One thing that deeply worries me about Nigeria is this:
Some dreams are almost impossible to achieve if you're born, raised, and educated here.
Want to become an astronaut? There is virtually no pathway.
Want to become a world-class professional footballer? For most talented children, the route is far harder than it should be because the development ecosystem is weak.
And there are many other careers where your biggest obstacle isn't your talent, it's your geography.
This is why some Nigerians have to leave the country, not because they hate Nigeria, but because that's the only way to fully pursue their dreams.
That should concern all of us.
A child's future should be determined by their ability and hard work, not by the accident of where they were born.
Nigeria has no shortage of talent.
What we're missing is a system that allows talent to become greatness.
Roughly 150 years before Cyrus the Great was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote something that should have been impossible. He named Cyrus directly, calling him God's anointed, and declared that this future Persian king would set God's exiled people free and command the rebuilding of Jerusalem. A prophecy naming a specific ruler, generations before his birth, before his empire even rose.
To skeptics, this was proof the passage must have been written later, after the fact, by someone editing the prophecy to fit history. No one, they insisted, could name an unborn king.
Then consider what archaeology has recovered. In 1879, in the ruins of Babylon, excavators found a barrel-shaped clay cylinder covered in cuneiform writing. It was the official decree of Cyrus himself. On it, the Persian king declares his policy toward the peoples his empire had conquered: he would return the exiles to their homelands and restore their temples and worship.
This is precisely what the book of Ezra records Cyrus doing for the Jews, sending them home from Babylon and funding the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. The biblical account and the king's own inscription describe the same policy, from the same reign, in the same historical moment. The decree that ended the exile was real, issued by the real king, exactly as Scripture said.
To the world, biblical prophecy is a trick, always written after the events it claims to foresee. But the God who moves history named the man who would free His people before that man drew his first breath, and then moved a pagan emperor's heart to do it.
Nothing is outside His reach, not empires, not kings, not the flow of centuries. He sees the end from the beginning. The same God who orchestrated your rescue from before the foundation of the world holds your future now. Trust the One who writes history before it happens.
Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
Thank You, Jesus.
Jesus knew He was about to raise Lazarus from the dead.
He'd already said, "This sickness will not end in death." (John 11:4)
And yet, standing at the tomb, minutes before the miracle.
"Jesus wept." — John 11:35
🧵 A devotional on why God grieves even what He's about to fix.
Trapped. The sea in front. The world's most powerful army closing in behind.
No weapons. No escape. No options.
This is where Israel stood at the Red Sea, and it's exactly where God chose to do one of the greatest miracles in history.
The parting of the sea isn't just a dramatic story.
It's a picture of how God works when you're completely out of options. 🧵
It’s good to be grateful for what God has done, but you can’t put your faith on hold. You need to be stretching, growing, pursuing, knowing that there’s more in store. Don’t let the success you’ve seen in the past keep you from stretching to the fullness of your destiny.
The New Testament predates both Islam and Muhammad by several centuries.
When the books of the New Testament were written, Muhammad had not even been born. So how can someone who lived over 600 years later claim to correct events he never witnessed?
He wasn’t there.
He never walked with Jesus.
He never met Jesus’ disciples.
He wasn’t from the tribe of Judah.
Why should we reject the testimony of eyewitnesses in favor of someone who came centuries later?
The apostles lived with Jesus. They heard His teachings, witnessed His miracles, saw His crucifixion, and testified that He rose from the dead. Their accounts were recorded within the first century by those who knew Him or closely associated with those who did.
For that reason, we cannot set aside the testimony of eyewitnesses to accept the claims of someone who lived hundreds of years after the events. History is established by those who were present, not by those who came centuries later to rewrite it.
In John chapter 5, Jesus heals a man who had been paralyzed for thirty-eight years at a place the Gospel calls the Pool of Bethesda. John gives an oddly specific detail: the pool, he writes, had five covered colonnades, five porches surrounding it.
For a long time this description was treated as evidence that John's Gospel was unreliable. No such pool had ever been found. And a pool with five sides, five porches, seemed architecturally strange, almost invented. Critics argued the writer had never seen Jerusalem, that the detail was symbolic fiction, perhaps standing for the five books of Moses. The Gospel, they concluded, was written late, by someone far removed from the real city.
Then archaeologists dug near the Church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem, and they found it. A pool, exactly where John located it, near the Sheep Gate. And its design solved the puzzle immediately. It was not one pool but two large basins side by side, with a colonnade on each of the four outer sides and a fifth colonnade running across the middle, dividing the two pools. Five porches, precisely as John wrote.
Consider the significance. This was no symbol invented by a distant author. It was a detailed, accurate description of a real structure, one that no longer existed in Jerusalem after the city was destroyed in AD 70. Whoever wrote this had walked past that pool. He knew the city as it stood before its destruction.
To the world, the Gospels are late, secondhand, disconnected from the events they describe. But the man who wrote of Bethesda knew its five porches because he had seen them, and the healing he recorded happened at a real pool where real suffering people waited.
Jesus went to the place of the broken and the hopeless, and He still does. He walks toward the ones the world has written off, and He heals. He sees you where you wait. Bring Him your thirty-eight years, whatever they are.
Jesus is the Healer, the one who makes the broken whole.
Thank You, Jesus.
There are people around you who will never set foot in a church. You may be the only Bible they ever read. The way you treat people, the way you respond to pressure, the way you love when it is hard — that is your testimony. Make it count.
The enemy would love for you to feel unworthy when, in fact, you’re a masterpiece. The Creator of the universe applauded you. He said you are very good. Why are you depending on people to tell you that you’re good, you’re talented? You’re trying to get from them what God has already given you.
Stay open. God’s ways are not our ways. Sometimes the brook will dry up, sometimes the manna will cease, sometimes someone will walk away. Those aren’t random. They are necessary endings. It’s the hand of God closing one door to open another door.