Finally, a preaching post

I am going to preach a bit.

Yesterday I made a post about Charlottesville and what happened there. Today I am hearing about the mudslides in Sierra Leone. May God have mercy on Sierra Leone and cause the hearts of men to be moved for Sierra Leone. May men be sent by the LORD God to assist Sierra Leone in whatever way they can in Jesus name, amen.

House of Stark
I like Stark family because of the honour they display. I learned honour and love of country from my dad. My Dad taught me how to speak up for myself and how to be intelligent. He spoke with me about politics, economy etc. We didn't always agree but I could always talk with Him and for that I am grateful to my college pastor who made me buy 

What should be our response?

I am surprised. Sad. A little numb. Stuff like this has been happening for  a while, it has almost become common. Let me behave like the rest of the world a bit. You Christian people think the world is about to end, right?

What should be the response of the world?

What is their response. They are ruled by their flesh and sensory perception. If a mudslide is happening, they say thank God it's not me in their heart and offer some public compassion tale that does nothing about said thing happening.

What should be the response of believers?

You can give if you have. A dollar. Two dollars. Five dollars. A hundred dollars. A thousand dollars and what have you.

If you say I don't have that kind of money, you can pray a sincere prayer for them and God will respond. All the LORD needs is someone who will call our to Him from a heart of sincerity and He does respond.

There are some parts of the bible that just make you wonder. Which part you might ask?

One of those places is Genesis 4:26

"Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD."

The old testament was written for our learning.

So ask yourself, do you call upon the name of the LORD. This act was so significant that the bible had to note it. If you do not call upon the name of the LORD, you can start today. He is a great God. When you think that you know Him, you see another side.

My first three years of having Jesus I thought I knew the Lord but it is nothing compared to how I know the LORD now 17 years down the line. Now I have a precedence.

When I was in college, my pastor would say, do you have a precedence?

I had no precedence but my mom's faith and my dad's faith later in his life when he surrendered to God.

There was this time in 2011 he went to Kaduna and came back paralysed. I refused to confess that word then because I did not want to enforce it and little me laid hands on him and prayed with him in the name of Jesus. My father agreed to pray in the name of Jesus, that is a miracle in itself. We then took him to the hospital and he came back perfect a week later as if he didn't just have a stroke or whatever that was. The doctor was amazed. I was amazed. My siblings were amazed.

My father eventually died in 2015 October but he had known the power of God before then and yesterday I got a confirmation from the Lord that my father is with him, my mother too. 

What am I trying to say with this?

I now have a precedence, in fact many. I know God for myself, beyond my mother's faith.

We don't know the time or the hour. It sounds like a cliche but it is really important. Don't forget that you are a sojourner on earth and that 100 is small when compared with eternity.

Today I declared again that I am favoured. Someone mocked me with it last week. I had no emotional power to respond because my responding to said person wouldn't save a soul. That attack only served to remind me that I was to keep the word of God concerning me in the front of my eyes.

How do you maintain your Christian life?

You must remember that you have experienced the new birth even though your flesh, bones, eyes and nose make you think that you are just a man. You must remember that your spirit has been renewed and that the old man who could get sick, be poor, get offended, get affected by this physical world is dead and that the new man who experiences divine health, divine provisions, divine directions and divine instructions is the one who is alive with God.

I have been privileged to hear many great men minister. The Holy Ghost has been so good to me to give me favour with men of valour, strength and honour, imperfect but chosen by God all the same.

God has always graced me with epiphany moments.

This is the secret of how I triumph of over my enemies and adversaries. I go to the God who is greater than all. I call out. I pray. I cry. I do whatever I have to do but I connect with my LORD.

Today I believe that we are to respond from our heart and in accordance with the word of God and be instant in season and out of season. I receive the grace of God to be so in Jesus name, amen. 

Just make up your mind that the word of God is true above everything and everyone else because God does not lie.

The word of God will work for you from the moment that you surrender to it.

Quick Testimony:

Sometimes when I am angry with God and I think He doesn't hear me or isn't speaking to me as fast as I want Him to, I am like, if you don't care let me know o. I act out and try to go against the practices I have adopted based on my belief in the Lord.

E.g One of my pastors taught that the tithe is the FIRST 10% (If you don't pay your tithes just skip this part, we will talk about it another day). 

So sometime last week, I tried to take some money before paying my tithe because part of me was like if he is not listening, why do I bother myself doing all these things.

It was all because I had a bike accident. I was like, God how did that accident happen? Is your covenant one supposed to have an accident? Your covenant is airtight, what happened?

So I wanted to break my part of the covenant.

What did happen?

I had an accident so I was like, if God is not keeping His part, maybe He is releasing me from my part,

I slotted my card in the ATM and the ATM went blank. I tried to withdraw money and the money would not come out. A man came to the ATM and when he saw that my card was supposedly stuck in the ATM he rushed off.

It was dark. In my mind I was thinking, if thief comes and meets you here you will know yourself. Your only power is in God. See how you are holding mobile phone in your hands. Long and short of the story. I paid my tithes and the screen showed the name of the bank. Then my card came out. I slot it back in and withdrew the money to go home.

I was like, thank You God. If you are not in my movie, what would I do? 

Lesson: God is still holding me to my side of the covenant and I am holding Him to His. He's faithful. I have no idea how many times He has to prove His faithfulness but I am glad that He doesn't get tired of dealing with my idiosyncrasies.

I need to trust God more. So August and September I will use in exercising my trust in God a lot more. He is faithful.

Lesson:

Learn this lesson. It is important to your Christian life. These are the last days. You need to be able to exercise faith in God and be built up in Him.

Shalom!

YOUR POSITION IN CHRIST:

"God said that He would destroy your past. Old things have been dealt with through the power of the Gospel and the death, burial and resurrection of Christ."

Dealing with the roots.

What happened in Charlottesville?

I am naturally curious.
I also have a short attention span so I get bored pretty easy.

I have two new goals added to my goal book.
It is operation: say no to being laid back.

I hate communicating. I do if I have to but my comfort zone is stay quiet, sit in front of my laptop and create stuff.

I wrote an article today. Why today? Usually my Mondays are cramped but that has changed and it's a good thing.

So no excuses that I am always busy on Monday any longer.

What happened in Charlottesville?

It is like what humans do when they fight and we love to fight over anything. I personally do not fight, I just excel at the things I set my mind to and ignore the things I am uninterested.

So this is a random post, no bible talk, no deep revelations, it is just a random post.

Please read the post on Charlottesville. It is important to keep up with world news as long as we don't let it affect our thinking patterns.

Read the post in the link below

This post was first published on BusinessDay.

Review: Temmy Turban

I was going to surprise you all with the picture of four turbans but I said no now, when people take time to read your blog, you have to make it worth their while.

I can't be cramming these beautiful turbans down your throat as if you guys asked for it.

How am I? The LORD is doing what He knows how to do best. He is restoring day and night. I think I should start teaching blogging and Social Media as a course. 

Okay so I would like to introduce you to these fancy looking turbans. If you are a lady you should buy some. If you are a man, show some love to the women in your life and buy some.

They look fabulous right? You have not seen anything yet.

This came to my inbox one morning.

As with a social media manager who has a blog, I was like, this could be exciting, let's try it.

I waited like two days for the delivery guy to bring it to my office, he kept claiming he lost his way etc and the like. So that we help his ministry let's not mention the company.

He finally brought it and I was apprehensive. 

So I was fooling around and tied it myself. Sorry about that funny paper on the cabinet behind me. I think the picture looks great but it does nothing for the turban so I am gonna tie it again and let's see the beauty of this turban that feels so good.

So did I tie this?

Absolutely not. My strengths are not in tying turbans, head tie, etc. I went and looked for a patient colleague to tie it for me.

Tie it, she did.

I think it looks fabulous!

So I am looking amazing. 

Some of my sisters from another mother say my makeup game is not bae but I think it is so no excess makeup for me.

Not that I am into being natural like some of my Nigerian sisters side eye at the chic that does spoken word. 

Path shining brighter till it is full day, yes it is!

How do the other end of the millennials say it?

I am feeling myself.

I think the turban is a-okay. In fact better than a-okay. Her name is Temmy Turban so if you want to buy a turban of any color, google Temmy Turban or search for her on instagram.

Feeling alien!

I try to get along
I refuse to feel among
I am too old to be misusing my words
My words are bridled to an extent
It is even going to get more bridled



The bible says, godly exercise profiteth much

So I cannot because of feeling among start
yarning O.P.K
I can be polite and cordial sha.

I really need the help of the Holy Spirit in developing good fruit
I want to walk in the Spirit
The scriptures say, "against these things, there is no law"

These things mean patience, kindness, self control, long suffering,
kindness, love, joy, self control & peace etc

I love to write
Stuff that blesses
and stuff that teaches.

What kindness is not...

Kindness is so out of fashion
I feel outdated

I am not perfect
I try to be like everyone else
But the Spirit has got me hooked
Even when I wake up and am not conscious of me
I want to kind

Am I a robot?
Why do I want to be kind so?
Why do I respond with nice words
Instead of being nasty like everyone else

Why can't I be nasty?

Following Jesus is just a part of me now
Even if the whole world does not follow Jesus
I am going to be following Him

If I make a mistake, I will stand up
Make ammends and keep following Him
Because souls must be saved

These souls are unaware of what awaits them
in the next world

Souls must be saved
I repeat again and the fastest way to save souls is to live Christ
Any soul saved through any other route is just a church attendee but
not a follower of Christ

There is a grea reward for following Christ
But I am not doing for heaven or for the pleasure of receiving crowns
I do i, live my life the way I do, simply for the love of the Father.

I see many people who speak so rashly and claim Christianity by name
You have no idea who Jesus is and that you should look like Him
I look at them silently and just pray that God will touch them

Because when you don't conform to the image of God, there is sin festering
somewhere in your life.

You either go up or down, you don't remain the same
If your actions don't resemble Christ, they resemble the devil.
There are no two ways about it...

More than ever before
New Testament is new covenant
but even in the new testament, God does not violate the ten commandments
Instead the 10 commandments are fulfilled in the new testament.

The best way to live the Christian life is to walk in love
If you don't master walking in love, you may manifest His gifts but you will not have the honour of pleasing the Father.

God is pleased when we do the right thing.

He will forgive you when you do wrong but there is some intimacy that you will miss out of because when you do the wrong thing, the Holy Ghost goes silent on you.

He loves to prompt you in the direction that the Father wants you to go.

He is never involved in any scheme or scam, he's straightforward good.

2017: the best year ever

Happy New Year



It is going to be a great year
This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it

In it I have many great plans
I have presented them to God and He is committed to guarding those plans until they manifest
Because the glory has been restored
I have the permission of God to experience all of His promises
I have His permission to subdue opposition'

Every tongue that rises up against me in judgment is condemned according to the word of the Lord
I am seated in heavenly places and from there Christ and I watch over my dreams to ensure their fruition.

I may not understand Christianity completely
but I don't need to understand it
All I need to know is that in trusting the Lord who loves me
I can and do receive all o His promises to me

My great defender and protected sees ahead of me and settles the things that would trouble me
He breaks and He crushes everything that thinks to lie in wait for me
He handles my addresses
My responsibility is to believe and stand

I refuse to take action or make decisions on my own
I follow the leading of the Holy Ghost
I follow the instruction of the Holy Ghost
Because I am satisfied with the package/s God gives, has given me
because it is a complete package and He has a perfect heart towards me
God is goodness

He has good plans and no limits
Thank You Holy Ghost for counsel
Thank You because of who You are
Thank You for testings
Thank You for Your presence
Thank You for Your guidance and your protection
Thank You for when the wicked go after me, Your word already has an answer for them

Thank You because no matter how the darkness on the earth rears its ugly head
The glory of the Lord is risen upon me
The glory of the Lord shines through me
By it, I exercise dominion by the Spirit of the Lord

By that grace and endowment, I heal the broken heart, I set the captives free, I heal the sick, I raise the dead, I cast out devils. If I eat any deadly thing  or am bitten by any serpent unawares, it will not harm me. I have power to step upon snakes and scorpions and overcome all the powers of the enemy, nothing shall by any means hurt me.

I know who I am
I am a new man in Christ
I am seated in heavenly places in Christ.

I carry the gospel of the kingdom that makes the kingdom of heaven known to the earth and its people that they may choose the Lord.

I have been made alive with Christ
Resurrection power is at work in me
Everywhere I go, the presence of God is made known
The reality of God is made known
and because I have been ordained to go, warrior armies of angels are released to deal with my adversaries and opposition
The angels who once guarded Eden so that Adam and Eve would not come in go with me and mine and defend us against adversaries
They cut down the arrows of the enemy/wicked
They handle opposition on our behalf
We are protected and preserved by the Spirit of the Lord

Buy the field...

Look for the treasure

The bible describes a treasure in an earthen vessel.

It says that the excellency may be of God and not of us.

If you are born again, the Holy Spirit is alive in you.

You might not be conscious of Him. You might think that you were created to attend church twice a week and smile and make nice, but no, you were made to discover that you are just like God (not lip service).

You were made (John 3:3) to discover your identity in Christ and then from that day live from that place. The place of knowing that you are a son/daughter of God because you chose to make Jesus Lord.

You must discover the treasure in you. you must seek to know of a certainty that the Spirit of God lives in you however many dissenting voices you may hear.

Truth is that is 1 million assenting voices tell you that the Lord almighty in the person of the Holy Ghost lives in you, until you believe it, it would make no difference to you or to the way you live.

Same way if a million or 100 million people told you that the Spirit of God does not live in you, the moment you have experienced relationship with the Holy Ghost and known His goodness and favour and glory, no one can convince you otherwise.

Cheers