JUST BEFORE YOU ATTEND YOUR WATCH NIGHT SERVICE.
Watch night service can be dramatic.
Full of emotions on God’s faithfulness.
How God preserved you from death, divorce, business calamity, and destruction.
While at it, please have mercy on your fellow worshipper. Some are attending the service in pain.
They lost their spouses this year. Some lost their children.
Some lost their parents.
Some buried their friends.
Some lost businesses. Jobs. Homes, etc.
Some watched their relatives, colleagues, and neighbours die.
God is faithful to them, too. They didn’t encounter this because of a lack of offering, and tithe.
Neither are they carnal Christians or sinners. It is simply the grey area of life that only God can explain.
Please be thankful but mindful at your watch night service.
Roll on the floor in gratitude, not in comparison.
I better pass my neighbor prayers is not christianity.
Misfortune-based Thanksgiving is not Christianity.
Thank God without feeling superior.
Christianity is rooted in love, not in comparison.
There is a man in the Bible most people have never heard of. His name is Mattithiah, which in Hebrew means “gift of Yahweh.”
He appears in only one verse, 1 Chronicles 9:31: “Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with making the flat cakes.”
That is his entire biography.
Who was he? Mattithiah was a Levite, part of the tribe God set apart for service in his house. His father, Shallum, helped guard the temple gates, and Mattithiah was given a different but equally important job: baking the flat cakes used in the temple offerings (Leviticus 2:4–5; 7:9).
That might sound small, but it mattered. His work made worship possible. Every offering required care, purity, and faithfulness, and Mattithiah provided that.
This baker in the temple did not have a glamorous job. He was not a prophet or a king or even a priest. He was not someone who spoke to crowds or led armies. He was a man who quietly served.
Yet the Holy Spirit saw fit to record his name in the Bible for all generations.
That tells us something about how God sees service. In the community of faith, there are no trivial people. Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 12:14–18 that every member of the body of Christ is vital. Some serve in visible ways, others serve quietly. Both kinds of service matter equally to God.
When you serve in your congregation, whether by cooking meals, sweeping the floors, teaching children, greeting worshipers, or praying, you are doing holy work.
Like Mattithiah, you are a “gift of Yahweh” to the people of God.
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I stumbled on this picture of Temi Otedola’s wedding and we have Dangote in this picture as well as CEO BUA group but guess what? We also have Pastor Tony Rapu, a pastor, philanthropist and many more!(2nd left)
I just wanted to point out that you can know Jesus, do business and still be in rooms with Kings. See you do not have to drop Jesus to become seen and recognized.
As an investor, career person, entrepreneur, philanthropist what ever you are or you want to be, do not think you have to keep Jesus aside to get there!!
Now, build yourself, be audacious, work on your craft, be diligent, be honest, be excellent! It will blow your mind how far you can do!!
Have you seen a man diligent in his business, he would stand before kings and not mere men. Proverbs 22:29
@LittleChildre17 Happy birthday and best wishes to you sir...🎊🎉
God bless you greatly especially for what you are doing in/for the children ministry.
Ps. I always thought this account owner was a female..🙈
"As much as you can, find family time!
Go to dinner together, it doesn't have to be expensive. Find ways.
Plan some family holidays.
Create some family traditions."
-Pst Mrs Ibukun Awosika.
Thank God for the safety of our children this year
Thank God for provision to not end as malnourished
Thank God for provision to not end as dropouts
Thank God for each day, each meal, going out and coming in
Many things can't be explained this year, but thank God we're alive!
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