Oga ooo

are we sure those buses were up to 800?

Do You Really Want God’s Blessing?

TUE, 27 AUG 2019

‘Jacob wrestled with an angel.’ Hosea 12:4 CEV

Some of your toughest battles in life will be with God. That’s because there’s a ‘Jacob nature’ in each of us that resists the will of God, and wants to wrestle with Him. That nature has to be dealt with. The same God who asked Jacob, ‘What is your name?’ will ask you to identify yourself too. And until you’re willing to do an honest evaluation and answer truthfully, your life can’t change for the better. God had to break Jacob by dislocating his hip, the thing he depended on. Jacob got his blessing at the same time he got his limp. Ask yourself, ‘Do I really want the blessing of God on my life?’ Before you answer, stop and ask yourself these questions:

(1) Am I willing to let go of what I want if it’s not God’s will for me?

(2) Do I long for what others have instead of waiting for God’s provision for me?

(3) Do I keep talking about my rights because I haven’t fully surrendered to the Lord?

(4) Do I truly love others and think of them first?

(5) Am I practising the daily disciplines of prayer and Bible reading?

(6) Am I allowing God to handle my public relations instead of promoting myself?

(7) Am I expressing joy in the midst of adversity and trusting God to reproduce the character of Jesus in me?

( Am I taking risks in obedience to Christ instead of giving in to fear and playing it safe? Not only will your answers to these questions determine your discipleship, your direction, and your destiny—they will also determine your level of blessing.

I blame their parents. School no dey run away. Safety first they said.

NwaNimo1:
The should arrest the buyer ...he's or she is fueling the crime.

that's if he will not settle the police with a large sum of money.

Tinubu, please let Ambode be ooo. Naa small boy e be

Tinubu, please let Ambode be ooo. Naa small boy e be

Have You Discovered Your Life’s Purpose?

MON, 26 AUG 2019

‘Called according to His purpose.’ Romans 8:28 NLT

If you want things to work out right for you in life, you need to discover your God-ordained purpose and give yourself fully to it. The Bible says, ‘We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.’ (Romans 8:28 NIV) The focal point of your life should be discovering and doing God’s will. What you believe about that will determine the direction you take and what you accomplish.

There’s a big difference between talent and purpose. You’re called according to God’s purpose, not your talent. When you are talented but not called, you can be comfortable anywhere. That’s because talent, like justice, is blind; it sees all opportunities the same. But when you are aware of your God-given purpose and it governs your life, there are things you simply won’t do because you know they’ll derail, dilute, or defeat God’s purpose for you. Being ‘called according to His purpose’ enables you to focus on the development of your talent only as it relates to God’s will for you. So instead of asking God to bless what you’re doing, ask Him to reveal His purpose for your life. Once you discover and fulfil that, you’ll be blessed, because His plan is already blessed!

Let’s read it again: ‘And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them.’ (Romans 8:28 NLT) So have you discovered God’s purpose for your life yet? If not, get into His presence and stay there until He reveals it to you. It’s the only way you’ll ever be totally fulfilled.

...... imagine UK policeman throwing punches like that at New Cross Gate b/stop?

lol. Nigeria law enforcers no go kill person with laugh.

"were waa l'ori everybody"

lol lol lol.

..... igbeyin aiye boolu.(soccer coming to an end). And sooner, robot will come in as the refree. then follow by players to be robots.....and finally finally, spectators.

opin soccer. (soccer end)

.....do I really care about him? You can't sell your clans so cheap and expect to buy them on a high price.

he had lost my respect since. Whatever they think they can do with him, naa dem dem.

MondayOsunbor:
I swear to God I know this face somewhere

I think nollywood actor nii.