Tag: Nigeria
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Dimming Gold
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.Lamentations 4:1 This scripture stood out to me this morning because gold is one shining object that we know doesn’t get dimmed. So, when gold is said to have…
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Deciding to Make the Right Choice
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you. Jeremiah 38:5 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they mock…
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Nigeria 🇳🇬 Shall Be Free!
For thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.Jeremiah 32:15 When hopelessness takes over a people, they give up on themselves. However, God continues to give hope and encouragement to His people. Here, God gave a practical example of this happening…
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Repentance Is Still the Way Out
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.Jeremiah 19:9 I continued to look for scriptures about hope…
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The Ancient Path
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV) Don’t go out to the fields! Don’t travel the roads! For the enemy…
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Are You a Watchman Over Nigeria?
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day or night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence.Isaiah 62:6 I was having a conversation with someone yesterday and his perspective of hopelessness on the situation in Nigeria was really troubling. In his theory, the country’s…
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Violence or Praise — You Can Choose
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.Isaiah 60:18 This is the promise of God. This becomes an important anchor in such a time as we are in right now in Nigeria🇳🇬. The spate of violence and…
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Hopelessness is NOT an Option
Hopelessness demobilises and makes you just give up. However, in God’s Kingdom, that is not an option. Even Anna was constantly in the Temple praying everyday, because God had promised Israel a Messiah. Simeon lived old enough to see the sent Messiah before he went to die peacefully after seeing the promise of God manifest…
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A New Nigeria is Possible!
So, today I resumed with the Prayer Squad of my Church after being away on sabbatical at the University of Benin for the past year. The pastor gave the charge below. I hope you wake up and join the call to action and act. Our blood shall not be used to wash the ground in…
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There Is Nothing We Can Do
There is nothing we can do. Really! I cannot count how many times I have heard the different versions of this statement from the mouth of Nigerians. It is either that ‘There is nothing We can do.’ or ‘There is nothing anybody can do.’ Different versions of this same powerless mindset. Is it a surprise…
IYABODE OMOLARA AKEWO NWABUEZE 