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Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by helinues: 11:56am On Jan 26, 2025
ogelekpomgam:
What nonsense!!.Follow Him first!! sad sad angry
With empty stomach?

grin cheesy
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Cti28(m): 11:56am On Jan 26, 2025
helinues:
Sha make sure you get your source of income before following anyone
I have decided to follow Jesus. Having a source of income or not.
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Krismas(m): 12:02pm On Jan 26, 2025
doffman:
My own be say : Hellfire is real .

Don’t die without knowing the true God of Jesus . Don’t wait for Jesus to help you oo. He can not help himself but his God is the most powerful and loving God ; the God of all person including Pagans.

Jesus warn you o . Repent today and believe in oneness of God .
cheesy Hell na LIE, invented by militarist European cultures like Nordics. To these people, if u die fighting, u will be admitted into Valhalla or atleast one of the halls of Asgard.
But if u die a coward, u will camp in desolation.
Its a psychological lie used to wean warriors. No such thing
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Nobody: 12:02pm On Jan 26, 2025
AbuTwins:
Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.

He said it himself.

So I no go follow him till I die.

I will follow Jesus's God that created him, the one he was always praying to.
Respect yaself. It's môronic for you to be on this thread writing trash.
If you follow Jesus's God, na Jesus you still follow.
You go dey abuse others of idolatry but na you be the real kafir. Blackstone worshipping head slammer.
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Frankie6835: 12:08pm On Jan 26, 2025
helinues:
Sha make sure you get your source of income before following anyone
Nigerian man too like income 🤑
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Krismas(m): 12:08pm On Jan 26, 2025
Dtruthspeaker:
See the evils and murders God endured from the peoples of the earth!!!

And yet the peoples today are still the same peoples of old.

"The tribesmen were also called HEAD-HUNTERS because of a social custom which required the male members of the community to collect as many heads as possible, hence a man’s strength and ability to protect his wife was assessed by the number of heads he had collected. Therefore youths of marriageable age would try and collect as many heads as possible and hang them on the walls of his house, as the more heads a man had, the more eligible he was considered."
grin 1. No community did not have headhunters
2. Head hunters only hunt STRANGERS, as a means of protecting the community from spys and invasion
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by emmy512(m): 12:11pm On Jan 26, 2025
gohf:
Somebody sing with me 🎤🎙️ 🎶

I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday

I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday


Goodbye world, I stay no longer with you
Goodbye pleasures of sin,
I stay no longer with you
I've made up my mind to go
God's way the rest of my life
I've made up my mind to go
God's way the rest of my life


Goodbye world, I stay no longer with you
Goodbye pleasures of sin,
I stay no longer with you
I've made up my mind to go
God's way the rest of my life
I've made up my mind to go
God's way the rest of my life

Born, born, born again
Thank God, I'm born again
Born, born, born again
Thank God, I'm born again
Born, born, born again
Thank God, I'm born again
Born, born, born again
Thank God, I'm born again


Born of the water, spirit and the blood
Thank God, I'm born again
Born of the water, spirit and the son
Thank God, I'm born again
Born of the water, spirit and the son
Thank God, I'm born again
Born of the water, spirit and the son
Thank God, I'm born again


I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday

I am under the rock, The
rock that's higher than I
Jehovah hide me, I am under the rock
Go tell my enemies, I am under the rock
Jehovah hide me, I am under the rock


Jesus name so sweet,
Emanuel name so sweet

Jesus name so sweet,
Emanuel name so sweet
Jesus name so sweet,
Emanuel name so sweet
Jesus name so sweet,
Emanuel name so sweet

Every rock, me rock upon Jesus
Jesus' name so sweet
Every rock, me rock upon Jesus
Jesus' name so sweet
Every rock, me rock upon Jesus
Jesus' name so sweet
Every rock, me rock upon Jesus
Jesus' name so sweet


I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday


Oh, I want to see Him,
look upon His face
There to sing forever
of His saving grace
On the streets of glory
let me lift my voice
All my cares are past, home
at last, ever to rejoice

Yes I want to see Him,
Wanna look upon His face
There, to sing forever
of His saving grace
On the streets of glory
let me lift my voice
All my cares are past home at last
Ever to rejoice

I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday

I've got my mind made up
and I won't turn back
Because I want to see my Jesus someday
Reminds me of primary school days where my teacher Mr Kingsley a Christ embassy man made all of us learn this song and till today I can still sing it effortlessly even though I only sang it when I was in school
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Krismas(m): 12:37pm On Jan 26, 2025
WriterX:
The following are other things we should stop doing


Stop using white people phones...

Stop using white people gadgets...

Stop eating embracing white people's civilization


Stop working a white man's job...

If you have friends or family in a white man's country, immediately disown them and ensure you never ever recognize them again.




Stop wearing white people clothes...


... Wisdom they say, is profitable to direct..
grin Who tell u whiteman, does not
Use our phone?
Use our gadgets ?
Embrace our civilization?
Work on our jobs?
Have friends and family living among us?
Wear our own clothes?
Inferiority complex no go kill black man

https://www.nairaland.com/7556439/brief-history-adunni-olorisa-susan#120671036

Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by benjaminlawson(m): 12:37pm On Jan 26, 2025
Those of us who call ourselves Christians, can we see inspiration from the genesis of the song. But today all the sinful acts that Bible told us not to do, that doesn't touch our life existence, yet we argued that that we cannot forsake them, Bible told us not to fornicate, fight, steal, kill, lying, smoking, drunkingness etc, but we continue to disobey claiming that we can't leave them, what of if it is me and you that faced with that situation today, what are we going to say no turning back no turning or we are going to deny Him. All these sinful acts that did not treat our life existence, even if we don't commit them, it will also allow us living a healthy life yet we do them. This is food for thought for all nowadays Christians.
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Nobody: 12:38pm On Jan 26, 2025
No song moves like Crazy Story by King Von
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by geoworldedu: 12:45pm On Jan 26, 2025
hotseat:
Today's "Christian" represents a gradual but steady fall from the faith.


To God be the glory that very few true Christians still exist today.


Remember Leah Sharibu, may her soul rest in peace if she's dead, who refused to renounce Christ when she was offered the option to choose between being set free or continue to be in captivity?


She stood her ground and opted for the latter.


What grueling trauma she had to go through could only be imagined.


Many so-called Christians at the time saw her stance as sheer foolishness.


God, truly, cannot be mocked!


She had simply decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back!



@hotseat
The greatest mumuness in life is to stick to religion in the face of death. Religious fanatics who have died because of holding on to religion will be ashamed on the other side when they realize that religion is altogether a bunch of shit concocted by those who were in the world before them. Nobody can be as mumuish as the one who takes religion so seriously.
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Dtruthspeaker: 12:50pm On Jan 26, 2025
Krismas:
grin 1. No community did not have headhunters
2. Head hunters only hunt STRANGERS, as a means of protecting the community from spys and invasion
Defending trespass (invasion) is Lawful but not murder of passersby, travellers and sojourners.

And let's not forget, they too trespassed on other people's lands.
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Krismas(m): 12:58pm On Jan 26, 2025
Dtruthspeaker:
Defending trespass (invasion) is Lawful but not murder of passersby, travellers and sojourners.

And let's not forget, they too trespassed on other people's lands.
grin Head hunters do not kill sojourners, nor passerbys nor travelers. The OP is engaging in fake sensationalism. Indian rural communitys were not lawless
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by SeriouslySense(m): 1:26pm On Jan 26, 2025
Once you realise that God becamse flesh, they saw Jesus and it was God, he choose to sacrifice his flesh, so we can become new and born again by the spirit. I will always follow Jesus. Sustain us even to the very end.
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by doffman: 1:28pm On Jan 26, 2025
Krismas:
cheesy Hell na LIE, invented by militarist European cultures like Nordics. To these people, if u die fighting, u will be admitted into Valhalla or atleast one of the halls of Asgard.
But if u die a coward, u will camp in desolation.
Its a psychological lie used to wean warriors. No such thing
If you are sure , Can you die now so that you can witness it ? 😂
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Krismas(m): 1:42pm On Jan 26, 2025
doffman:
If you are sure , Can you die now so that you can witness it ? 😂
shocked If am SURE, then why do i still need to WITNESS it?
Witness is always against doubt.
No hell, does not mean, horrific conditions are not awaiting everyone in d afterlife.
The best preparation is always to know the truth, not false consolation in cock and bull stories
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by EndBuhariNow(m): 1:43pm On Jan 26, 2025
Head hunters... I have seen where one particular tribe in Nigeria learn how to hunt heads .. good for them grin
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by DaddyCoool(f):
AbuTwins:
Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.

He said it himself.

So I no go follow him till I die.

I will follow Jesus's God that created him, the one he was always praying to.
Will you be shocked to learn they're ONE?
About house of Israel, what was this about: Jesus's parable of the rich man who invited his friends to party but they didn't show up so he threw it open to everybody??
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by ogolemati: 1:53pm On Jan 26, 2025
helinues:
Sha make sure you get your source of income before following anyone
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin chai men that their stomach is their God,no wonder you reason the way you do. That's why you sold your conscience to Tinubu 30k
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Eriokanmi:
temitope27:
Stop worshipping white God
Do you think its normal for someone to be going to church without a reason? Do you think its convenient to be going to night vigil, be fasting and praying when you're supposed to be merrying ? That reason is Jesus. If you could welcome Him into your life, that's when you'd understand these reasons. Many like you don't believe until maybe you're on the verge of giving up in the face of a terrible encounter and Christ shows up to rescue you, or you're infected with a deadly incurable disease and God miraculous heals you. But don't want until such happens before you decide. You'd be glad you did bro. I'm a living example.
Let me correct you on something. Nobody really knows the true complexion or trait of Jesus. The man who carried His cross after crucifixion was a black man from africa in today's Libya. The first church was built in Ethiopia, africa. So, how's is Christianity a white man's religion?
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by doffman: 2:09pm On Jan 26, 2025
Krismas:
shocked If am SURE, then why do i still need to WITNESS it?
Witness is always against doubt.
No hell, does not mean, horrific conditions are not awaiting everyone in d afterlife.
The best preparation is always to know the truth, not false consolation in cock and bull stories
Sorry to ask . Are you an Atheist?
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by robosky02(m): 2:21pm On Jan 26, 2025
Ok
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by igatit: 2:21pm On Jan 26, 2025
Jesus Christ the way and the truth.


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Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Krismas(m): 2:22pm On Jan 26, 2025
doffman:
Sorry to ask . Are you an Atheist?
Am not sure what u mean by Atheist?
If it means whether i believe in the Christian god. Then NO.
The Christian god is a fabricated entity, no different from the wizard of Oz.
Then, any person, place or things people worship are gods and they are all around us.
U can see them, no further need for belief in god's existence
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by doffman: 2:58pm On Jan 26, 2025
Krismas:
Am not sure what u mean by Atheist?
If it means whether i believe in the Christian god. Then NO.
The Christian god is a fabricated entity, no different from the wizard of Oz.
Then, any person, place or things people worship are gods and they are all around us.
U can see them, no further need for belief in god's existence
😂
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Wandepope: 3:11pm On Jan 26, 2025
Wonderful! When a person's heart is full of God's Holy Spirit there is no length he or she would not go for the LORD Jesus Christ. I am happy I read this story today.
jesusjnr2020:
Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)"

About 150 years ago, there was a great revival in Wales, England.

As a result of this, many missionaries came all the way from England to northeast India to spread the Gospel.

The region known as Assam comprised of tribal communities that were quite primitive and well known for being hostile and aggressive.

The tribesmen were also called HEAD-HUNTERS because of a social custom which required the male members of the community to collect as many heads as possible, hence a man’s strength and ability to protect his wife was assessed by the number of heads he had collected. Therefore youths of marriageable age would try and collect as many heads as possible and hang them on the walls of his house, as the more heads a man had, the more eligible he was considered.

Into this hostile environment came a group of Welsh missionaries spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ but naturally they were not welcomed.

However, One Welsh missionary who was warned to go back because of the tribe's extremely hostile nature but ignored the warnings because he believed even these savage headhunters should have the opportunity to hear about the mercy of God, finally succeeded in converting a man, his wife, and two children.

The man, a Garo tribesman from the tribe of "Meghalaya" named 'Nokseng' and his family heard the Gospel and received Jesus as their Savior. The good news was too good to keep to themselves and they shared the Gospel with others in the tribe.

This man’s faith proved contagious and many villagers began to accept Christianity.

Angry, the village Chief summoned all the villagers, He then called the family who had first converted, to renounce their faith in public or face execution.

Moved by the Holy Spirit, the man sung his reply,
“I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back.”

Enraged at the refusal of the man, the Chief ordered his archers to arrow down the two children and they did.

As both boys lay twitching on the floor, the Chief asked, “Will you deny your faith?
You have lost both your children already. You will lose your wife too.”

But the man replied, again singing,
“Though none go with me, still I will follow, No turning back.”

The Chief was beside himself with fury and ordered his wife to be arrowed down and she was. In a moment, she joined her two children in death.

Now he asked for the last time, “I will give you one more opportunity to deny your faith and live.”

In the face of death the tribesman looked the chief in the eyes and replied,
"The cross before me the world behind me no turning back, No turning back."

The chief could not believe his ears and shot the tribesman dead like the rest of his family.

Jesus said if a grain of wheat dies it bears much fruit, and that day many of the villagers who witnessed the persecution of that tribesman and his family also decided to follow Jesus - even the chief himself became a follower of Jesus Christ.

The tribes man's last words became the song of the village and today a hundred years later it is sung all around the world.

"I have decided to follow Jesus.

No turning back, no turning back."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iax9J4zKKjo&pp=ygUrc3RvcnkgYmVoaW5kIGkgaGF2ZSBkZWNpZGVkIHRvIGZvbGxvdyBqZXN1cw%3D%3D
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by LoveJesus87(m): 4:00pm On Jan 26, 2025
jesusjnr2020:
Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)"

About 150 years ago, there was a great revival in Wales, England.

As a result of this, many missionaries came all the way from England to northeast India to spread the Gospel.

The region known as Assam comprised of tribal communities that were quite primitive and well known for being hostile and aggressive.

The tribesmen were also called HEAD-HUNTERS because of a social custom which required the male members of the community to collect as many heads as possible, hence a man’s strength and ability to protect his wife was assessed by the number of heads he had collected. Therefore youths of marriageable age would try and collect as many heads as possible and hang them on the walls of his house, as the more heads a man had, the more eligible he was considered.

Into this hostile environment came a group of Welsh missionaries spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ but naturally they were not welcomed.

However, One Welsh missionary who was warned to go back because of the tribe's extremely hostile nature but ignored the warnings because he believed even these savage headhunters should have the opportunity to hear about the mercy of God, finally succeeded in converting a man, his wife, and two children.

The man, a Garo tribesman from the tribe of "Meghalaya" named 'Nokseng' and his family heard the Gospel and received Jesus as their Savior. The good news was too good to keep to themselves and they shared the Gospel with others in the tribe.

This man’s faith proved contagious and many villagers began to accept Christianity.

Angry, the village Chief summoned all the villagers, He then called the family who had first converted, to renounce their faith in public or face execution.

Moved by the Holy Spirit, the man sung his reply,
“I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back.”

Enraged at the refusal of the man, the Chief ordered his archers to arrow down the two children and they did.

As both boys lay twitching on the floor, the Chief asked, “Will you deny your faith?
You have lost both your children already. You will lose your wife too.”

But the man replied, again singing,
“Though none go with me, still I will follow, No turning back.”

The Chief was beside himself with fury and ordered his wife to be arrowed down and she was. In a moment, she joined her two children in death.

Now he asked for the last time, “I will give you one more opportunity to deny your faith and live.”

In the face of death the tribesman looked the chief in the eyes and replied,
"The cross before me the world behind me no turning back, No turning back."

The chief could not believe his ears and shot the tribesman dead like the rest of his family.

Jesus said if a grain of wheat dies it bears much fruit, and that day many of the villagers who witnessed the persecution of that tribesman and his family also decided to follow Jesus - even the chief himself became a follower of Jesus Christ.

The tribes man's last words became the song of the village and today a hundred years later it is sung all around the world.

"I have decided to follow Jesus.

No turning back, no turning back."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iax9J4zKKjo&pp=ygUrc3RvcnkgYmVoaW5kIGkgaGF2ZSBkZWNpZGVkIHRvIGZvbGxvdyBqZXN1cw%3D%3D
What a touching story... Jesus is Lord..
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Kobojunkie:
AbuTwins:
Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.
He said it himself.
So I no go follow him till I die.
I will follow Jesus's God that created him, the one he was always praying to.
Jesus Christ's God-- YHWH--- also said His only people are the descendants of the man called Jacob ---- His sheep are the Israelites --- who are all of them also Hebrews. So how can you pretend you are any better than the Christians in your denial of the facts? 😩😩😩😩😩
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Kobojunkie: 4:09pm On Jan 26, 2025
BrutusOj:
My own is, "Whatsoever you do to the least of your brother, that you do unto me, when I was hungry you gave me to eat, when I was tasty, you gave me to drink..." Reason why I like the Orthodox churches, soul touching hymns that leaves you pondering on life.
Yet the same Orthodox churches do not live up to the meanings of their many hymns. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Re: Story Behind The Song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (No Turning Back)" (Video) by Kobojunkie: 4:10pm On Jan 26, 2025
KaLuCh:
When you experience Him, this world starts to fades. The beauty of being in His presence is worth dying a thousand deaths.
You have never experienced him since He instead said that only those of Israelite descent can. 🤔
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