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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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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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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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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“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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DEAL WITH THE SPIRIT OF FEAR 

One of my sons in the Lord who is just growing in the faith mentioned that he had been plagued for a season with the fear of death in his life and his family. He had become fearful. There was even pressure (due to his background) to make some rituals to appease a strange deity.  I laughed and asked him, […]

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WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW IT WILL HAPPEN

Some years ago, we were preparing for our annual convention. We had a budget of a hundred and eighty thousand naira (180,000) but we had just about ten percent of that amount. The week before the convention, the pressure of “How will it be?” began to rise. I did not say a word to anyone in the ministry. We simply […]

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THANKSGIVING BRIDGES THE GAP

During my service year, I came back from a speaking engagement and I knew I had to say thank you to a dear sister of mine. At that point, she was doing a series on Facebook titled “Purity Series”. She had a group of teachers write on different areas of purity. At the speaking engagement, I was asked a question. […]

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THE INITIAL CHEAPER OPTIONS

Christmas and chicken are like five and six. Every time Mum is done frying the chicken, the temptation begins. Well! I lost many times. I would bite out of the chicken. But whenever mum discovers, I end up losing what she would have given me. One of the tactics that the devil deploys in life is to offer to people […]

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SIGNS OF AN UNTRAINED MAN (2)

The moment I drove in, my girls ran to me. I was holding a small nylon. The first thing they began to do was to ask, “Daddy, what is this?” I refused to answer. Then I said to them, “Greet me first”. Afterwards, I responded.  There are other times that they would begin to search for any package that was […]

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