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kokolet007:
Yes

kokolet007:
Good morning house! Please I need a guidiance of how to get Accommodation for about 4month before my family join me. All the hostel have seen their tenancy agreement is 1year or more or it’s me that don’t understand. I need a short let or share apartment but I felt it’s almost not possible till I get there but hostel is my best bet but I need it for only 3 to 4 months. School is university of Gloucestershire! Thanks

ehemwhy:
No i paid through convera , thy have their own paymenttrackingsystem

ehemwhy:
Through mail

ehemwhy:
Anyone going to the University of Gloucestershire? I received my CAS yesterday

Tybalo:
No I haven’t
They haven’t given an unconditional offer that’s why I haven’t paid

Tybalo:
Good day house
Please anyone going for MREs in university of Gloucestershire?

Has anyone heard anything from the school
My wife has done her pre cas interview but we haven’t heard anything yet for about 3/4 days now

Any idea what’s happening pls?

ehemwhy:
For those who applied to Gloucestershire, they've started issuing conditiomal offers for September

sonmvayina:
@Op, do you really and sincerely think there is anything God created that he can't control?

If your answer is No, why do you think the devil can do whatever he likes and get away with it?

Waiting patiently for answers..

ExplorerReturns:
around 7pm yesterday I withdrew the last 5 hundred naira in my account only to get home at 8pm I received an alert of 15k from

FGN: FEDER:KWARARFAUNIVERSITYW

Julivas:
(If you are reading this, i think your silence on that pressing issue is deafening. Though why you keep mute, I have devised a mean to unraven the mystery (if there is any) behind the whole thing. In view of this i want to seek your consent in carrying it out because i don't want to do it with you unaware. Kindly revert so that things can be sorted and the issue settled finally. Thanks.

kpakpandoN:
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
Matthew 5:44

As Christians, we are called to a lifestyle of love – unconditional love even towards enemies and unfriendly people.

Some years ago, I went to see a man in his office and although he knew I have arrived, he kept me waiting. He probably thought I would get angry and leave, but I waited patiently. Finally, after several hours, he came in to attend to me and met me smiling. He found it hard to believe. “You waited?” He asked and I responded “Yes sir.” Immediately, his previously unfriendly countenance towards me changed. Today, that ‘unfriendly’ man has a house in Redemption Camp. Responding with love to those who wrong you will confuse and win them over to your side.

Have people been hurting you with their words and actions? From now on, smile and do good to them. Is anyone persecuting you because you are a Christian? Why not pray for them to have an encounter with Christ, so they can change? When you respond with love to those who hate you, some may see you as a fool and try to advise you otherwise. Ignore them and obey the counsel of Jesus because 1st Corinthians 1:25 says “…the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

Don’t abuse or insult anybody, your words should be seasoned with salt (Colossians 4:6). Don’t try to avenge yourself because vengeance is of God and not man (Romans 12:19) Don’t pray for your persecutors to die because God is not interested in the death of a sinner (Ezekiel 18:23, 32). No matter what you are going through in the hands of anyone, always respond in love. By doing so, you will save yourself and the person too and this is the will of God.
Written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

Eviana:
Yes, I hope "we" (both you and I), as Christians, can evaluate ourselves honestly and be humble enough to ask the Lord to help us in areas we struggle in and to ask Him to endow us with His Spirit.
One trait of "humility" that (I personally am learning about and striving to employ in my life) is to evaluate MYself and using only Christ as the measuring stick...not others.
It's extremely easy to look at someone else's life and try to point out flaws...yet not look at one's "own" life right? We, as Christians, need to be extremely careful when judging others.
Remember "pride", is what ejected Lucifer from the kingdom..he thought he was more "perfect" than God & Jesus...
Hmmmm....
Grace and mercy....grace and mercy...to us all.
Praying sincerely for you...as I am myself.

Prayers to the families of Kobe Bryant, his daughter and the other 7 passengers who lost their lives 1 week ago.

Eviana:
One thing about death is this: it comes to ALL and we can never know the exact day.
Death is the most horrible result of sin on this earth.
We live in a sin-corrupted world.
We have a Father in Heaven who knows exactly what it is like to lose a loved one (John 3:16 KJV).
I tell you, the death of a loved one (or significant person in one's life) hurts. It hurts terribly...and the ones affected by it never forget.

We can never know all of the ways of God (Isaiah 55:8 KJV).
We can only know that He knows best and is still in control...

I am quite sure that U.S. basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his 13 yr. old daughter, and the other people who lost their precious lives this morning in the tragic helicopter crash, did not know that it would be their last day.
I'm quite sure that his surviving wife and children did not know that he and his daughter would die...nor the other late passengers' loved ones.
What makes it incredibly painful and shocking for many of us, is the fact that a man of such an iconic status (throughout the world) for several years, is now dead.
A man who lived almost a "god-like" status, had enormous amount of wealth, fame and noteriety for the majority of his life, now will be in the grave.
It is almost surreal.
I do not know his religious preference nor have I ever.
He is gone for now and my heart yearns to comfort his widow and three remaining children.
She will need the love of Christ like never before, having lost her husband and daughter at one time.
Prayers for the other passengers' who died, loved ones as they also will have to begin the grieving process.

So many people experience the same types of tragedies...and do not get to say, "goodbye".

Which is why it is so crucial for people to know about the love of Christ and His redemptive power. His triumph over death and the hope of eternal salvation for those who believe in Him & surrender (Revelation 21:7 KJV).

We may not ever have the opportunity in this life, to say "good-bye" to a significant person due to an unexpected death, BUT we can treat people kindly, and love on them daily. We can live each day as though it's our last. We can give people hope (beyond the grave) by telling them about Jesus the Christ' love for them and power to save them eternally.

Newbiz:
Not sure, but when king David committed adultery and murder, God didn't speak to him but used prophet Nathan to minister to him

2 Samuel 12:7-13: And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

Rapidlove:
There are 5 reasons not to believe in God
Though some people are blind to the facts and refuse to accept it
1. No evidence
Most things which we accept, we accept on the basis of proof. That proof is not always rock solid (some of it is based on spurious media claims, for example) but there is a standard to which we hold most of our beliefs. Things that don’t meet that standard – the Tooth Fairy, let’s say – we discard as not impossible, but extremely unlikely.

God, however, many people accept with no proof at all. Belief in God is a product of upbringing, societal and cultural convention, a desire for comfort and intellectual laziness.

There is no evidence that God exists. You may have had some kind of personal experience – what we “anecdotal evidence” that has convinced you personally that he’s out there. But most people would concede that that kind of evidence is not evidence at all. It can’t be repeated under test conditions and there are other possible explanations for what may have happened.

Fact: no-one has ever presented one iota of persuasive evidence that there is a God.

2.It’s illogical
In the absence of evidence, some people try to argue that there “must be” a God because nothing else makes sense.

This “not making sense” ranges from the naïve (“I just feel that there must be a bigger purpose to life”) to the sophisticated arguments presented by theologians, philosophers and apologists.

I cannot present and knock down every instance of these arguments here. However, I can say this: the idea that one can reason God into existence is a failed project. The best anyone has been able to do is to show that God could be an explanation for how the universe got here – and could be the “best available explanation”. I wouldn’t accept either of these, but even I did, they do not constitute a conclusive, logical position.

If you are comfortable with a “maybe”, then you are welcome to it. But the existence of God has not been logically proven by anyone, ever.

3.The preponderance of suffering
In a recent interview, the British comedian Stephen Fry delivered a vicious, scathing attack on the Judeo-Christian God when asked what he would say if it turned out, after he died, that God did in fact exist. He called this God a “maniac”, pointing to the large amount of unnecessary suffering in the world which he, by definition, created and allows.

The existence of suffering is an impossible problem for believers in an all-good, caring God to solve. Even if they use the wiggle room to argue that without some suffering there can be no charity; or that people who do wrong are punished, they cannot account for the suffering of innocent children and animals, or worse, the devout believers in their faith.

What kind of God, we may ask – and Fry does, more colourfully – has created a world in which children die in floods, starve to death, perish in agony from TB and malaria? What kind of God allows people who worship and adore him to be murdered, raped, tortured and come to countless other hideous ends?

This does not preclude the existence of any God, of course. God might be, as Fry has it, a maniac. He may be a vicious, sadistic God. Or, like the Greeks and Romans before us, he may be a pantheon of narcissistic Gods who have no interest in looking out for us.

But a God who was benevolent and loving, as we are told the Christian God is, would never create the world we live in. Believing in him requires either shuttering yourself off from the carnage all around you; or crafting frankly ridiculous excuses (God works in mysterious ways?).

4. We don’t need him
This isn’t exactly an argument against the truth of God, but it is a reason to stop worrying about him. We don’t require God – he is an unnecessary addition to the universe, and it can get along perfectly well without him.

The most common two arguments for why we “need” God is as a personal saviour or caretaker, and that without him (and religion) we would not know what is morally right and wrong.

Let me start with the last first.

Human morality is not brought into existence by God or the Bible. We do not require a commandment to tell us that killing is wrong, and we do not need the threat of eternal damnation to make us do what is right.

To prove this I need only point out that most Western states operate on the basis of a constitution and the rule of law and have nothing to do with religion or the Bible. Killing someone has legal consequences, and most normal people with a conscience regard it as wrong without the need for a cosmic force to tell them.

Oh, but I hear you say, surely these laws and rights have a Biblical origin?

Do you really believe that? Do you think that pre-religious societies had no taboos in regard to the preservation of life, property and other things we hold dear? That a principle like “do unto others” would not naturally emerge from any group of sentient beings living in the same place?

This is quite apart from the fact that many of the laws in the Bible are just wicked. We have not, thankfully and for the most part, transferred most of Leviticus and Deuteronomy into modern law. Those Islamic states who have, and which enforce Sharia law, are widely regarded as zones of horror by most sensible people.

Then: do we need God as a personal saviour? Well, some people might. The idea of God might provide comfort and an explanation for the mysteries of the universe. However, it is misleading to say he is “needed”. Many people survive and thrive perfectly well without a God concept or religion – myself being one example. We do not rampage or lose our way or become outcasts. And so, whilst certain individuals may derive comfort from a belief in God – as is their right – this is neither a necessary or a sufficient condition for living a good life.

5.Life’s better without him
Religion is about control and limitation. Rules, laws and rituals that restrict and govern behaviour. In some cases – say the genital mutilation of infants in barbaric rites of passage practised by religions such as Judiasm – they actually persuade nice people to do awful things.

Which is to say nothing of the countless other horrors committed in the name of God and religion. Suicide bombings, torture, genocide, forced marriages, unwanted babies, war – the list is endless.

A life without religion and without God thus offers freedom from all of these miseries. It offers a person the opportunity to do what they like, in line with their own moral code, within the parameters of the society in which they live. Each decision to be taken is evaluated on its own merits, weighing up the pros and cons, and is not forced down a path by a pre-existing code of conduct dating from a time of ignorance and superstition.

Life is better without God and religion encouraging you to make poor choices, and validating them when you do.

The journey into escaping the God idea, and rejecting religion, can be a long one. For those deeply invested in these notions they may begin by being unable to imagine a meaningful life without them. However, it starts with a seed of doubt. With the sense that a fairy story is at work here – not the solid rock of reality.

Perhaps these five arguments will plant that small seed for some reading this piece

Eviana:
I want to thank the Lord for His forgiveness, encouragement, patience, protection, MERCY, GRACE and ever-lasting LOVE towards me...
Each of the above has been shown to me very clearly this year.
What an extremely challenging year....(too much to say right here)....yet showers of blessings rained on me along the way.
He has once again brought me through to the end of another year....and for that I once again say, "Thank you Lord God Almighty."

Eviana:
Beautifully done...there is much beauty in simplicity.

Eviana:
This is one of the reasons why I am sincerely obsessed with the Book of Psalms.
One can feel King David's plea and distress...his cry to the Lord...and his hope in Him..in times of trouble.
Powerful, beautiful, blessed and encouraging scripture passage.