Working on a startup has taught me one thing: there’s no closing hour. You sign up for 24/7 😅
I.e Startup life = no closing hour. 😂
But working on @ounjefood felt different, it didn't feel like work.
Joined the team this year, and today we’re live 🎉
Proud of what we’ve built. And this is just the start.
#OunjeFoodIsHere #OunjeFoodIsLive
Selling cement is such a humbling business.
My father owns a cement shop, and one of his regular prayer points was:
“God abeg, send customers. Make this thing no spoil for my hand.” 😂
One day, a distributor sent 250 bags of cement to him.
As usual, it was a "take now, pay after selling" arrangement.
But this batch stayed in the shop for too long.
He managed to sell about 100 bags, but the remaining 150 just sat there like nobody wanted cement again.
Then one day, he opened the shop and discovered the cement had started caking, even though it wasn’t placed directly on the ground.
He was heartbroken.
But instead of letting it waste, he bought truckloads of sand and hired workers to mold blocks with everything left.
In fact, the entire shop was cleared just to avoid loss.
Later, the distributor called for payment, and my dad had to withdraw money from his other business to settle the debt.
After that experience, he said he was done selling cement.
He was just waiting for his shop rent to expire so he could shut everything down.
Then something unexpected happened.
During that same period, one of his old friends came to our house, saw the blocks outside, and asked if my dad wanted to sell them.
My dad said yes and just like that, he sold everything.
Then the man asked if there was still cement in the shop.
My father instantly said a quick: *“Yes” 😂😂😂
That “yes” was very fast for someone who had locked his shop for over two weeks.
To my surprise, that night my dad didn’t let the cement distributor rest.
He kept calling and shouting on the phone, begging him to make sure the truck arrived at his shop the next morning 😂😂
Anybody who says running a business is easy is lying.
Have you ever abandoned a business in a slow season, and later resumed it when opportunity showed up?
@chrisoliver_T Indeed it has to be the removal of the fuel subsidy.
It was the first thing that administration flagged off with on the swearing in day.
God is a strategist.
True faith always births an intelligent plan which you are to execute in the fulfilment of God's promise to you. If all you are doing is pray and wait on time, you are hoping and not in faith.
Pray and search diligently through meditation until you observe to do according to what is revealed in the scriptures and then you will make your way prosperous and have good success
When God was going to deliver the nation of Israel out of bondage he gave Moses a detailed strategy of what every family had to do that night.
Kill a goat or lamb, sprinkle the blood upon your door post and sit within dressed up to depart but you must eat the flesh of the lamb mingled with certain things.
God is a God of details desist from praying, hoping and guess work. Get into praying and meditating to hatch the plan. The lack of mediation to see what to do is what is killing the fulfilment of the vision.
For three months, I was convinced my coworker secretly hated me.
Every time I walked into the office kitchen, he’d go quiet. He’d close his laptop when I passed by. He never laughed at my jokes. In my head, it became a full series: Season 1 The Workplace Nemesis. I replayed every interaction like evidence.
One day I finally asked him if I’d done something wrong.
He blinked.
Turns out he thought I didn’t like him. He said I always looked “intimidating” and serious, so he tried to stay out of my way. The laptop closing? He was embarrassed about playing fantasy basketball during work hours. The silence? Social anxiety.
We both spent months starring in completely different dramas… in the same room.
The stupidest part? Nothing was happening.
It was just two overthinkers building entire plotlines out of eye contact and bad timing.
That’s when I realized: half of the tension in our lives is self-written fan fiction.
For every vision you have that may seem impossible today, it really isn't. It is important you don't make haste but build a spiritual altar around it. Say nothing to anyone about it until instructed or permitted by God to speak.
Disclosing things prematurely to others increases spiritual warfare around it and it could lead to more difficulties in your path.
Spend time in private disciplines of prayer, fasting and offering up spiritual sacrifices over it. This is what amounts to building an altar.
In return heaven will send down revelation and direction. You start speaking prophetically and the light on how to go about it will dawn upon your heart.
Let the Spirit come upon you concerning it.
#MondayMotivation
The older I get, the more I realize that most of my problems are not mysteries. They are negotiations. I know what to do. I simply don’t want to pay the price yet.
There are things God will tell you that are unconventional.
They are often for you and not the general public because he trusts you have the maturity to handle and analyse the information.
It's not everything you should share publicly. If you must share, do so with kings.
Make up your mind today, whatever God will not give me, may I not try to get it. I will never compromise seeking the favour of any trying to get what God would not grant me. I will honour all but receive only that which God chooses to give for he alone is my source.
Proverbs 29:26
26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord.
#MondayMotivation
@pfemiolaleye People are talking about proof. Even with all the Miracles Jesus and the apostles did in the Bible they were still called false,mocked and killed. It's not important explaining to humans or trying to prove anything to anyone. They will still believe what they want.
Beloved,
There are Seasons when GOD stops dealing with the surface of our lives and begins to deal with the Core of who we are.
This is one of those Seasons.
For a long time, we have said the enemy of Reformation is the flesh, and yes, the flesh is real.
But the LORD is showing us something deeper,
something more dangerous that Reformation is most often undone by Self.
There are Seasons when GOD stops tolerating distance between what we say and what we live.
This is one of those Seasons.
For years, we have blamed the flesh.
We have blamed culture.
We have blamed the enemy.
But the LORD is putting His finger on something closer, something far more dangerous, SELF.
This is why even the best of Ministers fall on this Altar. Not because they hated GOD, but because Self was never brought to the Cross.
When GOD deals with the Heart, it silences you.
It strips you of excuses.
It leaves you face to face with the truth that some things survived in our lives not because GOD approved them, but because we insisted on keeping them.
And in that place, the Prayer changes.
It is no longer, “LORD, use me.”
It becomes, “LORD, save me.”
Save me from myself.
Save me from serving You without submitting to You. Save me from speaking for You while refusing to die to You.
This is the Work of JESUS in this Season.
He is not attacking His Church.
He is reclaiming it.
So Beloved, do not harden your heart if you Hear HIS Voice. Do not run from it. Do not explain it away.
Let the LORD finish His Work.
Because Reformation does not begin with the flesh being restrained it begins with Self being crucified.
And when you hear His Voice this close, harden not your heart.
Just as JESUS cares about your Soul, He has given us the Burden to care for it also.
REPENT…
Update: Dispute settled. Upwork ruled in my favour and released the full payment.
Proof matters, structure matters, and milestones protect your neck every time😂. Now imagine I didn’t break down the project into milestones🧎🏾♂️🤞. Glad it’s all resolved.
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So please, don’t stay away from church or Scripture just because they touch sensitive spots. Your soul matters far more than your feelings.
_Are you born again? If not, Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart._
Avoiding mirrors doesn’t make an untidy look disappear. In fact, it only makes you more conscious of it.
The same with the Word of God, denying it, doesn’t change the truth.