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Changing our thoughts makes the difference
Tweet Sometimes we are tempted to think that the future is bleak….but is what we think that makes us. What have we filled our hearts us? Songs of defeat? Like the children of Israel at the border of the Promised Land we say to ourselves that we are grasshoppers before our enemy giants!! But thats not true. We are great and victorious! We have overcome and our past, however bad, cannot keep us down! Yes we have overcome, if we can change our thinking
When the Heavens are closed
Tweet Everybody on this planet earth goes through trying moments. There is no uniformity in the nature of the trials that we face. It is also obvious that no one person faces a situation that other people are not facing. The experiences are often unique. Our reactions to them are also unique. For some it is the end of a relationship, rejection by a spouse or lover, the death of a beloved person, demotion in the office or stagnation. For others it may be the spurning or rejection of love. The experiences are usually heart rendering and only the persons
Who am I?
Tweet Many people live without any zeal to be alive. They dread life and wish they had not been born after all. This is especially true of those who have been told that they are accidents. Their parents did not plan to have them. Some have even been born with deformities following futile attempts to abort them. Pastor Oyakilome told the story recently of a fifty two year old woman who tearfully told him that she was an accident. Her mother had actually attempted aborting her. She was devastated Some other persons were luckier. Their parents wanted them and had
So what if your father rejects you?
Tweet What do you do if your father rejects you? This is the question, indeed, a very serious issue for a growing number of young people in Nigeria today. Infidelity is obviously on the rise or rather, people are now more aware that, somehow, both men and women cheat on their spouses. It is no longer strange in the developed countries “ especially in Europe where modernisation has nuclearised the family, and created a gulf between spouses. In the United Kingdom, it is understood that about 70% of all paternity tests fail. Divorce rates are high, and people change spouses
The lure of Death
Tweet Death according to the Hausas of Northern Nigeria, rigan kowar simply put, death is the shirt or dress everyone will wear, no one really loves death even believers, who profess a better hereafter life dont want to die. The bible records the story of the Israeli King Hezekiah who was told by a prophet to put his house in order because he was going to die. The brave King, we are told turned hide face to the wall and wept. God heard the anguish of his heart and his life was prolonged by fifteen more years. Fear or lure
