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Why is being challenged an opportunity for the work of God to be displayed?

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Tribulation is necessary in order for one to enter the kingdom of God. To enter the kingdom of God means to operate in the power of God, just like Jesus did during his earthly ministry. Before Jesus could operate the power of the kingdom of God, he went through hell. Many people think that he came to the world as God and so was always greater than all the problems in the world. Incidentally, Jesus was actually just an Adam--a new man. He was exactly how Adam was before Eve was brought out of Adam.

He. 5:6-9
7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered
9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him

I used to be confused by He. 5:7; does it mean that after doing great miracles in the public, Jesus had to face his personal problems that made him to cry and shed tears to God? God removed my confusion in October 2004. I was going through real hell, in ways that I cannot describe here. Prophecy had declared that I would be greatly used by God. I expected the glory of God to descend on me and my life would become heaven on earth; instead, my life became real hell. In the middle of the night in October 2004, I was awake on my bed in my native village, with my life so full of problems. As I lay on my bed, I wondered where God was in all this. He. 5:7 immediately popped into my mind, with a very clear understanding of what the verse is talking about. I immediately got to know that Jesus' life from the time he was born was full of difficult problems. Demons knew who he was, even while he was a baby. They used people who do their bidding to make Jesus' life hell. It was while Jesus was being tempted in the desert after his baptism in the River Jordan that the Spirit of God helped him to learn the secrets of the kingdom of God. Then he began to triumph over forces of evil.

I got to understand from the revelation of He. 5:7 given to me in October 2004, that the reason why my life had been full of hellish problems for many years is because of the height that God will eventually lift me to. In order to reach that kind of height, you must learn absolute obedience through much suffering. Very recently, I got to understand that the myriads of problems are meant to propel me into glory.

Ge. 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

In Ge. 6:3, God made a law, which limited the ability of any spirit being to interfere in the affairs of man. By this law, man is given authority over the earth. No spirit, not even God Himself, can interfere in the affairs of man except through a human being. Satan and his demons cannot interfere in the affairs of men unless a human being invokes them. A person may be very close to God and be surprised that God watches as he goes through hell and does nothing. The person has to learn how to invoke the power of God.

Why tribulation is very important is because it makes a child of God so helpless that s/he seeks divine intervention with all diligence. That is why being very challenged is an opportunity for the work of God to be displayed.

Todd Bentley, Charlotte, NC, USA

I had a recent prophetic dream about the manifestation of the "greater glory" and of God's sons in 2019. In the dream, I was clearly shown how the Church will go from preparation to the manifestation of His greater glory! I knew in the dream that this year we truly will see sons and daughters revealed in His power as the manifestation of Rom. 8:19 is released in 2019!

"For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who His children really are." (Rom. 8:19)

Greater Glory

I heard the Lord say, "Greater glory." When I started to think of all the stuff I'm familiar with regarding greater glory, the Lord said, "No, I am speaking to you about how, in 2019, we are going to go from the Church being prepared, to the manifestation of the glory of God, to more and more people witnessing the surpassing 'greater glory.' The glory of God and the glory presence will be greater and more manifest with glory signs. We are going to see the increase of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. People are going to be talking about the cloud of glory and the unusual, extra-ordinary signs that come when the glory of God manifests."

The Lord was speaking to me about a greater glory than I have known already in miracles, healings, signs, wonders, harvest and finances, and what to expect when going into greater glory in 2019.

Everything is going to be a greater glory. We are experiencing the greater manifestation of standing under the cloud of God's glory presence; the manifest glory that is a greater glory in your favor, a greater glory in the miracle realm, and a greater glory in the revelatory realm! The Church will minister healing and understand the difference between working under the anointing and working under the glory.

The manifestation of God's glory will begin to overtake every aspect of life and ministry and the person of Jesus will be the central focus of everything that we do in this glory!

http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=21380#word-truncate

Rapture is near, but may not necessarily take place in 2019. It may not not exceed 2020.

That the work of God might be displayed in his life

Jn. 9:6-11
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”

Jesus said that being in a disadvantaged condition is an opportunity for the work of God (that is, divine power) to be displayed in his life. The blind man that Jesus and his disciples encountered ended up experiencing the display of the work of God in his life. But what about challenged people, especially in today's world? Is there anything a disadvantaged human being of today can do and witness the work of God in her/his life, to a similar magnitude as we see in John 9? I am talking about people that are challenged in diverse ways.

Jn. 9:1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
Jn. 9:2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, t hat he was born blind?”
Jn. 9:3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.

Blindness, especially from birth, is one of the most helpless situations a human being could find herself/himself in. Jesus and his disciples came across a man blind from birth. Since Jesus seemed to have all the right answers, the disciples decided to probe him on this common feature in the world? Why are some human beings so disadvantaged in this world? Is it that God is partial or that these people or their forebears committed one big sin or the other? Some religions believe the latter, which is that the very disadvantaged people committed sin big time in their previous life; when they reincarnated, the law of karma dictated that they should pay for their big sins of the previous life by being sorely disadvantaged in the present life. But Jesus is his response to the question thrown at him stated that the condition of extremely disadvantage equated to a great opportunity for the work of God to be displayed in the disadvantaged person’s life.

Some people will argue that Jesus answer does not imply that every situation of disadvantage is an opportunity for the work of God to be displayed, but only applied to the case that Jesus and his disciples encountered. I must tell you here that I am generalizing Jesus answer to every situation of disadvantage due to knowledge that I have gained from very hard experience.

Ro. 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God who have been called according to his purpose.

I believe your on to something OP!

Victory is by the spoken Word of Faith through the power of the Holy Spirit...

I can do ALL things through the Messiah who strengthens me...

I believe your statements are true, even though I live with infirmity.

May it pass quickly and the lessons of suffering be learned and rewarded...

I too lived with witchcraft-caused infirmity for close to two decades, until this week. I prayed and prayed over the years; all that God did was to step in any time witches or demons wanted to finally kill me. Just as @eraser-head posted, God waited for me to learn the lesson that I am now sharing in this thread.

It is easy to be free from infirmity through Jesus Christ. Make sure that you are baptized into Christ in water and in the Spirit. If you are not yet clearly baptized into Jesus Christ, inquire about a good evangelical minister of the gospel that practices water baptism and receiving of the Holy Spirit through prayer (Lk. 11:13). Go to the minister and get baptized into Jesus Christ.

Ro. 6:3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Some people downplay water baptism and emphasize only the Spirit, but it is actually through water baptism that a person gains access to the death and hence the blood of Jesus.

Having been properly baptized into Jesus Christ, the next thing you do is to cleanse yourself from sins by the blood of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Cleansing yourself from sins by the blood of Jesus brings you near to God. You can now effectively resist that devil called infirmity in your body by presenting your case that with his blood Jesus purchased you for God. Your body is a temple of God. Tell that infirmity that it has no right to be in the temple of God. Overcome it by the blood of Jesus through the Holy Spirit (word of faith). Command that the infirmity be remove from your body by the Holy Spirit of God. God will surely destroy anything that destroys God's temple (!Co. 3:17).

Resisting the devil or infirmity is not something you do only once and give up. One Bible translation says "resist steadfastly the devil".

https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3946937/pg1#71319950

More than Conquerors

Ro. 8:31,32,37
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

If God be for me, in all things I am more than a conqueror; nothing can prevail against me. But how do I get God to be for me?

Ja. 4:8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

He. 10:22 Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Ep. 5:26 To make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.

I presented cleansing from sins in this post: https://www.nairaland.com/4893694/apostle-pauls-revelation-righteousness-god#73681323

In order to cleanse myself from sins, I sprinkle my heart with the blood of Jesus; I wash away all my sins by the blood of Jesus through the Holy Spirit of God; all by word of faith. The only way to go near to God is by the blood of Jesus, through the Holy Spirit. Do you have the Holy Spirit? I don't mean speaking in tongues. Have you been baptized into Jesus Christ, in water and in the Spirit? It is only through the Holy Spirit that a man can draw near to God by the blood of Jesus using word of faith.

Having cleansed myself from sins by faith, I declare that I totally belong to God because Jesus purchased me for God with his blood that he shed for our redemption on the cross. My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit of God and not a dwelling place for enemies (evil spirits, sicknesses, diseases, infirmities) that come to steal and to kill and to destroy. I overcome all the enemies by the blood of Jesus through word of faith. I then terminate their presence in my body by the Holy Spirit of God, through word of faith.

Making Your Case

1 John 2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

The key to accessing the divine power for the solution of a problem at hand is presenting your case. God is the righteous Judge of the universe. People of God wonder why God allows the devil to be causing so much problems to many people. They forget that the devil and his angels are rebellious sons of God. Their rebellion started when God breathed His Spirit into mankind (Ge. 2:7). By so doing God imparted divinity into mankind and the divinity of man was open-ended, in the sense that the measure of divinity in a man could grow and could shrink, without any limit. On the other hand, the measure of divinity of every angel is fixed. Apparently, Satan and his group of angels accused God of unduly favoring mankind. In order for God to intervene in the affairs of any man, somebody must present a case as to why God should allow his divine power to intervene in the situation.

Re. 5:9-10 9 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

With his blood, the Lord Jesus purchased me for God. I have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. My body is God's temple. My body is not a dwelling place for demons or sicknesses or diseases or infirmities. On this basis, I resist any demon or sickness or disease or infirmity operating in my body by the blood of Jesus through the Holy Spirit of God. I drive them away from my body by the power of the Holy Spirit of God; the rightful owner of my body.

Is. 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Many years ago, I was travelling in a public transport bus in my region in Nigeria. A young man, a follower of Judaism, began to attack some things that Christians believe about Jesus. One prominent thing he said was that Christians say that Jesus saved them, but they still die. And most importantly, they still sin. Since most people in that bus were Christians, we simply waved him off. Nevertheless, the young Judaist seemed to make a point.

For some years now, I have been under persistent witchcraft and demonic attacks. The witches attack me through some spirits that a witch who was closely related to me planted in my body through a drink that she gave me. Early in the morning of three days ago, the attack was very intense. I became very discouraged. I began to think that the devil easily gives power to his worshipers, which they use to attack somebody like me, but God whom I serve has not made much power available to me. After several years of my spiritual warfare, my life remains in danger of being snuffed out by witches. Even though Ephesians 1 talks about God’s mighty power that is at work within those who believe in Jesus, I had not been able to conquer spiritual attacks by this power. Anyway, I went on to pray, asking for divine intervention.

I later went to my computer. One of the sites I visited on the Internet was Bill and Masha Burns prophecy site. I visit their site everyday. Following is what they posted that day.

THE TRUMPET by Bill Burns

December 17, 2018: If you will learn the art of resistance you will be an overcomer. Your life as a Christian will not be trouble free. However, greater am I in you than the one who is after you. Be encouraged today and know that if you will fight the good fight, victory will be yours. 1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

http://ft111.com/thetrumpet.htm

Initially, I thought about all the spiritual warfare I had done against witchcraft and demonic attacks. Isn't that resistance? What has it achieved? Then I remembered the Scripture that talks about resisting the devil.

Ja. 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

As I meditated on Ja. 4:7, I decided to use the word "resist" to war against the evil spirits that were attacking me. I first of all made my case as to why evil spirits should not operate in my body and then resisted them by the blood of Jesus and by the Holy Spirit of God. I immediately got some relief from witchcraft attacks.

Apostle Paul’s Revelation of Seeking God’s Standard

He. 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming — not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
He. 10:2 If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
He. 10:3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
He. 10:4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
He. 10:5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
He. 10:6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
He. 10:7 Then I said, `Here I am — it is written about me in the scroll — I have come to do your will, O God.’“ [Psalm 40:6-8]
He. 10:8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (although the law required them to be made)
He. 10:9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
He. 10:10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

In the Old Testament, purification from sin was done by the use of ashes of a previous burnt offering dissolved in water for ceremonial washing. In the New Testament, the unending sin offering is replaced with the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. In the place of the Old Testament ashes of heifer, we have the blood of Jesus. In the place of the Old Testament water of cleansing, we have word of faith. In order to purify the heart in the New Testament, we purify the heart by the blood of Jesus using word of faith.

Ep. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ep. 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Ro. 10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” [Deut. 30:14] that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming.

The way to attain God’s standard that was revealed to Apostle Paul involves washing away sins by the blood of Jesus through word of faith. Quite unlike the Old Testament’s ceremonial washing away of sin, washing away sins by the blood of Jesus is permanently effective.

This is how I purify my heart daily:

I cleanse my whole being from all unrighteousness, all evil desires, all sinful habits, all unholy character, every idol and every demon by the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for our redemption on the cross of Calvary through the Holy Spirit of God, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

If you pray this kind of prayer every day, using your imagination to visualize cleansing by the blood of Jesus, you will be growing in righteousness. Make sure you are already baptized into Jesus Christ, in water and in the Spirit.

Seeking God’s Standard in the Old Testament

Ex. 30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the
LORD.”

Nu. 19:9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They shall be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.

Israelites of old sought to attain God’s standard through sacrifice of bulls and goats, which included burning of the bodies of the animals. Cleansing individuals from sin was done by ceremonial washing with water that has ashes of the burnt offering dissolved in it. Everything centered on the temple in Jerusalem. People had to go to the temple from all over Israel and from various nations where the Israelites were settled, in order to seek righteousness.

Ro. 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Ro. 1:17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” [Hab. 2:4]

God’s standard never changes. Churches may come up with all sorts of new doctrines, but God’s standard will not change. God’s standard in the Old Testament is still God’s standard today. God’s standard in the Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve, is still God’s standard with mankind today. All mankind need to understand this fact. Irrespective of the various religions and denominations practiced by mankind, God’s standard for mankind does not vary.

1Sa. 15:29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind.

Ja. 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers.
Ja. 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Ja. 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

We must differentiate between God’s standard for mankind and how mankind seeks to attain Gods standard. God demands righteousness from mankind. Mankind has established all sorts of religions and denominations in their efforts to meet God’s requirement. When you point to some Christians what Jesus said in the gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John about righteousness, they tell you that we are in a new dispensation. They say that the dispensation of the gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John has been replaced by the dispensation of the gospel according to Apostle Paul. Most Christians don’t even bother about the Old Testament. I want to make it clear here that God’s standard for mankind has always been the same, from the Garden of Eden to this day.

Ge. 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Ge. 3:23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

As soon as sin entered mankind, God kicked mankind out of His garden, and hence His presence. By so doing, God denied mankind eternal life. Today you hear Christians who are not free from sin saying that Jesus could come and snatch them up to heaven this very moment. This very moment in which they are not free from sin? God cannot do that! His standard has not changed.

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A man in Edmonton who made international headlines for holding onto a wrapped Christmas gift from a high-school girlfriend who dumped him nearly 50 years ago finally learned what it was on Thursday when she travelled to the city and opened it for him.

Adrian Pearce, now a married father of two, received the small present wrapped in shiny, purple paper shortly before Christmas 1971 from Vicki Allen, who was his very first sweetheart at George S. Henry Secondary School in Toronto.

But when she handed it to him, she broke up with him. Dejected, Pearce returned to his family's home, threw it under the Christmas tree and vowed never to open it.

The story last December about the unopened gift appeared on TV, newspapers and websites around the world. And as Allen stood on a stage in a packed cafe northwest of the city and peeled away the paper with Pearce standing beside her and his wife, Janet, in the audience, she herself didn't know what she'd see because it was so long ago and she'd forgotten.

"Oh no!" Allen exclaimed when she finally saw. "I can't give that to him!"

It was a small book called "Love Is: New Ways To Spot That Certain Feeling" with a cartoons and sayings about love.

"The irony is extreme," Allen cried.

The event was a fundraiser for the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton, a local charity that provides Christmas meals to families in need.

"Love is all of us, all of you, here tonight for the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton," Pearce responded.

Days after Pearce's story appeared last Christmas, a friend who knew them both in high school sent Allen a link to one of the many articles written about it. Allen responded by clicking "like" on some of Pearce's Facebook posts, and Peace figured out who it was. They got in touch, and eventually Pearce and his wife were invited to meet her where she now lives in British Columbia.

They learned that they all got along. They also learned the reason Allen dumped Pearce all those years ago.

It turned out that while Allen was shopping for Pearce's gift at the mall, she met another boy and he kissed her on the spot.

"It wouldn't have been so bad, but I kissed him back," Allen said.

She said she knew Pearce would find out she had betrayed him. She knew it was over between them.

"It was a very innocent relationship. We were in high school," Allen explained about her relationship with Pearce.

"I didn't know he felt as intensely as he did."

For years, even after he'd married, Pearce still placed the dog-eared gift under the tree every Christmas. He enjoyed the mystery of it, but eventually his wife put her foot down when their daughter, then five, wanted to open it.

"She said, 'Daddy, when you die, I'll be able to open it then, right?' I told him he could keep it, but we just didn't want (the gift) out in public," she explained.

"I'm pretty secure in our relationship. I've never been jealous."

Allen admitted some trepidation about meeting Pearce and his wife. Was he a stalker? He was a nice boy in 1971, but maybe, she thought, "he's probably become an expert axe murder."

Some people had accused Allen of being a terrible person for giving Pearce a Christmas present and then breaking up with him. Pearce has also been called everything from "Heartbroke Bloke" in the British press to "slowpoke" in one New York newspaper.

He's since written a book about the whole experience, and his wife and Allen contributed chapters.

"I think it's absolutely fantastic that we're friends. My wife is friends with (Vicki)," Pearce told the crowd.

"We're in a fantastic place where all you can feel is love."

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https://ca.style.yahoo.com/girl-opens-christmas-present-she-090004014.html

ehinmowo:
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I used to order goods from eBay through Nigerian companies that you pay to order items for you, because by then Paypal was not available in Nigeria. When Paypal became available in Nigeria, I began to order from eBay by myself. I then noticed that most eBay sellers shun shipping to Nigeria. The few that could ship to Nigeria sell and ship at high prices. I then googled for companies that ship goods from USA to Nigeria and provide USA addresses. By intuition, I settled for Shoptomydoor. I have shipped a good number of consolidated packages from them since April.

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Meet Tiffany Trump's impressive new beau who's ALREADY been to Mar-a-Lago:

First Daughter splits with Democrat lover for billionaire construction heir (shame her father called his native Nigeria a s**thole)
Tiffany Trump is reportedly dating billionaire construction heir Michael Boulos
The first daughter brought Boulos to the Trump family's Thanksgiving dinner
The pair were spotted in September attending a New York Fashion Week show
Boulos was raised in Nigeria - a country Donald Trump referred to as 's**thole'
'There was no mention of the president's unfortunate comment about African nations [at dinner],' a source told Page Six

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6445207/Tiffany-Trump-dating-billionaire-raised-Nigeria-country-Trump-referred-s-thole.html

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Tiffany Trump has been privately dating Michael Boulos, the son of a multi-billion dollar family in Nigeria, Page Six reports. A source close to Tiffany tells the outlet that she and Boulos spent Thanksgiving together earlier this month and that he met most of her family.

Tiffany and Boulos are assumed to have started dating over the summer when they met while on vacation in Mykonos. Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria-a country which Tiffany's father President Trump once referred to as a "shithole country." Back in January of this year, a source who works within the White House reported to CNN that President Trump had denounced immigrants by asking aides,"Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?"

“Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar," explains Page Six's source. "But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as a very intelligent young man from a great family. There was no mention of the president’s unfortunate comment about African nations.”

President Trump later denied using the word "shithole" to describe Nigeria as a country, but did admit that he had used "tough" language when referring to the country behind closed doors. While hosting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Washington, D.C. in April, Business Insider quotes Trump as referring to "some countries that are in very bad shape."

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tiffany-trump-dating-millionaire-nigeria-141400715.html

This thread contains vital information that will enable any person that is baptized into Jesus Christ, in water and in the Spirit, to purify the heart. Purity of heart is a precondition for receiving all that God has for us.

You won't know the power of the information in this thread, until you put it to practice.

From Beyond the Rivers of Cush

Zep. 3:9 “Then will I purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Zep. 3:10 From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshippers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings.

It is time for the Israelites residing beyond the rivers of Cush (Jews of Nigeria) to arise and shine. They will pioneer the purification of the people of God around the world.

Blessed are the Pure in Heart

Mt. 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

If you achieve total purity in heart, you will definitely have a mighty encounter with God and you will never be the same again. You will begin to manifest as a real son of God.

Ro. 8:18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Ro. 8:19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
Ro. 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Ro. 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

The 144,000 firstfruits of Israel are about to arise.

Purification of the Heart

Sin dwells in the heart. Renewal of the mind helps to keep new sin away. But what about the old sinful habits in the heart? Resident sins must be purged out of the heart in order for God to allow a person to eat the fruit of the tree of life.

Nu. 19:9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They shall be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.

In the Old Testament, purification from sin was done by putting the ashes of a heifer that had been used in burnt offering in water, and then using the resulting solution for washing the body. In the New Testament, there is only one previous sacrifice, which is the death of Jesus Christ as a sacrifice of atonement on the cross of Calvary. In the place of the Old Testament ashes of heifer, we have the blood of Jesus that was shed for our redemption. In the place of the Old Testament water of cleansing, we have word of faith. In order to purify the heart in the New Testament, we purify the heart by the blood of Jesus using word of faith.

Ep. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ep. 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Ro. 10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” [Deut. 30:14] that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming.

This is how I purify my heart daily:

I sprinkle my heart with the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for my redemption on the cross of Calvary. I overcome sin in my heart by the blood of Jesus. I wash away every sin from my heart by the blood of Jesus through the Holy Spirit of God, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

If you pray this kind of prayer every day, using your imagination to visualize cleansing your heart with the blood of Jesus, you will notice transformation of your mind. Make sure you are already baptized into Jesus Christ, in water and in the Spirit.

Renewal of the Mind

Ro. 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.
Ro. 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.

1Jn. 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn. 2:16 For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world.
1Jn. 2:17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives for ever.

Renewal of the mind means to no longer conform to the pattern of this world. The whole world is under the control of the evil one (1Jn. 5:19). The value system of this world is not in agreement with God’s value system. The fall of man occurred as a result of Satan presenting his value system to mankind and mankind’s acceptance of Satan’s value system. In order to reverse the fall of man, we have to begin with the value system and renew our minds in that regard. We make up our minds to offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is what it actually means to give one’s life to Jesus.

https://andtimearmy.com/transformation-from-mortal-to-immortality/

1Co. 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed —
1Co. 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1Co. 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1Co. 15:54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” [Isaiah 25:8]

Just before the rapture of the saints of God takes place, they will transform from mortal to immortality. Many evangelical Christians understand that this transformation will happen suddenly for those who have given their lives to Jesus, at God’s appointed time. This understanding is accurate, except that the understanding of what it means to give one’s life to Jesus is not equally accurate. The understanding that one gives her/his life to Jesus by saying “sinner’s prayer” is not accurate.

Ge. 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever.”
Ge. 3:23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Sin is the reason why God prevented mankind from transforming from mortal to immortality and drove mankind into the realm of death. Until sin is removed from mankind, there will never be any transformation from mortal to immortality and the rapture will not be able to take place. When you see human beings who are not yet completely free from sin saying that rapture could happen any moment, just laugh out loud.

Ja. 1:14 But each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.
Ja. 1:15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Sin enters the heart of man through the mind. It is in the mind that evil desire is conceived. The first transformation that should take place in a person that wants to make the rapture is the renewal of the mind.

https://andtimearmy.com/transformation-from-mortal-to-immortality/

In 2- or 3-stage charging, charging begins with a constant current--constant-current charging. Due to constant-current charging, battery charges fast at a linear constant rate given by

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The battery voltage V is proportional to the constant current I times time t.

When the battery voltage reaches the allowed maximum of 4.2 V, the charging circuit switches to constant-voltage charging, in which the voltage applied to the battery is fixed at 4.2 V. From this point, the current drawn by the battery, and hence the charging rate, decreases with time. When the current drawn by the battery decreases to zero, the battery is fully charged.

Soludo is actually better than Peter Obi. Peter Obi did well as governor of Anambra State at a time when Nigeria's economy was very buoyant. In a situation where the economy is not so buoyant, Soludo' first class brain will be more reliable.

Masturbation, like most human habits, is a positive feedback thing. The more you do it, the more your body demands for it. The best way to stop it is to also employ the positive feedback nature of it. When the thought to do masturbation comes to your mind, deliberately change the thought to something your body hates, such as cultivating with hoe or cutting grass with cutlass. As you deny your body masturbation this way, positive feedback kicks in and your interest in masturbation will begin to wane.

This same principle of positive feedback also works for people who ejaculate too early when they are having sex with their wives. By removing the mind from the ongoing sexual activity and focusing the mind on something not so pleasing, ejaculation is delayed. However, taking the mind away for too long will also make the joystick to sag.

positive feedback (BIOLOGY)

the enhancing or amplification of an effect by its own influence on the process which gives rise to it.

A report out Thursday suggests workers in the Canadian cannabis industry could face a lifetime ban on travel to the US.

Shares of Canadian cannabis companies were down as much as 15% on the news before paring their losses.

Ballooning valuations have caused these companies to come under more scrutiny of late.

Canadian cannabis companies are whipping around Friday morning, tumbling as much as 15% before paring their losses, following a report suggesting workers may face a lifetime ban on travel to the US.

A Politico report published after markets closed on Thursday, citing a senior official overseeing US border operations, said any Canadian working in the marijuana industry would not be permitted to enter the US. "If you work for the industry, that is grounds for inadmissibility," Todd Owen, the executive assistant commissioner for the US Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations, told Politico.

Here's a look at the scoreboard as of 2:35 p.m. ET:

Tilray -11.9%
Canopy Growth +3.95%
Cronos +1.19%
Canada's marijuana industry has seen valuations balloon in recent months. Tilray, for example, has seen its share price skyrocket by more than 600% since it went public in July.

The huge growth in the industry has sparked the interest of institutional and retail investors alike and has led to investments from the competing alcoholic-beverage industry. Back in August, Constellation Brands, the company behind Corona beer and Svedka vodka, announced it was investing another $4 billion in Canopy Growth, which raised its stake to 38%.

The recent interest in the space has caught the attention of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Just last week, the SEC warned investors to watch out for promises of guaranteed returns, unregistered sellers, or unsolicited offers in marijuana names.

"If you are thinking about investing in a marijuana-related company, you should beware of the risks of investment fraud and market manipulation," the SEC said.

"Fraudsters may try to use media coverage about the legalization of marijuana to promote an investment scam."

thesicilian:
Was it 50 or 341?
Though I don't think the number matters as such, once you have cheated with one person, you're as dirty as one who has done it with one thousand.

Maxiell’s wife walked off the set of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s “Iyanla: Fix My Life” when her husband revealed to host Iyanla Vanzant that she had slept with “more than 50” women in his life.

Jason Maxiell said during Oprah Winfrey's programme that he had slept with "more than" 50 women in his life. Later, in a TV show, he now gave the actual number, which is 341. The 341 happens to be both before and during his marriage.

Former Detroit Pistons center Jason Maxiell revealed to a national television audience that he has slept with 341 women before and during his marriage to high school sweetheart Brandi Maxiell. This figure falls 19,659 shy of the number of women NBA legend and lifelong bachelor Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have bedded in his 1991 book “A View From Above,” but that was no consolation to Brandi.

Maxiell’s wife walked off the set of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s “Iyanla: Fix My Life” when her husband revealed to host Iyanla Vanzant that she had slept with “more than 50” women in his life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHYCrAVKfF4

How Brandi Maxiell reacted to the show

The episode was filmed a year ago, according to a message she recently shared with The Shade Room:

“Thank you all for the well wishes and prayers. Jason, Baby Jason and I needed that.

“I would like to say I’m more frustrated with him blurting out a number to the world without no regard for my feelings. It put a damper on our relationship and I was willing to work on it. Over 50 tore it down!

“My focus is and has been since we went on this show a year ago, is to shift my ENTIRE life from being a great wife and mother into being the best mother & person I can be! I’m aware that my son will someday come across this video and witness what the man of his life has done to his mother & how I stood by and basically did nothing. Therefore, I have to prepare myself for that conversation with him ‘without lies’ but with compassion for my son. I’m going to use very detail of my upbringing, my illness, my marriage, my life good or bad, to raise my child to learn how to first love & respect God, himself, women & all of God’s creations.”
A former “Basketball Wives” cast member, Brandi overcame an ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2007.

Iyanla Vanzant’s advice to Jason Maxiell

The “Iyanla” episode also explores sex addiction and alcoholism, both of which Maxiell denied, and Vanzant offers sage advice about potential deeper-seated issues beneath the 35-year-old’s infidelity.

“Every time you’re with another woman, you abandon you,” Vanzant told Maxiell on the episode that aired last week. “And every time you tell another lie, you abandon you. And every time you take a drink to stuff the pain down, you abandon you. This wasn’t about sex. This was about punishment.”

What is Jason Maxiell doing these days?

Detroit’s first-round pick in 2005, Maxiell played his first eight seasons for the Pistons before spending his final two NBA seasons in Orlando and Charlotte. After tours of of basketball duty in China and Turkey between 2015 and 2017, Maxiell played in the BIG3 league this summer. He signed a one-day contract with the Pistons in August 2017 to retire from the NBA with the team that drafted him.

https://sports.yahoo.com/top-10-nba-players-season-133000737.html

Drunk man takes a taxi to his parents' house, falls asleep on the couch only to find his parents don't live there anymore

While it’s hard to be on top of your game while you’re intoxicated, there are three rules to a successful night of heavy drinking. One, make sure you have the holy trinity on you: phone, wallet, keys. Two, don’t drive. Three, get home safely.

Thomas Airlie probably thought he was in the clear when he ordered a taxi to take him to his parents’ house to sleep off a night out with the guys.

He entered the residence, took his shoes off at the door, went to the kitchen to get a juice, and lay down on the couch. All was well.

Except his parents did not live in that house — in Glasglow, Scotland — anymore, and they hadn’t for two years.

Elaine McDade, a dance teacher, and mother of two, lived there, and while Thomas proved to be very polite, it still is a scary situation to realize there’s a 26-year-old stranger in your home.

“Every time I come into my house I lock my door behind me. Every time, it’s a habit! Even during the day, I always do it. The one and only time I don’t!” McDade said on Facebook. She and her children were in bed, watching TV when she went to get a drink. That’s when she spotted Airlie.

“When I saw him I woke him up straight away. I even asked him if he used to live here, or if he lived in the same street now and had just got the wrong door,” McCade told Daily Mail.

She called her husband at work, and he arrived to drive Airlie home. But Airlie couldn’t remember where he lived, so McCade’s husband dropped him at a supermarket. Someone who knew Airlie’s parents eventually sent him the photo McCade had snapped of him on her couch, and he apologized to her most profusely on Facebook.

In the end, everyone was safe, save for some ribbing from Airlie’s friends.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/drunk-man-takes-taxi-parents-house-falls-asleep-couch-realize-parents-dont-live-anymore-014836510.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/14/nyregion/14nyu/merlin_141738555_59266237-94f3-4beb-a782-d145022bd053-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
Nimrod Reitman accused his former N.Y.U. graduate school adviser, Avital Ronell, of sexually harassing him, and the university found her responsible. But some leading feminist scholars have supported her in ways that echo the defenses of male harassers.

The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.

An 11-month Title IX investigation found Professor Ronell, described by a colleague as “one of the very few philosopher-stars of this world,” responsible for sexual harassment, both physical and verbal, to the extent that her behavior was “sufficiently pervasive to alter the terms and conditions of Mr. Reitman’s learning environment.” The university has suspended Professor Ronell for the coming academic year.

In the Title IX final report, excerpts of which were obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Reitman said that she had sexually harassed him for three years, and shared dozens of emails in which she referred to him as “my most adored one,” “Sweet cuddly Baby,” “cock-er spaniel,” and “my astounding and beautiful Nimrod.”

Coming in the middle of the #MeToo movement’s reckoning over sexual misconduct, it raised a challenge for feminists — how to respond when one of their own behaved badly. And the response has roiled a corner of academia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html?nl=top-stories&nlid=54795170ries&ref=cta

You have Faith, can you do something for me? I really need some money, some oportunities to find job. Can you pray with your faith to God to give me this? My prayers arent working..

This is serious.

https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3883063/reply69970403

You don't need me to pray for you. My purpose in posting this thread is to get people to know that they can rise up in the spirit to begin to do the kind of things that Jesus did during his earthly ministry. Jesus lacked money during his earthly ministry. He didn't go about asking for donations, tithes, offering or seed sowing.

Mt. 17:24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”
26 “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him.
27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

If you build up divine life in you as I explained in one of my posts above, you will rise up to a point where you can pray: "Holy Spirit of the Most High God, open doors for me to make all the money that I need." And money will come. If you build up the rock in you, you get to a point where you can speak to the rock to release whatever it is that you need and the thing you need will appear.

2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

GentlePEACE:
ride on sir/ma, this is inspiring. Over time, i've also observed that with my deep fasting and prayer, daily reading of his words, i saw myself casting out demons so easily, placing hands and people recieve the gift of speaking in tongues, God is great. You know, God seems to act silent when we serve him at the early stage of our consecration to him, to test whether you will still stand. Once you pass and prove to him that he is all that you have, just like Kathryn Kuhlman who publicly state 'the Holy Spirit is all that she got' come and see wonders.

You are greatly blessed, GentlePEACE.