Eternal Walkways – The bible being the word of God was revealed to men of old who were inspired and called by the Almighty God, these are men who through inspiration of the Holy Spirit received the grace of revelation and understanding of God’s message. It’s fascinating to debate that the bible is infallible and can be considered as the manual of human life, for scripture says that the word of God is life, if His word is life as noted then it is in fact an incorporeal blueprint for all created things. The bible is a historic account of God’s people, his kindness, love, protection, concern, mercy and will written by prophets and righteous men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit. It narrates God’s creation and the emergence of life, the disobedience and fall of man and indeed the wickedness that entered the world which led to man’s misery, hopeless and cry for help. Even though His people rebelled and disobeyed Him, He didn’t give up on them but was patient in seeking their hearts back to Him by forgiving and teaching them His eternal walkways so that they could come back to Him and be happy again.
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Eternal Walkways of Victory – is a daily devotional guide and prayer manual with a Bible study calendar, this spiritual guidance is the eternal walkways of wisdom, knowledge and understanding for the believers’ daily victory. To walk in faith, truth, power and dominion as a child of God requires intentional and deliberate practices, choices or decisions that are backed by the grace of God. Our gracious Father is always waiting for us to take a stand and persevere in faith, through the justification of our victory in Christ that makes us win daily. As children conformed to the image of Christ, all we need do is to believe, obey and do the will of God. Once we do God’s will and remain in His divine providence and purpose, both physical and spirit realms obeys our commands through Christ who is now enthroned as the Head of all principalities. It’s imperative to know that, the spirit realm is very real and orderly, pre-eminent and permanent than our physical habitation. Activities in the spirit are carried out relatively to the precepts and ordinances established by God Almighty. Both God and the heavenly hosts yield to these eternally established rules, conduct and order, and mankind cannot be excluded from obeying these same divine laws. For us to subdue, conquer and exercise dominion on Earth, we all must adhere to the precepts governing creation to enable us control and command the supposed spiritual world.
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These eternal truths and realities can be seen in (Eph. 6: 10-18) where the Word of God is emphatic and explicitly explained what we must do as bond-servants of Christ to conquer the wiles of the devil, the principalities and powers that are domiciled in heavenly places. The consequences or cost of rejecting godly truths is largely damaging and destructive, therefore, we cannot neglect divine truths and avoid being truthful ourselves or pursuing godly acts that leads to righteousness, by bearing ourselves as instruments of peace, trusting God completely through our faith in Christ, and the daily workings of our salvation and other children of God, growing in the word of God and praying without season even for the saints. These things are indeed our spirituality and they form for us defense in withstanding the spiritual hosts of wickedness or destroying the works of darkness, it makes us prevail against the devil and for the propulsion experience of our victory and excellent life.
The scripture is our Christian guide for the doctrine of pure conduct and matters pertaining to life. This holy, great and inspirational book reveals God’s determination to save His people from the world of affliction and destruction; it also reveals God’s truth and perhaps teaches us the likely consequences of our decisions and actions in spiritual and practical world, for God through His Word set before us the choice of life and good, death and evil as the standards for life whether to live or die. It is through His Word in the bible that we can encounter the living God and undoubtedly come to divine acknowledge and learn about Him or either way the Holy Spirit gives a spiritual understanding of the Word of God to those who read and hear it, according to the disposition of their hearts; even though the mystery of His Word is beyond our human comprehension God grants us the grace to understand His revelations according to purpose and need, and it’s futile and incorrect for us to question what is not revealed in the bible as Christ has commanded that we shouldn’t bother about anything that is not revealed to us – “And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father has put in His own authority”, (Acts 1: 7).
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Furthermore, this exceptional and incomparable book account for the precepts or principles that governs the natural domain and man, it actually teaches us how to please, reverence and obey God as our Creator. The scripture as the Word of God contains the Old Testament prophecy fulfilled in the New Testament Covenant through God’s love and commitment to man, from Genesis to Revelation the bible recorded the inter-connectivity of God’s word, its harmonization and fulfillment. It is on the account of God’s New Covenant that He sent his only begotten Son to come and save the world from sin, the new covenant of faith which we Christians accept as a standard of our doctrine revealed through Jesus Christ. It is in the Old Testament of this great book that the prophecy of Christ was revealed and eventually fulfilled in the same book in New Testament, it’s unimaginable and astonishing how God spoke with those He assigned to carry out His will for thousands of years and in different generation of people. The New Testament of the bible that we accept as our infallible gift of God was abolished through Christ’s death that was prophesied by the prophets of old precisely more so in Isaiah, for what the blood of animals could not do His precious blood did by setting us free from sin, death and has presented us right before the Father who loves us. “Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, as when at first He lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined” (Isa. 9: 1-2), “Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. Just as many were astonished at you, so His visage was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men; so shall He sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; for what had not been told them they shall see, and what they had not heard they shall consider” (Isa. 51: 13-15), “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily. Also I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet; the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down it” (Isa. 28: 16-18). We look up to Jesus Christ with complete joy and fulfillment, for we were lost and hopeless but through His love and compassion we are found. The bible says; “For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as there were moved by the Holy Spirit”, (2 Pet. 1: 21) and again it says – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”, (Jn. 1: 1). Man shall not live on bread alone but on every Word of God, it’s by His Word in the bible that we all can achieve peace and happiness, joy, satisfaction and ultimately be saved.
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Eternal Times Media – is a global communication network for the Christian faith and mission, news, religious exposition, Christian education, values, virtues and ecumenical center for inter-denominational and Christian union, a subdivision of Gilgal Evangelical Mission. ETM is a multimedia square with tailored communication network for the Christian propagation and global mission, enlightenment, knowledge and religious events worldwide. Our multilateral and yet explicit media corporation cover a wide range of communications, from faith denomination, belief, tradition, doctrine, theology to philosophical knowledge and its impact on our changing world.
As intermediary, faith and ecumenical commonwealth assembly that believe in our Eternal Union, non-denomination’s perspective and exposure to biblical truth. Eternal Times Journal expository features and displays exclusive Christian values, events, theological and doctrinal beliefs, high profile interviews and inter-religious dialogue. The Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Mormon churches all call themselves Christians – yet they also maintain theologies and practices that diverge in significant ways. Attempting to bridge these differences, although such efforts remain controversial and dispute overstretched, more-so the Bible is clear and emphatic about the existing disparity and division in the body of Christ. As faith oriented organization, the Bible is our central conviction and it has stated plainly that we are different members of one body, and therefore one cannot say I am the most important member or part and neglect the other. For this reason, Jesus prayed that we may be one just as the Father and Him are one, with quickness, we all must put on Christ which is God’s armor.
It is only by putting on the armor of God that we can truly prove our membership of Christ body, which is the church and not unworthiness that breaks the spirit of God in us but as worthy and special members of His body to co-operate with one another respectfully. What does it mean to speak of the “church”? Is there one church or are there many? On the face of it, there are hundreds of Christian denominations and hundreds of thousands of Christian churches in Nigeria alone. A Google search for churches in any given community will reveal the diversity and even the divisions of Christianity. Hundreds of small energetic congregations, with little more than a bulldozer and a construction crew, have built new churches. But what is their relationship to other churches in their city, to other churches in Nigeria, and to other Christians throughout the world? Can a local church be Christian all by itself, or are the churches with all their differences called by Christ to seek one another and work toward collective unity? These are ecumenical questions that are raised and answers needs to be provided. According to Christian tradition, Saint Paul understood the church to be the “body of Christ.” In a letter to the church at Corinth, Paul wrote: “As in one body, there are many members, not all having the same functions, so there are many members of the body of Christ – we are one body, individually members one of another” (Rom. 12:4-5). Within this theological perspective, individual Christian congregations might be seen as the “church” not in isolation but only in relationship to the worldwide body of Christ, with all its diversity of members.
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According to Christian history, the early church held seven ecumenical councils from the 4th to the 7th centuries at which key doctrinal issues, such as the understanding of Christ and the Trinity, were discussed and settled, solidifying for a time some unity within the church. Soon, however, splits and schisms surfaced and became the new reality: Orthodox and Catholics split; Protestants separated from the Catholics; denominations proliferated and divided. In the early 21st century, the word “ecumenical” is used once again by Christians to refer to the worldwide church and the movement toward Christian unity. This unity is not only a matter of structures, institutions, and denominations, but also a unity of spirit and faith. There is disagreement among Nigerian Christians about the value of Christian ecumenism. Some Nigeria Christians, especially those from independent churches, are deeply suspicious of the consolidation of power and dilution of theology they see represented by the ecumenical initiatives. Those who support the movement, however, insist that Christian faith requires dialogue and deepening relationships among the various parts of the Christian family, even where they may profoundly disagree with one another. Within Nigeria, the ecumenical witness of churches is expressed in many ways.
At the state and local levels, Nigeria has a multitude of church councils that embody an ecumenical vision of cooperation. At the national level, the national council of churches brings a wide range of churches together for mission and education; for ministries of service and relief through National Church Service; for active engagement with the issues of tribal, economic, and social justice; and for theological reflection on divisive doctrinal issues. While it is often identified with theological liberalism, the national council of churches has sustained a dialogue among a wide spectrum of Protestant and Orthodox churches. Today, Nigerian Christianity is becoming increasingly diverse. Christians from a multitude of ethnic and cultural backgrounds are part of cities and towns across Nigeria. Making concrete an ecumenical vision of Christianity that seeks community across the lines of culture, tribe, and denomination is now a challenge for Nigeria Christians not only at the global level, but at the local level as well. We must be one, one, as Jesus and the Father are one. This is precisely the challenge for all of us Christians, not to leave room for division among us, not to let the spirit of division, the father of lies, enter into us. All of us must always seek unity. Jesus prays that we may be one, one, and the Church is in great need of this prayer of unity. And another piece of advice Jesus gave in these days of leave-taking is to remain in Him. “Remain in Me”, And He asks for this grace. “Father, I want those whom You have given Me to be with Me where I am”. That is, that these remain there, with Me. Remaining in Jesus, in this world, ends in remaining with Him “that they may contemplate My glory”.