They play.

"If the problem of security were easy to solve, it would have been solved. And if it could have been solved by military means alone, it would have been solved. My position is very clear: he (Buhari) inherited an awful situation. Seventeen LGAs in the northeast of Nigeria were controlled by Boko Haram, with Islamic flags hoisted in these areas. By the time he left, no part of Nigeria was under the control of Boko Haram." — Ibrahim Gambari

"𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞!"

Wrath is one of those things that if you don't control it, it can quickly turn into other evil acts.
Because it brings that intense feeling to hurt someone, to punish them.

Psalm 37:8
> “Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.”

Do you struggle with wrath, with anger?
Why do you allow it to control you?
Because if you have God's Spirit in you, you have the Spirit of self-control.
So you can control it — yes, you can control your emotions.

Don't lie to yourself.
Some people say, “Ah, this is how my family is. My dad was this way, he's dad, so I'm just like him.”
No. You are the one that should break that chain.
And you can control it — because if you are a Christian, the Spirit of God will help you to have self-control.

Ephesians 4:31
> “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.”

If you give in to your emotions and you just vent, God says that's acting 'foolishly'

Proverbs 29:11
> “A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.”

The Bible is full of verses that warn us against wrath and anger.
It's so serious about it that it actually warns us not to be friends with someone like that.

Proverbs 22:24
> “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man.”

If you are a real Christian, you are a new creation and God's Spirit is in you.
And yes, as a new Christian, you are now a baby in Christ.
So you still need to learn how to act in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

You need to put on that — it's like a switch that you decide:
"No, I'm not going to give in to emotions. I'm going to live in the Spirit.
What would Jesus do in this situation?"
If you walk in the Spirit, you will have self-control in every aspect of your life.

Galatians 5:22–23
> “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

*Go into this week with that consciousness of self-control. No venting, no retaliation, no burst out of anger. Just love, joy and happiness flowing through you*.

_Have a blessed week_

"𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞!"

Wrath is one of those things that if you don't control it, it can quickly turn into other evil acts.
Because it brings that intense feeling to hurt someone, to punish them.

Psalm 37:8
> “Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.”

Do you struggle with wrath, with anger?
Why do you allow it to control you?
Because if you have God's Spirit in you, you have the Spirit of self-control.
So you can control it — yes, you can control your emotions.

Don't lie to yourself.
Some people say, “Ah, this is how my family is. My dad was this way, he's dad, so I'm just like him.”
No. You are the one that should break that chain.
And you can control it — because if you are a Christian, the Spirit of God will help you to have self-control.

Ephesians 4:31
> “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.”

If you give in to your emotions and you just vent, God says that's acting 'foolishly'

Proverbs 29:11
> “A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.”

The Bible is full of verses that warn us against wrath and anger.
It's so serious about it that it actually warns us not to be friends with someone like that.

Proverbs 22:24
> “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man.”

If you are a real Christian, you are a new creation and God's Spirit is in you.
And yes, as a new Christian, you are now a baby in Christ.
So you still need to learn how to act in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

You need to put on that — it's like a switch that you decide:
"No, I'm not going to give in to emotions. I'm going to live in the Spirit.
What would Jesus do in this situation?"
If you walk in the Spirit, you will have self-control in every aspect of your life.

Galatians 5:22–23
> “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

*Go into this week with that consciousness of self-control. No venting, no retaliation, no burst out of anger. Just love, joy and happiness flowing through you*.

_Have a blessed week_

"𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞!"

Wrath is one of those things that if you don't control it, it can quickly turn into other evil acts.
Because it brings that intense feeling to hurt someone, to punish them.

Psalm 37:8
> “Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.”

Do you struggle with wrath, with anger?
Why do you allow it to control you?
Because if you have God's Spirit in you, you have the Spirit of self-control.
So you can control it — yes, you can control your emotions.

Don't lie to yourself.
Some people say, “Ah, this is how my family is. My dad was this way, he's dad, so I'm just like him.”
No. You are the one that should break that chain.
And you can control it — because if you are a Christian, the Spirit of God will help you to have self-control.

Ephesians 4:31
> “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.”

If you give in to your emotions and you just vent, God says that's acting 'foolishly'

Proverbs 29:11
> “A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.”

The Bible is full of verses that warn us against wrath and anger.
It's so serious about it that it actually warns us not to be friends with someone like that.

Proverbs 22:24
> “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man.”

If you are a real Christian, you are a new creation and God's Spirit is in you.
And yes, as a new Christian, you are now a baby in Christ.
So you still need to learn how to act in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

You need to put on that — it's like a switch that you decide:
"No, I'm not going to give in to emotions. I'm going to live in the Spirit.
What would Jesus do in this situation?"
If you walk in the Spirit, you will have self-control in every aspect of your life.

Galatians 5:22–23
> “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

*Go into this week with that consciousness of self-control. No venting, no retaliation, no burst out of anger. Just love, joy and happiness flowing through you*.

_Have a blessed week_

STRATEGIC VISION

Do you notice that some words sound louder than others in your conscious awareness? Different seasons require different things. In summer, it brings warm temperatures, which means you must do different things than in winter, affecting many of your activities and clothing. The environment influences behaviour based on factors outside of your control; however, you need to adapt to make things work better. You won't grab a winter coat or prepare for frost, as the season doesn't demand that of you. Instead, you will adjust other patterns of behaviour accordingly. That word resonates outside of yourself, but your inner conditions and how you navigate must coexist with the environment. This might seem like a minor strategy we don't think much about; we simply adapt.

It is so normalised to do what is required; if not, we would face many consequences. Because the environment demands that we adapt, we are inherently equipped to adjust to life situations using laws and principles from a critical mind. How much more should we train this part of our mind to think strategically in resolving problems? Sometimes, it isn’t the first idea that comes to mind; we need to teach our minds to think critically.

One way to develop your mind to think strategically is to start with a small problem you might see around you, such as environment design, to help your habits align with living a high-yielding lifestyle or using your time wisely knowing when your energy levels are at their peak for tasks that might not otherwise suit you. When do you have less mental or physical energy? When is your spirit alert? Is it only at certain times? How can you become more sensitive to these shifts? When is the best time to convert your spiritual or mental energy into the outcomes you want to create in your life? Have you taken the time to plan specific tasks? What subjects will you focus on?

An unplanned life is like having the wrong clothing in your wardrobe for the season or having no firewood and freezing at sub-zero temperatures because there was no preparation. If you want to use time more productively, it’s better to sit down and allocate a couple of hours a week to prepare exactly what you’re going to target and when. Your targets should align with your purpose for creation. Was a dolphin made to fly through the air? Was a seagull created for the snow? Was an ant designed to live in human beds? Just by natural design, they fit in alignment with the vision the creator of their design put for them.
Yet humans have a free will we could spend three hours scrolling social media platforms we could laze in the sun we could seek out entertainment we could trade our time in the uncle Sam system to pay a mortgage or we could find the original blueprint for our life’s that we did not create but the creator of his creation does not make people to live for themselves he created them for himself and for his purpose.

Everyone, even Adolf Hitler, was created by God and for God, yet from his life story, we can see that he walked in alignment with an evil agenda that did not come from the creator of his design. This highlights a contrast between Mother Terrasa, who united creation with the creator and Adolf Hitler, who divided. What we must also observe is that the kingdom of light always unites and the kingdom of darkness always divides. Why am I highlighting this? It reveals that when we live out of alignment with our purpose, we are divided, as we are living in alignment with other attitudes of the heart, such as seeking comfort, satisfying emotional needs, or taking the lowest-yielding path of instant gratification. When we live in alignment with our purpose, we unite with God's will and practice delayed gratification, using the things that cost us our life, time, and resources to build the kingdom.

If there is a purpose for the garden worm, the caterpillar, the lightning, the sun, the soil, and everything that was made, how much more is there a purpose for every human being? Never give in to the delusion that you were created to sit in a church pew listening to someone preach until you make heaven, that is one of Satan's greatest deceptions he uses to stop the advancement of the kingdom.

Everything starts small, even your gifts and talents; they do not begin as fully developed, but rather as a word that may sound loud within your spirit. God has hidden so many capacities in us that you can only discover them through work. Einstein was obsessed and possessed by some ideas that never left his mind. I do not know the length of time it took him to discover the equation E = mc^2, which represents the energy equivalent of mass times the speed of light squared. The only reason I can write that equation is because Einstein passed through this world and did not yield to his flesh nature; he lived in a higher dimension, the mind. Yet, he tapped into a spiritual law that was hidden in nature; the only reason we cannot see into the dimension of the spirit could be explained by this equation. Yet right around us is another realm that cannot be seen on the material level because the faster you speed up energy and mass, the more it becomes invisible. Yet, we are dealing with two kingdoms: one that seeks to unite creation and one that seeks to divide it.

If we start with the book of Genesis and proceed to Revelation, both kingdoms are highly strategic. God had a strategy even before the fall. He created people to fulfil the path to the coming Christ. Satan started with a strategy but tempted Eve at the fall, just using words, images, and suggestions. Then he perverted God’s plan and will by causing Cain to murder his brother Abel. Right now, we are in a strategic era of the gospel of the kingdom being preached to all, nations and we all know that this vision will come to pass not because I said it, it is written, we are just positioned in the time of the dispensation of the calendar of God to fulfill his vision. The strategy of the church must be beyond the four walls into every territory and cause the light of the culture of heaven to unite creation with the creator by discovering our purpose for creation we bring godly alliances with man and God just by our obedience as God has given us grace and apostleship to fulfil this vision. What words are resonating loudly in your spirit, you hear, to reunite creation with the creator in time and space, connecting them to eternity.

Written by Rochelle White

Just like myself and a lot of us @iyaboojofespris is not perfect.
She's unfortunately been entangled in a lot of emotionally controversial situations but beyond all the controversies she's also been an angel to so many. Babe life is a season, continue to stay strong, faithful and true. Heaven will definitely see you n yours through this difficult season– Actress Opeyemi Aiyeola

Daily devotion for July 14th
Off Witchcraft!
Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.

Acts 19:18-20
Luke mentions two movements here. It started with the believers who began to clean up their own lives, who came and divulged their hidden practices, confessing what they were doing in private. Obviously these were relatively new Christians and perhaps they had never thought that anything was wrong with these practices. But as they sat under the teaching of the apostle and saw the kingdom of God and how God longs to set people free, they began to see that what they had been doing — the astrology, the reliance on horoscopes, the belief in the influence of the stars, and all their other superstitious practices — had held them in bondage. These were the reasons why they remained weak and fearful, upset and distressed within themselves. So they began to confess all this and therefore to be free from their bondage. And that, in turn, precipitated another movement. The unbelievers around them in the city began to take a second look at their own practices. Many of them who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them when they became Christians under the influence and power of the gospel, and thus they were set free from their own deadly delusion.

This illustrates how light breaks forth through the church. It is the church that is the light of the world. When the church begins to straighten out and clean up its life, and act and live as God has called people to do, then the world will begin to see itself as it is, and see what is wrong, and start straightening up and being freed from the practices that are darkening and blinding it. This is what happened here. They surrendered all their occult literature — and that was a costly thing to do. As they totaled up the value of these books and the various paraphernalia that was brought to be burned, it came to fifty-thousand pieces of silver. That is about ten thousand dollars, which was a tremendous sum in those days. It meant that these people were forsaking their livelihood. They were changing the total pattern of their lives, as they saw that they could no longer practice the occult and live as Christians too. It revealed how willing they were to be free from this terrible practice.

Here in Ephesus, Paul and the other Christians, by the power of the truth, broke through this deception. They assaulted this stronghold of evil. They cracked it wide open, so that Luke says, The word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailed. That is how a church ought to operate — in the power of the Spirit and by the authority of the Word. There are strongholds like this all around us today, bastions of darkness: drugs, witchcraft, homosexuality. How desperately this situation needs the assault of truth and of light. God longs to deliver people from these strongholds, and he has given the church this power.

Father, I see powers of darkness holding people enthralled, locking them into misery and heartache, superstition and fear, hostility and emptiness. Lord, help me to understand that this is a very strategic time to live and to give myself to this exciting, glorious encounter against these powers of darkness.

Ten ways to respect your self
1)stop looking for Who is not looking for u
2) stop being an attention, love and support seeker
3)stop saying more than necessary, silent Is powerful
4)set clear boundaries and stick to them even when it's hard
5) trust your instincts instead of constantly seeking others approval
6)walk away from anything that doesn't bring u peace
7) value ur time and energy, don't waste them on people or situations that drain you
8) forgive urself for the past mistakes and allow urself to grow
9) listen first, then speak
10) surrounds urself with people who uplift and inspire you .
Be wise best advice is
the one which you meditate
and give to urself

At a mechanic’s workshop, I noticed a particular car that had been parked there for nearly four years. It was quite expensive and still looked in good shape the first time I saw it. But with time, it began to deteriorate. One of the windows got broken, the tyres deflated and wore out completely, and rust slowly crept over what was once a beautiful machine.

Curious, I asked the mechanic why such an expensive vehicle had been left to rot.

He confirmed that the car had indeed been in perfect condition when I first saw it. But even he had become helpless as to what to do. The vehicle belonged to someone from the Republic of Tchad. The man’s driver had been the one bringing it into Nigeria for repairs. On that last occasion, the driver dropped it off, paid for the repairs, and returned to Tchad, saying he would come back to collect the car once the required part being sourced from Lagos was fixed.

The mechanic bought the part, fixed the car, and waited. He had already been paid. But the driver never came back. It turned out he had been on his way to pick up the car when he was attacked by insurgents and killed. The mechanic didn’t know much about him, only his name, and had no idea where exactly in Tchad he was from. So the car remained there, abandoned. The owner likely has no idea where it is or how to recover it.

At a certain car wash, there was another case. Another expensive vehicle. This one had been brought in by a customer who patronised them occasionally. They didn’t know much about him either. He lived in another city but always came for business, and each time, he brought the car to be washed.

On his last visit, he dropped it off as usual and said he was going into town and would return later that evening. He never did. That was three years ago. Still, no sign of him. The car wash owner continues to wash and maintain the vehicle daily, keeping it spotless. But no one has come for it. They didn’t even know his name, and a search of the vehicle turned up no documents that could trace it to anyone. So, it remains abandoned.

Just last week, a friend of mine died after a brief illness. Before falling sick, he had taken some clothes to the laundry. He never returned to collect them. Thankfully, the laundryman knew his family and brought the clothes to his wife last night. She had no idea he had even taken anything to be laundered.

These situations made me think deeply.

Do our families and friends know the people we deal with, our mechanics, our laundrymen, or the businesses we patronise? Do we tell them about the errands we run or the transactions we make? Or do we go about our lives with no one aware of the little details that might matter in the end?

Shouldn’t someone at least know?

One day, you will take your car to the mechanic but you will not be the one to bring it back.
Your clothes will be at the laundry but you will not return to pick them up.
Do you have some pieces or parcels of land? Does your family know about them?
Do you have house or houses any where? Does your family know about it or them?
How many banks do you
have accounts in?
Does your family know about all of them?

Sometimes, the things you worked hard for, the things you loved and valued, will be left lying somewhere, useless and out of reach, because no one knew where you kept them or how to find them. That should be enough to give one the creeps and make one think deeply. Today, tomorrow, it shall come for you.

One day......

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"Across the world, most people focus on attacking radical Islamist groups themselves, but they often ignore a critical question: Who is funding and creating these extremists?

According to multiple reports—including those by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), U.S. Department of the Treasury, and EU Terrorism Situation & Trend Report (TESAT)—a significant amount of terror financing comes through charities, NGOs, and religious institutions that operate from countries that project a secular, peaceful, and modern image internationally.

For example:

• Investigations have highlighted flows of money from wealthy Gulf states into madrassas and radical networks in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other poorer Muslim-majority countries.

• According to FATF greylist and blacklist reports, countries like Pakistan have been repeatedly flagged for failing to curb such financing. Yet, the original funding sources often come from donors based in far richer, politically stable countries.

• A Carnegie Endowment study also showed how some Gulf-based charitable networks indirectly supported extremist ideology abroad while maintaining a respectable face at home.

These sponsoring nations keep their global reputation clean, attract billions from tourism and foreign investment, and yet part of that wealth quietly sustains radicalization in economically weaker states like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, and beyond.

Suppose the international community truly wants to end extremist violence. In that case, it must cut the root—the financial and ideological sponsors—rather than just trimming the branches and leaves by going after foot soldiers alone."

- Ashu Bhardwaj
@jaihind1624

I started sleeping with D0GS at the age of 16. My name is Amanda, and this is my story. A story I wish I never told anyone, but I can’t keep hiding. Everyone needs to learn from my story.

If anyone told me that I would be sleeeping with dogs, just to make money. At the age of 16 I would not believe that, but it happened to me, and this was how I found myself in this situation.

I was born into a very poor family in lagos. when I say poor I mean very poor, my parents were struggling to eat including me, I was the only daughter and child.

My father was a security, he was paid a small amount. And my mother stayed at home with me. I stopped going to school because they couldn’t continue to pay me school fees.

Hunger was our fourth person in the family, it dealt with us like an army. But sadly my father died.

He died right at his work post, he could not bear it anymore. My mom cried and cried. I cried even more.

After my father was buried, my mother was not the same anymore. She felt sick and died too.

I became an orphan, my uncle took our small property, claiming he was the rightful owner. And I was left in the street of Lagos. Sleeping under the bridge, inside the gutter, just to survive.

Life was dealing with me. I suffer, in fact I did all kind of quick jobs like breaking firewood and many more. it couldn’t help me. Sometimes I pray for late parents to come and take me.

But all this things changed one evening. I was selling my last orange, ready to got back to sleep under the bridge again.

A black car came and parked in my front. It was raining that evening. A lady came out of the car. Her name was Cynthia, I thought she was coming to buy orange.

“Why are you sitting alone under the rain. It late already” she says politely.

I told her I have no where to go, I told her that sleep under the bridge. Then she offered to take me to her place, but I rejected, because Lagos was a scary place, you can’t trust nobody.

“Do not be afraid, come with me, am not a bad person” Cynthia says to me.

Then I followed her, she gave me food at the house, she bought new clothes for me. For ones I felt like paradise.

I was enjoying the good things of life now. But after a week. Cynthia came with a total different topic.

She sat me down and told me. “I have been good to you, but you need to starting making money just like I do, can you work ?” Cynthia says.

“Yes, i answered, “I can do anything for you”

Then Cynthia told me about the job. “They are going to pay you plenty money. You will become rich. They are my clients. They don’t like women, but they need the woman to play with their pet” Cynthia says.

“I didn’t understand at first. “Play with their pets? I asked.

“Yes play with their dogs, like satisfy their D0gs” Cynthia says clearly.

Immediately I dropped the juice I was drinking, pouring on the ground. Immediately I felt like I was sitting with the devil.

“Never ! Never Cynthia ! So this is how you make your money. I would never Sle-p with dogs just to make money” I scream at her.

To be continued.

Based on a true l¡fe story.