REVIVE YOUR TROULED SOUL(4)

She did not tell me this until after she said “Yes” to my proposal: She was always losing her peace whenever she said to herself that she does not want to marry me. I understand it all. Who wants to marry a man who has mouth but no money? Who wants to marry a man who cannot answer questions like, […]

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SOME WARNINGS CAN BE VERBAL

A dear father had a strong pattern of indulging in alcohol. It was so terrible that at a point when the wife delivered a male child through Caesarean section. He left his wife in her state and went to drink with his friends. He was the late-night crawler.  One of such nights, he returned home drunk and his daughter said […]

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QUESTIONS THAT BRING LAUGHTER 

We were travelling through the city of Abeokuta. I had a dear mentor of mine with me and he reminded me of one of the memories I can not forget about the city:  I was an active participant in a quiz programme that airs every Sunday on the State Broadcasting Network. I made it to the final of the quiz […]

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“IKU PO MI NU” (Death Vomited Me)

As we drove home, I asked Irewamiri, “Did you pick the lesson as he shared the testimony?” She said, “Yes I did”. There is a lesson I kept sharing for a while, “You do not fight thoughts with thoughts. You cancel and erase thoughts with words”. Someone dear to me was stuck in traffic and thoughts came to him, “What […]

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DO NOT JOKE WITH EXAMPLES

The Lord led my wife and I to give a particular gift to someone. Some days after he came to me and said, “Pastor, about two years ago, you were preaching and you said, ‘For instance, I am giving (I mentioned his name) a (I mentioned the gift)”. He then added, “Pastor, now you have done exactly what you used […]

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“AM I A BAD BOY?”

Sometimes in the early days of ministry, we were preparing for a major meeting. We worked late into the evening. Someone who has a car had given a ride to those who lived far from the church. There were just three of us left in the church- A Young Man, A young lady and I. The young man lived just […]

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ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS NOTHING

I needed to use an earpiece. I would normally just use a wireless one for comfort. But I decided to pick up one of the old wired ones. I had not used it in a very long time. When I picked it up, the cables were already tangled. It took a long time to untangle it. It was a burden. […]

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EQUIPPING BEFORE APPEARANCE

I needed help with clearing the weeds in the compound. For weeks, I tried reaching out to a young man who helps me regularly. When I eventually saw him, he explained to me that the reason he had not come was that he had no tools. His cutlass got spoilt on his last job. He promised to show up once […]

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