Sisters' Mini Day 2013

Theme

The Lady Ambassador

Text: Ruth 3:11, 2 kings 4:1-37, 2 Corinthians 5:14- 20, 2 john 1:5, 1 peter 2:9, proverbs 31

Memory verse: Ruth 3:11

Introduction: The question is, who is a lady and how can such a lady be an ambassador for Christ? a lady is a woman of class, polite and of a well mannered and refined demeanour, thus, a lady ambassador for Christ is that proper lady who is equally posses class but the class she displays is not of conformity with the standards of the world but that of the one who bought her with a price and made her a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, peculiar woman and a holy nation. Christ is the master of her life and so by her speech, thinking, action, and demeanour she reflects a woman who is a proper lady and am ambassador for Christ and so she bears fruit.

Outline: Aspects where the Christian woman can be an ambassador for Christ are explained in the following points.

1.    Talk like a lady: there is nothing appealing about fowl or flirty language coming out of a woman’s mouth, the lady’s words should be seasoned with salt and full of grace to edify the listener, gossiping, nagging, blackmailing etc should be far from the lady, Ephesians 5:14.

2.   Walk like a lady: 2 john 2, admonishing a lady ambassador to walk in love, and then you walk in love when you live in obedience to God’s commandments. The lady ambassador must be always found representing God in all things, that’s how she is spotted. E.g., Rachael, Ephesians 5:2.

3.   Sit like a lady: psalm 1:1 “sitting on the seat of the scornful” she shouldn’t be found among people who speak ill of the things of God and of God himself e.g. “haters”

4.   Dress like a lady: she is to look smart and beautiful but no seductive (proverbs 31:22b). Indeed God looks at the heart but man looks at the appearance, she is not to lead men into sin or lust by her appearance (Romans 14:12) be smart, look good but never let it become idolatry, most importantly as Paul advised in 1 peter 3:4. Fashionable dresses may dazzle some of your peers, but clothes do not win hearts or make real friends that are accomplished by dressing up the “inner-man”. Working on the person you are inside (2 Corinthians 14:16). A person who is inwardly beautiful will always be attractive to others even if his or her clothes are not with designer labels.

5.   Act like a lady: have you stopped to consider how you act when people are around you. Are you loud? Boisterous? Pushy? Kind or are you considered a temperate? As Christian ladies we should be transformed in Christ, the word of God should be the manual of her life. Ephesians 4:22-24.

6.   Think like a lady: conclusively, it’s until you think like a lady, you will then be able to sit, talk and act like one. You have to keep your heart and mind focused on Christ in order to be the lady ambassador for Christ that you should be. A lady ambassador guards her hearts with all diligence for out of it comes the issues of life and she can be transformed by the renewing of her mind. 2 Corinthians 10:5, Philippians 4:8 

NAME: Virtue Bara Godfrey

POSITION: Sister’s coordinator

GIRL ON THE SHELF

The art of praying is for “mean and diligent men”. This art cannot be consolidated in the Christian life. It depicts and lives the phrase “yours sincerity”. It’s not all about ‘Jesus started with prayer and ended with prayer’ it’s the life force, and life blood of the being of every Christian.

 As a result, a Christian is the sum total of how much and how well he prays. A preacher or teacher is effective if in his prayer he labours to bring God’s presence to his people.

 One cannot truly explain the beautiful act and experience of praying because it’s so personal that it involves the three entities of man and his personality as a whole. But on the other hand, I think I may do justice to it satisfactorily

 Most times while praying, I labour, and whenever I am done praying I am so exhausted, yet having this feeling of divine power at work in me. Its labouring because it’s like you’ve done a principal activity but this is actually in the spirit.

Then at other times, it’s like I am having a deep and intimate talk with a very close friend who knows me more than I do know myself. Its here I get to dismay whatever emotions necessary at that moment.

 I may go on and on to state the different prayers, explaining the various ways of praying, state the various effects and reasons for praying but one thing I cannot do is to teach you how to pray. For this you have a better teacher who is none other than the Holy Spirit. For he helps our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought to pray but the spirit itself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. He is the spirit of truth that will lead us into all truth.

 Brethren, before you say a word in prayer, invite him to say that prayer through you and you will live to tell of its effects

Thanks and god be with you

Note: to our beautiful sisters coordinators and to the females in generally; have a good day to you all on this day.

We love you OPC

Oh God! I am a failure

So many times we fail and get depressed and do again those same things for which we fail for. After failing we like our first parents blame others and the environment.

 Now God is not unfaithful to forget our work and labour of love neither is He one to let his promise go unfulfilled. The reason why we fail is that we either believe that God is a magician, or we limit power over us even though he has proven his faithfulness to us or we think he does not understand nor love us. In most cases he tells us what to do but we but we prefer our ways to his all knowing ways, or we don’t just say connected to “THE-SOURCE”.

  All hope is not lost in this season of clearance, exam and many different and difficult challenges. We should learn to look up to him the, the author and finisher of our faith. We should learn to set our priorities right, giving to ceaser what belongs to ceaser and to God what belongs to God. We should learn to be diligent in our business and studies and above all stay connected to the vine.

 Now the problem is not that we fail, it lies in the fact that we do not get up. It lies in the fact that we live in denial and at worst the devil helps us to think up a lie that God will never accept us back, so we continue to wallow in pity.

 This should not be the case cause like David and unlike Saul; we should always get back to him each time we fail or fall. Another reason we fail is that we do not trust in the MAN we serve. To this he says that “without faith it’s impossible to please God and that which is not faith” or then again we lose self esteem or confidence in ourselves or abilities for which he says hasn’t given us the spirit of fear... but of love, power and a SOUND MIND. That again we forget to ask from the father of lights who has no shadow of turning or variableness in him.

Finally brethren that we have the spirit to teach us all things, lets also bear in mind that he says in Eph: 3, 20.”... That he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the POWER AT WORK IN US. Let’s activate that power in this period of expectation.

  Thanks and God bless OPC

A TRUE STORY

As I walked to exit ground, I finally saw the much talked about result oh God! I had an F. I felt weak instantly. I could not believe it.  I had fasted for the exam and was even fasting on the day I was writing the exam. I know what I wrote, and I know that I had read very well for the exam.

 With faith, I prayed that the result would change there on the board. Each time I passed exit ground, I checked my reg number to know if the result had changed there on the board. But it was still the same F. I felt very frustrated. I felt like God had disappointed me.

Nevertheless, I sat up and read my books and prayed as usual. The God of restoration just has his own way of compensating those who continue to depend on him. Just last semester, I had one of the best results ever, I have never has such A’s on my departmental courses than I did last semester. I was filled with too much joy. I am sure of this one thing; you think God has failed you? Trust him alone this time “it is not by your power or might, but by his spirit”.

Forget about exam malpractice, sit down and read your books. The God that made me smile will make you jump for joy in Jesus name. Amen.

MAMA ORGANISED PRESS

CREW CARES!!!

HEPHZIBAH       

I AM- BY KIRK FRANKLIN

How do you do? I am a sinner

Born into sin and shaped into iniquity

Now a believer, not who I was

But still not what I shall be

You found me and gave me your name and

Things I desire have changed but

Inside you’ll see its still broken pieces

Deep in me reaches for you

How do you do? I am a beggar

Desperate for more, I hunger for your truth

See I am shattered

Though I may fail, still you make all things new

You speak, the storm obeys and

Gone is the weight of mistakes and

Though I still feel u continue to heal

Look close and see

Chorus:

I am so far from perfect

I thought life was worthless

Until you showed me who I am

Not here by mistake, no luck only grace

I'm on my way to who I am

VERSE 2:

How do you do? I am a sinner

I’ve lost a few and life’s knocked me to my knees

And now I'm standing

Not by my power but your life inside of me

Even though seasons and changes

No tear has ever been wasted

This under system, it worked for my good

Look now and see

Bridge (chorus):

How and I'm closer, praise now is stronger

Stood up to fear, by faith I'm still here

Couldn’t walk away, God said not today

Because eyes haven’t seen, what God has for me

The trust and the lies

Through the pain, through the right

I cried and said

But still I survived.

MESSAGE BEHIND SONG

We all as Christians have a purpose, a reason why we are here. But we miss out on it sometimes because of iniquity and sin, other times because we allow our will to stand in the way of Gods will for our lives.

We suffer a lot undeserved because we do not know who we are. We do thing and perform bellow expectation, we fail at times all because we do not know who we are in God. What we need to know is that we are here by God’s grace, and not by some coincidence or mishap. as long as we know who we are, and that it’s not by our power but GOD’S SPIRIT, we can walk in the light of this truth and operate at higher levels and in the end achieve perfection.

G.V.M.C 

Presented by

Lady Ambassadors

HAS FAILURE GONE TOO FAR?

What do you see failure as?

Failure is lack of success in doing or achieving something. The single most important difference between a successful person or a champion and a failure is the ability to handle rejection and failure you can’t travel the road to success without a picture or two.

Mistakes are often the best teacher. Solomon in ecclesiastics advised us that in day of prosperity be joyful, but in days of adversity consider. Whenever you fall, pick something up. The man who invented the eraser had the human race pretty figured out “the mistake riddled in life is much richer, more interesting and more stimulating than the life that has never risked or taken a stand on anything”

 Having a carryover does not mean the end of the world, it simply means ‘sit up!’ .There is no gain in having a carryover but, it’s a loss you can regain when you decide and make up your mind.

Exam is hand, how do u prepare? Do you study from day one or do you study when exam is around the corner or do you study when the timetable is out or do you study a day to the exam? You might notice the term ‘study’ is used here not read. This is in line with Joshua 1:2 & timothy 2: 15. To study is to have indebt knowledge about something than to read.

To achieve success this exam, four things are necessary and they are:

·        Eat well

·        Sleep well

·        Pray well

·        Study well

Only then will success be yours. I hereby wish you all success in your exam.

Amen

L.A.N

OPC

FEAR, THE FIRST STEP TO FAILURE

Hello my blessed people of God, greetings to you all!!!

Today is another day that the lord has made possible and congratulations on your success over the night and the passed day into another day as you must have realised

Yes! We all love success so much and when w achieve it we always have heroic tales to tell of the journey, and of course dread failure, a horrible experience, but most times, we find ourselves in that terrible situation failure, one that has a tale and story about how it happened also.

 It always starts with a four lettered word fear, a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger, but in this case “the fear of failure”, an amazing and really interesting first step to actual failure. Think of it as failures forerunner, the same way john the Baptist in the bible was the saviour’s forerunner.

   Now our fear here becomes a phobia of our inability (self induced or planted in us by others) to achieve our goals in life generally. That can be induced by our own inability to picture ourselves winning at whatever we do, or to see God’s bright potential in us, resulting in a low self esteem, or planted in us by societal or peer group pressure as well as general discouragement from others.

  The fear of failure is an emotion capable of robbing us of our destiny, let’s take for instance, Moses, he was so afraid of failing because he had speaking issues among other moral issues (killing an Egyptian), he lost confidence in himself and God. He was so afraid of failure that Gods signs were almost not enough and he almost turned down his role as a man of God, leader, and the man who received the commandments directly from God and many more. Have you as a student ever felt so incompetent, unprepared or so discouraged as to a test or examination that you almost think it futile to even attempt it? When this happens and all the chips are down and all the zeal and morale towards that course is gone, it becomes difficult to study or prepare properly for it, you must surely be prepared to fail then. So it’s more important than I can possibly emphasise important that we never lose confidence in ourselves and our heavenly father’s power to move mountains.

  Some may say that fear might be a life saving experience or emotion prompting us to act to save ourselves, or as students the fear of failure academically prompting us to read and prepare ourselves properly, but when fear becomes the captain of our life’s ship, a crash is imminent. Yes, fear is a normal emotion, but as Christians, being new creatures, fear is not in our nature as God has given us a spirit of power, love, and sound mind (2 timothy 1:7) thus, it is important that we transform mental processes towards positive and confident thoughts and take care as to what we let people tell us and most importantly trust God.

  In conclusion, we ought not to be compelled to succeed by the fear of failure but by our desire to achieve for ourselves causing us to fight, build, and study and then write to our success in exams, cause as is written in my bible and I know is in yours “a little sleep, a little slumber and poverty (failure) will come upon you like a thief in the night” (proverbs 24:33-34). But I know that is most definitely not the fate of the lord’s own people.

Amen!!!

Tatafoor Korner

In as much as time done near, e no mean say I no go greet una well. Good morning PFM, how una dey this morning? I know say una sleep well but me not at all, the sleep just leave me jare.

  Today wey be the 10^th of January na sister’s day and say make we come out with a touch of purple whether na for cloth or na for shoe but make small purple just show for the outfit .the theme for their day na the lady ambassador. I know say sisters get enough things to tell us na for us to open our ear hear well and brothers make una open ear sef at least una fit tell una sister for house or even una future wifey.

  Next week go be another week and I believe say na brothers we go follow. I no know I just dey yarn o. Sunday go tell. Finally the exam timetable show o and as we think am na so e be as we go de start on the 18^th February till 18^th march na one month straight o.kai!! it is not a small something. Na to read back up prayer, sure pass, God go definitely see us through.

  One matter wey I no understand na the brothers when de always sit down inside Chicago hall, if them no tackle you when de talk, ehen go make you forget wetin you one talk. The other day one of the leaders enter inside Chicago hall, as usual come say “daughters of zion”, response- we are highly favoured, him come shout “men of valour”, response- we are highly favoured, abei when them become daughter of zion??? Shey if them no know the answer Na to keep quiet or ask the person around them wey dey around then wey go fit remember the response. I just pray say them go take correction because if them continue like this e no go funny again. How you go play from Monday to Saturday then on Sunday wey you go calm down small, you go still dey play again, God go help us Oh!

        14^th February stands for Valentine’s Day everywhere for the world so make so make we show love to many people on that day so that God go show us love 2.

  Well we just get one small puzzle for una, e no tough sha but if we answer am before 12 am on the 14^th we go contact you. The puzzle goes like this:

     “Make us form something wey make sense out of the bible passage john 3:16”, when you get the word and you believe say e make sense, text am to this number 07039568632 on the “13^th  of February” and we contact you if you correct, before 12 am on the 14^th oh! We just need five correct answers.

  Till we come your way again next week from organised press crew, God loves you and we care.

Tatafoor

korner