Today is the 18th day of our #ReviveYourRelationshipChallenge. Thank you for engaging.
Today’s will be short. We have read our Bible and pray, now let’s eat the Lord’s flesh commonly called the Lord’s Supper or the Communion.
You said I don’t have unleavened bread at home? Go and buy biscuits or use that leavened bread and that non-alcoholic drink. Faith is what matters.
I am not a priest? Dear husband, you are a priest in your family.
We are not church? It’s not the number that made the Church, it is the called out of God’s elects irrespective of their numbers.
The Bread (the flesh).
In the name of the Father, Son and of the Holy Spirit… While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
The wine (the blood of Jesus).
In the name of the Father, Son and of the Holy Spirit… Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the covenant,e which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
I want to conclude this episode with this assurance that if you truly do the last two days plus this one, nothing will move your family
Let’s start today’s episode of #ReviveYourRelationshipChallenge with Jesus’ word that miracles cannot happen except by fasting and prayer.
Numerous instances abound in the word of God of those who prayed either as individuals or as a couple.
Abraham and Sarah prayed. Manoah and his wife prayed for Samson. Isaac and Rebecca also prayed over their childlessness. Elkanah and Hannah prayed too and God answered them.
Also, I can boldly say this, it’s a principle I have practised and established to be true in my family and will uphold jealously.
Praying together as a couples and praying individually for your spouse is one of the most powerful weapons you have again divorce and for building intimacy in your marriage
Mary Fairchild
In addition to bible reading and studying, pray as a family, for God has promised us that two will chase ten thousand because of this assurance that everything we asked confidently according to His will in Jesus name, He will do it.
Now, how do we pray? We pray in Jesus’ name. What do we pray about? Anything and everything – family, careers, children, mental health, safety, brothers and sisters, in-laws, church, MoGs and WoGs, Missionaries, political leaders, traditional leaders, neighbours, colleagues, enemies, policymakers, etc. When should pray? Anytime.
Furthermore, Jesus says ‘where two or more people in My name, I will be there ‘ and ‘whatsoever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven and whatsoever you bind on earth will be bind in heaven.
Finally, I want to motivate us with this hymn by W. W. Williams titled Sweet Hours of Prayer :
1 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! that calls me from a world of care, and bids me at my Father's throne make all my wants and wishes known. In seasons of distress and grief, my soul has often found relief, and oft escaped the tempter's snare by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
2 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! the joys I feel, the bliss I share of those whose anxious spirits burn with strong desires for thy return! With such I hasten to the place where God my Savior shows his face, and gladly take my station there, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
3 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! thy wings shall my petition bear to him whose truth and faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless. And since he bids me seek his face, believe his word, and trust his grace, I’ll cast on him my every care, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
P.S: Why can’t you pick together to pray? 5 minutes can do wonders.
Last Sunday, a sesentional Nigerian Award winning Gospel Singer, Mercy Chinwo got hooked maritally to her heart desire, Pastor Blessed of Water Brook Ministry, Lagos and their wedding has trended on all Nigerian social media spaces.
What trended the wedding ceremony wasn’t the fact that the bride, Mercy Chinwo is a celebrity but the fact that everything about the wedding has Christian decency stamped on it – the official social media announcement, pre-wedding pics, court ,church and reception activities, bridal train, choice of music. No breast and cleavages show as it is common in many supposed Christians, wedding ceremonies. Not even a single item was yielded to worldliness.
While I am also joining the Church to congratulate the couples for the blessed and merciful start. I began to have this thought in me; should we be celebrating her for covering her body as it’s expected? Is she not a Christian again? Didn’t Bible said our clothes should cover our nakedness and beautify us?
Pastor and Mrs Blessed.
I think she deserves commendation because we have seen many instances where the bride/groom/their bridal train/parents completely throw cautious to the wind simply because they are getting wedded.
I have seen examples of brides who hardly used make-up pre-wedding, who was totally transmogrify into another thing on her wedding date and supposed Christian/Church weddings that are no better stripper club.
Dressing decently is still a normal Christian norms as praying and fasting.
While we are commending them for doing what God expected of them especially in this utterly corrupt world where the line has been totally blurred because what is holy and what is unholy and what is Christian norms,practices and what is not, we should know that dressing decently is a normal Christian norms as praying, studying the Bible and fasting is.
If somebody mistakenly transferred some amount of money into your account and you returned all the money, Jesus said well-done for doing what is expected of you.
If you are punctual and diligent in your workplace, Jesus said good boy for representing the kingdom values expected of an ambassador.
If you respect your husband, your heavenly father is saying thank you for doing the norm and if you love you wife, the same God is saying the same thing.
You doubt me? Here is Jesus’ word: Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?
And this should be your answer : ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ” (Luke 17:7-10, Berean Study Bible)
Lastly, faithfulness, honest, love, respect, orderliness, decency and many other godly virtues are normal Christian life.
I am sorry that I couldn’t bring up #ReviveYourRelationshipChallenge. There was a need to reset my phone to factory settings last Saturday which leads to lost of many things – documents, contacts, images, passwords, etc., including the guide of this challenge.
Presently, I am trying to recover some of those lost items via Google.com but life must continues.
Today, our focus is study and what I want you to study is the word of God together. Take a book of the bible and study together. It will help your family and strengthen the bond of love.
I don’t want you to make this a one-time affair but a daily consistent doings.
But how do I do this? Follow this simple three steps; decide on the book of bible together (I will suggest Song of Songs 😍😍😍) and read verse by verse, one after the other and take it slowly and lovingly.
Benefits of Reading Bible together.
It makes you to know about God and His will for your as a family.
It deepens your commutation.
It enhances family prayer life
To round today off, let’s read together, Song of Songs chapter 2, verse 15; Catch the foxes for us — the little foxes that ruin the vineyards — for our vineyards are in bloom.
The Ogbomosho Rehoboth Baptist Association of the Nigerian Baptist Convention organises her Annual Evangelism Outreach.
This year, we are taking the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Ope-Ola village at Orire Local Government Oyo State Nigeria and it will hold from 4th – 6th November, 2022 featuring Open Air crusades, film show, medical outreach, prayer, Bible study etc.
The last one was held at Ipaasa Village, Surulere Local Government, Oyo state and we bless the name of the Lord for the souls saved.
Furthermore, as we have started last year, we planned to go with 50 free Bibles for the souls that we will be saved and we appeal to you to partner with us in donating Bible(s) towards this godly cause either in kind or in cash
Presently, a copy of Yoruba Bible goes for US$3 (NGN1300, £4, €2).*
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. Psalm 68:11 (KJV)
If God touches your heart, you can make your donations to account details below with narration spell as 2022 Bible Donation
Bank: Zenith bank: 2021840708. Alade Joel Adetunji.
For further enquiry, contact the following via calls and WhatsApp on:
Association President: +234706 850 1910
Association Secretary: +234813 386 4849
Association Evagelism coordinator**: +2348135446603. Email: joelalade2018@gmail.com, joelalade2018@yahoo.com.
Thank you for allowing God to use you as we bring this greatest treasure, gift, compass, map, light to another person that Christ die for.
Shallom.
* As at 19/08/20** I am the Association Evagelism Coordinator.
Good day, my dear followers. Today is the 14th day of our #ReviveYourRelationshipChallenge. Thanks for all the liking, sharing and the comment so far.
Hope you are not surprised about my caption for the post; can you read and write? Of course, you can literate! That’s why you are here in the first place.
Now, do and take a pen and a sheet of paper and write a lovely letter to your partner.
But you are not going to post this one neither are you going to hide it where they can see it but you are going to read it to your LOML.
I am ObiDient but not unreasonable, egoistic and utopian.
May 2022, some days leading to People Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primaries, Mr Peter Obi defected from PDP as one of its presidential aspirants alleging that the moneybags have hijacked the processes leading to the main opposition selection of its standard bearer in the 2023 Nigeria General Election. A few days after, he announced on his verified Twitter handle that he is now of Labour Party (LP). A few weeks later, he won his new party’s presidential primaries unopposed.
The emergency of Peter Obi took on a twitterstorm. The netizens who are yawning for a break from the two main political parties who have but wrecked untold miseries on Nigerians took his emergence as their project hence they nicknamed themselves ObiDients.
Before we know what is happening, the opponents mainly of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate camp, Babatunde Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) codely tagged BATists started making jest of the ObiDients telling them they have no structure to win a presidential election in the country. Soon the jestings denigrated into personal insults, mockeries, threats to lives and properties, arguments and counterarguments among ObiDients and BATists. Occasionally drawn into the battle are PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s camp known as Atikulates.
The ObiDient called the BATists, agbadoist. BATists replied by calling them ObiDiots. They called them thieving structures, they said they are structureless. They said anybody who isn’t ObiDient is a national enemy and tribalistic, they replied that Peter Obi is a regional candidate and that they will announce the obituary of their ambition next February at the presidential poll bla bla bla.
Now, let’s get down to business. Who are the real ObiDients, ObiDiots and whose ambition’s obituary will be announced next year? First of all, as I have said, I am ObiDient but not irrational, egoistic and unrealistic like many of my fellow ObiDient especially of Igbo extraction who see anyone not supporting Peter Obi as tribalistic. Two, why am I ObiDient? I am ObiDient based on fairness and equality. Since the end of the 1963 Nigeria civil war, nobody of Igbo descent has ever held the number one seat in the country despite having qualified personalities from that region and tribe. The Gentleman agreement of power rotation between North and South has always been between majority Northern Hausa-Fulanis Muslim and majority Yorubas Christian down south. I believe it’s the turn of our Igbo brothers and sisters. Àwon lókàn.*
Still, on fairness and equality, the 2023 General Election presents Nigerians with the choice of picking either a devourer, an armed robber, or a petty thief but I will leave you to decide who is the former, the middle and the latter.
Three, will Obi win? I doubt it. Political parties and political alliances matter in Nigeria’s kind of politics. But why are you still voting for him? I am voting for him because I will not use my hands to endorse evil. Obi is not a messiah but Peter is better. Nevertheless, I believe in miracles.
Nevertheless, who are the ObiDients people? I believed ObiDients are people who believe in the presidential ambition of Mr. Peter Obi and are doing everything within the ambit of the law to make sure that that dream comes to pass without threatening any BATist or Atikulate. I have four people who are very close to me that are registered members of PDP and APC.
A real ObiDient is a person that believes in the freedom of speech, choice, and association of every Nigerian and will make sure that those rights are upheld irrespective of the person’s tribe, religion, and political leaning. Gbogbo wa o le sun la kori sibi kanna**.
If you believe otherwise as a Peter Obi’s supporter, then you are an ObiDiot. For example, if you as an Igbo believe that anyone not supporting Peter Obi is tribalistic, then you are an ObiDiot. Are all Igbos ObiDient? Are all Yorubas, BATists and are all Hausa-Fulanis, Atikulates?
L-R: Peter Obi of LP, Babatunde Ahmed Tinubu of APC and Atiku Abubakar of PDP.
If you are threatening anybody from opposing camps either on or offline, you are ObiDiot.
If you believe Obi is the messiah and he no dey give shishi***, you are an imperial ObiDiot. Obi is no messiah neither is he a devourer nor an armed robber. 😃😃😃
If you break any ship that has been of any help to you in past, be it relationSHIP, courtSHIP, mentorSHIP, parentSHIP, memberSHIP, siblingSHIP, etc., because of Peter Obi (or any politician), you are a full-blown ObiDiot. The eventual losers are not losing anything per se.
Lastly, anyone [the politicians and willing citizens] who they use you as a thug, money sharer, e-bandit, fake new distributor, e-terrorist, election disrupter, vandals, rigger, etc., during this election period, they will have an obituary of their ambitions on that day in Jesus name and may God announces the obituary of ambition of anyone who plans to subject us to further miseries in Jesus name. Amen.
Thanks for reading.
* it is their turn. ** All of us can not sleep and put heads in the same direction meaning we can’t think alike. *** Obi don’t give anybody money to support him.
What’s time are we? (Please tell me the time in your place right now in the comment section. I am publishing this at exactly 1pm, Nigerian time)
Welcome back. Right now it is #ReviveYourRelationshipChallenge O’ clock.
How far with spreading complements across 5 different hours yesterday? Hope you did it?
Today, in order to revive or strengthen your relationship, do chores together with your partner or help your partner in doing chores especially the one he/she hates doing.
Take the dirty clothes outside to the washing machine.
Take the trashcan out.
Go to his/her wardrobe, go and help iron or arrange all those scattered clothes.
Help her to clean the kitchen.
Mop the floor together.
Set the table.
Mow the lawn.
Take the kids out.
Walk the dogs out.
Go grocery shopping.
Etc.
Just do a chore together and have opportunity to communicate, profess love for one another, plan together and pray together while doing chores.
There is a popular assertion that goes this; family that cook together, stay together bhet (as Nigerians will pronounce but) today, we are not cooking, I want to teach you how to make a TIGER NUT DRINK popularly called Kunnu in Nigeria.
The Recipe.
Tiger nut
Coconut
Date palm (optional)
Honey (optional)
Sugar (optional)
Spices like ginger, tumeric, etc (optional),
Upper left – tiger nut, Upper right – coconut, down – date palm (dabino)
Methods
Soak your tiger nut for 24 hours with a pinch of salt.
Drain and rinse.
Add your drained tiger nut, coconut, date palm (and other things you desire to add) into the blender with 3 cups of water
I know you will what to ask me about the benefits of the wonderful drink. Here are the benefits as listed by All Nigerian Foods on their website:
1. Tiger nuts contain over 15 different elements and nutrients including fiber, calcium, potassium, Zinc, Iron, and Vitamins. Fiber is good for an easy bowel movement and may help with food digestion and also prevent constipation in kids and adults.
2. We have used this milk historically to boost libido and increase sperm count. It acts as a natural aphrodisiac. It could just be what you need to get back your sweet sex life. 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
3. The most important tiger nut milk benefit is surely the fact that it tastes so good and quenches your thirst.
4. Certain researchers found out that tiger nut extract could fight some harmful bacteria in the human body.
Hence, drinking this milk helps your immune system and ultimately helps in establishing a defense against bacteria like E.coli, staphylococcus and Salmonella
Nota bene; Try it with your partner and while trying it, communicate, discuss, appreciate and tell yourselves sweetnonsense.
Also note that if you don’t have a refrigerator, please do what you can consume at a go for avoid fermentation.
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Today’s episode is called Complementary episode and here is what we are going do to;
Think of 5 complements for your partner, e.g., I love you, You are the most beautiful/handsome person I ever met, etc.
Divide today in 5 parts, e.g 12am, 10am, 12pm, 3pm and 8pm.
Assign a complement to a particular time hour.
Send the complement either through SMS, DM, Short note to be hidden where LOML can see it, sweet whisper to ear, verbal, etc. Just make sure your partner has 5 Complementary messages from you today.
For example:
12am – I love you (short note to be hidden in the bible/dinning room/planner/etc.
5am – You are the most beautiful/handsome bae/guy I ever seen (verbal to be said while he/she is dressing up for work 😍😍😍)
10am – Thank you for providing for this family❤️❤️, I appreciate your effort in making sure this family is in great shape, Thank you for joining me in planning for a great future, etc. (SMS)
3pm – You are the best husband/wife/fiancee/fiance in the world (DM)
8pm – I love you (sweet whisper)
It is not compulsory to use my time division or time just use it a template for yours.
Lastly, thank you for joining me (and for following me as well as liking my post) and commenting on today’s episode of #ReviveYouRelationshipChallenge.
Everybody has a phobia. Something he/she is afraid of.
Some are afraid of losing their spouses either by way of heartbreak 💔, divorce 😠 or even death 😭.
Some are afraid of losing their job, career opportunities, etc.
What of possibilities of falling health, drunk driver, loneliness, accident and many unforseen circumstances.
Today, share your fear with your partner. The fear may even be the fear of losing him/her or the fear of how your Relationship might look like in the nearest possible time.
Don’t be afraid, just say your mind.
Rather should you panic or ask accusingly. This moment of asking is not to confirm whether you are right and your partner is wrong or vice versa. It is a time to clear all confusion.
Meanwhile, ask your partner, his/her fear too. Maybe for two of you, it may be False Experience Appearing Real. Two, perfect love casts out fear for God has not given us the spirit of fear but of sound mind.
That’s all I have for you today on day 10 of #ReviveYourRelationshipChallenge. Make sure you comment, like and follow me.
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