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a 5 digit number called me and i picked it, it was just singing one yeye music so i dropped it. I checked my balance only to see that MTN have subtracted N50

As for message from those 5040, 5900, 4021 etc etc etc, before i could finish typing this I have already received one

Its not funny at all

Stranger news everyday

WE MUST BE HOLY.


READER,
We must he holy on earth before we die, if we desire to go to heaven after death. If we hope to dwell with God for ever in the life to come, we must endeavour to be like Him in the life that now is. We must not only admire holiness, and wish for holiness: we must be holy.
Holiness cannot justify and save us: holiness cannot cover our iniquities, make satisfaction for transgressions, pay our debts to God. Our best works are no better than filthy rags, when tried by the light of God's law. The righteousness which Jesus Christ brought in must be our only confidence,—the blood of atonement our only hope. All this is perfectly true, and yet we must be holy.
We must be holy, because God in the Bible plainly commands it. "As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy" (1 Peter 1: 15, 16).
We must be holy, because this is one great end for which Christ came into the world. "He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again" (2 Cor. 5. 15).
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in Christ. "Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" (James 2. 17, 26).
We must be holy, because this is the only proof that we love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. What can be more plain than our Lord's own words? "If ye love Me, keep my commandments." "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me." (John 14. 15, 21).
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we are God's children. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." "Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God" (Rom. 8. 14; I John 3. 10).
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth we should never be prepared and meet for heaven. It is written of the heavenly glory, "There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie" (Rev. 21. 27). St. Paul says expressly, "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord" (Heb. 12. 14).
Ah, reader, the last text I have just quoted is very solemn. It ought to make you think. It was written by the hand of inspired man: it is not my private fancy. Its words are the words of the Bible: not of my own invention. God has said it, and God will stand to it: "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.

Extract from J. C Ryle tract WE MUST BE HOLY

rip to the baby


really sad

Any job that is yours wouldn't need lies to be secured...

Painful punishments are not those rigorous ones...

Once when I left the door to my cabin open, the most senior Officer in the cabin told me to raise my two hands up and leave it there for two-three hours. Men see sweat. That type that generate somewhere at the base of the medulla and trickle down the spine into the anus

I learnt to close doors by default since then

I rep November November

esonuu:
I was so much in luv wit naija hip hop songs to an extent that i buy/download latest songs within 24hrs of its release but in a quest to amend my religious/spiritual life,i stopped playing,downloading or buying any hip-hop related cd since the lyrics are bad,i even discarded my song book containing sum hip hop lyrics i composed when i intended going into music and gav up the idea of singing any hip hop song in future even though dats wat sales most in dis 21st century..Now I decided to anchor on gospels & foreign R&Bs e.g[b] shania twain,celine dion,dido,chris brown e.t.c[/b] but people stil complain that theres no difference btw the latter & de former,i doubt if i can give up on doz luv songs cos the lyrics aint based on sex bla bla unlike naija songs and am yet to be convinced in my spirit that am doing the wrong thing..To the spiritually inclined pals,really wana know if playing r&b song is stil a sin? Does it affect one's growth spiritually?

What Christians are yet to understand is that there is no sitting on the fence in this issue... He that is not with me is against me and everyone who is not gathering with me scattereth (Matthew 12:30)
Most of these people you mentioned are comfirmed or alleged unashamed satanists, some are unashamed homosexuals, atheists and free masons.
Because they don't sing about sex doesn't mean what they are singing is worthy of christian ears.
Answer this question yourself, Can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruits? Can a dirty fountain bring clean water?

Him who is going to judge you is one who had said that "every idle word shall be accounted for in the judgement" It is that serious.

James 5:13 Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.

Colossians 3:16
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Peace

In one simple sentence: [size=28pt]I don't trust USA[/size]

I bought N115 yesterday at Uyo

MizMyColi:
There are more pressing things other than this inquest, which is just another avenue for everyone to come in and brandish how their belief/unbelief trumps others.


I am yet to understand why we take these dogmas and traditions too seriously.
I hold on loosely to them.

Like Jesus said, "Occupy, till I come".

Some of us have become so heaven, eternity and immortality conscious that we have become earthly unprofitable to our world in the grand scheme of things.

Mathew 16:6 , you can have bread without the leaven, yet Jesus saw it appropriate to warn his followers to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. If Jesus thought it right to warn about false doctrine, why shouldn't we?
Be careful before you, willing to be profitable to the world in the grand scheme of things, become self righteous.

If you have lost sight of eternity, heaven, immortality then I wonder what you are conscious of again.

Well the Bible calls who ever does not pay tithes a robber. I guess the company do not employ thieves/robbers

My regards to you all.

My questions goes to mostly my Jehovah witness brothers. One came to me sometime ago at home and I asked him this question, Do man have an immortal soul?
He was quick to point out to me from the book of Ecclesiastes that "the dead are conscious of nothing" and also from the book of Genesis that "out of the dust you were taken and to the dust you shall return." Therefore, according to him, man do not have an immortal soul which goes on living after death.

I won't argue this, but please, I beg answers to these questions

1. Genesis 4:10 ''... The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." Also Hebrews 11:4 :...and by it he being dead yet speaketh" I accept that this is a weak point because only God could know how one being Dead yet speaketh, but here implies Abel is conscious in deat for the dead do not speak. Where is he speaking from?

2. Deuteronomy 34:56 "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.…"

Luke 9:29-31 And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming. 30 And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah, 31 who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.…

Wait o, If man do not have an immortal soul, where did Moses come from? I accept Elijah did not die but Moses died and was buried but since the resurrection of the dead had not yet happened, how come Moses now lives?

3. Revelation 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar+ the souls*+ of those slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the witness they had given.+ 10 They shouted with a loud voice, saying: “Until when, Sovereign Lord, holy and true,+ are you refraining from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”+ 11 And a white robe was given to each of them,+ and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the number was filled of their [size=18pt]fellow slaves[/size] and their brothers who were about to be killed as they had been.+ (I have to copy this verse from the JW bible; The New World Translation)

From the above passage as I emphasized, the following points are clear
(a) these are dead "souls" (according to the NWT, souls means man)
(b) These dead souls could shout
(c) These dead souls could wear clothes
(d) These dead souls could rest
(e) Their fellow "slaves" (Jesus do not call His followers slaves so i oneda where NWT got this term from) and brothers were still alive and in the world.

It is clear that the resurrection had not yet happened but these souls though dead in the altar in Heaven are consciously shouting for justice, consciously able to wear clothes and consciously resting (you do not tell a dead man to rest, he is already resting)
So please my JW brothers explain this to me; How did these dead souls, who should be conscious of nothing and resting in the dust of the earth, get to heaven to make requests?

Please i beg answers of you Jehovah Witnesses and any other person who do not support the notion of the immortality of the human soul.

May God save my generation from this rape stories everywhere

While seeking new fields, do not neglect the already cultivated grounds... It needs weeding, watering, staking, grooming and where necessary pruning.


At any opportunity you get, please evangelize to [size=15pt]everyone[/size] even those you know are practicing Christians.... your work may just be the word in season....

Sick world.....

First you allowed and praised the cause and rejected and punished the effects

[size=14pt]SMH[/size]

I booked this e-plot and now i dont know what to comment again

Strange news are getting stranger these days. This is why i love naija


The sweeres country on planet earth......

By the way, the registrar is right [size=17pt]Proceed to a spiritual marriage registry. "Where is it located?" he would ask.
Where you met your wife[/size]

ProphetUdeme:
so are u trying to say that Jesus rejected myles munroe or did myles munroe disappoint Jesus?

Have you asked him?
HE who overthrew the tables of the money changers after officially rejecting the whole world at the offer of HIS enemies is HE who "is the same today, yesterday and forever"

No need saying more than these...

more are sure to be caught before election





If foreigners could be bold to sneak all the way from Niger to Aba, how many would be in the northern towns such as sokoto, kaduna, kano etc? just thinking

The faithful witness Bishop JOHN CHARLES RYLE (1816-1900)
https://www.tracts.ukgo.com/images/ryle9.jpg

DO YOU KNOW IF BISHOP J C RYLE?

HE WAS THE LORD BISHOP OF LIVERPOOL

He lived from 1816-1900.

He is called the Apostle of Tracts because of the numerous tracts he wrote.
Bishop John Charles Ryle wrote well over two hundred evangelical tracts, of which more than two million were circulated, and many were translated into foreign languages.
Throughout his ministry he remained one of the strongest defenders of the evangelical reformed faith within the Church of England. His faithful witness to the Gospel of Christ needs to be heard more than ever today.

You will enjoy the tracts he wrote today as if they are written now because they are very persuasive and powerful.

I owe my conversion to one of His tracts and I can hardly do without them today.

I will be posting some of these tracts here so that you can enjoy this beautiful gem of Christ whose work are written with a sunbeam!

However, you can download them here http://www.tracts.ukgo.com/john_charles_ryle.htm

Aaarg!

timonski:
Wow! So what about my waec result? In my mathematics exam, i got, say, 99% correctly, but someone told me the last answer. Well, thatz malpractice. Do you think i should return ma result.
N/B. I read about restitution/malpractice in "search the scripture".

well based on justice the person who stole Maggi should be brought to book as much as those who stole a cow. But the Holy Spirit if you have Him in you should be the best guide here. I am sure He won't lead you astray; at least you you won't be the first He led astray. Pray and ask Him for guidance.

Greetings in JESUS name.
This write up is an exposition on the need for Christian restitution. God bless you as you read.

What is Restitution?
Restitution simply means to restore or make right some wrongs done before one repented. It may involve returning stolen property, exposing lies one had said which has effect on people's lives, returning fake certificates, et cetera

How biblical is this? God commanded it severally in the Old testament (Ex 22:2-3, Lev 6:1-7, Eze 33:14-15, 2 Sam 12:5-6 etc)
What of the New testament? Zaccheus is a worthy example (Luke 19:8-9) also look at what JESUS taught
Matthew 5:23-24
"Therefore if you are presenting your offering
at the altar, and there remember that your
brother has something against you, leave
your offering there before the altar and go;
first be reconciled to your brother, and then
come and present your offering.

Apostle Paul - Romans 13:8-10
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one
another; for he who loves his neighbor has
fulfilled the law. For this, "YOU SHALL NOT
COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT
MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU
SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other
commandment, it is summed up in this
saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
AS YOURSELF." Love does no wrong to a
neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of
the law.

let's look at some scenarios and I beg you to judge for yourself whether it's right or wrong. Some of these scenarios are true life while others are parable in form

1. There was this girl in my street, a real beauty to behold. Tall, dark, figure 8 shape, in fact beautiful African queen. She was humble to the core and would hardly pass you without greetings. Born of humble family, she hawks fruit for the mother. She should be around 16-18( I didn't ask). By the time I got to know her, she was already pregnant. I had just finished my A levels and was home for the break. Having free time, I assist at my sister's super store.
This girl used to come around to buy things. I became friends with her owing to her free nature but I didn't ask her about her pregnancy. I noticed that she don't let the pregnancy bother her nor is she ashamed like other girls of her age in similar condition would be. So I asked her one day "why are you pregnant when you should be in school? "

"I was gang raped "
me : where? how?
She : "At Mkpong street, in the evening around 7 in the evening. I was coming back from hawking when some boys around 5 in number dragged me to a dark part of the road and violated me please in turns. I later found out that I am pregnant. "

Her voice sound pained as if she would burst into tears so I didn't ask her more question. From her nature, abortion is not an option. Dreams shattered, and an innocent brought to suffer in this way.
Now if any of those boys that raped her repent and got born again, he must look for that girl and beg her forgiveness. This is restitution. I would like to know any reason why this shouldn't be done.

I will post more stories to illustrate the doctrine of restitution more. Meanwhile I will appreciate any reasonable contribution/questions.

Another Gahezi preacher


if you don't take your business out of the church of Jesus Christ, JESUS will take you out of His kingdom ask Myles Munroe...

how

Hmm

Why do the heathens rage and the people imagine a vain thing?

How much do you ship each kg of goods from China to Nigeria and how many days?

Very shocking reports us the greatest scientific in America captured a Horrible image of the Sun in its very end on 19/01/15 ,the sun has two black parts which are
deadblack,not giving the Light and the part is spreading to the whole sun. It seems that the Sun is perishing and
loosing its Light, there is no future for Mother of galaxy
(Sun). prepare for the End of the World is near!

Source : [url]nasa.gov[/url]

POVERTY IS NOT A CURSE! JUST AN INCONVENIENCE…

I agonised over writing this reflection for several months. My agony was not from a lack of content, but from a foreboding that it could be widely misunderstood. For I am writing on a multi-faceted and emotive subject within the restriction of a few thousand words. But I can no longer forbear – it will be a worthwhile venture even if only a handful of people see the point I’m trying to make. Here goes:

All over the world, billions of people are consigned to the backwaters of our societies, unable to meet the basic necessities of a decent life – or even afford a decent, balanced meal. Billions of people. Some of them are hard-working, faithful believers in Jesus Christ. Would you look across this huge block of humanity and pronounce them cursed, simply on account of their financial condition? I suspect that your answer will be negative. Deprivation is an inconvenience. But it is not always a curse. Just in the same way that possession is not automatically a blessing. Jesus made this clear in Luke 12:15, when He said a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of what he possesses. There are other more important indices to measure the value of a man’s life. In this respect, it is a LIE to generalise and make this statement, “Poverty is a curse”.

Let me stretch this a little further, in looking at the second aspect of the issue. Some of the most blessed people on earth today are poor. And some of them will die in that state of poverty. These are the people that Jesus Christ has drawn out of their comfort zone to go into obscure and deprived regions of the world to help humanity to know The Way. Or to advance the interest of the Kingdom in frontiers that our generation of fortune-hunting, breakthrough-thirsty believers will not dare to approach – even when it is clear that the Lord may be pointing them in that direction. Who is more susceptible to the ‘curse’ tag; the one that answers the Master’s call and dies in penury, or the one that ducks the call and abounds in the comfy land of material prosperity? In this scenario also, poverty is not a curse.

And so, we ought to drop the generalised nonsense of using the phrase ‘Poverty is a curse’. The phrase was planted in the Church’s lexicon by the greedy multitude of the get-rich-quick preachers that are festering covetousness in the body of Christ. And the goal is simple: to make us FEAR poverty so much that we would avoid it at all costs. This FEAR will benefit them in two ways. First, it propels us to sow financial seeds into their ministries so that we can harvest and become rich (and dodge the poverty ‘curse’). Second, as we move forward in life, our tithes and numerous offerings from our earnings become a regular source of cash flow for the expansion of their kingdom (masqueraded as the expansion of God’s Kingdom). This is how these evil men profit from the FEAR OF POVERTY they have sown in our minds.

Now, let me tell you how the Kingdom suffers from this same FEAR OF POVERTY. First, it causes us, unintentionally, to look down upon the poor in our midst, and in our society. They are the misfits. They are the bad examples of what we do not want to become. Conversely, we look at the rich in the Church, and they are the image of the future we crave and pray for. Proverbs 14:20 captures this brilliantly: “The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.”

The second disadvantage of this fear is even much more insidious and devastating to a disciple of Jesus Christ. For, subconsciously, it programmes our minds this way: ‘if it is good and shiny, it is God’, ‘if it is hard and imposes hardship, it is the devil’. That is, if it involves suffering, it must be from the devil. That is why this crazy song is very popular in Pentecostal circles, “Me, I no go suffer.…” Yet the truth is that some of the most sublime callings (in terms of selflessness) that the Lord will give His disciples WILL involve suffering. Much suffering. The type of suffering that caused Him to leave His throne of glory to die a miserable death on a dusty road in Golgotha. It is along this unappealing path that He invites us to follow Him.

This is the way that Apostle Paul starts that popular passage in Philippians 2:5-9, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus….”. But how many believers today have this type of mindset? We are quick to rejoice in, and proclaim the fact that Jesus has a name that is highly exalted above every other name. But how many of us truly want the type of mind that got him to that exalted position? How many are willing to leave their glorious mansions in the city to go to a deprived community in the middle of nowhere – NOT TO DIE FOR THEM, but just to preach the Gospel to them! And, probably live with them to face what they face, and eat what they eat. Is that the mindset of the believers that the corporation-churches today are breeding in their millions.

Yet, “LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU…” is not a request, it is a divine imperative that is at the very heart of Christianity. Tamper with this mindset, and you have removed the soul of Christianity. And that is what the devil has done, and continues to foster, with the fear-inducing mantra ‘Poverty is a curse!’

This will become a huge issue in the days ahead as the Lord begins to raise His end-time army. He will render some of them poor, not as a punishment, but as an inseparable part of their service package for the Kingdom. Ask the countless missionaries that left the affluence of the western world to die in the mosquito-infested backwater of African villages. That was how the Gospel reached us in the contemporary times. Ask also the direct Apostles of Christ who had to forsake all to follow Him (Matthew 19:29). Particularly, ask Apostle Paul who suffered the ‘loss of all things’ (Philippians 3: dear to him that he may ‘finish his course with joy’ (Acts 20:24).

If the rich young ruler had agreed to follow Jesus in Mark 10:17-22, the relationship would have undoubtedly impoverished him. But, like the ‘wise’ believers of today, he also probably believed that ‘poverty is a curse’, so he quickly backed away from Jesus. (Just as many of us have backed away from Him today in reality – though we are still in Church, warming the bench and keeping up a false image of being a disciple.) Also, it is difficult to imagine that following Jesus did not cost Zacchaeus his wealth. By the time he gave half of his property to the poor, and made the restitution of giving his victims four-fold of what he took from them, it is easy to imagine that there would be little left for a man that presumably made his wealth by swindling people (Luke 19:1-10). This is the blessing, and joy of poverty that many of us today may never know because of our fear-of-poverty mentality.

Furthermore, Jesus appeared to have been very comfortable with the poor, He didn’t tell them they were cursed. To the poor faithful believers in Revelation 2:9 , He said, “YOU ARE RICH!”. On the other hand, he described the wealthy, affluent church of Laodicea as ‘poor’ (Revelation 3:17). Jesus never condemned the poor, or encourage them to pursue material wealth, rather, He taught the rich in the church to take adequate care of the poor in their midst. They were not to look down on them, or ill-treat them (James 2:1-.

Please let me be clear. Jesus did not come to consign His disciples to a life of poverty. But neither did He come to declare a Dollar-splash as a reward for discipleship or godliness. Again and again, He cautioned against the danger of material wealth. He taught His hearers not to lay their treasures on earth, but to send it upward by giving (not to His ministry!), but to the poor. He taught that our material possessions have no bearing with the value of our lives. Apostle Paul was clear in warning that the pursuit of material wealth will lead many into perdition (1 Timothy 6:6-11). Today, most of our greedy, prosperity-focussed general overseers have turned all these truths upside down. Virtually everywhere you go, you will find believers that are thirsting to become overnight millionaires – purportedly as an evidence of the goodness of God.

God is able to make any believer wealthy, very wealthy. But that is if wealth is a required component of the calling of such a believer. Such people will not labour excessively to make money, for money will come to them by grace. Not all of us are called into this category. Generally speaking, Jesus did not promise his believers abundance of material wealth. What He promised, and confirmed through the mouth of Apostle Paul, is that He will meet our needs (Matthew 6:31-33, Philippians 4:19). He didn’t promise to satisfy our wants or insatiable appetite for the glitterati of the world. He has financially blessed some believers so that they can be a blessing to the rest of the body. But some of these channels have become very greedy; tossing a few crumbs to the table of the poor, and satisfying their own lust for material acquisition. No wonder Jesus said it will be difficult for the rich to make heaven! The day it becomes clear to us that the purpose of being granted wealth is to make us distributors of God’s goodness to His people (not just to consume it on our wants), that is the day that we will stop chasing wealth-at-all-costs. For many will thereby perish. I repeat this: material prosperity is not for every believer!

Are you hoping to be used by God in these last days? Please re-adjust your mindset. If your mind is set on the glitz and glamour of life or ministry, you may never hear the still, small voice calling you to be God’s agent to the thousands of children dying daily from neglect in the areas that the corporation-churches have abandoned. IT TAKES HAVING THE MIND OF CHRIST TO HEAR THE VOICE OF CHRIST. And that voice, at times, may choose to “carry you where you do not want to go” (John 21:18). The condition that Jesus set for discipleship is clear: “And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him DENY HIMSELF, and TAKE UP HIS CROSS daily, and FOLLOW ME. (Luke 9:23). It is not about what we want – it is all about what HE WANTS.

Are you called to be poor so that you can better serve God and humanity, please embrace the call. And wear your badge of poverty with gratitude and honour until God changes your condition (if He chooses to do so), or until He calls you home to glory. In this, Christ is truly glorified, and mankind is truly blessed. Please be a blessing – in prosperity or in poverty.

Thanks for reading, God bless.