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Ahaziah, Who Died without Seeking after God

As Ahaziah was on his death bed because of his sickness, he sought after a foreign god. This is because he did not have the faith that God would save him. Even now there are people who don’t even seek after God’s will and make decisions with to their own thoughts, which lead them to destruction. This is why we have to open the Bible and search for the will of God. When we serve God with a humble heart anybody can receive God’s grace and blessings.

Ahaziah, Who Sought after Foreign Gods
If you look in 2 Kings chapter 1, Ahab, the king of Israel died and his son, Ahaziah became the king. But Ahaziah fell down through a lattice and became sick. Ahaziah called his messengers and said,
“Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease.”
While the messengers were on their way to Ekron, they met Elijah, the prophet, whom God had sent. Elijah said to the messengers.

“Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, you shall not come down from that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die.”
When he found out that the messengers had come back, King Ahaziah asked why they had returned.
“On our way to Ekron, there came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, ‘Go, turn again unto the king, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? The king shall surely die.’”
“How did this man look?”
“He was a hairy man and had a girdle of leather about his loins.”
“Oh, it is Elijah the Tishbite.”

The Thought That Occupied the Heart of Ahaziah
Ahaziah knew very well that Elijah was the man of God. But then, why didn’t he go looking for Elijah in such a serious situation where he was about to die?

Ahaziah did not have the faith that God would save him and bestow grace upon him. The father of Ahaziah, Ahab, was an evil man who had killed the prophets of God and served foreign gods. Ahaziah had seen how his father, Ahab, and mother, Jezebel, opposed God and tragically died after committing all sorts of sins. A thought settled in Ahaziah’s heart, “My parents had opposed and went against God, so God will hate me as well.” That is why he didn’t seek after Elijah, the man of God, even though he was in his country. He thought, “God will definitely not help me. So let’s go ask to a foreign god, Baalzebub.”

Hezekiah Sought after God unlike His Father
There was another king who was in a similar situation as Ahaziah. It was Hezekiah, the king of Judah. Hezekiah’s father, King Ahaz, had also did all kinds of evil—despising God, killing prophets and serving foreign gods. But as soon as Hezekiah became king after his father, he first removed all foreign gods and cleaned the temple. “While my father was king, many people were killed by war and taken as slaves. This is because my father had opposed God. This is why the whole country should turn back our hearts and serve God.” This is the heart Hezekiah had. And from this, Hezekiah received the grace of God and the nation grew in strength. Hezekiah also received the blessing of being healed from his sickness.

If Ahaziah Had Sought after God
If Ahaziah had had the same heart as Hezekiah, “Although my father had done evil before God, I should change my heart and serve God. God will help me,” then Ahaziah would have surely received grace and would have lived a blessed life.

What would have happened if Ahaziah had thought on his death bed, ‘Isn’t Elijah the prophet in this country? I must receive grace by inviting him. If it is not for the man of God, there is no way I can survive.’ If he had invited Elijah and said, “Man of God, Elijah! I have a sickness that will lead to death. I am the son of Ahab who had done evil, but I wish to receive the grace of God. Please have compassion on me,” then, God would have saved Ahaziah through Elijah.

Unfortunately, Ahaziah believed in his thoughts and could not discover the heart of God. Ahaziah did not die because he fell off the lattice, but because he did not seek after God and had despised God.

Wishing You to Seek after God’s Will and to Serve God
God has compassion for everyone and wishes to bestow grace. That is why He sent His Son, Jesus to this earth and crucified Him on the cross. Whatever evil deed, whatever filthy sin people have committed, once they come before God, because of Jesus, had died for there sins, God will have compassion for them. But Satan reminds us of our image and makes us close our heart towards God. “How can I go to heaven if I am this evil?”, “I have sinned. So God must hate me.” Satan gives us these thoughts so that we don’t seek God and don’t come before Him. However God happily accepts our heart once we change our heart and come before Him.

We do not know when Jesus will come, but it is certain that the time is short. Until then, we have to learn the heart of God through the Bible. By learning faith, we have to gain the strength to overcome sin and win over disasters. Like King Ahaziah, we should not make our own decisions without seeking God’s will, following the road of destruction. Before we think and decide on our own, we should open the Bible and search for the will of God and ask the pastors and teachers. I also wish that you have a humble heart before God and serve God, receiving grace and blessings.

Articul8: He said Alamala.

Is it different from the proposed Cargo airport along Iperu - Ilisian Remo road?

Where is the airport located ?

asidere: we don't need martins cos we already have emenike.what we need now is the uche brothers in the super eagles i.e ike and kalu uche.martins is the past of super eagles.if you want the uche brothers back in the eagles,kindly click like

How old is martins and the uches brother?

ElekeNtioba: again...u are confusing elections with appointment. They are not asking for a place in d politics of just any SW state. They just want to be part of tins in d very state they contributed to making what its is today. Dats not such a bad tin is it??

We all know that the major contributors of lagos states are non indigences of lagos state which spreads across the six geo political zones that's well represented.

Now, pls tell me, how do we compensate or satisfy all this six geo political zones? Since, they also have substantial multi billion dollars investments and population which sufficiently counts as their contributions to what makes Lagos today?

And what should be the faith of the indigences of the state?

Note; Any Nigerian can via for any position in Nigeria provided he/she satisfy the requirements of the constitution.

investnow2013: Obodo-Ukwu Road New Heaven Okpoko, AwadaOnitsha,Iyiowa Odekpe,Nkpor etc. A Lot are Done in Many Houses in and Arround Onitsha! Many are not Known! Onitsha is Surely The Home of Foot-Ware Industries.With all These, We Don't Need To Go To China or Any Other Place, But China and Rest of The World Will Come To Us! Arise! Onitsha Arise!!!! You Are The City of Industries!!!!!'

Then, where will you place ABA for foot wears in Africa?

One thing i'am definetely sure about is fasola's vivid performances in lagos state, it's second to none.

I was born and raised in lagos, so i definetely knew the states of things before the enthronment of tinubu and fashola's legitimate government.Things has gone from worst to good. Abi no be lagos wey full of bad roads, dirty, disordered, bike robbers, abandoned(by fg), bad tranportation, bad health centers(i no include general hospital o) and eceteracetera.

It is glaring that lagos state is somehow working now
compared to the past.

From eko atlantic to eko rail, those two project alone are able to transform lagos state to be the pride of Nigeria and darling of the western world.

Dont give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

About the dept and what he used it for. That one me i no know precisely but i know fashola dey work. And if suspected of corruption, hey efcc dey now, let dem try him.

Afterall, the Federal Government controls the Police, EFCC, ICPC and eceteracetera. So,the Federal Government is solely responsible to fight corruption by bringing the guilt to justice. Abi na youand me go prosecute am? neither tinubu nor fashola is ready to do that.

And if they don't prosecute when they are aware, then the central governent should get the blame for incompetences and turning blind to corruption.

Note; me i no be any party follower but an observer of truth.

ratiken: Really?
Fashola is the biggest fraud under our democracy cos he always tries to put up saintly fronts in the face of monumental. Criminality.

Let me put this in perspective.
With a monthly federal allocation of 19B and monthly IGR of 29B and a loan 160 billion, lagos states has managed 4.5 TRILLION naira in the past 7.5 years. What has this humongous funds being used apart from paying state salaries, planting flowers, painting schools and repairing select roads bearing in mind that FERMA. Is responsible for numerous federal roads in the state.
APC is a curse to Nigeria and they must be booted out of lagos come 2015

I pay an annual tax of over 4M, I spend about 104K annually on tolls, I provide and treat my water at a cost, we contribute to repair our internal street roads. And yet this fraud of a man while avoiding the FOI bill goes around borrowing funds my kids will be forced to pay.

God will punish Fashola and Tinubu

Pls tell me something. Is FERMA reconstructing or expanding ikorodu road?

liberty300: my guy, don't mind those guys, they always go to Google and pick pix from 2002 of Abia state and circulate it. Abia is a million times cleaner than lagos and more civilised. Hustlers and hard working individuals everywhere unlike lagos for lazy,party maniacs

Stop circulating pictures of Igboland from 2002 on nl..only yorubas would sit in oshogbo and tell you hw Igboland look like

I am in Aba as I speak now and I can categorically state that he fixed some part but many parts are like that .

The truth is that many roads are very bad in Aba especially when it rains. my God, you need to come see thinks for yourself.

Anyway, there are many things happening here but I would like to keep off from criticizing anyone for now.

I wonder if President Jonathan is aware of another indigenous Automoble plant in Nigeria apart from Innoson Motors.

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overhypedsteve: but please permit me to send a very strong message to the mofo's
people keep saying Innoson of Nigeria. They seem to forget the fact that innoson is not the only one building cars in naija. We also have a world renowned privately owned defence industry. Google #Proforce. Yes we ve been building, battle tanks, UAV, APC and patron vehicles for use by our armed forces and private individuals, they just got a contract from an unspecified African country to build several number of apc for them. And they have an MOU with DICON. I ll make a believer out of this people today.

Bravo! Why don't you make a trend on this?

And have you heard about another indigenous automobile manufacturing company called Leyland busan motors?

It is in ibadan. They produce coasliners, cargo trucks and garbage trucks.

You can google it.

company

overhypedsteve: but please permit me to send a very strong message to the mofo's
people keep saying Innoson of Nigeria. They seem to forget the fact that innoson is not the only one building cars in naija. We also have a world renowned privately owned defence industry. Google #Proforce. Yes we ve been building, battle tanks, UAV, APC and patron vehicles for use by our armed forces and private individuals, they just got a contract from an unspecified African country to build several number of apc for them. And they have an MOU with DICON. I ll make a believer out of this people today.

Bravo! Why don't you make a trend on this.

And have you heard about another indigenous automobile manufacturing company called Leyland busan motors?

It is in ibadan. They produce coasliners, cargo trucks and garbage trucks.

You can google it.

company

1, On my way to Ghana, we had to pass through Benin Republic and the first thing that shock me was the well paved roads with road marks, many functional traffic lights and law abiding drivers. I couldn't believe my eyes that a small neighbouring country could be that organised. That was even small thing. Police man blowing whistle to stop a car while sitting whitout neading to shout, waiving his/her hand or attempting suicide by jumping infront of moving vehichle that which our police practices everyday 24/7 in a year. I wondered what would happen if a Nigerian drives on that road. Another was seeing many okadas with many women riders.
Then, I was amazed to hear some speak my native language fluently.

2, We took a taxi to Ghana national thearter at round 9pm to prepare for a program, on our waythe car stopped suddenly and we asked the driver why he stopped the car. Do you the reason he gave? Because of the traffic light. My God! I was shocked and nearly wanted to died because he stopped the car at the middle of the night with none vehicle on sight or police man just to obey traffic rules. Unlike here, it was a perfect condition to zoom off considering the men of the underworld.
Apart from that, you are not allowed to urinate or litter the roads else pay the fine or go to jail. This one also shocked me die because for here na normal routine. Na every time I just dey remind myself whenever my hand or nature wan misbehave say, no bi Naija you de. Sometime I go don throwa before runing to pick an up myself or zipping up back when nature call.

3, My first journey to South Korea gave me another shock of my life and that was when I saw Korea Air that took me to Korea from thai airport. The plane gave me the real impression about Korea because I thought Korea was a poor country ravished by war with many poor structures, but when I saw the big, clean and beautiful Air plane then I knew korea is a very rich country. Landing at the newly built airport I couldn't believe my eyes, I heard it's the second or best airport in the world. That na even small thing, they are so neat and rich and you can see that from their clean roads to subways to new cars, skyscrappers and eceteracetera. They don't wear shoe inside their houses except some public places. I was shocked at the rate of their development but I couldn't cope with one thing. You know now. Food! the first food I was served was rice without stew and spoon. I mean eating with chop stick without stew but many side dishes like kimshi, soup and others, I wan die that day. I said only for today tommorow go change. But the same rice and differrent side dishes was served for the period of almost two months I stayed there. Bros, I wan died, at first I was enjoying it but later longing to return to Nigeria. The day I departed was a very joyful day for me. Eba na eba, fufu na fufu and rice and stew na rice and stew.
Could you believe that after I came back I longed for the foods. Anyway, that was in 2001 but nowadays Hangul Foods are delicious to me.

bright8: I recently did a reality check on present day Nigeria and was shocked by the level of deep hatred, wickedness and jealousy the Yorubas are capable of. Even the once highly esteemed Wole Soyinka despite his exposure exhibits same traits. Crab mentality most of them have and use even against one another not to talk about other people. Imagine the way they insult the president and his wife Patience, even making fun of their natural shortcomings. Na wah!

Those are the traits of sons of Adam and i believe we Nigeians are one of them.

The only reason to believe christain faith is Jesus Christ.

Although, the first two might be capable of ruling Abia State but it seem they are not in the frame of PDP candidates for now which I think is only Party on ground( there are other parties too) that might win election.

That is what I suppose is on ground now.

It seem to me that the millitary rule brought set back to our developement as a Country and corruption alongside power tussles presentely have also slower down development in recent years. Although, some citirs like Lagos, Calaber, Port harcourt, Uyo and Abuja are embracing and embarking on urban renewal but hollistically as a Country we still lack behind in terms of basic infracstructal development meant to propell us to be counted among developed Countries even in Africa.

Infracstructures like electricity, water, housing and eceteraecetera.

We need masive urban renewal because all the cities we have except Abuja and Lagos are glorified villages compared to what's obtainable in other developed Countries including SA, and with the human and natural resource that abound within, we should wish for nothing less.

That is why Federal Government must come in and support the states in developing thesr basics infravstructures.

Goverment should rebuild our airports, seaports from the scratch and fast track developent of fast rails with sub ways.

I am not condenming this project but saying we need more of this in every cities. Expecially, the oil producing ones.

EasternLeopard: People keep shouting
Airpower Airpower Airpower

May I ask you guys

Why do BH move around with vehicle mounted Anti-aircraft guns

Fact is

BH are forcing us to fight them on their terrain and combat style

BH AA vehicle mounted guns can operate best in Open terrain

So counter BH by using longer range AAs and avoid fighting BH on open fields in order to minimize BH strength

Shikena! Concur to this advice and will also add that they takeover and occupy every terrain captured with soldiers.

But the questions are;

Are they ready to end this war?

Is the Nigerian army aware of bh tactics?

If yes, what are they doing to counter it? ( i am not expecting them to reveal it to the public though but it will be glaring when used)

Do we have AAs?

And Where are the long range AAs?

Are they in the millitary museum?

Do they have any long lasting solutions to this?

Once, they are allowed to carry out their gorrilla tactics successfully, then we are in for the worst. That is the forcefull islamization of Nigeria citizens or be crucified.

That millitary strategies brought in a new goverment in Rwanda. So take the fight seriously,

seunlayi: just keep taking the battle to them, sitting down and waiting for them will never help us. Thumbs up

I hope they see this.

You don't just wait for them to attack you in your territories but you should rather trail and attack them in their comfort zones.

And when you attack them, do not allow them to escape. They should trail those escaping with dogs, eagles, pigeons, choppers, fighter jets, armourd tanks, drones, spy and 200,000 soldiers,until they destroy their strong holds and capture their armouries.

They should close all the borders in the north and controll all the rivers, streams, ponds,lakes or any source of water to quench their thirsty throat. Infact, nobody should be allowed to transport water.

obayaya: Lol!!! Well, I'll take that "in front" to be outside for the basis of rationalising that arrest

You have to understand that the governor is still the CSO of his state. And no outside security can dare invade the governor lodge. Nigeria has outgrown such (my belief though)

If the laidi story is true, then it's so unfortunate. The government security has a lot of explanation to do to prove that they weren't used as agents of intimidation.

these are the facts APC should be collating as a proof of security intimidation if there's ever a need for that

Ok, then, is it ir rationally targeted at a particular set of people, party or individuals which irrationally warrant their arrest?

Well, we know that it's not the case in Nigeria politics. River state as a case study. CSO ruling the state.

What an honest and inteligent answer, you just played neutral and has somehow clear my curiosty.

obayaya: where exactly is In front of Osun government lodge?

Well it's difficult to believe that security will come to the government lodge just to arrest lai Mohammed.

I can't comment on the laidi allegations tho

I myself don't know but the word IN FRONT somehow specified where the action took place.

It's also not difficult for some to believe that the security can go to the government lodge just to arrest in Nigeria democracy(crazy demostration).

And if the story is true about laidi and Government security agent actions what could have been your comment? As a law abiding citizen.