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Thou art coming to a King,
large petitions with thee bring,
For his grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much.
- John Newton

The uneasiness of worry surfaces in our hearts when we lose sight of the gospel of God's grace to the undeserving. Failure to grasp the gospel is what causes us to take our eyes off the kingdom and forget who we are in Christ.

Our worth is not measured in what we do for God, but what God has done for us.
This is God the Father who sent his only Son to the cross that we deserved.
This is God the Son who willingly took on flesh, lived among us, and died in our place.
This is God the Spirit who prompts our hearts and brings us back into unending fellowship with our Maker.
It is the costly actions of God that give us our value.

I worry because my vision of God is skewed. I rest when my vision is fixed on God.

Worry shows up whenever my view of God is diminished and my view of myself gets too big

The root cause of worry is not misplaced priorities. It's misplaced faith. It's a failure to grasp the gospel of a God worthy of our trust.

Worrying turns my focus on me.

Conventional wisdom says doing absolutely nothing should be easy for us; but surprisingly for most of us it isn`t!

MrMoney007:
Ordinary Boko Haram is giving them tough time

Asari Dokubo wrote:

It's such a shame that we enjoy living in denial.

Charley boy was protesting for Buhari to either resume or resign and he was brutalized and visited with a festival of teargas leading to his collapse. And this atrocious treatment was meted to him, not under Buhari the tyrant but under the same man (Osinbajo) who stand to benefit should Buhari quit.

24hours later, the remorseless genocidal Arewa Youths did their own protest and were guarded and guided by police escorts on horseback. The same police that just anointed the 66 year old Oputa son with teargas.

When I see Igbo man claiming #OneNigeria and trying to use his head to break the Nigerian coconut I simply want to pause and die crying. Crying at a people with an iniquitious sense of history.

Nzeogwu executed a coup with soldiers from the rest of the country but at the end, it was tagged an Igbo coup and millions of my kind (both soldiers & civilians) were mercilessly slaughtered.

Today, we have a quit notice and hate songs hanging round our necks in the north and an Igbo man is leading Buhari #ResumeOrResign protest to set the stage for the North to accuse us of ousting Buhari even when we stand to gain absolutely nothing from either his resumption of duty or resignation.

Why are the Yorubas quite?

Where are the Femi Falanas, Tunde Bakare, Soyinka and co??

Any student of strategic studies knows that the Yorubas are simply being strategic with their silence.

The fact that our brother chose to protest for the return of the death merchant called Buhari or his resignation (none of those two options will benefit either Ndigbo or Nigeria in general) rather than protest for the over haul of this Lugard Cage, is a testament to the fact that his "Our Mumu Don Do" campaign is nothing short of a tragic irony.

He didn't protest the quit notice against his own people. He didn't protest for the FG to understake to protect Igbo lives come Oct.1st. He didn't even protest for the amendment of the atrocious 1999 apartheid manual called the constitution or even for restructuring at least.

He was fighting a war in which him and his people stand to gain nothing but loose everything.

Charles Oputa might end up as a tragic victim of his misplaced patriotism.

Nigeria makes patriotism impossible for Ndigbo.

"A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it".

eeyah.. this post is too touching. #AlmostInTears

Study the baby`s facial features well and you`d see that he looks like the man carrying him.
If the man carrying him should grow his hair out, he`d look like the baby`s dad.

The baby is dark in complexion while the parents are fair?
That could be as a result of the parent or the dad bleaching off their dark colour,

Look at the baby`s brow bone well, who does he really look like? -His dad!
The Bishop`s eyebrow curves downwards at the end (no sharp upward brow anywhere) but the baby`s brows shoots upwards just like his dad.

The gospel is so gripping.

When you get it, it won’t let you believe in an artificial, photoshopped version of you.

Those who love the gospel will not only find it a message to contend for, but also a message to live by.

We humbly submit to the authority of God’s Word.

Truly getting the gospel means we understand that the gospel is supreme.

The gospel is the message, the text above all texts.

Christians who truly get the gospel discover its power again and again on a daily basis.
They get it in all three areas of text, context, and subtext because the gospel changes everything.

We need to see our lives as God sees them.

David, after he had Uriah`s wife.

Note the process:

King David’s assessment:“do not let this thing be evil in your sight” 2 Samuel 11:25
The Lord’s assessment: “the thing that David had done was evil” 2 Samuel 11:27
King David’s repentance: “I have sinned and done what is evil in your eyes” Psalms 51:3-4

The primary turning point for sinful humanity is to see with our eyes what the Lord sees with His eyes.

Peace is not available in deception.

It is possible to choose whether one will vigorously fight the battle that wages against the flesh or not.

The beauty of God's plan is often apparent only in retrospect, but it's always there.

While God sees the outcome of our story,
We only see the obvious implications for the moment.

God somehow factors human messiness into his best equations.

I, like so many other people, have devotions.
I believe that Jesus Christ is The Son Of God also.

The purpose of this thread is to share uplifting points with you that inspires me during my daily reading/studying.

You are going to be blessed by them, I know

Thank you.

*I use the "biblestudytools dotcom" website and the bullets below are mostly drawn from there except otherwise stated.

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