The Way

The things I saw while growing taught 
me some lessons in living my life at 
my own pace.
I never allowed anybody to put me 
under any undue pressure I like to 
lead the pack, when i cannot I prefer 
to lead myself I hated being led by 
my peer, even those older than me 
who i judged to be not so intelligent 
couldn't lead me
I have never believed in the older
the wiser adage, i know too many
foolish old people than i could count
on a finger
I was always at war with my oldest 
sister who was brilliant but whom I 
couldn't stand because she craved 
that "pat on the back" and was a
"People pleaser"
People Who crave the good opinion
of others are very surface hypocrites
at best
I cannot stand hypocrisy
Even now, while in Christ, there are 
many things I do simply because
it is what is expected.
I do them for the sake of appearances
I cringe when i do them
God sees my heart, if i could be allowed
to live as Christ to the fullest I wouldn't
do them
But we learn to give unto Caesar
because while we live among men, 
we have to be "social and sociable"
I naturally find fishing for adulation 
and compliments a sign of weakness 
Like saying I am not sufficient in myself 
You can understand that many are
affected by this fishing for adulation
or compliment syndrome so badly that
they come on Twitter or any other social
media platform to post their nude pictures
or a video of their body parts just to
get a retweet or a like
They do not see themselves as sufficient
in themselves
This is quite a pity
My parents weren't rich but I refused 
to be judged by that 
I respected only those who proved 
to  be as intelligent or more intelligent 
than I was 
I didn't learn it 
It was the only strength I had 
So it was not a virtue as such because 
it made me very proud and condescending
(Quick to dismiss the achievements of
others, very competitive, boastful and
sometimes a total oaf. I learned later as
I came into Christ that the poor wear
pride as an armor and what I was 
displaying was not unique but a 
characteristic of growing up poor)
I grew up in a rich estate 
Teens rocking Bikers, Chelsea, loafers, 
Sanchez was the sign of "Hardness
and Big boyism! 
Chicago bulls, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis...
it was a disease
Everything was judged by sight
Even a dunce with rich parents was
seen and treated with more respect
than the intelligent ones from a poor
background
Boys impressed with clothes and girls 
followed the label 
When all the boys with rich parents 
were dating Yewandes, Bimpes and 
Laurettas 
I settled for Eli- Our landlady's ward
 (i can't remember if she was Elizabeth 
or Elishama or EliIbadan)
We all call her Eli and she was the babe
nobody will claim to be dating while
the sun was shinning
She was attending Bashorun High School 
She didn't mind that I wore Saphet Buba 
over my school knickers in the evening 
because I don't have fancy clothes 
She needed a boyfriend and I needed 
a girlfriend 
We didn't date each other in the open 
There was a rule for being with a 
poor boy and an ugly girl 
You waited until everywhere was dark 
7:30ish time between late and almost 
too late to take a stroll and hold hands
You dont even talk much
That evening stroll gives you a sense
of belonging
Like "Its not that bad, I am not isolated
I still have a connection with the world
I am still of value to someone who didn't
see my lack of fancy clothes but liked 
me for me!
You didn't care who saw you at time 
It was all about Biology and its attending 
consequences 
Many of my age mates started driving 
at sixteen 
Their fathers threw lavish parties for them 
The experience helped me a lot 
I aspired to be a success but I knew 
I would be a success by my own hard work
(I was very wrong on this too, I really 
tried to get ahead through hard work
but I failed for many years. It was when
I gave up on hustling and began to do
live the gospel life that I finally started
experiencing the divine power of God
for my success.)
My generation was waiting for me to 
be the one who would lift them out of 
that realm of hiding when your age mates 
were going to a party or hanging out
 I remember sticking to my room and 
reading all day simply because a 
neighbour was having a party and 
I didn't have the appropriate clothes 
to wear
I once went to the recreation club with 
my "i don't care what others think" comrade 
called Samuel Bello 
He said he can swim, I said i can't 
We saved all the money we could scape 
or steal for a whole year 
We went on a weekday 
I sat down eating meat-pie and drinking 
coke 
He got into the pool and almost drowned 
All in the name of trying to impress me 
How many people drowned drinking coke 
and eating meat-pie? 
By the time they dragged his fatness out 
of the pool, he couldn't eat anything 
I had to help him drink his coke and eat 
meat pie out of pity 
He was 17 and I was 15 at the time I 
had a mind of my own!
Unfortunately, somebody called somebody 
that one Samuel almost drowned at the 
Recreation club 
I was Samuel 
My friend was also Samuel 
My father almost killed me when I got 
home 
I kept telling him I didn't swim but he 
was too angry to hear me out 
To add insult to injury, I went to
the club wearing one of his smaller shirts 
He found it in my school bag 
I hated getting into trouble that way 
Till today, i am always wary of being 
close to people who can get into 
trouble and drag me into the cesspool 
with them 
It is one of the things friends do 
The relationship as bonding demands 
must have moments you call secrets 
This makes friends vulnerable and 
often times 
I have found myself betrayed by a 
lily-livered friend who decided to save 
his own neck and throw me under 
the bus! 
I grew up as a "don't have" but I didn't 
have their mentality
When I played games with my neighbours 
in the estate, i treated nothing as fun 
I had to prove to them that even though 
they had the advantage their parent's 
gave them it didn't make them any better 
in who they are inside than I was 
The mentality was all wrong but I couldn't 
find a balance until I became a believer 
Christianity leveled the playing field forever 
Your life is not worth more than the life 
of anybody in Christ 
I cannot be a Christian and have an 
inferiority complex 
Christians who do have not fully grasped 
the meaning of Christianity and salvation! 
When I see a believer saying "I know 
where my mates are" I shake my head 
Such a believer is not living the life from 
above 
He or she might have confessed Christ 
but he or she is not living the Christ-life. 
We were not called into a religion 
We were called to walk in THE WAY... 
Many of us don't understand that as we 
have a way of life in the flesh, so is 
Christ a way of life in the spirit 
Anyone who truly comprehends the 
Christ-life has gained mastery over the 
elements of this world in such a manner 
that his or her words will never reflect 
consciousness of any inadequacy 
So when you go to churches and you 
see a Pastor and even a Bishop praying 
a "need and want" conscious prayer,
 just know that such is still a babe in Christ 
trying to grapple with life in the flesh 
while struggling to manifest the spiritual 
life 
Let me teach you this...
Pray in the spirit for one or two hours 
Do this with intensity and seriousness 
as unto the Lord 
Then lift up your hands and begin to 
settle issues 
Just as God did in Genesis 1 and as 
Jesus did on several occasions
Begin to draw wonders out of the
treasures of your heart
Frame your reality with your faith-filled 
words of affirmation, creation, provision 
and health
Call forth the things that be not as though
they are
Once you bring something to birth in the
place of prayer, let your words and 
consciousness align with its reality
Don't be an "Unless I see it, I cannot 
say I have it" kind of believer
Such almost never grows
Believe in the reality you established in 
His presence 
Don't ever doubt it 
You will be shocked how effective your 
prayer will be compared to your routine
Thanksgiving, The forgiveness of sin, 
supplication, and groveling method 
that you keep applying religiously 
Be like Christ
Confidently declare that all things are 
yours and then go about doing the 
things the Lord Jesus said all those 
who believe shall do 
Be a blessing to the Kingdom of God 
and to your fellow men 
You are a light that darkness cannot 
comprehend 
See yourself that way 
Let the word of God concerning you shape 
your perception 
Call yourself what God calls you and 
act like it 
Do you guys know the depth of the power 
that we have in Jesus 
The day you awake into what you are 
capable of, you will look for me here and 
say a big thank you! 
Heaven is in you! 
Birth it's realities by walking in the WAY 
Christ showed us through his life 
You have all things 
You have been freely given all things 
But you might live and die poor if you 
don't walk in the way! 
This is your daily fight of faith! 
It is not a fight against sin and demons 
It is a fight against self and sense reality
as you actualize Him 
Like Abram vs. Abraham 
You can be an assumed Father or 
you can be the Father of many nations 
The truth will reflect on whose word 
you believe 
Are you an assumed Christian Or Are you 
the one to whom Jesus gave all powers?

PS: Many Christian live by their senses only
They only pray as a religious rite
They have missed out on the faith life
They know nothing about following
The Way
Acts 9 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing 
out murderous threats against the 
Lord’s disciples. 
He went to the high priest 2 and 
asked him for letters to the synagogues 
in Damascus, so that if he found any 
there who belonged to The Way, 
whether men or women, he might take 
them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

If you belong to the Way, live your 
life THE WAY Christ showed us.