My the light of the Word of God continue to shine on our lives and our path. Amen
Jesuse said "this kind goeth not except by fasting and prayer"
Mathew 17v21
jesusjnr2020: Is Fasting Without Prayer A Meaningless Exercise?
Some would be quick to respond in the affirmative, because they believe fasting must go with prayer, otherwise it would be a mere hunger strike.
But let's see what the Bible has to say about fasting to know if they have a case or not.
Deuteronomy 8:3 (KJV)
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Now the above is a well known passage in the Bible that speaks about fasting, and it was actually from this passage that Jesus quote to the devil concerning fasting emanated from, when He was being tempted by the devil to eat, during His forty days and forty nights fast in the wilderness when He was said to be tempted of the devil. Matthew 4:4
From the passage, it could be observed that fasting itself has a purpose, and that purpose is that man shall not live by bread alone but by the Word of God. That is because bread is the food of the flesh but God's Word is the food of the spirit, and it's the Spirit that quickens and give eternal life, the flesh profits nothing but death. So the purpose of fasting is make us live by the Word of God which gives life.
But how does man live by God's Word? It is by keeping it, therefore that is the primary purpose of fasting and what it's meant to achieve in our lives.
Hence since fasting cannot be said to be a meaningless exercise even if it is without prayer, because it has a purpose if its own, and more so if that purpose is achieved by fasting alone.
For instance, if someone fasts so as not to sin or to overcome temptation just as Jesus did, and he achieves that purpose even without praying, it cannot be said to be a meaningless exercise or just hunger strike because the purpose of fasting which is the obedience of God's Word had been achieved.
It's all about the purpose, so even if someone doesn't just fasts but also prays, but the purpose of fasting which is that someone doesn't fall into temptation but obeys God's Word, which also happens to be the same purpose as that of prayer, was not achieved, the effort could be said to be meaningless and a failed exercise, because the purpose of fasting and prayer was not achieved in the person's life.
Matthew 26:41 (KJV)
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
It is often said that when purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable, this is the reason why despite the fact that many fast and pray, the purpose of fasting and prayer is usually defeated and made of no effect in their lives, because they know not the purpose of fasting and prayer.
Take Nigeria as a case study. Many Nigerians pray and fast, yet there is so much iniquity in the land, because many of those who pray and fast don't keep God's Word which ought to be the purpose of fasting and praying, so regardless, their prayer and fasting is meaningless and has no real effect in their lives.
Hence it is very important for those who pray and fast to know the purpose of prayer and fasting, which is the obedience of God's Word, so that the purpose of prayer and fasting is not defeated but fully achieved in their lives.
damilola4162: A Ghanian pastor identified as Mensah Otabil, has reportedly lambast Christians who are in the habit of ''tapping'' into other Christians's grace, Newspremises reports.
Pastor Otabil who chastised Christian for tapping into other Christian's grace, while speaking at at a church event recently, explained that, it is unbiblical to do so as the grace of God is available for all Christians to access and that it is unwise to tap grace from a pastor and not from the source of the grace.
According to him,
''These days I hear things from some Christians and it hurts me. My heart is wounded. People say things to me like ''Pastor, I want to tap into your grace. Sometimes they come and hold your feet. I say ''Are you crazy?''. What is wrong with you?My grace? Where did you read it in the bible? My Grace? It is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
"How we can read the bible and still be foolish I don't get it. It is not as if the bible is a secret document. It's there. Written plain white. And then you will say you are coming to tap into my grace. Me Mensah Otabil? Are you mad?
"I live by the grace of God. If yu have to tap into grace, commensensically go to the source. What's wrong with your head. If you need grace, go to the giver of grace.''
You have a friend. Ask your friend about your fear. I'm sure you are not afraid of earning 210k in Nigeria and use almost equal that amount as living expenses and even borrow join.
Ask your friend (except you are lying to your self), about all your concerns.
If your friend can cope (except you have negative home support), you should be.able to make it.
I currently work in a company and my monthly take home is 210k. A friend helped me to apply for a Job in Canada, I did the interview Last Month and I was sent a congratulatry message Yesterday from the Company to start work in Canada.
Am having little fears, have not been to Canada, I don't know how they operate, I don't have family there, my friend that applied for me stays in New York.
What if I go and things didn't work out fine, I lose my 210k job and lose Canada job.
Why would you not pay the balance. Were you faced ti take the loan? Agreement is agreement.
By you not paying, you have endangered somebody job.
If the money is not ready beg your account officer
Please be responsible
Shile981: I got a loan of 3k from them on October 21. I was supposed to repay back with #3700 on 28th of October but I couldn't due to insolvency. After 3 days of being overdue, Easy Money started sending blackmailing messages to my contacts, telling them that I am a criminal and a thief with all sort of unestablished claims. Because of the embarrassing messages being sent to my contacts, a family member help me with some fund to clear the debt, I transferred #3000 to Easy Money Their agent called me and threaten that he will not clear me and that he will keep sending those messages to my contacts after I told him I will not pay the interest on the loan It was after that I start receiving another form of threat from this agent
yerokunphilips: No reasonable government will fight itself. When you are technically fighting people that are helping in sustaining peace and security of the people you govern because you want protect the selfish interests of your kinsmen is purely undiluted foolishness. The north is boiling with boko haram , the south east is boiling with ipob . Do this government think if what is happening in Anambra now happen in all the southern states in 2023 he can contain it .This government need to have a rethink. You can be fighting everyone ,you are fighting amotekun , fighting Ipob ,fighting boko haram when will this government have peace .
Aufbauh: End & beginning of the month thing. Oh yesterday is 01/011/2021 If you're a Benue indigene you'll understand Ortom better.
And Ortom is the worst Governor Benue state has ever produced since her inception in 1976. He lacks the morality & competence to criticize any leader in Nigeria in terms of governance.
Fake Christian tested a fake pastor. That result is predictable. God is out of their pamutation.
officialmario: A Nigerian lady known as Marrgarritah on Twitter has come out to narrate how she gave a Pastor a fake name as the name of her boyfriend only for the pastor to start seeing visions of the fake name that did not exist. According to her tweet, she did it intentionally to test to the authenticity of the pastor’s prophecies who claimed he could see “visions” of the future. She said in her tweet:
“I remember giving a pastor a fake boyfriend’s name, and he suddenly ‘saw’ that his mother would be wicked to me. That i need to pray very well so she can like me.
“Asked my mother later why the pastor couldn’t “see” that I gave him a fake name,” she narrated.
Nigerians then came on to the comment section, having had similar encounters, to express their different experiences on the subject matter.
All those points are still learning from the devouring APC.
A - all
P - paralyzed
C- Congresses
Nonpartisan1: By using €12.5m to purchase golden bras and panties?
Also finished eating $500m worth of cassava flour bread in a weekly FEC meeting and $1billions arms contract awarded without supplying a single bullet?
Like Abuja CCTV camera contracts and rural women stove money that end up in PDP leaders private pockets?
Sir, affliction will never rise again in Nigeria,so PDP never again in our country.
I think Nairaland needs to play safe. The platform has become a major news platform.. There is need to yp the game. Verify information before posting so as to build sustainable integrity.
Whatever worth doing at all, should be done well team.
author=Ammishaddai post=107212170] I think we can safely say Nairaland peddles rumors. Two days I ago I came across a post celebrating the reinstatement of "Super Cop " Abba Kyari, and i don't think the mods bothered investigating before letting the story fly. And now , we are seeing another twisted report going contrary . Which just goes to show that Oga Seun no longer holds credibility as a standard [/quote]
One of the fast method to know a write up is from the pit of hell is absence of bible reference even when they claim that God vomited the message.
God said He honors His Word than His Name.
istina: What does the bible really say about INTERSEX? By this I do not mean TRANSGENDERS who are entirely different set of people . Socrates said ‘the beginning of wisdom is definition of terms’, so for clarity purpose I think it’s best we define both terms.
TRANSGENDER: Someone appearing as, wishing to be considered as, or having undergone surgery to become a member of the opposite sex. In a nutshell, a Transgender is someone who wishes to be considered as a member of the opposite sex.
INTERSEX: An organism possessing several sex characteristics of both male and female such as chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals. It is a situation whereby a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of ‘female’ or ‘male’. Think of someone with all the female physical appearance but has a penis instead of a vaginal.
One of the major differences between the two classes of people is that while INTERSEX is natural, TRANSGENDER is unnatural.
Having known the difference , the question now is what does the bible say concerning those who were naturally born as INTERSEX . Can they be Christians? Can they make heaven?
author=ebukajay184 post=107180945]Blessing Okoro Shows Off Massive Building She Is Currently Constructing (Photo, Video)
Nigerian relationship expert, Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO took to her Instagram handle to show off the massive building she is currently constructing, IgbereTV reports.
The caption on the video read;
Blessing came into the limelight in 2019 after she claimed to be the owner of the house that was later discovered to be owned by one Onye Eze, a businessman based in China. Blessing was humiliated after the man got her apprehended, handcuffed, and shared a video of her confessing online.
Years after the incident, Blessing has now built her own house which she says will be opened in December.
We the children have sat my dad down and talked to him, to the extent we are tired, how can an old man at this stage in life still fornicating.
Money we sent to him for his upkeeps, he is using it to feed another man's children. several times my mom have seen vega 200 in his pockets during laundry.
The annoying thing is this woman he is frolicking with is a known area miscreant, I don't know if he's jazzed or it's something else.
A man at this age is not supposed to have sexual urge, besides while he was young he didn't do like this.
(no insults on my dad please, we respect him, he did alot for us his children both male and female)
You don't need to tell the us. That is what we use to right from primary school until terrorists came to power.
You don't need to remind or force us. Its natural. If you are sincere with your self, this is another thing that should tell you that you have failed as a leader.
You can't even promote your profession. What a shame?
NewFolm4: The World Bank has decried the continued spending by the Nigerian government on petrol subsidy, which it said is on track to gobble up N2.9tn this year.
No man should question her, just marry her just like that.
No lady should also questions. He spends his money on whatever he wants. Its does not concern anybody whether he marries 2 or more, has more side chicks or not. It does not concern anybody.
sirjamesjnr: There is no sure thing as a sexual quota. And there is no such thing as a ‘hoe’. Men that slut-shaming women are not mature to be in a grown-up relationship. No lady is not accountable to any man for her past. It's none of a man's business.
That lady A has one guy she sleep with when she was 15 till she clocks 30 and married, lady B has a body count of 100 before her 30th birthday. The truth is the two ladies have sex and they don't owe you any explanation.
If you are going to marry for 'purity" look for a virgin girl. Do not condemn a man who wants a team player, homemaker, companion, and someone who can resonate with him. A virgin girl can tick all the boxes agreed. If you found that virgin girl with these qualities good luck. There is a lady out there for every man. Time is hard, while the world is moving forward, the Average Nigerian man is talking about body count. Shouldn't you be worried about a lady who can build a great home with you so your generation won't abuse you? Whether you are wealthy or you are coming up, I will like to think you need a proper woman to build your home with you.
My time in this uncertain world, both in the corporate world and among great minds. What we care about are ladies with decent character, basic moral values, ethics, cleanliness, abilities to accept responsibility, and willingness to learn something good. Never for once within this circle of friends and learned mind do we care about what a woman does with her body. What you do when you are in a relationship with me is what matters.
To that man who is in a decent relationship: I know how you feel. When you develop strong feelings for a girl, it’s hard to think of her being with other guys. Even though you can rationalize that her past relationships happened before you met, it doesn’t make it any easier to accept that there were others who had been intimate with her. But you can’t dwell on this. It will destroy you, and it will destroy your relationship with your girlfriend.
Unless your girlfriend is the kind of girl that is very flirtatious, and who loves all the attention that she can get from guys, you probably don’t have anything to worry about. If she were a “hoe” she wouldn't want to have a decent relationship. So how do you get over this? There are only two things that I know of that you can do:
1. Don’t torture yourself with the details. There is no reason for you to know with whom she did it, how many times they did it, what positions they did it in, how big the guys were, and if they were better in bed than you or not. As tempting as it is to ask her these things—don’t! And stop her from volunteering that kind of information. Knowing these things will not help you or your relationship with your girlfriend in any way. They will only become mental and emotional burdens to you—obstacles and barriers that you will constantly have to overcome in order to treat her the way that she deserves to be treated. You protect yourself and you protect your relationship when you avoid rubbing your nose in her past.
2. Change the way that you look at people. Start realizing that every one of us is screwed up in some way. There are no perfect people. Every single one of us does dumb things and makes mistakes in our quest to find love and belonging. Your girlfriend is no exception. Choose to see her through the eyes of love and compassion, rather than through the eyes of judgment and condemnation.
To our ladies. I have one thing to say to you. You don’t need to apologize for your past relationships, and you don't need to explain yourself to any man. Simply understand that all you need is to be loved by someone, and if it didn’t work out, move on and build your life. Hopefully, your next relationship will work out for you.
Me personally? I’ve never longed to be with a virgin except for an ex and my girl(I am not with her because of sexual purity). I prefer my sexual partners to already know their way around their own sexuality. That means they’ve gotten some practice. Now I understand that as a man you need some certain confidence that some of you may are probably still forming. But when someone says something derogatory about the woman I’ve chosen to love I don’t reconsider my love. I conclude the person saying it is an idiot and ignore them in the future. I have faith in myself which leads me to have faith in the people I choose as partners.
Ladies out there, know the class of men you allow into your life. Be responsible for your actions.
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