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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge... (Hosea 4:6)

Sad as this may sound, it's true nonetheless! God's people suffer in life, not because they don't pray enough or love God enough, but because they lack accurate and adequate knowledge of the Word. Reiterating this, the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 22:29, "...Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures...."

When people lack accurate and relevant spiritual information from God's Word, they experience defeat and failure. This isn't because they're "weak" Christians or because God couldn't deliver them; it's just the plain and inevitable result of ignorance.

Psalm 82:5-7 is so touching; it describes the debacle and despondency of the one who's ignorant of his heritage and identity in Christ. It says, "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." Pathetic!

Now you can better understand why in the lives of some people, things aren't just happening the way they should; they're putting in all the efforts they could, yet nothing productive is coming out. What's the problem? Ignorance: they know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness, destroyed by sickness and plummeted by the harsh elements of this world. Is this the lot for the Christian? Emphatically no! The Bible declares, "...but through knowledge shall the just be delivered" (Proverbs 11:9).

If you have knowledge, there'll be a difference in your life. The knowledge of God's Word will build you up, and deliver your God-given inheritance into your hands (Acts 20:32).

If you've been wondering why your experiences haven't been as victorious as the Word describes, you need to spend more time studying and meditating on the Word. Build your faith with the Word of God, for faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17).

As the Word comes to you, don't just agree by way of mental assent, respond by confessing the same things. Soon enough, you'll change the situation.

Scholar8200:
Daniel said this to Nebuchadnezzar in interpreting the latter's dream in Daniel 2:37

Quite correct. She said the King of Kings ... Daniel said "Thou, O king, art a king of kings.

BBig difference. Thanks buddy!

Sheikwonder:
I am not trying to paint the Arab world in bad light,but the fact remains that they are not in solidarity.

[s]Countries with means such as UAE,Saudi Arabia etc. do not grant visas to Syrians because of the fear of radicalization,hence you never hear of terrorist cells there.[/s] They would rather have the virus without than within.The only Arab countries that grant free access are also war ravaged e.g Yemen,Libya etc

Some migrant Syrians have blasted their fellow Arabs who have made it hard for them to gain access to their countries.The so called 'infidels' are doing the humanitarian work which their muslim neighbors are not wont to do.You only need to look at the outpouring of praise from the Syrians on Merkel to know that they are truly grateful.The Germans have done a huge lot.

Some other Europeans e.g UK prefer to address the root cause of the issue i.e the war in Syria by sending monetary support to Syria.Their reluctance may stem from their history with extremism e.g 7/7 underground bombings
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More,later...

In fact Ola... Come with 80leaves long note book... You've got alot of tutorials here.

Thanks bro, for enlightening Ola,but Officially, Syrians can apply for a tourist visa or work permit in order to enter a Gulf state.

However, the process is costly, and there is a widespread perception that many Gulf states have unwritten restrictions in place that make it hard for Syrians to be granted a visa in practice. (hundreds of thousands cannot afford this, nor have time for the tedious processes, hence, they look to Europe... Where democracy to an extent, binds them to help)

This comes as part of wider obstacles facing Syrians, who are required to obtain rarely granted visas to enter almost all Arab countries.

Without a visa, Syrians are not currently allowed to enter Arab countries except for Algeria, Mauritania, Sudan and Yemen.

Yemen is in shreds... Syria is better that Sudan et al. This is outside considering the proximity sef.

Sheikwonder:
It's hard to discuss issues like this without being sentimental but I'll try.

The migration issue has polarized Europe.Germany is prepared to welcome as much as 800k Syrians.Poland,Hungary,Belgium & a few others consider it a risk due to the fear of radicalisation.

Belgium is in fact a small country as well as much of Western Europe.It is about the size of Borno state.A mass influx of people is bound to have a big effect.Germany are a European superpower with economic means to support them.Besides they feel that as Big Brother of Europe,they hold a moral obligation.More importantly though less apparent,they are trying to pay penance for the evils of 1945 which incidentally marks 70 years since WW2.

As to why other Arab nations have not accomodated the Syrians,I shall try to explain in my next post.

Ola, come and take notes o... Come with biro and note pad.

OLAADEGBU:
If you were thinking straight you would be asking why the refugees are migrating to Europe instead of Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia.

Ruminate on these words... Perhaps a miracle will happen to your reasoning ability.

Coz it is stewpid to say the Syrians started a war because they wanted to pretend to be refugees.

It is even more stewpid to say after becoming refugees they decided to take the most dangerous path to entering Europe, thereby lossing their loved ones ib horrendous situations.

Even more daft is to pretend that refugees who barely number 250000 would pose a threa100s of millions of Europeans.

Oduduwaboy:
So its all about the U.S & Western Europe now? How about Russia the chief destabilizer? Why are the muslims in Iran, Iraq & Afghanistan not heading towards Russia and China?

Which of both countries practice democracy?

OLAADEGBU:
Don't be a Pecksniffian. Listen to how our Lord Jesus was not hesitant to call a spade a spade and not an agricultural implement:

"O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34).

Using scriptures to justify your outlandish claims, gossip and hate ladened writings.

Can you show me where Jesus was intolerant of other religions... Samrarians, Greeks, Romans.... Gentiles in general.

.. Take your time, I can wait for the scriptures.

OLAADEGBU:
I must have touched a nerve somewhere. How has your post addressed the OP?

It has bro..... You're too drown in hate to notice it.

OLAADEGBU:
If you were thinking straight you would be asking why the refugees are migrating to Europe instead of Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia.

I already told you.. Majorly because of the harsh nature of the Sharia laws. They love democracy, they love the free world.

That's common sense, not rocket science as you're thinking it is.

The Importance Of Knowledge - Monday, September 7th .

Pastor Chris

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge... (Hosea 4:6).

Sad as this may sound, it's true nonetheless! God's people suffer in life, not because they don't pray enough or love God enough, but because they lack accurate and adequate knowledge of the Word. Reiterating this, the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 22:29, "...Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures...."
When people lack accurate and relevant spiritual information from God's Word, they experience defeat and failure. This isn't because they're "weak" Christians or because God couldn't deliver them; it's just the plain and inevitable result of ignorance.

Psalm 82:5-7 is so touching; it describes the debacle and despondency of the one who's ignorant of his heritage and identity in Christ. It says, "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." Pathetic!

Now you can better understand why in the lives of some people, things aren't just happening the way they should; they're putting in all the efforts they could, yet nothing productive is coming out. What's the problem? Ignorance: they know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness, destroyed by sickness and plummeted by the harsh elements of this world. Is this the lot for the Christian? Emphatically no! The Bible declares, "...but through knowledge shall the just be delivered" (Proverbs 11:9).

If you have knowledge, there'll be a difference in your life. The knowledge of God's Word will build you up, and deliver your God-given inheritance into your hands (Acts 20:32). If you've been wondering why your experiences haven't been as victorious as the Word describes, you need to spend more time studying and meditating on the Word. Build your faith with the Word of God, for faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17). As the Word comes to you, don't just agree by way of mental assent, respond by confessing the same things. Soon enough, you'll change the situation.

Prayer...
Dear Father, I thank you for granting me understanding and insight into your will, purpose and plans as I study your Word. My heart is flooded with wisdom and spiritual understanding, not just to know, buy also to walk in your perfect will today and always, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

Further Study:
2 Peter 1:2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

Proverbs 11:9
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: 2 Corinthians 6:3-7:1, Proverbs 20-21

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 21:20-28, 1 Samuel 26

Coz it is stewpid to say the Syrians started a war because they wanted to pretend to be refugees.

It is even more stewpid to say after becoming refugees they decided to take the most dangerous path to entering Europe, thereby lossing their loved ones ib horrendous situations.

Even more daft is to pretend that refugees who barely number 250000 would pose a threa100s of millions of Europeans.

Ola, see what your reasoning is causing you.

The guy just took you to the cleaners.

OLAADEGBU:
Good observation.

You're no different from them extremists. Jesus will NEVER act like you're doing here.

Why call people Jesus died for, a cancer? Pray, intercede... Not come here and spread hate in the guise of spreading the truth...go out there and preach and win others to Christ, rather than come here and accuse, spread hate and condemn.

OLAADEGBU:
Why wouldn't you think the same? You can't think crooked and walk straight.

Mr i-am-not-like-other-men, you 'straight thinking' is making you walk crooked...

How can light and darkness agree? If you say you are in the light then your darkness is really deep.

Mr i-am-not-like-other-men, I'm glad you're not God...i do not endorse your cynical attack on Muslims, and the absurd theories you cook up. If that's darkness, then I may as well reject your light...

You have just exposed yourself that you are operating by the same spirit as the attacker.

Eyaaaa... E pain am.

You are either for Christ or against Him, there is no middle ground.

Mr i-am-not-like-other-men, no Wahala... Your crusade here is really 'for Christ'.

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So you mean the syrian started a war among themselves, which has caused many deaths, used the more perilous means of travelling to Europe all in the name of "invading" Europe?

I was thinking the same too. Syrian war was not the doings of Syrians... And Muslims have always been migrating due to harsh nature of the sharia law.

Bros you make a good case that seeks to tie extreme dumbness and intellectual indolence to being a Christians fundamentalist.

I could not agree less. Apt description by the way.

Your post has all the trappings of being an odoriferous foolery, inspiring only deviant and misguided of men!

https://i.imgur.com/U8INyfB.gif

Turkey has more Syrian refugees than all other countries in Europe combined, but trust an average psychological unstable crusader bigot to blab rubbish and brew falsehood to distort reality.

Ola, you see how silly your posts are beginning to sound? This guy just described your latest nature in a short sentence, as highlighted above.

elijah2u:
Lazy girl, you were given assignment and you don't want to go through the scriptures and find out your answers. Read the acts of the apostles you will have answers and add more to your spiritual life.

That was needless... What if she never knew?

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Pls i need an answer to the following question, Bible student, Pastors etc pls help me out.

Welcome.

1. Act of Apostle:There was a man who was the doctor of law, What is the name of the man?

Acts 5:34
34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

B. Which portion of the Bible is it found?

Look above

2. Thour oh king are the kings king of kings, to whom dose it refers to?

My Jesus.

Amongst many examples, see Rev 17:14 or Rev 19:16

3. What is the meaning of Banabas?

Act 4:36
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,


Cheers

hahn:
Neither do I. Considering how meek Jesus was, he most likely didn't possess a loud and commanding voice.

Wrong assumption. I've read about Him well enough...

He yelled at em traders... I hope you can imagine his fury as He threw them stuffs away. Picture a typical market, and imagine the voice and strength of one who could throw things around, and chase em traders.

Oh.. He gave a loud shout at Lazarus' tomb... Meeehn... Go read about that.

He had a firm loud voice against em Pharisees...should I go on?

In my secondary school days, we were about 4,000+ students, our principal could never be heard properly by all the students without the aid of a microphone.

That's because there was no wind to convey the message further and clearer.

It's obvious the story teller exaggerated or it never even happened.

Welcome to atheism 101

By the way, what exactly did he preach about? It seems the only thing he did was feed people.

Atheism 105 - Ordinary Differential reasoning.

bytemeister:
hmmmm audible enuf for 5000 people to hear him Adonbilivit

I didn't beg you to believe me.

You can go on asking. Cheers.

johnydon22:
Nice one bro!!! Quite a plausible explanation!!! But i think seating on the hill side (on top of it) not the base should be the case.

But the wind direction should propagate the sound much better to the direction it is going

Gbam... He was not on top of it... But at the base, as the mountain slopes to the ground level.

Happy Sunday bro

bytemeister:
I don't understand y nobody sees d fact JESUS talked to 5000 people widout microphone but we always notice d food part....how d hell did he do dat??

It was a mountain side... He was sitting in the flow of the wind, at the base of the mountain. The wind made him audible with less effort.


Jesus was way smarter than we thought o.

For everyone that'd apply, may It be your season of jubilation.. . In Jesus ' Name. Amen

See how life can be?

There was a time it hurt so bad that someone removed you from their 2go chat list.


There was a time we were competing on who's star would be in higher levels..


Burn N30 to recover your password.. (mtn use me hammer sha)
... Etc


Now, most of have jobs and are married, and 2go looks crappier than ever... Still have friends that are still on it.


One day, it'd all fade, and time will sieze... Jesus would be back by then.

Happy Sunday y'all.

vooks:
Has anything changed since then?

Hahhahahahahahhazhhzzhhzhz... So, now, it's no longer about the marriage literature, it's what's changed?..


Gerara hia meeehn

keenn:
This is not peculiar to christains too.



my point is, gOod and bad befalls on everyone irrespective of faith and belief. The promise of afterlife is still speculative, no one is certain about it.

I'm certain about it... For man is a spirit, and spirits live forever... Depending on how you lived here, everlasting shame or shine as the brightness of the firmament is your choice.

vooks:
Am yet to be convinced the blog is hers
Gombs may flap gums about their denialism. Reminds me of Muslims who deny Holocaust

When Oyaks releases some marriage literature, let me know

You've started again o... Remember how you were embarrassed about the literature?

You asked same here..

https://www.nairaland.com/1957135/midas-touch-balanced-approach-biblical/62#27906078

You found an answer here...

https://www.nairaland.com/2237377/christ-embassy-church-cult/12#33273243

You even testified about it... Now, you're here, going round circles again... Why?

This does not in any way help you or the church.

Besides, if you're more anointed that Pastor Adeboye, and you know how the church of Christ ought to be like, what then have you done in that light?

Yeah... Nothing but talk and more talk.. I thought so too

dorox:
There was a time when people on this forum argued that the divorce story was a big lie designed by the enemies of pastor chris to tarnish his pristine image as a Man of God,

Omo, you can lie ehn.... Can you produce such claims on nairaland?

Folks simply said there was no divorce... Is/was there?

but now the she goes by her maiden name Ebhodaghe

I love nairalanders ehn....

(which means people are looking) those people have gone quiet about the whole divorce saga.

Quick quiz.... Was there a divorce? A Yes or no would be just fine.

Bottom line: let these folks be na...atleast, wait for a divorce.

vooks:
Gombs,
Grab the book

Why? Besides... Nothing powerful about the book. You lied to create traffic huh?..

What's with the "visit the spa" "arrange your kitchen" "visit the zoo" "read fictitious books" etc... These are supposed to get you back on your feet.

If Rev Anita wrote these, I but wonder. They were short explanation and really does not fit for the 'ordinary African' . Makes me wonder who her audience were... The world or Europe? (if you've read her books, she thinks global, haba even Rhapsody of Realities o)

Oh... It was evidently written to females... Do you not Still not see something not adding up?

Anyways... Best wishes to her and her 'book'

Possess It With Your Spirit! - Sunday, September 6th .

Pastor Chris

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).

Faith is the response of the human spirit to the Word of God. When a man hears God's Word, he doesn't hear in words; he hears in pictures. If he couldn't walk and you preach the Word to him, the moment he believes, when you tell him to get up, he never finds it hard to respond, because you're not telling the man on the outside to get up; you're actually talking to the man on the inside.

If the man on the inside hears you and gets up, the one on the outside can't stop him. That's because the response is from the human spirit, and that's what faith is. That's why a man can lay claims to something that he hasn't seen and begins to declare that that thing is real. He's not trying to get it; he has actually possessed it in his spirit already; he's taken a hold of it in his spirit. That's the reason you can't change his mind about it, because he already knows he has it.

Though he doesn't see that thing outwardly, it doesn't make any difference to him, because he's got the evidence. And faith is the evidence: "NOW FAITH is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). This is different from someone saying, "I claim it! I float into the heavens and possess it!" I'm talking about your spirit taking possession of what you desire.

The Amplified version of Hebrews 11:1 says: "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]." This lets you know that whatever you want in this world, once you can see it inside first, and take possession with your spirit, you've got it!

Practise taking possession with your spirit, for that's where God guides you from. He doesn't function in the realm of the mind or senses. The things you see with your eyes of faith, and take possession of in the realm of the spirit, will manifest physically as you speak them forth.

Confession...
By the power of God's Spirit, I apprehend my heritage in Christ! There's no failure or defeat on my path! I'm a possessor of all things, being an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ.

Further Study:
Ephesians 1:18
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

1 Timothy 4:15
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Daily Scripture Reading

1-Year Bible Reading Plan: 2 Corinthians 5:1-6:1-2, Proverbs 18-19

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 21:10-19, 1 Samuel 25

keenn:
Am an Agnostic, a term am not really proud of. But am left with no choice because, as regards the authentencity and absolute certainty about the existence of a creator/personal God, i am not sure.

Too all that believe in God that he sure exist and He directs the affairs of men, I will so appreciate if u can tell me a Benefit/gains in believing in God.

This can be a turnaround for some of us on the fence

Here are some benefits.

Psalms 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Debeloved87:
Really, so he should wait till the wife die... Na wa o, may God help us o

Divorce was not part of the contract, if you read your bible well.... Except on grounds of infidelity.

Else, it's till death do you two apart.

All I can imagine is King David in his day, with this rifle...

It'd be a wonderful scene. I already have a Muslim friend on Facebook making a big deal out of the issue.