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overcomersfaith:
In our faith clinic of today we want to ask an important question needed in our Christian race… “Are you accountably or Anonymous? …

Read more @ https://overcomers-faith.org/accountability-or-anonymity/

Kobojunkie:
1. What you certain you are born again?

2. What proof do you have that you are born again according to Jesus Christ and not the doctrines of your many pastors and mogs whom you bow your heads to?

3. What was the cross that you accepted when you became born-again or is it all of mental assent for you according to the doctrines and traditions of your pastors and mogs?

Redoilbeta:
Hello, Does ones Personal Decision being an Atheist, Free thinker / Humanist Warrants family and Friends Withdrawing there Assistance / Help and Supports?

They said, I stopped believing in the god that Provides for them to assist me,then I should go and seek help from atheistism I Practised now.

I Practiced Christianity before, Now I'm an Atheist. Pls. The reason I Changed to be an Atheist is not the main reason for this thread.
I'm not the first and I'm not going to be the last, It happens. reasons best known to Individuals.

There are situations Atheists turned to Christians, Muslims,... Muslims Converts to Christianity. Christians Changed to Muslims, Babalawo/ Ogboni Fraters Becomes a Strong Evangelist / Pastors.. Everyone with his Personal Reasons. Not on here to Judge.

My Questions is that why must family and friends became so Annoyed, took it Personal To withdraw all there Help, Sack Me from Work,insults,Bully me.

Where are the Atheist in this Forum Pls. I need your Encouragement and Words.

Kobojunkie:
1. The promise you quote applies only to those who are in good standing with God — those who tread the path of righteousness.

2. I am afraid it is not a trick of Satan; God says He does not answer the prayers of the unrighteous; every prayer — plea, request, petition— of the unrighteous, even those in search of forgiveness of sin are tainted/made filthy by their sins and hence are an abomination to God. So when an unrighteous man asks for God to forgive Him his sins, he does so in vain.

Jesus Christ explained in His Gospel that the only way to obtain freedom from slavery to sin is through careful continuous submission and obedience to His teachings and commandments, God's Truth and Law in the Kingdom of God. It is only those who continue in submission that comes to know the Truth of God as far as sin in the Kingdom of God and are then set free from slavery to sin by the Truth Himself. There is no other way to obtain forgiveness of sins for the unrighteous man where Jesus Christ is concerned. Hence the reason why Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God(holiness) and God's righteousness in order to that He taught them — the blessings and benefits of the Kingdom of God(answers to prayers included) — shall be added onto them.

3. If demons are more knowledgable of the truth of God than you are, what does that say of your claim to believe?

Earthkumy:
Becoming a true Disciple

Disciple means follower, and Christianity is not a democracy where popular opinion counts. Christianity is a kingdom where the voice of the master is the ultimate. Jesus says if you love me obey my commandments, in other words no other way around our relationship with God. Unless you learn to listen to the master and the written word which is His commandments.
Someone once asked me what my ambition is. I told him that since I gave my life to Christ and made him the Lord of my life, I don't have personal ambition. My only ambition is to do the will of he who is the Lord of my life which is Jesus Christ. Anything you see me do is because he asks me to and I might make mistakes along the way but my focus is the will of my Lord. The devil is smart to know our personal desires and amplifies it to make us anxious and unreasonable to the will of God. Which will make our desires to be in conflict and we become deaf to the voice of God. Why our prayers and communication to God is centered on what we want, and has little to do with God's purpose for us and the Church. If you want to work in that peace that passes all understanding you have to step back from your personal desire and lusts and ask the Father 'what is thy will'. In the will of God there's peace even when it is accompanied with a valley of death, in that we fear no evil, because those that know their God, will do exploit. A true disciple doesn't follow his/her feelings or desires, a true disciple follows the master's commands.

I pray we turn from our personal lusts and search out our masters command and follow it to the glory of His name Amen

I am your beloved Pastor Eze Chukwu
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Mogbonjubola55:
...when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem... Luke 2:45



We might as well face it, strife has even infiltrated our church life. It is true enough that the Church is now the Church militant. But, as such, its warfare ought to be that of dedication to revealed truth and divine holiness, and not intramural bickering and carnal disputes. We read in the second chapter of Luke that Joseph and Mary lost Jesus one day. Where did they lose Him? They lost Him in the most unlikely place in all the world-the Temple. I have seen many people lose Jesus right in the church. I have seen them lose Him in a dispute about who was to be choir director, who was to play the organ, who was to be an elder, or who was to be the minister. Yes, because we are human, though Christian, it is easy to lose sight of Jesus right in the temple!

PRAYER

Don't let me lose sight of You, Lord, in the complex logistics of everyday life.

by: Evang. Billy Graham

tfrancis:
We all know this popular verse, John 3:16; "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.".

Let me say a little about His Love, some of what he had done and can do for you through JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD;

- At last minutes, the thief on the cross was saved by Jesus despite all his past wrong doings. Jesus is full of mercy and compassions. He was giving eternal life.
- Jairus’ Daughter was brought back to life by Jesus. Matthew 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43
- Mary Magdalena was delivered by Jesus.
- The Woman with the Issue of Blood Healed by Jesus.
- Healed the paralytic man at Bethesda. John 5:1-15.
- Healed the man blind from birth. John 9:1-7
- He stilled the storm.
- HE fed 5,000 in excess from little.
- and lots more which cannot be count. All these tells me that God wants the best for you despite satanic agenda.

Believe who he had sent to you, JESUS, accept him, call unto him, and thou shall be saved.

I always say this. He's closer to you than you can ever imagine. Call on him now!!!

1 Peter 5;6-7 says; "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

JESUS IS LORD!!!

kpakpandoN:
Basically, the reason we eat is so that we can have strength, good health and life. When I was younger, we had a slogan that said, “We eat to live, we don’t live to eat”. The regular meals we eat however, have some limitations. One of the limitations is that there is no one food that has all the nutrients in it, so no ordinary meal can give you all-round vitality. There is however one meal that gives life in abundance. It is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. Until you eat this meal, you have no life in you (John 6:53).

In Joshua 14:6-14, one of the people who ate the Passover meal, Caleb, said at the age of 85, “I am still as strong today as I was 45 years ago”. When you eat the Holy Communion, your strength is renewed; weakness becomes a stranger to your body. Some years ago, I went to hold a programme in a foreign country, and during one of my prayer walks in the morning, I started feeling faint. I couldn’t walk much further and had to go back to my lodge. Later on, I recalled that we would be eating the Holy Communion that evening so that gave me hope. In the evening after eating the Communion, my strength came back to me. In Psalm 105:37, the Bible speaks about the children of Israel who ate the Passover meal: there was no feeble one amongst them. They all had robust health. Sickness will become a stranger to you when you eat this special meal. In John 6:54, the Lord Jesus Christ said concerning the Holy Communion:

Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

We eat to live, have strength and be healthy, but the Holy Communion goes far beyond those three basic things. It acts as a medicine – not an ordinary kind of medicine, but one that defies death. Exodus 12:13 says death will pass over you when it sees the blood. This is the blood of Jesus which is represented by the wine in the Holy Communion. I am believing God for you that when next you eat the Holy Communion, death will stay away from your home, in Jesus’ name.
Written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

newstartdisc:
Becoming a disciple of Jesus is a personal decision that involves a commitment to follow Jesus Christ and his teachings. The goal is to become a copy of Jesus in the world! Here are some steps to get started:

1. Believe in Jesus Christ: The first step in becoming a disciple of Jesus is to believe in him as the Son of God and the Savior of the world. This belief comes through faith, which is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8-9).

2. Repent of your sins: Repentance is a turning away from sin and turning toward God. It involves a heartfelt sorrow for wrongdoing and a desire to change. Confess your sins to God and ask for forgiveness (1 John 1:9).

3. Be baptized: Baptism is a public declaration of your faith in Jesus Christ. It symbolizes your death to sin and your new life in Christ (Romans 6:4).

4. Read the Bible: The Bible is God's word and is the primary way that he communicates with us. Start by reading the New Testament, which tells the story of Jesus and his teachings. Here's a great Bible reading plan for new Christians.https://www.newstartdiscipleship.com/post/bible-reading-plan-for-new-believers-the-best-one-that-i-ve-ever-found

5. Pray: Prayer is a way to communicate with God. Talk to him about your hopes, fears, and struggles, and ask for his guidance and strength.

6. Join a community of believers: Being a disciple of Jesus is not something that you do alone. Find a local church where you can worship, learn, and serve with other believers.

7. Follow Jesus' teachings: Jesus taught us to love God and love others (Matthew 22:37-40). Follow his example by living a life of service, compassion, and forgiveness. The goal of discipleship is not just learning, it is *learning in order to imitate.*

Remember, becoming a disciple of Jesus is a lifelong journey. It involves daily choices to follow him and to live according to his teachings.

annyplenty:
A little over a decade ago, one of my friends owed me one thousand US ($100) dollars and did not pay back because he was bankrupt. About the same time, while I was expecting my friend to pay me back, I also borrowed about 200 dollars from one of my other friends to run a business. The business ran at a loss.

Now, I needed to pay back the $200. I made payment appointments on about two different occasions with my friend that borrowed me the $200 but I could not meet up with the payment.

One day, while inside a BRT bus in one of the popular Lagos bus terminus, heading to a destination and waiting for the bus to be filled up, I called the friend I owed $200 to beg him for another payment plan. To my surprise, he told me, he forgave me the money and that I should not pay it again. He said we were best friends and that he believed, I would have paid back the money, if I had. That was a very great relief to me and I was happy.

While, I was still inside the same bus, happy that my debt had been waived, the Spirit of God told me that I have just been forgiven my debt, that I should pick my phone and call my other friend that owed me $1000 and also forgive him his debt. In obedience, I picked the phone and called him not to pay the $1000 debt again. He was happy as well.

Now, that would not have made so much sense to me just as it would not have made much sense to most people. Why should the Holy Spirit asked me to waive a debt of $1000 to another person because someone waived a debt of $200 to me? It would have made more sense to me, as a human being, if the Holy Spirit had financially blessed my debtor so that he could pay me back my $1000 debt and then I would take $200 from it and pay my own debt and then still had a whole $800 to cater for my family and still had some money to fill my pocket.

But guess what? The way of God is different. I believed that God wanted to teach me forgiveness and that I could not fully understand the gravity of forgiveness unless he taught me to forgive things that are painful to me. By so doing, I would have been used to forgiving 'perceived' painful offences and then to forgive ‘perceived’ little offences will not be so difficult.

Also, the Holy Spirit was teaching me that the face value or weight or gravity of offence does not matter to when God when in to comes to forgiveness but that what matters to God is whether forgiveness is granted or not. To the Holy Spirit, someone had forgiven me my debt and so I should forgive another person, his debt. He was concerned that forgiveness was done and not how much was forgiven. If I were to consider that how much was involved, I could have even gotten my debtor arrested, retrieve my money and then pay my own debtor. But the Holy Spirit was interested in something much more important. The way of God is truly different and unsearchable.

Can you remember the parable of the Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 15:3-5 that if a man had a hundred sheep, and one is lost, that man is supposed to leave the ninety-nine behind and go to look for the single one that was lost? Now, to most human being, that will not make sense. They will ask, 'Supposing something bad happen to the ninety-nine before I come back?' Let me just leave that one sheep to get lost like that’. But God is interested in every single sheep like the other.

If your boss at the office forgave your coming late to office, then you forgive the bus conductor that abused you in the bus. Forgiveness is forgiveness; it has nothing to do with weight or gravity of offence. If your friend could forgive you the lies you told him, then you should forgive your wife of her adultery.

It is like that. If anyone can forgive you any offence, no matter how little you perceived the offence to be, then you must forgive your offender of any offence that is committed against you, no matter, how big you perceived the offence to be, including adultery.

This is similar to how masses frown when court sentenced citizens that stole a supposed minor items into prison. You often hear statements like ‘why should they sentence someone to prison for stealing ten thousand naira when there are many government officials stealing billions? But rather than viewing the two stealings as being punishable offences, they are try to ascribe punishability of offence to the weight of what was stolen.

Jesus is coming. Stay ready in absolute repentance, watchfulness and holiness.

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GeeM:
the end is not near

Jokanem:
Who Go to Heaven?

God selects a limited number of faithful Christians who, after their death, will be resurrected to life in heaven. (1 Peter 1:​3, 4)

Once they have been chosen, they must continue to maintain a Christian standard of faith and conduct in order not to be disqualified from receiving their heavenly inheritance.​—Ephesians 5:5; Philippians 3:​12-​14.

What will those who go to heaven do there?

They will serve alongside Jesus as kings and priests for 1,000 years. (Revelation 5:​9, 10; 20:6)

They will form the “new heavens,” or heavenly government, that will rule over the “new earth,” or earthly society.

Those heavenly rulers will help restore mankind to the righteous conditions that God originally intended.​—Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:​13.

How many will be resurrected to heaven?

The Bible indicates that 144,000 people will be resurrected to heavenly life. (Revelation 7:4)

In the vision recorded at Revelation 14:​1-3, the apostle John saw “the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000.”

In this vision, “the Lamb” represents the resurrected Jesus. (John 1:​29; 1 Peter 1:​19)

“Mount Zion” represents the exalted position of Jesus and the 144,000 who rule with him in the heavens.​—Psalm 2:6; Hebrews 12:22.

Those “who are called and chosen” to rule with Christ in the Kingdom are referred to as a “little flock.” (Revelation 17:14; Luke 12:32)

This shows that they would be relatively few in comparison with the complete number of Jesus’ sheep.​—John 10:16.

Misconceptions about those who go to heaven

1) Misconception: All good people go to heaven.

Fact: God promises everlasting life on earth for most good people.​—Psalm 37:11, 29, 34.

Jesus said: “No man has ascended into heaven.” (John 3:​13)

He thus showed that good people who died before him, such as Abraham, Moses, Job, and David, did not go to heaven. (Acts 2:​29, 34)

Instead, they had the hope of being resurrected to life on earth.​—Job 14:13-​15.

The resurrection to heavenly life is called “the first resurrection.” (Revelation 20:6) This indicates that there will be another resurrection. It will be an earthly one.

The Bible teaches that under the rule of God’s Kingdom, “death will be no more.” (Revelation 21:​3, 4) This promise must apply to the earth, since death has never existed in heaven.

2) Misconception: Each person chooses whether he or she will receive life in heaven or on earth.

Fact: God determines which faithful Christians receive “the prize of the upward call,” that is, the hope of heavenly life. (Philippians 3:​14) Personal desire or ambition has no bearing on a person’s being chosen.​—Matthew 20:20-​23.

3) Misconception: The hope of everlasting life on earth is an inferior one, offered only to those not worthy of going to heaven.

Fact: God calls those who will receive everlasting life on earth “my people,” “my chosen ones,” and “those blessed by Jehovah.” (Isaiah 65:21-​23)

They will have the privilege of fulfilling God’s original purpose for humankind​—everlasting life in perfection on a paradise earth.​—Genesis 1:​28; Psalm 115:16; Isaiah 45:18.

4) Misconception: The number 144,000 mentioned in Revelation is symbolic, not literal.

Fact: Although Revelation contains symbolic numbers, some of the numbers it uses are literal.

For example, it speaks of “the 12 names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb.” (Revelation 21:14) Consider the evidence for concluding that the number 144,000 should likewise be taken literally.

Revelation 7:4 records “the number of those who were sealed [or, confirmed for life in heaven], 144,000.”

In the immediate context of this verse, a second group is contrasted: “a great crowd, which no man was able to number.” Those of the “great crowd” also receive salvation from God. (Revelation 7:​9, 10) If the number 144,000 were symbolic, referring instead to a group without number, then the contrast between the two groups would be lost.

In addition, the 144,000 are described as being “bought from among mankind as firstfruits.” (Revelation 14:4) The expression “firstfruits” refers to a small representative selection. It aptly describes those who will rule in heaven with Christ over an undetermined number of subjects on earth.​—Revelation 5:​10.

In conclusion not all good people go to heaven same as not everyone are rulers but only those selected by Jehovah god.The subject being the greater number will live here on Earth. The problems facing humans today on Earth would be eradicated.