Life Issues

Written By: Lizzy Oyebola Oyekunle (Please read it to the end!) ***** Phew! I turned to look back and saw- blood! Phew! Phew!! Phew!!! I turned right, left, up, down, all around me to see what it was – blood again! I saw Mr Paul, the good man who never hurts an ant crying bitterly- his fingers and toes were all gone- my heart missed a beat Has this government now become that cruel? Even in Nigeria? In the church? I looked up at the pulpit and there was the pastor- his tongue had been pulled out and blood was splashed all over the place- my heart thumped on violently Jesus! These policemen are ruthless o… What offence could our holiness preacher have committed? What? My gentle mother, always prayerful and cool even as she is being smashed by my father- her right hand wasn’t there again- that was when my heart shifted from the bony cage around it and fell down to the floor (Bouncing as it did!) I screamed with great pain as I fell to the floor Phe

Read: Acts 21:8-9 (KJV) 8 And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. Philip was a church planter, obedient, submissive to authority, had a servant spirit and was a man of good report. Beyond these, another valuable trait he had which made God use him mightily for signs and wonders is the fact that he was a man of total commitment to God. Philip served God, but it did not end with him alone; he ensured that his family members followed the same godly path. Like Joshua who declared to the children of Israel that he and his household had decided to follow the Lord alone (Joshua 24:15), Philip decided in a determined way that everyone in his household would serve God. In our Bible reading, we are told that he had four virgin daughters, who were all saved, fi

  39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. 40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. 42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.Luke 23:39-43 (King James Version) The reality of an eternity in Hell fire is the reason why we continue to preach relentlessly to people about the need to give their lives to Christ right now! Hell is worse than any kind of suffering ever known to man. It is worse than any World War or nuclear holocaust. It is worse than any type of plague, be it Ebola, HIV, leprosy or the Black Death. It is even worse than death itself. Why, you may ask? If a believer in Christ is tort