How is everybody? i have being off here for a very long time and i felt it too lol.
My weeks have being very busy and mad rush to finish home work and stuff.
ok through out last week i was having emotional battles and i was very affected. i did not want to talk to anyone just wanted to be alone at home not crying but just down. i started to doubt my christian race started to feel like God had forgotten me, i started to question what was in it for me and stuff like that.
imagine i started to think maybe there was no God and maybe i determined my own destiny at that too because i was so below down it was not funny. But i know my redeemer lives.
my account was empty, my debts were piling up and nobody seemed to care, so i wanted to just be alone. wanted to apply for a job but one of my references said something to me that made me just forget it, mad me feel useless. (words to people are very dangerous, be careful how u use them,you dont know where it would hit)
then on saturday, i just looked up and prayed to God to please forgive me for all my sins and help me and not let me die since i had not eaten and the last time i eat was thursday around two pm. then i just felt peaceful and slept off.
By sunday, around twelve (did not go to church, but was watching it online) in the afternoon someone knocked my door and i was thinking of not answering but i just got up and did it anyway, it was my friend. this my friend is in medical school. this my friend has being the person that had always motivated me to be a christian. we prayed every morning together(not in the last one week), go out together and stuff. so the person came by and ask if i wanted to go out to a single's luncheon. and all of a sudden i was excited and i said yes. on our way, the person handed me an envelope and said that was for me. it had MONEY in it. and i asked "wat for"
"oh i tot i should just give it to you" God has blessed me so why not". i was dumbfounded, shocked and almost started crying.
Immediately i was alone i started to apologise to God and thank Him for what he had done again, even though i did not deserve it.
I am very thankful to God for blessing me again, even at the nick of time. His time is always perfect.
Another testimony from 9jaot, God is good and He is alive, dont ever for once ever doubt his existence. He is the greatest father you can ever have.
If you have not given your life to Jesus and u are going through a lot, Try him and see, He is the unchangeable changer. King of Kings, lord of lords.
on a lighter mood. this happened some years back and made me think, why not be happy no matter wat happens to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5SXv8gcvEg see this too.
He is great.
ok i am having a crush on someone special. people keep your fingers crossed, might just invite you to the wedding. LOL
Thank you all for reading.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Fleshly sins
Masturbation is like "Down syndrome!"
Believers in Christ who masturbate should cry out to God for help!
Why draw a parallel between masturbation and "down syndrome"?
In Romans 7, Paul the Apostle hints of his inability to overcome a particular shortcoming, which he linked to his body. He stated in Romans 7:15-25 that he was compelled to act against his wish, a phenomenon aptly called "the law of sin and death."
Paul cried out for help, asking "who shall deliver me from this body of death?" Even though the word "covet" or "desire", as used in some translations to depict the problem of the apostle of Christ, has no bearing to masturbation, the frustration aired by him, however, is highly suggestive that his problem was "masturbation."
Paul said in Romans 7:15: "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that I do." - KJV. For better translation, ESV says: For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
It is my belief that every one who masturbates, especially Christians, can identify with Paul. However, after Paul admitted his inability to overcome the flesh, he went ahead to sound a note of victory in Romans 8:1.
When people masturbate or fall short of what they hold to be God's standard, often times they promise God that such action would not repeat itself, only to fall again and again. They find themselves in a vicious cycle of "rising and falling" with resolves not to fall again. But they soon fall. Some have given up, believing that it is impossible to overcome masturbation; while some are still struggling, thinking that with more efforts, they would overcome.
Overcoming masturbation or any other nagging sin is NOT BY struggling or by resolving not to indulge in it, and neither is it by promising God that the flesh would be crucified. God never asked us to crucify the flesh as many preachers and teachers teach. What the Bible says is that we should mortify the deeds of the body:
"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." - Romans 8:13
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry -" Colossians 3:5
So, how can the believer in Christ be delivered from masturbation?
The process is quite simple, but the journey is painstaking. The hindrance to deliverance is that many people still consider themselves to be good; they think holiness is attained by human efforts and resolution. This is why God allows me to fall over and again until they reach a breaking point. A point where they conclude the following:
1. In me dwells no good thing.
2. No matter how I try, I cannot overcome.
3. For by strength I cannot overcome.
4. Help me Lord to overcome this habit! (No help came)
5. Have mercy on my soul, Lord!
Finally:
6. Thank you Lord for saving me by your Grace; I stop trying to overcome by myself!
Until you arrive at point#6 and stay there, help would remain elusive. Romans 8:1 is Paul's way of victory, yours cannot be different!
It's then that deliverance will come! And do you know the form the deliverance will take? It will start in form of inner strength that seems to be greater than the consequence of falling. Even when you fall, your fellowship with God remains intact! And it's not that God approves of your fallen state - not at all, it is just that with time you will receive GRACE to deny the urge to masturbate.
I know this has being a very controversial issue for some of my friends and also some people i know. i hope this helps and i hope God delivers all of us from any fleshly battle we are encountering. AMEN!!
Determination is the key to success...ME
Believers in Christ who masturbate should cry out to God for help!
Why draw a parallel between masturbation and "down syndrome"?
In Romans 7, Paul the Apostle hints of his inability to overcome a particular shortcoming, which he linked to his body. He stated in Romans 7:15-25 that he was compelled to act against his wish, a phenomenon aptly called "the law of sin and death."
Paul cried out for help, asking "who shall deliver me from this body of death?" Even though the word "covet" or "desire", as used in some translations to depict the problem of the apostle of Christ, has no bearing to masturbation, the frustration aired by him, however, is highly suggestive that his problem was "masturbation."
Paul said in Romans 7:15: "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that I do." - KJV. For better translation, ESV says: For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
It is my belief that every one who masturbates, especially Christians, can identify with Paul. However, after Paul admitted his inability to overcome the flesh, he went ahead to sound a note of victory in Romans 8:1.
When people masturbate or fall short of what they hold to be God's standard, often times they promise God that such action would not repeat itself, only to fall again and again. They find themselves in a vicious cycle of "rising and falling" with resolves not to fall again. But they soon fall. Some have given up, believing that it is impossible to overcome masturbation; while some are still struggling, thinking that with more efforts, they would overcome.
Overcoming masturbation or any other nagging sin is NOT BY struggling or by resolving not to indulge in it, and neither is it by promising God that the flesh would be crucified. God never asked us to crucify the flesh as many preachers and teachers teach. What the Bible says is that we should mortify the deeds of the body:
"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." - Romans 8:13
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry -" Colossians 3:5
So, how can the believer in Christ be delivered from masturbation?
The process is quite simple, but the journey is painstaking. The hindrance to deliverance is that many people still consider themselves to be good; they think holiness is attained by human efforts and resolution. This is why God allows me to fall over and again until they reach a breaking point. A point where they conclude the following:
1. In me dwells no good thing.
2. No matter how I try, I cannot overcome.
3. For by strength I cannot overcome.
4. Help me Lord to overcome this habit! (No help came)
5. Have mercy on my soul, Lord!
Finally:
6. Thank you Lord for saving me by your Grace; I stop trying to overcome by myself!
Until you arrive at point#6 and stay there, help would remain elusive. Romans 8:1 is Paul's way of victory, yours cannot be different!
It's then that deliverance will come! And do you know the form the deliverance will take? It will start in form of inner strength that seems to be greater than the consequence of falling. Even when you fall, your fellowship with God remains intact! And it's not that God approves of your fallen state - not at all, it is just that with time you will receive GRACE to deny the urge to masturbate.
I know this has being a very controversial issue for some of my friends and also some people i know. i hope this helps and i hope God delivers all of us from any fleshly battle we are encountering. AMEN!!
Determination is the key to success...ME
IMAGINE!!!!
National University Commission, NUC, has announced that no fewer than 36 private universities operate illegally in Nigeria.
Executive Secretary of NUC Prof. Julius Okojie announced this Wednesday while briefing the media on the commission’s Data Base Project in Abuja.
He said "the universities have not been licensed by the Federal Government and are therefore operating illegally in violation of National Minimum Standards Act CAP E3 Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004," hinting that certificates obtained from those sources would not be recognized for the purposes of National Youth Service Corps, employment and further studies.
He listed some of these universities to include North Central University Oturkpo, Blacksmith University, Awka, Atlanta University Ayingba, Royal University Izhia, University of Industry, Yaba and Leadway University, Ughelli among others.
Prof. Okonji therefore warned that anyone who patronized or obtained certificates from those institutions did so at his own risk, while disclosing that NUC was collaborating with security operatives to apprehend the culprits. He added that enough evidence should be gathered before charging them to court.
He lamented that the proprietors of these universities were amorphous in nature as they kept moving from one city to another when threatened.
imagine after four years you find out that your school is a fake, how sad naija must improve oo.
Anyways my week has been very busy as the semester is winding down to a close. mad homeworks, papers and assignments.
Thanks to all that always stop by and thanks to those that are following my blog cap baby and enigma. i am very grateful.
God bless you all
Executive Secretary of NUC Prof. Julius Okojie announced this Wednesday while briefing the media on the commission’s Data Base Project in Abuja.
He said "the universities have not been licensed by the Federal Government and are therefore operating illegally in violation of National Minimum Standards Act CAP E3 Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004," hinting that certificates obtained from those sources would not be recognized for the purposes of National Youth Service Corps, employment and further studies.
He listed some of these universities to include North Central University Oturkpo, Blacksmith University, Awka, Atlanta University Ayingba, Royal University Izhia, University of Industry, Yaba and Leadway University, Ughelli among others.
Prof. Okonji therefore warned that anyone who patronized or obtained certificates from those institutions did so at his own risk, while disclosing that NUC was collaborating with security operatives to apprehend the culprits. He added that enough evidence should be gathered before charging them to court.
He lamented that the proprietors of these universities were amorphous in nature as they kept moving from one city to another when threatened.
imagine after four years you find out that your school is a fake, how sad naija must improve oo.
Anyways my week has been very busy as the semester is winding down to a close. mad homeworks, papers and assignments.
Thanks to all that always stop by and thanks to those that are following my blog cap baby and enigma. i am very grateful.
God bless you all
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Nigeria: Lack of Rehabilitation Increases Disability - OT in spotlight
Nigeria: Lack of Rehabilitation Increases Disability - Expert
A medical expert and director of Willing Health Advocacy and Training Support (WHATS), Mrs Victoria Amu-Uwakwe has blamed the increase in number of disability and handicapped people in the country on lack of rehabilitation therapy services.
Amu-Uwakwe stated this at the advocacy meeting with Niger State Hospital Management Board and other professionals in health care management.
She maintained that if there was adequate occupational therapy services most cases of impairment would not have resulted in physical handicap where the individual would have to depend on others for existence.
According to her, "occupational therapy services will add more value to medical treatment and it will reduce the level of handicapped individuals in our society."
She lamented that the nation's health care delivery system has suffered several shortfalls, describing the most obvious as that of rehabilitation therapy, which she said had not been given the required attention, partly because of shortage of occupational therapists.
She regretted that Occupational Therapy service is almost non-existent in health institutions in the country.
The WHATS director who lamented that only five health institutions had Occupational Therapy Services out of the 58 health institutions (state hospitals, neuropsychiatry hospitals, university teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres) in the country, stated that the facilities in a few places where it was available were obsolete.
She said while most developing countries like Kenya which is smaller than Nigeria produce over 40 occupational therapists annually, the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, which is the only degree awarding institution, would be graduating its first set of six students in the year 2009.
A medical expert and director of Willing Health Advocacy and Training Support (WHATS), Mrs Victoria Amu-Uwakwe has blamed the increase in number of disability and handicapped people in the country on lack of rehabilitation therapy services.
Amu-Uwakwe stated this at the advocacy meeting with Niger State Hospital Management Board and other professionals in health care management.
She maintained that if there was adequate occupational therapy services most cases of impairment would not have resulted in physical handicap where the individual would have to depend on others for existence.
According to her, "occupational therapy services will add more value to medical treatment and it will reduce the level of handicapped individuals in our society."
She lamented that the nation's health care delivery system has suffered several shortfalls, describing the most obvious as that of rehabilitation therapy, which she said had not been given the required attention, partly because of shortage of occupational therapists.
She regretted that Occupational Therapy service is almost non-existent in health institutions in the country.
The WHATS director who lamented that only five health institutions had Occupational Therapy Services out of the 58 health institutions (state hospitals, neuropsychiatry hospitals, university teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres) in the country, stated that the facilities in a few places where it was available were obsolete.
She said while most developing countries like Kenya which is smaller than Nigeria produce over 40 occupational therapists annually, the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, which is the only degree awarding institution, would be graduating its first set of six students in the year 2009.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
how to not choose the wrong career
The craze for job has caused many youths to opt for just any job that comes their way rather than asking basic questions like who am I? Am I an introvert or an extrovert? What are my skills? What can I do? What do I really want to do if I have an opportunity to make a choice? Where am I going in life?
Sadly, the economic situation in the country has prevented many young people from pausing to ask the foregoing questions. And parents too are not helping matters. Once a child is born, most parents insist on a path the the child must toe. They do everything they can to create a mental entrapment of the child. Few take into cognizance the child's strength, skills, likes, dislikes, passion, opportunities and so on.
A few parents who observe the rule of studying a child and guiding him or her on the line he or she should take, based on the aforementioned factors are all happier for it and their children too are happy.
I have met many youths who are not really interested in the courses they found themselves doing in tertiary institutions, because such courses are foisted on them by their parents for one reason or the other.
The best way a parent can avoid friction with respect to a child's career direction is to engage the child in counselling. Career counsellors are trained to dig deep into a child's life and ask specific questions as to what the child wants to do with his or her life. Such counselling should be done near the end of the junior secondary classes, just before the child crosses into the senior secondary classes.
Parents and teachers need to make children aware of the various courses they can pursue and what they can do with them. Most youths suffer from what I call "career myopia". They only know about a few courses like Medicine, Pharmacy, Accounting, Law, Computer Science, Petroleum Engineering and other common professional courses. What about courses like Sociology, Psychology, Human Nutrition, Theatre Arts, Music, Agricultural Science, Management, Library Science, Physics, Estate Management, Fashion and Design, and so on? Many of these unpopular courses are key to the economic breakthrough that Nigeria needs at the moment.
I am sorry to say, but these are the courses of the future.
For example, if Nigeria decides to venture into space technology, it will need Physics majors. When our knowledge revolution booms, we will need qualified librarians to oversee the over one million libraries across the country.
It has been proven time and again that the child that pursues his or her heart desire is happier and succeeds earlier than the one who is forced to make a detour later in life to find his or her path.
The craze for job has caused many youths to opt for just any job that comes their way rather than asking basic questions like who am I? Am I an introvert or an extrovert? What are my skills? What can I do? What do I really want to do if I have an opportunity to make a choice? Where am I going in life? Sadly, the economic situation in the country has prevented many young people from pausing to ask the foregoing questions. And parents too are not helping matters.
Once a child is born, most parents insist on a path the the child must toe. They do everything they can to create a mental entrapment of the child. Few take into cognizance the child's strength, skills, likes, dislikes, passion, opportunities and so on. A few parents who observe the rule of studying a child and guiding him or her on the line he or she should take, based on the aforementioned factors are all happier for it and their children too are happy.
I have met many youths who are not really interested in the courses they found themselves doing in tertiary institutions, because such courses are foisted on them by their parents for one reason or the other. The best way a parent can avoid friction with respect to a child's career direction is to engage the child in counselling. Career counsellors are trained to dig deep into a child's life and ask specific questions as to what the child wants to do with his or her life. Such counselling should be done near the end of the junior secondary classes, just before the child crosses into the senior secondary classes.
Parents and teachers need to make children aware of the various courses they can pursue and what they can do with them. Most youths suffer from what I call "career myopia". They only know about a few courses like Medicine, Pharmacy, Accounting, Law, Computer Science, Petroleum Engineering and other common professional courses. What about courses like Sociology, Psychology, Human Nutrition, Theatre Arts, Music, Agricultural Science, Management, Library Science, Physics, Estate Management, Fashion and Design, and so on? Many of these unpopular courses are key to the economic breakthrough that Nigeria needs at the moment. I am sorry to say, but these are the courses of the future. For example, if Nigeria decides to venture into space technology, it will need Physics majors.
When our knowledge revolution booms, we will need qualified librarians to oversee the over one million libraries across the country. It has been proven time and again that the child that pursues his or her heart desire is happier and succeeds earlier than the one who is forced to make a detour later in life to find his or her path. thanks to punchng.
so long, i know but life changing too.
Sadly, the economic situation in the country has prevented many young people from pausing to ask the foregoing questions. And parents too are not helping matters. Once a child is born, most parents insist on a path the the child must toe. They do everything they can to create a mental entrapment of the child. Few take into cognizance the child's strength, skills, likes, dislikes, passion, opportunities and so on.
A few parents who observe the rule of studying a child and guiding him or her on the line he or she should take, based on the aforementioned factors are all happier for it and their children too are happy.
I have met many youths who are not really interested in the courses they found themselves doing in tertiary institutions, because such courses are foisted on them by their parents for one reason or the other.
The best way a parent can avoid friction with respect to a child's career direction is to engage the child in counselling. Career counsellors are trained to dig deep into a child's life and ask specific questions as to what the child wants to do with his or her life. Such counselling should be done near the end of the junior secondary classes, just before the child crosses into the senior secondary classes.
Parents and teachers need to make children aware of the various courses they can pursue and what they can do with them. Most youths suffer from what I call "career myopia". They only know about a few courses like Medicine, Pharmacy, Accounting, Law, Computer Science, Petroleum Engineering and other common professional courses. What about courses like Sociology, Psychology, Human Nutrition, Theatre Arts, Music, Agricultural Science, Management, Library Science, Physics, Estate Management, Fashion and Design, and so on? Many of these unpopular courses are key to the economic breakthrough that Nigeria needs at the moment.
I am sorry to say, but these are the courses of the future.
For example, if Nigeria decides to venture into space technology, it will need Physics majors. When our knowledge revolution booms, we will need qualified librarians to oversee the over one million libraries across the country.
It has been proven time and again that the child that pursues his or her heart desire is happier and succeeds earlier than the one who is forced to make a detour later in life to find his or her path.
The craze for job has caused many youths to opt for just any job that comes their way rather than asking basic questions like who am I? Am I an introvert or an extrovert? What are my skills? What can I do? What do I really want to do if I have an opportunity to make a choice? Where am I going in life? Sadly, the economic situation in the country has prevented many young people from pausing to ask the foregoing questions. And parents too are not helping matters.
Once a child is born, most parents insist on a path the the child must toe. They do everything they can to create a mental entrapment of the child. Few take into cognizance the child's strength, skills, likes, dislikes, passion, opportunities and so on. A few parents who observe the rule of studying a child and guiding him or her on the line he or she should take, based on the aforementioned factors are all happier for it and their children too are happy.
I have met many youths who are not really interested in the courses they found themselves doing in tertiary institutions, because such courses are foisted on them by their parents for one reason or the other. The best way a parent can avoid friction with respect to a child's career direction is to engage the child in counselling. Career counsellors are trained to dig deep into a child's life and ask specific questions as to what the child wants to do with his or her life. Such counselling should be done near the end of the junior secondary classes, just before the child crosses into the senior secondary classes.
Parents and teachers need to make children aware of the various courses they can pursue and what they can do with them. Most youths suffer from what I call "career myopia". They only know about a few courses like Medicine, Pharmacy, Accounting, Law, Computer Science, Petroleum Engineering and other common professional courses. What about courses like Sociology, Psychology, Human Nutrition, Theatre Arts, Music, Agricultural Science, Management, Library Science, Physics, Estate Management, Fashion and Design, and so on? Many of these unpopular courses are key to the economic breakthrough that Nigeria needs at the moment. I am sorry to say, but these are the courses of the future. For example, if Nigeria decides to venture into space technology, it will need Physics majors.
When our knowledge revolution booms, we will need qualified librarians to oversee the over one million libraries across the country. It has been proven time and again that the child that pursues his or her heart desire is happier and succeeds earlier than the one who is forced to make a detour later in life to find his or her path. thanks to punchng.
so long, i know but life changing too.
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