WHAT IS THIS? I MUST NOT WASTE!!! WASTAGE IS NOT AN OPTION
by Evangelist Bee on Monday, August 2, 2010 at 1:28am
The month of July is gone – The month of my birth always brings me a high level of inquisition as to where I am and where I am going to! Always! Don’t let me bore you but I will share some incidents that happened to me in the month of July that has made me to vow and decide again – being a waste is not an option! Being a waste cannot be an option. Not now. Not again!
1. I saw my mentor’s son 3 weeks at the airport on a domestic flight in Lagos and was inspired at how he has grown, married last year and as I admonished him to serve God, I remembered how his Father who has been in faith for about 40years helped to nurture my Christianity from 25years ago. I must not waste!
2. Over the weekend I saw my mentor himself who invited me (Yes! Me sha – that high school boy he had bible study with in the back side of Ile Ife in Nigeria) to preach in the Annual Ministers and Workers Retreat of the church He founded decades back. I shivered at sharing same pulpit with him. A man who will go far must reproduce. He has grayed, He is slower but the fire is still there! The Humility and Sincerity ( His trade marks) is still there. His focus has not waned. Anything that not reproduce will die. I am talking about Pastor( Dr.) Odun Orioke. I must not waste!
3. While talking to my wife on the phone yesterday, she mentioned that it was Professor Kunle Kehinde that preached in the Dominion Chapel in Houston and he spoke bones and not milk. He gave it raw. This was the same man that preached at “ Agric Foyer” in Obafemi Awolowo University when I attended my first E.C.U fellowship meeting in college still dishing it out 26 years after. What keeps these ones going – new location, new environment, yet consistent and humble! With these many cloud of witnesses and examples in front of me, God helping me, I WILL NOT WASTE.
4. Lastly, a brother found me on face book and sent me a small message. He might even be reading this now. How I wish He knew how much that act encouraged my heart! How it triggered my quest to remain Recognized with GOD and Relevant to men. When we left school 20 years back looking for relevance and training in the Kingdom, I found myself in an Anglican church in the backside of the wilderness of Ipaja (a community in Lagos) and God made it a training ground in ministry that I was literally excommunicated from the church for “ preaching visible changes” to their children. Those children now has turned out to be University fellowship presidents, full time Pastors and leaders in Businesses .
See what he wrote unedited-
“Sir, You may not know me . I stumbled into one of your messages at Dominion Chapel's webpage recently and remembered your face and name clearly from St' Andrews Anglican Church Ipaja. I'd admired you greatly as a young boy, watched you closely as you TEARFULLY admonished us from God's word then- there is a night vigil I cant forget like that. God bless you sir and may his work continually blossom in your hands. You have definitely watered this garden. God bless sir.”
5. What is this? The key is Recognition with God and Relevance to men. You must not Waste . No its too late – I will not waste too.
Despite the battering of life, the scourge of weaker bones and legs , the stress of life ( life could deal blows), the failure of dreams and the setbacks we face, may we be like Moses whose eyes never grew dim in Jesus Name. May we be like Jesus who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the pain of the cross. May we go far. May we not seat and rest like the Man of God from Judah and get consumed by the lion of life. May we not be mislead by the new generation of “expired” old prophet. May we not celebrate mediocrity. In Jesus Name. Amen.
EVANGELIST BEE
No. 104 – 1ST AUGUST 2010
1. I saw my mentor’s son 3 weeks at the airport on a domestic flight in Lagos and was inspired at how he has grown, married last year and as I admonished him to serve God, I remembered how his Father who has been in faith for about 40years helped to nurture my Christianity from 25years ago. I must not waste!
2. Over the weekend I saw my mentor himself who invited me (Yes! Me sha – that high school boy he had bible study with in the back side of Ile Ife in Nigeria) to preach in the Annual Ministers and Workers Retreat of the church He founded decades back. I shivered at sharing same pulpit with him. A man who will go far must reproduce. He has grayed, He is slower but the fire is still there! The Humility and Sincerity ( His trade marks) is still there. His focus has not waned. Anything that not reproduce will die. I am talking about Pastor( Dr.) Odun Orioke. I must not waste!
3. While talking to my wife on the phone yesterday, she mentioned that it was Professor Kunle Kehinde that preached in the Dominion Chapel in Houston and he spoke bones and not milk. He gave it raw. This was the same man that preached at “ Agric Foyer” in Obafemi Awolowo University when I attended my first E.C.U fellowship meeting in college still dishing it out 26 years after. What keeps these ones going – new location, new environment, yet consistent and humble! With these many cloud of witnesses and examples in front of me, God helping me, I WILL NOT WASTE.
4. Lastly, a brother found me on face book and sent me a small message. He might even be reading this now. How I wish He knew how much that act encouraged my heart! How it triggered my quest to remain Recognized with GOD and Relevant to men. When we left school 20 years back looking for relevance and training in the Kingdom, I found myself in an Anglican church in the backside of the wilderness of Ipaja (a community in Lagos) and God made it a training ground in ministry that I was literally excommunicated from the church for “ preaching visible changes” to their children. Those children now has turned out to be University fellowship presidents, full time Pastors and leaders in Businesses .
See what he wrote unedited-
“Sir, You may not know me . I stumbled into one of your messages at Dominion Chapel's webpage recently and remembered your face and name clearly from St' Andrews Anglican Church Ipaja. I'd admired you greatly as a young boy, watched you closely as you TEARFULLY admonished us from God's word then- there is a night vigil I cant forget like that. God bless you sir and may his work continually blossom in your hands. You have definitely watered this garden. God bless sir.”
5. What is this? The key is Recognition with God and Relevance to men. You must not Waste . No its too late – I will not waste too.
Despite the battering of life, the scourge of weaker bones and legs , the stress of life ( life could deal blows), the failure of dreams and the setbacks we face, may we be like Moses whose eyes never grew dim in Jesus Name. May we be like Jesus who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the pain of the cross. May we go far. May we not seat and rest like the Man of God from Judah and get consumed by the lion of life. May we not be mislead by the new generation of “expired” old prophet. May we not celebrate mediocrity. In Jesus Name. Amen.
EVANGELIST BEE
No. 104 – 1ST AUGUST 2010
