Even with the AC in church, he would sweat like someone who was running a marathon.
He had an easy smile but at the edge of that smile was a man with a fierce temper.
Everyone in church knew him. He was a difficult man and would make boast of this.
“Even Pastor sef know say I stubborn”. He once boasted.
“Sir, you can’t reason with my husband! Many have tried including Pastor and he hasn’t changed”. His wife said.
Even with the AC in church, he would sweat like someone who was running a marathon.
He had an easy smile but at the edge of that smile was a man with a fierce temper.
Several times have the Pastor, a wonderful and kind hearted man, done to entreat him speaking love to him.
One-day, the church had a new Men’s fellowship leader, one who had the heart for men whom have missed or failed to understand their sonship in Christ.
He paid him a visit one evening and they got talking about the Holy Spirit.
He paid attention.
He revealed things to him that even his wife didn’t know. He watched as this brother shared his life’s experience going through life without the Holy Spirit.
He went ahead to explain why he was always angry.
“I had finished law in the university of Benin...”
All was well. I was the first son and in the history of my family, I was the only one to have attended a university.
My father was proud of me but something happened”
‘Hello?’ I called out three times but no one answered and all I could hear was someone breathing.
Bros, it was as if a blanket of fear came over me. I became afraid and started crying.
Bros, would you know I was once a choir member in one of the big Pentecostal churches in Nigeria?!
Look at me. A drunk and a woman beater. I’m ashamed of myself”.
There are tears a man sheds you begin to understand the pain they carried but could never share.
The Men’s leader laid hands on him...
He prayed for the wife that she be healed of every pain. He rebuked the spirit of bitterness.
He made sure the man and his family promised to come to church the next day which was a Sunday.
For the first time since he became a member of that church...
He sat beside the Men’s fellowship leader and as the service came to an end, he turned, hugged him and placed his personal Bible in his hands and said: “The word of God is sharper than any sword... read it”.
His wife kept saying how much he had changed. His sons became closer to him though it took the eldest a while to come around, but he did.
God loves men and sometimes we try to use out logic...
The Holy Spirit is the difference. He is everything. He’s the wind that sets ships a sail.
He’s the only one...
If you’re a man out there and you desire the Holy Spirit in a new dimension, I can show you.
Remember, as many that are led, they are the sons of God.
@earthworkrr
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So, as the #MegaMillions jackpot reaches a record $1.6B and #Powerball reaches $620M, here's my advice about how to spend the money in a way that will truly set you, your children and their kids up for life.
Ready?
Create a private foundation and give it all away. 1/
Let's stipulate first that lottery winners often have a hard time. Being publicly identified makes you a target for "friends" and "family" who want your money, as well as for non-family grifters and con men. 2/
The stress can be damaging, even deadly, and Uncle Sam takes his huge cut. Plus, having a big pool of disposable income can be irresistible to people not accustomed to managing wealth. https://t.co/fiHsuJyZwz 3/
Meanwhile, the private foundation is as close as we come to Downton Abbey and the landed aristocracy in this country. It's a largely untaxed pot of money that grows significantly over time, and those who control them tend to entrench their own privileges and those of their kin. 4
Here's how it works for a big lotto winner:
1. Win the prize.
2. Announce that you are donating it to the YOUR NAME HERE Family Foundation.
3. Receive massive plaudits in the press. You will be a folk hero for this decision.
4. Appoint only trusted friends/family to board. 5/
Ready?
Create a private foundation and give it all away. 1/
Let's stipulate first that lottery winners often have a hard time. Being publicly identified makes you a target for "friends" and "family" who want your money, as well as for non-family grifters and con men. 2/
The stress can be damaging, even deadly, and Uncle Sam takes his huge cut. Plus, having a big pool of disposable income can be irresistible to people not accustomed to managing wealth. https://t.co/fiHsuJyZwz 3/
Meanwhile, the private foundation is as close as we come to Downton Abbey and the landed aristocracy in this country. It's a largely untaxed pot of money that grows significantly over time, and those who control them tend to entrench their own privileges and those of their kin. 4
Here's how it works for a big lotto winner:
1. Win the prize.
2. Announce that you are donating it to the YOUR NAME HERE Family Foundation.
3. Receive massive plaudits in the press. You will be a folk hero for this decision.
4. Appoint only trusted friends/family to board. 5/
global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closures
these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.
this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.
let's look.
above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.
we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.
this is devastating to the case for NPI.
clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.
barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.
this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.
there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.
this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.
everyone got the same R
these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.
this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.
let's look.
above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.
we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.
this is devastating to the case for NPI.
clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.
barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.
this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.
there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.
this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.
everyone got the same R
this methodology is a little complex, so let me explain what i did.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) May 30, 2020
a few EU countries provide real day of death data. this lets us plot meaningful curves to show rate of disease change.
what struck me is how similar all the curves were.
everyone got the same shape. pic.twitter.com/bN0hILzoSl
