YOU CANNOT EAT FROM THERE

As I stepped out of the room, I noticed that my daughter had dipped her hand inside a wastebasket. She picked up a maize cob and was about putting it in her mouth when I saw her. I quickly grabbed it from her and said to her, “Olive, you cannot eat from there”. If you are well pastored, you cannot […]

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WEDDING RICE

I love weddings. Everything about it. I enjoy the wedding reception where the smell of food and the sound of music permeates the air. Severally at weddings, I have left without eating anything (even my wife and I do not know how the rice of our own wedding tastes like). I have a simple solution that I adopted: “I do […]

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YOU CAN’T PLAY AT SUCH HEIGHTS

My second daughter has a unique hobby- she will climb any height. She would climb dining chairs to get on the dining table. She would climb chairs to get on my study table also. She feels like a conqueror everytime she surmounts each obstacle. We have to keep our eyes closely on her. As we prayed one night, I picked […]

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WHEN DADDY SEE THE WORKS

As a young boy, I had the privilege of visiting my Dad at work. Seeing the artwork of his students was always a delight. However, whenever Dad steps in to appraise their work, I am always surprised when he begins to correct the things that I celebrated. The things that I see as a great art piece suddenly emerges with […]

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NOT A DEAD END!

When they fired the guns and halted our moves, we knew we were stuck with them and all we could do was pray. They began to ask occupants of the bus to get down and lie face down. Just in a moment, we saw a vehicle with police escorts attacking our attackers. That was how we escaped. We did not […]

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USE THE NIGHT

A young man reached out to me recently and said to me, “You dropped a note for me some years ago with the words, ‘Great men make use of the night’. Sir, that brought a shift in my life”. He backed it up with a Thank You seed. See these verses: Ex. 14:20- “…throughout the NIGHT…”Ex. 14:21- “…all that NIGHT, […]

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IF YOU ARE GETTING TIRED IN SERVING

When we were about exiting, the amazing grandfather in the faith said, “There is a young woman that usually help serve me whenever I visit you back in the days”. He tried to describe her. He then added, “I still pray for her regularly”. I could not believe my ears. This is an act of service of almost twenty years […]

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IF YOUR DAD/MUM HURTS YOU

The first thing she said to me blew the wind out of my sail. She had lost her mum and had been raised by different hands. She said to me, “Pastor, I wish it was my father that died”. Beloved, we cannot deny the fact that there are children today who have been grievously hurt by their parents. Some saw […]

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BEFORE YOU ACCEPT THAT HELP

My spiritual father would say to us that one of the most critical decisions that must be settled at the beginning of a vision is discerning the people to join in and those to refuse a placement. He further adds that “The people you don’t pray in are those who trouble you the most”. The devil tries to wreck a […]

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“YOUNG MAN, CAN I HAVE THE BIRD?”

We were still boys. Kayode caught a bird. We decided to keep it in the corridor of Kayode’s house. We went out to play. When we returned, Kay’s younger brother was playing with “our” bird. We told him that we wanted our bird back. He insisted that it was his. He told us he caught in the corridor. We kept […]

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