Shallom International Ministries

As you joyfully go into the Lord's sanctuary today, the Most High God will joyfully accept your praises and worship, HE will joyfully hearken to your voice and fulfil all your petitions. He will also bring down His Glory upon you. The Lord will deliver you from spiritual bo***ge that is passed down from one generation to another in your family lineage. All negative pattern accustomed to your parental blood, be wiped out by the Precious Blood of Jesus. The Lord will heal all your infirmities and diseases today in Jesus Wonderful name. Go and enjoy His supernatural Grace without measure in Jesus Glorious name i pray. Amen. Good morning. Happy Sunday.🙏🏽

LET US WITH A GLADSOME HEART

PRAISE THE LORD
FOR HE IS GOOD

FOR HIS MERCIES
HERE ENDURE

EVER FAITHFUL

EVER SURE.

AMEN.

ADESANU ABIODUN PASTOR

SHALOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES AKOWONJO LAGOS

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🍅 🍅 🍅 THE DANGERS OF HATRED

🍅A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school.
🍅Each tomato was to be given the name of a person whom that child hates.
🍅So, the number of tomatoes would be equal to the number of persons they hate.
🍅On a pre-determined day, All the children brought their tomatoes well addressed.
🍅Some had two, some had three and some had five, some even had 20 tomatoes in accordance with the number of people they hated.
🍅The teacher then told them they had to carry the tomatoes with them everywhere they go for two weeks.
🍅As the days passed the children started to complain about the decay and smell of the tomatoes.
🍅The students who had many tomatoes complained it was very heavy to carry and the smell was too much.
🍅After a week, the teacher asked the students “How did you feel this week?”
🍅The children complained of the awful smell and heavy weight of the tomatoes, especially those who carried several tomatoes.
🍅The teacher said, “This is very similar to what you carry in your heart when you don’t like some people to the point of hatred of them.
🍅Hatred makes the heart unhealthy and you carry that hatred everywhere.
🍅If you can’t bear the smell of spoilt tomatoes for a week, imagine the impact of bitterness on your heart as you carry it daily.”
🍅The heart is a beautiful garden that needs regular cleaning of unwanted weeds.
🍅 Forgive those who have angered you, hated you, betrayed you, forgotten you, abandoned you, accused you, disrespected you, sold you out, dishonoured you and tried to destroy you, your name or reputation. But learn vital lessons from it.
🍅This makes room for storing good things.
🍅Get Better, Not Bitter!!!

AIthough you may not usually forward text messages, this one makes sense and is full of wisdom. So forward it to someone or a group. They might be motivated to let go of hatred as well and cleanse their hearts. REMEMBER: HATE has 4 letters, so does LOVE.

SHALLOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTERIES AKOWONJO LAGOS

ADESANU ABIODUN PASTOR

GRACE TO RECOVER ALL!

"And David inquired at the LORD, saying, shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them?
And He answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all."
1 Sam. 30:8

The greatest honour is for GOD to answer your prayers, each time you call upon Him!
GOD will answer you today!
He will respond swiftly to your consistent and persistent needs!
You will not only pursue your desired goals; you will achieve great results!
And also recover your lost grounds spiritually, intellectually, maritally, materially, physically and psychologically!
In JESUS Wonderful Name!!!
Beloved, have a victorious New-week.

Further reading:
"And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you."
Joel 2:25

Babatunde Ogunnaike 1956-2022.

The death has occurred of Tunde Ogunnaike, whose words make up most (if not all of) of stanza two of our national anthem.

He died in the US where he’d been a professor for over 25 years and lately Dean of Engineering at Delaware University.

In 1977 as a 21 year old NYSC member serving in Port Harcourt, he responded to a call for entries into a competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Information to replace the Nigerian national anthem.

The rest as they say, is history.

He emerged as one of five, who’s words and phrases were combined to form the anthem.

The others are; John A. Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, Sota Omoigui, and P.O. Aderibigbe.

The words were put to music by DCP Ben Odiase, the then director Nigerian Police Band.

Ben Odiase was said to have entered the competition as a private citizen & not as a policeman. Other contenders in the music category were Akin Euba & Laz Ekwueme.

The new anthem was officially adopted in 1978. By this time Tunde Ogunnaike was already in PG school in the US.

He was supposed to get a N50 prize, according to the telegram announcing the choice of his lyrics.
That was a reasonable amount of money at the time, but I don't think I ever got it.”

In a 2012 interview, he said he feels both pride and sadness whenever he hears the anthem.
“It reminds me of unfulfilled promises,” he says.

“Nigeria has so much potential, and the words of the anthem were meant to reflect this.”

On the anonymity given to writers of the anthem, he had this to say; “everyone knows that Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem (even I, a recent immigrant, know this). At the very least, the people of Nigeria should be told who wrote their anthem.”

It is interesting that the two youngest of the five writers of our anthem, he and Omoigui, eventually emigrated and became Americans.

Academically, Tunde Ogunnaike was a prodigy in his field of Chemical Engineering.

He grew up in Ibadan, and attended Government College Ibadan.

He got into Unilag, and graduated in 1976, aged 20 with a first class.

He left for post graduate studies in the US in 1978 & returned in 1981 with a Master’s and PhD.

He lived & worked in Unilag from 1982 to 1988 as an assistant professor
Ogunnaike moved to the US permanently in 1988, when he left the services of Unilag for good.

Lately, he’d been in Nigeria often, in his words, “mostly to help with a relatively new World-Bank sponsored University in Abuja (The African University of Science and Technology).

He was also inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Ogunnaike will be missed by friends and family, not the least the global chemical engineering world where he held forth at the crossroads of chemical engineering, medicine and biology.