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chai!

Dmail works far better than that....with Dmail, i can retrieve and destroy sent a mail at anytime.

wow! thats innovation.

I’ve blogged several abridged extracts from Thomas Watson’s Exposition of the Beatitudes. This section on how to attain a pure heart is so good I’ve quoted it without editing or cropping. If you long for a pure heart, here’s how to get it:

But how shall we attain to heart-purity?

1. Often look into the Word of God. Now ye are clean through the word’ (John 15:3). ‘Thy word is very pure’ (Psalm 119:140). God’s Word is pure, not only for the matter of it, but the effect, because it makes us pure. ‘Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth’ (John 17: 17). By looking into this pure crystal we are changed into the image of it. The Word is both a glass to show us the spots of our souls and a laver to wash them away. The Word breathes nothing but purity; it irradiates the mind; it consecrates the heart.

2. Go to the bath. There are two baths Christians should wash in.

(i) The bath of tears.[/i] Go into this bath. Peter had sullied and defiled himself with sin and he washed himself with penitential tears. Mary Magdalene, who was an impure sinner, ‘stood at Jesus’ feet weeping’ (Luke 7: 38). Mary’s tears washed her heart as well as Christ’s feet. Oh sinners, let your eyes be a fountain of tears! Weep for those sins which are so many as have passed all arithmetic. This water of contrition is healing and purifying.

(ii) The bath of Christ’s blood.[i] This is that ‘fountain opened for sin and uncleanness’ (Zechariah 13: 1). A soul steeped in the brinish tears of repentance and bathed in the blood of Christ is made pure. This is that ‘spiritual washing’. All the legal washings and purifications were but types and emblems representing Christ’s blood. This blood lays the soul a-whitening.

3 Get faith. It is a soul-cleansing grace. ‘Having purified their hearts by faith’ (Acts 15: 9). The woman in the gospel that but touched the hem of Christ’s garment was healed. A touch of faith heals. If I believe Christ and all his merits are mine, how can I sin against him? We do not willingly injure those friends who, we believe, love us. Nothing can have a greater force and efficacy upon the heart to make it pure than faith. Faith will remove mountains, the mountains of pride, lust, envy. Faith and the love of sin are inconsistent.

4 Breathe after the Spirit. He is called the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1: 13). It purgeth the heart as lightning purgeth the air. That we may see what a purifying virtue the Spirit has, it is compared:

(i) To fire (Acts 2: 3).[/i] Fire is of a purifying nature. It refines and cleans metals. It separates the dross from the gold. The Spirit of God in the heart refines and sanctifies it. It burns up the dross of sin.

(ii) The Spirit is compared to wind.[i] ‘There came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost’ (Acts 2: 24). The wind purifies the air. When the air by reason of foggy vapors is unwholesome, the wind is a fan to winnow and purify it. Thus when the vapors of sin arise in the heart, vapors of pride and covetousness, earthly vapors, the Spirit of God arises and blows upon the soul and so purges away these impure vapors. The spouse in the Canticles prays for a gale of the Spirit, that she might be made pure (4: 16).

(iii) The Spirit is compared to water.[/i] ‘He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water; but this spake he of the Spirit’ (John 7:38, 39). The Spirit is like water, not only to make the soul fruitful, for it causes the desert to blossom as the rose (Isaiah 32:15; 35: 1), but the Spirit is like water to purify. Whereas, before, the heart of a sinner was unclean and whatever he touched had a tincture of impurity (Numbers 19: 22), when once the Spirit comes into the heart, it does with its continual showers wash off the filthiness of it, making it pure and fit for the God of spirits to dwell in.

5 Take heed of familiar converse and intercourse with the wicked. One vain mind makes another. One hard heart makes another. The stone in the body is not infectious, but the stone in the heart is. One profane spirit poisons another. Beware of the society of the wicked.

Some may object: But what hurt is in this? Did not Jesus converse with sinners? (Luke 5: 29).

(i) There was a necessity for that.[i] If Jesus had not come among sinners, how could any have been saved? He went among sinners, not to join with them in their sins. He was not a companion of sinners but a physician of sinners.

(ii) Though Christ did converse with sinners.[i][/i] he could not be polluted with their sin. His divine nature was a sufficient antidote to preserve him from infection. Christ could be no more defiled with their sin than the sun is defiled by shining on a dunghill. Sin could no more stick on Christ than a burr on a glass of crystal. The soil of his heart was so pure that no viper of sin could breed there. But the case is altered with us. We have a stock of corruption within and the least thing will increase this stock. Therefore it is dangerous mingling ourselves among the wicked. If we would be pure in heart let us shun their society. He that would preserve his garment clean avoids the dirt. The wicked are as the mire (Isaiah 57:20). The fresh waters running among the salt taste brackish.

6 If you would be pure, walk with them that are pure. As the communion of the saints is in our Creed, so it should be in our company. ‘He that walketh with the wise shall be wise’ (Proverbs 13: 20), and he that walketh with the pure shall be pure. The saints are like a bed of spices. By intermixing ourselves with them we shall partake of their savoriness. Association begets assimilation. Sometimes God blesses good society to the conversion of others.

7 Wait at the posts of wisdom’s doors. Reverence the word preached. The Word of God sucked in by faith (Hebrews 4: 2) transforms the heart into the likeness of it (Romans 6: 17). The word is an holy seed (James 1: 18), which being cast into the heart makes it partake of the divine nature (2 Peter 1: 4).

8 Pray for heart purity. Job propounds the question, ‘Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?‘ (Job 14:4; 15:14). God can do it. Out of an impure heart he can produce grace. Pray that prayer of David, ‘Create in me a clean heart, O God’ (Psalm 51: 10). Most men pray more for full purses than pure hearts. We should pray for heart-purity fervently. It is a matter we are most nearly concerned in. ‘Without holiness no man shall see the Lord’ (Hebrews 12: 14). Our prayer must be with sighs and groans (Romans 8: 23-26). There must not only be elocution but affection. Jacob wrestled in prayer (Genesis 32: 24). Hannah poured out her soul (1 Samuel 1: 15). We often pray so coldly (our petitions even freezing between our lips), as if we would teach God to deny. We pray as if we cared not whether God heard us or no. Oh Christian, be earnest with God for a pure heart. Lay your heart before the Lord and say, Lord, Thou who hast given me a heart, give me a pure heart. My heart is good for nothing as it is. It defiles everything it touches. Lord, I am not fit to live with this heart, for I cannot honor thee; nor to die with it, for I cannot see thee. Oh purge me with hyssop. Let Christ’s blood be sprinkled upon me. Let the Holy Ghost descend upon me. ‘Create in me a clean heart, O God’. Thou who biddest me give thee my heart, Lord, make my heart pure and thou shalt have it.

MemphisDepay:
na lie. Girl neva ask pin from u. Na so u fine reach?

see you.......maybe they never ask you before....well, speaking from experience.
as for handsome, i might not be the best but certainly not the worst

Melahou:
you are not serious

haba...look at them naaaa
siting like poor beggars.

once replied......needle or office pin........well i was joking then
but you need to see her face.

chai!

good move... but they look like the bokos themselves.

op source pls...

Abeg.

MissTechy:
Not sure, but they said Lagos on their twitter page

noted...........wish they could save me little cost traveling to one of this southwest state

MissTechy:
I saw this on their twitter page, and I confirmed it by taking a free ride so it is true!

Apparently Afro formerly known as AFrocab, the app that allows you get rides from your app is giving out free rides cos of the holiday season and it ends on Monday 20th of July, 2015.

To get the free ride just visit [url]unbouncepages.com/rideforfree/[/url] and input your email addy and that is it.

I was able to snag a free ride today to ICM.

nice one..pls do they go off lag too?

biafra my country.......God bless BIAFRA

badaoyeyemi:
lol we be member teytey

you're blessed jari....

badaoyeyemi:
.....

Are you among us or................wow! your'e very B.

shachris06:
flood ishi gi ka owu odu gi?

listen bro.......i hate insult and at such will never or like to insult others no matter your opinnion.
PROUDLY AM AN IGBO GUY FROM EASTERN HEART-LAND OF BIAFRA. so if biafra as a name or country or word pricks your ears to heart, am sorry bro.its not my fault. it's CHUKWUABIAMA.

shachris06:
good. you can listen to their streams..... we Don't care about that. no igbo man would pay money for data just to listen to that criminal.

WHO'S WE?....now i know your type........don't worry, the flood shall begin soon.

shachris06:
I have stated it here over and again that no right thinking igbo man is supporting this recent madness by a confirmed con artist, Nnamdi kanu.

Nnamdi kanu has turned the heroic deeds of our father's past into mockery and has made biafra a laughing stock.

I keep pointing out to people that Nnamdi kanu is all talk and Nothing else.

Before now, he has bragged to the high heavens that the 'zoo' cannot stop him. clamming he is unjammable. Now that that zoo has finally jammed him, he has also start claiming conspiracy and cooking up another tale about How isreal betrayed him. And yet some people still believe him?

I know most supporters of Nnamdi kanu are merely disgruntled PDP supporters that just found a way to vent their frustrations, But should that be at the essence of a legitimate struggle?

Radio Biafra is a couldron of lies and I am glad that NBC has finally awoken to their responsilities. We the igbos would fight and negotiate for a better deal in Nigeria, But not with the rascalic approach as preached by the defunct radio. we are too learned for that.

Long live Alaigbo

Long Live the federal republic of Nigeria.

udo

@ op, just a question, DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE?...........WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE RADIO SIGNAL HAS BEEN JAMMED?
COS I CALLED A FRIEND FROM ENUGU AND HE CONFIRMED THAT RADIO BIAFRA IS STILL ON. SO WHOSE REPORT DO YOU BELIEVE?

cococandy:
Are those horns?

Chai!...indomie age asking if snake has horn.

Rosemary216:
Evry1 z foolin d oda

Ehen.....so you're among owka ya

OmaBliss:
In other words..

Sometimes I wish I existed in my fathers age era......when most things are Natural

I saw this somewhere, I love it and i
decided to copy and paste it here...........
................WHO IS FOOLING WHO?
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It's time to pause and talk about the most
common problem with the youths of this
generation which is Sex and Money.
Relationship is now a game of interest with
benefit
of
sex and money. In a
relationship, Sex has become the benefit
of the male forks while Money is the
benefit of the female foes. Then I ask,
"WHO IS FOOLING WHO?"
Love being the greatest virtue originated by
God
has
now been abused with Lust.
Youths that are in lust now claim to be in
love in order to gain a "so-called"
relationship with its benefits. Then I ask,
"WHO IS FOOLING WHO?"
Every youth wants to marry a virgin but no
one is
ready to keep one, I ask where will
the virgin come from. Guys go extra miles
to have sex with all the female fellows
around them and yet when they are ready
for marriage, they will be looking for a
virgin to marry. Then I ask, "WHO IS
FOOLING
WHO?"
The female foes will endeavor to look
good to attract as many male foes as
possible with the intention of making
them spend their money unnecessarily
and yet will still want to have a rich man as
a
husband. Then I ask, "WHO IS
FOOLING WHO?"
Assuming a greater number of male and
female foes on earth seek for this
common benefit in a relationship, what
will be the possibility of finding a virgin and
a rich
husband. I guess no one will
have any reason for the quest. Then I ask,
"WHO IS FOOLING WHO?"
In the company of male foes, if a
relationship is established, the next
question is "how to Bleep her?" and same
goes to
the
company of female foes, "how
to make him spend his money". Then I
ask, "WHO IS FOOLING WHO?"
Don't get me wrong, Sex may be good,
sweet and enjoyable same with Money
but the bad thing about sex is the timing.
Sex is
meant
for the Holy Matrimony and
not a duly testimony in a premarital
relationship. There are many more
reasons to say "NO" to premarital sex.
Please share this and let's change the
minds of the youths of this generation.God
bless
you.......

IKUKU AMA N'ONYA shall always see us through. Amen

INTROVERT:
Nairaland

So you don reach here.......chai op see one of them oo ^^^^^^

If I eat well in time, it willbe white.....if I don't eat in time, it will be Orange(s) in color.........where will that be categorize.

Its well.

Muyogoa:
i think it is due to CAPACITIVE SENSING not CONDUCTION(that is why it would still respond even with a nylon or cover on the screen) The phone screen require a thing like fingers ,body etc for sensing and calculation to know when and where you touched. I guess it is the gap(dielectric charge) between the finger and the capacitive sensing that cause it . The screen responds to the finger hovering above it even long b4 it touches the screen but the manufacturer simply place the screen at low threshold frequency (close to the screen) so that it wld observe to us as physical touch. I think Mr seun and lalasticlala will have a better explaination.

I believe the touch screen has lots of darlinton pairs so, the electric charges from your body switches the gaps...........

What am i even saying sef?.........