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BUILDING STRONG MARRIAGES (3)

It was a trying period. We were gradually coming out of it due to the counsel of teachers. Our emotions have come under severe stress. We looked at the season and the challenges at the time raised a lot of questions. Fortunately, we had a chance to hang out with another couple- our friends. We were vulnerable as we shared […]

BUILDING STRONG MARRIAGES (2)

Just as I drove to the gate of the estate where we lived, the Holy Spirit said to me, “Go back home and apologize”. I made a U-turn. I returned home and apologized immediately to my wife. Interestingly, I did not even know that she was annoyed until the Spirit of God pointed it out. Friends, no matter how much […]

BUILDING STRONG MARRIAGES (1)

That Sunday, my wife looked into the congregation as she taught and said to them, “I troubled my husband in the first two years of our marriage”. I smiled at her. I knew what she meant. She told them the truth. Strong marriages are not products of some magical constructions or assumptions; they come out of strong decisions to make […]

WIN YOUR PASTOR’S CONFIDENCE

We were running late from a meeting with my Spiritual Father and it was the day of our midweek service. Right on the way, I began to think of the person on ground to give instructions to carry on. All the Ministerial Team was on the road. Just after we gave a call and passed on instructions, I said to […]

IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO A PASTOR

We sat in the car that day and he said to me, “Pastor, today I want to apologise. For the past few years, I never saw or accepted you as my pastor. Today, I want to say I am sorry. I am accepting your role as my pastor”. I understood perfectly. And it was not absolutely his fault. For the […]

DIGNIFY YOUR PASTOR

I attend a monthly ministers seminar with my Spiritual Father. I had occasion to leave earlier that day so I sent him a text very early in the morning apologising that I may exit while he was yet teaching because I had to receive a special guest for our meeting in the church that night. I ended up staying until […]

DEFEND YOUR PASTOR

Throughout the meeting, as my Spiritual Father taught us and led us to pray, I could see that he was a bit tired. He had been on a national tour leading a prayer movement. It was a hectic season. Just before we wrapped up the meeting. I went to fetch my cheque book and wrote him a token. As I […]

HONOUR FROM THE HEART

I was watching a dear father teach sometimes ago. It was on a YouTube channel. While watching, my wife called that she needed my attention. I did something that shocked me. I said, “I am sorry sir” before I paused the video and went to see my wife. It dawned on me later that I was not even in his […]

PROOF OF GROWTH (7) – WALKING IN LOVE

When I got her text message recounting some of the moments she had been through in her life’s journey, I rolled over from the bed to the floor and burst into tears. Rather than feel disgusted, the love in my heart skyrocketed to an amazingly great level. Love is not pity. Love is proof that you have encountered the resurrection […]

PROOF OF GROWTH 6- GODLY REPORT

In 2013, I was on the bus returning from Uyo to Ibadan. A corps member sat by my side. We began to talk. Then she began to talk about an organisation called TOUCH. She said glowing things about the person who started it like she was told. I asked for the name of the person who started. She said, “I […]