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CuteMadridista:
All glory to Satan. Light is beginning to shine on the demonic stronghold called Christianity. R'amen.

I plead the blood of Satan over every angelic withcraft coming from Yahweh. May every Jewish cross hanging over your life be broken, the way Holy Spirit broke Mary's virginity. I fire ballistic missiles at the 12 hosts of heaven. I bind and rebuke all heavenly principalties, I bind the Lion of Judah, the great opressor, he who was killed be three nails. concerning you reading this, I cast away the Holy Spirit from your life. Take Glory Satan. May the work you've begun on Nairaland grow, from Daddy Freeze to Small boy Adeboye.
R'amen.
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calmG:
I really hate the devil.infact I completely loathe him...once he notice you've discovered the truth about how GOD loves humanity and notice you are letting others know this truth,he will make u his target,he will want to make life unbearable for you...but there he goes with another failed mission because If GOD be for you no power can fight against you...That was how he (the devil) was frustrated when Christ came to this world and did all he could to kill him,but shame on to him JESUS Christ rose again. he never knew that was the Ultimate plan of GOD to save humanity...he will continue to fail till his time comes,till when he will be thrown into the buttomless pit...
When your hatred for the devil increases,in like manner will your love for GOD increase...

jiggaz:
Believers, not only is the Christian life hard to live by human effort, it is impossible to live. Only Christ can, so we have nothing to boast about. This is why we sing “‘tis no longer I that liveth, but Christ that liveth in me.” Here’s an illustration:

I'd been doing my best to resolve the mosquito issues we'd been experiencing at my home for some months. This breed of mosquitoes seemed to laugh off regular insecticides when I used it on them. I'd use Baygon on them and see their dead bodies strewn all over the floor afterwards but our relief was always short-lived; they'd be humming all over the place again within hours! They tormented me day and night.

But one day, I remembered Integrated Science or was it Home Economics from secondary school: mosquitoes need stagnant water to breed! I rushed outside: close to our living room windows were two buckets, both of them half-filled with rain/tap water, and with all sorts floating thereon. Mosquitoes everywhere!

My point is no matter how often I sprayed the house with insecticide, our respite from mosquitoes would always be temporary unless their breeding places got destroyed. Plus insecticides have their own harmful effects on humans and the mosquitoes would eventually become resistant to them too. Getting rid of them would only become more difficult. How does this relate to living the Christian life? Romans 5:19 says-

"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous."

From the above verse, we see that committing acts of sin is not what makes people sinners. People are made sinners by Adam's sin. Everyone descended from Adam is born with this sin/old nature. The stagnant water in the buckets represents man having the old nature inherited from Adam. The mosquitoes that bothered me represent acts of sin as well as sickness, lack, stress and everything that came to be as a result of Adam's fall. Having this root of sin (stagnant water) is what causes the mosquitoes (acts of sin, sickness, lack, etc) to proliferate. We see this in Romans 7:5-

"When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death."

Unfortunately in the church today, the focus is on preaching the killing of mosquitoes (acts of sin) by using insecticides (law-keeping) as the path to attaining righteousness, when what is needful is ridding the flock of the old/sin nature that was inherited from Adam (getting rid of the stagnant water.) Christ died to rid us of this old/sin nature. See Colossians 2:11–

“When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature.”

In Him, we are a new creation. God made Him to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him, as it is written in 2 Cor. 5:21-

"For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

When you receive the abundance of grace and believe that you are saved and made righteous by the obedience of Christ (Romans 5:19) and not your own obedience or your self-discipline and law-keeping prowess, you no longer have the old/sin nature. You are dead to the law. Old things have passed away. No more curse. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus, made righteous not by your own obedience to the law but by Christ’s obedience (Romans 5:19.) And this is the result according to Romans 7:4-

"So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the One who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God."

Understand what it means to have "died with Christ" and to be "united with the One who was raised from the dead." God did not raise the Lord Jesus from the dead just because He could. Christ's death and resurrection is the divine receipt showing that we who believe have been forgiven of all of our sins and made righteous by His one sacrifice for sins. See this in Romans 4:23-

“Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our justification (our acquittal), [making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt before God]." See the TPT version: “Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that He had made us right with God!”


Christ would not have risen from the dead if our lifetime of sins had not been forgiven and we had not been declared righteous (justified,) all apart from works. His resurrection is akin to seeing someone who went to serve a death sentence in an impregnable prison for the crimes of another alive and walking free. As believers, we have everlasting righteousness apart from works because Christ is risen. When we believe that He is risen (that we are made righteous by His obedience and not our puny efforts at doing good things and obeying the letter that kills,) we get to "produce a harvest of good deeds for God," aka works of faith, yet not us but Christ in us.

Instead of stagnant water (sin nature) in vessels that can only produce acts of sin and such that lead to death, in Christ, we have His righteousness, so we get to live right! Just as the sin nature produces acts of sin, as a new creation with Christ as our righteousness, we bear fruit to righteousness, yet not us but Christ in us.

In essence, no matter how many canisters of insecticide one expends in a bid to kill the mosquitoes (trying hard by one's power to be sin-free through obedience to the letter that kills,) without getting rid of the stagnant water (rejecting the old nature that was inherited from Adam and receiving our Lord Jesus' blood-bought righteousness which is given as a gift to all who believe Him according to 2 Corinthians 5:21,) he can never be free from mosquitoes (acts of sin.) He has the old (sinner) nature. Sin will multiply and the result is death.

Remember Romans 6:14- “For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under grace.” Sin has dominion over those who are trying to obey the law in order to be godly (be like God.)

This is why many in the church today are trapped in an endless cycle of committing acts of sin and attending deliverance/curse-breaking sessions all in a bid to be free from one bondage or the other that Christ hung on the cross and died to free us from. Like my insecticide and mosquitoes experience, any results will be short-lived. The old nature is still intact so no matter how much such do to be free from their "mosquitoes" of acts of sin, sickness, lack, depression, etc, more will come.

The one with the old nature rejects the gift of righteousness that Christ died that we might have and strives to attain righteousness/godliness (be like God) by human effort, just like Eve did. He does not believe Romans 5:19– "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous."

But Romans 3:20 says :"For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are."

Also, Galatians 5:4 says "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

Yet in many places of worship, people are being subtly taught to reject the gift of righteousness that Christ died that we might have and depend on their own "menstrual rag" righteousness from works of the law. Isaiah 64:6 shows us God's view of the "good things" we do in order to be righteous: "We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight."

Only the blood-bought righteousness that proceeds from the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ will suffice for God the Righteous and He freely gives it to all who believe.

Grace is undeserved, unmerited favour. If one iota of our strength is in it, it is no longer Grace (Romans 11:6,) and only by grace through faith are we saved, so we have nothing to boast of in ourselves (Ephesians 2:8-9,) not our own self-discipline, giving, morality, evangelism, tithe payment, dedication or right-living prowess. Wonderful as these things are, they cannot save anybody. Doing them in order to gain God's favour and acceptance is rejecting the gift of righteousness that Christ died that we might have; it is akin to killing mosquitoes inside your house but ignoring their breeding ground. Only in the Beloved are we accepted. Ephesians 1:6.

With the Lord as our righteousness, the old nature is no more; "all these things shall be added unto you." We get to be transformed to the image of the glory of the Lord, from glory to glory, through no effort of ours but by His Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18.) We get to live in triumph over sin, stress, sickness and every ill. We get to love proclaiming Jesus. We get to live a life of moral excellence even beyond that which the law demands, yet not us but Christ in us.

Romans 5:17 says: "For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ."

This death that is as a result of Adam’s offence is not necessarily immediate. It is a process. Fear, stress, worry, silly mistakes, working so hard only to lose it all, sickness, lack, depression, fast-tracked ageing are all death begun. God said to Adam "for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die." Psalms 90:4 says of God "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by,"; Moses wrote this concerning God's view of the life of man (v.3.) Adam did not give up the ghost immediately after his death sentence came into effect; he lived for almost 1,000 years aka one day gone by in the sight of God.

Not only is the Christian life hard to live by human effort, it is impossible to live. Only Christ can. This is why we sing “‘tis no longer I that liveth, but Christ that liveth in me.” Only with the abundance of grace and having Christ as our righteousness do we get to live in triumph over sin and death.

Sinners are made righteous by "one Man's obedience": Christ's; when we believe that God "made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Cor. 5:21. Here, we are a new creation in Christ. When you believe that your right-standing with God and His blessings upon you have got nothing to do with what you did or did not do but have ALL to do with what Christ has done, the old (sinner) nature is no more. The stagnant water is gone.

There might still be some mosquitoes (acts of sin, sickness, etc) inside your house after the stagnant water (old nature) is removed but they will all die off and there will be none to replace them. Remember, “The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of day.” Proverbs 4:18. Things will only get better and you will no longer continue to live in sin because you have the only brand of righteousness that counts before God: Christ’s.

In place of the root of sin (stagnant water) that produces acts of sin (death-bearing mosquitoes,) we have Christ's righteousness so we bear fruit to God. We get to produce "a harvest of good deeds for God." No more mosquitoes (acts of sin) but abundant life, right living and every blessing of God in Christ! This is the Good News.

Believe Right and you will Live Right.

http://rightbelieving101..com.ng/2018/02/why-is-christian-life-so-hard.html?m=1


This is attainable by the power of the Holy Spirit.... When you have it, then you have conquered the flesh... you would be able to Love, by that, you have fulfilled the LAW

OLAADEGBU:
The Easter Retreat should be starting from around the 29th, a good time to satisfy your curiosity.

OLAADEGBU:
The Easter Retreat should be starting from around the 29th, a good time to satisfy your curiosity.

OLAADEGBU:
I'll suggest you first pay a psychiatrist a visit before you are let loose.

OLAADEGBU:
Arrange an appointment with him if you've got anything useful to say. I know you will not gatecrash the President's villa because you've got something personal to say to him, will you?

OLAADEGBU:
You know where the church is located, why don't you go there to get an audience with him?

OLAADEGBU:
What do you need it for?

sexybaby22:
For me I have grown/evolved not to be bothered with what people think about me just because I see life from a different perspective . I refuse to follow the norm, but to be myself.

Lonestar124:
Even this one brand himself as man of God

What God will judge that day will be uncountable as sand in the ground

godisgood200:
I hear you pastor godisgood!
Thank you my son.

How does this come in here?


If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi:2:2
Will you conisder the above as a threat from God?

When you are disobidient and you are told the consequence of your disobedience, it only takes pride for you to see it as a threat instead of correction.

Anyways, If you are in a Church where a Pastor threatens you with Hellfire if you don't pay your Tithe, then you shd change your church because you are in a wrong Church. You won't go to hellfire if you refuse to pay your Tithe, as only rejection of Jesus ends you in hell.

But, if you don't pay your Tithe, yet you are a Believer who depends totally on Kingdom advancement, [b] meaning in every of your financial endeavours, you won't steal, cheat, give or take bribes. You won't put your hands in any evil to make money, you will remain poor. It's not a threat, it's a reality understood only by few. It doesn't mean you will become a millionaire if you pay your Tithe, but, God will keep destiny stealers away from you.

Tithe is a defence. The devourer (Sickness, cinstant deads in the family, police/court cases, all manner of crises which takes money away from you will be kept away. God did not promise to give us money when we pay our Tithes, he promised a BLESSING. WHAT IS A BLESSING, IS IT MONEY?

Satan understands this mystery deeply hence, he is attacking it making stupid Christians not to pay. (Did you hear it? You Pay it, you don't give it, It's payment). It is a debt that you owe God.

You guys go to satan satan to get what you need, is it free?

You are into business, you pay huge bribes, even as simply as Yahoo, you consult demons.

Bigtime money Men, are deep into satanism, do you want to know how much they sacriices to their demons?

Why not you satanists leave us alone? How can one compare my 10% to what satan takes from you?

Must people, sell all they have, borrow join to give to their demons, yet you won't let me be.


If you don't want to pay Tithe, then don't, but trust me, you'll pay it (Pay it), to satan. Hospital bills, burials, accidents, cases, bribes to get things done. You'll pay far more.

Shalom.


Peace,

Your points corresponds with the teachings of the Holy Spirit, it would be nice if they put this across to their adherents, particularly, when there is so much "cleaned wroth by the grace of God " in the system.

I am VERY SURE you know, you KNOW

Evablizin:



Sorry bro,next time i will see your pictures,it will be you standing in your new apartment with smiles on your face. Is Well.

ndy87:
More time to continue wrecking havoc around the world.

kingJoya:
Happy Sunday Nairalanders.
Countless times in the Bible, people were put to test. These tests would then influence situations in the Bible. For instance, the shunamite woman who gave prophet Elisha all she had was rewarded at the end. She passed.
Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son. He passed too.
My question now is If God asked you to do something horrible or extraordinary for his sake, would you do it? Or Would you use the excuse that such orders don't come from God?
As a devoted Christian if God should test you now will you pass or fail?

ndy87:
Ishmael can never change he is an impostor from time immemorial.

MDsambo:
-The world is silent because they're not American students

-The world is silent because it cannot see beyond bigotry

-The world is silent because they're Muslims (jst look at the guy above)

Whoever contributed directly or indirectly in the killing of those innocent children will never know peace in their live and will die a terrible death.

Hiswordxray:
"He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you" (1Pet 1:20).

"[Resting] in the hope of eternal life, [life] which the ever truthful God Who cannot deceive promised before the world or the ages of time began." (Titus 1:2).

"Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began," (Rom 16:25).

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:" (1Co 2:7)

"and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;" (Eph 3:9).

"the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints." (Col 1:26).

God's eternal purpose is strew all over the epistles of Paul. Paul also called it the mystery of God from the foundation of the world. It is God's highest passion, His ultimate obsession and He had been pursuing it right from eternity past, before the world was created. This eternal purpose of God governs everything that God does: "according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will" (Eph 1:11). In this verse Paul explained that everything God does is according to His purpose (the eternal purpose). God's eternal purpose is very huge, it is not something that can be written down, for it has a lot of faces. This eternal purpose is the very wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is described as "many-sided, infinite variety and innumerable aspects" (Eph 3:10). Therefore one cannot exhaust the whole of God's eternal purpose in writing. What we attempt to do here is to trace the back bone i.e the center that spring into the many faces. Because looking at it from It's many sides will only bring confusion and it is impossible to explore all the sides.

"He [God] chose us in Him [Christ] before the foundation of the world" (Eph 1:4)
This verse reveals a fragment of the eternal purpose. It shows that this purpose involves 'us' i.e all those who are chosen in Christ and this refers to the Church. So God's eternal purpose is to have a Church and this Church is to be the body of Christ. Now, looking at the Trinity the Father expresses Himself through His Son but by His Spirit. The eternal purpose spring forth from God's desire to express and reveal Himself. God expresses Himself through His Son but still He desires to extend the expression and the revelation of Himself. And that His why He decided to give His Son a body. The Scriptures reveals that the Church is the revelation of God.
"So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible riches of his grace and kindness towards us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus." (Eph 2:7 NLT).
"[The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere." (Eph 3:10).

Every creature in heaven and on earth would come to know God through his Church, for He would be revealed and expressed through His people in Christ. Paul said "the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord," (Eph 3:11). God's eternal purpose is fulfilled in Christ because the Church is a people in Christ. Therefore God's eternal purpose is to have a people in Christ through which He would express and reveal Himself. Now, for God to be able to fully express and reveal Himself through the Church, He needs the Church to be fully matured according to the status of Christ. God can only be revealed and expressed through Christ and for the Church to be able to fulfill her purpose she needs to be conform to the image of Christ.

"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Rom 8:29)
The above verse also reveals God's eternal purpose which is to have a people fully conformed to the image of His Son through which He would express and reveal Himself. Therefore what God had been pursuing before creation to the day of Pentecost is to have a Church. Then from the day of Pentecost to the second coming of Christ, God is working towards building the Church until it reach full maturity. And after the second coming of Christ unto eternity God would be focus on revealing and expressing Himself through the Church to all creature in heaven, earth and beyond.

Hiswordxray:
"But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things." (1John 2:20).
We claim we believe the scripture and we put our trust in the word of God. But there are things we do, there are attitudes that shows we do really believe in the word of God. The word of God says we know all things, do we really believe that? Then why do you pursue knowing this or that? Why do you struggle to know and understand grace, faith, spiritual gifts, the secret to the anointing, how to live a holy life etc?

According to the scripture you already know these things. Then why are you trying to know what you already know. It's someone holding a glass of water yet still trying to have a glass of water. You are trying to have what you already have. God has put all knowledge in you so that you can stop pursuing knowledge. Stop this obsession about knowledge. Man out of insecurity and curiosity had always pursue knowledge. We fear what we don't know, we feel insecure about something that we don't have sufficient knowledge about.

We can't risks not knowing, we want to get the advantage or rather the power that comes with knowledge. As such we pursue knowledge, we have a whole system that is channel at getting and exploring knowledge. We bring all this this into the Church struggling, just trying to know. We spend weeks after week of hours of Bible study trying to know this or that. But God is saying enough! Take your rest, for you already know all things. Why act like carnal dead man, you are now alive and you are awaken to all know — yes you know all things.

The Bible is not a book of knowledge but a book of God's dealing with other. Stop focusing on trying to know instead focus on trying to walk with God. To deal with God and to have God deal with you. To fellowship with the Father. God wants you to focus on relationships with Him and that's why He dealt with the knowledge problem. You have no issues with knowledge, just focus on walking with God. In Christ you know all this, you have sufficient knowledge now rely in that sufficiency. Rest, stop running about, looking for knowledge. It's enough, just rest — rest in the sufficiency that is in Christ.

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Hiswordxray:
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" (Eph 4:13).

When you read that verse a question comes to mind, how is it possible that the whole Church become one in the faith and in the knowledge of Christ? Look at Christianity today so divided in spiritual knowledge, we find it very difficult to agree on anything. Watch Christians discussing bible and in no time an argument will erupt. Everyone with his own theology, our understanding of scriptures are very much contradicting.
Today what one believer calls Christianity is different from what the other believer would call Christianity. Is it possible that Christians could ever come to a point where we share a single understanding of what our faith is? Well, Paul said it is possible and it is a level of maturity that Christ would bring the Church into. Christ would not rest till his Church comes to a single and universal understanding of what Christianity is and who the Son of God is.

Yes, we would come to a place where what I call Christianity would be the same as what another believer across the country calls Christianity. And the knowledge I have about Christ would be in unity with the knowledge that you or any other believer has about Christ. The Christianity I know and practice would be in unity with the Christianity that every other believer knows and practice.

Hiswordxray:
Let go back to the very beginning of Christianity. Look at that small group of people faced with annihilation; the most powerful empire threatening to put an end to them. Even there own people, fellow Jews, despised them and wanted to put them to death. Yet we see that community striving until the most hunted religion in the Roman empire becomes the most famous religion.

Soon everybody wanted to be associated with Christianity, they forgot how it started, how many gave their lives for it. But what did the early Christians saw that drove them so mad?...
Follow the link below to read the full article:
http://www.hiswordxray.com/2018/01/what-did-they-saw.html?m=1

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Ok. So you wanna become a priest? It's all good. There are many solely devoted to God's work. All d best.

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Son of man remember to live as you seek to please your God. Anyway, d best is to marry and gain lawful license to copulate... Lol.

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
You saying this cos you are still young and bumbling... What happens when midlife crisis sets in and you have no one to cling on?

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
And be lonely?