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Agenda-setting is the creation of public awareness and concern of salient issues by the news media. Two basic assumptions underlie most research on agenda-setting:
the press and the media do not reflect reality; they filter and shape it;
media concentration on a few issues and subjects leads the public to perceive those issues as more important than other issues.
One of the most critical aspects in the concept of an agenda-setting role of mass communication is the time frame for this phenomenon. In addition, different media have different agenda-setting potential.
Rogers and Dearing[15] identify three types of agenda setting:
public agenda setting, in which the public's agenda is the dependent variable (the traditional hypothesis)
media agenda setting, in which the media's agenda is treated as the dependent variable (aka agenda building)
policy agenda setting, in which elite policy makers' agendas are treated as the dependent variable (aka political agenda setting)
Mass communication research, Rogers and Dearing argue, has focused a great deal on public agenda setting - e.g., McCombs and Shaw, 1972 - and media agenda setting, but has largely ignored policy agenda setting, which is studied primarily by political scientists. As such, the authors suggest mass communication scholars pay more attention to how the media and public agendas might influence elite policy maker's agendas (i.e., scholars should ask where the President or members of the U.S. Congress get their news from and how this affects their policies). Writing in 2006, Walgrave and Van Aelst took up Rogers and Dearing's suggestions, creating a preliminary theory of political agenda setting, which examines factors that might influence elite policy makers' agendas
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Talabi (not real name) was a sexual addict. He had been an addict for 35 years. At age 15, he had been exposed to pornography, courtesy of his older cousin, who would sneak in with pornographic films at night. At 17, Talabi started to experiment with near- nude images of prostitutes which his cousin had introduced him to. Talabi got married at 25, to a morally sound and spiritually inclined lady in his church, thinking that would help him out of his problems.
But seven days after the wedding, he went berserk because he had not seen any nude materials, even after two children, as he still could not stop being at the mercy of porn. ‘I lived everyday of my life on the materials even after several years of marriage. I had to go into ministry, thinking that would be my saving grace. It was hell on earth for me and I didn’t know what to do,” he lamented.
A cursory look at Talabi’s upbringing reveals that he was born and raised a strict Christian with special emphasis on the principles of the Bible. His father was a strict clergy and the mother a member of the good women association. He was the first and an only son, with three sisters, whom everyone felt would take up the ministry like his father. He did actually take up the ministry after his father retired and his sermons focused on fornication and adultery.
But he had a problem. He loved pornography. He would stash them in a private safe in his library and under the pretence that he was researching for his sermons and receiving from the divinity, would lock himself up to quietly enjoy several sessions with his porn. At first, his wife of five years didn’t know what was going on until her husband began to go out at odd evenings to evangelise. She later discovered that his lost sheep were prostitutes who he paid heavily to have sex with, carrying out his pornography fantasies on them...
After each incident, he would beg God for forgiveness and would swear never to find himself in that position again. But again and again, he found himself going back. This continued until he travelled abroad, where he confided in a fellow minister, who introduced him to a therapist. The therapist found that what triggered Talabi’s adulterous acts was pornography use.
In Talabi’s wife reminiscence of her husband’s addiction, she said that at the point of escalation, her husband would demand, “Even sometimes pushed me into doing increasingly bizarre and unusual sexual activities.” She added that in many cases, this resulted in a break in their relationship, as she refused to go further. Bimpe, Talabi’s wife said she almost divorced him because of “so much conflict and rift in the home. Our children were beginning to feel the pressure too.” Eventually, they stopped having sex altogether.
The effects of pornography on anyone, most especially the youth, Dr Amos Ayeni, a Psychotherapist, said, are very damaging. He explained that as a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist, he had over the years, treated an approximate of 300 sex addicts, who don’t even have an idea that they were. He said other individuals; about 75 per cent of them, were males with sexual illnesses. He said such cases of illnesses include unwanted compulsive sexual acting-out, plus such things as child molestation and rape, among others.
He may not be wrong, if one goes with 35-year-old Nasiru, who raped and brutalised a 16-year-old daughter of his neighbour. While blaming the devil for his actions, he confessed that he took to the act as a result of what he had seen “on the television.” When asked to elaborate, he said “when my wife start(ed) to not have sex again, my friend showed me how to find pleasure in films. That fateful day, I was watching the film when the girl came back from school and the devil made me to rape her.” He added that he frequented “prostitutes but they don’t want to go with me again,” because he made them act out his fantasies.
Ayeni explained that addiction was usually the first effect pornography has on its viewers. Once a viewer got hooked, he said, it was just inevitable, he/she will keep coming back for more and still more. The material seemed to provide a very powerful sexual stimulant or aphrodisiac effect, followed by sexual release, most often through masturbation
An addict, who declined to have his name in print said, once addicted, they just kept going at it without the strength to break away from it. This is in spite of the negative effects on the family and possible encounter with the law. A psychologist, Dr Kunle Awopeju, in a telephone conversation, said that once a person becomes addicted to anything, pornography inclusive, what is known as escalation, occurs.
Escalation, he said, was a phase that became traumatic to the patient. He said with time, the addict would desire rougher, explicit, more deviant, kinds of sexual materials to boost motivation. According to him, as escalation progresses, there will nearly always be an increasing need for more of the stimulant to get the same initial effect.
“The worst part of being in this state,” Awopeju said, was that being a relationship with a willing partner in the “bizarre demand does not always mean that their problems are solved. These addicts most often prefer the sexual imagery derived from pornography accompanied with masturbation to get a release, instead of sexual intercourse in itself.” This, a published article said “nearly always diminished their capacity to love and express affection to their partner in their intimate relations. The fantasy was all-powerful, much to the chagrin and disappointment of their partner. Their sex drive had been diverted to a degree away from their spouse. And the spouse could easily sense this, and often felt very lonely and rejected.”
“Many times, when you see grown up men raping children, one begins to suspect the effect of pornography on the perpetrators of these devious acts,” Dr Oluwakemi Fakeye, a sociologist said. “The heart-breaking part of pornography,” she said, “is not that is on a daily basis becoming a bigger business than ever before; it is also more acceptable, more fashionable, more of a statement of awareness in the world now. You find pornography in music, in movies, in advertisements and so on; it has come to be an acceptable part of our lives. And the sad thing is that people have come not only to embrace this trend, they have come to see it as nothing harmful.”
...Where prayer is monetised 
•Divine wealth –N300,000
•Favour –N75,000
•Breaking curses – N50,000
•Tithe – 20% of income
The consequences of the quest for quick results and the gullible nature of some Nigerians to believe any word spoken by self-proclaimed prophets and preachers came to the fore recently in Onitsha, Anambra State. Sunday Sun discovered a church where members are hypnotised into parting with their hard-earned money in exchange for “miracles”.
Located at Oraukwu community town hall, Silas Works Road, Fegge, Onitsha, is a new generation church, Land of Canaan and Calvary Deliverance Church, where God’s blessings are ‘bought’ for a fee.
Members of the congregation are brainwashed to make special offerings so as to attract God’s blessings.
At the Land of Canaan and Calvary Deliverance Ministry, the unofficial slogan of the pastor in charge is “pray, pray, pray, fast, fast, fast; God’s favours doesn’t go with praying and fasting, he goes by the price you pay. Pay the price and God will surprise you.”
Fed with this strange orthodoxy, members of the church pay different amounts of money to receive God’s favour. While the pastor smiles to the bank, the congregation wallow in poverty, hoping their moment of abundant wealth is around the corner.
Sunday Sun reporter gathered that prayers for breaking of ancestral curses in the church attracts a fee of N50,000 and above; special prayers for God’s favour, often done by selected “prayer warriors”, who are strict vegetarians, goes for N75,000; sowing of seed for abundant wealth costs N200,000, while fortification of a worshipper against misfortunes and accidents goes for N100,000, among other sundry charges members of the congregation are made to pay.
The Bible, in the book of Malachi, admonishes Christians to give 10 per cent of their earnings to God as tithe so as to attract more blessings, but in the House of Canaan and Calvary Deliverance Ministry, tithe is 20 per cent of one’s income so that “God will answer prayers and requests very fast.”
A former member of the church, Uche Nnebedum, is currently engaged in a mother of all battles with owner of the church, Pastor Ekenechukwu Chukwumerem, in his quest to recover N3.5 million he was allegedly fleeced by the church.
Narrating his ordeal, Nnebedum, who is the Director of Divine Favour Transport Company, said he had made a vow to recover everything the pastor deceitfully collected from him and also to expose the antics of other warehouse churches so that more people would not fall victim.
Encounter with the pastor
Nnebedum told Sunday Sun that he had met Pastor Chukwumerem in the quest for solution to some financial misfortunes he had suffered in his business.
“I was directed to the church by my own blood relation, Amaechi Nnebedum, who did not know that the pastor was not genuine. I told the pastor that I was looking for solution to my problems and he laid his hands on my head and later said that I was now at the final bus stop. He told me that if I wanted my problems solved, the church would embark on special prayers for me. The prayers, according to him, would be held by a band of dedicated prayer warriors at GRA, Onitsha. The group, he told me, eats selected fruits only and the price is N75,000. I foolishly paid the money and that was the beginning of my ordeal.”
‘You need a voice for God to hear you’
Continuing, Nnebedum said: “After paying N75,000, my problems increased, and when I told the pastor, again, he told me that I needed a voice that would speak for me so that God would hear me quickly. By this, he meant that God had directed that I should buy a complete set of loud speakers and public address system for the church.
“I bought a set of made-in-Nigeria speakers, but he rejected it until I bought imported ones, then he said the heavens had accepted my offering. He continued to brainwash me, telling me that if I could imagine how bright my future was, then I should not relent in doing whatever God said I should do. I know people who hear my story now will blame me or even ask whether I’m a fool, but they won’t know that I was under a spell then. He continued giving me false hopes and I continued sowing seeds and paying special tithes believing that things would soon get better, all to no avail.”
I borrowed money to pay tithe
“I continued to suffer in silence, to the extent that I sold my household items and started borrowing money to pay tithes. The pastor told me again that the next step was for breaking ancestral curses, which will cost N50,000. I paid the money and not quite long after that a friend gave me a luxury bus to manage. When I informed the pastor, he said I should sow a seed of N20,000 so that the heart of the friend who gave me the bus will be tender towards me.
“He also instructed me to surrender the first cash proceeds from the bus on its first trip. I did all these only for the vehicle to suffer brake failure on the first trip. It took three weeks before that bus made it to Abuja from Onitsha.
“If you are a good sheep, seek counsel from the shepherd”
According to Nnebedum, the pastor always tells the congregation to share everything about their private lives with him so that he could seek God’s view and tell them the outcome, and those who obey this injunction paid dearly for heeding this advice.
“Our greatest mistake was accepting to tell him everything about our lives. Whenever you told him about any problem you are having, he always found a way to convince you to part with more money.
“He convinced me that the luxury bus was a tool for greatness, which God sent to me. Even when the bus continued to break down, I was still spending money on it and also giving more money to him. The bus broke down again while on a second trip to Abuja after I had repaired it. The engine knocked. I complained to him. He became furious and said that I had offended the Holy Spirit by questioning its authority. As a punishment, he said I should do another thanksgiving of N50,000 if I ever want the vehicle to move again so as to placate the Holy Spirit.
‘Every word of mine is holyghostic’
“To confirm the efficacy of the pastor’s power, Nnebedum said he defied his directive to do another thanksgiving and borrowed money to repair the vehicle.
“Immediately the vehicle was put in order, my boys loaded passengers from Abuja to Onitsha only for the vehicle to suffer brake failure again. It lost control and rammed into a culvert in Zuba. Four other vehicles were also hit in the process and I came back to the pastor crying. He told me that every word that came out of his mouth was ‘Holyghostic’ and to solve that problem, I must do a grand thanksgiving.
“Still blinded by the spell cast on me, I borrowed money to buy a cow, household items, bags of rice, a television set, tubers of yam and another two giant loud speakers. He told me to monetise the cow for N60,000, so instead of presenting a live cow, I enclosed the cash equivalent in an envelope.”
The last straw that broke the camel’s back
“After presenting all the items, the pastor was very happy. Out of excitement, due to the abundant gifts, he declared to the congregation that God had accepted my offering and that henceforth, my bus would now be called “good night Onitsha, good morning Minna /Abuja”, meaning that our journey would be hitch-free.
“After opening the envelope, he later called my brother on phone to inform me that I should bring extra N30,000 to balance the money for the cow, since, according to him, N60,000 was not enough to buy a cow. The next day, the vehicle was loaded in Minna, heading for Onitsha only for the engine block to blow into pieces in Delta State.
“At that moment, I felt like dying. I had lost the will to live and the people I’m indebted to were already chasing me around because cumulatively, the so-called man of God had drained me to the tune of N3.5 million.
“My wife, who had been warning me to flee from that church, then saw my condition and invited her pastor to our home to speak to me. After counseling me, her pastor told me to run away from that church because the pastor was a fake man of God. There and then, an inner power came into me and I made up my mind to go and demand a refund of all I had given him. When I went to his house in Asaba, Delta State, and confronted him, his wife reprimanded me for talking to a man of God that way. When I told her to watch her tongue, she entered into the inner room and suddenly brandished an empty bottle and broke it on my head. With blood gushing from my head, I went to a nearby police station to lodge a report against him. I narrated everything to the police and he was arrested. After interrogation, he agreed to an amicable settlement and promised to refund everything to me. We fixed a date to meet for a final settlement.
Complainant became accused
“While Nnebedum was hoping to collect the cash and items given to the pastor within the one week as agreed, the matter took a dramatic turn when Ekene petitioned the Delta State Police Command headquarters and alleged that Nnebedum and policemen from B Division invaded his house and threatened his life, ordering him to surrender all the items Nnebedum had used for thanksgiving. He also questioned whether perishable or imperishable items brought to the house of God for thanksgiving could be reclaimed after weeks from the church.
“Though, I was the complainant in this matter, I was later summoned to appear at the Delta State Police Command headquarters. I was detained and later released on bail; but the pastor wasn’t done yet. He went further to sue me and the police at an Asaba High Court, asking for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights and an order restraining us from harassing him and his ministry. The matter has lingered because he has not appeared in court, but we are not perturbed.
Nemesis on its way
Investigation by Sunday Sun revealed that other members of the church are currently up in arms against the pastor.
As at the time of filing this report, the pastor has removed the signpost in front of the church and has gone underground. When this reporter called him on his mobile phone, the pastor, after acknowledging that he is the pastor in charge of the church, later denied himself. He said he was the pastor’s neighbour when the reporter identified himself and mentioned Nnebedum’s name. He refused to disclose his location and promised to get back to this reporter when the “pastor” returns. But he never did. Subsequent calls to his line were not answered.
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources Prof. Tam David-West yesterday criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for kneeling down to receive blessings from the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
David-West said: "I ‘m forced to react very negatively to President Jonathan kneeling down to be blessed by Pastor Adeboye pointedly for election 2011.
"President Jonathan has not gone to the Congress to be so advertised, except now. There is no record available to me that he has been there for any of the revivals. I respect Pastor Adeboye. He is one of the serious ones of the multitude of new evangelists sprouting like mushrooms on the field. I’m sure the great pastor knows that I respect him and I have evidence for it. But his picture (showing him kneeling down and being blessed by Pastor Adeboye) publicised by many newspapers today offends my fundamental Anglicanism. .
" Nigeria is a secular state. We have two major religions – Christianity and Islam. Will Jonathan also go to an Imam to kneel down to be blessed? This is where he has run foul of the Constitution. I’m not against any Christian going to a pastor to be blessed with a caveat that I hope the person who is blessing is chosen and anointed by God because the Bible says God knows who worships Him sincerely. "
" What Nigeria needs for 2011 and beyond are leaders who sincerely believe in God and because of this belief in God they live uprightly. Nigeria needs leaders of integrity, discipline not corrupt. Without these ingredients for god governance, God will not hear the prayer of corrupt politicians. "
I think He should find out how many Imams & Alfa's IBB and Co. have knelt down before. Then he should shut up !
What shall I render to the Lord ?
Who is like the Lord who really is like him glorious in Holiness FEARFUL in praise doing wonders ! Alleleuia !
My God is good ! wow ! he is a God of mercy and love ! knowing him has been my greatest pleasure, being with him forever will be much more amazing than the amazing spiderman !(excuse my comparison I was and still am a comic book freak)photo:an actor's depiction of what Christ could have looked like
I have not seen on this earth neither in the heavens have I found such absolute perfection that makes the imperfections of this world laughable. Greater Love can no man have than the Love that the saviour of our souls has for us. I GIVE HIM THANKS for who he is that not only is he The God but he is a GOOD God (Good God ! )
Many Lovers and gods have we had but NO Love can compare with that of his highness the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. For this I give him thanks for his majesty within my words within the deepest emptiness of my soul that only he can FILL. Jehovah,EL ELyon the most high and perfect and only God ...
Frankly, Frank loves you Lord.
As the season of Joy and giving comes with all its presents etc .There are so many thanks that I want to give to this special person in my Life that if I never breathe any words, from this moment (which is impossible, but we writers just like to type anyway ! ) and if I never even know how to say I love you to anyone again for ever and ever(another writers jibe) .
One way I want to express my thanks is to say .”Jesus I THANK you Lord “
“I will sing onto the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously The Horse and its Rider have been thrown in! to the SEA ! “
Is it possible to not know how wonderful you or someone else is ? O yes ! just take look around you and you will understand what the Bible means about “how the WHOLE of creation groaneth and travailleth in pains Rom 8:19-20
9 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
2
KJV The truth about our breath is manifested in this single word “PRAISE & WORSHIP” that is what we were made fearfully and wonderfully for to show forth the praises of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous LIGHT !
When Moslems call or mention the name of Mohammed they always accompany it with some kind of arabic epitaph akin to extreme reverence or like in the Harry Potter books when they talk about lord voldermorth and say “you know who “ and God who lives for ever and ever, he who upholds everything by the power of his word we hold his name in contempt with damnable heresies like “God damn ! ” how I cringe when I remember all the times I have used the name of God in vain, when all my lips should do continually is to give him thanksgiving always!
I have written many articles in my short life and I daresay I will write even more.I have seen the excellence of confusion within my own horizons and yet been allowed to see the Final solution for all of mankind , I have been graced with his special breath and saved with special blood.
The blood of Christ that cleanses of all sin and the baptism into priesthood and Spiritual enlightment into the holy of holies , able to stand up in his presence and SHOUT his name DADDY ! like any four year old without fear or favour . immersion into the holy Ghost not born of the flesh but born of God ! my o my.
This article has been written with God and the words Thanksgiving as the sole inspiration What has Mohammed done for me ? Nothing I am not a Moslem.
What has Buddha done for me ? Nothing. I am not a Buddhist.
What has Krishna done or me ? Nothing. I am unconscious of this .
What has Christian Science or psychics or New or old agers or dead or living people done for me lately ?
NOTHING !
Janet Jackson sings it “What have you done for me lately ?”
The bible says neither death nor life nor principalities nor powers ,nor things present nor things to come CAN separate us from the Love of God which is resident in Christ within our crib (body)
But what has God done for me lately that I should give him thanks.
Down in the dumps of denial , denial of whom my source for ALL ! is, whom makes my heart to give its beat , Who loves me and gave himself for me and then and then and then …. I knew I had to write this article of Thanksgiving.
Giving thanks shows appreciation, shows understanding, shows revererence and confirms humility. Humility out of strength and this then yields JOY .Joy unspeakable !
Let us give thanks to God our maker and lover ,our Father and mother our brother and sister our ALL in ALL.
Let us give him thanks, let us thank him for his special gift his son Jesus Christ the first born amongst many sons of whom I am proud and happy to say I am one of his brothers
For I have declared his name within the congregation and the gates of hell shall never prevail. He who has called us and now still hollers out ! and calls us into a special relationship of thanksgiving with him for he has finished his works since the beginning of creation and has been resting for ever more .The Alpha and the Omega, The beginning the middle and the End .
He signifies his Lordship by giving us the ability to say “thanks O Lord Thank you mighty and glorious one for thine works are great and marvelous in our sight.You have redeemed us from our failure with what the enemy thought was failure. For if he had known what he was doing he would not have allowed the people to crucify your precious son.
This same enemy if he had known that what he was putting us through was a kinda Xzibit pimp my ride show to show forth your praises from his “afflictions” which have proved forth to be a blessing and an honour as the blessed dude Paul said “of whose chains I am glad to be in !
“I therefor! e say these words to the enemy .Thanks for deceiving Eve, thanks for all your deceits , Thanks for your diseases, for all the broken marriages/relationships, For the murders,drugs,Alcohol,Pornography, envyings, tears, fornications, adultery ,idols, lies, Wars, genocide, witchcrafts, etecetera and a very special Thanks for being God’s Devil !
Because if it had not been for your wickedness O evil one Satan ! I might not have known the Love of God that passess my understanding !
So go on being the devil because that is your purpose, it is to let us have a very clear reminder for all eternity of whom we should never ever not be amen.
So I thank the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for his understanding and his complete wisdom .I will end with this song
“Thanks, Thanks, I give you thanks for all you have done ,You are so blessed because my soul has found rest. OGod, I give you thanks ! Amen”
Happy belatedThanksgiving
Frank
Sunday Sermon: "Thank" you Devil Thank YOU Jesus ! Letter to Jesus
What shall I render to the Lord ?
Who is like the Lord who really is like him glorious in Holiness FEARFUL in praise doing wonders ! Alleleuia !
My God is good ! wow ! he is a God of mercy and love ! knowing him has been my greatest pleasure, being with him forever will be much more amazing than the amazing spiderman !(excuse my comparison I was and still am a comic book freak)photo:an actor's depiction of what Christ could have looked like
I have not seen on this earth neither in the heavens have I found such absolute perfection that makes the imperfections of this world laughable. Greater Love can no man have than the Love that the saviour of our souls has for us. I GIVE HIM THANKS for who he is that not only is he The God but he is a GOOD God (Good God ! )
Many Lovers and gods have we had but NO Love can compare with that of his highness the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. For this I give him thanks for his majesty within my words within the deepest emptiness of my soul that only he can FILL. Jehovah,EL ELyon the most high and perfect and only God .....
Frankly, Frank loves you Lord.
As the season of Joy and giving comes with all its presents etc .There are so many thanks that I want to give to this special person in my Life that if I never breathe any words, from this moment (which is impossible, but we writers just like to type anyway ! ) and if I never even know how to say I love you to anyone again for ever and ever(another writers jibe) .
One way I want to express my thanks is to say .”Jesus I THANK you Lord “
“I will sing onto the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously The Horse and its Rider have been thrown in! to the SEA ! “
Is it possible to not know how wonderful you or someone else is ? O yes ! just take look around you and you will understand what the Bible means about “how the WHOLE of creation groaneth and travailleth in pains Rom 8:19-20
9 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
2
KJV The truth about our breath is manifested in this single word “PRAISE & WORSHIP” that is what we were made fearfully and wonderfully for to show forth the praises of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous LIGHT !
When Moslems call or mention the name of Mohammed they always accompany it with some kind of arabic epitaph akin to extreme reverence or like in the Harry Potter books when they talk about lord voldermorth and say “you know who “ and God who lives for ever and ever, he who upholds everything by the power of his word we hold his name in contempt with damnable heresies like “God damn ! ” how I cringe when I remember all the times I have used the name of God in vain, when all my lips should do continually is to give him thanksgiving always!
I have written many articles in my short life and I daresay I will write even more.I have seen the excellence of confusion within my own horizons and yet been allowed to see the Final solution for all of mankind , I have been graced with his special breath and saved with special blood.
The blood of Christ that cleanses of all sin and the baptism into priesthood and Spiritual enlightment into the holy of holies , able to stand up in his presence and SHOUT his name DADDY ! like any four year old without fear or favour . immersion into the holy Ghost not born of the flesh but born of God ! my o my.
This article has been written with God and the words Thanksgiving as the sole inspiration What has Mohammed done for me ? Nothing I am not a Moslem.
What has Buddha done for me ? Nothing. I am not a Buddhist.
What has Krishna done or me ? Nothing. I am unconscious of this .
What has Christian Science or psychics or New or old agers or dead or living people done for me lately ?
NOTHING !
Janet Jackson sings it “What have you done for me lately ?”
The bible says neither death nor life nor principalities nor powers ,nor things present nor things to come CAN separate us from the Love of God which is resident in Christ within our crib (body)
But what has God done for me lately that I should give him thanks.
Down in the dumps of denial , denial of whom my source for ALL ! is, whom makes my heart to give its beat , Who loves me and gave himself for me and then and then and then …. I knew I had to write this article of Thanksgiving.
Giving thanks shows appreciation, shows understanding, shows revererence and confirms humility. Humility out of strength and this then yields JOY .Joy unspeakable !
Let us give thanks to God our maker and lover ,our Father and mother our brother and sister our ALL in ALL.
Let us give him thanks, let us thank him for his special gift his son Jesus Christ the first born amongst many sons of whom I am proud and happy to say I am one of his brothers
For I have declared his name within the congregation and the gates of hell shall never prevail. He who has called us and now still hollers out ! and calls us into a special relationship of thanksgiving with him for he has finished his works since the beginning of creation and has been resting for ever more .The Alpha and the Omega, The beginning the middle and the End .
He signifies his Lordship by giving us the ability to say “thanks O Lord Thank you mighty and glorious one for thine works are great and marvelous in our sight.You have redeemed us from our failure with what the enemy thought was failure. For if he had known what he was doing he would not have allowed the people to crucify your precious son.
This same enemy if he had known that what he was putting us through was a kinda Xzibit pimp my ride show to show forth your praises from his “afflictions” which have proved forth to be a blessing and an honour as the blessed dude Paul said “of whose chains I am glad to be in !
“I therefor! e say these words to the enemy .Thanks for deceiving Eve, thanks for all your deceits , Thanks for your diseases, for all the broken marriages/relationships, For the murders,drugs,Alcohol,Pornography, envyings, tears, fornications, adultery ,idols, lies, Wars, genocide, witchcrafts, etecetera and a very special Thanks for being God’s Devil !
Because if it had not been for your wickedness O evil one Satan ! I might not have known the Love of God that passess my understanding !
So go on being the devil because that is your purpose, it is to let us have a very clear reminder for all eternity of whom we should never ever not be amen.
So I thank the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for his understanding and his complete wisdom .I will end with this song
“Thanks, Thanks, I give you thanks for all you have done ,You are so blessed because my soul has found rest. OGod, I give you thanks ! Amen”
Happy belatedThanksgiving
Frank
There are many stories in the bible that have become so popular among believers and unbelievers, to name a few Jonah and the whale, David and
Goliath, Joseph and the colourful coat. The one that caught my
attention this time was Noah and the Ark as i was read the story in
Genesis 6 a few of the verses ministered to me. verse 9 says "
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man THE
ONLY BLAMELESS person living on EARTH at the time and he walked in
close fellowship with God". People this man was the ONLY
blameless person on earth, now i thought of the world today it will be
hard to find one blameless person in a family of four. I know it might
sound funny, but it's the truth.
The world we have today no one wants to be the ONLY ONE when it comes to things that are righteous or holy. They are scared of been called names like slacker, I too know , sister/brother holier than thou and as the Nigerians will say over sabi or mugu ! We seem to forget that the only reason we talk about Noah today is because he was the ONLY ONE...
So why can’t you be the ONLY ONE
Among your friends/family/colleagues that decides to earn a honest living instead of duping people (yahoo yahoo/419)
Among your friends/family/colleagues that decides to wait till you get married before you sleep with that wife/husband
Among your friends/family/colleagues that remains faithful to that wife/husband that you asked God to give you
Among your friend/family/colleagues that decides to honour the vow you made to God/spouse instead of divorce
Among your friends/family/colleagues that decides to honour their father and mother no matter what
Among your friends/family/colleagues to tell the truth no matter
Among your friends/family/colleagues not to steal no matter the situation you find yourself
Among your friends/family/colleagues to enter/end a business transaction with integrity
Among your friends/family/colleagues to be forgiving because you know YOU have been forgiven so many times.
I say this because I myself never wanted to be the ONLY ONE, the world makes us feel out of place when we are the only ones, but really we have to put an END to it and realise that we are UNIQUE when we choose to be the only ones and it really is not a bad thing like the world is trying to make it seem it has its great rewards, we do not have to be part of the craze going on at the moment the divorce rate sky rocketing, adultery, fornication, killing, hatred all on the rise, all because people want to be part of it and not left behind on the trend. Forgetting that they will be left behind if they continue the way they do when our Saviour comes.
When Noah decided to be the ONLY ONE he was not disappointed and God never let him down, in fact he had what I will call extended favour, this is the favour that you posses that is then extended to your loved ones that probably don’t deserve that favour, think about it the Word did not say Noah and his family were blameless, he had 3 sons named Shem, Ham and Japheth the Word does not say they too were blameless, but when you go to chapter 9 it says " then God blessed Noah and his sons" extended favour and blessing, be careful what you decide to do now or decisions you make because they might have a negative effect on your generation. We need to make right decisions NOW so our generation will blessed by it.
Please have a think about it today and I pray as we do we all become ONLY ONES like Noah.
Have a blessed weekend people
Ese signing out.
This week the North waged war for the second time this year with South Korea when it shelled a South Korean island near the disputed maritime boundary, killing two soldiers and two civilians, injuring others and burning a score of houses. In March, when one of its torpedoes sank the Cheonan, a naval vessel, killing 46, North Korea could, albeit implausibly, deny culpability. This time, though the North describes its aggression as retaliation (for a harmless South Korean military exercise), there is no gainsaying its responsibility for one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean war in 1953. To add to this dismal catalogue, the latest onslaught came just three days after the revelation that, in defiance of international efforts to curb its nuclear programme, North Korea has developed a sophisticated facility for enriching uranium. That gives it a further potential source of material for bombmaking.
The starting-point for answering the North’s aggression has to be that, in the most basic sense, the Kims will almost certainly get away with only a symbolic return of fire. It is entirely wrong for North Korea to act as it does. But punitive military reprisals against the North risk a spiral of escalation and catastrophic war. Deterrence works badly against a dictator who blithely imposes famine and gulags on his people during peacetime. Even if there are doubts about the efficacy of its tiny nuclear arsenal, North Korea has enough men under arms, and enough conventional ammunition within range of Seoul—just 35 miles (60km) from the frontier—to make war seem very much a last resort.
China cannot be blind to the Kims’ bungling and bellicosity, nor welcome their nuclear ambitions. But it has had two worse fears. One is of a rekindled war on the peninsula, which would damage China. The other is of North Korean collapse, with millions of desperate refugees pouring into China and South Korea or even American troops on China’s border. It is as a bulwark against this “instability” that China cossets the Kims. It refused to condemn them even for the sinking of the Cheonan, and this week issued blandly even-handed calls for restraint. It apparently believes that if their only ally abandons them, the Kims might do something really rash..
But they already have. Whatever it says publicly, China must surely see that this regime flirts with war as an instrument of diplomacy and that its desire to shock the world into negotiating with it requires ever greater outrages. Ultimately, this pattern of behaviour threatens the very stability China craves. China’s alliance with North Korea thus undermines not just its image as a global power but also its own interests.
So how to nudge China in the right direction? One possibility is the revival of the six-party forum, chaired by China and involving Japan and Russia. Talks stalled after North Korea forged ahead with its nuclear programme. The Kims would regard a revival as a victory. But talks will eventually have to resume if North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are to be negotiated down. If they also help persuade China to rein in North Korea, that would be a double benefit.
Today is World AIDS Day. And while we appreciate that the world stops to
reflect and recommit itself to the fight against HIV every Dec. 1, every
day is World AIDS Day at the Black AIDS Institute because ending AIDS requires work each and every day.
Next June will mark 30 years since the first AIDS cases were diagnosed The moment brings not only an opportunity for reflection, but also for a renewed commitment from each of us to do our part to finally end the spread of this disease.
No matter how you look at it, through the lens of gender, sexual orientation, age, class, level of education or region of the country, Black people bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in America today. Those are the facts
Thankfully, a growing number of organizations that recognize that ending AIDS is a year-long effort are slowly joining the effort. Today in The world, there's a beginning of a new era of engagement on HIV/AIDS. Now, 30 years later, the country is engaged again — with a national HIV/AIDS strategy, new scientific breakthroughs, and possibly a renewed sense of hope that, someday, we will be Greater Than AIDS.
I believe we — as individuals, as a community, as a nation, as a family — can be GREATER than AIDS. Last year, the Black AIDS Institute, together with our partners at the Kaiser Family Foundation, launched a national effort to mobilize Americans in response to HIV. Greater Than AIDS is about the role that each of us can play, including getting informed, getting tested, getting treated, and getting involved. By acting together, we can be Greater than AIDS. ·
From Bollywood:
Use protection and spread awareness, suggested a few Bollywood celebrities on World AIDS Day Wednesday.
"On World Aids Day I want to appeal to you all today not to fear HIV. Just be safe, use protection and do not stigmatise people living with HIV," actress Preity Zinta posted on her Twitter page.
"Mother-to-child transmission of HIV really upsets me. We should be able to protect every child frm HIV! Less ignorance and more awareness is needed."
Preity feels people suffering from HIV should be handled with care.
"Don't want 2 depress you guys, but would like 2 urge all of you to be less ignorant and more human. Let people living with HIV live with RESPECT! Nothing else matters except the language of LOVE! Everything else is superficial. This is what seperates Man from Beast! Sad V have 4gotten it," says Preity.
Bollywood has done its bit to create awareness about the disease through films like Phir Milenge and My Brother Nikhil...
Jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali wrote: "It's WORLD HIV Day today. Let's not differentiate between the afflicted and non-afflicted and be kind to the ones who need us. Adopt one HIV-AIDS person's medical needs and make a difference if you can."
Diya Mirza: "It's the day to pledge that those living with HIV are never ostracised again. The stigma kills more than even the disease does."
Actor Sikander Kher, who will be seen in Ashuotosh Gowariker's Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, wrote: "Keep it covered boys! Happy December 1st!"
Recollecting her days as a veejay, actress Sophie Chaudhary wrote: "World Aids Day today! Reminds me of the awesome MTV Aids summit we used 2 do! Be safe, spread awareness and don't stigmatise those living with HIV!"
Apparently there is a JayJay Okocha biopic in the works, it will be called Feet of Destiny(no surprises there…nollywood movie…cheesy title). The movie will reportedly span the entirety of Okocha’s life, including his football career.
Emeka Ike is lined up to play the football ace….Jimmy Jean Luis (Phat Girlz) will also be appearing.
Still on the topic of biopics, there is also a DAGRIN movie in the works – which would chronicle the late rapper’s life and his tragic death at 26 in April 2010. I hope these movies are done justice, and cast properly, as they more often than not Nollywood productions turn out to be over-acted, badly directed and poorly produced.
“Nuff said
What are your thoughts?
I did a doubletake when I saw a friend's Facebook status update today : "I like it on the kitchen table." Probably just a private message mistakenly posted as a status update.
Then my sister posted, "I like it on the hall floor," and after a moment of feeling vaguely icky, I knew something was up. So I Googled and, of course, found that it's the latest viral breast cancer awareness campaign taking Facebook by storm. (The "it" is actually where a woman likes to leave her purse/handbag.)
Then my sister posted, "I like it on the hall floor," and after a moment of feeling vaguely icky, I knew something was up. So I Googled and, of course, found that it's the latest viral breast cancer awareness campaign taking Facebook by storm. (The "it" is actually where a woman likes to leave her purse/handbag.)
My friend Genevieve likes it on the barstool. My friend Jalade likes it in the car.
Bobos please Get your minds out of the gutter.
They're talking about their purses.
Titillating the Facebook newsfeeds today, women are posting where they like to keep their purses when they come home, but they conveniently leave out the word "purse."
Men are not supposed to know what it means. So stop reading now, men.
The trend follows the January Internet meme in which women posted the color of their bra as their Facebook status.
Both are to raise awareness of breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Month. (It's also Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but that's another story entirely.)
The question remains whether the viral campaign actually does raise awareness or just raises eyebrows.
One response to a Facebook status: "Woah is right. Overshare."
Update, 10:45 a.m.
Men: Hmph. Some of the not-so-fair sex have complained that this post is sexist as they are forbidden to read past the jump. Others have complained about the actual Internet meme: "Yeah, that's a great way to get men on board with breast cancer awareness month...alienate them."
We suggest going with the flow, men. Men can put purses places these days too.
Oh, and ladies, go take a breast exam..
A Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called for a debate, on the economy, among all the presidential aspirants on the economy.Photo Atiku ? this man looks like a Hitman sha
Abubakar, a former vice-President, made the call after submitting his nomination form at the PDP national secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Adamawa State- born politician said the economy should be the main issue in the 2011 election campaigns.
“The issue of economic recovery for Nigeria cannot be a matter of wishful thinking nor of rhetoric. It is a subject for rigorous analyses and provision of well-thought, viable, practicable and sustainable strategy,” he said.
Abubakar said that all aspirants must be able to tell Nigerians how they intended to confront the challenges of the economy and reposition it for the benefit of all at the shortest possible time.
He said, “Of all the aspirants that have declared interest in the presidential election, I consider myself the most qualified to address the daunting economic challenges facing the country.
“I am the only one who has successfully managed a business and you need extensive knowledge of the private sector to combine its potential with the authority of the public sector to address this challenge.”
The former vice-president said his approach to resolving the economic crisis in the country was contained in a 47-page Policy Document he presented on August 15, 2010 while announcing his intention to contest the 2011 presidential poll.
He said, “We are faced with a job crisis of monumental proportions. Unless we evolve strategies to dealing with the teeming population of young people churned out almost on a daily basis, we may risk the destruction of the next generation.
“If we fail to channel the energies of this huge population, they could be a potent force for instability and social unrest.”
Abubakar, however, stunned journalists when he said that he was not aware that the President had declared his intention to vie for the PDP ticket.
“I didn’t see it (declaration). Honestly, I didn’t watch it,” he said.
Twenty seven out of the 28 PDP governors were among thousands of people that attended Jonathan’s presidential declaration at the Eagle Square on Saturday in Abuja. The event was shown live by some public and private television stations nationwide.
On the reported move by some politicians to produce a consensus presidential candidate among the Northern aspirants, Abubakar said, “There is a process for the emergence of a consensus candidate in the North. It shows that North is even more united if “they” agree to bring out a consensus candidate.”
He also said he was not aware of the support that Jonathan was getting from the northern states.
Reacting to the challenge, the Presidential Adviser to Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, said the President was ready for such a debate.
“We are ready for it (debate) anytime. The President has talked about all the aspects of the economy when he declared. If they want more, we are ready for them,” he said.
Another aspirant, who is also the Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, also expressed readiness for the debate.
“We are ready for the debate. That is what we have been calling for. Without such an issue-based debate, we will not be able to get the best candidate. Saraki is ready for it,” one of the governor’s aides, Mr. Billy Adedamola, said.
1.Doesn't receive calls in your presence,often walks away from you to receive his/her calls.
2.You dare not read his/her text messages or you always find his/her "inbox" empty.
3. Will always want you to inform him/her of your visit before you come.
4.His/her words are not consistent,you will often detect lies.
5.He/she is fast to always accuse you of not trusting him/her,you don't trust ?.You feel i am not being faithful?If he/she is always concluding like that then it's very likely he/she is being unfaithful truly.
6.He/she most time introduces you to the opposite gender as a friend and not as a girlfriend/boyfriend.Beware it's very likely the person you 've just being introduced to is also his/her hidden friend(lover).
7.Looks at you funny sometimes
8.Goes on outings without informing you as before
9.Complains about almost everything you do
10.Stops being very intimate usually the ladies
What are your experiences ?
