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"Do You Know My King"?
The Bible says my King is the King of the Jews. I say, He is the King of the world. He's the King of righteousness. He's the King of all ages. He's the Prince of Peace. He's the King of glory. He's the King of kings, and He's the Lord of lords. That's my King. I wonder if you know Him?
My King is a sovereign King. No means of measure can define his limitless love. He's enduringly strong. He's entirely sincere. He's eternally steadfast. He's immortally graceful. He's imperially powerful. He's impartially merciful. Do you know Him?
He's the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this earth. He's God's Son. He's the sinner's Savior. He's the peak of civilization. He's unparalleled. He's unprecedented. He is the loftiest idea in literature. He's the highest personality in philosophy. He's the fundamental doctrine of true theology. He's the only one qualified to be an all-sufficient Savior. I wonder if you know Him today.
He supplies strength for the weak. He's available for the tempted and the tried. He sympathizes and He saves. He strengthens and sustains. He guards and He guides. He heals the sick. He cleanses the lepers. He forgives sinners. He discharges debtors. He delivers the captives. He defends the feeble. He blesses the young. He serves the unfortunate. He regards the aged. He rewards the diligent, and He beautifies the meager. I wonder if you know Him.
He's the key to knowledge. He's the wellspring of wisdom. He's the doorway of deliverance. He's the pathway of peace. He's the roadway of righteousness. He's the highway of holiness. He's the gateway of glory. Do you know Him?
Well, His light is matchless. His goodness is limitless. His mercy is everlasting. His love never changes. His word is enough. His grace is sufficient. His reign is righteous, and His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I wish I could describe Him to you. Yes, He's indescribable. He's incomprehensible. He's invincible. He's irresistible. You can't get Him out of your mind. You can't get Him off of your head. You can't outlive Him, and you can't live without Him.
Well, the Pharisees couldn't stand Him but they found out they couldn't stop Him. Pilate couldn't find any fault in Him. Herod couldn't kill Him. Death couldn't handle Him, and the grave couldn't hold Him. That's my King, I wonder if you know Him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z15FlTONVo
My King is a sovereign King. No means of measure can define his limitless love. He's enduringly strong. He's entirely sincere. He's eternally steadfast. He's immortally graceful. He's imperially powerful. He's impartially merciful. Do you know Him?
He's the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this earth. He's God's Son. He's the sinner's Savior. He's the peak of civilization. He's unparalleled. He's unprecedented. He is the loftiest idea in literature. He's the highest personality in philosophy. He's the fundamental doctrine of true theology. He's the only one qualified to be an all-sufficient Savior. I wonder if you know Him today.
He supplies strength for the weak. He's available for the tempted and the tried. He sympathizes and He saves. He strengthens and sustains. He guards and He guides. He heals the sick. He cleanses the lepers. He forgives sinners. He discharges debtors. He delivers the captives. He defends the feeble. He blesses the young. He serves the unfortunate. He regards the aged. He rewards the diligent, and He beautifies the meager. I wonder if you know Him.
He's the key to knowledge. He's the wellspring of wisdom. He's the doorway of deliverance. He's the pathway of peace. He's the roadway of righteousness. He's the highway of holiness. He's the gateway of glory. Do you know Him?
Well, His light is matchless. His goodness is limitless. His mercy is everlasting. His love never changes. His word is enough. His grace is sufficient. His reign is righteous, and His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I wish I could describe Him to you. Yes, He's indescribable. He's incomprehensible. He's invincible. He's irresistible. You can't get Him out of your mind. You can't get Him off of your head. You can't outlive Him, and you can't live without Him.
Well, the Pharisees couldn't stand Him but they found out they couldn't stop Him. Pilate couldn't find any fault in Him. Herod couldn't kill Him. Death couldn't handle Him, and the grave couldn't hold Him. That's my King, I wonder if you know Him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z15FlTONVo
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Kukoyi Family Tree
This is the kukoyi Family Tree that I just posted. Thanks to Alhaji Musibau Olatunde Kukoyi (my father) and Bro Yemi Kukoyi in Baltimore U.S.A
Thursday, March 26, 2009
God Bless Nigeria
Author: Dr. Tony Rapu. Date: Aug 2006
One obvious problem that Nigerians have is that they almost never have anything good to say about their country.
Our ordinary everyday conversations are studded with criticisms of the government and observations on the hopelessness of the Nigerian condition. Nigerians freely pour scorn on their country. The country is the butt of endless jokes and parodies. Perhaps no other people on earth so readily disparage their own nation as quickly and as often as Nigerians do.
By and large our attitudes towards our country are those of apathy, cynicism and contempt. This is largely due to our long history of disappointing governments and dashed hopes. Over the years we have developed a distrust and disdain for government. We alternately heap our (at times unrealistic) expectations on government and then flay them mercilessly afterwards for their inability to meet our expectations.
Tragically we have now transferred our contempt for the failure of government to the land itself. This is reminiscent of the story of ancient Israel on their way to inherit the Promised Land. Israel was poised on the border of Canaan and yet failed to possess it because they disparaged the Land. That generation was then condemned to wander and perish in the wilderness because they despised the land that God had given them.
There is a spiritual principle that holds that you cannot curse a land and expect to be blessed by it. It is a negation of the law of sowing and reaping. The words we speak are also seed and we reap from a land the negative words and attitudes that we have sown, as it were, into the land. In the case of the Israelites, they failed because they deemed that the Promised Land, a gift from God, was not worth the effort of possessing it.
God, in turn, deemed that the Israelites were not worthy of the land He had promised their fathers. Is there a possibility that not a few Nigerians are actually roaming around in the wilderness of poverty, hardship and deprivation simply because they themselves have cursed the land of their birth.
Perhaps we need to begin to see Nigeria as our promised land in spite of the giants in the land. We need to stop despising the land of our inheritance. The Israelites retreated because their perception of giants and fortified cities prevented them from seeing the milk and the honey (the true potential) of the land. It is a known fact in business that the first people to profit in any given industry are those that can see its potential.
It was in fulfillment of this truth that Joshua and Caleb, the only two men who believed in the viability of the land were the only men from their generation who eventually entered the land. The giants and their fortified cities were not insurmountable. Similarly the challenges that we are facing as a people today are not insurmountable problems; we should see them as challenges that are normal in the ordinary course of nation-building.
The lesson that the Israelites failed to learn that first time and which we must learn now is that there are no ready-made nations. Truly there are giants, (obstacles and personalities) and fortresses (seemingly impenetrable systems and structures) that must be conquered. Because we have rejected our promised land with our words and actions, perhaps the land is equally rejecting its inhabitants; offering them thorns and thistles instead of milk and honey.
Nigerians deserting their villages in the rural-urban drift or fleeing abroad in brain drain are manifestations of the biblical imagery of a land vomiting out its inhabitants. In contrast the generation of Israelites that finally received the Promised Land was the generation that fought to possess every inch of their inheritance.
It was only through consistent hard work and battle for the soul of their nation that they were able to possess the land and enjoy its blessings. We have to develop a Godly orientation of ownership and responsibility over Nigeria as our own land of promise. When we approach Nigeria from this light, we sow seeds of hope and faith that will yield fruit that will bless its inhabitants.
Ironically the nations that Nigerians are fleeing to are nations that themselves have imbibed this truth, received their countries as their own promised lands and paid the price for their development. King Solomon wrote in the book of Proverbs, “By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.” What we say about our country matters.
Americans understand this when they say “God bless America” and call their land “God’s own country”. In the same vein, we too must begin to bless Nigeria and see it as God’s own country too. We must put an end to our cursing. This is the principle behind patriotism, national flags and National anthems. When Israel was taken into captivity in Babylon, God sent a message to the people through the Prophet Jeremiah.
They were to bless the land of the evil Babylonians; they were to seek the peace and prosperity of the land. They were to pray to God about the land. In its peace God declared they themselves would find peace. Paul urges us to pray for our governments that we may dwell peaceably in the land. We also have to mentally separate the government from the land. Our frustrations with the government should not be transferred to the land.
One obvious problem that Nigerians have is that they almost never have anything good to say about their country.
Our ordinary everyday conversations are studded with criticisms of the government and observations on the hopelessness of the Nigerian condition. Nigerians freely pour scorn on their country. The country is the butt of endless jokes and parodies. Perhaps no other people on earth so readily disparage their own nation as quickly and as often as Nigerians do.
By and large our attitudes towards our country are those of apathy, cynicism and contempt. This is largely due to our long history of disappointing governments and dashed hopes. Over the years we have developed a distrust and disdain for government. We alternately heap our (at times unrealistic) expectations on government and then flay them mercilessly afterwards for their inability to meet our expectations.
Tragically we have now transferred our contempt for the failure of government to the land itself. This is reminiscent of the story of ancient Israel on their way to inherit the Promised Land. Israel was poised on the border of Canaan and yet failed to possess it because they disparaged the Land. That generation was then condemned to wander and perish in the wilderness because they despised the land that God had given them.
There is a spiritual principle that holds that you cannot curse a land and expect to be blessed by it. It is a negation of the law of sowing and reaping. The words we speak are also seed and we reap from a land the negative words and attitudes that we have sown, as it were, into the land. In the case of the Israelites, they failed because they deemed that the Promised Land, a gift from God, was not worth the effort of possessing it.
God, in turn, deemed that the Israelites were not worthy of the land He had promised their fathers. Is there a possibility that not a few Nigerians are actually roaming around in the wilderness of poverty, hardship and deprivation simply because they themselves have cursed the land of their birth.
Perhaps we need to begin to see Nigeria as our promised land in spite of the giants in the land. We need to stop despising the land of our inheritance. The Israelites retreated because their perception of giants and fortified cities prevented them from seeing the milk and the honey (the true potential) of the land. It is a known fact in business that the first people to profit in any given industry are those that can see its potential.
It was in fulfillment of this truth that Joshua and Caleb, the only two men who believed in the viability of the land were the only men from their generation who eventually entered the land. The giants and their fortified cities were not insurmountable. Similarly the challenges that we are facing as a people today are not insurmountable problems; we should see them as challenges that are normal in the ordinary course of nation-building.
The lesson that the Israelites failed to learn that first time and which we must learn now is that there are no ready-made nations. Truly there are giants, (obstacles and personalities) and fortresses (seemingly impenetrable systems and structures) that must be conquered. Because we have rejected our promised land with our words and actions, perhaps the land is equally rejecting its inhabitants; offering them thorns and thistles instead of milk and honey.
Nigerians deserting their villages in the rural-urban drift or fleeing abroad in brain drain are manifestations of the biblical imagery of a land vomiting out its inhabitants. In contrast the generation of Israelites that finally received the Promised Land was the generation that fought to possess every inch of their inheritance.
It was only through consistent hard work and battle for the soul of their nation that they were able to possess the land and enjoy its blessings. We have to develop a Godly orientation of ownership and responsibility over Nigeria as our own land of promise. When we approach Nigeria from this light, we sow seeds of hope and faith that will yield fruit that will bless its inhabitants.
Ironically the nations that Nigerians are fleeing to are nations that themselves have imbibed this truth, received their countries as their own promised lands and paid the price for their development. King Solomon wrote in the book of Proverbs, “By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.” What we say about our country matters.
Americans understand this when they say “God bless America” and call their land “God’s own country”. In the same vein, we too must begin to bless Nigeria and see it as God’s own country too. We must put an end to our cursing. This is the principle behind patriotism, national flags and National anthems. When Israel was taken into captivity in Babylon, God sent a message to the people through the Prophet Jeremiah.
They were to bless the land of the evil Babylonians; they were to seek the peace and prosperity of the land. They were to pray to God about the land. In its peace God declared they themselves would find peace. Paul urges us to pray for our governments that we may dwell peaceably in the land. We also have to mentally separate the government from the land. Our frustrations with the government should not be transferred to the land.
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Martin Luther King Jr. :The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Biography
Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
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