PRAYER BURDENS

PRAYER BURDENS

My spiritual father shared a story with us. There’s a time they visited their friends. While the hosts got the delicious meal ready for a pleasant feast, my spiritual mother began to pray in the Spirit. A burden had suddenly gripped her spirit. They did not have...
BEYOND DELIVERANCE

BEYOND DELIVERANCE

“A man is not totally free until truth declares his freedom.” This is one profound statement I heard earlier in my Christian walk. It made me give priority to God’s word and my growth in the things of God. I learnt that, beyond deliverance, God wants...
STRENGTH OR STUBBORNNESS?

STRENGTH OR STUBBORNNESS?

I was speaking somewhere recently where I said something profound about marriage. I said; “Couples must learn to decipher strength from stubbornness when dealing with their spouses. Sometimes, what we call strength is stubbornness, and what we call stubbornness...
DOING BEFORE TEACHING

DOING BEFORE TEACHING

My spiritual father shared a remark that one of his friends made about him sometime ago. After watching and listening to him for a while, the friend said this; “All that we tried to teach on faith are the very things that this man of God is living out. We teach...
USE YOUR MOUTH CORRECTLY

USE YOUR MOUTH CORRECTLY

I remember vividly the day my final year project supervisor flung my project work out of his office. It was a discouraging moment for me and my course mates. That day, I picked up my materials and told my friends; “I have an A in this course already no matter...
RELATIONSHIP TESTS

RELATIONSHIP TESTS

I once heard the story of the wife of a politician who suddenly packed her load and left the marriage. Surprised, the husband asked why. Her response was both funny and instructive; “I married a senator. But since you lost your reelection to the senate,...