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Ifá refers to the system of divination and the verses of the literary corpus known as the Odù Ifá. The Ifá Divination system was added in 2005 by UNESCO to its list of the "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity".

The Yorùbá religion comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practices of the Yorùbá people. It has influenced or given birth in the new world to a host of thriving ways of life such as Lucumí, Umbanda and Candomblé.

Our mission is to bring the philosophy, knowledge and wisdom of Ifa to all people, regardless of race, colour, sex or religion in order to promote the welfare and development of all mankind. Life is not just a gift or a present but it is in our responsibility to make best use of our limited time, and wrestling or fighting for what is noble and the best so that we can win the race of happiness, hence a crisis or challenges may or can lead us to greater victory, and joy.

AyeAkamara - Society for the Study of Ifa, Chief Ogunsina Babatunde Olayinka Adewuyi.

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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Fasting and Prayer


You may not know how important you must subject your life to fasting and prayer . Many do not belief in the efficacy and the wisdom of weekly, occasional fasting and daily prayer . It is noted that wherein you miss a meal or two for the purpose of providing rest to the whole digestive process and also for cleansing, you have attained eternal improvement in your healthy life and build a strong foundation and home in the unseen.

From my own experience,the main benefit, however has not been physical,  it has been more mental and spiritual. The principle of fasting is taught in almost religions in the world  as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, self-help, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are to infinite mercy and his numerous divinities.

I believe that when you properly control your appetites, your ability to control your passions and to purify your desires increases. It gives you a real feeling of humility and enables you to gain greater perspective about what it is really important in life. Whenever you subordinate your body to your mind and your spirit, the peace and confidence that flow from that kind of discipline and self-mastery is enormous.

Nothing gives you more assurance and confidence and self-mastery than fasting and prayer. It makes every soul to be involved in spiritual activities. It does not limit the process of spiritual awareness and divine consciousness only to the priest and to the chosen one. It equates all human and subjected them to the divine love of unified   energy in the cosmic level of existence. It brings  us to the gate of eternal bliss and enhance total domination over our destiny.

Whoever have control over his mouth, his appetite and his stomach, has control over his destiny, his healthy life, his nervousness, his anger and secretly working towards deification of his soul in the physical state of existence. Fasting is a wise nutrition habit and it also make us to experience the tremendous benefits of winning the private victory over adversaries, woos, shortcoming and upcoming challenges. Such victory also impacts our ability to produce public victories in our relationship with others and on reorienting ourselves to a life of service and contribution.

Whenever we undergo a long fasting more than 21 days, if we really devote our time to think positively, thinking good, and avoid anger, worry, hatred, and commit to extensive prayer, we shall notice one important changes in our body, finance, miraculous power, the power of domination, the energy to see things before they get to us and the unified forces in the cosmos that turn things around for our benefit and goods of others. Those around us who are sincerely vibrating at the level of absolute spiritual terrain will also benefit from our  prayer and fasting, and many miracles happens in the physical states of existence, thus adding light to the darkness of the universe.

Never belief that fasting and prayer only operate in the seen world, its major effect is in the realm of unseen, the corridor of spiritual and the world of divinities. Concentrate more on your fasting, without rest, because it gives rest and harmony to mind, soul, spirit, body and emotions. Fasting effect changes in the unseen, making the physical manifestation a mere  formality .

Consistent fasting attracts higher proportional of benefit and fruits of heavenly bliss and divine blessing. The greatest fasting benefits are not only in the physical and mental, but the spiritual power build up that comes from regular fasting to change what we cannot change by our physical action and physical senses and inject new sense that is common to perform common task in a spectacular and fantastic ways and  manner .

Have you ever watches seeds that are planted near a river or stream or vegetables nourished  daily by  water ? Fasting and prayer nourish your body and soul with the heavenly tonic that goes beyond human understanding, it is mystery behind every extraordinary power and energy of manifestation. It is called ‘’ajipojo iku , ajipojo ogun ‘’,meaning , the death changer  and the war breaker (the destroyer of untimely death and misfortune). It radiates our lives  with such enormous energy that makes all impossible possible, all misfortune turn to fortune, all disgraceful and shameful act into a grace and victory. All sickness into healthy life and near death situation or death activities to receive a renewed and divine power, and turn them around for our blessing  and a dead soul or spirit  gets a new life at the level of physical manifestation .

Fasting improves and increases  our own sense of self control and self-mastery which enhances our power to perform miracles and see the glory of GOD, as vivid as air we breathe  in and out. It increases our spiritual inheritance and brings what is decree in the spiritual realm to manifest in the physical existence. Man with higher fasting power vibrates and radiates  more light than those who do not fast at all (it is called OKUN EMI , that power that gives light to the soul) ,or who fast on occasional basis.  Let fasting be part of your life, it creates an  aura of victory for you and for your beloved ones without reducing your physical power of doing.

It is a primary step to spiritual fulfillment, consciousness  and awareness. Fasting reverts aging, illness, untimely death  and give us the ability to manage ourselves efficiently. It increases the flow of mental and spiritual communication into our body and without knowing,  positive steps toward success and victory are taken. It reduces mental distortion, spiritual falsehood and physical disequilibrium. It makes us to know ourselves in that man is indeed, spiritual not the physical outlook  that craves immorality, drunkenness and gluttony. It brings about efficiencies of purpose and victory in all endeavor.

Fast today and  never allow those who cannot fast tell you that your fasting is a mere suffering, and that  no one ever  force you to fast, you are suffering yourself for nothing. Never associate with  indolence, never mingle with the weak because their counsel and action will bring destruction to tent. Never imitate the feeble and never concur with the indiscipline and the immoral, and never trend on the path of evil, and walk in the company of glutton  and those who fail to fast.

With his proper wisdom will be forced  to fast with iron hand. It is a tax or compulsory payment or service to the infinite and it is  the character and habit  of godly that share the attribute of divine.  We must pay this tax  to live well in the realm of spirituality, the sphere of physical , the world of emotions and the universe of divinities and bring about domination over body weakness. Fasting makes us to give out ourselves in love to those whom we really admire, and it brings  the soul of the dead into life through the method known throughout the ages by the messengers of GOD and divinities alike as spiritual contact to those  you cannot see physically but sure of their existence.

Fasting and prayer exercises create a protective membrane over us and our beloved ones. It is the only way to experience vivid divine presence and divine mark in the physical body. All the faithful and followers of GOD and the disciples of OLODUMARE must  inculcate and imbibe fasting into their plans and life, and all shall be well with us.


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