There are Christians in Northern Nigeria who understand the cost of following JESUS in ways that many of us do not. When you have lived in relative safety all your life, be careful not to develop a Christianity that assumes comfort is the reward of obedience.
The greatest proof of a womanβs love for you is her obedience!!!
Even God says if you love Him, you would obey him!!!
Anywhere there is consistent and blatant disobedience, there is no love!!!
I am very happy he made the decision he made!!!
When you marry someone, you also marry the history in which they were raised. Iβll give you an example.
Obama was a product of separated parents and a generational history of broken homes. Michelle was a product of healthy family relations where everyone - including extended family - met on Sunday. Because of this, Obama never saw the need for marriage and thought it was overrated because he never had that example growing up. Michelle saw marriage as an important part of life and wanted to reproduce the family tradition she was raised in.
In the end, he managed to propose for her sake after pressure from her, and committed to making it work. This means that, while familial history is important as it explains the root of a personβs behaviour, you have to consider the personβs willingness to break that pattern where the behaviour is negative because it takes an astronomical amount of work and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern.
I am not saying Forex is a scam o but I personally know that if https://t.co/fmnSXkGKbr is booming, I will not want to teach anybody the secret and I wont even have the time to be organizing classes and showing people how to open their own e-commerce because i will be way too busy running NeoStore.
If i must teach anyone, I have family members who i can bring in and groom to take over the business or start their own.
My question is, why are forex people always looking to teach other people how to make money?. Why do they love you so much to the point that they will leave their busy lives, ignore their family and direct friends and be teaching random strangers on the internet how to make money like them?.
Black people are not even that selfless to begin with so if a rich black man is so obsessed with teaching you how to catch fish for a fee, does that not raise red flags in your head to show you that you are the bait?.
I'll explain it better with a video.
Its only on twitter that body count & a woman's past does not matter and women who are done with their hoe phase make better wives than virgins.
The average non virgin woman is carrying lots of trauma from previous body counts/relationships.
CONCERNING THE CURRENT PLAGUE UPON OUR NATION
Blind Bartimaeus teaches us something powerful about prayer: desperation alone is not prayer. Many are desperate before GOD, but very few are specific before GOD.
Faith is not the intensity of your cry; faith is the clarity of your request.
Do not assume that what is obvious to men has automatically become a petition before GOD. Bartimaeus was visibly blind. Everyone around him knew his condition. Yet when JESUS stood before him, HE still asked:
βWhat wilt thou that I should do unto thee?β
Why would JESUS ask a blind man what he wanted?
Because in the economy of GOD, prayer is not built on assumptions. GOD desires that a man articulate his burden, define his expectation, and present his request before HIM.
Many believers spend hours in prayer, yet never arrive at a definite petition. They speak generally when GOD is waiting for specificity.
Bartimaeus did not say, βLORD, bless me.β He did not say, βLORD, do something in my life.β He said, βLORD, that I might receive my sight.β
There are answers reserved for men who know exactly what they are asking GOD to do.
Prayer is not the pouring out of emotions; it is the presentation of desires before GOD. Until your burden becomes a definite request, it may remain only a burden.
And this is where I believe many of us are concerning the current plague upon our nation.
We are praying. We are fasting. We are gathering. We are grieving. But are we being specific?
What exactly do we want JESUS to do?
Do we want HIM to expose the wicked?
Do we want HIM to frustrate the operations of terrorists, kidnappers, ritualists, and bloodthirsty men?
Do we want HIM to raise righteous leaders?
Do we want HIM to grant wisdom to those in authority?
Do we want HIM to preserve innocent lives?
Do we want HIM to bring genuine repentance to our land?
Do we want HIM to send labourers into the harvest fields of the troubled regions?
Do we want HIM to heal the wounds of families that have buried loved ones?
Do we want HIM to break the altars speaking against our nation?
Do we want HIM to awaken the Church from slumber and restore her prophetic voice?
The burden is real, but burdens must become petitions.
The grief is genuine, but grief must become intercession.
The tears are necessary, but tears must eventually find words.
When Bartimaeus met JESUS, he knew exactly what he wanted.
Perhaps the question GOD is asking the Church in this hour is the same question JESUS asked Bartimaeus:
βWhat wilt thou that I should do unto thee?β
And when JESUS asks us This concerning our nation,
May we have an answer.
βTo My Fellow Nigerian Soldiers And Personnel, Please Do Not Shoot Or Open Teargas On Peaceful Protesters. Let Them Exercise Their Civil Rights. Even If An Order Is Given, Still Make Use Of Your Brain. How Will You Feel, Or Even Sleep, If Your Children, Wife, Mother, Father, Or Relative Is One Of The Kidnap Victims In The Bush?β. ~ Nigerian Soldier Warns
@Wizarab10 The last time this happened, I was disturbing my husband to share his thoughts with me.
He said "so if I sit down quiet, it means I'm thinking, next time I'll dance, don't worry"
There is something women do that I find funny.
When I am quiet or stare into nothingness, you ask what is on my mind. Madam, there is nothing on my mind.
I'm a quiet person and I easily drift into quietness. Do women understand it is okay to just want to be quiet in your own space? Everything is not an opportunity to gist for gist sake.
They never like my answer. They want gist. There is no gist and there is nothing only mind. Frankly, I actually do not like that question
VDM is 100% right about what he said. My own experience was brutal.
During my abduction, I experienced what can only be described as slavery in the hands of bandits. After my family struggled to gather β¦15 million and other items they demanded, we thought the nightmare would end. Instead, the very next day, they increased the ransom to β¦55 million. That was when the real suffering began.
The group that kidnapped me had abducted 11 people. My driver was killed. Out of the remaining victims, 9 were eventually released, but I was not. The leader gave my family a five-day ultimatum to pay the β¦55 million or he would kill me.
On the 22nd day in the forest, a day before the deadline expired, he ordered two of his boys to take me somewhere else. We rode on motorcycles for hours through the night. When we finally arrived, I was handed over to another group. There, I met two victims who were already chained down. They handcuffed and chained me alongside them.
That was the last day I ever saw the group that originally kidnapped me.
The new group was even worse. I spent another 20 days with them, enduring severe beatings, torture, hunger, and constant threats. They demanded β¦50 million from my family. At one point, one of the bandits even collected β¦2 million through a bank transfer, yet they still refused to release me.
In the end, I escaped.
Sometimes when people discuss kidnapping online, they don't fully understand the horror victims go through. The physical pain heals, but the memories remain. No human being should have to experience such cruelty.
Honestly, this country's insecurity is heartbreaking and inhumane.πππ³π¬