What is a Christian?
or
It's Who You Know That Matters!
I n the book The Little Prince , the author
describes a conversation between a fox and a
small boy. The boy, who asks how he should
try to communicate with the fox, is told to say
nothing at first. "Words are the source of
misunderstanding," says the fox. Have you
ever noticed how misleading the English
language can be? If you always took it
literally, many common expressions would
make no sense at all.
For example, ask to buy a yard or a garage at
a Yard or Garage Sale and see what they say.
Seems like false advertising doesn't it? Have
you ever seen a Body of Water? Is that
describing somebody who gets around by just
going with the flow?
Many signs, like Watch Your
Head , seem to ask the
impossible. You're likely to get
a whiplash trying. Ever seen
Slow Children Playing? Do they
grow up to be Slow Men
Working? How about a sign
saying Clean Restrooms ? You'd
think they'd have employees to
take care of that!
What do you do with
instructions that are not
specific enough like those on a
can of spray deodorant, Shake
Well Before Using? Are they
referring to you or the can?
Many people have a fear of
flying--why do airlines refer to
Departing Passengers and call
the destination Terminal ?
Some words when used together seem
mutually exclusive like Good Grief .
Unfortunately, it can be just as confusing in
the religious world. Have you ever wondered
about Those on Beds of Sickness ? If they would
just stay off of those beds they'd probably feel
fine. Have you ever been asked to Kneel as Far
as Possible? Just how far is it possible to
kneel, anyway?
Has a song leader ever asked you to Turn Over
In Your Hymnal? Impossible until they make
larger hymnals. It's even harder when a pastor
invites you to Turn With Me In Your Bible.
Sounds like some sort of gymnastics routine.
Perhaps you've been told how important it is
to Give God Your Heart and wondered how you
could to do it. Of course it can't be taken
literally, but when you try to apply the concept
any other way, you find it's no easier. Some
say, "You give God your heart by Surrendering
Your Will. How do you do that? By Giving Your
All or Putting Your Hand in God's Hand ?
Maybe you've been told that no one ever
comes to God who does not first Fall on The
Rock and Be Broken , but where is the rock and
how do you break? Some say you need to use
the Eye of Faith and Behold the Lamb . What
does that mean?
It gets worse because Jesus said you need to
Be Born Again. Since you had no control over
your first birth it's easy to wonder what you
can do about a second one.
If you feel confused, you're not alone.
Nicodemus, one of the brightest religious
leaders of Christ's day, had trouble
understanding. When Jesus told him about the
need for a new birth, Nick responded, "But
how can a man be born when he is old? Can
he enter the second time into his mother's
womb and be born?" (John 3:4). There ought
to be a plain and simple answer to a question
this important. There is!
"And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to
perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and
understand) You, the only true and real God, and
[likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ,
(the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have
sent." John 17:3 (The Amplified Bible)

COMMON WRONG CONCEPTS AMONG SINGLES IN CHOOSING MARITAL PARTNERS.

If you are still single, there are many things that
may attract you to a man or woman for
marital relationship which have nothing to do
with marriage, but you may be willfully
ignorant of that. Here is the list of such
things:
TALENTS
When you see a brother who can play musical
instrument very well or a young lady or man
who has a good voice, and you feel attracted
to the person for marital relationship, now
what does singing or musical instrument has
to do with marriage? It is called the ignorance
of the singles. You may not realize this until
you get into marital relationship or you get
married that you will know that what attracted
you to the person in the first instance has
nothing to do with having a successful
marriage at all. That is one of the reasons
celebrities marriages do not last, those talents
are not really needed in marriage, only on
stage. Then you will remember James 5:13,
it's when people are happily married that they
appreciate their spouses singing melody to
them, but if not, the voices and singing
become ugly.
PHYSICAL ATTRACTION
This is very funny, but to many singles out
there, it is not funny at all, it is rather a costly
ignorance. When you are attracted to a man
because he knows how to dress very well, or to
a lady because she has straight legs, because
the person is tall, slim, light skin or glowing
skin, or because the person has good set of
teeth, long hair, or has a good smile, you are
under the influence of common single’s
ignorance, because none of these things have
anything to do with having a good marriage.
If you go into marital relationship or get
married wrongly to a person because of
physical attraction, when the agony of bad
marriage overwhelms you, you will wish to use
cutlass to cut off the straight legs or whatever
that lured you to the person.
PHYSICAL BEAUTY
In the book of Proverbs 31: 30, the Bible says,
“Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but
a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be
praised.” If you are single and you are still
overwhelmed with single exorbitance, this
Bible verse will not make any sense to you,
you will feel like, “No oh, beauty is something
to me o, I want to marry a beautiful woman,
that is my longtime dream.” Or “I want to
marry a handsome man; in fact I can’t marry
less than that.” And you even quote Bible to
back it up, that God gives good things to His
children. You know what? To the single,
beauty is something or everything, but to have
a successful marriage, beauty is nothing.
If you see a beautiful lady or a handsome
young man over there, and you are attracted
to the person for marital relationship, because
of the beauty, you know what? You are under
the influence of single ignorance which will
soon clear from your eyes when you get into
it.
Physical beauty has nothing to do with a
good or happy marriage. If physical beauty
has anything to contribute to happy marriage,
why do celebrities have more divorce rate?
Why do most men with beautiful wives still
cheat on their wives or abuse them physically
or verbally? It is simply because physical
beauty has nothing to do with having a good
marriage, and just as the Bible says in
Proverbs 31:30 that beauty is passing –
meaning the impression that the beauty of
person has on you will shortly pass away in
marriage and you will face the reality.
FINANCIAL & MATERIAL INFLUENCE
If you marry somebody because the person is
financially okay or has a good job or
business, after you get married, you then
realize that God had already destined you to
be prospered on your own without the person,
then you will wish you had married the right
person and prospered together.
When you marry somebody because of their
financial or material influence, you will not
have respect of the person and you will not
have rest of mind. Later you will realize that
you could have made it richer without the
person, that you could have married the poor
but right person and make it together.
When you see a couple in a brand new latest
SUV, wearing same designers, when you see a
couple spending their vacation or summer in
an expensive place outside the country, and
you envy them and wish you have such
marriage? What a fool! sorry for calling you
fool,before you say I have insulted you,but it
hurts na.You don’t know that all those things
have nothing to do with happy home. Money,
materials and others have nothing to do with
a good and godly home. For example, there is
no amount of money your husband may have
that can console you when you realize he is
cheating on you.
When you marry a vision less rich guy that
has a Television and ignore a visionary man
without a Television now, then one day you
will watch the visionary man on your
husband's TV. Also when you marry a wrong
lady without the inbuilt capacity to support
your vision, but because she is beautiful to
behold, soon you will have no major project
than to spend on her beauty with latest
makeups.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Another common ignorance among singles in
choosing partner in marriage is academic
qualification. You want to marry, and you
have this idol of academic qualification in
your heart that the lady you want to marry
must be very educated or the man you want to
marry must not have lesser education than
you.
When you ignore the perfect will of God for
your life because he is not as educated as you
want or because her academic qualification is
too low, and you think, “How will people feel
that after all my academic qualification I will
now marry this person with low academic
qualification.” Will it not sound well for
people to hear that the person you want to
marry graduated from so-so university, or s/
he is a Dr, Lawyer, Engr. Etc.? You know
what? People you are trying to impress by
marrying a wrong educated person will not be
there with you in the marriage when tragedy of
wrong marriage starts to let loose on you.
TRIBE
Do you want to marry a particular tribe person
or you want to marry the perfect will of God
for your life? Will it not be so painful that the
heart-breaking wrong person you marry is
from your tribe? Rather, will you not be so
peaceful that the loving, godly and right
person you marry is from another tribe? Which
one is better for you?
It is funny when I see people saying they must
marry from their tribe or town or village as if
they have not seen the worst husbands or
wives from that their tribe, as if marrying in
their tribes is more important than marrying in
the Lord.
PARENTAL INFLUENCE
When you allow your parents to choose for
you instead of allowing God to choose for you
or when you choose to marry somebody
because his or her parents are good or godly,
and you go into marital relationship with
somebody because it is the wish of your
parents or because the parents of the person
are ministers, popular, or powerful in the
society, such is called ignorance of the single.
When you enter into the wrong marriage, your
parents or the parents of your spouse will not
be there with you.
THE ONLY RIGHT CHOICE
If you don’t want to marry and mar your life,
destiny, ministry and eternity, but if you want
to marry and make it in life, and also make
heaven, then the only person you can marry
and never regret it is the person who is the
will of God for you. God has created a person
for you that fits your life, destiny, God’s
program for you and that is what is called the
will of God in marriage. You may miss the
right school, the right carrier for you or the
right job, but please do not miss the right
person God has created for you because if you
miss it, you may miss everything including
heaven.
HOW TO DISCOVER THE WILL OF GOD IN
MARRIAGE
1, Surrender your life to Jesus. Only in Christ
you have the will of God, until you are
genuinely saved.
2, Surrender your will and ways to God. Let
His will be your will and His way be yours, no
idol.
3, Seek Him for guidance. Lean not on your
own understanding
4, Settle for God’s will, not your permissive
will
5, Stay pure till marriage. No premarital
inordinate affection or sexual immorality.
Here is the word of God – Isaiah 1:19, 20:
“If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;

The power behind Jesus name

Hi, Jesus
loves you.
The name of
Jesus is so
powerful
that
ignorance of
it is robbing
many of God’s blessings and fulfilment in life.
The enemy will do anything to keep man in the
dark so that he can continue to oppress him.
The truth is that the power in the name of
Jesus brings deliverance from all oppression
of the devil and delivers dominion to mankind.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for
there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved –
Acts 4:12 (KJV)
And his name through faith in his name hath
made this man strong, whom ye see and
know: yea, the faith which is by him hath
given him this perfect soundness in the
presence of you all. Acts 3:16 (KJV)
God understanding the power of names
carefully chose the name of Jesus to reflect
His purpose while on earth and after
resurrection. The name of means saviour
Salvation means
1. Deliverance from sin and its consequences.
2. Preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or
loss.
Therefore, there is no deliverance from sin and
its consequences nor preservation or
deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss except
through the name of Jesus.
For you to enjoy the benefits, including
healing in the name of Jesus you need to
understand the power in the name.
Therefore what to know about the name Jesus:
1. His name gives us our identity
“… And the disciples were called Christians
first in Antioch.” Acts 11:26
As a Christian, you are identified with God
because you believe in the name of Jesus and
are expected to live like Him
2. Jesus’ name is above every other name.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name which is above every
name: That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth; And that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philip
2:9-11 (KJV)
The name of Jesus is above the name of any
sickness or disease or situation. Whatever has
a name is below the name of Jesus and must
give way to it, no matter where it may come
from: heaven, earth or hell.
3. Only through His name can you get
anything from God
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye
shall ask the Father in my name, he will give
it you.Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my
name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy
may be full – John 16:23-24 (KJV)
God has designed it that after the death and
resurrection of Jesus, no man can relate with
Him for any reason whatsoever except through
Jesus. He is now the gateway to God and His
blessings: you can only go in and get your
blessings, including healing through Him.
4. Everything Jesus is and carries is in His
name
And these signs shall follow them that believe;
in my name shall they cast out devils; they
shall speak with new tongues; They shall take
up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay
hands on the sick, and they shall recover –
Mark 16:17-18 (KJV)
Whatever Jesus can do, the power in the name
will do it when you use it. Whatever God can
do you can do in the name of Jesus. You can
say – let there be in Jesus name and there
will be. We exercise our God-given authority
only in the name of Jesus.
5. His name is at work 24/7
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and,
behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and
have the keys of hell and of death –
Revelations 1:18 (KJV)
Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I
am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world. Amen – Matthew 28:20 (KJV)
Because Jesus lives forever and He is with us
always, His name is never on break. Look for
Him, or call Him anytime, anywhere and the
power in the name will work.
6. The enemy knows and understands the
power of names, most especially the name
Jesus.
He trembles at the name Jesus.
And behold, they shrieked and screamed, What
have You to do with us, Jesus, Son of God?
Have You come to torment us before the
appointed time? Matthew 8:29 (AMP)
The devils trembled at the presence of Jesus.
They still tremble at the name of Jesus
And she did this for many days. Then Paul,
being sorely annoyed and worn out, turned
and said to the spirit within her, I charge you
in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of
her! And it came out that very moment – Acts
16:18 (AMP)
Command healing or deliverance over your life
or loved one in the name of Jesus and the
spirit of infirmity will leave immediately.
7. The name of Jesus is a strong refuge.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the
righteous runneth into it, and is safe –
Proverbs 18:10 (KJV)
The power in the name provides protection,
covering for them that believe in it. When you
call His name in time of danger, Jesus quickly
shields you from any imminent evil.
8. His name commands instant delivery.
And Peter said unto him, Æneas, Jesus Christ
maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed.
And he arose immediately- Acts 9:34 (KJV)
When you call His name for help, the answer
is dispatched immediately. Most of the time
you see instant manifestation but some other
times you see the result after a while as you
walk in obedience to God’s word.
9. The power in the name of Jesus is invoked
through faith
And his name through faith in his name hath
made this man strong, whom ye see and
know: yea, the faith which is by him hath
given him this perfect soundness in the
presence of you all. Acts 3:16 (KJV)
If you call Jesus’ name in unbelief or
carelessly, it will not work. Therefore, anytime
you are mentioning Jesus’ name do it in faith
and with the understanding of the power that
lies in His name. Don’t call His name in vain;
it is not acceptable unto God.
10. You are qualified to use His name only if
you are born again
Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists,
took upon them to call over them which had
evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus,
saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul
preacheth. And there were seven sons of one
Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which
did so. And the evil spirit answered and said,
Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are
ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was
leaped on them, and overcame them, and
prevailed against them, so that they fled out
of that house naked and wounded. And this
was known to all the Jews and Greeks also
dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all,
and the name of the Lord Jesus was
magnified Acts 19:13-17 (KJV)
It is very dangerous to use the name of Jesus
if you have not identified with Him. You have
to give your life to Jesus first before you can
exercise the power in the name.
In conclusion, there is healing, deliverance
among other things in the name of Jesus.
With all you have read above, you are now in
a better position to exercise authority over
that illness or situation in Jesus name. Do so
today and your testimony is the next.

VIRGINITY IS GOLDEN WHILE CHARACTER IS DIAMOND

A young lady Will open her mouth and tell her
boy friend, I don't want you to disvirgin me
cus that is the only gift I have to give to my
husband.
Smiles...
Aunty, why are you deceiving yourself? So
virginity is the only gift or the ultimate thing
you have to give to your husband? Let me tell
you the fact.....
"virginity doesn't determine a virtuous
woman".. "virginity can never make you a wife
material".. Virginity only show your ability to
control yourself emotionally and physically.
What determines your virtue is "your
character". Being a virgin is good and
adorable but what makes you everyman's
desire is your character.
If your virginity is the only thing you can give
to your husband, my dear you have nothing to
offer.
Better go home and reshape your mindset and
begin to behave well. Develop a good
character.
VIRGINITY AND CHARACTER SPEAKS IN
EVERY WOMAN.. BUT CHARACTER SPEAK
FASTER, BOLDER AND ALWAYS.
DON'T SETTLE WITH THE GOLD.... GO FOR
DIAMOND.

See the official date for 2018 JAMB examination

See the official date for
2018 JAMB examination
This is to promulgate to the general
public that the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), has
officially spell out the particularly date
for the conduct of the 2018 UTME
examination.
This was made known by the preceding
Jamb registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede on
Wednesday morning. He said that the
exam will commence on the 9th of
March 2018 and will end on the 17th
of the same month.
He also stated that the conduct of
other Examinations, were put to
consideration before picking this date,
so there will be no clash of exams for
any student. In addition to this, Prof.
Ishaq said that the optional mock
exam, will hold between January 22nd
and 27th.
Meanwhile the fees for the exam
registration were not changed. It still
remains the sum of #55000.
for more information visit the link below
http://www.jamb.gov.ng/home.aspx