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I took my baby for vaccinations a while back
And for this particular one, the nurse told me it was the one that was the most painful of them all
She said “it burns as it goes in”.
And then she told me to brace myself because my baby was going to scream.
So I sat there. My baby was smiling and playing. He didn’t know what was coming but I did.
And when they gave it to him, oh how he screamed. And my baby does not cry easily. But this thing made him scream.
I saw the way he looked at me. I’m sure his brain was wondering if I loved him. Because how could I sit there and watch him in pain
Why didn’t i save Him from this horrible nurse?
But I did not save Him. Not because i don’t habe the power to.
I sat there and watched my boy whom I love more than myself go through pain.
I didn’t save him from it. I knew that pain was a necessity he had to go through to get a vaccine that would fortify him against disease that can end him.
And in that moment, all I could offer him was comfort
And in that moment I think I understood the love of the Father in heaven a bit more.
How sometimes, He sees us go through some pain because that is the only was we can learn some lessons
He allows some delay because that is the only way we learn patience
He allows someone break your heart because that’s the only way you can learn about the comforter
He allows some sicknesses because that’s the only way you can learn healing
He allows people abandon you because that’s the only way you can learn to feel His companionship
He allows lack because that’s the only way you can learn His provision and sufficiency
And in that moment, all He offers is His warm embrace and comfort.
Not because He doesn’t have the power to save you from it but that pain is necessary to forge something in you.
That’s when you’ll understand the scripture that says “when you pass through the fire, I will be with you”
Notice he did not say “I will rescue you from it.”
He says I will be there, watching you, comforting you, but it won’t destroy you.
May God give us the grace, to endure hard times.
Amen.
Blessings!
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Please retweet. His mother is in extreme distress. She’s a single mother and she’s losing her mind.
This kid has been missing for a few days now. Around Agbara and Ojo. Bikonu, retweet. Please retweet. His name is Chidera.
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🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 If you will be PATIENT and COMPREHEND 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 then READ.
This year makes it 5 years that I Victoria Orenze have not gone through THE TOLLGATE. I was there physically, i barely made it before we all watched live online the killings with our eyes and yet, it was and has be denied by our politicians and leaders as though what we saw was not real.
My heart bled that year and I made the decision to boycott tollgate until some form of justice is seen. I also refuse to forget in a hurry what happened there, the blood 🩸 that was shed. And for every time I am in traffic that could have been avoided if I took the tollgate, I am reminded to curse evil in my nation🇳🇬, speak against evil with every opportunity I get and pray harder to my GOD to deliver us from unreasonable and wicked politicians and leaders who will never ADMIT ANY TRUTH!
So when I write or speak and say pharaohs don’t know how to let go only GOD delivers from their hands you come and tell me it’s not by prayer or talking, we need to do something.
I ask you:-
What are you doing??
What can you sacrifice?
What can you boycott??
What inconvenience are you willing to go through?
We are too selfish as citizens, for many if we say let’s boycott this or that for some time, if you look back after 3 days you will be the only one standing. They will turn it to tribal nonsense and give a funny reasons why we can’t all just stand together for truth and justice.
For 5 thousand naira, 10 thousand naira, broom and Parker, indomie, car, money, positions(they don’t deserve or are qualified for but are promised) and more, your fellow citizen and comrade will sell you out in a hurry. We can’t go anywhere as a people until we stop our selfishness!!!
That’s why when you come and write nonsense in my comments without comprehension, when you come and tell me it’s not about just speaking or praying, I laugh and I block you.
I am not a suddenly concerned citizen, I have been a concerned n active citizen and servant of GOD for years and I will not stop PRAYING, speaking and acting by denying myself of the comfort of the tollgate for 5yrs and still counting as the LORD helps me.
I cried throughout the night seeing the CAC church live stream and I won’t stop speaking!
GOD has been speaking and warning us for years, but we will not listen, we are quick to turn from GOD!
This is a peculiar situation, a pharaoh kind of situation and only GOD can deliver us out of the hand of pharaohs! And HE will deliver us!
GOD will use men, use the wind, rain, thunder, animals, the earth and everything to fight for us HIS people if we will turn to HIM! and no matter who or what HE uses, HE must take all the glory not any man!
GOD will always first send warnings of judgment ahead to give room for repentance, so HE will be just and you won’t find fault in HIM when HE judges! When we refuse the warnings, we can’t escape the judgment!!
So if you are part of the wicked in Nigeria 🇳🇬 in anyway, shape or form, watch and see your evil end!
I keep praying!
I keep speaking out!
I keep acting!!
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PRIESTHOOD
Shortly after our wedding, I started feeling funny. My husband looked at me and said “you’re pregnant”
Two days later, we confirmed I was pregnant
At our first scan appointment, the doctor said the pregnancy was not viable and I had lost the baby already.
My husband looked at me and said
“That baby is alive and well”
The next scan we did, we heard the baby’s heartbeat
At the 20 weeks anatomy scan, they said the baby does not have a nasal bone and that was a soft marker for chromosomal defect and that he most likely had DS.
My husband said “Every good and perfect gift comes from God. Our child will be perfect”
Weeks later we did a NIPT test that confirmed there was no chromosomal defect.
Immediately I got pregnant my husband told me, “I wrote in my diary last year that I had a son. You’re carrying a boy”
At the anatomy months later, we saw that it was a boy.
When my water broke at 26 weeks, my husband danced around my bed and declared “you won’t have this baby until he is fully ready.”
There were times I started having serious contractions even at 27 weeks .
I would say “Adewale this baby may come o.”
My husband would say “not yet”
I didn’t have that boy till he was fully formed at 35 weeks.
My husband wasn’t saying these things because he saw them happen o
He said most of these things as his desire for his family as the priest over our home
And time and time again I saw God honour his words
I don’t know who needs to hear this.
Dear man, as head over your home, God SERIOUSLY honours your words.
Speak life into your home.
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Hello Mr Governor @jidesanwoolu ,
One of these days when you are not too busy with the very serious task of going to the Airport in Abuja to welcome Mr President from an International trip, kindly take a drive around Lagos roads and let us know why the government continues to risk the lives of Lagosians.
There are potholes on the roads causing accidents that are capable of destroying lives and properties.
Do better?
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This is the day that IT came to pass!! 🔥🔥
#HallelujahChallenge
#HallelujahChallenge2024
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Three years ago, I was stuck
Or I would say I felt stuck
I had finished service and it seemed like nothing was moving in my life
No Job
No direction on what was next
To crown it all, I was just served the hottest breakfast ever and it seemed like my world would end
I had to go back helping my parents in the business they were doing
I was doing this job for my parents in the university and to still came back to that same spot after school?
It’s like I was moving in circles
I tried to do a post graduate program, that one just parked one side
Someone would show interest in marriage and when it came the time to take concrete decisions, they would slip off
I remember praying against spritual husband one time
Not that I thought I had one, but I just wanted to cover my bases
Just in case
I would come out and preach and do programs and I would go back in and cry
To worsen it, all my peers that we had grown up together in church were getting settled one after the other
I was doing chief bridesmaid and bridal train again and again
Even though I was doing it with Joy, I kept getting the pity stares from people
And I was getting the looks, the concerned looks from church people
Being in a ministry that was public I was always before the eyes of people and the scrutiny was intense
I remember one time , it was almost becoming difficult to go to church because I was tired of the pity looks
“Mrs fine social media woman, what’s up with you?
Everybody has gone ahead and you’re still here?”
I would serve my God diligently
I wasn’t sure what was next
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The past six months of my life have seemed like 6 years
Because A LOT has happened
New marriage
New Job
New House
New country
New this
New that
When it was my time came, God compressed everything inside 6 months
Everything has been happening with lightening speed and precision my head still reels when I analyze it
God has said it is your time now and it’s been back to back to back to back miracles and provisions and progress
I can’t recognize the woman I am
Dear child of God
I bring to you today a promise of RESTORATION
That all the years that it seems the cankerworms have eaten, God will restore
I know what it feels like to feel stuck
I know the pain very well
I see your messages in my inbox and I may not be able to reply you one by on
But if you can see this,
Please hold on to God
Don’t stop serving Him
Your TIME will come
The Zeal of the Lord will make it happen
If He did it for me, He will do your own too
#womanengraced
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#WaterToWine
#HallelujahChallenge
He has truly turned my Water to Wine.
~ image culled from Pinterest.
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Last year hallelujah challenge,
I held my passport in my hands and danced and danced, trusting God for visa to go be with my husband in Canada
2 weeks later, my visa was approved!
This year, we go again.
He did it before, He’ll do it again!
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Amazing testimonies of what the LORD is doing through THE GREAT COMMISION ALBUM!
All glory belongs to the giver of gifts and sounds!!!
Plug in!!!
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I am sorry but there's nothing that will make me see the Nigerian church with pessimism.
Yes, we have many problems, but I look around and I still see:
Baba Kumyi
Baba Adeboye
Baba Oyedepo
Baba Olukoya
Bro. Gbile Akanni
Bishop Wale Oke
Pastor Paul Enenche
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome
Pastor Poju Oyemade
Prohet Hezekiah Olajide
Apostle Arome Osayi
Apostle Joshua Selman
Apostle Gideon Odoma
Apostle Michael Orokpo
Apostle Educhukwu
Apostle Femi Lazarus
Apostle Emmanuel Iren
Pastor Daniel Olawande
Rev'd Tolu Agboola
Pastor Nathaniel Bassey
Pastor Jerry Eze
Evang. Lawrence Oyor
Dr. David Ogbuelli
and these are just the ones of the top of my head.
I am sorry, I can't look at the church in Nigeria and sigh of despair. No.
Do we have major major problem? Yes.
Are we doing enough to address it? Debatable.
But is the church in Nigeria doomed? Never, far from it.
Is God working and brewing a revival here? Yes!
Look, we have a fully-packed ecosystem of righteous men building righteous believers in this nation.
The consciousness of God is in the heart of young people and now we are calling on the name of the Lord again.
God is doing something here. He is building a revival. And He is sanctifying an army unto Himself, in Nigeria.
The plans of God for this nation is solid, and God is sovereign over it. And that is enough faith for me.
In conclusion, I appreciate our sighs and concerns over many questionable things around and inside the church. We will address and fix it, but ultimately, the church in Nigeria still has her lamp before God.
And that is enough for me. Amen.