I am at peace because the Prince of Peace lives in me.
I am joyful because the Joy of the Father lives in me
I am righteous because the righteousness of God lives in me
I am alive and living abundantly because Life Himself lives in me.
Calling someone ‘Olodo Uprising’ is an !nsult; if you think someone is doing something st¥pid and keep saying it’s stup!d, it means you’re being stup!d too — Singer Cheque
Randomly thought about how we need to trust God more. If mere mortals as human beings can give us comfort because of them knowing what we need, how much more God that has FULL VISIBILITY and knows the end from the beginning. Pls don’t forget to ask God for directions today, sit back and trust him.
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God is not a means to an end.
God IS the end.
The Christian faith isn't where we engage in a self focused religious advancement project to become more God pleasing or to become more successful in our pursuits because we tip our hat to God.
The Christian faith announces that Jesus has put an end to all our striving where God is concerned. Now we are free to live our lives trusting His promises that He is for us and not against us. We are free to enjoy His creation, to be thankful for all God has given us, and to help others get along in this life where we are able.
The gospel is not that we can build a life so clean that we never need grace. The gospel is that grace takes the mess we’ve made and makes something beautiful from it.
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The friendship, FWB and relationship you want with men above you, give it to men in your league and men beneath you. You will not die. It can be very healthy relations.
Women want the men they want to want them, while not giving a fuck about the men that want them. This is because they are shooting for what will benefit them, not mutual affection. So when these men above them, don't care about them, he is deemed nonchalant. But the men making all the efforts who are in their league or beneath, are being ignored or taken for a fool
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Most people read 2 Corinthians 1 as though Paul is behind a lectern, delivering a settled theology of suffering from a position of comfortable authority.
But Paul is not behind a lectern, he is literally on the floor.
By his own account, he is utterly burdened beyond his strength, despairing of life itself, carrying what he describes as a literal death sentence.
Yet from that wreckage, Paul reaches for a specific title for God. The Lord of Hosts was available to him. The Almighty King was on the table. He chose neither. He wrote:
“the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.”
We know God is all-powerful, so we naturally expect His power to materialize as the prevention of pain.
We want the check to clear before the deadline. We want the rent covered before the eviction notice. We want Him to stop the earthquake, to freeze the tectonic plates before a single tile can fall.
But we are confusing mechanical power with sustaining power.
This is where the “God of all comfort” reveals its true weight. Comfort is not a soft anesthetic; it is God’s active presence inside the trouble.
His sustaining power doesn't pull mechanical levers from a safe distance. He climbs into the wreckage with you, holding your foundations together while the ground moves.
Mechanical power moves circumstances. Sustaining power forms people. One leaves you exactly as you were before the rescue. The other changes who you are at the level where it counts.
It is also the difference between stopping a needle and holding a child through the sting.
When my wife and I took our five-month-old son, Amaury, for his vaccinations, he locked his eyes directly onto mine the moment the needle went in.
I could look into his eyes through his screaming and sense what he was saying to me: Dad you are strong enough to stop this. Why aren't you doing something?
And he was entirely right. I am physically stronger than the pediatrician. I am his father, and legally they cannot touch him without my consent. The absolute power to halt the procedure was mine at any second.
Instead, I held his hands still while he screamed louder. I let the needle do its work. And afterward, I pulled him to my chest and held him while his whole small body shook with the sheer injustice of it.
Amaury did not have the framework to understand what I knew in that room. He didn’t know the sting was not the enemy.
He didn’t know the needle was the very thing protecting him from a much darker threat down the road.
My refusal to stop it was not indifference. It was the most painful, precise expression of love available to me in that moment.
To stop the needle is one kind of power.
To hold your child while it goes in, absorbing their confusion and their accusation without withdrawing, knowing something about where this ends that they cannot yet see, is another kind entirely. It requires far more of a father, not less.
If you are in the ruins right now, if the needle has been in longer than you think you can endure, and you have looked up with that accusation in your eyes, God has not moved. He is not across the room watching clinically. He is holding your hands, absorbing the weight of your confusion, and looking at an ending you cannot yet see.
He didn’t stop the needle. But He has never once let go of you.
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When a preacher starts throwing biblical principles for living at me and tells me to try harder my answer will be, "You first."
Contrary to popular belief there aren't any Christians out there who are living as they ought.
The good news is that Jesus came into this pride soaked, sin soaked world for the ungodly. If you happen to be ungodly then He came for you too.
You are taking out a loan for a 1,000 guest wedding just to impress people who will still complain that the Jollof rice was cold. Ok ooo.
You are starting your first year of marriage completely drowning in debt because your parents wanted to flex on their old university friends.
You are sacrificing your own financial foundation for a 6 hour carnival.
If your extended family wants a festival, hand them the invoice.
Otherwise, take your partner to the registry, sign the papers, and put that money into a down payment on a property.
Stop doing yourself.
I spent less than 1m for everything about my wedding. It is still possible to make it beautiful, enjoyable and sweet.
One of the primary problem is that it makes man see himself as the first cause or the cause in every situation and circumstance. The logic of self-efforts is always 'I do this, therefore that' or 'I don't do this, therefore there is no that'. Man becomes causative instead...
It is not because of what we do or do not do. It is in spite of what we do or do not do. Unless we understand this, we will continue to wrestle with Grace when we ought to be abounding in Him already. We are not causes; we are effects. We are the art; Abba is the artist. Think!
One of the primary problem is that it makes man see himself as the first cause or the cause in every situation and circumstance. The logic of self-efforts is always 'I do this, therefore that' or 'I don't do this, therefore there is no that'. Man becomes causative instead...
...know rest. To rest, there is the need for the cessation of works. To cease from works is to stop seeing ourselves as causes and trying to live as such. We are effects. The image of God is the effect of God, not the cause of God. It is clear enough.