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Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Seyibabalola(m): 9:38am On Feb 20, 2016 |
Yesterday, February 4th, 2015, was my
wife's 51st Birthday. And this year would be
the 27years since 1988 the year we got
married, when she was only 24 years old
and I was 28. Since then, we have travelled
through the thicks and the thins together,
we have climbed the mountains and
descended into the valleys together. We
have faced adverse physical and spiritual
situations together. We have both
confronted together, daunting challenges
that have stood and those that are still
standing against our lives and ministry.
Yesterday, she was 51 and she got phone
calls and congratulatory text messages on
phone and on Facebook page through out
yesterday till late in the night. Our two sons
brought her gift - two digitally painted
pictures of her early years on film set. And
I also bought her a small teddy bear. The
several phone calls and congratulatory
messages of the birthday made us feel a
large crowd of well-wishers had attended
our birthday party. Thank you all.
But what is special about this great woman
is when I remember how we started and
how we have been journeying this journey
since then. And when I recall some of the
things that happen today among our single
and marriagable sisters, I can not but give
praises to the Lord God who brought this
simple and humble sister my way several
years ago.
I have written this story in some of my
write-ups and in one of my books, however,
there is need to recall some of it for the
benefit of some of our single sisters who
might need to learn from it. I graduated
from higher institution in 1983 and served
in 1983/84. Right from the Campus days, I
had been involved in drama ministry, all
through my Youth Service, I was sending
drama scripts back into the fellowship for
drama presentations and I would travel
down from Plateau State to direct the
rehearsals and participate in the major
drama presentation on Drama Night.
After my Youth Service in 1984, I was
involved fully in campus drama evangelism
with the fellowship drama group, travelling
to other campuses and churches outside the
campus for drama presentation. And Sister
Gloria was among the new members that
joined the drama group.
In 1985, sometimes in early July, I proposed
to her to marry me and she told me she
would pray over it. On August 4th, 1985,
she revisited my proposal and said "Yes" to
it. So, our journey began. Now, the real
issue was that, I had nothing. I had nothing
physical or material that any lady could be
proud of. I had only one single room, with
one bed, one table and chair, a standing
hanger where I hanged my few fading shirts
and only one suit which I used to iron from
time to time and red tie from special
occassion. Inside the single room was my
cooking stove and a dilapidated standing
fan, which had lost its foot and the head
was tied facing the bed. And of course, a
precious item - my bookshelf serving as a
small library.
So, when Sister Gloria visited my abode for
the first time, these were all I had and she
saw. My physical and material possessions
could never be compared to what I was on
the campus. "Bro Mike" was famous among
the fellowship as a "gym-gym" brother full
of zeal for drama and drama only. And the
drama group of the fellowship became the
most influential of all the sub-groups of the
fellowship, because almost all the executive
officers became members of the sub-group,
including the President and the Vice-
President and the General Secretary of the
Christian Fellowship. So I was so rich in
spiritual substance and full of great visons,
but had no enviable physical or material
possessions any young lady could be proud
of.
But, when Sis Gloria entered my room, one
afternoon, she never saw all those things I
mentioned but only one thing arrested her
attention: my bookshelf containing several
spiritual books, including the books of
Kenneth Hagins, Oral Roberts, T.L. Osborne,
Osward J. Smith, etc. She hasten to the shelf
and shouted "Whao!", and she sat by the
bookshelf and began to look at those
precious books she had longed to have and
read. Ah!. I was happy I had what she
wanted and desired. She wanted spiritual
books that would make her grow. And I
had just that! All other things never
mattered to her.
I had nothing physical, but I had a great
vision of the future and she embraced that
vision with all her heart and might. When
her senior brothers and her parents were
demanding from her to know the work that
her fiancee was doing that could qualify
him to marry her, she stood on my behalf
to defend me before her people that I was
into drama ministry and there was a great
future ahead of us. He people could not see
what she was talking about, because I was
already on full-time drama ministry and I
had no physical enviable thing they all
could hold on to. They were furious with
her and thought she must be out of her
mind to have decided to marry "a man who
has no job and no physical possession and
no appreciable future". When we informed
them we wanted to get married three years
down our courtship, they revolted and my
Mummy ( my elder sister), led the war to
Sis Gloria's parents to warn them never to
give their daughter to me in marriage
because I had no job to take care of their
daughter. She stood by what God had told
her about me, that there was a great future
ahead of us.
The Lord convinced them all and they
supported us and we married in 1988,
three years after the Mount Zion ministry
launched. And our journey to that future
began. Now, to my Dearest Single Sisters, a lot of
us are missing it today. A lot of us have
been seriously deceived and misled by
erronenous marriage teachings and lectures
of confused marriage counsellors and
teachers. A woman was once invited to one
of our sisters' conference, invited to come
and minister to our single sisters. She
mounted the pulpit and shocked us by
saying, no sisters should marry any brother
who is not materially capable of being a
husband. She said she also counselled her
daughters to be gather as many materials as
possible before getting married; that her
daughters must go into mariage with
enough self-sufficiency. She ought to have
got a lot of things like fridge, electronic
gadgets, dinning sets and other things that
could make her stand tall as a self-sufficient
lady. I told my wife, that the woman would
never be invited to any of our conferences
again. Her teaching was confusing.
I heard some marriage teachers taught their
single sisters to check the Bank Account
statement of the man who come proposing
to them before they consider their
proposals. If the Bank Account is very lean,
then, they need not bother themselves
considering the proposals. Some sisters
would go and pay visit to the houses and
apartments of the men who proposed to
them, before they could begin to consider
their proposals.
A young brother who had waited for almost
a year before the sister finally said "Yes",
later came back to me after almost one year
of courtship, to tell me that the lady
suddenly began to ask some strange
questions about his projections for the
future and what he hopes to achieve and
possess in a year's time and what he hopes
to acquire in two years' time; the amount
he hope to have saved for the wedding in
two years. And when he told the sister that
he was not sure of the amount he could
save for the wedding neither does he have
any future projection, but he is a minister
of God and she could see all the works he
has been doing for the Lord and he knows
the Lord has a great future for him as he
keeps serving Him. This made the sister
began to reconsider the relationship. Then,
she said later, that she didn't think they
were compatible, because she thought he
had no future plans.
Meanwhile, such sister would readily
believe a lie. If the brother had began to
blow an invisible trumpet of himself and
began to paint an unrealistic picture of his
future for this same sister, she would have
believed everything. If the brother had said
something like "making a saving that would
enable him acquire a jeep in a month to
their wedding; and how he would tender a
business proposal before an oil company or
come up with a business idea that could
fetch him some millions, which would
afford him an opportunity of purchasing a
duplex apartment in Lekki part of Lagos,
the sister would readily believe that he had
a future plan. She would take him for a
very serious-minded marriagable brother.
We have come to a strange generation
where lies sell heavily than the truth. We
are now in a season when our young sisters
believe a man by what they see of him
physically or how sweetly he could run his
mouth by saying big and boastful plans and
not by what they spiritually perceive of
him. This is a season when, it is the way
you package yourself that many sisters take
you, even if the fine shirts and suits with
shoes were borrowed to be returned later.
MANY, NOT ALL. MANY OF OUR SISTERS
LOVE TO BELEIVE IN LIES TODAY.
Some sisters' choice of who to marry would
depend on where the man is working:
Bank?, Oil and Gas? Real Estate? Insurance?
Constructions? And some sisters' readiness
to consider a proposal rests on the family
status of the man who proposed: is the
family rich and wealthy? Are they based in
US or Canada or Germany or Asian
nations? Famous and Influential?
Today, a lot of brothers love to live on lies
and falsehood, because this is what many
sisters want. I once read on the Whatsap
page of a young brother in Christ whom I
happened to know. He wrote under his
name, CEO of a Motivational and Purpose
Group company and under this are about
two or three website of his Motivational
Purpose company. In one of his write-ups, I
read where he said: One day, as I was
coming from my office, I saw....." When I
read that, I wondered which office he was
talking about, because, I knew him to be
working as a shop attendant or sales man
in a shop. I look at the picture he posted in
his profile, he dressed up like a Director of
a corporate organisation, but he is a sales
boy working in a shop. These are the type of
lies many of our sisters love to hear before
they could consider a proposal.
What does the Bible say about responding to
marriage proposals:
Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV
[5] Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
[6] In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
A christian lady who would have a great
future and pleasant home would commit
her ways, the proposals into the Lord's
hand. I THINK THIS IS THE ACTUAL SOURCE
OF THE PROBLEM: MANY SISTERS CAN'T
WAIT BEFORE THE LORD TO KNOW THE
MIND OF GOD CONCERNING WHO TO
MARRY AGAIN.
MANY SISTERS ARE GUIDED INTO MAKING
THEIR MARITAL CHOICES BASED ON THE
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OR MATERIAL OR
FINANCIAL POSSESSIONS OF THE MAN,
AND NOT ON THE LEADING AND
CONVICTIONS OF THE LORD THEIR GOD.
If Sis Gloria were to consider my physical,
material and financial possessions when I
proposed to her, I would have been
outrightly disqualified, because I had
nothing but the burning visions to
evangelise the world through Drama
ministry. And if She were to consider my
proposal based on my future plans or
projections, she would never have
considered me, because, I had no financial,
material or physical future plan or
projections at that time, but was only
armed with evangelistic visions of the work
of God.
And what are the unpleasant results of all
these fake future plans and projections:
because no life is secure except the ones
hidden in Christ and entrusted in His care.
Many of these future plans and projections
flopped and they are castles built with sea-
sand on a sea-shore, they crumbled fast
when the foundation is not laid on the
leading of Christ and the home is set on fake
foundations and false projections. The
banking industry is not what it used to be.
The oil and gas industry is no longer like
before. Considerations of your response to a
proposal should never be based on anything
physical or materials, but Godly leading and
convictions after a lot of heart-searching
prayers and humble waiting upon the Lord
to know His heart on the man who
proposed.
ONLY THE LORD GOD KNOWS THE FUTURE.
THE BROTHER WORKING IN A BANK OR
OCUPPYING A MANAGERIAL SEAT TODAY
MAY BE DEMOTED BY CIRCUMSTANCES
AND NEGATIVE SITUATIONS TOMORROW.
AND THE MAN WHO HAS NOTHING NOW
MAY BE ON HIS WAY TO THE TOP VERY
SOON.
So, physical or material status should never
be paramount in considering marraige
proposals, but the voice of the Lord who
knows tomorrow. If you desire a peaceful
home and fruitful marriage that will afford
you the opportunity to be ministerially
fulfilled, don't let any physical, material or
financial things give you your husband, let
the spirit of the Lord lead and convince you
of who to marry.
You are blessed,
MIKE BAMILOYE 5 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Nobody: 9:46am On Feb 20, 2016 |
Wait o!!! Who una want make read this one |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Tkini(f): 9:59am On Feb 20, 2016 |
Is She dead?? |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by JOLSOFT(m): 10:08am On Feb 20, 2016 |
Tkini:tribute is a form of acknowledgment, gratitude not only for dead people 1 Like |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Tyviv(f): 10:16am On Feb 20, 2016 |
Thanks for sharing Op....in this age we are there's too much concentration on material things which shouldn't be.. 1 Like |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Tkini(f): 10:16am On Feb 20, 2016 |
JOLSOFT:yeah......but what first came to my mind when I saw tribute was death cos na only for burial we dey see tribute. |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Seyibabalola(m): 10:31am On Feb 20, 2016 |
sammydemperor: If you can sit down and read novels that might not even add any value to your life at the end, why should you find it difficult to read a piece like this that will do you a lot of good. |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Nobody: 12:54pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Seyibabalola: Lol... Bro if you could help me summarize it i will be eternally grateful |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Nobody: 1:08pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Inspiring... Dear Lord,, help me and guide my path.. Help me to make decisions that I will live to be proud of.. Let me take that path that leads to greatness, fulfilment, accomplishments, fruitfulness, and fame. AMEN 2 Likes |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by daveP(m): 1:33pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
still yet, there's a crew online here, that would still shoot with vehemence against this truth. funny enough, they all know the obama story. lalasticlala, a sane thread from romance section don show salient, great, inspiring write-up, words. wait, why don't I hear this from the so-called big daddies in tha lord in nigeria? 1 Like |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by refiner(f): 2:10pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
waooo...such an inspirational piece! no matter wat u say,most ladies will still nt look at a guy dat has nothing twice!....money and fame is wat dey wanna see!!smh 1 Like |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Seyibabalola(m): 2:31pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
refiner: And that's why such ladies will continue to lose. shikena! |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Seyibabalola(m): 2:34pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Omavik: AMEN AMEN AMEN. The Lord shall grant you your heart desires in Jesus name. |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Nobody: 4:24pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Seyibabalola:Awwww!! Amen... Thanks a bunch.. |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Seyibabalola(m): 4:35pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Omavik:We bless God |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by bankybobo11: 5:18pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Moral Lesson; I will marry someone I'm 4 years older than and she must accept me as I am for now 1 Like |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Rukkydelta(f): 5:50pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Nice one............. |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by cruzita(f): 6:07pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
she must have been his crown all these years . |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Nobody: 7:26pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
Wow. Despite d fact that i dont like reading lengthy statements i read this cos it caught my attention. Op u try. I hope ladies and guyz will learn from this. I really learnt something sha.. 1 Like |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by Nobody: 9:14pm On Feb 20, 2016 |
*walksquietlyoutOFthread* |
Re: Pastor Mike Bamiloye's Tribute To His Wife. Pls Read. Lots Of Lessons Inside. by JOLSOFT(m): 11:06am On Feb 22, 2016 |
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