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Has Davido Called Your Name Before?

I recently saw a video of a skitmaker who was screaming, shouting, and going over the moon because a famous Nigerian musician, Davido, called his name and took him on stage in front of thousands of people. I could see the excitement in his face with the way he spoke about it, and according to him, that was the biggest achievement of his lifetime. He even went on the street, screaming and removing his clothes on the street like a crazy person, or I guess he was just excited about it. While I love that for him, I cannot help but wonder if we as people revere God as much as we do celebrities. Lemme ask in another way: do we as Christians revere God as much as we do our pastors and the people we like? Do we feel this much excitement about God?  Here is a man going all crazy with excitement because a celebrity mentioned his name, but what about the Creator of the Universe, who, according to Isaiah 43 verse 1, knows your name personally, formed you in your mother's womb, and has called y...
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The Good Place

I have a thing for watching uninteresting movies and clips. Do you know those narrated or acted Reel-short stories on Facebook and Instagram with terrible acting and storylines? Do you know those humanoid cat stories on Instagram? I will keep rolling my eyes and complaining, but I will still watch them 😅. In the same vein, sometimes, if I start a movie on a streaming platform like Netflix or Hulu and I don't like the story, I will still prefer to watch it till the end instead of stopping the movie midway. In my mind, I am like, "I know it's terrible, but I want to see how terribly it ends." I watched a series on Netflix recently titled The Good Place. When I started it, I really didn't like the portrayal of the utopian heaven-like paradise, but I don't quit on movies or series, so I kept on watching.  One aspect of the series that really stood out to me was when they found out no one had been to heaven in over 500 years because the system rewards people based...
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Dead Battery

On Thursday, I was supposed to go to a small group with a friend. All dressed up, I stepped out and tried opening the door of my car with the automatic key, and it would not work. Then I tried it the traditional way and stepped into the car, but the car wouldn't start. I was not sure what to do and started panicking a bit. The last time my car wouldn't start, it had a starter problem, and I had to pay a lot to fix it. This time, I was hoping and praying it wasn't a starter problem again. I reached out to a friend who told me to hold off on contacting the mechanic as it could be a dead battery problem. The friend promised to come to check it and jumpstart it in case it was a dead battery problem, so I wouldn't have to pay exorbitant fees to the mechanic. After a few hours, my friend did come with jumper cables and a working vehicle that didn’t have a dead battery 😅, and confirmed it was a dead battery. At first, the jumper cables couldn't reach my car as there were ...
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I Told a Lie

It's been a while since I wrote on this blog, and that's because I have basically been too embarrassed to write anything here. I didn't feel worthy of being the writer of this blog. This is because I told a lie to some people, and I felt like the lie was justified and necessary. I even talked to a few friends about this lie, the reason I told it, and the concept of a white lie. They mentioned that they understood but would still advise me to pray about it and ask God for forgiveness.  I did pray about it, but day in and day out, I kept being consumed by guilt, and my conscience would not let me rest. But do you know the worst thing about telling a lie? being caught in a lie, and yes, I was caught in the lie. I felt so bad; I cried for days and didn't eat for days. I felt like disappearing; I wish I could rewind time and make it all better. I felt very unworthy of my friends, people who look up to me, and even of you reading this blog. I overthink a lot, and at some poin...
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My Car Drives Slow

Hello people of God! Today's gist is about my car again  (Apologies 😅). By the way, I have been driving for over a year now 🤯 Please make sure you tell me congratulations and drop encouraging words for me in the comment 😂 (Ko easy). Anyway, recently I noticed that my car drives way too slow. Whenever I'm driving, it feels like I'm crawling, like the car is not moving as it should. At first, I genuinely thought something was wrong with the speedometer so I had a mechanic check it and everything. But I was told everything was fine. A few weeks ago, I compared the car's speedometer to the radar speed signs and I found it was accurate and nothing was wrong with the car. I reexamined myself and basically, the major reason why I have been feeling like my car drives slow is because whenever I drive, I get left behind 😂 Other cars just fly by and this makes me feel like something is wrong when in reality nothing is wrong. No one follows the speed limit in this city and it...
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The Isrealites

Growing up, my usual countenance towards the Israelites or the story of the Israelites is condemnation. They kept complaining about water and food on different instances even though God had provided these things in the past, they didn't trust God and lacked faith at the crossing of the Red Sea, they didn't trust God that they would enter the promised land and how dare they go make a golden image just because Moses was absent for a few days (40days) talking to God 😅.  I condemned them for all they did, for always disobeying, complaining, and grumbling, I condemned them for being so faint-hearted and not obeying God. I always asked myself questions like how could they be ungrateful despite everything God did for them🙄. Like, did they forget all the plagues God inflicted upon the Egyptians on their behalf? did they forget how God fought Pharaoh and his army on their behalf, did they forget how God made the pillar of clouds by day and the pillar of fire by night for their guidanc...
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The Great Commission Album

If you know me then you'd know that the Great Commission Album by Dunsin Oyekan was dropped for my sake 😅. This is because I have been listening to it endlessly, recommending it to everyone, talking about my favorites on the album with my friends, and posting it time and time again on my social media. However, as much as I love that album, there is a song on that album that I haven't had the boldness to sing out aloud until recently. Now I can sing it after a lot of talking to myself, examining the state of my heart, meditating about it, and of course, praying about it. The song is titled "The Worshipper's Song", and the lyrics I had been struggling to sing is,          " Thank you for the things You do For the miracles You give But I still, prefer Your presence, over everything I still choose being with You, over these things"
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