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GOD HAS THE ANSWER A sermon preached by Fortune Nwaiwu “My heart rejoices in the LORD! The LORD has made me strong. Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because you rescued me” - 1 Samuel 2:1. Introduction There was a polygamous family, where a man married two wives. The first wife was not giving forth any child. For many years, she could not conceive, so her husband had to marry another wife, and she bore him children. The first was very hospitable. She helped the second wife in many ways. But what would be her reward after being kind to the newly married woman? When this second wife had realised that she had had many sons and daughters, she began to taunt the first wife. It happened that the man had a she-goat his father in-law from his first wife gave him after paying the bride price. This goat had never conceived, and the second wife would come looking at it. She would say: “You have been in the house before my husband married me. What has stopped you from giving out chi...

A sermon preached by Fortune Nwaiwu Psa 51:12 NHEB Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. Introduction There is no man on earth that has not in one way or the other experienced the joy of the LORD in his life. Though some people right from their childhood experience pain, and sorrow- their lives know no joy or happiness, while some people's lives progress from happiness to sorrow due to some circumstances, or crimes committed. To crown it all, sins drag away man's joy of salvation. David's crime of adultery with Bathsheba almost devastated his life. The story of this event really shows how human beings reason in some cases, a train of thoughts that are connected to produce that which is inimical, and diabolical to humanity. The story is told and we learn that: David casted his lustful eyes on Bathsheba, which led to committing of adultery, and his subsequent murder of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba. For David to invite Uriah to return fr...

Cohesion and Coherence: A Study of two texts, One with Cohesive Markers while the other lacking Cohesive Markers Introduction This paper seeks to analyse two texts finding out a text with cohesive markers and a text lacking cohesive markers. A text in linguistics, is any spoken or written discourse that forms a unified whole, which may be a sentence, a paragraph, or a dialogue. A text is not a grammatical unit, but rather a semantic unit of language, i.e. a unit of meaning, not of form, (Bahaziq, 2016:p112). Texture is what provides the text with unity and distinguishes it from a non-text. Therefore, it is the cohesive relation that exists between units of a text.  This paper explores cohesion and coherence with their instances to enable readers glance on how words structurally and semantically hang together to create a coherent text. We have analysed an excerpt from the opening chapter of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to find out the cohesive markers, and we also looked a...

 30, 2019 DON’T LIVE IN FEAR (A sermon delivered by Fortune Nwaiwu on Wed. 19th  June, 2019) “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline” – 2 Tim. 1:7 NLT Introduction Fear is a psychological phenomenon, a deadly game that may not lead one to the level one desires or to achieve one's aspirations. There are a lot of people who are living under the umbrella of fear. It could be the fear of lack, the fear of losing a partner, job, or the fear of death- living in sickness, or the fear of rejection. Whatever it may be, remember that God has not given you the spirit of fear. Then why must you live in fear? Why would you be afraid of the house rent you have not yet renewed? Why would you be afraid of that your seaming condition now? Why would you fear for the sickness that has bedridden you now? Do you think that God does not see you at the moment of your despair, a time it pains, hurting you all the time? Remember, fear is a weapo...

But don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered in heaven. Luke 10:20 NLT. Introduction I see that there are some unfathomable mysteries about human existence and the relationship of soul and his maker which some men of this world are unable to discover because they don’t want to know. We are too attached to everything about the external part of our lives which comprises of our needs i.e. education, business and social life, and we then show less concern to the inward, the real man. The inward is the essence of being human, and when we fail to recognise how important it is, it's said to have been tarnished because great harm of negligence has been done to it. In this era of civilization, registrations are no longer done with analogue (registering in a book) but with a computer and saved in a database. In the banking industry, if you didn’t register your bank account with your BVN (bank verification number) you will be restricted to with...

Overcoming the spirit of Delay A sermon preached by Fortune Nwaiwu on Wed. 20/03/2019 There are forces that are responsible for delaying peoples' blessings, keeping them from progressing, such forces are also responsible delaying some people from receiving Christ as their personal Saviour. With the help of God, those forces hindering your success will stop.  1. The Ethiopian Eunuch overcame the spirit of delay by receiving God's salvation – Acts 8:36  As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptised?”   He had accepted to follow Christ but was not yet a born again because he was yet to be baptised. His baptism delayed a little, and he wondered what would stop him from being baptised since there was a river to do so. So being a serious minded person to embrace Christ as his Saviour, he was then baptised by Philip. Never you allow the power of darkness to stop you from receiving God's ...