Olaniyi Olanrewaju

For a long time, the attention was on male child, but few years back, the girl child got a lot of attention and the opportunities made available to them heavily out-weighed that of the boys: Trainings, Seminars, Scholarships and so on. Eventually, those well trained and educated ladies began to fall in love with boys who had their faces oiled with some pinch of handsomeness, and their tongues laced with powerful poems and rhymes copied from Indian movies. They married them and found out that coupled with the oiled face and laced tongue, these guys were also demon- invaded and all manners of issues started happening. Many girls didn't even get to the point of marriage. They were raped at slap-point. Suddenly, the world is waking up to another imbalance in our society: The boys have been neglected!!! That's a classic example of how man keeps moving in a cycle! You see, man create problems for himself while trying to solve another problem. We have created many im...

The discussion about the battle in the arts and entertainment world would not be complete if I do not talk about how fashion has shaped the earth. Fashion is a very instrumental tool in God's hand. Consequently, the devil is a believer in the efficacy of the fashion industry. How people dress has been shaped by culture until men began to show up as role models and changed the face of clothing. Several brands broke the cultural beliefs of men and shifted the moral standards of territories. The evolution of fashion has taken a long route. From Adam's Fig leaves to the western world's present clothing, there have been fierce battles about how man should dress and what the dress should mean. I did a little research and I found out that the sexuality outburst we have today started some years after 1950. This is very connected to the new way people began to dress at that time. What changed? Long wide skirts turned to mini tight skirts. The devil was let loose. The tre...

The economy of the world is handled by highly intelligent persons because they need to make right decisions that can make the lives of the people better. Every country makes sure that one of their best brains is employed to handle the delicate matter. The importance of the aspect of life is so crucial that God and the devil cannot over look it. In the book of Revelations, seven seals were mentioned that they would be opened upon the earth. The third seal led to the release of a black horse that causes great economic hardship on the earth. Finance is one of the ways the devil takes away the attention of the church from the God. The church today has been swept over by a deception of running after money. It has not worked. The harder the financial situation, the worse the church became. During the days of the great depression in USA, God raised men like Oral Roberts, William Graham, Alonso Allen who started preaching the good news of salvation all over the country. The result ...

The Arts world is one of the very powerful sphere of influence that the man whose will is aligned with God and the devil have recognized. This sphere of influence holds a great sway over children and youths that form the next generation. Just like the education sphere. Arts include all the creative abilities that God has put in man, but I will major on music and fashion for the purpose of this series. Music and fashion have been used in the past to shape the world. Music is almost as old as man. Some circles believe it is even older since there is music in heaven. I may not be able to dispute that, but what is certain is that music exists in every tribe and has played a role in the formation of the culture of the tribe. The kind of music a people listen to is determined by their values. The Jews exemplified this in Babylon when they refused to sing the Lord's song because they were in a strange land. They considered the song to be sacred and can only by sung under cert...

The battle for the leadership of nations is one that I thought should be obvious, but the devil has succeeded in making us run beyond the finish line. We have become intelligent that all we now see are ideologies and political science. I am not an unbeliever in knowledge and ideologies, but I think we need to be more humble to recognize that some things have happened that were beyond calculations and opinion polls. When Nigeria's 2019 general election drew close, I began to seek God's face about His will. Now, so many people don't believe that God has a will. They believe that He isn't interested in who becomes the president and rulers of a territory. I find that very hard to swallow. The bible is full of accounts of how God was keen about who rules a land. Some nations of today's world recognizes this and made their allegiance obvious. Some are regarded as Muslim countries while many, including Nigeria regard themselves as secular. A secular state is a st...

The happenings of this world have been moving in a direction that seeks to edge God out of everywhere. God is not permitted in the government houses, schools, hospitals and even public places. They call Him religion; classifying Him among the perverse innovations of the devil meant to decieve man. These occurrences are not coincidental. They are well planned actions by the devil to rid the earth of all forms of the presence and influence of God. One major way of getting this done is by dominating the sphere of influence called Media. The battle for the media is typified in the bible as the battle between Israel and the Amorites. The Amorites were one of the 7 nations Israel was instructed to wipe out from the promised land. Moses and Joshua fought battles against the Amorites with different signs and wonders such as the standing of the Sun in the sky for a day. The word "Amorites" means "to say" or "to talk". They were a boastful, arrogant, ...

The battle to own this world ought to be glaring to every man, but the devil has hid himself behind several thought patterns. An example is religious intolerance. This is the major route through which the devil used to effectively send the influence of God out of the educational system in the world. The educational system is basic to the value system of a society as the values are built into the next generation using the school. The devil was stealth enough to introduce religious intolerance to break the stronghold of the influence of God in the schools which had existed for decades. Students with other faiths began to get uncomfortable with the truth of God's word as projected by their colleagues and this led to a series of court cases in many countries. Europe and North America were the first to be bit by this terrible wave that swept prayers and bible readings out of Colleges (Universities) and High (Secondary) schools. The battle was fierce in USA as several parts ...

At the end of 2017, I was at a retreat where the LORD asked us to pray against the plan of the devil for 2018 which was to start a war in Nigeria and the aim of the war was to take the attention of the church away from Jesus. One of the spheres of influence where the battle between man whose will aligns with the will of God and the devil is the church. Ever since the birth of the church in the days of the apostles of the Lamb, the devil has always attacked her through every available means. The first 100 years of the church was so turbulent because the devil was bent on wiping out the growing ecclesia of Jesus. Somehow the devil knows that the church is the very organization that will lead to the establishment of the will of God on the earth. Part of the stories of how the early church was persecuted are written in the bible, but most are not found in the canon of scripture. Robert Liardon did a very amazing work on the Martyrs of the church from Stephen, the deacon ...

From the days of Adam, the devil has been looking for means of establishing his wish upon the face of the recreated earth. It was this that pushed him to tempt the first family, who were in charge of the earth, to take the authority of the earth. Psalm 115:16 showed that the legal authority on the earth is man, but the devil stole this authority from man in the garden of Eden. This grieved God as His plan for the earth is 'thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven'. So, right from Genesis, we see two agenda for the earth. One from God through man and the other through the devil. God began to devise means through which He will restore man back to the place of authority, but the devil has always created holes in the plans of God for man because God would not intrude the earth except a man is involved. So God has to wait upon a man before His can appear on the earth. It must be noted that God is not the one in direct battle with the devil. That would be very blasphe...

I was reading a book by Rick Joyner sometimes ago and he said in the book that 'most Christians don't believe that Jesus resurrected'. I immediately said to myself that that must be a typographical error. But when I read the next sentence in the book, he said that when he first saw that statement in one of the writings of Charles Spurgeon, he also said that it must be a typographical error, but the Holy Spirit told him that it is not an error. That made him to meditate on the statement much more. In his meditation, he saw that Christians only have a mental agreement with the resurrection of Jesus, but they do not have faith in it. That part of the book made me consider the truths we call the basis of christianity which are the virgin birth of Jesus, the deity of Jesus, the life and ministry of Jesus on the earth, the death and resurrection of Jesus and the coming back of Jesus to take away His ecclesia. All these have implications and only those who take action...