Friday, 25 July 2014

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Strengthening The VirtaCoin Network

We encourage the VirtaCoin Community to actively mine the coin and sell only a small portion of their coins for BTC or USDuntil the value of a VirtaCoin increases to around US$1. If you decided to sell, try selling a little higher than the highest sell price you see at the Exchanges in order for the value to steadily increase. Mining the coin helps to strengthen and secure the network, improves transactions times and prevent any one individual or mining pool to conduct a so called 51% attack. Join a mining pool right now by visiting our Mining Page. Each pool will guide you and give you instructions on how to mine successfully with your computer or an ASIC Scrypt Miner.

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Well, VirtaCoin addresses are similar to Bitcoin addresses and can be used to send and receive Bitcoins as well. You can also send VirtaCoins to a Bitcoin address and Bitcoins to aVirtaCoin address. A single VirtaCoin or Bitcoin address can as well be used to separately manage balances of both crypto-currencies. VirtaCoin is the first and only scrypt-based coin to do all this.

Here is an example of a VirtaCoin address:

1HgtXf8HnWVYrGoSAkCyAWwAMHp7gUW2gR

As you can see it starts with a "1", just like most Bitcoin addresses.

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Using Private Keys To Manage Dual Balance

You will need to know the private key of your VirtaCoin orBitcoin address to be able to view and manage the opposite balance of the wallet that originally created the address, meaning for a VirtaCoin address created with VirtaCoin Coreyou'll need the private key in order to see any bitcoins sent to that VirtaCoin address in a Bitcoin wallet. Exchanges and most online wallets don't normally give you the private keys of yourVirtaCoin or Bitcoin address so its best to use addresses from wallets that you have total control of such as desktop and mobile wallets.

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Saturday, 19 July 2014

Bitcoin Start Operation In Africa

Bitcoin Startups in Africa

One frequently mentioned use case for cryptocurrency is as a conduit for international remittances. Currently, more than 200 million people live outside of their birth countries and these people send home over half a trillion dollars per year to relatives and friends. Money takes circuitous routes between wallets in Atlanta and hands in Accra (or the other way around). These routes are shaped by densely interlinked networks of national and international governments, laws, organizations, corporations, technologies, currencies and human relationships. This nexus of interrelated forces and actors constantly reshapes the channels through which people working abroad send money home. This column will draw attention to interesting developments in this space that have a bearing on cryptocurrency and other decentralized technologies.

One company that is currently basking in the Bitcoin buzz is BitPesa, a startup seeking to enable Bitcoin remittances to Kenya. BitPesa, which opened for service this month, charges a 3% fee to exchange Bitcoin into Kenyan Shillings and deposit this money into a specified mobile money account.

BitPesa works seamlessly with its namesake M-Pesa, the viral electronic cash network owned by

Safaricom, Kenya’s leading cellular provider. M-Pesa is like a privatized currency—users deposit money with Safaricom, and this balance is linked to their phone number. Users can then beam these funds to other people’s phones or spend them at an ever-expanding network of M-Pesa merchants. Currently M-Pesa can be used to buy groceries, pay bills, hire cabs, and much more. In fact, some reports argue that 31% of Kenya’s GDP passes through the M-Pesa network. SafariCom is now East Africa’s most profitable company and has expanded into markets around the world, spawning competitors like Econet’s EcoCash based in Zimbabwe.

BitPesa claims that users around the world will be able to deposit Bitcoin onto their platform and designate M-Pesa accounts in Kenya to receive Shillings. The conversion is done automatically so recipients in Kenya receive the money on their cellphones within minutes. Recipients do not require a Bitcoin address or need to worry about market volatility. Senders, on the other hand, must find their own ways to buy Bitcoin, although BitPesa has online tutorials about how to do this. Importantly, it should be noted that the fees associated with acquiring Bitcoin are not included in BitPesa’s 3% calculation.

BitPesa is not currently available in the United States, likely due to stringent American restrictions on international money transfer. It is, however, available in the United Kingdom where I am currently traveling. Is there a reader from Kenya who would be willing to help me test the BitPesa system? Please let me know ASAP in the comments section or in the forums and I will use the service to send you a small amount of Bitcoin.

BitPesa is a good example of a company using Bitcoin to cash in on the business of sending money from “rich” countries to “poor” countries. Kitiwa, on the other hand, is a notable Bitcoin startup based in Ghana that works the other way around. Kitiwa allows people in Accra to buy Bitcoin with local currency in order to make online payments and send money abroad. This service is needed in Ghana because payment networks like Visa and PayPal routinely block people living there (and in other African countries) from using their systems.

Kitiwa users begin by opening a Bitcoin address, and the Kitiwa website contains a tutorial on using Blockchain.info to do this. Users then then pay for Bitcoin with MPower Payments, a Ghanian mobile payments startup that allows people to fund purchase with their bank accounts, credit cards or mobile money accounts. Users can then use their Bitcoin to pay for internet services like web hosting, send money to relatives living abroad or hire overseas consultants. The Kitiwa website even has a tutorial on how to use Bitcoin to shop on Amazon.com through Gyft.

These developments in Africa’s Bitcoin ecosystem occur just as banks in the United States are pulling out of the remittance business. Laws aimed at money laundering and the financing of terrorism have increased costs for banks, which are responding by axing services. As Michael Corkery recently reported:

“JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have scrapped low-cost services that allowed Mexican immigrants to send money to their families across the border. The Spanish bank BBVA is reportedly exploring the sale of its unit that wires money to Mexico and across Latin America. And in perhaps the deepest retrenchment by a bank, Citigroup’s Banamex USA unit has now closed many of its branches in Texas, California and Arizona that catered to Mexicans living in the United States and stopped most remittances to Mexico as it faces a federal investigation related to money laundering controls.”

In a recent op-ed the New York Times argued that banks’ move away from the remittance business will result in migrants paying higher fees to send money home, and that a possible solution would be for the World Bank to act as a centralized remittance clearinghouse. Many Bitcoin enthusiasts are probably hoping that the opposite happens—that the banks' withdrawal will create openings that can be filled by Bitcoin startups like BitPesa and Kitiwa. We will see what happens.

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How Bitcoin Enable Family Economy

With the recent progress in the evolution of Bitcoin, particularly in regards to usability and multisignature key management, family accounting now has access to new economic tools to support a more reasonable and mindful family economy.

Lets start off with ...

The Parents.

For those parents who choose to have individualized economies and do not share incomes and expenses, bitcoin offers the standard single key which allows both parents to retain control over their own funds just as though they had individual bank accounts. Nothing has changed in this regard.

For those parents who choose to have a shared economy however, Bitcoin offers some very interesting multisignature solutions such as the one-of-two and the two-of-two keys which allows two specific use cases.

The one-of-two keys scenario indicates that both parents are capable of spending money from their shared account without the need to ask the other parent for permission. This is good for purchasing things that both parents are responsible for, like groceries.

The two-of-two keys scenario indicates that both parents are capable of spending money from their shared account, but only when both of them agree to do so. This adds an extra layer of protection against careless and/or unfair spending in a shared income environment.
Using a combination of the these two key management options, as well as the single key option, families can now set up a system in which the basic household expenses are easily paid for from a shared account while maintaining the need for consensus on the big economic decisions. This helps prevent in-family fraud and gives families a new level of economic stability.

Now lets have a look at ...

The Children.

When a child comes into a family, another layer of complexity is added to the family economy. The simplest of solutions to accomodate a child is yet another single key which gives the child full access to his funds and leaves the parents with no control at all. In some cases, this might be desireable, but in other cases the parents may want to shield their children from making irresponsible economic decisions.

In addition to the one-of-two and two-of-two keys we can now start looking at some very interesting multisignature scenarios involving three parties: one-of-three, two-of-three and three-of-three.

In the one-of-three keys scenario much is as expected. Any one of the parents, or the child, can spend money from the shared account. This proves useful in most of the same situations where a one-of-two key had been useful for the parents given that they trust the child not to spend needlessly.

In the two-of-three key scenario it starts to get a bit more interesting. In this case the child can only spend money if at least one of the two parents agrees. This is great for saving up for specific purposes where the child has some influence over how to spend the money but the parents want to retain enough control to make sure it is not spent for other purposes. This also allows the parents to spend the child's money should both parents agree. Depending on family situtations this might be necessary in order to sustain a functional family economy, particulary in times of economic crisis.

However, in cases in which it is undesireable for the parents to forcefully spend the child's money, another type of system is needed - one which is a combination of those previously discussed.

While I have not yet heard of solutions including specific keys in combination with multisignature keys I believe the programmable money that is Bitcoin should be able to support the following scenario as well, we just might need to roll up our sleeves and get coding to see it happen...

Using a one + one-of-two key you can set up an account where the child retains veto against spending, but is not capable of spending himself without one of the parents' approval. This is particulary useful for earmarked money, for example an education fund where the parents donate money to the child, but want to control the spending to only go to the specific purpose, while making safeguards as to the future education of the child.

In the three-of-three key scenario we have a place to save money for matters which are truly family related and both parents and the child have veto against any spending. The use is very situational and requires a family with trust and cooperation and is probably not well suited for the youngest of children.

The economic management tools above will also have some implications for ...

Statistics and Accounting.

While using the proposed key distributions above to create a family economy suited to the particular family needs is good in and of itself, it also comes with many benefits in regards to accounting.

Since each parent and each child has their own private keys, any spending done by, or agreed to by any family members is recorded into the blockchain with their signatures and this opens up for new ways of visualizing family economics on a person and family level in a fully transparent way.

Which leads us to ...

The Conclusion

I sincerely believe that there is an honest need and a real use case for this transparency and accounting as well as the various methods of restricting spending in a co-operational environment and I am glad to see that Bitcoin comes with a built-in solution to all of this that doesn't require a family to sign any papers or pay any fees.

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Pastor Enoch Adeboye

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By WOLE BALOGUN

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye’s moving story truly illustrates an ascent from grass to grace. The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) has what could pass for the humblest background anyone could imagine.

Indeed, it would shock many to know that the man who now heads the largest African indigenous church, with over six million members, had attended both primary and secondary schools barefooted. He did not also begin formal education until he was about 11 years old. Reason? His parents could not afford it, as they were hit by abject poverty.

Born on March 2, 1942 to a poor family, in the village of Ifewara, Osun State, Adeboye’s father was an illiterate farmer who opposed formal education for any of his four children because he could not afford the fees.

Therefore, for Adeboye, he had to put up a very stubborn disposition to force his father to enroll him in the only missionary school available in their village at that time. His rebellious act was inspired by an encounter he had with a smart looking African colonial teacher, whose suave appearance in short sleeves suit and shorts, created a burning desire of being educated. It was in pursuance of this ambition that Adeboye decidedly went on a three-day hunger strike to convince his father that he was ready to starve to death if denied enrolment in the missionary school.

Adeboye had to do this because his stern father was unyielding to his mother’s pleadings that their son’s humble desire to be educated be granted. The old man had stuck to his guns, spitting fire, despite Adeboye mother’s tricks to goad him to change his mind. He was to sell his only goat and jewel then, to get few shillings for his son’s enrolment in the primary school. Eventually, he got him enrolled with the money he got from the sale of his prized goat.

Once in school and apparently the oldest among his classmates, Adeboye displayed an uncommon brilliance and maturity. He learnt fast and led his class. In no time, he was given accelerated promotion. His teacher, who had inspired him, found out that he was specially gifted in mathematics and greatly encouraged him.

Determined to stay in school when his father could no longer sponsor him, Adeboye began to fend for himself. He began doing some odd jobs that fetched him peanuts. One of these was fetching firewood from the bush to sell. During one of such ventures, he was stung by a swarm of bees, which he had inadvertently disturbed. Blood gushed out from his eyes and he ran home abandoning the wood. It took the timely help of his mother, who quickly applied local herbs, to prevent him from becoming blind as a result of the attack.

Indeed, the Adeboyes, in Ifewara village, an outskirts of Efon Alaye town, Osun State, knew and lived in abject poverty. The six of them, father, mother, three girls and a boy, were farmers.

They trekked for hours from their mud house to the farm daily. They depended only on the proceeds from the farm for livelihood. It was so tough that there was wild jubilation on a fateful day their father bought a small umbrella during the rainy season. Amid admiration and prying eyes, every member of the family was anxious to touch the ‘strange and wonder’ thing first.

Adeboye’s father was a pagan, although, he later became a member of the Anglican Church in the village. This did not stop him from observing idol practices, as other villagers did. Thus, Adeboye had an upbringing in some kind of Christian doctrines. This must have implanted some Christian virtues in him at adolescence. He recalled in a movie, entitled: The Covenant Church, which dramatized his biography: “I am from a family of idol worshippers. They were Ogun (Yoruba god of iron) worshippers because they were warriors who led other warriors to war. My father later joined the Anglican Church in our village. This ensured I had some level of Christian upbringing. But it cannot be said that we were really saved then as we were still involved in idol practices.” This meant that Adeboye was not yet treading the clerical path destined for him.

Coming from a very poor background, the thought of getting to the ivory tower remained a tall dream, although he was unrelenting. Fortune, however, smiled on him as he got a government scholarship through his excellent academic performance. He earned an MSc in Mathematics and again got sponsored for his master’s degree in Hydrodynamics and eventually upgraded his studies by proceeding to doctorate degree in Mathematics.

Adeboye’s brilliance was the magic wand that kept opening doors for him. He excelled as a lecturer. He enjoyed fast promotion and was the envy of his colleagues in the academia.

He recalled a pain this success once caused him. His bosom friend had advised him to visit a local spiritualist, who would prepare some protective charms for him against unforeseen attacks from his enemies. Being naïve on such issue and being convinced that he needed some protection, he had agreed and the friend had taken him to a babalawo, who prepared charms to be kept in the car, on his desk in the office and on his bed, among other spots. The most embarrassing thing was that the juju man had instructed him to buy a live goat from the market and bring to his hut. He was not to drive the goat in his car. The goat proved very stubborn and disgraced the respected lecturer on their way to the man’s hut.

He said: “It was really embarrassing and painful, as I had to drag the stubborn thing all along in the full glare of everyone, including my students, who offered to help but whose offer was turned down, in obedience to the juju’s instruction that I must bring the live thing myself.”

Adeboye’s wedding in 1968, at 25, presents another interesting episode. There was no cake, no refreshment nor any meaningful party. Dressing was very humble. But his affairs with his wife was like Romeo and Juliet’s love. He was only a fresh graduate then. Bright future awaited him, but it was also a tough time. Recalling how rough he had it then, Adeboye said: “There were times we lived from hand to mouth. Times were when my wife and I watched each other mischievously for the first person to take the only meat in the soup. If I picked it first or if she did, so be it. The first to pick ate all the meat because it was so small that it was unthinkable to share it.”

The young couple also faced caesarean opreation by which they had their first two babies. The medical diagnosis was that birth by natural means was impossible because of the formation of his wife’s pelvic bones and they were advised against having more children. The couple searched seriously for a solution to this problem. They combed all parts of the country, visited herbalists, spiritualists, and many medical doctors to no avail. It was while seeking solution that led them to the Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1973, headed by the General Superintendent, Pastor Josiah Oluwafemi Akindayomi.

Adeboye became a born-again Christian on July 29, 1973 by whole-heartedly giving his life to Christ. This marked a real turning point in his life. He, thereafter, became a dedicated worker of the church propagating the gospel through his personal life and evangelism. He was ordained pastor in 1975.

He worked in the church translating sermons from the Pastor’s native Yoruba into English until Akindayomi’s death in 1981 when he took over leadership, as the church’s General Overseer. This was based on a prior instruction by Akindayomi that Adeboye should be his successor. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has branches in 110 countries from Haiti to Germany, with over 300 branches in America and 360 in the UK. Its bi-annual all night prayer service, Festival of Life, in London, attracts 30,000 people - the largest Christian gathering in Europe.

Fondly called Daddy G.O by members of the RCCG, Pastor Adeboye ranked highest in the list of the most influential black pastors in Nigeria. The tremendous wealth of the pauper teenager-turned wealthy cleric can be partly measured by his recent acquisition of a private jet.
•This story was derived from a book and movie on Adeboye’s life

• Have you ever found yourself in the ‘valley of the shadow of death’ and bounced back to life, as happened in this story? Your comment please

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Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Pastor Kumuyi Remarries

Like a thief in the night, the news crept in on us. Holiness preacher and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi, had got married again, 18 months after his wife of 29 years, Abiodun, passed away. The deed was done at a quiet ceremony in London, the United Kingdom. The news elicited different kinds of emotions in different people. Most members of the Deeper Life Church, we are told, welcomed it with rapturous joy. At 69 (the man's age had erroneously been given as 71 by the newspaper that first published the report) the G. S (as he's fondly called) sure deserves a companion, a helpmeet and confidant. Yes, she may not replace the late Abiodun whose shoes seem too large to step into, but at least she would fill a vacuum in the man's life and home.

But then, the rumour mill also went abuzz. And I read all sorts of things on the Internet, some silly, others laughable. Kumuyi had married a divorcee. No, she was a widow. No, no, she was Abiodun's closest friend. And why must the preacher marry his late wife's friend. Why must he even marry again? Can't he hold his body, and why must he marry just 18 months after the passage of his wife? It means he must have been eyeing the woman, even while Abiodun was here. Blah, blah, and more blahs. A lot of the comments bordered on what the Good Book calls 'speaking evil of dignities.'

To douse speculations and clear the air, the secretary of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor L. P. Nnadozie, had to issue a press statement. Yes, on October 13, 2010, in London, Kumuyi had married Ms Esther Folashade Aduke Blaize, 65. She was the Administrator of the church in London, had never been married before, and had committed her life to the full service of the Lord. Guests were entertained after the event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, London. A video recorded of the wedding was later shown to members of the church round the country.

First, to the cynics and sceptics. Why can't Kumuyi marry again, if he chooses to? What law of God, or of man, has he broken? How many men can truly operate maximally without their wives, even at prime age, not to talk of at 69? He needs to go on a preaching trip, as Kumuyi has been doing so much lately, and he is the one to pack the bag himself. Oh, where are the socks, the ties, the shirts, toothbrush, tooth paste? Where is the second leg of this shoe, where is the belt?

The man would be in such jumble from packing, and half the message would have disappeared from his mind by the time he gets onto the altar. Or he allows devout and devoted women in the church to assist with all the chores, and the rumour mills are agog again. What was pastor doing in the room with that woman who was helping him to pack? Why must she be the one to cook his meals all the time, now she even washes his clothes? Is she not spending too much time with our pastor? And the innocent man is either exposed to risks or baseless suspicions. Getting a new wife seemed the best bet.

Oh, he married his late wife's best friend. So, he should have married her enemy? At 69, he should be playing the Romeo, wooing young damsels, and attending intending couples class, when the field is already white, waiting for harvest?

Can't he hold his body? Why must he marry just 18 months after Abiodun died? It is better to marry than to burn with passion, says the Good Book. But do you think a man burning with passion will go for a 65-year-old? Would you? While not being a member of Deeper Life Church, I sincerely believe conjugal passion must have been one of the least considerations in this union. If that was the reason, there were ladies in their 30s or 40s, who would gladly say 'I do.' And those who think Kumuyi could not 'hold his body' do not seem to know this fervent, almost ascetic preacher, who burst on the gospel scene in 1973 with Bible study meetings organised at his University of Lagos home, where he was a lecturer.

Those who started with Kumuyi said the man never really intended to marry. And he said as much to his hearers. When he eventually married Abiodun in 1980, at a time he was already knocking hard at 40 (he was 39, actually) he had to do a lot of explaining to his flock. He articulated it this way in the book Deeper Life, written by Alan Isaacson:

'On the issue of marriage, all the things said about us were true. I read much of John Wesley who had a bad marital life. I also read Charles Finney, and a lot of others. So I would teach that marriage was acceptable, but that they would have difficulties, and it would limit their time. We wanted the evangelism to go on, and Jesus could return at any time. But even before I get married, we were piping down, because I saw that more adults were coming to the Bible study… things changed over the years, because of increasing maturity. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, but now that I am an adult…'

The press statement by the church secretary said members and leaders were the ones who led a delegation to Kumuyi, and prevailed on him to marry again. It was a good move, but I believe the final decision still rested with the preacher. And he took it. Those saying and writing those funny things, particularly on the Internet, do not seem to realise that the man has his right, even though he preaches self-abnegation with a passion.

To marry again or not was his decision to take, and he has taken it. Finito. No one is hurt, no law is broken, whether human or divine.

Madam Aduke Blaize has blazed into Kumuyi's life at 65. I'm sure she never in her wildest dreams gave marriage a thought again. As a teenager, yes. In her 20s, 30s, even up till her 40s. But at 65? 'At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, but at fourscore it is too late a week' (Shakespeare). The lesson is that with God, it is never over till it's over. At 65, Aduke is now a married woman. Can you beat that?

Another lesson. When we want something so passionately, and God does not seem to be moving at the pace we desire, we chart or own course, help God to do it by our own means, or we go completely away from Him. Not Aduke. Like Elizabeth and Zechariah of old, though without their own biological child, they continued serving the Lord faithfully, till God gave them a baby who became the forerunner of Jesus Christ. Even when what you desire seems to tarry, wait for it. (Am I sounding like a preacher? Please bear with me).

I may not need to say this to the new bride, who is really quite mature spiritually and physically. But let me say it all the same. Don't struggle with Abiodun Kumuyi's shadows. She was a larger than life woman. She finished her course, and has gone to her reward. Her footprints will always be there, so don't try to obliterate them, or compete unnecessarily. Former Information Minister, Sir (Chief) Alex Akinyele adored Yvonne, his first wife. In fact, he called her a god, whom he worshipped. Yvonne died, and Akinyele married the Indian, Lady Maria. And the latter began to compete with Yvonne's memory. It was one of the reasons the marriage did not work. I know Madam Aduke would know better than behave like Lady Maria.

A lesson the Deeper Life Bible Church must learn from all this. In information management, it is better to be proactive than to be reactive. All the rumours and petty gossips would have been avoided, if a press statement had been issued before the wedding, introducing the bride to the public. They wouldn't then have to do any damage control as we've seen. Walk the old path by all means (it's safe) but open up a bit, as this is the 21st century.

I know it's past the manner of women for the new bride. But it was also same for Sarah, who had Isaac at 90. Jerry and John, Kumuyi's sons by Abiodun, would really not mind a biological sister. Miracles still happen, or don't you think? We won't complain if God does it again.

Monday, 14 July 2014

Nuggets of Wisdom

You will find on this page a collection of life changing quotes, "Nuggets of Wisdom", that have caught my attention and have been a source of great inspiration and blessing in my walk of faith. I believe your spirit will bear witness to the truth they convey and you will be blessed as well. Continue to check back often, as I am continually adding inspirational quotes as I come accross them in my studies. Remember, one word from God can change your life forever!

The whole dispensation of the Spirit, the whole economy of grace in Christ Jesus, the whole of our spiritual lives, and the whole of the health, growth, and strength of the church has been laid down, provided for, and secured in the New Covenant. - Andrew Murray
Build your character. Learn to forgive, to be diligent, to be honest. Learn to stay steady and faithful, to keep commitments, to go by what you know and not necessarily by what you feel. - Wayne Cordeiro
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses. - Charles Stanley
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! - Andrew Murray
If you have worry, you don't have faith, and if you have faith, you don't have worry. - Jack Coe
When someone gets healed, the Kingdom of God is revealed, for His Kingdom is a Kingdom or wholeness, of well being, and of life. - Billy Joe Daugherty
Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you. - T. L. Osborn
In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth. - Gordon Lindsay
When unbelief kept Christ from healing the sick on earth, it will surely do so today. - Dr. T. J. McCrossan
Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday. - John Maxwell
You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you "knows that you know" and that you do not just hope that you know. - Carrie Judd Montgomery
Faith is the spark that ignites the impossible and causes it to become possible. When a person's faith is activated, it sets in motion supernatural power that enables that person to do what he normally would never be able to do! - Rick Renner
There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ. - E. W. Kenyon
Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing. - Rod Parsley
Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light. - Edith Edman
Character is the ability to follow through on a worthy decision long after the emotion of making that decision has passed. - Wayne Cordeiro
Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit - think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun. - Lillian B. Yeomans
There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need. - Gloria Copeland
Endeavor always to remember that you are in the immediate presence of God, and strive to act as you would if you saw the Savior standing by your side. - Raymond T. Richey
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God. - Charles F. Parham
The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God. - Smith Wigglesworth
Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a born-again child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts! - Oral Roberts
Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is." - Dr. R.A. Torrey
Christ within us can accomplish what we can never hope to do in our own strength; and that continuous walking with Him will change the weakest of us into His image. - Donald Gee
Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believer's as He is to forgive unbeliever's. Know this, if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family! - T. L. Osborn
Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask - Billy Graham
Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results! - Jesse Duplantis
Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life. - Joyce Meyer
Fear cannot stay in the same house with Jesus Christ. - Jack Coe
Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father. - Andrew Murray
God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most. - James Salter
When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil. - John G. Lake
The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it. - C. H. Spurgeon
Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill. - D. L. Moody
Never underestimate Jesus, because He will just prove you wrong. - Brian Gurney
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. - George Mueller
The devil is busy trying to take from us what we take from God, and so God bids us to hold fast. - C. Nuzum
Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!" - E. W. Kenyon
Loss of communion is the explanation of most of our failure in spiritual fruit bearing. - Donald Gee
At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it. - Rod Parsley
Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm. - John Osteen

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie Ten Boom
God is still forgiving sins, and He is still healing diseases, or else He is not the same God He used to be. - Dr. T. J. McCrossan
Faith looks beyond the walls of the obstacle and on to the answer. - Benny Hinn
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we ask or think. - Andrew Murray
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else. - Oswald Chambers
When you meditate on God's Word (to mutter to yourself, to think deeply into, to ponder), it puts you in that verse and it puts that verse in you. The Word becomes real to you; it becomes alive. Meditating on God's Word helps you to "own" it, and you know that you can't spend something you don't own. Many people have learned to confess God's Word, but sometimes with little results, because they haven't taken the time to meditate on it first and to make it real to their own hearts. - Nancy Dufresne
The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God's "I Will" to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body. - Kenneth Hagin
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness. - John Osteen
Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith. - Gordon Lindsay
God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh. - Jerry Savelle
Faith heals, sets free, receives from God and walks in liberty. - Ray McCauley
If satan can keep you in the sense realm, he will destroy you - but if you keep him in the faith realm, you'll put him under your feet. - Frederick K. C. Price
God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health. - Marilyn Hickey
Did you know that Jesus built you and me a house of healing two thousand years ago? But that house of healing Jesus built for us will remain vacant until we decide to move into it. - Ed Dufresne
Justification is what God does for us, while sanctification is what God does in us. - P. C. Nelson
Let no one pray for a mighty baptism of power who is not prepared for deep heart searchings and confession of sin. - Evan Roberts
We are conscious of the need of constant prayer for more and yet more of the Holy Spirit's presence and power. But as we give ourselves yet more and more to prayer, we shall see greater and more glorious revivals. - Stanley Frodsham
Live is such a way as to pass something tangible to a new generation. - Lillian Thrasher
Always resist even the appearance of evil. In doing so, evil will never subdue you. The blood of Jesus is the answer. - Lam Jeevarat-Nam
Jesus came to deliver men from sin and sickness that He might make known the love of the Father. In His actions, in His teachings of the disciples and in the work of the apostles, pardon and healing are always found together. - Andrew Murray
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. - Bruce Wilkinson
Faith is the hand with which we take from God. When we have met all the conditions and taken what God is offering us, we must believe that we have that thing. - C. Nuzum
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness. - Martin Luther
Fear tolerated is faith contaminated. - Kenneth Copeland
Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power. - Joyce Meyer
Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself. - Charles Spurgeon
I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice. - Charles Capps
Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy. - E. W. Kenyon
"Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change. - Larry Lea
I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it! - Joel Osteen
Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act. - Myles Munroe
If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it! - John G. Lake
When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you. - Jerry Savelle
In a sense the whole Bible is a revelation, not only of His willingness to heal our spiritual ailments, but our physical ones also. One of His covenant names is "The Lord that healeth"(Jehovah Rapha), and He is also the Lord that changed not, the changeless, healing, health bestowing, life-giving Lord, undisputed Sovereign over all the powers of the universe. - Lillian B. Yeomans
Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt. - Oral Roberts
Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it. - D. L. Moody
The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father. - John G. Lake
Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it. - F. F. Bosworth
When there is a lack of anointing, examine yourself in regard to the Blood. The Blood is the legal basis of authority, the Holy Spirit does the actual empowering. - David Alsobrook
Faith's role is to grasp that which appears impossible or strange to human eyes. - Andrew Murray
Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at Jesus! He went about healing the sick! - Kenneth Hagin
Worship , in a very real sense of the word, opens a doorway to the power of His presence, confounding dark powers and overthrowing sin's destructive operations. - Jack Hayford
I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun- not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.- C. S. Lewis
Your life is only as productive as the freshness of your walk with God. - Randy Shankle
Miracles begin within us and then affect our surroundings. - Reinhard Bonnke
What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at [focus on] the sickness brings death. To look at [focus on] God's Word brings life. - Gloria Copeland
The Blood of Jesus washes away our past and the Name of Jesus opens up our future. - Jesse Duplantis
Faith can only operate where the will of God is known. - Keith Butler
Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness. - John G. Lake
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now! - George Washington Carver
Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word. - Charles Capps
If you've got just a little bit of faith as a grain of mustard seed, and begin to praise God - that faith will mount up, until fear won't be able to stay in your heart. - Jack Coe

When you come in contact with the anointing of God, it not only affects your moment, it affects your tomorrow. - Creflo Dollar

You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God. - Benny Hinn
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. - Charles Stanley
Whatever God's Word says I am - that's what I am! Whatever His Word says I can do - with His help I can do! Whatever His Word says He will do - He will do! - Kenneth Copeland
We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it. - Max Lucado
Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith. - Smith Wigglesworth
When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word. - F. F. Bosworth
We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ. - R. A. Torrey
Those who live most devoutly for the world to come are often in the best position to change the present. - Bruce Shelly
Faith is totally possessed by patience and knowing. - Norvel Hayes
God delights in His children stepping out over the void with nothing under their feet except the Word of God. - Lillian B. Yeomans
I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will. - Joel Osteen
It is easy in ministry or in life, to begin to rely on acquired knowledge instead of fresh knowledge revealed. We must maintain our union with Him to enjoy fresh oil and then there is no old oil. The life of God or presence of God can't be stored, it has to be current. It is a well of life, continually outflowing. - Gloria Copeland
Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God. - Charles Finney
The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours! - Jack Hayford
Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me! - Bruce Wilkinson
God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe. - A. W. Tozer
The only way to carry a heavy load is with praise. - Earl Lee
No one's a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. - Guy H. King
God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness. - Jesse Duplantis
God put laws into being - we put them into motion. - Kenneth Copeland
Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith. - Kenneth Copeland
Earth's circumstances are insignificant when compared to Heaven's provision - Albert Hibbert
Faith is an action, based on a belief, supported by confidence. - R. W. Shambach
Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith. - Smith Wigglesworth
I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances. - Lester Sumrall
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer. I know, whenever I have prayed earnestly, that I have been amply heard, and have obtained more than I prayed for. God indeed sometimes delayed, but at last He came. - Martin Luther
Faith is more than agreeing with God's Word - faith is acting upon that Word. - Col Stringer
Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of. - Kathryn Kuhlman
A diamond cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials. - Kathryn Kuhlman
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. - Kathryn Kuhlman
Believer's should never deal with doubts and fears because they are the devil's narcotics. - Kenneth Hagin
Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God - John G. Lake
Miracles are creative. Healing is the restoration of what has been. - John G. Lake
Christianity is not a struggle to become something, it is a choice to let Jesus be! - Malcolm Smith
The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you. - Smith Wigglesworth
When we steadfastly believe and act our faith in God's Word, nothing can keep the power in the Word from making all things to become exactly as the Word says. - F. F. Bosworth
When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide. - Benny Hinn
I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done. - Hudson Taylor
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies. - Hudson Taylor
Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances. - F. F. Bosworth
The kind of faith that pleases God is faith in what the Word of God means, not merely in what it says. - Bob George
Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross - Joyce Meyer
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. - Charles Stanley
Faith is not a sword just to grab... faith is a way of life. The secret behind getting more faith, is to get to know God more. - Lester Sumrall
Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change. - Casey Treat
Don't talk to others about your problem, speak to the problem about your God! - Carl Gustaf Severin

The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself. - Oral Roberts
Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God. - Andrew Murray
Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hear from heaven. - Andrew Murray
We have a God who delights in impossibilities. - Andrew Murray
We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scripture, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God's will to heal all who have need of healing, and that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise. - F. F. Bosworth
Fear forces, love leads, faith follows. - Keith Moore
God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering. - Kenneth Hagin
Jesus can heal anything, anywhere, anytime, and anybody. All you have to do is put your faith in Him. - Jack Coe
One with God is a majority. - Billy Graham
What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.- Martin Luther
The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. - Richard Alleine
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. - Billy Sunday
We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist - Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come, we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy. - A.W. Tozer
Blessed is the man who truly knows God as his covenant God and knows what the Covenant promises him. What unwavering confidence of expectation it secures. All its terms will be fulfilled. What a claim and hold it gives him on the covenant-keeping God Himself! - Andrew Murray