WHAT A BLOODY CHRISTMAS

What happened in Madalla, Niger State near Abuja on Christmas day (25th December, 2011) was a sheer wickedness against innocent people.  It is a great direct offence against GOD.  It is an unlawful killing of innocent citizens and wanton destruction of properties.  The incident is also a form of persecution against GOD’S people.  Those who hate GOD’S people shall be ashamed.  GOD commands that nobody should murder.  The devil is the father of all murders.  Enough is enough!  Nobody can fight for GOD.  What happened that day deserves a vengeance but GOD commands HIS children that vengeance belongs to HIM and HE will pay back in due time, if not, nobody or group can stand GOD’S people or defeat them.  Yes, that is the truth. 

QUOTES - Idols/Worship/Images

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:4

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

I Corinthians 8:1

That at what time ye hear the sound of…all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 

Daniel 3:5-6

The almighty dollar is the only object of worship.

Anonymous

Sculpture: Your humble genealogy should make you silent. Painting: Well, yours is not astonishing either. Sculpture: You began in shadow. Painting: And you, in idolatry.

Juan de Jáuregui (1583 - 1641)

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

John Paul II (1920 - 2005)

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

John Paul II (1920 - 2005)

IDOLATRY

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he act of worshipping of a material image that is held to be the domicile of a superhuman personality is referred to as idolatry. The concept of idolatry originated in the disagreement between the three great monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the polytheistic religions they encountered along their way. It was first expressed during the conflict of ancient Hebrew monotheism with the pagan cults of surrounding peoples.  Idolatry is synonymous with graven images.

Our great GOD has commanded HIS children to have no other gods before Him.  No man should also make unto himself any graven image or any likeness of anything at all that is in heaven or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth.  Many people in the world over still practice idolatry by worshipping, adoring, offering, and sacrificing to them.  Sacrifice of food, animals, and some even humans.  GOD has commanded that no one should even bow down to them or serve them.  Every human all over the world is to do away with all forms of idolatry, especially those things that stop you from fellowship with GOD so as to gain HIS attention and avoid pollution.  Idolatry brings about GOD’s anger.  Avoid it at all costs.  One good example and proof of this is the true story of the golden calf recorded in the Holy Bible. 

Do away with all abominations like witchery, horoscope, spiritism, tattoos/marks, etc.  Destroy all evil, profane pictures and molten images.  Destroy them from their high places. Neither be devoted to anyone or anything apart from GOD nor set up anything that the LORD God hates.  Put away all strange gods and serve the LORD God only.  No idol at all can stand GOD’s power and presence.  Sorrow and affliction shall go to them that go down to other gods and they shall all perish.  Those who trust in idols and boast of them shall be turned back, greatly ashamed and confused.  Idolaters shall burn and perish in eternal hell fire.  Loyalty to GOD brings about promotion and success.  You cannot serve GOD and mammon together.

Flee from idolatry. Come out from them separate, the LORD will receive you.  Also, beware of realities, principles, theories and tradition or legalism.  Don’t be deceived, GOD is waiting for you.

Bible References:

Exodus 20:3-6; 23:22-33; 32

Leviticus 19:28

Deuteronomy 4:23; 16:22; 18:9-14. 

Numbers 33:52

Judges 10:13-16

1 Samuel 5:2-12

Isaiah 31:1-3; 42:17; 47:13-15

Daniel 3:1-30

Luke 16:13

1 Corinthians 10:14

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Colossians 2:8-23

Prayer Points: 

·        Praise and thank GOD for HIS great and incomparable might.

·        Pray to God to forgive you and clean you from all forms of idolatry, known and unknown.

·        Pray that every form of idolatry, especially widely accepted ones be wiped off immediately.

·        Give thanks and praise to GOD for considering your prayers.

SATAN THE NO. 1 LOSER

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his world at this very stage is not complete without Satan, the devil.  He is the number one looser but keeps pretending that he has won a battle.  The vagabond is the cause of all the world’s predicaments right from the initial stage when he tempted Eve and caused both Adam and Eve to fall for sin, leading to their been chased out of the fully loaded and beautiful garden of Eden.  Satan is a fallen angel named Lucifer, the supreme spirit of evil, who for immeasurable time has ruled over a kingdom of evil spirits and is in constant opposition to God.  Satan (devil) is already condemned and destined for eternal hell of fire and brimstone.  Whoever does not receive Christ now and be born again will also join Satan in hell.  You and I will not be there in Jesus’ Name.

CHECK THESE QUOTES ABOUT A LOSER

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller

 

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.
Donna Rice

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JESUS CHRIST

Salvation is the redemption plan set by GOD the Father to win back HIS children to HIS original plan for their eternal enjoyment.  It is the hope of being saved from eternal punishment through Christ's death on the cross of Calvary.  The plan came up due to the devil’s sinful action which led to the fall of Adam and Eve, hence their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.  Salvation implies deliverance from condemnation.  It requires a sacrifice and that sacrifice by GOD is Jesus Christ, HIS only begotten son.  In line with the salvation plan, the birth of Jesus Christ was prophesied about four hundred years before His birth.

Quote about JESUS CHRIST

The name of Jesus is the one lever that lifts the world. 
~Author Unknown

In every pang that rends the heart, the Man of Sorrows has a part.
~Michael Bruce

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful;

but I never read in either of them: 

"Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden." 

~St Augustine

He changed sunset into sunrise. 

~Clement of Alexandria

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. 

Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note,

to which your whole life is attuned. 

~Henry Drummond

No man can follow Christ and go astray. 

~William H.P. Faunce

When Jesus comes, the shadows depart. 

~Author unknown, inscription on a Scottish castle

Sun of my soul!  Thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if Thou be near.
~John Keble

They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit,

thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. 

He took them and made them the very glory of his career. 

~W.E. Orchard

The King of love my Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never;
I nothing lack if I am His
And He is mine forever.
~Henry William Baker

DEFINITE PROMISES

A promise is a declaration that binds the person who makes it to follow through with a certain act. Inability to keep a promise can have principled consequences.  Our great and mighty GOD will never promise without keeping or fulfilling it.  Numbers 23:19; 32:1-12.  HE is not like man that HE should lie.  One good example is how the LORD God delivered the Israelites out of the hand of the Egyptians (their oppressors), and to bring them up out unto a good land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Exodus 3:8. 

SUCCESS: QUOTES

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), Orley Farm, chapter 49, 1950

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

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VACANCY

No man can alone serve himself with all his needs.  Everyone needs a helping hand. This gives rise to vacancy.  The word vacancy is synonymous with offices or organisations seeing workers.  Nowadays, vacancy is scarce, especially in Nigeria, leading to higher unemployment rate.  But those who serve the LORD God or live a righteous life do not lack any good thing they need.

DRESS CODE

A dress is a piece of clothing worn to cover and protect the body.  Clothes are meant to provide protection against unfavourable weather. Clothes are also put on to match a particular occasion or work schedule.  As the saying goes that your dress is your first address.  It is the manner in which you dress that you will be address, classified or called, especially by strangers.  For example, if an army general dresses like a medical doctor or a religious priest, he would certainly be addressed as a doctor or a priest by strangers.  If anyone dresses like a harlot, he would be address as such.

Check These QUOTES

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
       - Albert Einstein

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
      - Proverb

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
       - Edward Everett Hale

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
       - Benjamin Disraeli

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
       - Edmund Burke

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
       - Shira Tehrani

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
       - Ann Landers

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
       - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'd rather be right than President.
       - Henry Clay

The night is far spent; the day draws near. Let us cast off deeds of darkness and put on the armor or light. Let us live honorably, as in daylight...
       - Romans 13:12- 13a

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
       - Brigham Young

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
       - Margaret Chase Smith

Honest measures and weights are the Lord's delight.
       - The Bible

The imperative is to find what is right and to do it.
       - Barbara Jordan, American congresswoman and lawyer

http://heartsandminds.org/quotes/action.htm

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES OF THE DAY

 

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.

John Kord Lagemann

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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008

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Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

~ Denis Waitley

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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

~ Michael Jordan

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When we put a limit on what we will do, we put a limit on what we can do.

~ Charles Schwab

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A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

~ Ovid

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You don’t have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.

~ Dan Fallon

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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.

~ Bill McCartney

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You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

~ Magic Johnson

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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

~ Michael Jordan

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

~ Samuel Johnson

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