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Sunday, 28 July 2013
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
COMING TO THE NIGERIAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, OGBOMOSO FOR TRAINING
Let me state from the onset that what you are about to
read does not emanate from the School Authority. I am a student of the
Institution and I thought it necessary to wet your appetite on what you are
coming for. Last year, when I was admitted, I search the Internet for necessary
information but I wasn’t satisfied what I got then, hence I have decided to
post this.
You need to be sure that God is calling you, pray, pray
and pray. Your confirmation will be your mainstay when the road is rough. Let
me tell you that some will doubt your call and some will affirm it whichever is
your case, do not be excited or dumbfounded. Once that has been done, God will
confirm his calling in more than one way. Be sure of this and God will take
care of the rest. I recommend TAPPING GOD’S RESOURCES by Bro. Gbile Akanni and
Charles Spurgeon’s LECTURE TO MY STUDENTS. Both books are strongly recommended
by me. When God make promises, please write it down. Let us talk about the
people, place, programme and your planning.
People
You need to look forward to meeting Christians, you will
not be disappointed. That some people call the Seminary ‘a cemetery’ is fallacious
and untrue, you will find such description to be a total and absolute lie. Oh
yes, you will be humbled by the level of spirituality of some, the humility of
some will amaze you. Also, few are exceptions and you will quickly notice these
few. You will see great Christian Scholars who are so generous with their
wealth of experience. One of them told us in the Class; “You can stop me anywhere
and ask question as far as this course is concerned”. There are some who will so
utilise their hours of Lecture so well that you wish they would not leave the
class again. Among the students; if you love prayer, you will find people of
like mind, you will find amiable people there but do not rush to make friend.
Take your time. One of the excellent ways to know who is who is when you work
together as a group. This will make you to know each person’s strength and area
of weakness, but be sure of this, you will belong to groups. You also need to
maintain your Christian life. I have heard announcement of suspension of a
student for two years publicly, so maintain your walk with the Lord.
Place
The Seminary is popularly called the community of faith
and learning, it is God’s own city. Love here is at its peak. We rise to the
need of others. I cannot tell you all that happened here but you will discover
that the people here are living in love. The beautiful scenery is so
captivating. You will love the aesthetic here. It is a beauty to behold. I need
to mention few places; the Chapel, the Prayer Ground, the Library etc. The roads
network, the trees, the lawn. It took me a long time to know there was a place
where you can refresh yourself while in School (perhaps because I am here with
my family).
Program
Whatever programme you are coming for prepare for
hardwork, this is not to frighten you, will such a one as you be afraid? Moreover,
other people who had come here had passed out, so you will also succeed. You
will have enough assignments to deal with. Some of the assignments are Reading
Log, Term Paper etc. You are not supposed to question why you were asked to do
something, you will understand by and by. As much as work abound; God’s grace
abound much more as well. So don’t worry. God is there for you. In your first year, you will be part of the
Singing Seminarian and throughout you study you will likely be part of the
Discipleship Class, depending on what Discipleship programme you had done
before resumption, but please get the Certificate for those Discipleship
programme you did before your resumption otherwise you may have to repeat it.
Here, time works. No African time (if there is anything like that anyway). You
are supposed to be at where you should be at least five minute before the
commencement.
Planning
One thing you must never forget to take along is your
faith. Be sure to trust God enough such that if you need to resign your
appointment, do so. All my family members are students but God has always been
there. More than twice, we need Him to come quickly for finance and He did not
fail. In most cases God had used the least expected person to meet our need. He
is more than faithful!
If you are going to stay in the singles’ Hostel, you do
not need to bring your bed, but if you are going to stay in the married Hostel,
you need to bring you bed.
Please take every instruction given to you by the School
authority very seriously.
Welcome on board. Congratulations. Shalom.
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
DON MOEN AND STORMS
The very popular Gospel artiste and the President of
Integrity Music was the Guest at Redemption Television Ministry of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God last week (Thursday 20th June 2013). He
spoke on a lot of issues. Now, we know that his full name is DONALD JAMES MOEN.
He grew up in the Northern parts of the United States of America. He spoke also about his two executive
assistants. This to me is a great demonstration of faith. While many people who
could hire Executive assistant would not do so for many fears, he hired two,
believing God to be his own Supply and that God would make provision for the
Salary of those two and you know God always backed us up when we undertake what
He instructed.
Don Moen favourite passage is Psalm 107: 22. Ps 107:22 ‘And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of
thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing’. He said that he
encountered a lot of storms in 2007, but ‘God helped me’. This is similar to
what Kirk Franklin also said when he came to Lagos, he spoke about his troubles
as well. If you have storms or troubles, I think that it is common to holy
people. Don Moen is known to be a good student of the Scripture, quoting the
Scripture profusely, he challenged us to be more committed to the Word of God.
Don Moen also has advice for those of us who are
launching out in the ministry, he said, ‘first, it was scary, but you have to
launch out’. ‘For me, first it was scary
I thought then that I hoped I heard the Lord right.’ My greatest joy is to feel
God put His hand on my shoulder and say “son, you are doing what I want you to
do”. Like Don Moen may God smile on you
and I with his approval. Shalom.
Friday, 7 June 2013
THREE MEN IN ERUKU AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Eruku is a city in Ekiti Local
Government of Kwara State in Nigeria, it is located between Omu aran and
Isanlu. On the road to Isanlu, there are many other towns, cities and villages.
Close to Eruku is a town called Egbe. Egbe is exactly 12 Kilometre to Eruku, a
fare of N200 is usually charged by transport operators as fare from Eruku to
Egbe and vice versa. What is so interesting about Eruku? So many things, the Dominion
University which seems abandoned at least for now, the number of churches, and
of course, the people there. But for the purpose of this post I’ll like to
relate my experience in Eruku to three men we encountered there and since April
2013, the lessons I learnt from these ones continue to ring in my heart.
Were it not for the breakdown
of our Car (a friend’s car we transited in) we would have had no reason to stop
there but the fact that we stopped has reminded me continually of certain truth
about peoples’ response to the message of the Cross and the Kingdom of our God.
When the Car broke down, many
people greeted us showing us a kind of pity, this shows that the people there are
friendly and had concerns for people in need. A ‘big Pastor’ around also passed by…, you will
see his big church on the right hand side of the road to Odo Eri by the right
hand side.
The first man I will always
remember is Rev. J. A. Asala, the Pastor of one of the ECWA churches in town, a
Servant of Most High God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, he was truly hospitable
in the true sense of it, he identified with us in our need, having discovered
who we were and our need at that moment, he ensured that we were comfortable,
may his family be blessed abundantly with him by the Lord we serve. He is
committed to the Kingdom. Wherever, we are let us be committed to the Kingdom
of God in every way, it could be in doing good to others.
Mr. Opportunity, was the second
man we encountered, he was looking for every opportunity to get something of
every situation. First, He promised us to contact the auto mechanic for a fee,
having done that the following day when we needed to purchase the Gasket for
the vehicle, he did not asked for a considerable amount. Somehow I suspected
that the fees he charged to convey us to Egbe was just too high, so I protested
and bargained for less and eventually he yielded. I then thought that it would
be needless to discuss other things with him but as God would have it, we got
talking again and this time about the new birth and I asked him if he was born
again, he explained how he had gone to a lot of churches but had to opt out. Why?
He considered his obedience to his parents who were unbelievers to be
sacrosanct, and it occurred to me that many would not be saved not because they
do not know who Christ is but for the fact that they feared their parents more
than God, I asked him; when the instruction of our parents contradict that of
God; who should we obey? Our parents have power to deny us the right to inherit
their possessions and their worldly goods but none has the power to cast us to
hell and on this basis our God must be obeyed at all cost.
The third man was the auto
mechanic, he was competent and skilled in his work, money wasn’t his primary
concern and neither was it the Kingdom of God. While I was trying to shared the
good news to Mr. Opportunity and was trying to commit the job to him if Mr.
Opportunity eventually yielded to the gospel, he was really not interested.
Your primary concern might not
be money and you seem competent and comfortable but how about your commitment
to witnessing. He taught me that priority must be set right. Shalom
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