The last time I saw my father, it was a season of lamentation. He returned from the USA empty handed after almost 20 years of hard work
He came to take up a post at a private university in Nigeria
He was 68 years old at the time
He was given the post of Lecturer 1 at the school
He came to take up a post at a private university in Nigeria
He was 68 years old at the time
He was given the post of Lecturer 1 at the school
because he was able to produce his Ph.D certificate from Heidelberg University but unable to produce his M.Sc certificate from the university of Ibadan
He didn’t have a house of his own and even though he prospered at a time, things turned sour and he became
He didn’t have a house of his own and even though he prospered at a time, things turned sour and he became
the butt of everyone’s joke among his siblings.
I was at this time a Personal Assistant to a pastor, I was earning 60k as salary, I had two children, a wife and a Toyota Camry.
My daddy came to my house to rethink his appointment with this school
He felt the owner of the school
I was at this time a Personal Assistant to a pastor, I was earning 60k as salary, I had two children, a wife and a Toyota Camry.
My daddy came to my house to rethink his appointment with this school
He felt the owner of the school
was just being coy by insisting the certificate must be presented before my daddy can move up the ladder and earn some more money
My daddy told me all the glorious people he knew and had one way or the other helped in the past
Most of them are politicians who cashed out big time
My daddy told me all the glorious people he knew and had one way or the other helped in the past
Most of them are politicians who cashed out big time
after he travelled abroad in 1993.
None of them had offered to help him in anyway, in fact, my father went to their offices to lobby for something, anything
Anything at all
Nothing worked out for him
I was in the same boat with him…Like father, like son
Unfulfilled potentials
None of them had offered to help him in anyway, in fact, my father went to their offices to lobby for something, anything
Anything at all
Nothing worked out for him
I was in the same boat with him…Like father, like son
Unfulfilled potentials
was written all over me
We went to the cross over service at the church I work for
My father was lost in thought, I was lost in thought too
Suddenly my father turned to me and said “Junior, one of us must break through otherwise we will have to explain to God why we are both so
We went to the cross over service at the church I work for
My father was lost in thought, I was lost in thought too
Suddenly my father turned to me and said “Junior, one of us must break through otherwise we will have to explain to God why we are both so
gifted and yet so average in life
I told my dad about a mortgage scheme I was doing with AG Mortgage bank, I was saying it to console him so that he can see that I was trying to do better than him.
The evangel estate I told him about was in Ofada and it was my wife that paid for
I told my dad about a mortgage scheme I was doing with AG Mortgage bank, I was saying it to console him so that he can see that I was trying to do better than him.
The evangel estate I told him about was in Ofada and it was my wife that paid for
the mortgage I was laying claim to and calling my own
The estate was built in the middle of nowhere and those who bought homes there refused to move there for security reasons
When we got home on January 1, 2018, my father decided he would return to America and start all over!
The estate was built in the middle of nowhere and those who bought homes there refused to move there for security reasons
When we got home on January 1, 2018, my father decided he would return to America and start all over!
He was 68!
Nobody gave him a fighting chance
but he was alive and for the living there is always hope.
He had built schools in America when he was younger and made money but a series of wrong decisions took away all his gains!
He said he would start by getting a job and commit to
Nobody gave him a fighting chance
but he was alive and for the living there is always hope.
He had built schools in America when he was younger and made money but a series of wrong decisions took away all his gains!
He said he would start by getting a job and commit to
building his own house within two years so that whenever he comes to Nigeria he wouldn’t stay at the family house and endure insults or be reminded of how much of a failure he was
He left for the USA on January 10
On the other hand, I had an altercation with one of my sisters and
He left for the USA on January 10
On the other hand, I had an altercation with one of my sisters and
it changed my life
What happened was not important, the key I got out of it was in Daniel 5:25
My mother called to settle the disagreement between me and my sister and she said “This issue is painful to you because you don’t have the means to do the good in your heart and the one
What happened was not important, the key I got out of it was in Daniel 5:25
My mother called to settle the disagreement between me and my sister and she said “This issue is painful to you because you don’t have the means to do the good in your heart and the one
with means is now lording it over you”
Out of nowhere I shouted “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin. Mummy, I am full of the Holy Spirit and yet I have been so disadvantaged that someone I should be schooling on the Christlife is dictating to me how to live a productive life!”
It was too
Out of nowhere I shouted “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin. Mummy, I am full of the Holy Spirit and yet I have been so disadvantaged that someone I should be schooling on the Christlife is dictating to me how to live a productive life!”
It was too
much for me to bear
I cried bitterly and asked God to please turn my situation around
God heard me!
Yesterday evening, my father returned home for the first time since that season
He came home to lay the foundation of his own polytechnic and commission his befitting mansion.
I cried bitterly and asked God to please turn my situation around
God heard me!
Yesterday evening, my father returned home for the first time since that season
He came home to lay the foundation of his own polytechnic and commission his befitting mansion.
Today, he stepped into my house for the first time. I mean the house I built between 2019 and 2020
He ate and prayed
He was overwhelmed
Then he turned to me and said “Just four years ago, we were lamenting together and cursing our poor lucks but now everything has changed!
How?
He ate and prayed
He was overwhelmed
Then he turned to me and said “Just four years ago, we were lamenting together and cursing our poor lucks but now everything has changed!
How?
“By the Spirit and Power of the Holy Spirit” I replied
He nodded
We had a great fellowship, he met his grandchildren, both the ones he knew and the new ones that came in the last four years
He kept singing and dancing in praise to God
Then he turned to me and said “Junior, it is
He nodded
We had a great fellowship, he met his grandchildren, both the ones he knew and the new ones that came in the last four years
He kept singing and dancing in praise to God
Then he turned to me and said “Junior, it is
true that there is a thin line between prosperity and poverty. I think we just crossed it at the same time. 
If you are reading this and your life is riddled with unfulfilled potentials too, I beg you not to give up
Prayer still works but it works more effectively when you are led by the Holy Spirit and you yield to him in obedience.
By the grace of God, I was conscious of what changed
Prayer still works but it works more effectively when you are led by the Holy Spirit and you yield to him in obedience.
By the grace of God, I was conscious of what changed
Reality in my favour
It was neither luck nor chance
I have also taught what I know to others and I have seen their lives transformed from glory to glory.
Please don’t lose hope
My daddy will be 72 on October 16 and he is doing the foundation laying of His polytechnic that day!
It was neither luck nor chance
I have also taught what I know to others and I have seen their lives transformed from glory to glory.
Please don’t lose hope
My daddy will be 72 on October 16 and he is doing the foundation laying of His polytechnic that day!
He said after God had built him the house he wanted, he realised his dream was too small
So he dreamt again and this time he has decided to build a school to the glory of God
I am very happy for him
I am encouraged too
I remind myself that a living dog is better than a dead lion
So he dreamt again and this time he has decided to build a school to the glory of God
I am very happy for him
I am encouraged too
I remind myself that a living dog is better than a dead lion
and there is nothing like “too late” when God is involved.
Please be encouraged
Send me a DM
I can pray with you, I can also share a word of counsel that you might find very helpful
Send me a DM or a WhatsApp message
Today may look so bleak but the stormy clouds must surely clear
Please be encouraged
Send me a DM
I can pray with you, I can also share a word of counsel that you might find very helpful
Send me a DM or a WhatsApp message
Today may look so bleak but the stormy clouds must surely clear
He came home to lay the foundation of
his own polytechnic and commission his
befitting mansion.
Today, he stepped into my house for the
first time.
I mean the house I built between 2019
and 2020 gswmi.com/read/crossing-…
his own polytechnic and commission his
befitting mansion.
Today, he stepped into my house for the
first time.
I mean the house I built between 2019
and 2020 gswmi.com/read/crossing-…
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