Covenant Love Hub

Blog

  • 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.

  • 2022 Blogmas Ideas – The Love of Christ.

    2022 Blogmas Ideas – The Love of Christ.

    Welcome to Another Episode of BLOGMAS. This 2022 edition is tagged The LOVE OF CHRIST.

    2022 Official banner via Youversion Bible app

    I started Blogmas, which is an abbreviation of the words, Blog and Christmas, last year themed Miracle So Extraordinary to remind us of the essence of Christmas to the believers and the implications of Christ’s birth to the world and also create an avenue to merry and feast among ourselves.

    For this year’s Blogmas, as I had said, the theme is LOVE OF CHRIST and I will be writing on the following topics for the next 25 days today being the first day of 25 in no particular order:

    1. Christmas and Marriage.

    2. How to use this Christmas to strengthen your relationship.

    3. Twenty Memorable Quotes of The Year.

    4. 7 Christmas themed Q & A.

    5. 15 Decent places to find a spouse during Christmas.

    6. 2022 Christmas Playlists.

    8. The Dangers of Not Celebrating Christmas.

    9. 20 Christmas Gifts for your pastor.

    10. 5 Christmas films to check out

    11. Let’s reasons together

    12. 20 prayer points from Pastor E. A. Adeboye.

    13. 2 Christmas Natural Drinks.

    14. New Book Alert!!!

    15. Pray for Nigeria 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

    16. The love of Christ

    Thank you for joining me on day 1. I love you. See you every day by 4am Nigerian time for the next 24 days.

  • Happy Thanksgiving Day.

    I am using this moment to wish all my American friends and followers, a Happy Thanksgiving day.

    May our heart of worship be accepta

  • How to know and do God’s will.

    How to know and do God’s will.

    This is the 4th article on our treatise of God’s will. In part One, I defined God’s will as God’s command, instructions, likes, dislikes, guidelines and don’ts and dos.

    Then in the second part, we discussed types of God’s will, e.g., sovereign will of God, commanded will of God, expected will of God, etc., while the third part highlighted God’s will as it concerns your relationships – be it marital or filial ones.

    Now, this thing called God’s will, how do I know it and how I do I do it?

    The only way to know His will is by reading His word – the Bible. Everything God has to say concerning anything to human beings, He has said and documented it in Bible.

    Therefore, everything you wish to know about God himself, his works, what he likes or hates, how to do relationship with parents, siblings, unbelievers, believers, masters, slaves, employers and employees, etc., you got no choice than to read your Bible.

    I have treasured Your word in my heart so that I may not sin against You.
    Psalms 119:11 HCSB

    Don’t just read, meditate the word

    I will recommend Youversion Bible app for your mobile Bible app. I’m using the Bible App. Download it now for your mobile device by clicking the red line.

    Furthermore, be the doer of what you have read. You will not be justified for reading and meditating but be justified by doing what you read.

    But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
    James 1:22‭-‬24 HCSB

    What can help you do the word? Join a Bible believing Church, having a Bible believing and doing friends, read Christian books and sermons.

    Additionally, if you think you can do God’s will by wishing or liking to do them, dear, you will fail. By the power of the flesh, no one will prevail. Because your body called Mr flesh that you are carrying just what to disobey God. He is anti-God. He wants to do what God forbids him to do but prayer can help you to put it under subjugation to you.

    Prayers make release of grace, power and enablement to do God’s will.

    Prayer will be made doing it easy for you and by praying you are simply acknowledging your deficiency for God’s sufficiency. In fact, ‘thy will be done on earth as it’s in heaven,’ is a prayer line taught by Jesus Himself.

    Lastly, the greatest of Divine will is that you make it home to his feet at the end of the world. He wants you to receive the gift of salvation as bought for you by Jesus. The basis of starting to do God’s will starts with confessing Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior and ends with staying in Him till the end of the ages.

    Let’s pray: Oh Lord, everlasting Rock of ages, let Your will be done in my life in Jesus name.

  • How to make Nigerian pap

    Site Icon
    How to make Nigerian pap
    How to make Nigerian pap
  • What is God’s will for your relationships.

    What is God’s will for your relationships.

    We have been discussing God’s will since two Sunday ago. We defined God’s will as God’s law, mind, intentions, command and delight and  doing God’s will means doing what pleases God.

    In the second part, I discussed types of God’s will and said you can’t disobey nor obey God’s sovereignty will, the ones you can disobey are commanded wills and others but not without consequences.

    Now, let’s talk about God’s intent and delight about your relationships. Be it friendships, marriage, courtship or whatsoever nomenclature you give it.

    Firstly, God’s will is that you should enjoy your relationship. He doesn’t want you to endure it.

    Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health physically just as you are spiritually.
    3 John 1:2 HCSB

    Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
    Proverbs 5:18 HCSB

    Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.
    Ecclesiastes 9:9 HCSB

    For more read Proverb 18:24, 17:17, 27:10

    As he want you prosper physically. He wants you prosper relationally.

    Secondly, God’s pleasure is that most of whom you relate to are Christians. Most especially in marriage.

    …not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
    Hebrews 10:25 HCSB

    Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
    2 Corinthians 6:14 HCSB

    Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
    1 Corinthians 15:33 HCSB

    Furthermore, He hates abusive relationships.

    “If he hates and divorces his wife, ” says the Lord God of Israel, “he covers his garment with injustice,” says the Lord of Hosts. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously.
    Malachi 2:16 HCSB

    In addition, God’s delight is that your relationships is a holy ones.

    How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path of sinners or join a group of mockers!
    Psalms 1:1 HCSB

    Conclusively, this is not an exhaustive list but these pretty much cover all. I will like your voice in comment as to how to know and do God’s will.

  • Types of God’s will.

    Types of God’s will.

    I started this series with the definition of God’s will and what it means to do it. Click here to read it.

    Now, today’s series is about types of God’s will and how we can key into it for both our spiritual and physical edification. Shall we proceed?

    1. Sovereign Will of God.

    This is God’s plan that is predestined or decreed in His eternal wisdom. This consists of what the Almighty has decided in His mind to do by His omnipotent power. No creature, whether man or angel can disobey, delay, or thwart this plan. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all playing a part in this plan.

    For example, everything about Jesus Christ and the salvation of mankind was decreed before the creation of the earth and everyone – Mary, Joseph, Apostles, Judas, Romans, Herod, Pontus Pilate, etc involved in the play was playing his/her part.

    What if Judas refused to betray Jesus? Seriously, if it’s not him, one of the 12 will. Why? It has been written.

    Other examples are God’s choice and selection of the nation of Israel (Romans 11:1-2) and most of what was written in the books of Daniel and Revelations fall in this category.

    To shock you, the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war, America’s moral decline, the COVID-19 pandemic, breathtaking scientific breakthroughs, etc., are all fulfilling a part in the sovereign will of God concerning the end time.

    We can also put the natural laws like gravity, Earth’s rotation, and revolution, and the galaxies into this category for they all work according to the dictate of Almighty God.

    Lastly about this,  sometimes, God reveals some parts of his sovereign will to us. However, frequently, it remains a secret. God reveals to us only what he wants us to know.

    2. Commanded Will of God.

    This is also known as the moral will of God. This includes His laws and commandments like the ten commandments (Exodus 20) and many such divine guidelines where Yahweh told us how He wants us to act or not to act.

    You can choose to obey or disobey this but there are consequences for any of the actions. (Deuteronomy 28, Isaiah 1:19-20).

    3. The preferential  will of God.

    This is knowing the mind of God on something that is not explicitly stated as a sin. That is wanting to discern what ultimately pleases Him and of His utmost delight.

    It means being on God’s perfect side or choosing Yahweh’s stand and as His children, our desire should be to do that which pleases God

    For instance, God doesn’t want sinners to perish. It is His utmost delight that all come to repentance. Therefore, doing God’s will towards the sinner will be not to cancel such an individual as someone beyond the grace of God.

    God loves the poor and wants them taken care of. Doing God’s will towards the poor will be taking care of them.

    This is also called God’s will of disposition. For more on this, read the following verses; Romans 12:1; Colossians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 5:9; Ephesians 5:10, Matthew 18:14; 1 Timothy 2:3-4; 2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 18:32; 33:11.

    4. The directive will of God.

    This refers to the Holy Spirit’s personal and direct guidance in our lives through a dream, vision, prophecy, pastoral utterances, word of wisdom, or other means.

    God may want you to do a particular job, married a specific person or not, go somewhere or not, etc and it does not violate any of the “wills” above or Scripture (in fact its validity must be subjected to scripture to prove whether it is the will of God or not).

    For example, if you have a dream where you married a second wife as a married man, that is not God’s will because it negates His plan for marriage as explicitly stated in the Holy Bible. The “Macedonian call” (Acts 16:6-10), the guidance of Philip (Acts 8:26), and of Peter and Ananias (Acts 10:1-23) are examples.

    5. The discerned will of God.

    This is the type of will, we get by application of two or more Bible passages, especially on issues not specifically touched in the Bible.

    The decision of who to marry, what city to live, what career to pursue, how many children to have, which school to attend, what kind of car to get, what kind of food, shoes, and clothes, and how much money to give to charity and more are not written in the Bible. We use Biblical principles to discern God’s will on it.

    The first example is there is nowhere in the Bible where the name of your spouse is written down as in Mr. A of No 2, Oregon street TX USA must marry Miss. B from No 26, African way, Nigeria but if we applied various biblical instructions about Christian marriages and spouse selection, we can deduce whether they can marry themselves.

    5. Expected will of God.

    These are sets of laws of what God expects us as Christians to do for our benefit and safety.

    God expects us to pray, fast, pay our tithes and offerings, be faithful to one spouse, be diligent and be hardworking plus many other good things

    Conclusively let’s pray; Teach me to do your will, for you are my God” ( Psalm 143:10 ).

  • What is God’s will and How to know and do it.

    What is God’s will and How to know and do it.

    “May Your will be done.”

    “Marry God’s will for your life to enjoy marriage.”

    “I want to do Your Will, oh Lord!”

    All these and many more are cliques and quotes in Christianity that have even made the phrase, God’s will, almost lost its import. Some have even micro-defined it to mean the right marriage.

    …but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.
    Matthew 7:21 HCSB

    Apart from the fact that God’s will is more than marrying rightly but having a good marriage is not a sign that you did God’s will. What will tell us whether you know His wills and do them is; do you marry a Christian and now even in marriage, whose wills, laws and pleasures are ruling your family? Unless both questions are in affirmation, you haven’t done God’s will.

    Now, what is God’s will and what does it mean to do God’s will? Simply, God’s will is God’s words, laws, pleasures and commands and to do them is to do what pleases God.

    “I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1–2.

    I repeat, to do God’s will is to do what pleases God.

    Teach me to do your will, for you are my God” ( Psalm 143:10 ).

    It’s to do what makes God happy.

    It’s doing what God is doing. What He has done or will do.

    It is liking what He likes and disliking what He dislikes.

    Doing what he commanded is doing God’s will.

    It also means to believe in and trust in Him completely.

    Lastly, God’s ultimate will is the advancement of his kingdom (Dan 2:44), his glorification (1 Cor 10:31), and the salvation and sanctification of his children through his son, Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:9).

  • Request for Collabo.

    Hi, Maria Micheal of www.whispersofthehesrt.com.

    My name is Alade Joel Adetunji. A relationship, courtship and dating blogger, an amazon certified author, farmer cum teacher and a proudly Nigerian,

    Presently, I am an author of three eBooks namely The Tearless Courtship, Pathways to Sexual Purity and A-Z of Content Creation. All available for free on Selar.com and on Amazon for $1.

    If it pleases you, I want us to collabo on either a book, a YouTube video interview, a blog post or any worthwhile project that build, help and strengthen relationships, marriages and Courtships.

    I can be contacted via joelalade2018@gmail.com

    Thanks.

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started