OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR WEDNESDAY 20th MAY 2015; THEME : THE TURNING POINT IV BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR WEDNESDAY 20th MAY 2015

THEME : THE TURNING POINT IV

Memory Very: Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 

Read: 2nd Kings 5:15-20

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

Buhari Will Shake Hands With Devils

That the Nigerian president-elect Muhammadu Buhari shakes hands with Lara Oshiomhole has sparked a heated debate on social media. Some say that the handshake was inappropriate from the viewpoint of some Islamic tenets. While others see nothing wrong with the handshake.

For me, Let Buhari give handshake to the Devil as long as it doesn't affect the delivery of good governance, anti corruption stance, stable power supply dream, employment and job creations, productive education for self sustainablity, security, etc.

NGF crisis ends as Zamfara Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, emerges new chair by consensus

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state has emerged chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum as the crisis rocking the forum may have ended.

Mr. Yari emerged at the end of the meeting of the Forum held at the Lagos/Osun Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

The outgoing chairman of the body and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, read the communique of the meeting to journalists.

Mr. Amaechi said Mr. Yari emerged chairman by consensus and would serve for a period of one year.

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TUESDAY 19th MAY 2015 THEME : THE TURNING POINT lll BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TUESDAY 19th MAY 2015

THEME : THE TURNING POINT lll

Memory Verse: Genesis 25:32

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 

Read: Genesis 25:29-34

29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR MONDAY 18th MAY 2015, THEME : THE TURNING POINT 2 BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR MONDAY 18th MAY 2015

THEME : THE TURNING POINT 2

Memory Verse : Ruth 1:16

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Read: Ruth 1:11-16

11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SUNDAY 17th MAY 2015, THEME : THE TURNING POINT 1 - BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SUNDAY 17th MAY 2015

THEME : THE TURNING POINT 1

Memory Verse: Exodus 3:3

And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 

Read: Exodus 3:1-6

1 NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

Aregbesola’s son gives Osun PDP chair ultimatum to retract false publication

Kabiru Aregbesola, eldest son of the Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has given the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Ganiyu Ola-Oluwa, a seven-day ultimatum to retract the publication linking him (Kabiru) to money laundering.

The governor’s son said Ola-Oluwa should also tender an unreserved apology on his claim that he was arrested for money laundering at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Kabiru’s solicitor, Barrister Ajibola Basiru, in a letter directed to the PDP chairman, copy of which was made available to newsmen in Osogbo, said failure to comply with the ultimatum would make him face the wrath of law.

The letter reads in part:

“The retraction and apology must be done in at least two national dailies with wide circulation, and failure to publish the retraction with an apology within the said period may leave the client with no option but to seek legal redress with its attendant consequences.
“Your orchestrated lie had reduced the image of our client in the estimation of every right thinking member of the public and has also injured our client’s reputation and that of members of his families as you have portrayed him falsely as a money launderer.
“My client was never arrested at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport for the offence of money laundering and was nowhere near the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. He was not arrested at the airport or anywhere in the country at any time whatsoever.
“It may also interest you to know that our client has never been arrested anywhere in the country or outside the country for any offence since he was born. Our client is a young professional with a brilliant career.”

The letter pointed out further that, “our client informed us that he received numerous calls from families and friends directing him to check a news publication in two national dailies with captions: “Osun Govt, PDP bicker over alleged arrest of Aregbesola’s son for attempted money laundering”, and “Osun denies Kabiru Aregbesola’s alleged arrest.”
“In the said publications, you (Ganiyu Ola-Oluwa) issued a statement on behalf of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) emphatically stating that our client was arrested at the departure wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport with a lump sum of money that was not cleared but stocked in his luggage.

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SATURDAY 16th MAY 2015, THEME : CHILD OF DESTINY BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SATURDAY 16th MAY 2015, THEME : CHILD OF DESTINY

Memory Verse: Jeremiah 1:5

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nation.

Read: Exodus 1:15-17

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Message

Fundamental Flaw Of Nigeria Structure

The current structure of Nigeria and the thinking that led to it is fundamentally flawed. The crude thinking was to bring "development" to the grassroots under a feeding bottle formula from the center - Abuja (or Lagos before then). So people (politicians) were complaining that "when money gets to Ibadan it is spent in Ibadan (by Ibadan people) and does not reach Oshogbo". Solution: give them Osun State so that money can go to Oshogbo. When money gets to Enugu it is spent by the Nike people. Solution: give them Ebonyi and Anambra so that development can reach there under the same feeding bottle formula.

Intelligent Stealing

I have been wondering about Intelligence. Even though I disagree with the concept of "Intelligences", The Nigerian situation gives me the parameters to believe there must be another intelligence behind unhindered stealing from the public till. I will like to call it the intelligence of stealing. Yes, Intelligent stealing as perfected by Nigerian leaders lends itself to serious investigation and study by psychologists and evolutionary biologists.

George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker in “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum - There’s no accounting for tastes.” argued that economics should not be concerned with explaining preferences and values, but instead with how constraints affect choice. Money is fungible but what influences its accumulation? The models by these nobel price winners in economics explains how constraints affect choices but what are the factors influencing that choice? What influences what people want? Does values and upbringing play a role? What life preferences must be present to induce intelligent stealing? Is intelligent stealing infectious? What are the environmental factors involved in intelligent stealing and why the prevalence in Nigeria? The answer goes beyond corruption because the trait tend to lie dormant in its carriers in foreign environments. What thoughts have you had lately about Nigeria's "peculiar mess"?

Jonathan orders $500m oil project moved from Lagos

The Nigeria's outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that a $500 million oil and gas investment project be relocated from LADOL Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Lagos to Agga in Bayelsa State, The Nationreports yesterday.

The project is a partnership between LADOL Integrated Logistics Enterprise and Samsung Heavy Industries, Korea.

The two companies are to build fabrication and integration yards for Egina Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility for the use of local and foreign-owned oil companies.

The multi-million dollar project is in phases, and billed to be completed in the next five years.

The project is said to have reached an “advanced stage” before Jonathan issued a directive that it should be relocated.

The directive, contained in two letters dated April 27, was signed by Mr A.B Mohammed, a general manager with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

Mohammed signed the letters on behalf of the NPA Managing Director, Sanusi Ado Bayero, who is believed to be a stakeholder in Intel, an oil and gas logistics firm in Rivers State– an allegation he has denied in newspaper advertorials.

The letters read: “Pleased be informed that Mr President has vide PRES/99/MT/2/22 of April 20 approved the FPSO project be relocated to Agga in Bayelsa State when the facilities to handle such operations are developed.

“In addition, the project can be conveniently located at any designated oil and gas terminal. Please be informed that Mr President has approved, henceforth, all oil and gas related cargoes must be handled only in the designated terminals in Onne, Warri and Calabar Ports.

Should the Supreme Court Regulate the Work of the National Assembly?

"Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is reported to have stated that: The Supreme Court is wrong. The law does not allow one arm of the government to stop another arm of government from performing its duties.The Supreme Court cannot stop us from legislating and if they say that the Supreme Court should stopp us from making laws, it is misleading and it amounts to misreading the powers of the Supreme Court,”

Really, no court has such power to stop the legislature from performing its functions or hold it down for the mr. president or the excecutive arm of the government. Only that if the actions or the law made by the legislature are not inline with the provisions of the counstitution can the Judiciary declear such as null and void but not that the body should stop performing any of its mandated constitunational duties pending the determination of any case before the court or supreme court wahtsoever.

The Nigerian courts must stop taking any case, which pits the judiciary against the constitutional powers of the legislature. The courts, including the Supreme Court are treading on very dangerous territory, when they presume to regulate the legislative authority of the National Assembly.

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR FRIDAY 15th MAY 2015; THEME : UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART? BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR FRIDAY 15th MAY 2015; THEME : UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART?

Memorise: Acts 7:51

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Read: Romans 6:1-10

1 WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

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