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Can we be realistic please? Electricity is actually better during this government!

This is what Isaiah said in MESSAGE VERSION OF CHAPTER 1 vs 10-17
“Listen to my Message, you Sodom-schooled leaders. Receive God’s revelation, you Gomorrah-schooled people. “Why this frenzy of sacrifices?” GOD’S asking.
“Don’t you think I’ve had my fill of burnt sacrifices, rams and plump grain-fed calves?
Don’t you think I’ve had my fill of blood from bulls, lambs, and goats? When you come before me, whoever gave you the idea of acting like this, Running here and there, doing this and that— all this sheer commotion in the place provided for worship?
“Quit your worship charades. I can’t stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings— meetings, meetings, meetings—I can’t stand one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You’ve worn me out! I’m sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning. When you put on your next prayer-performance, I’ll be looking the other way. No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I’ll not be listening. And do you know why? Because you’ve been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody. Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don’t have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong. Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless.

This is a question many Christians are asked and we even ask ourselves, what has happened to the fire? you've heard the preaching and all, you were caught in the spirit and you wanted to follow God diligently. all of a sudden, the fire started diminishing.

I will like to say anyone who has truly been sanctified doesn't have the power to sin anymore. Anyone who is in Christ finds it very very very difficult to fall into sin. if Christ be by your side, why then do you sin? if Christ is always with you, how come you still lie, fornicate and all? We have been deceived and we are deceiving ourselves.



One of the primary responsibilities of the priests under the Old Covenant is to keep the fire burning on God’s altar perpetually.
God expressly commanded them, saying,

“A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.” (Lev. 6:13 NKJV).

God sent the fire, but it is the responsibility of the priests to sustain the fire on the altar (Lev. 9:23-24). However, God gave them specific instructions to follow so that they could keep the fire burning on the altar.

These divine instructions are still very relevant and useful to us today to sustain God’s fire in our souls.
At the new birth, the Holy Spirit kindles the fire of God’s love in the hearts of the believers.

The Scripture testifies that: “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.” (Rom. 5:5 RSV).

However, like the priests of old, it is the responsibility of the believers today to keep the fire of God’s love burning and glowing not only in their hearts, but also in their souls (mind, will and emotions).

Above anything else, you must see to it that the fire of God’s love you received at the new birth never go out of your soul. The church in Ephesus was reprimanded severely by the Lord Jesus for failing to keep or sustain their first love (Rev. 2:4).

We should expect the same if we allow the cares, the anxieties, the lusts, the pleasures or pressures of this life to put out the fire of God’s love in our souls.
The love of God cannot co-inhabit with the love of this world in any soul.

This is why the Scripture warns in 1 John 2:

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–is not of the Father but is of the world. (NKJV).

The priests of old were able to keep God’s fire burning on the altar all through their journey in the wilderness by following the specific instructions God gave them. These instructions are still relevant today to keeping the fire of God’s love hot, burning and glowing in our hearts and souls in this evil world.


First, God instructed the priests to ensure that there is always a sacrifice on the altar (Exo. 29:38-42) .

As long as there is a sacrifice on the altar, the fire will keep burning. But when the sacrifice leaves the altar, the fire also leaves the altar. Therefore, the priests were commanded to leave the burnt offering on the altar all night until morning, and then continue a succession of offerings in the morning until night.

God commanded, “The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.” (Lev. 6:9 NKJV).

Like the priests of old, we shall not fail to keep God’s love burning and glowing in our souls if we continually present, yield or offer ourselves to God as a living sacrifice (Rom. 6:13, 12:1).It takes a constant or continual submission to the Holy Spirit to keep His fire burning in your soul.

This is why the Scripture admonishes:

“That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.” (2 Tim. 1:14 NKJV).

The fire of God’s love ignited in your heart by the Holy Spirit at the new birth will wane as you continually yield yourself to the flesh to gratify its lusts, desires and passions. It takes walking in the Spirit to sustain, keep safe, or guard the fire of God’s love in your heart and soul.

Second, God instructed the priests to ensure that the ashes never cover the altar (Lev. 6:10).


After every offering, the priest must always “put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his body, and take up the ashes of the burnt offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. ‘Then he shall take off his garments, put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.” (Lev. 6:10-11 NKJV).

The ashes must not cleave to the priest’s body!

What a wisdom and warning for God’s servants today!

The ashes are the trails of fire and the evidence that fire has thoroughly burnt. Ashes can no longer burn and they do not support burning. They are nothing but a fire-extinguisher.

Therefore, when the ashes from the past burnt sacrifices are left to accumulate on the altar, they will put out the fire on the altar. So, God instructed the priests to carefully handle them and properly dispose of them. They must be put aside after each offering and later be carried to a clean place outside the camp.


Today, “the ashes” implies the outcomes of God’s fire burning in your life, the proofs of God’s Spirit at work in your life, and the praises, encomiums or glories that people showers or heaps on you after being used of God to minister to them. When you allow these ashes to cleave to you or to accumulate in your soul, it will put out the fire of God in your soul.

This is the undoing of many servants of God today!

Beloved Man of God, you don’t deserve the glory, praise and honour for whatever God accomplishes through you. Therefore, don’t let the ashes settle on you or cleave to you. The right place they belong to is God’s throne, so you must never forget to always carry and leave them there.

A wise Psalmist said, “Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, Because of Your mercy, Because of Your truth.” (Psa. 115:1 NKJV).

Lastly, God instructed the priests to burn wood on the altar every morning.

God commanded, “…The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it; and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.” (Lev. 6:12-13 NKJV).

Adding the wood to the fire on the altar increases and strengthens the fire!

The Scripture states:
“Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, strife ceases. As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.” (Prov. 26:20-21 NKJV).

Today, burning wood every morning implies spending quality time every morning in a loving and intimate fellowship or communion with God in prayer and in the Word. This will keep the fire of God’s love burning and glowing increasingly in your heart and soul.

Treasuring God’s Word in your heart and focusing on God’s love for you will ignite and inflame your soul for God!

Beloved, every morning you turn to meditate in God’s Word, you are adding wood to the fire in your soul; it will burn with greater intensity. Every act of prayerful meditation on God’s love and Word is simply adding wood to God’s fire in your heart and soul.

The Psalmist said, “My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue: (Psa. 39:3 NKJV) .

Therefore, spend quality time everyday to meditate in God’s Word and Love for you.

Friend, have you lost God’s fire in your heart or soul and have become spiritually lukewarm? You can get God’s fire back today by simply turning to the Lord Jesus Christ in humility, repentance and faith.
Jesus said to the church in Ephesus when they lost their first love for Him,

“Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place–unless you repent.” (Rev. 2:5 NKJV).

My brothers and sisters, please let's remember our God today and quit religion.

hummmm

whether political or not, I don't care. lol

he did it! that's all that matters.


we know there ain't money
but he is doing it!



he is doing it!!!

God bless PMB.


this is to confirm that at first, we will make the structure firm then it starts paying off.

please be patient with us.


APC will do it again!

iykecicero:
That’s the beginning. Next is herdsmen masaacre. Evil APC.

lol.. I just don't know what to give as a response. if this is how you will continue, don't expect peace in Nigeria.

Beremx:
APC members have started killing themselves.


Party of criminals and blood suckers

if it was PDP what will you say? many of us should just shut up and not comment on anything again regarding politics... we are extremely bias and there can't be progress if we are like that! rubbish!

if Lagos is working, then no problem.

we are not sick in our minds.

we know what is right.


pdp will only destroy Lagos State.

the only problem of Lagos, is over population. if PDP can tell us how they will end this, they have my vote and many other people

Live forever Oh Lord live forever King Jesus live forever Oh Lord live forever King Jesus

Obasanjo my man.

Obasanjo forgave Atiku, will support Atiku but he made it so clear that Nigerians will have to forgive A-TI-KU that means they will vote for him. what exactly did Atiku do? Baba needs to tell us...


yet in Yoruba land, we know that if we vote Atiku, then "A-ti-ku" so because a fe ku, then we can't vote Atiku.


voting for Atiku, then A-TI-KU

lalasticlala

PRESIDENT of the Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, yesterday, denied endorsing the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election.


Bishop Oyedepo
Speaking at a Sunday church service in Canaan Land Ota, Ogun State, Oyedepo said he was invited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s residence for a peace parley.

His words: “I am aware Winners are in every political party in Nigeria but I don’t belong to any party. I was only invited to make peace. I don’t force myself on people because I am too busy.”

He, however, lamented the rising rate of killings in some parts of the country especially in Plateau State.

Breaking: Abdulsalami, Kukah, Nicholas Okoh, others storm INEC

His words: “The recent killings in Plateau State ýis a moral assault on our nation. Nobody is qualified to be morally right, if he does not have feelings for loss of lives. I know how many times I cried over the killings in Nigeria. Some people claimed responsibility and nothing happened to them.

“The effect of the 30 months civil war is still with us. We won’t see war again in Nigeria. Those who want to see it, will be cut down.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/2019-presidency-i-did-not-endorse-atiku-oyedepo/amp/

anyone who believes this list is true and anyone who agrees with Frank is an enemy of truth

Oyedepo is currently not in Nigeria. so he travelled out. timi Frank should be arrested for false news.

when I see ati.... I hate to see the end.

it is annoying!!!

Atiku can't rule us

PDP can't rule us
so i have no reason to vote for the other party

like I will say and will continue to say
pdp will only win on social media
APC will win in reality
whether you are a Muslim or Christian young or old northern, southern or Western


Buhari will win 2019 elections

who is the wife? the Igbo wife or the Yoruba wife? lol!!!

she said vote credible people. not vote Atiku...


Yoruba people don't talk with all their mouth

come and politically link this too
Nigeria is moving forward
we have started the cleansing
. another tenure
Sai Baba Sai Buhari

Atiku come back 2023 but under the APC else we won't vote u...

then u can have a story to tell Atiku that you tried 4 times too.....

e pain am.

lol


don't attack APC

attack the situation.

lol

if u win the kwara Central ticket, then you're a thief. I can't wait to hear who is holding that ticket

how come we don't hear about the clashes again?

water has been provided.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that he did not join the All Progressive Congress (APC) so as to run for the Presidency in 2015, but to nurture the party and ensure that good governance is entrenched in Nigeria come 2015.
Atiku who spoke in an interview with the BBC Hausa service, monitored in Kaduna on Monday, maintained that if it were because of a presidential ambition, he had clear chances of occupying the number one seat when he was in office with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, or even recently when he was in the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN ). He said he let that go in the interest of the nation.
Atiku vowed that he would never return to the PDP, saying that from all indications, the party would no longer be what it used to be.

http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/atiku-i-didt-join-apc-to-contest-for-presidency/

at the expense of the common Nigerian.
all of these guys should be shot in the head

wait and see how APC/PMB will win 2019 elections.i it is just a matter of time. let's wait and see.

Atiku can't defeat Buhari.

I like Atiku though but I hate PDP

how will nigeria grow when our own thinking sef is politically motivated?

everything is always attributed to politics...

here we are....

APC change!!!
Sai Baba

Atiku is out for something selfish not for Nigeria

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is certainly not a fan of Atiku Abubakar, his former vice-president, who is now the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. His various testimonials about his former deputy are trending online.

The 72 year-old former customs officer, emerged on Sunday as the opposition’s standard bearer for the 2019 election, to face incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.

Nigeria’s Twitterati have been dredging out Atiku’s testimonial as given by Obasanjo, who said in a BBC TV interview why he will never support Atiku for Nigeria’s highest office. He even stated the reason in his book, about his eight-year presidency. Watch the video:
“God will never forgive me “
– OBJ
Video credit:@Karovoni pic.twitter.com/WPsS6kYWvC
— Yekini Nabena (@ynabena) October 7, 2018
Here is Obasanjo’s testimonial in the book, My Watch:


“From the day I nominated Atiku to be my vice, he set his mind not for any good, benefit or service of the country, but on furiously planning to upstage, supplant or remove me at all cost and to take my place.
“
That was what I brought him for, but he was impatient and over-ambitious. He was not ready to learn and to wait. His marabout, who predicted that despite being elected as governor, he would not be sworn in as a governor, which happened, also assured him that he would take over from me in a matter of months rather than years.

“All his plans, appointments of people and his actions were towards the actualisation of his marabout’s prediction. Once I realised his intention and programme, I watched him like a hawk without giving any indication of what I knew and letting down my guard. I could not succumb to the distraction, diversion and malevolence of an ambitious but unwise deputy.

“The work in hand was more important than a confrontational relationship with my deputy, a man over whom I knew I had far more experience and outreach in all matters. To alert him of what I knew he was up to, would only lead to lying, denial, more mischievous plans and more duplicity on his part.
“He was better managed that way. What was important was not allowing myself to be surprised or outmanoeuvred by him. I must always seize the initiative and know what was going on if not in his mind, but at least in his camp. That I did very effectively.

“Sometime in the fourth quarter of 2004, an associate of Atiku came to my residence at the Aso Villa from Atiku’s official residence. He felt uncomfortable and I tried to make him feel at ease. Then, he settled to tell me the story of what had just transpired in Atiku’s residence. I listened with rapt attention.

“He went on to say that Atiku told him that for him to become the President of Nigeria, the 2007 elections were only a formality.

“The seven ingredients he needed for his enthronement were already in his hands. He controlled the National Assembly because both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were in his pocket. He controlled twenty-eight out of thirty-six governors. He had control of the media. His influence over the judiciary was overwhelming.

“What he needed was foreign endorsement and for that he had employed two lobby groups in the US and one in the UK. And finally, the money for the elections was in his purse.

“When the man finished, I thanked him without passing any comment. The man was surprised at my reaction and asked, ‘You have nothing to say to these?’ I said that I had nothing to say and I immediately called my ADC, Chris Jemitola, to play a game of squash with me.

“On our way to the squash court with my ADC, I said, ‘People at times make plans and leave God out of their plans.’ My casual remark struck Chris and he said, ‘Sir, that was a profound statement.’ I said that I made the statement because of what I had just heard of Atiku’s plan. I was not convinced he had put God in his plans.

“Atiku was confident and God was laughing. Most of Atiku’s ingredients soon started to fall out of place one by one. The first was the party, PDP.

“He thought I was powerless and had no clue about the execution of his plan with his group; part of his attack on me was for national chairman of the party to give the first salvo, then other things would follow as his grip on the party would be firm and consolidated.

“That salvo came in the form of a letter to me from the chairman of the party, Audu Ogbeh, who had fully defected with (Iyorchia) Ayu to Atiku.
“The letter, which was not the product of any issue or matter discussed with or at any party meeting, came suddenly. When I received it, I could read the sinister intention behind it.

“I spent that night writing my reply and I sent it in the morning. My reply was clear. I wondered why Atiku and his group did not realise that with my reply, the battle line was clear or maybe they thought that the seven ingredients would remain intact to the end.
“My assistants had moles within the Atiku group. Anything that they planned would be reported. That was the case after Ogbeh’s letter. They decided that Ogbeh should appear remorseful and come with the National Working Committee to apologise to me. It was not from their hearts, but to lure me to a ‘killing ground’.

“All pieces of information that were reported were verified because it would not come from only one informant.

“Timely information is a very important principle of war and also of politics. In politics, just as in war, what matters is not just your plan, but knowledge of your opponent’s plan. Knowing their plan, I had the choice of playing along with them or being firm, I chose the latter.

“I told Ogbeh that my relationship with him as national chairman and me as national leader of the party was based on mutual confidence and trust. But with his letter, my reply and what I knew of him then, I could no longer work with him in confidence and trust.

“There were only two choices left for both of us in our best interest and that of the party – he, leaves as chairman or I leave as leader of the party.

“The following Sunday, I called at his house, which I had done on several occasions in the past when there was an important party matter to discuss. This time, I asked him to give me an undated letter of resignation as the national chairman.

“I waited, he gave me but it was wrongly addressed to me rather than to the national secretary of the party as stipulated in the party’s constitution.
“Ogbeh reported to his group and it was decided by them to play on and to wait for my disgrace whenever I presented a letter of resignation not addressed to the national secretary.

“The informants did their job and I, once again, paid another visit to Ogbeh at his residence. He entertained me to a meal and drink, and changed the addressee on his letter of resignation.”

The Testimonial given in August 2018 in an interview with PremiumTimes:
“How can I be on the same side with Atiku?” Mr Obasanjo asked. “To do what?”
“If I support Atiku for anything, God will not forgive me. If I do not know, yes. But once I know, Atiku can never enjoy my support,” he added.

“I do not have personal grudges with anyone,” Mr Obasanjo said. “If you do not do well for Nigeria, you do not do well for all of us.”
“It is not a question of working with or not working with an individual,” he said. “If you are working for the good of Nigeria, I am working with you. If you are not working for the good of Nigeria it does not matter who you are I am not working with you.”
“Most of you do not understand the way I operate,” Mr Obasanjo said. “And I thought your own paper will understand better.”

“I know Atiku very well. And I have mentioned my position with Atiku. My position has not changed,” he said.
“If my children are getting married, he has sent representatives. If his children are getting married, I have sent representatives. That is social. That is not political”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/from-the-day-i-nominated-atiku-to-be-my-vice-he-set-his-mind-not-for-any-good-obj/

jaxxy:
Apc that has turned imo state to family business rite?

that's the Eastern lifestyle and that's politics.they should also contest well

able20:
Zombie ideology were Rochas of IMO APC gave himself and son-inlaw automatic tickets
In Lagos state Sanwo-Olu got automatic ticket ahead of primaries.

it was you that gave them automatic tickets right? didn't people vote? their choice spoke....

toyetade:
How was APC clear with what they did in Lagos on Ambode. How was APC clear with Buhari the only contestant for the presidential ticket. They are all the same thing full of evil people who don't love Nigeria

maybe. but APC was clear that they won't support ambode unlike this PDP thieves

Davido bleeped up sha. he's really a baby ooo
small doctor was just singing.

lol

but whatever way
2019 for Buhari

That was the plan.
APC was clear in their dealings and not this PDP that have no clear ideology

anonymous person wants to represent kwara Central. are we fools ni? these guys will continue to do us as if we are fools. PDP politicians should go and meet APC and be taught...


Sai baba

if Saraki and Dogara can turn out to be like this, then trust no one. I can't trust Saraki because of how he has been supporting the APC and later turn his back and doing all He can to gain the trust of PDP back.... all of them are not serious.


i don't know what to say but whatever APC will do not to allow PDP back into aso rock... they should