Oluwafemi Ifesanmi

Time... what an indispensable commodity it is; given freely and equally to all and can't be altered. The same 24 hours is allocated daily to everyone whether high/low, rich/poor, strong/weak,.. whatever the status. Right from the process of fertilization, everyone partakes in the non-mandatory yet compulsory race of time. We all want to grow - engage in things which exhibit growth in various facets. However, some unexpected occurrence could arise and growth gets hindered. One gets the more irated when even after so much struggle/toil to achieve a specified growth, an extremely minute progress is experienced or an impotent result or worse still retrogression is experienced. Yet, time waits for no one. What do you do in such situation. The book of John chapter 5, verses 5 to 7 gives a story about a man who had an unexpected delay in time; it says: " And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had bee...

This is the story of one Man Yet it is the story of us all This is not just a story It is history This is not just history It is His Story Are you a child of sorrow? He was the King of Sorrows Do you think yourself depressed? He dined with anguish of soul in the house of Death Are you deserted of hope? He was acquainted with grief Do you think yourself lonely? He had no single friend in His greatest hour of need Do you think yourself sinful? All of sins converged in Him God’s Cup of Wrath was fully emptied by Him Clothed with our sins He was MADE sin And became accursed of God Behold the Man; who hath known sorrow like Him? All ye Depressed, look unto Him All ye deserted of hope, behold your King of Sorrows He has triumphed See, He brings joy, He leads your fears captive He comes bearing gifts He took your diseases and sorrows Became cursed for your blessings Judgement and mercy in Him accomplished All of sins debited in Him All of Grace only He can cr...

The human mind is most usually characterised with Anxiety. It’s not a sin to be anxious actually, but at times, we are usually anxious and worried about things beyond our control. Be it concerning Financial matters, or relationship or whatever... One thing is sure – Things need / take time to grow. God has created all things and made them beautiful; HE has set the course for growth in all things; therefore, bypassing this order most-often usually lead to grave consequences in future. How do I mean? Taking the case of Adam as an example; he was a fully grown Man - but had the brain of a small child. He was inexperienced, hadn’t learnt anything and was given the duty of a manager. Thus; he failed. However, since plan A (Adam) failed, GOD created a plan B: which is why Jesus (although being a God) came to the world in form of a child. He had to experience the growth and passed through all forms of struggles, hunger, temptations, trials, pain… For verily he took not on him the nature o...

Several years before I saw a movie titled Pinocchio. The character Pinocchio was a wooden puppet made by a skilled old carpenter named Gepetto. One thing led to another and a fairy gave life to the wooden puppet.  Pinocchio, although still a wooden puppet began to see, walk, talk, and ear like a normal boy. The old man fell in love with it and treated it like his child. Pinocchio got lost one day and his father went in search of him, he traveled across seas to other countries and on the way, his boat capsized and he was swallowed by a big fish. After several scenes, Pinocchio also got swallowed by the same fish and he met his father in the belly of the big fish, it was a great reunion for them. The scene of the fish's belly was quite interesting. Although being a fable, it was a fairly big room partially flooded probably to the ankle. I remember seeing a table and I think a lit lantern... well it was obvious that after several weeks in the belly Gepetto had started living comfo...

Just as I previously described a snake experience, years later I had a similar experience in the same house. This time around I saw the elongated body of the snake under the parked vehicle as it wrapped itself around a helpless frog. It was getting ready to consume its prey when I saw it. As quiet and quickly as I could, I went in to inform my siblings. Apologies to all forms of animal right activists, I live in a geographical environment where snakes are dreaded and almost always killed; so we came out to... well you know – finish the job. By this time, the frog wasn’t visible anymore, rather a snake with a protruded belly was seen. Noticing us, it picked up the pace but was sluggish at doing that. It retreated for a hole in the vehicle wheels rim, however due to its previously swallowed meal, the obtrusive part of its body couldn’t fit in the hole. Its last resort was to regurgitate its meal. The unbelievable happened as the snake vomited the frog whole in other to escape. It as we...

Some years before I had a little experience which left me pondering. I was in the compound of my house that day enjoying the cool breeze and ruminating. I suddenly noticed a strange looking creature approaching me. I fixed my gaze on it and saw the appearance of a soil brown creature which had an unusually long green tail hopping towards me. It drew nearer and at this point, I became petrified so I barked out at it. At the blaring of my voice it was revealed. I then realised it was an endangered frog running to me for salvation. It was being chased almost neck and neck by a green snake. At the sound of my voice, the desire of the frog came through as the snake lifted up its head, saw me and retreated. Although the frog didn’t come up to meet me but I could almost hear it say thank you; it was indeed a close call to death for the frog. On a norm, the frog wouldn’t want to be sighted by me let alone run to me for help; as a matter of fact, it must have initially spotted me but...

When we pray, we have the intuition that GOD is able to do what we request and that makes us say our prayers. We wait at times to get answers to our prayers, while at times we aren’t sure if our prayers have been answered because the signs we expect isn’t what we see. To this effect GOD says Follow Me. The question now is Have you been Following HIM? When you are frequent with Him, you will recognise HIS idiosyncrasies. You would be like Elijah who saw the big signs of wind which broke the mountains, enormous earthquake and fire but still knew that GOD wasn’t there. You would recognise HIS Still small voice and follow Him. An example of a character in the Bible who would have made great impact if only He had left all and Followed was John. His testimony records saying “And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost” (John 1:33)...