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[Cole world @Cole_Aniks]

Bellingham what a player 🚀

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Why would the God who split the Red Sea overnight deliberately slow down the conquest of Canaan?

In Deuteronomy 7:22, He gives Israel the answer upfront: "I will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you."

He points back to Egypt first, not out of nostalgia, but as living proof of His capability. He reminds them that He is not moving slowly because He lacks the power to act quickly, but because sudden speed would ruin the very inheritance He is trying to give them.

There is an enormous difference between deliverance and inheritance.

Deliverance from Egypt happened overnight because liberation is what God does for you, requiring no human effort to receive mercy. Inheritance in Canaan had to unfold gradually because inheritance is what God forms within you.

If Israel had taken the entire territory in a single week, hundreds of thousands of acres would have sat vacant.

Uncultivated fields rot, abandoned settlements collapse into ruins, and predators inevitably fill the vacuum.

This raises an obvious question: if God had the power to eliminate fortified Canaanite armies, why did He not wipe out the wild animals as well, handing His people a sanitized land with zero resistance?

The wild animals were never the enemy. They were the natural ecosystem of an abundant, living land, and a land without predators quickly collapses into ecological decay where vegetation overruns itself and agricultural systems fail.

God does not solve the right problem by eliminating the wrong variable.

The issue was never the presence of the wild beasts, but the size of Israel.

Exterminating the wildlife to accommodate their demographic unreadiness would have broken the biological order of the promise itself. God does not rewrite reality to fit human unreadiness; He develops us until we can govern the world as it is.

The Genesis mandate given to humanity was dominion, and dominion requires something real to govern. Predators are a permanent feature of fertile land, which means spiritual friction naturally scales as territory expands. The temptations, pressures, and attacks that accompany genuine influence are categorically different from what you face in obscurity.

We often pray with a fragile fantasy of breakthrough, asking for an inheritance with no teeth and a calling stripped of all resistance. In essence, we ask God to sterilize the future He promised us.

If He is moving slower than your ambition, recognize the mercy in the friction. He is not withholding the land because He lacks the power to deliver it, but because He refuses to hand you a perimeter you are not yet large enough to hold.

God will not build a sterile nursery and call it a kingdom.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

God’s “No” reveals His glory just as much as His “Yes.”

Heard that in church today, and it’s been ringing in my head ever since.

We celebrate God’s“Yes” because its power is immediate and undeniable. Creation itself is an ontological Fiat, an unyielding divine Yes to breath, to light, to galaxies, and to life itself.

We love when He says yes to our petitions: the healing, the breakthrough, the elevation. It is the visible, radiant display of His authority.

His “No,” however, carries an equal, if not heavier, gravitas.

If God granted every petition we brought to Him, it would be gross cosmic malpractice.

In medicine, a surgeon who amputates a limb simply because a terrified patient demands immediate relief is stripped of their license.

In law, an attorney who weaponizes the police to unlawfully arrest an opponent over a civil dispute is held for misconduct.

Professionals are held to rigorous standards precisely because their expertise must overrule a client’s panic.

Why would we hold God to a lower standard?

An all-knowing God cannot blindly say yes. If the source of all intelligence and ultimate goodness abandoned His eternal perspective to appease our reactive demands, He wouldn't be gracious, He would be complicit in our self-sabotage.

Every attentive father understands this.

True parenthood is built on the protective weight of “No.” A parent who says yes to every whim is a negligent parent.

A child cannot anticipate oncoming traffic; finite humans cannot see the structural damage of their own desires.

God’s “No” is the vigilance of a Father who sees around the bend of tomorrow.

Nowhere is the majesty of that “No” clearer than in Gethsemane.

When Christ knelt in the garden and asked for the cup to pass, saying “Yes” would have been the far simpler intervention. A localized rescue, an exemption from pain. But the Father said No.

He said No to bypassing suffering so He could unleash an eternal, cosmos-altering YES to the Resurrection. He refused the smaller relief to execute the ultimate victory, defeating death from the inside out.

A divine “No” is never an arbitrary dead end; it is always anchored in the bedrock of a greater Yes. As Paul wrote, every single promise of God finds its definitive “Yes” in Christ.

God is not a tyrant, He refuses to force His wisdom on us. That is why “Thy will be done” carries so much weight. It is our conscious consent, telling the Father that we trust His perspective more than our own demands.

[Muyiwa Awoniyi @IAmDonawon]

Sometimes the greatest thing a closed door can do for you is force you to discover that you were supposed to build the building.

[Muyiwa Awoniyi @IAmDonawon]

Between sleep and waking this morning, I heard clearly: “Do not get comfortable. The gate is narrow.”

Got up to use the toilet, checked Instagram on the way, and the first video I saw was Dee One on The Breakfast Club speaking about the narrow gate.

Went back to my room for devotion and, you won’t believe it, there it was again.

The Lord made His message clear to me this morning. Privileged, yet unworthy, to repeat it: the gate is narrow. Jesus is coming soon.

[wasiu @korty_EO]

Lord, make our money constant

[Eugy Official @EugyOfficial]

🗣️ Would you still sit comfortably in that boat if you knew it would end up sinking? ‘Give It To Jesus’ out now ✝️💫
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[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

MEN, YOUR SPERM IS A SEED. 🌱

If you truly understand how precious your sperm is, you will not be ejaculating anyhow.

Do you know that in Scripture, God killed a man because he deliberately withdrew and spilled his semen instead of fulfilling his responsibility? Read Genesis 38:8–10.

Your sperm carries the potential for LIFE. It is not something to treat carelessly or casually.

This is why I encourage men to pray against masturbation.

Pray against the habit. Pray for self-control. Pray against sexual lust and every pattern that keeps pushing you toward sexual impurity.

And what about wet dreams? Don't just normalize everything. Take it seriously. Pray about it and ask God for wisdom, purity, and self-control.

You see why we talk about these things.

Many people have become so comfortable with sexual habits that they no longer see the spiritual seriousness of what they are doing.

Imagine ejaculating repeatedly without understanding the value of what your body produces. Imagine losing something that has the potential to bring life and treating it as though it means nothing.

You will begin to take good care of your body.

Guard your sexual life. Guard your thoughts. Guard your eyes. Guard your desires.

Don't allow masturbation to become a normal part of your life.

Pray. Exercise self-control. Flee sexual immorality.

Your body is not meaningless.

Honor God with your body.

“Flee fornication.” — 1 Corinthians 6:18

“Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇦🇷 BREAKING NEWS: LIONEL MESSI RETIRES FROM INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.

Messi will not play for Argentina national team anymore.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

There will never be another Lionel Messi 🇦🇷

[Yemi. @KR3Wmatic]

If we went strictly by the Bible’s standards, only Jesus would make it to heaven to be with his dad. Every other human being is headed for hell. 😂

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I’ve always wondered about Malchus,
the man whose ear Peter cut off.
Because Malchus was probably never supposed to be remembered.
He was not a disciple.
Not a prophet.
Not a king.
Just a servant caught in the machinery of the night Jesus was betrayed.
But Scripture preserves one detail: Jesus touched him.
Think about the timing.
This was not Jesus healing a person who came asking.
This was not Jesus healing someone who believed.
This was Jesus healing the wound of the man standing on the opposite side of His arrest.
The last miracle Jesus performed before the cross was given to someone who was part of taking Him there.
That means the final hands Jesus healed… were the hands of someone who came with weapons.
The final ear Jesus restored… was the ear that heard the order to capture Him. Maybe that is the depth of Christ’s love: He did not wait for humanity to become worthy of His mercy.
He revealed mercy while humanity was still rejecting Him.

[Faith Alakija @FaithKhenny]

It is easy to drift away from God, but rebuilding that intimacy can take time. When you have found a genuine relationship with Him, guard it, nurture it, and never take it for granted. Keep seeking Him, stay close to His presence, and protect what you have built with Him.

[CantaBall @CantaBallHQ]

From the streets... to the table.

CantaBall is back.

The first players are already competing for the crown. Are you next?

[Cole world @Cole_Aniks]

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[Cole world @Cole_Aniks]

My shot at #1v1africanaija @1v1africa !! Hopefully this isn’t too late !!

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

What Matthew 22:37 doesn’t say weighs heavier than what it does.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.”

No ancient deity asked for this. The pantheons of old wanted tribute, fear, appeasement, and blood on the altar. They asked not to be angered. But this God, YHWH, wants the heart behind the knife.

Demanding such total and robust devotion is either tyrannical madness or the foundational grammar of reality. If God were merely an emperor inside the universe, then demanding all our love would be pure theft, since every drop given upward would be stolen from the people around us.

Yet the very next line in Matthew 22:39 commands you to love your neighbor as yourself. The math only works because God isn’t another competitor fighting for space in your chest, but is the source of the heart itself.

When devotion is anchored in the source of life rather than another creature, you stop asking finite people to carry the impossible weight of playing God for you. Loving the source is what gives you the capacity to love your neighbor without needing to consume them.

Notice what the passage refuses to lead with: obey, serve, fear. Those are not erased, but they are radically subordinated. Obedience without love is legalism; service without love is exhaustion. Love is made primary because it is the only climate where duty doesn’t curdle into resentment.

And importantly, the command is only coherent and fair because it is symmetric. If God demanded total love and surrender from us while remaining detached and indifferent to us, that would be extortion and would make him unjust.

The audacity of the demand is an open confession of how God already sees us.

Scripture says the hairs on your head are numbered, that we were all wonderfully, beautifully and intentionally made. There is an infinite difference between knowing something because you catalogued it and knowing something because you cannot stop looking. God does not administrate us, He meticulously attends to us.

And his love reaches its crescendo in event. God did not issue this command from a throne. He answered it himself first, on a cross.

We are not primarily moral agents who must comply with divine law. We are invited into a fierce, mutual devotion that secures our identity where it cannot be shaken, liberates our neighbor from our appetites, and gives the architecture of existence its true weight.

The boldness of what he asks is proportional to the boldness of what he has already given. The command and the cross read each other.

[Nathaniel Bassey @nathanielblow]

Let me pray this for someone out there. It’s not for everyone. “Very soon, those who did not believe in you, and looked down on you, will look up to you.” And when that time comes, instead of paying them back, you will do them good and show mercy”

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Eventually, every serious believer collides with the silence of God. You pray, and nothing shifts. Heaven stays completely still while problems mount in real time.

In that gap, a fear takes shape that few believers will say out loud.

Scripture tells you God possesses an unbroken, eternal joy. That He cannot suffer loss. That death is powerless before Him. That He already knows how the story ends.

And when you are bleeding, that certainty starts to look like detachment.

You begin to suspect you are the prank. That somewhere behind the veil, the one who holds all outcomes is watching your panic the way someone watches a joke they wrote long before you arrived.

Christianity has an answer to that suspicion. Stranger than noise. More demanding than a sign. It tells you what God is doing in the silence, where He reveals four distinct faces.

First is the attentive face of the craftsman.

Malachi 3:3 says “He sits as a refiner of silver”. In the ancient workshop, sitting was not passivity; it was the posture of supreme proximity. A silversmith does not shout over the flames or pace the room. He pulls his chair to the lip of the fire because the work demands unblinking focus.

God does not manage our suffering from a safe distance. He leans over the crucible, watching the flame and guarding the parameters of our pain so the heat purifies without destroying the vessel. His stillness is the proof of His closeness.

Second is the archival face of the judge.

When injustice runs unchecked and the innocent are exploited, silence is not consent. It is the terrifying patience of an open ledger.

Human anger is loud and erratic because we fear losing control, but divine justice operates with immaculate, unhurried precision.

Nothing is lost on God. The most calculated injustice, the quietest tear, and the subtlest abuse of power are cataloged with absolute exactness. An empire that fell two thousand years ago stands before His judgment seat with the exact same freshness as an injustice committed this morning.

Third is the priestly face of the intercessor.

This is the scandal of the Christian faith. God did not supervise human sorrow from the safety of eternity; He entered the fire Himself.

In Christ, we have a high priest who stepped into our vulnerability and took the silence of heaven into His own flesh. At Golgotha, the Word through whom all things were made took on our dereliction beneath a blackened sky. God did not just administer the silence. He endured it.

When we sit in the quiet, we are not trapped in a place God has never been.

Fourth is the sovereign face of divine intention.

When Joseph told his brothers that what they meant for evil God meant for good, he was not pretending the pit and prison never happened. God does not merely erase the historical reality of loss. He overrules its meaning and trajectory. He absorbs the malice of betrayal and weaves it into an indestructible architecture of deliverance.

That is the bedrock of Romans 8:28. God commandeers every deficit, deceit, and displacement, forcing the weapon designed to break us to serve our ultimate good.

To stand in the silence of God is never to stand in an empty room. Silence is terrifying only when you do not know who is in the dark with you. When you know His character, the quiet stops being a void. It becomes the purposeful stillness of a God who is watching the fire, keeping the ledger, bearing the grief, and finishing a redemption that no human malice can destroy.