The don said: ‘’All ministers of God must speak out…I (am) looking forward to Baba (Kumuyi) addressing a world conference with Baba Adeboye seated beside him. Let them call people and say ‘Enough is Enough.’ They need to lead other people to convene a high-powered meeting with the president.’’ He tied his call to the scriptures, where troublous times in ancient Israel always witnessed the emergence of faithful messengers offering divine succour and intervention. Nigeria of this age is also under the weather, Asaju laments; she needs the clerics’ cuddling and comforting care.

We cannot dismiss the concerns of Bishop Professor Asaju. The patriot that he is, he like all of us, wouldn’t want the escalation of our problems to get to the boiling point of no return. If all else has failed, he seems to say, God’s true representatives in the confines of His Holy Church here in Nigeria cannot fail to lead us away from the cusp pointing down to a dark abyss. He is also right to insist that pastors must not be satisfied with the ‘narrow’ mission of entering the annals as the clergymen with the largest congregation in Africa or the world. They must worry more about the environment these worshippers go into when they are discharged from the precincts of the church. Do they march into the deadly embrace of harlots, armed robbers, kidnappers, drug addicts, the sick, unemployed youth given to crime and hopelessness, corrupt political office holders, broken homes, occult campuses, idolatry, immorality, urban violence etc.?

At Deeper Christian Life Ministry, we are far more aware of this existential crossroads than many perceive. We present the Word of God as delivered in the Holy Bible, alright. But we warn that in the long run, the Lord is interested in a fusion of obedience to His Word and relating amicably with fellow human beings, regardless of class, colour, caste (religion) or culture. We teach that if you’re a genuine believer in Christ, you wouldn’t hate your neighbour. Nor would you disdain those in power because they appear not to be delivering on electoral pledges such that you would go on the rampage, destroying government property or pillaging the public till. We teach a linear life of Christian walk: you can’t be a saint on Sunday and a monster on Monday.

Needless to say, God recognises the dual nature He has clothed us with, physical body and soul. Both need to be fed proportionally. The inner soul requires the Word, while the external body needs material fulfillments through food, shelter, healing, job, joy, justice etc. The creator hasn’t annulled that order. He expects the state to cater for the body while He saddles the Church with providing for the inner being. None is mutually independent of the other. Societies run into straits, setbacks and storms when they neglect this arrangement.

But diligently keying into this plan as individuals, nation and Church, gives us the far-reaching blessing of obedience to His Word. We can testify to this as we have adopted the strategy, given by Heaven, to constantly embark on global crusades, with the community, and not the Church, as the epicentre. The gatherings are all-inclusive, nondenominational. The limitless reach of today’s smart media and the internet has enabled us to touch almost every inch of the globe. In real-time audiovisual streaming, many across Nigeria, the African continent, Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia and New Zealand are able to get connected to our crusades. Those who can’t make it to the viewing centres connect with me in their homes, hospitals, workplaces etc. Everywhere the Lord has been faithful to His promise to answer our prayers.

As the Lord graciously uses me to deliver His Word at these events, He never ceases to accompany the ministration with astonishing miracles of salvation, healing, restoration of hope to the despondent and deliverance of the nations from instability, insecurity and the invidious grip of the devil.

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• Invest in businesses, diversify and get involved in what you have an idea about

Don’t do business because your friend is doing it. Don’t put your money in a business because somebody told you it is lucrative and it is in vogue. Don’t do business because you saw everybody doing the same thing.

Be wise to get your own unique thing. Find out from God what you can do. Ask constructive questions. Do your market survey to know the business terrain. Get information, learn and be wise. No man really graduates from the school of life.

• Sow your money into the Kingdom

It’s not manipulation. It is wisdom

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again (Luke 6:38)

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good (Ecclesiastics 11:6)

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully (2 Corinthians 9:6)

Locate what is needed in the Kingdom and avail yourself the opportunity.

A lot of people think they are enriching the pastor, but a wise pastor is sowing his or her own. Whatsoever we do is to the Lord.

• Give to others

Love your neighbours to be a blessing, such that you will be remembered for something. Let somebody’s happiness be accrued to you. Dorcas was so good that they refused to let her die.

Give somebody joy. Make somebody happy. Be a blessing unto somebody you don’t know. Don’t help somebody you are expecting to help you back. Be generous with your time and your money.

• Save your money

He that refuses to plan has planned to fail. When you spend everything you make, you are planning for an average life

The third servant of the three men in Matt 25:14-28 was candidly advised to have saved the money anyhow for it to bring profit rather than hiding it. When you save, it generates a form of profit, other than wasting it buying what is not needed.

Wisdom is the principal thing in the management of money.

Multiply money

Faithfulness in the little brings in much. Nothing is too small to multiply. Isaac’s initial profit was in hundredfold. Diligence, consistency and persistence kept him going, and he entered the realm of multiplication. He prospered, went on prospering, until he became very prosperous. Another translation said: “he waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great” (Genesis 26:13).

He started by being obedient to God’s instructions, and then he recognised he had a seed within him to use. Not minding the prevailing situation in the land, he sowed, and in famine, it germinated, produced, and the fruits multiplied. Because of his financial capacity, he became advanced, prosperous and envied (Genesis 26:14).

Funso Adeniyi-Martins, Victory Life Bible Church Intl, Off Km 9, Olabisi Onabanjo Way opp. OGTV, Ajebo Road, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Mobile-+234 703-8596-246 website-www.vlbcinternational.org

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