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The Federal Government of Nigeria has published the Value Added Tax (Modification Order), 2020 (“the Order”) in its Official Gazette No. 18, Vol.107 of 4 February 2020. The Order commenced on 3 February 2020 and was signed by the Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning (HMoF), Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, pursuant to her powers under Section 38 of the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act, Cap. V1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 (as amended). The Order modifies the First Schedule to the VAT Act by defining and expanding the list of goods and services exempted from VAT and providing clarity on the interpretation of the VAT Act as amended by Finance Act, 2019. Highlights of the Order include: 1. Adoption of “basic food items” as described in the Finance Act, 2019 but excluding such items sold at restaurants, hotels, eateries, lounges and other similar premises. The Order further provides that basic food items sold by contractors, caterers and other similar vendors wi...

COMMUNICATION TIPS FOR COUPLES. A lot of times, couples get pissed off with each other by the way they respond to each other. We can do better if we learn responses in the *affirmative* and not in the *combative*. Let's read the following: 1. *Statement:* Are you okay; is anything the matter? - *Wrong response:* Can't you see yourself; what kind of question is that? - *Right response:* I'm not feeling fine; I think I need some attention. 2. *Statement:* I got wounded in kitchen. - *Wrong response:* I've told you to always be careful with knife. - *Right response:* Oh sorry, let me have a look. Please be more careful with knife. 3. *Statement:* I'll like to eat corn flakes. - *Wrong response:* No way! It's for the children; and that's for one month! Take garri if you are hungry. - *Right response:* Okay, you can eat a little. I trust you'll give us money to buy another. 4. *Statement:* I'm really hungry. - *Wrong response:* Even I...

Faith Clinic Pastor Obayemi Date:May 21, 2020 Rejoice in the Lord Always: Phil 4v4 Philippians 4:4 KJV [4] Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 1 Thessalonians 5:16,19 KJV [16] Rejoice evermore. [19] Quench not the Spirit. When God says something one it’s valid, when he says it twice it means he want us to pay greater attention. Paul himself the time he wrote the Letter to Phillipians he was not in great situation. God want us to rejoice because he does not want this current situation or whatever we are passing through to overwhelm us. To be joyful is different from being happy, you can be happy because something is happening now, once those things ceases, the happiness cease also.Joy is our inheritance and nature. Isa61v10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, —-You need to know that God loves you even more than yourself. —- He has your destination in h...

📖📖 *OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.* *DATE: WEDNESDAY 20TH MAY, 2020.* *THEME: SIGNS AND WONDERS.* *MEMORIZE:* And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. John 11:42 *BIBLE READING:* ACTS 4:24-32 24. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25. Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? 26. The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. 27. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, 28. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. 29. A...

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: TUESDAY 19TH MAY 2020. THEME: CHRISTIAN PARENTING. MEMORISE: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 READ: Proverbs 22:1-12 1A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. 2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. 3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. 4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. 9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall b...

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: WEDNESDAY 13TH MAY 2020. THEME: THE VISIONARY CHRISTIAN III. MEMORISE: Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel 2:19 READ: Daniel 2:1-19 1And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. 5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall...

*📖📖OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.* *DATE: TUESDAY, 12TH MAY, 2020.* *THEME: THE VISIONARY CHRISTIAN (II)* *MEMORISE:* For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:3 *READ:* DANIEL 10:1-14 1. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. 2. In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. 3. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. 4. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; 5. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose lo...

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: MONDAY 11TH MAY 2020. THEME: THE VISIONARY CHRISTIAN I. MEMORISE: Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Proverbs 29:18 READ: Habakkuk 2:1-4 1I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. MESSAGE If a Christian is visionary, his/her pilgrimage on earth becomes bearable. It is a clear vision of heaven that will make a child of God see nothing enticing in the present world as compared to the anticipate...

OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTION _DATE: SUNDAY 10TH MAY 2020._ *THEME: HONOR YOUR MOTHER.* *MEMORISE:* A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. Proverb 15:20 *Bible Reading: Proverb 1:8-9* 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. *MESSAGE* It is quite sad that many people honor their fathers but have little or no respect for their mothers. People tend to disrespect their mothers because they are soft and readily accessible, whereas the fathers are tough and usually unavailable. It is however foolish not to honor your mother. Ephesians 6:2 does not only say you should honor your father so you can live long, it asks you to honor your mother too. If you only honor your mother, then you are toying with untimely death. Mothers labor greatly over their children, so you can imagine how they feel when you esteem them lightly. Ac...

💝🥦 *OPEN HEAVENS* 🥦💝            *DAILY DEVOTIONAL*                 _DATE: SATURDAY 9TH MAY 2020._ *THEME: THE NEXT LEVEL.* *MEMORISE:* The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.  Psalm 115:14 *Bible Reading: 2 Kings 6:1-4* 1. And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. 2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. 3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go. 4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. *MESSAGE* God loves increase. In His first blessing on mankind, He asked man to multiply and be fruitful (Genesis 1:28). If anything, this means stagnation is never a part of God’s plan for you. “Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jorda...

📖📖 *OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.* *DATE:  WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY, 2020.* *THEME:  TESTS & TEMPTATIONS OF LIFE* *MEMORISE:* And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: (Ruth 1:16) *READ:* RUTH 1:8-16 (KJV) 8. And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house; the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. 9. The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. 10. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. 11. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters; why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? 12. Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I ...

*📖📖OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTION *DATE: SUNDAY 3RD MAY, 2020.* *THEME: A TIME TO FIGHT!.* *MEMORISE:* I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: – 2 Timothy 4:7 *READ*: 1 TIMOTHY 6:11-21 (KJV) 11. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 13. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 14. That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 15. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man ha...

* DATE: SATURDAY 2ND MAY, 2020.* *THEME: LOVE: THE MOST ESSENTIAL GIFT OF THE SPIRIT.* *MEMORISE:* We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 1 John 3:14 *READ*: 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-13 (KJV) 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6. Rejoiceth not in iniq...