December 16, 2022

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 […]

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December 15, 2022

IF YOU ARE IN LOVE, DO NOT HIDE IT! 

My parents were classmates in the tertiary institution. During an examination, my father took ill right in the hall. He had his work tools as a Fine Arts student but in his words, “I just kept looking at the paper before me. I had gone blank. The stress had taken its toll”.  He was almost collapsing when some of his […]

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December 14, 2022

FLEE ALL “APPEARANCE” OF EVIL

While I was a student in one of the State Universities, I was not that rooted in the faith but the discipline of godly parenting helped me a whole lot.  I was studying one evening when one of the ladies who frequented our residence pulled away my notes from me and said, “Spencer, if you don’t visit me, you will […]

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December 13, 2022

HARDER EFFORTS CAN’T REPLACE OBEDIENCE 

I was speaking with two ladies when the Lord dropped a Word in my heart for one of them. I did not know who in particular when I got the word. It was simple:  God said, “No matter how much you have invested in the wrong relationship, turn back now”.  One of them confided later that she knew she was […]

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December 12, 2022

ANSWER THIS QUESTION BEFORE YOU PROPOSE

Some years back, A fine young man requested to see me. He mentioned that it was quite important. I obliged; though I was travelling that morning. When he came, he mentioned that he wanted to propose to a particular sister in the church. He was not a member but he comes for our midweek services. He began to speak about […]

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December 11, 2022

DO NOT GO! YOU MAY NEVER RETURN

In 2011 (right after my service year), the Lord told me that “Every company builds its factory where the raw materials are. Go to where I have sent you”. I agreed with the call but I had just one more thing to tick off my to-do list- travel out for three weeks. I was in the documentation phase. I had […]

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December 10, 2022

IN YOUR WALK OF FAITH, LEARN THIS EARLY

In my early years as a full-time minister, I was only assured of five thousand naira every month. It was a seed from a dear one who insisted that it was for me. I would still give four thousand out of it to the only ministry volunteer we had at the time. I would also pay my tithe. I have […]

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December 9, 2022

UNDERSTANDING, NOT AGE!

Many years ago, I was visiting my uncle and aunt. My aunt, her first daughter (who was still a teenager) and I were discussing in the girls’ room. We were so carried away in our conversation that we did not notice when my four years old niece stepped out of the bathroom. The next thing I heard in the middle […]

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December 8, 2022

DEFINE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

I was having a conversation with a protege some years back and he shared a priceless lesson with me. He told me that it was better to give counsel only to people that I have defined relationships with. He mentioned that giving counsel to people who do not care is a waste of time. My Pastor told some set of […]

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December 7, 2022

“INVITATION TO PREACH” IS NOT YOUR SOURCE

I was visiting an elderly one some years ago. I was still in the early days of full-time ministry. She was really concerned about my survival. She began to ask questions like, “How will you get paid especially in a place like Eruwa?”  As I was still wondering the best way to answer, she said “Well, by the time you […]

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