God and your work (3)

Sat, 30 Dec 2023

‘I have chosen Bezalel.’ Exodus 31:2

The first person in the Bible who was said to be ‘filled with the Spirit of God’ was Bezalel. And if his name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because he wasn’t a prophet, priest, king, or apostle. He was a craftsman, skilled in design. He had an eye for colour and a flair for management, and when it came time for building the Tabernacle, he oversaw the job. Here is what God said about him: ‘I have chosen Bezalel … and … filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills – to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts’ (Exodus 31:2-5 NIV). Imagine being Bezalel. Since your youth, you loved to work with your hands. You don’t know God is involved in this – but He is! He actually placed these desires within you. When you’re working, the joy you feel is actually the presence of God. You have certain strengths; you were born with them. They will always be your strengths, and you delight in them. Wonderful things happen when you discover those strengths, put them to use, and focus on improving them. Trying to develop in an area where God hasn’t gifted you is like trying to instruct a rabbit to swim or a snail to run. When you’re in your God-given slot, working with your God-given strengths, you’re at your best. When that happens, you are blessed, and so is everybody around you. The point is, in God’s plan, Bezalel was every bit as important as Moses. So, take heart; what you do matters!

zoedew:

Not true that Akeredolu family does not like the new Governor. The Lady in black and her husband the Pastor younger brother of the late Governor are not in that mould. You can take that to the bank. If you know you know those really mourning. May we not end up in the hands of a terrible spouse!

amin Jesu 🙏.

I get 😥

One can tell that Akeredolu's family does not like the new governor......but what can one do? God has designed the way of the man for good, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Congratulations to the new governor.

Free2Fly:


God should bless the person that discovered how to pour volumes of oil into a pot and name it soup, abi??

A yeye soup that even dogs won't taste?

Nonsense.

see them oooo. Haters 😔

Hawkler:

My prayers alone will even sustain him/her every time I consume four wraps.

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God and your work (2)

Fri, 29 Dec 2023

‘Those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.’ 1 Corinthians 4:2

Most adults spend about half their waking lives at work. Your work is a huge part of God’s plan for your life. He designed a specific vocation just for you in which you should find personal fulfilment, meet the needs of your family, and help to perpetuate His purposes on the earth. The fourth commandment covers all seven days of the week, not just the Sabbath. ‘Six days you shall labour and do all your work … for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth’ (Exodus 20: 9,11 NIV). Sometimes you hear sermons designed to make you feel guilty about not keeping the Sabbath, but have you ever heard a sermon designed to make you feel guilty about not honouring the six-day workweek? The point is that just as God made and loves the Sabbath, He also made and loves work. The Bible says, ‘The kingdom of God is in your midst’ (Luke 17:21 NIV). Whether you’re a butcher, baker, or candlestick maker, you’re required to demonstrate integrity in the workplace. It’s embarrassing when nonbelievers say, ‘I’ll never do business with a Christian again.’ The Bible says, ‘O LORD … how excellent is Your name in all the earth …’ (Psalm 8:1 NKJV). You should strive to be excellent in your work. Lateness, clock-watching, messing around, watercooler gossip, flirting, speaking evil about your boss – these things should have no place in your life. The Bible says, ‘Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful’ (1 Corinthians 4:2 NIV)’ You should go to work praying, ‘Lord, today I want to do a good job and bring credit to Your name.’

LivingSage:
Sabi person

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LivingSage:
You're mentioning Nigerian soup you omitted Gbegiri and Ewedu

What manner of fvckry

That's treasonable felony

with amala......oh God, bless the person that discover this combination of foods.

I'm so confused to chose..😔
.......ojokokoro dey worry me self. 😁

What is making the governor laughing? He is so silly

God and your work (1)

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

‘Whatever you do, do well.’ Ecclesiastes 9:10

In the Bible, you will notice that everybody works! And most of the Bible’s heroes had secular vocations. Isaac developed land, Jacob was a farmer, and Joseph served God best by staying in his well-paying government job rather than starting a non-profit, faith-based organisation to do charity work. Daniel was an immigrant who attended Babylon’s version of Oxford and grew to be prime minister. Lydia was a profitable businesswoman in textiles. Conceivably the ultimate expression of how much God values work is Jesus who was a carpenter. For more than three-quarters of His life, He occupied Himself in the building profession, creating benches and tables, and was probably engaged in construction. The word ‘carpenter’ is translated from the Greek word tektón, from which we get our word technology, and would contain the capability to do stone or masonry work. The Bible was penned by workers, about workers, and for workers. Work was God’s idea. ‘The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it’ (Genesis 2:15 NIV). Even the first man, Adam, was put to work. By identifying what you have been called to do in life and giving yourself fully to it, you are as ordained as any pastor who stands in a pulpit. It’s a pity we use the word secular when it comes to any kind of work other than church work because God doesn’t see it that way. All honest work earns His smile of approval. When it comes to work, the thing He requires from you is wrapped up in these words: ‘Whatever you do, do well.’

thelegend1:


Of course it can. Change suppose remain.
I'm an Architect in case you require professional services.

give your details please. And can you supervise it too?

May his soul in peace 🕊️

God’s first commission to us

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

‘Fill the earth and govern it.’ Genesis 1:28

The first thing God told Adam and Eve to do was ‘fill the earth and govern it’. Because Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden doesn’t mean they were limited to the Garden of Eden. God told them to ‘fill the earth and govern it’. Stop and think about it. God was inviting Adam and Eve to explore. Everything outside Eden was uncharted territory. They could travel in any direction and never see the same landscape twice. There were miles of virgin territory to explore. One way we glorify God is by exploring and educating ourselves about everything He has created. One author explains: ‘The astronomer who charts the stars, the geneticist who maps the human genome, the researcher who seeks a cure for Parkinson’s disease, the oceanographer who explores the barrier reef, the ornithologist who studies and preserves rare bird species, the physicist who tries to catch quarks, the chemist who charts molecular structures, and the theologian who studies God have one thing in common. All of them are explorers. They are fulfilling the Genesis commission. And their exploration honours God if it’s done for the right reasons and results in the right response: to know Him and to worship Him.’ There will always be some scientists who arrive at atheistic conclusions. But rather than abandon science, we have been called to reclaim it. If God created everything, then everything carries His holy fingerprint. All truth is God’s truth. Since all creation belongs to God, we are to honour Him in all our explorations.

$28m = N33.46b

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Congratulations

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Keep Christmas alive all year

Tue, 26 Dec 2023

‘The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen.’ Luke 2:20

An early pioneer travelling across the Great Plains stopped at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Amazed to discover a vast chasm one mile deep and eighteen miles wide stretching out of sight, he exclaimed, ‘Something must have happened here!’ And as American evangelist, Haddon Robinson, observed: ‘At … Christmas … anyone who stops to look and listen must ask what the hustle and bustle is all about. A thoughtful man or woman seeing the lights … decorations … festivities, and … religious services might also conclude, “Something must have happened here!” Of course, something did happen. We need to tell the world … God has visited our planet. His Son … came to reveal God and to die for our sins (see John 1:1-14). He lived among us that we might live forever with Him. When the shepherds found the Messiah lying in a manger, they marvelled because it was ‘... just as they had been told’ (Luke 2:20 NIV). As a result, they ‘returned, glorifying … God for all the things they had heard and seen’. They returned to their fields and flocks with fresh energy. But they still had to return. Jon Walker writes: ‘After we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we return to the office … to school … to the things we normally do … God takes us to the mountaintops … shows us great miracles and wonders, but He doesn’t leave us there. It’s in the fields and among the flocks that our faith grows, nurtured in the soil of the mundane … The conflicts over … who cleans up the mess, who gets to go home early, or who gets the biggest piece of pie, test whether it’s really Christ who lives in us.’

What about the people without foods? 🤔

He is all this … and more!

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

‘And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’ Isaiah 9:6

American author, Jack Hayford writes: ‘Who is this Babe of Bethlehem … who became flesh … who called forth songs of angels … this Christ of Christmas? … the answer comes back with ringing authority … He is the Redeemer – ‘... in whom we have redemption through His blood, ...’ (Colossians 1:14 NKJV). We who believe on His name have been qualified (Colossians 1:12 NKJV), delivered and conveyed (Colossians 1:13 NKJV) into a new … kingdom, by … a price once-paid to secure our freedom, potential, and fellowship. He is the Revealer – ‘... the image of the invisible God, ...’ (Colossians 1:15 NKJV). The veil of mystery is removed … no one need wonder what He is like – His Son Jesus has come to disclose His heart, His nature, His ways, His very being. Christ reveals all of the Father we could ever want to understand (see John 14:9). He is the Creator – ‘For by Him all things were created ...’ (Colossians 1:16 NKJV). All things – in heaven and earth – were made … for His use, pleasure, and glory. He is the Sustainer – ‘... in Him all things consist’ (Colossians 1:17 NKJV). He, the Word, spoke all things into existence (see John 1:3) ‘… and upholds all things by the word of His power’ (Hebrews 1:3 NASB20). Just as He creates (see Hebrews 11:3), so He keeps. He is the Leader – ‘... the head of the body, the church ...’ (Colossians 1:18 KJV). He gained this position by reason of His proven power and authority demonstrated in His resurrection. He who created all beings and powers (see Colossians 1:16) confined Himself within His own creation and voluntarily submitted to death (see Philippians 2:6-9). But to the dismay of hell, He rose from the dead, gave birth to the Church, and is now Lord over all.’

Amin Jesu 🙏

Since her husband is back to Nigeria, they will not give it to her again for now. Once the husband is good & healthy, they can both appear at the embassy again.

My 2 cents.

O.pari 😥

.....will be so dull 😭😭😞

🤔

If his host doesn't have a problem with him sitting on that throne, why should I? 🤷

The king that throne belong to too is a wise king.

A whole new approach

Sun, 24 Dec 2023

‘The Word became flesh.’ John 1:14

When the angel visited Mary, he said, ‘…"Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God’ (Luke 1:30 NKJV). Yet when it comes to approaching God directly, many religions are ruled by fear. American author, Philip Yancey says: ‘Certainly the Jews associated fear with worship … A person ‘blessed’ with a direct encounter with God expected to come away scorched or glowing or maybe in pain like Jacob … Among people who walled off a separate sanctum for God in the temple and shrank from pronouncing or spelling out the name, God made a surprise appearance as a baby in a manager. In Jesus, God found a way of relating to human beings that did not involve fear … A New Covenant … that would not emphasise the … gulf between God and humanity but instead would span it … I learned about incarnation when I kept a saltwater aquarium … You would think, in view of all the energy expended on their behalf, that my fish would at least be grateful. Not so. Every time my shadow loomed above the tank they dove for cover … to [them] I was deity … too large for them, my actions too incomprehensible. My acts of mercy they saw as cruelty; my attempts at healing … as destruction. To change their perceptions … I would have to become a fish and ‘speak’ to them in a language they could understand. A human being becoming a fish is nothing compared to God becoming a baby. Yet … that is what happened at Bethlehem. The God who created matter took shape within it, as an artist might become a spot on a painting or a playwright a character within his own play. God wrote a story, only using real characters, on the pages of real history. The Word became flesh.’

Silent Night?

Sat, 23 Dec 2023

‘You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.’ Luke 1:31

We have sung the words of the Christmas carol, Silent Night, since infancy. But those words don’t actually come from Scripture. Silent Night was a poem written by an Austrian priest in 1816. The words conjure up a serene picture of the happy couple watching their newborn baby. It’s not likely, however, that there was silence. After an exhausting journey on a donkey, Joseph and the very pregnant Mary didn’t check into the master suite of the Bethlehem Grand Hotel. They begged the use of an animal shelter, complete with the clatter and scents of barnyard animals – anything but silent! Ask any mother about giving birth. Even with the help of modern pain-reducing medicines and sterilised environments, the bravest woman rarely remains silent while giving birth. For Mary, Joseph, and Jesus – this was hardly a silent night! ‘Oh, Holy night’: of all the nights in history, this was the most holy. God set in motion His eternal plan to come to earth as the Redeemer of lost people. ‘For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation’ (2 Corinthians 5:19 NLT). Jesus came to take on Himself the sins of doomed humanity, so ‘… that we might become the righteousness of God in Him’ (2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV). It doesn’t get any holier than that! ‘All is calm, all is bright’: on that holiest of nights, our spiritual and moral darkness was forever dispelled by Jesus, the Light of the World. And our fears as lost sinners were replaced by the peace and joyful assurance that we are His eternally forgiven people.

The power of a shared faith

Friday 22nd December 2023

‘Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?’ Amos 3:3 NKJV

If your attraction to your partner is founded only on the way they look, imagine how they might look twenty-five years from now. Regular exercise and a good diet will only take you so far. Eventually, the ageing process will take its toll. The truth is that looks may bring you together, but only commitment and a shared faith will keep you together! The Bible says, ‘Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together, or what does light have in common with darkness? Or what harmony does Christ have with Belial, or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?’ (2 Corinthians 6:14-15 NASB20). That doesn’t mean the two of you must hold identical views on every issue and practise your faith in similar ways. But you need the same values and views regarding the fundamentals of your faith – how you view God, the role of the church, and personal practices. ‘Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?’ (Amos 3:3 NKJV) Faith is that indescribable strength, that secret weapon of the soul that allows us to persevere even when the facts seem damning and the truth unbearable. It’s what keeps us going when we’re not sure we can continue. It’s the light that leads us out of the darkness, and the map that guides our way. Without faith, we would probably pull over to the side of the road, give up, and watch everyone else pass us by. But when we trust in the Lord and believe that He will guide us, there is almost nothing we cannot withstand and walk through together.

Character (1)

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

‘Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.’ Proverbs 11:4

Abraham Lincoln said, ‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’ It’s easier to focus on our talent because, generally speaking, it produces results that are rewarded and celebrated by others. In other words, there is an element of ego connected to our gifts. Character is built in private. Your reputation is what people think you are, but character is what God (and you) know you are. If you want to go the distance, focus more on character than talent. The writer of Proverbs says, ‘The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise’ (Proverbs 11:30 NKJV). If you’re praying for greater results, being must precede doing. To achieve greater goals, you must become a more effective leader. To attract better people, you must become a person of great character. When you consistently display character, competence, and purpose, you make a powerful statement to those around you and draw them closer to you. Great things are rarely accomplished alone, so if you want to attract good people, you have to become a better person yourself. This is particularly true if you’re a person of great ability. Your talent may lift you up before others, but your lack of character will bring you down. The Bible says, ‘Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.’ (Proverbs 11:4 NIV). A wise leader is willing to admit, ‘I’m not perfect, but I know who is. And I’m doing my best to become more and more like Him in my professional and personal life.’

A bi 🤷