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THE WORD OF GOD THAT WAS PREACHED TO ME AS A TEENAGER THAT IMPACTED ME Growing up, it was insinuating rather than instigating to hear over and over again from evangelists and preachers, "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" (Mark8: 36). This magically changes the way I conceive wealth, fame and struggle! It really affected me not the ways Jesus would want it to effect me especially when it is punctuated with the like, "For the wages of sin is death!" (Romans 6:23), very scary you know. Then, it makes me very skeptical and I want to scrutinize every step of my life to make sure I am not trading the part of evil because I do not want to gain the world and lose my soul and I do not want to die; that would be a waste to my parents, friends and my village. Even though I was not a Christian then and I opposed those who ventured to preach to me, their words injected, got hold of me. I wonder how these verses work today espec

Is New Year Resolution Necessary, How Many Times Have we Messed up our New Year Resolutions?👋 Bright Hope Ahead New Year resolution is as old as the year itself, yet many of us never understood it more than making a mental or written list of the things that we would want to accomplish or do away with, come the New year. I made many resolutions that I hardly remembered after the first week of the New Year; I never practiced them. Should I say that I am older; I have started making a more accomplishable New Year resolution or have I entirely stopped making New Year resolutions? Far from it, age has nothing to do with it and I have not stopped making New Year resolutions, I cannot say that I am completely accomplishing all I resolved to do. If I were wise or have attained that wisdom, I would have accomplished everything that I wrote down last year. In fact I did not even touch anything that I wrote down, rather I found myself pursuing different mirages that were not catchable!

Merry Christmas Christmas celebration has just ended although in some peoples’ houses and hearts, the celebration lives on, until they usher in the New Year. Yeah, I feel that way although I do have intermittent "Are you really ready to transition?" conflict moments. Indeed, am I really ready for 2017? We are happy that we survived the confusion and commotions of this year’s abrasive politics, religious intolerance, wars and "refugeeism", and the ravaging worldwide organized "Isism" with nomadic suicide bombing, ‘lone-range’ mass shooting and natural disasters, mud-sliding, avalanche, earthquake, rain and flood storms as well as plunging plane crashes. All these, we have yet to mention the deadliest of them all, car crashes, sporadic life-taken economic hardships, homicide, traffic violations, police shootings and uncomfortable neighborhood policing, ganging and selective jailing. How many more unnecessary breeches of lives should I mention? May

    DOES SOMEONE DRIVE YOU CRAZY WITH TIME? TIME CAN DISTRACT YOU, SET IT RIGHT!  You have heard it, "Time is running out, Time waits for no one and Your biological clock is ticking." How does it make you feel? Do you feel discouraged or feel like running and jumping at the same time to meet up with time? For real, is there anything like time running out? I do not think so, time does not run, people do!      Time is a mathematical period set by human to be able to evaluate their achievement, conquests, development and the dynamism of life but it does not necessarily run or move although events makes it look like it runs. I have been long to know that time does not run, we run or do not run our lives. Look at the clock above, it is a set time, it does not move unless I put battery or change it manually.      When you think that you have used your previous opportunities wastefully, go to your clock and set it back and seek new opportunities and run on, when you look

It is not more than you are seeing. It is amazing the ways the book of Proverbs addresses real life issues we deal with in everyday life. Consider these quotes, "He who mistreats his Father and c hases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach."  (Proverbs19:26) "The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger and his glory is to overlook a transgression   (Proverbs19:11)                                                                                                                                          "Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool." (Proverbs19:1)

In the previous posts, we talked about the usefulness of the book of Psalms. In this post we will use real life experiences of some people who talked to me about their experiences in the use of the Book of Psalms to discourage certain unchristian and ill doctrine of some pastors and 'churches'. A.  Do not use the words of the Psalms to conjure strange spirits, practice sorcery, witchcraft and occultism. Be careful, you may be led to such practices by trusting and following a particular leader, prophet, or pastor without fully understanding what you are doing. When someone you respect as a man of God tells you to do something that is not biblical, please do not do it. This is what the Bible says about it, "If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass ( it comes true ), of which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods' - which you have not known- 'and

 The beauty of a tree is ever visible in the compound of a conscientious rich person. Although not all rich persons value the life of a tree because some would uproot the tree in quest for power expansion However, a wise and a caring rich person would give space for beauty hence he employs the crafting hands of the landscaper, the florist and the flower tender to beautify his compound that enshrines his palace within the trees thereby respecting, giving life and bringing out the beauty of it. The shrub on its own is a hell of nuisance, growing and spreading branches everywhere even blocking the palace from view and making passage uncomfortable for the king and his entourage. Nevertheless the king loves the shrub as added beauty, that is why he spares a little, for the shrub best by getting a flower tender. The tender with his pruning share, cuts of wild spreading branches, and shapes the shrub how he would for beauty. He sits back to observe it and once he is satisfied with his wor