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     100 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STAY MARRIED      A MANUSCRIPT BY FOLASAYO AWODUMILA INTRODUCTION Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, because we ar

  Keeping Faith ( There's Always A Light At The End Of The Tunnel) A MANUSCRIPT by FOLASAYO AWODUMILA  INTRODUCTION " Now Faith is the Substance of things hoped for, The evidence of things not seen" Faith is a complete trust or confidence in something.To live in this world, you need to have faith, you board an aeroplane because you have faith in the pilot to take you to your destination, there are many persons, places and things that we could put our faith in during our lifetime, but when it comes to things eternal we must make sure that we get it right. "The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able" Martin Luther king Jnr Faith is one of the most central parts of our relationship with God. No matter who we are no matter what our walk in life, there will be trying times for us. These di

   ABIKU [PREDESTINED TO DEATH] (THE EXERTION OF SICKLE CELL ANEMIA) A MANUSCRIPT BY FOLASAYO AWODUMILA  INTRODUCTION In Africa, particularly, in the Nigerian tradition, chaotic interpretation and reinterpretation takes place regarding the concept of ABIKU ( A Yoruba name given to a child who keeps enacting a recurring cycle of death and rebirth. Over the centuries, the Abiku mythology has seen to the fate of thousands, if not millions of children who and seemingly are reborn through the same mother in Yoruba land. The myth is of a very strong form of unmitigating and vengeful form of reincarnation. In this case a particular child actively brings him or herself to be born into the same family and by the same mother, usually it is a female child, when this cycle continues for an unbearable length of time, the child is given a mark so that they are sure that it is this same child. It is found out that when this Child dies and reincarnated another time, it often returns with the mutilated

                                                        GUILT (JESUS PAID THE PRICE) A  MANUSCRIPT BY FOLASAYO AWODUMILA  INTRODUCTION : Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the Curse of the law. He absorbed it completely as he becomes a curse in our place, for it is written " Everyone who is hung upon a tree is doubly cursed (Gal 3:13) How did Jesus pay the price : He was human and without sin, he was able to take our sin and sacrifice himself on the cross to pay for our mistakes.(Col 1:14) We all have a guilty conscience, to let us know if we've done something wrong, or that pricks us when we do wrong things, but Jesus offers another way to make things right with God of justice - a way to free us from the condemnation of God and of our own conscience, it's a way that lets the principle of justice stand and at the same time rescues people who would be condemned by it, Jesus said " The son of man (Jesus Himself) came not to be served but to serve and to

UNSTAINED (Modesty) A Manuscript By Folasayo Awodumila The Club was a banger last night, Ifeyinwa said through the phone while she applied her makeup, my name is Ifeoluwa Akani, University of Lagos welcomed it's freshers last night, and yours truly was one of them, the experience is one for the books, I met a couple of freshers like me, Eno, Ifeyinwa, Sade and Agnes, as fate would have it we also shared thesame hostel. Where are you going to I asked Ifeyinwa, who was still on a call, the freshers night that took place last night knocked everyone out, all the other roommates were still snoring on their beds including me but here is Ifeyinwa all dressed up ready to go out, Ifeyinwa looked at me through the mirror she was using for her makeup and gave me that it's none of my business look and continued with her phone conversation. University life seem totally strange to me, coming out from a place you were restrained all your life to a place where you have total freedom to do just