*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Friday 22nd January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` God does not love because He wants to love or decides to love. God loves because love is His nature. You can’t separate God from love, because “God is love” (1 John 4:8,16).

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Father, help me to focus so much on Your love until it becomes my standard of expressing this same love to other humans.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Thursday 21st January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` As we go through the process/journey of becoming love, we must keep our mind on God’s nature and expression of love as our SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). Hebrews 12:2

*Notes/Prayers:* Father, no matter what is the opinion of others, help me to focus on You as my standard of love. Help me to love just like You did.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Wednesday 20th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` Agape -the actual word for love used in the bible (NT) is deliberate, intentional and something that we humans can’t achieve except we receive “the power to become the sons of God.”

*Notes/Prayers:* Father in the name of Jesus, I receive the power to become love just like You are love. Help me to stay committed to this process of becoming love just like You.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Tuesday 19th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` God did not leave us without a clue in His call for us to BECOME! God does not want anything less from us than to become an exact replica of Himself in all ramifications.
II Corinthians 3:18

*Notes/Prayers:* We need to prioritize spending time in God’s presence, it will help us become His replica. Father, help me give my time with You the topmost priority.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Monday 18th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` Accomplishing and acquiring great things in 2021 are all resultant effect of who we become. Then why are we so focused on the “resultant effects” at the expense of the “real deal”? John 1:12

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Father, as I go through this year, help me not to get carried away by my desire to “accomplish & acquire” help me to focus on becoming who You want me to be.

Becoming Love – The Standard

One of the truths that God is calling us to focus on in 2021 is to put more attention into who we become as we go through the year instead of putting all our attention on what we want to accomplish and acquire.
In John 1:12, the bible did not say - But as many as received him, to them gave he power to heal the sick, raise the dead, perform miracles, accomplish and acquire great things in
2021, etc ….but the bible says “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God.”
Healing the sick, performing miracles, accomplishing and acquiring great things in
2021 are all resultant effect of becoming - the sons of God. Then why are we so focused on the “effects” at the expense of the “real deal”?
This process of ‘becoming’ will eventually get the right foundation for us to accomplish or acquire according to God’s purpose and design for us in 2021.
God did not leave us without a clue in his call for us to BECOME!
From one of the references we looked at last week from II Corinthians 3:18 “ … beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another…”
God does not want anything less from us than to become an exact replica of him in all ramifications.
One of the ramifications of “Becoming” that God expect us to pay attention to is in his nature of love.
The word “love” has become so misunderstood and misinterpreted. We throw the word love around to mean almost anything. I love my
wife, I love my books, I love travelling, I love pizza, I love my kids, I love my parents, and I love all of you. I love each of those things in different ways, but I describe my feelings with one word – Love.
The best way to get back to the meaning of a word or expression is to go back to it’s origin.
In the Greek language, different words are used to convey love for different things.
First there is Eros, which is a sensual &romantic
love. Second form of love was Philio -the feeling we have for those nearest and dearest to us. This is friendship. This is why Philadelphia is called the city of brotherly love. Then there is
Storge, and this is affection, what you feel for your parents or children –the family. Ultimately we have Agape -the actual word for love used in the New Testament. It is much more an act of the will than an act of the emotions. It is a choice we make. This is why Jesus can tell us to love our enemies. It is deliberate, intentional
and something that we humans can’t achieve except we receive “the power to become the sons of God” or “being transformed into the same image” or nature of God.

This invariably means as we go through the process/journey of becoming love, we must keep our mind on God’s nature and expression
of love as our SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
The most memorized verse in the Bible established one of the most beneficial expressions of God’s love to humanity: “For God so loved the world . . .” (John 3:16).

Love is God’s nature. An intrinsic component of God’s nature, personality, characteristic and disposition is love.
God does not love because He wants to love or decides to love. God loves because love is His nature. You can’t separate God from love,
because “God is love” (1 John 4:8,16).
God does not just love, it is the fundamental essence of who HE is.
God does not love anyone because that person has earned His love or because of the person’s goodness. Conversely God does not hate
anyone no matter what they have done because it is not His nature to hate. God cannot hate! He loves recklessly - without counting
cost. The love of God is unconditional, unmerited, total, perfect and complete. It is free. God does not demand any price from man for
His love. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Romans 5:8 (NLT).

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 further reminds us and creates the picture of the Standard of Becoming Love: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does
not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres”.
All these begin to show and establish the standard for us as we go through the process/journey of Becoming Love.

Without the process/journey of “Becoming Love” in 2021and for the rest of our life, we would not be ready to step into the fullness of what God has for us to accomplish and acquire. God’s
love remains the standard for us.

Take out time throughout this week to marinate over God’s love for you.

Hey FAM,
I trust our year is going well.

We believe that in this year, God is more interested in our drawing closer to Him and becoming like Him than our acquisitions and accomplishments because those are just additions not the real deal.

We will appreciate that you join us as we journey in this series.

Stay tuned.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Saturday 16th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` Without the process/journey of “Becoming” who God wants us to be in 2021, we would not be ready to step into the fullness of what God has for us to accomplish and acquire. Romans 12:2

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Father, help me to always take delight in the process/journey of “Becoming” who You want me to be in 2021.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Thursday 14th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` God is interested not only in our final destination but also in the process/journey, because on that journey He does a work in our lives that has eternal value. Phil.1:6

*Notes/Prayers:* Going through occurrences in life may call for more answers than we get. Father, help me to know that You are always at work in me.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Tuesday 12th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` It is important to note that before the Lord calls us to “accomplish and acquire” He calls us to “be", spending time with Him to get transformed into becoming who He wants us to be. Mark 3:14

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Father, help me to shun the distraction that will take me away from spending time with You this year. Help me give my time with You the topmost priority.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Monday 11th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` God is calling us to put more attention into who we become as we go through 2021 instead of putting all our attention on what we want to accomplish and acquire.

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Father, as I go through this year, help me not to get carried away by my desire to “accomplish & acquire” help me to focus on becoming who you want me to be.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Thursday 7th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` Set realistic goals. Plan out how to achieve them. Start carrying out your plans.

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Lord, help me to achieve my set goals for this year.

*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Wednesday 6th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` This year, let God’s wisdom be the compass and force that drives your plans and pursuits. James 3:17

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Lord, let Your wisdom be effectual in me guiding my every step and informing my every decision.
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*Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Monday 4th January, 2021.*

```Focus/Reflection:``` In 2021, decide to be more intentional in your relationship with God, marriage/relationship, finances, career, business, etc.
Philippians 3:12-14.

*Notes/Prayers:* Dear Father, help me to always show practical commitment, focus and attention in the direction of my 2021 desires in all aspect of my life.

Happy New Year people. It's a beautiful new beginning. We trust God for a rewarding year ahead.

sreamsense:


I should stop personalizing but you are quoting one person here. I have told you to come out with your own practical example and stop talking theory. Why is it that only people you see and have as friends are the one talking negatively about CU? Show me your friend and I will know whom you are! Like you, like your friend! You have lots of people with positive testimonies more than negative ones, yet only negative friends move with you.

Is something not questionable about your character? Anyway, to avoid being punished or what appear to you as curse, do one thing. Obey! Don't teach them what they should do or not, rather, adjust to their systems or tell your parents to change your school to non-desplineary schools . If you want to leave in Rome, learn to obey Roman laws and regulations, and don't expect Roman to change their laws to suit you.

It's not about CU but more about the excessive and extreme disciplinary methods.

I am not a student anymore and that has been for many many years now. Also, I do not at the moment know anyone in CU. I read the reports here and made my comments based on them and I indicated that.

However, since you're just so fast to throw insults, you do not calm down to read. What does that say about you? What do these your comments prove about your personality?

Sometimes, even countries change their laws. It is a form of development. Apply that to your Rome statements.

No more comments from here. Peace

sreamsense:


You should have shown us practical examples of ways you have used personally on how to descipline students and not just talking theory here. Talking is cheap, everybody can talk. Show us practical example of how successfully you have trained your children morally first for better society before you talk of another children here. If you want to leave in "Rome", you must learn how to obey Roman laws and regulations.

You will not teach Roman how to adjust their laws to favor you because they never forced you to leave with them. Private schools can take any law to be 'Capital punishement'; going to CU, you know you are going to church's owned school, not going with your Bible to chapel (as you do carelessly at home in the presence of your parents when going to churches) will never be tolerated.

They can decide to make it their capital punishement', you will not be the one to dictate to them not to make it capital punishement'. Their laws were read to your ears when you entered if you can not abide, leave, they never forced you. Go to where they allow it if that is your problem, CU is a church based, it can not compromise standard because you want what you called freedom.

Why do you have to disobey the same laws that many others in your class abide by? It means you have problem and if it is not corrected on time, it may become a disaster for you. Imagine somebody stealing N10 pure water instead of begging the owner, CU is trying to correct the person the assignment his/her family members failed to teach him; they are here ranting is wickedness because of N10 pure water.

The day he/she steals the same N10 pure water in public, he may be meted with jungle Justice that may lead to his/her death. Problem is not weather CU expel you because of pure water, the problem is why did you have to steal what doesn't belong to you irrespective of weather it is small or not?

Learn to address issues raised. Stop personalizing issues.

With the above, I wonder what would have been your reactions if you were in the place of Jesus when they brought the adulterous woman, encounter with the Samaritan woman or even with Peter that denied Him.

If Jesus were to always issue 'capital punishment' for our sins, how many would be left standing?

Now concerning the theft of sachet water, as much as I agree that stealing is outrightly wrong, how does laying curses help the student become better in the society?

It's a problem when you forcefully try to change people from without. Jesus worked on transformation from within. It is more effective and lasts.

The foundation for every Christian institution should be love even in discipline. Consider the secondary schools established by missionaries in the late 50's and early 60's, they were disciplined but they loved the students. Go and ask those who attended those schools at the time. The discipline was at par with the offense.

I read above where a former student stated that some of them committed suicide due to the excessive discipline. Oh! How sad. This is part of the mental health effect I mentioned earlier. Some others do not go to this extent but suffer in other ways.

I understand that his intention may be good but these extreme methods of discipline is clearly not working. Since you're a spokesman for the organization here, I'll advise that you relay these and get experts in human behaviour and engage the Jesus principles to draft laws that will indeed be effective to a larger number rather than a few who are just obeying out of fear of having the sledge hammer on the head.

May the Lord help us all.

sreamsense:
The problem with contemporary young generation is that many of you were born into your families when morality vacated your family homes. Being strict is different from being wicked, he is discipling you as his own children so your future can be better, you are here ranting he is wicked.

Many of you just like places you will not be tamed so that you can do whatever you want like forming cult groups on campus, turning campus to Olosho house. If he is not strict and people still allow to do whatever they like, these spoilt rats will still come back here to complain and cast aspersions if any bad thing goes wrong with the school. Go to Catholic schools and see descipline, you these spoilt rats.

Your fathers get money, but lack morality, so when your fathers finally dumb you into CU as correctional center, you begin to misunderstand 'strictness' to ' wickedness' because your fathers failed to even show you '101' of moralities before you left for school because your families lack moralities in the first place. If you like to become wayward and hates descipline, no need of going there, go to federal and state universities and do what you like. Judas Iscariots!

Somebody is sweating to make you great, you call it wickedness! Spoilt rats! Go to volatile areas in North and ask for the meaning of wickedness!

I beg to disagree with you. There's a way you discipline students, especially those in higher institution that will make them submit to instructions not by being forceful.

Place yourself in the shoes of the parents of students who were expelled because they didn't show up with their Bibles ( according to the above). How would you feel? That may have been part of the rules but couldn't there be other disciplinary action instead of expulsion? Was it explicitly stated in the rules that a student would be expelled for not going to the chapel with a Bible?

You're being overly insultive here in a bid to defend him. You even went as far as insulting their parents as lacking morality. That's so out of line Bro. He might have good intentions but his actions, if true, were clearly excessive.
Even Jesus who shed His blood doesn't act like that if not we all would have been Christians by now though in a zombie manner.

You clearly do not understand how mentally damaging these actions are even if done by a parent.

Some of these students would never want to hear anything about Jesus again. That is not what Jesus would want. He wants men drawn to Him with love not away from Him.

I know no one is perfect and he may genuinely believe that he could get them to Christ like that but from these 'call-outs', did it work that way?

May the Lord help us all as Christians to represent Him in love at all times as He did for us. It may seem difficult with teenagers especially but we receive wisdom.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Saturday, 5th September, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Jesus is the King who sits enthroned beside the majesty of God. (Hebrews 1:3)

Notes/Prayers: Lord Jesus, I acknowledge Your majesty. Today, I declare You reign over every situations of my life.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Friday, 4th September, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Jesus is pure and all the attributes of Jesus is transferred to us. It is ultimately about God’s presence as we can’t be Christians and go through life without the presence of God.

Notes/Prayers: Lord, I thank You for making me a part of Your kingdom by grace. Dear Lord, please help us always be in Your presence in all our daily dealings

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Thursday, 3rd September, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Having a high and lofty view of God should be the core value of all Christians. The higher and greater we see God, the lesser we will be impressed with ourselves.

Notes/Prayers: Dear Lord, help us to be more mindful of You. Help us to see more of You so we can be spurred to worship You the more.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Wednesday, 2nd September, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: We know that Jesus is the great High Priest who accomplished purification for our sins. (Hebrews 1:3). Our purification is based on Jesus, the ultimate sacrificial lamb.

Notes/Prayers: Father, we thank You for the sacrifices of Your Son - Jesus Christ who by His blood made us pure and acceptable to You.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Tuesday, 1st September, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Jesus is the totality of everything that was communicated in the scriptures Jn 5:39. Jesus is the key that unlocks the understanding of the Bible.

Notes/Prayers: Dear Lord, we thank you for the gift of Jesus Christ. Help me to study the word of God daily by the help of the Holy Spirit.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Monday, 31st August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Jesus is the prophet who proclaimed God’s truth. (Hebrews 1:1-2 CSB Mark 1:14-15). Jesus is the ultimate prophet in humanity.

Notes/Prayers: Dear Father, help me to always please God and meet up with all that You require of me. Teach me to always please You Lord.

Back To School - Episode 1 - We Follow the Son

Our new series BACK TO SCHOOL goes beyond the anticipation to get schools to reopen and get academic work to continue as we still try to find our feet and the next step to take in the middle of this pandemic. This is God calling us to get back to school…get back to the basics and reminds us who Jesus is and why He is worth following. This series will take us through the book of Hebrew which was written to a group of Jewish Christians who were experiencing persecution. The struggle was so intense that many were thinking of abandoning Christianity to go back to the way things used to be. The author, however, urges them to continue in the faith. He wants them to go back to school and we are also inviting you to go Back to School with us as we recall the basics of our faith and why we follow the Son in this new series. This series is produced by our TC521 Community.

In tough times, we will hear the call that beckons us to go back to our old way of life.

Why Should We Follow the Son? Because:
1) Jesus is the One who proclaimed God’s truth. (Hebrews 1:1-2 CSB Mark 1:14-15). Jesus is the ultimate prophet in humanity. He not only tells us what God says, He also shows us what God requires us to do. Even when we couldn’t meet up to those requirements, He goes on to do that which is required of us. We are required to love sufficiently and absolutely, 100% of the time. But we cannot do it, so Jesus did it for us and His active obedience was attributed to us; that is called grace.
Jesus is the totality of everything that was communicated in the scriptures Jn 5:39. Jesus is the key that unlocks the understanding of the bible. He lives and demonstrates God’s truth Mark 1:14-15.

2) Jesus is the great High Priest who accomplished purification for our sins. (Hebrews 1:3).
Having a high and lofty view of God should be the core value of all Christians. The higher and greater we see God, the lesser we will be impressed with ourselves. That will in turn move us to desire to worship Him. Jesus is the definition and embodiment of who God is. Jesus sustains all things by His powerful word.
In the old testament, purification was based on the sacrifice of an unblemished lamb but in the new testament, purification is based on Jesus, the ultimate sacrificial lamb. Not only is He the sacrificial lamb that makes us clean, He is the high priest who went into the holy of holies with no sin to appear in the presence of God and we become purified because Jesus is pure and all the attributes of Jesus is transferred to us. It is ultimately about God’s presence as we can’t be Christians and go through life without the presence of God. So God has purified us through the blood of Jesus so we can always experience God’s presence.

- Forgiveness of sins means:
We are on a new exodus to the New Heavens and New Earth.
Because Jesus is the new Passover, the new high priest, the new temple. We are a new people of the new exodus; we are on a new journey.
We are enrolled in Jesus’ school of discipleship. (Luke 6:40)
It means we are learners and students. Luke 6:40. So we will be purified.

3) Jesus is the King who sits enthroned beside the majesty of God. (Hebrews 1:3)
Jesus is the prophet, the high priest and king. We have come to trust this by the sacrifices He has made for us.

Hi people, we appreciate that you follow this monica. We hope you have been greatly enlightened and impacted by us.

Join us on another interesting series 'Back To School' as we explore the book of Hebrews. It's gonna be lit as we go #BackToSchool.

We are connecting with Transformation Church NC for this series.

Do join us.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Saturday, 22nd August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Our God is a God of all, that is why He promised to send His spirit out on all to those who believe. Male and Female, we are all heirs

Notes/Prayers: Thank you Lord for making me a joint heir with Christ. Help me to highly esteem coheirs in Christ regardless of gender.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Friday, 21st August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Read daily the word of God and listen to it.

Notes/Prayers: Spirit of God, You are our great teacher. Please, help me to understand Your word as I study. Please, inspire my thoughts and interpretations of the word.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Thursday, 20th August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Our work is a worship to God. The way we live our life, do our work and relate with others should reflect the Excellency of God

Notes/Prayers: Dear Lord, help me to live a life of worship to You, not excluding my job and business. Help me to know that every aspect of my life should bring glory to You.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Wednesday, 19th August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: No matter the social status, gender or colour, the blood of Jesus makes everyone equal.

Notes/Prayers: Spirit of God please impact in me the grace to treat people equally, showing no favouritism to anyone.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Tuesday, 18th August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: Slave or free, Jesus bled for them all. Treat people like Jesus would treat them, because they are worth the sufferings of Jesus and His passion.


Notes/Prayers: Dear Lord, please give me the grace to share Your passion in treating people right and with love.

Focus for Daily Personal Reflections/Devotion for Monday, 17th August, 2020.

Focus/Reflection: We have all been called to worship God whose name is LOVE.


Notes/Prayers: Dear Father, please help me to trust in Your faithfulness and Your love, also help me to reciprocate this love to everyone around me.