Ike Amadi

Author, Do Something! Learning and Applying the word daily with @theLAfamily!

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

The secret to favor with God and man

1 Samuel 12:24 KJV

only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

Today: 1 Samuel 12-13

Read your Bible daily!! @TheLAfamily

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@DrMarife @AsakyGRN Lol. You are giving reasons why it won't work. How about think positive for once

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@thekenndubisi All for delayed gratification. I'm never buying what i can't fully afford. Hate living in debt and giving myself unnecessary pressure. Liquidity first, pleasure later.

[𝖢𝖧𝖱𝖨𝖲𝖫𝖨𝖫🇬🇭 @chrislil_gh]

BREAKING NEWS: Jesus Christ is coming soon kindly Rt to remind someone on your timeline.

[Abu Amir @SadiqMaunde]

A man that has conquered Greed! ❤️

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@GbengaWemimo I liked this very much.

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

Happy birthday, Daddy GO.
Thanks for visiting Moscow!!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Call me old fashioned, but I think you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.

[INALEGWU @tchaloyi]

I was doing some historical reading from 1975 yesterday, and honestly, it felt like reading a fantasy novel.

Imagine a Nigeria where you could walk into a dealership, drop N2,000, and drive out with a brand-new car. Not a "tokunbo" or a fairly used one oh, but "tear-rubber" from the assembly plant in Lagos or Kaduna. In that same era, a return ticket from Lagos to London on Nigeria Airways was roughly N150.

But here is the part that will actually reset your brain:
In 1975, the Naira didn't just compete with the dollar, it looked down on it. The official exchange rate was about 60 Kobo to 1 US Dollar.
Read that again slowly.

Our currency wasn't just strong, it was a global heavyweight. Back then, we weren't just "consumers." We had massive assembly plants. Peugeot in Kaduna, Volkswagen in Lagos, Leyland in Ibadan, and the world-class ANAMMCO plant in Enugu, which was one of Mercedes-Benz's most advanced facilities outside of Germany.

We were building the very trucks and buses that moved the continent. We also had some of the best textile mills on the continent.

We often talk about "the good old days" like it’s just nostalgia, but there is a massive lesson in Economic Sovereignty here.

Back then, the world didn’t look down on us because we were "emerging." They looked at us because we had already arrived. We weren't chasing the Dollar. The Dollar was trying to keep up with us.

INALEGWU.

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@BlackSheepbae @SteeleThoughts This is very important. Thanks for sharing.

[Tripp Allen @TrippAllen1]

@SteeleThoughts Been teaching/coaching for35 years. Realized a long time ago you can’t save them all ,but you can make a big difference in their lives if you are truthful and honest with them.They may not like it at the time ,but they respect you in the long run and so many come back and saythx

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@Ndubuixi @kingberrykarter You need to read more about Russia.

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@paris_wisdom @kingberrykarter Indeed. The Western Front was needed to weaken Hitler. It worked.
Russia took a great toll too.

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@realadnantweet @HAHayatu Lol

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@Eze_Nwakaibeya No need to respond to those who are emotional in their take

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@Eze_Nwakaibeya @MaziAwkaetiti @InibeheEffiong Apt

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

@tchaloyi God sent him down to Africa...
We must praise him in the African way...

[Echidikoli @echidikoli]

@tchaloyi Some times I wonder where Ethiopia is located. Maybe in west Asia. Joseph that brought down Jesus from the cross was not a white guy. Simon of Cyrene was not a white guy. All these men were in the very beginning of Christianity. Or before I forgot. Yeshua (Jesus) is not white.

[INALEGWU @tchaloyi]

Some people love to say Christianity is the "White man’s religion," but there’s a name buried in the early chapters of the Bible that makes that whole argument fall apart.

If you open the Book of Acts, chapter 13, you’ll find a list of the top five leaders of the church in Antioch.

These were the heavyweights, the prophets and teachers who actually ran the show. Right there, next to Barnabas and Saul (who became the Apostle Paul), is a man named Simeon.

But the Bible doesn't just call him Simeon. It adds a nickname: Niger.

Pause for a moment and process that for a second. In 1st-century Latin, "Niger" literally means "Black." This wasn't a metaphor. This was a physical description.

While the ancestors of most modern "White" Christians were still worshipping trees in the forests of Europe, a Black man was sitting in a room in Syria, presiding over the church that would change the world.

Think about the hierarchy here. Simeon wasn't some "convert" sitting in the back row waiting for a European to explain the Gospel to him. He was a Prophet and a Teacher. He was a senior executive of the faith.

In fact, the text says that while they were fasting and praying, the Holy Spirit spoke. And who was it that laid hands on Paul and Barnabas to ordain them and send them off on their first world mission? It was Simeon and the other leaders.

Imagine that visual. The great Apostle Paul, the man who wrote half the New Testament, had to kneel down so a man called "The Black" could lay hands on him and authorise his ministry.

The Gospel didn't "come" to Africa through a colonial ship in the 1800s. Africa was at the table, in the leadership room, and in the spirit, right from day one. We weren't just invited to the party; we were the ones hosting it.

Next time someone tells you that the faith is a social construct designed to make you submit to the West, tell them about Simeon. He wasn't a follower of a Western religion. He was an architect of a global one.

Story don end.

INALEGWU.

[Ike Amadi @ikeamadi]

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