John Adebowale

...writer | watchman | explorer of faith | possibilitarian

[John Adebowale @growthMerchant]

JESUS ONLY JESUS EVER...

[The Vine @Thevine_ntwk]

Another day to remind you that listening to Bad bunny, Drake, Billie Eilish, Burna boy and all secular artists, will not bring you out of depression.

Same as therapy and antidepressants. Only the prince of peace can renew your heart and mind. Choose Jesus Christ 🤍

[Sam @DrFeruke]

Pastor, that girl calls you father. Do not make sexual advances towards her.

Pastor, that boy calls you papa. Do not exploit his strength or his money.

Feed the sheep as Christ fed you. Don't eat them.

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Yoruba traditionalists need to sue on what grounds?

That a religious organization expresses its tenets through art?

This glorification of "African Spirituality" only signals ignorance of the true nature of ATR.

Historian Elizabeth Isichei noted that in the eighteenth century, Asaba;

There was a customary chiefly ascension rite involving the killing of two slaves, and additional killings at the funerary rites of chiefs.

This means that human beings were killed on a large scale for politico-theological reasons.

Furthermore, she notes other practices that stemmed from ATR before missionary contact reformed many of them:

Infanticide. The abandonment of twins.

Isichei reported that in the Igbo-speaking region in 1879, after "a missionary attack on the practice," Samuel Ajayi Crowther remarked:

"This is the first year that a direct attack has ever been made against heathenish superstition."

Should we talk about the moral-legal jurisprudential practice of truth-seeking that involved taking a toxic substance, the Esere Bean, in Calabar?

In a nineteenth-century episode reported in a Cambridge documentary chapter on Old Calabar, the ordeal is presented as mass-lethal:

"At the death of King Eyamba in 1834," roughly fifty family members "seemed to have taken the esere bean ordeal," and "forty died."

This is the "African Spirituality" that many now glorify.

You have no idea what you are calling for.

The increase in ritual killings witnessed in Southwest Nigeria over the past six years is consequential to African herbalists using human parts in concoctions for 'Yahoo boys.'

There are rituals in which an entire human body is burnt and turned into powder, then mixed with oils that the Yahoo boy applies, supposedly to increase his chances of successful fraud.

I know this firsthand. I grew up in Ife.

Whenever people died, say, a suspected thief was publicly lynched, people would come, cut up the corpse, and take parts of it.

Why? They wanted to use human parts for charms. Where do they go to make these enchantments?

African traditionalists.

African spirituality is inherently ritualistic, and morality is not atomized to the individual but to the community.

This was why it was easy to kill some people for the 'good of the collective' in pre-colonial African society.

Christianity came and introduced the sort of morality that universalized moral worth and conferred inherent moral worth on the individual.

African Spirituality is demonic, and it should not be espoused by anyone.

So, we thank God that Mount Zion has done an incredible job of shedding light on its barbarism.

When Yoruba movies portray ritual killing for money as socially acceptable, no one sues them.

Mount Zion will go on and go up, by God's grace. Amen.

To God's glory.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

I didn't know she sang all these songs. This one touch me.

See memories. Peaceful rest to her ❤️🕊

[Dr. Ose Etiobhio @osemagnum]

Agbara nla is coming.

Some said Ayamatanga = "I am at anger" 😹

AGBARA NLA is coming and the Kingdom of hell will feel the impact!... Again!

[Lanre Adejare @Ologun007]

The Prophets had no Power (politically)
It's a mistake to think you need to be at the top of any mountain of influence before you can influence unto a change.
(Paraphrased).

Michael Ramsden
Abuja Apologetics Meeting
AGO.

[Joshua Mike-Bamiloye @jay_mikee]

“Here we go again” and yet you couldn’t get through one paragraph without misrepresenting what Mount Zion actually does. Let me help.

MZ doesn’t demonize Yoruba culture. It celebrates it; the colors, the language, the proverbs, the royalty. Eg. Abejoye became a born-again Christian while still speaking deep Yoruba, bowing before his king, and dropping proverbs that’ll make your grandfather nod. Nobody took his culture. The Gospel just took the throne in his heart.

You framed this as “Yoruba spirituality vs foreign religion.” We never did. We frame it as Light vs Darkness and Darkness has no nationality. We’ve called it out in boardrooms, cities, and yes, in the villages. Location doesn’t exempt it.

“Profiting from portrayals” MZ has 200+ films. Less than 30% are traditional settings. Your entire argument is built on a minority of the catalog, filtered through a lens of cultural grievance. That’s not analysis, that’s a feeling dressed up as a fact.

People are asking questions? Good. Watch the films. The full ones. From start to finish.
AGBARA NLA drops OCT 1. 🔥 The name of Jesus is still above every other name, in 1993 and in 2026.

[The Vine @Thevine_ntwk]

I've been studying the Bible everyday for over 420 days straight!

I cannot imagine going a day without studying it, it is now part of my everyday life.

[The Vine @Thevine_ntwk]

I used to criticize people who were devoted to their Christian faith.

Those who never wanted anything to do with secular music, random relationships and so many "normal" things an average human does all the time.

I thought they weren't free, that they are living in set out rules that are complicating their lives.

Not until i fell into deep struggles and was looking out for hope. That is when i encountered Jesus Christ.

I was lost, empty and wandering down a terrible path society told me to follow. I thought i was living in freedom, but my life was heading to death.

I was deep in lust and addictions, it almost ruined my life, but Jesus pulled me out of that pit.

Now i understand why they had to live that way. This is a life of peace and not every human can boast of it. Knowing Jesus is like holding an answer sheet next to your question paper.

My life changed entirely, and now I'm living clean with peace and understanding. Now all i want to do is protect my peace by all means, by rejecting whatever society presents.

I'm afraid I've become what i once criticized 😩

[Lisa murugi @Lisawanganga]

The Principle of Gospel Partnership
The Kingdom of God advances through many kinds of giving:
Giving finances
Giving hospitality
Giving time
Giving skills and talents
Giving encouragement
Giving prayer support
Giving resources for ministry

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

"If a man has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been challed to the ministry."

— Charles Spurgeon

[Real Talk Kim @RealTalkKim]

God is bigger than the diagnosis. Bigger than the debt. Bigger than the delay. Bigger than the door that closed. Stop giving your problem a microphone and start giving God your faith.

[Real Talk Kim @RealTalkKim]

Judas showed up to every prayer meeting too.
Just because they're present doesn't mean they're loyal.
Discernment is deeper than attendance.
Watch the fruit, not just the face.

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“Feed on the Word. There is no other food for your souls.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Gugu Dlamini @ggdlams]

Mina it’s the opposite. For years I’d had terrible period pains. So bad, I would throw up. Then one day I asked God to heal me, I used some verses and went to Him in faith. Woke up the next month pain free. It’s been 5 years. I will forever be grateful 🙏

[Peter Mulgrew @PeterM54322]

The first day of summer. A word from George Müller on travel:

“The next thing I would advise with reference to travelling is, with all one’s might to seek morning by morning, before setting out, to take time for meditation and prayer, and reading the word of God; for although we are always exposed to temptation, yet we are so especially in travelling. Travelling is one of the devil’s especial opportunities for tempting us.”

I don’t travel much these days, but I’ve found the principle remains true.

The mind rarely stays still on its own. Left unattended, it drifts toward worry, resentment, fear, or distraction.

A few quiet minutes each morning—in prayer, Scripture, and reflection—often do more for my peace than hours spent trying to regain it later.

The journey may be different, but the need for daily formation remains the same.

[Andreas Huebner @_AndreasHuebner]

I can recognize a fool almost immediately by the way they handle honor.

A fool is incapable of honor.

They mock what should be respected.
They criticize what they should learn from.
They despise what they should value.
They tear down what they should be building.

A wise person understands that honor is not weakness.
Honor is strength under control.

Honor does not mean you agree with everything someone says.
Honor does not mean people are perfect.
Honor does not mean blind loyalty.

Honor means recognizing value.

A fool walks into a room and looks for flaws.
A wise person walks into a room and looks for wisdom.

A fool sees a successful person and searches for reasons to criticize.
A wise person asks, "What can I learn?"

A fool believes dishonor makes them appear strong.
A wise person understands that dishonor reveals insecurity.

Throughout Scripture, honor opens doors.

Dishonor closed the eyes of many to who Jesus really was. They saw the carpenter's son and missed the Messiah.

Honor is a Kingdom principle.

The person who cannot honor authority will struggle with authority.
The person who cannot honor wisdom will struggle to receive wisdom.
The person who cannot honor faithfulness will struggle to become faithful.

Watch how people speak about their parents.
Watch how they speak about mentors.
Watch how they speak about pastors, leaders, employers, and those who have gone before them.

Their relationship with honor reveals their future.

You do not rise by despising greatness.
You rise by recognizing it, learning from it, and honoring what God has placed in your path.

Honor attracts wisdom.
Honor attracts favor.
Honor attracts opportunities.

A fool cannot understand this because a fool sees honor as loss.

But in the Kingdom of God, honor is never a loss.

Honor is a seed.
And every seed produces a harvest.

[Andreas Huebner @_AndreasHuebner]

NOW is a very powerful word.

Fear lives in tomorrow.
Regret lives in yesterday.

But faith lives in NOW.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for..." (Hebrews 11:1)

Not tomorrow faith.
Not someday faith.
Not after I see the evidence faith.

NOW faith.

Faith reaches into the invisible realm and lays hold of God's promises before they become visible.

If God said it, believe it NOW.
If God promised it, receive it NOW.
If Jesus purchased it at the Cross, thank Him for it NOW.

Your future breakthrough begins with a present-tense faith.

[John Adebowale @growthMerchant]

But because disappointment can become a theology.
Build your doctrine around God's Word.

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"Instead of working toward a hoped-for arrival at justification, the Christian life actually begins with it."
-Sinclair Ferguson.