You Are...

You are Strong. You are fearless. You are loved. You’ve always been... you just forgot.

Everytime life threw a new curveball you thought it was an attack; you thought it was a test that you couldn’t pass because you weren’t strong enough. You thought you failed. You thought it was unfair because God should have known you weren’t strong enough.

But you didn’t fail.
You can not fail.
It is not possible.
You were born a winner; it’s just that you have forgotten.
Every time life threw you a curveball it was because you could catch it.
When you couldn’t catch it, you could dodge it.
When you couldn’t dodge it you could get through it.
When you couldn’t get through it, you could carry it.
You are that strong.
You’re still here, reading this: that’s because you have gone through the ones before and you will get through this, too.
It’s not by accident; you didn’t survive by chance.
It wasn’t luck, it was YOU:
You ARE strong! You ARE fearless! You ARE loved! You ARE powerful!
Whatever it is, it can’t destroy you. You are made of the indestructible fabric of the breath of the Creator! You can’t even die, you can only evolve into a truer form. You are free, nothing can overpower you. Nothing can keep you down.

Remember that, today.

We Need To Talk.

My uncle called me after he saw this video: “We need to talk.”😅

He was worried that I was putting myself out there, too much. “I don’t want you to be the poster-child for singleness,” he said.
I assured him that I actually like the idea of marriage and even desire it for myself.

When I told my family the title of the book, my mum said, “You will not be single!”
But I already am, mummy 😂

“Single” is not a dirty word.
You can love love and also enjoy singleness - and not just the instagram-slay-get-the-bag, motivational-speech type of enjoyment, I mean you can really be content and happy and also admit that you desire a fulfilling committed relationship. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, sis!

I talk very vulnerably about my single life and how I have grown to understand that I can be Whole while I’m Single in my book, How To Be Single (@howtobesingle.book on Instagram.)

If this resonates with you in any way, please get a copy from:
1. Amazon US 🇺🇸
2. Amazon UK 🇬🇧
3. Amazon Canada 🇨🇦
4. Roving Heights (N5,500= only!) (Online Bookstore. Delivery all over Nigeria) 🇳🇬🌍
5. Quintessence Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos (Nigeria) 🇳🇬
6. Okadabooks (ebook only) 📲

 

PS: This live interview aired on Feb 14 2019 and @howtobesingle.book was released exactly a year later!

Many thanks to @oliveemodi @wazobiamax for hosting me!

God Doesn't Speak English

😅 Or, should I say, English is not God's first language. That's why you "hear" Him in an impression in your heart; you feel Him in a nudge. You see His instructions in pictures. When you hear a melody you can burst into tears.

... God speaks Spirit, and everybody has one, and everybody hears God. We're just used to valuing language over Spirit. But every nudge is God speaking in a Language that can't be misinterpreted by words, by arguments.
Listen to it.
Listen to Him.
... And because English is not His first language, you don't need articulate sentences to communicate with Him. He understands your sighs, your moans, your tears. He understands your dancing, your laughter, your hands, raised high in the air. He can read the expression on your face clearer than any eloquently written speech; the heaviness in your heart louder than any masterfully worded prayer session.
So... speak to Him.
He understands the things you don't know how to put into words.