You Have Love In You!

You Have Love In You!

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:5).

Some people wallow in self-pity because they feel unloved. Out of dejection they make statements like “I feel so far away from God. Maybe He doesn’t love me; I don’t think anyone loves me.” This shouldn’t be your experience if you’re a Christian because God loves you and has filled you with His love. He brought all of His love into your heart when He took up His abode in you. So there’s no reason to feel unloved or dejected because as long as God loves you, it doesn’t matter who doesn’t.

Instead of looking for people to love you, you can actually be the one giving out love. The Bible says “…the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us” (Romans 5:5). God’s nature of love is in your heart already and you can share it with others who feel unloved, letting them know that God so loved them that He sent His Son to reach out to them, even when they didn’t care about Him.

If you’re born again God has reconciled you to Himself by Jesus Christ and has committed unto you the ministry of reconciling others to Him. Now, you’re the one to show the loveless, that have no hope, the love of God, for you have it in your heart. Share that love today. Sow that gift of love into someone’s life today.

Most people feel empty because they don’t have love in them, but as one who is born again, you have love in you. So it’s your responsibility to go out and share it. And what a great opportunity the season offers us to share God’s love with others. Make it a merry Christmas indeed for that loveless one who feels abandoned and neglected. Let him know that he’s the reason Jesus was born; he’s the reason for the season.

Prayer
Dear Father, I thank you because I have your very nature of love in my spirit; therefore, I do not hesitate to demonstrate love to my neighbours today. I’m rooted and grounded in your love that’s shared abroad in my heart by your Spirit who dwells in me, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Further Study
Ephesians 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

1 John 4:7-8
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.


Daily Scripture Reading
1 Year Bible Revelation 16
Reading plan Haggai

2 Year Bible Revelation 18:13-24
Reading Plan Zechariah 3-4

Christ Is Born In Our Hearts!

Christ Is Born In Our Hearts!

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord (Luke 2:11).

Merry Christmas! How wonderful to know that Jesus was born, and that the reason He came to the world was to bring salvation to the whole world. This is what makes Christmas a joyful celebration indeed. The Bible says in Luke 1:68-69 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.”

However, this salvation, as glorious as it was, was only a means to an end. God’s plan wasn’t just to bring us out of sin and bondage and leave us to suffer and rot away in life. His plan was to make us new creations and fill us with His Spirit so we could worship Him in spirit and in truth: “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him” (John 4:23).

For the Holy Spirit to come to the earth, Jesus had to first leave, which was why He told His disciples in John 16:7 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” Now, the Holy Spirit has come, not just to be with us, but to live in us. This is the greatest thing mankind could ever know; to become the very tabernacle of the living God. The very idea or suggestion of it alone is overwhelming. Jesus was born, and He lived to die that we might live. Today, we live because He lived, died, and came back to life to be born in us.

This is the excitement we share today; that the same Christ who was born nearly two thousand years ago, lived, died, and came back to life to be born in our hearts. Thus, Christmas will not only be remembered for the baby-Jesus that was born in Bethlehem, but for the Christ that is born in our hearts; who lives and reigns forever in us and through us. Aren’t you glad about Christmas? It made it possible for Christ to be born in our hearts, and to live and express Himself through us.

Prayer
Dear Father, thank you for sending your beloved Son, Jesus, not only to save us, but to make us new creations. Now I can celebrate the joy of Christmas today and every other day, rejoicing over the Christ that has been born in my heart! Thank you, dear Father, for Christmas, in Jesus’ Name. Amen,

Further Study
Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

John 14:16-17
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.


Daily Scripture Reading
1 Year Bible Revelation 17
Reading plan Zechariah 1-3

2 Year Bible Revelation 19:1-10
Reading Plan Zechariah 5-6

He Planned For You Before You Came!

He Planned For You Before You Came!

For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which he prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live] (Ephesians 2:10 AMP).

As God’s children, we were chosen in Christ before the world began to live a successful and glorious life. We were predestined for greatness and the good life. You’re not an accident to God; you didn’t take Him by surprise. God didn’t just start fixing things on your behalf when you appeared on the scene so you can have a great life, no. He planned for you before you came.

Our opening verse says you were recreated in Christ Jesus, thoroughly fashioned for good works, which God planned beforehand for you, taking paths that He preordained ahead of time. He created you to do good works, and these good works, He says, were preordained ahead of time. Not only that, the path; the road you’re to journey through in life, in order to fulfill your destiny in God has also been prearranged.

Thus everyone you’d meet, everything that’s consistent with your destiny in God has been laid on that path that you’re to journey in life. Therefore, your passion for excellence and the glory-life isn’t just a mere desire, but the result of predestination. Little wonder the words of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 2:13: “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Your role is to synchronize yourself through the Word of God and the Holy Ghost, in God’s place, in God’s time, for God’s purpose, in God’s way. Then your life will be on course. You’d find yourself functioning in the perfect will of God and walking in His time table. How exciting this is!

Prayer
Through the power of the Word and by the working of God’s Spirit, I walk in God’s perfect will for my life today! There are no accidents or mishaps in my path, for I walk in preordained pathways of blessings! Goodness and mercy follow me everywhere I go, and I have the supernatural grace to excel in all my endeavours today, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Further Study
Romans 8:29-30
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Daily Scripture Reading
1 Year Bible Revelation 21
Reading plan Malachi 1-2

2 Year Bible Revelation 22:1-10
Reading Plan Malachi 1-2

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AC, Group, Knock FG over Lagos 37 LCDs, Petroleum Bill

AC, Group, Knock FG over Lagos 37 LCDs, Petroleum Bill

As the federal government's directive to Lagos State government to dismantle the 37 local government development areas reverberates across Nigeria, the Action Congress (AC) in Bayelsa State has stated that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua had acted in bad faith.

This is just as the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has described the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill as another pain in the neck of the Niger Delta region. The positions of both groups were contained in a separate statement issued in Yenagoa by the state secretary of the AC, Comrade Ebikibina Miriki and the Executive Director of ANEEJ, David Ugolor.

According to the AC, the federal government's 14-day ultimatum to Lagos State compelling it to revert to the statutory 20 local councils was against the principles of federalism which Nigeria was currently practicing. The party noted that there was something sinister about Yar'Adua's insistence that Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola should delete the 37 local council development areas despite the Supreme Court judgment which settled the matter in favour of Lagos State.

The AC said: "By the grace of God, Nigeria is practicing democracy in a federalist structure where the federating states enjoy autonomy, especially the administering of local councils. "President Yar'Adua's ultimatum directing Lagos State government to cancel 37 local council development areas created by an act of Lagos State Hosue of Assembly, and pronounced as valid by the Supreme Court verdict, is an abuse of the rule of law.

The AC submitted that Nigeria was not practicing a unitary system of government where the central government bullied state governments, stressing that democracy was being fettered by the abuse of power. "The federal government ultimatum to Lagos State government in the face of the fact that the act of the state House of Assembly on the 37 local council development areas is receiving ratification by the National Assembly shows that President Yar'Adua pays lip service to due process", it added.

However, the ANEEJ had urged the federal government to withdraw the Petroleum Industry Bill, saying the continued debate on the bill could unsettle a lot of nerves in the Niger Delta. The environmental advocacy group commended the decision of the South-South governors to pull out of the amnesty deal as it had exposed the federal government's intentions for the region. "The decision of the South-South governors to withdraw support for amnesty is in order.

For the first time, these governors have spoken and represented their people adequately. "The Ministry of Niger Delta was allocated N50 billion in this year's budget for capital development whereas the federal government approved N60 billion for the upgrading of Abuja Airport Road. This is ridiculous and a clear testimony of the federal government's unserious attitude towards the Niger Delta". It also called on the South-South governors to take a position on the Petroleum Industry Bill, adding that, if the bill must sail through, the governors should ensure that the proposed law accommodated the concerns, wishes and aspirations of oil-bearing communities.

Govt Revitalizes Marine Transport

The Bayelsa State government has announced its readiness to revitalize the comatose marine transport in the predominantly riverine state with a view to ameliorating transport difficulties encountered by coastal communities.

The state Commissioner for Works and Transport, Emmanuel Frank-Opigo told journalists in Yenagoa that government had decided to accord priority to water transport because over 70 percent of communities in the state were located along several rivers and creeks. According to him, government had entered into a public-private partnership with Gold Coast Nig. Ltd, a marine transport firm which, Frank-Opigo noted, had the requisite pedigree to deliver on the water transport plans of government.

The Commissioner disclosed that the Governor Timipre Sylva administration "inherited 12 dilapidated marine transport boast" upon its inauguration two years ago. He said accessibility and movement of goods and services to and from the coastal communities had been a problem for the people of the state The partnership with Gold Coast Nig. Ltd, Frank- Opigo informed, had started on a good note as the company had refurbished four of the 12 decrepit boats, stressing that efforts were on to get the remaining boats refurbished.

He said the refurbished four boats, in the meantime, would go a long way in setting government's marine transport agenda to reposition the marine sector. He said the partnership allowed the marine transport company to run the fleet and pay government an agreed amount of money periodically.

Frank-Opigo said government would ensure that sufficient boats were provided to ferry goods and services from the state capital, Yenagoa, to and between coastal communities. The Commissioner also reiterated government's commitment to ban commercial motorcycles from operating in Yenagoa and fully replace them with buses and taxis. Frank-Opigo said the phasing out of commercial motorcycle operation in the state capital would be in stages, adding that they would be finally replaced after the scheme had taken off effectively.

House to Lobby Against Petroleum Industry Bill

The Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Wednesday said it would embark on a campaign to lobby the five State Houses of Assembly in the Niger Delta region to reject the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill. It will be recalled that Petroleum Minister, Rilwanu Lukman, had while speaking at the Senate public hearing on the bill in Abuja, said that the bill would ensure transparency in the oil and gas sector.

``The bill is in the best interest of Nigerians and the people living in the oil producing areas contrary to speculation in some quarters,'' he said. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) Lee Maeba, said that the bill was coming at a time when obsolete laws in the sector should be repealed. He noted that all memoranda received during the hearing, would be treated equally and urged members of the public and other stakeholders who still had memoranda to present to the committee to do so.

But the Deputy Speaker, Nestor Binabo, who led other lawmakers in a debate after the House resumed from a two weeks recess, warned that the Bill was capable of ``thwarting'' the peace efforts in the region. Most of the members agreed that the supporting roles of the various assemblies in the region, would reduce the noticeable lukewarm attitude of Ministers and Senators from the region.

Contributing, Mr Jonathan Obuebite, representing Nembe I Constituency, alleged that the Bill was a deliberate move to further marginalise the people of the Niger Delta. ``It will be against the principles of fair play, equity and natural justice,'' he said. Other members called on elected and political office holders from the region to show signs of concern and support for issues affecting the people of the region rather than adopting a lukewarm attitude due to selfish political considerations. Igoniko Oduma, Yenagoa