The Holy Spirit is not responsible for our prayerlessness. He doesn't start our prayers, He joins us when we start.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
Philippians 4:6 NKJV
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.
As a first daughter, who you marry is more than a relationship decision, it is a mantle decision.
One careless “yes” can silence your voice, quench your fire, and derail your assignment.
As an Ex-Muslim, let me explain a rabbinic mystery that points straight at the Trinity I used to mock.
The most important prayer in Judaism is the Shema: “Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4.
I used to quote this AGAINST Christians. “See? God is ONE!”
But here’s what I didn’t know. The Hebrew word for “one” there is echad.
And echad isn’t always a solitary one. When the Bible says a man and wife become “one flesh” — that’s echad. Genesis 2:24. Two becoming a unity.
When the people acted “as one man” — echad. A unified many.
There’s a different Hebrew word for absolute, solitary oneness — yachid.
And God did NOT use it in the Shema.
He chose echad. Compound unity. Plural oneness.
So it flipped on me…
The verse I used to disprove the Trinity was secretly the door to it.
And in Genesis, God says “Let US make man in OUR image.” Genesis 1:26. Us. Our. From the very first chapter.
I was using the oneness of God to fight the Gospel.
But His oneness was never the flat, solitary kind.
It was always rich enough to hold a Father, a Son, and a Spirit.
BREAKING: A Nigerian woman, Habibat Salawudeen Ihiovi-Jack, is attempting to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest Holy Bible reading marathon, aiming to read continuously for 144 hours in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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 🤍
As a married man, I once rejected my wife’s food over a quarrel for over a week even though I was still providing the money for it.
There was another time, close to three weeks, where I didn’t speak to her and she didn’t speak to me. Today I’ve outgrown all those habits.
At some point i said i no do again. But today we are 9 years still learning and enjoying it.
A lot of you talk like pros until you get married and your true nature comes out.
Marriage is just two imperfect people looking to build something. Blocking and unblocking your husband is just one way people vent anger that doesn’t mean she isn’t interested again one day she’ll outgrow it.
On Twitter people behave as if dem no dey sh!t. You don’t know what you can do until you get married.
No one gives marital advice more than a man or woman who hasn’t tested marriage.
I can’t do this I can’t do that😂
If you have never quarreled with your wife or husband to the point of leaving, the marriage then you haven’t truly started.
I was in my future in-laws’ kitchen frosting a cake when my fiancé’s dad came home.
He looked at his wife and said, in the most belittling tone:
“You think your legs look good in shorts like that? You look disgusting.”
I froze. Then looked at my fiancé.
He looked back at me with the kindest eyes and whispered:
“If I ever treat you the way my dad treats my mom, slap me in the face to wake me up, okay?”
Nine years later,
This morning, I was in a bus heading to Apapa. A woman carrying a baby was sitting beside me.
The baby was crying uncontrollably, and it was obvious the child wanted to be bre@stfed. Everyone kept telling the woman to feed her baby because the crying was becoming too much. A man sitting at the back even started calling her names, thinking she was deliberately ignoring the child.
But she just kept staring out the window, completely zoned out.
I gently tapped her and asked her to attend to the baby. Her mind was clearly somewhere else.
She immediately brought out her bre@st and began feeding the child without even bothering to cover herself.
As I watched her, she reached into her bag, brought out a small medicine bottle, took out two pills, and started chewing them.
She looked devastated.
When it was time to pay for her fare, I told her not to worry and paid for her.
As she turned to say thank you, I noticed she was fighting back tears.
I didn't know what to say.
All I could tell her was, "It's going to be okay. Please hang in there."
A few minutes later, I got off the bus.
People are fighting battles you'll never know anything about.
Please be kind.
Anytime a man is imagining himself as a woman, it’s always in a soft girl, a baddie, a working class madam. It’s never a submissive wife, a full time house wife or a mother of 7.
We all know what we are doing