Church Chronicles With Ayo Talks

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.   –  2 Corinthians 9:7 There's this silly notion that the church, the pastor or your bishop want's your money, AND IT'S ALL NONESENSE!!!!!! Not all church establishments are scamming their members, not every man of God is dripping in swag and driving the latest sport's cars like some pastors. God want's to see where our hearts are when it comes to our money, if we can put our money in clothes, bills phone contracts and other things let's invest our finances in our church nobody is saying give all your money or half  your salary. But we can contribute to something i.e. cleaning products, equipment, maintenance or something else in our church for example for me, not to boast when I was in the cleaning group of my church for the last 4 years, when I got paid I would spend £5 on cleaning products that was my offering to God plus m...

  I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?  1st Corinthians 1:10-13 We live in day and age where there is too much division in the body of Christ. It's either we are arguing whose church is the best? Which preacher is better Paster Micheal Todd or Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo? Or who serves God the most accurate, whether it's Pentecostal, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness or Baptist & so and so on. It's like Team Stark Vs Team Captain America in the Civil War saga in Avengers.  Where there's more varieties and me...

  “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:33 DISCLIAMER: This is a fictional story to emphasize the importance of putting God first, none of the events below were real and was inspired by a video called God's pie, here's the link for the video and you'll see where I'm coming from in this article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upmyrinWq64  God was in the kitchen, cooking the jollof rice and just takes the chicken out of the oven. With the plantain sweet and ripe cut up nicely. 28 year old, well built and dark Femi come's down into the kitchen lays the table and shouts "dinner's ready" Herds of people come down the stairs and all sit at the table Femi's mum say's "God this is really smelling nice" Femi gives two plates of jollof to his friend Finances. He gives a big plate to his family and friends, he gives a plate to his friend Career, he gives a plate to his ot...

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:16 We live in a society where it's dog eat dog, and as a Christian there's no love lost in our community where we focus on ourselves, giving God our wish list like He is Santa Clause. Yes we want blessings, answers and healing but what we forget is to pray for others.  We must pray for everyone and anyone, pray for your family, friends, associates, relatives, children's, nieces/nephews, colleagues, the boss who get on your nerves, the customer/client who grinds our gears even our enemies. As I type this I look with regret because I forgot to do that this morning, (Yes I'm guilty you can kill me lol.)   We live in time's where we're in pandemic, suicides are going up unfortunately, unemployment has risen and thing's have been harder and harder with 2020 being the year to forget, even though fr...

  Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.  Ephesians 4:25 Last month I celebrated 15 years in the faith, but it's been anything but champagne glasses, cheers, smiles and party celebrations. I'm at the weakest I've ever been typing this, I even missed church today and the past 3 weeks. I'm writing this piece so that we as Christians stop hiding behind a facade and admit we have struggles, we cry, we get sad and we get depressed. Let's get professional help, let's use our faith let's use the story of Job as inspiration. We are Christians not robots, IT'S OK TO NOT BE OK SOMETIMES, but let's fight and let God do His power and heal us. For too long we've hid behind the terrors behind mental health and depression, while the government, society and even the church have not done much.  It's time we stand in arms and kick it in it's butt and stand in victory l...

     1   “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.   2   For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.   3   “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?   4   How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?   5   You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Matthew 7. 1 - 5 Everyone serves God differently and that's ok that's what makes us unique, you read the Bible from a hard copy, people use an app so what? People are sleeping around in the lusts of fornication while someone like me and you who are keeping ourselves to marriage so what? You go to church some people watch sermons from online streaming so what? You're in your c...

A lot of Christians have an identity crisis when they come to God, before you get offended and start calling me Satan, please read this blog before you get outraged like the Twitter Brigade who want to cancel everyone and anyone. But I can't be cancelled nor can anyone, as grace and favor cancels such **flicks imaginary weave** but that's a topic for another day. And if you do read this blog and think I'm shaking tables please forward this and make a complaint to my bishop. So when I meant some believers lose their identity, I mean we can become boring, performative and believe we have to change ourselves, i.e stop listening to music, only listening to gospel which is not bad but it can be fanatic because not all mainstream music is satanic, they're in church more and forget other commitments, forcing Christianity on others or the one I hate the most seeing us Christians do always over talking about the Bible and the things of God on our social media's ahhhhh ev...