Many people will start. Few will stay the course.
The journey of entrepreneurship is not won by the fastest start or the loudest launch. It is won by the entrepreneurs who keep showing up, learning, adapting, and believing in their vision, even when the results take time.
As our Founder, Tony O. Elumelu, CFR (@TonyOElumelu) reminds us:
"If there is one lesson I have learned throughout my journey, it is that success is rarely determined by who starts first or even who starts strongest. More often, it is determined by who remains committed long enough to see their vision become reality."
To every African entrepreneur building through uncertainty: your consistency today is laying the foundation for tomorrow's success.
Stay committed. Keep building. Africa is counting on you.
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Saddened to hear about the killings in JOS!
Evil will not prevail in this country! The conspiracy and the conspirators will be exposed and judged swiftly!
Haba, this is too much!
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growth can be frustrating mehn.
you’re up today, and tomorrow it seems like you never were.
the other days, you can’t just help but second-guess yourself.
yet as seemingly counter-intuitive as it may seem, the way through this is often to never quit.
We Leaders Have Failed Our Generation (Part Two)
There is another error among us one we rarely name.
Elders have begun to encourage unfinished men. Not because those men are ready, but because those men keep them connected to their generation. What appears outwardly as support is sometimes a compromise, and if we are honest, it has spread further among us than we admit.
There was a time when elders guarded the gates of the House of GOD. They examined lives. They weighed doctrine. They tested character. A man was not advanced because he was impressive, eloquent, or visible. He was advanced because he had endured the dealings of GOD. Influence was not given to potential alone; it was entrusted to men who had already been shaped and Dealt with By The LORD.
But something has shifted among us.
We Now rush to stand beside men who have not yet been finished. We platform what should still be pastored. And i Percieve it is the subtle fear that the work of GOD will move forward without us.
So we attach ourselves to rising voices before asking whether those voices are anchored.
Yet the role of an Elder has never been to ride the momentum of the young. It is to steady it. It is to restrain when necessary. It is to speak the word wait when everything around them is shouting go.
For unfinished men can preach with Zeal and Momentum, but without formation They will eventually burn what it was meant to build.
Elders were never meant to accelerate the House; they were meant to slow it down. Their responsibility is to insist that character grows deeper than influence and to ensure that weight is placed only on shoulders strengthened by the dealings of GOD.
But when elders begin to benefit from the visibility of the young, restraint becomes difficult. Correction becomes awkward. And slowly, the House begins to lose its order.
This generation does not only need passionate voices. They need Fathers who are not impressed by Their passion Fathers who remember that the Kingdom of GOD is not advanced by speed but by Faithfulness.
And Faithfulness must be Proved.
Therefore Elders must return to their place not as spectators of rising movements, but as guardians of the House of GOD. Men who love the next generation enough to slow them down. Men who refuse to call a man finished when GOD is still working on him.
Relevance is a reward, but Stewardship is a responsibility.
And one day Elders will answer before GOD not for how closely they stood to Men of influence, but for how faithfully they guarded the work of GOD the Men Under them Stewarded.
We Must Stop Confusing this Young Ones That Ministry is all About influence and Glamour.
I refused to buy my own car until we bought one for my dad.
Growing up, we didn’t have much, but we had parents who sacrificed everything for us.
After medical school, while preparing to relocate to the UK, I lived at home for years. I ate their food, saved my money, and planned my next move.
They never pressured me, never complained, never made me feel too old to still be under their roof. They just supported me.
Meanwhile, my dad had been driving the same red Mercedes for about ten years. Toward the end, it smoked badly when he started it and sometimes broke down on the way to church. They would have to get out and push it.
One day my mum mentioned it casually on a phone call. It stayed with me.
At the time, I could have bought a car for myself, but it didn’t feel right.
So I spoke to my siblings. We decided to pool our resources and surprise him for his birthday.
He came home from work, saw the car, and walked around it slowly. “Is this for me?” he kept asking.
Later my mum told me he got very emotional. He said no one had ever given him such a gift before.
Growing up, my mum used to pray over us: “When you call on one, a thousand will answer.”
I didn’t want them to have to call before we answered.
Success is not the car. Success is being able to honour the people who carried you when you couldn’t carry yourself.
Cc: Toluwani Binutu
The fact that many Christians cannot recognise false preachers even when there are obvious signs suggests that many Christians cannot recognise Jesus.
The real Jesus is largely unknown to those who claim to be His followers.
Some days ago my husband gave our toddler one hot scolding
This small man of God likes to throw his toys from a height and watch them make loud sounds as they hit the floor
I’m not sure why
So my husband scolded him seriously
Even me in my mind I was like “is this shout not too hot for this small boy”?
(Later we will talk about how mothers will spoil their babies if you leave them because I don’t like people shouting at my baby🥹)
Anyway back to the story
That’s how the small man of God started crying o
Even me I felt my heart melt
Guess what this boy did though?
As he was crying and tears were streaming down his face, he started crawling towards his daddy
Went to him and put his arm around his neck
My husband too held him and started loving up on him
In that moment I think the Fathrhood of Christ became real to me all over again
The fact that a true son doesn’t run away from the Father even in the face of chastisement
He runs towards the Father more instead
A scripture that comes to mind was when Jesus shouted at the disciples and said “have ye no faith”??
And their reply was “Lord help our unbelief”
As you journey in your faith walk with Jesus, whenever you see your failings and your mistakes, don’t run away from the Father
Go to Him
Plead for mercy
Ask Him to give you more grace and increase your faith
Be like my small man of God.
Blessings.
We Leaders Have Failed Our Generation
This generation carries anxieties they do not know how to name.
They are overexposed and under-shepherded. They are spiritually curious, yet doctrinally fragile. They are moving quickly, with little that roots them.
They do not know what holiness costs.
They have inherited a vocabulary of faith without its gravity.
And much of that is on us.
Our central failure is this: we have not been accountable for the souls entrusted to us.
Accountability. That’s the word.
I think of Eli.
Not the ark his posture.
He saw corruption in his own house and did not restrain it. He heard of sin and answered it with mildness. He occupied an office without enforcing its boundaries.
He honored his sons above the LORD.
We have preached against darkness while tolerating compromise in our circles.
We have excused disorder in the name of mercy.
We have watched ambition mature faster than character and called it gifting.
There is pain in my heart this morning: we are not accountable to the Word.
Accountable to the call.
Accountable for the people.
We, however, have feared loneliness. We have softened truth to remain welcomed. We have measured fruit not by faithfulness, but by a metric system used only by the enemy the devil.
And now we shepherd a generation that has passion without a plumb line.
We are accountable for what we model, for what we tolerate, and for what we refuse to correct.
If we handle holy things casually, they will inherit a casual faith. If we preach conviction but avoid it, they will detect the fracture.
Ministers, we cannot blame culture for what we have failed to guard. We cannot indict the young for the ground we left unplanted.
The LORD will not only ask this generation why they wandered.
He will ask us why we did not watch.
And that question will not be light.
If you are a leader, take time to reflect on these things. The call is to repentance.
Happy Birthday Daddy.. Today is all about Thanksgiving rising to heaven because of you Sir. What a life! What an impact!
Blessed and honored to be connected to you Daddy.
Great Grace Baba @PastorEAAdeboye