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  • Discovering Your Talents

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    I have a lot of hidden talents. The problem is I can’t find them. On some days I like to think that it takes real skill to choke on air, miss-step while climbing stairs and trip over absolutely nothing. Not everyone is able to pull this off.  It’s worse when you’re with a group of people and everyone is talking about their skills and talents, and you’re there like; well, I can breathe.

    20200510_192400_0000Multitalented. I can talk, annoy and irritate you all at the same time. It takes real dedication to pull this off. On a real though, talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity but we use it all the same. Isn’t it curious that we all have that one friend that finds a way of making everything innocent perverted? Yes you, I’m talking to you!

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  • STOP MARRIAGE-SHAMING US

    STOP MARRIAGE-SHAMING US.
    Dear married friends especially female ones.
    We thank God for our friendship turned brothership, sistership and siblingship. We also appreciate you for being there for us through our thick and thin and we are very happy that you have ‘left’ our hood to be happily joined to your spouse. We hope to join you soon if Christ tarries.
    But we have many allegations against you. Number one; since you married, you seem to have forgotten us. Our calls you hardly pick and you never call. Even our DMs are not reply for 2 weeks when we do to check on you. It’s because you are married or you thought we ain’t mates again?
    Needless to say, you stop attending our gym class, hangouts, party and those fun moments because we missed your contributions or are we going to learn about good marriage if not from experienced friends?
    Thirdly, why is it that each time we are chanced to discuss about life, you would have said ‘you better go and marry’ three times. Does marriage confer sense, money, sense of responsibilities or salvation? As far as we know, it doesn’t give all these, so stop pressurizing us.
    And to those who are our younger sisters i.e those of you we are older than who now want us to be prefixing their names with aunty or mummy so-so, we wish to emphatically tell you, your marriage have not reduce our ages. We are still your elder brothers and sisters.
    Lastly, if you won’t stop marriage-shaming and marriage-peppering us or else we too, we can single-shaming you. Okay, can you spend money anyhow? Can you go out permission? Do you have ‘freedom?’ Apart from ability to unsinfully and unashamedly have sex, there is virtually anything you guys can do that we can do whereas there are many thing we can do that you dare not do… Lol.

    Signed

    Association of Single Brothers and Sisters.

  • SINGLENESS IS BAE.

    SINGLENESS IS BAE.
    The focus is non-partnered singles i.e no boyfriend/girlfriend.

    I was for 8 good years.
    Singleness is a time of waiting and praying not rusting and being non-partnened single has alot of advantages chief being total freedom and two, who told you those will partner are happy being in one?
    Listed below are 21 activities doneable while waiting for the dream guy/bae:

    1. Fulfill purpose.
    2. Make money.
    3. Travel.
    4. Start a blog
    5. Write a book.
    6. Make new friends.
    7. Network up and down.
    8. Give/collect phone numbers of many to boost whatapp status views.
    9. Start a desired trade.
    10. Learn a new skill.
    11. Further your education.
    12. Eat good food.
    13. Volunteer.
    14. Found a facebook group.
    15. Start a podcast.
    16. Join new department in church.
    17. join a new group.
    18. Make plenty money.
    19. Fulfil purpose
    20. Be happy and
    21. If any bae/boo is unserious with his/her good boo/bae, snatch it.

  • ENDSARS

    The Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian Police Force has been accused documentarily of forceful extortion, illegal detention and search (just because you had a funny hairstyle, piercings, tattoes, Iphones or drive expensive rides), outrageous labelling as yahoo boys, forceful confession at gun-point and extra-judicial killing for Nigerian youths.

    There seems to be end in sight so we urged Nigerian Government to put a halt to this state-backed killers squad in #EndSARS because many Nigerian youths are not fraudster neither is acquiring luxury a criminal offence.
    Furthermore, the activities of SARS lend credence to tribalism as this nonsense has no happenings up North. I had my national service there and I used to travel from my PPA, Gumel to Dutse (Jigawa capital) and Hadejia frequently. Each of those travels is 2 hours each on pot-holelessss and trafficless road yet no single roadblock talkless of bribe-taking and gun-wielding policemen. Also as commonly seen here, you can’t a police see a police going around town with guns. Yet the North has a far worse security challenges than South so therefore we should #EndSARS that kill one brother and pamper the other brother.
    But, robbery and criminal activities will increase if we wind down the unit? I think no, youths are not protesting for a non-police state rather a non-killing police unit so the government should #EndSAR, #EndSWAT, #Endbadgovernance, #EndPolicebrutalities and #ReformNigerianPolice with funds, modern training, weapons and godly leadership.
    Lastly, may Yahweh comforted those who have been victims of police brutalities.
    May He guards the few good ones in the unit.
    May He touches the heart of few wicked ones too.
    And may peace reigns all over the terrain.

  • Dear Future Wife.

    Dear Future Wife.
    From My Inner Heart,
    Dear Future wife, with sound health and plenty love, I am writing this to you. Hope you are fine too? If so, Gloryyyy!
    The purpose of writing this letter are many but firstly many people will in my name, saying I am Joel, don’t listen to them o o o o. What is keeping me wanting is that as a Jesus Brother with many rooms in my Father’s house, I am preparing a room of improvement, prosperities, godliness and advancement for us.
    Furthermore, I also want in wife is support, fidelity and godliness and I will wish to tell you that to me borrow me is different from gift me so if you say, ‘ dear o o o please borrow me 1k. I will pay in 2030,’ I am expecting my money then but if you say,’LOML, gift me N1m,’ I will gladly do with with expecting it back. That is called having integrity.
    Another thing is that we are not doing big wedding because God created marriage which we are going to do bigly and happily while men created wedding which we are going to do prudently i.e debt-free.
    Moreover, my babe I am using this medium to assure you that marrying me will be an achievement and that be assured of peace of mind, vision support and hand of helps in all areas.
    Finally, Super Mother, God has been flashing me, maybe He wants to call and less I forget, our kids visited me last night asking, ‘dad, why, why now,’ but I asked them to calm down.
    Yours sincerely

    Future Best Husband.

  • A Letter from Apostles Peter and Paul for Single Guys.

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    Apostle Peter in his letter to all people concerning marriage said, ‘wives, in the same way, SUBMIT to yourself to your OWN HUSBANDS…’ (2 Peter 3:1) while Apostle Paul emphasized the same the same thing in Ephesians 5:22 that, ‘ Wives, be SUBMISSIVE to YOUR HUSBANDS…’
    We also know submit is gotten from the word SUBMISSON.
    Now divide the word into two, we have SUB which means A PART OF and MISSION which connotes PURPOSE, CALLING OR VISION, so therefore contrary to slavery definition of submission we all knew, Submission in the biblical sense means making your wife a part of your mission, calling and purpose in life.
    In Genesis, Adam was given work of naming the animals, working and watching the garden which is his mission statement of which Eve will be part of.
    Now, what is your own purpose? Why do you think God created you? If you got none or don’t know, what will you future wife be a part of?
    Will She be a part of infidelity that is your mission now, in the future?

    Will She be on Team Irresponsible with your goons whose only purpose in life seems to partying and womanizing?
    Do you think a godly sister will be a cheerleader on your gambling mission that is making you broke every weekend?
    Do you want to her to be a part of lies?
    She want to submit but dear, you got no clear mission, what will she now be part of?
    Should She submit herself to having sex under the influence of hard drug, will she?
    A Christian woman cannot be secretary to Team Laziness.
    Do you ever see her as part of your mission and vision?
    The same Mission given to Adam pre-fall has been given to us keep and dress our marriage as men of valour, sons of Most High.
    The mission is
    1. To keep and dress marital bed undefiled.
    2. To work the soil and take care of ‘garden’ of our wives and children in love, contentment and godliness.
    3. To work in other to provide for the family.
    4. To keep and dress family altar daily in order to rename the day for our uses from its evils.
    5. To Love Her, Her Dream and Her Aspiration and her children if she got any till death do you part and

    Submission in the biblical sense means making your wife a part of your mission, calling and purpose in life

    6. Ultimately TO SERVE YAHWEH TOGETHER.
    If you embark on those missions and make her part of vision, you won’t have to force a godly lady to do, she will gladly do.
    Remember, if Bible said she should submit unconditionally, what will she submits to and to whom?
    You will do well if you make submission easy for her.
    Shalom.

  • 25 Fantastic Gifts for Her That Cost Less than 3k.

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    A man gift open door for him.
    Courtship involves gifting – both male and female. So therefore if you have been in relationship with her for the past six months and she can’t pinpoint to anything from you as gift, you are stingy and stinginess kills and it’s not Christ-like.

    These are list of things you can give your fiancee as two Christian daters and not excluding your sister, besties and or mother that cost less than 3k. Some even cost N0.
    1. Credit Alerts (Nigerian ladies love this!).
    2. Bags
    3. Shoes
    4. Hairdo Payment
    5. Clothing materials for sewing.
    6. T-Shirt/Gown
    7. Data Recharge
    8. Refilling of Gas cylinder
    9. Jewelries like earrings, pendant, neck chains, etc.
    10. Cream/ Body lotions
    11. Life-Enriching Books
    12. Bible
    13. Undies (at advanced stage).
    14. Sanitary Pads.
    15. Perfume/Deodrant/Body Spray.
    16. Online Course Payment.
    17. Credit Recharge.
    18. Photo Frame
    19. Skirts/ Trousers
    20. Body Spray.
    21. Transport Fares to her workplace.
    22. Cash Gift
    23. Prayer and Validation.
    24. Faithfulness.
    25. Love.
    And many more. But lemme give a hack; Men appreciate gifts QUALITATIVELY while Women, QUANTITATIVELY so even if you are capable of doing all those at once, pleaseeeee don’t do it at once and two, don’t buy flower for Nigerian Ladies. They will tell you, they ain’t goats.

    Guys, what other things can we get for them?

    Ladies, which other things can we buy for you?
    For 29 Exceptionally Gifts For Your Boyfriend, Click here.

  • 29 Exceptionally Gifts You Can Buy For Your Boyfriend That Cost Less Than 3k.

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    Bible says a (wo)man gift makes way for (her).  Don’t ask me where o o o o.
    To start with and on behalf of The Boyfriends, Fiances and Husbands Association (BHHA) Nigeria chapter, is using this medium to tell you, we guys are not allergic to gifts from you and that we are expecting gifts from your our sisters, mothers and girlfriend.
    Now these are list of 29 fantastic gifts that cost less than N3000 that you can buy for us during our birthdays, fathers’ day, boyfriends’ day and any day:
    1. Jersey for next season.

    2. Pairs of Boxers/Singlets.

    3. Haircut payment.

    4. Data recharge.

    5. Viewing centre subscription (imagine deposting 1k at his football house for next season. Where I lived, that is 14 matches).

    5. Books.

    6. Bible.

    7. 5L of petrol if he got car/bike

    8. Pay-per-view TV Basic Bonquet Subs.

    9. Bags.

    10. Wallets.

    11. Doormat.

    12. Bedspread (okrika).

    13. Belt.

    14. Pay-by-me Dates to fast food outlets, cinemas, beaches, vacation, etc.

    15. T-Shirts.

    16. Customised towel.

    17. Bathroom/ Palm Slippers.

    18. Pay for any online seminar that can benefit him.

    19. Shaving Stick/Blades/Powder.

    20. Shoe Polish/brush.

    21. Perfume/deodorant/body Spray.

    22. Credit Recharges.

    23. Credit Alerts.

    24. Refilling of gas cylinder.

    25. Foodstuffs

    26. Clothing materials.

    27. Peace of mind.

    28. Prayer and

    29. Love
    You can buy any of these for us occasionally and regularly. Some of those things even cost less than 1k and some N0.

    Guys, what other things can they get for us?
    Ladies, which other things can you buy for us?

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  • A Note to Ladies From Abishag.

    A Note to Ladies From Abishag.

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    Dear 21st century Sister,  to be candid there are hundreds of men out there that you could said yes to but you choose not. Why? Why Jide and not Dayo? Afterall both of them are choir members.

    When Abishag was asked in Songs of Solomon 5:9, ‘What makes the one (Solomon) you love better than another (what make him special or different from other men), most beautiful of women?What makes him better than another, that you would give us this charge (hype, praise)?

    Note: words in parentheses are mine.

    Ms. Abishag didn’t choose Solomon because of his wealth,  connections, handsomeness, oratory talents and any physical attributes

    Obviously, Solomon is not the the only king, most handsome, most powerful or most wise then (she knew Solomon before his kingship). Why then the hype and the adulation since her LOML is just another guy out there but she answered thus:

    • My love is fit and strong,
      notable among ten thousand that is that he is an honorable man. His MOG is Man of God and not Man of Gold or Man of Girls. He is fitted for ministry works and not strong for beating you.
    • His head is purest gold means he has Godly sense.
    •  His eyes are like doves
      beside streams of water,
      washed in milk: All metaphors signify purity. He doesn’t watch porn and be claiming he is preparing in advance. He doesn’t watch BBN overnight and login to social media to form holiness. He doesn’t look for breasts and boobs in church gathering. His gazes are pure like Job’s.
    • His cheeks are like beds of spice,
      towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh… His mouth is sweetness means everything that comes out of her bae lips is graced words, motivating speech and godly posts. No profanities, exaggeration and lies were found in him or his social media handles. That is why he won’t verbally abused her.
    •  His arms are rods of gold
      set with topaz means Solomon uses his hand only for godly purposes. He regarded everything God has committed to his hands as precious, you inclusive. 
    • His legs are alabaster pillars
      set on pedestals of pure gold.
      His presence is like Lebanon,
      as majestic as the cedars that is his legs is always swift to go goodly places and his appearances always herald aroma of Christ. He isn’t someone who will join a church and 3 months after, he has impregnated 3 sisters because his steps are ordered in God’s word and his appearances bring joy.

    Ms. Abishag didn’t choose Solomon because of his wealth,  connections, handsomeness, oratory talents and any physical attributes but on his honorable lifestyle, purity, graceful speech and Holy-Spirit controlled life and I believe you will applied the same principle in choosing husband.

    Bible version used is Holman Christian Standard Bible.

  • BBNaija is Evil! And So What?

    BBNaija is Evil! And So What?

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    Big Brother Naija, a reality TV show has attracted a lot of criticisms from Christians  due to it promotion of nudity, pornography, premarital sex among other unchristian practices, prompting some Christians to call for a counter-programs.

    Well, those brethren have a solid point but having a counter program is not the solution because BBN is not the problem, sin is.

    Furthermore, we are not in competition with the world; we are Light and they, darkness and Light doesn’t compete with darkness. Once Light arrives, darkness must vanishes. Competiting with them is fighting a spiritual war with carnal weapons so therefore we, Christians must carry our torchs to every area of human endeavours; be it science or media world.

    In addition to that, there are a lot of Christian programs, channels (DoveTV, New Frontier TV, DunamisTV, GodTV, etc), movies, music, websites (e.g Living word media by Pastor Chris Onayinka) blogs (e.g My Witness,), shows, social media handles, products (e.g Churchsource) and services out there. But how many of us watch those channels, shows and movies? How many of visit and comment on Christian blogs and websites?

    Let’s start watching, promoting and trending our  movies, actors, music and artistes, creative brothers and sisters and their works, visit and comment on Christian blogs and websites and promote our contents then I believe sponsorship will come.

    Lastly, Church should start sponsoring Christian contents too. Imagine what exploded impacts Mount Zion, EVOM, Calvary Drama Ministry, etc will have with sponsorers like Winners, RCCG, Nigerian Baptist Convention, etc as Christ Embassy is doing to Christian musicians.

  • Ethnicity Tag

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    In accordance to Sarah’s My Witness, I’m doing this ethnicity tag to let you guys know about me. I’ll be using her questions and you can check out her own version here.

    1. Which ethnicity do you belong to? I am a Yoruba, from Oyo State, Southwest of Nigeria.
    2. Which food best represents your ethnicity? There are lot but Iyan (pounded yam) and Egusi (melon stew) Amala (yam flour pasta) and Ewedu (Jute leaf soup) or Gbegiri (bean soup) best represent the Yoruba culture.
    3. Which ethnic language are your perfect in? I am fluent in my native tongue, Yoruba and English language which is the lingual franca of the country.
    4. Do you have an ethic name? Yes, infact I have two, Oluwagbemiga which means ‘The Lord lifts me up’ and Adetunji which means ‘Crown resurrects’.
    5. Which clothes best represent your ethnicity? The flowing wide-sleeved robe called ‘Agbada’, Buba and Sokoto and Dansiki for men which Buba and Iro (wrapper), blouses and skirts for our women.
    6. Which drink represents your ethnicity? ‘Emu’ Palm Wine, it’s a drink tapped from the sap of palm trees. It is alcoholic so i’m not a fan. Also Èko (maize pap) is a popular food among us.
    7. When was the last time you visited your homeland? Well, I still live in my hometown, Ogbomoso.
    8. Which is your favorite place in your homeland? A lot which include places like Old Oyo National Park, Oyo state, Erin ijesa waterfall in Osun state, The Oke Ogun gorge in Oyo state, Atlantic beach in Lagos state, Idanre Hill in Ondo state, Esiele meseum in Kwara state, First skyscraper and TV station in Africa at Oyo state, First university in Nigeria. University of Ibadan in Oyo state, first degree awarding education institution in Africa The Nigeria Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, etc
    9. What are three things you love about your country? Hospitality, love of education and tolerance (it is among Yorubas that we have large percentage of interreligious marriages in Nigeria).
    10. Which household item best represents the culture of your country? Pepper. We like pepper and can add it to anything eatable 😀😀😀
    11. Which festival is a specific one for your ethnic culture? In ancient times, the Yorubas are idol worshipper of sango (god of thunder), Ogun (god of iron), esu (Satan), egungun (masquerade) and they have festivals for all these gods but nowadays most of us are Christians and Muslims.
    12. What is the traditional way of greeting someone in your culture? Typically, when greeting an elderly person, the boys prostrate (lie flat on the ground) while the girls kneel down (stand on both knees) and we use plural pronoun when talking about elderly ones.
    13. Which three ancient tradition are still part of your culture? Ceremony especially wedding, naming and burial ceremonies, respect for elders (we don’t joke with this) and love of our foods.
    14. What color or shade represents your culture? Black and Red traditionally.
    15. What religion is prevalent for people of the same ethnicity? The Yorubas practised two main religions; Christianity and Islam and the adherents are almost on 50:50 ratio but we still have ample number of Traditionalists among us.
      I hope you have all learnt a little something about my culture

  • My Parents’ marriage should inspire you.

    Caveat: My parents’ marriage is not a perfect one, if perfect marriage exists.

    My parents will be celebrating their 37th wedding anniversary comes 15th of July and this writeup is about 7 great lessons from their marriage which has inspired me and which should inspire you to desire a responsible marital relationship.

    My parents – Mr and Mrs. Alade.
    1. Marriage is still honorable : God declared marriage to be honorable and that loneliness is not good. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Abby Alade’ marriage modelled that biblical saying as duo cannot do without one another and none will take a step without another person’ s consent. This should inspire us and gear us to know that social media, its influencers, celebrities and or anyone’s experiences have not eroded the sacredness, honour and blessedness of marriage.
    2. Furthermore, there is a wide gap between big wedding and happy marriage as my parents had what was called a parlour wedding then ( just payment of bride price and blessing by parents). It was indeed a small wedding that produced a big marriage. God created marriage, human beings created wedding but it needs not be flamboyant, expensive or debt-achieved before we can have a big marriage. My parents did theirs simply and live bigly. Doesn’t that mean if you have the means for big wedding, you shouldn’t do it? Or does expensive wedding automatically means bad marriage? Not at all, the glamorousness of a wedding doesn’t determine longevity and ‘happyability’ of a marriage (in fact a family friend who shared the same wedding date, month and year with them had a big wedding and theirs also is working till date) but the lesson is that we should prepare for marriage than for wedding.
    3. In addition, happy marriage and godly marriage is not the same thing because you can be happily married like Ahab and Jezebel and not be godly married like them. My parents’ marriage is a godly one and because it is godly, happiness is guaranteed because a house inhabitated by Jesus is a happy home and two, a godly home produces a godly offsprings.
    4. Fourthly, what worked for A might not work for B. All those marriage teachings on couples wearing the same clothes, sleeping in the same room and bed, having joint account, sharing house chores has never worked in my family (maybe in the future but for now, not working). Are all these wrong? No, they are not bad in fact they are highly encouraged but it won’t work for all of us. So everyone of us has got to decide what will work for them as there is not copy and paste marriage because each marriage comes with its unique differences, challenges and uniqueness. My parents don’t sleep in the same room, don’t have joint account and don’t wear same clothes though they have few together, shared housechores and it is working for them for the past 37 years. Design your own happiness.
    5. Sequel to number 4, for a great marriage to occur, like my parents’ only things matter and are needed; LOVE AND SUBMISSION. My dad loves my mum and my mum is a submitted woman. Anything you don’t anybody to hear, don’t tell my dad because he will tell his wife. Contrary to popular opinion, love is unconditional and submission is never slavery.
    6. Divorce is not the solution to every marital problem is the fifth lesson to insipe us. My parents faced a lot of challenges that many secular marriage and relationship experts will have advised calling it quit. The challenges they faced ranges from financial, spiritual, health, in laws problems not excluding abuse of power but they didn’t quit nor give up on one another. They held on prayerfully for their marriage though God’s intervention and godly extended family’ persuasion and today the rest is a good testimony. There are still challenges in the marriage though.
    7. In conclusion, there are still happily married couples on this planet Earth. Forget about society what is saying, happy couples still exist, godly marriage is still possible and happy marriages still abound just that some of those couples are not on Facebook like my parents, don’t have their stories on FP of newspapers and don’t ever talk. Apart from my parents, I knew many of them. You too, can be happily married. Stay blessed and 37 cheers to my parents.
    My sister. A farmer, inspirational speaker and an author
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