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THERE IS NO GROWTH WITHOUT A ROUTINE

Some time ago, we were getting the girls set one morning when Danielle said, “It has been a while since we had devotion in this house. Daddy, why?” I did not know how to respond. I simply said, “We will resume family devotion tomorrow.” The truth was, we had gotten so soaked in activities that made us abandon our routine. […]

NEVER ALLOW STRANGE INTERPRETATIONS!

A young woman once called me and mentioned that someone asked her to reach out to me. She had a dream three times that she was picking snails. She was told that it meant she would be poor.  I told her to do something simple: Go to a restaurant. Order a meal and request a snail instead of the regular […]

DO NOT UNDERRATE LAUGHTER!

My Mum taught me this spiritual lesson with her life: Mum lost her sight many years ago. In the early days of losing her sight, she wanted to sit down in her office. It was a chair with two arms. She felt the arm of the chair to get the right spot, but unfortunately, she forgot to touch the second […]

THE DANGER OF “DISTANCE” 

When we were done talking that day, he said to me, “Thank you for calling me sir. I have been feeling very far, and I do not know what to do about it. This call has made a whole lot of difference.” A relationship is serviced by communication. If you are not intentional with communicating, you will realize that intimacy […]

DO A FINAL CHECK!

We needed a hotel to use for our guests during one of our major meetings. We decided to check out one that we had never used before. We went there some days before the conference to do a random check. We concluded that it may not be the best, but we could at least manage it.  However, just before we […]

WHY COMFORT COULD BE UNDERMINING YOUR PRAYER LIFE

I was meeting with a couple of proteges, and I focused on those who had left Nigeria for other nations. As we interacted over their spiritual growth, one common trend to all of them was, “Pastor, our prayer life is not as strong as before.” I knew something was not right.  It took some weeks, but a statement some people […]

BE ALERT IN YOUR SPIRIT!

I have lost phones twice. They both happen back-to-back in 2005 and 2006:  I boarded a cab heading to Ife from Ibadan. I slept off. I woke up just as the car got to the campus gate. I alighted from the cab and made my way to the campus. As I entered campus, my consciousness was restored. My phone was […]

PRAYER IS NOT TOO MUCH

As we began to pray, I said to my team in the ministry: “This feels so good”. Ithen added that it had been a while since we prayed together. As I mentioned that, I began to ask myself why. It struck me that the challenge was that the hours of congregational prayers had increased as instructed by the Lord for […]

IT TAKES COMMITMENT AND NEVER CONVENIENCE 

In the early days of GSM phones, the network was quite terrible and not yet widespread in Eruwa, but it was the season that ‘youthful Temi’ had just fallen in love. The network issues would never deter me from communication.  I would place my phone on one of the high louvre blades and connect an earpiece to it. I could […]