AND HIS NAME IS OBAFERANMI

We do not know of anyone bearing the name “Obaferanmi” until the birth of our child. It’s likely you may not remember ever hearing it too. So why would we name our first son “The-King-is-in-Love-with-me”?

The continual experience of God’s love is most cherished in our family (The Ope-Onifade Nation). As a matter of fact, on Dec 9 2006, we declared before hundreds of witnesses that our purpose for getting married is “to build a successful family and a strong nation by leveraging on the love of God….” Our experiences in the course of conception of our son through his delivery reaffirms our belief and knowledge of the love that God has for us (I John 4:16). God is love; we are constrained by His love and we are kept and preserved by His love. The core value of our family is that we live to love.

We have also come to know God not just as a Spirit, and more than our Father: He is a Governmental Authority, Our King! He reigns over our entire households, members of Ope-Onifade nation are citizens of His kingdom, and we are subject to His will. As for me and my house, we serve the Lord.

Our God is King and our God is love and our son lives to reaffirm that the King is in love with us. We will never doubt his love for us.

In our native culture, there is the tendency for people to abridge names. So, would he be called Oba (King) or ‘Feranmi (loves me)?

You may call him “Oba” because he is born to reign and rule as a king and a priest unto our God. God is King of kings and our son, like us, is one of the kings under the rule of God.

You may also call him ‘Feranmi because it creates an atmosphere of love around him and around you. He is born and bound to have favour before God and before man.

The seed of the righteous shall be mighty upon the face of the earth.

OBAFERANMI…..

7 years of Relationship

Today, I received an SMS from my wife. It reads:

Jst wnt 2sy tnx 2u 4living up 2d promises u made arnd ds time 7 yrs ago. I've not regretted nodding 2 ur proposal. I kp loving u & hope to continue 2do so.
Baby1

The gist is this: On May 8 2001, I asked her to marry me. We were in courtship for 51/2 years and got marrried on December 8 2006. On February 16 2008, I was with her in the labour room to welcome our son into the world he was born to dominate. Today, I would like to share with you a picture of our growing family. I wish to thank my wife for her uncompromising love, care and pleasant personality. Not to love you is to die. I love you!!!!!
Regards to readers from 'DeNike and ObaFeranmi

I am back

My family and I have been experiencing God's loving-kindness in the last one year; but that is not the reason for being "offline" in the last one year. Some weeks after my last post, I got married, and also began to adjust to a new job...and these influenced my focus.

One of my major goals in 2008 is to consistently post information that will reinforce the quality of life that Jesus Christ delivered to us. The highest degree of quality of life that you could ever experience is called "eternal life". And Jesus defined eternal life as "to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent".


Please check regularly and also share your thoughts with me.

You are invited!!!!

please find above our wedding invitation to you.


Opeyemi + Adenike

I aM gEtTiNg mArRiEd (OPEYENIKE)

We have been cultivating a friendly relationship since 2000. But on May 8^th 2001 on Ikorodu Road on our way to her uncle’s place in Lagos, she finally agreed to marry me. I remember all she could do was to nod in agreement when I asked her to marry me. I refused to take a nod for an answer, and would not leave her alone until she said “YES”. After over 5 years of friendship and courtship, we decided to introduce our parents to each other. We acted on this decision on June 10, 2006, the weekend after my birthday anniversary. At the introduction ceremony at the university town of Ile-Ife, (I hope to blog the details someday) which had over 70 people in attendance, the Ademola Adebiyi extended family of Ajaawa, released the first daughter of the house to be married to the first son of the Samuel Aderogba Onifade family of Saki. I promise to upload some of the pictures here someday.

Over the years, we have been able to sustain our love and commitment to each other. Over the years and seasons, we have experienced the faithfulness of God to His Word . In celebration of God’s unfailing grace and day-after-day mercies, we would like to request your presence at our wedding ceremony which would start with African traditional wedding on the evening of December 8^th and would end with entertainment of guests after the Church ceremony on December 9^th 2006. We invite you to join God as we proclaim our MARRIAGE COVENANT before Him at Union Baptist Church, Ile-Ife. It promises to be another opportunity for you to experience the presence of the Creator of heaven and earth, the Author and Finisher of our faith.

For those of you who have not met my baby, Ade-mi (My crown) is a lover of God, a people person, a passionate leader and a wise woman. She is graduating this month from the Obafemi Awolowo University’s Faculty of Law. After graduation, she would be pursing an academic career in Intellectual Property Law and consultancy. She would also be playing an active executive role in building the Ope-Onifade Nation.

If you would like to pray with us, our request and desire is that God’s grace would abound towards us so that we would have sufficiency unto every good work, and that our union would result in a STRONG NATION.

Success Defined

I promised to come u with definitions of terms that we use casually, which however, determine our perception of life. Today, I want to write about success.

You must have heard that success has different meanings to different people. To the extent to which this statement relates to our uniqueness as individuals, I concur. But you know as well as I do that our differences as mankind is not as much as our similarities: we share common nature, related dispositions, similar attitudes and needs. I would like to base my definition on what we have in common.

My definition of success is UNCEASING FRUITFULNESS.

When God made man, he declared the Mission of Man. He said: “Be Fruitful, Multiply and have Dominion over the earth”. A successful man is the one who has been able to execute this mandate to the letter. To exercise dominion over the works of God’s hand’s requires you to multiply…and to multiply require you to be unceasingly fruitful in every good work—spiritually, economically, socially and physically.

The Necessity of Friendship

Friendship is necessary for destiny. Without quality friendships, we would not fulfil our purposes in life. Jesus, the Ultimate Leader, said to his disciples "I do not call you servants; I call you friends...because a servant does not know what his master is doing". Jesus was choosing his friends when he chose his disciples. Even at the moment he was being betrayed he still called Judas his friend. To Jesus, the measure of friendship is the quality of information shared by the parties and their commitment to the demands of that information. God called Abraham his friend because both of them shared a covenant reinforced by certain information (promises, terms of the covenant, warnings and expectations)

In the light of the scriptural principles, I hold that friendship must be for a purpose. The purpose of friendship should be to create a social climate that would cause our inherent seeds of greatness to blossom. You know very well that every seed needs a fertile and relevant soil to be fruitful. In like manner, every great destiny requires great friendships.

For me, friendships can be categorized as follows:

1. Friendships that complement me.
2. Friendships that compensate for my weakness(es)
3. Friendships that benefit from my gift and calling, thereby giving me opportunity for self-_expression
4. Friendships that provide of their gifts and callings; allowing me to receive the benefits of their ministries
5. Friendship with the one I share mutual interests and common goals
6. Friendship that exposes me to pain that causes growth.

How are your friends??