MASTER THIS IF YOU WILL AMOUNT TO ANYTHING IN LIFE…

One of the things I wouldn’t say I liked while growing up was the annual twenty-one days fast. As a pastor’s child, it was our annual convention month. We were encouraged to fast. Well! It is not as though there would be cooked food anyway. It was always tough, so I came up with a “strategic fasting plan.” As a […]

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THE TWO BLESSINGS IN TOUGH TIMES

There was a particular year that my dad was bedridden for months. He would lie down on his back. I was young but I still remember some of the episodes vividly. There were times we had revival meetings in our local church and the guest preachers would visit our home to pray for my dad. This was in the early […]

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THE CONSEQUENCE OF DISOBEDIENCE IS NOT ALWAYS NEGATIVE

A beloved teacher in the faith shared a powerful lesson: They had been trusting the Lord for a car for a while. They prayed and confessed about it for quite a while. One day, he had a meeting in Lagos, but the Lord prompted him to stop by first in Ibadan to visit a family he had always known. He […]

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WHEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, WORSHIP!

A dear one went through a really rough time. He mentioned that one day, our father in the faith called him and told him to spend time in worship at the altar or else the poison of the situation would settle on his soul and the effect would be terrible. He went to church and began to worship. It was […]

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YOU CAN NOT FEED IF YOU ARE NOT FED

As we returned home that day, Danielle began to show signs that she was hungry. Irewamiri tried different means to placate. It would seem to work for a while as we distracted her momentarily. Then she would begin to throw tantrums again. We made it home and then the tears went to a new level. Irewamiri though moved by her […]

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IF YOU ARE NURSING A VISION 

One of her dear daughters in the faith had a baby. She was not in the same city as we were in. One evening, Irewamiri decided to call and check up on her some weeks after. The moment she asked, “Dear, how are you?”, this precious one burst into tears. She was sobbing profusely on the call. “Mama, you are […]

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THE BEAUTY OF A SPOUSE WHO HEARS THE LORD

We were in a meeting when I sensed that the Lord would have us sow a seed. It was quite a tough one for me. I sent a message to Irewamiri about what I perceive in my spirit. She responded that the Lord was just speaking to her about the same thing. There was no argument. It was easier to […]

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THE POWER OF TIMELY SEEDS

A dear brother in the faith shared about how the Lord asked him to send a ridiculously small amount to our father in the faith. He felt it was too small. He summoned up strength and obeyed the Lord. He got a call from our spiritual father who was surprised that he sent him a seed in Covid. He prayed […]

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THE POWER OF POSITIVE EXAMPLES

A few weeks to the birth of Olive, we went to the clinic for routine ante-natal care. While the nurse was attending to Irewamiri, a pregnant woman from the Northern part of our nation came to ask the nurse some questions. The nurse attended to her and asked if she had come to the hospital with her baby’s things. When […]

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WHAT ARE YOU PASSING ON?

My first time away from home was when I got admitted to a State University in my mid-teenage years. One day, I fell ill. Unfortunately, I was the only one around in my flat. As my temperature rose, I got scared. It was late in the night. But I remembered how my Mum never permitted sickness under her nose. There […]

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