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Food For Thought – NOT GOOD ENOUGH ?

by samuel on December 27th, 2016 for Business and Management, Issues on Faith

The top 7 excuses on the road to success: _*

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  1. “I’m not good enough.”

Reality: There are people not as smart, talented or experienced as you who got started and are already ahead of you.

  1. “I don’t have the time.”

Reality: Success doesn’t come from having time. It comes from making time.

  1. “I don’t have the money.”

Reality: You don’t need money to make money. You need a mission. Then deliver value to those who have the money.

  1. “I don’t know the right people.”

Reality: You can change who you know and who knows you today. Start by being the kind of person you would want to know.

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Natural Disasters In The World Today

by samuel on July 29th, 2014 for Issues on Faith, Science

natural disasterThe fear of losing one’s life appears to be the greatest fear of all humans. While some people undergo mind revolution schemes to build sufficient courage necessary for surmounting dire challenges of life which sometimes may include giving up once life, the greater majority will rather take a neighbour’s life to remain alive. The old still dread death, at least unplanned!

 Certain circumstances however are clearly beyond man’s control, some have been with us since creation, other appear to be evolving as a consequence of how man operates this planet. Mankind is in permanent quest for a solution to natural disasters, be it technological or spiritual. Indeed nothing just happens. There is sufficient cause for every occurrence.

 From Bible history, some people opine that there may have been a natural disaster that made the world without form and void after The Beginning in Genesis 1:1, which warrant the mandate “…replenish the earth” in Genesis 1:28. Most religious people also look forward to a cataclysmic end of the world in what can be classified as the greatest unpreventable natural disaster yet to come. see 2 Peter 3:10 -12., while there exist the  prophetic warning of coming  “famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places” as  sure signs  before the end. Mat 24:7, Mark 13:8 and Luke 21:11.

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Ideas For Inventions

by samuel on May 26th, 2013 for Issues on Faith

Grab an invention

Inventions and patents are much desired by researchers for career progression and more importantly needed by the society for advancement. In school groups, my observation shows that the seeming most brilliant person may not end up an inventor.

When you pursue a vision, you certainly get an invention. Someone said “Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare” Essentially, you have to sit down to think, develop the vision and begin to work at it; acquiring relevant knowledge and applying them to the task at hand.

Clearly, anyone who is excellent at what he does with the knowledge he has acquired, but doesn’t create anything new lacks imagination and perhaps is disconnected from the source of ideas for invention.

The man who wins a Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Physics is certainly not the first professor in his field of study, he may not even be the most hardworking, but somehow while working on a vision, more vistas open, new idea drops and something is invented or nature’s truth is unravelled.

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Tithing today !

by samuel on March 13th, 2013 for Issues on Faith

Tithe may be defined as one tenth of somebody’s income or produce paid voluntarily or as a tax for the support of a church or its clergy.

The patriarch Abraham first gave tithes in Gen 14: 18-20, at an encounter with Melchizedek king of Salem, who was the priest of the most high God. Jacob also vowed to God  in Gen 28:22 saying “and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.” Today it is quite difficult to monetize gifts that are not in cash, so as to pay tithes on them.  Tithing had by this time become a tradition in Israel.  In Numbers 18: 20 -26 the LORD gave a clear instructions  to Moses not to give any inheritance to the Tribe of the Levites as HE had chosen them to be priests and thus should live by the tithes the rest of tribes of Israel would pay to them.  Truly in Joshua 13:33 when the inheritance was shared amongst the tribes, none was given to the tribe of Levi, as the LORD had commanded.  So clearly the Tithes were for the Priests.

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LICKING THE BLADE

by samuel on January 31st, 2013 for Issues on Faith

The true story is told how an Eskimo kills a wolf. An Eskimo is a member of the very cold northern areas of North America, Russia and Greenland.

He coats his knife-blade with blood and let it freeze. The he adds another coat of blood and let it ten another. As each coat freeze, he adds another smear of blood until the blade is hidden deep within a substantial thickness of frozen blood. The he buries the knife-blade up in the frozen tundra. The wolf catches the scent of fresh blood and begins to lick it. The wolf licks it more feverishly until the blade is bare. Then he keeps on licking harder and harder. Because of the cold, he never notices the pains of the blade on his tongue. Its craving for the taste of blood is so great that he does not realise its taste has been satisfied by its own blood. It licks the blade till it bleeds to death, swallowing its own life.

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Created For God’s Pleasure.

by samuel on September 30th, 2012 for Issues on Faith

I imagine a static world just before the creation of man. Then in Gen 1:27, (KJV) records, “So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him”  (MSG) puts it thus “God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature”  (CEV) says “So God created humans to be like himself ” (DRB)  “And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him” (GNB) says “ So God created human beings, making them to be like himself.”

Upon Man’s arrival the Bible tells how a clear mandate to be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth, subdue it: and have dominion over every living thing in earth was given to Man in Gen 1:28. God had been satisfied with the standard of His creations that He now had the confidence to commit, their management into the hand of Man. He must have indeed been satisfied also with capacity of Man to discharge this duty effectively. Being his creator He knew the content and the endless possibilities from a godlike creature for further creations. To be fruitful

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Instruments of Peace.

by samuel on June 27th, 2012 for Issues on Faith

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

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Tribute to The Bible

by samuel on May 31st, 2012 for Issues on Faith

The Holy Bible

Volumes have been written out of it’s little volume, aspects of its teachings constitutes the research focus for several students, while many spend nearly a life time studying its pages.  The quest for knowledge and solution to mankind’s endless challenges often drives us to the Bible. It is the basis of the Christian faith.

Huge cathedrals have been built to teach its doctrines and Bible schools abound. Indeed there must be something about the bible that makes it unequaled. In spite, or because of this, it has its share of controversy. Today there exist several denominations in the religious church that hold divergent views of the same portions of the Bible. Even amongst friends one verse would mean something different to each one, yet  providing succor at inquisition to fill genuine spiritual voids in the heart.

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The Man JESUS !

by samuel on April 7th, 2012 for Issues on Faith

The Lord Jesus Christ

The season of Easter elicits solemn reflection by Christians across the globe about the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.  A lot was unique about Him, from the mode of biological conception and on to His resurrection. His personal conduct and comportment in the society also made Him standout, and people who behaved like Him had to be designated  Christians, Act 11:26. Today, as we commemorate His unparalleled act of resurrection, I am inspired to document essential lessons from the human aspects of the Lord Jesus Christ; the MAN Jesus, who like any other man today,  was exposed to temptations Heb 4:15, got hungry Mar 11:12, was  compassionate Mat 9:36 , wouldn’t hide his emotions to weep  Joh 11:35 and even got skilled in a trade Mar 6:3 . Although surrounded by fierce enemies Joh 5:18, and passionate admirers Joh 11:2 alike, He didn’t lose focus of his divine mission to this planet. Indeed He couldn’t have just been killed. He actually came to die, and shame death by bodily resurrection.

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THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIAN REVIVAL IN THE SEVENTIES IN NIGERIA.

by samuel on October 3rd, 2011 for Issues on Faith

Pastor C. S. Kwelle

 INTRODUCTION: A spiritual revolution or revival started in Nigeria immediately after the civil war 1967­­-1969. The horrors of the war with its attendant sorrows and suffering ignited men and women to hunger and seek after God. The reality of heaven and life beyond the grave  dawned on many that witnessed the war. Churches, Christian fellowships and hitherto despised Scripture Union (SU) were filled with both young and old desiring to know more about God. Even in those parts of the country that did not see the war it was as if the Holy Ghost was poured down “upon all flesh”.  More gospel and pentecostal groups started growing up everywhere. Hitherto, it had been the traditional colonial missionary churches like the Anglican Communion, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodists, Assemblies of God, Apostolic Faith etc. But indigenous church denominations began to spring forth. Men and women of God like late Archbishop Benson Idahosa , Bishop Oyedepo, Evangelist A. A Iyang, Bro. Jonathan Ombo Amakiri, Pastor W.F Kumuyi, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Apostle Okonny, Apostle Numbere, Rev. Mark Nwulu and several others began to be mightily used of God.

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