Welcome to Mitchelle Obatu's Blog

So, I wanted to share Jesus with my nail tech, and I wondered how best to initiate that discussion. How do you engage people who say they are Christians and strongly believe that they are good with Jesus? Lol. I asked him, "Which church do you attend?" He told me he was Roman Catholic. "What is salvation?" He laughed. He seemed uneasy. In the end, he couldn't define it. "Are you a Christian?" "Yes." "Why do you say you are a Christian?" "I go to church. I don't pray like Muslims do." I explained that I wasn't asking whether he attended church. I was asking why he believed he was a Christian. For someone to call himself a Christian, there must first be salvation.  A Christian is not simply someone who goes to church. You are not a Christian because you were born into a Christian home. You are a Christian because you have made a deliberate decision to follow Jesus Christ. A Christian is a follower of Christ. That mea...

I will be going a bit back in time to when I met my husband... let's say... urhm... 19 or 20 years ago, if I am correct. If you missed my last episode, you can read it here . We were both students. While I was in my final-year degree programme, he was rounding up his master's degree. I had always known him around school, and I admired him because he loved the Lord.  He didn't need to carry a big Bible around school to announce that he was a child of God. He simply exuded it through his words and actions. He was no "spiri-ko-ko," as we used to call it in those days. His character was simple and Christlike. We were acquaintances initially, but with time, we became friends, and our friendship quickly blossomed into love. The more I got to know him, the more I fell in love with him. So one night, he proposed. I looked at him and simply asked, "Why me? Why would you choose me out of all the girls in school and in your fellowship?" He gave me an acceptable res...

I formed a new habit this year - listening to audio Bible. Lol. I just enjoy listening to God's Word on the go. It makes it possible for me to keep feeding on it more and more, and cover several books of the Bible in just one day. I still do my Bible study of course but listening to the Audio Bible gives me the opportunity to fill my mind with the best stuff and what is better than God's Word 🤷‍♂️? So this morning, I was listening to 1 Corinthians and then in Chapter 1, it talks about the wisdom of God wrapped up in the foolishness of the gospel of Jesus, and that was what brought about this article I am sharing with you now. It's powerful.  Enjoy. At first glance, the gospel does not make sense. How can the salvation of humanity depend on a man who was crucified on a cross? How can eternal life be received simply by believing? Why would God choose faith instead of intellectual achievement, religious performance, or philosophical reasoning? To the natural mind, the message...

So, my husband made it up to me... and I'd like to believe he's still making it up to me, just as he promised. If you missed the last episode, you might want to catch up first here . As for how he made it up to me, let's save that gist for another day 😄because today, I want to talk about something I believe many wives silently struggle with. After reading this, let me know in the comments if you've ever dealt with this too. Let's talk. My fellow wife, see eh, one thing I've learned is that the devil has a way of feeding our fears. If there is a particular thing you're afraid of, he will gladly supply the fuel. That's a good reason why you shouldn't harbour fears.  For example, if you constantly fear that your husband may cheat on you, the enemy will find ways to magnify that fear. Suddenly, every interaction becomes suspicious. A female colleague sends him a message, and your mind starts racing. A woman calls his phone, and you're immediately un...

This sounds funny but it is as real as real...unfortunately.  New York lawmakers have passed a bill that would replace terms like “mother” and “father” with gender-neutral alternatives such as “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent” in parts of state law.  Supporters say the measure promotes inclusivity, while critics argue it unnecessarily removes traditional parental language. *Do you know what this is? Even more confusion! Why don't we keep things simple? And simple is how God created us and referenced us - male and female, father and mother, girl and boy. There is no middle ground, biko. You walk into an airport or you want to fill out a form online and a long list of genders will be staring you in the face. You even have the option to fill "I prefer not to say". Indeed, Ecclesiastes 7:29 (GNB) is absolutely true - "God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated." This whole thing is CHAOTIC!! Read more: What 15 years of marr...

I perceive that the Church seem to be distracted, and I believe that is one of Satan's strategies to keep us, and the world around us, confused about the message of faith in Jesus that we carry. Let's pay attention to what I am about to share. As always, I want to use Scripture to support what I say so that you can examine it for yourself. Whilst there are genuine pastors who call out false teachers of Christ's doctrine, there are also certain pastors who specialize in courting controversies with what they say.  Their mainstay is criticising - or should I say attacking - other pastors and labelling their teachings as false. Honestly, it is tiring to watch. One pastor claims that what he is saying is true, while another pastor insists that his own teaching is true. If the Spirit of God is one, who then is telling the truth? One of them - or perhaps both of them - must be wrong. What makes it even more concerning is that many people are forming opinions and taking sides witho...

This period is the time when people will do almost anything to chase clout and create content😔.  They will lie, fabricate stories, go nude on social media, filter their looks, alter their appearance with AI, and do all sorts of things just for traffic, engagement, and 15 minutes of fame. Content creation has, in many cases, become an idol! I went to pick up my children from school and, just outside their gate, we saw a young woman filming a video selfie while walking in the middle of the road. I seized it as a teachable moment and said to my children: "You see what that young woman is doing? Please don't do it. If a car was coming in front of her or behind her at high speed, she might not even notice. It could hit her and possibly kill her simply because she chose to record a video while walking in the middle of the road." And who knows? Maybe she was even on TikTok Live. Going live on TikTok is fast becoming a thing. And I hear that's the one of the ways Nigerians c...

  On his birthday, he spent almost the entire day on his phone. We barely had time to talk😔. And honestly, it's frustrating trying to have a conversation with someone whose eyes and fingers are glued to a screen - constantly typing, constantly reading, constantly scrolling. At some point, I stopped talking. Not because I had nothing to say, but because it felt like I was competing with a device for his attention. And that hurts. Maybe it hurts because I am wired differently. I am the kind of person who likes to look at you when I'm talking to you. To me, eye contact says, "I hear you. I'm here with you. You matter." Looking at you is how I show respect, attentiveness, and affection. So when I am speaking and your attention is somewhere else, I feel it. Deeply. Lately, I have found myself thinking about how easy it is for affection to quietly fade. Not through some major betrayal. Not through a dramatic fight. Just through neglect. The bed is no longer a place for...