₦airaland Forum

python1:
Chiamaka just got developed, my people, must we develop everything?

Lyoncrescent:
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, or the gospel of success)[A] is a religious belief among some Christians, who hold that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth.

In the prosperity gospel, also known as the “Word of Faith,” the believer is told to use God, whereas the truth of biblical Christianity is just the opposite—God uses the believer. Word of Faith or prosperity theology sees the Holy Spirit as a power to be put to use for whatever the believer wills. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit enables the believer to do God's will. I have often heard such preachers in Nigeria and beyond saying they cannot be sick, they cannot be poor and all that contradicting the words of Jesus when he told his followers to take up their cross and follow him and to expect suffering and trials. The Prosperity Gospel believes that temporal, material blessings are God's will for those who have enough faith and who give enough money to God the bank accounts of the preachers.

As Paul points out quite plainly, there is a heavy, heavy cost in following Jesus...

"Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches." (2 Cor 11:24-28)

To make heaven is very very very difficult. Jesus died so we may have eternal life. He didn’t die so that we may just become rich. To live a holy and righteous life in Nigeria of today is not easy. It goes beyond altar calls and pastors saying if you are not absolutely sure you will make heaven stand up and let me pray for you, it’s more than that. It’s an arduous journey filled with challenges. It’s good to hear messages that ginger us and sweeten our spirit, the ride on pastor kind of messages. However such messages should be mixed with messages on Sin, righteousness and Holiness which sometimes is lacking in such churches as it may cause sinners in the church to be sober and not come again.
The truth of it all is that the only thing that the devil cannot give is the promise of eternal life as found in John 3:16. I have once heard a Nigerian pastor say that he prayed to God for a church where if people see the car park, they will give their life to Christ. Ladies and Gentlemen, even the car park of Ogboni Cult probably has a better car park. We also have a lot of very wealthy Atheist and Agnostics and Mystics. Today's celebrated testimonies are those that confer some form of financial or material blessings.

Today's pulpits compete with corporate seminar podiums in disseminating an egocentric gospel that elevates human virtues and ability; but is largely silent on the character issues upon which civilisations have foundered. You hear things like I had nothing when I started with this church but now I am rich. Wealth is not true prosperity. True Prosperity is when we finish our journey on earth and take our seat in heaven by living a righteous and holy life. Satan can give riches and all the Glory of this world but cannot give salvation.

Satan knows the bible and knows the needs of men. I refer you to the third temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:8-10): Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’

My people satan was not bluffing. Had Jesus worshipped Satan, All the Kingdoms of the world and their Glory would have been given to him. That’s the reason why this particular temptation was the third attempt not the first. It was like the last joker. So many prosperity preachers have accepted this offer that Jesus rejected thus they are confined to the glory of the world.
I refer you again to an Interview granted by the only child of Pa Elton (a white missionary who lived and died in Ilesha,Osun State and groomed so many of Nigeria’s foremost Pentecostal leaders).


http://www.desireofnationsmission.org.ng/?page_id=82

Can you tell us some of your father’s legacy?

Mama Elton: Daddy had so many legacies, but the most spectacular was towards the end of his life. He began to perceive where the trend would lead to, so his message began to confuse a lot of people. He began to limit the number of invitation he honored and turned down many. He would prefer to preach in a little gathering under a small shed than to honor a major conference that had his name written bodily on the handbill. He began to warn about the spirit of Babylon pervading the church. He emphatically warned against the taking of titles and building of empires. He declared that this would usher in seasons of apostasy for the church, and men would begin to commercialize the gospel. He decried what the American Christianity was turning into, he discouraged the Nigerian church from patterning after it.

I pray the secret things are revealed but I leave you with this; Light and Darkness can never mix. Kenneth Copeland, Mike Murdork, Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes and the late Kenneth Hagin, Look them up and pray and let the Holy Spirit tell you who they are. Whatever your prayer and findings tell you, look for Nigerian churches that are associated with such preachers and have invited them at one point or the other and you can then make your own conclusions. May God bless us and bless his church.

May God help us all.

EastGold:
No evil shall befall you, me my family and your family this ember months in Jesus name.


SAY AMEN

Sexytemi:
I remember him o, he's always acting thief role or a cultist leader or even a assassin leader for the politicians in movies, RIP to him o..

smartty68:
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Rapmoney:
Throwback: 5 Kinds Of Classmates We Had In Primary School

If you attended a Nigerian primary school and you were probably born in the 70's or 80's, then you can relate to these.

1) THE BIG OLD BULLIES: Then is very different from now. Nowadays, some Pry 5 pupils are not even up to 8!!! Back in the days, we had some papas and mamas as classmates. These set of people were usually dull and chronic habitual late-comers. They sat at the back of the class. They were mostly cruel and would beat you up mercilessly for not showing them answers in class or when you refuse to share your food with them. The guys had hairy yam legs and from their voice, you could tell they were full grown adults! Our headmaster no try at all!!! I still wonder why he admitted our ancestors as classmates!

2) THE SMART CRIMINALS: These set of classmates were always having it lavishly during break. They would buy every edible thing sold in the school compound and were always willing to share. You would start wondering where they got the money from! At home, their parents always complained of missing money!!!

3) THE TROUBLE-MAKERS: These set of classmates were always fond of formenting trouble. They would deflate the ball on the play-ground if they didn't chose them in a football game, irrespective of the time they came to the field. They were always combat-ready because they would steal your pencils, pen, ruler, books and convert them to theirs. Ogbeni, you go dey see your name for the ruler korokoro but dem go still tell you say na dem get am! If you pressure dem too much, na fight go end am!!!

4) THE TEACHERS' PETS: These set of classmates were usually loved by the teachers, probably, because they were intelligent. Though, sometimes, e dey be like say partial dey involve for the thing o! They were the good boys and girls. They helped teachers carry their things home and they knew the homes of the teachers because they were regular visitors. These folks always scored high in class.

5) THE WICKED CLASS MONITORS: They would deliberately omit the names of their noise-maker friends and include your name in the noise-makers list! Yes o! You that have been quiet...just because you didn't share your fried fish with them during break! Then, the teacher would come in with the big cane and you would be feeling funky that you have been quiet, only to hear your name being called from the list as a noise-maker. Chai! Efe, the thunder wey go fire your blokos still pem for one corner dey chew groundnut!!!

6) THE BEGGISTS: These classmates could beg beyond begging! They graduated from beggars to beggists because they became experts! They would beg you for every little thing till you start wondering whether they had parents at all. If they meet you enjoying your mango jejeli, they wouldn't mind asking you for the seed! Leave am for dem, na dia work. Dem go shine the seed dry for you.

7) THE Indecency CREW: Thes guys had the job of exchanging Indecency magazines for money; even at such age! They were rotten like decayed fish. These were the type of pupils that would go to the restrooms to draw pictures with chalk depicting sexual acts and write all sort of nasty things on the walls such as T.O.T.O! I am not surprised; many of them graduated to become members of the vaselin crew!

You can add yours abeg

Rapmoney:
Throwback: 5 Kinds Of Classmates We Had In Primary School

If you attended a Nigerian primary school and you were probably born in the 70's or 80's, then you can relate to these.

1) THE BIG OLD BULLIES: Then is very different from now. Nowadays, some Pry 5 pupils are not even up to 8!!! Back in the days, we had some papas and mamas as classmates. These set of people were usually dull and chronic habitual late-comers. They sat at the back of the class. They were mostly cruel and would beat you up mercilessly for not showing them answers in class or when you refuse to share your food with them. The guys had hairy yam legs and from their voice, you could tell they were full grown adults! Our headmaster no try at all!!! I still wonder why he admitted our ancestors as classmates!

2) THE SMART CRIMINALS: These set of classmates were always having it lavishly during break. They would buy every edible thing sold in the school compound and were always willing to share. You would start wondering where they got the money from! At home, their parents always complained of missing money!!!

3) THE TROUBLE-MAKERS: These set of classmates were always fond of formenting trouble. They would deflate the ball on the play-ground if they didn't chose them in a football game, irrespective of the time they came to the field. They were always combat-ready because they would steal your pencils, pen, ruler, books and convert them to theirs. Ogbeni, you go dey see your name for the ruler korokoro but dem go still tell you say na dem get am! If you pressure dem too much, na fight go end am!!!

4) THE TEACHERS' PETS: These set of classmates were usually loved by the teachers, probably, because they were intelligent. Though, sometimes, e dey be like say partial dey involve for the thing o! They were the good boys and girls. They helped teachers carry their things home and they knew the homes of the teachers because they were regular visitors. These folks always scored high in class.

5) THE WICKED CLASS MONITORS: They would deliberately omit the names of their noise-maker friends and include your name in the noise-makers list! Yes o! You that have been quiet...just because you didn't share your fried fish with them during break! Then, the teacher would come in with the big cane and you would be feeling funky that you have been quiet, only to hear your name being called from the list as a noise-maker. Chai! Efe, the thunder wey go fire your blokos still pem for one corner dey chew groundnut!!!

6) THE BEGGISTS: These classmates could beg beyond begging! They graduated from beggars to beggists because they became experts! They would beg you for every little thing till you start wondering whether they had parents at all. If they meet you enjoying your mango jejeli, they wouldn't mind asking you for the seed! Leave am for dem, na dia work. Dem go shine the seed dry for you.

7) THE Indecency CREW: Thes guys had the job of exchanging Indecency magazines for money; even at such age! They were rotten like decayed fish. These were the type of pupils that would go to the restrooms to draw pictures with chalk depicting sexual acts and write all sort of nasty things on the walls such as T.O.T.O! I am not surprised; many of them graduated to become members of the vaselin crew!

You can add yours abeg

softMarket:
Are you Mad??

maureensylvia:
anyone Bros, some call it ohaneze, oghaneze, oraneze depends where u grew up.

of cos am Igbo proudly anambarian married to an imolite

yarimo:
Indigene of ANAMBRA, and the state has Another fraudster called NNAMDI KANU .

Jaideyone:
just a few days osibanjo talked about learning from history but these mor0ns will never listen.

the driving factor in the killing of the ibos prequel to the civil war was the killing of the premier of the north and the taunts that followed by ibos living in the north.

yes hausas have a lot of uneducated street urchins that can become weapons of murder but the ibos are not helping matters either.

if Buhari is 74 (official age maybe 80 real age) and its normal for old people to have health challenges. as a Yoruba man and an advocate of a better Nigeria (true federalism) I believe he did the right thing handing over to the VP but I don't support his decision to seek ,medical care abroad.

yes it's OK to call for his resignation or maybe even impeachment but wishing the man dead and attributing geriatric illness to God's wrath and saying all sort of silly things in just dumb. what do we have to gain by making inflammatory statements about the presidents health and wishing him dead? you might not like his policies but playing politics with someone's life and wishing him dead makes you just as bad as the uneducated Hausa fulanis who are ever willing to kill innocent people.

long story short the ibos are just as guilty in destroying the unity of this country as the Hausa and Yoruba. in fact the ibos are trying harder to pull the country down.
God forbid Buhari dies there will be jubilation in he south east and that will fuel another round of hate and probably killings in the north.

we are the architect of our own misfortunes not the British that brought us together

redbottles:
How did I end up in this country

coolcatty:
The children of the rich will surely continue ruling the children of the poor......this guy will surely get a big post someday just like saraki's son will definitely rule someday in this same country.

Congrats to aham....no hating cos life is turn by turn...no mercy for the resources of this country... Anybody that has opportunity to loot should do so with passion cos there is really no iota of hope for the poor and downtrodden ones in Nigeria.

Ikeg:
I can tell you obviously have no education whatsoever.
The typical ediots that APC hires to make a complete fool of themselves on Social media.
Why the Bleep you think your illiterate government is up and arms trying to rubbish Amnesty International report likewise, finally make the mockery of themselves by setting up a review about IPOB killings in which they declined to do before until AI report came out ediot.

Your government gave them ammunition and they yet again, gave them another ammunition.

1.) Giving a bail that has to depend on others in regards to person, especially considering it is an illogical task consist as UNCONSTITUTIONAL which is yet again a damper in his human right like he accused your government. In addition, denying his coaccuser, who they say committed the same "crime" as him, bail is another act they can use against your government.
IT would have been better for the government to have denied his bail again as oppose to giving him another ammunition against you!!

Go to school, una no gree.
Make a complete buf00n of yourself on social media for pennies as BMC that's what una gree.
A grown man with brain less than that of an infant. I pity whoever the heck that calls you their family. You are a joke

JayJohnson:
Are you referring to your parents?

JayJohnson:
He is crying because he knows cownu can never meet the bail conditions

He is crying because he has seen how stvpid he was asking for bail

Crying because no sensible Jew will stand surety for Kanu

Crying for dilecto because no more runz babe for a long time

Crying when he saw Fayose without any prominent or illustrious Biafrauud man to pay solidarity with dilecto

Igboesika:
Nig Delta oil money at work, that's why @bokis are against restructuring..their hubby is exploitation yet they have nothing to contribute. Parasites!!!

haftob:
What she meant is dat, as an olosho that she is, if u don't bleach, u won't go far in the olosho business

Dripy:
Very good news. Now let the price of red oil, rice, garri, vegetable oil, canned tomatoes, sachet water, toilet roll, fuel and transport fare come down.

The Nigerian populace has really suffered hardship and hyper inflation; shame on all those fake prophets who speak when God has not spoken.

God bless Nigeria and grant more wisdom to our leaders to make Nigeria great again.

Anybody wey this good news no sweet should migrate to rivers Niger or Benue

SuperSuave:

Raped dog?!! Is like you're mad!

Dottore:
Tell me how I am wrong sir. Backup with proofs

Dottore:
Hi an. Hope all the billionaires are sexually pure. And don't come telling me everything is not about money. Bro in this present generation everything is about money o. If I lie ask tithe collecting and private jet flying pastors. A poor man has a poor soul and a poor soul is a dead soul.
If you are poor that means you have been defeated on earth and will most likely be defeated in heaven.
God made beautiful women so that humans will appreciate his efforts and enjoy them.
Read your Bible very well many who were God's friends were sexually active.
Abraham committed adultery, Jacob fvcked two sisters,
David usually chill with the finest virgins fetched from the farthest part of israel whenever he's in depression.
Solomon na Jack hammer.

Jesus best friend was Mary Magdalene whom he had saved from mob action having been caught committing adultery . Rachab was a prostitute but made it to the matrilineal genealogy of Jesus. Even 2 sisters had to Bleep their father sometime in the old testament to keep the generation going.
At a certain time God asked a highly revered and innocent prophet to go and marry a prostitute.
Chai. His ways are not the ways of man.

God never punished any of the above mentioned and many more.

richidinho:
many are mad but few are roaming

attacker321:
The man who beheaded the beautiful lady is TAOFEEK HASSAN.

pansophist:
Misplaced aggression

Only if they beat our politicians that put their life in this mess, Nigeria may be good.

pansophist:
Misplaced aggression

Only if they beat our politicians that put their life in this mess, Nigeria may be good.