I CANCEL THE WORD 'FRENEMY'!!!!! Hisssssssss.

[Pidgin English Write-up, no translation, ma bad...]

OK, OFFICIALLY, I CANCEL THE WORD FRENEMY FROM MY VOCABULARY!!! THERE IS NOTHING LIKE FREMENY O JARE!!!

• PERSON NA EITHER YA FRIEND OR YA ENEMY!!!
• OR THE PERSON USED TO BE YOUR FRIEND AND DEVIL ENTER AM TO USE AM TORMENT YOU AND HIN SELF NO KNOW! SO, HIN GO BE JUST ENEMY AT THAT POINT KWA!
• OR PERSON FIT JUST BE DEVIL PERMANENT SECRETARY AND NO GET REMEDY!! HIN OWN WORK FOR THIS EARTH NA JUST TO TORMENT PEOPLE!! SO, HIN NA ENEMY! Gbam!
• OR PERSON BE YA FRIEND AND UNA JUST FALL OUT AND UNA GO STILL FIT RECONCILE LATER, AFTERALL NO TWO TRUE FRIENDS REMAIN ENEMY FOR LIFE. AND SOMETIME CONFLICT IS NECESSARY!
• OR PERSON JUST BE YA FRIEND, HIN FIT HATE YOU, HIN FIT ENVY YOU, BUT IN A HEALTHY WAY COS HIN GO DEY ASPIRE TO BE LIKE YOU AND NO GO DO YOU NO HARM OR MEAN YOU ANY HARM!
• OR......HMMMM.....SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST THE DEVIL HIMSELF/HERSELF!!! :

So dia fore, nothing like FRENEMY for ma vocab anymore!

Friendship sef get expiry date! Shuo! When E end, E suppose just end with everyone going their seperate ways PEACEFULLY (I hope and pray!!!) And NOT scheming to hurt people wey no do ya nathing!!!

I was 'almost', I mean, just a tiny bit annoyed that a clown that developed teeth overnight to bite me postponed his own shame lying to postpone his shame! But, I wait.... I patiently wait.........yes O! I wait! Because my father in heaven will exonerate and vindicate me come next january!!! I wish the whole ish closed out today, but, music wey person play, na hin, him go dance!I be yanga wey be the sleep, trouble come wake me up, and I still beg trouble to leave me alone O! Trouble begin bite, pinch and punch me, I still dey look trouble like mumu, and trouble still refuse to stop to wahala me! OK, now, Chineke wey dey for Eligwe naw don scatter all trouble plans around me, and trouble begin run! Hin shadow don dey chase am!!!

I truly and honestly feel sorry for trouble! because I don talk am say some people no dey know wetin dem dey do sometimes, when devil begin use them to attack God childrens! Like today one other person wey been suppose be friend wey been turn to devil overnight curse me eh, curse me eh! threaten me O, and hala me O! Na hin turn around to apologize say hin dey sorry, hin be dey "under so much pressure then". OK, I forgive am, but tell am to just lerrus keep it on the main road greetings! Make hin no dey call me again......hin say I dey still vex,! I tell am say if I dey vex, I for no dey even pick hin call.....Say I understand, afterall, I be God pickin!

I been don tell God to give me a FREE PASS for just one day to deal with certain people drastically and in the earthly way! YES!!! TO SHOW THEM PEPPER!!! I GO PRAY ONE WEEK AFTER AND FAST TOO FOR ATONEMENT! Haba!!! And God for whisper to my ears say Jesus no even utter one word when hin people dey kill am! Hin no even vex with Judas, hin no vent for Peter, and hin no blind or throw thunder on the soldiers wey dey beat am and all, hin just go the slaughter like a lamb! Ok, God come ask me , WHAT DID JESUS DO (WDJD), I come tell God say, I no be Jesus naw! Hin come remind me say Jesus been don leave hin peace for me on earth here.... and ability to forgive! I don ask this question before, and E dey bite me baaad now!!

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN TRYING TO MESS YOU UP CAN GO TO JAIL FOR SOMETHING THEY DID TO YOU!!! AND SOMETHING THEY ALSO DID BEFORE?!!! WOULD YOU GLADLY HAND THEM OVER TO THE POLICE? KNOWING THEY CAN GO TO JAIL FOR IT!!? I really got to know! At what point do you NOT just let things be?

When Snakes turn to Teddy Bears, what do you do?

Someone on a web forum I belong to asked me about my bobo (boyfriend in Nigerian pidgin English Slang).......hmmmm.....

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Originally Posted by Ms. S....
I love the idea of a diary though I no get liver to put my diary online but I don't mind reading sha. LOL. I keep journals sometimes and it
helps get through difficult times. So write. We will read and support. So, gist me more about the bobo..

MY RESPONSE:
Bobo? I am boboless ....Nah dearie.............there are 3 portions of my life that are NOT for public consumption anymore! My love life, my family life, and my business dealings!

Others I shall gerrican mouth about! This happened a couple of months ago.....a strange woman I have never seen before walked up to me after church and told me simply this: "Until you say 'I do', keep quiet"! That was just after my break-up with my ex-fiance. If na U nko? U go still talk? Nah! Enemies abound my dear! I used to be so naive to think that all those diabolical things they depict in Nollywood movies end in naija and dont exist here, I now know better!

A man that says he has 'spiritual powers' walked into my store and said he would "help me from what my enemies are planning".....and I told him God has got ma back! He didnt like my response. I thanked him and of course, INTENSIFIED MY PRAYER LIFE!! If there is anyone that can look beyond all the NR Online ish that truly like me, PLEASE put me in your prayers. I got strong prayer warriors around me though, but there is no OVERdose in praying!

Only crime I committed to some people was in taking a step of faith even when I had nothing! Even when all looked bleak and dry and hopeless around me to create EC! I bought my first sewing machine with the last change in my hand!! I bought it on faith! When I was just a nobody, I had lots of friends! (who were mostly "advisers" telling me how to live my life and need I say that most of their advice led me into some problems I am still dealing with today!! Cos I tot they knew better!!)

I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT WE ARE MORE VULNERABLE WHEN WE ARE OVERWHELMED WITH PROBLEMS! And tend less to pray to God and 9 out of 10 times, would listent to a 'friend's' advice at that point!!! -big mistake!! When I was a nobody and struggling with my job and my IT/Ebay business and complaining and whining etc, they all loved me because they believed and saw they were better than me - [then!] Now, I am cautious about most of them that showed me the snake part of them before returning back to the teddy bears I see now!! Some others have started mellowing down and even bragging about me as their friend etc, or rather bragging about EC- the designer being their friend...., I forgave them and life goes on, but, there is still that little tiny cautious thing in me....telling me that anyone that hurt me before can still hurt me again if I allow them. But honestly, forgiving is easier than haboring anger as it releases you and u keep being blessed and being a blessing.
Just a tot, ...........not a sermon!

I AM WORTH THE WAIT!

I am proud to belong to this group! I AM WORTH THE WAIT! Group was founded by Dr Lindsay Marsh. Pictured left.

They are on CNN this week. God is doing awesome things!.

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The organizers of "I Am Worth the Wait"

We hear about sex all the time -- sex scandals, sex tapes, sexual marketing. The young organizers of I Am Worth the Wait don't want to hear about it anymore. And they certainly don't want to hear how cool it is.This group is trying to make its own definition of cool: declaring abstinence until marriage, but not living in a convent in the meantime.

Rather, the organization puts together events and outreach programs in the Northeast that are full of young people, from event hosts to the models of their clothing line to entertainment.

The goal of the group is to bring together teens and 20-somethings of all races, religions and backgrounds to talk about something other than sex.

CNN Live Video will air an interview with members of "I Am Worth the Wait" from Washington, D.C., at 3 p.m. ET Friday and wants to hear from you. What would you like to ask them? Post your question as a comment below, or, better yet, put it on video and send it in to I-Report.

SATAN’S REGRETS

READ: 1Corinthian 2:5-8

MEMORIZE: “Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the lord of glory” (1Cor.2:8).

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Deut. 29-31
READ: 1Corinthian 2:5-8

Another limitation of Satan is that he does not even know how to solve his own problems. His wisdom has become foolishness. Meeting a man, who cannot solve his problems to assist you in solving yours, is the height of deceit and folly. Jesus Christ is the problem-solver. HE can solve any problem irrespective of its nature- physical, material, spiritual, intellectual, psychological, health, etc. Hence in Matthew 11:28-30;he invites all distressed people to come and find rest. Jesus has a rest for you which you may never get until you come and find him. Receive him now.

Satan may be worldly wise but in handling spiritual matters, he has proved to be foolish on several occasions.1Corinthians 2:7 says; ‘But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory’. God’s wisdom is hidden from men and Satan; hence in all games of wits, God has defeated Satan times without number. In your life the wisdom of Satan will become foolishness in Jesus name. Satan’s foolishness has caused a great setback and led to several regrets. In your life, family, and ministry, Satan shall continue to regret in Jesus name. Let us see a few examples where Satan had problems but did not know how to solve them.


“Then released, he Barabas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified”(Matt.27: 26). Until Jesus came to this world, Satan did and eroded the power of the kingdom of darkness little by little. He raised up a few dead, healed some sick and delivered the oppressed. Satan had a big problem on his hands. How could he put an end to the disgrace he was getting from Jesus? He decided to arrest him and scourged and tore his flesh in pieces. While this was going on, Satan and his demons were celebrating. If only they had known that those same stripes would become the basis for healing and perfect health for those they had kept in sickness. Oh, he regrets that day! Also, on the cross, he tempted Jesus through one of the thieves crucified by his side. This led to the salvation of one of the thieves who was doomed for hell. How Satan and his demons regret this! 1Corinthians 2:8 says if Satan had known, he would not have crucified Jesus. He wanted an end to Christ but after the crucifixion, he now has millions of little Chirsts to contend within addition, after the crucifixion, Jesus went to defeat him in the headquarters of the satanic kingdom, recovered Adam’s stolen mandate and gave it to you and I who are genuine believers. He could have avoided all these but he was foolish.Source

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ACTION POINT: Thank God for his excellent wisdom. Ask that Satan would regret over all his activities in your life, family, finances, and ministries.

When it seems like Heaven is silent....

When it seems like Heaven is silent....

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Remember the story of the woman in Mark 14, whom Cece Winans sang a song,”alabaster box” about? As I sit here pondering on few things, that song came to me. Sometimes, the future look so bleak and blurry, and its easy sometimes to be caught up in our little worlds of “Hows?” and “Whens?”, “Where?”, “Who?”……and yeah, we read it, hear it all the time-Trust God! Or, wait on the Lord!....The reality however is, so long as we are humans, perhaps just a little bit, sometimes, we really want to know what we want to know….or maybe even catch a tiny glimpse of it. And how so quickly do we wonder “where is God in the middle of all these?” or “what happened to all the promises?”….Needless to say, these questions and more are asked by countless number of people, everyday, everywhere, in every language, tongue and tribe. I think back on Bible days and wonder if those people share the same sentiments with us in this day and age…..No? I think yes! Everytime the story of this woman is told, we hear about a symbol of worship. How she humbled herself at the master’s feet, wept on them, dried them with her hair and oiled them with perfume. As much as yes! It was her worship, I believe the story, has a deeper revelation in it. This woman, just like us all, had unanswered questions in her mind. “How can I get my prayers answered?”, “How on earth can he ever forgive my many sins?”, “when will I get out of this financial mess?”, “when will my estranged husband and prodigal children return home?”, “ when will I have somebody I can call my own?”, “will I ever get pregnant, Lord?”, “what about this business that isn’t doing well, Lord?”…amongst so many others. This woman understood the principle of sowing…..she, in spite of what others around would think, do or say, she thrusted herself humbly at the feet of her Lord and gave of herself selflessly and unreservedly. She cried her questions out, and though she spoke no words, everything she said was heard. After she finished weeping, by faith, she wiped the tears with her hair, in my understanding, saying : its over! No more tears! This too shall pass! After wiping, she brought out her little jar of alabaster and she sprayed it on the feet of Jesus-and that to me speaks volumes! This will not just pass. My crying will not just end. A sweet aroma is coming out of this! Testimonies amidst testimonies will spring forth out of this. After my trials, I will triumph, testimonies will come out of my tests, and my mess will become a message for generations yet unborn! That was all she did-not in words, but by her deed. Little wonder Jesus openly declared after seeing what this woman did in faith-“Your sins are forgiven!”, “Your FAITH has saved you, go in peace!”,-Your testimony has started!, Your husband and children are returning home!, Your business starts to prosper!, No more financial breakdown! Etc etc….I can imagine what this woman’s life became after that encounter/experience. She must have become a totally new person, changed forever! All prayers answered! Perhaps you say, “but I have cried!”, or “Ain’t I a worshipper already?”…..Maybe you have/are! But do you BELIEVE? Have you FAITH? Faith does not look at the clock for God-because he is God and he will do as he pleases….when it pleases him! When he said to Abraham-“I will give you a child”, He didn’t say WHEN. And it got to a stage, Abraham tried to help God, and went ahead to get his servant pregnant-who wouldn’t? However, when the APPOINTED time came, the promise came, and though it tarried, it DID NOT tarry! The only qualification Abraham had, with which he used to pass the test of “sacrifice your ONLY son to me” was the qualification of PATIENCE and TRUST. He had learnt those two in the decades of waiting for the promise of this child, and when God asked back for it, he didn’t even think twice to question him or hesitate, because he just KNEW that somehow, the promise of “NATIONS will come out of you” will come to pass any which way! So beloved, when sometimes it seems like HEAVEN IS SILENT, and all roads lead to the very many questions-remember, God is God, and He demands that His children TRUST him completely. FAITH provokes God to ACT. The three Hebrew boys, Daniel, and many others readily come to mind. The only thing I cannot safely tell you is WHEN…but will God answer or will he not? I KNOW He WILL…….for, Heaven is NOT ALWAYS SILENT!
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'Peculiar' (not real name) is one of the Christian sisters I have been privileged to meet on the Internet. ANd her words above are just encouraging and uplifting.

Let me add some personal words .....

Pastor Adeboye preached at my church last Sunday, and his message was "Wind of Change", and the verse was Psalm 150:6. Just simply what we hear everyday.........Let everything that has breathe, PRAISE the Lord! He preached on that simple message! That if one still has breathe, they should just praise the Lord and all will be well! God is Alive! And we are Alive! And we should just praise God!!!! ALL THE TIME!!!!

As long as there is life, there is hope!!!

I dont wanna preach in here, but I remember another pastor at the Festival of Life Celebration last weekend who said that we cant have a testimony with no test!!! And we have to go through the PROCESS to get to the PROMISED LAND AND PALACE!! I LOVE JOSEPH. He went through the PIT, THE PROCESS, THE PRISON, TO THE PALACE!!!

Imagine if he had been grumbling and being nasty to everyone in the PRISON, he would never have made it to the PALACE.

I LOVE the story of the GEODES as told by Joyce Meyer, (i have written a lot about it here on NR, and on my blog), but the summary is that they are very ugly on the outside, but filled with gems on the inside!

SO, WHEN HEAVEN SEEM SILENT, REMEMBER THAT JUST LIKE THE GEODES, GOD IS CREATING AWESOME, SHINNING CRYSTALS AND GEMS ON THE INSIDE!! AND WHEN YOU LOOK UGLY ON THE OUTSIDE, THE WORLD MAY TAUNT AND EMBARRASS AND LAUGH AT YOU!! IT IS OK, ITS JUST ANOTHER GOD'S WAY OF PROTECTING YOU FROM THEIR EVIL EYES! BECAUSE DEEP INSIDE, THE CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS IS TILL GOING ON UNDISTURBED! AND CRYSTALLIZATION HERE COULD BE THE MOLDING OF YOUR CHARACTER SO THAT WHEN YOUR BREAKTHROUGH COMES, YOU STILL REMAIN IN GOD'S WILL!!!)

EVENTUALLY, WHEN THE GEODE IS OPENED, ALL MANNERS OF EXPENSIVE GEMS MATERIALIZE! THAT IS YOUR TESTIMONY TIME! WHEN PEOPLE GO FROM.."ISNT THIS THAT MAN/WOMAN WHO COULD NOT FEED HIM/HERSELF JUST YESTERDAY?"......THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD KNOW THAT GOD ALONE DID IT!

WHEN HEAVEN SEEMS SILENT, DO YOUR PART, TRUST GOD LIKE A FOOL! STAY IN FAITH NO MATTER WHAT!! REFUSE AND DENY THE COUNTERFEIT HELP/ASSISTANCE DEVIL MAY BRING YOUR WAY TO REDUCE YOUR 'PAIN'! MAKE GODLY CHOICES!!!
TAKE THE NARROW ROAD THAT LEADS TO VICTORY AND TAKES YOU HOME TO GOD!

SHALOM!