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Church Notes: Father's Day Edition (Pastor Peter Ayo-Alabi)

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Dear Reader, Today’s exhortation from the Identity series was different as it we had a special feature for father’s day. God, our father models what being a father is to us by being our source, having the largest heart, being our present help in time of need, blessing us and choosing the families we came to the world through. Amazing love in its purest form! Thank you God for fathering us! In addition, Happy Father’s day to all dads and dad-to-be’s! God’s blessings always! Following our identity in Christ, as believers we are exhorted to continually feed your faith through studying and reading the word of God, praying and confessing the word of God daily. This simply put refers to measuring how fit we are spiritually. We cannot tell how fit we are until there is a demand. If you feed your faith when you don’t need it, you will be feed and fueled by faith when you need it. Hence, we are to continue in God’s word, know the truth and understand it in its simplicity. This helps you t

Education in Nigeria: An Open Letter To Help The Next Generation

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Dear Readers, Spiraling off from my post on vices , these past two weeks had been spent to help as many foundations that assist survivors or the less privileged survive, get better and secure a better future by settling their hospital bills, family or even their education. In doing this, I came across a tweet on an academic foundation whose major aim is to tackle the failing education system in Nigeria. The Vickies foundation’s contribution might seem like a drop in the ocean to some people, but the basis of some vices that have been occurring in Nigeria is due to the lack of appropriate education. There was a video of a cleric who claimed the age for consent for the girl child is age 6. This was sad to see, especially because that is the level of exposure they have. This could be as a result of ethnical or religious manipulation, lack of information or proper education. Hence, in the little ways we can, we should help foundations with genuine platforms to reach out, educate, and h

Church Notes: Identity I (Pastor Peter Ayo-Alabi)

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Dear Reader, We started a new series, which will run through the month of June tagged “Identity”. Please follow the series keenly as I will be posting up after service for you to be blessed by it. Better still check out the messages on RhemawordNG or join us by 9am for the live broadcast every Sunday. A pertinent question on the minds of everyone on a constant basis is the question “who am I?” this also doubles as the biggest question on earth. It is important for everyone to know who he or she is, as this enables us to live our fullest lives on earth. The question of identity started in Genesis 3 where the devil kept searching for the “seed” God said would crush him. Jesus Christ was the seed God was referring to, but the devil misconstrued this seed to be Abel, hence, he had Cain kill him. Why did the devil do this? He keeps paying attention to the flow of God’s love and goes to destroy it at any given time. He attested to God bearing witness to Abel’s sacrifice, whic

Vices: Say No To Rape

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The winding out of the month of May for me was overwhelming. Not just personally but in the world at large. Imagine planning things to do and then the Holy Spirit says to trust him and chill. Yes, that has been my ordeal. Paramount to that has been my prayers for every victim of rape, racism and any other vices, especially those who have lost their lives, been subdued, watched the culprit roam free, forgiven and have being bold to tell their stories to encourage others. I for one had to ruminate on my near-experiences with rape as a child, teenager and a youth, which I had been helped by someone older or found my way out of just in time for an escape. Filtering through social media this past week has enlightened me on some of the root causes of vices, especially how we can help others out in our little ways. Growing up, there had been records of boys “tapping current” from girls by hitting their butts, which would be followed with either a warning, tears or a resounding slap,