just4fun:
Scriptures is very clear about tithing.

Bring it into the house of God that there may be meat. Ours is to obey and not to start thinking of how our Pastor will use or share it.

If you don't trust your Pastor, then you have no business of being in that church.

Tithe is tithe, not gift to the poor nor giving to your parents or the needy. TITHE IS TITHE!!

Give to God what belongs to him and give to your parents what belongs to them...

Corrections:
In Christianity, the importance of tithing can not be ignored. God instructed Christians to bring 10th of their total income to his storehouse or temple.

However, in today's modern world, people no longer give animals or material things as Tithe (not that it is forbidden) but instead all have been monetized.

One may wonder and ask the following questions:

* Why do Christians have to bring their TITHES to God's storehouse or temple?

* What is God's understanding of a store house or temple?

* Can one give his/her TITHE to parents or people if they are in need?

WHY DO CHRISTIANS HAVE to bring their TITHE to God's storehouse/ temple?

Malachi 3:10

New Living Translation
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test.

Just as it is written in the scripture, we give TITHE so that there will be enough in the temple or store house of God.

WHAT IS GOD'S UNDERSTANDING OF STOREHOUSE/ TEMPLE?

The scripture gives us a clear idea of God's understanding on what a storehouse/ temple is. In the scripture we can classify God's understanding of a storehouse/ temple as the following:

* Store house/ temple view by God as a Physical man made structures.

* Store house/ temple view by God as a human body (that is spirit with a soul)

STOREHOUSE/TEMPLE VIEW BY GOD AS A "PHYSICAL MAN MADE STRUCTURE"

Here God views a temple or storehouse as a structure built by man. It is always physical in nature.

Ezra 1: 3

New International Version
Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.

1Chronicles 28:3
New International Version
But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

Here we can clearly see that God is referring a house/temple as a man made structure.

STOREHOUSE/TEMPLE VIEW BY GOD AS A HUMAN BODY (THAT IS SPIRIT WITH A SOUL)

Here, God does not view a storehouse or temple as a physical man made structure but rather he views it as a human body that has a soul and a spirit.


1Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV),

He asks, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

John 4: 21-23

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit (the spirit is inside the body) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

Here Jesus was trying to tell us that our body will be the temple where God will be worshipped which confirms that God also sees our body as a storehouse/ temple.

Matthew 12:43-45

43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says[b], ‘I will return to the house I left[/b].’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there (because they see it just as God sees it as a house too) And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”

Here, Jesus is referring to human's body (that has a spirit and a soul) to be a house where demons could dwell or live. It opens our eye to the fact that God who is a spirit also sees our human physical body as a temple/house.

CAN ONE GIVE HIS/ HER TITHE TO PARENTS OR PEOPLE IF THEY ARE IN NEED?

Now, that we understand how God sees or defines a " storehouse or temple", we can now proceed to answering the question. The following are the 3 reasons why you can give your TITHE to your parents or people if they are in need.

* Jesus says in mark7:11-12

Mark7:11-12
New international Version
11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— 12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Here, Jesus was telling the people how wrong they were when they refused to help their parents with things (including tithe) they had dedicated to give God when they were seriously in need. If your parents are in serious need of money and you could help them with your tithe (because that is what is left to help) but told them "you rather give the money to God as tithe than them", Jesus says you are wrong.

* Your parents/ people are temple or storehouse (spirits that live in body with soul) of God by scriptures.

Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV),

He asks, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!!

This article is written to let us see from scriptures (bible) view that while it good to take our tithe to physical house of God we should not also condem the fact that humans body is also seen by God as a temple or storehouse in which we can invest our tithe in if they are in need of it after we have given every other things.


Meanwhile,, Jesus is waiting for you because jesus is the messiah the world is waiting so connect with him today! !!!


HOW TO CONNECT WITH JESUS

Your body is the house of God is it clean or dirty? You can make it clean by connecting to Jesus today.

John14:6
Jesus told him ' I am the way-
Yes, and the truth and the life. No one can GET to the father (GOD) except by means of me (JESUS ).


Say lord Jesus am sorry for the sins have committed and today I accept you as the son of God and as my lord and personal savior. Help me to follow you now and for ever more. Amen!!!

Whizzdom:
On Tuesday (21-12-2023), I was having serious fever, so went to buy an over-the-counter malaria drug and one flu tablet. The lady chemist told me to use 4 tablets in the morning and 4 in the afternoon for the malaria drug, but for the Flu medicine, I should use 1 tablet in the morning and at night. I took 4 tablets in the afternoon that day. On the next day, which is Wednesday, I took 4 tablets making 8 tablets in total plus 1 Flu tablet, A few hours after I took that medicine, I felt a sharp pain in my left hear, after which the pain subsided.

I am Welder by profession, I went to work that same moment, at work, I was using a grinding machine to grind iron to make iron smooth, the machine makes noise, but this day, as I was grinding, I could feel something in my brain or inner ear bringing buzzing sound or noise into my ear, after grinding that iron, I couldn't ear anything, all I was hearing is just noise.

The next day, which is today Thursday, I could hear people speak but they have to be loud, and my ears can't tolerate noise at all.

To go hospital hard me because I no gallant because of the series of test they will have me run which will expend my money I don't have.

My question is to the learned health practitioners in the house, should I give it time for it to heal on its own or I should go to the hospital for doctor's opinion on the matter.

Attached are the medicines for your scrutiny, I hope it is not one of those fake drugs.

franchasofficia:
Yes my son seems to have this controlling behavior even in his school lol.


One day I went to pick him up from school myself, something funny happened lol.


This boy was just 2yrs plus then, I got to his class, he was playing with some of his classmates, and immediately he sighted me, he screamed; Daaaaddyy! and ran to meet me, so his class teacher smiled and went and brought his lunch box from his school wardobe or sth and handed it to him, he was already carrying his school backpack on his back. Guess what dis boy did? He carried the lunch box back to his classroom wardrobe and put it back and angrily carried it back from there to meet me lol.


I asked him why did you do that? He said nope, I want to carry my yonch boz masef


The class teacher laughed and told me that she forgot that my son like doing things by himself lol, he doesn't like anybody helping him lol.


At home, you dare not turn on the TV when he is there, he will go and turn it off and turn it on by himself.


He doesn't like anybody to feed him except the aged Nanny, and he can barely feed himself lol. If at all he agrees to be fed, he would tell you the person he wants to feed him, and if you refuse he will never eat even if you force him, he will not swallow whatever you give him.


So you are right, he is controlling and it seems I need to toughen up and start the spanking now before things gets out of control



As for adoption in Nigeria, its not easy, but if you follow the right channel and organization it works.

Gabriel411:
pls has anyone recently got his/her passport from festac office?

rcspy:
Hello peps

I got ITA sometimes last year and I submitted the application early December. However sometimes in February I got an alert asking me to update FORM A so I did that and uploaded the document. Note, I was given 7 days to complete that.
I only uploaded the document but didnt know to complete the process, I had to resubmit the application. I discovered that after a week past the deadline.
Is there anything I can do, though I noticed few days latter the application was updated to Background check in progress. See image of application progress below.

Smmiles:
Good evening,

Please for those who were asked to redo Medicals are we to upload any document after the Medicals.
There was a form attached to the letter for Medicals but for some reason I didn’t use it and the staff at IOM never asked me for it.

Anyone redid Medicals and do you upload anything after or did u give IOM/Qlife any document?

Miredo:

Yes, that is the new format they started. Collect the two letters (bank reference and letter of non-indeptedness) to include in your POF documents

Oggg:

There is no scarcity of booklet anywhwre. go to twitter and look for Nigerian Immigration handle and complain. Ur passport will come out.

Masturah:
Yes, if the work experience is stated in their work history. No, if its only stated in their personal history.

rotile247:

Between 7 to 14 days (1 to 2 weeks). I paid for renewal on 23rd Nov, captured on 26th Nov. Passport was Issued 1st Dec. Picked it on 9th Dec. Festac office

Olubusbus:
Good afternoon beautiful people. kindly add me to the whatsApp group thanks 08023336160