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BloggersNG:
While we are yet to get over Dorcas Fapson rape scandal and accusation, Nollywood actress and mother of one Uche Ogbodo has revealed how she was assaulted by a Man who bashed her car, on her way returning from a disabled home in Ikotun Lagos, Posting the photos on IG she claimed that he initially accused her of been the person that bashed he's car, And while they were quarreling, he entered his car and drove on her legs, According to her she was in Tears while posting on IG.. Read her Epistle below.




https://www.instagram.com/p/BefqYUMAoUG/?hl=en

News From Ebiwali--- http://www.ebiwalismoment.com/2018/01/i-drove-his-tyres-on-my-leg-actress.html




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[b]Nigerians are soon going to come to terms that your celebrity status is only a God given avenue to fight for a better egalitarian society and not a means for showing off your boobs job, ass work or your new cloned fine face.

Vanity.

Soon for your kids, you will have to dig deep to utilize the fame God has given you for a better society, as you do not know what lies in store from angry Nigerians less fortunate than you.

Soon, those of us who have since lost our humanity because all we think of is our next internet worthy update material for snapchat, instagram, whatsapp will soon find out that digital fame or presence is vanity and you will no sooner become a victim of your own creation/fad or madness.

So am telling you, yes you looking for the next photogram worthy pix/blog/news to stop filming and start helping those in pain or being harassed.

Ngozi and other famed actor/actress and artist/OAPs should know that this God's given fame today is to help force a social pressure on salient societal issue or support a cause that will result in a better society that will treat you and those you love a lot better in the now and future.

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This na proper Yahoo Yahoo Plus food.

This guy is surely on lie Viagra.

He gets aroused on lie and Buharometrics- the study and art of bad economics.

wirinet:
It is not possible to move on, unless we solve the problems put in us by the PDP administration of the last 16 yrs. You say there is no point trying to prove the last administration was corrupt when the whole world except you guys believe the last administration was corrupt.

Continue to prove last administration was corrupt until 4 years will be complete.
In case it is lost on you, by May 2018, this present administration will have 1 year to go on its 4 year term.

And absolutely nothing to show for it, in democracy dividend to you, me and the common man.

Just a piece of advice, the Govt of the day should focus their energy in delivering just 1 one of the 3 cardinal electoral promises of Buhari and by extension APC.

This has been a charade of shame, frustration, disappointment and most cases not rising up to the occasions.

How can we forget so soon, The Osbornegate saga, The NNPCgate, The Mainagate and the recent NEbudgetgate series. These are but some examples that has defined moment in this present government that no one has provided accountability for.

We have never had it this bad, to despondence by citizen to the extent that suicide is common.
We have never had it this bad, that Nigerians willingly offer themselves to be bought as slave in as low a country as Libya.
Never have we had so bad, that mothers even Parents are selling their kids just to survive.
Never have we had so bad, that the Naira is worthless with food cost almost 1.6-1.7 their original cost.
How about the currency?


These are the real indices in the street, and not some fancied econometrics data abracadabra.

The question not whether he is qualified.

The question is, without the backing of his family will he get the nod from the application stage.

Do you know that in recruitment, there is what is termed over-qualified candidates.

These ones do not also make the cut.

Then if you project into the future, imagine the corners that would need to be cut to push him along and those who would be sacrificed to achieve the end target.

Imagine, if he is not blue-blooded, how long it would naturally take him to rise through the ranks.

Dear sister

Your revelation is humbling.

and the result cheering.


These are the results worth celebrating, not those yahoo, G-boys, Yahoo plus and Pussy Slayers testimonies.

ChangetheChange:
2019 election money

Awon werey APC

My thoughts exactly.

2019 Elections money and you are blaming Jonathan.

ChangetheChange:
2019 election money

Awon werey APC

My thought exactly.

2019 Elections money and you are blaming Jonathan.

Spuggie:
The funniest thing I have read this year.
so I am just thinking, if Jesus died and washed away our sins and cleared our debts, so how come we no longer offer burnt sacrifices or go to jersuSalem for the annual Passover feast but we are allowed to tithe?

Every Christian know this answer.

Jesus was the last and final peace offering

But seed and harvest time remains.

We all see this as pretty normal, but it is far from normal.

Maybe, Riri is in love, maybe it is for the comfort; or just maybe Hassan is playing is part on the new Muslim baby-jihad.

It is commonly known, that the new Jihad practiced and directed by the highest Islamic council is to flood Europe, America and East/West Africa with their men.

Their men are given one command, marry their women and convert them to Islam and of course make their offspring Muslims.

Secondly multiply exceedingly and outnumber your host, if financial support is required, it will be provided by the local mosque.

Continue until Europe, America, England, West and East Africa Muslim population is in simple majority, after then start the last Jihad.

Do you think the Islamic Finance with zero interest is for naught, or do you think the Islamic Sukuk financing in London (mind you-London is now the headquarters of Islamic banking in Europe-slowly ebbing away their moral justification for questioning anything Islam) is a mere philanthropic gesture.

Be careful about what you do not see or read, for nothing is as simple as they look.

Pop culture is best advertisement, and what more to show the world that they are different than to marry one of the icons of free movement, their marriage will be on display daily

akelicious:
@ www.Akelicious.com
Oil prices in the international market sustained their rally on Tuesday, with the Brent crude, the international benchmark for crude oil, trading at $65.24 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures traded at 58.21 dollars a barrel
The last time oil prices exceeded the $65-mark was in June 2015 when it traded at $65.49.

Reuters reported that Brent crude oil prices jumped above $65 per barrel after the closure of the Forties North Sea pipeline knocked out significant supplies from a market that was already tightening due to OPEC-led production cuts.


Britain’s Forties oil pipeline, the country’s largest at a capacity of 450,000 barrels per day (bpd), was shut down on Monday after cracks were revealed.
Its operators said that the pipeline could be shut down for weeks as they pursue repairs, adding that a hairline crack was discovered last week.

“It is a supply concern not only because the pipeline transports a significant portion of North Sea crude oil output, but also because it may take weeks before the issue is resolved,” Abhishek Kumar, Senior Energy Analyst at Interfax Energy’s Global Gas Analytics, told Reuters.
Also, market analysts who weighed in on the development said there was equally an oil price support from the consumer side.

“Demand growth across the commodity complex is extremely robust. And inventories across the complex have been declining sharply,” said US bank Goldman Sachs, in a note to clients.
“The market reaction shows that in a tight market, any supply issue will quickly be reflected in higher prices,” added ANZ bank.
The jump in Brent prices widened its premium to WTI prices, making U.S. oil exports more attractive.
OPEC and its allies started withholding supplies last January and currently plan to continue doing so throughout 2018.

However, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has expressed fears that a continuing rise in prices of oil could incentivise U.S. shale oil producers to ramp up production and perhaps derail the production cuts agreements reached by OPEC and its non-OPEC allies.
Kachikwu said the recent meeting of the group in Vienna last month, where the decision was taken to extend the production cuts till the end of 2018, that he feared shale oil producers could ramp up production even though the price rise was good for Nigeria to fund its 2018 budget.
http://www.akelicious.com/2017/12/oil-prices-hit-65-on-north-sea-pipeline.html

This goverment is hereby put on notice that the price of crude oil has tripled since this Govt. took over.
Though still less than the previous market peak.

Nigerians must ask the president and his men, what democractic gains, infrastructure or savings they have been able to effect with this price gain.

Enough of old crude oil price gimmicks and excuse.

It hasn't worked to always look up to the Government for solution.

The definition of madness, is to do the same thing and expect a different result each time.

We Nigerians can make this project a success by thinking outside the box.

We have fund managers in house, we have people who are gifted proposal writers plus highly networked people here in Naira land.

We need to own the project, speak with the inventors and verify their claims.

If the prototype can stand the test, then we need to evolve a team to re-package the project and sell it to Nigerians as shareholders for as little as 100 Naira.

Develop a patent for it, with the inventors as beneficiary.

Get funding for these two from High network individuals or even through crowdfunding.

Make the URL available and those in Nairaland and friends will sell the URL for funding this project.

If it works on a micro scale, neighbourhood clusters and industrial parks can be powered by bigger modules of this.

This will stand the country on a good path to power sufficiency.

pocohantas:
There should be some years of imprisonment for this level of deceit.

If a woman is confused about the owner of her pregnancy, she is a hoe. Her concern should be how to fix her life, not how to hook the pregnancy on an available man.

I concur.

They should pass a law against such.

As it same as 419, or impersonation or Obtaining marriage by false pretense.

Similarly, men should not be allowed to refuse paternity test, if the lady is damn sure.

And once confirmed, he must marry her and take responsibility for the woman and baby welfare.



Ladies get away with this sort of thing too easily and ruin a once happy man, but a sentence on this sort of thing will reduce promiscuity, improve self awareness and responsibility.

Additionally, all this Olobo Ole will desist from trapping innocent men with another man's pregnancy and all these players will learn to keep their dick in their pants or use a damn condom.

Like seriously, I will like to know what this young boy looks like now.

Any recent picture?

grandstar:
Does it sound pragmatic to you to sell present stock at the current price only to see that the price as increased when you go back to restock?
Who will make up for the deficit when you remember that profits of retailers are thin in the first place.

They are not a charity

But these marketers bought the current stock at the old (current) ex-depot price (before story of any price hike). I wonder the justification to now sell it at the hiked price.

They will just profit out of the already helpless Nigerians and use their money to shore up business capital.

This doesn't make any sense at all.

[size=20pt]The tithe is introduced as law (Lev. 27:30–34)[/size]


Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

Here we see Moses giving the tithe as a law. The first 10 percent is called “holy,” or set apart, as belonging to God. The Israelites were to return to God what was already his, and in doing so, recognize the Almighty’s provision.

[b]If for some reason someone needed to “redeem” or keep all or a portion of the goods he was to tithe, he could just give money instead. However, the cash would need to be equal to the tithe’s value, plus an extra fifth. In other words, Israelites could give 10 percent in produce, or 12 percent in cash.[/b]

iamJ:
law of nature for where? who confirmed this

see how u dey dig things to back stealing peoples money, i go to church often, i dont pay offering or tithe and my life is better than 87% of my church members, why the tithe neva help their life?

And why do you think they still give "stupidly" according to you.

I hope you heard the one who recently gave a 1 million dollar.

See whether you like it or not, whether you pay or do not pay tithe but you give out to the needy out of a pure heart, you will reap its reward; for you have sown.

This is why they are God's eternal law that cannot be broken.

Be you a sinner or believer, the law of harvest remains.

But the real believers knows why you are allowed to keep the store of your rewards and for how long!!!

Spuggie:
The funniest thing I have read this year.
so I am just thinking, if Jesus died and washed away our sins and cleared our debts, so how come we no longer offer burnt sacrifices or go to jersuSalem for the annual Passover feast but we are allowed to tithe?

My dear no offence, then you have not yet understood the real reason why Christ came.

Christ came so you will know this unassailable truth:

...that the Kingdom of God now resides is in you.

You are the Church Christ came for. So check your church and tell me if you, its priest, is right with God.

Then you are as guilty as the Pastor you seek to criticize or condemn.

Tithing is scriptural:

1. The first tithe (Gen. 14:19–20)


And he blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”
And Abram gave him a tenth of everythiAbram had just returned from defeating the armies of the four kings, rescuing his nephew Lot, and reclaiming his possessions, and he’s met by an enigmatic priest of God Most High named Melchizedek. The priest attributes Abram’s victory to God—possessor of heaven and earth—and he blesses Abram.ng.



In gratitude to God’s authority and blessing, Abram gives Melchizedek a tenth of his possessions. He doesn’t do it to invoke God’s blessing; he does it in response to God’s blessing.

2. Jacob offers a tithe (Gen. 28:20–22)


Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

Jacob responds to a dream he has received from God by building an altar and vowing that, in exchange for God’s care and provision, he would give God a tenth of his belongings.


3. The tithe is introduced as law (Lev. 27:30–34)


Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

Here we see Moses giving the tithe as a law. The first 10 percent is called “holy,” or set apart, as belonging to God. The Israelites were to return to God what was already his, and in doing so, recognize the Almighty’s provision.

If for some reason someone needed to “redeem” or keep all or a portion of the goods he was to tithe, he could just give money instead. However, the cash would need to be equal to the tithe’s value, plus an extra fifth. In other words, Israelites could give 10 percent in produce, or 12 percent in cash.

When it came to livestock, a shepherd had to set aside every tenth for God. It was decided by simply counting the animals and consecrating every tenth. The shepherd was not to be deciding based on the quality of the animal.

4. Tithes established for the Levites (Num. 18:21)


To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting

The Levites served a special function in Israel; they ministered before God as Israel’s priests. At God’s command, the Levites didn’t share in the other tribes’ inheritance. The Lord was their portion and inheritance (v. 21).

Here we see the Lord establishing that Israel’s tithe would operate as payment to the levitical priests for their services.

5. The Levite’s tithe (Num. 18:26)


Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, “When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.”

From the income that the Levites received from the tithe, they were still responsible for giving 10 percent off the top to God.

6. Offerings and tithes (Deut. 12:5–6)


But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

The tithe was not a volitional offering. The 10 percent off the top belonged to God and the Israelites simply repaid it. But this wasn’t the only obligatory tithe. They also tithed to support a special jubilee festival (Deut. 12) and took a third tithe every three years to take care of orphans, widows, and the poor (Deut. 14). These mandatory offerings averaged out to about 23 percent a year.

On top of these compulsory tithes, there were regular opportunities for freewill offerings. These were generous gifts that expressed the Israelites’ gratefulness through voluntary giving in response to their devotion.

At a bare minimum, they gave 23 percent a year, but there was no ceiling on their generosity. They could—and frequently would—give exorbitantly out of their excess. In response to Moses’ call for contributions to the building of the Tabernacle, the Israelites literally gave so much that Moses had to command them to stop giving (Ex. 36:2–7).

7. Tithing for festivals (Deut. 14:22)


“You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.”

By God’s design, the Israelites were a celebratory people. Part of their tithe went to preparing for festivals and celebrations!

8. Tithing for orphans, widows, and sojourners (Deut. 14:28–29)


At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

The first tithe taken annually was used to support the Levites. Every third year a special tithe was taken for the distinct purpose of supporting orphans, widows, and strangers. Baked into God’s law was a special provision to take care of the most vulnerable citizens. Interestingly enough, this included caring for people from outside of their community.

How Israelites tithed

9. Bringing in the tithe (2 Chron. 31:4–5)


And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord. As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

Because we trade almost exclusively in currency, it’s fascinating to consider what it would be like in a largely cashless society. How do you tithe when tithing means setting aside 10 percent of your grain, wine, oil, honey, and produce?

Bringing in your tithe is quite an affair when you realize that it entails exacting division of actual goods and livestock, and then the responsibility of bringing them to the storehouse.

10. Nehemiah reestablishes the tithe (Neh. 10:35–37)


We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord; also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.

Nehemiah is known for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem as part of God’s plan to restore Israel after a 70-year captivity. Preparing God’s people for temple worship in their homeland required a reorientation to the worship rhythms in the life of an Israelite.

At this point, many Israelites had lived their entire lives in captivity. And while the stories and traditions were kept alive verbally, they no longer knew what it was like to live under the law. Here we have the reestablishment of the Law in regards to offerings and tithes.

Even with this preparation, Nehemiah finds that the Levites aren’t receiving the portion of the tithes that are to be sustaining them (Neh. 13:10).

11. The principles of plenty (Prov. 3:9–10)


Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

If the world and everything in it truly belong to the Lord, why wouldn’t this principle be true? This isn’t the only time that the Lord promises Israel that he’ll reward generosity with plenty (Deut. 15:10; Prov. 11:25; Malachi 3:8–12).

The challenge is that one must have the faith to give sacrificially to see if the Lord keeps his word.

12. THE LORD REQUIRES MORE THAN REGULAR TITHES (AMOS 4:4–5)

“Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days; offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” declares the Lord God.

The Lord is angry at Israel, and Amos has come to proclaim God’s judgment against her. It doesn’t matter if the nation of Israel is dependable and exacting in the giving of their tithes and offerings if their behavior negates God’s laws.

In a passage that is thematically echoed by Jesus in Matt. 23:23, God makes it clear that stringent attention to the law in one area isn’t an excuse for license in others.

13. THE ROBBING OF GOD (MAL. 3:8–9)

Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, “How have we robbed you?” In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.

Throughout the Old Testament, an offering was something you gave, but the tithe was something you owed. It belonged to the Lord and it was repaid—it wasn’t a gift. On top of the importance of recognizing God’s sovereignty in the tithe, the whole priestly system relied on the tithe to stay functional.

Of particular interest here is the how the withholding of some in Israel put the whole nation at risk of God’s judgment.

14. TESTING GOD IN THE TITHE (MAL. 3:10–12)

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts. Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.

In his mercy, God desperately wants to use the carrot rather than the stick. If he can, he’ll try to get his people to respond to promises of blessing for their obedience instead of having to bring the hammer of judgement down.

In verse 10, the Lord reiterates the problem; the storehouses are empty. If they would only be compliant, there would not only be a full larder, but they would experience an overabundance of provision and freedom from want. Their abundance would also be proof that God was in Israel, making them the envy of nations.

15. DON’T NEGLECT THE WEIGHTIER ISSUES (MATT. 23:23)

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

The picture here of the religious person carefully measuring out their spices to ensure that their tithe is exact while ignoring justice and mercy is powerful. To show concern for tithing your smallest crops while ignoring the law’s weightier concerns is shortsighted.

16. THE FAITHFUL GIVER (MARK 12:41–44)

And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Obviously, the point of this passage is in the faith of the widow to give what she had out of poverty. This is a beautiful picture of trust in God’s provision, and Christ’s response to this act of faith demonstrates God’s feelings toward our sacrifice and generosity.

What is also interesting here is the fact that Jesus went out of his way to sit and watch people give their offerings. God’s interest in our giving isn’t cursory. He recognizes more than we do how our faith is revealed in our habits of giving.

17. TITHING AND PRIDE (LUKE 18:9–14)

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

The Pharisee in this parable finds his value and justification in his devotional acts. He holds up his fasting and tithes up to God like a badge and thanks God that he isn’t like this lowly tax gatherer. As we have seen, the tithe tied Israel together. It was an offering that was common to all and was used to take care of the nation’s priests, widows, orphans, and transients. It wasn’t intended to make the giver self-righteous and prideful.
18. TITHING TO MELCHIZEDEK (HEB. 7:1–2)

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

With this discussion on Abraham’s tithe to Melchizedek, we’ve come full circle. Moses first tells us of this tithe in Genesis, and the author of Hebrews readdresses it as he compares Christ’s ministry to the priest Melchizedek.

The author of Hebrews argues that, although the tithe was supposed to be paid to the Levites, Abraham gave a tenth of his spoils to the priest Melchizedek. And that, through this act, the Levites also metaphorically tithed to Melchizedek. Not only did the priest take a tithe from Abraham, he blessed him. Hebrew’s author says, “It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior. (v. 7)” The whole chapter compares the priesthood of Christ to this mysterious Old Testament character.

It’s only appropriate that the last place the tithe is mentioned it’s being used to point to Christ’s preeminence.



Though @daddyfreeze is correct regarding tithe abuse in Nigerian churches, nonetheless tithe is a kingdom principle established in the order of MELCHIZEDEK and an infallible Law of Nature.

Give and you will receive.
Lay your bread on the waters and in the morrow you will find it
Whatever you sow you must reap.

Credit to my team at echurch.

Tithing is scriptural:

1. The first tithe (Gen. 14:19–20)


And he blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”
And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Abram had just returned from defeating the armies of the four kings, rescuing his nephew Lot, and reclaiming his possessions, and he’s met by an enigmatic priest of God Most High named Melchizedek. The priest attributes Abram’s victory to God—possessor of heaven and earth—and he blesses Abram.

In gratitude to God’s authority and blessing, Abram gives Melchizedek a tenth of his possessions. He doesn’t do it to invoke God’s blessing; he does it in response to God’s blessing.

2. Jacob offers a tithe (Gen. 28:20–22)


Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

Jacob responds to a dream he has received from God by building an altar and vowing that, in exchange for God’s care and provision, he would give God a tenth of his belongings.


3. The tithe is introduced as law (Lev. 27:30–34)


Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

Here we see Moses giving the tithe as a law. The first 10 percent is called “holy,” or set apart, as belonging to God. The Israelites were to return to God what was already his, and in doing so, recognize the Almighty’s provision.

If for some reason someone needed to “redeem” or keep all or a portion of the goods he was to tithe, he could just give money instead. However, the cash would need to be equal to the tithe’s value, plus an extra fifth. In other words, Israelites could give 10 percent in produce, or 12 percent in cash.

When it came to livestock, a shepherd had to set aside every tenth for God. It was decided by simply counting the animals and consecrating every tenth. The shepherd was not to be deciding based on the quality of the animal.

4. Tithes established for the Levites (Num. 18:21)


To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting

The Levites served a special function in Israel; they ministered before God as Israel’s priests. At God’s command, the Levites didn’t share in the other tribes’ inheritance. The Lord was their portion and inheritance (v. 21).

Here we see the Lord establishing that Israel’s tithe would operate as payment to the levitical priests for their services.

5. The Levite’s tithe (Num. 18:26)


Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, “When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.”

From the income that the Levites received from the tithe, they were still responsible for giving 10 percent off the top to God.

6. Offerings and tithes (Deut. 12:5–6)


But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

The tithe was not a volitional offering. The 10 percent off the top belonged to God and the Israelites simply repaid it. But this wasn’t the only obligatory tithe. They also tithed to support a special jubilee festival (Deut. 12) and took a third tithe every three years to take care of orphans, widows, and the poor (Deut. 14). These mandatory offerings averaged out to about 23 percent a year.

On top of these compulsory tithes, there were regular opportunities for freewill offerings. These were generous gifts that expressed the Israelites’ gratefulness through voluntary giving in response to their devotion.

At a bare minimum, they gave 23 percent a year, but there was no ceiling on their generosity. They could—and frequently would—give exorbitantly out of their excess. In response to Moses’ call for contributions to the building of the Tabernacle, the Israelites literally gave so much that Moses had to command them to stop giving (Ex. 36:2–7).

7. Tithing for festivals (Deut. 14:22)


“You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.”

By God’s design, the Israelites were a celebratory people. Part of their tithe went to preparing for festivals and celebrations!

8. Tithing for orphans, widows, and sojourners (Deut. 14:28–29)


At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

The first tithe taken annually was used to support the Levites. Every third year a special tithe was taken for the distinct purpose of supporting orphans, widows, and strangers. Baked into God’s law was a special provision to take care of the most vulnerable citizens. Interestingly enough, this included caring for people from outside of their community.

How Israelites tithed

9. Bringing in the tithe (2 Chron. 31:4–5)


And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord. As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

Because we trade almost exclusively in currency, it’s fascinating to consider what it would be like in a largely cashless society. How do you tithe when tithing means setting aside 10 percent of your grain, wine, oil, honey, and produce?

Bringing in your tithe is quite an affair when you realize that it entails exacting division of actual goods and livestock, and then the responsibility of bringing them to the storehouse.

10. Nehemiah reestablishes the tithe (Neh. 10:35–37)


We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord; also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.

Nehemiah is known for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem as part of God’s plan to restore Israel after a 70-year captivity. Preparing God’s people for temple worship in their homeland required a reorientation to the worship rhythms in the life of an Israelite.

At this point, many Israelites had lived their entire lives in captivity. And while the stories and traditions were kept alive verbally, they no longer knew what it was like to live under the law. Here we have the reestablishment of the Law in regards to offerings and tithes.

Even with this preparation, Nehemiah finds that the Levites aren’t receiving the portion of the tithes that are to be sustaining them (Neh. 13:10).

11. The principles of plenty (Prov. 3:9–10)


Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

If the world and everything in it truly belong to the Lord, why wouldn’t this principle be true? This isn’t the only time that the Lord promises Israel that he’ll reward generosity with plenty (Deut. 15:10; Prov. 11:25; Malachi 3:8–12).

The challenge is that one must have the faith to give sacrificially to see if the Lord keeps his word.

In a real sense, the issue in Libya is a failure on different level.

Firstly, we have an embassy in Libya. They kept on saying they are investigating.
Now that their investigation has revealed they did not do much.

The ambassador is to resign.

Secondly, we need to give the Libyan government an ultimatum to produce the perpetrators of these grave crimes or face expulsion of Libyans in Nigeria and using all diplomatic efforts in all ECOWAS country.

If they do not heed this warning do to them what they still do to blacks and Nigerians especially.

Harvest their organ and create a Libyan slave markets for them and the world to gall on.

This government has to take Nigerians seriously, this country we need to take ourselves more seriously.

It is not every road leads home.

An Algerian, Angolan, Gabonese will not stoop to conquer: he will conquer standing up and demanding all applicable human right while getting it.

We must insist on getting a better deal from those we elected to govern us, or make the country too hot for them. Instead of finding all the time greener pastures outside, only to be a dreg in other society selling ourselves short all the time.

The time is now.
No more Andrew checking out of the country,
No more trying my hustle in US, London and abroad
No more managing way.
No more suffering and smiling.

It is time to demand leadership, accountability, equitable wealth and fairness, or die while trying in our land with dignity rather than being sold as a common ware, a degrading slave and used as an object of organ provider.

Tufiakwa.

Threebear:
Reputation is everything, guide it with your life...... Robert Greene, 48 laws of power .

Like really.
Stars/Fame worshippers.

You do not know a man journey, until you put on his shoes.

He did what he had to do.

Dear Husband,

You are right to react the way you did.
You are absolutely justified in your reaction.

Remorse mixed with tears, plus true repentance is all you need to give her a second chance.

Additionally, consider your son who will be distraught with the events at home.

Forgiving her is a must, for your sake and that of your kid. Forgetting is your prerogative and she must earn your trust back by her action forthwith.

laudate:
Guy, you have spoken well. The poor state of our healthcare system almost makes my heart bleed. If you rush anyone to the emergency care section of any of our general hospitals in this country, you better start fasting and praying that the person should survive. This is because the doctors on duty may not show up in time to attend to the patient, or the hospitals may lack the critical equipment needed to stabilise the patient or their staff may even be on strike.

There is a lot wrong with our healthcare institutions. Only a major overhaul of the existing facilities and personnel, can get things back on track again.

Even if Ekwueme had put things in order when he was VP, what makes you think things would not have deteriorated to an abysmal level after he left office? He stopped being VP in 1983 or have you forgotten?

My dear you are so spot on.

It is not only our healthcare system that is comatose in this country, the whole system needs a re-work if we are going to lead a decent life.

The sad part of it, is the ease and lukewarm attitude we all now pay to it.

We must demand for better representation from our elected persons: we certainly deserve better.

Woe to them who are at ease in Zion.

dodelight:
As opposition and ruling party, APC failed both ways.
Thank God Jonathan lost in 2015,
many would still have thought Buhari has anything to offer other than threats and violence. At least now no one will take him serious about national issues again once his regime is over

My broad na true talk you talk.

Na real regime we find ourselves.

.... N30 billion Sagbama-Ekeremor road

That says it all.

The issue is Who is meet for the office.

We must start to do things outside the box if we do hope to come off this 2019 elections not being shortchanged again!!!

We must pool resources, talents and finances to make a person we can be proud of, a person we can mandate to bring about the desired change Nigeria requires at this time.

We need to search the political, technocrat space and select one with steely character and resolve for this job.

One with proven antecedents, creative and innovative solutions to the myriads of problems, one who above all believes and wants 99% of what every true Nigeria wants. One with youth on his side.

Austria is electing a 33 years old to be a Prime Minister, we have 33 years Old bursting with ideas to turn our fatherland around to become the envy of other countries.

After finding this person, we can raise a #GoFundhim campaign for 2019.


This will be FUBU (For Us by US) type solution for all the tears of the commoners.

This is putting all these typing energies into good use....don't you think?

The Choice for Nigerians come 2019 is indeed very clear.

To continue with the failure of APC, repression of the press, ethnocentric presidency, ethnic division, a government for a certain few, impunity, high-handedness, I know it all-I know what is good for you Presidency or chart a different path.

A much more grounded president, a listening one, one not made by people but by the vote of the Nigeria people and hence answerable to it. One who is bold enough to implement the restructure we seek. One who will see through a constitution repeal and a re-write of a people friendly one or adoption of one tailored to our peculiarity.

These are the choices before Nigerians 2019.

We cannot continue like this, for the world is not waiting for us to get our acts right. Soon we will be the dreg/scum of the world at this rate.