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  I grew up in an household where you are allowed to explore and pursue, work out your salvation, the way you think is the best way, for there are many ways today, caliaming to be the way to God, but when the chips are down their claims falls to the ground, lifeless, like ‘the baal and ashtoreth” of biblical days. I had a sample of other major religioins wanting to know the ‘F’aith,’ that offers a comforting meassage of a life of hereafter. And thier core belief and work of faith. I also want to relate the sufferings of humaniy today, the injustice and oppression, and compared them to the explanations and reasons such religion represents. I had to have an open mind to do this and my fear was more about ‘what lies ahead after death. I needed a serious explanations and a convincing one at that- not persuasion that does not appeal to my spirituality. I find out that the similarities in all of them was morality and none of them encourage oppression nor taking of life; one says it all; ...

 

  Luke 18:13,  And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as   his   eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:11-12,  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men  are , extortionist, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. Isaiah 64:6,  But we are all as an unclean  thing , and all our righteous nesses  are  as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Those who have acquired the mind of Christ through desires and seeking [for those who seek shall find] may have discovered that one thing that puts God off from us like other iniquities, is PRIDE. God hates pride and those who have appeared before him with a handbook of qualifications often go home empty. Cross check the opening Bible verses....

  1 Corinthians 6:12,  “A”ll things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any,.”[Bible, new king james version]The damage control embark upon by his cohorts seems to be failing. Despite the outright denial by his lawyer and himslef, it appears the news that the controversial Nigerian pastor Tobi Adegboyega it appears his stay in The UK is trembling on the ballance. New details have emerged on why the United Kingdom immigration upper tribunal approved the deportation of Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, founder of Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church, commonly known as SPAC Nation. The 44-year-old pastor, who   arrived in the UK on a visitor’s visa in 2005 but did not leave when it expired, had sought to remain in the European country on human rights grounds. He had married a British citizen. After the Home Office denied his request, he appealed to the first-tier tribunal, which equally turne...

  Exodus 3:13  And Moses said unto God, Behold,  when  I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me,  What  is  his name? What shall I say unto them?  [KJV] This is the condition many church goers have found themselves; they attended progams from dusks till down, never miss a thing, but they have no personal experience nor encounter with Christ. Anyone who desires to have a spiritual fulfilment in 2025, must start by knowing who christ is.   Matthew 20:30  And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord,   thou   Son of David. These two blind men knew that the saviour would come through the lineage of King David and that he is a healer and a redeemer; they did not know how Jesus look, but when he passed by they knew this was the oppotunity to received thier...

  The blood is one of the most important part of the human body system; it is like an engine oil to a car. If there is no engine oil in an automobile powered by engine the car will not only stop, but the engine is broken which professionals call ‘knock’. Blood! so important in religious circle; indeed there is no religion that does not talk about blood, especially, Christianity and the Judaism. Healthwise, most patients needs blood infusion to recover. Medically, blood  is grouped into four : O, A, B, AB These groups all have their origins and meanings, each blood type contains the genetic message of our ancestors’ diets and behaviors, and though weare a long way from early history, many of their traits still affect us. The original blood type was O. And the most symbolic blood of all, the one you will mostly hear people proclaim, confess and exalt is the blood of Jesus Christ, which is central and sacred to Christianity. This among others reason is that sin, which has separat...

  Hebrews 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Hebrews 4:1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left  us  of entering his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. To all the people of faith in God and those who desire to become one, there is a promise from God to usward. And this promise becomes part of our heritage when we surrender to the leadership of the Holy spirit. Being led by the holy spirit is an integral part of a christian walk with God. see  Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. It is the obedience to God through the leadership of the holy spirit that ultimately puts the christian in the part of redemption. God sees all of us like his beloved sheep and his purpose is to be our shepherd, but of us who profess to be christian finds it difficult to allow this shepherd, God, to have his way in all we do. The reason for redemption is to separate us from the wo...

 Recently, the general oversea and founder of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, marked his 70th birthday. Alot of feeding and other event, but the social media was agog with one thing; the gift of Rolls-Royce car to this man of God who has an outstanding record in Evangelism in  Nigeria regarding establishing ministries in every nook and crannies of Nigeria, and extending to other African countries. The social media trend of this expensive car gift was enough to derail many young believers from their faith, and many started asking questions and wanting correct answers. When you hear from one corner, the praise of this man and what he has done in Evangelism, Education and Business, and in the other hands you hear many saying worldliness is what many church leaders of today, are known for, that the gift of two expensive cars is till now, unheard of in advance economy, let alone a country like Nigeria with 70 percent of the population wallow in poverty and living from ha...

  The Bible says in “ Psalms 2:2-4,’  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,  saying , Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh : the Lord shall have them in derision’. There are laughter and there are laughter, but when HE who sits on the trhone, he who created the whole world,all by himslef, he who is omnipotent and omnipresent and omniscinet laughs you have to think with reverential fear why he is laughing. Let me says from the onset that God have emotion too. He can be amuse, He can be pleased and He can be angry just like the above passage says. When Introducing his beloved son to the wolrd at that eventful baptism that took place at River Jordan, God said, ‘ in the boook of  Matthew 3:17, ‘  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. In the book of Exodus M...

 I hope we have established the truth that there is no currency in heaven; and let it be known that there is no way anything designed,by man can actually function in heaven. The formula in that place is not found here on earth. Jesus showed us an example when he literally put back a cutoff ear. No medical formula agrees with that. Jesus said in John 3:12, If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Our sense, intelligence and our mind can not fathom how things actually works in heaven, it is beyond what our imagination or thoughts can put together, trying to explain it just put us at a loss for how to explain things in the spirit, however, we take solace in the above verse, from our Lord who is the 'door', to enter that place. John 14:6, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Money does not exist in heaven and so God does not rain down money or o...

  Does God give us stupendous money? The answer is no. Let us look at this verse: Proverbs 10:22  The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Now you can convert such blessings to wealth, for there is no currency in heaven. What comes out from heaven, from the window of heaven, are blessings. These blessing are not visible, they are not tangible.Their presence is overwhelming and even the blind can see it. When you have any of God’s blessings, the evidence is conspicuous for friends and foe to see. Some blessings can become a cash-cow. Let us look at a good case from the book of Genesis; How such blessing can indeed make you rich .   Genesis 26:2-4,  And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware un...