The House of God

I got home this morning and my mum was eager to tell me that my Church, St. Patrick Catholic Church, Ipaja is erecting a new Church building and their is call for people to come and buy pillars... I looked at her with my very custom "really" look and I kindly told her "that's nice o, just make sure they cast my name on the pillar, I am not interested sha..; I even told her.. "mum, abeg make others build and buy pillar, I am the house that God is building".

I remember something similar happened years ago in church. I mistakenly pulled MY headphone plug from my phone and the 2Face music I was playing filtered into the air inside the church at Covenant Christian Centre, Yaba.. One of the girls (name withheld) looked at me and said "2Face inside church building?" I looked at her with pity and said, "my dear, any song I can't listen to in the church, I don't listen to it at home". and I plugged my headphones back and continued my solo dance along.. it was during practise sha, not during service ooo.. lol! I be God pikin

God does not live in any camp or building
God does not reside in any church building or altar or structure
God is not waiting for you to come to Shiloh or Ramah or any place

He's not in Canaan Land, MFM Camp, Deeper Life Camp, Redemption Camp, NASFAT praying ground, Church or Mosque. He's not interested in physical church, He was done with it that when the veil of the temple was torn at the cross when He made that sacrifice on the cross, that was why the temple crumbled to the ground 40years after his death, He was done with the shitty bull shit of place of worship and sacrifices that took preeminence above the worship of God, that was why he said in Matthew 18:20 "for WHEREVER two or three are gathered in my name, I am there with them"

When He said "WHEREVER" he meant "WHEREVER" and that includes, toilet, bathroom, garden, warehouse, hotel, hostel, bedroom, palour and even Beer Palour, yes a pub as long as you are there in his name. He never said when you are gathered in church, mosque or camp ground so stop deceiving yourself, their is no sacred place or temple here on earth made of any physical element that is home to God, He built a perfect temple when He made you and that's the only place He wants to be.

Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo building a pillar-less auditorium, PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE building a 3km by 3km auditorium, St. Patrick Catholic Church building a new church building etc etc is none of God's business, God, yes God of Heaven and Earth is not interested in structures built with metals and stones. A church building is not needed for us to meet God, nor is it needed for the center of church life. In the Old Testament, when God commanded the Tabernacle to be built,it was a place for God to dwell with the people. The people did not meet inside the Tabernacle. Only the priests entered the Tabernacle. The people met together and worshiped God outside under the open sky. They never entered the Tabernacle or later the Temple.

Acts 7:48-51 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things? 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Isaiah 66:1-2 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine handmade, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

It is simple and clear, God want a poor and a contrite spirit, one that trembles and fear Him and obey His words, but our pastors are busy teaching us to be arrogant and disobey God's word, putting us to build structures that is their own private properties "In The Name of Jesus Christ" when Jesus is described as "the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." according to Ephesians 2:19-22.

Here me oh! my people... When Daddy G.O. makes that call that he needs you to come and donate to the construction of a new 3x3 km auditorium, did he back the call with Acts 7:48-51, Isaiah 66:1-2 and Ephesians 2:19-22. so that you will know you are contributing to the building of his own personal estate and not the House of God which is you because God does not live in buildings made of stone and steel.. if he didn't, (I was in RCCG camp when he made the call) that establishes the fact that the building he's building is not the house of God but a centre for collecting tithes and offering, a design for ripping off emotional religious wrecks like una. I've shared the truth about tithes and offering before, I will be glad to share it again soon.

I am not saying don't go to church or mosque, it is exciting to gather together in a place to listen and learn about the Gospel truth and praise God, but 90% of the ones I know and those that I've been to in my life are factory of lies and they just happen to have the biggest fellowship and followership you can dream of. Plenty many mumus being taught lies and back with the bigger lies, "touch not my anointed"... You are the anointed my people. Read Psalm 105:12 to the end and you will see that Canaan is your inheritance, not God's house and you are the anointed that must not be touched... Too bad you've all been beaten blue black.

Here this.. Redemption camp is not God's house
Canaan Land is not God's house
St. Paul's Basilica is not God's house
NO structure on earth is home to God

The only sanctuary God wants is your heart, yes you are the sanctum.

 

I am Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo

I Share The Truth
I Write What I Like

To My Brothers In The South of The South of Nigeria

This is to my brothers in the South of South of Nigeria, to those who have been asking the questions that need no answer but must be answered.

Your position on the current power tussle in Nigeria is well understood, your claims are normal of a people who has been denied access to the wealth generated from their door step, but your stand and approach are rather unbelievable.

it is unimaginable that anyone would claim that Goodluck Jonathan​ is being denied a second term, that the South is being denied access to power and that it is the turn of the South to rule, forgetting that in the last 16 years in Nigeria, the South has ruled for 14 bad years, 8 years from the west of the South and 6 years from the South of South of the Nigerian federation.

To answer the simplest of our question... GEJ has not been denied a second term right, in fact he got it on a platter of gold without any visible opposition from within his party, but it is so said that he's the wrong card to play at this minute of the game.

It is not the right of any Nigerian, ethnic group or tribe to be in power for 8 years, infact there are constitutional provisions for impeachment, a pointer that winning is not a guarantee for completing a single term, if you break the rules stipulated in the constitution, you can be impeached after a weak in power in a functioning legislative swoop, no Nigerian is above the constitution, and neither is it stated that a group, party, region, tribe or religion must be in power for '8 Years', if it were so, a GEJ will probably just be getting the first shot at the sit of power; a northerner would have replaced the late Yar Adua and the rest will be history.

If ethnic paths are to be towed, we wouldn't have stood up for GEJ in 2009 when Yar Adua died, we would have allowed the PDP northern agenda to thrive, but because Nigeria is bigger than any tribe or ethnic group, we stood up for the rule of law and installed GEJ as our president, more of the reason I am surprised the South of South is crying foul for 4 more years when our representatives had failed for 14years of it. Our fight in 2009, led to the eventful mistake we made in 2011 by voting for GEJ, hoping he will become better and perhaps redeem Nigeria and more importantly the south of South he came from, but instead of embracing the trust vested in him, he embrace mediocrity and corruption, the same elements that are now militating against his return to a sit he could have won with songs of praises.

GEJ has not given any Nigerian (right thinking Nigerian) a single reason he should be allowed more than the wasteful 6years he's spent already, he is by all definition the first democratically elected President in Nigeria since the "Hope 93", but he is also by far the heaviest nightmare that had plagued the greater Nigeria dream.

It is very uncivilized to perceive the role of the president of a country as a spot that should be filled based on ethnicity, religion or duration/term, the only sane measure should be values, guided by the provision of the constitution and the right judgment of the people inspired by God. In my books of definition for all of this listed elements, GEJ or PDP lacks any value that merits such a position or statute. I am "manically bewildered" that anyone in his/her right senses will push forward something as lame as "he should be allowed to complete a second term" as an argument for his re-election. Such dumb assertion can only be likened to a situation where people caught a man raping your daughter, only for you to arrive at the scene and tell them to allow him ejaculate first because that's the climax of sex. Nigeria is currently a rape victim, the south is perpetually the target of the rape and it is quite unimaginable that it is the fathers of this daughter that are begging the rapist to thrust harder until he reaches climax because he's a son of the soil.

We need to jump out of this bonded "Entitlement Mentality", nobody is entitled to the presidency because of some stupid ethnicity, party affiliation or religious belief, we need to break away from it.. Nigeria deserves leaders not mediocre that believes it's their turn. We won't grow unless we become seeds, allowing our shell (religious, political, tribal etc) to rot so that we can sprout a new leaf and live a better life in a better country.

Perhaps the South of South should have sat to think and present a better representative, not one who has failed and doesn't even know he's a failure, maybe the south would have stood a better chance. The south needs a rethink, crude oil is not enough reason for any of us to throw away our values.  We must reshuffle our deck, what we have in our hand now in GEJ is a joke and not a joker, with the approach we are taking, the chances are that we will crash even before takeoff.

Imagine if GEJ was presenting a dossier of what he's done in 6 years instead of promises of what he will achieve in 4, wouldn't that be a better call.  Anyways, I will rather vote for the KOWA party than any of this entitlement driven political parties, they are all jokers.

I am Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo​

I Write What I Like

DEAD WEIGHTS AND FALSE HOPE

I discovered that my ATM card was missing a few days ago and I started looking for it frantically, not because I had money to withdraw from the account, but because I am used to having it in my cardholder, just not seeing it there had some effect on me that I was missing something important...and for days now, I'm still searching for it, I am almost sure it wasn't stolen, I can't remember being robbed of it...

I woke up yesterday 28/01/2015 to another one, my phone was blown-out from the charging port, probably a result of power surge from changing over power supply. I tried turning it on but the screen flickered and bang! it went cold, never to respond again... I was like God, how will I survive without a smart phone. I searched my drawers for a spare battery that I'd always kept, hoping it was just a battery thingy but I couldn't even find the precious spare, I almost went into a rage, wondering why is all of this happening then something bigger came to me in my frantic search, I found two of my former dead phones in one of the drawers I was scouring through and unconsciously i told myself "why you dey worry sef, you go buy another one when you get kudi". I dropped the newly dead phone in my pocket and headed to work, hoping it will reset someone and come back to life.

By the time I got to the office, a million and one things had gone through my mind that I couldn't even remember the phone was in my pocket, it was until i pulled it out again that I remembered I was holding a very dead burnt smart phone. I pulled out a charger from my desk was like "let's try again", I didn't finish hitting the power button on the phone before I saw the smoke and a popping sound, I quickly turned it off and unplugged and somehow something within me dropped two phrases that literarily defined the way things are in Nigeria today, two things that we ignore by creating a cloak of sanity in our insanity, yes our political indemnization... "False Hope" & "Dead Weight", two powerful phrases that works hand-in-hand to guarantee that Nigeria is thrown in utter darkness without anybody being held responsible for her woes.

Before I proceed, I will like to sight a political example, a perfect precedence for what Nigerians are satisfied with at first and then decry in the loudest of voices from their comfort zone when it is obvious that they are responsible for their woes.

 

The Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the father of the former Governor of Edo State came begging in 2002 that his son Lucky Igbibedion should be given a second chance to fail again, in his words; If a child fails a particular class in the academic world, he's suppose to repeat the class and pass. The people of Edo accepted his gospel of "false hope" knowing that Lucky will always be Lucky and they carried the dead weight for another four years.

The totality of our polity in Nigeria since the death of Military rule has been filled with "Dead Weights" preaching the gospel of "False Hope" on the altar of our democracy. The doors of democracy opened in 1999 to an army of dead weights dropping in from our past to take over our present, and define the not so distance future we are in today. It's been 16 years already and they are still here. The dead weights were the heavy weights when the doors were opened and they got heavier, so heavy that they can't move on their own.  The sad end of their heaviness and immobility is that they appeared to be stuck on our leadership sledge, and unlike Santa that brings good tidings and good will to all men, the magic that moves the sledge without the reindeer feeling the weight, our own dead weight politicians preach false hope and with no magic to wave at us, and yet we pull their weight like reindeer, hoping that their falsehood will turn even, although we are sure it won't. It is sad that we know we have the power to drop our dead weights and ride free, but still we cling to their false hope without dignity, defending their deadness with phrases like "dry bone shall rise again", pouring water on dead concrete slabs, waiting for it to sprout a leaf, a surface that we all know cannot be dug to plant a seed.

Back to the matter, the real reality we deal with today… the truth about our status as a nation in the hands of our ruling identity, the PDP, the dead weight that has nothing but false hope in it.

For the last six years of our existence as a nation, the ruling party at the Federal and State level (considering the ratio at state level) has been an institution that has paraded very heavy dead weights, false hope and a very robust accentuation of deceit. From Obasanjo to Gbenga Daniel, Sule Lamido to the local government chairman in the remotest part of Kogi State. I will start from the identity of our current presidential element and the truth.

I found a statement credited to the president, a statement that formed an essential part of his campaign manifestos in 2010/2011 and this was repeated in more than one address. Jonathan said: "I remember the day I was chatting with a group of elders and they said after the war there was electricity everywhere, they travelled out and so on. "I came to live in Port Harcourt in 1955". Even then, it was only Port Harcourt that had electricity, even the big city, Bonny does not have. But now, government must make sure even the smallest village and settlements have electricity".

Beyond the fact that those words were empty promises that created false hopes, it bares the lies that presents his identity as a dead weight . How come somebody that claims 1957 as his official birth year  would say "I came to live in Port Harcourt in 1955"? It is clear evidence that Jonathan actually falsified his real age before joining the civil service to work in his advantage. Perjury in the highest office in the land but still we hold unto this dead weight and naturally our chant is " that's how everybody in the service change their age", my answer is that is why Nigeria is where she is today.

Odili as the Governor of Rivers state invited the president to commission the same bridge and road twice from the two different ends, Obasanjo found out and it was kept a PDP thing. The good news is that the multi-billion naira bridge collapsed 2 years later and neither Odili nor the builders are in jail. He was even in the same town to commission a fake power plant between the second christening of the same bridge, the commissioning was lighted with a generator kept miles away from the commissioning point, Dead weights, False Hopes, Lies, Deception, the hallmark of our PDP government. The irony of those years was that Obasanjo was never in Lagos to commission a single project, not because none was happening, it was simply because he was at war with BAT, he even tried selling off all federal presence in Lagos, including the National Theatre in Iganmu.

Since PDP arrived, "they have awarded Enugu-Onitsha express way to contractors on different occasions, including recently through SURE-P, YET the road is moribund", worst than it was under even the dreaded Abacha. Sand and gravels which are meant for the road project are dumped on one lane and they are already overgrown by weeds and probably home to wild life initially leaving across the road. According to us, we hold unto false hope, we give it to the dead weight "they need more time".

Our sitting President has earned a perfect dead weight status by not only continuing the PDP streak that was almost redefined by his predecessor but for ill-health, he is currently the champion at it. He's surrounded by heavier dead weights and to cap it all, he's got no hope to offer, false or true. The President has been more evasive in both falsehood and deceit and the hall mark of his administration has been the loss of lives and properties, and a vehement approach of blaming everybody that dare to complain or advise from outside his circle of being either the sponsor or directly responsible for everything that goes wrong while he's responsible for nothing, a monumental case of dead weight with no hope in sight. As usual, we are behind him in drones, ready to vote for him again, our chant as usual, "he's a Christian", "It's the South South's turn", "He's trying" as if he was elected to pastor a church, represent the south or try.

I choose not to list the failing of my dead weight president beyond the facts that I've laid out, even those of us clamouring for the so-called continuity, I will like to ask, what exactly do you want him to continue? This question is for the sake of clarity of purpose, what do we want GEJ to continue? The death, insecurity, corruption or ineptitude in leadership or lack of sense of direction? Until I get a million answers to these simple questions, I will assume that we ready to pull this dead weight called PDP upon us again, knowing fully-well that there is only false hope, no light at the end of any tunnel because indeed, PDP is not a tunnel, but a circular pit that leads to nowhere.

The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself, you become truely free -- Babaolowo

I'm Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo

I Write What I Like

I Ate My Tithe

Before you read this, please grab a Bible because you will need it to confirm the truth. I got to writing this today after reading the post my brother Williams JFK titled "Men Of God Nigeria Plc" .

I learnt the truth about tithing and giving a while ago but I am surprised this just gave me a profound reason to reshare it. I will continue to share it for as much as I can and I hope that we as humans can jump out of the cloak of religion and embrace the truth of the word of God. Before I proceed, I will like to remind you that Jesus is not a Christian so I don’t call myself one (be the judge of that). Jesus is not a respecter of men; in fact, he dealt heavily with the pastors of old aka Pharisees so it is my duty today to do the same. I don’t fear position or people, I fear God and I speak the truth of his word. Don’t jump to 1 Chr 16:22 start reading from the first verse and you will see that the anointed the Bible referred to were the Children of Israel aka You and I and not your Pastor so when you hear “Touch Not My Anointed”, remember this, God is talking about me, NOT YOUR PASTOR. I hope you are with your Bible.

What your pastors have been telling you about tithing and giving is just pure lies...My brother, you've been scammed heavily. God did not ask you to bring money as tithes, he never did, and in fact the Bible categorically instructed that when you convert your tithe to money, EAT IT. I use to pay tithes too; I believed their lies heavily but hey! I found the truth somehow.

I started with reasoning. Why should I give my money to a pastor that has his own business, a business he probably started with our money...is my Pastor a Levite? NO! Is he or she a widow or destitute? NO! so why should I share my tithe with him because those are the people God instructed me to share my tithe with...and that's if I choose to tithe sef.

Let me give you some background.

In Gen 14:20... Abram gave Melchizedek 10% of the spoil he took when he defeated Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him and gave the remaining 90% to the king of Sodom without taking anything.... He didn't give his money or profit or anything from his livestock, he gave them the spoils of a war he won and he did that only once, not every month or every year, just once in his life time.

If any pastor comes to you screaming "Abraham gave a tithe of all" tell him you have not won a war recently... so there is no spoil to share.

If you think I’m wrong, read your Bible yourself and stop waiting for your pastor to read it for you. If you want to know why I eat my tithe, I will tell you, the Bible instructed tithers to eat it.

Read Deut. 14 from verse 22 to the end.

Jesus didn't ask me to pay tithe, the only time he mentioned tithe in the bible, he was scolding the Pharisees for ignoring the weightiest matter of all which is Godliness. Jesus does not need my 10%, he needs me, HE owns me 100% and HE does not need my money... If HE owns you, then he owns everything you have because HE gave YOU in the first place.

The truth is not what your pastor says; the truth is in the Bible. I don't pay tithes anymore, in fact I don't work under any law because I am not cursed. God does not bless you because you paid your tithe; he blesses you because he wants you to be a blessing to others and he doesn’t need your tithe to do that. Don't be scared; don't let anyone bamboozle you with Malachi 3:10... If you allow that part of the Bible to be used to trick you into paying into their kalokalo, then Jesus must have indeed died for nothing because when He died, be paid a debt and when He rose, you became God's temple... Stop living like you are cursed.

The temple was a building during the days of Malachi; you are the temple in the Kingdom established by Christ... Now the role is reversed, the pastors are the ones saddled with the duty of filling God's temple with the truth of the word of God, they owe God the truth, the owe him the duty of telling his people the truth which is the word of God and they are the ones robbing God by telling you lies about tithing, they are the ones robbing God and they are the ones under a curse.

Read your Bible, eat your tithe, I eat my tithe and I GIVE, that's what my Bible told me... EAT your tithe, stop feeding people that already have pot belly, don't let anyone play the emotional card on you. Study to show yourself approved, know the truth, it will set you free. EAT YOUR TITHE.

PS: For those that will like to quote  Leviticus 27, please read it from the beginning before you quote wrongly. Only land owners are expected to even tithe as defined in Leviticus, and it's suppose to be from the produce of their land.. so how come tenant dey pay tithe in our own interpretation of tithe?

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