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xpac01:
Huh! My birthday mate here!
I had one of my most special day around 2009, when I celebrated 09/09/09. Twaz great...

seriously i enjoy that day no matter that i didn't celebrate it but dat is remarkable..... I hope you will celebrate this yrs own?

chudidonas:
That's awesome. Happy Bday in advance to you guys

Thank you boss

Me and my senior sister rep 9th Sept......... Happy bday in advance to Us

Edo kiss

Deputy Governor of Borno State, Zannah
Umar Mustapha, has died in Yola, the
Adamawa State capital.
Though no ailment was reported, the state
government, which expressed “shock and
disbelief” at the deputy governor’s death,
said Mustapha was in Yola to represent the
state government at the convocation of the
Modibbo Adama University of Science and
Technology, Yola.
A statement by the Secretary to the Borno
State Government, Alhaji Usman Shuwa, on
Saturday, added that the deceased was also
scheduled to visit Borno State indigenes,
who are quartered in the Internally
Displaced Persons camps in Yola.
The statement by Shuwa read, “It is with
deep sense of utter shock and disbelief but
with complete submission to the will of the
Almighty Allah that the Borno State
Government hereby announces the passing
away of His Excellency, Alhaji Zannah Umar
Mustapha, the Deputy Governor of Borno
State.
“He died in his sleep this morning(Saturday)
in Yola, Adamawa State, where he was to
represent Borno State Government at the
convocation ceremony of Modibbo Adama
University of Science and Technology, Yola.
“He was also scheduled to follow up on his
earlier visit to Yola, in connection with the
welfare of Borno State citizens internally
displaced as a result of the Boko Haram
insurgency.
“His is remains would be brought to
Maiduguri for funeral at the Government
House, Maiduguri at 4pm today, Saturday,
August 15, 2015. He will be buried in
Maiduguri.
“His Excellency, Kashim Shettima, the
Governor of Borno State, expresses his
heartfelt condolence to the family of the
deputy governor and the entire people of
Borno State for the irreparable loss and
appealed for prayers for the repose of the
soul of our late deputy governor.”

Source: www.punchng.com/news/borno-loses-deputy-gov/

Day of Atonement, Hebrews 9
A small boy was consistently late coming home from school. His parents warned him one day that he must be home on time that
afternoon, but nevertheless he arrived later than ever. His mother met him at the door and said nothing. His father met him in the
living room and said nothing.
At dinner that night, the boy looked at his plate. There was a slice of bread and a glass
of water. He looked at his father’s full plate and then at his father, but his father remained silent. The boy was crushed. The
father waited for the full impact to sink in, then quietly took the boy’s plate and placed it in front of himself. He took his own
plate of meat and potatoes, put it in front of the boy, and smiled at his son.

When that boy grew to be a man, he said, “All my life I’ve known what God is like by
what my father did that night.”

And we also know what God is like by what Christ did on the cross. The cross reveals a
powerful story of the magnitude of God’s love and grace.

In the Old Testament, after a priest went
into the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement, he came out with a “good thing” for the nation of Israel. He brought
one year of forgiveness. But when Christ came out of the “greater tabernacle” ( Heb.
9:11-12), He brought a better thing — a lifetime of forgiveness, a one-time sacrifice that would never need to be repeated, a
new relationship with God the Father that was based on reconciliation (Rom. 8:1), and
many more blessings, whose realization is yet to come (cf. Rev. 21-22).

Now on THE (final) Day of Atonement (the day of Jesus death on the cross), Jesus’ sacrifice was made with blood. But the
blood on that day was a better blood than the blood of bulls and goats. The Old Testament sacrifices provided atonement,
but not permanent atonement because they were only shadows of the reality to come.

Those sacrifices were inadequate because they provided a blood of a different kind — they were not appropriate equivalents of
human life. But the blood of Jesus was free from sin’s curse (Rom. 8:22), it was given
voluntarily (Heb. 9:14), which no animal ever did, and it was done one time for all time
(Heb. 9:12).

As significant as the Old Testament sacrifices and Law were, they were inadequate
because they could never clean the conscience of a man. For as pure as an animal might be, even an animal could not be inwardly clean. So the best an animal
sacrifice could do was provide external cleansing. But Christ’s blood dealt with the
ultimate issue — He removed not only the defilement, but the source of the defilement
(Heb. 9:13-14). Because of His blood, believers in Him are free to worship and serve God with a cleared, non-condemning
conscience. And because He was without blemish, we can be made blameless (Eph.
1;4; Col. 1:22).

There is no forgiveness without (perfect) blood. And there is no atonement without (perfect) substitution. Christ Jesus provides both.

Source: https://saviourstep./2015/08/08/a-better-sacrifice/

We are not destroying anything.... So it has ended and thank God for the peaceful Protest.......

R.I.P Rita

We Uniben student Loves You.

shiizzy:
wetin dey worry them... Even OOU wey 12 students die sef.. Dem no do reach this one... Anyway 2nd To comment

I don't blame you sir

R.I.P Rita......
#WeUnibenStudentLoveYou

What do you do if you aren’t praying? How
do you stimulate yourself to pray when you
are disinclined to pray and don’t pray?

Everyone battles the temptation not to pray.
The flesh resists prayer, no matter how
much we say we want to pray (which is why
Jesus told the disciples to keep watching
and praying when they were tempted to
sleep, Mk. 14:38).

Here are a list of some questions I keep in
the back of my prayer journal to examine my
heart when I am not praying or when I am
tempted not to pray:

* Am I “too busy” to pray — exchanging the
important for the urgent?
* Am I too distracted by the non-essential?
* Am I spiritually dry? Have I neglected
feeding my soul with Scripture?
* Am I being prideful and self-sufficient? Do
* I believe (as evidenced by my actions) that
* I can work without God?
* Am I too bitter or angry to pray?
* Have I failed to forgive the sins of others
(Mk.
11:25)?
* Is sin (i.e., my own sin) keeping me from
praying?
* Am I too ashamed to pray (e.g., Gen. 3:8;
Heb. 4:13)?
* Am I content with mediocrity, so that I
don’t feel the necessity and importance of
prayer?
* Am I too lazy to pray — unwilling to do
the hard work of laying a foundation of
prayer for my life with God?
* Am I ungrateful — and because I am
ungrateful have slipped into believing that
* God is irrelevant or unnecessary?

Those are some of my questions that I use
to exhort myself to quicken my prayer life.

What are some self-examination queries
that you use?

Sources: https://saviourstep./2015/07/18/if-im-not-praying-self-examination/

Last week, i wrote about “5 Reasons why
you should always pray in the morning”

https://
saviourstep./2015/07/11/5-
reasons-why-you-should-always-pray-in-
the-morning/

In case you missed the thread: http://nairaland.com/2443135/5-reasons-why-should-always

Today, am writing on “What To Pray For One Another”

In one of the shortest verses of the Bible,
believers are instructed to “pray without
ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). The believer is not
only to pray regularly and habitually, but
prayer is to constantly be at the forefront of
his mind. He is to be always ready for
communication with His Lord and Master.

And Paul models that readiness when he
says to the Romans, “…unceasingly I make
mention of you, always in my prayers
making request…” (Rom. 1:9b-10a). Paul
informs his readers that he is regularly
remembering them, and he not only
remembers them by name, but he
remembers them by praying for them,
making requests and interceding for them
at God’s gracious throne.

This is not only the life of the apostle, but
this is the life of every believer. This is how
every Christian should conduct himself.
Praying for others is not the work of super-
Christians or the specially gifted alone. It is
the work of every member of the body of
Christ. We work in the church body, in part,
by praying for one another.

Yet when we pray for one another, we may
also find ourselves at times repeating the
same prayers by rote and without thought.

So how do we cultivate vital and meaningful
prayers for others? Here are two
suggestions:

1. Ask others how you can pray for them.
Ask them what their needs are, what their
joys are, and for what they are thankful.
Take notes and put those notes into a
prayer journal. And then pray with that
person before you leave him.

2. Pray the prayers of Scripture for others.
You may not be aware of some people’s
individual needs (as Paul certainly wasn’t
when he was writing to Rome from Corinth)
. Yet you can use the requests that the
Scripture writers make for others to form
the basis of your own prayers.

Some time ago, I read through Paul’s letters
and made note of many of his prayers to
use as a stimulant for my prayers for others.
Here is that list:

* Romans 1:8-12
* Romans 10:1
* Romans 15:5-6
* Romans 15:13
* 1 Corinthians 1:4-9
* 1 Corinthians 16:23
* 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
* 2 Corinthians 2:14-16
* 2 Corinthians 12:7-9
* Galatians 6:18
* Ephesians 1:15-23
* Ephesians 3:14-21
* Ephesians 6:19-20
* Philippians 1:3-6
* Philippians 1:9-11
* Philippians 4:23
* Colossians 1:9-14
* Colossians 4:2-4
* 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4
* 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
* 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
* 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, 28
* 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12
* 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
* 2 Thessalonians 3:2-5
* 2 Thessalonians 3:16
* 1 Timothy 1:12
* 1 Timothy 2:1-4
* 2 Timothy 1:3-7
* 2 Timothy 1:16-18
* 2 Timothy 4:22
* Titus 3:15
* Philemon 4-7
* Philemon 25

And that is a list only from Paul’s letters!
Many other prayers also exist in Scripture,
that inform us how we can pray for others.
But more than just accumulating prayers for
others, let us actually do the hard work of
praying for each other

Source: https://saviourstep./2015/07/18/what-to-pray-for-one-another/

gamaliel121:
Very very nice...thank you

You are welcome........ You can as well always visit my blog via http//:saviourstep.
Thanks

speaktome:
@op, are you afraid to mention the Name God
All I see is Him, Him, Him...hmmmmm

sir am not afraid of mentioning "God" ...... But i thank God you understood what i meant.

godfwee:
I love this,

Thanks.......... You can as well always visit my blog via http//:saviourstep.

donfarad:
Nice one.
Keep it up.

Thanks....... Pls you can also always visit my blog for more @ http//:saviourstep.

ladyteska:
it is not as if people dont know about this o,everybody knows but we always forget(but not everybody though +me)

Sis, forgetting it is always what people give as reason.
But is as if someone that forget to eat morning food.
So, the best thing it to put it in our daily activities or time table.

ladyteska:
it is not as if people dont know about this o,everybody knows but we always forget(but not everybody though +me)

Sis, forgetting it is always what people give as reason.
But is as if someone that forget to eat morning food.
So, the best thing it to put it in our daily activities or time table.

doofanc:
Good post OP. God Bless!

And you too....... Thanks

herald9:
So your God doesn't know his duty or he just forget it on purpose so you need to remind him all the time.

Isn't he your heavenly father again? imagine how it would be if you have to remind your dad every time to provide food for you!

Indirectly you're asserting he's suffering from dementia. Lol.

And please, you guys should Stop using the misfortune of others as a point in thanking your god. It's normal assumption that God loves everybody and doesn't segregate, then why thanking your god because 'you are not like the other guy who slept yesterday and never woke up'. That's hypocrisy.

In my opinion tho.

Bro, is not as if God don't know his work again. But remember in Bible (Matt 7:7) He told us "Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find"

So prayer is a kind of asking and Thanking Him is a kind of appreciation.

Thanks for your understanding and God Bless You.

DahtzFestjayz:
Re-arrange your post for readable pleasure

Done

I have noticed that 80% of people don’t pray when they wake up in the morning because of one reason or the other. So i decided to write about it.


You may see someone roaming around internet till 1.00am just chatting. When the person later went to bed, waking up in the morning to pray will be problem even if the person wake up, he/she will not remember that they is something like prayer. This because they don’t know the reason why they should pray in the morning before doing anything.


Remember that Prayer is the Key to open success.


So, here are 5 reasons why you should always pray.


1. To Thank Him For Keeping You Alive.
I think this is the first reason because is not
all the people that slept last night make it the
next morning. I have heard about many
unending stories about people dying
without even any atom of sickness. Make it a
point atleast to thank Him.


2. For Protecting You And Giving You Health.
Many people have been attack in their
dream, many have been initiated into occult
world in their dream. You don’t know the
people that is having meeting because of
you in their kingdom. Many people wake up
with different types of sickness. But God
protected you from all.


3. For Him To Protect You From Any Hidden Danger During The Day. (Psalm91:3-4)
Yes, He already promise to keep us safe during the day. But we need to remind Him
that through prayer. Am sure you have been
hearing of many fatal accidents happen this
days and till some people survive it. Nobody
know what will happen during the day, So
always make it a point to pray for
protection.


4. For Him To Provide For You During The Day
Here is another point for you to pray in the
morning. As we always pray “Give us this
day our daily bread”. Is good for you to say
this prayer every morning to keep it as a
reminder for Him. I know that you are
aware that they are some people out there
that can’t even afford #5 for pure water. But
you are here enjoying.


5. For His Goodness, Protection Upon Your Family and friends.
Here is the final Point for now because there
are still many other reasons.
Praying for your family and friends in the
morning have an important rule to play in
their life during the day because we don’t
know what would have happen to them if not your prayer.




==Pray without ceasing.
==Prayer is the key to unlock heavens gate
==Pray and watch so that you will not fall into temptation.


Sources:
https://saviourstep./2015/07/11/5-reasons-why-should-always-pray-in-the-morning/

Blogging needs patient

As youths it is a hard act to follow Christ
because of the many forms of entertainment
we are bombarded with in our present
world, which often express views and
values that are contrary to the God’s word
and his will for us. Sadly enough youths still
look for happiness within the technological
and scientifical confines of our present
world. This ultimately can be frustrating
because we end up doing evil to satisfy our
fresh. If we cannot conceive of happiness
beyond this world and see ourselves as
journeying through life, we’ll be tempted to
despair.
Some of our Youths worldwide negate faith
in God mainly because of the proliferation of
different technological advancement and
scientifical discoveries which is the trend
and is made manifest in the 21st Century,
these has gone a long way to shape and
define the current generation of youths. We
shouldn’t allow environmental changes
shape us, we must always seek God’s face:
change our mindset of these cravings for
evil purpose and cultivate the spirit of love
and peace with as we relate with one
another.
Bible Quote: Though we are in the world,
we are not of this world. It is sad to note of
that many of oya youths spend many hours
seeking the things of our present world,
while the practicing catholic youths spend
few hours with God weekly when they
attend Mass on Sundays. Its simply not
enough to spend one or two hours a week
seeking God’s face, we must set aside
quality time in our lives for praying else our
‘FAITH’ dies. Faith is a gift form God.
According to the biblical passage of
Matthew 16:13-20, Peter confessed that
Jesus is the Christm the son of the Living
God, Jesus declared to him this revelation
did not come from ‘flesh and blood’ but
from ‘my father in heaven’. Faith is
supernatural virtue infused in us by God.
The Grace of God and the interior help of the
Holy Spirit are prerequisite for Faith.
Faith is not just a belief rather its a personal
encounter with Christ. “Faith does not just
mean accepting a certain number of
abstract truths about the mysteries of God,
man, life and future realities, it consist of an
intimate relationship with Christ, a
relationship based on love for him who
loved us first”(1 John 4:11). In its deepest
essence, faith is the openness of the Human
heart to the gift of God’s self revelation in
the Holy Spirit. The heart is the depth of
one’s being, where one decides for or
against God (ccc.368).
As youths living out our faith in today’s
world entails humility, a non judgmental
attitude to every one and clarity in opinion,
but always willing to listen and above
prayer. Christ should be our guiding light.
When a youth manages to reflect just a
glimmer of Christ’s glory, God sends his Holy
Spirit and Grace. Our faith has to be kept
alive. This requires personal effort. Yes! Faith
is not an isolated act; as we have received
the faith from others, so too shall we hand it
to others. Hence, our live for Christ must
move us to tell others about or faith. We
must cooperate with the numerous
opportunities which have been placed
before us to grow in faith as well as to
share this great asset.
We can enrich our faith by meditating on
God’s word (Holy Bible), praying frequently,
and doing good to our neighbours who ebe
they may be. We must beg the Lord, like the
apostle to increase our faith. When we live
in faith, then we shall be enlightened by the
Holy Spirit so that we can discern the things
of God and share the faith to countless
people we meet in the world.
Therefore i enjoin all youths to be prayerful
and be firm in faith, because prayer applied
faith. True prayer is well within the reach of
every Christian youth. “Seek me not in far
away places; I am very close to you”. Also St
Jones Vianney gives us insight into the
simplicity of prayer: “Contemplation is gaze
of faith, fixed on Jesus. I look at him and he
looks at me”. The focus on Jesus purifies our
hearts and teaches us to see everything in
the light of truth and his compassion for all
men (ccc.2715). When we pray, we are not
trying to change God’s mind but aligning
our wills and intentions with his. Pray
always and do not “Liquidise” your faith in
Jesus Christ.

Source: https://saviourstep./2015/07/10/youth-living-out-the-faith-in-the-21st-century/

I stil da play this game now....... I love it

Let those that have ear hear.....

ICEPRINCEE:
Oga be nice n helpful

But i have advice him already nah .i.e to marry both because if he keep it secret to d first gf and decide to go on with the wedin, if she later find out, it will be a kind of chaos to their marriage or better still let him tell the 1st gf now bfor wedding.

Let him marry both of them. When he was playing around, did u call me to advice him?

luckypeace1980:
if you need a beter wife or husband just rush and go to igboland and marry .this is the only tribe that respect marriage and value it . the only tribe that have security for marriage. you can see it that all the divorcees here are mostly yorubas and others from their names. May God bless ndi igbo .

Can you just tell them again

qbd2:
CraZzzy. Though not nigerian, I know of a case of a wife that filed for divorce for d reason that her husband always presses d toothpaste tube from the miDdle instead of d bottom as she has always correcvted

lolz......

Here is another stupid reason...