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WHAT I LEARNED THIS TRANSFER WINDOW This post is not necessarily about football, but it just shows that God can use anything to teach and reach us. And, it is true. Read on.   So yes, I am a football fan. Who isn’t? You? Oh well, good on you; saves you the nail-biting tension. And when you support the team I do, which is Arsenal, oh, my, word. Believe me when I say that supporting that football club is a lesson in Hope: hope that they will do better, sign who they need, win their games etc. Hey, don’t tell me to leave them. Been a supporter since ’99, and I love them too much to run away. Not the Shield of Faith. Not even close.   So, Benzema.   Yes. Arsenal tried their best to sign him. Newspapers predicted he was moving. Football agents called it a done deal. A particular football agent said broadcasted it with so much confidence on Twitter that I had to go through his previous activity. Scrolling, I saw that EVERY SINGLE TRANSFER he had talked a...

Hey there. Welcome back. I am sorry for the long, long silence. I have had a few challenges which, by God's grace, I am overcoming. Coupled with personal goals, it has been quite and challenging. But thank God I am here, and back, by His Grace. And I want to share something with you. For some days, starting maybe last weekend, I began to have an issue with my nose. It felt like there was a little...pimple in there, for want of a better word. It irritated me to no end, and it hurt when I tried to touch it, so I guess I was stuck. Coupled with the fact that I was just recovering from a battle with Malaria, I was pissed for days. So I did something. I spoke. In prayer, I commanded the issue to dry up and my nose to heal. Glory to God, in less than 24 hours, it did. The sores and pimples (😃?) in my nose, actually my left nostril, began to dry up and scab over. So, I was grateful and happy. ...Aaaaand I have also been picking the scab ever since (gross, I know ,but I ma...

OF FRUITS, GIFTS AND THE TOTALITY OF BEING Hello again, my dear friend. How have you been? I hope you have been doing great. I know I have. Testimonies, good things arriving, even better coming. Exciting times, I say.   But, not necessarily the reason I am here. No.   I am here because of something that was made clear to me by the Holy Spirit, which I can only but share. A revelation that stems from the beginning of creation, and reaches into the present. Feel free to share your thoughts on this at the end. So, here goes everything…   Genesis 1:26 shows us the blueprint with which God used to create mankind. God made man so we could function with 2 different sets of attributes. His Image, and His Likeness. Only by functioning totally in these sets of attributes can a God-man hope to have Dominion on Earth. Now, I used to take this just literally, and I know a lot of Christians did too. I was made to look like God, physically. The likeness was still a vagu...

WHAT WILL I SAY? So here we are, once again. Welcome back. Sorry for the little break in blogition. Not my fault…yeah right. How many times have we told either ourselves or others this same excuse? Hmph. If not my fault, then whose? Truth is, priorities shifted for a while… Anyway, here we are once again, you, amazing, beautiful, wonderful you, and me, just one little, rough tool still in need of sharpening from the Master Toolmaker in Heaven. Today, I want to share with you all, something that happened to me in church a few weeks ago. It was both awesome and terrifying at the same time.   It was Communion, and we were to walk to the Altar to receive it. There I was, slowly walking, not really thinking, until I got stopped at the head of the queue as there was no space at the Altar for anymore; I had to wait until the people there had received and left. Then, it began.   I looked at the Altar before me, and I was struck by how large it seemed. The top seemed to str...

OF FROZEN PHONES AND THE (LIFE) MANUAL Fire in the skies, My heart beats, Ever longing, For…   What? Oh, this? You just caught me trying out my hand at poetry. Still beats me how people think my writing is poetic, but then, I can’t shoot myself in the foot, can I? I surely cannot, thank you Sir. So yes, you are looking at the next big thing. The stage is set! The lights are on! The invitations have all been sent out.   Focus, Raymond. Focus.   Thank you, oh voice of reason. So…what was I-   Aha! Got it.   A few weeks back, something happened (doesn’t something always happen?) to my phone (argh!) Raise your hands if you are tech savvy! Everyone? Wow… What about the days of the Nokia 3310s? The phones that had torchlights and green-and-black screens? Those days when the Sagem camera phone was the biggest deal on earth?   Simpler days. Nowadays, everything is taking a selfie of you. You pick up a potato, and it takes a picture of you...

SO I WAS HURT… “There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, There’s a hole in…”   Oh, there you are… Good…morning? Wait, lemme check… Ok. It’s morning here. Still. I don’t know what time it is where you are, so Good…whatever it is where you are.   Smile, it’s…Wednesday?   So, I don’t usually post things this close together. I usually let my posts marinate before I get to write it, but…   There’s always a ‘but’. Always. What would life have been like without ‘but’? You were hungry, BUT you ate so you are full. We were destined to die, BUT Jesus died to give us life eternal. I was going to write this BUT…   Okay, no ‘buts’ with that one.   So, why am I writing this? Why now?   Well…let’s just say that something happened somewhere, and as a result, another thing happened elsewhere. Let’s leave it at that. Take it, or take it. What, you thought I was going to suggest that you leave it? Pfft! Nah…   So as I was saying, aft...

GOD’S TIME vs GOD’S TIMETABLE “God’s Time is the best…”   How many times have we heard this phrase? Countless times, I suppose. Show of hands if you have said it. What? Only me? C’mon, spill. I know you have. Remember that time when your friend asked you when you were going to enter school? Or when you would find a spouse? Or that time when…   Okay, here is the deal.   So a few days back (maybe last night? Yesterday morning? Meh, who cares?) I let my mind ruminate on the things I had been learning, things I had read, heard etc, when I saw/heard this clearly in my head: God’s Time is different from God’s Timetable.   Hmm.   At once very unclear and still clear, I wanted to know more. Because you see, even if I didn’t fully understand what it was, I at once knew this was true, but I needed to know more. So, I did the next logical thing.   I tweeted it, and promptly decided to forget about it.   Yep, that’s right. Heh.   But it d...