Author: Deji Okegbile

‘COME AND SEE’ ‘Shitholes Countries:’ To a Fake and Prodigal President and his evangelical advisers

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.  – Chinua Achebe Africa, an enormous continent is the cradle of humanity and civilisation from the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa to the development of the Stone Age technology. Africa is a continent of ‘Come and See’ a Nathaniel proverbial response especially to those saying ‘can anything good come...

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Crackdown on Christians in China: A Call for Prayer

“And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it” -1 Corinth 12:26 Christian persecution is increasing around the globe and most especially in China where Christian persecution is becoming most severe because of the surging popularity of the non-state-approved churches. Christianity is the newest growing missional and social movement within China hence, the church growth ‘has alarmed the ruling Communist Party, wary of any threats to its control.’ China is officially atheist, but millions of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims worship in government-controlled buildings. Our brothers and sisters...

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ARE NIGERIAN LEADERS ‘DOORWAY’ OF DEATH AND POVERTY?

‘Evil is walking openly in our land, and around the world’ – Rebecca Brown There is the battle that is being fought daily over our physical and spiritual lives in Nigeria and this calls us to think of our choices and consequences. The question is, what are the “doorways” Satan is using to bring demonic destruction, perpetuates circle and harvest of death in Nigeria? It is all over the news that Nigeria entered the New Year with hope and prayers; but it has turned out that across the country from Kaduna, Rivers, Benue, and Kwara states is nothing but...

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Covenant Renewal: A call to Compliance – Repent, Believe the Gospel, and Come after Jesus

Beyond the false hope and charms of the gods of Consumerism plunging the once Christian nations to a post-Christian nations, and church movements to church monuments, Covenant renewal calls us to comply with the gospel. Covenant renewal beyond ethical responses prepares us for the coming of God’s Kingdom in Jesus Christ. God called and made a covenant with the Israelites to be a holy nation, ‘chosen to bear witness to his steadfast love by finding delight in the law.’ The Israelites who had lived in a land where every aspect of life was to point them to the holiness...

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GOD’S WISE VIRGINS: A CALL FOR RENEWAL AND HOPE IN JESUS IN THE NEW YEAR

The prosperity (complacency) of fools will destroy them – Proverbs 1:32 Using the words of prophet Jeremiah, we, who survived the sword of 2017 – the Suffering, the Worries and anxieties, the Oppression, the Ridicule and Destruction have found grace before God for 2018 (Jer 31). Just as Israel experienced deliverance at the Red Sea, the Lord parted the sea of 2017 to allow you and l to escape into 2018. Glory to God. The promise of God to rebuilt Israel and purified her so that the Lord can once again call her virgin resonates with this year’s inspiration and...

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