Abiola Olojo's Blog

Happy new week my dear friend, I'm so happy to have you here today, as we conclude on this month's theme LIVING IN PEACE. Do you remember a story a shared two weeks ago, that of a young man named Chidi, how he lived in a noisy environment, the decision he took, and the significance of that very decision. peace is a decision we all have to make, and it begins with how we manage our emotions. Sometimes, it’s not the noise around us that troubles us most, it’s the noise within. Our emotions are valid; they are signs that we are alive. But if we’re being honest, they can also wear us out. And in a world that constantly triggers our feelings, from disappointments to heartbreaks to just the pressure to keep going, emotional peace feels like a rare treasure. But here’s the truth: peace isn’t about not feeling anything. It’s about not letting what we feel control us. Being emotionally peaceful doesn’t mean we won’t get angry or feel pain. It simply means we’ve learned to breathe thro...

  Happy new week my dear friend, I'm so happy to write you again. As we continue our conversation on peace, I'll begin with a common story, s ome years ago, a popular experiment was conducted with two groups of people asked to complete a complex puzzle. One group was placed in a quiet, peaceful room with soft natural lighting. The other group was put in a noisy room filled with distractions and pressure. Same task, same instructions. The result? Those in the peaceful environment finished faster and made fewer mistakes. The difference wasn’t intelligence, it was atmosphere. Peace gave their minds the room to think clearly and move with ease. This story constantly reminds me of much ease and positivity that peace brings. Peace is not a luxury. It’s a necessity, a quiet confidence that even when things don’t go as planned, you’re not losing yourself trying to fix what’s broken. Life has taught us that ease doesn’t come from how smooth the road is, but from the stillness inside u...

 Happy new week, my dear friend. I am happy to write you again this week, let's continue our conversation on a peaceful life. Life isn’t always smooth, and truthfully, it was never meant to be. We all face our share of storms. Some come with warning signs, others show up uninvited, shaking everything we thought was stable. But in the middle of that chaos, there's something rare and powerful, peace. Not the kind that waits for the noise to die down, but the kind that stays calm even when nothing around you makes sense. That’s the real strength, to smile, to breathe, to keep moving, even when everything is screaming at you to give up. Peace in the storm is a mindset, not a miracle. It doesn’t always change your situation. But it changes how you show up in it. Some battles are louder than others. But the real war is internal, between fear and faith, between anxiety and assurance. And the truth is, peace doesn’t mean you don’t feel pain. It means pain doesn’t define your decisions....

Happy Sunday, my dear friend. Today we will talk about living in peace, helping us understand how to leave a purposeful life, I'll start with a story. A young man named Chidi grew up in a bustling, noisy Lagos neighborhood where the sound of honking cars, shouting traders, and unpredictable power cuts were the norm. Despite the chaos around him, Chidi made an unusual decision. Every morning before the city came alive, he would wake up, sit by his window, and breathe deeply in silence for just ten minutes. This routine became his sacred ritual. While his friends were always complaining about life’s hardships, Chidi approached each day with calmness, handled stress better, and seemed to smile more often. When asked about his secret, he would simply say, “I choose peace every morning, before the world chooses noise.” The truth is, many people today are fighting battles that don’t belong to them dragging burdens they were never assigned. Social media has turned everything into a race: ...

  Happy new week, my dear friend. We have been talking about the state of mind, and how it affects poverty, wealth, and purpose. We will be wrapping up for the month with this, and I'll begin with a story. Ade was a young man born into poverty. He grew up in a family where struggle was the normal language. His only dream was to make money, to leave the trenches, and never look back. As he got older, he worked endlessly. He slept late, woke early, and gave everything he had just to succeed. And he did. He made money. He moved into one of the finest estates in the city. He drove the best cars and wore the finest clothes. He ticked off every box he once believed would make him happy. But deep down, he still felt empty. Ade had escaped being broke, but he hadn’t escaped poverty. He had enough money, but he still wasn’t enough. This is the tragedy many never talk about. The belief that money will fix everything is one of the biggest lies of our time. Contentment does not come from accou...

Happy new week my, dear friend, trust you had a wonderful weekend. Today, I will start by telling a bible story, the parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:16–21), Jesus tells of a man whose land yielded a great harvest. Rather than use his abundance wisely, he tore down his barns to build bigger ones, hoarding for himself and thinking his soul could rest in riches. But God called him a fool. That night, his life ended. It wasn’t his wealth that condemned him. It was his mindset. He had money, but no meaning. Riches, but no reason. That story still speaks today. Money, when held without purpose, turns a blessing into vanity. Truth is, money is not the root of evil, misuse is. The same note that buys illegal drugs can buy drugs for a sick child. The same money that funds a reckless lifestyle can fund a legacy. We must stop treating money like a sin, and start seeing it as a servant. When spent right, money becomes a message. It speaks in scholarships, in hospitals, in opportunities created f...

  Happy new week my dear friend, I hope you picked few things from my last message, and I hope you'll pick from today's message too. Poverty isn’t always about empty pockets often, it’s about an empty perspective. The lack of knowledge is one of the first silent killers of potential. A man who doesn’t know better cannot do better. Many are not poor because they lack opportunity, but because they lack the understanding to recognize or maximize one. When your mind is starved of new information, you settle for survival instead of striving for significance. It’s not what you don’t have that limits you, it’s what you don’t know. Time, they say, waits for no one, but for the poor in mindset, time is either wasted or ignored. A person’s attitude towards time determines their altitude in life. While some treat every second as a seed, others treat hours like ash, casually blown away without value. Poverty reigns where time is misused. The wealth of the rich isn't just in currency; i...

  Hello My dear reader, happy new week. Today, I'll start with the story of a young man who experienced penury. He told stories about how he lost his Dad because they couldn't afford #5,000, and how his mum died due to the complications, as the father was the bread winner, and they became homeless and more miserable immediately after his demise, even though the family of 6 was managing in A ROOM before he died. The children got displaced, and everyone went separate ways, darely in the quest for survival, every man to his own, just like that the family was wiped out. Despite their family being the price they paid for poverty, they still weren't rich, that is how expensive poverty is, it has no sympathy for your past, no emotions for your situation. It then crossed my mind that while ignorance and illeteracy are popularly known to be expensive, poverty is underrated.  If there's anything everyman works and pray against, then it is poverty, we work so hard to avoid it, al...

Happy new month my dear friend, I pray that this month will be productive for us, may all the good things of this month be our portion, and may evil not come near us and our family. This week's message is coming late, because I've been looking for the best way to share my experience, I will be sharing some videos with today's message to give more clarity to the message I will be passing. I pray you are blessed by the message.  I recently traveled to Greece for a vacation, not just to relax, but to retrace the steps of Apostle Paul and experience the living history of his ministry. Importantly, I fellowshiped with brethren and participated in the celebration of the annual TOTAL WOMAN CONFERENCE. One of the most profound parts of this journey was our tour around the ancient city of Philippi. We explored the ruins of Basilica A and Basilica B, the remnants of the earliest churches, and the excavated city once buried by an earthquake. These stones may be old, but they still spe...

  Happy Sunday, my dear friend. Today’s message is a reminder of something deeply comforting yet often overlooked the unfailing love of God. The story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 is one of the most powerful pictures of God's unfailing love. A young man demanded his inheritance, left home, and wasted it all in reckless living. When he hit rock bottom, eating with pigs and ashamed, he decided to return, not expecting restoration, just hoping to be treated as a servant. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, ran toward him, embraced him, and threw a celebration. No lectures, no shame, just love, lavish, undeserved, and overwhelming. That’s how God loves us: not based on our worthiness, but based on His heart. Sometimes, life throws us into chaos so fierce that we begin to wonder if we’ve been forgotten. But the truth is, even when we feel abandoned or overwhelmed, God is silently at work on our behalf. Just because we don’t see the hand of God moving immediately doesn’...