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Lately, the social media has been buzzing with pastoral news in Nigeria. The flame was kindled by Ifedayo Olarinde,  aka  Daddy Freeze, who sounded an alarm alleging Wealthy pastors were milking their congregation, impoverished them and use their hard earned money to jet around in their gulf streams jet like Pastor David oyedipo, and rolls around in their rolls Royce like Pastor Chris Okotie.  For one, am not against Ifedayo and his # Free the sheeple movement or whatever he calls it, but I think he is not getting it right. Why, for the source of their wealth is not what he  and those against these pastors thinks.When it comes to church, many want to hear the negatives  because it is sensational. And many are wont to think that pastors ought to be above board, morally upright and spiritually pious and sanctimonious. Their children are expected to follow suit, judge in the same light  and weigh on the same scale. In that haste, no one remembers that children will always be children, hav

   1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. [Bible,kjv]    2 Corinthians 7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. The name of the anchor man of cool FM , OAP Daddy Freeze, needs no introduction in the church circle of  Nigeria. He is one man who hates pastors and clergies and does not make pretense about it ,especially, the ones who drives  Rolls Royce and those who flies private Gulfstream jets. His unguarded utterances and tirade against popular men of God in Nigeria reads like a text book. Here is one man who seems to have  vowed to use all means available to him to degrade and pour insults on these men of God. He spares no one; from those who  parades thousands of church branches to those who are founders and presidents of Universities and other tertiary institutions. .  He is of the opinion that all well off pastors are

1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self will they digged down a wall. , Bible KJV Youths are prune to anger, violence and exuberance. Only few can restrain themselves. Many are believed 'violent'. Most times. when the result of their momentary anger is assessed, a lot of irreversible damaged is left in its aftermath like the above biblical passage. The message was ominously chilling , 'All people of the south east leaving in the northern states of Nigeria are to leave within the next three months. It was issued by a coalition of nort

    Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying , In thee shall all nations be blessed.      Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Welcome to the month of June, the month of justification. As the lords led us to have a name for each month,  www.thecovenantfamily/calendermonth, it behooves us, therefore, as heirs to know all about the title of that month. Last month was the month of may,' the month of mighty things', but we could not paste it on the site or this blog. I do hope you will forgive my indolence and lack of time for that. I dare not make excuse, but crave your indulgence to forgive me. Justification is not a word very common with most Christians today. it is not like blessings and binding. rather, this is a word which get most people confuse and yet very important knowledge that exp

According to report there is anger at the chapel of Christ  the light, Alausa, Lagos state, after the presiding chaplain, venerable Femi Taiwo, was sacked by the governing council on the order of the state governor Akinwumi Ambode. You can read the whole story on most Nigeria dailies. Psalms 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? 'The one who pays the piper has ran to the husband and they both have decided he must go as they do not like the tune he is playing'. Is like a scene from our NOLLYWOOD, but this time is not . This is for real. I dare to say that it is not raining, but pouring. I have too much on my mind and do not really know where to begin this issue. In a nutshell the story goes like this:  Some facts worth knowing. Firstly, the church is under the Lagos state ministry of home affairs. secondly, the office of the Lagos state first lady supervises the church This is the foundation the church was build on and this is how it has

An electrifying and awesome presence of God's is a desire all those who mentions the name of God wants to experience; It is gratifying to know that God does not make this difficult if we want to get his attention . Praises, they say, brings God's presence and I dare add worship, too,  makes his voice to by heard  , a class of prophecy common where there is worship. One reads in the bible how awesome it was when the majestic temple in Jerusalem, that was later destroy in AD70, brought down the presence of God. like I said, it is not rocket scientist when the people of God wants to brings God's presence down. when the atmosphere is right HE always comes. So when all roads, nooks and crannies  led to the birthday bash organized by Pastor Victory Dawson, founder of MARANATHA UPPER ROOM OURTEACH in Canada and resident pastor of victory international ministry, Toronto branch, what an awesome presence we all felt. Pastors, laymen and men from different works of life had a meeting

               1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.               John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. These last weeks have witnessed uncommon rumbles in  the church, the ecclesia.First it was the bomb  dropped by one Stephanie Otobo.[still an allegation].Then just last week while the reverberation was still felt, another hit again. This time it was a pastor, a laborer in the vineyard, trying to destroy in the most heinous way what he has built. and like the biblical Samson tried to destroy the people, only this time unlike Samson, he wanted to destroy the church! .The pastor has a grudge. He says the church where he pastors took side with his wife in a dispute and encouraged her to leave him, not minding that he has put in close to 25 years in the Ministry. Now

Exodus 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.                               Genesis 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.  The bible, kings James version. Since creation, man has always been on the move. Not satisfied with staying in one environment for long. looking for adventure and a penchant to explore has led him to be very mobile.  Looking for a better place and a conducive Environs to his liking that he can call a home. with time it evolved to what is now known as immigration. Maybe, the sociologist will know more about the nitty-gritty of  it all. Want to think it is almost natural for man to be on the lookout for a better place, for even, the birds and some other animals are known to migrants, too. With the advent of immigrations and the borders and

  Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.    Ruth 1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.                                                  Quotes from the bible, kjv. People migrating to other land has been of old, not a new phenomenon. Abram was asked by God himself to leave his family and kindred. A typical migration is found in the book of Rut, the old testament of the Bible. A sad end for a family with the aim of seeking for a greener pasture elsewhere. the man died, the two children later died, too,  the woman[RUTH] was  alone with the wives of her late two children. They left the land of their birth due to hardship with the hope of finding a better place ,but only the woman survived in that attempt left her with a p

1 Timothy 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.         1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.                                                                                                        [all quotes from The bible ,KJSV] When president john .f. Kennedy said 'do not ask what your country cam do for you, but ask what you can do for your country, am sure he never knew that his words, advise or admonition, depending, on what you want to call it, will go on in an evergreen annals. of our time. When a truth so obvious, so conspicuous and so glaring is uttered by humans, the world do not fail to recognize and  echoes it often thereafter,  So when the Nigeria president, Muhammadu  Buhari,  sums up Nigeria's desire situation, he echoed the obvious; 'IF WE DO NOT KILL CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION WILL KILL US'. Good enough

Recently, we all woke up to the news that truck drivers employed by Dangote group has been involved in massive stealing of the company's truck tyres, amounting to millions. So sad. Why? the reason is not farfetched, this company is one of the largest employers of labor,  thereby, keeping food on the tables of a majority of the hitherto unemployed, thus,  reducing the unemployment  saga of our time.    One of the endemic problem we do have as a people is the problem of stealing . Theft, not by the people outside, but by employees of companies, organizations, a place where they earn their livelihood. They often steals with impunity even, small stuff  that are not worth  the  soiling of one's name. The story, sad enough, is not different from government parastatals; even worse scenario occurs there as nobody seems to care. Workers at NGOs and orphanage homes  indulge in it with glee and delight. Donation in forms of materials like clothes, blankets, shoes and even food items of

3 John 1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; When your fight is from within , pray God you win that fight. The bible says a man's enemy shall be from his household. The word of God shall for ever remain true. For some time now, the ones sitting in the front pews have been finding it very convenient to turn around and attack their brethren sitting on the same pew. Reason? They find their brethren guilty of too much respect for the pastors, too much flowing with these pastors ,like these folks are even ready to drink the dirty water from their socks, the pastors. They wonder why these ones should be so gullible and never for ones say, no to their pastors. These front benchers do not understand why the shout out to their pastors nor the whistles and the flow each time the pastors mount the