Who says you can’t have fun in God’s presence? 😉
Grab your friends, bring your family, and join us for an unforgettable evening of great movie, laughter and fellowship.
📅 Wednesday, 24th June 2026
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 Glass House, Odo-Eran, Obantoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Children are precious gifts from God, filled with light, joy, and purpose. They deserve to be loved, nurtured, and celebrated every step of the way. ❤️
Favour is more than receiving good things, it’s also knowing where God is leading you.
Sometimes we pray for open doors, but we also need wisdom for the right direction and grace to handle what comes with it.
This Sunday, we gather again to learn and encounter God together.
One thing about children?
They will answer with their full chest.
We asked them what their parents do and the responses were honestly funny.
The funny part? The parents then came in to explain what they actually do.
Safe to say… some job descriptions got reinvented. 😂
I ask for the kind of favour that will make people ask how did I get here.
The kind of favour that makes people say surely this is the hand of God let it rest on me, rest on my head, rest on my work and business.
There is no dichotomy between power and sound doctrine.
The apostles never separated what this generation keeps trying to divide.
One of the most interesting reactions from our recent meetings in Kaduna and Lagos was this:
“Sir… we knew you as a sound teacher. We did not expect this level of raw power manifestation.”
And honestly, that response exposed something deeply wrong in modern Christianity.
How did we arrive at a point where people are shocked that a man can teach accurately and still move in raw power?
Why do many assume that doctrinal depth must automatically lead to powerless Christianity?
And why do others think manifestation must exist without theological precision?
The apostles carried both.
Paul did not choose between revelation and manifestation. He embodied both.
The same man who taught justification by faith… union with Christ… grace… righteousness… adoption… inheritance… and the new creation realities…
was the same man through whom God wrought special miracles.
Paul said: “My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”
He also said: “I have fully preached the gospel… through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God.”
Meaning the full preaching of the gospel was not mere explanation.
It was explanation with manifestation.
Not motivational speaking. Not intellectual performance. Not emotional manipulation.
Raw power.
Real impact.
Authentic manifestation.
The living Christ unveiled.
The apostles continued steadfastly in doctrine… and with great power gave witness to the resurrection.
Doctrine and power. Depth and demonstration. Light and fire.
Together.
The gospel is not mere intellectualism.
The gospel is the power of God.
And there is no need to create a false divide between “Word people” and “Power people” when Scripture clearly reveals that the full expression of apostolic ministry carried both sound doctrine and undeniable manifestation.
Lest We Forget
One of the greatest dangers in ministry is not weakness.
It is forgetfulness.
Not forgetting Scripture.
Not forgetting how to preach.
Not forgetting church activities.
But forgetting why exactly Christ called you in the first place.
Many have become active but disconnected from assignment.
Busy but blurry.
Visible but no longer precise.
Lest we forget.
The heart of ministry is to understand the very reason for which Christ laid hold of you.
You were not called randomly.
You were apprehended by Christ for a purpose.
Seized by heaven for an assignment.
Separated unto something eternal.
This was the strength of Paul’s ministry.
Paul never lost sight of why he was called.
When the risen Christ appeared to him in Acts 26, the Lord did not merely save him.
He commissioned him.
“And I have appeared unto thee for this purpose...”
Acts 26:16
That statement alone should sober every minister.
“For this purpose.”
Not for trends.
Not for applause.
Not to endlessly react to culture.
Not to build a personality cult.
For this purpose.
Then the Lord began to define the assignment:
To open their eyes.
To turn them from darkness to light.
From the power of Satan unto God.
That they may receive forgiveness of sins.
And inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in Christ.
That commission became the architecture of Paul’s entire ministry.
Everything he preached flowed from it.
The gospel of grace.
The word of faith.
The Kingdom of God.
Justification by faith.
Redemption.
Sonship.
Adoption.
Inheritance in Christ.
Mercy.
Love.
Faith.
The new creation.
None of these were random theological ideas.
They were the unfolding of the original mandate given by the Lord Himself.
When Paul preached grace, he was opening eyes.
When he taught justification, he was turning men from darkness to light.
When he preached redemption in Christ, he was bringing men from the power of Satan unto God.
When he taught forgiveness, adoption, and inheritance, he was unveiling what it means to be sanctified by faith in Christ.
His epistles were not disconnected writings.
They were the literature of his commission.
This is why Paul’s ministry carried consistency.
Whether in prisons, cities, synagogues, schools, or before kings, the same central revelation kept flowing.
Acts 20:24 says:
“But none of these things move me... so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.”
Notice the language carefully:
“The ministry which I received of the Lord Jesus.”
Paul saw ministry as something received.
A divine trust.
A sacred stewardship.
Galatians 1:15–16 says:
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen...”
Even his apostleship to the Gentiles was clear to him.
He knew his bearing.
He knew his emphasis.
He knew what heaven sent him to establish.
Lest we forget.
You will not be rewarded for another man’s assignment.
You will be rewarded according to the work given to you by the Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:8 says:
“Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.”
This is why every minister must repeatedly ask:
What exactly was I sent to reveal?
What burden did Christ place within me?
What must consistently flow through my ministry?
What dimension of Christ must men encounter through my stewardship?
Because if you do not define your commission, distractions will define your ministry for you.
Soon you will spend your life reacting instead of revealing Christ.
Responding instead of building.
Chasing conversations instead of fulfilling assignment.
Lest we forget.
The strength of ministry is not merely gifting.
It is precision.
To know why you were called.
To articulate it clearly.
To protect it jealously.
And to centralize it in everything you do.
Paul did not merely have sermons.
He had a commission.
Like the church at Antioch, one of the hallmarks of raising strong local churches is raising in house ministry gifts and ministry teams and giving them expressions within the local church.
One of the blessings of Antioch for Paul the Apostle and Barnabas was that they were given the latitude to stand among other in house gifts to advance truth.
Antioch had prophets and teachers already functioning within the local church. It was not a one man system. It was a training church. A sending church. A speaking church. A reproducing church.
Do not just bring “Agabus” for meetings while your own people remain undeveloped.
Raise in house graces. Train your own ministers. Give them room to grow. Give them room to teach. Give them room to make mistakes, learn, mature, and function.
The strength of a local church is not in how many guests visit. It is in how many sons and daughters are raised.
Your work as a leader is not complete because people depend on you for everything. Your work is complete when others can minister effortlessly in your absence and even in your presence.
There is something deeply fulfilling about sitting in church on a Sunday morning, fully present, taking notes, receiving, watching others minister powerfully, accurately, and confidently within the house you helped build.
Not because you are tired. Not because you are absent. But because the house has grown beyond one voice.
That is maturity. That is leadership. That is Antioch.
Start today the school of the local church. Train your ministers. Build systems of doctrine, character, and expression. Let the people see ministry modeled up close.
The future of strong churches is not celebrity dependence. It is local church formation.
The greatest leaders do not merely gather crowds. They raise voices in-house!
There is a rising pressure in this generation. A pressure to “do something for God.” A pressure to “start something.” A pressure to “not waste your anointing.” A pressure to “step out before it is too late.”
And for many, that pressure is not coming from the Holy Spirit. It is coming from comparison, from expectations, from platforms, from voices that equate visibility with calling.
Let this be settled.
Not every believer is called to start a ministry.
Not every anointing is for pioneering.
Not every grace is for building a platform.
Some are called to be planted. Deeply planted. Faithfully planted. Quietly growing. Strongly rooted in a local church, serving, building, strengthening, and maturing within a body.
And that is not lesser.
That is biblical.
In 1 Corinthians 12, the Scripture says God sets members in the body as it pleases Him. Not as pressure dictates. Not as trends demand. Not as people suggest. As it pleases Him.
That means your place is not discovered by pressure. It is discovered by divine placement.
And when God places you, He sustains you.
But when pressure pushes you, you will spend years trying to sustain what God never started.
This is where many are exhausted today. They started something out of excitement, expectation, or persuasion, and now they are carrying a weight that grace never authorised. They are building without clarity. Leading without conviction. Labouring without peace.
Because they responded to pressure, not to calling.
Let us bring Scripture into this.
In Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas were not roaming around looking for where to start a ministry. They were in a local church. They were serving. They were part of a leadership community. Then the Holy Spirit spoke and said, “Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.”
Notice this.
They did not appoint themselves.
They were not pressured into starting something.
They were not compared into ministry.
They were not shamed into stepping out.
The Spirit spoke.
The church discerned.
Hands were laid.
They were released.
There was clarity.
There was witness.
There was alignment.
There was no confusion.
If God is calling you to start something, you will not need ten voices pushing you into it. There will be a deep persuasion within. There will be alignment in your spirit. There will be confirmation through Scripture, through godly counsel, and through the witness of the Spirit. It may be stretching, but it will not be confusing. It may require faith, but it will not require you to violate your peace.
God does not lead His people by harassment.
God does not guide His children by anxiety.
God does not reveal calling through intimidation.
The Spirit leads.
Now hear this clearly.
Honour is not slavery.
Submission is not the suspension of discernment.
Loyalty is not the abandonment of divine conviction.
You can respect leaders, receive from them, learn from them, and still not obey every suggestion they make about your life. A leader can see potential in you and still be wrong about your assignment. A pastor can desire expansion and still misplace people in roles they were not called to carry.
You must not convert someone else’s excitement about you into God’s instruction for you.
Your calling is not decided by who believes in you the most.
Your assignment is not determined by who is most persuasive.
Your ministry is not born because people say, “You can do it.”
It is born because God said, “This is what I have called you to do.”
And until that is clear, remain where God has planted you.
There is no shame in staying planted.
There is no shame in growing quietly.
There is no shame in serving faithfully.
There is no shame in saying no to opportunities that do not align with your conviction.
In fact, it takes maturity to remain where God is feeding you when there is pressure to prove something elsewhere.
Dear Minister,
In ministry, you must find your unique grace and strenght
You must find your strength by the Spirit.
Look at Apostle Paul. By his own admission, “rude in speech” (2 Corinthians 11:6).
The Corinthians said his bodily presence was weak and his speech contemptible (2 Corinthians 10:10). In today’s world, they would say, he is not charismatic, not media friendly, not a strong communicator.
Yet his writings shook the world.
While others were impressive in speech, Paul was weighty in substance.
While others were visible in presence, Paul was eternal in impact.
Paul the Apostle wrote letters that are still governing doctrine 2000 years later.
Peter the Apostle validated him, calling his writings Scripture (2 Peter 3:15–16).
Paul influenced the very architecture of the New Testament:
He shaped the theological framework that Luke the Evangelist would later document
He influenced the apostolic tradition that informed Mark the Evangelist
He dictated through scribes like Tertius (Romans 16:22)
He co authored with sons and brothers in the faith
Listen to how he introduces his letters:
Paul and Timothy, Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, Colossians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, 1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, 2 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul, an apostle, and Timothy our brother, 2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul and all the brethren which are with me, Galatians 1:2
This is not a one man show. This is grace recognised, multiplied, and expressed through alignment.
So hear this and hear it loudly:
If speech is not your strength, what is your strength?
If the platform is not your lane, what is your lane?
If social media is not your flow, what is your flow?
Because ministry is not about doing everything.
It is about doing your thing by the Spirit.
But the tragedy of ministry is this:
men abandon their grace trying to imitate another man’s manifestation.
Paul did not try to become Apollos.
He leaned into what was given to him and changed history.
So I say to you:
Find your thing.
Find the grace that works when you are not trying.
Find the lane where heaven backs you without strain.
Find the expression where your weakness becomes irrelevant because grace speaks.
Because in this Kingdom,
your relevance is not in doing everything
it is in doing what heaven has authorised you to do.
Even angels are wondering…
Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
This is not just a question.
It is a divine rebuke.
A disruption of every system that keeps the living tied to what is already buried.
It is unsettling, deeply unsettling,
that a man who is alive in Christ is still being interpreted through dead men,
explained by dead systems,
and bound by narratives that ended in the grave.
This association of the living with the dead is not just error,
it is a mislocation of identity.
The angels said three things, and they shook the foundations of religion:
Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
You are searching in the wrong realm.
He is not here, He is risen.
The reference point has changed.
Remember what He told you.
The problem is not power. The problem is memory. Doctrine. Alignment.
And yet today, we have refined a theology
that still looks for answers in graves.
We tell the born again man
that his life is being negotiated by the actions and inactions of dead people.
That his present is controlled by a past that Christ has already buried.
Even angels are wondering.
Because the gospel did not raise you halfway.
It did not relocate you slightly.
It translated you completely.
You are not an improved version of the old.
You are not a repaired lineage.
You are a new creation.
And in Christ, there is no provision
for dead men governing the living,
for dead systems interpreting the new man,
or for dead religion defining a resurrected identity.
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Why?
Because life, even in its lowest form,
is superior to the highest expression of death.
So what exactly are you doing
consulting what has no life
to explain the one who now carries the very life of God?
This is the contradiction.
This is the crisis.
A man who has passed from death to life
still being taught to fear death,
study death,
trace patterns in death,
and build doctrines around death.
Even angels are wondering.
Because resurrection is not a metaphor.
It is a location.
A state of being.
A final verdict.
So stop looking backward for explanations
when heaven has already moved you forward.
Stop dignifying what Christ has buried.
Stop negotiating with what God has ended.
You are not among the dead.
You are alive.
John 1:12–13 has already settled it. Completely. Final.
“To as many as received Him, to them gave He the right to become the sons of God…
Who were born, not of blood… but of God.”
Not of blood.
Not of lineage.
Not of ancestry.
Not of some invisible generational pipeline.
NOT. OF. BLOOD.
So what exactly are we still debating?
You cannot claim to be born of God and still be explaining your life by bloodline.
That is a contradiction of identity at the highest level.
The new birth did not improve your bloodline.
It ended it.
You did not carry your lineage into Christ.
You lost it in Him.
Let me be very clear and very loud:
Bloodline as a governing spiritual factor for the believer is dead on arrival.
Because the very scripture that defines your birth in Christ explicitly denies blood as a source.
So when a doctrine rises that tries to reintroduce blood as an explanatory system for your life, it is not deep.
It is a regression.
And it gets worse.
It is not just error.
It is an insult to the blood of Jesus.
Hebrews says:
“How much more shall the blood of Jesus…”
HOW MUCH MORE.
Meaning whatever you think blood can do biologically or ancestrally,
the blood of Jesus has already outperformed, outclassed, and outdone it completely.
So how do we now turn around and say:
“Yes, we have the blood of Jesus… but your bloodline is still speaking.”
What exactly is that?
That is not doctrine.
That is confusion dressed in spirituality.
You are not a product of bloodlines.
You are a product of the blood.
Not many bloods.
Not ancestral streams.
THE blood.
And that blood did not negotiate with your past.
It wiped it out.
And let us correct the warfare narrative while we are here.
The scripture says clearly:
“We wrestle not against flesh and blood…”
So why are you building an entire warfare system around bloodlines?
You are fighting what the scripture already told you is not your warfare.
That is not spiritual intelligence.
That is doctrinal misalignment.
Let me land this with force:
If your explanation for your life after Christ still traces back to blood,
then you have not understood your birth.
Because the day you were born again:
You did not become a better version of your ancestry.
You became a new creation in Christ.
A new origin.
A new source.
A new identity.
So enough of this language that sounds deep but empties the gospel of its power.
Enough of this narrative that gives more voice to ancestry than to Christ.
Enough.
The blood of Jesus is not in competition with your bloodline.
It ended it.
Walk in the reality of your birth.
Now it is becoming clearer. Manifesting the gifts of the Spirit is not the same as spiritual maturity.
Gifts are gifts. They are given, not grown. But maturity is formed.
Let us flesh this out properly from the very scriptures you are pointing to, because Paul did not leave this ambiguous.
1. “You came behind in no gift…” Yet they were immature
From 1 Corinthians 1:7
Paul, writing to the Corinthian church, makes a startling statement:
“So that ye come behind in no gift…”
This church was fully loaded with spiritual gifts. Prophecy, tongues, knowledge, manifestations. There was no deficiency in expression.
Yet, this same church becomes Paul’s primary case study of immaturity in the New Testament.
2. “I could not speak unto you as spiritual…”
From 1 Corinthians 3:1
“I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”
This is the contradiction that exposes a major error in the body today.
How can a people
Not lack any gift
Yet be called carnal
Yet be addressed as babes
Paul is dismantling the assumption that power equals growth.
They had gifts, but they also had
Strife
Division
Envy
Party spirit. “I am of Paul, I am of Apollos…”
So Paul says clearly
You are gifted, but you are not spiritual.
That is heavy.
3. “I do not want you to be ignorant…”
From 1 Corinthians 12:1
“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”
Notice this carefully.
Ignorance is possible even in the midst of manifestations.
You can be
Speaking in tongues
Prophesying
Operating in word of knowledge
and still be ignorant of what is actually happening, why it is happening, and how it should be governed.
That is why the same Corinthian church
Misused tongues
Interrupted gatherings
Turned spiritual expression into chaos
So Paul introduces doctrine to regulate power.
4. The Core Apostolic Argument
Paul’s message across these chapters is consistent.
Gifts are not proof of maturity.
They are proof of grace at work.
But maturity is seen in
Doctrine
Love
Order
Discernment
Character formation
That is why in between chapter 12 and chapter 14, Paul inserts 1 Corinthians 13 love.
Because without maturity
Gifts become noise
Power becomes pride
Expression becomes confusion
5. The Final Blow
This is where many miss it.
A man can
Prophesy accurately
Heal the sick
Demonstrate power
and still be
Carnal
Immature
Doctrinally unstable
Because gifts flow from the Spirit, but maturity is formed in the soul through the Word.
6. The Apostolic Balance
Paul is not against gifts. He actually says
“Covet earnestly the best gifts…” — 1 Corinthians 12:31
But he is correcting the metric.
Do not use gifts to measure growth.
Use doctrine and formation.
Final Charge
Stop being impressed by manifestations without formation.
Stop equating activity with maturity.
The Corinthian church had power, but Paul called them babies.
Growth is not what you display.
Growth is what you have become.
@deleosunmakinde A minister can be deeply blessed by a teaching voice without being fathered by that voice.
Spiritual fatherhood is not a slogan. It is not a badge. It is not something created by admiration from a distance.
This is deep Sir.
Thank You Sir