what God has joined together, let no man put assunder..
when that otobo lady said that apostle suleman had an affair with her, her dad told the general public that his daughter was telling lies, bt haters were saying that the lady is the only one that knows what happened to her..
now the lady herself had said that she was paid, haters have now shifted thier goal post by saying that she should give names..
if she gives name now, they will still say that she should provide another thing..
my view is that as long as u are sussesful, u will always have lots of oppositions..
Africanbest: It was been on the news for long, it has even turned into a scandal, it has made people confused, It has a hastag #freethesheepies
But I want to know which of the following is more important for a christian to do. 1) PAYING OFFERING 2) PAYING FOR TITHES 3) GIVING WELFARE 4) etc
Please if you have others, help state them.... Scriptural backing would be good.
my brother all of them are important and the same God commanded that all should be done..
read with an open mind, God commanded that u should always give ur tithe to the levite because they have no inheritance among thier brethren..
the same God said that when u are havesting ur crops that u should leave some for the strangers in ur land..
the same God said that u should nt forget the poor people that are in ur land.
paying ur tithe should nt stop u from helping someone that is in need, and helping someone in need should nt stop u from paying tithe..
if my salary is is 50k, my tithe is 5k, so after my tithe i stiil have 45k on me, so if a friend of mine or neighbour is sick, i can even give the person 10k..
jerrywill: I just don't know, is it a must that as a man of God you perform miracles?
does your pastor perform miracle?
the word of God carries power, so as a man of God, signs and wonders must follow the teachings, Jesus himself said in the book of john 4 that without signs and wonders that people will bt believe..
now put it this way, if u are a science student, is theory going to be enough for u as a student? i don't think so, a good teacher and a good school will do theory and practical..
the same thing is applicable to men of God, u can't be preaching everyday how Jesus healed the sick and delivered the oppressed without demostrating once in a while..
bt where the problem is coming out today is that instead of men of God waiting for God to help them, they now want to help God by staging miracles and deliverance...
as a man of God all the spiritual gifts does nt manifest at the same time, u may have a gift of teaching bt cannot deliver, u have to wait on God to open the door of healing for u..
joeaz58: It is not very common for babies to be born while flying at 36,000 feet, but when it does happen it is generally a newsworthy event for a plane to land with one more passenger than it had when it took off. This week, a mom gave birth to a healthy baby on an Air France flight from Paris to New York before they could reach the ground at JFK. Luckily, there was a doctor on board to manage the situation until they could get the mama and baby some on-the-ground medical attention, and in this case, everything seems to have worked out just fine.
A common question that comes up when this happens (in addition to does the baby get free flights?) is what citizenship is a baby given when they are born on an airplane?
Penalty82: Mind you that BISHOP is not a title as some sees it but a worker in the vineyard of God. Stop bn emotional here. Once you realises your mistake, pls go ahead and correct it without any fear or favour. A man with a stolen car will definitely return such car anyday he's bn arrested by the police likewise a polygamous man anyday the Holly Ghost arrested him.
bt pls can u explain to me what 1timothy 3vs 2 is saying, maybe i have been interpreting it the wrong way..
Penalty82: Whatsoever that disqualifies you from bn a worker in the church will also disqualify you from entring Heaven.
bishop and deacon offices are very sensitive offices, bt u can serve ur God in other capacity, how would u feel if ur mum was a second wife, then after giving birth to u and ur siblings then one day he wakes up a told ur mum to pack her things and leave that he doesn't want to keep a second wife because of his new religion...
Penalty82: Mr, stop confusing yourself. If you want me to show you where the Bible tells me to send the 2nd wife away, you should first of all show me where the same Bible tells you to marry multiple wives. Let's start from there.
u are geting it wrong sire, first of all what is the bible?read 2timothy 3 vs 16-17, we the bible did nt say that we should marry more than one wife, bt what about those that have already married more than one b4 converting to christian faith where the bible is now the guide-line.
read the whole of the new testament, from the days of christ to the days of the apostles, they never told anyone to divorce a woman, rather the bible said in 1timothy 3vs2 that if u have more than one wife u should no be giving the office of a bishop or deacon..
Ebullience: THE National Chairman of Fulbe [Fulani] Development Association of Nigeria (FULDAN), Malam Ahmad Usman Bello, has declared the Fulani as too good to be beaten by any other ethnic groups in the country.
In what appears to be an assertion of the supremacy of the Fulani ethnic group over all others in the country, he said his ethnic group remained unbeatable and any ethnic group that fights it would be doing so at its own peril.
Bello made the remarks while speaking with Saturday Tribune in Kano on Thursday evening against the background of the national outcry against the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen in Benue, Plateau and Taraba states and many other parts of the country.
“Take it or not, Fulanis have remained unbeatable; no ethnic group can fight us face to face. Any ethnic group that fights us will learn a bitter lesson,” the leader of the apex Fulani association in the country said.
He, however, said it was in the interest of the Fulani, which he described as “the largest ethnic group in Nigeria and, indeed, West Africa,” for all Nigerians to continue to live in peace and unity.
According to him, should a civil war break out in the country, the Fulani would be the biggest losers because they have more people than any other ethnic groups in the country.
“It is in our own interest that the country lives in peace [and for the country] to be united. If anything happens in Nigeria, we are the ones to lose because we have more people than any other ethnic groups. When you have more people, if any war occurred, certainly we Fulanis would have more dead people to record. And we are not beggars as we are equally blessed with wealth,” Bello said.
In an apparent reference to the Benue State people, he stated that if the Fulanis wanted to take other people’s land, they could have done so in the past “when these people did not know how to wear clothes.”
Tracing the origin of the Tiv, Bello said the progenitor of Tivs hailed from Katsina State and had married a Junkun woman who gave birth to those who are today referred to as the Tiv people.
He declared the name of the father of the Fulani as Muhammad Katsina-Alla who, he said, had come to the present-day Benue and married a Junkun woman and fathered the Tiv.
“If one follows the history of all peoples in the world, they migrated from somewhere. Take America for example, the Europeans migrated to America about 500 years ago. Can you then call them white American settlers? The Europeans also migrated to Australia and to South Africa with many years of struggle with the black majority to gain independence from them. Now, supposing they were majority, would you call them settlers?
“I want Nigerians to understand that wherever Fulanis settle, they always mind their business. It is wrong to refer to them as settlers because those who call us Fulani settlers are the ones to be called settlers.
“Igbos claim they descended from Jews but settled in Nigeria. Even Yorubas also claim they came from the Middle East, while Hausa people equally claim to have originated from Abyssinia, the modern Ethiopia,” Bello said.
He claimed that while Yorubas are “asking for a country to be created for them and Igbos are using arms and ammunition to try to secede from Nigeria, Fulanis, in the various places they have dominated for centuries, have never asked to secede from the country.”
He added: “Fulanis have never referred to any group as settlers but instead they have carved out places for non-indigenes to go about their normal businesses without harassment or intimidation.
“Even in Kano, Sabongari was carved out for mostly non-Muslims resident in the state. Those that went for the Second World War, when they came back, in order not to contaminate those indigenes on ground, a place called Brigade was mapped out for them to reside.
“We Fulanis welcome others but, unfortunately, Fulanis, despite being the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, in West Africa as a whole and perhaps even on the continent, we do not discriminate.”
ifyalways: Since your wife is petty and won't let go, please stop the thank you sir. No point breeding enmity between them when you won't be there to save the poor girl from your wife's claws.
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ifyalways: Since your wife is petty and won't let go, please stop the thank you sir. No point breeding enmity between them when you won't be there to save the poor girl from your wife's claws.
LifeIsGuhd: Pastor Emma, if I have an urgent need of finances, the first set of people I would ask would definitely be my family and friends... it is only when my needs can't be met that I would escalate...
So what exactly is wrong with my question?
there is nothing wrong with ur question my sister, all i wanted u was to see life from the other side, let me use myself as an example, i don't have any uncle or aunties, i only have a sister, what if i have asked my sis to asist me bt she says that she doesn't have?
there was i time in my life that if a grown up man should tell me that he does nt have 500 or 1k to spend, i will think that they were telling lies, until i experienced it myself and noone believed me that i was hungry and could nt even buy garri to sip or soap to wash...
so since that time if someone asks me, whether he is a scarmer or nt, if i have i always give, u might be saving a soul..
though i was only joking with u at the first mention..
LifeIsGuhd: Pastor Emma, Nairaland is not my family.
my sister we must nt be from the same parents b4 we can be identity as familes, we are always reasoning together here, sharing our ideas together as well, if u have an urgent need tomorrow do u think it will be a crime for u to ask for help here?
Uhomanbulus110: Living a holylife is not that you are doing God good but yourself
u are right my sister, in the book of Job chapter 22 Job asked a question, that man obedient to God is it to help God or ourselves?and the book of exodus chapter 4 helped is answering the question, whe God revealed himself to moses, he introduced himself by saying, i am that i am, in other words he is already established, u can't add and u can't reduce..
so when we do the will of God we will always have peace of mind.
in all religion and in all culture, the law of the lord is been practiced..
killing is a sin in all religion and culture, lying is a sin anywhere anytime, adultrey is a sin anywhere and anytime, so when we do the will of God, we are only helping ourselves to have peace of mind..
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life'.
This means that if I don't believe in Jesus christ( Gods son) I will burn forever in hell, Correct?
My confusion is What happens to the billions of people on earth from the time of Jesus until his gospel of salvation reached the entire earth like the Africans, Asians etc.
Bear it in mind that there are many alive today that will live and die without ever hearing of Jesus Christ. Will they burn in hell too? How does one believe in someone that they have never heard of?!?
those who died b4 christ died in the days of ignorance, and the bible says that in the time of ignorance that God overlooks, bt now he is calling all men to come to repentace..
as for those that are still alive that have nt heard about him, God can't condemn them because they did nt hear about him, bt God is going to judge them using thier conscience..
every human is born with the knowledge of,good and evil, the law of moses had nt yet been giving when joseph was a slave in egypt, bt he knew that it was nt right to sleep with another mans wife, bt at the same time his elder brother ruben slept with his father concubine..
Tracypacy: My sister got married since November 12 2008 and She does not have a child to show for it.
It would be another Christmas soon and she would have to go to the village, where she would see our sisters in law and some of theirs husband's nieces with their children. Women who just got married last year are already with kids and she is still here without any. She is envious. She have done series of prayers and failed IVFs. She wants to adopt but her husband is against that. she has taken it as her fate though but sometimes it bothers her. Maybe one day a miracle would happen. she is still prayerful and hopeful.