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DEALING WITH THE SPIRIT OF FEAR (Reblog)

I was in my first year in junior secondary school. It was a boarding school. My parents had decided to send me and my sisters to a popular girls’ school in our homestate for ‘exposure.’ At that time, my parents were conservative Christians, and the church we attended was word-based – but quite conservative. EvenContinue reading “DEALING WITH THE SPIRIT OF FEAR (Reblog)”

BRICK UPON BRICK, LINE UPON LINE…

As I grow older, I realise it’s ridiculous, foolish even, to criticize certain denominations or doctrines because we don’t need them yet, or we have outgrown them, or we feel – at the level we currently are – they are extreme.

Let me explain.

I grew up attending a well-known church whose major doctrine was holiness: righteousness, sanctification, abstinence from sin, living a holy life – down to our physical appearance…

Is Your Spiritual Reality Performance-Based?

Many years ago, God taught me to stand in His truth about me – no matter what I saw or felt. Prior to that teaching, I would speak and believe the lies of the enemy based on my feelings, circumstances or performance:

If I had failed God in any area or didn’t perform up to par, it was over. No matter what the enemy threw at me, he was justified.

Then, I began to learn…and to experience the favour of God in unusual dimensions…

Led By The Spirit…

It happened again recently. I got up to have my devotion as usual. I already had a pattern in mind, so I knew what I wanted to do. Prior to this time, certain “inconsequential” things had been bothering me on the surface. I’d prayed about them lightly, but they still lingered around the borders ofContinue reading “Led By The Spirit…”

What Is Draining Your Spiritual Power?

I recently listened to a message by Minister Lawrence Oyor.

He told how the late Apostle Ayo Babalola once shared about a certain minister who was mightily used by God and extremely spiritually powerful. He was so powerful that, anytime villages or communities heard he was coming around/to the area, they would bring out people who had been dead for days and even weeks – and he would raise them up from the dead in their various stages of decay…

PHYSICAL HUNGER vs SPIRITUAL FOOD.

Some years ago, I woke up one day hungry. Literally starving. I was so ravenous, I felt I could eat paint off the wall. That’s how hungry I was.

The only problem was that I was supposed to be fasting.

I was so hungry I didn’t think I could concentrate. However, I forced myself to open my Bible, then began to read hungrily…

Dunsin Oyekan shared how, growing up, his dad would take him on ministers’ retreats and vigils. He was the only boy, and his sisters would lightly mock him because he would have to fast with his dad the whole day till they got home at night after the meetings.

He was frustrated and didn’t understand why he couldn’t be like other kids – or at least like his sisters.

ANGER, OFFENCES, AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE

I once worked in an organization. I and my colleague had a high-end potential client we desperately wanted to convert into an actual one. His contract would run into the millions, and commissions would be huge.

We made calls. We made presentations. We spoke to the heads. We spoke to him. We prayed. We fasted – and I could see all the visible signs that we would get the contract. We had one final presentation – and the bag would be secured. We were so, so ready.

Then about two days before the presentation, my colleague and I had a blowout. A huge, massive, gigantic, spittle-flying, words-shooting blow-up…