Yesterday on the TEAM platform, we had fun when I endlessly teased the younger men who were unmarried and not in a relationship.

It was a tease but deep down, I was serious. I called them - Set Ndi "God told me to tell you" and in my years as a Believer I know this -
... many young men aren't trying in their steps in wooing a woman and they don't even want to learn.

I was sharing on Zoom in I programme I was invited to speak, on how I spoke to my wife and the things I did to win her over.

The fact that God spoke didn't stop me...
...playing my part. I wrote poems, love letters and prayers as a way of assuring her of the future God has planned for us.

My wife still has those letters today and still reads them to me (where I form hard guy but deep down, I'm hailing myself..lol).

It still makes her smile.
There's a way you speak to a woman that makes her blossom. Compliments, gifts and that gentlemanly show of affection in public.

Don't let the world put you in a standard.

Do you want to learn how to love? Read the Book of the Songs of Solomon.
Yes, it is true that God has spoken to you but you would still have to prove to that woman by making an effort to keep her.

Women like such things.

However, is it only men that should make the effort?

Tomorrow we continue.

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I started going to the gym because of the front covers of Mills and Boon.
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The man was supposed to dominate her by kissing her fiercely.

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I recall his story.

A new party had finally taken over the political sphere of the country.
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EFCC didn’t waste time. His accounts were frozen and he was invited and grilled.

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An assistant branch manager who still took Tricycle to work daily. The children had to change schools.
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It was in January of 2019 during a first Sunday service of the year he was made Men's Fellowship leader.

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He tried. He really did but it was never enough.

When he was to step down, the Pastor asked him "Who will take over?".
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He would bring up certain OT teachings and tie it to issues church members were facing.

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“Even Pastor sef know say I stubborn”. He once boasted.

“Sir, you can’t reason with my husband! Many have tried including Pastor and he hasn’t changed”. His wife said.
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He had an easy smile but at the edge of that smile was a man with a fierce temper.
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