Christians shouldn't have to live under the daily threat of being murdered by Islamists when they worship God in Church
This is a genocide of Christians
This is the only media that the whole world needs to see right now.
For those who don’t know:
This is a chilling moment captured on video when terrorists invaded a church in Kwara state of Nigeria murdering 3people, kidnapping the pastor and several church members.
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This is definitely a worthy Cause. We stand with a fellow Nigerian, pleasing with Our Father, the President, to use His good office to set Sunday Jackson free.
MINISTRY... YOUNGER PEOPLE
Every year, during MiS, we invite an elder to teach and minister to us. We seek to learn from their experience acquired over decades of walking with the Lord. We expect them to tell us a lot of how they've seen God's word play out. Experience.
I see younger ministers trying to do the same a lot these days. I see people starting out in ministry focusing on 'firing people up' to make an impact, or to pray prayers, or to be disciplined. It is very effective, short-term. It may even be some form of spirit-coated motivational exercise unto good works. I get it. But I think it is inappropriate. Leave that work for elders. And do it very sparingly. If you are young, bury your life in the scripture. Exegesis. Hermeneutics. These should be your obsession.
Teach the scriptures. Expound it. Teach it raw. Let stories and illustrations be scanty in your delivery. Aim for naked mastery of the word. No toppings, no garnishing. If you are young, you don't have the breadth and the luxury for that sort of unhinged, even if fiery protocol. Yrs, i know that it is tempting to go that exciting route, because it usually sparks prayer. Young audiences go ga-ga at such deliveries and it might even make you popular. But your soul, your soul, o man of God, will be lean. Your asernal will have petrol, but not rocks. Your word-store will be emasculated, and your doctrine will be flippant and emotional.
You will start to depend on 'inspiration' a lot, and you will start to commit doctrinal blunders frequently.
You may have fire. But you will lack wood to keep that fire burning. Your ministry will spark people, but will hardly ground them. We build with doctrine, unembelished doctrine.
If you are young, leave the elders to 'speak', leave 'talk' for them. If you are young, labour in the word, in doctrine. Let those who hear you be burdened with untempered excavations from the word. Be meaty. Just keep at the word. Stay with scriptures. Let most of your statements be clear explication of the text of scripture before you.
I will say more later. And when I do, I will still end with this paraphrase from a wise man: learn to read the lines before attempting to read between the lines. Till then, stay with the 'lines'.
AGENDA VASHTI-Plus! LADIES EDITION¹.
Since it is time to micro-milk the book of Esther and postulate unhinged narratives, let's roll:
VASHTI: O, strong lady. Yes. She refused to be 'objectified' by her husband-king, so that today's woman can be liberated and empowered to objectify herself, post twerk videos & nude pictures – on social media. Yes, now the 21st century woman can get paid or get famous for demeaning, dehumanizing & sexualizimg herself at the gym, on social media, and elswhere. Nobody needs to tell her these days to dress as scantily as possible to excite the base, immoral instinct of perverse men, and maybe, get paid in the process. No. As an ongoing tribute to Vashti's courage, today's woman is finally free to indulge in the objectively shameful without any sense of shame. Now, she can say 'No' to men so that she can then go on to exceed their expectations to absurd, moronic proportions – in virtuelessness. At last, because of Vashti, today's woman can be Jezebel².
ESTHER: Well, she was quite malleable. She obeyed Mordecia. Imagine, she obeyed enough to even keep quiet about her nationality. So that, now, ladies can turn social media into their personal journal and diary where – unprovoked – they tell the world every last bit of their lives and showcase their compounding poor life choices, while shaming their parents in public and respecting no one, (let alone OBEYING some old-school 'Mordecai' of a dad). Esther, guided by her 'dad', fasted and put her life at great risk to speak up for her people, God's people. Because of her, today's woman can now be narcissistic, and egregiously selfish – without any care for family or community that may inconvenience her in the slightest. She has no allegiance. She is her own lady. She did not ask to be born, so she owes no parent any honour, she owes no one nothing. You see, she greedy and her God is hedonism. Esther took faith in God seriously and was spiritual, so that today's ladies can disregard God and be promiscuous. How cute! 🤷🏽♂️
Lesson:
Vashti said No, so that you can now say Yes.
Esther said Yes, so that you can now say No.
Nonsense!
NOTES:
1. Mordecai (Men's) edition may follow.
2. 2Kings 9:30, Rev 2:20
Dear Pilgrim,
In living for Jesus and His Kingdom on this side of the divide, life sometimes will hit you hard. What to eat, what to wear, what to put on, and where to live. It will literally feel like you're walking the valley of the shadow of death. Just because of your allegiance to Jesus and refusal to walk as the Gentiles walk; having their understanding darkened and being alienated from the life of God.
In that day, the burdens will be intense. Satan's suggestions of compromise will offer you a very attractive and "easy" way out. Nights will be lonely and sometimes tearful. It would seem that with every rising of the sun, your chances of remaining faithful to God dims.
Beloved, know this. The hands of God are perpetually committed to holding you. What you are going through is part of the tests and the challenges the Christian faces.
Like Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, you must look at the situations in the eye and say, "My God is able to save me, but even if he doesn't save me, i will still not bow"
This is the posture you must sustain.
There are situations where it's in delivering us from it that God will take the glory. But there are others where the only means for Him to get the glory is for you to go through it; no matter how painful and come out on the other side, after all, with the joy of your salvation raging!
So, lift your head up, plant your feet on the ground, and keep walking. The way the story ends is with you winning. Either in this life or the next.
Stay strong, soldier!
Dear Pilgrim,
Getting emotional or sentmental over what God has rejected will not change God's position on the matter. "Samuel, how long will you weep over Saul seeing that I have rejected him..."
A generation may give new names to old sins, attempt to Christianize an abomination, or raise cheer leaders and praise singers in order to legitimize a corrupted system, but none of these can move the needle in the spirit. The foundation of God stands sure having this seal that the Lord knows those who are His. Therefore, let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity; depart from lawlessness.
Beloved, that which you are part of is a fellowship in the Spirit. A flock under the shepherd Christ and a family under God as Father. Those who live in this consciousness also understand the responsibility it brings. We can not be lawless. Jesus will not only be Saviour, He MUST be Lord and King over all you are and have.
Not everything goes. Not everything is acceptable. Not everything is beneficial. We are in the world but not of it. The lines must not be blurred. That it is popular and widely accepted does not mean God has allowed you to be partakers of it. The voice of the people is not the voice of God.
When you check carefully, you will find that popular Christianity is never Biblical, and Biblical Christianity is always unpopular.
Pilgrim, our distinctions must be obvious to even the "blind." Once men become confused about our identity, we have lost the plot!
If we refuse to be separate, we will be weak. The potency of the church is in her distinction.
Thus says the Lord, Come out from amongst them and be ye separate!
Dear Pilgrim, as you go into the weekend, may this be your prayer:
When all is said and done. When all battles fought and won. Keep me standing. May I not be bent over!
May he that reads understand!
Enjoyed every moment at @_rcnglobal in Makurdi with my host Apostle Arome. My respect for his ministry has grown seeing the work they are doing in Makurdi, phenomenal.
Padre!
You’re a beacon of hope and a radical opposition against unrighteousness. A symbol of doggedness and resilience.
We are because you are!
Live forever, Sir!
The LORD said to me, "The Church I incepted is the One I still have in Mind. I am Alpha Omega, I will judge your labors at the end with the same template that I used in Incepting It. Take Heed lest your works go unrewarded."
Brethren, should We not reevaluate where we stand?
[A FAVOURITE]
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
Refrain:
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing;
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
– C. Austin Miles
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