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DrChukki:
Seriously, the way Marriages are going these days, am beginning to consider having a baby mama and let my peace be with me.

Everyday is one marriage issue or the other.

Nawaoh for this our generation.

Audio Marriage generation.

I believe there are 3 major factors involved.

-Marriage due to peer and family pressure. Eventually you feel suffocated and shit happens.
-Economic challenges, making spouses seek financial assistance from elsewhere.
-Social media age. When married ladies get some care and attention in their DMs, you've created a portal for all sorts.

Generally our morals have hit an all time low as a generation. We go to churches and mosques claiming to be spiritual but a lot of us are morally bankrupt. And the fact that the news has exposed is like never before to others doing crazy stuff doesn't help matters as it makes it seem normal.

oaroloye:
MISHIGAS!

THE LAST AMMUNITION IN THE HYPOCRITE'S ARSENAL IS TO ACCUSE OTHERS OF WHAT THEY ARE, THEMSELVES!

Communication is an art and a science.
You need to learn that.
There's a skill to it.
It's pointless when you have important points but you lose the interest of your interlocutor (audience).
Try to keep your answers pithy and terse. The internet is too vast to expect people to spend time on one comment.

frosbel2:
Thank You......

While it would seem you're right. I believe the core focus of Jesus is the Kingdom of Heaven.
And that really can't be observed physicaly but spiritually.

Physically and sensually it always seems like Jesus lost.
For example when he died, even the disciples thought it was a defeat. They never knew it was a spiritual victory even though Jesus prophesied it beforehand. It wasn't until the journey to Emmaus before they understood it.

Homeshly, Jesus saves but I believe the church has overplayed it making believers lazy and most pastors are simply taking advantage of believers that don't study the bible.

frosbel2:
I would like to state a few reasons why I think Jesus cannot save you. These reasons are based on hard facts , experience and what I see happening in Nigeria on a daily basis.

Jesus cannot defeat Boko Haram
Despite pastors cursing Boko Haram on a daily basis, and despite all the prayers to Jesus, Boko Haram is still a pain in our back side.

Jesus cannot bring you peace
Despite the promise of peace, many Christians suffer from stress, high blood pressure and anxiety. Sorry, Jesus cannot bring you peace. If you want peace, live within your means, live a contented life, avoid a quarrelsome existence and, operate by the well known mantra - live and let live.

Jesus cannot heal the sick
Our hospitals are overwhelmed with the sick despite the large population of born again believers. Even though healing is prominently promised in the bible, the sick are not getting healed by Jesus, they are getting healed by medicine and doctors.

Jesus cannot make you rich
95% of people who pay tithes are broke, despite the bible promising a bountiful harverst. Jesus is not a money multiplier, he cannot make you rich. You gotta work hard bro and sis.

Jesus cannot bring overwhelming righteousness to Nigeria
The bible says that when the light shines , the darkness is driven out. In Nigeria it appears that the darkness is driving out the light despite the millions and millions of born again believers. It's either 99% of the believers in Nigeria are fake or Jesus is fake. Irrespective, Jesus followers and their master are not increasing righteousness in Nigeria.

Jesus cannot make you overcome sin
Oh please dont make me laugh. Christians in Nigeria are unable to overcome sin , thats for sure. They lie, cheat, steal, fornicate, bribe, receive bribes, bear false witness, sleep with the wives/husbands of other people, hate anyone who is not part of their church talk less of Christianity as a whole and humanity in general.......

Jesus cannot make the blind see or deaf hear
No need for examples here, even Christians know this is true; and yet Jesus told his followers that they will make the blind see and deaf hear. Another lie ??

Jesus cannot raise the dead
As a former Christian in some of the staunchest cultic sects, I have never seen a dead body raised from the dead. Its either Jesus lied, or Christians are doing it wrong.

Jesus cannot drive out demons
So many mad people and mentally challenged individuals in Nigeria and Christians are unable to cast out their demons and restore them to sanity.

Jesus is not coming back
His disciples expected him to come back in their life time to no avail. Its now over 2000 years and Jesus is still not here. Oh please, stop deceiving yourselves, he aint coming back.

Salient points but...

DAVE5:
I learnt one very important thing from your message which is

Even apostle Paul's teaching were berries before they accepted them

Very salient point

These days; one man stands on a pulpit, says anything he likes and the congregation accept like he's all knowing cos he's a pastor

I think there's a Bible verse that says something like we should test spirit that manifest so we are sure its actually of God, can't remember exactly how it was written though but it's interpretation is something like I wrote

Yes. The Bereans Acts 17:10-11
And as you pointed out, we are warned to test spirits to avoid following false doctrines. John 4:1-3
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

donnie:
Lucifer, not Satan was a cherub.

It will help you to know that Satan was Lucifer.
It will also help you to know that Lucifer means Light-carrier.

Once upon a time Satan was good. Then iniquity was found in him, he covetted God's throne and ended up crushed and reduced to a worm.

He's been working against God ever since, especially by undermining God's greatest creation, Man.

Homeboiy:
Politics Everywhere

If there's anything the Northerners have mastered, it's politics and terrorism.

The kids are already being prepared by their parents for the political career.

AjegunIe:
Maybe the US wants to test it on him since no African has died from the virus

This one mustn't be true oh.
But then again, they can be rest assured, he won't die of the coronavirus. He's African!

iammo:
if you had studied your own bible you wouldn't had needed an o.p or a pastor to just inform you of information you carry around in your own bible

May be if you stayed within context, your points will be well received.
True, the problem of most believers is lack of personal time with God, His Word and a relationship with the Holy spirit rather than just swallowing hook line and sinker every thing their pastors preach to them, even when it has been tainted with the pastor's personal motives.
The Bereans are a typical example in the scriptures. Even the Apostle Paul's teachings were verified before they accepted them.

I was just wondering what you were driving at.

monogram:
Ok.. MOST are right! Some are contradictory. SOME wont work here in Nigeria. i.e 18.
Imagine you are in a bus and the driver is driving recklessly and you warned him ONLY once about his reckless driving but he didnt heed your warning, he tried overtaking and everything went bad but you luckily managed to survive but with lots of physical evidence to tell a tale(lemme out it that way). Trust me! You'll have been sorry for not being persistent on warning him.
In some cases you have to become a talkactive especialky here in nigeria.
"Knowledge is one thing but knowing when and how to apply it is another thing"

You just had to find the exceptions.

iammo:



Black men don't read and that's the problem.. without any doubt I can say 80% of Nigerian Christian haven't completely read the whole 1200 pages of the bible and reflected on what they read, they simply read few verses and get explanation whichever pastor gives them.. Nigerian Christianity is about what thy pastor said and not what thy bible said


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And how does that relate to this thread?
OP showed us scriptural reference to speaking in tongues and it's significance to the believer and the church.

IntroVAT:
So, in church during the prayer session, and after the prayer topic has been introduced, I find I can't pray for more than 30 seconds, 1 minute tops.

After that, I have nothing else to say. Yet I see others praying until whoever is leading the session intervenes and introduces another prayer topic.

What exactly are they saying for that long or are they just repeating themselves. I can't speak in tongues too, so that doesn't help my cause.

I also cannot pray loudly, I always whisper under my breath even when the pastor says to shout at the top of our voices, because that's just how I am.

Do these things I mentioned n hinder prayers from being answered?

Help

It helps to learn some scruptural prayers;

The Lord's Prayer and Psalms will help you ignite your prayer life.

And when you pray, know that God answers our prayers, especially when we pray in His will. 1 John 5:14-15

Also, pray for others too including your family, friends, work, the church and Nigeria.

Freestyl:
This means that the governments of Abdulsalami and Obasanjo looted more...

Al Mustapha really has some very powerful connects to still be alive.

gwinaB:
I urge you to read more

And I urge you to be less closed-minded. We live to learn, unlearn and relearn.

gwinaB:
The sanctions are for various reasons including development of nuclear weapons which is the latest reason for current crippling sanctions.

Because a terrorism headquarters is supposed to be allowed to be nuclear weapon empowered?

As I earlier said, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

I understand why you couldn't possibly see Iran as religious terrorists.

Franzinni:
Yeeee. Dem don't fall dramendra aka iron sparko aka desti numbari aka jugunoon aka aminta bacha... May his manhood live long .. He was a strong man ... Buy now he is a dead man ... Wetin he gain? Cultism has two sure paths prison or untimely death ...

We have perverts and necrophiliacs in Nigeria and especially the police force ...why do they feel the need to UnCloth a dead body?

But if you manage to escape both paths, you can become a politician.
Unfortunately these are the dregs of people ruling this our so called democracy.

opportunes:
Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/for-4-hours-bandits-killed-maimed-in-5-kaduna-villages.html

This title is misleading though. I actually thought it was the bandits that were killed and maimed until I read the story. I was hoping this was a reprisal attack ok the bandits that earlier killed over 50 people in Kaduna last week.
God intervene in Kaduna.
I hope the security is beefed up by both the state govt and the people.
I remember when 1 million boys became a menace in some areas of Lagos. It took the combined effort of both the state and the people to neutralise the mayhem.
The boys were decimated faster.

Yusman316:
It is about politics of interest and control

If that were the case, Nigeria should be facing worse sanctions.
Truth is, you're actially right but you just fail to acknowledge the religious aspect too.

Neroiam:
Senior man.

Happy birthday Sir

*he who thinks the soup is too much for the EBA can't handle greatness*

Where he gets his adages from is what I'd like to know.
The man has successfully carved a niche for himself as Nigerian and African greats are to be recognised.

tripplephi:
Well, I do not know what you mean by LOVE in your own language, BUT LET ME BE BRUTALLY HONEST....

The dreadful part where ALL BUTTERFLIES HAVE EITHER DIED OR FLOWN AWAY and HORNnINESS is now a memory AND THE PRESENCE of your spouse feels like a burden cos singleness become so so attractive again like a LIFE GOAL, yet you have to just KEEP FAKING IT AND DOING EVERYTHING when you know it is no longer how it felt like in the beginning.

its Haaaarrrd

The problem is usually our definition and interpretation of the bolded, LOVE.

Love is best described by 3 words- Responsibility, Tolerance and Sacrifice.

When the butterflies fly away and the sex slowly fades to black; And the eyes open to see the "real" person you married and the issues that come along with.
That is when you know if you truly love your spouse.
Love is not what you expect to get only but especially how much of you that you can give your spouse.

NextD18:
To be honest, this news is very very useless and irrelevant to the society.

The irony of the pun is what caught my attention. How he "survived" only to "pass out".

ChristLikeLife:
God remains good, no matter the situation one faces. David never stopped praising Him, and Job did not succumb to the idea that he should curse God.

I will praise God forever.

Ultimately, yea.

Efewestern:
Hezbollah in Lebanon is the most powerful group in the country, yet they haven't imposed Islamic laws or values in the country, Lebanon is a secular country. If Iran's major ally haven't islamized Lebanon, how are they going to islamize the world?

The ground that Iran will islamize the world is lame, Saudi Arabia is more dangerous than Iran, yet they are America's greatest ally, if in 2020 you still judge international politics from the viewpoint of religion, then I have nothing to say.

You may not view international politics from religious perspective thinking it's all about economics but these countries still do. I'm shocked at your naivity though when your own country (Nigeria) clearly still does.

Efewestern:
* Funding militias who are threats to US allies in the region, e.g Hezbollah in Lebanon is a huge threat to Israel, Houthis in Yemen is a threat to Saudi Arabia, while these groups are being tagged terrorists by US, they aren't your normal terrorists like Boko or ISIS, they exist for the sole purpose of defending their land, they don't go about killing innocent women and children, they only attack military formation.

* Iran's continuous support of Assad in Syria.

* Iran's missile and nuclear programme, the nuclear programme is still being debated, while everyone thinks Iran isn't going nuclear, US thinks otherwise. Iran has said their won't give up on their nuclear programs, no sane nation gives up their defense, if not for their missile technology, US would have bombarded Iran to the ground.

* Regime change.

One man's terrorist they say is another man's freedom fighter.
If you see Iran as fighting to keep their land and not trying to islamize the world, then you won't see them as terrorists.
In fact, you'll see US as the terrorists.

Officialgarri:
Abeg how can I start this airplane business? I've saved up to 300k naira already

Lol first go to Benin to acquire plenty witchcraft sorry I meant "aircrafts".

Witcher:
Who do u think you are pharou? In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly. However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Now, explain yourself in plain English.
By the way your analogy with Pharoah was off, as God did not stand with Pharoah but Moses.

gwinaB:
It has nothing to do with terrorism. Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states funded Isis.

Praytell, so what was the sanctions for since you claim it's not terrorism?

GuestLog:
Yeeea! I'm pleased... Y'all won't understand!

Personal reasons.

I don't know why the title didn't just say he scored a brace.

ChristLikeLife:
O yes, the Lord is good to me all the times.

When Goc is chastising you will you say he's good to you? Take the example of Job or David or even Jesus.

My point is God is good but it's not all the time that's he's good to us. Some times, he makes tough choices that's aren't exactly good to us.

gwinaB:
Seems you underestimate the impact of US sanctions against Iran. The sanctions are killing the country's economy. And any financial org using the USD and have dealings with Iran is liable to US sanctions. Their currency is almost dead, they can't import necessary drugs etc and you want them not to be hateful and bitter towards the US?

But that's what they get for being the headquarters of terrorism and threat to the world.

Romanoff:
They'll use one hand to give you food and the other hand to drop bombs on y'all.

Lol whose side are you though?

HacheNoire:
Bitter truth.

It's glaring Democracy can *NEVER" achieve what the military achieved.


What runs our economy today where the buildings, foundation and ideas of past military regime. Virtually nothing new is coming to the table outside massive looting in all sectors which is inspired by democracy.

Yes, their was looting during the military but it was within caucuses loyal to the Head of State. In Democracy, every arm of it is a self made looting machine.

Clearly military is the most likely solution for Nigetia. But only if the HOS isn't another religious or ethnic bigot. But how feasible is that?