BURNING COALS

My father spent the early days of his life assisting his father on the farm. He mentioned that anytime they were working on the farm and they need to eat roasted yam, they would seek a farm that had burning coal from firewood. They would go get the burning coal and bring it back to their farm. It was not […]

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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 for the […]

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OFFENCE AND WITHDRAWAL IS A WAR STRATEGY

Sometimes ago, the devil fired an arrow of offence through a situation into my heart. One of the things he began to suggest was that “I should stop wasting my time following my Spiritual Father and my Trainers”. He suggested that I should focus on the work alone and not bother myself. It was a tough season. I entered into […]

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DO NOT SLEEP OFF ON THIS JOURNEY

In my second year at the university, I took a cab from Ibadan to Ile-Ife. Cabs are comfortable. I slept off somewhere along the way. I woke up just as we got to the campus gate. As the car parked and I noticed we were at the gate, I was excited. I got out of the cab, picked my bag […]

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SOMETHING NEW OR SOMETHING TESTED?

We were preparing for a major meeting years ago when I was still a corp member. It was a Christian Concert with a focus on Charity. We wanted excellence. Because of this, we raised some funds to invest in some new sound accessories to augment what we had already. We bought most of them a day to the concert. The […]

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DO NOT MUDDLE THE WATERS

My niece walked towards the bottle of water for a drink. As my sister spotted her, she said, “Oh! You have gone to drink out of my water again. I have told you to always drink your own”. I laughed and asked why she does not want her to drink from her bottle. She said, “Once she drinks, you cannot […]

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QUESTIONS PROVOKE GROWTH

My friends and I had a yearly ritual- we would go from one friend’s house to the other every first day of the year. We greeted and ate. It was a tour. It always ended around 10 pm after a long evening of fun. Some day in my second year at the University, just before my friends came to call […]

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IF IT IS NONSENSE, DON’T APPROVE IT

She posted a picture of a friend who was scantily clad and wrote a tag underneath it- “Fire Everywhere”. When I saw it, I had to pick up my pastoral rod of care and correction. It was firm talk. As a believer, what is worse than appearing ungodly is approving what is ungodly. It has become a trend where Christians […]

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DOES PASTOR SEE YOUR STATUS?

A member of the church was asking another member some years ago- Does the pastor see your status? Because if he sees this your status, I am sure by now you would have gotten a message from him! What was the issue? She was indecently dressed with her cleavage out and she paraded it on her status. Christianity and indecency […]

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ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR A GENERATION?

I sat in the library as I spoke to a dear brother in the faith. I told him, “The whole matter concludes that ‘I am fighting a generational war that I must win’”. It was not a battle with demons or the devil. It was a battle for strength and inner will to stay faithful and on course in such […]

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