Author: Providence News

How To Avoid Pitfalls in the Ministry –Pastor Daniel Olukoya 1. Ministry must be demarcated from marriage. 2. Don’t take ministerial work at the expense of your marriage. 3. Don’t use ministry to fatten yourself. 4. Don’t make any man the pillar of your ministry. 5. You must be able to fast and pray. Prayerlessness leads to pitfall. 6. Let there be limitation in your relationship with opposite sex. 7. BEWARE! The devil plays upon what you always desire/love. 8. Cover your wife’s weaknesses in public. 9. Stand firm on the Word, but don’t be proud about it. 10. Tame…

5 Things Pastors Should Stop Doing Pastors are not just cheerleaders, they are game-changers. They are to stir and convict for change to take place. There are wonderful pastors and churches. But some have drifted and Christians have lost the compass of truth with more concerned about wine tasting than seeking God. Pastors and Christian leaders must take responsibility for the spiritual health of the church and the nation without marketing strategies, demographic studies or giving campaigns. Preaching is hard work, we need men filled with the Spirit of God and not the spirit of Dog. The 5 things to…

How I Overcame Ministerial Error and Initiation into occult –Princewill Afolabi Pastor Princewill Afolabi is the Senior Pastor of God’s Power Evangelical Mission, Oke-Ado in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is called with the mandate to raise prosperous and fervent believers with burden for the kingdom enlargement. In this interview with PROVIDENCE, he speaks on how he started his ministry, almost led into error, mistakes he made and as to be initiated into occult by another pastor. Excerpts: Kindly tell us your background and encounter: I was born into Afolabi family in Ibadan. My late dad was a Muslim and…

The Father After God’s Own Heart As we celebrate Father’s Day today, it is worthwhile to remind ourselves of our responsibilities as fathers. Priests: As a father it is important that you understand that your first calling is to be the spiritual leader in the home; you are first a priest before you are a provider. Without the right teaching and proper guidance, many men tend to reverse the roles; they place less emphasis on their priesthood role, focussing all their attention on making money and providing for the family and abandoning the spiritual responsibilities to their wives. God said…

FAITH JAMES -A contagious life of Prayer There are definitely no mistakes in God. It is true what the Scriptures say, ‘His ways are past finding out’. From the day Pastor Faith James was born, God has ordered her steps and call for celebration of His faithfulness in her life for the past 60 years.  Described by Pastor Iruofagha James, her husband of 33 years as the best partner a man can ask for, a God’s gift and companion for the journey. Most trusted critics, friend and encourager of his faith.  Faith James was born in October 1st, 1959 at…

Christian Persecution: UK Lawmakers Launch Report on Nigeria, Dedicate it to Leah Sharibu The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group, APPG, for International Freedom of Religion or Belief has launched a new report on Nigeria. The launch of the report held on Monday in Westminster titled, ‘NIGERIA: UNFOLDING GENOCIDE?’ took place in the House of Commons, featuring speeches from the Chair of the APPG, Jim Shannon MP, Co-Chair, Baroness Cox and Rebecca Sharibu, the mother of Leah Sharibu who was kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago and has yet to be released. According to report made available to PROVIDENCE News,…

How my dad started Christian interdenominational gathering in Lagos -Bishop Adedipe Bishop Moses Adebayo Adedipe is a man of many parts and has global vision for prophetic and biblical impartation to the nations. His ministry focuses on empowering believers around the world for the c of God’s kingdom on earth. The presiding Bishop and General Superintendent of The Universal Christian Mission international (TUCMI), also, Oversee, UK World Evangelism Trust and Presides over, Moshelen Cares (NGO), The Universal Christian Bible College (TUCBC) and chairman, Governing Council, Moshelen High School. He is married to Rev. Helen Adedipe, his wife of 48 years…

English Without Teacher ENGLISH WITHOUT TEACHER is a product of concerted research into why most Students perform poorly in sentence construction, comprehension and summary. It is a book specifically designed for Nigerian educational system, beginning with the Primary and Junior Secondary Schools. Also useful as success buffet for Senior Secondary School Examinations. It brought into focus creative writing, generating foundational, group essays, vocabulary, sentence construction, illustration and revision exercises on things pupils can perceive, smell, touch, taste, hear, feel, use, wear, assemble, watch, imagine, create, draw, explain and write about. To achieve the set objective of English Without Teacher, students have…

Ambition is Not Vision By Gracious Akintayo There is remarkable difference between our interest and our calling. Success in life lies in locating God’s vision for our life and it is our duty to discover our vision, and then run it purposefully with drive. We don’t create or designed vision, we discover it. Until you are inside your real purpose for living, you cannot find fulfillment in any other thing you do. Vision and dream constitute a spiritual language through God releases insight into His plan to and for individual and a vision is impotent without action, just like…

Life has treated me well -Rev. (Mrs.) Adeyinka BADEJO  Briefly tell us about yourself  I am Adeyinka Anike Badejo. I was born in Ibadan over 71 years ago into Ige family from Esa-Oke (in present Osun State). I grew up in a well rooted Christian family and monogamous home, my childhood was well guarded and my adult life was under a good parentage. I had my primary education in Ibadan and partly in Edo state (former mid-western state), My dad was an Agric officer at the Ministry of Agriculture. Due to his job, he was always on transfer and…