Deeprooted: Someone actually said this. But how possible is it?
One of my aunties opened a shop in a market environment. One of her neighbours whom she took as a friend started getting envious that more customers were going to my aunty's shop. My aunty did not notice. Suddenly, the business started going down as the customers' flow started drying up. Money was also not balancing. She went into fasting and prayers for some days, and God told her that by 12 noon the following day, she should watch out for the person who would come to buy something in her shop, and take the money brought but that money must be kept separately. The following day, a young girl of about 12 years came to buy biscuits with ₦50, and she remembered that this girl suddenly started buying biscuits from her before her business took a downward turn, she sold the biscuits and kept the money separately and the girl left. The following day, her neighbour started 'carrying face for her' when she greeted her. She was wondering what was going on. By 12 noon, the little girl surfaced to buy biscuits ₦50, this time she held the girl's hand and asked her who usually sent her to buy biscuits from her shop. The girl was afraid and pointed to her neighbour's shop. She refused to sell biscuits to the girl. That was the last she saw the girl. That night, she received a visit from her neighbour who insisted that she must be initiated into her craft... The attempt failed and by the following morning, the neighbour became confrontational because her secret is known.
This long story for you is to let you know that business is warfare especially if you are located in a particular section of Nigeria where in the guise of compulsory associations,meetings, and cooperatives, occultism and demonism is introduced into people's lives and businesses.
mamagee3: [color=deeppink]Hi everyone, I regret leaving Nigeria for America
Ever since I came to this country, I have had lots of illnesses like chronic eczema and PTSD… Now, I can’t go back home because of the medications I am taking. I came here as a child with my mother.
Please what do I do?[/color]
Your location is not the problem. Are you a believer? If not, let me humbly tell you what to do? *Get inside your room, kneel down in prayer * Surrender your life to Jesus Christ - accept Him as your personal saviour and redeemer, ask Him to come into your life and take control of your body, spirit and soul.
* If you've been involved in anything that opened the doors to satanic or demonic affliction such as drugs, occultism, premarital sex, etc. Confess these and ask God to forgive you, command any demon these things have brought into your life to leave in Jesus name, and use the Blood of Jesus to block every avenue of satanic attacks
* Get a Bible, study and meditate on the words * Join a church that believes in the power of the Holy Spirit *Start praying regularly *Seek spiritual counselling God has placed you where you are today for a purpose. Connect with Him to reveal that purpose to you. I will hear your testimony in Jesus mighty name. God bless you
MaxInDHouse: Please it's what the scriptures say about Jesus that i quoted {Matthew 12:19} and the reason is found in Jesus' own words {Matthew 7:12} we want to be respected so if anyone wants to talk to us greeting matters first {Matthew 10:12} introduction and presentation of our message! Matthew 10:13
So it's about logical reasoning Sir!
Following the leading of the Holy Spirit trumps all forms of logical reasoning. God bless you.
hopefulLandlord: Christians know very well that the idiotic pacifism thought by Jesus is impossible. They can't ever follow his teachings. They just love to talk about how their Jesus talked about love. They will tell you that you are to love your enemies, love your neighbors as your self, turn the other cheek and the other nonsense Jesus said they should do that they NEVER follow. They only talk about it. Jesus went as far as saying that if a person takes your shirt you are to give him your coat. He encouraged his followers to run away when prosecuted instead of fighting back.
The new testament is filled with idiotic pasifism that no christian ever follows. They NEVER follow it. They only keep repeating it like robots. They know very well that it is all nonsense and impossible to follow any of the nonsense Jesus said.
What you interpreted as "idiotic pacifism" is the foundation of Christianity and it is meant to make a Christian to RELY on the HOLY SPIRIT and not on SELF.
The Christian love is anchored on OVERCOMING SELF(ISHNESS) and to focus on God. Read Jesus Christ response to a question:
Matthew 22:36-40 KJV Master, which is the great commandment in the law? [37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
These are the goals of the Christian life... attaining the state of heart that loves God and man unconditionally. God bless you.
MaxInDHouse: YES! But such can only work in the land of Israel where God has included in His laws to be kind to strangers {Deuteronomy 14:29} but when sending them out of his own country Jesus instructed them to provide for their need in the ministry {Luke 22:35-37} that's why Apostle Paul WORKED to support himself in the ministry! Act 18:3
So my friend it's only within the boarders of Israel that Jesus' disciples can expect to be treated well even though they are strangers in the eyes of their audience, but outside Israel such is not to be expected!
So, what is wrong with preaching in public spaces because that's what you are against?
MaxInDHouse: It's a demonic expression but only spirit filled Bible students can discern such speeches!
First of all the way those people rise up in buses, market places and street corners and start making noise is antichristian. What do i mean? The man who commissioned preaching and teaching is called "Jesus of Nazareth" he commanded his disciples to go and meet people in their homes or anywhere they can have a one on one conversation with their listeners! Matthew 10:11-13 We need to really understand Jesus before we can work for/with him. He doesn't want us to disturb anyone with noise perhaps the person is thinking something in his mind and is not in the mood for talks or trying to figure out something so he needs a calm and quiet environment but he can't find such a place, so Jesus wants us to greet him then ask for permission to speak! Matthew 12:19 In that way we have shown respect for our neighbour. That's why Jesus asked us to visit them at home because if they're lovers of God they will like to talk about God! Malachi 3:16
But since most people claiming Christians today are misinformed Churchgoers they just want to say what they're taught in their various worship centers and they don't respect their neighbours so they just start talking, of course they know it's not proper that's why they try to catch the attention Churchgoers like them by starting with songs common among Churchgoers and once some in the audience join in the chorus they feel they've gotten enough support to spew their gibberish.
Now why is it that they're saying "Bible believing church" instead of telling their listeners to come and become disciples who will also preach and teach for Jesus?
They know there's no arrangement in their places of worship for what they're doing in the buses or on the streets so they will end up telling you to go and choose the religion you think is OK. Jesus established preaching and teaching for his disciples in pairs {Luke 10:1} so that when the person loves your message you can return to establish a free home Bible study with your friend, it's after he/she has become convinced that he/she will become eager to know the source of this great wisdom. Then is the time to invite them to the gathering where you're also learning {Hebrews 10:24-25} to become active disciples of Christ not just Churchgoers! 2Timothy 3:16-17
You have some valid points in your conclusion however I think your interpretation of Matthew 10: 11- 17 is out of context. Those homes where to provide accommodation for them... Jesus sent them to towns, homes. Acts 1:8; Matthew 28: 19-20;ark 16: 15-17; Luke 24:47. Go through these. God bless you.
good4all40: I envy you Bro, you are well traveled that's why it's always good to have a second passport
I know you can enter Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore etc visa on arrival with a Benin Republic passport good to know you can do that as well with Gambian passport not Nigeria.
As a Nigerian passport holder, you need visa to enter almost all sane countries of the World.
It's a very sad development indeed. Imagine Mauritius giving a Benin Republic passport holder 2months visa on arrival while a Nigerian passport holder is given 2 weeks!
janejjjjj5000: I am tired. I have a better view of marriage. He is not meeting up. My children are saying that the way he talks when upsets affects them. The children cry and he apologizes to all of us. I know I sound confused but I am just tired. I feel that my children will not be seeing this when we divorce. That is why I don't want the marriage anymore. I just want all round peace. I am tired.
You cannot handle those children alone. In short, that's when you will know that the father is important in their lives.
Have you shared your dream or idea of your 'ideal' marriage with him?
Don't you have any mentor - mature adult to talk to? You should have a spiritual mentor at least. If you're a Christian, seek out a Christian marriage counsellor.
But more importantly, you need to ask yourself what made you to marry your husband 14 years ago...and what you need from life...and where you want to see your family especially your children 10 years from now. Your husband is a good man... you have your flaws also...unite your family to remain one.
Jennyclay: Nigeria Elite schools are just loosing value every single day.
~No good morals ~Lack of discipline ~Bunch of lazy teachers waiting for month end to receive their peanut. ~No code of conduct
I feel Elite schools are just for mere business ground. They are just ripping parents off their hard earned money. I can't be paying over 400k in a term and you can't instill good morals on my kids.
Now, I think parents should consider registering their children in government schools.
Sir/Ma, the school does not have the responsibility, ability and power to instill good morals on the students...It must begin from the homes.
By the grace of God, I have worked in two of such schools where I taught children of billionaires, governors, NASS members.
Till today, I am still impressed with the conduct of some of the daughters and sons of some of these people. Impeccable in character...
I told the son of a former governor who I taught then that I would deal with him if he dares me because he was a bully and the school was condoning him, sadly, his father is known to be strict and would not hear of that. But the school was afraid to lose him as a student.
BOTTOM LINE: Morals and character formation starts from the Homefront...
Electrochemistry: Jesus Christ is the most influential figure in the religious history of man.
Ten Reasons Jesus is the Most Influential Person in History Let’s be honest: it’s all too easy to highjack Jesus and make him the pin-up boy for our cause. Depending on your flavour he’s the middle-class moralist, the enlightened guru, the hellfire preacher, the social justice warrior—and the list grows every year.
The reason Jesus keeps getting a rebrand—the reason he simply refuses to go away—is that he is without question the most influential person in history.
Don’t believe me? Then consider the following.
1. Jesus Is Permanently World Famous Most of the world is religious. But only one faith figure has over half the world’s attention. The Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam make up 54% of the world’s population. And a common thread of all three is Jesus.
Yes, Jesus was rejected by the Jews as a false Messiah—but he was the most compelling candidate to date. And he remains the most famous Jew who ever lived.
“The Bible is unbeatably the best-selling book in history.” Jesus is the central figure of the world’s biggest religion. Christianity has always been a contagious faith. As a result, a third of the planet has pledged its allegiance to Jesus, with dramatic church growth continuing in Asia, Africa and South America.
Even Muslims, who deny that Jesus is God’s Son, acknowledge him as a prophet. The Qur’an calls him ‘Isa al-Masih or Jesus the Messiah, and it refers to him 93 times—four times more often than Muhammad himself.
But the Bible—whose central character is Jesus—has had better traction. At five billion copies, the Bible is unbeatably the best-selling book in history. It’s also the world’s most translated, written-about, and shoplifted, book of all time.
2. Jesus Launched An Equality Revolution Staggering inequality still exists around the world. When people face discrimination for their gender, ethnicity, age or creed, a deep sense of injustice wells up in us.
But did you know that not everyone feels the same? For most of human history—and in much of the world today—it’s perfectly normal to treat people unequally.
Most ancient civilisations practiced slavery; even Plato and Aristotle defended it. Fast forward to the modern world and there are more slaves now than when slavery was abolished.
“Staggering inequality still exists around the world.” Besides that, the caste system, FGM, child marriage and honour killings are tragically commonplace. This isn’t a matter of spite—these cultures are simply acting on deeply-held beliefs.
Thankfully, the equality we enjoy is having a ripple effect around the planet. But notice where this ideal originates: generally in western cultures which have been deeply shaped by the Bible.
Others will protest that our emphasis on equality comes from the Renaissance or the human rights movement. But even these were birthed in a Christian-saturated worldview. Uncomfortable as it might be, this equality revolution finds its beginnings in Jesus.
“All people are created equal. If that’s true, then all beliefs are not.” From his embrace of women and children, to his claim that God knows the number of hairs on our head; from his call to leave the ninety-nine for the one, to his charge for costly love to the least of these, Jesus defied the ancient world to insist that every life matters.
All people are created equal. If that’s true, then all beliefs are not. Objectively speaking, Jesus taught a better way.
And in a time when “progress” has taken us beyond equality and into the frightful realm of identity politics, white guilt and reverse racism, Jesus still teaches a better way.
3. Jesus Redefined “Hero” Here’s another confronting truth about the ancient world: its heroes were—let’s be honest—mostly murderers. Think conquering caesars, samurai warriors, and knights in shining armour.
Thousands of years later, it couldn’t be more opposite. In the West at least, we esteem the nun who serves in the ghetto, the rescuer who sacrifices his life to save a child, and the head of state who relates to the humble and lowly.
This is an extraordinary reversal. And once again, Jesus helps explain it.
As Jesus hung on the cross crying out in agony, his devastated followers had to decide: either he wasn’t the hero they once thought—or their very definition of hero had to change. They chose the second option.
Check out Kurt Mahlburg’s new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West?
Slowly the continent of Europe marinated in a single, world-changing idea: the universe-creating God stepped down to earth, became a peasant carpenter, washed his disciples dirty feet, made upside-down claims like the meek will inherit the earth, and then gave up his life for his friends.
Whether you’re a Christian or not, if your idea of a hero is a humble, self-giving servant, then you’ve been shaped by Jesus.
4. Jesus Inspired Universal Literacy Most cultures have turned their language into writing. Some have gone on to develop beautiful literature. But from time immemorial and on every continent, education was for the elite.
That is until followers of Jesus saw otherwise. As the Reformation swept Europe, reformers like Luther and Wycliffe had a vision to make the Word of God available to the masses, taking it from Latin into the languages of the people.
“Christians have played a disproportionate role in making universal education global.” Missionaries continued this project. To translate Scripture, they systematised national languages like Hindi, Urdu and Bengali which helped birth nations. In fact, thousands of indigenous dialects have been saved by Christians in this drive to democratise language.
A Bible you can understand is only useful if you can read. So the other goal of reformers and missionaries was mass literacy, for which they enlisted the help of governments. From the earliest days, Christians have played a disproportionate role in making universal education global.
As for higher learning, don’t forget that monks invented the university—and that the world’s leading institutions like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale (and too many more to list) were established to teach the Bible.
5. Jesus Is The Star Of Ancient History It’s often assumed that the Bible is historically unreliable. Some even question if Jesus ever lived. But it’s no exaggeration to say that Jesus is the best-attested figure of ancient history.
Tiberius was emperor when Jesus was born. But almost everything we know about him was written 80 years after the event. The writings we have about Jesus, on the other hand, were written within 20-60 years of his life.
In case you didn’t catch that, our records about a ragtag rabbi called Jesus are better than those we have for the man who ruled the world at the same time.
Check out Kurt Mahlburg’s new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West?
But it gets more impressive. No one claims the history about Caesar or the writings of Plato were made up. But only a handful of these documents have survived.
By contrast, 24,000 New Testament manuscripts can be found throughout the world’s libraries. With these, it’s possible to reconstruct the New Testament with near-perfect accuracy.
“The historical evidence for Jesus is overwhelming.” And if you’re concerned that the writers of the Bible were biased, consider just some of what we know about Jesus from non-Christian authors:
Jesus came from Nazareth; he lived a virtuous life; he was crucified in Palestine during the festival of Passover, under Pontius Pilate, during the reign of Tiberius Caesar; he was considered a Jewish king; his disciples believed he was raised to life three days after he died; and they worshipped him as God.
Yes, faith is needed to follow Jesus—but it’s not a blind faith. The historical evidence for Jesus is overwhelming.
6. Jesus’ Followers Discovered Science Many believe that science and religion are at war. Take Richard Dawkins for example, who says, “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
But this would be news to the founders of modern science, who were mostly Bible-believing Christians. Think Pascal, Faraday, Pasteur, Kelvin—or Newton, who discovered gravity but wrote over a million words about the Bible.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth gave Europe a real universe that could be studied.” Quite simply, science arose only once in history—in Christian Europe. Many other cultures had scientific insights. But it took a lot more than insights to develop a culture of science. For that, Christian assumptions were needed. Like these:
Objective truth exists. Many eastern faiths say that each person can find their own truth. But science only works if truth exists and can be discovered—a thoroughly Christian idea.
The universe exists. It’s also common in the East to see the world as an illusion. By contrast, “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” gave Europe a real universe that could be studied.
The universe is orderly. Most faiths imagine an array of gods competing to run the universe. However, one Creator using one set of laws made life much easier for scientists like Kepler who said that to do science was to “think God’s thoughts after him”.
“All of these ideas are at the heart of Christian belief.” We’re fallen and sinful. No one likes the Christian doctrine of original sin, but it inspired the scientific method which stresses that a discovery is only made when we’ve doubted our theories until we can doubt them no more.
Our brains can be trusted. If we’re here by some cosmic accident, how can we trust the conclusions our brains come to? But if we’re made in the image of an intelligent God, that problem is solved as well.
All of these ideas—which are at the heart of Christian belief—made science possible.
7. Jesus Is The World’s Greatest Force For Compassion Early Christians were despised in the Roman Empire. Despite this, their program to feed Rome’s poor was as big as the city’s civic guilds. And they scoured streets and trash heaps to rescue discarded babies—their example ultimately ending infanticide.
Christianity and compassion are deeply linked. The history of hospitals, for example, is mostly a history of the church. Public healthcare was unknown in the ancient world, before St. Basil opened a 300-bed hospital. His vision spanned a thousand years until monks were caring for the sick in 37,000 European monasteries.
As modern medicine was born, followers of Jesus led the charge again, pioneering antiseptic surgery, clinical teaching, physiology, transplant surgery, the vaccine, and writing what became the standard medical textbook for two centuries.
“Christianity and compassion are deeply linked.” The world wouldn’t be the same without Christian heroes like William Carey who ended widow burning in India, William Wilberforce who abolished the slave trade, Martin Luther King, Jr. who transformed civil rights in the U.S, and Mother Teresa whose name is literally a synonym for compassion.
By no means do Christians have a monopoly on care. But Jesus—who gave us the story of the Good Samaritan, and backed it up with his profound love for the hungry, sick and dying—has inspired more compassion than any other force in history.
8. Jesus Paved The Way For Democracy Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” He must be right if almost 70% of nations have adopted it.
Rule of law is the remarkable idea that a nation is governed by its constitution—something with a higher authority than senators, kings, or the mob majority.
For this, followers of Jesus were inspired by ancient Israel’s law—and they were central in drafting the foundation texts of modern democracy like The Magna Carta, Lex Rex, The English Bill of Rights and the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
“On these ideas we’ve built the freest, safest and most generous societies on earth.” They reasoned that if we’re all made in God’s image, we the people should get a say in how government is formed, not just the elite. But if we’re fallen and sinful, we also need checks and balances to restrain our own corruption.
These are revolutionary ideas—enjoyed by very few in history. On them we’ve built the freest, safest and most generous societies on earth. Even human rights, which are slowly being adopted worldwide, have deeply Christian roots.
As secularism spreads, it’s worth remembering that the separation of church and state was originally Jesus’ idea. And that freedom of religion has never meant freedom from religion.
If it did, we never would have discovered democracy in the first place.
9. Jesus And His Church Are The Most Hated People On Earth Many people suffer oppression today—but none more than followers of Jesus. Though they make up only one third of the world’s inhabitants, Christians bear the brunt of some 80% of religious discrimination.
100 million Christians are targeted for their faith in 139 countries—or three quarters of all nations on earth. Every year, 150,000 believers are put to death simply for what they believe. In its Middle Eastern homeland, the church is under threat of extinction.
What doesn’t make sense about all of this is that the western media will stand up for almost any minority group—but it’s almost silent when it comes to the global war on Christians.
“Christians bear the brunt of some 80% of religious discrimination.” This silence, in fact, is key to understanding another trend: a growing anti-Christian sentiment in the West.
Christians who report discrimination in places like Australia, Europe and North America are often dismissed as having a martyr complex. But real data has led Open Doors, the leading authority on global Christian persecution, to warn that western nations will soon be included in their annual reports.
When a single faith is the target of so much worldwide opposition—and this despite the many benefits it has brought the world—it should get our attention.
Maybe Jesus really did come to rescue humanity from its deep hostility towards God.
10. Jesus’ Claim To Be God Was Unique One final quality that sets Jesus apart is his claim to be God. That might sound odd, given that countless people through time have done the same.
But actually, the claim of most was that they were a god. Jesus however claimed to be the God—the Creator of the universe, walking among us in human flesh.
Check out Kurt Mahlburg’s new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West?
No one else who launched a world religion has gone there—certainly not Muhammad or the Buddha. And most who’ve done so in modern times have actually taken a shortcut: claiming to be a reincarnate Jesus, they’ve simply hoped to borrow some of his unassailable fame.
When God spoke to Moses in the burning bush, I AM was the name he gave himself. What got Jesus in so much trouble with the religious leaders was when he took this title to himself, saying “before Abraham was, I AM”.
Jesus forgave sins, which any Jew knew was God’s business alone. He accepted worship, which was an even greater scandal. In these and countless other ways he made himself equal with God—which is what ultimately got him crucified.
“Jesus claimed to be the Creator of the universe.” Jesus could have been lying. It’s also possible that he was insane. But if his biographies are true, he seems far too virtuous to be a deceiver, and far too brilliant to be a lunatic.
The only possibility that remains is that he is who he says he is. The implications of this are profound. It means that he is Lord—and I am not.
This attempt to hang Osinbajo because he is interested in becoming the next President by using his membership of RCCG against him is a calculated one indeed and Kperogi is trying in doing the hatchet job for his constituency.
It was this RCCG membership of Osinbajo that was used to "launder" the "conservative" image of PMB and to make him acceptable to a large section of Nigerians including yours sincerely, now it is a bad thing!
This book may enlighten some of us more: ENGAGE! by ABU NASIR. I need the softcopy.
Even the best of pastors, teachers, preachers in the World cannot change any man or woman who is unwilling to be changed. In case you feel frustrated at anything and you are airing your frustration here and there, or a transfer of aggression or frustration, the Church is not your place for transferring frustration and aggression. We are willing to help you if you have so much bitterness, so much frustration and so much distraction in your life and you don’t know where to vent it but in situations like this, we can help you. I want to let you know that we love you and Jesus loves you. It is well with you and it is well with your loved ones.
Passionate888: To those that would say they should have thrown the shark into the water, just know this that even in Norway, they do kill aquatic animal
IF IT IS TRUE, this Professor Yakubu should be investigated seriously...what about the billions for voters' registration; voters' education; more importantly, what caused this reduction in the numbers of eligible voters?
I hope Nigerians are able to redeem themselves if at all elections would hold come next year, by supporting Osinbajo because ALL the others who want to be president are coming to the TABLE with NOTHING.
Business › Re: Help! Money Keeps Disappearing! by writeprof(m): 1:13pm On Apr 25, 2022
