GRACE FOR THE DAY AFTER.  Have you ever spent weeks, perhaps even months, preparing for something? It could be an important occasion, a major project or a difficult assignment. Something that demanded so much of your time, energy, attention and prayers that almost everything else had to take a back seat. You went through days filled with so much to

DADDY SAYS… Imagine a young girl preparing to travel abroad. Her father helps her get everything ready and tells her what she will need for her visa interview. On the appointed day, she arrives at the embassy and sits before the visa officer. He begins to ask her questions. At some point, he asks about something she hasn’t brought with

WE DON’T NEED NO DRAMA Have you ever wondered how you would receive Jesus if He announced that He was coming to your house? Would you tidy up? Bring out the best china? Arrange the cushions? Make sure everything was just perfect? After all, this is Jesus coming to visit. There is a familiar story in the Bible about two

THE GRACE OF FRIENDSHIPS “I am indeed truly blessed,” thought Mora. She was grateful for what she had just witnessed. Mama was on her merry way to ninety and was still very young at heart. She was attending a birthday party with some of her friends. These were women who had spent their teenage years together and, more than seventy

ENABLED TO ENABLE Who has God enabled you to enable? I was writing my mother’s obituary when a Tuesday article found me. I was trying to find the right words to describe my father and his place in my mother’s life when I wrote a simple sentence: He was the one whom God enabled to enable her. And then I

LET SOMEBODY ELSE BRING THE POT.  Last week, I found myself in a most unusual place. For reasons beyond my control, I had nothing prepared for The Place of Praise. Now, if you know anything about me, you will know that I take this weekly assignment very seriously. It is always a delight, a privilege and an honour to share

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MRS MODUPE OLUFUNMILAYO JAIYESIMI 1936–2026 GOD WANTS US TO GET HOME SAFE There is something very humbling about learning. It often transports us to our younger years, when learning was the order of the day. We learned to walk, to speak, to read, to write and so much more. I fondly look back on when I

DON’T CONCLUDE THE STORY YET.  Bankole’s mother was out for coffee with an old friend. “I really don’t know what else to do,” she lamented. “He’s doing so well in his career, and I’m very proud of him. But he simply doesn’t seem interested in settling down. I have seen him out with a few ladies every once in a

AGGRESSIVE PEACE.  Aggressive and peace are not two words we would ordinarily expect to find sitting beside each other. Aggression suggests force, determination and an unwillingness to back down. Peace, on the other hand, sounds like being in a quiet, restful place. Yet lately I have discovered that sometimes peace needs to be aggressive. We must not allow the devil

STIR YOURSELF UP! There are seasons in life when we simply cannot afford to settle. I heard a statement recently while listening to a teaching by Andrew Wommack, and it stopped me in my tracks. It goes like this: “You have to stir yourself up, or you’ll sink to the bottom.” Think about something mixed into liquid. If it is