Anytime you hear the word "jumbo" or hear something like "jumbo-sized," it is coined from the name of this elephant. Jumbo was a famous African elephant exhibited in the 19th century.
His enormous size (reaching about 12–13 feet tall and over 6 tons) captivated the public, and his name quickly entered the language as a term for anything unusually large.
There was a time when if you go 3 days without praying/reading your Bible you start feeling like you’ve committed a sin.
But now you go weeks and forget to read it.
No, you didn’t get busier,
You’re backsliding.
Return to your first love,
your secret place is waiting for you.
Our parents don't know how much we stay in bed thinking about how we will return their hard work and sacrifices they made. Hope it all goes well for us.
"Jesus was not born on December 25!"
Oshey!
Ogbeni, we are not doing baiday for the Ancient of Days.
We are celebrating His coming to this world to save sinners.
Diabetes was not born on World Diabetes Day. It's just the day we focus on...
Wo, never mind.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
When I knew that something was off about some areas of the doctrine I was hearing was when one sister told me that the glossy gold buckle on my shoe was wordliness.
And she was not even joking.
She called me aside from the choir and then was talking so passionately about how that i should beware of the “things of the world”
So this was me as a young 14 year old serving God with all my might. I wasnt trying to be wordly. I just wore the fine shoe my mum bought.
I walked back inside church and i saw that the microphone the pastor was holding had gold studs on the base. I looked around more and saw sprinkles of gold here and there on gadgets in church.
So what made the gold on my shoe sin and the one on the microphone different ?
Why is a sister scolded that the flowers in her reception hall is too much and she is becoming wordly but the stage around the pulpit in that same church is “heavy laden” witn pots and pots of flowers?
I remember when one youth leader said perfumes are demonic and should not be found anywhere near a heaven bound pilgrim, but then we have powerful air fresheners in the ushering unit for the church hall and for Pastors office.
So the hall can smell good but our bodies cannot?
I asked all these questions in the corner of my heart because it wasn’t mathing.
Of course i want to go to heaven. I was not about to allow “worldliness” take me to hell.
The more I asked, the more the Holyspirit breathed on me
Then I saw religion for what it was. A demon that holds men back from really experiencing God
Where people take their own preferences and impose it on people.
Where people cherry pick scriptures and leave the one they don’t want
Where people call something “sin” instead of just saying “these are our own administrative decisions and bylaws”
Where instead of telling people the truth and trusting that the Holyspirit is able to make them disciples, we want to keep people in church by using fear, using coercion and manipulating scripture to suit our own preferences.
This was when I got my freedom. When I opened the Bible for me, when I asked the Holyspirit questions when I could not understand.
This was when I went from just being Christian to being a believer.
I’m saying all this to say “Know Jesus for yourself”
There’s no more veil.
We can now see Jesus face to face.
Blessings!
@ChizzyB56 It is still better to heal while you're single than for you to still be heartbroken yet in a new relationship frustrating the new person who did nothing wrong.
I no get aura for my area again sef.
Thank God for the job i have,at least it makes me wear good clothes every morning. But when it comes to chores and errands,i no get aura ooo.😭😭😭😂
Three years ago, I was stuck
Or I would say I felt stuck
I had finished service and it seemed like nothing was moving in my life
No Job
No direction on what was next
To crown it all, I was just served the hottest breakfast ever and it seemed like my world would end
I had to go back helping my parents in the business they were doing
I was doing this job for my parents in the university and to still came back to that same spot after school?
It’s like I was moving in circles
I tried to do a post graduate program, that one just parked one side
Someone would show interest in marriage and when it came the time to take concrete decisions, they would slip off
I remember praying against spritual husband one time
Not that I thought I had one, but I just wanted to cover my bases
Just in case
I would come out and preach and do programs and I would go back in and cry
To worsen it, all my peers that we had grown up together in church were getting settled one after the other
I was doing chief bridesmaid and bridal train again and again
Even though I was doing it with Joy, I kept getting the pity stares from people
And I was getting the looks, the concerned looks from church people
Being in a ministry that was public I was always before the eyes of people and the scrutiny was intense
I remember one time , it was almost becoming difficult to go to church because I was tired of the pity looks
“Miss fine social media woman, what’s up with you?
Everybody has gone ahead and you’re still here?”
I would serve my God diligently
I wasn’t sure what was next
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The past six months of my life have seemed like 6 years
Because A LOT has happened
New marriage
New Job
New House
New country
New this
New that
When it was my time came, God compressed everything inside 6 months
Everything has been happening with lightening speed and precision my head still reels when I analyze it
God has said it is your time now and it’s been back to back to back to back miracles and provisions and progress
I can’t recognize the woman I am
Dear child of God
I bring to you today a promise of RESTORATION
That all the years that it seems the cankerworms have eaten, God will restore
I know what it feels like to feel stuck
I know the pain very well
I see your messages in my inbox and I may not be able to reply you one by on
But if you can see this,
Please hold on to God
Don’t stop serving Him
Your TIME will come
The Zeal of the Lord will make it happen
If He did it for me, He will do your own too
#womanengraced
You see devil? That guy is a cunning bast@rd. His greatest weapon is not always temptation, but prayerlessness.
He knows that when you stop praying, you stop fighting. Don’t give him that ground, stay in the place of prayer, because that’s where his power is broken and God’s strength is released.
So even when you don’t feel like praying, fight it and push through. That’s when your prayer is most effective.. the devil never gives up so neither can you because this life is a warfare. Prayer is your weapon !