Author: Deji Okegbile

Faith to be Saved and to be Healed!

They … fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:  And there they preached the gospel. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:  The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of...

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ADEDIRAN, A PRINCELY PRINCE AND MANLINESS WITH GRACE

There is no man that has power over the Spirit to retain the Spirit; neither has the power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war – Ecc 8:8. “A sparrow cannot fall without your father,” much less a prince. The tears of royalty cannot melt the power of the great enemy called death when permission is given him. The angels looked down from heaven one night. They searched for miles afar. And deep within the distance they could see a shining prince. The ascension of Prince Adediran Adeyokunnu at a time of life...

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Parable of Inclusion: A Call to Radical Exclusivity.

In the book of Isaiah chapter 5, ‘Song of the Vineyard,’ we learnt about the house of Israel and the people of Judah, God’s pleasant planting to whom Isaiah spoke the prophecy and compared to a disappointing vineyard. Despite the love and care of the Owner, produces only wild grapes (Is 5:1-7). To bear good grapes as inclusive ‘branches of the vine,’ we have the options to accept the Lord’s rule, or to reject it, self – inclusive exclusion, and become a disappointing vineyard like the house of Israel and the people of Judah. To be a part of...

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CALL TO INTERCESSION

Since the world changed with the spread of Covid-19, the world is imprisoned physically and spiritually more than before. We are in desperate need for a mighty move of the Lord to set the captives free and release the prisoners from darkness and death. God is saying to the Church “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). In Acts 12, Peter was kept in prison, just as James but ‘the difference was...

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NIGERIA @60: Tyranny of Kleptocrats’ Exclusive Institutions and usage of Youth as Footnote.

Nigeria was the creation of European ambitions and rivalries because ‘its people had their own ancient history before the arrival of the Colonisers.’ According to a publication ‘The Struggle for One Nigeria’ published by the Federal Ministry of Information, Lagos, in 1967, Nigeria, ‘this newly created country contained, not just a multiplicity of … tribes, but a number of great kingdoms which had evolved complex systems of government, independent of contact with Europe.’ According to the publication, ‘The British tried to weld together these kingdoms and territories with such diversity of languages and cultures at such different stages of civilization.’...

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