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A servant of Jesus Christ.
A Human Rights Activist.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"For the last 9-months, my wife, Brooklyn has been pregnant with a very sick baby boy. Three or four months ago, we learned that the baby had severe hydrocephalus. Back in the old days, hydrocephalus was called, 'water on the brain' - too much brain fluid. Ultimately, we were referred to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where we were told by several of the most highly regarded fetal specialists in the country that his condition was dire. The baby's condition was 'off the charts bad'. It was so extreme that the specialists stopped measuring and monitoring his fluid level because, at that point, it didn't really matter. The MRIs were sickening to look at.

We were told, point blank, that there was over a 90% chance that the baby would either die shortly after birth or have such severe cognitive impairments that any quality of life would be hard to imagine. We had a meeting with palliative care regarding the use of life-sustaining measures and had detailed, awful, and emotional discussions about the ethics of when we might need to remove or cease such measures - which would result in the baby 'passing away peacefully.

Brooklyn relocated to Cincinnati and lived in a hotel close to the hospital - in case she went into labor. I commuted back and forth. On July 8th, Brooklyn did indeed go into labor. Literally, 15 minutes before they wheeled her back to start the C-section, we had another meeting with doctors regarding the use of a breathing tube and at what point we might need to remove that tube and let the baby go to Heaven. Guess what? The baby came out crying - which was the sweetest sound I ever heard.

In a nutshell, Charlie Schnarr stayed in infant intensive care until yesterday - when we all came home. He seems to be a normal, beautiful baby doing all the things that babies do. He has mild ventricular enlargement, but we can deal with that with checkups.

How did this happen?!

The doctors said, 'We do not have and cannot come up with a medical explanation for what we've witnessed here. Somehow his brain found a way to naturally clear the blockage or re-route the fluid that was causing the oppressive backup of brain fluid. During the last week, I heard the words, 'divine intervention' and 'miracle' more times than I could count. Nurses with decades of experience and esteemed, nationally admired doctors were flabbergasted but jubilant. Because of the domino effect of friends, family, clients, colleagues, and even strangers praying and asking others to pray for us, I do not doubt that there were thousands of people praying for us.

I'm a practical person that certainly believes in science and medical technology, but I absolutely know, from the bottom of my heart, that God was involved in this. I give ALL of the credit and glory to Him. Prayer is positively powerful. God is real, and He still performs miracles."

: Nick Schnarr

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Fact.

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Entrepreneurship without limit

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re a hardcore software engineer and want to build the everything app, please join us by sending your best work to [email protected].

We don’t care where you went to school or even whether you went to school or what “big name” company you worked at.

Just show us your code.

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Counter for Counter.

Community Note.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

@elonmusk Sir, this is the first time I have ever rated a CN “helpful”. 🤣🤣

[Trial Junkie @trialjunkiecole]

These ladies are incredible.

1. All had Find My Friends enabled for each other.

2. Brought a tracking dog (Champ) to find their “sister”.

3. Knew the AirPod was Laken’s because of extra earwax on it.

4. Picked up 3rd roommate from class so she wasn’t alone.

#LakenRiley

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

@NewcrossPL
NAPE 2024.

[• @AliyuOnX]

This intervention by the PENGASSAN President, Festus Osifo is a very important one.

He provided a lot of clarity on the Dangote vs NNPCL crude supply saga.

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Prayer is life.
Living is Prayers
PS: For the saints.

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

LONG PRAYERS...

"ALL NIGHT" is not just a Nigerian cliché for prayer vigils. It is a phrase lifted straight out of scripture. In context, it truly is about prayer. Here:
"... He (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued ALL NIGHT in prayer..." – Luke 6:12

While we may debate on what to say ALL NIGHT in prayers, let's first agree that long prayer, like ALL NIGHT prayer, is normal, or at least, SHOULD be normal. Jesus prayed long, often. A casual reading of the gospels would confirm this.

Saints, pray o!
Pray long. Pray often.
Even if you can't pray for long for starters, pray frequently. Take small prayer breaks out of your long, busy days. 5mins. 15mins. Even 3 minutes. As often as possible. If that would be too disruptive, maybe because of the nature of your day job, then when you take your legitimate break, donate a good portion of it to prayer. For most people, combining 3, 5 minutes of prayer intermittently with work wouldn't be impossible.

David said: "evening, and morning, and at noon will I pray, and cry aloud..."

Saint. Pray! Do it often.

PROPOSAL
Take time to pray in the morning. Then, use these proposed ongoing but intermittent prayer shots to keep your 'prayer coals' fresh and hot.

PRACTICALLY..
This habit will help deepen your sense of God's presence, which will, in turn, boost faith, strengthen your convictions, and overall make you more godly, less susceptible to yielding to temptation, etc.

Saint, pray o!
And, you can never pray too much, because you can pray while doing a whole lot of other things.

PERSONALLY
Sometimes, I just call His name, but it is actually myself I am summoning 'before Him.' It is me, calling me to consciously recognise His hereness, not just His nearness. Doing so, calling His name, changes me, resets the atmosphere around me, for me. I regain the conscious sense that I stand, even now on holy ground. Everything else take their value from that standpoint, for me. O, the strength of His voice... the fellowship of His face!

To keep your lovely face
Ever before my eyes... 🎵 🎶 🎵

Saint. Now. Whisper a prayer. 🙏🏼

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

@gideonodoma Prayer is life

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

Tinubu’s policy on age limit for tertiary education admission belongs in the Stone Ages.

The recent policy of the Federal Ministry of Education pegging age limits for entry to tertiary institutions is an absurdity and a disincentive to scholarship.

The policy runs foul of the notion of delineation of responsibilities in a federal system of government such as we are pratising, and gives a graphic impression of how the Tinubu government behaves like a lost sailor on a high sea. Otherwise, how is such anti-scholarship regulation the next logical step in the myriad of issues besetting our educational system?

To be clear, the Nigerian constitution puts education in the concurrent list of schedules, in which the sub-national government enjoys more roles above the federal government.

Therefore, it is extra-constitutional for the federal government to legislate on education in a manner similar to a decree.

The best global standard for such regulation is to allow the sub-national governments to make respective laws or rules on education.

It is discouraging that even while announcing this obnoxious policy, the government inadvertently said it had no plan to cater for specially gifted pupils. That statement is an embarrassment to the body of intellectuals in the country because it portrays Nigeria as a country where gifted students are not appreciated.

The irony here is that should the federal government play any role in education, it is to set up mechanisms that will identify and grant scholarships to gifted students not minding their ages before applying for admission into tertiary institutions.

This controversial policy belongs in the Stone Ages and should be roundly condemned by everyone who believes in intellectual freedom and accessibility. -AA

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Come to Jesus and be saved!

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Interesting!

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

CLARIFYING ANATHEMA
You should avoid some people, no matter what they teach.
You should avoid some teachings, no matter who teaches them.

I deal with issues, and sometimes, I name names. Personally, when I start calling someone's name, it is most likely because I believe they should be avoided, irrespective of what they teach.

A wrong teacher should be corrected. But a false teacher should be avoided wholesale, even on the occasions when he teaches something right.

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

@lydia_onyinye @3MTTNigeria Congratulations

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Reading

[Miranda ✨️ @MirandaevaM]

The most annoying part of academic writing is knowing the thing, but looking for some other paper to say it for you. You can't just say bread is soft, you have to say it according to Baker (2001) that bread is soft.

At the same time, you can't quote Baker 2001 because it's outdated. Although bread did not stop being soft, you have to find another Baker who said it in 2023.

Weeeeeeeeeeee aiy kuningi! Ngeke singahlanyi makunjena

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Yesterday night, I was so tired around 12 midnight that I wanted to skip prayers. I have a routine of always praying at 12 midnight.

But then I remembered the words of Apst. Arome Osayi said prayer becomes a sacrifice when it is inconvenient to do.

Guess what? I stood my ground against fatigue, sleep, and weakness. I prayed sufficiently. I am sharing this just to highlight what this man represents to me.

He has become a reference to me in virtually all aspects of my life, especially ministry.

When I was inches close to sexual immorality, it was his words that the holy ghost kept blasting in my mind:

"When the fear of God leaves your body, you will start touching a woman's breast."

Those words saved my life. When I was thinking of recording sermons to upload on a popular sermons download platform because I knew the guy, it was his counsel against seeking fame or reach in ministry that corrected me.

I remembered him saying, "Stay in Sabo." "Let God announce you."

It was his strict adherence to righteousness that made me vow and develop the mantra that, "My lips do not lie." Of course, I am an honest person, but making it a vow was a result of listening to him.

It was his helpless dependence on God that made me learn more profoundly the way of being insufficient before God.

It was his numerous battles against terrible spirits that helped me to learn the way of fearless spiritual warfare.

I could go on and on and on. But the summary is I found a preacher that I can follow as He follows Christ. I found a man who went through fire and death to become a true servant of God.

I did. And forever I will be grateful to God for that. Finally, is the preacher you listen to the most getting you closer to God?

I pray God helps you and lead you to such. May God help us all. Amen.

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

The disobedient doctrine of feeding programs

#Archives

[Deeper Life Bible Church @dclmhq]

N.B: You cannot bribe God.
Don't bother trying.

Watch the full session at
https://t.co/bnegfuThxx

#DCLM
#DLBC
#DeeperLife
#PastorKumuyi
#Christian
#ChristianLiving
#DailyChristianLiving

[SCA @AnochieStanley]

Help someone in need today the much you can.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Today let’s help people in need if you have a medical need or financial need. Post your request here!

[Whykavelli @whykavelli]

@ShehuSani Juju can't influence football matches otherwise African nation would have won the world cup all these years

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Ivory Coast won AFCON the hard way:

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞:
➖ One win and two losses
➖ Humiliating 4-0 loss to Equatorial Guinea
➖ Qualified to knockouts as the fourth-best third place team
➖ Sacked head coach after group stage

𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟔:
➖ 86th-minute equalizer to force ET
➖ Eliminated title holders Senegal on PKs

𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬:
➖ Played with 10 men from the 43rd minute on
➖ 90th-minute equalizer
➖ Goal in second minute of ET stoppage time to beat Mali

𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬:
➖ 65th-minute goal to beat DR Congo

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥:
➖ 62nd-minute equalizer
➖ 81st-minute winner to defeat Nigeria

They never quit 😤