Ore mi ni ( He is my Friend).
I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock And established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth - Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the Lord. Psalm 40; 1-3 .
I went searching for real satisfaction, tried many things but none could fill me until I realized that emptiness is life without God's love. This is indeed my story, this is my song!
Like a joyful newly delivered mother, I give God all the glory for the formal launching of a new purpose the Lord assigned to me, even so, I'm blessed to have the loving support of my wonderful husband 🥰. This new divine assignment is the Olive Global Ministries (OGM), a faith based Christian non profit organisation based in Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria. Our mission is to connect with people throughout the world in order to share the love of God, propagate the gospel by compassionately ministering to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Our desire is to create opportunities for people to love and serve God by serving others with their gifts to facilitate peace, harmony, purpose and joy. The tripartite focus of OGM are - Reconciliation for Friendship, Healing for Wellness, Peace for Prosperity, ministered through the sharing of the Word of Faith, Spiritual songs, Prayers and writings. If you are willing to join us kindly subscribe to our channel on YouTube: @oliveglobalministries. 💕💕💕
This song is indeed a fruit of the conception of faith! "Ore mi ni" came to me like a flow of divine inspiration in my bathroom while having thankful reflections on the big question; What is life without God's love? The more I understood that life without Jesus is emptiness the freer I became to discipline my body, my heart, and my soul to sing a symphony of love.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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When our relationship with the Lord is our most treasured pursuit, the ultimate prize is a deeper, fuller, and better knowledge of Him.
The main lyrics and melody of the song was actually birthed in my spirit five years ago. It was my hearty response to the victorious, unconditional love of God upon my life. It came out of thankful reflections; a sense of deep appreciation for God's steadfast love and companionship throughout my life ... especially over two decades of serving God and humanity at my local church in Lagos ( Hecares Gospel church), concurrently building a strong corporate life in the ecosystem of Advertising, Banking and finally in the communications world as a media personality, radio host and columnist.
Frankly, my trials and temptations were the 'dieing place' for the idols of my ambitions and intellect. Today, I thank God for those trials and hardship...they opened my eyes to see that only God could truly satisfy my soul and groom me to be the best version of myself. Overtime, I grew to understand that "being strong" is overated.
I had to learn to lean on the truth that I can only do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Also, I found out from scriptures that God loves a poor and contrite spirit so I learned to open up my weaknesses also to Him... work on my attitude, became more emotionally intelligent to forgive myself and others ...intentionally share all my secrets...emotions with the Lord Himself; anger, frustrations, disappointments, negative thoughts sometimes in deep tears.
I keenly became aware of God's willingness to spend time with me...He is never busy to listen to me...He actually cares enough to listen and soothe my nerves with His presence and Words.
I was astonished when I realized that the Lord started sharing some secrets and emotions with me. I can't forget when he revealed His sadness to me in a vision some years ago, (He actually sent me to a group of people to warn them of their lasciviousness) and at another time, He revealed His excitement...I saw Jesus Himself 💃💃💃 dancing in a dream.
That was how I started the journey of seeing Jesus as a true friend, my bestie 🥰, the one I feel completely safe with to share my innermost joy ... even my foolishness and pain. He never condemns me but rebukes and disciplines me when necessary. The charm of these experiences made me grow in loving and trusting Him as He leads me on to carry my cross daily and follow His plans for every aspect of my life patiently.
The partnership I was called into is intercession where my ministry of teaching, preaching, singing and writing came out from. The aspect of songwriting is indeed a gift God rewarded me with in the course of service. I do not consider myself a conventional singer or songwriter owning to the fact that I receive my songs and even melodies sometimes in dreams, while praying, out of pain, joy and appreciation of the personality of God Himself. I have learned to work on my voice and songs by singing them back to God in worship during my quiet times and also to inspire myself...in the kitchen, bathroom...often within earshot of my mellow music teacher ( my hubby 😀).
I recall that I have been receiving songs from the presence of the Lord since 2006 while serving as an intercessor and Sunday school teacher at my place of assignment in Lagos; Hecares Gospel church under the charge of Pastor Dapo Adeniyi, a faithful servant of God blessed with innovative and transformative graces relevant within and outside the church. I thank God for positioning my family in a ministry that gave us room to grow. I'm short of words to appreciate my pastor, thank you for being a true shepherd of God.
I must confess that I didn't see this new assignment coming. One of the signs I didn't understand initially was the persistent feeling of restlessness which made it difficult for me to concentrate on my corporate engagements. It took me some months to know that it was time to leave the paid employment arena. Tough sell, but I thank God I finally got the guts to follow my heart in 2014. Afterwards, my husband (He got his own dealings of surrender too😥) and I learned to adapt to walk through the narrow graceful path of daily, full dependence on God's provisions by feeding on the wisdom of God through His Word thereby embracing purposeful living. I was blessed with the vision of a mind building radio program, Mindscope in 2016 and that began another "divine" training . On Thursday, November 11, 2021, God spoke to me while studying that He has a new assignment for me, a ministry, which He has been preparing me for and that I should wait for His strategy and timing for manifestation. I understood that when God wants to bless you, He gives you blessings without even asking but when He gives you an assignment, He needs your answers. At first, I was hesitant thinking "... but Lord, I'm not a pastor..." However, His revelations about how He qualifies His own to do His work further persuaded me to trust Him and obey His call. So, I chose to believe Him, considering that this is indeed a privilege and after some time I finally said; "Yes, Lord!" However, I kept this in my heart awaiting God to work it all out and even confirm it to my husband. I marvel today knowing that it's exactly two years from the day He initially spoke to me..hmm...what a faithful God!
Shortly afterwards, He perfectly worked out the closure of our assignment in Lagos and it became imminent that my family had to relocate to Sagamu due to a major reconstruction work going on at our residence in Lagos. Understandably, I was unnerved but God's love constrained me to obey. We moved to Sagamu in May, 2022. Initially, it felt as if I was caught off from life... sometimes I mull; can anything good come out of here? Oh....now in hindsight I know better that our joy and contentment comes from fully obeying God's Word promptly with a right heart. 😊. His Word is indeed living and powerful. Great things are emerging out of Sagamu to the glory of God! 🥰❤️💃🕺🏃
I boldly say that after the Lord initially spoke to me in November 2021, it was in November 2022 that He revealed this assignment to my husband and later confirmed it to us through our senior pastor in Lagos to start a house fellowship; so we started bible study and worship services in November 2022. Our obedience led to a new member joining us regularly online a few months after. That was quite encouraging until I got shocked by the inspiration to do the unusual and launch out to record one of my songs- " Ore mi ni". Hmm...it was fearful 😲 facing the huge mountain of the fears of just starting out in ministry and even with 'lean' resources in the face of a long list of personal needs but God helped me. He broke through my self limitations especially using my husband as a rock of Gibraltar 😊🥰. The Lord gave guidance, wisdom and unusual supplies, instructed me from the onset that I need not look beyond Sagamu for my resources, that everything and everyone I needed for this project was around me. And indeed it was so. No doubt, faith in God brought strength out of my weakness!
So, I humbly say a big thank you to my handsome hubby (my pastor and music teacher 😂) for his unwavering support. I do not take it for granted! God be praised ❤️❤️❤️our love feels new even after 21 years of loving, forgiving and serving each other... God did it! 🎉💕🥳🪴
I appreciate your great humility...always happy to help even when it entails working behind the scenes ( hmm...as my music mentor, you happily chose to be a back up vocalist at the studio🤗). Your musical gifts are exceptional and I commend your assiduous efforts in refining my talent, inculcating discipline into me during rehearsals, gracefully bringing your excellent skill to bear during the composition and production of the song.
It takes a really generous soul like yours to bear with my childlike faith in the studio. And to my three mighty awesome boys (pardon me; men 🤭). I appreciate the unique flavor you each bring to the table.
To my amazing producer, Victor Obade- Victoh-Smokey (SMOKEBEATZ), you are such an annointed charismatic great soul!Your exceptional gifts coupled with your great character makes you so indispensable. 🤗Thank you so much for believing in me, bringing out the best in me❤️🥰 at the studio and going the extra mile to ensure the assignment was excellently delivered. My God will bless you! I bless God for causing our paths to meet through my precious daughter; Adejoke Adekunle (Oyinomomo🥰🎉🎉). I celebrate the great grace of God manifest in your lives and ministries.
Oh...I greatly appreciate my papa🥰 daddy Patrick Adefioye for his constant prayers and words of encouragement...dad, you rock! Moreso, I can't appreciate God enough for the great legacy my mother ; Mrs Sarah Adefioye, left behind for me and my siblings. Moreso, I'm more blessed with wonderful mothers with such great grace; Mrs Sola Sogbesan, thank you for your abiding love and Mrs Justina Kes- Agbosa, I'm humbled by your love.
To all our beloved brethren globally who support us with prayers, encouragement, gifts...I'm short of words but my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, (Ore mi ).🌹🌹🌹.
One of the profound lessons I have gleaned on my journey is that the love and worship of God precedes service to God and humanity. Our appreciation and knowledge of the personality of God is pivotal to rendering true service and also sustains our passion to continue to render selfless services with a right motive to both God and man( generic not gender). Even when we are not recognized for our good works of faith, God still remains a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him not those who seek men.
Seeking to please God diligently in all ways is what develops the tenacity in us to break through obstacles and use obstacles as stepping stones to rise. I giggle 🤭 as I prepare to transplant my snake plant to a bigger place just because she broke through her pot...her box!
I believe this analogy is symbolic of God's wisdom. He teaches and trains our hearts, head, and hands to break through the self imposed limitations of our mind, and the external ones influenced by our past, environment or economic issues. Subsequently, He sets us up for exams which may be in trials and temptations or sometimes it's a long wait preparing us to receive His best. Our willingness to submit our lives and completely obey Him earns us the privilege of launching into the deeper graces in God causing us to enlarge beyond our comfort zones into bigger realms of service to God and humanity. Our relevance transcends the church as we walk by faith like Joseph and Daniel.
Needful to say that God's promise land for one doesn't look promising at first in other words, wherever God leads you is your place of rest however it may not feel or look like it from the start, in fact you must fight the good fight of faith to obey and stay. Frankly, walking by faith is often risky.
My family's relocation to Sagamu initially felt eerily. It was very hard for all of us to leave the people we love in Lagos and start afresh here. There was so much at stake and it was a difficult transition, not to mention a big step of faith. We didn't know how it would all work out, but we moved in certainty that we were following God's leading. We trusted that our lives were safe in His hands. On arrival, as it is with human emotions when change comes, I wrestled with every obstacle I encountered especially the outright lack of electricity supply (The community's transformer was vandalized the day we moved in... 🧐 what a welcome! 😁.it took three months before it was repaired and it's still epileptic till now), a week after moving in, we heard gunshots fired by cultists racing on bikes along our street... right in front of our gate at about 7.30pm...fear turned my cheeks livid for some days. 😨
It was a big fight to stop reminiscing about the peaceful life within our neighborhood in Lagos. I wasn't motivated to engage in any constructive activity for months until my little skull understood that God wasn't going to change His mind. He brought us here to stay and thrive. And when I learned to spend quality time with the Lord, I was empowered to stop my pity parties. Then I understood better and cooperated fully with God and my husband to set up new schedule for Alone with God sessions, gardening, family games and interactive sessions, personal studies for mind building, initiate friendships with neighbors and also developed new skills in handling our homeschooling sessions with our teens. In fact, the inspiration for Mindscope Youth Connect came from the need to extend this care to other willing youths we observed within our neighborhood.
I love God for being firm. He never renege His plan. He made sure we were strong footed..stable in our newly developed healthy habits before He blessed us with a generator eleven months after. Of course, now we could work effectively with or without electricity...what a great coach the Holy Spirit is!
In hindsight, I'm grateful for the virgin ground God brought my family into which is perfectly right for our newness and growth to do the work the Lord has assigned to us.
Oh...I breathe differently, feel closer to myself and my God!!! 🤸🤗🥂🏃🕺💃☘️🌹☀️🌈
Thank you Jesus for giving me the strength and courage to walk upon the waters of uncertainties to reach your destined place of joy set before I was born. You are perfect in all your ways even though your ways aren't easy but they're highly rewarding. The cross of pain, hunger, reproach, envy, shame, and humiliation... even character assassination we experience from those who reject you are not worthy to be compared to the glory you reveal in us. Our stories are actually the cornerstones that build up into God's glory revealed to all men to see that God is real and He trains and takes good care of His own.
Beloved😍, thank you for sharing your life with me by investing your time in reading my story and listening to my song. I ask the Father to help you remain faithful as you overcome every obstacle and in the name of Jesus you will celebrate the victory God has prepared for you. Amen. 🥳🎉🪴😍🥰
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Romans 5:5).
Hope is the oxygen our souls need to thrive!
Move forward in faith!!!
Yours Sincerely,
Segilola(Ore mi ni 🥰)❤️💕🥰💃💃💃💃
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