LAST week’s declaration of a state of emergency in three states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe has received the official endorsement of the umbrella body of Christians across the country, especially from among the most affected faithful in the troubled region, reports SAM EYOBOKA.

God said in Gen 2:18, “it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him”. Everything that is missing in your life, God will help to put in place for you. Because God knows all things, He knows what is best for you.

I HAD wanted to do a follow-up to my topical commentary pertaining armed robbers, rapists and native doctors, who masquerade as pastors in Nigerian churches, especially in the Pentecostal circle, but a news report in Vanguard online edition, May 7, captioned, “PFN, Anambra community bicker over killing of snake” changed my to-do list. Consequently, my follow-up, “How to know false pastors” will come another day.

Founder of Cherubim Seraphim, Success Gate Inc, Akure, Ondo State, Primate Ademisokun Turton has cautioned against the imposition of taxes on churches by the Federal Government, arguing that such move will have adverse effects on the citizenry who are members of the Church.

Nigeria, like many other countries on the globe, is grappling with severe economic problems and several other life-threatening challenges that have defied every known human theory.

We bring to you today the heart of God for now; so that you can know that all is well with you, for God can never make a mistake in your life.

ON July 18, 2010, former urbane Redeemed Chriustian Church of God pastor, Ituah Ighodalo inaugurated his own assembly, Trinity House, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island to end a widerness period that trailed his sack at RCCG.

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”(James 5:16).

Founder of Cherubim Seraphim, Success Gate Inc, Akure, Ondo State, Primate Ademisokun Turton has cautioned against the imposition of taxes on churches by the Federal Government, arguing that such move will have adverse effects on the citizenry who are members of the Church.

Jesus says; “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.” (John 5:31) By this we know Femi is lying because he has testified about himself. While Jesus could have easily told his disciples in this writer’s arrogant manner: “I am the Christ, the Son of the Living God”, he did not. Instead he asked “Who do the people/you say I am?” The writer will soon claim he is agreeing with Jesus’ words about him by his arrogant title but then, in Jesus we have an example to follow: When Peter testified about him, Jesus agreed with him by giving glory to God, and NOT by bragging or boasting like this writer has done.

History was made last Sunday at Calvary Kingdom Church, CKC, Lagos, when the presiding bishop, Joseph Imariabe Ojo, was installed as an archbishop.

THE Christian Bible describes pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father as; “To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

The previous year had been a year of tremendous great grace for majority of people while some will say there is nothing good about it. I know that so many expectations were not met but if you take a proper look you will see that the Lord God almighty performed a great work in your life.

THE President of the Ondo State Unification of Cherubim and Seraphim, Primate Ademisokun Turton, has said that the killings by the dreaded Boko Haram religious sect will come to an end if President Goodluck Jonathan speaks out on his 2015 ambition.

FROM the different approaches into Warri, it was obvious that something extraordinary was in the offing. Large billboards strategically located loudly tell the visitor to the oil city that women were gathering there for Daughters of Sarah international convention 2013—an annual spiritual fiesta sponsored by the Women Fellowship of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri. It was a time of refreshing and a moment when women from all walks of life renew and sharpen themselves for the task of nation building and home keeping, as well as spiritual empowerment.

However, it is one thing to pray, it is another thing to prevail in prayer. Prevailing prayer is that prayer that gets heaven’s attention and secures what you desire from God. Specific answer is the proof that you have prevailed in your prayer before God. I therefore want to urge you not only to pray, but to be sure you secure your heart’s desire before God when you pray, according to what He has promised in His Word.

Christians worldwide, on Sunday, marked Easter in commemoration of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Easter, a cardinal feast in the Christian liturgical year, is thought to be a joyous celebration of the eternal life in Jesus Christ bought through his sacrifice on Calvary cross.

It depends on how you look at it. But if for about ten years, many churches, traditional shrines, a beer parlor, hard drug peddlers, and all shades of hustlers could harmoniously co-exist on an expansive rock about half the size of a football field, day and night, it should be that men have found a means of doing the godly and ungodly businesses together.

Addressed as ‘high voltage man of God’by his members, Prophet Fire Lenke, the General Overseer of Liberation Embassy, a.k.a Ghoster, revealed that he liberate souls in bondage. Fire Lenke advised ministers of God to desist from exploiting their members through prosperity preaching but rather, preach the undiluted word of God that can change and liberate man and give hope to the hopeless.

God is a God of purpose. Everything He says has a meaning and He performs all that He says. God is whom He says He is and will do what He says He will do.

AS Christians mark the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Nigerian religious leaders have again called on fellow Nigerians to emulate the virtues of Jesus Christ, who sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind.

THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has described the continuous bombings in Northern Nigeria, as genocide against Christians, insisting that North is not at war as it is being portrayed in some quarters.

POPE Francis is expected to mark the first Easter Sunday mass of his papacy today few hours after he celebrated his maiden Easter vigil just as he prayed for peace in the Middle East and stronger Christian-Muslim dialogue at a torch-lit ceremony for Good Friday.

CHRISTIAN leaders across Nigeria have urged Christians and non-Christians in the country to reflect on social injustice this Easter, especially persons killed or displaced by sectarian violence in parts of the country, those living in poverty on our streets or struggling with one disability or the other.

Today, both Christians and non-Christians all over the world are in this season celebrating Easter. How one celebrates Easter will vary from man to man, from family to family and also from people to people. However, no matter how one celebrates the season it becomes irrelevant if one does not truly know why he or she is celebrating.

THE marks left by women in our nation’s public life from pre-colonial period to today have become indelible in the minds of Nigerians at large, leaving them to believe that Nigeria’s salvation from its present quagmire will depend largely on injecting more women into the public place and commanding heights.

Today, Sunday, March 24, marks the celebration of Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. It is a day of procession in which the faithful carry branches of palm leaves as a re-enactment of the biblical story in which the crowd greeted Jesus by waving palm branches and covering his path with palm branches. This triumphant entry of Jesus soon marked the beginning of his journey to the cross where he was eventually crucified.

ONE week to this year’s Easter Sunday and still basking in the euphoria of the inauguration of a new Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, Catholics the world over and other orthodox denominations will today celebrate the Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusal-em, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels.

FROM the different approaches into Warri, it was obvious that something extraordinary was in the offing. Large billboards strategically located loudly tell the visitor to the oil city that women were gather-ing there for Daughters of Sarah international conv-ention 2013—an annual spirit-ual fiesta sponsored by the Women Fellowship of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri. It is a time of refreshing and a moment when women from all walks of life renew and sharpen themselves for the task of nation building and home keeping, as well as spiritual empowerment.

THOSE born in Nigeria 900 years ago and others who made unquantifiable sacrifices on behalf of this country; either during the nationalist struggles or paid the supreme sacrifice on the field of war to keep the nation one will not survive one week in today’s Nigeria. Many of them, civil servants, lived freely in any part of the country. Railway workers, P&T workers, as well as traders freely resided wherever they wanted in any part of the country.