When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, there is lifting up. (Job 22:29a KJV)
The year is slowly drawing to a close and many of us are likely to be taking stock; looking back to the beginning of the year and what we set out to achieve and…
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;…
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“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)
He gave his autograph with the inscription: Philippians 4:13. Then a number of his admirers began to wonder what that meant. Could it be an identification number of some sort? Could it be some secret code? To Evander Hollyfield, this was an…
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“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7: 7-8)
From the start, it looked like it…
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“Sing to the Lord a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar…
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“If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, till my change comes.” (Job 14:14)
In spite of the chaotic circumstances engulfing the world around us, we must not give in to fear, we must not lose hope, we must remain…
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“It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps to be over the whole kingdom and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them so that the king would suffer no loss. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above…
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He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the righteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you…
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“…be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit,in faith, in purity.”(1 Timothy 4:12b)
In his piece, At-Risk Boys Need Male Role Models, Frank Manfre makes some very interesting observations. Boys today, he says, are twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed with an attention-deficit…
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There is a new global trend. Women are on the rise. Currently, there are more female presidents in Africa and elsewhere, than there ever has been. Today, we have an unprecedented number of women (13) in Nigeria’s federal cabinet, up from 0 in 1992. Also, for the first time…
Taiwo Odukoya
Lagos, Nigeria
Taiwo Odukoya, petroleum engineer, author and senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, is an expert on leadership and relationship issues.