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WHEN GOD RAN
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Luke 15:22
22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.



If you are a believer, you are probably familiar with the touching story of the prodigal son that Jesus shared. Who do you think the father in the story represents? Jesus’ Father in heaven, of course. Jesus was giving us a picture of His Father, who is also our Father.


In the story, the father was seen running toward his son, who was returning home. (Luke 15:20) Do you realize that God is never described as being in a hurry in the Bible? He is always cool and composed. The only time He is portrayed as being in a hurry is in this story. Though improper in Jewish culture, the father held up his robe and ran. Where was he running to? Why was he in such a hurry?


The father was in a hurry because he had seen his son, who was still a long way from home. He was running toward his son as he could not wait to embrace and kiss his child again.


The father was in a hurry to clothe his son with the best robe. My friend, our Father has put the best robe — the robe of righteousness — on us. In doing so, He has reinstated us as sons of the Most High God, a position which we had lost when Adam fell.


The father was in a hurry to put a ring on his son’s hand. Like the authority that is invested in the signet ring of a rich man’s son, our Father is eager to put back into our hands the authority to invoke His name, so that we can walk in dominion every day.


The father was in a hurry to put sandals on his son’s feet to assure him that he was still his son — only servants went about barefoot. Our Father never wants us to feel like hired servants or outcasts. We are always His sons.


Beloved, if the Father appears to be in a hurry, it is only because He is in a hurry to assure you of your position as His precious child!

-Joseph prince

November 2, 2009 | 7:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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I won't throw a curtain across tomorrow
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I won't throw a curtain across tomorrow. the star of its performance might just be me !'I will praise You o'Lord,for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. my frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret...Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them.'

October 29, 2009 | 5:27 AM Comments  0 comments

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wow!!! You really have to see this.
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Jesus saw this blind man in John 9 - just like He sees you! You are not here by accident - you are here for a reason - so that you can meet with Jesus - so that He can work a miracle in your life.

The desire of Jesus' heart is to bless you, touch you - to give you a hope and a future.

To the drug addict, alcoholic - Jesus doesn't ask why? Why do you sin? Why are you an alcoholic? Jesus says 'I love you!' He sees the answer. He sees you not as you are but for what you can be!




October 10, 2009 | 6:16 PM Comments  0 comments

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POWER AND CREATIVE STRATEGY

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Tokyo, Japan


My first intuition was to head this treatise "How Not to Help a People" or "How best to Assist a People" but I ended up following other instinct probably because the discourse is about financial muzzle in one hand and begging for arms in another, hence, "POWER and CREATIVE STRATEGY" {apology to Prof. Wole Soyinka}.
Japan boasts of being probably the highest donor in terms of charity to developing and under-developed countries. Such benefits are in the areas of structure, education, scholarships, manpower provision, training and splinter offices constructed with the aim of sensitizing the people of what has been done and what is being done.
The country or nations that enjoy these benefits are ever willing to return cap in hands asking for more year on, the psychology of asking, not withstanding. We live in a practical world and therefore it serves no need wondering why such countries cannot sustain themselves in the first place. It serves no purpose to mention corruption as the bane in such societies. It will serve no purpose to state how endemic the issue of corruption has become to the extent that those who peddle it do not care if qualitative education is provided. After all, enlightenment will create awareness and reduce or out rightly, challenge the purse of the corrupters. Therefore, why repeat what has been obvious; fact that has graduated from the margin of secrecy, that is, if there was ever any in such environment thriving on support and charity. Fact on ground is that many countries are lacking in human endowment being enjoyed by others, for instance, basic needs and therefore goes hands in begging. The human endowment, mind you, has its abundance in natural resources. It's only that…, that…, that…
Japan as stated has positioned itself to assist. What are the benefits if any to Japan? What satisfaction do they derive?
Japanese citizens can take a glimpse and see how better they are than those other people from those other countries.
Japanese citizens in noticing how other people lives can therefore be eternally grateful and loyal to its government for providing means and materials that those other countries government had failed to make available or can simply not make available and for whatever reason.
The super-ego factor; some Japanese getting news of large amount of fund being budgeted and disbursed feels either proud or superior or both., that is, "my car is bigger than yours" mentality, and therefore, I am better than them.
I must add that the above benefits are not exhaustive as other factors may exist but they are a needed psyche in the goblets of the Japanese and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Japan doling out handsome money yearly has been most benevolent, no doubt.
Arguably, an agency like Japan International Cooperation Agency {JICA} covering Africa should be concerned about final disbursement and application in respect of effectiveness and sustenance. Japan need to take an in-depth look on what has been achieved in concrete terms and not just on paper. Japan looking in, will find ways to fashion how best to apply resources, plenty but scarce at this time.
In other words, what initiative can one proffer so that the begging and giving will be more effective? I have discussed this point while meeting with JICA, May 2008 and I mentioned it again on my meeting with staff of International Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization {IDE-JETRO}, December 25, 2008. For want of elaboration, I have proffered some suggestions here in respect of assistance to Africa.
1. All INCLUSIVENESS:
The unspoken and unofficial idea that "East Africa is Heaven, West Africa is Hell" should change. Branding a particular area as prone to danger, uninhabitable or rather trouble-some to deal with is highly selective…especially, when the trickles that gets to the West of Africa is hardly effective in terms of benefiting the people such help was originally intended for.
2. EDUCATION:
Many researches are undertaken by government and its agencies. Most times Lecturers are invited to research and speak on different subjects. Where it concerns Africa, Africans should be directly involved with such researches for effectiveness. By Africans being directly involved, they will provide on the ground information that researchers ordinarily could not have known or that could have escaped them. Researches should be conducted both through existing government agencies or bodies and other blocs like organizations that are not directly leaning on government. By getting Africans involved in their affairs and dealing with organizations other than government, balanced and in-depth information will be handy for decision making and implementation.
The issue of education through research cannot be over-emphasized. Suffice it to say that government need to be properly educated in order to serve better who they are assisting and in this subject matter, Africans. Besides, the history of a people, the nuances existing in a SOULFUL place like Africa can best be cracked and understood by Africans. Simply put, Africans should be involved while making researches and lectures or paper points on Africa.
3. INFORMATION:
Japan MOFA {Ministry of Foreign Affairs} has lots to do in terms of information dissemination. MOFA through its agencies and bodies like diplomatic channels should be able to give sound information on Life in Japan. Many times, probably out of need, people from Africa, Nigeria for instance, look at Japan as a place to be, a place to go and settle down. The feeling is that work can easily be found here and life is "bread and butter". They are more encouraged by Japanese electronics and cars in Africa markets. It is now obvious that they are far from the truth and therefore, it is now important that apart from this wavelength of technology mentality, Africans should be informed about family and social life in Japan, including what can be available on landing; tax systems, business ownerships, stocks and in fact what is permissible and what is not. I stress this because much as many probably will like moving over to Japan, I know a few people who would not have choose Japan had they the information of what is obtainable here. Had they elementary information on the rudiments of life here, I am quite sure that such persons having alternative {which they had} would not have made Japan their choice. In fact, I have met people who refused to come and settle in Japan because of one or more reasons. For instance, they felt that they cannot internalize in Japan social and family system. I also know people who are ready to come and settle no matter whatever negative information they have.
While there is nothing potentially wrong with Japan, my point is that value system and culture differs and some people based on these would have made their choice elsewhere or rather, even remain where they are. MOFA, JICA, etc, should therefore act faster with utmost alacrity in this area. Of course, this, like I mentioned will not stop Africans from coming. While a few people will not arrive to settle, people who want should be made abreast with elementary but important information.
4. INTEGRATION:
In line with information dissemination is integration. Most times, information disseminated on Japan TV or aired by NGO's/ NPO's that has visited Africa depicts Africa as not just poor but retarded. Accepted that most of Africa "is at the very nadir of human degradation", that most of Africa is in the "Ninth world", accepting that there is nothing wrong in reporting that, it is also right to highlight the good sides of Africa, the cities, the vegetation, the abundant talents and brain and so forth. For one, this fosters better information and pulls people not only along but bonded. Absence of this creates in the minds of Japanese that all of Africa are a people that need sympathy or even pity. It often reflects on immigrants while dealing or relating with their hosts. MOFA and its bodies, for instance, Japan Foundation, JICA, should do its best to change or at least, down-play this stereotype.
Added to integration is the issue of Africans who are already living and legally so in Japan. This has to do with acceptance. In my comments to Asia Leadership Fellow Program Symposium held October 31, 2008 at International House of Japan and hosted by IHJ/ Japan Foundation, I stressed that more than passport and place of birth, acceptance is important to make a people feel part of a nation or have a sense of belonging to a country. Japanese government through its ministries and other human service bodies like Japan Foundation, JICA, NGO's/ NPO's and designated government ministries should therefore do its best to identify talented and educated Africans. The idea should be to channel them into fields or discipline they can contribute. More too, initiative should be created so that those with less than qualitative education can go back to school or do some courses or training. This will upgrade their intellect and or worldview. On qualification, there should be ways to manage what has been learned or acquired for productive purposes. While Africans are not the representative of crime in Japan, a few who indulge may choose such opportunity and better themselves. Chances are that some may even return to their home country to impact on what has been learned or acquired.
JICA has already taken the right step in having foreigners take Japanese Language Test if they choose to but this is not enough. Language, important as it is will not replace knowing and understanding where you are, the people, their heartbeat, the mindset and you do not need language to know these; all immigrants need is acceptance embedded with balanced information and germane initiatives that will see them getting involved with better tasks.
5. PUBLICATIONS:
The last but not the least is publications. Researches carried out on Africa often end up being published only in Japanese language. Attempts should be made to print copies in languages other than Japanese only. Africans need to know what is being published about them and need to participate in information sharing. There should be freedom to access information in more than one language. Since information denied is knowledge denied, publications on researches carried out should include English and French, at least.

March 24, 2009 | 7:57 AM Comments  0 comments

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Top Hamas leader’s son converts to Christianity
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Top Hamas leader’s son converts to Christianity

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
UNITED STATES (ANS) -- The son of a top Hamas leader has converted to Christianity and prays some day his family will also accept Jesus Christ as their savior, according to an Israeli newspaper.


Mosab Hassan Yousef (Photo: Fox News Channel)

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, revealed for the first time in an exclusive interview with Haaretz newspaper that he has left Islam and is now a Christian. Prior to the interview’s publication last Thursday, Yousef’s family did not know of his faith conversion even though he is in regular contact with them.

This news was revealed in a story written by Ethan Cole for the Christian Post (www.christianpost.com).

“[T]his interview will open many people's eyes, it will shake Islam from the roots, and I'm not exaggerating,” said Yousef, who now resides in the United States. “What other case do you know where a son of a Hamas leader, who was raised on the tenets of extremist Islam, comes out against it?”

The Christian Post story says that Yousef, who is now 30-years-old, was first exposed to Christianity eight years ago while in Jerusalem, where out of curiosity he accepted an invitation to hear about Christianity. Afterwards, he became “enthusiastic” about what he heard and would secretly read the Bible every day.

“A verse like ‘Love thine enemy’ had a great influence on me,” Yousef recalled. “At this stage I was still a Muslim and I thought that I would remain one. But every day I saw the terrible things done in the name of religion by those who considered themselves ‘great believers’.

“I studied Islam more thoroughly and found no answers there. I re-examined the Koran and the principals of the faith and found how it is mistaken and misleading.”

The story by Ethan Cole went on to say that with Christianity, Yousef said he could understand God as revealed through Jesus Christ. He said he could talk about God and Jesus for days, but Muslims are not able to say anything about God.

“I consider Islam a big lie,” said Yousef. “The people who supposedly represent the religion admired Mohammed more than God, killed innocent people in the name of Islam, beat their wives and don’t have any idea what God is.

“I have no doubt that they’ll go to hell. I have a message for them: There is only one way to paradise – the way of Jesus who sacrificed himself on the cross for all of us.”

Four years ago, Yousef decided to convert to Christianity but did not let his family know. He still helped his father with his political activities, and his father only knew his son had Christian friends.

“I felt responsible. It was better for me to be there rather than a gang of fools who would poison his mind,” Yousef explained. “I tried to understand those people, their thoughts, in order to change them from inside by means of a strong person like my father, who admitted to me in the past that he does not support suicide attacks.”

Cole went on to say, “Yousef described his father as a moderate Hamas leader. But even before his encounter with Christianity, Yousef had already become disenchanted with Hamas and Islam after being imprisoned at the age of 18 years old for heading a youth Islamic movement at his high school.”

Yousef the Hamas leaders he met in prison as people with “no morals” and “no integrity”, although they hide their corruption better than Fatah party members.

“Nobody knows them and how they operate as well as I do,” Yousef said, recalling how the family of Hamas members killed by Israel were forced to beg for financial assistance while the leadership “abandoned” them and “wasted” tens of thousands of dollars a month only on security for themselves.

“Then (in prison) I understood that not everyone in Hamas is like my father. He's a nice, friendly man. But I discovered how evil his colleagues are,” Yousef said. “After my release I lost the faith I had in those who ostensibly represented Islam."

Cole went on to say that Hamas is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Israel, and many Western countries. The group has publicly vowed to destroy Israel.

He added, “Now Yousef, the eldest son of Sheikh Yousef, says he ‘admires’ Israel.”

"You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas,” Yousef stated. “Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death."

He denounced the “entire” Palestinian society as one that “sanctifies death and the suicide terrorist.

“In Palestinian culture a suicide terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheiks tell their students about the ‘heroism of the shaheeds (martyr)'.”
Yousef highlighted that Hamas was the first to use suicide bombers as weapons against civilians.

"They (Hamas) are blind and ignorant. It's true, there are good and bad people everywhere, but Hamas supporters don't understand that they are led by a wicked and cruel group that brainwashes the children and gets them to believe that if they carry out a suicide attack they'll get to paradise,” he said.

Cole went on to say, “The Muslim-turned-Christian says he does not think Islam will survive for more than 25 years because the truth about Islam will be exposed given the mass communication available in the modern age.”

For his part, Yousef says he hopes to “open the eyes” of Muslims and “reveal the truth” to them about Islam and Christianity with the goal to “take them out of the darkness and the prison of Islam”.

“In that way they'll have an opportunity to correct their mistakes, to become better people and to bring a chance for peace in the Middle East,” he said.
Yousef, who has taken the biblical name of Joseph, said he dreams of one day becoming a writer to tell his personal story and about the Middle East conflicts.

“But at the moment, at least, my ambitions are only to find work, a place to live,” admits Yousef, who left behind properties in Ramallah to find true freedom. “I have no money, I have no apartment.

“I was about to become one of those homeless people [in the United States],” he confessed, “but people from the church are helping me. I'm dependent on them."
He also dreams that some day he can return to his homeland and his family will accept Jesus Christ.

"I know that I'm endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he'll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity,” Yousef said. “Maybe one day I'll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God.”

August 14, 2008 | 12:44 PM Comments  0 comments



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