Some few years into ministry, I would regularly attend a monthly ministers’ mentoring session with my father in the faith. It was a commitment I made to him. But life happened, I got caught up in the routine and activities of ministry and I thought I had a legitimate excuse because the road trip was becoming more tedious. Our roads […]
A dear son brought a young lady that he wanted to marry. It was a single visit where I was to interact with the young lady. We had a great time talking. I asked questions and she also asked hers. The only strange thing was that she seems to lose interest in the young man after the visit. We were […]
A dear one walked up to me after one service and said, “Pastor, I brought a seed for you”. I would have collected it with joy and said a blessing but I had a prompt to ask him (I am sure it was the Holy Spirit), “When last did you give to your parents?” He said it had been a […]
We needed a keyboardist in the ministry. At that point, a young man came into town to serve the nation. He could play the keyboard but we had two standing principles: First, you cannot be an instrumentalist, no matter how skilled you are, if you have not been through our training school at a certain level in the ministry. Second, […]
The Lord reminded me of something recently: There was a night when two strangers knocked on the door of our home. This was very late in the night. It was about 10 pm or after. They told my parents that they were ministers of the gospel who were stranded in town. At the car park, they explained their ordeal and […]
I still remember the first time that Dad and Mum dropped me off as an undergraduate in Olabisi Onabanjo University (I had an eight months stint there). It was the first time I was going to be living on my own- the goodbyes was emotional. Some months into my stay, I took ill. It was in the days when phones […]
I was in the middle of my morning routine when the name of a dear friend and brother crossed my mind. Amazingly, we had spoken some days earlier. I picked up my phone and called him. We exchanged pleasantries. I said to him, “I pray strength for you today and this season sir”. That was how the conversation ended. He […]
A younger minister once sat with an older minister at a conference. After exchanging pleasantries, the younger minister started sharing “testimonies” of God’s goodness to him and his ministry. The older minister did not say a word except to appreciate the grace of God upon the life of the younger minister. Even though, he perceived that some of the testimonies […]
A doctor had to explain to a patient that a gangrenous foot had to be amputated. He told the patient what Jesus said “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish than for your whole body to be […]
I was returning home on a commercial motorcycle. We spotted a truck that had derailed on the main road. While I said, “Oh what happened there?”, The rider turned his head and kept looking at the scene. What he did not know was that we were already derailing from our part of the road and were almost running into a […]
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