What Next After Meeting Jesus

I was at the movies on a cool breezy evening, somewhere in Kwara State Nigeria. A young lady who appeared to be in her mid twenties approached me. I wasn't exactly looking like a Pastor, but from her demeanor, it seemed she needed to speak to a "Man of God". She said, "I'm sorry to disturb you, but I just want to know, is it a sin to come to the cinema? Because my Pastor said the cinema is worldy and we shouldn't do what the world is doing." Do you have a personal conviction about what you do or do you just play along with what everybody believe? As a believer, do you have a personal reason for doing what you do or is it just because an higher authority has mandated you to? Many a christian when asked why they do whatever, can hardly give a personal reason why. They cannot give a definite answer simply because, they do not have the knowledge of what they are doing. "My Pastor said I should not eat at a fancy place", "My Pastor said...

I have not always been fascinated with the colour "green". Colour green has always been just there for me. Today, I found out the reason for my being not so cool with "green", I'd tell you at the end of this post. Matthew 5:13-16 ESV " You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." So, apparently, being a child of God does not end at going to church, it goes broader than that. I want to introduce to us, "community service". Community service is defined as a voluntary work int...

I'm so sorry you had to wait this long to hear from me again. Honestly, this matter is beyond me. I wanted to be sure to have a formula that works (emphasis on works) before I came here. I've been going back and forth on this tab for days now, but thank God, I'm ready now. Voila! I have the formula that works :) This week is my relationship's one year anniversary, yeah, you read that right, lol. Okay, our own anniversary is when we met, because we couldn't exactly place the day when we officially kicked off. So we settled for the day we met instead as anniversary, lol. Back to the matter at hand, Christian life, sex life, and real life. After my interrogation with a couple of dating believers, I realized that in the first months of being in love, they can't get enough of each other and they want to convince their psychology that they'd be with each other for life. It is like when you get a child a new toy,  he plays with it all day, he becomes so en...

"So I say to those who aren't married and to widows - it's better to stay unmarried just as I am. But if they can't control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It is better to marry than to burn with lust". 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 NLT Last week,  we were deeply concerned on how to maintain sexual purity, even as a mature adult. Mature adult here means that, you have found your purpose and are walking in it. You know what you want, you know where you are and you know where you are going. You know good from bad, and right from wrong. From the opening scripture above, the counsel is to get married. However, most people still feel they aren't ready yet, they still have some things not figured out yet. But who says you must have everything figured out before you put a ring on it? The truth is, till one dies, one would never have everything figured out. In the early days, marrying as a virgin wasn't farfetched. The reason was simply because they mos...

Wow! If you're reading this right now, something is about to get stirred up within you. So brace yourself and be ready!!! Hebrews 13:4 NLT "Give honour to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery". Every one who knows me personally can attest to my belief in sexual purity. I am, in a way, a sexual purity advocate. However, this advocacy of mine is getting hit by the strong wind of real life. While we were younger, we were taught in church to keep the bed undefiled. And that was pretty much easy to do. The "don't have a boyfriend" rule was quite easy to maintain. "Don't be alone in a room with the opposite sex" was also in a way protective and sensible at the time. I could go on and on. And really, personally for me, as a teenager and as an emerging adult, those rules were life to me. I lived them (not 100% tho, but I tried, lol). Today, in 201...

I was at a fellowship program where the prayer leader asked us, the congregation, to pray death by fire, hail, and brimstone, against those people who do not want us to succeed in life. These past few months, I have been very analytical about some kind of prayer points. For example, when I hear someone ask me to start to pray against  someone in my father's lineage who doesn't want me to prosper, I get wary of such prayer points. I stand to be corrected though, but I'm of the school of the Bible that says I am hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). According to the Bible, I also know that I wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places. In other words, the devil and his cohorts (Ephesians 6:12). The devil is my enemy, not man. Let's see it this way. Judas betrayed Jesus and he seemed like the enemy. But Judas wasn't the real enemy, the devil was. If Jesus had prayed for Judas to die, I a...

As I woke up this morning, a lesson centered on Beyonce struck my heart. Yes, Beyonce, the singer. One thing about her particularly made meaning to me when the Holy Spirit brought it to my reasoning. A lot of Christians divorce these days and it has almost become so "normal" already. I read on a news blog sometimes ago about how Jay Z cheated on Beyonce at some point in their marriage. And surprisingly, they're are still married today, no divorce. I also read of how Jay Z is an Illuminati member, I really don't know how authentic that is tho. On the other hand, I read of how a Worship leader's wife divorced her husband for cheating. I actually do not justify cheating in marriage, I strongly condemn it. Last I checked, adultery remains a sin. (Matthew 5:27-28) Now, look at it this way, even the devil understands that divorce is wrong. "His owns" don't divorce. The people who divorce are those Christian who fight the wrong battles. Your spous...

This morning, I woke up feeling amazing and grateful. Like, I was elated and felt really good about my environment (In contrast, it's only a regular day). I could go on and on about this feeling, because you see, it doesn't happen everyday. So on days like this that I wake up so happy without anything being the reason for it, I celebrate. Let me get straight to what really happened though. At the beginning of this year, I started a daily study of the women of the Bible. From Eve, to Sarah, Hagar, Lot's Wife, and now Rebekah. In my study of Rebekah, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to when we tend to drag the driver seat of our lives with God. Genesis 25:21-23 accounted for when God told Rebekah that of the twins she were carrying, the younger would rule the older. That being said, the Bible recorded the account of Rebekah masterminding the future of her sons, Genesis 27. The question then for me was, had Rebekah not swapped Esau's blessings with Jacob's, would...

Do prayers get one out of debt? I mean, by praying, is it likely you become financially stable? Does prayers change your bank statement? Can fasting make me a billionaire? To be honest I don't have any answer to these questions. While I'm not writing this post to stir up argument about whether being very rich is good or evil, I simply want to open our eyes to a way out of debt which has been proven countless times to be effective. I realized how financially poor my family was when I got to highschool. When I saw the other "cool" kids, I knew my family had nothing, that was the absolute truth. And so, with that knowledge, I constantly reminded myself that I needed to be wealthy when I grew up. Now, I have grown up (to some extent tho), and the financial situation of over a decade ago is the still same in my family. We pray and God gives us our daily bread and needs (Psalm 23), but how do one get to that height where you are rich enough to substantially impact o...

Countless times when I got in trouble or was faced by a challenge, I found it difficult to share my fears with the people of God. The reason is not farfetched. It was because I knew they would tell me to rejoice and be thankful in my trials. Whenever I was told to rejoice, I looked at them and just concluded in my heart that they simply didn't know how to help me. As I grew in Christ, I realized why I needed to actually rejoice in my trials and troubles, yeah really! Romans 5:3 NLT "We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance." After reading that verse, the next question I asked was, "So why do I need to develop endurance, am I an athlete or what? You mean I'm going through all of this to develop endurance? What's the endurance for? I don't even want the endurance!" Literally, that was how I had felt. And I'm sure some people can relate with what I'm saying. Someone lo...