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Homo Spiritus. Global Citizen. Bible Scholar. Lead Pastor @tvanigeria. Principal Partner @creforge. Host #AskPastorYinka. Badminton and Tennis enthusiast.
Apr 3 34 tweets 6 min read
1. Should a Christian use dating apps?
Is it supported or opposed by the Bible?
Is it appropriate for followers of Christ to use such platforms?
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#tvanigeria Image @tvanigeria 2. First, it is important to clarify that many modern issues and conundrums that we wrestle with today and try to find Biblical insight into did not exist in Bible times (e.g., medically assisted conception [like IUI and IVF], online church, online dating, etc.).
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Mar 20 34 tweets 7 min read
1. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING A FEELING AND HEARING GOD?
Can God speak through my feelings?
Are my feelings God's way of leading me?
How can I differentiate between my own feelings/thoughts and God's voice?
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#tvanigeria Image @tvanigeria 2. The answer to this question is quite straightforward, but also a bit nuanced. So, I will try to split the issues into discrete units that can then be handled individually, shedding appropriate light on each one.
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May 28, 2024 8 tweets 2 min read
Everyone had exactly what they needed, just the right amount.
Exodus 16:18 CEV

Everyone had exactly what they needed!
Those who needed healing had healing!
Those who needed deliverance were delivered!
Those who needed a child got a child!
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/1 Image @tvanigeria Those who needed a financial breakthrough got it!
Those who needed divine intervention in their homes received it!
Those who needed a job got a job!
Those who needed a spouse received their own from the Lord!
Those who needed direction got it!
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May 27, 2024 9 tweets 2 min read
THE LORD WILL SAVE YOU!
Jer 15:21 I will save you from the hands of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the cruel. (NIV)

As you go into this new week, the Lord will save you from the hands of the wicked. He will deliver you from the schemes of the crafty...
/1 Image @tvanigeria The Lord will rise for your help and stand up to protect and rescue you. You will not become prey to the wicked, nor fall victim to the wiles of the evil one.
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May 19, 2024 16 tweets 3 min read
LIFE HAPPENS, BUT GOD IS GOOD!
This is not theoretical knowledge for me; it is experiential knowledge.
I know that life happens because it has happened to me.
I know that our best-laid plans don't always come to pass...
/1 Image I know that the fact that you are a child of God does not exempt you from the turbulence and turmoil of life. I know that walking in faith will not shield you from the hardest punches that life can throw at you.
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May 19, 2024 23 tweets 4 min read
I USED TO BE A LONER
From childhood, I always struggled to make friends.
Maybe it was because I almost always had my head in books.
Maybe it was because of the imaginary Technicolor worlds I created for myself and inhabited mentally that were so vivid and dazzling...
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May 19, 2024 20 tweets 4 min read
I FEARED THAT BEING A PASTOR WOULD MAKE ME POOR!
I once read that the things we desire the most in life are usually what we were deprived of the most in our early years. So, maybe there is a psychological causality to my desire for financial security because of my upbringing.
/1 Image I was raised in a family of modest means.
Both my parents were from poor backgrounds and they surmounted some major obstacles to become certified teachers. Relative to where they came out of, they had done well for themselves.
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May 18, 2024 20 tweets 4 min read
I NEARLY FELL FOR THE LURE OF THE OCCULT
In the season of life that my Dad was a lapsed Christian, being an inquisitive fellow, he experimented with a few esoteric belief systems and religious practices, and some of them were Eastern religions.
/1 Image He didn't really go deeply into any one of them. I guess that he was just curious to see what else was out there apart from the Islam that he was born into and the Christianity that he had embraced later in life.
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May 16, 2024 22 tweets 4 min read
40 MILLION NAIRA OR 40 SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM?
Let's call him PO. I will never forget him. He had been a Pastor for almost 20 years, and at that time was pastoring a small congregation in the heart of Ibadan. It was an independent Pentecostal ministry...
/1 Image ...with a distinctly "CAC" flavour. So, they gave a lot of time to energetic and vigorous prayers with heavy spiritual warfare connotations. PO was really passionate about the ministry and was giving it his best (at least as much as he knew how to).
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May 15, 2024 21 tweets 4 min read
I SUFFER FROM BIBLIOPHILIA
It is a very rare acquired condition (though some experts are investigating the genetic components of the condition) that people of African descent were previously considered immune to but has started manifesting...
/1 Image ...Across various socio-demographic spectrums on the African continent. Infection is usually in early-to-late childhood and once it manifests clinical symptoms (onset of symptoms is usually shortly after infection), you have to bear the burden of the disease throughout life.
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May 14, 2024 25 tweets 5 min read
I WOULD HAVE HAD A BABY MAMA AT 16!
I have said before that, at a certain point in my life, practically every man of God I knelt before to pray for me had the same thing to say, "You are a great man of God! A prophet sent to the nations! I see a glorious future before you!"
/1 Image I received the prophecy in person and it was given out publicly in church meetings to a point that I sort of became inured to it.
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May 13, 2024 24 tweets 4 min read
NANOS GIGANTIUM HUMERIS INSIDENTES
My father was a lover of classical literature and Latin, and he imbued the love of both into me. From childhood, I picked up a lot of interesting quotes from his collection of classics (Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens...
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...George Orwell, etc.). I also picked up a few Latin phrases.
There is a saying in Latin (attributed to Bernard of Chartres) that particularly resonates with me: "Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes", which translates to "Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants" in English.
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May 11, 2024 23 tweets 4 min read
MY BRUSH WITH DEATH
We had a family function that I was supposed to attend. I was also expected to handle the video coverage for the event. By all means, it was inconceivable that I should miss it.
/1 Image The problem was that, a few weeks to the event, I started feeling a very deep-seated reluctance to attend it. And as the days went by, it became a nearly incapacitating feeling of dread and aversion to the impending journey.
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May 11, 2024 20 tweets 4 min read
BEFORE THE BIG BANG THEORY, I WAS "YOUNG SHELDON"!
Growing up, my nickname bestowed on me by my brothers was "Daddy's Pet". Not that our father showed favouritism towards me or any of us for that matter...
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...But because my brothers told me that he had mellowed considerably by the time I was born. So, even though I had my fair share of our father's firm hand of discipline, I never quite experienced some of the harsher disciplinary measures that my older brothers endured.
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May 10, 2024 23 tweets 4 min read
THE BLESSING OF A GODLY HERITAGE
My mother, Felicia Adefunke Adeleke, was a study in contrasts.
She was gentle and soft-spoken, yet she was also an incredibly strong woman who concealed an unbelievably powerful iron hand underneath the most velvety of gloves.
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She was warm and approachable, but also stern and extremely disciplined. Did I say she was soft-spoken? Indeed she was, but she had such an acerbic wit that all she needed were just a few strategically chosen words to give you an instantaneous cognitive recalibration.
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May 9, 2024 22 tweets 4 min read
THE POWER OF A GODLY HERITAGE
One of the best gifts that God gave me in this life is the gift of blessing me with excellent parents. Now I know that most people think their parents are the best thing since sliced bread, but mine were truly exceptional.
/1 Image My Dad, Adebayo Atanda Adeleke came from very humble beginnings, a gifted child with limited opportunities who grew up on a farm around Oyo Town. His big break in life came when one of his uncles came to visit and saw that he was not going to school at the age of 12 years.
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May 8, 2024 17 tweets 4 min read
THE CHOSEN ONE
After God said an emphatic NO to my idea of who I should marry, I moped around for a while. I guess I was miffed that God didn't let me have my way and was a little brokenhearted that my romantic expectation was dashed by God.
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I was not interested in considering any other person for a while. But this was a season when, for reasons I could not readily fathom, it was as if a spotlight had been beamed on me and eligible sisters were showing interest in me both overtly and covertly.
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May 7, 2024 21 tweets 4 min read
MY WIFE AND I INITIALLY DIDN'T LIKE EACH OTHER!
Over the last few instalments of this story, I have made reference to my wife, and indeed, she is one of God's greatest gifts to me. But the funny thing is that, when we initially met, we didn't like each other!
/1 Image I met Adeshola Olafusi in 2006 in UCH Ibadan. I was pastoring a church on the campus and she had come to visit a patient in the hospital, whose brother was playing drums for us. So, she came along for a meeting in the church.
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May 6, 2024 18 tweets 4 min read
THE JOURNEY HOME
Once my release from HarvestHouse Christian Center @harvesthouseng was graciously granted by Rev. Gbeminiyi Eboda, I began my transition into life at The Vineyard Assembly @tvanigeria.
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@harvesthouseng @tvanigeria My wife and I attended our first service back there on Sunday, 10 March 2019. Apostle Bukki Gbenro was not in the church that day, but we were recognized by Prof. Debo Olukole who introduced us to the church, and we were warmly welcomed by everyone.
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May 4, 2024 19 tweets 4 min read
LEAVING HCC
Once I settled in my heart to say YES to the call to lead The Vineyard Assembly, I communicated my decision to the Founding Pastor, Apostle Bukki Gbenro @PsBukki.
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@PsBukki The next step was that my wife @MrsJeshurun needed to give her consent to me taking up the role, and her decision needed to be reached independently of mine, which consent she eventually gave after a couple of months of praying and weighing the decision.
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May 4, 2024 20 tweets 4 min read
THE BOMBSHELL AT THE SHEEPGATE
After receiving the clarion call, as I explained yesterday, I knew WHAT God wanted me to do (return to pulpit ministry) and WHEN He wanted me to do it (NOW!), but I had no idea where or how.
/1 Image I had (and still have) no doubt in my heart that I am called by God -- it is one of the few certainties of my life. But I have never felt the urge to start a church. And I understand that NOT every genuinely called servant of God must start a church!
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