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How to Follow your Dreams with Pastor Jide Lawore

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

In this video, we talk about the life of Joseph. Ironically, we are all Joseph.

The truth is God has put dreams/aspirations on the inside of every one of us.  We in turn have a responsibility to walk/work in alignment with Him to follow instructions that come with them but what ends up happening is we get sidetracked by life and go in totally different directions.  One of the strongest things Pastor Jide pointed out is that a lot of us don’t get to follow or even fulfill our dreams because we do not match it with knowledge and understanding.

That is a big one because if you do not understand the dream and get appropriate understanding then you cannot take the necessary action in order to get to your expected end.  I’ll stop here and let you take a listen but if there was anything that resonated with you in this video, please leave a comment. I would love to hear your thoughts.

 

 

 

 

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Talking Worship with Freke Umoh

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

As a worship leader, this was one of the most enlightening conversations about worship I have ever had in my entire life! I met Freke through another worship leader friend and I have to say this was a God connection, period.  This is a conversation that’s needed by the Christian body today because we must understand what it means to worship God in spirit and in truth; and you cannot do that without knowing Him.  Knowing is based on your knowledge of the word of God and that is what will strengthen you through different seasons of your life. Take a listen. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe! Thank you!!!

 

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The Christian Life is a Daily Walk with God

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

The christian life basically is a daily walk with God and it is the simplicity of it that Wole and I chatted about. This was absolutely one of my favorite conversations in the God Conversations series, hands down! We talked about other things but ultimately all of this conversation centered around this topic hence the title.

I love that statement and want to add that a daily walk with God is encountering Him on a daily basis.  People hear that and say what does that mean especially in this current climate when we were forced to actually stop congregating in physical buildings previously? Let me try to explain.

Christianity is a personal walk with God.  When it becomes personal, it flows into every area of your life and helps you navigate through different seasons.  Anything other than that in my opinion is religiosity.

In my experience, walking with God is not as complicated as it sounds.  In actuality, to walk with God is to decide to allow God to hold your hand at all times. At all times, good and not so good!

Also, in recent times; I have had to redefine what Christianity means to me and I don’t know if that is something that came with age but I got tired of going by other people’s definition of what walking with God is and was able to redefine that through my own experience with God and I can tell you it is not as complicated as it sounds, trust me on that!

Wole beautifully talked about embracing a few things in life; one being his walk with God.  He has seen maturity, progression, what God has brought him to and His grace in being able to adapt to each thing in its own season.  That was powerful for me.

If you take anything out of this episode, please understand that the christian walk is an internal experience that we all manifest externally in different ways.  Knowing God and walking with God is a relationship that must be cultivated and it is not as hard as it sounds.  Simply, let God lead you and you follow.  Take a listen ➡   Please subscribe to the YouTube Channel!!

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Our marriage is What We Make of It – Lola & Ola Abitogun

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

Our marriage is What We Make of It. Something very profound Lola said is the need to be deliberate in our marriages. At a point in their marriage, she felt the need to be heard which tends to be something a lot of women struggle to express and end up getting stifled to the point of quitting the marriage or stay but resent the partner. . They are the authors of the book – Get My Marriage Back: How to save & fix your broken marriage all by yourself. They run a weekly marriage boot camp on their website lolaandola.com

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God and our Emotional Well-Being – with Pastor Bimbo Lawore

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

One of the questions I asked Pastor Bimbo Lawore was which scripture she would consider one of her favorites. She had multiple and one of them happened to be one that I am personally stuck on in this season of my life and it is Proverbs 3:5-6. No matter how crazy things get, as soon as I hit this particular scripture, I am alright!☺ Here it is in the Passion Translation…

Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your heart rely on him to guide you, and He will lead you in every decision you make. Become intimate with Him in whatever you do, and He will lead you wherever you go.

Don’t forget to like, share, subscribe, and most important – Comment! I want to know your thoughts on this conversation!

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Stay in the River with Tammy Holmes

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

My relationship with Tammy is one of those I have termed a God-connection because of the way that it came about.  Our connection is further cemented on our mutual love for worship.  This is a woman of the word, hands down.  We have been having this discussion on Ezekiel for a year! Can you believe that? A whole year and here we are today.

We did a deep dive into Ezekiel 47:1-12  and brought it back to life.  This first 12 verses confirms this one thing for me.  The extent of your depth in God is totally dependent on you.  You can decide to be ankle deep in your relationship with Him or you can go neck deep or all the way in but it is up to you.

With everything going on today especially regarding the George Floyd issue, we discussed 2 Chronicles 7:14.   If my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray then I will hear from heaven and I will heal their land.  This is a 2 fold condition with a 3 fold promise.

I’ll let you listen for yourself. 😀

 

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Carol Lobban – Your Mind Can Be Free

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

One of the things I love about God Conversations is how every Saturday we get to have a heart conversation about God and His impact on our lives.  The past few weeks have seen me and my guests be so transparent and vulnerable.. something that I never thought that I would be able to do on a social media platform.

So, I invited my girl Carol Lobban for a chat and there was no surprise there, it was loaded full of some heavy stuff.  Let me give you a quick summary before you catch the video.

Here are some of the gems from the sit-down…

  • God uses your healed struggle(s) to help somebody else
  • Having a big voice doesn’t mean anyone can hear it
  • “My voice could never be heard because I always wanted it to sound like something else.” wow!!!!
  • Give yourself permission to be brave… A lot of us don’t do that. We let our issues beat us down because we think we can’t get up from under it.
  • When you hold on to things that are not for you, it’s worse than having nothing.
  • Letting go is not the worst thing… It is a trust thing
  • Being alone is a place of growth… To grow, you need fewer distractions.   Some relationships are distractions.
  • We’re afraid of being alone because we don’t know who we are.
  • Someone else has gone through what you’re going through…we need more authentic/transparent Christianity!
  • You can pray, hold the bible, AND go to therapy!!
  • Understand what it means to be in a relationship with God…At a point, in her journey, God told her ‘because I’m in a relationship with you, there are certain things I won’t do because they hurt You.’  That is powerfully ‘freeing’, don’t you think?

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Dr. Tunde Olugboji – The Kingdom Mindset

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

This conversation was so awesomely mind blowing but I will try to summarize some of my favorite gems in this post… I hope I capture it that way. 🙂  The main gist of this whole conversation was ‘what should our mindset be in this current dispensation the whole world has found itself in?  Here goes –

Our life is like a book … all things work together for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Some of those things might be discouraging, terrible, disappointing, etc. but somehow God will make sure they all work together.  You might open the page of discouragement or one of disappointment but at the end of the day, you will get to the chapter of victory.  Understand that every storm has an end date and when you outlast the storm then you have victory.

To get the change you’re praying for, you need to make a change. Remember the story of the prodigal son? Until he made the decision to return home, even if it was to become a servant in his own father’s house; nothing changed in that story.  Going back actually saved him from further suffering.

Sometimes, we get so stuck in our present that we think there is nothing in the past that could bring solution.  I find in situations like this that the biggest conversation we need to have is with ourselves.  We need to learn to be brutally honest with ourselves.

It’ll save a lot of heartaches especially because the enemy will try to steal the peace of where you are with the fear of where you have been!!   This is a good place for me to remind you that God is accessible to you at any point in your journey of life.   Let me reiterate that ‘if you take time to know God, you’ll see Him for exactly if who He is.’

So, in these uncertain times, we need to aspire to be better not bitter. This was a hard one because God knows there have been ‘bitter’ days especially given our current client and how the country is being handled right but I will stop being bitter, I change nothing by staying that way.

We also need to be in spiritual equilibrium, stay proactively patient, and remember that if you leave everything in God’s hand, you will see God’s hand in everything.  He is a man of His word!! 🙂

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Genevieve Kumapley – Labels Don’t Define You

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

This God Conversations Episode with Dr. Genevieve Kumapley was a beautifully explosive one! My goodness, 1 could barely stay in my seat for the entire episode.

One question I asked her was what she would say to people who were feeling confused and frustrated about this whole Covid situation? Those people who are frustrated because at some point last year or even early this year, they decided to pursue their dreams after years of being scared and boom, Covid hit and now it feels like everything is at a dead stop.

She quickly without missing a beat said to me – ‘No, Covid is not a dead stop, it is a reset! Did you hear that? Covid is not a dead stop, it is a RESET! So, no matter what space you’re in right now, Covid should not define or label you! You are a child of God, you can pray and get directions for what you should be doing in this season. God is accessible to you.

Never forget that! Now, take a listen – I know you will be blessed!

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Lead Me Past These Lies – with Biodun Daphrede

by Gladys Osofisan
written by Gladys Osofisan

We have all bought into one lie or the other about ourselves.  When I began to question those lies, I began to discover the real me.  I began to understand that God, my father actually intends ‘good’ for me.  Not evil but to bring me to an expected end.

This conversation with Biodun Daphrede was an enlightening one, be blessed.

 

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