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http://ift.tt/2t7BGzo By Femi Aribisala If you want to determine if someone is physically alive, check his pulse. But if you want to determine if he is is spiritually alive, check his praise. I was sitting beside a girl on a plane to New York and we were chatting. Then a man came along and she started talking to him in a language I could not understand. When he left, the girl turned to me and said: “Wow, I’m so glad I talked to him. I wanted to speak Hebrew so bad.” Has that ever happened to you? You just wanted to do something so badly? Answer me this: have you ever wanted to praise God so badly? You just had to stop whatever you were doing to give God praise. I need to tell you why this happens. If you are born again, you are born again to praise God. Peter points this out: “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9). If ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J “Of course you’re right, Ichie Edordu. But let’s not be too hardened on this matter. Don’t forget that the other women you talked about all spoke our language and largely shared similar beliefs with our people. This woman is from a totally different and distant land,” Abala said. Ikuku turned sharply toward Abala and hollered, “Do you know the implication of what you’re saying? Are you suggesting we abandon the only thing that discourages our wives from conspiring with our enemies to kill us? What is really going on here? Or am I the one that is out of my mind?” He stretched forth his hand to Edordu. “Ichie Edordu, please pinch me let me know if I am still in this world.” The assembly roared in support. Obodo looked across the room and countered. “But come to think of it, there could be a point in what Abala is saying. This is a woman from the hilly North. Their ways are completely different from ours.” “ Chineke ! Ichie Obodo, you too have joined them. Tufiak...