High-life singer, Flavour doesn’t hide the fact that he loves his dogs a lot. He even named them after musicians. He shared this photo with the message:
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Stella Damasus Dazzles In New Photos
Stella Damasus shared these new photos on her instagram page..She looks good!
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Photo: APC Members shot on their way to campaign for Buhari
Political gun men on Tuesday morning shot several members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who were en route to the garden city of Port Harcourt to attend the flag off of the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari's 2015 campaign in Rivers State.
The critically-injured APC members were from ward six of Khana Local Government Area in Rivers State. The situation was so serious that the injured had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Lessons in Prayer for the year
I haven’t posted a blog entry in a few months – forever in my book! That isn’t because I haven’t been writing, I’ve just been working on some theologically weighty topics on and off that need more time (sigh!). Anyway, I will get it together, but, in the meantime, today while I was cleaning up my kitchen after an afternoon of making gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches with my teen girls small group (love my girls!) and doing our latest lesson from The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson, God really impressed on me to put my next planned activity for the afternoon on hold and blog about a few lessons in prayer that I’ve been reflecting on. These likely are not new, but are ones that God has reminded me of over the last few months and, in some cases, years. I’m going to attempt to make these short and snappy, but we will see how that goes!
For the last several months, God has really been growing my prayer life. One obvious way He’s done this is through increased time in prayer. Another way, among others, has been through reading The Circle Maker, which I first did last spring. It’s a book on prayer that I think can be summed up with one of the mantras repeated in the book: “God honors bold prayers because bold prayers honor God.” It focuses on the concepts of dreaming big, praying hard and thinking long (multi-generationally) – all in prayer. This isn’t a book review, so you can check Circle Maker out in more detail here. It really brought together lessons I have learned in prayer and packaged them neatly for reflection and implementation in my prayer life now. A few months after reading Circle Maker it was recommended as an option for my teen group study, and I almost picked the student edition immediately. Although I see the girls benefiting from the study, I really believe God had me choose it for me too! Every chapter I have reread so far has directly addressed situations I am currently facing and dovetail into other lessons God has impressed on me though other media. Some principles in the book are peppered below. I also recommend checking it out!
Prayer is part of God’s sanctification process for His children.
Sanctification can be a theologically deep concept, but here I will sum it up as the process of God making believers in Christ more like Him here on earth. At times in prayer we can become focused on “unloading” to God, petitioning Him for our personal needs or praying for others. While those are all good things, at times, consciously or unconsciously, we can see getting an answer to our requests as the end. While God loves to provide for our needs and answer our prayers in various ways, He also uses our time in prayer to grow our dependence on Him and conform us to His likeness. We find that as He transforms us in prayer, an answer to a prayer is the natural – but secondary – response to pursuing Him. Today we read a chapter in Circle Maker that I think has an appropriate section: “you shouldn’t seek answers as much as you should seek God…If you go looking for answers, you won’t find them, but if you seek God, answers will just naturally find you.” p. 56 (see section for other context). Our prayers are part of the process of God changing us, and His work in sanctification continues until we get to heaven and are perfected.
God also just loves for us to spend time with Him and experience the benefits of doing so! Psalm 16:11 says, “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (ESV). The joy we can experience in God’s presence – no matter what our circumstances – is a wonderful respite from life’s challenges and, even better, does not compare to what believers will experience in heaven!
God’s plans and thoughts toward us are infinitely greater than our own.
I love this truth! In a nutshell, it’s that whatever I may go to God thinking I want, what God is thinking toward me is so much bigger than anything I can even conceive. I love to illustrate this principle with kids by asking them to think about the grandest thing they could ever imagine. Then it follows to say, “whatever God is thinking is infinitely bigger than that!” Isn’t that verse amazing!?!?!??? Now, what God is thinking may have nothing to do with what we’re thinking is “best,” and it may even involve pain, but His Word says that His plans are mind-blowing, beyond what we can imagine! Two scriptures that God has impressed on me in prayer for things I desire have really given me rest and helped me encourage others: the popular Jeremiah 29:11 and I Corinthians 2: 9.
Jeremiah 29:11 says:
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV)
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (NKJV)
First Corinthians 2: 9 says,
For the last several months, God has really been growing my prayer life. One obvious way He’s done this is through increased time in prayer. Another way, among others, has been through reading The Circle Maker, which I first did last spring. It’s a book on prayer that I think can be summed up with one of the mantras repeated in the book: “God honors bold prayers because bold prayers honor God.” It focuses on the concepts of dreaming big, praying hard and thinking long (multi-generationally) – all in prayer. This isn’t a book review, so you can check Circle Maker out in more detail here. It really brought together lessons I have learned in prayer and packaged them neatly for reflection and implementation in my prayer life now. A few months after reading Circle Maker it was recommended as an option for my teen group study, and I almost picked the student edition immediately. Although I see the girls benefiting from the study, I really believe God had me choose it for me too! Every chapter I have reread so far has directly addressed situations I am currently facing and dovetail into other lessons God has impressed on me though other media. Some principles in the book are peppered below. I also recommend checking it out!
Prayer is part of God’s sanctification process for His children.
Sanctification can be a theologically deep concept, but here I will sum it up as the process of God making believers in Christ more like Him here on earth. At times in prayer we can become focused on “unloading” to God, petitioning Him for our personal needs or praying for others. While those are all good things, at times, consciously or unconsciously, we can see getting an answer to our requests as the end. While God loves to provide for our needs and answer our prayers in various ways, He also uses our time in prayer to grow our dependence on Him and conform us to His likeness. We find that as He transforms us in prayer, an answer to a prayer is the natural – but secondary – response to pursuing Him. Today we read a chapter in Circle Maker that I think has an appropriate section: “you shouldn’t seek answers as much as you should seek God…If you go looking for answers, you won’t find them, but if you seek God, answers will just naturally find you.” p. 56 (see section for other context). Our prayers are part of the process of God changing us, and His work in sanctification continues until we get to heaven and are perfected.
God also just loves for us to spend time with Him and experience the benefits of doing so! Psalm 16:11 says, “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (ESV). The joy we can experience in God’s presence – no matter what our circumstances – is a wonderful respite from life’s challenges and, even better, does not compare to what believers will experience in heaven!
God’s plans and thoughts toward us are infinitely greater than our own.
I love this truth! In a nutshell, it’s that whatever I may go to God thinking I want, what God is thinking toward me is so much bigger than anything I can even conceive. I love to illustrate this principle with kids by asking them to think about the grandest thing they could ever imagine. Then it follows to say, “whatever God is thinking is infinitely bigger than that!” Isn’t that verse amazing!?!?!??? Now, what God is thinking may have nothing to do with what we’re thinking is “best,” and it may even involve pain, but His Word says that His plans are mind-blowing, beyond what we can imagine! Two scriptures that God has impressed on me in prayer for things I desire have really given me rest and helped me encourage others: the popular Jeremiah 29:11 and I Corinthians 2: 9.
Jeremiah 29:11 says:
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV)
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (NKJV)
First Corinthians 2: 9 says,
Ini Edo: Actress' estranged husband set to remarry
Rumours are flying that actress Ini Edo's estranged husband, Philip Ehiagwina, is set to marry again
Few months after their marriage hit the rocks like a badly arranged pack of cards, Nollywood actress, Ini Edo's estranged husband, Philip Ehiagwina, is set to marry a Nigerian lady based in Accra, Ghana, finally putting an end to any hopes of the couple reconciling.
According to insiders, the lady who is based in the west coast country may have been the reason Philip abandoned Ini in Nigeria and moved to the country and is reportedly making moves to make the union legal, which would make it his third marriage in the past few years.
Though the man in the eye of the storm has been shielding the real truth from the public, those close to him say he is deeply in love with the lady and his excuse that he decided to move to Ghana to set up his business is just a ruse to be close to her.
Recall that the marriage of the star actress to the Ed State born business man broke down irretrievably in September of 2014 after six years, with accusations flowing from both camps. While Philip's camp accused Ini of cheating on her husband, her camp claimed that the man was actually a gold digger who was out to get whatever he could from her and their problems arose when she would not include his name in the deed of some of her properties.
The marriage was actually turbulent from the inception when a certain Nigerian actress based in USA, Ruth Okoro, cried out that Philip was actually her husband and that Ini Edo snatched him from her.
Joseph Benjamin speaks on actress, Lisa Omorodion and First Cut
Popular actor and model, Joseph Benjamin has commended Nigeria’s up and coming Nollywood actress cum producer, Lisa Omorodion over the outcome of her first movie production, ‘First Cut’.
Joseph Benjamin who played a lead role in the movie said no better words other than ‘biggest miss of the year’ could be used to describe the experience of anyone who misses out on the thrilling and educative movie which is scheduled to hit the cinemas come January 23, 2015.
The popular actor said “First Cut is a great movie. I could not believe it is Omorodion’s first attempt at production; the outcome is a great product. So much work was put into it and having Chico Ejiro direct it, and people like Bobby Obodo makes it a great mix’.
First Cut is a theatrical blend of morals, fashion, education, information and professionalism in film-making and production directed by Chico Ejiro; featuring plots with collections of suspense, emotions, neglect, sex, insecurity, parenting, abuse, trauma and other psychological elements.
The movie narrates the story of KC Morgan, the central character, played by the producer herself, Lisa Omorodion; a character respected by many yet suppressed by trauma. Her own painful secret which threatens to shatter the new life she has created for herself; the central character’s woes were multiplied by her loved ones who continue to inflict pains on her.
First Cut embodies Nollywood stars of exemplified competence, mastery, class and real professionalism like Monalisa Chinda and Bobby Obodo.
Joseph Benjamin, said ‘We need good movies like First Cut to give us reality check. There are many deeper things to talk about other than love; yes, we need love but our being isn’t just about love’.
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