CURSORY LOOK AT PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO'S DECLARATION FOR PRESIDENT

Yesterday, Monday 11th April, 2022, the incumbent Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo declared his intention to vie for the Office of the President in the coming election.

Extracted are the words of the Vice President on why he is running for President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

My experiences, insights, and opportunities must be used for Nigeria and Nigerians.

In the past seven years, I have served as Vice President under a true Nigerian patriot, a servant of the nation in war and peace, and a man of integrity, President Muhammadu Buhari. 

We have, together, worked through some of the most difficult times in the history of our Nation, but we have remained focused on securing the country, providing infrastructure and growing our economy. 

As stipulated by the Nigerian Constitution, our tenure will end next year.

In this period of seven years, I have served the government in several capacities, and have, at the direction of Mr. President, represented our country in sensitive high level international engagements. I have been to practically all local governments in Nigeria. I have been in markets, factories, schools, and farms. I have been in agricultural, mining and oil producing communities; in the Delta, in Kebbi, Enugu, Borno; Rivers, Plateau and Ondo; & in all other States of the federation, listening to the diverse experiences and yearnings of our people.

I have visited our gallant troops in the North East and our brothers and sisters in the IDP camps. I have felt the pain and anguish of victims in violent conflicts, terrorist attacks, flooding, fire and other disasters. 

I have been in the homes of many ordinary Nigerians in various parts of the country. I have sat with our techprenuers in Lagos, Edo, and Kaduna, with our Nollywood and Kannywood actors; with our musicians, from Lagos, Onitsha, and Kano. And I have spoken to small and large businesses.

I stood where they stood and sat where they sat. I know their hopes, aspirations and fears; and I believe that in those hopes and aspirations are the seeds for the great Nigeria that we all desire.

I believe that the very reason why the Almighty God gave me these experiences, these insights, and these opportunities, is that they must be put to the use of our country and it’s great peoples.

Which is why I am today, with utmost humility, formally declaring my intention to run for the Office of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, on the platform of our great party, the All Progressives Congress.

If by the grace of God and the will of the people, I am given the opportunity, then I believe that first, we must complete what we have started;

*radically transforming our security and intelligence architecture,

*completing the reform of our justice system focusing on adequate remuneration and welfare of judicial personnel,

*ensuring justice for all and the observance of rule of law,

*rapidly advancing our infrastructure development, especially power, roads, railways and broadband connectivity,

*providing an excellent environment for businesses to thrive,

*taking the agriculture revolution to the next level especially mechanization and developing the farm to table value chain

*making sure that the government, its agencies and regulators serve the business community,

*creating a tech economy that will provide jobs for millions;

 *enhancing our Social Investment Programme to a full scale social welfare scheme,

*completing the promise of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within this decade,

*completing the task of ensuring that all Nigerians, male and female, attend school,

*reforming our educational system for relevance to the challenges of this century,

*completing the task of universal health coverage for all, 

and

*strengthening the capacity of States and Local Governments to deliver on their respective mandates.

Above all, front and centre of our efforts will be the provision of jobs and opportunities for our young people.

I now most solemnly and respectfully seek the support of fellow Nigerians everywhere in this land, and the diaspora, young and old, male and female, in the great and exciting journey that we have ahead of us.

We will, working together, establish by the grace of God, the Nigeria of our dreams in a few short years. We will build on the foundation laid by our predecessors. We will need to move, with much speed, intentionality, and perseverance, towards the vision of a prosperous, stable, and secure nation.

I am convinced beyond doubt that we have the creativity, the courage, the talent, and the resources to be the foremost black nation on earth. Let us now birth the expectations of greatness conceived generations before us.

Let us build a Nigeria where the man from Nnewi sees the man in Gusau as his brother, where the woman in Warri sees the woman in Jalingo as her sister, where the love of our nation burns alike in the hearts of boys and girls from Gboko to Yenogoa. Where everywhere, in this land, is home for everyone, where our diversities, tribes and faiths unite, rather than divide us.

Let our tribes become one tribe; the Nigerian tribe, where all are treated fairly, justly and with respect. Where all are given equal access to the abundant opportunities that God has bestowed on this nation. It's time.

God bless and keep our Republic and its great people.

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN,

Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

April 11th, 2022.

FELA DUROTOYE ON DOING THE RIGHT THING

BREAKING NEWS: TRIBUNAL DECLARES SENATOR ADEMOLA ADELEKE (PDP) WINNER OF OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

BREAKING NEWS: TRIBUNAL DECLARES SENATOR ADEMOLA ADELEKE (PDP) WINNER OF OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke, as the winner of the poll.

The Tribunal made the declaration on Friday after dismissing a preliminary objection against the petition of the PDP and Senator Adeleke, challenging the September 2018 governorship election in the state.

The preliminary objection was filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the election, Governor Gboyega Oyetola, as well as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The three defendants claimed that the petition of the PDP and its candidate was incompetent and the tribunal lacked jurisdiction to hear it.

Delivering a ruling on the preliminary objection, Justice Obiora Obi who is a member of the three-man Tribunal held that the petition was competent.

He also stated that the Tribunal has the jurisdiction to hear and determine it.

The judge held that there was merit in the appeal filed by the PDP and Senator Adeleke, adding that the declaration and return of Governor Oyetola by INEC was null and void.

He, thereafter, declared Senator Adeleke, who represents Osun West district in the National Assembly, as the winner of the election and duly elected governor of the state.

The tribunal also held that the Certificate of Return issued to Governor Oyetola be withdrawn and that a fresh one should be issued to Senator Adeleke of the PDP, having fulfilled the conditions of the law.

It said the petitioner scored the lawful majority votes at the election while the rerun held in the seven cancelled units were null and void and of no electoral effect.

The PDP and Senator Adeleke had approached the Tribunal to challenge the declaration of Adegboyega Oyetola of the APC as the winner of the September 22, 2018, election by the electoral body.

After entertaining final arguments and adoption of written addresses by lawyers to the parties involved on March 7, the Tribunal announced that it would reserve judgment on the matter.

The Tribunal, which was earlier sitting in Osun, was relocated from the High Court of Justice Complex, Osogbo to Abuja in November 2018.

SOURCE: CHANNELS TV ONLINE PAGE

SPECIAL DIVINE ENCOUNTER 2019

Don't miss this year's special divine encounter with pastor E.A Adeboye

JOIN US NOW FOR THE THREE DAYS SPECIAL DIVINE ENCOUNTER 2019   THEME:  SPECIAL DIVINE ENCOUNTER 2019 We are glad to bring you the details of this year's three days special Divine Encounter.  . The Special Divine Encounter starts today, Monday 11th to Wednesday 13th of February 2019. TIME: 6:00pm WAT (GMT +1). MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE AND OTHER ANOINTED MINISTERS OF GOD You can watch the Holy Ghost Service LIVE via any of these links: HolyGhost Service TV RCCG's Main Website Our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1U_cI0Rqko Our LiveStream Page You can listen via our 24/7 Internet Radio: RCCG RADIO To pay your offering or donations online, kindly visit www.rccg.org and click on"GIVING ONLINE". Take time to watch life-inspiring sermons from our Website, YouTube Channel and LiveStream Channel. For more information, please visit www.rccg.org. God bless you.

Oby Ezekwesili quits Presidential Race for A Coalition

Oby Ezekwesili

It is no longer news that during and after the Presidential Debate organized by the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on Saturday January 19 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, the ecstatic applause that filled the air was so much that even the deaf and dumb would have sensed that something great is happening given the vibration, joy, jubilation and gladness that throng almost every house declaring, “Finally the savior is here”, “These are the type of Visionary Leaders we want in our country”, “These guys are just who Nigeria need to Lead us”, “Imagining these three people coming together to form an alliance or coalition” , "Now, we have a replacement having not to choose between two devils" amongst several other words that is in the lips of many.

It was so glaring that our Nation Nigeria truly need a savior who will deliver the country from the impeccable mess which has salvage it for many years by the corrupt politicians in the ruling party APC and his counterpart PDP which according to one of the Presidential Debate candidate, Fela Durotoye of ANN, referring them as 

"two sides of the same bad coin". 

This was also corroborated by the Kingsley Moghalu of Young Progressives Party saying that 

"One is a kettle and one is a pot. And they call each other black."

Just in the early hours of today (Thursday 24th January), Nigeria's leading Female Presidential candidate Oby Ezekwesili who was also participated in the Presidential Debate posted on her twitter handle that she is withdrawing from the race, pledging to form an opposition coalition to defeat the ruling party.

She said (extracts from her twitter handle),  “following the reactions of Nigerian citizens at home and abroad to the 2019 Presidential Debate held on Saturday 19 January 2019, and after extensive consultations with leaders from various walks of life across the country over the past few days, I have decided to step down from the presidential race and focus on helping to build a Coalition for a viable alternative to the #APCPDP in the 2019 general elections.

This coalition for a viable alternative has now more than ever before become an urgent mission for and on behalf of the citizenry. Over the past three months, I have been in private extended talks with other candidates to make a coalition possible that would allow Nigerians to exercise choice without feeling helplessly saddled with the #APCPDP.

In doing so, I have not hesitated to offer my willingness to step down my candidacy in order to facilitate the emergence of a strong and viable alternative behind which Nigerians can line up in our collective search for a new beginning. My commitment in this regard has been consistent and in consonance with my agreement, at the request of then aspirants under PACT in 2018, to supervise their internal selection process as an outside observer passionate about building this alternative force.

Despite disagreements within the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria on these and other issues, I have decided that it is now necessary to show by action and example my determination on this issue by stepping down my candidacy and focusing on building the coalition once and for all.

We have no right to allow citizens give in to despair. We will #Fight4Naija together, and prove to all that the mess that has now become the political class will not be allowed to destroy our spirits and the nation. We are also determined to ensure that the message keeps resonating that our beloved country deserves better, and that if we are to get the best that we deserve, we must fight for it. From last year, I have made it clear to the nation that Nigeria has always had a 20 year cycle of change - 1959, 1979, and 1999.

2019 begins another 20 year cycle, and together with all Nigerians of good will, I stand ready to play my part to ensure that we do not miss this opportunity to sing a new song. We have no more time to waste. Let’s get to work!

These were the words of a woman who served as a former government minister, and a founder of the civil society organization Transparency International. She was considered for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her anti-corruption work.

Fela Durotoye has also in his twitter handle showed respect to what Oby Ezekwesili did by saying:

I have always believed that leadership is about service & sacrifice & today, I would like to commend Dr. (Mrs) Oby Ezekwesili @obyezeks for leading the charge to forming a viable coalition to presenting a Consensus Candidate for the 2019 Presidential elections. To ensure an alliance is formed and we present a united front, I AM READY to come into coalition talks with my brothers Omoyele Sowore @yelesho & Prof. Kingsley Moghalu @moghalukingsley.

And to submit myself to any transparent process that will help us arrive at a selection of a Consensus Candidate from amongst us. To be clear, if the process produces any other candidate apart from myself, I AM READY to support whoever the Consensus Candidate is and to do all I can to support the coalition to win the 2019 Presidential elections for our generation. Let us come together and seize this historic window of opportunity for our generation to select one of us to go ahead of us ... so that ALL OF US can come together and speak with one voice at the 2019 General Elections.

Oby Ezekwesili is known more recently for her work as co-founder of 'Bring Back Our Girls', a campaign which seeks to raise awareness about some 270 girls who were kidnapped from their school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014 by Boko Haram.

Many of the girls managed to escape in the hours following their abduction or have been released in the last few years, but about 100 are still missing and their condition is unknown.

From my point of view, It would however be in the best interest of this nation to support a visionary and young leader who is passionate in the right direction and not a clueless old ruler who is dispassionate and taking us to the grave as Mo Ibrahim, the Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation in his words said, 

“Why do we pick up leaders at 90 years old to lead… to lead us where?… to the grave? 

That is a deep word for thought."

Banjo Isaiah, a writer, a youth leader, a media practitioner, an administrator and political analyst writes from Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, Nigeria.

RCCG 2019 PROPHECIES - Daddy E.A Adeboye

Daddy E.A Adeboye giving the prophecies for 2019 in codes... Watch this... SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL    #BanjoIsaiah

2019 PROPHESY ACCORDING TO PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE.

As the year was running to an end; as usual I sought the face of the Lord that Father, what is the New Year going to be like.

And then we have a little problem. The little problem is that in Nigeria, this is the Election Year and anything I say will be twisted by who? By the Politicians!

So Lord I want to know what the New Year is going to be like and yet am afraid that if you tell me, and I tell them it will be twisted.

Oh thank God for God.

It is a Good Thing to be close to God. I beg you this year 2019 be close to Him.

So the Lord reminded me and say that is no problem. He remembered when at the table - The Last Supper I had with my disciples. When I said that one of them will betray me.

And they were asking me who will do it. And Peter beckoned to John the Beloveth and say: You ask Him, He will tell you.  And John asked Him. And I told John that I won't mention his name but I will take a little bread, put it in the stew and put it in his mouth.

He (God) said to me that we can see talk in codes.

... So codes.

Glory be to God!

The following therefore are the Year 2019 Prophesies:

1. FOR INTERNATIONAL SCENE:

Joel 2:28-32 KJV

28. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.
32. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

2. FOR NIGERIA:

Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV

22. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 

23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

... So those of us who are already praying for God to be Merciful continue your Prayers as you are on the right track.


3. FOR INDIVIDUALS

Isaiah 3:10-11 KJV

10. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him : for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 

11. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him : for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

And since everything is in codes: 

4. FOR RCCG:

Psalms 91:1-end

So you cannot say Adeboye said. You can only say "It is Written".

... Glory be to God - Hallelujah!!!


Banjo Isaiah O.

CHAPTER THREE - WHAT DO YOU CARRY INSIDE OF YOU?

IN THE SECRET

Written by Banjo Isaiah

CHAPTER THREE

WHAT DO YOU CARRY INSIDE OF YOU?

“It is not the size of a dog that matters in a fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”

Preamble

While I was serving my fatherland in faraway North-East Nigeria, Adamawa state to be precise, I was privileged to serve with the National Christian Corpers’ Fellowship as the State Evangelism Secretary in the year 2010/2011. On one of our visits to the Zones (Local Governments) to conduct an interview for the Zonal Executives, we got to a particular place and interviewed quite a large number of people. A brother came in, we asked several questions and this brother was ‘sound’ and answered most questions correctly. There were about five of us conducting the interview, but I did not ask a question from him because I had great trouble in my spirit with his person. He sounded so convincingly good. He was a perfect match for the office of the Zonal Coordinator and all my co-executive would have consented to him being the next Coordinator.

Finally, I felt led in my spirit to request for his phone. He reluctantly released it. I checked through the music store and was amazed at what I saw. Several worldly songs filled the lists. As if that was not enough, I checked through his pictures and saw some disturbing images and video of nude persons. And to crown it all, the pictures and videos were not downloaded but recorded live. This took us aback and we had to start another round of counselling, through which we discovered that he was just pretending to be born again. We led him to Christ, and he did not get the position of Coordinator. Afterwards, in our visitations to other places, it became our practice to check prospective executives’ phones to give us a clue of who they are. Some even use a password for their phones, picture gallery, WhatsApp and other social media because of the things they are hiding from the public gaze.

Introduction

Your outward look and appearance may be deceiving, huge, gigantic, spiritual. The performance of acrobatic skills and gestures but the heart condition is just like a loaf of bread, tiny and inconsequential.

A man is perceived as being a real and substantive threat to his opposition not by noise making without substance, but by operating in an undeniable greater force and exhibiting a strong will even in a seemingly calm, quiet attitude.

A Yoruba proverb roughly translates to mean “a ram that retreats is not lazy. The retreat is to garner enough strength and energy for impactful damage to its opposition and contender in order to overcome”. 

Likewise, it is with a man who goes on a retreat into his ‘personal space’ or war room to garner strength. He does this by going back to his source of strength which is God Almighty to recharge his battery level for optimal impact in the world he lives.

Many so-called Christians have replaced retreat for recreation and fitness exercise. The church has become a place where talents and skills are been showcased, whereas, their secret places are not been well utilized to recharge their batteries but only to embark upon illicit atrocities. There should be a re-evaluation.

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Physical appearance – artificial looks, beauty, comeliness, shapes, contours, enlargements, cosmetic and dressing prowess should NEVER be the real definition of the true self of a man. A man should be defined by the content of his hearts and character towards God and towards mankind, just like Martin Luther King Jnr. said, 

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”.

However, what men judge in this present time is mainly physical look and not the strength of character. Show me a man who loves God and I will show you a man who is truly handsome (inside out).

Imagine a sugar-coated, milky, crispy, chocolate icy cake with the inside is full of maggots and worms. So many believers ‘have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof’. Only God knows the state and condition of the heart of man. The heart is well hidden from sight. No man can see what the heart processes. Only God knows the intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

That is why it is easy to make the costly error of judging a man by his physical appearance. In fact, it is inherently human nature to judge through the physical appearance.

Can you imagine that even a prophet of God, Samuel, whom God always backed the words of his mouth to come to pass that none of his words ever fall to the ground (1 Samuel 3:19) was almost deceived by the physical when God asked him to go and anoint a king from the sons of Jesse after rejecting Saul.

First Samuel 3:19 said;

“And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words falls to the ground”.

Such was the great portion of grace upon Samuel’s life. Yet, when Samuel got to Jesse’s house to anoint a king, Samuel said, “Surely, the Lord’s anointed is before Him” when he saw Eliab, the first son. Hmmnn! The great prophet Samuel was deceived by physical appearance. Eliab must have looked like a saint and probably a good replacement for King Saul. He might have smelled so nicely, have well-built body, looked energetic like a man of war, but God quickly intervened and said to Samuel, “Do not be deceived my dear son, don’t look at his physical size, appearance and look; his heart is in a dilapidated state (paraphrased)”. God sees the heart of every man. The condition of your heart speaks volume. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The other seven sons still passed before Samuel and yet God rejected them all.

What amazes me most was the fact that, probably grace would have covered them and Samuel may have had to select who will be or not. Why? They have all just been sanctified.

1 Samuel 16:5-7, 

⁵“And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to sacrifice. ⁶And it came to pass, when they come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him. ⁷But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not in his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart”.

It was Samuel (the great prophet) that conducted the sanctification exercise for these sons, they were cleaned and prepared to offer sacrifice to God and most importantly to select who among them will be anointed. But in spite of the sanctification, not one of them was qualified. All the seven sons passed by Samuel and he could not find any qualified. One can only imagine the kind of disappointment Samuel felt that day. With all of his anointing and the sanctification exercise, none of the sons still qualified for the position of kingship because God already has his own candidate who was “A Man After His Own Heart”.

Amazingly, David was not at home when the sanctification was conducted. Yet, when he came into where Samuel was, God told Samuel to arise and anoint him immediately.

David did not need “rush hour sanctification”. He was already sanctified. He already had a relationship with God. He had kept his heart pure. You do not commit leadership responsibilities to those who just did kwashiorkor or impromptu sanctification or just got born again. They misuse the power. They have not been tested yet. You do not take an untested rifle to the battlefield, you might lose your life. Likewise, you do not put a wounded soldier in charge of a battle.

In fact, the three eldest sons, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah were strong fighters; warriors who regularly followed Saul to battle (1 Samuel 17:13). They were committed to serving their country Israel. They were cheered by people, encouraged, praised whenever they returned back from war because they probably have the fitness and look for winning a battle. Whereas David did not have the look, men were looking for. David’s best job in the sight of people was to keep the sheep and run errands.

In 1 Samuel 17: 17 and 18, I discovered that one of David’s assignment was to take the meal to the three brothers at the battlefront and look at how they are faring. One special thing that caught my attention in verse 18 was “… and take their pledge”.

¹⁸“And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.”

“What! Take their pledge! You mean the Israelites have a pledge they observe, just like Nigeria which has a national anthem and a pledge?” This was my first reaction to that verse.

Although, looking at different parallel scriptures, the word “take their pledge” denotes “bring back a report on how they are doing – NLT; bring some token from them - ESV; bring back news of them – NASB; bring a confirmation from them – HCSB; bring something back from them – ISV; bring back their pledge that they received that they received the goods – Net Bible; Other versions like American Standard Version, American King James Version, Darby Bible Translation, English Revised Version, Webster’s Bible Translation, Young Literal Translation, all used the word ‘Pledge’ in their translation just like King James Version.

But at first, my mind went to the Nigerian Pledge and I could imagine the three brothers saying this (using the Nigerian Pledge as an example):

“I pledge to Israel my nation,To be faithful, loyal and honest,To serve Israel with all my strength,
To defend her unity,And uphold her honour and glory,So help me God (Amen).”

What a pledge, you say. But alas! Dedication, commitment, zeal and passion for God’s work does not equate to God’s approval and acceptance of being chosen for anointing. These three brothers were actively involved in defending their country, God’s own people from disunity, defeat, to uphold their honour and glory, serving it with all their might, strength and even their lives. However, in the secret place, they have been rejected by God. In the public, they received cheers and encomiums of the populace. They were macho men. But in the secret place, they were babies and toddlers, immature kids in adult body.

God had rejected them. Their zeal was just keeping them busy, but their reward was nothing. When a man shows zeal and passion for God’s work, people easily get carried away; praising him, giving him awards, rewarding him for his dedication. Yet God might be saying, 

“I have rejected you, Mr. Man”.

If a man’s heart is not in tune with God, he might perform great signs, wonders and miracles, he might teach well and preach convincingly, and God might still say “Depart from me, I know you not”. May that not be our testimony in Jesus’ name.

How sad will it be for any man if after all his activities for God, he is tried and his works burnt in the lake of fire.

Everything still points back to the condition of our heart. 

What is the reason, purpose and motive behind all these zeal and passion and generous giving? Your heart’s condition is what God is interested most in and not what you do outwardly. Even though your outward appearance should have been an expression of the inward content but alas, that is not the case.

Even the scripture attested to the fact that: “their mouths and lips praises me but their hearts is far away from me” (Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15:8, Mark 7:6). 

Your confession ought to be an expression of the belief in your heart. “With the heart, man believeth, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:10).

Whatever you believe, you should confess unto salvation before many witnesses. Let people bear witness to the fact that you have surrendered your life to God. Accepting salvation should not be a secret act where people are told to close their eyes before those coming to the saving grace of Christ can do so. Let the friends and neighbours and church members see with their eyes open that you have publicly declared to live for Jesus and whenever you start doing otherwise, they will be the same people to draw your attention to the fact that they thought you have surrendered your life to Christ. They will then provide a check and balance for your character, deterring bad things from coming up again as you embark on the spiritual journey. 

The need to be accountable to someone is key and pivotal to spiritual development. It aids spiritual growth and development.