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"Tutti dicono ti amo, ma nessuno sa dimostrarlo, fidarsi degli uomini è come camminare sull'acqua."]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 18:14:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/674071 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/674069

]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 18:07:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/674069 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/674063 _Remez Sasson
]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 17:57:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/674063 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/671133
In Japan, they invented a machine that can catch thieves. In a bade to see how it works in other countries, they took it to different countries for a test.
In the USA, in 30 mins. it caught 20 thieves. In the UK, in 30 mins it caught 500 thieves. In Spain, in 20 mins. it caught 125 thieves. In Italy, in 15 mins it caught 187 thieves. In Ghana, in 10 mins it caught 6,000 thieves. In Uganda, in 7 mins it caught 20, 000 thieves. In Kenya, in 8 mins. it caught 30, 000 thieves.
But In Nigeria, in 5 mins. the machine was stolen. I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU NOT TO LAUGH???!
]]> Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/671133 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652431 ...British prime minister, author.

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
-(replying to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir, you're drunk!')

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last."

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:09:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652431 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652427 ...American Author, poet and wit.

"Man has will, but woman has her way."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made?"

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins."

"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children."

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:49:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652427 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652375 ...American poet and winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes.

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."

"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office."

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:34:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652375 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652373 ...American writer, scientist, statesman.

"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

"Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask."

"He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom."

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."

"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends."

"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

"Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."
]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:24:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652373 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652371 ...American actor/comedian, writer, producer, composer.

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry."

"When you become senile, you won't know it."

"My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!"

"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope."]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:16:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652371 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652369 Steven Spielberg(1946 TilL Date)

...American Oscar winning Film director, producer, screenwriter.


"I dream for a living."

"Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?"

"He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist."
-(on Star Wars Director George Lucas)

"Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."
- (Time, 1979)

"Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make."
]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:09:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652369 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652367 Albert Einstein(1879 - 1955)

...German born physicist and Nobel prize winner.


"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed."

"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."

"Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!"

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:51:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/652367 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/648615
A: Now, let's look at it, if the background of his information is wrong, them his teaching is wrong. It is not true as it is not true that I met this man in 1994 and or 1996 and it is not true that I received any money for television or for lands as he said. Then all the spiritualised teaching that he is basing on these things will be false as well. It's all wrong, it's all wrong.


"... Chris Okotie has only been in the ministry for a few years, I regard that as few because he's been there for about 14 years or so. I have been in the ministry for more than 20 years of my life. My grand uncle was the founder of the Assemblies of God of Nigeria... I was born-again before I was nine years old..."

Q: Are you a member of the PFN?

A: Now looking at methods of ministry, I think people sometimes get confused about God's words, like he is confused and several others are confused. And this couldn't have been that serious, I wouldn't have bothered to reply him if not that, be went on to mention the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and the Bishop of TREM. (Mike Okonkwo) who is the president of PFN.

The PFN is not God. Therefore, I don't need their validation to be a minister of the gospel. I have never been a member of the PFN. I am not a registered member of the PFN. I never filled a form, I've never applied to them. But I believe in what they're doing as Christians and so whenever I get letters from them and they request for money, I send them funds, but I've never been a member, at least in an official capacity. You see I believe in what they say and do as Christians, but that is not to say that they are the one to give validation to anybody or to anyone's Christianity or our ministry's validation. I have never needed Chris Okotie's validation. I have never needed PFN's validation. I've been doing the things I've been doing by the spirit of God, and I think that that's important. So, it's not right to judge you with one standard and judge others with another standard and that's what they are trying to do.

Q: But he said Bishop Okonkwo, the PFN president spoke to you about these issues?

A: It's unfortunate that he mentioned Bishop Mike Okonkwo in his telecast. It's unfortunate that he did, and I have already spoken to Bishop Okonkwo on the phone and I said if it is true that you said the things that Chris Okotie quoted you to have said, I said then it's a shame and I'm disappointed. Of course, he said, he didn't say those things, that are what he said. And I said if you didn't watch the programme, then get the tape and see it. Right, so I hope he didn't say that, I really hope he didn't say that because it didn't happen. What Chris Okotie quoted him to have said about me between the two of us never happened. So that's another falsehood.

Q: What do you understand by "Finger of God" as alleged by Pastor Okotie?

A: Now on the issue of the finger of God, I told you I was going to come back to that. He says the finger of God, trying to spiritualise all these things. Chris Okotie should be asked. Where do you get those teachings from? He got them from occultic books. Now if the occults, if they sing, does that mean that when we sing, it's wrong to sing because they sing in the occults.
If they offer sacrifices like giving offerings in their meetings which they do, does it mean that when we give offerings in church, we are performing occult practices. In the occult they pray, does it mean that when we pray in the church, it is an occult practice. Something is gone wrong with the man.

God said to Moses, stretch your hand towards Egypt and Moses stretched his hand and signs and wonders took place. God said to Moses, stretch your hands over the Red Sea and divide it, and Moses stretched his hands over the Red Sea and God divided the Red Sea. That was the power of God that was the ordinance. So if they stretch their hands in the occult, does it mean that when we stretch our hands, something is gone wrong, that it's an occultic practice? Don't you realise that God came before the devil, don't you realise it's the devil that copies God and not God that copies the devil?. Don't you understand that it's the occult that copies good things in the church, because they have to counterfeit something from the church?

In the book of Acts, chapter 4 verses 29 30, when the apostles prayed they said: "... By stretching forth their hands to heal...", how does God stretch forth his hands. Remember, we are his living tabernacles today. How does God work today? How does God speak today? God speaks with our mouths. God speaks through our tongues. He walks with our legs, He moves with our bodies, He stretches forth His hands through our hands. When we stretch forth our hands, he stretches forth His hands. That's the reason why the Bible says in Act 5, verse 12; "... And by the hands of the apostles….”

They prayed together that he would stretch forth his hand, so we don't always have to touch the person because sometime we can't touch that person. Sometimes we can, maybe because of the distance. Sometimes we lay our hands. Do you realise in the Bible all the time Jesus ministered to multitudes, it was only one occasion that Jesus laid hands on everybody. Other times he would speak to them and say get up, and they got up. Somebody touched the hem of his garment and was healed. Jesus didn't say anything to her. She just touched him and was healed. Sometimes Jesus touched them and they were healed, like he touched the mother of Simon Peter's wife. He just touched her; the Bible doesn't say that he laid hands. To lay your hands and to touch are two different things. He just touched her and she was healed. Sometimes, we barely touch, we are directing the power of God. You see the man is ignorant of the power of God and that's the point. He's ignorant.

Q: What do you think he has against your miraculous healing?

A: You know in our meetings, sometimes as we worship, the power of God comes and people start coming out of wheel chairs and people are getting healed and they begin to run forward and say I got a testimony and that's just at the time of worship and mass praying. So people are accustomed to that now. But they have never known that like Jesus and like the apostles, we can lay our hands or we can speak the words to someone who is sick, who is blind or deaf and have a miracle take place. Because they don't have that boldness enough, they can't dare it. They are afraid to do that. How many of them have ministered to someone who was crippled and have seen the crippled healed instantly. They've never seen that and so when they see it they go against it because it has proved positive that the power they say they have, they really don't have. That's the trouble. Like the Bible says, the Pharisees and the Sadducees were only envious of Jesus. They were envious of the power of God and they try to fabricate lies and say that the power came from somewhere. So, he used to believe that I had something, now he wants to tell people that the power came from someone else. I tell you the truth; this has got nothing to do with T B Joshua. It's not because of T.B Joshua that he's been saying this. He's been looking for an opportunity to say these things. And that's the reason they never talked with me, that’s the reason they couldn't ask me any questions and so they had to lie that TB Joshua laid hands on me.

Q: Is T.B. Joshua a Satanist as alleged?

A: Now, about TB. Joshua, let's look at it for a moment; because I wouldn't condemn a man that they have condemned, does that make me an enemy of God? Are they God, must I condemn somebody because you condemned that person. You're not God. Satanics have given their lives to Christ. There are many Satanics who have confessed Jesus Christ and come to Christ.

Even the Bar Jesus he talking about confessed Jesus Christ and came to him. There are many people who never knew Jesus, who despised him; even Saul of Tarsus was injurious, made havoc on the church. He was an enemy of God and he came to Jesus Christ. Jesus loved him called him and welcomed him. And I am just like Jesus, and that is their trouble because I wouldn't hate with them and condemn with them.]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:51:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/648615 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/648613
Q:What is your response to the series of allegation concerning your relationship with T.B. Joshua?

A: This is to let you to know the truth about these issues. I want to read something to you first from Col. 2 verse 9.... The statements made by Chris Okotie of the Household of God are absolutely false. They're wrong, they are lies. Fabrication of lies and here is why I got so shocked, disturbed and troubled that one who professes to be a Christian and a man of God will face the camera and tell so many lies. I'm ashamed that among Christians, we could have such characters. I'm amazed, I'm shocked, I'm amazed! It's just unthinkable to imagine that one would fabricate such lies. It takes a demonic presence, it takes the influence of devils to come out like that and tell lies like that. I'm shocked.

Q: Pastor Chris Okotie said something about your association with T.B. Joshua in your university days?

A: All right .For example, Chris Okotie said that em. Right from my university days, how in the fellowships, how T.B. Joshua has chosen me or those who had been in the cult of the beasts and how they have chosen me. How old is T.B Joshua. The man is just 38 years old, how old could he have been when I was in the university. Think about it, and then he's said to have been looking for young men to pick up, how old was he. And that I knew T.B. Joshua all these years, and that I got to meet him in 1994 and in 1996. Absolute nonsense. It's all false. I don't know how Chris Okotie got his information, how he came about this kind of fabrications. But I just wonder, if he's able to fabricate these things, then I don't know what kind of spirit is working in him, definitely not the right spirit.

Q: How long ago did you meet T.B Joshua?

A: I only got to know T.B. Joshua, few months ago, contrary to the 1994 or 1996 experience that Chris Okotie is talking about. I don't know where he got it. Its nonsense, and then he's trying to spiritualise it. And how that they had this plan for me and how we had these plans spiritually and all kinds of nonsense. I didn't spiritualise it as he does in many other things. It's nonsense. I got to meet him few months ago i.e. Joshua.

Q: Have you explained all these to your congregation.

A: Of course, our church is like a family. Even though it is large and of several thousands. I told them about my encounter with T.B Joshua and several other ministers, whom I have met over the period. I just talked about it, and then showed them the tape. You see, I showed them the video and they saw it. The whole congregation saw that video, I don't know where Chris Okotie got his information from. Definitely, it must have come from the pit of hell or somewhere. He said that I told the congregation that I went to the synagogue and asked them to pray for me and asked that they should bless me and then how the man laid hands on me and all kinds of nonsense.
There's no minister of God in this country who laid or has laid hands on me. It's amazing. The question that maybe an intelligent person should ask Chris Okotie is: Were you in that congregation, how did you get to know? He tells people about things that happen in T.B, Joshua's house, in T.B. Joshua's room. He te1ls people about things that are happening in our

congregation, he tells people about things that are happening in the deepest places. How? is it God who is revealing lies to him. Who would have told him these things as he says? He is a minister of God, he should know that he needs to find out the truth about whatever it is he hears. It's wrong for him to speak about the matter until he has heard clearly about it. There’s no such thing. It's false. It never happened, it's false.

Q: How would you explain specific occult terminologies that Pastor Chris Okotie used?

A: Now, you know, listening to him Chris Okotie, you would think that his information is coming from God. Now he is quoting the occult much more than he's quoting the Bible. You see, he's talking about the finger of God and I will come to that later on. The finger of God and various ways you said you know the shamans well. You have to read the book of the Shamans to come about that. If you study the Bible, the Bible never tells you that it's only magicians that use what he calls the finger of God. He manufactured those teachings; they're not in the Bible. He's talking about occult books; he's not talking from the Bible. This guy needs to be checked. Something is gone definitely wrong with him. If he can tell these lies and then cooks up stories and fabricates these things and also begins to quote from the occult books, something is definitely wrong. Something is wrong somewhere.

Q: How about the purchase of land and the funding for your ministry?

A: Now I think that if Chris Okotie declares that he's aware of how I received money and got money for television programmes and got money for land and all these things, someone needs to ask him how he came about all these information.

And by the way, I didn't receive any money from anybody like that. I didn't receive funds from any such ministry or any ministry around. I've not solicited for funds the way he thinks or may be the way he does. I haven't done that. You see, our ministry is large. You have to understand this; we have a large ministry in this country and around the world. We are on television in almost every state in this country and we are on television in several countries of the world.

We got a lot of work going on outside the country. And if he's wondering how to get money, I can teach him from the Bible. It's very simple; if God sends you then God will fund you. That's it. You don't have to beg anybody for money. I know that they've been wondering how can I do all these things and so he has to say so many things about T.B Joshua and how the man got so much money, because when he sees the white people, maybe foreigners who come to Nigeria to visit the man, he thinks every white man you see represents some dollars or foreign currency or some thousands of dollars.

May be that's what goes through his mind and that's carnal. I don't think that's right. You see, I have access to a lot of money. By the name of Jesus Christ, God can bless me supernaturally and He does. So he doesn't know how to get money, because if he doesn't know how to relate with the one who he says sent him. If God sent him, he ought to know. So it's absolute nonsense. I don't know, I didn't go to that Airport Hotel that he talked about. I don't know what he's saying. It’s so strange. You see, listening to him, I was in shock, shocked because I didn't expect a Christian minister or anybody who professes to know God, anybody who has listened to the teachings of Jesus Christ to fabricate lies.

On the other hand, if he says that he got his information from anywhere, then he should have found out. A true Christian ought to find out. But something is wrong with the man, something is wrong with him. I say it takes demonic influence to tell lies like these. You can not say these things if you are a Christian. You will have to have demonic influence to do these things.

Q: How long have you been in the ministry?

A: Now maybe I should give you a kind of a background because sometimes you may wonder how did you come about all that you're doing. Chris Okotie has only been in the ministry for a few years, I regard that as few because he's been there for about 14 years or so. I have been in the ministry for more than 20 years of my life. My grand uncle was the founder of the Assemblies of God of Nigeria. I come from a lineage of several pastors. Some are ministers, so I know what exactly I'm talking about. I was born-again before I was nine years old. All the time I was holding crusades, Chris Okotie was still dancing and singing for the world. He (don't) know nothing about Jesus, so if he says he is been studying the Bible, he hasn't learnt nothing yet. Now let's look at it, being a minister for that long and studying the scriptures, you ought to know something about the Bible.

Q: Did T.B. Joshua lay hand, on you?

A: I do not know anything about what Chris Okotie is saying: how I was in the cult of the beasts or whatever it is. He is fabricating these things, you have to understand, this man is being motivated may be by devils or something. You have to realise that the healing ministry always has persecutions. If you are involved in the healing ministry, there will be persecution. The people who would be forced to misunderstand you because they don't know anything about the healing ministry, they don't understand the power of God.

Now Chris Okotie says that, at least, he believed somewhere sometime that may be I was a true minister of God some time and then he says may be I changed. Alright, if I did have the Holy Spirit which he says he has, and I went to Joshua whom he feels is a false prophet. Now he says the Holy Spirit of God is greater than demons, how were they now able to transfer demon into me. Of course I can see, immediately he said I must have submitted you know, and received those demons and devils in. Anyway, nobody laid hands on me and like he said. I never told anybody that someone laid hands on me. It's all a fabrication, lies by Chris Okotie. It's all false, all false.

Q: But, Pastor Okotie speaks with much authority?

A: Now, let's look at it, if the background of his information is wrong, them his teaching is wrong. It is not true as it is not true that I met this man in 1994 and or 1996 and it is not true that I received any money for television or for lands as he said. Then all the spiritualised teaching that he is basing on these things will be false as well. It's all wrong, it's all wrong.


"... Chris Okotie has only been in the ministry for a few years, I regard that as few because he's been there for about 14 years or so. I have been in the ministry for more than 20 years of my life. My grand uncle was the founder of the Assemblies of God of Nigeria... I was born-again before I was nine years old..."

Q: Are you a member of the PFN?

A: Now looking at methods of ministry, I think people sometimes get confused about God's words, like he is confused and several others are confused. And this couldn't have been that serious, I wouldn't have bothered to reply him if not that, be went on to mention the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and the Bishop of TREM. (Mike Okonkwo) who is the president of PFN.

The PFN is not God. Therefore, I don't need their validation to be a minister of the gospel. I have never been a member of the PFN. I am not a registered member of the PFN. I never filled a form, I've never applied to them. But I believe in what they're doing as Christians and so whenever I get letters from them and they request for money, I send them funds, but I've never been a member, at least in an official capacity. You see I believe in what they say and do as Christians, but that is not to say that they are the one to give validation to anybody or to anyone's Christianity or our ministry's validation. I have never needed Chris Okotie's validation. I have never needed PFN's validation. I've been doing the things I've been doing by the spirit of God, and I think that that's important. So, it's not right to judge you with one standard and judge others with another standard and that's what they are trying to do.

Q: But he said Bishop Okonkwo, the PFN president spoke to you about these issues?

A: It's unfortunate that he mentioned Bishop Mike Okonkwo in his telecast. It's unfortunate that he did, and I have already spoken to Bishop Okonkwo on the phone and I said if it is true that you said the things that Chris Okotie quoted you to have said, I said then it's a shame and I'm disappointed. Of course, he said, he didn't say those things, that are what he said. And I said if you didn't watch the programme, then get the tape and see it. Right, so I hope he didn't say that, I really hope he didn't say that because it didn't happen. What Chris Okotie quoted him to have said about me between the two of us never happened. So that's another falsehood.

Q: What do you understand by "Finger of God" as alleged by Pastor Okotie?

A: Now on the issue of the finger of God, I told you I was going to come back to that. He says the finger of God, trying to spiritualise all these things. Chris Okotie should be asked. Where do you get those teachings from? He got them from occultic books. Now if the occults, if they sing, does that mean that when we sing, it's wrong to sing because they sing in the occults.
If they offer sacrifices like giving offerings in their meetings which they do, does it mean that when we give offerings in church, we are performing occult practices. In the occult they pray, does it mean that when we pray in the church, it is an occult practice. Something is gone wrong with the man.

God said to Moses, stretch your hand towards Egypt and Moses stretched his hand and signs and wonders took place. God said to Moses, stretch your hands over the Red Sea and divide it, and Moses stretched his hands over the Red Sea and God divided the Red Sea. That was the power of God that was the ordinance. So if they stretch their hands in the occult, does it mean that when we stretch our hands, something is gone wrong, that it's an occultic practice? Don't you realise that God came before the devil, don't you realise it's the devil that copies God and not God that copies the devil?. Don't you understand that it's the occult that copies good things in the church, because they have to counterfeit something from the church?

In the book of Acts, chapter 4 verses 29 30, when the apostles prayed they said: "... By stretching forth their hands to heal...", how does God stretch forth his hands. Remember, we are his living tabernacles today. How does God work today? How does God speak today? God speaks with our mouths. God speaks through our tongues. He walks with our legs, He moves with our bodies, He stretches forth His hands through our hands. When we stretch forth our hands, he stretches forth His hands. That's the reason why the Bible says in Act 5, verse 12; "... And by the hands of the apostles….”

They prayed together that he would stretch forth his hand, so we don't always have to touch the person because sometime we can't touch that person. Sometimes we can, maybe because of the distance. Sometimes we lay our hands. Do you realise in the Bible all the time Jesus ministered to multitudes, it was only one occasion that Jesus laid hands on everybody. Other times he would speak to them and say get up, and they got up. Somebody touched the hem of his garment and was healed. Jesus didn't say anything to her. She just touched him and was healed. Sometimes Jesus touched them and they were healed, like he touched the mother of Simon Peter's wife. He just touched her; the Bible doesn't say that he laid hands. To lay your hands and to touch are two different things. He just touched her and she was healed. Sometimes, we barely touch, we are directing the power of God. You see the man is ignorant of the power of God and that's the point. He's ignorant.

Q: What do you think he has against your miraculous healing?

A: You know in our meetings, sometimes as we worship, the power of God comes and people start coming out of wheel chairs and people are getting healed and they begin to run forward and say I got a testimony and that's just at the time of worship and mass praying. So people are accustomed to that now. But they have never known that like Jesus and like the apostles, we can lay our hands or we can speak the words to someone who is sick, who is blind or deaf and have a miracle take place. Because they don't have that boldness enough, they can't dare it. They are afraid to do that. How many of them have ministered to someone who was crippled and have seen the crippled healed instantly. They've never seen that and so when they see it they go against it because it has proved positive that the power they say they have, they really don't have. That's the trouble. Like the Bible says, the Pharisees and the Sadducees were only envious of Jesus. They were envious of the power of God and they try to fabricate lies and say that the power came from somewhere. So, he used to believe that I had something, now he wants to tell people that the power came from someone else. I tell you the truth; this has got nothing to do with T B Joshua. It's not because of T.B Joshua that he's been saying this. He's been looking for an opportunity to say these things. And that's the reason they never talked with me, that’s the reason they couldn't ask me any questions and so they had to lie that TB Joshua laid hands on me.

Q: Is T.B. Joshua a Satanist as alleged?

A: Now, about TB. Joshua, let's look at it for a moment; because I wouldn't condemn a man that they have condemned, does that make me an enemy of God? Are they God, must I condemn somebody because you condemned that person. You're not God. Satanics have given their lives to Christ. There are many Satanics who have confessed Jesus Christ and come to Christ.

Even the Bar Jesus he talking about confessed Jesus Christ and came to him. There are many people who never knew Jesus, who despised him; even Saul of Tarsus was injurious, made havoc on the church. He was an enemy of God and he came to Jesus Christ. Jesus loved him called him and welcomed him. And I am just like Jesus, and that is their trouble because I wouldn't hate with them and condemn with them.]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:45:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/648613 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/648607
What kind of instruction from God does humanity need? When God created mankind, He instilled in us a high degree of intelligence, curiosity and capacity for learning. He gave each of us a mind that can gather and store knowledge and pass it on to succeeding generations. Through time human beings have used this intelligence to observe, describe, discover and build. People have used their minds to record vast amounts of knowledge.

God did not need to give us a book that contained information we could learn on our own. Instead, God gave us a mind with which we could acquire and develop an abundance of useful knowledge. What we needed was a book containing information we could never discover alone—knowledge that must be divinely revealed.

That is the information God has provided. That is precisely what the Bible is. It is a book of spiritual truth. But it also contains information about the material world. God's unfolding of spiritual truths to real, physical human beings took place in real, physical settings and among actual, historical events.

The Bible, then, provides us a great deal of physical, as well as spiritual, knowledge. It relates information on material matters such as the ordering of the physical world. It gives us information on the orderly functioning of society. It addresses basic principles of success in occupational and financial matters. It imparts guidelines of nutrition and health.

The Bible describes many types of personal relationships. It addresses principles of psychological and mental health. It provides rudimentary information that touches on the physical sciences. But it does not treat any of these areas exhaustively, because God has given us the ability to search out these matters ourselves.

Source: The Bible in the Modern World
From the booklet - Is the Bible True?
]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:46:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/648607 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/646765 FUNNY QUOTES

"It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married."
- Drew Carey

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity!"
- Albert Einstein

"Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy."
- Spike Milligan

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."
- Robert Bloch

"When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet."
- Nick Arnette

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ..."
- Louis Hector Berlioz

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“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid”
(John 14:27, NLT).

Did you know that nothing on earth can take away your peace and joy? That’s because it didn’t come from this world, it came from God Almighty. In fact, the only time we can ever lose our peace is when we choose to let go of it and give it away. The next time you’re tempted to get upset and frustrated ask yourself, “Is this worth giving my peace and power away?” Maybe someone was rude to you on the phone, or a co-worker left you out of a meeting, is it worth your peace?

Life is too short to live upset and offended. If you allow your circumstances to control you, there will always be some reason to get discouraged. “Well, Joel. It’s the economy.” “It’s the stock market. That’s why I’m so down.” No, quit giving away your power! God is still on the throne. The economy in heaven is doing just fine, and as long as you’re connected to Him, everything is going to be alright! Decide today to hold on to the gift of peace that God has given you so you can move forward in the victory He has in store for you!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your gift of peace. I choose to hold onto my peace and release anything that would hold me back from the blessings You have in store. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel”
(Proverbs 20:3, AMP).

Did you know that when you allow someone else’s words or actions to upset you, you’re allowing them to control you? When you say, “You make me so mad,” you’re really just admitting that their actions have power over you. As long as that person knows they can push your buttons, as long as you keep responding the same way, you are giving them exactly what they want. Sure, people have a right to say and do things that are upsetting, but we also have a right to not get offended. We have a right to overlook their actions.

In fact, the Bible says that it’s an honor for a man keep “aloof” from strife. In other words, we have to remove ourselves, either physically or emotionally, from strife and offense. It’s not easy, but we can choose to let it roll off of us like water off a duck’s back!

Remember, you don’t need everyone to agree with you all the time. You don’t have to have the approval of others in order to be approved by God. You’re job is to be the person God made you to be, so overlook offenses and strife so you can live in peace and victory all the days of your life!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father in heaven, thank You for loving, accepting, and approving me just as I am. I know You are doing a work in my life, and I ask for the strength and confidence to overlook offense so that I can honor You in everything I do. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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Hypocrisy vs. Honesty

There are few things worse in human behavior than hypocrisy. Judas Iscariot, for instance, kissed Christ to identify Him to those who came to arrest Him (Luke 22:48). A kiss was a sign of respect and affection in Jewish society. It was a statement of trust and love. Judas’ kiss was a cruel, hypocritical act.

In some ways, that kiss hurt as much as the lashes He later endured. We do not expect someone who shows affection to be plotting and planning against us—but such is the action of a hypocrite.

We have all witnessed or experienced an act of hypocrisy now and then. The trouble with hypocrisy is that it hurts all involved—especially the trust of the deceived and the reputation of the deceiver. Honesty will always be the best policy.

Further Reading:
“Beware the Leaven of the Pharisees”
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You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
- Chris Evert ]]> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:53:00 EDT http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/632817 51.5 -0.116666751.5-0.1166667 http://edenomandafrica.tigblog.org/post/632815
In Matthew 28:19, 20, Jesus made a powerful statement that we should consider. In verse 20, He commanded His followers to "[teach] them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." The Greek word for "observe" means "to watch" or "to keep." Did He command us to keep Christmas or Easter? If we follow in His footsteps, we will "keep" what He kept-and Jesus Christ kept the biblical Holy Days.

To keep these days implies we will "watch" the calendar to anticipate and prepare for them, which is exactly what is done by those who observe the Holy Days. There is great joy while we eagerly await each of the festivals.

Some believe we don't need to observe any days, and only need to have love. But how does one "observe" love? Holy Days are observed, but one does not observe love. The way to love God and our neighbor is explained in 1 John 5:2, 3: "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."

Source:
The Are Biblical Holy Days for New Testament Christians?
March/April 1996 Good News

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“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
(Matthew 5:5, NKJ).

When most people hear that word “meek,” many times they think of a weak, shy, reserved or timid person who lets everybody run all over them. But that’s not at all what it means to be meek. Meekness is not weakness; it’s strength under control. Meekness is like a wild horse that has been tamed. He’s just as strong, just as powerful, has just as much speed as before, but now that strength is under control. You can walk up to him, pet him, lead the horse around, get on him and ride him. But don’t be fooled. He has the same power, the same tenacity as before, he’s just learned how to control it.

When you’re a meek person, you don’t have to go around trying to straighten everybody out. You don’t respond to every critic. People may be talking about you, but you don’t let it bother you. You may have the power to do something about it, but you realize your time is too valuable. You don’t fall for every distraction. Instead, you keep your focus on what God has called you to do. You keep your strength and power under control so that you choose to stay in peace and move forward in the victory the Lord has in store for you.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father in heaven, thank You for the blessing of meekness. I choose today to be a person of self-control. Help me to know when to speak and when to listen, when to respond and when to hold back, so that I can honor You all the days of my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“For God’s gifts and His call can never be withdrawn”
(Romans 11:29, NLT).

What is the vision that you have for your future? Maybe at one time you were excited about your life—you had big goals, big dreams, but you went through some disappointments or life didn’t turn out the way you planned and now you’ve just settled where you are. But understand, God’s plan for your life didn’t go away just because you had some disappointments, setbacks, or because somebody treated you unfairly. God didn’t write you off just because you made some poor decisions. No, He knew every mistake you’d ever make; He knew every person who would wrong you, and He still called you. He still designed a perfect plan for your life. No matter what’s happened in your past, God’s plan for your good remains. He still has a bright future in store for you. If you will get your hopes back and get your vision in line with God’s Word, then the rest of your life will be the best of your life! Keep standing, keep believing, and get a vision for your future because the Lord has an amazing future in store for you!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Heavenly Father, thank You for loving me. Thank you for calling me and giving my life purpose. I choose to shake off the past; I choose to forgive those who have hurt me, and I choose to keep my eyes on You, knowing that You will complete the good work You started in my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“Please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us”
(II Chronicles 6:1, Message).

So many people today are living below their God-given potential. They’ve put their dreams on hold because of disappointments or setbacks. But God doesn’t want us to spend a single moment living in regret or condemnation. He doesn’t want us to settle for mediocrity, He wants us to make the most out of every moment of our lives. He promises to make all things new. He promises to restore everything the enemy has stolen from us.

We are the ones who have to make the decision to let go of the past so we can make the most of today. We have to choose to keep moving forward one step at a time. When you choose to walk in forgiveness, you are making the most of your life. When you reach out to help others, you are making the most of your life. When you give of your time, talent, and resources to build the kingdom of God, you are making the most of your life.

Choose today to let go of the past so you can embrace every opportunity the Lord has in store for your future!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Heavenly Father, thank You for the precious gift of today. Help me to be a blessing to others so I can make the most of every moment. I bless You and thank You for the good plan You have for me. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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