Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

The truth is, growth don’t just happen overnight. It takes a process and it takes time. Sometimes, when you see supposed believers who misbehaves, the reason is because many of them jumped their growth process. There is a saying that when you jump up, you will come down, but when you grow up, you will remain there. Growth cannot be jumped, one simply grows into growth. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:6 that he “he planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” That clearly shows a growth process, isn’t it. The same also is true for spiritual growth. It…

I have been thinking lately why Nigeria has remained the way it is, despite her being one of the most religious countries in the world. We are a praying nation, and we have more churches and mosques than we have tertiary institutions in the country. Our towns and cities boasts of the finest and largest church auditoriums you would see around the world. A foreigner visiting Nigeria for the first time needs no stress in feeling the ambience of our religiosity. The signs are just everywhere! Our streets are filled with countless number of churches and mosques. But amidst this,…

When you look around the world today, and you see the spate of divorce here and there, there is no need for you to look further before arriving at the conclusion that most marriages are not healthy. When a marriage stays unhealthy for a long period of time, divorce is usually its final destination. Sometimes, you can view it from the angle of someone who had been sick and bedridden for a long time, the doctors and everyone had tried all they could to save such an individual, but in the end, the person died. Now, what many people witnessed…

Followership is not Fanaticism! Followership is the capacity to follow a leader. Fanaticism on the other is marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion. But followership, on the other hand; means commitment to leadership. It means finding a leader and then devoting to them. Followership is not just being around a leader, it is commitment to that leader. You can hang around people and not learn anything from them. But you can’t be committed to someone and not learn from that person. Commitment has to do with focus. Your gaze is on that leader. You observe carefully and…

The relationship that God has with man is on the basis of three things: His Love for us, His Grace and His Righteousness. These three are foundational in the sense that they form the pillars upon which our relationship with God rests, and upon which we grow spiritually as well. LOVE God’s love towards us is not based on anything that we did but flows from who God is (1 John 4:7-8). From the very beginning, while we were yet in His loins, before He even made us in His very own image, He has loved us. In Jeremiah…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s utterances most times are like unguided missiles, which may wreck serious havoc on the entire nation, if care is not taken. I remember sometimes in 2011, he said if the elections were rigged, that baboons and dogs would be soaked in blood. Many people came out to say that Muhammadu Buhari did not mean that people would be soaked in blood and that it is just an idiomatic expression. Just in a recent interview with a CNN anchor, he said nobody can unseat him. The question being asked him was how would he take it if the…

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2 In some few days from now, Nigerians will be going into the polls to choose another leader who will guide the affairs of the nation for the next four years. One of the beauty of democracy as a system of government is that it allows the people to choose who they wants as their leader. It is not an imposition as it were, the people through their votes and the ballots; determines who leads them. And so, as much as we try to blame everything…

A global property consultancy firm, Knight Frank, has released its inaugural Urban Futures report, which revealed that the affordable housing gap reached some $740 billion globally in 2018 with Amsterdam, Auckland and Hong Kong amongst the least affordable places to buy a home. According to the newly published Urban Futures report 2019, the affordable housing gap – as measured by the difference between house prices and income – increases due to limitations on supply, historical restrictions and a growing urban population. Urbanisation is the key trend leading to stretched affordability. Job prospects and increased wages are the major draw to…

We have been hitched for almost 10 years now, and until recently our number one piece of advice would have been: Don’t write about how to make your marriage divorceproof. It’s hubris! But we like to take risks (that’s piece of advice number two), so we knocked on wood, threw salt over our shoulders, and forged ahead with all the unstoppable energy that a couple with two kids under the age of five can muster. (Eating a pile of old Halloween candy helped, too.) Ultimately, we came up with this list of marriage rules and reminders—all of which, we hope,…

The whole idea behind leadership is accepting responsibility. When you see people who run away from taking up responsibilities, then such people are not ready to take the lead in their chosen endeavours. Leadership without responsibilities is no leadership at all, because there is no leader anywhere who has not been given or assigned a task to be accomplish. In Isaiah 6:8, Prophet Isaiah said he heard the voice of the Lord saying “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then Isaiah responded by saying, “Here I am, Send Me.” Responsibilities opens up the door into leadership.…