BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY

When the LORD takes pleasure in anyone way , he causes their enemies to make peace with them

The Pain of the Cross

The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken Him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all His bones. Burdened with His own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six long hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness were overpowering; while to His own consciousness He became nothing but a mass of misery and swooning sickness...To us, sensations such as our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness would have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness would have come to our rescue; but in His case, He was wounded and felt the sword; He drained the cup and tasted every drop.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Here today gone tommorrow, someone is born this moment another one dies , it keeps revolving but you will be remembered for what you did not how many cars , houses, shoes , dresses then the spirit returns to the owner (JEHOVAH) but what happens is what no one knows but many will be suprised dont want to be suprise but happy when my Heavenly Father will say welcome my daughter .

Feeding Kenya's street kids: An evening with Nairobi's 'Messiah'

Sewerage floods the alleyway; on either side of the narrow passage are aging buildings. The stench of urine fills the air.
As we make our way into the night, I begin to make out shadows lining the side of the street. "Odijo, odijo," they shout.
Odijo is sheng (Kenyan slang) for teacher - it's an affectionate name they use for the man who has become something of a "messiah" for Nairobi's forgotten children.

Life here is hard. Bad things happen, young boys get beaten up by the older homeless people and we fight for food

Street child

Clifford Oluoch is a primary school teacher in Nairobi by day but has been spending his evenings for the last three months feeding street children.
"I was walking home one night and came across boys haggling for a cob of corn. I offered to buy them a cob each, more came, then more. By the end of the night, I had bought corn for 25 people," he says.
"They asked if I could come back tomorrow and do the same and I said I would. I've been keeping that promise."
The latest figures are difficult to come by but a 2012 Unicef report estimated that The latest figures are difficult to come by but a 2012 Unicef report estimated that there were 250-300,000 homeless children in Kenya, most of them in the big cities.
According to Nairobi-based charity Kenya Children of Hope, 63% of the cities' homeless children have been on the streets on a part- or full-time basis for up to five years.
In the city centre, the vile smell of human waste, flowing near where we stand, mixes with a thick cloud of industrial glue - a drug of choice here.
There is a group of about 20 youngsters waiting crouching on the concretMany of them are carrying small plastic containers - a few sniffs of glue can last for several hours.
It smells strong and potent. I gesture to it and ask one boy why he uses it.
"It makes me warm and makes it easier to sleep at night out here," he says, before drawing three quick pulls from the plastic bottle. I sense he doesn't want to continue with the topic.
His name is Thomas, he's 14 and has been living out here for the past four years.

'Worth it'

Thomas says he has seen many people trying to help but says he thinks "Odijo" is different.
Some of the children here are from abusive homes, others left alcoholic parents behind.
But the streets are no picnic either.
"Life here is hard. Bad things happen, young boys get beaten up by the older homeless people and we fight for food," says one of the boys huddled around me, he too is sniffing glue and his eyes are blood-shot.
But they are mostly orderly and welcome me as Odijo's guest.
For months he has been splitting his salary between his wife and two children and 60 street children and says he was beginning to feel the pinch.
Thankfully word is slowly started to spread in his community - this month he got a donor for bread.
He says he can now use that money to see to other needs such as transporting someone to hospital, or helping some of the homeless women set up fruit stalls.
Still, this is an expensive project to maintain on a teacher's salary, not to mention the time away from his family - up to three hours every evening.
So why does he do it?
"My wife and I feel strongly about helping other people," he says.
"We know what is it to grow up having nothing. We know how difficult life is when you have no-one. This is making a difference, that makes all of it worth it," Benedette told me earlier.

Feeding frenzy

It's dark now and he hands out the parcels quickly, desperate to get to the next location - for some this is the first and only meal of the dayome nights the feeding is followed by a counselling session - this is the most difficult part. "A lot of these children have been disappointed so many times and that's made some of them hard. I've learned that they are just hungry for love - for someone who will care about them," he says, as if drowning under the weight of this task.
The children have a lot of faith in him - he tells me they make him feel superhuman, like he can solve all their problems. He, of course, knows he can't.
He has big plans to help get them off the streets - but with no-one else to help, that's a long way off.
We take a short drive. A group of mothers is huddled under a flickering streetlight near a shopping centre in the affluent Westlands district.
It's a busy area with fast-food restaurants. It smells of roasted garlic and warm curry - torture, even for me.
As Clifford makes his way to them, a crowd of children no more than three years old runs to him, tugging at the plastic bags in his hands. Another feeding frenzy.
"This is no place for children. I'm hoping to get the youngsters out while they still have a chance," he says.

Thankless task

One of the women tells me says she's been homeless for seven years and has no skills to speak of.
Her son, Wesley, just a year old, has a cold, so we walk to a nearby pharmacy where Clifford buys him medication.
The contrast of the woman and baby in their grubby clothes and the health worker in his crisp white coats is stark.
"They know I don't give them money. I don't encourage people to give them money either but if I can help with things like buying medicine then I do," explains Clifford as we walk out.
By this point the woman and her boy have disappeared back into the night.
Clifford has learned that the streets are addictive and that some people cannot leave - some do not even want to. This is all they know.
Being a Good Samaritan can be a thankless task as some sell the clothes he collects for them to buy drugs or alcohol.
But some - although few - still dream of a different life.
"I left school after my father died and my mother couldn't afford to take me to school, I thought it was easier to go out and take care of myself," says 13-year old Neville, who adds he wants to be a reporter.
"I want to go back to school one day. I'm hoping Odijo can help with that. I don't want to live here for the rest of my life."
Hearing this fills Clifford with hope and the drive to keep going.
"If I can save just one person, just one child, that would be enough for me," he says.
And so he keeps coming back, night after night with nothing more than buttered bread and a heart ready to love - and they are grateful.

THE NEXT LEADER OF UNITED KINGDOM IS?

SOMEONE PEOPLE LEAST EXPECTED WOULD LEAD THOUGH I ALREADY KNOW FOR GOD REVEAL SECRETS TO HIS SERVANTS IF PERMITTED BY MY FATHER WOULD LET YOU KNOW BEFORE THE ELECTION

bible verse of the day

Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter but the advantage of knowledge is this wisdom preserves those who have it

Nepal Pastor's Last Words: God Will Grant Power to Continue Ministry

The earthquake devastated members of Nepal's tiny Christian community, many of whom were attending community, many of whom were attending church services when the quake hit. As many as 600 Christians may have been killed.

It was about two minutes before noon when the quake hit. Sixty-two Christians were gathered on the fourth floor of a building for their Saturday morning worship service. The ground started shaking; the fourth floor collapsed on top of the other floors below it, killing 17 Christians, including the Senior Pastor Elija Gahle.

Jacob Tamang, assistant pastor of Vision Salvation Church, told CBN News about Pastor Elija.

"He was in the British Gorka Army, and he retired from there. He got citizenship from Britain and he was settled over there and because of the glory of God, he had great vision to serve God and he came back to Nepal," he recalled.

And as a result of that vision, Pastor Gahle planted 60 churches in western Nepal. And four years ago he started Vision Salvation Church in Kathmandu.

Santi Oli was among the 44 church members who survived the earthquake. Her 16-year-old daughter, Manisha, did not

Tamang told of his senior pastor's last words before he went to be with the Lord.

"After 39 hours, one brother got rescued through the Turkish armed forces. They were here to rescue him. He's alive now in the hospital," Tamang explained.

The surviving brother's name is Vikram. When he met the 23-year-old at the hospital, he said he was buried beneath a pile of bricks, trapped beside Pastor Elija.

"He said, 'Death is near for me, but you will be rescued and the Holy Spirit will give you power to continue your ministry,'" Vikram said. "After he passed, I felt like Jonah trapped in the body of the whale. I prayed to God, 'If You get me out of this, I will serve You for the rest of my life."'

Six other church members were hospitalized, including the widow of a popular church elder who died in the quake.

The Vision Salvation Church will now hold worship services in a new, unfinished church building.

And with Pastor Elija's passing, Pastor Jacob will now lead the church in its goal of planting 777 churches in the Hindu nation.

"I hope that because of this incident, because of this great disaster, God will do miraculous things in this land of Nepal," he sa