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HEROES DIARY
Name: Susanna Wesley
Date of Birth: January 20, 1669
Date of Death: July 23, 1742
Years spent: 73 years, 184 days
Country of Birth: England
Susanna Wesley was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Annesley and Mary White, and the mother of John and Charles Wesley.
Susanna was a remarkable woman, although she never preached a sermon or published a book or founded a church, is known as the Mother of Methodism. She certainly never went to university or had any of what we would term formal education; that simply was not available to women in 17th century England. But her father taught her to read and to think for herself and as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Her father was the Rev. Dr. Samuel Annesley, a noted scholar, beloved clergyman, a mentor to young seminarians, renowned and respected preacher, and sometime chaplain to Parliament
Susanna Annesley was the youngest of 25 children, so it seemed unexceptional to her that she gave birth to 19 children (including two sets of twins). She and Samuel Wesley were married on 11 November 1688. Samuel was 26 and Susanna was 19. Samuel Wesley, a congenial and bright young clergyman whose father was also a Dissenter.
Susanna experienced many hardships throughout her life. Her husband left her and the children for over a year because of a minor dispute.
To her absent husband, Susannah Wesley wrote:
I am a woman, but I am also the mistress of a large family. And though the superior charge of the souls contained in it lies upon you, yet in your long absence I cannot but look upon every soul you leave under my charge as a talent committed to me by God under a trust. I am not a man nor a minister, yet as a mother and a mistress I felt I ought to do more than I had yet done. I resolved to begin with my own children; in which I observe the following method: I take such a proportion of time as I can spare every night to discourse with each child apart. On Monday I talk with Molly, on Tuesday with Hetty, Wednesday with Nancy, Thursday with Jacky, Friday with Patty, Saturday with Charles.
After living for a few years in London and in South Ormsby, Samuel and Susanna moved to Epworth near Lincoln, where they remained until his death nearly 40 years later in 1735. Of the children born to them, ten survived to adulthood: three sons and seven daughters. Despite the Wesleys' poor financial condition, all three sons earned M.A.s from Oxford. All three were ordained in the Church of England. The eldest, Samuel Jr, became a teacher at Westminster in London and helped his family generously by sending home money and by taking Charles especially under his wing when the younger brother came as a student to Westminster. Samuel Jr later became head of Blundell School the Free Grammar School in Tiverton, Devon.
Samuel Jr was already in London but John was about five and Charles a babe when in 1709 a fire destroyed the Epworth rectory in fifteen minutes one cold February night. Homeless, the family was forced to split apart: for a while two daughters looked after by an uncle in London, other children staying with friends nearer home. Susanna's 19th child was born a month later and not for the first time in her life was Susanna deeply sad and almost immobilized by shock and grief. Yet she seems to have survived, and with a great determination to unite her family and to save her children's souls. This, she wrote, was indeed her focus for twenty years of the prime of her life.
Samuel Wesley Sr spent time in jail twice due to his poor financial abilities, and the lack of money was a continual struggle for Susanna. Their house was burned down twice; during one of the fires, her son, John, nearly died and had to be rescued from the second story window. She was the primary source of her children's education.
After the second fire, Susanna was forced to place her children into different homes for nearly two years while the rectory was rebuilt. During this time, the Wesley children lived under the rules of the homes they lived in. Susanna was mortified that her children began to use improper speech and play more than study.
During a time when her husband was in London, defending a friend against charges of heresy, he had appointed a locum to bring the message. The man’s sermons revolved solely around repaying debts. The lack of diverse spiritual teaching caused Susanna to assemble her children Sunday afternoon for family services. They would sing a psalm and then Susanna would read a sermon from either her husband's or father's sermon file followed by another psalm. The local people began to ask if they could attend. At one point there were over two hundred people who would attend Susanna’s Sunday afternoon service while the Sunday morning service dwindled to nearly nothing. It was now, after the rebuilding of the rectory, that Susanna more than ever regulated home life in order to reassure her family of stability and to reestablish the necessity for order and priorities by which to live a useful life. The Wesleys arose at 5:00; each hour of the day was assigned to specific activities.
She set aside an hour each day of the week for a particular child – Thursdays, for instance, was Jacky's (John's) day. During this hour she would inquire after the state of their soul on its journey as well as their progress, fears, expectations, and goals in other endeavors. Thus began lifelong habits of regular self examination.
As children left home – the sons to school, the daughters to serve as governesses or to marry – Susanna wrote them letters not only about family news but about manner of living and subjects of belief.
In addition to letters, Susanna Wesley wrote meditations and scriptural commentaries for her own use. She wrote extended commentaries for instance on the Apostles Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments. Alas many of these were lost in the rectory fire, but many survive. The most accessible means to her writings is Charles Wallace's excellent and important Susanna Wesley, Her Collected Writings.
Susanna Annesley Wesley was a remarkable Christian woman. One can only wonder to what she would apply herself were she alive in this 21st century! But she was not of the 21st century; she was of the 17th and 18th centuries and it is in that context that, tucked away in a small town, she planted seeds in her children's minds that engendered the Methodist movement. From her frequent illnesses and no doubt the often poor health of others in the family suffering the wants of poverty grew a lively concern for clinics for the poor. From Susanna's effective home schooling grew a recognition of the importance of education and schools for the indigent; from this grew too schools where the unskilled could learn trades to lift them from poverty and dependence. From her own love of learning and habits of independent thought grew the respect for differences in persons and beliefs. From her determination to provide regularity in a world of disorder grew a method for bringing creative, positive, Christ-centered change. From her example and methods grew Methodism.
What a woman she was! She nurtured and nourished her children in the Lord’s way. Every night she is usually found on her knees praying for her children. Her knee was the platform to which the ministry of John and Charles Wesley was built. How I wish every mother reading this piece could emulate such a virtuous woman. Her life really challenged me and that is why I really dim it fit for such a virtuous woman to be our celebrated heroine for this week.
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Question of d Day!
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?” Here, Paul was defending himself before ______
(a) Governor Felix
(b) Tertullus
(c) King Agrippa
(d) Emperor Ceasar
(e) King Herod

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LDDS COUNSELLOR’S CORNER
CASE 34
Husband: “Honey, I said I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt you but your words made me lose my temper”
Wife: “You are still defending yourself abi? You are not even ashamed of yourself and you call yourself a Sunday school teacher? You slap me again over a minor argument. The pastor must hear about it this time”
Husband: “Honey! There you go again. Must you inform the pastor over every argument we have? Every marriage has its own good and bad moments. I am deeply sorry for all that happened and I promise you it won’t happen again”
Wife: “That was what you said the first time it happened. You said it was a mistake and that it won’t happen again, and it happened. I can’t understand you anymore, I must cry out”
Husband: “Is telling the pastor the solution? What would you gain if I was disciplined and disgraced? I regret my actions and am deeply sorry about what happened between us last night”

Do you have any advice for this couple? And do you believe the wife should report all their domestic broils to their church leaders or find a way of covering it up as the husband had suggested?
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LDDS COUNSELLOR’S CORNER!
CASE 24
Folasade had been seriously praying to know the right choice for her between Joshua and Gideon as both of them had already proposed to her before she came back from Jos. This led her to be somehow confused as to who she will choose as her future husband. This made her to confide in Bisi, her best friend in the Corpers fellowship.
Bisi: “To me, I will go for Gideon”
Folasade: “But why?”
Bisi: “He is the better of the two. He is richer, more handsome, and even more presentable compare to the other one”
Folasade: “Though Gideon studied a more lucrative course and he’s financially buoyant than Joshua, but it seems to me that Joshua is more spiritual and heavenly minded, he seems to have more interest in the things of God than Gideon”
Bisi: “It doesn’t matter my dear Sister, since both of them are born again. Marriage is not all about spirituality and besides money answereth all things. Since both are qualified spiritually, financial status is a factor that must be seriously considered before you give any of the two your answer. To me, I will recommend Gideon because he’s more financially stable than Joshua”
What can you say about this situation and do you have any advice for Sade?
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WISE WORDS FOR MARRIED WOMEN.....

12 Points For Wives To Note
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1. The wife that wins all arguments with her husband is not wise. The home is not a law court.

2. The wife that uses s*x as a weapon in the home placing embargo, going to bed in jeans shorts and trousers lacks wisdom.

3. The wife that uses the modern trends and laws of "women's rights" to insult or ridicule her husband is not virtuous at all.

4. A woman that makes her home devoid of peace through bickering, nagging and quarrels needs help. A man should be eager to run away from office to be at home, for that should be the safest and coziest place on earth for him.

5. Modern-day equality in marriage does not mean competition. It simply means partnership. Taking advantage of such equality to turn around and become the de facto head of the home and oppress the man is tantamount to playing with fire. If you destroy your home, soon you will be the boss of an empty
home.
6. A wise wife makes the man feel so good that he assumes that he is the head. Once he gets that feeling, the woman gently wields her power and the head actually turns to wherever the neck wants without a protest.

7. A wife that does not pull herself away from friends' influence and advice or even from the control of her mother and father will have herself to blame.

8. When a man is looking for a wife, he bypasses women of different shapes and sizes to choose a wife. But soon after childbirth, many women hide under the excuse of childbirth to let go of themselves.
Many stop bothering about their looks, shape, dressing, etc. Within 5 years of marriage, people start wondering if the wife is the man's aunt, even though she is 7 years younger. Her defence is that if he truly loves her, he should love her the way she is. But when looking for a wife, he saw people like the present YOU and ignored them and settled for the former YOU. Today, you go to bed smelling of onions and ogiri. You go to bed wearing grandmothers' clothes. Why are you playing with your marriage? Love is not about looks - we know.

9. If every night you are tired, sleepy, sore, down with headache or fever, "not in the mood," you are a
joker, a serious comedian!

10. If your children suddenly become more important to you than your husband, you are still far from being an ideal wife.

11. If you assume that as the woman, only you need to be pampered and fussed over while the man is a stone that has no emotions, then you erred greatly.

12. A woman that has the mind of a wife does not excite her husband. Wives are usually complacent and presumptuous. A wife must strive to have the mind of being her husband best friend. A good wife is always nicer, sweeter, more loving and always thinking of ways to wow her sweetheart; a good wife does not try to win all arguments, does not call the husband a "useless man", is not careless about her looks or dressing, always smiles and laughs with the man, sends the man sweet messages and calls, etc. Are you your husband's best friend in word and indeed? Now That you have read this, please SHARE to educate others. They need to read it too.

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HEROES DIARY
Name: Charles Spurgeon
Date of Birth: June 19, 1834
Date of Death: January 31, 1892
Years spent: 57 years, 226 days
Country of Birth: England
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon was a British Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of all Preachers". Although Spurgeon never attended theological school, by the age of twenty-one he was the most popular preacher in London.
Early life
Born in Kelvedon, Ess*x, Spurgeon's conversion to Christianity came on 6 January 1850, at age 16. On his way to a scheduled appointment, a snow storm forced him to cut short his intended journey and to turn into a Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester where "God opened his heart to the salvation message." The text that moved him was Isaiah 45:22 – "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else." Later that year on 4 April 1850, he was admitted to the church at Newmarket.
His baptism followed on 3 May in the river Lark, at Isleham. Later that same year he moved to Cambridge, where he later became a Sunday school teacher. He preached his first sermon in the winter of 1850–51 in a cottage at Teversham while filling in for a friend. From the beginning of his ministry his style and ability were considered to be far above average.
Many times it has been said that this was the greatest preacher this side of the Apostle Paul. He began preaching at the age of 16. At 25 he built London’s famous Metropolitan Tabernacle, seating around 5,000. It was never large enough. Even when traveling he preached to 10,000 eager listeners a week. Crowds thronged to hear him as they came to hear John the Baptist by the River Jordan. The fire of God was on him as on the Prophet Elijah facing assembled Israel at Mount Carmel.
Royalty sat in his Tabernacle, as did washerwomen. Mr. Gladstone had him to dinner; and cabbies refused his fare, considering it an honor to drive for this “Prince of Preachers. To a housewife kneading bread, he would say, “Have you ever tried the Bread of life?” Many a carpenter was asked, “Have you ever tried to build a house on sand?”
He preached in all the principal cities of England, Scotland and Ireland. And although invited to the United States on several occasions, he was never able to visit this country.
In April 1854, after preaching three months on probation and just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, was called to the pastorate of London's famed New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. Within a few months of Spurgeon's arrival at Park Street, his ability as a preacher made him famous. The following year the first of his sermons in the "New Park Street Pulpit" was published. Spurgeon's sermons were published in printed form every week and had a high circulation. By the time of his death in 1892, he had preached nearly 3,600 sermons and published 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations and devotions.
On 8 January 1856, Spurgeon married Susannah, daughter of Robert Thompson of Falcon Square, London, by whom he had twin sons, Charles and Thomas born on 20 September 1856.
On 5 June 1862, Spurgeon challenged the Church of England when he preached against baptismal regeneration. However, Spurgeon taught across denominational lines as well. It was during this period at the new Tabernacle that Spurgeon found a friend in James Hudson Taylor, the founder of the inter-denominational China Inland Mission. Spurgeon supported the work of the mission financially and directed many missionary candidates to apply for service with Taylor. He also aided in the work of cross-cultural evangelism by promoting "The Wordless Book", a teaching tool that he described in a message given on 11 January 1866, regarding Psalm 51:7: "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." The book has been and is still used to teach illiterate people and people of other cultures and languages – young and old – around the globe about the Gospel message
Following the example of George Müller, Spurgeon founded the Stockwell Orphanage, which opened for boys in 1867 and for girls in 1879, and which continued in London until it was bombed in the Second World War. The orphanage became Spurgeon's Child Care which still exists today. On the death of missionary David Livingstone in 1873, a discolored and much-used copy of one of Spurgeon's printed sermons, "Accidents, Not Punishments, was found among his few possessions much later, along with the handwritten comment at the top of the first page: "Very good, D.L." He had carried it with him throughout his travels in Africa. It was returned to Spurgeon and treasured by him.
Spurgeon's wife was often too ill to leave home to hear him preach. Spurgeon also suffered ill health toward the end of his life, afflicted by a combination of rheumatism, gout and Bright's disease. He often recuperated at Menton, near Nice, France, where he eventually died on 31 January 1892. Spurgeon was survived by his wife and sons. His remains were buried at West Norwood Cemetery in London, where the tomb is still visited by admirers. His son Tom became the Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle after his father died.
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ADMISSION! ADMISSION!! ADMISSION!!!
The University of Heaven (UNIHEAVEN) is hereby requesting candidates to apply at our prestigious University. Please note that any candidates applying must pick our new man form and drop the old man at Salvation hall in our office complex in Calvary. The forms are free due to the fact that our Registrar the Lord Jesus Christ has paid for it with his blood. Any candidates who failed any of these faculty of grace preliminary courses here on earth will not be short listed;
-Salvation,
-Sanctification and
-Spirit baptism.
Please note that any candidate with Satan’s Identification Number (SIN) will not be permitted at Holiness Highway, the way that leads to the New Jerusalem lecture theater. Visit Calvary today to be shortlisted for the matriculation ceremony known as the Marriage supper of the lamb where old and new patriarch will be re- united. The final list will be released on the rapture day. We hope you will make the final list. Thank you and be aware that Jesus is coming soon.
(Consult our constitution booklet called "BASIC INSTRUCTION BEFORE LEAVING EARTH (BIBLE)" for further details) Isaiah 35: 8; John 3: 3, 16; Romans 5: 8; 3: 23; 6: 23.

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“For he looked for a city, whose builder and maker is God” Who was the Bible referring to here?
(a) Enoch
(b) Elijah (c) Abraham

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Inspirational Quotes
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
- Jewish Proverb

"I will soon leave this world. I have three final wishes. You need to carry out what I tell you". His generals in tears, agreed.
"My first wish is to have my physician bring my coffin home alone". After a gasping for air, He continued; "My second wish is scatter the gold, silver and gems from my treasure-house along the path to the tomb when you ship my coffin to the grave".
After resting for a while, he said; "My final wish is to put my hands outside the coffin". People surrounding him all were curious, but no one dare to ask the reason.
Alexander's most favored general kissed his hand and asked, my majesty, we will follow your instruction. But can you tell us why you want us to do it this way?
After taking a deep breath, Alexander said: I want everyone to understand the three lessons I have learned.
To let my physician carry my coffin alone is to let people realize that a physician cannot really cure people's illness. Especially when they face death, the physicians are powerless. I hope people will learn to treasure their lives.
My second wish is to tell people not to be like me pursuing wealth. I spent my whole life pursuing wealth, but I was wasting my time most of the time.
My third wish is to let people understand that I came to this world in empty hands and i will leave this world also in empty hands. He closed his eyes after finished talking and stopped breathing.
A WORD OF ADVICE
Jesus Christ taught while He was on earth, that we should SEEK FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness and other things shall be added unto us. It is a tragedy that many people today spend their lives and time in pursuit of earthly, temporary things--- fame, money, wealth, beauty--- these are all vanity, they will all pass away someday. God is not asking us to quit pursuing the necessities of life, but to pursue with diligence the weightier things (the most important things).
I invite you today dear friend, to give your life to Jesus Christ, to pursue with diligence the things of God--- put Jesus first in your Life. You’ll never regret the decision of making Jesus Christ the master of your Life. I appeal to you today, please pay more attention on the things of God. And, I invite you to make Jesus Christ the master and Lord of your life. It will profit you in this life and in the world to come if you make a decision today to live for Jesus Christ with your whole heart.
Let us pray
If you want to make a decision today to make Jesus Christ the master of your Life and to live for Him, say this prayer and mean it with your whole heart
Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and unless you save me I am lost forever. I thank you for dying for me at Calvary. I come to you now, Lord the best way I know how, and ask you to save me. I now receive you as my Saviour. In Jesus Christ Name. Amen
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