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Lifestone:
Our leaders must be ready to be accountable to the people. If you can't stand the heat, what are you doing in the kitchen?

Accountability to politicians is like crucifix to vampires.

OneGeek:
Odd, but the iPhone makes me more intentional about using my phone. It also helps me achieve a much lower and healthier screen time.

I used to be a heavy phone user, since I use my phone for work. In a week, I routinely hit 13hrs screen on time, and when I get into the breakdown, only 4 of that is useful work.

That's 9 hours of endless scourge of social media, games and videos. Android barely has any limits, and makes me indulge in anything I want.

One time I was playing a game title, but couldn't get past a certain level. Deleting the app and getting the mod took a total of 3 minutes. I was blitzing through the level with unlimited gold and coins. Android was that unhinged for me.

Now, I'm more thoughtful with each app launch, each opened video and social media chats. I had to stop using my phone for work, and I wasn't playing as much games.

Now I average about 5 hours SOT (by choice) and it feels good

Android has a feature, Digital Wellbeing, that can help keep track of and limit screen on time. It could have helped you.

FxMasterz:
No we're talking about the power of God and the vagaries of life in relation to the Christian faith. You can only use statistics from within that circle except you want to say that the church is responsible for everything that happens in the world.

The vagaries of life affect everyone including those in the church. All you need to do is provide verifiable statistics of those millions in church who have been healed of brain cancer let's compare it to the general population to see if there is a difference in the rate of survival of brain cancer patients amongst the church population versus the general population. You are free to limit your statistics to church attendees.

FxMasterz:
So, provide your statistics. And please be aware that the statistics must only include those who died from brain cancer in Churches.

I never limited myself to churches. Look at my posts concerning this did I write anything about churches?

FxMasterz:
You have the statistics, so show us the stats with verifiable sources.

I have statistics from verifiable sources for those who have died from brain cancer, you provide statistics of those who have been healed from brain cancer by your spiritual methods with verifiable sources, let's compare.

Jackanda1:
I might not understand your decision, but i understand an atheists mindset very clearly.

I was an atheist, i know about the supposed contradictions or irrational stories in the bible, the problem of evil and unanswered prayers including all the pro atheistic arguments.

I have followed and listened and read the ideas of several popular and well informed atheist for years. If i show you some of the posts i made as an atheist, you'd be shocked that i'm the same person. For me to be preaching today shows that something serious happened to me.

Accepting God, Jesus and the bible has a lot to do with humility and becomng like a child.

Hardening your heart, hating and turning against God or disbelievng the supernatural would not change anythng, rather it puts you at a disadvantaged position.

Like me, you can make a u-turn, but your heart won't change except you want it.

That's the point! There isn't an external force doing anything! Thanks for making my point for me. LoLz.

FxMasterz:
It looks like that to you as an outsider. If you don't know what happened internally to those few people you mentioned, you can't generalise. You failed to talk about the millions of others whose cases are different from those few you mentioned.

LoLz. Which millions of others? How many million people have gotten healed of brain cancer vs the millions that have died from it? Let's start with that one.

FxMasterz:
I don't know all the other people you mentioned up there. I know only Idahosa. Please, we do not regard TB Joshua as a true servant of God.

Idahosa was warned about his pride. When God was to take him away, He sent him messages upon messages through the wife of his spiritual father but he didn't listen.

Idahosa walked in the power of God but for his pride, God took him away. Actually, when a child of God begins to err, God lovingly calls him home so that he wouldn't end up a candidate of hell.

While many believers suffer for lack of knowledge, pride is another weapon Satan uses against those who walk in the anointing.

LoLz. SMH. Look up Pastor Ina Omakwu and Family Worship Centre it's all on the internet.

I know you interpret everything in terms of the god and the devil but you just show that there really is no difference between Christians or any other group of people when it comes to the vagaries of life. No matter how much you pray away the demons.

FxMasterz:
First you need to understand that the Spiritual things answer to spiritual principles.

Power comes by association with God. Praying, studying the word and fasting. That's all. Anyone can have the power of God.

But applying the power answers to principles. These principles are knowledge based. Without knowledge, you could destroy yourself. I think that happened to one Silas whose posts I read here a few days ago.

Knowledge is what strikes the balance. God's word says '"My people perish for lack of knowledge."

Knowledge is more important than power, but people seek power without seeking knowledge and so the power is of little use to them.

LoLz. My uncle was a pastor. These are the very things he used to teach. Same thing with Tb Joshua. Even Archbishop Benson Idahosa. No one is immune to the vagaries of life. If you like call it demons or destruction, the fact remains that nobody is immune. I can show you videos of Pastor Ina Omakwu preaching these very things but guess what he died of brain cancer. Sir, nobody is immune.

Jackanda1:
In your post you said that GOD doesn't show up when the chips are down. I suppose this is what fueled your transition to atheism.

Imagine a child denouncing and fighting his father just because he didn't meet a particular need he asked for.

What sort of child would that be??

Kindly point where I gave that as the reason I stopped believing.

Voice22:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mh6QCLaOYQ
Lady laments as flood takes over her street where she pays N4 million a year as rent.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrkgbPJAt83/

What is your N4million rent got to do with the state of the road? Are you paying the rent to the government?

OLAADEGBU:
It depends on what standard you are using to see it.

I guess but to me it's a waste of time and energy to be so concerned.

OLAADEGBU:
What is the dumb thing?

In this case, getting overworth over what someone does with bits and pieces of personal property.

Jackanda1:
So you left the faith because God didn't save your uncle from dead?

I stopped believing 14years after my uncle's death so no I didn't stop believing because of it.

OLAADEGBU:
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Right so Jesus is going to raise the 3 children from the dead back to their parents? Or he just wants mass shootings to continue anyway?

OLAADEGBU:
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Yahweh the atheist. LoLz.

FxMasterz:
Demons are spirit beings. Physical eyes can't see or touch spirits. The earlier you know this, the better.

When a demon is talking through a person, he first identifies himself by many physical changes in the person's comportment.

A woman would sometimes speak with a very deep voice of a man.

A supposedly gentle and god-fearing woman would begin to be extraordinarily violent and blaspheme the way you guys do. She begins to speak about unseen things. She could tell you she's 4,000yrs old, and begin telling you histories of thousands of years ago. Your ears would hear weird things.

After all that is done and the demon is cast out, the woman comes back to herself without realizing what happened. She can't remember saying any of those weird things. She won't even remember turning violent. She might pick herself up from the floor and be wondering why she was on the floor.

I had an experience with a woman possessed of water spirits in 2017. It's one of the most tragic demonic manifestations I've ever seen. I myself was afraid for the woman during the prayers. Her chest was expanding and contracting like a balloon as I prayed. She didn't talk weird though, just pleading that I shouldn't cast her out because the woman has a covenant with her.

I've seen so much since I started walking with God.

Back when I was still a Christian I had an uncle who used to talk like you are here. He evetually became a pastor after graduating from university and a brief career in the public sector. He used to regal me with these kinds of stories back in the day. He was so into it that he refused to say fork in the normal manner, he'd say ferk instead, didn't what to be contaminated he said. He got married and had a son. While the boy was still a toddler my uncle took ill and died. His demon casting skills nor any of his fellow pastors could not save him. At the time of course it didn't occur to be that all of this is not particularly useful, in fact I strongly believed at that time that the god can heal and all that jazz. Fast forward to today and reading your stories just makes me remember and I ask myself what is the point of all these when it cannot alter the real world or affect things when the chips are down. You claim you have all these power yet your fellow Christians suffer and die just like any other person, of what use is this your power? WHat are you seeing that is so special that doesn't still make any of you rise above the vagaries of life?

FxMasterz:
Oh, sorry about that? What was the question again? I probably missed the question.

FxMasterz:
I wasn't saved to see demons. So, seeing demons is not the issue as far as knowing God is concerned.

I've had the chance to pray for people and hear demons speak through them. I've seen women take on superhuman strengths during prayers so much so that one woman wouldn't be subdued by four men holding her down. I've seen so much more.

But most importantly, I've met Jesus, He's more real to me than this couch I'm sitting on.

So it's your understanding that speech of a particular manner or needing many people to subdue you is a sign of demonic possession? I say this because you are not indicating that you use your eyes to see a demon so the see you mean is understanding. Or what exactly do you mean by see as you are using it here?

FxMasterz:
This is the problem:

I see what you don't see, and I try to understand you knowing fully well that there's spiritual blindness as there's physical.

In your case, you conclude that nobody sees just because you can't see. Is that not an error? You'll even be aggressive about it, wanting the person who sees to unsee what he has seen just because you can't see. May God heal your soul.

How does this answer the question? I asked a pointed question and instead of explaining yourself, you are ranting about aggression nobody but you has displayed so far.

OLAADEGBU:
Do you believe that you exist? God does not believe in atheists.

That's funny because the god is also an atheist since he doesn't believe in any god. LMAO!

OLAADEGBU:
God's Word gives perspective and real hope!

by Dan Lietha - Cartoonist/Illustrator

Real hope that's why a person can shoot up a Christian school just the same way as a non Christian school because of real hope. LoLz.

FxMasterz:
That's the same response a blind man would give you when you talk to him about the man which he can never see or feel.

You can't see what I see become u have sights while you lack it. May God heal your soul.

LoLz. So you can see the demons or you just saying what you think you understand?

OLAADEGBU:
The grandson of Charles Stanley has garnered backlash after selling some of his grandfather’s personal items online less than two weeks after the pastor's death.

Sometimes we give meaning to some rather dumb things sha.

FxMasterz:
Most atheist don't know they're demon possessed.

I thank God for your recovery. Welcome back home. May the Lord sustain you to the end.

Please there's something I want you to shed more light on.

I've met Atheists who speak very arrogantly and go to extreme lengths to speak blasphemously against God. All Atheists do it but there are some who go to the extreme. Here on Nairaland, a guy called maynman fits this descriprion. Can you please tell me what makes them do so? Is it because they resent God that much? Is it a demon operating through them? Is it because they've totally convinced themselves that there's no God?
It baffles me so much. Whatt exactly went wrong in their lives? Thanks for the answers in advance.

LoLz. Of course you think it's demonic possession because you cannot fathom that someone can exist without revering your god concept. What is blasphemous in pointing out the origins of the god concept you believe in? What is blasphemous in pointing out that your conception of god is an amalgamation of many ideas that have brewed over a long period of time and so cannot represent any form of accuracy or "truth"?

For ages people like you have always been suspicious of any kind of inquiry into anything you deem divine so it's not really a surprise.

kpakpakpa:
No. I don't even know the meaning of that

I wouldn't trust those ENT specialists if none of them recommended a MRI. MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, it's used to image the body in more detail than xray or CT scans. A competent ENT should have referred you for that so they can know if your predicament is caused by something in the brain or nerves to the ears and see what can be further recommended by way of treatment.

kpakpakpa:
Yes.

Not even one, i visit like 4 of them since the problem started

Did anyone of them ask you to do an MRI?

Adaibeku:
mumu 1

That must be the name you are known by. LoLz.

1stGenAmerican:
Lauren fell off when she went to prison for tax evasion.

Nah, she fell off in 2000, tax evasion issues were much latter.

sukkot:
white people never get arrested for it

LoLz after showing you 2 different WHITE people who went to jail for it you still here forming blind. Bwahahahahahaha!

Jackanda1:
I want you to google 'Todd White testimony' and ensure to watch and listen to it on youtube. Todd White is a former atheist whose testimony i believe would bless you.

Look up how former pastor, Dan Barker became an atheist, it will do you some good.

jaephoenix:
Same as me. It amuses me when I wake up and hear such tales from theists casting and binding non existent demons

The funny thing is the same thing would happen when they didn't bind and cast so what is the purpose?