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To point you to your purpose and living for who and what truly counts.


-Love, Kunmi.

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Tuesday 19 December 2017

Purpose "redefined"



On Popularity & Happiness

I've seen people attach the meaning of purpose to their career, talents, business and other material things in fact thats a norm these days

But what will you do or say of I told you the purpose of your life is not your career? What if I told you the purpose of your life was not to get married or to have a talent that brings you fame? Or more interestingly, what if I told you the purpose of your life is not to be happy. I heard the from Laju Iren recently and it reaffirmed the whole idea of purpose for me.

When I stopped posting on my other blog, it was because I didn't feel enough. I'd post style posts and inspirational ones every now and again; there was they hype and all of that a little recognition here and there in the blogosphere and out of and to be honest it meant a lot to me and i felt like I belonged. 

I've never really been a person that likes so much recognition and I would always like to be behind the scenes but then I started hearing Kunmio! more often than not and as much as i wanted to ignore the fact that people were starting to know my name and as I grew up in Christ, I knew that wasn't enough. If people were going to know my name, it should be because I'm putting myself out there for Christ. I knew this but for some reason I was comfortable being lukewarm. 


Now I'm sure you have a few questions already like  "kunmi are you saying  blogging is bad? or  Is being popular bad? and the answer to both questions are NO they are not bad in themselves which brings me to the reason for today's blogpost.

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Monday 18 December 2017

A Social media heart check



I'm one of those people that still craves the simplicity of a life without social media even though I can't really remember what life without trying to share every aspect of my life in real time is like. Doing freelance social media work doesn't even help matters because I have to spend 70% of my time on there. In 2016, I took a social media fast that somehow I've still not gotten back from till now and I really don't want to get back from but I have to because I have to GO! (Matthew 28:19) and my life is no longer mine (2 cor 5:15)

To be very honest, social media is exhausting! Lets not even kid ourselves. It's all about validation and trying to get noticed these days. Whether you're trying to build a brand or selling a product or service, you just want people to notice and give you a thumbs up and even buy. But lets put our businesses aside. As a Christian, what does your social media say about you?

There's a reason why this post is called a heart check?
Seriously now do you search your heart before you put up a post on social media. Do you ask yourself if your post is really necessary or if it brings glory to the one you live for? 

Social media is the fastest way to enliven our carnal nature. In one scroll , you'll find yourself lusting, coveting, envying, gossiping, getting jealous and what not; so as much as social media does a lot of good, it doesn't outweigh the bad. So if you must be on social media as a christian, make sure you're using it for what truly counts or at least search your heart clearly to be sure you are in line 

As Christian's we've been called to consciously live right by the help of the Holy Spirit. 

So anytime you pick up your phone to look through social media, use these questions to keep your heart in check. 

"Is this really the best use of my time?Is there anyway I can make this time count for Christ? This is a very important heart check question for those of us that have the habit of picking up our phones first thing in the morning to reply WhatsApp messages or scroll through instagram. You haven't prayed or read your Bible but you're on top of social media news; is that really the best use of your time?

Ask yourself...

Am I walking by the spirit? or fulfilling the lust of the flesh. Like I said earlier in the post, if you are looking for the fastest way to soak in carnality (which I'm sure you're not lol) scroll through your social media feed. So even if you must be on social media, you must beware of participating. Check your heart, does social media breed envy and jealousy for you? Are you less impeccable with your words when you scroll through your feed? Does it make you covet a certain lifestyle?

Ask yourself...

Is my page leading people away from Christ. Don't be an irresponsible Christian, as a christian, the goal is to be true NOT popular so don't be careless. You should be responsible for the growth of others; you should be an example. Read more in this post HERE

Ask yourself...

Am I seeking validation? So it goes two ways; God has told you to do something or you know your social page is a very good medium to share your faith but you don't because you feel you might lose some followers.

Or the posts where you share your faith gets less likes and comments than the ones where you just do your thing so you stop posting about your faith all together.

Let me ask you this: Who are you really living for?

You don't have to wait till you get a thumbs up from a friend or follower before you know you're doing the right thing. Let people look at your social media page and know what you stand for! And I’m not talking, posting a photo then posting a bible verse as caption for “eye service” I’m talking using your social media to preach Christ! Because this is what you’ve been called to as a Christian (Matthew 28:19-20) You’ve been called to go into ALL nations. Well Guess what?! Social media has made it 1000x easier. You can preach Christ to someone in Kazakhstan from your bed!

Make your social media page count for something.

Lastly, especially if you already preach Christ on your social media, check your heart and ask yourself...

Am I blinding people or am I showing the way? 
Are you bragging or are you leading? Are you only sharing so people can see you as the "perfect" Christian lady or guy? Gospel aside (not really) are you doing certain things so you can get bragging rights on social? Through your posts, do people see you or christ?

Take time out today to search your heart today and allow the Holy Spirit lead you and help you discern when to step back and realign your thoughts with his.

Love and Light


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Do you truly know who Jesus is?



Firstly, you need to know that Jesus is God -this is a no brainer- if you read John 1:1 Isaiah 58.. you'll conform this beyond reasonable doubt. so in this post, I'll be using Jesus and God interchangeably


So do you truly know who your God is?

I was really amazed when my pastor explained the real reason why Jonah ran away from God and ended up in the belly of the fish

Contrary to popular belief and what we leaned in Sunday School that Jonah was afraid to preach so he ran, 

I'll give you a quick low down of the original story. Please read Jonah 4 to see for yourself
So you see, Jonah ran away from God because he didn't trust God to destroy the people of Nineveh. God had told him to go and preach to them if not he'll destroy them and Jonah said he couldn't go because the people deserved destruction and he knew how merciful God is. He knew God wasn't going to kill them. 

You see so many of us are like this and this used to be me as well 

When we reach a certain level of our faith and walk with God, we see ourselves as waay better than people who just got to know about Christ yesterday or people still finding their way. I used to call it being Jealous for God- like i was trying to protect my dad from people that keep hurting him over and over again- so in my mind I'll go ahead and give people that I thought didn't deserve God's love "the look." I'll literally scroll past an instagram post of someone i think doesn't deserve to share a scripture and click the heart button when I see someone I feel is in a position to.

I'm just going to pause right here and say God has worked on my heart a lot this past year and I'm still a work in progress. It's amazing how the Holy Spirit works and you need to constantly ask him to give you the strength to be receptive and responsive to correction and conviction. When the Holy Spirit shows you the terrible place your heart is at, you don't need to feel bad, just ask him how to fix it.

So you see Jonah felt like those people deserved death because they had hurt God so much

Same way you'll think Jesus should have thrown the woman at the well into that same well because of all her sins. I mean 5 husbands and boyfriend later; she had absolutely no right! 

Same way you think that prostitute (runs girl for better understanding lol ) that still comes to church on sunday morning doesn't deserve to be there 

Our God is soo gracious! He looks beyond the physical and looks on the heart. He is so GRACIOUS! and to be honest its incomprehensible but we just need to accept him for who he is 

EVERYONE qualifies by GRACE ALONE

No matter how righteous or spiritual you think you are, it's not your place to interfere in God's relationship with his children.

If you're in thee positin of Jonah or Ananias  if you have the opportunity to preach to the lost, don't condemn them in your heart before you even do. You need to be open minded and trust God to make something good out of it.

If you're in the shoes of the good son, when you see the "worst sinner" in church on sunday, you greet them warmly with open arms because you know that heaven is also rejoicing over them 

Like Jesus, when you meet the promiscuous woman at the well, you don't play holier than thou, you talk to her and show he

Like Jesus when you meet the adulterous woman, you don't give the side eye and unlook, you

Like Jesus! When you have the opportunity to reach out to prisoners or the lost generally, you tell them Yes! you'll definitely be with God, just believe as opposed to condemning them.

He has called us to Go and teach all nations and fill them with the Holy Spirit. . He didn't ask us to be the Holy Spirit.

I'm just going to end with the quote that says he loves the theologian as much as he loves the terrorist! So powerful and I think that summarizes all I've been trying to say

Your God LOVES REGARDLESS so you have no choice but to LOVE REGARDLESS. 



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My reality of Heaven



I don't have to work to be free 
I work because I'm free
and even if I don't work, I'm loved regardless
So why won't I work?

If I'm from the UK and I come to Nigeria, I can't act exactly like a Nigerian no matter how much I try to fit in. My accent won't change to a Nigerian's. I might try but deep down, I know its not the real me so I'm won't be really comfortable. I'd just want to get back to my country asap. Home is where the heart is right?

When it's time to go back to my country, I don't have to beg, I don't have to prove to the embassy that I'm a citizen. I have my red passport and I just go back when it's time and I have my plane ticket. 

While I'm in Nigeria, I can't really fit in to the Nigerian culture so well, and If I do, it's okay for people to think I'm a fraud.

Same way I don't struggle to be who God has made me to be. I have my salvation ticket and I'm ready to pick up and go whenever he's ready to have me but whileI'm here, I live FOR the one who died for me and rose again. Christ is seated at the right hand of God permanently and I am seated with him permanently. I can never be afraid of missing heaven because I'm from heaven.  

Praise Jesus!

Read this from your point of view and renew your mind with this reality every day. 

Love & Light. 
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On living a Godly life


I had always thought to live a Godly life came with some special type of feeling. Today I'd feel very Godly and tomorrow I'll not. Today I'll be on fire and tomorrow I'd be cold and whenever i get cold, I'll feel like I'm no more Godly like I had to start all over until I read in my Bible that 
God has given us everything that pertains to life and Godliness. I don't have it today and lose it tomorrow. It's all mine. 

2 Peter 1:3 
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.
And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world's corruption caused by human desires.


Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness  in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the 

These two verses have something in common.

They both point to the fact that understanding the truth of God's love and his promises x calling helps you to live a Godly life. 


Living a Godly life is not a feeling. You don't feel it today and tomorrow its gone, as a christian, living Godly is part of your life. It's you literally walking with God even when you don't feel like it. 

Godliness is filling your mind and life with God's truth and promises (the gospel) and even when you're at an all time low, all you have to do is remind yourself of these truths and you get fired up again. Check my page @powaffirmations here for daily reminders of God's promises. 

I'll back up a bit here and show us a few of God's promises for believers. It was this year I truly began to understand that God doesn't just love me with a long distance type love, he actually likes me. 

To be Godly, is to be made righteous. And as believers, we have all been made right with God (righteous) once and for all , regardless of our past. Being right with God means that we died when Jesus died and rose when he rose and now we are sitted with him at the right hand of God and we have the Holy Spirit within us that will help us live in a way that's consistent with who we really are.

So first thing to note is that if you believe in the death and ressurection of Jesus as your lord and saviour, you are Godly. There's no arguing that

Now all you have to do is to take  every aspect of your life and giving it all to God. Romans 12. It is you no longer living for yourself or for people. It is living for the one who loved you so much

Because Titus 2:10-14, helps us understand that the Grace of God helps us to say no to ungodliness all we have to do is respond. 

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. 

His Grace is enough, we just need to accept it. As a Godly person, before you take any step, you have to stop and think if it's consistent with who you are in Christ. Your life goes beyond throwing caution into the wind to growing in love and desire for God. 

One thing that helps me put things in perspective and love God more is comparing myself to his standards (not that of other seemingly weak humans) and the realization that he's so perfect and he loves me even in my imperfection is just so overwhelming (in a good way of course!)

I'll end this post by saying this according to 2 Pet 1:5; you have already been made righteous, you are already Godly so you have to live like a Godly person so because of this, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.




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