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  I tell you how God wants you to live in 2021:  Romans 1:17 says to you,  “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith”. Make prayerful declarations for 2021, plant your desires through faith and when you come across any hindrance in this journey of 2021, speak the mind of God to it and it will give way. Yearly predictions concerning our country have become a yearly affair in Nigeria. The rise of this trend dates back to the beginning of this decade, when many professed the ability to predict or to have predicted what later happened in the country. Do the gift of clairvoyance and its attendant foretelling of what would happen——– the good, the bad, the ugly and the evil. Does this ability comes from God? Yes and NO, for not all foretelling comes from the almighty One possessed with the spirit of divination can do the same, too.  Acts 16:16-17,  And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed

  1 Corinthians 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God   is   faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear   it . This time last year the christian world in united kingdom, Spain and Nigeria was plunged into grief over the loss of a pastor and his two children in a swimming pool accident during their holidays in Spain. The sad story goes thus: The mother of two British children who drowned alongside their father while holidaying in Spain has dismissed claims they could not swim and suggested there may have been a problem with the swimming pool in which they died. Gabriel Diya, a 52-year-old Christian pastor, his nine-year-old daughter, Comfort and his 16-year-old son, Praise-Emmanuel, died on Christmas Eve at the Club La Costa World holiday resort in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. The hotel’s owner has said police had found nothing wr

  2 Samuel 22:35  He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. As believers, we are called to do battle in our walk with God; we are called into the military trenches to cast and to bind, to lose and to set free. As we all know, we encounter the host of hell many times as we go about to set captives free, whether in our household or in the church of God it is always a battle between light and darkness. Paul use a military terms to describe this when he said to his spiritual son timothy:  2 Timothy 4:1-2  I charge  thee  therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. Please note we only charge a military man and all christian as military because we do warfare. Our arms are not just there to hand by our side or to strap the latest jewelries. Paul said  1 Timothy 2:8  I

  Mark 16:15  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. One of the foremost church ministry that has literally taken Christ’s instruction and run with it is Winners chapel international ministry, whose headquarter is in Sango Ota in Ogun State, Nigeria. Thiss year, despite the pandemic, the church met its target of 10,000 church-planting goal in Nigeria and 730 branches outside the country. One of the fallout of carrying out church planting is the breakaways of overseers of the branches and the ensuing litigations that follows, which often takes years and often distract the ministry from other spiritual and contemporary activities aimed at soul winning and church growth. Sometimes the branch pastors could teach doctrines and other tenets which may be contrary to the church teachings and Doctrines. WCI, AKA Winner has had its own fair share of such experiences. It was a celebrated case when of the pastor in Ghana, Bishop George Adjeman, su

  Psalms 23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil;  my cup runneth over.  [KJV] The richest man in your community is not a christian; I Am sure of that assertion. God has not promised us he will be. Read with me;  Luke 12:16-20  ‘And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink,  and  be merry. But God said unto him,  Thou  fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?’ you can be very  wealthy and powerful in your area of specialization without knowing God; and this does n

  Acts 5:4  Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why Hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou Hast not lied unto men, but unto God. A man has written a letter to his church, demanding a refund of all the offerings he contributed to the church for the 19 years he attended the church,  Dishon Kinyanjui Kinuthia, a Kenyan Christian, took to Twitter to share the letter he wrote to his church while warning that there will be consequences if he doesn’t get a refund. Dishon, who used to attend Revival Mission Church, Kabete, in Nairobi, said he was a member from 1997 to 2018 when he left the church. Dishon, who used to attend Revival Mission Church, Kabete, in Nairobi, said he was a member from 1997 to 2018 when he left the church. He asked that the church refunds the sum of 58,000 KES which is his estimate of his contribution to the church over two decades. He said the contributions he made to the church were not “voluntar

  Matthew 7:20  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Exodus 22:21  Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I have never been persuaded to follow the crowd. They say if you can beat them, join them, but that is not for me. Was it not the crowd hated Jesus Christ for no reason “   And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do  unto him  whom ye call the King of the Jews? And they cried out again, Crucify him. Mark 15:12-13. Crucify him? That is the crowd for you; lead by emotion and not by facts or balance reasoning. We all saw the crowd clamouring and yelling that Trump won and that the opposition cheated, yet when asked by major news outlets to prove their allegation, they fall short of convincing the most dumb witted man alive; yet, they just will not stop shouting fowl. Far away in Nigeria, some Nigerians showed their support for president trump and some call him the one sent by God, th

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.   A lady raised a lot of eyebrows and became the song of scorners when she was found to have paid 1 million naira [ Over 4 thousands dollars]. This illgotten  sum was specifically paid to her church as tithe in the bustling industrial Port Harcourt, Nigeria.  Her fraud is now the subject of a court action filed by the EFCC against her at the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt. Ikogwe was on Monday arraigned before Justice E.A. Obile for a total fraud of N179 million. [over one hundred and seventy thousands dollars] She was charged with two companies, used as vehicles for the fraud, Elites Finance Investment Limited and Efinc Global Investment Limited, The EFCC arraigned them on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and getting money by false pretence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Othe

The original majestic building called church of the Divine wisdom, Hagia Sophia, [Ayasofya in Turkish] is once again a worship centre for Islam. The cathedral built at the old Constantinople, present day Istanbul. It was turned it to a museum, but after 87 years in a judgment passed in early June 2020, it is to become a mosque. Before now, this architectural marvel built under the direction of the Byzantine emperor. Regarded as one of the world’s magnificent monuments. Constantine built the original church on the site of the Hagia Sophia in 325 on the foundation of a pagan temple. It has survived two great infernos one in 404be and the other in 532. After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it became a worship centre to the Moslem as a sign of their victory over the crusaders. They added minarets to the exterior decor, to complete this conversion to a gigantic mosque. [An Islamic symbol normally used to summon worshippers to prayers] Since early 30s, this impressive edifice

Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.    John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. This  pandemic no doubt, has rendered  hitherto bustling cities to take a turn for the worse,  looking like  ghost towns . We have all seen beautiful pictures on national network of  Animals that have crawled out of  their places of  abode  to find relaxing spots on the streets and on the sands. I wonder what they would be thinking might have happened to the creature called man. Bet they never thought such a day will come when the nights shall be turned to days,  for them to free roam and take naps  at will . Well,  the four footed creatures are not alone in this wonder , we men are equally wondering , too. who would have thought that in this century of technological advancement  a

2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.   Matthew 9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him , and touched the hem of his garment: On thursday evening the global case count of Covid-19 surpassed 1 million; getting  to that graph has been the thread of many country all over the world.  What is believed to have  originated in Chinese Wet market in Wuhan, has spread to the entire world; from Mexico to Manila from Cape to Cairo. The world was being plunged into despair with no end in sight. Government after Government have put in place  some measure following the instruction of WHO and added some  instruction of of their own health ministries and centre of disease control. One thing runs common amongst them,  social distancing, cough and

Proverbs 17:8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.   Exodus 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. The first time i got to hear the word was when i was about 10 years old. My dad use to call my step mum Val. Then one day i felt i should make the correction and i asked hi,m why he calls her val because her name was victoria and it should be vicky not val. He chuckled and told me a little about valentine day: always in february and it is called lover's day and celebrated most part of the world, February 14  when lovers crack their brains on how to express their love in greetings and gifts. Bet you have been there when you are at a loss which cards best express your heartfelt feelings, which perfume will speak for you when she sprays it. Most times it is the men who does the giving those day, don't know if there is any change now. Bu

Recently, Kaduna a state in Northern Nigeria, was a wash with the news of the capture of a would be church bomber at   Living Faith Church A.K.A  Winners' Chapel, situated at Sabon Tasha, Chikun Local Council of the state. This was an unusual capture and it has generated a lot of dusks since that fateful day. Winners as this denomination is fondly called, has Bishop David Oyedipo as the general overseer and is one of the fastest growing church in the whole of west Africa. It has a university, Covenant  university and one of the largest church auditorium with a sitting capacity of 50 thousands which is indeed, filled every sunday to the brim.  Dusk started rising when for the first time we heard that the suspected bomber is a christian! The police goes on to identify him as one Nathaniel samuel there was an identity on him, though,looks a fake I.D the police did not care to investigate, but believe who he says he was. Suddenly there was jubilation everywhere, not that he was caught