School of life

School of life presents, "Insight in His word"

Text:
Isaiah 45:2
Genesis 27:35.

Theme:
BREAK THAT NEAR-SUCCESS SYNDROME.

Memory Verse:
"And it came to pass , as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.” (Genesis 27:30).
MESSAGE:-
Many people cannot enjoy God’s showers of blessings in full because they always seem to arrive late. At that point when it seems they are about to be blessed, something crops up to siphon their blessing and before you know it, they arrive late and miss it. This is what is referred to as near-success syndrome. Some people refer to it as failure at the edge of breakthrough. As a result of near-success syndrome, many people have lost glorious opportunities that could have ushered them into showers of blessings. However, while many ignorant persons view it from the angle of coincidence, those with spiritual understanding know that it is not ordinary.

It is possible that you have been going through such experience over the years and have done everything to overcome without success. Having noticed that this is the experience you have been going through for some time, you have decided to approach issues more carefully. However, each time you are careful you still see the same cycle repeating itself in your life. This is the time to break this yoke if you truly desire to enter into God’s showers of blessings during this month and beyond. In our lead text for today, (Isaiah 45:2) God gives us the double assurance of breaking the gates of brass in pieces and cutting the bars of iron in sunder.

The above concepts represent iron-like and unyielding situations that are humanly impossible to open once they are barricaded. It does not matter how long they have held sway or who is behind them. What matters is that God has promised to rip them open and allow us to navigate out of them unscathed.
Maybe the gates of brass and the bars of iron have been locked against you spiritually such that you are always late to receive your blessings and that way, you constantly lost your blessings. Today, God is ready to uproot the yoke of near success syndrome.

First, he is set to make every crooked paths straight. The crooked paths might be in the area of your unstable relationship with Him. The crooked path may be your inconsistency in prayer and fasting or inability to read and meditate on the word of God. The crooked paths might be that you do not pay your tithes nor give worthy offering. Whatever it is, the Lord is willing to right every wrong.

You have to make the move by reconciling yourself with Jesus Christ by accepting Him into your life to be your Lord and personal Saviour. Ask Him to give you the grace to live holy and righteous according to His will and commandment. Then avoid sin in all its ramifications and then call upon Him to break the gates of brass in pieces and cut the bars of iron in sunder

DON’T TURN DOWN THE INVITE.

Memory Verse: “Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17 And sent his servant at supper time to good to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.”
(Luke 14:16-17).

MESSAGE:-
Our memory verse today is an interesting one. It recounts the story of the man that made a great supper and invited many people to come only for them to begin to offer excuses why they would not be available at the supper. It was a special invite. Having been turned down, the man had to send his servants into the streets to invite whoever they found. Those for whom the supper was prepared missed out because of their many excuses. Because they did not understand the reason the Master was inviting them, they rejected the invite and the Master was angry and asked his servants to go to the streets and invite whoever was available so that his house would be filled.

He also vowed that those that failed to honour his invitation would not taste of his supper. That is the fate that will befall all those that have rejected God’s plea for repentance. They shall not taste the supper in heaven.
The invitation extended to the people under review can be likened to that which Jesus Christ has extended to us contemporarily to come and partake in His inheritance. Some say they cannot honour God's invitation because it will affect their business, job, career, marriage, etc. Unknown to many, everything we desire in this life are all embedded inside the invite – sound health, protection, provision, guidance, promotion, peace, joy – name them; all can be found in Jesus Christ and if we reject Him, it means we have rejected these blessings.

God has prepared the abundance of everything for us right from the beginning of time and like a man who has cooked to fete a large crowd, He is inviting every one of us to come and take whatever we desire.
The Lord is inviting sinners to come and repent so that they can partake in the banquet prepared for eternity. Do not pay deaf ears and continue in sin. The risk is that your refusal to honour the invite, will definitely affect your eternity. So, retrace your steps back to Him like the prodigal son did and salvaged his life.

The supper is still on; the invite is still being given out once you are still alive. Accept yours today and live in God’s abundance forever.

THE NEED FOR YOUR MANIFESTATION

"And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"
(1 Sam.17:29).

There is a satanic plot to stop you from manifesting your divine power deposits. There is a voice that wants to make sure that you are not heard. It is empowered by the forces of hell to ensure that what God buried in your spirit man is buried with you in the grave unexploited. When Moses was born, all male children were to be murdered. When Jesus was born, all boys below two years were to be killed. That's how Satan works to frustrate any divine package of solution to our world.

I want you to know that many things are at stake over your manifestation that the manifestos of hell must push a man to stop you. Consider Christ: Herod was to kill him at birth, his parents were to stop him from his mission("are you not aware that I must be about my Father's business", he asked), Peter wanted him to shy away from death on the cross("get thee behind me, Satan", was his response) and the Roman soldiers were to stop his resurrection.

Eliab tried to stop David by accusing him of pride. David was rather considering the reasons for which he must manifest. Goliath was defying God and the armies of Israel, that was a cause. The Philistines were challenging the Jews in Sochoh, a land belonging to Judah. That invasion was a cause The poverty of his father's house, another cause. Jesse had just a few sheep and did not have servants. My friend, when you set the reasons for which you must manifest before you, it puts the force of opposition behind you.

Our quote for today:
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
Winston Churchill.

Further reading:
Mat.16:22-27.

Prayer:
1. Lord, concerning what I carry, there shall be no miscarriage.

2. The reasons for my manifestation shall all be fulfilled in Jesus name!

Amen 🙏🏻

Why are people attracted to you?

Many are attracted by their physical beauty,
Others are atrracted by mere achievements,
Some are attracted by their intelligence, skills, knowledge, fame or power.

But in all, when JESUS is the reason why people are attracted to you, then all other reasons might not be so relevant.

There's beauty in JESUS
There's Contentment in JESUS
There's uniqueness in JESUS
There's peace in JESUS.

Yes, you can have all other things as you so desire, but none can be compared to the JOY of having JESUS, doing JESUS and being like JESUS.

What's attracting people to you?
Dears, Let it be JESUS! ☺
Happy new week

What more do you want out of life? If all you seek is to acquire wealth, please self, and live selfishly, then that life is a waste. If that life is not rooted and grounded in the Word, saved and sanctified, becoming a glory to the one who made it, of which He can be proud to say.... This is my son in whom I am well please, then that life is wasted and not profiting.

Have you noticed how empty this world is?
It will interest you to know, that man is like the flower, that is today and tomorrow is no more.

The handsome young man that lay dead yesterday at Ado junction, had great dreams and ambitions. If someone had told him that he will be down there lifeless, he wouldn't have believed.

Just take a look at this scripture.

1 Corinthians 6:19
[19]What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Yes! You are not your own. You are owned by someone else. What do you have that you have not received?
We were all created for His pleasure, to bring glory to God. And if the reverse is now the case, then that life is a waste!

God is pleased with a righteous living, the righteousness of God is through faith in Christ Jesus. Man's own righteousness is as a filthy rags before God. Give your life to Jesus today and your life will know a meaning, it will begin to count and be a blessing to others.

Let me show you something in,

Genesis 6:5-7
[5]And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
[6]And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
[7]And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

.....May God not regret why He created you.
There is a purpose why he made you and still left you alive on this planet. You are a voice, Don't waste that life!

(CHRISTLIKEYOUTHFORUM)

HIS DEATH IS THE BIRTH OF VICTORY

"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves."
(Colossians 1:13)

From the endless bliss in the Garden of Eden to the endless torture of darkness and hopelessness, man sank.The grave consequences of sin dragged him from the heights of heavenly authority to the depths of hopeless captivity. The beauty of dominion was gone, gunned down by Satan. To be bound where he once ruled was the height of the depths that he fell into. And Jesus wept!

Dominion was established in light but lost in darkness. Chains strangled the beauty of life. Lack negated the lavish supplies of God. In Adam's fall, the heavens knew a rescue mission was the way. Where would the desired deliverance come from when all of mankind was subdued from his due place where the dew of heaven was his natural experience, daily? On Christ alone is the crisis of sin resolved.

Born in a manger, died to settle God's anger. His hunger was to save humanity and link him back with divinity. On His Cross, the curse of sin was crushed. Salvation was His mission accomplished. Hallelujah! He bowed to the grave that we may soar in heavenly places, laced with governmental powers, far above principalities and powers. God died like a man to qualify men to live like god for God. Death has conquered death. Celebrate, it is Good Friday!

Our quote for today:
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."
Pablo Neruda

Further reading: Romans 6:8.

Prayer:

1. Thank you Jesus for your death birthed my life.
2. May all the endless realities of your death and resurrection be evident in my daily living.

Good day to all my friends and a happy new month to you especially.

It's been a long while we met. Grace and mercy has found us. The lines are falling unto us in good pleasant places, we have a goodly heritage.

God's best is what you deserve.
Expect a turn around in that which your heart has desired for good.

At the breath of the the almighty a billion failure disappears.

oh Lord help us to be ready

Rapture Nightmare || Mike Bamiloye's One Man Drama

FAITH is not only when you Prayed and received Something BIG from God
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FAITH is also when you loosed something BIG and yet you're still STANDING
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If you read the HEBREWS HALL OF FAITH, it was only one person that was mentioned to have received something tangible...that was SARAH

Hebrews 11:11 "Through faith also Sara herself RECEIVED strength to conceive seed..."
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Others lost, yet they still believed...Some saw the promises afar off, but didn't receive it, yet they still believed

Hebrews 11:13 "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off..."
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Till they died they didn't received the Promises, but they died believing because they saw it afar off...it was their descendants that received the promises.
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It was obvious that their FAITH were not tied to Things that are seen

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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They were more interested in kingdom TREASURES than worldly PLEASURES

Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the PLEASURES of sin for a season;
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You that said you'll Backslide if God delays to answer your PRAYERS, i have a scripture for you.

1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable
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©Uche De Beloved.

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FAITH is not only when you Prayed and received Something BIG from God •• FAITH is also when you loosed something BIG and yet you're still STANDING 🔥🔥🔥 If you read the HEBREWS HALL OF FAITH, it was only one person that was mentioned to have received something tangible...that was SARAH Hebrews 11:11 "Through faith also Sara herself RECEIVED strength to conceive seed..." 🔥🔥 Others lost, yet they still believed...Some saw the promises afar off, but didn't receive it, yet they still believed Hebrews 11:13 "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off..." 🔥🔥 Till they died they didn't received the Promises, but they died believing because they saw it afar off...it was their descendants that received the promises. 🔥🔥 It was obvious that their FAITH were not tied to Things that are seen 2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 🔥🔥 They were more interested in kingdom TREASURES than worldly PLEASURES Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the PLEASURES of sin for a season; 🔥🔥 You that said you'll Backslide if God delays to answer your PRAYERS, i have a scripture for you. 1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable 💥💥💥 ©Uche De Beloved. Kindly like our page for more as we beckon on the great Monarch of Zion together in prayers 👇👇👇 Instagram.com/YouthAriseMedia #YouthAriseMedia

In the University of Tears, there's a compulsory Course every student must Offer
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And that Course is BETRAYAL...You can't run away from it, no matter how Prayerful you are.
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Jesus prayerfully selected twelve, but one later Betrayed him
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The main aim/Objective of that course is to help you get to that level where you totally loss confidence in MAN.

Psalms 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
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You'll stop looking unto MAN and start looking unto Jesus

Hebrews 12:2 "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith..."
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If you really want to go higher, please prepare your heart for Close range Betrayals
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Some of them will come to you with plastic Humility...but time will always reveal the actual state of the heart.

Let us PRAY
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©Uche De Beloved
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In the University of Tears, there's a compulsory Course every student must Offer 💥 And that Course is BETRAYAL...You can't run away from it, no matter how Prayerful you are. 💥 Jesus prayerfully selected twelve, but one later Betrayed him 💥 The main aim/Objective of that course is to help you get to that level where you totally loss confidence in MAN. Psalms 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 💥 You'll stop looking unto MAN and start looking unto Jesus Hebrews 12:2 "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith..." 💥 If you really want to go higher, please prepare your heart for Close range Betrayals •• Some of them will come to you with plastic Humility...but time will always reveal the actual state of the heart. Let us PRAY 💥💥 ©Uche De Beloved

STORY OF MY LIFE.

Five years after this horrible experience, it's hard to believe that I, at last, will find the courage to tell this part of my story to the world.

Truth is, I was never a slay queen, neither was I a hot chick. I never had been one. But I was not a pretentious church girl either. I was just Me (or may be so, I thought).

Everyone knew about my obnoxious lifestyle. Although, I loved churching, yet I never loved living the life of a typical Christian church girl. I never obeyed church doctrines, neither did I obey the Bible. I was bad in a packaged way.

I earned myself the name, 'agbero-chosen', because, I was a very 'wild church girl'.

Ah! You wouldn't want to hear of the so many atrocities I had committed. Do I mention the number of acclaimed pastors and evangelists I had committed s*xual immorality with? The number of married homes I had ruined. Ah!

Thank God for mercy. I was churchy yet worldly. But grace found me.

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Four years back, the same season as now, I had gone out with my female friends on valentine's day. It was a Sunday and a combined service in my church headquarters and so, I had leveraged on the nature of that day's valentine's day in relation to my parent's schedule to catch cruise. Since everyone was doing it, I ought to too. My thought then. It was my first valentine's outing and cruise-catching actually and I wanted to enjoy the then moment.

Was it peer pressure doing the driving or was it me being overly curious to know that big deal of an act which our parents, teachers, elders, and pastors strictly warned us against doing and disciplined us for thinking of doing them.

I remembered the time one Uncle Emeka, an old neighbor of ours in the compound we once lived in told me I was beautiful and would want me to be his bride when it was time. I was about 9years old then or so.

With every joy and excitement emitting from my person, I had told mom one evening she returned from the market about uncle Emeka's remark, innocently.

Uncle Emeka was a fine young Broda and he buys me my then-favorite spicy biscuits and Capri Sonne drink each time he returns home, from work, church, or wherever. Who no like better thing?😂 He was my then angel.

The memories are still fresh. I can still vividly remember how mom thoroughly checked my sacred gateway for any suspicious penetrations. She was scared that her 9years old daughter had probably gotten deflowered. How she slapped me hard thrice and seriously warned me with consequences never to go close to Uncle Emeka, not even greeting him ever again.

Mom went on to give Uncle Emeka an expensive public humiliation. I grew up to stop blaming her actions and reactions that day, after all, I was her precious daughter and she was trying to protect my blocos, my identity, and my family's reputation.

Only if she knew that Uncle Emeka was my first love and my favorite neighbor (maybe that was what my then childish self, thought)?

Only if she knew that I missed the daily biscuits and Capri Sonne drinks which wasn't continued by another person (uncle Emeka, if you get to see this, on behalf of my mom. I am sorry for the humiliation many years back).

Truth be told, her reactions that day and other times, grew a curiosity in me to want to know what she was preventing on me and my siblings' behalf and why she was being overly protective too.

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Four years ago, I had just clocked 16 and craved to feel like the adult I thought I was. After all, I was already seeing my menstrual cycles and already wore brassieres?

My mates had boyfriends for themselves, while I had none. In our cycle, I was the only modest spec of a girl who is churchy but o bad gan oh!

To them, it was funny how I wanted to preserve my virginity for my future husband while, local girl still badly wanted to live wild, and I did so 'coded'.


We went clubbing instead of being in church for service that day. One thing led to another and I was woken up in the evening that I prepared to leave for home. The last thing I remembered on waking was that I was in a clubhouse filled with clubbers, dressed and with my high-heeled shoes on, drinking Malt. I drank MALT! What then was I doing on the bed of a yahoo guy naked with the duvet barely covering my chest? I was lost and confused. That day, I was defiled without honor.

The bloodstain clearly shown on the white bedspread tore my heart into shreds. This wasn't mutual s*x, it was r**e. I never consented to this, and this explains why I watched my alcohol consumption then, to avoid careless fornication. I shamelessly left the bed to the bathroom to clean myself up. Wishing and hoping that death should consume me then.

At this point, I'm tearing up real hard. To my family and friends who would be reading this, I am sorry I hid this part of my story from you all up until now. It pains me to tell it, but this is the same season again, and I hope teenagers like I was then, would learn a lesson or more from it. In case I am not seen at home or around my usuals this evening up until Sunday, please look for me. I think I'm beginning to lose my sanity. I'm pained.

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When I returned from the bathroom to get dressed up, this non-entity of a G-boy threw huge cash at me. I just got r**ed and paid for it. Tears welled in my eyes, I got dressed, not saying a word to him and without taking the money, I left the hotel room, heartbroken.

I was glad I saw my friends at the reception waiting for me. They saw me crying and all wore a pitiful look. Innocent me felt I had good sympathetical girls for friends. They hugged me and patted me that I'll be fine.

Before I could explain my ordeal to them, kara, one of the girls, excitedly asked me if I enjoyed the s*x ride.

Shade, the slimmest of us all chipped in and asked how I wasn't going to enjoy a hot guy like Tobi. It was then I knew the name of my r**e perpetrator, Tobi, and that my friends, my well-trusted friends were the chief orchestrators of the r**e incident.

Ah! Please, trust no friend! Keep friends, but be selfish with your personal life!

How would I have imagined that my friends envied my being a virgin, despite the BJs, oral s*x, ma********on, and le***an acts I had engaged in without being penetrated hurt them badly?

How would I have known that they badly wanted to see me become like them? After 4 four years of being together with them, it was a shocker to me that they would ever conspire to betray the trust I had for them.

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It didn't end there.

This is the part that pushed me into attempting su***de a year after that incident.

This part of the story almost turned me into a sadist, but mercy said 'No'.
This part of the story almost made me a beast, but mercy said 'No'.
This part of the story would have been the end of me, but...

A year after that incident, I received a strange call from a strange person. It was my ra**st of that sacred evening. He had taped our S*x period and had taken several nudes of me. He was threatening to leak them out. On p**n sites, on social media, and also to send a hard copy of them to my parents. I realized then too that my then malt drink had been drugged.

I wouldn't want him going ahead with his threat and was left with no choice but to submit to his demands. He wanted brutal s*x, and he wanted them once a week or else. Even if I had broken up with my friends, I still went to solicit for their help, but they already washed their hands off my matter. I was alone.

I did it. It lasted two years. Thank God his phone got spoilt, refused to turn on, and was too expensive to repair. He had to scrap it instead, and that spelled out my freedom. But before then, I had already become an obsessive s*x addict. Ah! Thank God again for mercy.

I met Christ along the way. And although I feel transformed, honestly, I still am yet to feel healed. I doubt if there's ever going to be a form of healing again for me. It's a scar I'd forever live with, I know.

I suffered hypersexuality and I still do battle with terrible horniness now, years after. I had even slept with several church ni**as since I embraced Christ. It's not been easy. The harder I try to be chaste, the tougher it seems a possibility.



Sometimes, I so wish this part of my life's story would be fiction, it just hurts to know that it's real. Perhaps, to feel less of the pains, I'd just call it fiction. To say it never happened would be me lying to myself, but to call it fiction, I think would be ther**eutic to me.

The story of my life.

Help save a soul and share, please. 🙏🙏

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