‘YOU’RE NOT DEAD…WAKE UP AND PLAY!
Certainly, if you are reading this, then you are not dead! And if you are not dead, then you should wake up and play! Rise up from your depressed and frustrated state, and launch yourself into possibilities. If you’re living, then God is not done with you! So don’t give in because your best is yet to come!
There may be many things about you that are dead, but you’re not dead! You have not even taken a swing, yet you worry about missing the target! ‘Suppose I miss’, you say. “All life is an experiment. The more experiment you make the better.”- Ralph Emerson.
Do not allow you past disappointments make you to adjust your expectations to your limitations! God can do super abundantly, far over and above all that we can dare ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). You’re not dead! Wake up, and play! You’re winning! Yes, we are winning!
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Is the church supposed to be a business venture? Some believes the church is a business organization why some says it is not. According to the renown Evangelist and founder of the Uma Ukpa Evangelistic Association, Rev. Dr. Uma Ukpai, “Jesus calls church business. He said, ‘I am about my father’s business’. He called church work business and what is business? Business is investment plus gain, minus loss. In church planting, no pastor can collect offering without giving account and survive. Every church has elders and the job of the elders is to make sure that account is given; it is not even publicly but given internally but the account must be given.” 1
What exactly is a church supposed to be? I read the story of a meeting of a local Rotary club. Each week at the meetings a different member was asked to give a brief statement about his job. When it was the turn of a Christian minister he stood up and said: “I’m with a global enterprise. We have branches in every country in the world. We have our representatives in nearly every parliament and board room on earth. We’re into motivation and behavior alteration.
Oftentimes, you lose respect for yourself, frustrated and humiliated because life mocks you sometimes? Yes, life mocks, sometimes! You may fail at a business, disappointed of an expectation, or beaten by life’s realities. Even though it maybe very painful, yet, you don’t have a reason to give in. The closest to the morning is the darkest part of the night. Therefore, you should know that no matter how dark the sky maybe, there will always be a silver lining. Hold on your joy comes in the morning.
When we believe in the sovereignty of God, we can overcome every humanly induced trial because we realize that they are divinely permitted and supernaturally orchestrated. God orchestrates them in such a way that the things that could have paralyzed us only motivate us. This knowledge sets us free from internal struggles, fear and hopelessness.
The World Day Against Child Labour is an 
Although, child abuse is a punishable crime in Nigeria, yet the rate of abuse and sexual assaults has not ceased to be on the increase. Child sexual abuse in Nigeria is an offence under several sections of chapter 21 of the country’s criminal code.
“It is for arrows of this generation that we must pray – they who are being aimed at the streets and drugs and perversion. It is not all of them, but some of them have been broken in the quiver! I write to every empty-eyed child I have ever seen sit at my desk with trembling lips struggling to tell the unmentionable secret. To the trembling voice of every caller who spoke into a telephone a secret they could not keep and could not tell, I write.
The oceans cover about two-thirds of the surface of the Earth and are the very foundations of life. They generate most of the oxygen we breathe, absorb a large share of carbon dioxide emissions, provide food and nutrients and regulate climate. They are important economically for countries that rely on tourism, fishing and other marine resources for income and serve as the backbone of international trade.
Why celebrate World Oceans Day?