Relationships 2 – FAMILY. As a sequel to my post on friendships, https://theplaceofpraise.com/relationships-1-friendships/ , published on August 4th, 2020, another relationship most of us find ourselves in is family relationships. Everyone in this world comes from a family, be it biological or non-biological. The major difference I have noticed between family and friendship as relationships, is that we choose our friends,

GOD IS ALWAYS THERE Exactly this day, twenty-five years ago, in Lagos, Nigeria, I had the most horrifying experience of my entire life. I was a little over twenty five and I was very young in every way. I was vibrant, full of life, had a banking career ahead of me and I was pursuing it relentlessly. I was in

WHEN THE BATTLE IS FIERCE These are really unusual times. We are being hit by the reality of the coronavirus pandemic. A  lot of families have had their bread winners out of work since the end of March 2020 and many businesses have been adversely affected by the lock down. Some families have lost loved ones and a lot of

CREATE NEW MEMORIES We all have different memories and different experiences of various events that have taken place in our lives. As the years go by, we remember some experiences fondly and smile while we simply chose to forget others that bring pain. No matter what we experienced, a memory was always birthed in our minds and stored up for

MIND THE GAP There was a gap in the old testament. This gap was created by the use of middle men (the priests of Levite ancestry) to access our Heavenly Father. Very often as children we sometimes had to go through our mothers to collect things from our fathers.  But very rarely or not at all did we have

THE ORIGINAL SHEPHERD KING We have often been told that the old testament of the bible presents with types and shadows of Jesus Christ. Even Jesus said so. “If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.” John 5:46 NLT I want to share with us one of the kings of Israel who was an exact

THE LIGHT THAT MAKES LIGHT Jesus is the Light of the World!  What is light? Light is a source of illumination. It removes darkness. “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John  8:12 KJV The word “light”

RELATIONSHIPS 1 – FRIENDSHIPS. With the way the world has been this past couple of months, I have spent more time indoors than normal. Something I have particularly ruminated on is friendships and the effects they have on us. The bible says in Proverbs 27:17 International Standard Version (ISV), “Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens a friend’s character.”  It is

HARD WORK PAYS! In recent times,  I have found myself watching quite a few children’s animated programmes.  There are some that have made me wonder if the original intention of the creator was to make them for adults. There are always lessons to be learnt. A particular one that got me thinking was about three little pigs and the big

TIME TO GET A TRIM About a week ago, I observed that quite a few of my potted plants needed to be pruned. In fact the ferns and palms were terribly unkempt and very bushy. No wonder nothing new and fresh was springing forth! Well I decided to get out my pruning shears and give them a very good