Thread by @GbengaWemimo

I remember the first time my Daddy saw me ministering at a crusade
I was holding a Bible in one hand and a microphone in the other
The location was at Ojota motor park
Someone took pictures and posted them on Facebook
My daddy almost had an heart attack
He knew some of his folks

and friends in Nigeria are on Facebook
He had told all of them I was a successful journalist (I was and that I sometimes write movie scripts and also direct movies)
The last time he was in Nigeria before this time, he saw one of the movies I produced and even took some copies of

the DVD to the USA to show off to his friends
He felt something had gone terribly wrong with me
He wrote me a message on Facebook and on Whatsapp
He said "What is this that I am seeing? Is this what you are now doing with your life? After millions worth of investment including a

private university education?
You want to end up waiting for people to collect their salaries so that they can send you tithe and offering like a beggar?
You want to live from hands to mouth in the name of Jesus?
Look at your siblings, can you see how they are living their lives

and making me proud?
I dont even know what to say to you but don't assume that I am not dissapointed
You are an adult, you have a wife and two boys, how do you propose to feed them and cater for their needs?
Are you one of those men whose wives would feed while grumbling and

complaining until they find a better option and move on?
How can you resort to this?
If you need any help you ought to have reached out to me or your siblings
We would have helped
I watch your wife on TV every day and I am very proud of her but this...
Junior, I beg you to please

reconsider and get your life back on track"
I didn't even know how to reply to him
My parents are highly educated people
My Father is a PhD holder
Everyone expected me to at least turn out to be a professor
I was on track for that
It was my life ambition to win the Nobel Prize

for literature but God had other plans
My mother had made a vow before I was born and God took that vow very seriously
The more I tried to do other things, the more frustrated and unproductive my life was
My mother didn't share my Father's opinion
She would always say "Do God's

will, that is the only path that has been laid before you
The tithe and offering thing was a bit funny to me, at that time I wished my father was right, that I was called to be a pastor and that I was enabled to collect tithes, offerings, seed, firstfruits, and whatever else from

people, but i was not!
My walk with the Holy Spirit is unique, he said "You must do this as I have sent you. Imitate no one, copy no one, walk with me and I will give you all things as your inheritance"
That particular crusade that my dad saw me ministering at was not planned

The church invited a speaker who canceled at the last minute
The pastor sent for me and said "You will be the one ministering at this crusade, go and prepare"
That was it
I was a worker under him (Not even a minister) and I couldn't argue
That was how I found myself on the podium

The feedback from the crusade was so mighty that I was made a minister in the church the day after the crusade. Not only that, people from everywhere began to come for meetings where I was invited or named the minister
Our local parish had a youth Sunday that would be filled to

overflow anytime they put my name on the flyer
My wandering soul found rest
I was a goldfish thrown from an aquarium into an ocean
This was my preordained path, of that I had no doubt
My dad made calls, several calls to those who could dissuade me from this path
He did it out of

love and i understood
He felt i was throwing away my potential
He reminded me of all the letters I wrote to him as a teenager in which I promised to achieve mighty feats in his lifetime
I was a big disappointment to him at the time
This was 2017
Yesterday the Lord whispered to

me while i was studying the scriptures
He said, "Do you remember how you got here?"
I began to cry
"Here" had many meanings but the most profound to me was the number of lives and destinies that the Holy Spirit has touched within that time
Strangers who are now my brothers and

sisters in the faith
It wasn't a church but it has birthed many churches and ministries
It has changed the reality of thousands and my siblings are all walking in power and glory fearlessly
There had been no need that I ever slept on or asked to be met in prayer ever!
The stone

that was not cut by hand had continued to grow and his reality is alive in him
I am one of the beneficiaries of the increase of His kingdom and the growth has been endless and glorious
Today, my father is my best fan
Whenever he calls me, he will bless me for hours, reminding me

the days of yore and how in his lifetime I had fulfilled all the potentials he saw in my as a teenager
He said "One of these days you will get an honorary doctorate degree, and I said, "I have turned down one already!"
He said you will soon be driving cars with your name on the

number plate with sirens etc and i said "I had turned that down too"
Then he said "You are the first man of God who I truly believe knows God and is walking in his true power. Do you know that when I pray I ask God for grace to love and walk with Him as you do?"
I just kept quiet

My father is no flatterer and I basked in the euphoria of that moment joyfully.
Ministry is not for the fickle or the lazy, it is not the easy way out for the unemployed and those with the gift of the garb
They may deceive a few but their light soon flickers out
Someone once told

me that he can name the sponsors of the ministry I have been asked by the Lord to lead and I laughed at the person's ignorance
Today, the same person came to me saying "There is something you know that you didn't teach me and I will like to learn it"
No man can sponsor the gospel

To do a work you have not been called to do because you saw others doing it will most likely lead you into frustration
The oil will not flow and the bread will be stale
This vineyard is the Lords, we must all be labourers in it and we will be rewarded as He so desires
Let us

therefore work while it is yet day, for the night is coming when no man can work.
Take your eyes away from the gains and the affluence, young minister, the cloth does not the man make! Dig deep your wells of the living water and find true expression in the Holy Spirit's plan for

your life
Be apt to teach, not the doctrine of men or of any church but the heart of the father
Spend time alone with him, let his love be the driving force of your life
You were born to produce the supernatural, ease into this reality by putting on Christ confidently
Soon, men

will be testifying of your deeds in Christ while giving glory to God
Remember, the gospel is the seed of eternal life, preach it on every platform
If this is your preordained path, you will thrive without taking advantage of people as many have done to their peril. I love you

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