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I'm happy to be to be alive even after after surviving a suicide attempt last month. My life has just been empty, I'm broke and no way forward. I'm hoping to teach in private schools when school resumes.

My problem with life is that there's nothing I look forward to in life. I'm happy to be alive but I'll also be happy if I was dead. This affects my motivation.

I'm owing 3 different loan apps money and completely broke, so I'll be grateful for anyone that can help me with anything.

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Thanks very much.

michaelwestern:
My name is Samuel and I'll be undergoing a 40 days water fast starting today.

Water fast means I'll only take water for the whole 40 days.

The prayer requests for the fast

1. Increase in IQ: I'm a graduate but I still have a very low IQ, I can't think or reason at a normal rate. I might be a little above functionally retarded.

2. Spiritual growth: I can speak in tongues but it's been a long time since I prayed or read the Bible. I hope the fast will help

3. Mental stability: I've been depressed and suicidal for at least 12 years now. I was on antidepressants for about 4 years and it helped but I stopped because of the side effects. I hope the fast will help

4. Financial Stability: I'm 33 and still live with my mother with no hope reasonable employment because of my IQ. I'm also like over 60k in debt. I'm hoping the fast will help with that.

I'll appreciate your support and encouragement.

Day one is almost complete but I won't be posting daily updates. I opened this thread for support but all I got was haters.

RealityKings1:
Oh wow congratulations sir

Are you mocking me?

Verydarkhearted:
What support do u want?? This should be a private retreat for you to draw closer to God and not to be posting online updates of your fast and asking for assistance..

Any form of support will be appreciated, financial or otherwise.

I'm making it public for motivation. I'm hoping the daily updates will encourage me to finish the fast.

Nelochukwu:
What support do u really want. U don't have to come here announcing ur fasting and prayer bro. U already failed as God requires we do these things from a place of true repentance and honesty. Go into ur closet shut d door and cry out to ur God.

Wish u all d best

I'll take any kind of support, whether it's money or just words of encouragement. I'm hoping the fast will help with the "true repentance and honesty". My spiritual life has been in shambles for months now.

AbuTwins:
Your Problem is just the lack of money!

Let someone throw 1M into your account like this...na testimony remain.

But na who send you to fast?

Money will not cure depression but I'll appreciate any amount you can send.

judewrites:
Even our Lord Jesus admonished us to keep fasting private not public.

Nothing influences the spiritual realm more powerfully than fasting and that is why we should keep it secret because the devil will fight you from fasting if he gets to know.

I've tried to do it secretly and failed. I'm hoping I can get encouragements and motivation from others that's why I made it public.

Judybash93:
I'm really sorry about your situation bruh! I don't think fasting would help you. I just hope you find the help you need. I wish you the best. Take care. You'll be fine

Thanks, I appreciate it.

PP123:
go to orioke at ede osun state

Funny enough, I live in Ede. I've heard of that Orioke, it's close to Poly Ede right?

If this 40 days fast doesn't work then maybe I'll try it.

Truthseeker10:
What did Jesus tell you in Matthew 6:17, 18 to do when you are fasting?

17But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

I've tried to do it privately and failed, so I'm hoping that doing it like this will work.

PP123:
https://www.nairaland.com/7505312/testimony-all-glory-god-2022

Explain this brr

Everything I wrote there was true at the time and everything I wrote today is also true.

I thought I was free from depression but it came back.

My name is Samuel and I'll be undergoing a 40 days water fast starting today.

Water fast means I'll only take water for the whole 40 days.

The prayer requests for the fast

1. Increase in IQ: I'm a graduate but I still have a very low IQ, I can't think or reason at a normal rate. I might be a little above functionally retarded.

2. Spiritual growth: I can speak in tongues but it's been a long time since I prayed or read the Bible. I hope the fast will help

3. Mental stability: I've been depressed and suicidal for at least 12 years now. I was on antidepressants for about 4 years and it helped but I stopped because of the side effects. I hope the fast will help

4. Financial Stability: I'm 33 and still live with my mother with no hope reasonable employment because of my IQ. I'm also like over 60k in debt. I'm hoping the fast will help with that.

I'll appreciate your support and encouragement.

The problem I have with this case is that how does the owner of a hotel gets the death sentence when he wasn't even there?

I understand that his son who was the manager was involved and has ran away. But instead of looking for him they just decided to put it all on the father? It's a very strange case.

Vinod007:
You are getting the meaning of equality and diversity wrong. What Trump is promoting is the opposite of equality and diversity. He is saying there should no longer be equality in employment opportunities and that it is no longer compulsory that diverse group from different colour and culture are given opportunities for employment.

Wrong, there will still be equal opportunities. But employers will no longer be forced to hire minorities to meet a quota.

cococandy:
No. He abolished the law that prevents employers from looking at you and saying they won’t hire you because you’re a woman. Or black. Or some other thing they don’t like.

Nairalnders are really something else.

That's what's called the free market. Employers should be able to hire or not hire you for whatever reasons they want. Forcing employers to hire women and blacks to meet a quota leads to incompetence. If you're really good, the best companies will hire you if they want to make profit.

chopnaira:
Yup.
Now, an employer can decide to hire only white people, and he would be well within his rights. Even if those white people are not very bright. Lol.

And a black employer can also do the same. People should not be forced to hire minorities. It's like saying every business in Nigeria must have a quota of Yorubas, Hausas and Igbos. It doesn't make any sense.

bosundaniel:
He basically said one thing during his inaugural speech and went back to do the complete opposite by signing this shitty order.
Thought he said his government is "color blind" and everything is gonna be based on merit.
I just dunno for these people.

That's exactly what he did. There's no longer a quota of minority that you must employ. It's now a level playing field. Employers can now employ the most qualified without considering race, gender or sexuality.

AMI3:
This help to improve the economy very well because capable hands will be that opportunity to do what they know how to do best without discrimination.
To me it is a nice policy

Exactly, why should there be a quota of minorities and women that you must employ. Employers should be able to employ whoever they want.

drips8:
He's basically giving employers the right to discriminate based on race, gender and sexuality.

As is their right. You should be able to employ anyone you want and not forced to employ blacks or women.

thesicilian:
That is what most people don't seem to understand.
There is no true love that is unconditional.
[May God forgive me if I'm blaspheming] Even the love that God has for us will one day end if we reject salvation.

God's own is different, He never stops loving man. He might still send you to hell though if you reject him. But that's because he won't force you to choose him but he will respect your choice.

MaxInDHouse:
OK so those you're arguing with on the other thread have become Christians already but it's their WORKS that's leading you and them into arguments, right?




Perhaps they agree that Jesus is also God, won't that be enough?

1Timothy 6:4; Titus 3:9

I'm really sad and worried about your situation. It's just like Muslims who also think they're serving God but they're worshipping the devil indirectly.

MaxInDHouse:
I have heard you!
So now that most people have agreed with you on that do you still need arguing with such ones again?

This is an opportunity for you to enter into relationship with God. I'm not not talking about religion or doctrine. You can have a personal relationship with God and it's through Jesus Christ.

NNTR:
I'll let slide that the word homosexuality is a modern day English word invention, but doest diminish the fact that, your post is laughable because when you, in a blanket manner, say that 'Homosexuality is a sin' it is just like, if someone too, will stand up to say, 'Heterosexulism is a sin' will be laughed at.

Please, instead of referencing scripture in isolation and quoting it out of context, why not within the hour, take time to read and study the whole Romans Chapter 1. Go through Romans Chapter 1 contextually please, so to find out the twist included that's highlighted, in Romans 1:26-27

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Haha the context is very clear. Please meditate on the whole chapter of Romans 1. And you won't have any question on homosexuality being a sin.

MaxInDHouse:
Instead of arguing with them over tenets why not ask for the CORE BELIEFS that's FUNDAMENTAL as you called it?



Perhaps they agree that Jesus is also God, won't that be enough?

I'm afraid for you my brother you think you're on the right way but you're inside the bush.

Without believing that Jesus Christ is son of God and also God, you can't be a Christian and you're going to live forever in hell fire.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John1:14

MaxInDHouse:
Good!

So since you've known many things about JWs through the WORKS of our FAITH which is zealous preaching and industrious teaching let those having such beliefs also go out there and prove their FAITH by WORKS! James 2:18-26

Forget about "works of faith" without being a Christian it's meaningless.

First become a Christian then you can worry about works of faith.

Razoul:
Just download a pdf file on the internet

As in, I can't remember the last time I read hard copy.

Good points

HellVictorinho6:
Can we always agree on what an abnormal behavior is?

It's difficult with psychology but the Bible is very clear

NNTR:
Even if it were to be curtailed, it still will vague

Of course, homosexuality in dedicated faithful and affectionate committed relationship between two consenting adults is only not a sin, but also is not wicked, is not evil, is not harming children, is not harming animals and is not harming the environment

Adultery or fornication cuts across each sexual orientation. The way adjustments are in made is to stay far away from promiscuity, e.g. no jumping from one bed to another, be faithful, be loyal, run from philandering et cetera

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Homosexuality is a sin

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Romans :26-27

HellVictorinho6:
No.

It's a matter of behavior.

Observable can also mean behavioural.

My reply was to the guy comparing homosexuality to physical deformities.

There are abnormal behaviours too but all this classifications are subjective. I just go with the Bible. And the Bible clearly describes homosexuality as a sexual perversion and sin.

Smoking is not a sin, it's a bad habit though same as drinking.

I agree with your other points, smoking is harmful to the body.

MaxInDHouse:
That's what most people often concludes instead of listening and meditating thoroughly!

Most of our doctrinal disagreements can be overlooked, your beliefs about Jesus Christ unfortunately cannot.

Believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is also God is fundamental to becoming a Christian.