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 The world we inhabit, created by God rotates round giving.It is the system in place in this hemisphere , for this place to exist, there may be another system in the heavenlies, but here this universe can not be without giving. God first pronouncement on man is based on this system He had already put in place. Genesis 1:28, And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Fruitfulness, no one can be fruitful if there is no giving involved.Whether the giving is money,time or another kind of giving, it brings about multiplication. Read this Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. When that which is giving away comes back, is multiplied by the law of divine provision, it is replenished. A Giver does not lack. Earth sustain man through this givin...

  Genesis 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. Matthew 14:6 But when Herod's birthday was kept; the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod. The bible recorded birthday celebration in two different books in the bible and sadly enough the two ended in the death of a person. Some Christian denominations believe these deaths are too much to be called a coincidence and therefore, think there is a spirit associated with the celebration, which is not godly and so believers should shun birthdays. And most importantly, they say, Jesus never asked his birthday to be celebrated, but commanded his disciples and followers to observe the lord supper see 1 Corinthians 11:25, After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood : this do ye, as...

  There are those who think anything with the slightest sign of grit and hardness   is not for them.  Those who think it should not be for you as a believer; for Christ died for us, taking our suffering and nailing them all to the cross. In today’s believers’ world, this kind of mind set should be resisted and cast out of our lives. Just like life itself does not rely on the soft side of our planet to succeed, but also its rage, for survival, so too do us humans need tough times and happier days too. Any message that tells the believers to be patient, endure and overlook ill will and let go of revenge is the best message ever told. Sad enough, some believers see that as encouraging the devil and giving place to the enemy to operative in our lives. Persecution, is seen as the devil at work and we engage in physical fight if need be .Patience, persecutions, long sufferings, oppression in some cases, maltreatment in others, campaign of calumny, and many other vice are p...

  It makes sense to believe that when you solicit prayers from your pastor, your so called father in the lord, your mummy in the lord, your Sunday school teacher and your prayer band leader, when you take your request to the weekly prayer mountain, then God will answer you; it make sense to think so. After all, when prayers continually touch the throne of God over one particular person then God will be compelled to answer. It makes sense to have men and women who you pay every now and then to pray on your behalf, go on fasting on your behalf, and take prayers especially, for your business each time they go on the mountain. When I give my living room to for house prayers every week, God shall easily answer me. The answer to all the above is a shocking NO. With man the above can move him, but not with God. God does not think like man or move like man. If you look at the prayer Jesus give us as a format, you will notice that having many people raising prayer[s] for you does not fly. O...

  Some Christians who have often ventured into the world of Evangelism, preaching the good news, otherwise called the gospel, might have been confronted with the titled question. This line of questioning often comes from those who have read the bible for exams purposes or on the recommendation of self branded prophet to read a particular book mostly, from the book of psalms. Jesus is not the father and the book of Isaiah is misunderstood by many.  What happened here is called METATHESIS, meaning the transposition of two words. Understanding the bible requires us to explore what the bible says about Christ the son and God the father. And most importantly, what Jesus   claims with the father. In the same bible the father is considered by Jesus as someone other than himself. He never claimed or made any ambiguous reference to the father. Jesus referred to the father more than 200 times in the bible! And over 40 times the distinction between the father and son is also ma...

  He was very restless and agitated. The man, his boss, was becoming inefficient by the day. He must prove to the organisation that he was a better hand and can take the company to higher heights, but how to do that seems to be a problem. A problem, until he met a friend, who took him to a prophet of God. One sacrifice, oblation and incantation lead to another. Later, the Boss fell ill; His absenteeism and constant ill health led him to tender his resignation and our man took over, went to his church and celebrated how God answers prayers. A man was late for an interview. on the way, he kept muttering that something will suddenly crop up to delay the boss in Jesus’ name!, claiming this job in the blood of Jesus. There are many prayers that God does not answer, even if we got our desires and we give him the credit. God is already high and lifted. We can not lift him higher with falsehood. There are many who also got their desires without praying. Most time we fall into the latter ca...

  Archiving your dream in today’s world is like passing through the eye of a needle for most youths, especially, in societies where the government does not care about the welfare of its citizen. The politicians see politics as a way to amass wealth, ‘ chop your own clean mouth’, and leave for the next politicians to take their own share of the national cake [while the poverty rate of the governed continues to grow astronomically.] So when the few who are able to make it outside politics emerge ,their story is that of hard work and grit, financial sagacity and a strict economy that only the determined can survive.  For many who admires them they cannot help, but want to hear them talk, and write about their story of rags to riches. These kinds of settings the bible alludes to as errors.  see Ecclesiastes 10:5,   there is an evil   which   I have seen under the sun, as an error   which   proceedeth from the ruler. Imagine having gone through the thi...