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Akious2k2:
Dat's good of u . U must b very intelligent . . . Now... Clap 4 yasef

OK Na.... thank you uncle.

Not new. My guy does it but not always and everywhere. The hand bag gives a lady additional swag so I won't always want my guy to even do that. The last time my guy did that for me was last week when we went out to drink. Obviously I was high so to help me to the car, he carried my bag and held me with his other hand. A lady there screamed "waow".... she was obviously tripping. So guys... make Ur woman feel special and triple her shoulder pad by doing some uncommon things with class Romantically anyway. #yoruba guys rock#

Akious2k2:
Em..... Em . . . . . . . Guess

Em...Em.... North American

Akious2k2:
I hope d 1st guy is not from d tribe I'm thinking about sha?

which is?

Akious2k2:
Yoruba Guys Rock shey?

Sure... He has made me love the Yoruba race.

Jesus has come and gone while some are still waiting for him...expecting him. You are entitled to your own opinions. Follow what you want to and let others follow what they wish to. If this Prophet has no haters, Then it makes his calling questionable. Let God be be the judge pls.

I have learnt my lesson on such issues so I told myself, NOT EVEN MY OWN BLOOD SISTER IS WORTH TRUSTING WITH MY MAN, talk more of an outsider who calls herself my friend. I have no close girl friend, I don't want any, no one visits my house please. If couples fight and you don't have to ask your friends to come settle instead they work it out themselves, they will go a long way to avoid such stories that touch the heart. I say this coz mine happened same way ; friends and sisters in the name of settlement become lovers with my guy. Thank God for this Present Yoruba Man I have, He came and some of his first warnings were- No third party to settle us when we fight, No greeting of girlfriends or sisters over the phone when we talk, No friend escort to my HSE. Even at that, My smart skul mate still stole his number.. while asking me to leave the guy that he doesn't fit into my class, she was making her way behind. Thank God for transparency- My guy works with that, he taught me that and together, We fought that monster...and now we are engaged. So friends, TRUST NO FEMALE WITH YOUR MAN, COUPLES BE TRANSPARENT AND WORK AS A TEAM so we can all be dancers of GODWIN!

That outfit isn't for a Traditional wedding.

All I can say is ...
1)THANK GOD FOR TALKING TO you.
2) Thank you for Listening to HIM!
You made a huge sacrifice. You will forever be remembered for that. Our Future generations will read about you in their History Text books.

There is this Unique and elegant Look when we dress In Our Nigerian Native Way! Black is indeed Beautiful!

Bishop Kukah... This is not the first time. It is in fact a culture for him in his diocese. Whenever he ordains new priests, He is the first they pray over. I have witnessed some. Nice one My Lord. If its humility, I give It to Bishop Kukah, My bishop and friend.

Chai! Guys will always find a way out of any technological hook !

SERMON by bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah AT THE HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL, ENUGU, ON THE OCCASION OF THE THANKSGIVING OF CHIEF JIM NWOBODO ON JANUARY 10th, 2015.
When I saw two missed calls from Jim Nwobodo over a week ago, I decided to return the call immediately. He sounded quite excited when he answered the call and then went straight to the point. I have good news for you, he said.
I have decided to join the Catholic Church and I want to specially invite you to be at the Mass in Enugu on January 10th. I congratulated him and said I would check with my Diary to see if I had a window. I used the chance to first call the Bishop of Enugu, His Lordship, Bishop Onaga to intimate him of the invitation. He too sounded quite excited and went on to tell me some of the good things that Chief Nwobodo had done for the Catholic Church during his tenure as Governor of Anambra State.
He added his voice to the invitation and by the time we had ended, he asked if I could take the Sermon for the day. Two days later, I again saw two missed calls or so from His Eminence, Antony Cardinal Okogie, the emeritus Archbishop of Lagos. I returned his call immediately. After the pleasantries, he confirmed enthusiastically that Chief Nwobodo had also invited him. He said despite his health, he would see if he can make the trip. Two days ago, I again saw two missed calls from him.
I returned the call and he said he did not think his health would permit him to make the trip. Please, he said, try and go there to support him and also use the opportunity to represent me too. Cardinal Onaiyekan also said he had been invited but he could not make it. A combination of these star studded invitations left me little room to manouvre and that is why I am here.Understandably, this Cathedral is having one of the biggest crowds it has ever had barring either priestly ordinations or Sisters making their final vows.
Many people would be tempted to wonder why a simple event of this nature should attract so much attention. Well, I recall what happened in Kano some time in the 80s when most of the prominent Muslims across Nigeria trooped to Kano to formally receive Chief Nzeribe who was alleged to have converted to Islam. Those who remember will recall that the huge crowd finally dispersed because Chief Nzeribe finally did not show up!Our presence here will naturally elicit curiosity among friends and foes.
There are former and current political and business associates, family friends, school mates and so on. Whatever may be your reasons for being here, we are glad that the Nwobodo family has brought us here to rejoice with them. We are gathered not to judge for as Pope Francis has warned us: Human beings, whenever they judge, look no further than the surface while the father looks into the very depth of the soul. How much harm words do when they are motivated by jealousy and envy.
To speak ill of others puts them in bad light, undermines their reputation and leaves them prey to whims of gossip. As pastors, we judge no one who approaches God’s door of Mercy to which we are mere gatekeepers. So I am here to encourage Chief Nwobodo to kneel before God and in the words of the publican say, Lord, be merciful to me a sinner (Lk.18:13).Please do not be mistaken. We are not here to celebrate what for some might be a big catch. We are not celebrating a victory, nor should anyone feel a sense of loss or defeat.
The Catholic Church has not gone out fishing to find Chief Nwobodo. To the extent that we are all Christians, children of God, his decision to come to the Catholic Church is at best a return home. I say return home for reasons that all of us who are Christians already know.
I do not need to bore you, but at least we know that before 1517, every Christian was Catholic. As such, today we know that:
If you are Lutheran the your Church was founded by Fr Martin Luther in Germany in 1517
If you are Menonite, your Church was founded by Grebel, Mantz and Blaurock, in 1525
If you are Anglican, then your Church was founded by King Henry XIII in 1534
If you are a Presbyterian, then your Church was founded by John Knox in 1560
If you are a Congregationalist, then your Church was founded by Robert Brown, in Holland in 1583
If you are Baptist, then your Church was founded by John Smith in Amsterdam, in 1606If you are a Methodist, then your Church was founded by John Murray in New Jersey, in 1770
If you are a Mormon or Latter Day Saint, then your church was founded by Joseph Smith in New York, in 1829
If you are a Seven Day Adventist, your Church was founded by William Miller in 1831
If you are Salvation Army, then know that your Church was founded by William Booth in 1865
If you are Jehovah Witness, then know that your Church was founded by Charles Russell in 1872Here at home,
if you are Redeemed Christian Church of God, then you know that you were founded in 1952 by Josiah Akindayomi
If you are a member of Deeper Life Bible Church, then you were founded by Pastor William Kumuyi in Lagos in 1973
If you are Mountain of Fire, then you were founded by Dr. Daniel Olukoya in 1989. We can go on and on.
I am listing this not to denigrate anyone but just to set the records straight. The Catholic Church has remained where it has been since Christ instituted the Eucharist, called the Last Supper.
We continue to do over and over what He commanded when He uttered those holy words over the bread and cup, take and eat, take and drink and ordered them to do this in His Memory until He comes again (Mt. 26:26). So, we were founded by Jesus Christ, beginning with that gathering at Pentecost (Acts 2:1) over two thousand years ago led by 266 successors of the Chair of St. Peter.
That is who we are and what we represent.We must give thanks and praise to God our Father Almighty for the gift of the Holy Spirit which has inspired and continues to inspire thousands of men and women to give glory to His name. it is not in our place to judge anyone except that we both as Christians or citizens have a duty to listen to St. John who has enjoined us not to believe everyone who claims to be guided by the spirit. John calls on us to; test every spirit to see if they are from God because many false prophets have gone into the world (1 Jn. 4:1).
There is no gainsaying that a highly criminalized and fraudulent society has continued to answer the calls of various kinds of spirits and prophets who produce prophesies to suit the social, economic and political fraud of the moment. In a dysfunctional society such as ours, where the corruption of the moment his produced a culture of relativity, we now have a society whose moral compass is constantly shifting to adjust to the expectations of the moment.
The Nigerian economy and political systems are merely paying lip service to international norms of scientific conduct and relations. Economic prosperity or political processes and outcomes are neither the result of sound economic policies but the magic of spiritual entrepreneurs who prey the political landscape prowling on the unwary with the greed of lions looking for whom to devour (1 Pet 5:.
It is not clear whether winners of elections should praise and trust the efficacy of Electoral machinery or the efficacy of prophets and prayer warriors. This moral ambiguity has placed religion under scrutiny.
What impact has Christianity made in our society? If the illiterate men that Jesus called and finally handed His Gospel to were able to take it to the ends of the earth, how come we are seemingly unable to make the world feel the impact of Christianity? Jesus told His successors to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth, but warned them to drop all earthly means of support and power: Carry no clothes, money, sandals and so on ( Lk. 9:3, 10:4).
Today, it seems the burden of wealth, power and position have become obstacles to the impact of Christianity. On a day like this, we must seek to return to the true message of our Lord and Saviour.Since the election of Pope Francis, the 266th Pontiff on March 13th, 2013, the entire world has had to sit up and see the Catholic Church completely differently. A Church that had been vilified and become morally demoralized has suddenly leapt into public life, re-igniting the world with curiosity, enthusiasm and excitement among non-Catholics, non-Christians and non-believers.
Today the Catholic Church is enjoying a re-awakening and vitality that was unthinkable barely four years ago. Indeed, on January 4, this year, Deepak Chopra wrote an article which was published on the Yahoo website titled, Will Pope Francis become a Holy Man for the world? The article from a non-Christian was a song of praise for how Pope Francis has brought freshness and simplicity into the Catholic Church leading to a new awakening around the world.
Chief Nwobodo has responded to this new voice and all we can say is: This is the Lord’s doing, we rejoice and it is marvelous in our eyes (Ps 118: 23, Mk. 12:11).In confronting these realities, Pope Francis has literally set out to re-awaken our consciousness of our understanding of the faith itself and our challenge as evangelisers.
He was barely six months a Pope when he published his Apostolic Exhortation titled, Evangelii Gaudium, the Joy of the Gospel on November 24th, 2014. Central to his message has been the need to re-enkindle the spirit of the joys of the good news brought to us by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He called on Christians not to behave or look like men and women coming back from a funeral but to become joyful. He called on priests not to turn the confessional into torture chambers where penitents experience psychological crisis and pain instead of the liberating message of Christ our Redeemer.Indeed, Pope Francis in the same Document warned Christians of six types of robberies that they must look out against. In order not to be robbed of the joy of the gospel, the Pope enjoins Christians to imbibe the fragrance of the Gospel. Then, he proceeded to warn Christians against being robbed of the Joy of Evangelisation, joy of Hope, joy of a sense of Community, joy of the Gospel, joy of fraternal love, and joy of Missionary vigour. It is against this background that the Holy Father enjoined Consecrated Men and Women to wake up the world to the realities of the joys of being a Christian today.
Another key component of the preoccupation of Pope Francis has been the message of what I will call the Gospel of Mercy. At a time when Nigeria is writhen in the pain and convulsion of corruption, a disease that has ravaged every artery of our body, we must hear this message. Today our disfigured country is paying the price for the affliction of corruption. We now have a country that is more divided than almost at any time in our history, a society largely socially and culturally disoriented, a country where a substantial percentage of office holders are far less competent and motivated towards doing good, than those they lead, a country whose growth has been arrested and stunted. We are paying for the years and years of outrageous and gargantuan corruption perpetuated by the insatiable and irresponsible appetite of its elite.
Today, with wide oceans of inequality between public officers and the rest of Nigeria, violence and anger are the identity cards carried by the victims.Our leaders say that we cannot develop in an environment of violence and instability. What they fail to accept is that the violence in society is the reaction of the victims. The Pope said: The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence, yet without equal opportunities the different forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and eventually explode.
When a society – whether local, national or global – is willing to leave a part of itself on the fringes, no political programmes or resources spent on law enforcement or surveillance systems can indefinitely guarantee tranquility.I want to appeal to the Igbo political and religious elite to close ranks and take charge of the future of the people of this area.
Please learn from the mistakes of the elites elsewhere when politics was allowed to trump the urgent task of community building. You must take charge and by negotiation and using back room channels, improve on the quality of the sound of the music produced by your Youth. Do not ignore them but in patience, process and improve on the quality of their sound. You enjoy ethnic, moral and cultural harmony to a large degree since you loosely speak one tongue and are predominantly Christians. So, as St. Paul said to the Colossians, Let the message of Christ in all its riches fill your hearts, use it to teach and admonish one another (Col 3:16). You have lessons from the tragedy of the war and you have lessons from within and outside Nigeria of allowing youth frustration and restiveness to gestate.
There is a saying in Hausa: If you see your brother’s beard on fire, put water on your own. Let men and women of courage become peacemakers. The time is now and the place to start is here. May the Lord inspire you. We Catholics, nay Christians, must turn our Religion into a force for good. Today, neo-paganism and Voodooism have combined to poison the message of Christianity. It is a tragedy that while calling themselves Christians, many of our political and economic elite continue to traverse the length and breathe of Nigeria seeking for prophets, priests, to compel God to answer their wishes. The central message of Christ was not miracles or prophesies or even healings, at least not in the dramatic way we now see them as they are calculated to call attention the powerful men of God. While our so called men of God are putting out posters and selling all kinds of dubious wares, they must ask how this compares with Jesus simply went about doing good, Jesus who went into hiding when they were about to take him and make him King by force(Acts 10:30, Jn. 6:15).
My dear friends, brothers and sisters, this gathering should remind us of the need to remake a broken world such as ours. It is a time for us to recall the father of love and compassion. We are being called by a Merciful God who does not keep record of our sins but asks us to forgive seventy times seven times (Mt. 18:22), the one who overlooked the scandalous lives of men and women unacceptable to society but welcomed by him as in the call of Matthew(Mt. 9:9, or Zacheus, Lk.19:1ff, ate with sinners(Mt. 9:11, or allowed the woman with a bad name and reputation to anoint him and kiss his feet (Lk. 7: 36ff).
The challenge for us Christians is to ask how we allowed Mercy to slip out of the grammar of Christianity. How did raw power and the quest for vengeance take centre stage in the daily grammar of our lives as we have today? We hear such sayings as Do me I do you, God no go vex, Return to Sender, Holy Ghost fire, all as metaphors for vengeance and the quest for afflictions of our enemies, all in sharp contrast to what Jesus Himself has taught us. We Christians can and must change our world. Again, Pope Francis has said, Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and power.So on this day of the baptism of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, may the Lord of mercy let His blessing come down upon us. To our friend and brother Chief Nwobodo, we commit you and your entire family to God asking for mercy, forgiveness and reconciliation. We thank the Anglican Church for nurturing you all these years. Those who think that their loss is our gain are mistaken. We are not building empires or playing politics. We are working in the Lord’s vineyard as His servants. We have a duty to show the light to the rest of our society. So, there is neither room for sulking nor triumphalism, let us close ranks as leaders of Christ’s faithful.
We should thank Patricia, his wife whose dutiful commitment to the Church must have served as an inspiration both to her husband and children. God bless your family. In the end, we are a family of God’s children and doing His work in faithfulness defies the boundaries of our denominations. So, in prayer, let us close ranks. May God bless the people of Enugu State, may He bless and give peace to Nigeria.

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Apostle Johnson Suleiman's prophecy comes to mind.

Fans Slamming is becoming as common as bomb blast. There are two people you are obligated to please in Life - your CREATOR and your CONSCIENCE.

italo:
Forget about whether I have time or own nairaland or not. That's none of your business.

Focus on the truth I'm telling you.

Eeyaaa.....

italo:
I work with the one I feel is okay for God, not the one I feel is okay for me.

Christian life is about God's choices, not ours.

God has given us one Church...with one Church hierarchy and one faith, one doctrine. I will stick with it whether I feel good or not. Jesus didn't feel good about his passion and death. He sweated blood just thinking about it. But he did God's choice.





I only told you the truth...I didn't defend anything.



Amen.

My dear... you really get time sha. Are you one of the owners of NL? I Hope God is taking note of all these time and comments you are sharing here on NL oooo if not....

italo:
I work with the one I feel is okay for God, not the one I feel is okay for me.

Christian life is about God's choices, not ours.

God has given us one Church...with one Church hierarchy and one faith, one doctrine. I will stick with it whether I feel good or not. Jesus didn't feel good about his passion and death. He sweated blood just thinking about it. But he did God's choice.





I only told you the truth...I didn't defend anything.



Amen.

My dear... you really get time sha. Are you one of the owners of NL?

italo:
I haven't said anything about heaven. To know what the Church teaches about salvation outside the Catholic Church, read CCC 846-848. Stop making harsh comments out of ignorance.

I know that you're not insinuating that all Catholic pretend to be celibate, then defile young girls... and that Protestants and other non-Catholics don't pretend to be celibate, then defile young girls. That would be...an unreasonable statement at best.

Many. They even help non-Catholics in need. I'm a member of Society of St. Vincent de Paul and what we do all year round is help the poor regardless of religion.

Every Catholic is a minister of some sort. Ask yourself how many people you stand by in their time of pain. It's useless to point fingers. The Church is both laity and clergy.



Those 'men of God...' are they without sins? do you know their sins?

Christ never promised that his Church ministers will be sinless. He never promised that every member of his Church will be better in character than every person outside his Church.

He said:

Matt16:18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

John20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

Luke 10:16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”

Matt28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Whether the Church leaders sin or not.

Let me add this bonus: Christianity includes your relationship with the Church.

Matt18:17 If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

There is no need for all these long sermon my dear. You listen to many talks, but you work with the one you feel its ok for you. I mean Life is all about choices. Am not sure you have defended the Catholic church as much as I have done but I have come to understand a lot of things.... May God help us all to serve him TRULY and to be happy with him forever in the Next as it is the reason why God made us according to the Catholic catechism.

italo:
Just to remind you...that Jesus only founded ONE Church on St. Peter (Matt 16:18).

So other Christians who are not Catholics, who don't pretend to be celibates and destroy the lives of innocent girls by defiling them won't make heaven I guess? The Catholic ministers...how many of them ever stand by you when you are in need and in pain? Like i said, i am a catholic and have seen how deep the devil Has destroyed the Church through Her Ministers. I am not perfect, i do my best to advice and help the innocent girls in their traps the best way i can. I already lost my belief in God seeing the way those who we see as Christ's representative and our guide to Christ, disrespect Christ and i almost came to a conclusion that God doesn't exist until I came in Contact with few Men of God who Revere God like He should Truly be revered in Spirit and in Truth. My life changed my Dear. Running from one Church to another is not the Solution because none is Perfect though some are better. I Love the Catholic church though, I will be there to do my best to affect the few lives I can positively. Christianity is a personal relationship with God.. It is Love for God that Flows to man.

God is in your heart, serve him the way your heart leads you. Propher TB Joshua says and I quote...'when Christ comes again, the question will not be who worshipped God in Catholic, Anglican or Synagogue, the question would be- who worshipped God in SPIRIT and TRUTH'. I am a Catholic too, the teachings I agree with, I pick and put into practice; Those I dont agree with, I leave. I worship sometimes with other churches. I also learn. I enjoy their praise and worship which lifts your spirit to another level with God, and that we hardly get in the Catholic church. Worship God the best way you can, MAKE GOD'S WORD THE STANDARD FOR YOUR LIFE.

please sing along with me... 'Make una follow me. Make Una follow me, Make una enjoy CHRISMOS'

And I expected to see something like..'and he proposed to me and I said yes'...

God strengthen every true man of God. Fr Mbaka, After Bishop Kukah for Catholic church, Na you sha. Your fellow bad-belle coworkers go dey beef and condemn you now just like i heard one preaching recently and said, as a matter of fact, I hate the man called Fr Mbaka. funny enough he is a fellow priest like you. I pray God use you positively in our country and the whole world at large. Let me also use this medium to appreciate your many spiritual musical albums. Hod uplift you.

That Number 11...spot on!

Our Hope Does Not Disappoint Us (Rom 5:5) Christmas Message by Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Bishop of Sokoto Diocese 1: A Fractured World: Amidst so much pain, injury, war and death, what can we say today about Christmas and its message of Joy and Peace to a fractured world? Everywhere we turn, blood is being spilled in the name of God and Religion. There are no more grey areas. We believers all seem to be at a total loss as to how to explain the clouds of doubts that hover over our horizon. Last year, I issued an Easter Message titled, Do not let our enemies ask, where is your God? We might be tempted to say things are worse today. However, as Christians, we are men and women of Hope and we know God is on His throne. 2: Struggle for Power: Today, the path to peace is still littered with so much debris of human pain. The excesses of Boko Haram still haunt the landscape. The Chibok girls are still not found and we will still spend another Christmas without any hope that their laughter will soon return to our homes. The engine of political change has still not gathered the steam we had hoped for. The political calendar continues to shift as we witness a domino effect of overturned elections across the States. All in all, new anxieties, new battles for power among the elites will likely lead us to loss of more innocent lives and blood. The contest for power continues to take its toll and yet we continue to pray for the stability of the ship of state. We call on our leaders to use the power in their hands for service. 3: Has Religion Failed Us? Amidst so much pain, injury, war and death, what can we say today about Religion? Some people think that Religion has failed and others claim that Religion is to be blamed for the woes of the world. Neither of these positions is correct. However, we believers cannot turn our eyes from the fact that we must take a substantial part of the blame for where Religion finds itself in our society. What has gone wrong? For us as Christians, what has become of the messages of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and our Saviour?Where is the Laughter, the Joy, the Peace that was promised in the words of the different Christmas carols we all continue to sing year in and year out? Where is the light that Jesus brought and entrusted to us to drive darkness from the world? Today, more than ever, we Christians must rise up and take full responsibility for what we have done or not done in our societies. When we Catholics confess our sins during the celebration of the Holy Mass, we accept and plead with God to forgive us our sins for; what we have done and also what we have failed to do. Often the sins of omission can be as serious as the ones we commit by actions. Let us not be bystanders. We must all commit ourselves to doing some good today. This is why Pope Francis has asked Christians to wake up the world. 4: Blame Government but take responsibility: We have learnt to blame the government for everything as an excuse for our own sins of omission. True, we have not been the luckiest people in the world with the quality of leadership we have had. But that is not an excuse. How for example is a government responsible for men whose irresponsible lifestyles lead to their children being sick or out of school? How is government responsible for men who decide to marry and bring children into the world when they have no means of bringing them up? How is government responsible for domestic violence? How is government responsible for the collapse of family values? How is government responsible for students who decide to cheat in their examinations? How is government responsible for men who choose armed robbery rather than hard work? How is government responsible for women who decide to choose a life of prostitution? Government can and must create conditions, but we must all become instruments of change. If we take our responsibilities seriously, we can compel government to serve us better. 5: Christians, Show the Way and Be like Christ: Like the Greeks who approached Philip, the world is saying to Christians, We want to see Jesus (Jn.12: 21). However, increasingly, many of us have shielded Jesus by our arrogance, blind quest for power and worship of new but false gods. I am reminded of a poor man who kept coming to Church on Sunday but each time the warders would not let him in because he oozed some ordour and looked unkempt. The Warders feared that his presence could offend some of the big shots in the Church or dirty their clothes. The poor man got fed up with trying and, sitting in his shack by the roadside one Sunday, he cried to Jesus: Lord, I heard your message and have tried to enter the Church to worship you, but the people in the Church will not let me in. Please, forgive me but kindly accept my prayers and worship here on the streets where I am since I cannot enter the Church and this is my home. Jesus whispered to him: Sorry, my son, my fate is not different from yours. Even I too have tried to enter their Church, but they have refused to le me in! 6: Religion is not for Profit: The word of God and its living blessings are free. Isaiah said that much when he said: Come all of you who are thirsty, come to the water and you who have no money, come and eat. Buy wine and milk without money and without cost (Is 55:1). St Paul reminded us: What is my profit? It is this: that in preaching the word I might offer it free of charge (1 Cor. 9:18). This is what led Jesus to express His only visible show of anger and violence when he whipped the moneychangers and accused them of; turning His Father’s house into a den of thieves (Matt. 21:13).There were times that the Catholic Church was guilty of this abuse known as Simony. It was one of the reasons for Fr Martin Luther’s revolt. But, so much has changed now. Prayer for our people is the duty of all ordained ministers, but today, it has become subject to abuse. The embarrassing billions being committed to spiritual matters is an act of outright criminality and nothing to do with the Christian faith. This is one of the damning betrayals of Jesus Christ. 7: The Political Economy of Christmas: As the years have rolled by, Christmas has tended to lose its moral compass. This is a danger and a threat that we must address. The Chinese who do not believe in God have made the most out of Christmas by focusing on its economic value. There is nothing wrong with this in principle. However, in reality, we must return to the spirit of what we are really celebrating. Jesus gave us a model in the circumstances of His own birth and life on earth.He was born into the most absolute expression of poverty, in a dirty and smelling stable with animals. In real life, the Lord of Heaven and earth had no place to lay His head (Mt 8: 20, Lk. 9:58). He ate His last supper in a borrowed home (Lk 22; 7ff). He rode to Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey (Mt. 21:3, Lk. 19:31, Mk. 11:3). In death, He was buried in a borrowed tomb (Mt. 27:57). In the light of all this, it is difficult to understand how we have come to equate success, prosperity and blessings of God with wealth. Had riches been the essence of the mission of Jesus, He would have handed His ministry to bankers and economists such as Matthew or even Judas. Had healing been of the greatest importance, perhaps, Luke would have been the head of the Apostles. Rather, he chose Peter who doubted and was rather fickle minded. When He asked them to take the Gospel to all the ends of the earth, He stripped them of all forms of insurance. He warned them against relying on prosperity by enjoining them to carry no money, no belt, no sandals (Lk. 10:4). Money is very good but it must not become an idol for us. Thus, Jesus warned that we cannot worship God and mammon (Mt. 6:2) 8: Called to be Witnesses of Jesus Christ: At the end of His life, Jesus asked us to become His Witnesses. This is the most important point in our Christian life. Witnessing is doing, acting, and behaving like Christ did. This is not easy especially in a fraudulent world like ours. Yet, as St. Paul says, to confront these realities, we must be in the world but not of the world (Rom. 12:2). Our life must be a constant struggle for higher goals. Jesus did not ask us to become famous healers, wonder workers, miracle hawkers, fortunetellers, money doublers, stargazers, or prayer warriors for the rich and the powerful. As Christians and leaders, our thunderous prophetic voices should warn of the fact that the mighty could be cast down from their thrones and the lowly exalted (Lk. 1:52). It is this true witnessing that enabled the non-Christians of Antioch to call the followers of Jesus, Christians (Acts 11:26). 9: This Hope does not Disappoint Us: These are trying times for our country and they have always been. Just when we seem to be climbing out of the pit, something pulls us back. The tragic incident in Zaria is an antithesis of Christmas because Christmas should be about the celebration of life not death. The only Change that is urgently needed now is a clearly defined agenda for genuine reconciliation among our people. We do not have any other options. In hope we must turn the corner and take the highway. This hope does not disappoint us. God heal our country and merry Christmas to us all.

Honestly, una for just keep una respect by continuous hiding of his face coz By inally releasing it, una don fall INA hand o.

What is Christmas to you, New clothes, Eating Plenty of food and drinking too much? Going out and catching fun, what is Christmas to you?
Many celebrate Christmas forgetting that it is actually the Birthday of Christ our Lord that we are celebrating. We wish everybody Merry Christmas and Forget to Say 'Happy Birthday to Jesus' the Celebrant. I am also guilty of this, so I decided to do it in a different way today, to honestly wish My Savior Jesus a happy Birthday today...

'Happy Birthday Dear Lord and Father of my Life.
What gift can I present to you this day to show you how much you mean to me? You are the best thing in my Life. You are more mindful of me than I am of you. You Love and Respect me more than I do you. You never give my Enemies the chance to ask Me 'where is your Father?' Baba, on this day I celebrate you and as a gift to you, I give you 'MY ENTIRE SELF'. Help me to KNOW YOU MORE, Help me to LOVE YOU MORE, Help me to SERVE YOU MORE. It is indeed an honour to be your Daughter. Daddy, please Permit me to call you 'Baby' today...HAPPY BORN-DAY BABY JESUS!
Merry Christmas to Every child of God.'

What about you, am sure you've got some sweet Birthday Messages for Baby Jesus. Feel free to add yours here so NAIRALANDERS can all together give HIM the Biggeeeesssst SMILE!

Faaji Unlimited!

congrats fine babe! U deserve am. keep it up

Eeyaaah....