RELATIONSHIP

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OKAY I KNOW WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS A LOT, BUT RIGHT NOW I’M ABOUT TO TELL YOU OF SOMEONE YOU HAVE BEEN DATING FOR SO LONG AND PROBABLY DO NOT KNOW,HMMMMMMM………DID YOU JUST ASK IF THAT IS POSSIBLE? OKAY LET ME SHOW YOU THAT IT IS.
WE AS CHRISTIANS ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS ,MOST OF US KNOW BUT WE DO NOT KNOW HOW WE GOT INTO IT AND SOME OTHERS KNOW HOW THEY GOT INTO IT BUT DON’T KNOW HOW BEST TO KEEP IT SO I PRAY THIS SHOULD HELP YOU UNDERSTAND IT.

“RELATIONSHIP”
IN EVERY RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE THE GUY’S SETTING THE PACE AND AFTER HE DOES THAT WELL…YOU KNOW WHAT NEXT. JESUS IN THIS RELATIONSHIP IS  SETTING THE PACE AS OUR CURRENT GUYS DO AND HOW DID HE DO THIS , BY SENDING PREACHERS ,MISSIONARIES TO YOU AND I TO PREPARE OUR MIND FOR HIM THOUGH CURRENT GUYS (EARTHLY GUYS) DO IT WITH MATERIAL THINGS. THE NEXT STEP JESUS TOOK WAS TO SHOW US LOVE AND  BY BLESSING US WITH EVERY THING WE DESIRE THAT IS GOOD ,THAT WOULD ALSO CREATE COMFORT. AFTER THAT HE( JESUS) TOOK THE BOLD STEP TO ASK YOU AND ME OUT ,THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW AS ALTER CALLS. DURING THIS PERIOD WE AGREE AND START DATING HIM(JESUS), DURING THIS PERIOD WE START COURTING(COURTSHIP),THIS PERIOD IS WHEN YOU READ YOUR BIBLE EVERY DAY, PRAY, FAST, ATTEND CHURCH PROGRAMMES, BE GOOD AND JESUS SEES YOU AND LOVES YOU MORE THAN EVER AND PROPOSE MARRIAGE AND YOU AGREE.
SO YOU MARRY AND AFTER FEW MONTHS OF MARRIAGE TO JESUS, YOU FEEL LIKE YES, I HAVE GOTTEN HIM SO WHAT MORE DO I NEED,THIS PERIOD IS WHEN YOU STOP GIVING HIM SO MUCH ATTENTION AS BEFORE,NO MORE SPECIAL TIME AND MOMENT AS YOU SHARED BEFORE MARRIAGE, BECAUSE YOU ARE ALREADY HIS BRIDE. THE ONE WHO PAID THE BRIDE PRICE WITH HIS LIFE, THE ONE THAT WHO HAD SLEEPLESS NIGHT FOR  YOU, SO THAT YOUR HEART DESIRES WOULD BE ANSWERED AND DELIVERED FROM THE FACTORY OF BLESSING WHICH BELONGS TO HIM (JESUS).
AFTER ALL THIS, ALL HE WANT IS A CHILD OR CHILDREN FROM HIS BRIDE WHICH IS SOUL WINNING, YOU GETTING OTHERS TO KNOW HIM MORE, BY PREACHING THE WORD, LIVING THE WORD, THAT WOULD CREATE THE BIRTH OF A CHILD OR CHILDREN WHO WOULD SURROUND HIS TABLE BUT WE AS BRIDE ALL WE THINK OF IS OUR BODY AND SHAPE (PHYSICAL AIMS). THE AIM OF THIS MARRIAGE WAS TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY (WIN SOULS)
SO IN ALL, THIS IS HOW FAR YOU CAN RATE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS

I PRAY I WILL BE A BETTER BRIDE .
THANK YOU.

By EJIROGHENE OBIUWEVBI

SWEET SMELLING PSALM

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I had an alabaster box. It contained some ointment, a very fragrant and rare perfume. I have kept it for
years, hoping that sometime, someday, I might find a good use for it. It was an ointment of excellent fragrance, very rare and expensive. I knew it was meant for noble use.
Each time I attempted to pour it on myself, I felt a check in my heart. A restraint from an invisible hand, urging me to wait. Many have come to beg for this precious ointment I owned. You see, my heart is very tender and I am
philanthropic at heart yet I knew from deep within that this ointment was for service beyond the realm of philanthropy.
My most trying moment came when my own dear brother became ill. We did all we could but he only got worse. We spent all we had on medication and hospital bills. All, except my box of ointment. Continue reading →

foOd fOR tHOuGhT

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The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels – those who will submit their will to the will of the Father. And the greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
– Kathryn Kuhlman

TREND LINES AND EMOTIONS

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Digits and digital screenshots sum up a decade’s material history

Figures summarize lives’ trajectories and mass movements

A matter-of-factly tale of the wide-world, or of a chip of it

Axes drawn, with zigzag lines dancing across the cartesian

Fine definition of boom and bust

Of the struggle to become, the becoming, and the loss of being

My place is a forecaster’s: I tell of unemployment rates and poverty lines and deficits

Cheery new homeowners’ smiles and jubilant shareholders’ faces I barely count

Neither do I the tearful small business owner’s wails over irredeemable loss

The once self-sufficient, now paupered, set back by the invisible hand’s mercilessness

Theories trump themes in the world of unfeeling averages and projections

Now and then the numbers come alive as I remember that I count people

Only a lucky spark; I soon become statistical again

It would seem to me that man feels pain only to an extent

When his memory of another’s brims up, he sinks it into the subconscious

To bear human hopes shattered, he creates an outlook of fateism

He separates fact from emotion

He forgets to feel, just to feel relief again

But is it not the insensitive that wreaks the most havoc upon human flesh and heart?

Our God, though great unto infinity, is closest

His heart beats, His heart feels, He sees farthest

He needs not aggregate and simplify to understand

All of history is to Him the present moment

All of one loner’s concern, a legendary significance

When the cycle of plenty and little turns and churns out beauty and pain

His arms are always outstretched to hold up the triumphant and the losing alike

In the end, all the world’s fancy and riches fade and rust

But God’s loving gaze never strays from our affairs.