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    When Dead Men Love: A Testament of Devotion, Exploits, and Life Extraordinaire
    When Dead Men Love: A Testament of Devotion, Exploits, and Life Extraordinaire
    When Dead Men Love: A Testament of Devotion, Exploits, and Life Extraordinaire
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    When Dead Men Love: A Testament of Devotion, Exploits, and Life Extraordinaire

    By Nonye Pearl Mike-Nnaji

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    Are you gazing at life through a keyhole? Does the life you see and yearn for seem unreachable? Are there possibilities in life you cannot access? Do you feel trapped in your imperfections and shortcomings? Is every day a grind? What if we could step out and be part of life, thrive in life, and be more than ordinary? What if we could really lose sight of our selfish ambitions and unselfishly give ourselves to people around us? What if we could have peace and give peace, look happy and really be happy?

    Author Nonye Pearl Mike-Nnajis When Dead Men Love reveals the only unity, harmony, and oneness that aligns our lives to their greatest purposes. The author provides an insight to the joy and the incredible exploits that will come through our love of and absolute surrender to Christ. Nonye shows you a simple but powerful lifestyle that brings us to a point where we can exhale at last and embrace a profound transformation. We can really live our lives amazed and truly enchanted by the wonders that come our way each day. And we can be happy and at peace.

    As the author shows, infinite possibilities that once seemed unachievable can be within our reach when we let Christ live through us. We will step into the realm of the incredible because of our love and devotion to God.

    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateSep 10, 2015
    ISBN9781491760314
    When Dead Men Love: A Testament of Devotion, Exploits, and Life Extraordinaire
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    Nonye Pearl Mike-Nnaji

    Nonye Pearl Mike-Nnaji is a legal practitioner and former banker, currently CEO of HSPG Realtors Limited and Co-founder of Honeyspring & Pearlgate Ministries. Her refreshing insight to stewardship, social justice, and discipleship trails her books and conferences. She and her husband, Mike Nnaji, have three children: Sean, Christine, and Joshua. Website: www.nonyemikennaji.com. Email: theauthor@nonyemikennaji.com

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      When Dead Men Love - Nonye Pearl Mike-Nnaji

      Copyright © 2015 Nonye Pearl Mike-Nnaji.

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      1 The Beautiful Death

      2 The Quest for Devotion

      3 My Love Knows No Bounds

      4 Nothing between My Lord and I

      5 The Celebrities

      6 The Living Dead

      7 The Failed Devotees

      8 Building Spiritual Stamina

      9 The Testament of Devotion

      Special Section

      To My Heavenly Father and Strength, for His ceaseless grace.

      And to my husband and friend, Mike Nnaji

      INTRODUCTION

      When Dead Men Love

      I am so glad you have this book. My earnest desire is that after reading it, you will have a fresh encounter with God, an experience that will change your life in the most profound and remarkable way.

      Jesus said to His disciples, if anyone desires to be My disciple, let him deny himself [disregard, lose sight of, and his own interests] and take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me. Conform wholly to My example in living and if need be, in dying, also]." (Matthew 16:24 AMP)

      If you want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, you must take up your own cross and follow Him every day.

      Our cross represents God’s will for our life. To Jesus, the cross meant His death for salvation of humankind, the ultimate sacrifice that ended every tyranny of Satan over humankind. To us, it raises a pertinent question: What does God want us to do every day? As we live each day according to God’s will for us—His commandments, His words, and His personal dictates for our lives—we lay down interests that do not represent His will for us and flee from cravings and lusts of the world in order to embrace His uprightness. We deny ourselves daily everything that does not represent the God we worship so Christ will shine through us to a world that needs help. When our ego and sense of self are no longer central and we seek to live by Christ’s model alone, then we are dead men and women in Christ.

      Like many who have accepted the Lordship of Christ, we have been crucified with Christ. Though we are still alive, who we were does not matter because Christ lives in us now. We talk and walk like Him, and the life you see us living is not ours, but it is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us (Galatians 2:20).

      My sincere hope is that you will make God your sole purpose and pursuit in life. My prayer is that you will lay everything down at His feet. Absolute faith, love, and obedience will give birth to an amazing journey with God. This is a call for wholehearted commitment to God.

      My prayer for you is that you will love God with your whole heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. I pray that you will come to the point where your lifetime ambition is to seek the manifold will of God and do His bidding wherever you are.

      This book is special because of what this simple message has done in my life and in the lives of many people who have insight into the beauty that permeates our lives when we surrender our lives at the feet of our Lord and function daily through Him. Sadly, many people go through their whole lives as Christians and are never taught how to die to self.

      Self or flesh, as it is referred to in the scriptures, is the manifestation of our basic human nature (speaking lies, cheating, self-centeredness, etc.), which is contrary to Christ’s way of life.

      Publishing this book is not one of the more obvious things I have done in life. Let’s just say it is a project I did while shaking in my boots. I have a short bit of advice for you: you don’t need all the confidence in the world to take on the world—do it even if you are afraid!

      When Dead Men Love is about the infinite awesomeness and possibilities that will be part of our lives when we simply surrender and let Christ live through us. It is about ordinary people stepping into the realm of the incredible because of their love and devotion to God.

      It is about your walk from the point of confessing Christ’s lordship over your life to the ultimate destination of becoming like Christ, an intimacy that surpasses any ecstasy you have known or imagined.

      This book is about walking and living in the power of resurrection. Christ did not call us to a funeral service but to a celebration of this power that is daily at work in us. God wants us to partake of His divine nature and function optimally in it.

      For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29 AMP)

      God’s destiny for us is that we become like Christ in our everyday lives. He is training and molding us through everything we experience so we will look like His Son, Jesus Christ. Molding is a gradual process that finally brings forth a glorious masterpiece.

      A seed will never become an oak tree until it is planted in the ground. For glory and greatness, we must lose ourselves in others and sow ourselves in the kingdom of God. If your first concern is yourself, you will never find fulfillment, but if you forget your selfish ambitions and look to Jesus, you will find Jesus and discover the real you. When you delight in the Lord and commit your ways unto Him, He shall give you the desires of your heart. When we seek after righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, He blesses us with every other thing we desire. If we are in His will, He makes all things—the good, the bad, and the ugly—in our lives turn out for the best. Trust me: you don’t want to mess with a man in the will of God, no matter how messed up you think his situation is (John 12:24–25; Philippians 2:11; Psalm 37:5; Matthew 6:33; Romans 8:28).

      This is a message of Christ that imparts men with power.

      We often ask, What would Jesus do? I tell you this: Jesus Christ will lay down pride, fear, and convenience; die to His needs to be seen as God; and humble Himself and do the will of His heavenly Father even to His death on the cross. Guess what! God exalted Him and gave Him a name that is above every name, such that at the name of Jesus every knee of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth should bow, and such that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father! Hallelujah!

      This book is not an excuse to lose and fail in life. It is for men and women who will empty their lives and rid themselves of all forms of self-driven motives and die daily on the altar of devotion, humility, and service for His name’s sake. This book is for men and women who have the guts to step out in faith and prosper in God’s will.

      CHAPTER ONE

      The Beautiful Death

      Not I but Christ, be honored, loved, exalted.

      Not I but Christ, be seen, be known, be heard.

      Not I but Christ, in every look and action.

      Not I but Christ, in every thought and word.

      Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord.

      Oh, to be lost in thee.

      Oh, that it may be no more I but Christ

      That lives in me.

      Ada. A. Whiddington

      I Die Daily

      The scriptures distinguish between the physical death and something else that they call dying. The physical death occurs when a person is medically dead, but there is another kind of death in the scriptures that we need to understand.

      This chapter explains that we have to die daily to live. The more we die to—or cease to—walk according to the works of the flesh, the more we begin to live in the spirit. Until we die to the need to get our own way all the time, we will never live a fulfilled life; we will be miserable and we will not function effectively in the kingdom of God.

      In the scriptures the term self or flesh refers to the basic nature of every person born of a woman. It is the human nature without the rule of God. It is your body and the part of your soul you have not turned over to God.

      Until we stop living self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered, and self-willed lives, we will be miserable. Sadly, many Christians have not been taught how to die to self and their selfish cravings. It is always me, myself and I, the trinity of self. To die to something means to cease from doing that thing.

      To die to self means to lose sight of ourselves, to forget getting our way all the time, and to yield to what the Holy Spirit is asking us to do every day. As Matthew 16:24 (AMP) teaches, If any man will come after Me[be my disciple], let him deny himself, disregard, lose sight of, and forget himself and his own interests and take up his cross and follow Me[cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also].

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