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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 […]

YOU DON’T NEED TO LIKE YOUR PASTOR

I was at a conference for ministers of the Gospel. One of the panellists was asked a question about how he had been able to sustain a life of discipline in Ministry. His answer has not left me. He said, “I have a Pastor”. You will not understand the weight of what was said until you think about the fact […]

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 […]

DIGNIFY YOUR PASTOR

I attend a monthly ministers seminar with my Spiritual Father. I needed 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 the […]

GIVE YOUR PASTOR REST!

My teacher and mentor shared a story with me:His mentor just finished teaching a session in the state capital. The host pastor requested that he should drop off the Reverend at a car park. Rather than do that, he volunteered to drive him the whole three hours back to his base. He said some few minutes into the journey, he […]

DO NOT SUFFER A BLOW (Do not sit on the fence)

I was visiting a doctor friend at work when I saw a young lady with a fully swollen mouth. My friend said to me that she has a broken jaw. That was even worse. How did she get it? She got in between two people exchanging blows in a bar. First, there is no in-between in the things of the […]

DON’T BE A PRISONER OF EXPERIENCE

As I was wrapping up my service year, my uncle desired that I relocate to the United States to pursue my Masters Degree while I also get to grow in Ministry. Great plans. I had to explain that I am called to serve the call of God in Eruwa. I did not know what was on my uncle’s mind until […]

USED CONDOMS AND OUR NEW HOME

A couple of years ago, I rented an apartment. After the old occupants moved out, I and some others had to do some clearing out of the apartment. We made a lot of discoveries that tell a lot about the lifestyle of the former occupants. The unwelcoming sight of used condoms stuffed in a bottle hidden in a corner of […]

THE JOY OF FINDING

We were getting ready to go to church when Danielle said to her Mum, “Let’s play hide and seek”. I felt it was a weird request considering what we needed to get done. But Irewamiri calmly said to Danielle, “I will go and hide while you try to find me”. I was the timekeeper. I counted to ten and released […]

HARD TIMES CAN BE SPRINGBOARDS

In our secondary school days, we used a Mathematics textbook called the New General Mathematics. It was full of exercises. The unique thing was it had answers on the last pages of the book. The reason for the answers was to confirm if the solution was right or wrong after the student must have practised. But we had a different […]