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[Aderinre @Adebinta]

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[Queen Ella☢️✂️❤️ @CorrectBabie]

Somebody shout PRAISE THE LORD!!! 🙌😭The Lord has done it again!

After 2 long years… God showed up in a mighty way.

My friend’s sister lost her baby in the market. It was a very painful time 😭To make it worse, her husband even divorced her because of it.

But guess what… 😭🙌The baby has finally been FOUND!!!

And the shocking part?It was the husband’s girlfriend who kidnapped the baby all along 😳

And now… the same husband is begging her for forgiveness 😔

God is truly not asleep! What He cannot do does not exist! 🙏May He restore everything we have lost and wipe away every tear.

Praise the Lord!!! 🙌

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@officialGSWMI Amen

[Adesanmi Olaitan Ariel @AdesanmiOlaitan]

The simplicity of Christianity is the very reason many religiously minded believers struggle to walk in the fullness of Christ. They believe they must endure suffering to walk in power and please God. To them, if it isn't difficult, complex, and leaves no scars, God can't show up

[Aderinre @Adebinta]

@officialGSWMI Amen 🙏

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@GbengaWemimo Glory!!!

[Mr. lntegrity @Farmers_Space]

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[Tobenna @TobennaDaniel]

@pfemiolaleye See ehn I want to thank lighthouse Ibadan for always bringing him every year at their Shiloh program. My goodness, I usually bless God for men like this, especially these men from the North.

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

When Today Takes Yesterday to Task

It is true that as a person, my most profound memory of Mount Zion Films was the scary Ayamatanga scenes
It became compounded when a preacher said the woman who acted in that scene was attacked with mental illness after the movie was shot (I never bothered to find out if this was true or false)
I never watched another movie from that ministry after that one

From a creative point of view, what made Agbara Nla memorable and scary was the same thing that made it popular in Nigeria
Nigerians have an obsession with darkness and evil spirits
This obsession led to the establishment of many cults and churches under the guise of Pentecostalism or spirituality with specialization in deliverance ministrations and exorcism of every kind
In the '70s, '80s, and '90s, the predominant prayer of most choices is binding evil spirits and praying battle prayers

In the 2000s the educated ones who took over from the pastors who led in the 70s simply changed the official languages of their churches from the indigenous language to the English Language but the obsession with evil spirits and the fear-mongering religious message of old still prevailed
It was all they know
Except for a few like Rev Tunde Joda, Pastor Olubi Johnson, and Rev. Chris Oyakhilome to name a few preachers who started sharing the true messages and intent of the gospel in the 90s
(Darkness was so strong at the time that we were told not to listen to these preachers who were doing American gospel)

The predominant religious posture of Christian churches and messages in Nigeria was focused on the enemy, witchcraft, agents of darkness, faulty foundation, the enemy in the household, and other forms of morbid stories shared to support this prevalent belief system.
At the time the crusades featured ex-Ogboni confraternity members, Alawopa cult members, self-confessed witches, and other strange characters which pastors bring as special guests to share their experiences in the kingdom of darkness for hours and then spend the last ten minutes telling us about their salvation encounter with Jesus and how it saved them and made them believers

This was the same story the Ayamatanga movie told
It was a reflection of the prevalent understanding of Christianity and our society in the 90s.
Before the Ayamatanga movie, the makers made other movies that didn’t just sell because the people didn’t have the understanding to relate to the themes
Perilous Times was one of such
It was scripted to depict the end times and what happened after the rapture
It was popular but it was not a resounding success like this movie many were talking about

For those of us who were teens at that time, the Ayamatanaga movie was just like Koto Aye, Koto Orun, Yapanyantin, Arelu, Nneka the Pretty Serpent, and other popular Yoruba movies of that time
Rather than Orisabunmi or Abija representing succor for the oppressed, we had Ishawuru and instead of the use of traditional idols as weapons of warfare, Ishawuru met with Jesus, and his traditional weapons of war were incapacitated.
The crime here was the Christian theme the movie had which made many Christian parents who switched off their TV or banned their children from watching traditional movies encouraged their children to watch this one, not knowing, the harrowing scene of the demonic manifestation of that woman would be so traumatic that some of us did not recover from it till now

As a people, our consciousness at the time was backward-looking
Till now in many churches, all they do is pray battle prayers and tell their members not to go to the village and not to collect sweets from their friends so that they won’t be initiated into witchcraft
Such a consciousness was easy to fleece by Pastors and Preachers who only had to present imaginary enemies to members, get them to pray fervently and in return win their loyalty and own their pockets for a lifetime.
It is true that knowledge has increased and times have seriously changed
The recent discussions by some online regarding one woman pastor who was labelling children as witches in Akwa Ibom and others like her led many to remember what it felt like in those days when the liberating messages of the gospel were abandoned for the fear-mongering religious messages that ruined many good relationships and set children against their parents and village people forever in the name of avoiding the attack of the enemy and all sorts of evil arrows

I am not in any way saying these evil arrows and attacks of the enemy were unreal experiences of those who experienced them, I am saying that the cure was Christ but the church leaders at the time didn’t offer the cure
They offered at best how to manage the work of darkness or how to avoid the work of darkness but not how to become the light and kill the darkness once and for all as the Lord Jesus told them to

They mined these dark stories through their fearful messages and exploited those they were supposed to liberate with the free message of the gospel
Till today, even in this generation, many young “Christians” are still primarily conscious of family battles, curses, evil trees, evil birds, glory sellers, enemies of father’s house, family patterns, demons, witchcraft, generational and ancestral rubbish and the devil more than the knowledge of Christ and the fullness of the freedom and the power they now have in Christ through the Holy Spirit

It would not be fair to judge the past generation of Christians who met this reality on the ground for their choices at the time

Suppose you listened to the messages of the church leaders of the time and read their books, even till now. In that case, all you will see is a consciousness of evil and prayers reflecting this mindset typed out and prayed over and over by believers who ought to know better but simply refuse to.

It is funny how many Christians would rather be fearful as a form of caution than be full of faith and stand firm against the lies that had been made to look like the truth for ages.
Books are still being written on how to reclaim glory and how to destroy household enemies and many of us are still buying them
The Son had set us free but many of us have refused to be free indeed!

I do not condemn the rant on social media regarding some of these so-called Christian materials that encourage fear and wickedness instead of faith and love

The damages done to the body of Christ as a whole, families and certain individuals are very telling
I know a lady who was branded a witch since childhood and till now she has never really recovered from the trauma

Even now after she had become a born-again Christian, her mother still stylishly avoids her based on the demon-infested mindset of the church leaders who guided her mother the wrong way based on the old belief system
We should be able to criticize any work that has been put in the public domain as content that we ought to pay to consume or that we paid to consume
We can do this without insulting the person who did the work

Christian leaders in Nigeria should encourage questions and feedback from their members
None should act as if he or she is immune to feedback
Some Feedback can be good and some can be unpleasant but they are necessary
Another set of eyes or several other sets of eyes have never failed to make a work better
Especially if the criticisms are coming from customers who consumed the work and can speak to its effect on their psychological and emotional well-being
The humility to listen and respond without taking an offense or being perceived to have taken an offense is important
Coming out with new works that truly reflect the ineffable truth of who the believer is in Christ is a better response

It is time for the Church in Nigeria to see the scriptures as the true guide of the Christian and base their doctrines upon Christ and His finished work only

Human experiences before conversion are not the gospel
The gospel is the power of God unto salvation
We should no longer sell a defective gospel that teaches that salvation is flawed or incomplete unless a believer does things other than accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and get filled with the Holy Spirit

We should train the believer to walk in power and boldness, not spend all day cowering in a room claiming he or she is praying or on a retreat instead of exhibiting faith in the corridors of human endeavour all over the world

We should train all believers to know the truth that idols are nothing and demons are powerless over every born-again Christian

We should burn all our demon-conscious and evil-focus books and write books about the Holy Spirit, Christ Consciousness, and the reality of the New Believer

A believer is from above and He is above all in Christ.

-GSW-

[Sidonia P Alphonse @MinisterSidonia]

“I will continue to take care of you until you are old, until your hair becomes grey. I made you who you are, and I will supply everything that you need. I will carry you and I will save you.”
- Isaiah 46:4

The Lord will take care of Us 🔥

[Aderinre @Adebinta]

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@GbengaWemimo Glory

[Anthea Grace @anthea_grace]

Hey guys, so due to popular demand, I present to you (drumroll… 🥁🥁) the bible verse bits (DARK EDITION). For everyone who mentioned it, please know that I saw it and took note even though I did not respond 🫶✨

These are the first 40. I’ll update over time 🙏

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My sweet sweet Jesus. “I have found the One my heart Loves”- Song of songs 3:4

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

At 29 I sat on my rooftop of my condo overlooking Chicago thinking if I wasn’t such a pansy I would just jump off & end it.

I was recently cheated on & divorced.

I was drinking 6 days a week & popping pills like they were skittles.

I was around drinking buddies often, but ALWAYS FELT ALONE.

I couldn’t get off the couch for days during some periods.

I felt my best days were behind me & couldn’t see a way out.

It was the lowest depression I’ve ever experienced.

And then………

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

AKUA' STAND

Pastor Kofi, a Ghanaian pastor, and his wife Akua, were dedicated Christians. They served God and had drawn many from darkness. In the lives of many, God had used Pastor Kofi mightily. His church was a big one, and people came from far and near for prayers, healing, and miracles.

Then Pastor Kofi fell ill. Initially, he thought it was malaria and typhoid, and he went to the hospital and did a test, and truly, he was diagnosed with typhoid, and treatment began. The more treatment he received, the more he became worse. He started losing weight, and more tests were conducted, but nothing was wrong with him.

Akua became worried; she started to pray concerning her husband's health. The church members were concerned. Like a dream, the family woke up one morning and discovered that Pastor Kofi could no longer talk. Akua and the children cried.

Akua travelled to her husband's village and informed her husband's family what was happening. Yaa Asantewaa, the sister-in-law of Akua, listened with rapt attention, then told Akua to return to the city and bring Pastor Kofi home.

"Kofi is a stubborn man. Our father's gods are dealing with him because he refused to worship them. When you bring him, I will perform some rituals, and the gods will heal him."

"God forbid! My husband is a child of God. He can never bow to any idol. It won't happen," Akua told her.

Yaa Asantewaa laughed loudly and clearly. "Really?" she asked, rolling her eyes and laughing.

"My husband is a child of God and cannot bow to any idol," she mimicked Akua.

Her brethren who were seated with Akua laughed.

Yaa Asantewaa stood up and left them, then she returned holding a short staff tied around with red and white pieces of clothes.

"You see this; it's supposed to be in Kofi's possession because he has been chosen by the gods to be their mouthpiece. I have been holding this for six years, but my brother has not made up his mind to come home and take the mantle. The chief priest has asked me to return it. Do you know the implication of returning this to the shrine?" she asked.

Akua shook her head in the negative, while others laughed sarcastically at her.

"It means this family rejected the gods of our father, and the person chosen will lose his life along with his first son. I have been sending messages to my brother for years, but he gave me deaf ears. For years, we have been offering sacrifices to pacify the gods, but now the gods are requesting the return of the staff."

Akua sighed.

"If you know what is good, return to the city and bring your husband here within six days. We will appease the gods, and all will be over; then, he can take up the mantle."

"I know what you're thinking, that your husband is a pastor," Agyeman said, a younger brother of Kofi.

"It doesn't matter. Some of the pastors you see are native doctors. No one knows. They cover their practice with the name of Jesus. Your husband can do the same." Kwame told Akua.

"I...don't think we..." Akua began.

"Return and do what we asked you," Yaa Asantewaa told her.

Akua thanked her in-laws and travelled back to the city. It was very late when she got home. Her children were not sleeping. Her husband was very hot. She got water and cleaned him up. Her daughter told her he refused to eat. Akua cooked something for him that night and forced him to eat a little.

Having balanced him very well on the bed, she dragged a plastic chair close to the bed and took his hand in hers. She narrated how her journey went to her husband.

"Your people want me to bring you home for some rituals, but one thing I know, Kofi, is that you will not bow to any other god. No one will take you to any strange place. I met you in the service of God, and you will remain in God's service." She felt him grip her hand tightly. Akua prayed for him before going to bed.

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

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