Life Changing!

Every city is becoming hotter and hotter as the day gradually approaches.The hotels,brothels,charlets and guest houses are getting saturated,even those that are merely conspicuous.Those of them that lacked patronage in the past are now favourites because everyone is scrambling for space for their own shows.There is a sudden increase in the demand of many commodities as in christmas.Everyone is fully aware,the news is in the air,boys and girls are all agog at the thought of the day.Married men and women are not left out because plans are already on the way.Hills are being levelled while valleys are being filled in serious preparation for that particular day . Owerri,a town with countless hospitality centres is a good example.There are shows being organised to take place in almost every corner.Some churches are also up with their programmes both for youths and adults in commemoration of the event. Saint Valentine's day is an annual christian or cultural holiday observed by many cou...

There is an ugly trend that I have personally noticed in our society.For over a decade,it has been dominant.It is fast becoming a culture. Of a truth,it looks like a negligible issue but must be appropriately addressed for the sake of preserving the truth for posterity.I am not in any way surprised by the large number of people that may have been deceived or rather confused. At this juncture,I want to ask some questions.Please help me to answer them and dont shun them. Are we all christians?Are all those who go to church on sundays christians? Do we become christians by virtue of our parentage and good upbringing?Are we christians by virtue of our good morals,decent appearance or good works?Does taking responsibilities in the church convince one that he/she is a christian?Does baptism make us christians? Are you still there?I have some more questions. Are we christians because we get the things we desire from God at ease?Are we christians because we even speaks in other tongues?Are w...

A recent experience in a meeting I attended made me to reconsider my commitment to the things I am supposed to be doing especially in the area of God's work. Nobody can gainsay that total commitment to ones duties is an easy one. Commitment is a sincere promise to do something. It is the willingnes to work hard and give your energy and time to a job or activity. The activity could be to yourself or to another person. Commitment requires compassion which is love in action. This passion is the one expressed in the work one is do or as a result of ones respect for the owner of the work.Commitment abhors flimsy excuses,unnecessary convenience,complaints as well as laziness.Sometimes,we fail to get commitment because we are expecting other people to do what we are meant to do. It is a pity! We were all created by God for His own pleasure particularly. He did not have to take His time to make us for nothing. It was solely for His personal pleasure.Ofcourse you know that He can also do ...

We are more than two weeks into the new year. As usual,the clock is ticking every second and has no intention of compromising even the minutiest fraction of a second. I was privileged to hear and read the resolutions of different people earlier this year.As a normal culture,people exchanged old bad habits with new good ones and vice versa.As some decided to remain as they were and continued in their former ways of life because of their inability to strictly abide by their new resolutions made in previous years,others thought of making some tangible positive changes.They did not just think about them nor wrote them down but got strategies that would help them achieve them.Another group decided to be more notorious and dangerous in their character. Some showed their commitment by going the extra mile of discarding some of their belongings thought to discourage them from achieving their set goals. Some others purchased some materials that they thought would help them become better individ...

It could be a sacrilege for me to think that nothing happened.For all the Lord did for me,I definitely cannot suppress the feeling of gratitude flowing from the depth of my heart.God has done great wonders for me.By now,you should know that wonders shall never end and that He does wonders without number. We are in a brand new year and I count myself privileged to have seen myself in it. I know some people that lost their lives just towards the end of last year.Many of them must have planned one or two things to do this year. Their desires were cut short.Many of them were much younger than myself but have 'gone so soon.'I thank God for His privileges. A good example of what I am talking about is the case of a lady in my department that died on the eve of christmas-about two hours before Christmas day.The sad news was that she was killed by a 'negligible' disease known as tetanus. I want to specially thank God for the success He gave me in my recently concluded MB exam...

We are to talk about the faith that works,active and authentic. Jude introduced himself as a servant(slave) of Jesus Christ.Today's ministers understand such to be anachronistic and negligible.The modern preachers preach the privileges of the gospel alone.The faith given to us is not one without privileges.You dont need to pray for privileges if you have the right faith.The faith we have received emphasizes the giver more than the gift. Jesus is a treasure and not a means of getting treasure. The kingdom Jesus presented to us should cost us everything.The faith was and is not a beggarly one.He was not looking for followers.Only Jesus' disciples are called His own.Lack of choice has made our faith weak. We are not to serve Jesus for gain because He Himself is our gain.The loopholes in our lives give strength to the foolishness of the world.The salvation we are talking about is common to all.What God rejected in the 1st century,He still rejects in the 21st century.You wont conten...

The theme for the 2009 LDG was EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH. We need to ernestly contend for our faith because of its seriousness.We should glory in what we dont have and not in what we have. What is faith? Faith is not a tool to get the best out of life. It is not a tool for getting the maximum out of life.It is not a tool to get something you couldn't get by yourself.It is an encounter with Christ.Jesus does not come to help us but to lord over us. He does not come as an assistant but the main man. We have many pentecostal churches where the Holy spirit does not speak. This is because He can embarrass even the pastors,so the pastors tend to stop people from prophesying.People are now told to write down their prophecies.Government officials may not be invited where the Holy Spirit moves because He does not talk politically and is able to expose and embarrass them. The line between the church and the world is disappearing,not only in Nigeria. It is like the world and the ch...