Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude.

Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ. Phil 4:6-7 TPT

#Godlongsfortimewithus
#IamafriendofGod
#newweek
#thegreenmondays …

This is yet another metaphor. Another pointer to the fact that as a people, we are tenacious! Then I saw another valuable resource we have……the support system called the Nigerian people. Massive love and encouragement everywhere!

Congratulations Hilda Baci @hildabaci for pushing through and doing this for yourself and Nigeria 🎉🎉🎉👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

There are many silent struggling people out there who give up because they are “alone”. Your biggest asset is people. Be part of a community, and give value to others; it helps to push through the toughest of times, and makes the victory even sweeter 👌🏾.

Just like this win is for all of us 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

#hildacookathon
#phenomenalwoman
#joinacommunity
#dontbealone
#thegreenmondays …

Yesterday, I watched a clip where a rehabilitated drug addict recounted how, on one of his past escapades to purchase cocaine, was told to come to a hotel room to get it. He got there and saw teenage girls in school uniform in the room. Upon enquiry, he was told that these girls were being used for delivery of drugs. All they needed to do was to put the drugs in their school bags, be in their uniforms to do the delivery work, and they would never be seen as suspects.

It goes without saying that they get hooked on drugs soon enough, advance to prostitution, and their lives spiral downwards years after. He later went ahead to share the story of one of those girls he met 5 years later. Her life was a mess to say the least…….

I know this sounds bad to you, but what are you going to do about it or stories like this? How do you we do our bit about it? You don’t own a platform, like that big man of God abi? You’re not rich right? There’s good news! There’s what we can begin to do, and more opportunities will show up from there.

How about taking some time from your busy schedule to engage that your teenage child? What of your niece and nephew? I mean really getting to know them and meeting their friends? Learning to be quiet and listening to them? Ask questions, then guide them with wisdom…

What about volunteering to speak to teenagers in your alma mata? Or the teens ministry in your church? What about creating initiatives to reward & celebrate good behavior in places where you have access to as a tool to drawing them to know God personally? These “bad cases” are the same people that our children will relate with in society. Oh, before you state that your family is now abroad, the internet has shattered the walls. Access is global!

This is on all of us. Societal decadence can no longer be discussion topics; let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work!

#parenting
#mentorship
#discipleship
#urgentandimportant …

“Plan to have BIG wedding anniversaries, instead of big wedding ceremonies”……. Michelle Obama

Among other things, the above statement was made by Michelle Obama @michelleobama on a show titled, “The light we Carry” with Oprah Winfrey @owntv. I stumbled on it on Netflix a few days ago.

Michelle went ahead to share that she was unhappy the first 10 years of her marriage even though she had a man who cared deeply about the family and was present. Today, she has grown, they have both grown and the story is different. Pls go and watch it (no spoilers)

Now, she looks forward to celebrating BIG anniversaries and encouraged young people to do wedding low key and make anniversaries BIG. That resonated so much with me!

Why? Why is it that voices that say marriage is a scam so loud and marriages are making it through 30, 40, 50 years happily, and their stories are either unsung or low key? Why? I guess it’s because bad news is sensational, and we averagely like gossip……ouch!

As I got online today, I saw that it’s the 30 year anniversary of an amazing couple, Pastors Sam @thesamadeyemi & Nike Adeyemi @nikeadeyemi , my first pastors in Lagos and role models indeed. 30 years is not a joke; so we make a big deal of it and congratulate you sir and ma. You will witness many more decades in love, joy, impact and fulfillment.

Our wedding is 20years this year and i’m sooo looking forward to it!

Welcome to Miraculous May family!

#miraculousmay
#planbiganniversaries
#celebratemilestones …

Can a guy change because he likes a babe?😊

This is the first question we answered in today’s premiere of Life Chat with CMI.

This first recording was a totally unplanned, impromptu one after church a few weeks ago; and we intend to continue this series and take many more questions in the weeks to come.

Pls click the YouTube link in my bio, watch, share generously with everyone you know (especially singles) & subscribe 👌🏾

Tenks 🙏❤️

Happy weekend family ❤️🙏

#lifechatwithcmi
#relationships
#familylife …

Woke up with this song by @pastorchrisdelvan in my heart and it’s been like a burning fire; I haven’t been able to stop 🙌🏾🙌🏾🚀🔥🔥

How can you walk
When you don’t know the way of the wind
How can you run
When you don’t know the way of the Spirit
How can you fly
When you don’t know the way of the wind
The power at work in you, is moving everything in obedience to Christ.
He is changing everything
In obedience to Christ
He is rearranging everything
In obedience to Christ
Swallow your pride
Today come to the school of the Spirit
Don’t you know
That in his hands
Is the key to eternal life
A little here, A little there
Until the day will dawn
He’s at work in you
He’s moving everything in obedience to Christ

He’s changing Everything in me
In obedience to Christ
He is changing everything in our lives
In obedience to Christ
He is changing everything in our career
In obedience to Christ
He is changing Everything in our home
In obedience to Christ

#thepoweroftheholyspirit🔥❤️🕊🙏🤴
#godactivelyatworkinme
#transforming
#changing
#rearranging
#inobediencetochrist
#newseason …

One of the most valuable but toughest things I’m coming to terms with as I approach another “milestone like” age is what I’ll like to share today.

I entered the new year with a “carryover need” to time out and rest. With all the drama that has been happening in the world and Nigeria especially this year, running a few businesses in the middle of cash crunch and election, managing family, doing ministry, I can’t but pause and be thankful that I am still standing!

Some things we were supposed to kick off Q2 this year is really just about to get started, and with triple the amount of pressure in many areas; not forgetting my MBA that’s currently nearing completion.

So, when we entered April, I felt a wave of intense pressure, and I wondered why. Who says my birthday has to go in a particular way? What’s wrong with living one day at a time in the direction God is taking you, and just enter the day without drama? Must there be photo shoot? Must I start planning what to wear? Instead of thinking about how my birthday will go and what needs to get done, I decided not to add any more pressure! I’m living each day as it comes (harder than I thought though 😂) and I’m so grateful for the gift of hope!

If your birthday is coming and you feel like me, please don’t succumb to unnecessary pressure. Let your desire be to seek God and hear Him daily. Understand your seasons and navigate them patiently. The big picture will be taken care of from there.

#nopressure
#productofgrace
#aprilpeoplearespecial
#onedayatatime
#grateful …

Last week was another deeply reflective period for me. Yet another one of our disciples (we met through a business mentorship meeting); and the relationship morphed into deeper. He eventually passed through our home and tied the knot with his heartthrob all the way in Calabar.

As the wedding ceremony proceeded, I couldn’t but cast my mind back to conversations we had with him to start seriously considering settling down, and do it early. At first, it seemed like something so much in the distant future; but here we are, just about 4 years after, it’s signed, sealed and delivered!

While giving the closing speech at the wedding reception, the groom said something that sealed it for me. He said they were beneficiaries of so much love and support, and since he cannot fully repay, he would pay it forward by building a model marriage and making others inspired to do the same. I was teary eyed!

I’m fast losing count of how many people are passing through our home and lives and who get so fired up about doing marriage right and raising godly children. That for me is church. That’s discipleship. That’s Jesus in the kitchen, living room and bedroom. It’s such a humbling privilege!

As we speak now, another one is loading already in our home 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾. Thank you Adeolu @deoluakinyemi for making this marriage thing smooth and beautiful. Thank you for inspiring me to make my heart larger to receive many more people and loving them to lead and live wholesome lives and homes.

Congratulations Gorgeous Idy @idantai & Brother Bernard @bernard_parah 😅😜🤩. Love you ❤️♥️ May Christ find full and unfettered expression through your lives and home.🙏🙏♥️♥️

#grateful
#anotheronetiestheknot
#bealight
#discipleship
#loveothers
#modelchrist
#transformlives
#kingdommarriages …

“Regarding Zion, I can’t keep my mouth shut, regarding Jerusalem (Nigeria), I can’t hold my tongue, Until her righteousness blazes down like the sun and her salvation flames up like a torch.

Nigeria! Foreign countries will see your righteousness, and world leaders your glory. You’ll get a brand-new name straight from the mouth of God. You’ll be a stunning crown in the palm of God’s hand, a jeweled gold cup held high in the hand of your God.

No more will anyone call you Rejected, and your country will no more be called Ruined. You’ll be called Hephzibah (My Delight), and your land Beulah (Married), Because God delights in you and your land will be like a wedding celebration. For as a young man marries his virgin bride, so your builder marries you, And as a bridegroom is happy in his bride, so your God is happy with you.”

AMEN 🙏🙏🙏

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭62‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭MSG‬‬

#nigeriawillbegreatagain
#Godisatworkinnigeria
#wespeakovernigeria
#yesandamen …

“This SMALL boy, come! I need xyz”, barked a man at an attendant at a neighborhood store I stopped by to buy a few things recently. I was visibly shocked. I wondered if the man felt better or bigger by how he addressed the attendant. I really wondered…….

I know that for me, and many of us, we may not be too dramatic or explicit about how we address others, but we are not much better. No man has the ability or power to decide how far another person can go, even if that person is currently at the lowest state ever. We can’t cast a person’s future based on their current state. What does that mean to us?

It means we should treat everyone well, whether they are young, old, wealthy today or not. God has a way of shocking us by making nobodies into somebodies, we see cases like this from time to time, but maybe, it doesn’t really register in our minds.

I think it’s easy to forget, but we have to remind ourselves about the need to always treat everyone well.

N.B: NaDem is thinking what now? 🤷‍♀️😊
#treatpeoplewell
#everyoneisequalbeforegod
#musings
#godholdsthefuturenotyou …