tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29726421852867167782024-02-07T00:08:52.744-08:00youth impartationprasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-55930895911694872932017-09-04T03:34:00.001-07:002017-09-04T03:34:49.309-07:00Changing the Narrative<p dir=ltr>Between Buhari and Nollywood <u>ScriptWriters</u></p>
<p dir=ltr>Buhari is a man that does something continuously in same way, expecting a different result each time. He is a man that wants to use obsolete ideas to solve modern problems. <br>
Nollywood movie scriptwriters are people that are not innovative and ready to change the narrative to favour us all. It is important at this point to note that the media has a great role to play in molding the thought pattern of any society. But ours has been a case of pushing a negative thought pattern to the society.<br>
I will give an example, sometime this year, I stumbled upon a post where a commenter said that Igbos dress naked and when the owners of the post asked him why, he asked her 'don't you watch their movies', I felt really bad and couldn't give him a piece of my mind, but the truth is that that bigot got that narrative from the movie he watched. <br>
We are filled with writers. directors and sponsors that don't want to do new things and push a new narrative, letting the people know that doing and living good is possible. <br>
Can these guys start something that will make the political situation of this country be conducive for all, I think they should go read up the making of star wars. <br>
We were watching a Chinese film few weeks ago and we saw China show the world a bit of what they have, they showed us that they are ready for threat from anyone. Most of the US films we watch is to show you what they have and where they want to get to. Can we start showing movies that will show where we want to go to as a country and I tell you, that if this country survives 5 years, then she is good to go. Can we act films that will show people saying now to bribery, where youths campaigned ans won elections without godfatherism and doing well in the discharge of their duties. Can we act movies where the Judiciary stood up against the Executive, where the Senate and other State Houses of Assembly stand up against the Executive impunities that exist in the country and the different states, where the governor is impeached appropriately and this will help in raising a people that will build up the countey. Can we act movies where both Restructuring and Referendum is possible, where the countey leaders are chased out of the country, where political offices are made less attractive and have only serious minded people go into the business of politics. <br>
Our movie Scriptwriters, Directors and Sponsors must stop being like Buhari, but must be creative and innovative to move the country forward. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I am Dike Daniel Emeka, just trying to make common sense.</p>
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<p dir=ltr>But how will you feel if you know that what you have been seeking for, has been willed to you even before you were born. </p>
<p dir=ltr>You see, love is proved by actions. What I do proves if I love somebody not necessarily what I say.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The questions before us now are these:-<br>
~ Who loved us? <br>
~ How did He love us? <br>
~ How can I respond to this love? <br>
~ What are the benefits of this love? </p>
<p dir=ltr><b>Who Loved Us:-</b><br>
As human beings, it takes life to love us too. You see love is not something that merited oftentimes, but one just sees himself or herself loving another person and can't just explain why. The love of man to man can fade tomorrow, but you see there is one who is everlasting and does things after that order that loves us. He actually revealed this fact in His love letter to us. Let us hear Him. </p>
<p dir=ltr> 'The Lord appeared to us in the<br>
Past, saying : 'I have loved you<br>
With an everlasting love; I have<br>
drawn you with unfailing <br>
Kindness' Jere 31:3<br>
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'For God so loved the world... ' John 3:16</p>
<p dir=ltr>Now, you can see that the love of God for your life is not in doubt at all. He has professed His love for you. He loves you and He desires that you know this. Do you really know the one that loves you? He is the owner of the universe and can go to any extent to prove it to you. </p>
<p dir=ltr><b>How Did He Love Us:- </b><br>
As I said earlier, it takes action to prove that one loves the other. There must be something that we can hold unto and say the Father really loves us. <br>
In the human family, God gave everything to the man Adam and Adam handed it over to Satan when he was deceived through the woman. Man was meant to remain to perpetual enmity with God which will lead to his ultimate death. Man had no saviour that can pay the price that will bring him back to God infact everything he did, made God angrier. But God did something, because He thoroughly loves us, He took it upon Himself to die on the cross. Did He do it when we were His friends? No. Let's sew it. </p>
<p dir=ltr> 'But God demonstrated His own love<br>
for us in this : while we were yet <br>
sinners, Christ died for us' Rom 5:8</p>
<p dir=ltr>You see, I call this 'the God kind of Love' which is inherited. Friends, God has proven that He loves you and you need to believe this. </p>
<p dir=ltr><b>How Can I Respond To</b><b> This Love:-</b><br>
There are different ways to respond to this. <br>
1. Accept that He loves you. It means that I must accept what God did for me, that He loves me even though I am worthy of it. We need to accept God's word. <br>
2. Love Him too. When a man accepts the love is God, he is to respond by loving the one that loves him too. Loving Him means living to please Him in all things. He just needs us to please Him. <br>
3. Be Committed to Him. When I have accepted His love, I must also show commitment to Him and follow through in all that concern Him. That is the only way I can grow in His love. </p>
<p dir=ltr><b>What Are The Benefits Of His Love:- </b><br>
There are benefits to follows us by virtue of His love. <br>
1. We are free from the power of sin<br>
2. We are no more slave to Satan and his hosts <br>
3. We are no more slaves to fear and ignorance<br>
4. We are part of the Family of God. We are now sons and can do those things that Jesus dis when He was in the world. <br>
5. We can show forth the light to others without shame but with more grace. <br>
6. We are partakers of the Divine Nature. </p>
<p dir=ltr>This love is something that can be yours today. Just bow your heart where you are and ask Jesus to come into your life and be your Lord and saviour. </p>
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born a son and he called his name
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Enos. Then began men to call upon
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the name of the Lord" Gene 4:26KJV
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In Geology, there is what is called 'Index Fossils' (fossils are dead remains of plants and animals) and these are fossils that mark the end or beginning of a period of deposition of sediments in a formation and/or a basin. In the same way, in the Kingom of God, there are lives which are Index lives, which mark the end of oppression and corruption and beginning of what God wants to do in the lives of men. These are special people in all they do.
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In 'calling the name of the LORD', we discovered that there was a time that the Lord's name was not called at all upon the face of the earth. It is possible that such a hiatus ( a time when the name of the Lord is not recorded in our lives) can be found in our history.
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Adam gave birth to Seth when he was 130years, while Seth gave birth to Enos when he was 105 years, meaning that for 235 years, the name of the Lord was not mentioned at all, men didn't call upon the Lord's name, they didn't think it fit to call upon His name, His name made no sense at all to them, until a man came, a man was given birth to. He marked in his birth the end of forgetting the name of the Lord and the beginning of calling of same.
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In our families, communities, nations, etc, there are several evil activities that are abounding around us, that need us to respond to the need of the hour, it is only a man that has been birthed by God, that will rise up against such occurance. Men that their lives shall be carriers or bearers of that which the Lord desires. We must really know, that darkness can cease in our families, offices, businesses etc, the moment we carry God's light into such places. Only then is a new date set, when a new date is set, the old is eroded.
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Josiah was a man that restored the worship of God in the temple after many years that Amon shut the Temple. Men that restore such true worship of the Lord are 'index lives' because their lives make the era that God was exalted above all things.
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In offices, schools, businesses, etc, corruption, death, stealing etc, have taken over. God is looking for men that will go there and bring about the needed change. Men that will be inert when what is not their own comes to them. Men that will mark the end of evil activities and beginning of righteousness, anywhere they find themselves. Index lives.
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It doesn't matter how long evil has reigned in a life, family, school, community, office, nation etc, God is still able to raise a man
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For Nigeria to be a better country and take her place in the commity of nations, index lives must arise, for 'righteousness exalts a nation', hence men of righeousness and holiness must rise up to take over offices and man the fort for the Master.
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They mark the end of an evil order and the beginning of a righteous order. Index lives must arise.
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Jesus is an Index life too. He mark the end of the reign of darkness. He is the end of the law, Rom 10:4 and He is the beginning of Righteousness and right living. Any man that will see Christ Jesus, will see an Index Life.
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Every leader, is a man that has learnt how to stick to rules, especially the laws of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.<br/><p style='font-size: xx-small' align='right'>posted from <a href='https://market.android.com/details?id=pl.przemelek.android.blogger'>Bloggeroid</a></p></div>prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-36283259728582300052014-10-12T11:53:00.001-07:002014-10-12T11:53:15.017-07:00Nigeria is an Islamic country by Law, we must rise up against it....... Pastor Bosun<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Islamic agenda for Nigeria – Pastor Bosun<br/>
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Let’s pray. Heavenly father we want to thank you, we bless your holy name for this morning. We thank you for grace to be in your presence. Lord I am asking for a fresh unction to be able to deliver your<br/>
message to your Church. I pray that your people will receive understanding. I pray that your name will be glorified. I hand over to you, Holy Spirit. In Jesus name we have prayed, Amen.<br/>
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Praise the Lord! My name is Bosun Emmanuel. A little bit about myself and the ministry. I didn't tell Pastor (the Pastor of where this message was recorded), I didn't want to tell him that I was ordained in the Redeem Christian Church Of God (RCCG) as an Assistant Pastor; as a Full Pastor; and that I was the National Coordinator of<br/>
Redeem Christian Church of God in Germany for many years. The Lord sent us packing from Germany in 2006 and told me to go back home, of course you wouldn't want to return to Nigeria if you were living in Germany, you know what I mean. And when we asked, what are supposed to do in Nigeria? There is nothing! He said go and meet the information needs of the Church. The Church in Nigeria lacks<br/>
information. And the Bible said my people perish for lack of knowledge. Brethren I am here this morning to do one thing, to give<br/>
you information. What you are going to do with the information depends on you but I pray that you will use that information wisely because I have very heavy news for you. We are in serious trouble.<br/>
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Let me quickly make certain points very clear:<br/>
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1. the presentation I am going to do is not to strike panic in you, because am going to show you some things that will make you afraid. But the intention is not to strike fear into you. I am not a rabble rouser, I am not here to weep up emotions and weep up sentiments. Please let’s get that very clearly.<br/>
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2. I am not here to instill fear in any Christian; I am here to be an agent of revival. That after you receive this information there will be revival in the Church and you will become an ambassador.<br/>
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3. I want to move the Church to repentance. The Nigerian Church has gone the wrong way. We must repent.<br/>
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4. I want us to foster unity, we are divided. Jesus Christ said a house that is divided cannot stand. We need prayers for Nigeria we need prayers for the church.<br/>
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5. This is not a hate speech. I don't hate Muslims and I don't want you to hate Muslims, but am going to tell you a lot of things that the Muslims are doing that will get you angry. Please do not hate them;<br/>
they are not your enemy. Both the Christian and the Muslim all have only one enemy, his name is Lucifer. The reason why we are in this crisis that we are in Nigeria today is because the Church primarily has<br/>
forsaken its responsibility.<br/>
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6. I want us to return to discipleship which we have abandoned 20 years ago. The Nigerian Church in the past 20 years has stopped raising disciples. We don't have disciples anymore. The Nigerian Church is now focused on raising millionaires, and we forget that on the day of crisis, the millionaire will catch the next available flight and fly out of the country; only disciples will stand and defend the church.<br/>
We are at war! Look, if anybody tells you it is peace and safety, No! No! No! don't say that now, we are at war. There is a full scale war against the Church and right now, Nigeria itself is fighting a civil war,<br/>
nobody wants to say it but there is a war for the Church to survive, the church needs disciples.<br/>
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Let me show elements of that war, I will show you some images. ( pastor began to show some images). this is First Baptist in<br/>
Potiskum, burnt down; another church; another church; another church; another church, ECWA, ECWA, Church of God Mission, that's fire going on in a church, the full soldiers of Islam they call Almajiri.<br/>
Now get ready for this next one, get ready, get ready, brace yourself, that is how our brethren are killed, that is how they are cut into pieces. As I am talking, this is what is going on in Nigeria, I am not talking about Sudan or Somalia, this is what is going on in your country right now .<br/>
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This is how Christians are murdered in this nation. They are cut into pieces, the hatred is satanic. And the reason why we are having this problem is because the church forsook mission, we refused to go. We<br/>
all sat down in Lagos, in Ibadan, in Port Harcourt nourishing our souls we forgot those in the North. Because we failed to evangelise them, the harvest that was ripe 2,000 years ago the harvest is rotten.<br/>
Boko haram is the rotten harvest. If we had reached them before the terrorist reached them, they would have been carrying the Bible not AK47. See, what is happening in Nigeria; God is not holding Boko Haram responsible, God is holding the Church responsible. <br/>
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(still on the images)Terrible cases you will never believe are going on in your country, all these are Christians. I am going to show you a movie footage for 4 minutes. I will go and sit down and you will watch it for 4 minutes. I can tell you even before 4 minutes you will ask me to switch it off. It is a footage of 501 Christians that were slaughtered in one night, including children in a village called Dogonawa in Jos.<br/>
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(switches on the movie footage) for 4 minutes, to make better let me speed it up a little bit. (movie plays with crying on the background) voice-over: “Announce in<br/>
Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say ‘sound the trumpet throughout the land, cry aloud and sing, gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities, raise the signal to go to Zion, flee for safety without delay for I am bringing disaster from the North, even terrible destruction''. (Movie continues playing....)<br/>
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(Same background voice) ''You will hear of wars and rumours of war but see to it that you are not alarmed for such things must happen but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom. There will be famine and earthquakes in various places, all these are the beginning of death pains, then you<br/>
will be handed over and persecuted to death and you will be hated by all nations because of me'' (Movie continues playing...)<br/>
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Bosun: Alright, lets continue. What I showed you took place in Nigeria, you can't finish watching the footage I have to stop it...and it is still taking place as we are talking now. The reality is this, it is not<br/>
localised in the North. What I just showed you is planned to take place all over Nigeria and Christianity in Nigeria is on its way out.<br/>
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We've come to the point that every Christian in Nigeria must consciously say 'I will not be the last Christian in this nation' because if we don't take time, we are the last Christians. I will explain and God<br/>
will give me grace. Nigeria is on the verge. God doesn't want Nigeria to explode, God doesn't want Nigeria to break into pieces, God doesn't want destruction in Nigeria, God has an agent in Nigeria to prevent<br/>
whatever evil we see that is going on. God has an agent to stop corruption, to stop oppression, to stop terrorism, to stop kidnapping. God has an agent whom he has assigned and empowered, that agent<br/>
is the Church! Now, it is because the Church has failed, that’s why whatever evil you see taking place in Nigeria, the Church is responsible. Hold the church responsible. And that means, hold you<br/>
and I responsible. We are not doing what we are supposed to do. <br/>
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How sick is Nigeria?<br/>
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Let's quickly look at the sickness of our nation. When you say somebody is sick, you look at the blood vessels right, you look at the bones, you look at the skin, and you look at the brain. Let’s try and find out.<br/>
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Let's look at the blood vessels of Nigeria and see what is going on in our country. Right before our eyes Nigeria is becoming desolate and the Church is singing and dancing. See, this used to be Nigeria a few<br/>
years ago (shows images), rivers, streams they are drying up. This is Nigeria today. If you travel a lot across Nigeria, when you get to bridges, watch it's becoming sandy bare, it's drying up!<br/>
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The skin of Nigeria Years ago you'd see Nigeria with thick forest, this is Nigeria today; they call it forestation... afforestation or what do they call it? Deforestation! This is the country today. The skin is going. How sick is your country? These use to be the mineral resources that was providing employment in the 60s. They were mining Dulcite, Aluminium all over the place. This is Nigeria today. Nothing is going on! How sick is Nigeria? Look at Nigeria's bowels,<br/>
this use to be infrastructure, there is no infrastructure working anymore in this country. Now, let's quickly move forward because of time. And this is Nigeria today, the bomb is already ticking and if you look at the second picture you will see a young rascal that has grabbed hold of Nigeria<br/>
around the North-east zone and is pulling. That young man is already tilting Nigeria. They call his name Boko Haram. If we don't get this guy to stop, Nigeria is going to summersault and that is where we are<br/>
standing now. In fact, our situation is so terrible that America has to come in to help us. France is now saying we want to come and help you, nations of the world are now saying we have to come and help you and yet the largest Christian auditorium in the whole world is in Nigeria. The largest gathering of Christians in the whole world is Nigeria, but Nigeria cannot solve its problems. We pray like nobody so, what is going on? How does our nation fare? Isaiah 1:6-9, I read verse 7. The word of God says your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence. You know that is true? The Chinese are the ones taking the jobs, Nigerians are unemployed, the Indians are the ones owning the company, Nigerians have no job; strangers are devouring the land right before our eyes<br/>
and nobody is asking why, as the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in the vineyard, a lounge in the garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the lord of host has left us a small remnant, we should have been like Sodom and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.<br/>
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The immorality, the wickedness, the oppression that is taking place in<br/>
Nigeria on a daily basis is more than enough for God to send brimstone and fire but thank God for the small remnant that God left. I pray you're one of the remnants! If you are not pleased join them, believe me, it is the remnant that is keeping Nigeria. Now, let's go to the next phase.<br/>
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Abuja declaration 1989: If you have an Ipad and you have access to the Internet, I will just invite you.Please go online straight a way to Wikipedia.org and type into the search engine, Abuja declaration 1989 and this information will come up. Islam in Africa, held a conference in Abuja in 1989. At the end of it they issued a declaration<br/>
and it goes "to eradicate in all its forms ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nation, such religion shall include Christianity ".<br/>
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Now please note that word, 'to eradicate in all its forms and ramifications'. Now, Nigeria is a member nation. 'all non Muslim<br/>
religions in member nation, such religion shall include Christianity' the word Christianity was underlined in the communique. “to ensure that only Muslims are elected into all political posts of member nations, to ensure the appointment of only Muslims strategic national and international posts of member nations, to ensure the ultimate replacement of all western forms legal and judicial system with the sharia and then, to make sure that these strategies works.'<br/>
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Because its going to require money, Babangida as the self-appointed<br/>
president of Nigeria put his hand into the treasury of Nigeria, took $21b out and gave it to OIC. To the Islamic development of OIC and said, take this money for the total "islamization of Nigeria in particular and Africa in general." Babangida paid $21b of our money to turn Nigeria into an Islamic nation and they have started.<br/>
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Boko Haram, don't look at it like something that is isolated to the North-east, it is meant to cover the entire nation until Christianity is eradicated in all its forms and ramifications. This was not mentioned<br/>
in the introduction because I don't think that it’s something that one should talk about but I just think that I should mention it. By the grace of God, I happen to be a member of the National Conference<br/>
that is taking place right now and I am the delegate of the Christian Association from the South-west. I represent Christians from the South-west at the National Conference. I am part of the Religion Committee and I am also part of the Interfaith Committee. We sit down with Muslims to discuss this matter; to resolve this issue. We've<br/>
reached a deadlock and the deadlock is the separation of states and religion. I will talk a little bit about that. Can they do it? the answer is yes they can, if we allow them. So God told us to go to Turkey and learn certain things. September last year, God spoke to Dr. Vincent Anibuogu, the Director General of the National Institute of Transformation (NIT). And God told him that if care is not taken, in thirty to forty years, Nigeria will be like Turkey. God told him, go and learn what happened to Turkey. Now, Turkey used to be 100% Christian, today Turkey is 96.04% Islam, Christianity in Turkey is 0.21% and God is speaking that if you don't take care,<br/>
Nigeria will end up like Turkey. Christianity was in Turkey for 1,123years, Islam uprooted it. Christianity in Nigeria is 172 years old. If we take the starting date<br/>
from 1842 when Methodist Reverend Bach Freeman arrived in Badagry; you would remember that the Catholics came first in the 14th century. They did some church planting around Warri and Benin<br/>
Kingdom. They left in 1622. Then the Methodist came back in 1842, about 200years after that. Now, it is that coming of the Methodist that has now developed to what we have as Christianity today. So<br/>
effectively, Christianity in Nigeria is 172years old. Now, the point is this, if Islam can uproot the one that has been planted for 1,123 years in Constantinople tell me, they can't uproot the one that is just 172years.<br/>
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As a matter of fact, the spiritual foundation of Turkey, Nigeria does not come near it. Because the seven churches Jesus Christ wrote letters to in Revelation 2 and 3, all those 7 churches were located in<br/>
Turkey. Apostle Paul, the champion of the gospel was a citizen of Turkey. The Macedonia vision that Paul saw 'come over to Macedonia and help us' Paul received it in Turkey. Turkey had solid Christian<br/>
foundation but Islam uprooted everything. So if the Nigerian Church is deceiving itself, eh! There is fire on the roof. I work with the Voice of Christian martyrs and we go all over the North. That is why I was able<br/>
to give each one of you a magazine. I want you to read the magazine when you get home. By the grace of God I produced that magazine. I met the people, almost everybody there one on one. We go to the<br/>
North. Is not that am living in Lagos and somebody is bringing information, we go there – to Maidugiri, to Kaduna, to Kano. I go there to meet with Christians who are being persecuted and I must protest that the church in the South is a selfish and a wicked group of believers because you abadoned the Christians in the North.<br/>
Look, God is the God of justice and God is the God of judgment. Let’s not provoke him to repay us with our wickedness. Because if God look at what the Christians in the South have done to the Christians in the<br/>
North, He will fold his arms and allow Boko Haram to deal with us. We have to go to US, we have to go to Canada, to Poland, to<br/>
Australia, to New Zealand to raise Christians that will help and support the Christians in the North. Nigerian church is not lifting a finger. It's not that you don't have money, the Nigerian Church has<br/>
money but they help nobody. They only take and take, they don't give jack… I have to skip some things.<br/>
The sin of irresponsibility : When God spoke to Professor Anibuogu, he said that the Nigerian Church is guilty of the sin of irresponsibility. To the Church in Laudicea, God says you are blind, you are wretched, you are naked. To the Church in Sadis, God said you have a name that you live but you are dead. To the Nigerian church, God says you are irresponsible. What Yorubas call òniranlo. we have been given so much we have delivered little, we only think about ourselves! We are consumed with our comfort, our convinience, our promotion, our breakthrough we don't even see what is going on around us. You saw the footage, you saw the footage. As am talking to you it’s still going on and we have men of God in this country who can stand and say No! IArchbishop Idahosa is dead. If that man was alive, maybe things<br/>
would not have been the way it is. And we thank God for small mercies and that we have somebody like Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as CAN president. The people that abuse him the most are the Christians and believe me, if that man was not the President of CAN, you can't sit down here today, you can't sit here because Lagos has become a jihadist state don't you know that? Lagos is jihadist, you can't sit; they would have locked you up. It's because someone is still standing and he's standing alone and all the other Pastors are abusing him. Go online and see what Christians are writing about<br/>
CAN, about Oritsejafor you will weep. God said September 15, 2013 if care is not taken, in 30 to 40 years Nigeria will be like Turkey.<br/>
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Exactly the way God said it is the way I have written it there, the name of the man God spoke to, I have put it there. Dr. Anibuogu told us this at a strategy meeting in CAN in November last year. That<br/>
Nigerian church has an ultimatum of 30 years. If you don't repent and return and do the work God has called you to do and leave this nonsensical attachment to vanity and stop pursuing prosperity, and<br/>
stop pursuing breakthrough and pursue discipleship, in 30 years you will not hand over Christianity to your children. God told him to learn from Turkey. And what did the most high say, find out how christianity was destroyed in Turkey and professor Anibuogu discovered that every mistake the Christians in Turkey made that led<br/>
to the collapse of Christianity, the Nigerian Church is repeating all those mistakes step by step, one by one. See, it’s like we went to Turkey and asked the Christians there, I heard that you people were Christians here, they said yes. But now Islam has taken over they said yes. Did you do anything wrong? they said we did many things<br/>
wrong. So why don't you write for us the things you did wrong? They listed the mistakes that they made and the Nigerian Church came back and started implementing it. That's what we have done. Time will not permit me to go into details, I will just run through them because there are still some things I have to share. I told you, if I have to do a thorough job I will need a minimum of 3 hours but I will work within the 50minutes.<br/>
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Number one, the church underestimated the young Ottoman ruler the same the Nigerian Church is underestimating Islam. I have met Church leaders who have argued with me; it's not possible, it's not. You mean what they are doing? That they will do it here? No way! No way? You don't know Islam. You don't know the spirit that is behind Islam. Can you imagine, until you saw it here that somebody will use<br/>
cutlass and split the head of a child? When you're coming to church this morning, did it occur to you? Can you imagine someone will burn another human being simply because he doesn't believe in what he<br/>
believes in? They went to a church in Bogoro on a Sunday, locked the doors, stood outside and threw in cans of petrol and set it on fire and refused to allow the Christians to come out and they roasted 70<br/>
people inside the church on Sunday. Deeper life in Gombe, they were having prayer meeting in the evening, three of them lined up the windows with AK47 and sprayed everybody. I was there, I saw it, I<br/>
saw the place. In fact I brought a piece of stone, I left it inside the car, from Jos, from the mass grave of the 500. You can't believe it! The Nigerian Church is underestimating Islam.<br/>
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Number two, the church in Contantinople which is the old name of Istanbul, which is now the commercial capital of Turkey from where everybody in Turkey now spread out assumed that Constantinople was the best defended city in Europe. The Nigerian church is making the same mistake. They think they are the largest in Africa, the<br/>
largest in the world, its a mistake.It doesn't stop Islam. The leadership of the Church in Turkey within and outside was bitterly<br/>
divided. The church in Nigeria, are they united? ah! Jesus Christ says a house that is divided it cannot stand, ok. On the basis of that alone, if Islam does not divide the church, the bàbà làwos will do it. We are<br/>
divided, we are not working as one but thank God it is beginning to change. What makes me happy is that Church leaders are now beginning to listen to us. so, everything that I am telling you this<br/>
morning, I am passing to you information and I have to tell you the way it is so that you can be galvanised into righteousness. I hope you're getting my point. It took a lot of time, it took a lot of work but we've been able to call them; the heads of denominations with the President of CAN, with the chairman of CAN South-west, we sat at University of Lagos we discussed this thing, we met again we discussed this thing and they agreed at the last meeting that they will unite. Because each person, each ministry in Nigeria stands on its<br/>
own, they are not connected. In fact, don't let us go into that because we will not have time, they are divided. Global news carried this headline in December 2011 'Rumble in the house of God, Nigerian Pastors that hate themselves' and they put there photographs there and they wrote this one hates this pastor while this one hates this<br/>
one, it's a big mess. Racism and tribalism weakened the Church in Turkey. Racism and tribalism is weakening the body of Christ in Nigeria. We have the Yoruba Church, am I right? We have the Igbo Church, we have the Hausa church, is that not so? Look, in the Yoruba Church, if you are an Igbo man if you carry anointing let fire come out of your head, you will not reach the top because it's a Yoruba Church. If it is an Igbo Church and you're a Yoruba man possess all the revelations that you know you are on your own, you will not get anywhere because it is an<br/>
Igbo Church. We brought our petty politics inside the Church! that is the mistake they made in Turkey that Islam is now 96% and the church is 0.21%. The Nigerian Church is making the same mistake and God is warning, hey! hey! the way you people are going I have seen it before o, this thing you people are doing in Nigeria, I have seen it before. I saw it in 1453 before you were born, you are making the same mistake o, you are going the same way. I will give you 30 years, I will hold them back for 30years. If after 30 years you don't change, I will take my hands off your case.<br/>
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Powerless Church authority without peoples backing and financial support. I mentioned earlier concerning CAN. The only platform we have to fight this war is CAN. You can't fight it on PFN. PFN is only<br/>
20% of the church because CAN has 5 blocks. You need CAN. All the Christians have to come together, stand as one and say no to Islam. See, it is Christians who are abusing CAN and Christians refuse to<br/>
fund CAN. How can you execute war on an empty treasury? It is not that the Nigerian Church doesn't have money. Let me ask you a question very quickly, what is the annual revenue of Nigerian Church?<br/>
does anyone know? No, you don't, N3trillion.The Nigerian Church combined gets an annual revenue in excess of N3 trillions. How much does Nigerian Church contribute to its umbrella organisation, CAN? You know? You don't know? #1,250,000! Each block pays N250,000.<br/>
Even that N250,000, there are blocks that are owing in arears for years and refused to pay. So, CAN has no money. Islam took $21b, now tell me how you are going to fight them with a budget of N1,250,000, how are you going to fight? Meanwhile, God is angry that you are not doing what he called you to do. That you're now doing<br/>
your own thing; so how are you going to fight Islam? Tell me! I can't explain this because of time but I need to mention quickly that it's repeating itself. <br/>
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The weapon used to destroy Constantinople was invented by a Christian. He invented a can of basilica, took it to Christians to buy, and Christians didn't have the money, he carried to<br/>
the Muslims, sultan Memmed paid him cash. In 3 months, basilica was ready. It blew Constantinople to pieces. The same problem is in Nigeria. The strategies the Muslims are using, that they will use to<br/>
destroy the Church, it is Christians who are strategising for them. see, We've taught our people to be so sensitive to money that they've lost all sense of spirituality. The only thing an average Christian thinks<br/>
about now is how he will get money. whether it will cost him his soul, whether it will compromise his position as a Christian, he doesn't think about it anymore because for the past 20 years we stopped raising disciples, we focused on raising millionaires. APC is a party to<br/>
watch carefully, am not a politician but the church must know this because there is no way you can separate national politics from what is going on. I will talk a little bit about APC. But for 2015, APC has<br/>
hired the campaign manager of Obama to come and strategize for them in Nigeria. When the man got to Nigeria, he needed the local to interface, the person he employed is a pastor. To hand over power to a party that resembles in all intents and purpose, the Islamic brotherhood. <br/>
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Even Egypt rejected Islamic brotherhood, even Syria; if you watch what is going on in Syria. The western power looked at the Sunis from Saudi Arabia, they looked at the Shiites from Iran who are now supporting and fighting Assad, and they said listen, rather than allow either of this two groups to take over power after Assad, Assad we'll<br/>
forgive you all your sins, sit down there. That's what is going on, that's why Assad is winning the civil war because the western powers are now throwing there weight behind Assad. Why? We don't want<br/>
Islamic brotherhood, a Pastor is the one strategising for Islamic brotherhood in Nigeria. The weapon used to destroy Turkey was invented by a Christian and the Nigerian Church is following suit. <br/>
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There is no time to talk further on that. Constantinople had an army of 7,000, Muslims had a force of 80,000. The Church does not have an army. Look, if you don't believe me, Pastor, this Sunday, call for<br/>
evangelism tomorrow and tell the members, all this people here that<br/>
tomorrow we are going on evangelism and count the number of people who will come. Those who come are the disciples; the other people will find their excuses. Am busy, I have to go somewhere, Pastor you have to excuse me I cannot make but they will not come because they are not disciples. That’s our problem.<br/>
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Now am going to say something without any particular church in mind, because each time I mention this at a presentation Pastors will get very uncomfortable. It has to do with cathedral. In Constantinople,<br/>
rather than build men, they concentrated on building cathedral. They built this house called Hyersophia, the house of wisdom. In its days, this house was the most magnificent, the most expensive, the most<br/>
beautiful house. This was what the church concentrated on rather than build that can defend this house. On the day Constantinople fell, because there were no men to defend the city, the first person to enter hyersophia was 21 years old sultan memmed. He headed straight for the alter, stood on the alter, raised his hands and shouted 'Allah hu arkka bal' and right there he commanded, 'convert it to a mosque'.<br/>
(shows image) This is hyersophia as a mosque and it remained a mosque for 478years until 1931 when the government of Turkey went circular, then the government of Turkey said ' convert it to a museum' but till today, it has not been handed over to the Church, it is a<br/>
museum. Now, the Nigerian Church has decided to build cathedral but please, let us put the horse before the cat. Let us raise disciples, don't let us make the same mistake.<br/>
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Ah! ok, let me come back to this one. I raised this during the National Conference, at the plenary and the conference went on fire, everything scattered immediately and the Muslims got up, they tried to shout me down. I pointed out to Nigeria that we have a Constitutional problem that is the core issue that we must resolve. And what is the problem of Nigeria? It is not corruption, It is not Boko Baram, it is not mediocrity, it is not lawlessness, our problem is<br/>
“dual ideology” within the Nigerian Constitution. It must be resolved. If we don't resolve it, Nigeria is not going anywhere. There are two ideologies inside the Nigerian Constitution. Let me show you<br/>
something, Sharia is mentioned in the constitution 73 times, Islam 28 times, Grand kadi 54 times, Muslim 10 times in the Nigerian Constitution 1999. There is no single mention of Christ in the Nigerian Constitution. No single mention of Christian in the Nigerian Constitution, No single mention of Christianity, no single mention of Church in the Nigerian constitution. Now I ask you ma, is your<br/>
country a Christian state, an Islamic State or a circular state? Which one is Nigeria? Talk to me. Constitutionally, Nigeria is an Islamic State.<br/>
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The reason it has not been enforced is because they have not captured the jewel they need to enforce it and that jewel is the South- west and right now they are set because there has been a handshake<br/>
between the North-west and the South-west. And this is where Christians need to wake up and politics now comes in, which we now need to start creating political awareness in Christians. Christians don't vote. I am one bad example. so am not saying you alone, but we must change it and use our votes to quickly restructure the political imbalance in Nigeria because if you make a mistake to use your thumb and dig the grave of the Church, you will stand before Jesus Christ and render account. I am not a member of PDP, I am<br/>
not a a member of APC, but I saw something that makes me worry and I think you should see it. The leadership structure of APC, National Leader ,North (Muslim), National Leader South (Muslim), National Chairman (Muslim), Deputy National Chairman (Muslim), National Secretary (Muslim), Deputy National Secretary (Muslim), National Publicity Secretary (Muslim), National Treasurer (Muslim),<br/>
National Financial Secretary (Muslim), National Youth Leader (Muslim), Legal Adviser (Muslim), Women Leader (Muslim), Ex-official Members (Muslim), and they call you to come and thumb. Come and thumb. And there are Christians ready, who are already in APC.<br/>
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Look, if you use your thumb to dig the grave of the Church, my hand is not there o, I have told you. There is an Islamic Agenda for Nigeria, there is an agreement between the North-west and the South-west.<br/>
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We all open our eyes we allow a political party to give us Muslim governors. 80% of their governors are Muslims. There must a restructuring. 2015, Christians must stand and insist, Lagos State governor must be a Christian. You must stand. We are going to insist we are not accepting any Christian candidate that an Islamic party is going to give us. we will pick our own candidate under a different political platform. if we don't, you can't meet here oo! my time is off. The pastor says I should continue, thank you Sir.<br/>
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Let me quickly go back and explain what I mean by dual ideology because I didn't explain it, I was running for time. Section one of the constitution says that the Nigerian constitution is supreme, read it. It says it is higher than any other law made in Nigeria, Abi? Section 38, paragraph 1 of the Nigerian Constitution guarantees freedom of expression, freedom of belief, freed of choice. You can decide which religion you want to be under the Nigerian Constitution. Then, the same Constitution now has sharia inside the constitution and sharia<br/>
says if you dare change your religion from Islam to any other religion, you must die, sharia says if you practice any other religion apart from Islam you must die. Both of them are inside the constitution.<br/>
So you have two captains inside the same boat, that is what is rocking Nigeria, because the promoters of the dual ideology, don't want to loose it. At the National Conference, I am part of the religion committee, I know what is going on, I can't tell you everything. We are fighting to remove sharia out of the Constitution. It is clear that if you touch sharia, get ready for a blood bath that you have never seen before, so we have no other option than to petition our God in heaven, that God you have to intervene, we can't handle this. They ready to kill to retain sharia, that's why we need your prayers. I am giving you a prayer request, Please pray that God in heaven will intervene and that dual ideology inside the Nigerian Constitution will be dismantled. It is only when we stand on section 38 that we can now build a society that is founded upon liberty, justice, equity and fairness, until then, we can't! That is all these crisis is going on, Boko Haram is killing. Why is Boko haram killing? They want sharia! Why do they want sharia? That is what is in the constitution. Until you remove it you can't solve the problem, the problem is not corruption. Corruption is the symptom, the real disease is dual ideology and only the Church can pray it out but right now, the Church is praying other prays. Please pray the right prayer. <br/>
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Now, let me quickly go, maybe if I take 10minutes more from Pastor Muyinwa, you will forgive me because I need to give us a background into what we are seeing now, very very quickly.<br/>
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In 1983, OIC held a strategy meeting in London, and at that meeting they strategised how to turn the whole Africa into an Islamic continent. The reason of OIC is that Africa is the only continent that<br/>
has the largest population of Muslims in the world, therfore the entire continent should be Islamic. They produced a 322 page document after that strategy section, 156pages focused on Nigeria. They<br/>
identified 7 key nations that must be captured before they can turn Africa to an Islamic state. The 7 nations are; Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Cote d'voire, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo.<br/>
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OIC says this nations must primarily be islamised. And of this 7 nations, Nigeria is number one. Once they islamize Nigeria, there is no problem with islamizing Kenya. So, when you hear of terrorist attack in Kenya attack, that they attack a mall in Kenya it is not isolated from what Boko Haram is doing in Nigeria. It is the same. Get the connection. After they did that, OIC now zoned Nigeria. Now, this is interesting, our current geopolitical zone structure; South-south, South-east, North-west, North-east, North-central, you know it was not designed by any Nigeria government, I hope you know that? I hope you know that there is no Nigerian law backing it? I hope you are aware that it was not passed by any constituent assembly or by any constitutional seating or by any national referendum, it was designed by OIC in 1983. OIC broke Nigeria into 6 zones, not to unite us as a people, not to develop us as a Nation but to break us into little groups for the purpose of islamization. They have taken the North-west, they have placed the stamp of Islam on it, Sharia. They have taken the North-east, they have placed the stamp of Islam on it, Sharia. They are battling furiously for it in the North-central, while the train at the same time<br/>
have transformed into a political machinery and have moved to the South-west. So, the next battle ground in 2015 is the South-west. So, if the Christians in South-west don't wake up now, and begin to pray because you cannot fight them the way they will... how many of you will throw bombs? How many of you will carry AK47? you will not.<br/>
But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they are mighty through God. so you need this information to begin to pray now that every Islamic agenda for Yoruba land shall not stand and whatever they have already put in place, Almighty God dismantle it , whatever they have planted, Almighty God uproot it because if we don't get<br/>
South-west back we shall loose the whole of Nigeria<br/>
Because southwest is the key, that is where the intellectuals are, that is where the press is, that is where the manufacturing industries are, the banking industry. Whatever you get in the South-west you can take it to anywhere in Nigeria it will sell. Now, there has been a handshake under the guise of a political party, wake up! This is more than politics, this is an Islamic agenda.<br/>
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When they finished, they handed their strategy to Shehu Musa Yar'adua. Shehu Musa Yar'adua the senior, presented to the 1988 constituent assembly. That was how it entered the Nigerian consciousness until Abacha became Head of state. When he wanted to transmute from a millitary head of state to a civilian, he called Dr. Alex Ekwueme to restructure Nigeria for him. Alex Ekwueme gave him<br/>
this 6 geopolitical zones. That’s why Abacha said he wants 6 vice presidents, one for each geopolitical zone and God said no. And he kicked Abacha out. If we had time, I would have asked you one question and say who is the best president Nigeria ever had? In fact I would have asked you two. can somebody tell me? Gowon! wonderful, any other answer? Obasanjo, Baba iyabo. Any other answer? It might<br/>
surprise you Sir, and to you ma that the best president and head of state Nigeria ever had is General Sani Abacha, retired and dead. If I<br/>
ask you another question before you clap, when did Nigeria gain independence? Talk to me. 1960, I will tell you no, you failed WAEC. Nigeria became independent 28th of April 1996 the day General Sani<br/>
Abacha was used by God to deliver Nigeria.<br/>
That was the day Abacha removed Dasuki the sultan of Sokoto as the Sultan, deposed him, sacked him and appointed Machido as the Sultan. That day Nigeria became freed, because what the British did<br/>
was that when they were going, they exchanged external colonialism for internal colonialism. Let me explain this,30th of September 1960, a day before the proclamation of independence, the British went to Sokoto and held a durbar, a mock battle and they fought the forces of the caliphate and in that mock battle, the British pretended that the caliphate defeated them and the British surrendered. They now took the scepter of the Sultan of Sokoto, which the British had earlier captured and handed the scepter over, symbolising: the nation Nigeria, we are handing it over to the caliphate.<br/>
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The caliphate understood what was done. That was where the born to rule mentality was born. They now became the full colonial master because Britain doesn't want Nigeria to rise to its full potentials.<br/>
They knew what will happen, 'you want us to go, we will hand you over to somebody who will continue to do the job for us'. 1st of October they came to Lagos for the public ceremony but Nigeria was not free then, it was still a colony; now the colony of the Sokoto caliphate. That’s why for years, ask the elders, nothing gets done in Nigeria unless the Sultan of Sokoto says go ahead. Even Obasanjo<br/>
that was the head of state was a proxy of the caliphate, even Gowon was a proxy of the caliphate. Have you forgotten that it was Gowon who took schools from the missions, all the Christian schools, it was Gowon who took it in1972 and up till today, no Muslim school was taken by the Government, not a single one rather, government is using public funds to run Islamic schools but they took all the Christian schools and it was taken by a Christian head of state.<br/>
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So, the person who said Gowon, you may not be completely correct. And we were in that second bondage until God raised a mad man because only a mad man could do what Abacha did. You dared to<br/>
touch the Sultan of Sokoto. Abacha invaded Sokoto, captured the Sultan, deposed him and sent him on an exile. Appointed his own sultan. By that singular act, Abacha exalted the throne of Nigeria above the Sultan of the caliphate. That was the day Nigeria got<br/>
independent. Go and check your history. Before 1996, Muslims were ruling Nigeria after 1996 Christians have been in power, prove me<br/>
wrong. The moment Abacha did that, the first casualty of the new throne of Nigeria was Abacha himself. The throne said you can't sit here, kicked him out. Abdulsalam Abubakar came, he negotiated, calm down! calm down! Just give me one year. I want to handover to one of your children, so he handed over to Obasanjo, whether he now did<br/>
right thing or the wrong thing it does not matter but that throne recognises a covenant child. After Obasanjo left, he made a mistake, he handed over to Yar'adua. The throne said what? uhhh... handed it<br/>
over to Jonathan. That's what is going on Church.<br/>
Now there is a battle in the heavenlies for 2015. You need to understand why there is a struggle for 2015. Just read it in the newspapers, there is a struggle why? because this year Nigeria entered jubilee, 2014. Jubilee is 50 years, hundred years ended, that's two jubilees and the third jubilee for Nigeria has started. The president who takes Nigeria into the new Jubilee is the one who will gain control for the next hundred years. The Muslims understand it,<br/>
they want 2015. Once they get 2015, they are locked up for the hundred years.<br/>
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So the issue has nothing to do with whether Jonathan is performing or not. Are you getting my point? Let me give you a website, it is called kingdomnewsng.com. Go to kingdomnewsng.com and read the prophetic destiny of President Goodluck Jonathan. You are the ones complaining that Jonathan is not performing, Jonathan is too slow, you are using your mouth to say what God doesn't want to hear. Jonathan is 100% successful! because God said, intercessors asked God why did you give us this man he doesn't seem to know what he is doing and God said he's no there to give you employment, he is not there to restore your economy, the job, the destiny of Goodluck Jonathan is the rebuild the foundation of Nigeria and Jonathan is doing that 100%. Where did he gain the courage to convey National Conference. So if you say Jonathan has failed, God says uhuh, what I<br/>
asked him to do he's doing it. What he needs is the prayer of the church that he may carry it through. The national conference was almost scuttled. I received a call overnight, go and call your people in the South-west, this is what the Hausas are planning, on Monday they will come and scatter the<br/>
National Conference. Everything have been put in place, it was the middle belt that saved it. Middle belt stood up and said look, we are no longer part of the North, we are middle belt we are not North, if<br/>
you do it you are on your own. It fell out of their hand. If middle belt had agreed, ah! Let's continue analysing Nigeria so we get into things<br/>
we will not finish. Now, analysing Nigeria. After OIC broke Nigeria into little little bits and pieces, they now began to analyse. They said North-west and the North-east is sufficiently Islamic but they needed sharia. They developed four action work plan for North-central; indigene-ship for<br/>
the Hausa-fulani, they want to provide social services, they want to give promotion to officers of the Middle belt and then capture resistant tribes by force, which is what I showed you part of it.<br/>
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South-east, OIC said Christianity in the southeast appears formidable but it is mercantile Christianity. They said it can be bought and it can be sold. They studied us and they said all we need to do is give the Igbo man sufficient money, he will drop the Bible he will pick the Koran and it is working beautifully. As of today, half of Abakaliki has converted to Islam. As of today, the largest Islamic study certre is in Igboland at Abakaliki, Ebonyi state. If you monitor the news, as at January this year,18 young Igbo men converted to Islam at the national mosque in Abuja. It was carried life on NTA. The governors<br/>
of Sokoto and Bauchi gave each one of them N5 million. Your governor, Rochas Okorocha gave them N2million, Ex-Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu gave them N1million. Of course, Rochas later turned around and said he did not give them any money. Something that NTA carried. I've had the privilege to go to some part of Igboland to do this kind of presentation. I told the Igbo brethren, don't expect<br/>
bomb, there will be no AK47, expect naira rain. They will pump money into Igbo land and they are pumping money into Igbo and, if you are from the east, get in touch with our people there, tell them<br/>
everything is not money. Don't sell your birthright. Three plans for Igbo land; encourage business men to go into partnership with the Igbos, encourage Igbos to be cattle rearers, encourage Igbo girls to<br/>
Marry Hausa Muslims. That’s the plan. They have activated it. I am telling you something that was planned 30 years ago. And as you're sitting down here if I ask you, can you show me the strategy document of the Church. The church has no<br/>
plan. We are just trying to draw up one now. The Church has no plan. Islam has put its own in place 30 years ago, they are implementing<br/>
step by step.<br/>
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South-west, Islam said concerning Yoruba land, both Islam and Christianity are superficial. If a Yoruba tells you he's a Christian or a<br/>
Muslim, don't mind him, he's not a serious one, he's not committed to any other religion. The real religion of the Yoruba man is traditional worship. Their strategy for Yoruba land is that they will start an<br/>
Islamic movement that looks like Christianity. That Islamic movement will be meeting on Sunday morning. They will call themselves brothers and sisters. They will do wedding like Christians. They will do vigil like Christians. They will do praise and worship like Christians. If you buy land for your camp ground on Lagos-Ibadan express way, they<br/>
will buy there own. When organise Holy Ghost service, they too will have their holy service without the ghost. So that in the process of time, the Muslims in yoruba land will not see difference in Islam and Christianity. When you go on evangelism and you are trying to convert Muslims, they will tell you "haba, ki lo de she bo oluru ko bo la nsi, we are serving the same God" why? Because whatever you're doing in church they too are doing in the mosque! OIC agenda, its been in place. You are seeing it with your eyes but you don't know what you are seeing. 30 years ago, the question now is what is your response?<br/>
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South-south, Nothing much, all they said is that, let us look for radical youths in the South-south, give them scholarship in Arab nations, convert them and send them back. There first experiment, Asari Dokubo, has worked beautifully. They've taken hundreds of youths in Niger Delta, they are in Kuwait, they are in Dubai, they are in Iran. They are there now. They are taking them and are giving<br/>
them scholarship, giving them money. Those ones that come back will come back may not convert to Islam but they will come back having soft spots for Islam. Go to the Niger delta now. If you are from<br/>
Niger Delta, go back home and find out how many houses in your town were owned by the indigenes 10 years ago and how many houses in your town are owned by Muslims, you will be shocked they<br/>
have bought nearly all the houses in Niger Delta. Port Harcourt, Yenagoa, Bayelsa, they are buying properties there, why? They want the oil and the gas.<br/>
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We are looking at it and we don't know what we are seeing. When Islam plans, Islam plans 25 years in advance . They are master strategists. You know it is the church that doesn't plan. They strategise, they plan .They have laid the foundation to take the whole of Nigeria. But it is not too late. My brother it is not too late. That God is still talking now, it is not too late so let us wake up and pick race and reverse whatever they planned to do. <br/>
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Let me quickly read this one to you as I round up. OIC wrote a letter which we were able to get a copy with the seal of Babangida on it in 1990 February. Two points there I want to draw your attention to.<br/>
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Point number 3, Babagida was directed by OIC<br/>
' place total ban hereafter on all form of Christians, Amadioha and tribal religions'<br/>
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4. Impose sharia law on Nigeria, Islamise all universities, colleges and schools and courts of law in the Federal Islamic sultanate of Nigeria.<br/>
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They've changed the name of your country. It is not Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is Federal Islamic sultanate of Nigeria with the sultan of Sokoto as the spiritual head, wake up. This is how it is world wide.<br/>
Terrible rage against the church world wide.<br/>
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Mr. Olisa Agbakoba is already fighting this war on his individual capacity. We may not have time to talk about this. Quickly let me mention this. In October 1998, the Christian council of south Africa<br/>
wrote letters to leaders of the church in Nigeria, warning them. Let me read it out for you<br/>
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'that there is a proposed plot by northern Muslim and there Arab OIC supporters to destroy churches, carry out mass murder of Christians with more intensity in the northern states of Nigeria.'<br/>
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I was at the west African theological seminary, doing this presentation when one of the elderly lectures got up and said that is correct, I received a copy of this letter in 1998. I made copies and I gave it to leaders of the church. But the question is, what did the church do? nothing(1998) and was described by the council of churches in South Africa in 1998,we are seeing it with our eyes. so if any body thinks that boko haram is restricted to the north, go think again, unless the church rises and stops boko haram will come to the south. you know they came to osun state few weeks ago.I hope you<br/>
heard the story. They brought a bomb inside a bank in osun state. People were vigilant and they saw that two hausa men who came carrying a bag, left the bag and worked out. So people ran out and they called the police and when they came, they found out that it was bomb and they defused it. Am sure that you've not forgotten that last year they came to burn the third mainland bridge. Am sure you remember. They were to bomb it on Friday, God exposed it on Wednesday. You've forgotten? ah! they don't give up. The church holds the key but before the church can pray and God will hear and<br/>
God will answer, the church will first and foremost return to repentance, return to discipleship, return to holiness because we cannot continue like the bees and expect God to hear us. <br/>
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Before I leave, let me mention this. There are 50 nations in the world that persecute Christians. As of today, the worst nation where Christians are<br/>
persecuted is Nigeria. Nigeria carries 66% of all the Christians killed worldwide. Am not even quoting Nigerian sources am quoting worldwatch list. They said that between November 2011 and October<br/>
2012 we recorded 1,210 killings of Christians worldwide which gives an average of 100 killings a month of which 791happened in Nigeria. which means persecution of Christians is worse in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Libya all of them combined, it is worst in Nigeria. If it has not gotten to you,<br/>
it's on its way but it will not get to you. My job is to give you information so that you can go and re-access your Christian life as an individual and as a church.<br/>
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I'll show this. This is the map of Africa, every area that is green there, that has Muslim majority today, use to be a christian nation. The early church fathers were based in north Africa. Islam over ran<br/>
everybody. Islam is pushing down, Christianity is pushing up. We are meeting at that red line. 90% of all the conflicts in Africa, take place along that red belt. which means that every conflict in Africa is<br/>
primarily a religion conflict. It is not a political conflict, its Islam pushing down. And if you look carefully, that is where the middle belt is. That is why am appealing to Christians in Nigeria, particularly in the south. Plateau state is our responsibility, Benue state is our responsibility. We must do everything possible to reinforce Christianity in the middle belt. Because if Islam should penetrate the middle belt, the south is gone. The southern Christian is not ready to die. If they want to stop Christians from going to church, all they need to is they will just burn one church in Lekki, bomb one in Musin and bomb one in Bariga. The next Sunday all the churches will be empty.<br/>
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Thank you very much for your attention. I give a prayer point, if you will your bibles to Jeremiah 10 :11<br/>
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The Cross must always stand<br/>
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Islam must fail<br/>
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Apparently, as a result of the growing awareness amongst Christians of the evil planned by the Muslims against the Church, the Muslims went online to edit and distort the information on the Abuja Declaration of 1989 . The information on Wikipedia was edited on Monday 21 July, 2014 by one Greg Abdul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja_Declaration_(1989)<br/>
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Their battle plan below, detailing the plot behind the current Boko Haram insurgency and other forms of political manipulations by the Muslims in the country, was completely removed!<br/>
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Below is what the Muslims planned to do in Nigeria and in the other members nations of the IAO during their conspiracy conference in Abuja in 1989.<br/>
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THE REAL BATTLE PLAN:<br/>
"To ensure only Muslims are elected to all political posts of member nations".<br/>
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"To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity, Ahmadiyya and other tribal modes of worship unacceptable to<br/>
Muslim)." (the word Christianity is underlined in the declaration)<br/>
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"To ensure the ultimate replacement of all western forms of legal andjudicial systems with the sharia in all member nations before then next "Islam in Africa conference."<br/>
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"To ensure the appointment of only Muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations" Do not be deceived, they have not changed their agenda.<br/>
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The Military President as of 1989 donated US $21 billion to facilitate the conspiracy. It was acknowledged in the communique as follows:<br/>
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The Joint Conference finally ratified the admission of Nigeria as a full member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC, and thanked the government and people of Nigeria for having generously donated US $21 billion to the Islamic Development Fund of the OIC, and sincerely requested the Federal Government of Nigeria to implement all policies and programmes of the OIC to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation.<br/>
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Please find below what was originally posted on Wikipedia before it was edited on Monday 21st July, 2014.<br/>
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Abuja Declaration (1989)<br/>
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br/>
The Abuja Declarion is the outcome of a conference of the African countries of the OIC in 1989 and launched by a communiqué of the Islam in Africa Organisation (IAO) founded during this conference.<br/>
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The Islam in Africa Organisation (IAO) is a Nigerian statuted Islamic organisation, an initiative of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Dr. Usman Muhamad Bugaje is the current Secretary- General of the IAO.<br/>
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Goals and strategies<br/>
The organization was founded on 28 November 1989 in Abuja,[1] Nigeria, with the goal to win the whole of Africa for Islam. The statutes and goals[2][3] are ratified in 1991 and this marks her formal definitive founding. The founding-communiqué is also called the Abuja Declaration.[4] Starting point for the conference is the fact that Africa is the only continent with an Islamic majority and therefore Africa should become completely Islamic.[5] The plan contains a lot of points that are also common for Christian missionary organizations as relief and economic progression.<br/>
A battle plan was composed to Islamize Africa with some less innocent points in that decision:[6]" To ensure only Muslims are elected to all political posts of member nations".<br/>
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"To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity, Ahmadiyya and other tribal modes of worship unacceptable to Muslim)." (The word Christianity is underlined in the declaration)<br/>
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"To ensure the ultimate replacement of all<br/>
western forms of legal and judicial systems with the Sharia in all member nations before then next "Islam in Africa conference."<br/>
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"To ensure the appointment of only<br/>
Muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations."<br/>
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The execution of this strategy can be recognized in countries like Nigeria, Ethiopia and Sudan. In Nigeria more and more provinces choose for the Sharia leading to heavy protests of Christians, often resulting in violence and bloodshed to both sides. In Sudan the government chose in 1983 for the Sharia, in 1991 sharpened with death punishment for apostasy from Islam.<br/>
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Funds: The government of Nigeria has donated 21 billion US-dollar to confirm an IAO-communiqué [7] as donation to this "Islamic Development Fund".<br/>
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Organisation<br/>
The IAO consists of four main organisations:[8] the General Shura', the highest authority consisting of 43 members from all over Africa and theDiaspora. the Executive Comité.<br/>
the Secretariat housed at Abuja, (Nigeria). the Necessary organs to the realisation of the goals.<br/>
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Countries<br/>
The organisation mentions the following countries on its website:<br/>
Algeria<br/>
Benin<br/>
Chad<br/>
Egypt<br/>
Ethiopia<br/>
Eritrea<br/>
Kenya<br/>
Liberia<br/>
Libya<br/>
Mali<br/>
Mauritania<br/>
Marokko<br/>
Niger<br/>
Nigeria<br/>
Sudan<br/>
Somalia<br/>
South Africa<br/>
Tunisia<br/>
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We need to interceed seriously for this country and we must also get our voters cards ready to vote in only Christians.<br/>
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Every leader, is a man that has learnt how to stick to rules, especially the laws of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.<br/><p style='font-size: xx-small' align='right'>posted from <a href='https://market.android.com/details?id=pl.przemelek.android.blogger'>Bloggeroid</a></p></div>prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0Aba, Abia, Nigeria5.1171742 7.3279223tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-90333646872709050622014-01-20T05:29:00.001-08:002014-01-20T05:29:27.926-08:00The Effect of having the Supernatural in you<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Acts 3:1-8. The Effect of Having the Supernatural in You. Desire spiritual things not just carnal.
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From this portion, we shall see alot of things from which we can learn from.
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1. The man lame from birth
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2. The men that came with nothing physical
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3. Understanding who you are
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4. Desiring the right thing.
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It is important that we see, that this man was lame from birth which inplies that he was limited from birth, not by his making but he just saw himself like that. It means that anyman that is limited, is always limited oftentimes by things he can't control. It is important that we see here that this man was always carried to the gate of the temple so as to receive alms from the people and did you notice that this man has been doing this right from his childhood and he continued till now that he was older, he has been taking alms from people but those alms did nothing to deal with this sitaution. Money profiteth not in the day of wrath Prov 11:4, hence his situation was not solved by money even though men have been giving him money all these whiles. The lord will help us to see that even if we gave money, it doesn't answer to all things that a man needs.
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There were two men also going to the temple at the time that this man was there, they were apostles and had nothing montarily with them there, but they kept on going to the temple. Friends, this man saw them and asked them for this same thing that he has been receiving that has not healed him at all. It is important that we note that the Lord is looking forward for the time that we shall ask for the right thing from Him so that we shall be really blessed by God. Friends this man asked them for money when they had none with them.
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They hadn't any money with them, but they knew they had something more than money and thank God they knew what they had. Friends, as the Lord helps us to come to the place where we shall know what we have with us. The Lord desires that we come to the place where we shall be bold with that which we have and make good use of it.
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The apostled used their gifts well and they spoke to this man and commanded Him to rise to his feet. Friends until a man know what he has, he will be living in the darkness not knowing what God has prepared for him.
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This man didn't know what he needed most, hence his asking amidst, thank God he asked the right people who gave him a right focus.
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Believers authority cannot be over emphasised, hence we must be ready at all times to respond to God's dealings so that we will be useful as men that have obtained a stand with Him. These men had a stand with God that was why they used what He has placed in them to bring about deliverance to this man. May God help us to come to this point in Jesus name, amen.</div>prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-91978204600944223732014-01-18T22:17:00.001-08:002014-01-18T22:17:22.429-08:00FOOD FOR THE HEART<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Man is always hungry, hungry for one thing or the other and the truth is that there are many things seeking for his attention, fronting as food, but they are no food at all.<br/>
The soul of man seeks enjoyment and pleasure more than anything. Man wants to be satisfied and rest content, but the truth is that he cannot do those things by himself. He seeks to find satisfaction in his actions and inactions, but all is null and void. <br/>
He seeks this thing in arts, entertainment, education, friendship, sex and all that, but the more he dives into this, the more the void widens and it leads him to desperation and often times to death.<br/>
But God is not perturbed. He is not disurbed because He alone has the answers. In Isaiah 55:1-2, the Lord gave a cry where He invited everyone to come and both eat and drink from Him free of charge. To come and receive His life that was lost in Eden from Him and that food (bread) and water is Christ for He is the BREAD OF LIFE AND RIVER OF LIVING WATER. As many as will come to Him, will receive that which their souls desire and they shall find rest for their souls.</div>prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-33091662452531282592013-04-22T10:09:00.001-07:002013-04-22T10:09:40.379-07:00The truth is that we as Christians are called to do nothing else but to look unto one Man 'Jesus Christ' for only through beholding Him as He is, would a man be able to be who God wants him to be.<br />
'But we do see Jesus .....' Heb 2:9 GNB, seeing this, we shall notice one thing that is very important in a time like this, it is that we have been called to do one thing and that one thing, is that we shall keep looking unto Jesus. Friends, it is a present continuous action that must be part of us on a daily bases. Except a man keeps beholding Him, he cannot be like Him.<br />
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Ways of Beholding Him.<br />
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1. By studying the Word: we see Him as He is through the scriptures and only through this, can a man view Him and do the things that he is called to do.<br />
2. By Reading Gosple Litratures: This is important so that we can see how God helped our elders in faith and pick a lot of things from their dropings. Grace can be ministered to us as we faithfully study these works prayerfully.<br />
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'We we all, with open face beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.' 2Cor 3:18<br />
John 19:5 '..... Behold the Man' <br />
Only by a continuous attitude of beholding the man, can we be able to become like the Man. Xp peace in all you do.<br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Paradox of our Faith (Flee and Pursue)</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Timothy 2:21 “So flee youthful Passion and pursue Righteousness, Faith, Love and Peace along with those who call on God from a pure heart.” ESV</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I bless the name of the Most High God, the maker of Heaven and earth, who has called us out of darkness and bestowed on us the love of the son, that we may live a life rooted in love to bring the world to His feet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In this study, we shall X-ray what the Lord is telling us, especially as youth in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, so that we may be better equipped to face the challenge that is waiting for us out there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let’s proceed by looking up the meaning of the key words in this verse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paradox: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oxford Advance learners Dictionary © 1993, Nineteenth impression, defines it as “something or situation, displaying contradictory features”. In this case, we see somebody that is doing two different things that are opposite at the same time and we want to know why.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Flee: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">from the afor-mentioned dictionary and for the purpose of our study, it means running away from something <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">especially danger </i>(emphasis mine)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Passion: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A strong feeling e.g. Hate, Love and anger.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pursue:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Follow something or somebody especially in order to catch or kill. 2) Continue to be busy with something.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think that this [particular verse takes root from the two preceding verses, which talks of what we can find in a great man’s house and how useful we shall be if we are purged from the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, then vs. 22 shows us how a youth can do this. We are all youths and I thank God for that, for the glory of the youth is in his strength Pro. 20:29a NIV, therefore, we thank God that we are strong.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In answer to the question of how we can be used by the Master, we see the answer in this paradox.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SO FLEE FROM YOUTHFUL PASSION:</span></u></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> One thing is sure here and it is this, the Bible recognizes that there is a strong passion that is youthful and that this passion, no matter how good it may look, in itself is virtually bad. It calls us into a place of carefulness and diligent questioning of ourselves to know the reason behind whatever we are doing at any point in time if you want to be used by the master, then flee from youthful passion. No wonder some of us have been longing for a time God will use us but see yourself rising and falling after every other day. The problem is rooted in this youthful passion. This is the bane of the man of God and God wants it addressed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Flee here means that we understand that youthful passion and all its benefits are evil and poisonous to anyone that calls himself a child of God. Therefore for him not to be caught up in it, he needs to flee, he has to run away from it, i.e. he has to rid his hearts of things like this. When the heart of a man has been set towards seeking the Lord, everything that can lead him to sin is taken care of i.e. he will always be desisting from such places and such things that can lead him to sin (better put from this youthful passion that leads to sin.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why is he fleeing:</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He is fleeing because if he just jumps out and stays at the spot where he landed, he will be caught up by this same passion that he is running away from, but being that he is running for his life, he has to run with everything in his life and not stop, not even to look back. In our society today, quite a lot of things are militating against our serving God as youth and the highest of all is this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Youthful Passion.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And Pursue: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Igbo’s have an adage – he whose house is on fire does not chase after rats – why is it that one is asked to flee from something and at the same time, is asked to pursue , you see, the understanding of this, will help us. Recall that we said earlier that one fleeing from youthful passion is not even to look back, but if he must succeed, then the paradox must be completed and it is in his pursuing at the same time. In one, you are running away from something, in the other hand at the same time, you are running after something. He is running away from things that lead to sin and at the same time, you are running after holiness. If he must make it, if we must make it, then we must not only be running away from sin, but also at the same time, be running after the remedy of sin – who is Jesus Christ.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Righteousness, Faith, Love and Peace: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note that what the Bible is saying is that we run after something here. Christ is the sum total of every attribute seen here. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For He is Our Righteousness 1Cor. 1:30; Our Faith Heb. 12:2; Our Love 1John 4:8; and also Our Peace Isaiah 9:6, Philippians 4:7. </i></b>You see that when the Spirit of God was talking here, He was referring to Jesus. He doesn’t want us to pursue any other thing than Jesus Christ for anyone that will find Christ, will find all these attribute and much more in Him and his life will not be like that of others and also only Christ is the Sum total of the revelation of the Godhead Col. 1:15 – 21; 2:8 – 10, Heb. 1: 2- 4. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyone that seeks Christ with all in him will find out over time that all this attributes are found in him or her. Pursue here, is something that is actively done, it takes your total consciousness. Psalms 130: 5-6, is a great example of a soul that seeks after the Lord. He is handicapped except the Lord helps him or her 2Samuel 19:24. Pursuing here, is a command for every youth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>irrespective of your background, your statutes, your height, your environment, your story- and we all have to yield to this command, for only this can bring us closer to God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Along with those:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> this clause shows us that no man is an island, in fact, as Christians we are not called to be islands or lone rangers. We need each other, you need me and at the same time, I need you, both of us need each other for us to succeed in this life. We can’t do what the Lord wants us to do on our own alone, it must be together, for where I fall, you will help me up and viz versa. There is a place of seeking and helping each other. We are to run together, we are to pursue together, we are not to be alone. Are you a lone ranger, God hates that, God wants us to come to the point where we can hold unto each other. I was glad when they said to me <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">let us</i></b> go to the house of the Lord. The important thing to note here is that ‘Let us’, God loves it when we dwell together in unity. Who are these “those” that are talked of here?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who Call on the Lord:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> there is a group of people that we are called to follow in pursuing after the Lord, who are they? They are those who call on the Lord. Note that it is “those who call on the Lord”. Who is the person your called friend s call unto? It is only the Lord here my dear, note that if the filthiness that is found on us, would be removed from us, then we must mind those we go out with. It is only those who call on the name of the Lord, for only this group of persons can actually bring us to the place of doing all that the Lord expects us to do which is fleeing from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Passion of Youth</i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pursuing the Person of Christ.</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Out of a Pure Heart: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it is only those that have been purified that are needed here. Out of a pure heart when the Lord is saying that the heart of a man is desperately wicked, so what heart is this? Is it a heart that has been fixed up by man or is it a heart that has been patched by man? The truth is that no man can actually think of ways to patch or fix the heart of man, because day by day, it thinks of the way to multiply evil. Gen. 6:5, so the heart that is talked of here, is one that is renewed day by day by the Word of God. Only the Word of God can make a man pure that is why as a youth, if we must be used of the Lord, we must allow the Lord to make us men and women of the Word. Out of a pure heart – their seeking the Lord, their pursuit of God, their hunger and thirst for God is out of a pure Heart and nothing else. The Lord’s call upon our lives is that our lives must be renewed by the word day by day. Those who seek God out of a pure heart, their hearts is a whole i.e. on individual bases, their heart is one, it is not divide, but in that oneness of heart, there is an inner purity that thirsts for more of God, i.e. no experience or revelation of God, is enough on itself for such a life like this, and when we knit our heart together with such a heart, we will discover what a wonderful pair we shall be. Psalms 42:7 – Deep calleth unto deep as the roaring of the sea; Proverbs 27:17a – Iron sharpeth iron. Note in the both mentioned verses, the first words there, are capitalized while the other are small letters, which means that the greater can actually help the smaller to get to that level, don’t give up, for we shall get there together.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I pray that daily as Scripture Union Youths, the Lord shall continually purge us and bring us into the place of understanding that we shall <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">keep Fleeing from Sin and Pursuing or Running after Christ, for only in this will we find REST.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wish you all a happy stay in this mount, May the Lord God be with your spirit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shalom – Maranatha</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FOR I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2<sup>ND</sup> Timothy chapter 1 verse 12<sup>b</sup> “Nevertheless, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him unto that Day” NKJV.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose confession is this? It is bro Paul’s under the influence of the Holy Spirit. There is a need that we walk according to the Will and Purpose of the Master. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first thing to notice here is this “Nevertheless” what does it mean, from Encarta dictionary, it is seen as in spite of that: that is despite a situation or comment. It can be also seen as this, even if anything happens, there is something I am holding unto. Brethren, when we look at your life, can we see anything that we can actually hold unto. For him here, it was a hope, and that hope was able to keep anyone that will depend on it.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">NEVERTHELESS, I AM NOT ASHAMED</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is something that most of us here seated, will ordinarily be ashamed of, i.e. ashamed that men will see you and call you names, calling you a waste product, they may even say that you are useless and hopelessly confused, and so because of that, we tend to cut corner, just because we want to please men and not God, but here we notice a nevertheless, in your own case, what will it be like. Note from verse 8 to 12, he was listing his suffering for the sake of the Cross of Christ and he was writing to his son in the Lord and to us today, authenticating what he told the Philippians Church in Philippians 1 vs 27. The calling of the Master is beyond the understanding of man and men may misunderstand us for who we are and the place the Lord is taking us to and if we don’t understand, we will end up hiding our faces, when we should hold it up high, knowing who has called. There was something that this brother saw and it was holding him firmly and that thing is this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FOR I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jokes apart, you as a Christian, who do you, say you believe? As a senior friend, as a junior friend, who do you say you believe? Infact, do you actually know who you believe? The first thing that kept him and that will keep us from being ashamed is this “for I know”- do you actually know/ when a man gets into the place of knowing God for himself, it brings him into the realm of remaining in the Will and purpose of God. A man cannot just come out and start shouting, “I know whom I’ve believed”, and something must have taken place in his life, somewhere, sometime, for him to boldly make this glorious confession. The proving of who God actually is, is done in the wilderness, where men are tried and passed through fire. It is not done in the open field nor on the pulpit, it is done where men will not disturb the dealings of the Lord upon that life. 1<sup>st</sup> Samuel 17 vs 37 “ the Lord who delivered me from the pew of the lion and the pew of the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this philistine” NIV. Where did he know God as a deliverer, it was at the wilderness, where he was tending the father’s flock and I know that while he was doing this, those friends of his that know not anything about the wilderness, will be busy laughing at him and even be calling him names, but he didn’t care because there was one thing before him and it was knowing the Lord for himself and that was enough for him. Now, except a man has been tried by God and has himself tried God, he cannot boldly say “I know Him”. Cannot goes with struggling that is no matter how he tries, he cannot and will not boldly come out before man and say he knows the Lord whom he believes. Do you actually know him for yourself or are you relying on the experiences of other people (my pastor said this and did that, that brother or sister said that and did that), but for you, there is no story to tell, why because you have not known Him for yourself. Don’t run away from that wilderness, for when the Lord is through with you, you will actually come out boldly to say-I know whom I’ve believed. It is only in the wilderness that our faith is tried and when it is tried, I know that by His special grace, we will come out stronger than we entered. Psalms 119: 71. The coming of temptation to us is actually to boast our faith in the Lord so that we will come to the place of personal knowledge and understanding of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever comes my way as a Christian now, whether good or bad, I take it under grace with calmness, because I know that he will not let me dash my foot against the stone and even if He does, it is for my own good, because He wants to teach me what I have been ignoring for quite a long time so that I will be better. Paul didn’t just grow up and discovered that he knows him that is to say that he wasn’t born so, but in everything, there was a place of learning Christ which he faithfully followed all the day of his life, you too can start now and make that change that will change your generation.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AND I AM PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these other things that followed were as a result of the first, which has taken place earlier on in the life of a believer. Looking at the confession of David in 1<sup>st</sup> Samuel 17:37, we will see the confidence he had in the Lord’s ability to save him, that is actually to be persuaded of something, he knew that the Lord was able to keep him and that He will not allow His name to be dragged to the mud. When a man knows the Lord, he is not persuaded otherwise, his conviction is always real because he has had an experience in the wilderness, where he proved God’s faithfulness. The heart of a man fails at the slightest news of anything evil, because he has not come to know whom he believes, if only you will know Him for yourself, then no matter the situation, you will actually look back and remember Him and stay put.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The confidence Paul had in the Lord, was as a result of the Lord’s ability to keep that which is committed to Him unto that day, brethren, I am not persuaded otherwise, for I know that the Lord will surely keep us in the hollow of His hand and He will build us up into vessels He can actually use for His glory. Looking back at my life throughout my life, I discovered that actually it will be a false humility if I say I don’t know Him. His name is Jesus Christ and He alone has the power to keep us until that Day. Brethren, that day is actually coming, hope to see you there </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish you a happy stay in His presence as you have come upon this mount to experience the newness of Him. Grace to all of you. You are welcomed once again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Think SUCF<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pray SUCF<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Act SUCF</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Maranatha, Shalom. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your brother in the Lord</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dike, Daniel Emeka.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;"><br />
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</div>prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-84075885035616013872011-08-27T06:25:00.000-07:002011-08-27T06:25:56.333-07:00Against RacismRacism involves the belief in racial differences, which acts as a justification for non-equal treatment (which some regard as "discrimination") of members of that race. As a youth, whatever it is that makes you think yourself superior to others, in such a way that they are ready to take up arms against the other, is not of God, who created us male and female. We must realise that God created all equally, imparting gifts that are unique to each individual. These gifts, though different were not given on the basis of individual color or ethnic group but are supposed to complement eachother for peaceful coexistence and progress. Therefore none is greater than the other. Acts of racism result into hatred, war, favouritism amongst others. They are the roots of social instability in many nations, with the youths at the forefront of its execution. Hence, all youths must realise that racism is abnormal and unchristened. We must see ourselves as equal and work hand in hand together to see that we get there and bring down the glory of the Lord in this nation.<br />
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prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972642185286716778.post-33032282608114002462011-08-09T03:38:00.001-07:002011-08-09T03:38:30.952-07:00no matter what you as a youth id doing for God, note that before Him, it is not small, because He has the power to make small great.prasto12forchristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672264870057996453noreply@blogger.com0