To many, christmas is a time of celebration and joy – but as much as it a time for this, it is also a time to give. Jesus Christ desires and deserves your best – because He has given you His best. Christmas therefore is a time to give your best – your best time, love, strength, energy, effort – every good thing the Lord has given you. This is the true essence of christmas…
This christmas, Pastor TB Joshua demonstrated that there is more joy in giving than in receiving! It is challenge for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the acts of giving in this festive season. Read on…
One of the biggest problems ever present in the average Nigerian community is that of electricity supply. In most places, power supply is very epileptic, so much so that it cripples economic activities.
The government of the nation has continuously failed in its promises to deliver stable electricity supply to the people, and so the people have resorted to generating their private power via mechanical generating sets, which cost a fortune to acquire and much more to maintain. These developments create a big vacuum for those people who cannot afford to purchase their own generating sets as well as keep them running.
Worse still is the case of some communities which cannot boast of a reliable transformer to meet their electrical needs. Such communities are left in a world of their own; which is primarily a world of darkness and lack of access to electricity supply. In a bid to fend for themselves, these communities have to organise themselves to form a unit and thrive to pull funds in order to purchase their transformer. The realisation of the fact that these transformers actually cost a fortune effectively puts an end to their quest to acquire them. Finally, the last resort; which will only apply to those who are fortunate enough to have the opportunity is to appeal to well-to-do members of their community who can afford to purchase the transformer for them, and have the track record of philanthropic propensity.
The above scenario played itself out recently when members of the sleepy Bolorun-pelu neighbourhood of Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, came to thank Prophet TB Joshua for his philanthropic activities that have ensured that they would cease to live in darkness and enjoy the benefits of accessibility to constant electric light.
Thursday October 2009, was the day. Members of the community were greeted with a very loud sound that emanated from the electrical transformer at the entrance of their community. The loud sound signalled the disruption of regular electrical supply to the community. Immediate efforts were put in place to ensure that the transformer was restored to its previous functional state; efforts which ended in futility. At this point, the community leaders decided to table their plight with their benevolent neighbour, Prophet TB Joshua, whose characteristic charitable gestures have endeared him to many.
Originally, the community was using a single transformer. This was the primary cause of the collapse of the transformer, as it was unable to function for the community due to overload.
Representatives of the community converged at The Synagogue Church of All Nations to inform Prophet TB Joshua of their predicament and appealed for his support in their quest to purchase a new transformer.
Responding to their appeal, Prophet TB Joshua reiterated that he saw the community as his neighbour and would ensure that he loved them to the best of his ability and put smiles back on their faces. He promised to purchase two transformers for the community and ensure that they were both installed.
On Monday 21st December 2009, a large number of the community members turned out at The Synagogue Church Of All Nations to create a carnival-like atmosphere as they came to thank Prophet TB Joshua for purchasing and installing two transformers for their community. The spokesperson for the group recalled how the whole episode began.
He said: “My name is Adeleke Luqman and I represent the people who have come here today to say a very big thank you to Prophet TB Joshua for making sure that we, his neighbours will never be put to shame and ensuring that we can boldly say to the whole world that we are neighbours to Propjet TB Joshua and the Synagogue.”
“We came here recently to complain to Prophet TB Joshua that we have been suffering from power supply for some time. This we did because in the past he has been the one that we always run to for help whenever we have any problem that is bigger than us to solve, and each time he would make sure that we go back home with joy.”
He continued: “When we came, we told him of our predicament and he promised us that he would ensure that we would not complain about transformer again. We went home happily because like I said, anytime we come to him to help us for anything he always tells us that we are his neighbour and anything that bothers us will also bother him, so he will solve the problem for us. For example, the last transformer that just got spoilt, he is the one that bought it for us and many other things like that.”
He concluded: “We have come now to thank him because now we are happy that the transformers have been bought, not only that, but it has also been installed and now we are enjoying our power supply thanks to the support of Prophet TB Joshua. That is why we are here today to say a big thank you to him and to thank God for his life. We are also living witnesses to the good things that God is using Prophet TB Joshua to do. Some of us are not Christians, yet he does not discriminate against us, he takes us as one of his own.”
At the end of the ceremony, Prophet TB Joshua instructed that each member of the community that came out on the day be presented with a bag of rice for the celebration of the yuletide. In addition, the leader of the community was handed the sum of N 300, 000 cash.
SOURCE: Modern Ghana
A letter of appreciation from a member of the community:
James 1:27 “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
I have been in Bolorunpelu Ikotun for over 5 years now.
Though I am not a member of his church, but I have watched Prophet T.B Joshua of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations Ikotun Lagos, influence the lives of the people of the area and the whole world positively. As per the local Bolorunpelu Town in Ikotun Lagos Nigeria, I have seen great positive changes in the economic environment and lives of the people because of the presence of the church. Not to go too far . The issue of today is about the recent generous actions of Prophet T.B. Joshua to the people of Bolorunpelu Town and environ.
About 5 months ago, the transformer at Bolorunpelu exploded and was burnt to the ground, plunging everyone into darkness. The Great Prophet T.B Joshua with a heart of gold and sympathy saw this situation , then made a promise to the community to provide them with a brand new transformer to solve their recurrent electricity problem once and for all. True to his word , he donated two brand new transformers to the community, and without any financial contribution from the community installed them. As of Monday 21st December 2009, the transformers have being fully installed and electricity have returned to the community. All thanks to the Great Prophet T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue Church of All Nations.
I am taking this oppurtunity to personally thank Prophet T. B. Joshua , and wishing him the very best at this wonderful season of Christmas . God will definitely pay him back positively and prosper him more. As he has come to the aid of the fatherless and widows at this time, God will come to his aid always.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEWYEAR
Regards
Dr. Victor Efughi
JOAS MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIX
Bolorunpelu, Ikotun, Lagos, Nigeria.
SOURCE: JOAS Medical Blog
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Good Blog!!