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Know you Creator and love Him by believing His Gospel. A Saviour came and died for your sins, was buried and lives forevermore.

You were not just born to die...

John 4:10 & 13-14

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. 

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” 

This living water refers to the dwelling of the Holy Spirit within a believer and they will never be thirsty again! A person’s deepest spiritual longing to know God personally and be in relationship with Him will be satisfied FOREVER! It will become in the believer a well of water springing up to eternal life!  Isaiah 12:3 Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation 

Interesting analysis 😊

What do you think about this neo biafran movement we are seeing today, radio Biafra and these activist we are seeing online

Nigeria was thrown together by the UK from one large bit of West Africa not claimed by France, over and through countries and polities who fought wars to stay independent. It was not created with the intention that it would one day be free of command from the UK; what we’re seeing now with everything going on (Boko Haram, Herdsmen, Niger Delta Avengers, IPOB, etc), is just the outcome of that fact. Obafemi Awolowo, and some other prominent politicians in Independence Nigeria described Nigeria like this.

Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ 'Welsh,’ or 'French.�� The word 'Nigerian’ is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.

— Obafemi Awolowo, 1947

Since 1914, the British government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any sign of willingness to unite.

— Tafawa Balewa, 1948

Since then a faint idea of what it is to be ‘Nigerian’ has developed more, but people ultimately put their ethnic nationalities first, some might deny it. Another leader of Independence Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe, supported Biafra at a time until Nigeria and Britain started starving Biafrans to death. Doesn’t really make sense to starve the people you’re forcing to be your citizens, but it makes sense when you remember Nigeria’s economy, but the oil and the Niger Delta is yet another leg of the disfunction of Nigeria.

“Federal Nigerian police push back crowds of demonstrators outside the French Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 16, 1968 - They were demonstrating against French assistance to Biafra” — [+]

Self determination of a people is valid and a right that should not be met with by violence, but this isn’t the case in Nigeria, because the state is violence, it was always a foreign imperial endeavour to extract as much from under us as possible, and when the British left they passed the baton to their stooges primarily among the elite in the northern part of the country, pitting Africans against each other was, in the first place, how Europe had been so successful in the conquest of Africa, so the discord between the actual nations was something they fuelled with the setup itself. Apart from the fact that Nigeria was (forcefully) constructed to fail, the ethnic-nations in Nigeria do not share common value systems in the first place. Travelling to another geopolitical zone (Nigeria has six) is like going to another country. Nigeria’s presidency is de facto rotated between ethnic groups, so no matter how crap a candidate is, as long as the politician is from whichever ethnic groups’ turn it is to rule (yes, rule), they will most likely be put up by the main political parties.

If a referendum was held in Nigeria and everyone was ensured that no violence would follow a vote for secession, most parts of the country would break away very quickly, especially the southeast, most Igbo people, deep down, from what I can gauge, want their own country, the silence most of us and our representatives have about IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) and the protests by the more hardcore makes that very obvious, but IPOB hasn’t always kept their message clean so ‘moderate’ people distance their selves from them. It’s not a popular thing to want sovereignty because in Nigeria it’s dangerous and you might get called a tribalist, ‘tribalist’ in Nigeria is equivalent or stronger than ‘racist’.

Ultimately there’s little to do but just to wait and see where Nigeria is going because nobody actually knows. 

One of the most interesting things I've read in a while

James Okosi II (center), Obi of Onitsha, Nigeria, is surrounded by attendants as he awaits the arrival of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II before her visit to the House of Assembly at Enugu February 8th [1956]. Accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen visited Enugu’s leper colony February 9th. In humid jungle heat, she walked nearly a mile in the colony that is populated by about 1,000 victims of the deadly disease. [Good for her]

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James Okosi II (center), Obi of Onitsha, Nigeria, is surrounded by attendants as he awaits the arrival of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II before her visit to the House of Assembly at Enugu February 8th [1956]. Accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen visited Enugu’s leper colony February 9th. In humid jungle heat, she walked nearly a mile in the colony that is populated by about 1,000 victims of the deadly disease. [Good for her]

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Found this so interesting for multiple reasons - particular because it's an igbo man from the 18th century. Former slave yet a Christian saved by grace.

Olaudah Equiano. Igbo man. Former slave. Calvinist. Saved by grace.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

Wole Soyinka (via theijeoma)

Very true

I once heard a formula guaranteed to prevent boredom. It is to have 1. Something to do 2. Someone to love 3. Something to look forward to. The Christian has all these in Christ: work, a Master, a hope.

Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender (via thou-mine-inheritance)

Shame—we all feel it, or at least we should. We are all sinful, and our sin brings shame. Although shame has all but disappeared from our culture’s vocabulary and is largely ignored by …

Do you struggle with/suffer from shame from your sin? Read this. It’s short, but packs a punch.

The measure of God’s love for us is shown by two things. One is the degree of His sacrifice in saving us from the penalty of our sin. The other is the degree of unworthiness that we had when He saved us.

John Piper, Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die (via set-apartgirl)

John 7:7

Commentary on John 7:7 ESV [7] The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. Unbelievers claim that they "love" Jesus and His teachings and believe He is a good man etc (though they don't believe in Him which begs the question...) however, the Jesus they believe in is a false, moralistic Jesus who is more like a hippie and loves everyone. The REAL Jesus, they hate because not only is He God, He reveals that they are evil and in total dependent need on Him; salvation and righteousness comes from Him alone. The false Jesus is the one that's needy and needs people, hence why he is an idol of sinful man's making, to pacify the conscience that it likes some sort of Jesus whilst denying the real one.

There is something absolutely haunting about what it was that Christ underwent on the Cross. All that people could see was his physical death. Nothing more than a broken bleeding man hanging naked and ashamed on a sinners cross. Yet at the same time, he was undergoing an invisible and…

Correct theology without love

Feelings lie. God doesn’t.

Amazing Grace (2006)