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  • How to make Nigerian jollof rice.

    How to make Nigerian jollof rice.

    You are welcome to day 13 of Blogmas 2022 called The Love of Christ.

    Before I delve into today’s episode, let me appreciate you all for the views, visits and the likes. We clocked 2k visitors yesterday and a few shy of 3k views. You are wonderful lot!

    Now, remember I told you that one of the 4 pillars of Christmas is food and I promised to teach you some Nigerian delicacies that can pass for a Christmas foods here and there in your place

    Over the week, I will teach 4 namely; jollof rice, pap and akara, Amala and gbegiri and egusi.

    Now, let’s prepare Nigerian delicious jollof rice.

    Ingredients.

    1. Rice

    2. Tomatoes – pepper mix ( blended or grounded)

    3. Tomato puree

    4. Onions

    5. Jollof spices (bay leaves, curry, thyme, ginger, and garlic powder)

    6. Seasoning cube.

    7. Salt.

    8. Groundnut oil/Margarine.

    9. Vegetables of your choice ( sliced tomato + spring onions + sliced red and green ball pepper)

    Preparation.

    1. Heat a substantial amount of groundnut oil into your pot.

    2. Add some of your sliced vegetables (recipe 9) and allow them to fry for a few seconds.

    3. Then add tomatoes puree and stir while frying for 5 – 10 minutes.

    5. Then add your blended tomato pepper mix.

    6. After that, allow it to cook for 10 – 15 minutes.

    8. Add seasoning cubes, curry powder, thyme, ginger, garlic powder, and bay leaves (to taste) then stir.

    9. Add stock water or ordinary water.

    Note: every ingredient must be in the right proportion equivalent to the amount of rice to be cooked to have a great taste.

    10. Allow the mixture to boil, then add your rice.

    11. Cover the pot and set your fire appropriately to avoid over-burning.

    12. Let it cook for 20 – 25 minutes.

    13. Garnish it with margarine, sliced onions, spring onions, sliced tomato, and sliced green and red pepper.

    15. Allow it to simmer for some minutes. Stir. Then serve.

    1. Rice

    2. Tomatoes – pepper mix ( blended or grounded)

    3. Tomato puree

    4. Onions

    5. Jollof spices (bay leaves, curry, thyme, ginger, and garlic powder)

    6. Seasoning cube.

    7. Salt.

    8. Groundnut oil/Margarine.

    9. Vegetables of your choice ( sliced tomato + spring onions + sliced red and green ball pepper)


    Preparation.


    1. Heat a substantial amount of groundnut oil into your pot.

    2. Add some of your sliced vegetables (recipe 9) and allow them to fry for a few seconds.

    3. Then add tomatoes puree and stir while frying for 5 – 10 minutes.

    5. Then add your blended tomato pepper mix.

    6. After that, allow it to cook for 10 – 15 minutes.

    8. Add seasoning cubes, curry powder, thyme, ginger, garlic powder, and bay leaves (to taste) then stir.

    9. Add stock water or ordinary water.

    Note: every ingredient must be in the right proportion equivalent to the amount of rice to be cooked to have a great taste.

    10. Allow the mixture to boil, then add your rice.

    11. Cover the pot and set your fire appropriately to avoid over-burning.

    12. Let it cook for 20 – 25 minutes.

    13. Garnish it with margarine, sliced onions, spring onions, sliced tomato, and sliced green and red pepper.

    Nigerian jollof rice.

    15. Allow it to simmer for some minutes. Stir. Then serve.

  • 15 Good Places to Meet Potential Spouse during Christmas

    15 Good Places to Meet Potential Spouse during Christmas

    You want to marry? You are looking for a Christian partner to marry as it’s supposed to be? And this is Christmas time?

    Welcome to day 12 of 2022 Blogmas themed LOVE OF CHRIST. It has been 12th day of talking about Christ and His birth and how to have a godly fun-filled Christmas celebration.

    Now, to today’s episode. 15 godly places to check for a suitable partner during this Christmas:

    1. Your DM: Sister, go and reply all your online messages. Maybe he is there.

    Brother, send that DM today and express your intent to be her future husband. Worse thing that can happen is no.

    2. Family Gatherings and Meetings: during this festive period, most families will have their sojourning members at home for Celebration. You or your parents, friend or siblings may got invited to one and who knows what may happen after.

    3. Youth fellowship programs: Mama has been disturbing you for grandkid. But how do give her grandkid when you are not even marry? Now, let me tell you a secret, many youth fellowships will organise end of the year programs creating a great opportunity for singles to meet potential spouse.

    5. Through your parents: Yes! You read me well! You can actually meet your LOML through your parents, mentors or any spiritual authority over you. Why not go on and ask for their recommendations? Maybe by this time next year, you are happily married.

    6. School Reunions: if you are lucky that your alma mater organizes their reunion during this period, why not take some times to attend. You may find your wife or husband there.

    7. Ceremonies: I can’t count how many person have met their future spouses by attending ceremonies especially wedding ceremonies. Because many family members will come home for Christmas celebration, most families usually fix their kids’ weddings in December, therefore, there will be plenty wedding invites. Make sure you attend as many as possible and be observant.

    8. Sunday School Class/group: yes! That normal Sunday school that you attend weekly. The same one.

    That your worded, tongue speaking, gentle cute male Sunday school teacher.

    That your sonorous beautiful angelic female Sunday school teacher that tick all your boxes.

    Think about this; why is it that sister always sit beside you or have something to say after your brief contribution to the lesson?

    9. Your friend: I know you know him from diapers but if you don’t marry your friend who are you trying to marry? Your enemy?

    Now, beam your searchlight to that single friend of yours and you will see that everything you have been looking for in sòkòtò is inside the pocket of your sókótó.

    Caveat; dear men, God helps you if she says no because that you are gonna lose both her and her friendship but who cares, you said. Men die once.

    10. Gym: hit the gym, dude. You may meet him/her there.

    You can meet your future partner here or start a friendship with fellow gymnasts which can lead to meeting your partner.

    What if I don’t get a spouse? Well, you will get a great body by exercising


    11. December retreats: Most congregations organized special Christmas programs in form of conventions, meetings, camping, and retreats, which normally concern all ages and gender cadres.

    Winners chapel just finished the Shiloh program.

    RCCG just concluded Holy Ghost Congress with let-go-a-fishing coming up on Christmas day.

    Deeper Life Bible Church also has one week December retreat.

    Nigerian Baptist Convention will be having Baptist Night of Wonders this Friday.

    Apart from potentially praying for divine guidance concerning life and choice of spouse, someone’s daughter or son may collect your number and who knows?

    12. You may be curious as to where I met my wife. I met her under a mango tree at a particular prayer ground through a particular elder in the Lord.


    I want you to add places 13, 14, and 15 in the comment section.

    Thanks. See you tomorrow

  • 20 Best and Inspiring Gifts for Pastors.

    20 Best and Inspiring Gifts for Pastors.

    Welcome to another day of Blogmas themed LOVE OF CHRIST. Like always, I say; thank you for being here and engaging.

    Today, I want us to talk about the most neglected set of people in the church – the pastors. Nobody seems to care about their welfare, their families, or their health because we guess they are superheroes. But they are not, Pastors are human like us with struggles, aspirations, yearnings and desires and they are worthy to be celebrated and appreciated.

    Why should I appreciate my pastor? After all, his/her salaries are being paid? You should celebrate him/her because God said so. Why? See below:

    Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and doctrine. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The labourer is worthy of his wages.”
    I Timothy 5:17‭-‬18 NKJV

    Who are the elders in your congregation? The first elder is your pastor(s). Why did God commanded it? Because they laboured over us in words and doctrine. The first honour is the salary, to double the honour, a gift won’t be a bad idea.

    Another Bible verse to affirm God’s Word concerning your MoG.

    If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
    I Corinthians 9:11‭, ‬14 NKJV

    Can you tell me how best and thoughtful to spread the love of Christ if not through gifts to our servants of God?

    Having been cleared about gifts for our men of God, listed below are the best, inspiring, thoughtful, perfect, unique and gorgeous gifts for your pastors:

    • Raw Food materials e.g., yam, rice, beans, garri, banana, plantain, etc
    • Food basket to be delivered on Christmas day.
    • A small envelope containing a small amount of money.
    • Pay for pastorium cable TV for this Christmas time.
    • Live chicken
    • Six yards of Ankara
    • A leather journal/jotter
    • Bluetooth speaker
    • Journal Bible
    • Books
    • Video presentation (Get creative with a video presentation. Record yourself and others saying thank you and offering words of encouragement)
    • A box of Kulikuli (DM 08135446603 for Praise Curative Kulikuli)
    • Headphones
    • Personalized tie
    • Customized t-shirt
    • Smartwatch/ wristwatches
    • Power bank
    • Planners
    • Travel bag
    • Photo frame of the family
    • Handwritten appreciation letter (typed one won’t be bad also)

    These and many other fantastic gifts are what you can get for your pastor, kids or spouse for the love of Christ.

    Finally, thank you for being here. I love you.

    Kulikuli
    Praise Curative Kulikuli
  • 20 Prayers points for your Marriage by Pastor E. A. Adeboye

    20 Prayers points for your Marriage by Pastor E. A. Adeboye

    Welcome to day 10 of 2022 Blogmas. Thanks for the interaction.

    Today, we are going to pray and pray for our family cum Marriage, Relationships and Courtship, shall we?

    1. Thank You Father, for the gift of my spouse and all You have given us as a couple. Thank for you for keeping our home and sustaining the love we share. Thank You for not allowing the enemy to steal, kill and destroy this Marriage, in Jesus’ name.
    2. Father, let my marriage glorify You this year. Let people be drawn to You because of my marriage.
    3. Dear Father, use my spouse and I Lord, to rebuild people’s confidence in the marriage, in Jesus’name.
    4. In this year, God will use my marriage like never before. God will use me and my spouse mightily for His work, in Jesus’ name.
    5. Father, every time I call on Your name this 2023, please answer me by mercy. Let Your mercy speak for me, my spouse, children and all my loved ones, in Jesus’ name.
    6. Sin and disobedience will be far from my home. My spouse and I will not walk in disobedience, in Jesus’ name.
    7. Father, please reveal Your will for our marriage so that we can please You in all our ways, in the mighty name of Jesus.
    8. Lord, when You come back, ease let me and my family reign with You, in Jesus’ name.
    9. Father, anything in my marriage that does not align with Your will, please remove it today, in the mighty name of Jesus
    10. Father, in every way, prosper us as a family. Prosper us so we can sponsor Your work on earth. Prosper us so we can be Your Kingdom Financers, joyfully financing Your work here on earth in Jesus’ name.
    11. Father, I decree that there will be no divorce or seperation in my marriage.
    12. I decree that my marriage will not fail God, in the mighty name of Jesus.
    13. I decree that my spouse and I will live long lives in good health and sound mind with joy, serving the Lord, in Jesus’ name.
    14. Arise oh Lord! And let Your enemies be scattered.
    15. Let our lives be filled with the glory of the Almighty.
    16. Every evil words, deeds and thoughts against our family are cancelled in Jesus name.
    17. Gracious Lord, incubate on us so that we can radiate Your power and glory.
    18. Dear Lord, make our family, an ark of covenant.
    19. (Pray for anyone that came to your mind).
    20. Thank You, Jesus for a peaceful marriage and family.

    By the Name, that is, the power of Jesus name and His birth, our prayers are answered in Jesus name.

    Prayer points 1 – 13 gotten from Open Heavens Devotional of RCCG, Monday 14th February, 2022.

  • 5 Must Do Things during Christmas time.

    5 Must Do Things during Christmas time.

    It’s day 9 already. Welcome to another episode of the 2022 Blogmas themed The love of Christ. I love you.

    Today, let’s discuss 5 spiritual activities for Christians during Christmas and after noel.

    First, we must believe like Mary. Like Mary believed the word of Angel Gabriel about immaculate conception, so we as believers must believe that God specializes in turning impossibilities into possibilities and that all His word is Yes and Amen.

    Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man? ” The angel replied to her: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy One to be born will be called the Son of God. For nothing will be impossible with God.” “I am the Lord’s slave,” said Mary. “May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.
    Luke 1:34‭-‬35‭, ‬37‭-‬38 HCSB

    Furthermore, we have to trust like Joseph. Common! This guy has probably kept himself, spend on his relationship with Mary, have boasted of her chastity to friends, and probably sent a wedding IV, and here is his fiancee telling him she is pregnant. For who? For Holy Spirit? 🙄🙄🙄 But he trusts God through His angel that the Almighty got his best interest at heart.

    Are we ready to trust God by staying from premarital sex with the knowledge that it was His love that gave us that command?

    Are we ready to follow the Ancient of days injunction about love and submission in our marriage with the background that He adores orderliness?

    Are we going to rely on Him completely knowing that He can’t disappoint?

    So her husband Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly. But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit. When Joseph got up from sleeping, he did as the Lord’s angel had commanded him. He married her but did not know her intimately until she gave birth to a son. And he named Him Jesus.
    Matthew 1:19‭-‬20‭, ‬24‭-‬25 HCSB

    If Joseph didn’t trust God at that point when it made no sense to do, he would have missed out on parenting the greatest human on earth – Jesus.

    Thirdly, our hope should be like that shepherds out on the filed of work.

    Here is an angel telling them what had never been heard before in human history, yet they rejoiced at the hope of seeing the Saviour of the world.



    In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: Today a Savior, who is Messiah the Lord, was born for you in the city of David. When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the feeding trough. After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
    Luke 2:8‭-‬13‭, ‬15‭-‬18 HCSB.

    Their hope lead to steps and the step taken made them become the first evangelists of the Good News.

    Dear never lose hope in Yahweh. He will never be late.

    We should hope for the restoration of Israel, the rapture of the church, the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and Resurrection of the righteous.

    Moreover, seek like the Wise men. Seek who? Seek Jesus like Wise men. To do what? To worship the King of kings

    After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived unexpectedly in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
    Matthew 2:1‭-‬2 HCSB

    They obviously don’t need the baby Jesus for any miracles, gifts or what they could get but to bow down and acknowledge His kingship.

    The command is to seek God early in the morning and at night, do not withhold.

    Seek him while He is near.


    In addition, let’s worship Jesus like the angels.

    How do they angels worship The I am that I?

    They worship passionately.

    They worship wholeheartedly.

    They worship by announcing His birth.

    Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:
    Luke 2:9‭-‬10 HCSB


    They worship Him by declaring His eternal Holiness

    Then, lastly, love like the celebrant Jesus.

    “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
    John 3:16 HCS    B

    Make grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us as we reflect on this. Amen.

  • 7 Christmas themed Q &A

    Seasons greetings to all. How are you all doing and feeling today?

    I bring to you Blogmas day 6. Yes, I’m here again.

    Today I will be answering some questions about Christmas

    1. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT CHRISTMAS?

    My favorite thing about Christmas is who we are celebrating – my Lord Jesus Christ.

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    2. WHAT DO YOU HATE ABOUT CHRISTMAS?

    I hate how reckless people get during the festive season. A LOT of accidents happen due to people drinking and driving, people get bankrupt because they borrow money that they can’t pay back – it’s just crazy and many people celebrating it are not even born again in the first instance.

    3. WHAT IS YOUR BEST CHRISTMAS YEAR SO FAR?

    My best Christmas year so far is 2021 because it is my first Christmas as married.

    4. WHAT DO YOU DO ON CHRISTMAS?

    I go to church. Arrived home to eat Christmas food of amala*, semovita or rice and chicken with the household and distribute in the neighbourhood then also expect Christmas’s food from our neighbours. 😄😃😄😃😄

    5. DO YOU HAVE A CHRISTMAS TRADITION?

    There are a lot of family Christmas traditions I grew up with but the one I like most is that one where we went from one relative’s family to another, eating and drinking.

    6. WISHLIST FOR NEXT CHRISTMAS?

    I wish that peace reigns throughout the world and the every hungry, naked and homeless individuals have something to eat, cover themselves and sleep. I know my wish is not too much.

    7. DO YOU BELIEVE IN SANTA?

    I don’t believe in a fairytale and most of the Christmas programs organised here involving Santa Claus is just an avenue to lie and siphon money from the unsuspecting public. I mean why lying that one father Christmas is coming from Rome when it is obviously that it is Mr. Tunde, my next door neighbour that is inside the cape?

    Feel free to answer any of these in the comments….

    Question of the day: Name a country you wish to visit in 2023?

    For me: Isreal (let me know about your answer in the comment)

  • 5 Films to Check out during this Christmas.

    5 Films to Check out during this Christmas.

    Welcome to another episode of 2022 #Blogmas. Thank you for all the following.

    Today I will be highlighting 5 Christian movies for Christmas. The movie doesn’t necessarily talk about Christmas but covers a lot of topics like parents, stewardship, steadfastness and many other Christian virtues.

    Rush to YouTube and download these amazing movies.

    1. Burning Coles.

    This movie is from the stable of Mount Zion Films Institute.

    It is about a family of a lecturer father, a working mum plus their three kids called the Coles who allows the devil to burn them before… Head over to 👇👇👇

    2. Abejoye – The Kingmaker (S6).

    If you haven’t watched any episode of Abejoye then you are missing. Missing real big on how the power of Jesus triumphs over every other powers. It is a film that you can’t just miss for anything. It was produced by Mount Zion Films Institute and Flaming Sword Ministry, USA.

    For both films, both the actors and the sets are highly professional and Christian with clean pictures.

    3. Merry Christmas.

    This is a thank you video from me to you for following me and interacting with my blog. Head over to my YouTube channel and received my Christmas gift for you. Remember to subscribe to my channel 👉👉👉 Alade Joel

    4. Anikulapo

    This is a Netflix original movies by Kunle Afolayan of October 1. It is a story of hatred, love, favourism, jealous, broken trust and deep Yoruba culture.

    The movie is set in the time of ancient Oyo Ile of Alaafin and feature how King favorite wife was snatched by a wandering clothes weaver plus what happened after their elopement. You can head over to Netflix to watch. I guarantee you value for your money and time.

  • New Christmas Traditions.

    New Christmas Traditions.

    Remember saying the foundation for any Christmas plans, preparations and celebrations is Jesus. Any other things aside Him is futility.

    Welcome to day 6 of 2022 Blogmas codenamed The Love of Christ. Thank for following.

    The only way to know Christ is via the Bible and you won’t see, hear and discover the power of Jesus if you don’t read the Word.

    Let’s discover the born King from the book of bible written by Dr. Luke and bearing his name.

    Now, Luke has 24 chapters. By reading a chapter, a day, you will wake up on Christmas day knowing everything there is to know about Jesus.

    Fortunately enough, we are now in 6th day of the month, so therefore, carefully read the first six chapters todays. I promise you, you won’t regret doing so.

    Thanks for having you here. Remember to share the love of Christ in this post by liking, sharing and subscribing.

  • Four pillars of Christmas.

    Four pillars of Christmas.

    Today is the fifth day of 2022 Blogmas titled The Love of Christ. Thank you for staying by.

    In the early 90s and close to early 20s, Christmas and New Year celebrations in my place were hinged on four things that make them worthwhile. We use to celebrate the moment with deep joy and gladness and I think it should be like that too now.

    With Christ being the foundation of all your Christmas celebrations as discussed yesterday, now, erect these four pillars on that surest foundation:

    #Pillar 1 – Family.

    Commemorate this moment with your family because of truth, the Christmas story is all about bringing the family of God together. Jesus grew up in a family. Involve all your household in preparing for celebrating the head of the house.

    #Pillar 2 – Food.

    Christmastime is not a day of fasting but a day of feasting and merriment. It is a season to eat and send some to those who don’t have any. Why? It’s a holy day to the Lord.

    Traditionally, Christmas is celebrated with such foods as rice and its varieties plus fried chicken, amala, semovita, and pounded yam with sumptuous soups like ewedu (jute allow), egusi, etc.

    We didn’t only cook and eat those foods but we also send some to our neighbors and receive some from them.

    Egusi soup
    Nigerian Jollof rice
    Amala and gbegiri

    Stay tuned on this channel to learn how to prepare some of these foods and you can also teach me how to prepare your traditional food in the comment section.

    #Pillar 3 – Touch

    There was this December program in Nigeria tagged Touching lives at Christmas. It holds annually during this period. The program is all above preaching Christ in some designated villages before and on Christmas.

    God touches our lives 2 millenniums ago during this season and he expects us to extend the touch to others by giving them love, hope, clothes, food, hugs, alms, salvation messages, etc.

    Dear friend, I urge you not to let this season pass without touching the life of someone with what God has blessed you with particularly the poor. They deserve a space in your budget list.

    #Pillar 4 – Fun.

    One of our hymn goes thus;

    Joy to the earth! The Saviour reigns;
    Let men their songs employ;
    While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
    Repeat the sounding joy,
    Repeat the sounding joy,
    Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

    That hymn connotes the herald of a joyous moment in heaven and on earth at the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Christmastime is a joyous occasion and it deserves all the maximum enjoyment you can derive from it.

    Go to the orphanage and have fun. Go with your family and friends

    Go to the beach.

    Attend Christmas carols, school Reunions, and family meetings.

    Visit a museum or a cinema.

    Visit old people’s houses.

    Share the joy with those lying on hospital beds

    Visit your longtime friend.

    Have fun with the family, with others, and with your food.

    But make sure your fun is within what is permissible as a Christian.

    See you tomorrow. Thanks

  • The foundation of Christmas.

    Today is the fourth day of the Love of Christ’s Blogmas. Thanks for always coming.

    The lyric of a popular hymn says, ‘On Christ the solid rock, I stand. All other grounds are sinking grounds.’

    The only solid rock for Christmas is Jesus. Any other rock is false rock.

    The only reason for celebrating Christmas is knowing the born King.

    The only accepted way of celebrating this season is celebrating in the will of God.

    Do you know Jesus? Did He know you? Have you accepted him as your lord and saviour?

    Thanks.

  • The Absurdities of Christmas.

    The Absurdities of Christmas.

    Not very many of us know that the story of Christmas is absurd and unbelievable but that mystery started right in Genesis. In fact Genesis 3.

    And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel…” The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
    Genesis 3:15‭, ‬21 NIV

    Yahweh started writing the absurdity of Christmas’ story immediately after man’s fall and what is that hullahubo?

    The absurdity of victory in that it was not man that declared or even desired victory over satan, it was God that declared it for mankind.

    And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel…” Genesis 3:15, NIV.

    Isn’t that absurd for you to declare victory for somebody who deliberately rebels again you with the help of your former employee?

    It was not man that declared victory or even desired it over satan, it was God that declared it for mankind.

    Secondly, the absurdity of love. Love that covers shame and spiritual nakedness orchestrated by willful disobedience and sin.

    The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Genesis 3:21, NIV.

    Imagine that great, overwhelming love of Christ? The most absurd part of it is that it was not even man that want to be loved, it was God that loved man even while he was still in sin.

    But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    Romans 5:8 NIV.

    The animal that lost it life was representing the all-giving sacrifice of Christ.

    Meanwhile, the absurdity didn’t stop there it continues in Exodus with the absurdity of deliverance.

    The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land…I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
    Exodus 3:7‭-‬8‭, ‬10 NIV

    God sees the suffering of his people. Suffering causes by sin, pride, lust, dissension, etc., and decided to rescue them through Moses – an old testament Jesus.

    God sees the mankind’s suffering and send Jesus to offer us the perfect gift of salvation and see to it that He expended everything – His only begotten Son, in His arsenal for mankind’s deliverance.

    Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
    Revelation 5:1‭-‬5 NIV

    Should we talked about absurdity of humility. He was God yet He Himself left His holy abode to dwell in this filthy world, raised by a poor parents and enduring the frailties of human. Yet He didn’t absconded, He completed the work of salvation.

    Yet He went around healing, teaching and delivering.

    Yet He ate our food. Wore our miserable clothes. Relate with us. Rejoice with us and wept with us.

    While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
    Luke 2:6‭-‬7 NIV

    ✅ The absurdity of victory.

    ✅ The absurdity of love.

    ✅ The absurdity of deliverance.

    ✅ The absurdity of humility ans

    ✅ The absurdity of resurrection.

    Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
    Philippians 2:6‭-‬11 NIV

    Then, the absurdity of resurrection. Deeply connected to the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is His death and resurrection. In fact, if satan has known he wouldn’t have crucified the king of glory.

    Must He die before He saved us? He doesn’t but that it how He wished to do.

    With this seemingly mysteries about Christmas (for indeed the mysteries have been made known to the church), I am admonishing you to turn over your life to Christ (if you have never done so) or rededicate your life to Him now.

    He came to this world purposely for you. Because He loves you that is why He died for you so that your eyes of understanding might be open to the deep riches in Christ Jesus.

    That being said and today being the last day of 2022 Blogmas, I am urging you to let the love of Christ richly dwell in you. Gracious Christmas and a prosperous 2023.

  • What is love of Christ?

    What is love of Christ?

    Welcome to day 2 of 2022 Blogmas titled The Love of Christ.

    Today, let’s delve into what is love of Christ.

    Many dictionaries defined love as a strong affection for something or someone therefore I will like to define Love of Christ as strong affection or passion, Christ has for us.

    The love of Christ is that while you and I were sinners, He die for us. While we are looking for any humanly possible means to approach our God, Christ became the only way to our father .

    Furthermore, His love also desire that none perishes. Jesus wants everybody saves.

    The Jesus kind of love guides us. He points out and draw us out of circumstances that may want to mar our destinies. At times, this may warrant the use of His ‘staff and rod.’

    Amazingly, the love of Christ compels us to reconcile with God.

    This love gives and keep giving. So, if He does not count it to hard to give us, His only begotten Son, what is that thing that will be to bard for Him to give us and what is that thing that will too hard for us to surrender at His feet?

    Lastly, during this Christmas, share the message of the love of Christ in our neighborhood, to our family, friends, colleagues and even enemies .

    I love you.

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