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C M Y K PAGE 16 —SUNDAY Vanguard, NOVEMBER 29, 2020 Who would a husband defend – His wife or the mistress!? Lately, I’d been regaling Dolapo, a former colleague’s FWB (friends with benefits) of decades, with tales of the escapades of some of my darling friends in recent months – especially in the last few weeks when a couple of them had virtually burnt their fingers with the spouses of their ‘bits-on-the-side’. A few weeks after one of them, Kadijat had her annual birthday bash, when she almost got into hot water when Rex, her husband, who travelled showed up unexpectedly. It was a miracle that her friends helped her save her face. Two weeks later, she visited Jake, her lover and the ‘co-sponsor’ of her party. He had conveniently disappeared from the scene as soon as he saw Rex, to avoid any embarrassment. “It was the first time we would have a decent chat after the party”, Kadijat explained, “and we were theorizing on what could have happened if we’d been caught red handed by Rex, when Jake’s wife virtually burst into his office. I’d seen her vaguely at one or two parties, sullenly looking my way as if daring me to say something untoward. But what could I have to say to her? I scarcely knew her, though her face looked vaguely familiar. `Good afternoon’, she snapped as she breezed in and sat down on the chair next to me, almost breathing fire. “Jake was making a semblance of introduction when she cut in: Ì know senior Kadijat now, she was four years ahead of me in secondary school’. No wonder she looked familiar. I instantly remembered she was one of the pests that were always making trouble in the school dorm in those days. She was constantly being punished by her seniors, myself inclusive. “How was I to handle this tricky situation? I tried to make small talks and, in fairness to her, she tied to be polite until she suddenly asked; `Senior Kadijat, what are you doing in my husband’s office?” She made me feel so old by her `senior\ tag even though Jake is only two years older than I am. I didn’t have an immediate answer but Jake quickly told his wife I was a friend’s sister. Ì know whose sister she is’, she sneered on the verge of being rude. `That still doesn’t explain why she is here. I also heard of her 50th birthday bash and the role you played in it. If you don’t mind, Senior Kadijat, I want to have a word with my husband. I think you should leave’. “I was shocked but it was obvious on whose side Jake was as he squirmed uncomfortably in his seat. I stood up in anger and as I left, Jake’s wife’s threat rang after me: `Don’t bother to show up here ever again. I have people watching you, and if you don’t want any embarrassment, hands off my husband!’ It was a very humiliating experience. I didn’t know how I made it to my car!”. Kadijat’s experience jogged the memory of a few friends who’d experienced a similar ‘affront’. Joko recalled some years back when she’d gone to a thanksgiving party of Bob, a boyfriend who’d survived an attack by armed robbers. “I don’t often like to dine with the enemy”, Joko said. “so I told Bob I wasn’t interested in making his wife uncomfortable by showing up at such a private party. He assured me his wife didn’t know who I was, so I attended with a friend. The luncheon was self-service and as I hovered over the fried rice heating tantalizingly under a burner, Bob’s wife came over, pretending to see to the effective running of things. Ignoring her, I took the serving spoon and as I made to scoop some rice, she was at my side in a flash, pressing the spoon and my outstretched hand deep into the hot rice. I gave a painful yelp! ‘What are you doing here?’ she whispered furiously into my ears, trying not to make a scene. ‘Just put down your plate and walk out or you will be in deep trouble’. My friend was virtually shaking with nerves. Unfortunately, Bob was amongst friends and didn’t realise what was going on. My friend and I simply disappeared as quickly as we could! I’m sure Bob must have been told what happened but when he called a few days later, he feigned annoyance at my leaving so quickly. I told him his wife virtually hounded me out of the party, and he sounded shocked. The swine! Of course, he later made up generously for the embarrassment but the fact remains you shouldn’t take a fight to the enemy’s camp. A wife is a wife, no matter how hard the husband tries to convince you the marriage is now in name only. She can never be ‘the other woman’, no matter how much in love you are with her husband - and no matter how the husband assures you she’s no threat to your relationship”. I’m sure it was some of these hair raising experiences that prompted Dolapo to invite six of my friends to a New Year get-together. When I protested the year was well on its way, he said there was always .a reason to have a good natter. And any time Dolapo extends his once-in-a-blue moon invitation, my friends jump. So, there we all were in our expensive ‘casuals’ with a handful of Dolapo’s friends trying to recapture their fading youths with clothes they must have borrowed off their grown up sons! It was whilst the conversation verged on the antics of wives and their husbands’ girlfriends that Dolapo told me his wife wasn’t like that. “How would you know?”, challenged Bisi, his FWB. I’d often tried my best to respect her by behaving like the good employee who had nothing but professional affection for her boss and his wife. She was at my wedding, remember? She even gave me one of the loveliest presents I got”. He smiled wryly. “You believe that in a company as big as the one we both worked with, no one would have told my wife about us? When virtually everyone knew what was going on? Of course, she knew about our `little arrangement’, as she called it. She came to the office several times to see the type of relationship we had and even encouraged you to bring your ex-husband to the house under the pretext of being a caring big Àunty. It was after you got married that she told me she knew I was bonking you, but didn’t mind because you were a sweet lady who wasn’t particularly interested in husband-snatching! On top of which you were polite and not confrontational”. Bisi was lost for wards. Networking / Sponsorship Joseph from Oredo, in Benin, needs some good spirited Nigerians to help him raise the sum of N80,000 to fix his car engine which he intend to use the car to run transport services, has Covid-19 has affected his previous source of income. 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SUNDAY VANGUARD, NOVEMBER 29, 2020, PAGE 17 Walking by faith and not by sight (2) Although God is invisible, when we walk by faith, we know He is with us and can see Him with our hearts. I once caught God looking through my eyes. He was not looking at me. He was looking through the window of my eyes. We have two eyes, but they must be single. We must see the physical in the light of the spiritual. We must see the visible in the light of the invisible. Even as we only fully understand the Old Testament in the light of our understanding of the New Testament, even so, we must interpret the physical by the invisible. In all cases, our focus must always be on knowing what God is doing. It means we are interrogating situations and circumstances. We are asking God questions. We know He is behind everything. So, we ask: “Daddy, what are you doing?” “Daddy, what do you mean by doing this?” “Daddy, why are you doing this like this?” The answer is always to trust God. The answer is always in knowing that no weapon fashioned against us can prosper. Knowing that all things work together for our good. Confident that God always causes us to triumph in Christ. Recognising that Jesus has overcome the world. Spiritual warfare Living by faith means we are always engaged in spiritual warfare. It means our physical and spiritual lives are lived as one. We know what is happening in the physical is being controlled or manipulated by what is going on in the spiritual. We know the devil, who often manipulates the physical, is a liar. Therefore, we don’t believe our lying physical eyes. We rely on our The new Heaven and new Earth (3) Everlasting gospel delivered by the Holy Father, The Supernatural Teacher and Sole Spiritual Head of the Universe, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu (BCS) WHQ 34 Ambo Street, Calabar, Nigeria From that moment, they have opted for eternal condemnation. Their desires for wealth will not be met and they will forever not have peace, joy and freedom. This same reason explains why you see people wandering from one church to the other and from one hospital or juju priest shrine to the other yet do not have peace. But a true child of this Kingdom has no problem; he is ever blooming with joy every minute. At times many people begin to wander why My life was saved by my faith in God who is my eyes spiritual eyesight. If we walk by sight, we can only do the possible. But if we walk by faith, we can do the impossible. We can even walk on water. This is because we know that the God with whom nothing shall be impossible is with us. He is the doer of the work. David acknowledges that God Most High: “performs all things for (us).” (Psalm 57:2). Peter got out of the boat to walk on water by faith in Christ. But he started to drown when he started walking by sight. This is because walking by sight brings anxiety. But walking by faith brings peace. Therefore, child of God, don’t believe your eyes. Believe your God. Eye of faith Do you see with your natural eyes? See what eyes cannot, and have not, seen. See with your eye of faith. The scriptures say of the men and women of the Hall of Faith in the book of Hebrews: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” (Hebrews 11:13-14). we converge here every blessed day singing, dancing and receiving the word of God, and get surprised that we do not spare a time for rest. Of course, the reason for their thought is lack of adequate knowledge about our hope and expectation. They do not know that we are desirous of sharing in the new heaven and a new earth. Already we are in the Kingdom of God where righteousness and peace dwell. God’s word is true and ever sure. We have read that it was written that this generation would not pass away until all the words of God come to manifest. Read St. Matthew 24: 34. “Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled”. Today have you not seen all that was written about this age manifesting? The limiting factor for very many of you in this King- The bible tells us that our God Himself is not constrained by the visible. Paul says God, who gives life to the dead: “calls those things which do not exist as though they did.” (Romans 4:17). Therefore, he prescribes the same approach for us. He says we should stop looking at the things that are seen and start looking at the invisible: “For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18). dom is that you are still walloping in sins; so long as you are still in sin, you are blinded against God. The truth is that no sinner can see God. For you to see God and be in close communion with Him, you have to sanctify yourself. Furthermore, for you to benefit from your call into this Kingdom, you have to re-order your priorities. Stop henceforth to ask God for mundane things, rather focus your hope in this new heaven and a new earth where righteousness and peace dwell. This is the Kingdom of God. For you to merit it you have to refrain from sinful acts and frivolous demands, after all, these are not what brought you into this Kingdom. You came here principally to inherit the new heaven and new earth – anything outside this is secondary and appendage. Many people have this misconception that when they are told to love one another and embrace peace, it is because in so doing people will love them back, so that they will have to utilize that avenue to establish links that will aid them to acquire wealth. Blessing of faith When the disciples told Thomas that Jesus had risen from the dead and appeared physically to them, he would not believe. He said to them: “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” (John 20:25). Therefore, Jesus appeared in his presence: “Then He said to Thomas, ‘Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.’ And Thomas answered and said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’” (John 20:27-29). In the world, they say: “seeing is believing.” However, believers in Jesus believe to see. If we say seeing is believing, we cannot walk with God for God is invisible. But if we believe to see, we will receive a great blessing. Only those who believe to see can see the glory of God. Thus, Jesus said to Martha before He raised Lazarus from the dead: “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” (John 11:30). David expressed the same sentiment: “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” (Psalm 27:13). The bible says: “The just shall live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4). When we do, the word of God defines reality for us. That means we not only believe in the promises of God, we walk according to them. We also talk about them, confident of their fulfilment for: “From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.” (Proverbs 18:20). Indeed, those who walk by faith see things in the past tense, knowing God’s promises are fulfilled in the spirit long before they manifest in the flesh and in the world. So, if God says he is going to make you rich, what should you expect? You should expect the evidence of what you do not see. Expect the contradiction first. Expect to become poor and then you will become rich. Remember this: “The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.” (1 Samuel 2:7). Saved by Faith Recently, I decided to walk from my office to my bank rather than go by car. To do that, I had to cross a major road, Adetokunbo Ademola. It was a one-way street, divided in the middle by a big intersection. I waited patiently for the cars coming on the road to pass by. When it was free, I decided to make a move. But God cautioned me. “Femi,” He said. “The fact that it is a one-way street does not mean you should not look on the other side. Look on the other side before you cross.” I obeyed immediately. I looked on the other side, only to discover that there was no impediment, then crossed the road. But I completely forgot about this injunction on my way back. I had to cross again the same one-way road from the other side, so I waited again patiently until there was no car coming. But as I took a step to cross over, a motorcycle moving at top speed on the wrong side of the road whizzed past me. I had forgotten to look at the other side because it was a oneway street. Had the motorcycle been just fractionally slower, it would have killed me because I would have moved right in front of it. My life was saved by my faith in God who is my eyes. Far be from this; the fact that you are told to practice righteousness is to qualify you to inherit the new heaven and a new earth. Therefore, brethren, whatever is done here is not to please man or acquire wealth. It is for the sake of the new heaven and the new earth that we are awaiting. Ipso facto, it behoves us all to be without blemish. The people of the world see Brotherhood members as a group of insane fellows, why this impression? It is because we do not want the things of this world, our hope is in the new heaven and a new earth and our lives depend on its arrival because it is our treasure. For it is said that where one’s treasure lies his heart is there. The reason why we opt for the new heaven and a new earth as opposed to the material lust of their world is that the material things of this world will soon fade away with time, whereas the new heaven and earth is forever. To be continued Dr. William Orakwue Egbuna Healing Disciple of God And Knight of The Holy Grail 08055765207 What is killing Nigerians!(2) Continued from last Sunday CLINICAL PATHOLOGY AND FEATURES The syphilis germs from the mother through the placenta invade all the or gans and tissues of the foetus. The bony deformities persist after birth and constitute the stigmata. The damage continues after birth and causes progressive destruction of many organs and tissues. The secondary rash appears at about two years of age and often mistaken for and termed late measles epidemic. The early tertiary rash appears between the ages of 12 and 15 years i.e. the Pimples. Almost every Nigerian has gone through the adolescent pimples. GENERAL SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS Symptoms arise from many organs and tissues. They are varied and at times weird in nature that the average Nigerian with his simple intuition calls it spiritual attack, witchcraft or juju. He is frequently amazed when after successful treatment lasting about one month that he recovers often fully! The symptoms include generalized itching and "pins and needles". Numbness and "things crawling round the body. In children, persistent fever, catarrh and cough, inability to gain weight and vomiting. Those cervical and axillary glands are prominent. Chestx-ray may show "Tuberculosis". At times pericardia! effusion occurs. Bone pains is a common symptom and with the associated skull bossing, raises the question of Sickle Cell Disease differential. Pain in the muscles is also common. Individual peripheral nerves are also affected, most commonly the sciatic nerves, at times causing severe pain and pseudo-paralyses (Sciatica).In many older children and adults these symptoms and signs persist. In the rest, the BCG infection burns itself out but the syphilis progresses to death unless treated and the organ and tissue damage arrested medically or corrected surgically. ILLNESSES AND DISEASES These include persistent or recurrent headaches, dizziness, amnesia, insomnia, dementia, twitching, convulsion, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, dumbness, asthma, catarrh, cough, haemoptysis, weight loss, stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure, ulcer, abdominal pains and discomfort, tendency to constipation, frequency of passing urine, infertility in both men and women, various forms of cancer and insanity! APPLICATION The recognition by a discerning physician that these two chronic diseases i.e. Congenital Syphilis and "Tuberculosis" are present in almost all Nigerians from birth, affords him a fantastic advantage. Any other illness is superimposed on these. Even very bad kidney cases and crippling heart diseases recover within a few weeks of management1. And infertile couples become blessed with children! SOLUTION A good Basic Heath Structure for the Country will eradicate both Syphilis and Tuberculosis simultaneously within a couple of years. The Secondary and Tertiary Health Institutions will join in managing the major organ damages and complications. In a decade or two, a healthy and vigorous Nigerian population will emerge and Medical Tourism will become history! Bishop Ore goes home in a blaze of glory By Sam Eyoboka THE General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Ku muyi, former General Overseer of Foursquare Gospel Church, Rev Wilson Badejo, founder of Christ Life Church, Bishop Francis Wale Oke and the immediate past chairman of Lagos Chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, Apostle Alex Bamgbola were among several dignitaries who graced the final burial ceremony of Bishop Sola Ore who died on October 26 Ḃishop Ore was the chairman of the Lagos Chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN. The burial ceremony which held at the LAW- NA Territorial Headquarters, Ketu Lagos also witnessed a large gathering of Pentecostals and members from other blocs of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN across Nigeria. Speaking at the ceremony, Bishop Oke who described Bishop Ore as his spiritual son said believers don’t die. He added also that when a believer dies he has only changed residence. Describing Bishop Ore as a jovial and engaging personality, he said there was nowhere Bishop Ore entered that would not be lightened up. In his words: “He was a man of high-level integrity though he cracked jokes, he was highly principled. In all my years of relating with him, I can tell you that he was a Christian indeed. He never told a lie to my knowledge all through the time I knew him.”
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