IF the spectacle one witnessed last year in the oil city of Warri, Delta State during the 48th Independence Day anniversary celebration is anything to go by, then Nigerians are in for another colourful carnival that will, not only propel them to a new epoch but will also prepare them for a new experience capable of rejuvenating the patriotic spirit.

You don’t appear at a war front just like that; you have to prepare adequately because it is warfare. If you must win the war, there is need for adequate preparation. Last week, I taught on heart preparation as a key to winning the war of prayer. This week, I will show you another dimension of preparation that will enable you to win the war of prayer—Word preparation. Without the Word, every prayer ends in utter frustration.

Introduction: The nature of the exposition: IN this exposition it should be clear that no demand on Man made by God is to be idealized or moralized. Every demand of God is for a purpose. And it takes Man without sin to obey any demand of God. This applies to the Law given to Adam to keep before the Fall and to the Laws given to Israel by the hand of Moses. This point is to be kept in mind when we read the teachings of the Lord and Paul’s on Marriage against the backdrop of Moses’s Law on Divorce.

Whatever you like say. God is no respecter of persons. Those who see Christianity in the light of bread and butter should not force their beliefs on us. You either believe in God or believe in your selfish desires.

KELLY Omodia says: I read some of the comments on Pastor Bakare’s response to Pastor Ituah Ighodalo’ssack at RCCG. Instead of being sentimental and emotional about the issue, let the reader form his or her opinion from reading this with an open mind. Under what condition may a Christian divorce and remarry?

Last week, I showed you the various reasons why we must pray. We pray, among other things, for spiritual empowerment, divine mercy, divine help, angelic interventions, deliverance from afflictions, enforcement of prophecies, etc.

A NON denomiatioal Christian group, Christian Leadership Forum (CLF) has commenced a mobilization drive to install a God-fearing leadership in the country come 2011. The group which claimed at the weekend to have started prayer meetings for the purpose of “sanitizing the spiritual environment” affirmed that Nigeria could not develop its political and economic agenda until the leadership was cleansed of its pollution.

WORRIED by the confusion currently trailing the Federal Government’s amnesty package for Niger Delta militants, especially the recent allegation of plans to eliminate repentant freedom fighters in the creeks, Christians in the region have decided to resort to prayers for the resolution of the protracted crisis in the area.

head pastor of Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos, Dr. Tunde Bakare has joined the growing army of Nigerians opposed to the recent sack of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of the Christ Church Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God for remarrying 10 years after divorcing the wife of his youth.

Prayer is not a play fair; it is a warfare. It is a weapon of war; it is warfare itself. It takes a warfare disposition to prevail in prayers. Prayer is one of the greatest assets of any child of God. It is the communication link you have with God.

FOUNDER of Nigeria Prays and former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and the National Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Wale Adefarasin have implored Christians all over the country to imbibe the culture of praying for Nigeria as that is the only way the nation could be rescued from the menace it has found itself.

Since the creation of man, man has always wanted to have things his own way. Often, he feels, his ways are the best. Sometimes no matter how well you try to get him to understand the truth (JN 17:17), man will still tell you that he knows best.

If he unwittingly touches any of them as he stands preaching, the people who are coming out of fetish practices might think the chain and the bangle were symbols of his power. The gentleman promptly removed them. It is always a good principle not to do anything that could hinder the Gospel wherever we are.

Names of some men who God gave to Moses as gifts: Aaron, Hur, Joshua, and Caleb to mention a few. While syhyome of these men brought him relief, others caused him pain. Aaron was the worst.

I was looking at some of the responses so far received from the people who have taken time to react to the earlier Meditation – CALLED TO BE DIFFERENT, and saw that there is the need to expound on this in order to make it a little clearer to some who may be wondering how to proceed from there.