12Days of Christmas

It's Christmas season again and I personally want to celebrate the love of my life, the only one who deemed it fit to die for me.
His birth was for my freedom and his death was for my liberation.
He gave me a gift which is now my true love... My true love is the Word, because it's never changed over time.

Here's what I've learned from my true love over the course of the year.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love said to me... Prepare ye the way of the Lord.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love said to me, it's going to be a boy.

On the third day of Christmas, my true love said to me, the baby is coming.

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love said to me, it's a boy.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love said to me, he's name is Immanuel.

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love said to me, he's gone to save the world.

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love said to me, He's come to set the captive free.

On the eight day of Christmas, my true love said to me, he's gone to heal the brokenhearted.

On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love said to me, He's been arrested for mankind's sake.

On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love said to me he'll be crucified for my sins.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love said to me, he's risen from the tomb.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love said to me, he'll come again soon to take me home.

After my true love made all this known to me..  I realize that Christmas is not the time to wine and dine but a time to reflect on my life and judge if the essence of Jesus birth is still valid in my life.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate the birth of him who died in their place.

Fè-mi

*Fè-mi (The Proposal)*

*Sister*: Fè-mi
*Femi*: what?
*Sister*: Yes you heard me.

 *Femi* : Why should you say such a thing, you are a respectable young vibrant sister and also firebrand, hope you know what you are saying?.

 *Sister* : I perfectly know what I am saying, I have been waiting for you for the past two years
I keep watching and waiting for day you would come up to me and say, sister, you are the will of God for my life, would you love to walk this journey with me?
Instead, everytime you come, you keep counting the ceiling, you keep looking at the albums,
You keep stammering,
You keep saying don't bother, I have nothing to say.
I have gone back to the place of prayer many a times but I keep seeing just you.
Do you want me to die waiting?
Do you want me to become a laughing stock among the sisters?

 *Femi* : But what happened to the tradition that forbids a Lady from proposing to a man?
What happened to all the proposal seminars where you keep hearing that you must wait for me?

 *Sister* : who traditions EPP?
Tradition! Tradition!
Tradition my foot, I know what's mine and I won't let you waste away.

Marriage seminar! so you can mention that too, did they tell you to keep shivering and backing out whenever you walk up to God's will?

 *Femi* : Ahh, sister, you should take it easy, I am still waiting for the perfect time ni.

 *Sister* : No don't worry, every time right from when we were still in school was the right time.
Everytime we walked home after fellowship was the right time, but you kept kicking the dust.
Everytime we were at the eatery together was the right time but you keep munching pies like that's the reason you took me out.
Everytime we went to the library to read alone was the right time, but you keep facing your book like you were really serious with it.

 *Femi* : But I can't believe this, I believe you are making a mistake somewhere.

 *Sister* : No, I am not, six times you have told me you wanted to tell me something and each time your lips keep vibrating like it's on massage machine.
And all you would say is don't worry, I just wanted to see if you were alright.

 *Femi* : but I was going to say it today.

 *Sister* : Say what? After you have already done all  your rehearsals before coming and your liver still failed you, and just now yu said let's be going, you now said you were going to say it.
See Bro Femi, if you don't propose right now don't ever call me again, don't even greet me if you see me, infact just forget about me.

 *Femi* : ahh, I will talk. *Sweat trickling down his head* ehm ehm
Goes down on one knee and says
Please forgive me for all the times I kept you waiting, I have known that you are God's will for my life for the past four years but wasn't sure you have also gotten the message and I feared getting a negative response.

*Wipes the sweat off his forehead*
Please Sister, the spirit of the Lord is telling me that you are my life partner, please I will like you to also pray about it because I have my conviction that you are the one.

 *Sister* : Pray kwa, me that I have been waiting for you like kilode, even this morning sef the holy spirit still showed you to me. I agree jare.

Femi stands up and can't believe he had just done what he had been afraid to do for the past 13months.

 *Moral* : The holy spirit won't propose for you, you have to be man enough to do it.

Brothers please stop wasting sisters time.
Stop using text messages to woo sisters, once you are sure of your conviction, don't waste anytime to propose.

This is dedicated to Femi Abowaje, the inspiration behind the write-up.

Happy birthday Bro.

Fè-mi( the proposal)
Written by
Adeyeni Gabriel Ajayi
Freelance writer

When Life Happens

When Life Happens

You've got good plans and motives.
You aim for high places.
You pray for good times.
You hope for a greater tomorrow.
But what happens to all of such plans when Life Happens?

You have dreams of a bright future.
You pray for a perfect partner.
You picture a happy forever after home.
But what happens to all of such when Life Happens?

You want to be Loved.
You crave to be relevant.
We wish to be irreplaceable.
But what happens to all of such when Life Happens?

You wish to be influential.
You pray to be famous.
You want your prints to be seen on the sands of time even after you are gone.
But what happens to all of such when Life Happens?

What happens when Life gives a setback to our assumed perfect future.
When Life makes our fairytale home becomes a battlefield.
When Life discard us like trash.
When Life reduces us to nothing.

When Life Happens is
when things don't go our way
When it doesn't look good to us.
When it doesn't work for us.

When Life Happens
All people show us is sympathy
When Life Happens
All people show is our mistakes.

When Life Happens
All we need is Empathy
All we need is Care
All we need is Love
All we need is Revival

When Life Happens
All we need is Jesus
He's the only one who can show you Empathy
He's the only one who truly cares for you
He's the only one who loves you dearly
He's the only one who can revive you and your situation.

Life Happened
to the widow of Nain
To the wedding at Cana
To Dorcas of Joppa
But they all met with Jesus Christ and there situation was rescued.

You don't have to wait till Life Happens to you before calling out to Jesus.
He's right here with you
Call on to him today and happen to life before life happens to you.

One Step at a Time

One step at a time

Unsteady steps precedes  steady and firm steps.

Shaky fingers precedes firm grips.

Nothing has ever been well furnished right from start.

No man was born a hero in one day.

No leader took hold of power in one attempt.

It all began with one step at a time
It all began with one decision before the other
It all started with one idea before the action.

The road to success may seem far at sight, but with one step at a time, you will look back and realize you've come a long way from the starting point.

Don't despise little beginning, embrace one step at a time.

Don't covet high places, be content with taking one step at a time.

Salvation took thousands of years to be manifested but every man right from Adam till John the Baptist was part of Jesus's one step at a time.

One step at a time and you will appreciate the gains of success.

One step at a time and you will know what it takes to become a leader.

One step at a time and your results will stand the test of time.

One step at a time.

Adeyeni Gabriel Ajayi
Freelance writer
Adeyeni's Pen.

Dropping the Baton

Dropping the baton

In a relay race, a baton is used to pass on the intensity of the race to another awaiting athlete, and it continues like that until it gets to the athlete for the final lap, so imagine what will happen if any of the athletes dropped the baton instead of passing it on to the next person. It means their chance of finishing top just got a set-back or they may even crash out of the race, it means the athletes ahead will keep waiting, So dropping the baton is not a good thing in the track field.
But do you know that in the race for eternity, so many people/believers do drop the baton before reaching the finishing line or point where its meant to be passed on.
Many Christians today have forgotten their purpose for running the eternity race thereby getting weary and distracted from the journey and dropping the baton thereby making the efforts of the people who delivered the faith unto them be in vain.
Some have dropped the baton and have dashed the hopes of many faithfuls ahead of them awaiting the mantle from them.
Christianity race is an eternal one, it does not start with one person neither would it end with one person. The baton of the good news is meant to be passed on from one person to another, from one generation to another, because it's eternal.
The essence of preaching the gospel to you is for you to be able to one day preach to someone else, the essence of saving you is for you to be able to save others someday. The book of Jude vs 3 says "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints". So why let it end with you? why let it depreciate and lose value in your hands?
The will of the master is for you to go into the world preaching the Gospel unto everyone but you as a born again Christian can't even boast of one soul for Christ for the past 10years you have received the baton of the good news.
Some people did not even lose theirs, some kept theirs, some readjusted theirs, some traded theirs for earthly positions.
The question to you reading this right now is this. What have you done with the baton (faith) that was once delivered unto you.
Is it in your possession or lost.?
Don't lose the baton my dear brother/sister and if you have lost it, God is willing to give you another one.
Don't lose your baton, pass it on quickly to everyone you see.
Don't let the people it was meant for lose out in the eternity race.
Pass on the baton
God bless you as you do so.
Please keep sharing it.

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Kill IT

Kill Kill Kill It
What are we to really kill? We are to kill our habits, character, addictions, traits, all in all I am telling us to kill your old self.
Kill those things which have been associated with you to the world so that you can enjoy the new kind of life you are meant to live in Jesus Christ.
Jesus was a man of unquestionable character, he lived a life free of addiction, he was blameless and faultless yet he still killed his self so as to be a part of a greater glory.. So for he who drinks, smoke, fornicate, spite, hate, backbite, envy, lust, and take part in other form of indulgence and still wish to be a part of the great glory to be revealed... Kill yourself today and be resurrected into a new life which Christ has offered for us all at calvary...
You can't kill yourself alone neither will you still give up your oldself to be killed if you are still attached to the things of this world.
The only way you can help to kill your old self is to stay away from sin and that can only happen when we yield not to temptation... It all starts from an Ill thought before it metamorphosis into something serious....
So while its still at the thought level, kill it. While its still enticing you to partake in it... Kill it.
While its still luring you to come before it floors you... Kill it.
While its still looking good to behold... Kill it..
Because even giving it a chance in your head and mind alone is a sin...
A popular hymn says
1. Yield not to temptation, For yielding is sin; Each vict’ry will help you, Some other to win; Fight valiantly onward, Evil passions subdue; Look ever to Jesus, He will carry you through. Refrain: Ask the Savior to help you, Comfort, strengthen and keep you; He is willing to aid you, He will carry you through.
 2 Shun evil companions, Bad language disdain; God’s name hold in rev’rence, Nor take it in vain; Be thoughtful and earnest, Kindhearted and true; Look ever to Jesus, He will carry you through.
When we yield not to sin... We are starving it to death gradually.
So learn to starve your heart of sinful thoughts, opinions and idea.

Change

Nagging is really a bad tool to employ when it comes to changing a person's character, because it blinds ones eye to the other person good attributes, while all we see is the person's bad aspects, it also makes us overlook our own bad attributes and we see ourselves as perfect and without fault.
I have seen men nag in a serious way on a partners issues, and I have seen women take to nagging like its an everyday job to render their displeasure, with both hoping it will change the other.
But do we know that prayer can change a person faster than nagging.
Do we know that while employing prayer as a tool it also help to change ourselves too.
Do we even know that nagging is a device of Satan which he ignites like fire to keep up argument and when the fire of nagging is still burning we can never see the good in what the other person does.
 So while that nagging fire is still in us, we become the most difficult person to cope with or even change while we think its the other person...
Lets quench the fire of nagging that the devil has started first and we will realize that we can only change the other person by first changing our self because the easiest person a man can change is himself and when prayer makes one change in aspects that matters most, the change we desire to see in that other person too will be effected in no time, and do we also know that nagging is the attribute of an hypocrite. The bible says “Why do you notice the small piece of dust that is in your friend’s eye, but you don’t notice the big piece of wood that is in your own? Why do you say to your friend, ‘Let me take that piece of dust out of your eye’? Look at yourself first! You still have that big piece of wood in your own eye. You are a hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to get the dust out of your friend’s eye. Matthew 7:3-5 ERV.
So to change that other person we must first change ourselves, and the only way we can change ourselves is to take up prayer in place of nagging... God bless us all
Nagging ( Change)
Written by Ajayi Adeyeni Gabriel

EASTER IS NOT FOR YOU

EASTER IS NOT FOR YOU

Easter is here again, and it's a season that most people look forward to because it's a time to unwind, relax, enjoy and spend time with families and friends as it's a season that comes along with a long weekend break.
But how many people really know the meaning of Easter?, who are the people really worthy of celebrating this Easter season.
Easter is a season to celebrate the greatest achievement a man named Jesus Christ made while on earth.
It's a season to remember his life, work, death, and purpose here on earth.
It's a season to share in his pain, grief, and glorification, but its a pity that most of the people celebrating it today have little or no understanding of the meaning or the essence of it, thereby making a mockery of it unknowingly.
Jesus Christ came into this world to settle an age long rift between mankind and his creator. See Gen 3:1-24.
Hr came to be the mediator between man and God. See Heb 9:11-15.
Jesus Christ came to give man a chance at eternal life. See Jude 23.
And because of all this, he endured the shame, the pains, the grief, the blames that man would have had to carry on the last day. See Luke 23:1-56.
But still, it's a pity that most of the people he came to do all this for do not even know that he really did all these for them.
Some don't even know the impact of his coming, of his death, and of his resurrection.
Easter is not for you if:
1. You don't know who Jesus Christ is and if you have not met with him personally. John 14:7
2. You have not accepted him into your life as your Lord and personal saviour. John 13:20
3. You are not a follower or disciple of Jesus Christ. John 8:12.
4. You don't know why Jesus died on the Cross.
5. You are still going contrary to his will and wish for your life. Matt 12:50, John 7:17
6. You are letting the reason of his death be in vain over you.
7. You are still alive to sin but dead to the new life in Christ which he is offering to you. Romans 6:11
8. If all the blood Jesus shed is still not enough to change you from your sinful and evil ways.
9. You still love the world or cherish the things in it. 1 john 2:15.
Easter is not for you if you are not heavenly focused.
Anyone who does not accept the reality of the essence of the suffering, death, resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ is guilty of eternal damnation, and who or what can save a man from that horrible day.
The only thing that can save a man from eternal damnation is to do the following steps mentioned below.
1. By confessing your sins.
2. By acknowledging your evil ways and acts and not going back to them.
3. By accepting Jesus Christ into your life.
4. By really knowing that he died for you to be free.
5. By doing his will and laws which he hath commanded
6. By being a witness for him everywhere you go.
You can only be made right with God through constant fellowship with him.
This Easter can really be for you, if only you would not let the death and resurrection of the man we are celebrating be in vain over you.
Easter is not for everybody but for those who have been redeemed and saved from eternal damnation.
Easter is not only and time of celebrations, but also of reflection about one's faith.
Do your best not be guilty of this easter you are witnessing or celebrating today.
Accept Jesus today.

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Friends Forever

When I hear people say this person is my best friend, The first thought that comes up in my mind is that were you the one who introduced him/ her to Christ or was it the person who introduced Christ to you.
If your answer is No, then I believe you have to reconsider whom you call your best friend Cause a best friend is that person who is meant to have your back all the time And how can the person have your back when he/she is not spiritually sound and vibrant.
The Bible says... "I was glad when they said to me..let's go into the house of God.". Who is meant to say that to you if its not whom you call your friend, Your friend is meant to support you when you are weak Your friend is meant to hold on to you when you feel like letting go, Your friend is meant to be the one to let you know that you are already going off course, Your friend is meant to help you achieve your purpose because you can't do it alone.
No one ever made it alone Samuel had the permission of Eli to make it.
Moses had to make use of Aaron to be able to deliver his message at Egypt.
Caleb also had Joshua to be able to say the truth as spies.
You can't do it alone. So if you know that you can't do it alone why not just select the kind of friend you want to be seen with, why not select the kind of people who would share in your vision.
Why not select friends who would defend your course.
Jesus selected twelve disciples out of the many he had and his mission was fulfilled.
Joshua selected 300 and his mission was fulfilled.
Elijah selected Elisha and his mission was fulfilled.
Why not select friends who will make your mission fulfilled.
Friends can ruin and can build.
Friends can lead and can mislead.
Check out the calibre of friends you have today, are they truly worth calling friends.
Friends with heavenly view should be your best friends not those with vanity views.
Friends who are friends of Christ should be your friends not sons and daughters of Belial.
Friends who have discovered purpose should be your friends not disoriented ones.

Learn to move with a team of Godly people.

Best friends are friends forever, so choose wisely.
Friends forever.
Adeyeni Pens 2017

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Now your service continues for Christ

Finally through with serving our father's land? Congratulations.
Still in the course of serving? Well done.
About to proceed? Prepare well.
Serving our father's land is not an easy task, it takes patience, hard work, commitment, determination and other qualities to be a success at it. Serving our father's land is a great experience that one is supposed to pass through. As serving our father's land is a great experience, so is the service of Christ.
Serving Christ just like our fathers land also require aforementioned qualities too and is one that requires persistence is all aspect.
Have you been serving him during your course of national service is a great question because his service is not a one time affair but that of a life time. Serving Christ is a privilege we are supposed to take chance of. He's call which says "The harvest is plenty but the laborers are few" is his mission for you to work in his vineyard of being an harvester.
In your sojourn of national service, have you also served him in accordance with his mission call?. Now that you are already or almost done with your youth service, I want you to know that your service for Christ should still continue. If you have not yet started serving in his vine yard, now is the time to start.
Serving your father's land is an important aspect of a student and youth life, but serving Christ is the most important aspect of ones life that one should take heed to. Now is not too late to start serving Christ.
If you are through with youth service, start or continue to serve Christ in your next phase of life. If you are still in youth service, start or continue serving Christ now and afterwards. If you are yet to start your youth service, start or continue serving Christ. Because serving Christ is a life time deal, Don't Prolong or shorten your service tenure in his vineyard by still living in sin.
 Your time as a fresh graduate or a corper is the best time to serve God. Take this deal of a life time your Creator has set before you, don't make it later, give yourself up for his service, contribute your own quota and when its time to drop the baton,you will be able to say... "I have fought the good fight".
This article is dedicated to all corpers, graduates, undergraduates and all youths to remind them that there is a service more profitable than being a corper, which is being an heavenly corper.

WHAT IS YOUR MINISTRY

A true story.

 I once knew a woman who lived in the mainland area of Lagos, she was a business woman who sold pure water and soft drinks at whole scale level, she had her shop just beside a very great church, she had lots of fridges and deep freezers and enormous sale merchants who hawked pure water around the streets of Lagos, I always thought she was a Christian because all her children I knew that were my peers where all bearing Christian names like Samson, Priscilla etc.
 One day she died, and all people could say about her was that she never for once attended a church, but that she herself founded her church which was her business, they said the woman was the pastor, her fridges and deep freezers were her ministers, while her sachet waters and canned beverages were her members.
I could not believe my ears, because there was and still till date a bible believing church just beside her shop, how come she never attended the church or any other church for once I asked myself. She died without knowing Christ, her death threw her children into confusion, they knew not Christ and they never even bothered to know him, no church conducted her burial because her ministry was her business, her ministry was her goods, she only replenished people by selling refreshments for them, she never replenished their souls with Christ Jesus. She died a shameless death and did not have a proper burial. Her business crumbled months after she died and that was the end of her.
How about you my reader, what is your own ministry, are you even a member of the true vine? Is your story not like that woman who built her ministry around her business, she never for once knew Christ or bothered to meet with him. She lived a dead life even while being alive, she was not grafted to Jesus. No single person around her could say anything commendable about her, all they said was she died without knowing Jesus Christ, even unbelievers and pagans said so.
 It does not matter how much you enjoy life or how hard you suffer in life, if your ministry is not built around Jesus Christ, you will only die a shameful death. Everyone has a ministry to take charge of.
Discover your ministry
Check your ministry
Upgrade your ministry
Disseminate your ministry
Plant your ministry
Don't let your ministry be your business
Don't let your ministry be your field of profession
Don't let your ministry be your studies.
Let your ministry be founded by Jesus Christ.
Let your ministry be grafted to the true vine.
Let your ministry be for the great commission.
Your ministry should be your priority in life, because you will account for every soul that passed through you.
You can discover your ministry if only you have Jesus Christ who is the real corner stone of the great commission. Confess your sins today. Accept Jesus Christ and forsake your old ways and learn to follow his ways, join a bible believing church, and discover your ministry in Christ Jesus.
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COMFORT OF THE COMFORTER

Looking at the just concluded year, can you say it was well spent?
Can you really acknowledge it as a very good year?
Was it as comfortable as you wished or prayed for?
Did you really enjoy the comfort of the comforter?
Whatever your answers may be, this new year can really get much better, it can be the best year for you, it can be as comfortable as you wish it to be, only if you know the comforter.
The comforter is the only one who can giver you what you the comfort you desire and deserve. But who is this comforter you may wonder, he is the one promised unto us in the book of John 14:15-17,26. He is meant to teach you, guide, protect, and keep you so that you sojourn for this new year can be  comfortable as it ought to be, because the one who promised him unto us says "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid".
For you to have this comfort of the comforter, you must  know and believe in the one who promised to send him unto us, and how can you really believe in him who promised to send the comforter if you don't accept and welcome him into your life.
To enjoy the comfort of the comforter this new year, you need to accept Jesus Christ into your life, and confess him as your personal Lord and Savior. And if you have already done that before, you need to keep making your relationship with him strong, because the relationship a man must have with Jesus must always be strengthened daily.
To enjoy your life this year, to be a success as a man or woman, student or worker, to be strong spiritually, to be useful for God and humanity and for this new year to go well and great for you, you need the comfort which the comforter gives, which can only be accessible through Jesus Christ.
Accept Jesus Christ into your life today and watch how this year 2017 will a year you will never forget for good, and a year which your aims will be met.
Thank you for reading this article, we hope it has been a source of blessings to you.
From Adeyeni's Pen, we say HAPPY NEW YEAR
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