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Imagine trading your privacy for promises that may never come true.
Now your most vulnerable moment is everywhere online.
The scary part?
The internet never forgets.
Protect yourself.
Not everyone who says “I love you” has good intentions.
Some people only want access, screenshots, recordings, and gossip.
In this generation, privacy is self respect.
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80,000 Christians worshipping God in the Netherlands, what a glorious sight!
Europe is Christian 🤍✝️
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“I didn’t know the gift of dissolving doubt was in the Bible”
~ Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa
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Dear @MTNNG , it is with a heart filled with joy I use to inform you that you have until 11:59pm Monday, 31st of August to duly respond to my comprehensive well broken down mail with a duly comprehensive report and review 🤝
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Nothing pained God more than this in the old testament. It made him ask Moses when the people would stop disrespecting him despite all the miracles he had performed. He told Moses, he would strike them with pestilence and build a stronger nation out of the loins of Moses, but Moses had to intervene and beg God to reconsider so the foreigners would not mock God for bringing them out of Egypt only to slaughter them in the wilderness, after promising to take them to the promised land.
However, God decided to slaughter every adult from 20 years and above who had seen his miracles and still disbelieved in him. Only Joshua and Caleb were spared. Just to add, the promised land was given to Caleb and his descendants because Caleb had a different spirit.
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
- Heb 11:6
We were studying Numbers 13 and 14 this morning, and I told my family this story again.
When I was posted to Anambra State for NYSC, I was later deployed to Onitsha. I had been rejected at my place of primary assignment, so I was staying with an older corps member, Lanre, opposite Dennis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS).
Every evening, we would gather at the DMGS compound, and some corps members would tell us about “the reality of the land.”
“Corpers here don't eat meat.”
“We don't eat fish.”
“Life here is hard.”
Bla bla bla. 😅
One evening, I couldn't take it anymore. I challenged the speaker:
“My own corper life will be different. I will eat fish. I will eat meat. I will buy a TV and video player—back then, owning those was a big-boy thing. I will live in a flat. And if I tarry in this land, I will buy a car.”
They laughed.
Look at this dreamer! 😂
Someone who didn't even have a place to work was talking about eating meat, buying a TV and living in a flat.
Well, the following day, I received news that I needed to travel to Lagos for an interview.
I went to Lagos, got the job and was reposted back to Onitsha, Anambra State.
With that job, I became one of the highest-paid corps members around.
I ate fish.
I ate meat.
I got my TV and video.
I lived in a flat.
And something even more beautiful happened:
I started feeding other corps members at DMGS.
This morning, while studying the story of the twelve spies in Numbers 13 and 14, I remembered that experience.
Ten spies saw the giants and concluded, “We can't.”
Joshua and Caleb saw the same land and believed, “We can.”
Sometimes, the people around you are not lying about the difficulties. They are simply describing the land according to the limits of what they can see.
Don't allow another person's experience to become the prophecy over your own life.
You may be standing in the same land, facing the same giants, but your story can still be different.
Be careful who describes your land to you.
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We were studying Numbers 13 and 14 this morning, and I told my family this story again.
When I was posted to Anambra State for NYSC, I was later deployed to Onitsha. I had been rejected at my place of primary assignment, so I was staying with an older corps member, Lanre, opposite Dennis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS).
Every evening, we would gather at the DMGS compound, and some corps members would tell us about “the reality of the land.”
“Corpers here don't eat meat.”
“We don't eat fish.”
“Life here is hard.”
Bla bla bla. 😅
One evening, I couldn't take it anymore. I challenged the speaker:
“My own corper life will be different. I will eat fish. I will eat meat. I will buy a TV and video player—back then, owning those was a big-boy thing. I will live in a flat. And if I tarry in this land, I will buy a car.”
They laughed.
Look at this dreamer! 😂
Someone who didn't even have a place to work was talking about eating meat, buying a TV and living in a flat.
Well, the following day, I received news that I needed to travel to Lagos for an interview.
I went to Lagos, got the job and was reposted back to Onitsha, Anambra State.
With that job, I became one of the highest-paid corps members around.
I ate fish.
I ate meat.
I got my TV and video.
I lived in a flat.
And something even more beautiful happened:
I started feeding other corps members at DMGS.
This morning, while studying the story of the twelve spies in Numbers 13 and 14, I remembered that experience.
Ten spies saw the giants and concluded, “We can't.”
Joshua and Caleb saw the same land and believed, “We can.”
Sometimes, the people around you are not lying about the difficulties. They are simply describing the land according to the limits of what they can see.
Don't allow another person's experience to become the prophecy over your own life.
You may be standing in the same land, facing the same giants, but your story can still be different.
Be careful who describes your land to you.
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Joao Pedro’s first hat-trick for @ChelseaFC was perfect 😮💨
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After 18 years, it’s time to say goodbye to Chelsea. I arrived as a nine-year-old with a dream, and I leave as a man who’s lived that dream in ways I never imagined. This journey tested me, lifted me, and strengthened me. To every teammate, coach, staff member, and supporter, thank you for shaping me. I gave everything I had, and I’m proud of the person this club helped me become. To the young players: the path won’t always be smooth. But stay ready, stay positive, and keep your faith. God’s timing is always right. Thank you all, truly, with love and gratitude.
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Something just happened. The newspaper vendor that supplies the dailies to my neighbour walked up to me and said he had been looking to see me but I was unavailable. In my head, I was wondering "why me?"
He said he needed the balance of his son's fees in Yabatech. I asked him how much it was and gave him double so he could use the balance to take care of himself. He was just praying for me in Yoruba.
This is the pressure men are going through. Outsiders are not going to ask "what about his mother" or "what about your wife." You as the man is just expected to stand up to the responsibility. If you're my friend, I will ask because I don't even hide my stance of joint responsibility.
Anyway, the point I'm driving home is, if all the educational opportunities, scholarship, STEM support are going to the girl child, what is the fate of the boys? In extension, how are we neglecting boys and still expect them to carry the responsibilities as "man of the house?" Interestingly, the successful women still want a more successful man in a world where women are becoming more educated and successful.
This will tip the balance of society. More men are increasingly unmarried. More women are increasingly unmarried. More men are increasingly unable to meet their financial responsibility where more women have occupied the work force and even more if them are unwilling to share the financial responsibilities.
This is not a for or against post. I just want to see how society functions in 50 years time. Anyway, women said staying at home is harder than going to work. So maybe the men are choosing the "harder" job of staying at home. Interesting days lie ahead 🤷♂️
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That statement is not literal unless the source of wealth is questionable. The saying simply means that money in itself will not give you peace of mind or happiness. Money does bring its own problems, but that is beside the point. Paul said something to the church in Philippi
"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."
- Phil 4:12
Failure to reach this stage is why people lose their minds when they are struggling financially or get depressed when they are wealthy. If you put your source of happiness and mental state simply on your financial status, you won't be able to live in either situation.
Bad economy is not a Nigerian word or a recent occurrence.
"And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread..."
Gen 45:15
Life does get better. Try to be content in whatever situation you are in while working and aspiring for what you want, so you don't lose your mind. God wants you to excel. I see God in the excellence of men. But Godliness with contentment is great gain. There is a vacuum in life only God can fill.
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I don’t know what consumerism has done to you that you think shopping will fill the void in your life. Haven’t you seen the very wealthy commit suicide and spending so much on therapy to stay sane? My friend always tell me I don’t understand how fortunate I am that money or what money can buy, is not linked to my happiness.
You say it is because I have money. But there was a time I didn’t have money. I’m still the same person to people that knew me across both era.
There is something that happened with the woman at the well. Her ancestors had drank from that well that was dug by Jacob for generations. When Jesus told her that if she drank from the well, she would thirst again, but the water He would give her will fill her and spring up to everlasting life, she found it funny. That is the problem with our generation. Our ancestors found validation from spending money and being better than their neighbours. “I just got a new phone, I just got a new house, I just went on vacation, did people like my post, did they comment on my picture?” The problem with external validation is that, if you put your validation in other people’s hands, you’ll keep going back to them for it.
There is vacuum in life that only God can fill.
