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I shall underrate your awareness if i say you do not know that Easter and its surrounding festivities was was originally a pagan festival with offerings done to 'Esotre',a god,commonly worshiped by the heathens in those days.But to the few who might feign ignorance, here is a summary: this festival coincides with the Passover celebration in Jesus' time. Therein lies the reason why they did not conspicuously mention it in the bible except for once in the book of Acts12:4. But the reason for this posting is to explain without giving you a long sermon the significance of the resurrection of the Jesus,  Christ. Might shock some if i say that the celebration of the resurrection of the lord Jesus Christ is more important than his birth and the attended christian festivities and commercialization by the shrewd business world Reason 1 If Jesus was not raised or did not resurrect from the dead, The christian faith ,life style and would have been in vain and just another fail

There are two important events worthy of note during this Easter celebration. One is the last supper And of course, the resurrection of the lord Jesus Christ. There is no gain going over the obvious fact that it is the death and the resurrection of the lord Jesus Christ that gave credence to his divinity. In as much as am not a one-way train nor has my faculties be subverted by dangerous indoctrinations i still have to postulate the truth so far: that amongst all founders of religious movement no one has display knowledge, [see sermon on the mount] commonly seen as words etch in gold and truth of all time, the lord's prayer, replete with love for God and our personal responsibility to forgive others pointing out that our ability to forgive and the measure we will forgive is commensurate to the measure God will forgive us, too. His good works, while he strutted this sinful world, is second to none of other religious movement. his compassion and moving parable even daring to use a

God knows about your possibilities. God knows your limitation. God knows your needs. To mark the 4th anniversary of Covenant of grace international ministry a three weeks program stretching through 24th febraury2013 was kicked off today. Our guest speaker,pastor Solomon Amalawa took us through the bible reminding us and revealing to us the love of God and that God knows us than we do ourselves. he enjoined us to cast our cares in the hands of the Lord. He revealed that as Christian we need favor rather than our strength, favor rather than our connection to move up and be what God wants us to be.He referred us to the book of Luke2:52,psalms139:6,1corinthians10:13, isam2:9 and Ecclesiastes9:11. Program continue with another speaker, pastor Mark billed for next Sunday. MARANATHA!

Genesis49:22 'Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall'. Before this announcement as it were might sound shocking to a layman who neither know what it is to be a christian, nor to become born again their father Jacob, started off perhaps after a grand breakfast or a delicious supper. Could not have been lunch, because the boys will be in the fields as usual; asking them to hurry home and gather only to tell them what will befall them would have be the height of recklessness, even prophets retain the discretion of delivering messages that sound judgmental to men . How about some one calling you only to tell you he has news for you, only to tell you what will befall you? well, Jacob did not see anything wrong in this either. Now, there is something i do not want you to miss in all these. if you think deeply and meditatively, Jacob words mean he has programmed their individual life to go a certain way! no working from dusk

In a country  like Nigeria,where Transparency international has noted high propensity for corruption my  humble take on this issue of Men of God possession who owns jet planes and flies around in Gulf streams and Bombardier jets might make you feel like hating my guts and using a meat cleaver on my head.By the way, i overheard someone say there are more private jets in the country than commercial airlines, though am yet to verify that claim. Please,am only expressing  i my opinion and should not cause you  to loos your cool. What is giving us all sleepless night is the various challenges which seems to have defy all logical solution. In case you have been hermetic of late, there is this issue that is making the round in bars and pools tables, in super markets and market square about the men of God in Nigeria who are keeping our airspace busy with their incoming and out going planes. Like with all controversies,those on the hot seats always have a reason for doing what they do and acti

It has been snowing all day long and it would take the faithful to just remember that the changing and stinging weather must never be in the way when it has do with God, service or work. yet, truth be told, if there is any day on our calender we want to sacrifice it is the day of going to service that comes cheapest. The club always provide fun, relaxation and the latest gossip, making the round in order for us to unwind. The family get together? No way! can not let that pass us it is only once a month, besides, been looking forward to discussing this issue with my brother in-law. Let it rain cat and dogs we still have to do the shopping for the preceding week  How about the social union? those who fail to show up without a convincing and cogent reason still have to pay the stipulated price for absentees.  In  these days that money is scarce who the hell wants to cough out avoidable expenses?. Yes, the children's outing. I do not have the cheek to tell them it should be shelved. t

Yearly predictions concerning our country has become a yearly affairs in Nigeria. The rise of this trend dates back the beginning of this decade, when many profess the ability to predict or to have predicted what later happened in the country. Do the gift of clairvoyance and it's attendant foretelling of what would happen, the good, the bad , the ugly and the evil comes from God? certainly yes, but not all  foretelling  comes from the almighty.  Men have develop a penchant to stand in awe of the miraculous, the unnatural and the display of magical and spiritual power that practitioners of this trade will go the extra mile just to provide the attention they crave and the approval of many professing them to be the servant of the most high[Acts8:9-18] the penchant, the paparazzi style,the publicity tends to showcase those who we think has a one way access to God. My point here is this: men have decided to tell us those who have the ability to do this. the ability to tell us who wi