NAVIGATING SEASONS

NAVIGATING SEASONS

I will never forget a major insight that I received from my father in the Lord years ago. He told us in a meeting that God will never allow a problem or challenge to confront you in ministry that He has not prepared or equipped you for. If God allows it, it means He...
DON’T CHOOSE YOUR ASSIGNMENT

DON’T CHOOSE YOUR ASSIGNMENT

DON’T CHOOSE YOUR ASSIGNMENT Recently, I gave my daughter something to do for me. She sluggishly tried to do it for some minutes and left it. After some time, she saw me doing another thing that I guessed would interest her. She immediately came over and...
YOU NEED DISCERNMENT

YOU NEED DISCERNMENT

Years ago, I saw a movie with my daughter. In the movie, someone went to a pastor for prayers, and the pastor began to roll out incantations in the guise of prayers. Then my daughter responded; “Daddy, is this how a pastor does? He will be saying bad things to...
PURSUE INTEGRITY

PURSUE INTEGRITY

During my national youth service that year, I served as the state president of the corpers fellowship. I received a call from someone who wanted to support the fellowship. He wanted to be anonymous, so he sent his driver to come hand over an envelope to me. It was a...
AUTHENTIC VERSUS SYNTHETIC MINISTRY

AUTHENTIC VERSUS SYNTHETIC MINISTRY

After I finished ministering one day, a young man met me and said, “Sir, I love your performance.” Sincerely, I was sad hearing this remark. I thought I had lost the anointing. I was, however, encouraged when God told me that the young man had a wrong...
GOD WILL NOT CHOOSE YOU FOREVER

GOD WILL NOT CHOOSE YOU FOREVER

Years ago, we had a brother in our church who always jettisons menial job in church. He would often reassign it to someone else, most times, younger folks. But he always loved to handle the microphone. I knew he would not last in church with that kind of attitude, and...