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Not Yet Time For A Pity Party! -Babatunde Olugboji When David and his men suffered the indignity of their abode in Ziklag being invaded, the manner of David’s reaction to the destruction was instructive. After the weeping, and the disappointment of David’s men even thinking of attacking him, the Bible in 1 Sam. 30 tells us that David took some steps which eventually led him to the point where he recovered all the raiding Amalekites had stolen from him. The first thing David did was to encourage himself in the Lord (1 Sam. 30:6). The Bible didn’t go into a…

The Church Is Becoming A Laughing Stock -Pastor I. S James The Senior Pastor of Glory Christian Ministries Int’l., with the headquarters based in Lagos, Pastor Iruofagha James has described the church as a spiritual organisation that has its own set up and standard, even as one body, we can’t do without each other. Speaking at a church workers and leaders conference, Pastor James lamented that, the church has become a laughing stock with ministry and calling degenerating into public nuisance. “There are too many nuisance going on in the name of the church and ministry’s calling where all manners…

Don’t Allow The Molehill Becomes a Mountain -Babatunde Olugboji The Bible describes in 1Samuel 30 that Amalekites raided the Negev and Ziklag, attacked and burned Ziklag, where David and his men were residing at the time. “When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So, David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.” (1Sam. 30: 3-4). The sad thing about this situation was that the Ziklag event shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Remember that God had asked King…

Time To Draw Strength From God – By Babatunde Olugboji In Samuel 30, the Bible discusses how the Amalekites raided the Negev and Ziklag, attacking and burning Ziklag, David’s headquarters at the time. The enemies also took captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them but carried them off as they went on their way. “When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So, David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to…

Foundation Gives Scholarship, sponsors vocational training Great Life Changers Foundation (GLCF) as part of its goals to support and encourage the less privileged and vulnerable people in Nigeria society, has recently celebrated two of her beneficiaries, Chiamaka Godslove Israel and her twin sister, Chigoziri Israel both of whom are under the Educational Scholarship Scheme of the foundation as undergraduates of Delta State University, Abraka where they are pursuing their studies. They were enrolled and sponsored for one year while awaiting their JAMB/POST-UME results, to acquire vocational skills in Fashion Designing and Hair Dressing and Cosmetology respectively which they had satisfactorily…

Nigerians Should Expect Great Miracles in 2021 – Bishop Chioma Dauji Nigerians have been assured and called upon to expect great miracles of God and intervention in the year 2021, notwithstanding the present difficulties and situations with prevailing societal challenges threatening the living conditions of people. “Nigeria is going to experience great miracle of God in the lives and endeavours of her citizens. It is going to be a good story of from pandemic and other crisis to prosperity and abundance in the lives of the people”. The presiding bishop of Amazing Grace Pentecostal Church, Lagos, Bishop Chioma Grace Dauji…

GOD HAS GREAT PLANS FOR ME! -Babatunde Olugboji God plans to prosper us and not to harm us, He wants to give us a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11). The story Joseph and his brothers in Gen. 42 should reassure us of how these plans would unfold. So, Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land…Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So, when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground… Although Joseph…

CPAN Mourns George Amu, Extol his Christian Leadership The Christian Press Association of Nigeria (CPAN) joined others to condole the Christan community on the demise of Archbishop George Amu who passed on yesterday at the age of 80 years. Archbishop George Amu until his death was the Presiding Bishop of Goodnews Bible Church, Alasia, Oshodi, Lagos. He was also a former Secretary-General of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Lagos State chapter. CPAN, in a statement by its President, Gracious Akintayo, noted that Amu was a man who demonstrated affection for the work of God and the Gospel. “In his life…

BREAKING: Archbishop George Amu Passes onto Glory -Gracious Akintayo This is to confirm the passage of a charismatic, jovial and always bubbling Christian leader in Nigeria, Archbishop George Amu, the Presiding Bishop of Goodnews Bible Church, Alasia, Oshodi, Lagos and for many years, the Secretary General of Christian Association of Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, later the body Deputy Vice Chairman and former Executive member of Lagos State PFN. Bishop Amu was the first secretary to Pa Bilewu Oshoffa (late founder of Celestial Church of Christ) and former Zone 2 PCRC Chairman, Lagos/Ogun State. A sport enthusiast, player and promoter of…

CTN KICKS AGAINST ANOTHER LOCKDOWN, Suggests way out When Nigeria experienced the total and partial lockdown for six months, from March 29, 2020, to curb the spread of coronavirus, every sector of our nation was affected, with our educational system and the economy suffering a huge loss. While the lockdown did not achieve the desired results of reducing cases of Covid-19, the sociopolitical life of the nation has been thrown into turmoil with loss of academic session, rising unemployment, loss of means of livelihoods and general inflation. The aftermath of these include increase in crime, immorality, broken marriages, kidnapping and…