There is a testimony of love that has been vaguely expressed. A testament that was never said, and never written about.

Now, it is all feelings and emotions that appear on billboards to portray love. Pictures of roses, of couples laughing in the rain, of hands holding hands. That is not love. That is advertisement.

Is this a lecture on what love is? Wait to find out.

Am I the one who sets the standards on love? I am not the judge here, but hear me out, my Lords and Ladies. Oh sorry, Ladies first.

●Attraction Is Not Love

“I love your eyes.”
“I love your legs.”
“You have a pretty face card.”
“Oh, tall, slim, dark-skinned guy, my type.”

Trust me, you did not fall in love with all those things. It is only attraction.

And yes, attraction does not — and should not — mean you will fall in love because of that. If you do, you have fallen into a deep mess. Because beauty is a trap when it stands alone.

The devil has pretty eyes. He has pretty legs. He has a lovely face card, and he can appear as a tall, dark-skinned guy. If you doubt me, think about your ex again.

He was attractive, yes. She was attractive, yes. But what is love to them?

Is it the kind that takes you home on the first night and leaves you naked in their sheets the next morning? Oh yeah, I know you enjoyed the feeling. Exactly, you see — “feeling.” You both felt good about each other and desired a little, or more, of each other’s skin. That was desire. That was not love.

Is it the type that says, “I want a man that will get me any wig I want, spoil me and pamper me”? Really, are you that cheap? You don’t place demands on love. Love knows what you desire, and it responds — without you turning it into a transaction.

Now we can establish that love is not a feeling or a desire, because you experience feelings and desires _in_ love, but they are not love itself.

Is it the love that says, “If she no get big nyash, I no do”? Then you should have placed an order from heaven directly. You did not come to love a person; you came to shop for body parts.

●What Is Love Then?

What is love then? Oh, I’m glad you’re waiting to find out.

Love is when you can see that you can make sacrifices for them — not sacrifices that are announced, not sacrifices that are counted and later used as weapons in an argument, but sacrifices you make quietly because their peace is worth your discomfort.

Love is when you can support them continuously, even when you see they don’t need support anymore. Because support is not about need; it is about presence. You do not stop showing up just because they have learned to stand.

Love is when you recognize they are lacking in a particular area and you decide to fill their cup. And no, it is not monetary, before you go, “Ehe, yes, Emma never did anything for me.” Filling a cup can be patience where they have anger. It can be encouragement where they have fear. It can be correction where they have confusion. It can be time where they have loneliness.

And love is also seeing they are trying to help you, trying to teach you to be better — and then you _learning_. Because learning is your way of appreciating their love and allowing it to continue. A person who refuses to grow is a person who refuses love.

●Love Is Constant

Love is constant. It never fades.

“Falling out of love” is a big lie. You did not fall out of love. You only wanted to stop the subscription plan and start another one elsewhere. You got tired of the cost — the patience, the forgiveness, the work — and you wanted something cheaper, something newer, something that would not ask anything of you.

Real love does not expire because the feelings changed. Feelings are weather. Love is climate.

Love is not in feelings, not in emotions. And if I may say, love is and should be expressed _when_ you get the worst feelings and emotions about them. Anybody can love when it is sweet. Love is proven when you are angry, disappointed, tired, and offended — and you still choose to speak with respect, to stay, to fix, and not to destroy.

●What If I Don’t Get It Back?

I know, my Ladies and Lords, you have a question: What if I don’t get it back?

Thank you. It is simple. Love is also knowing when to leave.

Not because you stopped loving, but because your love needs to come back. You do not leave because love died. You leave because love needs space to breathe, to heal, to return to you whole. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do is to walk away, so that you do not turn love into begging, into bitterness, into bondage.

●Love Is Tangible

I don’t like to say love is abstract. Love is tangible. It is potent. Love can be felt, it can be seen, and it can be known.

Love is a person. A person who keeps you close when you should be far. A person who says, “I am tired, but I want you.”

Love is not a concept. It is not an idea.

Love communicates. Love fights — not to win, but to understand. Love believes. Love trusts. Love continues in difficult times. Love knows the future because of the amount of love being expressed today.

Love knows your name. Love sees your scars. Love lights the dark, even though fading off, it burns continually.

Love gives life. Love gives light. Love brings clarity. Love gives correction. Love guides. Love heals.

●To Contradict All These Things

To contradict all these things, love knows pain. Love feels hurt. Love feels sad. Love feels anger and tiredness.

But like the white blood cells, it is immune to those things, so it does not stay there. It fights through the infection and returns to health. Pain visits love, but pain does not live in love.

That is why love survives what feelings cannot survive.

Love comes in full measure not half measure, its either in or out. When it's love it goes beyond making you feel good to making you become more love. Love doesn't leave you empty, it gives you an overflow, so much so love is extended to everyone else around you. Love compels you, love is labour, love is effort, live wants to go an extra mile.

In all these try not to tie love to something you'll get, its not a business meeting. When you give love, you get love back everything else is in between and you don't need mention because it is in one package.

Now you have the floor Ladies and Lords, pass the judgement

Thank you for reading 📚 ❤

I am Victory Wealth,and I am a Christian. I like to put it out that I believe in God so that I can boldly be known for that. I hate to say I am figuring out my life, but I know that I am just walking in preordained paths by God. Practically, if you are bored at this point, sorry, maybe this article isn't for you, but I hope you stay.

I really want to live a life of wealth in its exhaustless and unending manifestation, and with that, I also believe there's a mindset that attracts such kind of wealth. Like a consciousness of abundance, but before I talk about that consciousness, I have a little story to share.

So, like I said earlier, I am a Christian and I have principles I live by, and some of which is making the right confessions about my life in accordance to God's manual for my life, making it easy to manifest all that I want. But lately, I have found myself thinking so much of how much I don't have, what I don't have, what I need, what I want, what I need to buy and not buy. In other words, I'm harnessing the consciousness of lack and being in need.

I really hate that I have to live like that, and you know what? This article is me reminding myself of who and of whom I am, and what I am capable of. I am to live above circumstances and the systems of this world. Whatever is in my bank account doesn't determine my life choices. I should be able to get anything irrespective of what's in my account. I should be a solution more than a problem detective, and this being said, this moment I repent from such, both in words and deeds. I revoke any connections I have with thoughts of lack and being in need. I exist in a large place and I live in super abundance.

Moving forward, I was talking about having the consciousness of unending riches. Now, if I really want that kind of life, I wouldn't need to be in search for heaping possessions, because if I do that, my possessions would be calculable. Which means, now I must live beyond the physical. I must exist and live from a place where I call forth things to existence.

I would have to function like God to bring it to existence, and now at this point you might think I am crazy, but well, one must be crazy to be different. Do I think it is possible to say things to existence? Yes. And will I do it? Yes, I will, not to prove any point but to manifest God's word that says as He is, so am I in this world.

Well, before you say, oh, "go find work," I'm not jobless. I just don't think your work or your job gets you certain kinds of riches. Money has been exalted in our world this day. Apparently, you can't do so much without money in our world now, and money is important but not to be idolized. Let me explain, having so much money isn't idolizing money. The idolization of money starts when you love and chase after money above all else, when you begin to esteem having money at any cost, and I am not just saying doing illegal things. You can be doing something genuine to get money but still esteem it so highly that nothing comes above that, and you might not know it's already idolatry. And of course, you'll get results for your work, but you can lose focus of the real essence of life in a so-called pursuit of "success."

Now back to me, I'll have so much money that the world will question, but I won't forget the essence of life. And more than having, I will keep being a giver, giving to people in need and giving for expansion, transformation and elevation of dreams and ideas of others. I think there's a peace I get when I see people happy. I love to be a blessing to my world, and I won't stop. Even now, I am a blessing to my world.

Now to you reading, I know maybe you're at a point you're "figuring" life, but I want you to know that you're on track. And if you think you've made a detour, you are on track to have found out, just make a U-turn and get your life back on. Always think of your life as one God personally scripted. He's made you for more, go for more, love people, give and live your best life. Never think of your life as one that is hopeless, or you can't do so much, or that you're limited by circumstances. No, don't, because God made you for more. Live an excellent life full of glory, excellence, peace and prosperity. And the grace of our Lord is with you even now. I season this article with grace, peace and blessing that you excel in all of your good endeavors in Jesus' name. Amen. ❤

I I am a father of 3, social media doesn't know this. I know I am still young and I am not married yet, but it's crazy that I am just saying this casually, something I have covered for 6 years now. I met my girlfriend when I was 17 and we were both same age, she was only months older. I really liked her, I wouldn't say love because I didn't understand what love meant even though I constantly professed my love for her.

My parents were so proud of me, I was the son doing so well in school, yk, I came home straight from school, I never branched. I mean, back then every school in Port Harcourt had extremely “bad” kids and it worse in private schools, so branching somewhere that wasn't home was a normal thing to do. I was in Ss3 when I met Kewe, she was not from the igbo tribe and till now I dont even know what tribe that is, but I am sure they are the tribe that call God “Oghene.”

Kewe was extremely quiet and very “to herself” and so was I. We started talking first in the exam hall after we wrote physics exams and because she wasn't in my arm, she was moved to my class to write. There was always a switch during exams. It wasn't even a cute meet, we started talking from arguing about the base derivation formula for momentum and I was actually wrong afterwards, and because I just love to be truthful, I agreed that I was wrong.

Fast forward to when we started dating, we just enjoyed our company, we tried to not let anyone know something was going on, so we mostly texted on 2go on my Nokia C1 and she never ceased to text me the moment she got home. One day, we were both texting and she said she came across a site where a “man and a woman,” you get, so I picked interest and we talked about it tge whole weekend till we met on Monday. Now, after school on Monday, I walked her home for the first time and it wasn't even intentional, I only did that because we were both locked in to the conversation about… you get, so when we got to her place, her parents weren't home. So I came inside, even though I was scared of her dog, she persuaded me that it won't bite me. So I sat in the parlor while she went upstairs.

Few minutes later, Kewe comes back down, still in her uniforms but this time with her skirt unzipped and her singlets on. So I didn't know what to say, so she came close to me and sat down, and with no thought in my head at all, we were both quiet for like 15 mins when she broke the silence with a peck on my chins and I blushed and I was still silent. She did it again, and when she was gonna do it again, this time she was on me. Okay, so I am gonna have to skip this part because I think its a bit somehow for me to say.

Well, long story short, it happened and guess what? Her parents never came back early that day and for the first time I branched. I got back home and my parents weren't even gonna ask me why I came home later than usual, they thought it was because I was in ss3 now and its my first time. Good part was that it never happened again. Skip to 1 month later, Kewe skipped school for the first 2 learning days of the week and on the 3rd day, her parents came to school with her to see the principal and I wasn't even aware, I am only saying because I was informed later.

So they had found out that Kewe was pregnant and it was a student who was involved, and Kewe didn't hesitate to call me as the one responsible. The good part for me was that the parents weren't even trying to cause a scene. So they said they wanted to meet with both my parents, so when I came to the office, nobody was even shouting or looking angry, and it scared me. They only said I should speak to my parents, which I did, and so they organized a meeting at my house that day, and when everyone was gathered in one accord, Kewe's dad, Chief Bright, who's late now (RIP), greeted my dad in a calm tone and said, “Sir, your son has gotten a wife.”

Now, upon hearing that, I was shocked. The thing that crossed my mind was if they found out we were dating. So my dad asked, “Please, explain, what do you mean?” Now, I looked at my mum's face and she just adjusted her glasses to understand what she heard. Chief Bright said, “Your son impregnated my daughter,” and he said it calmly with a smile, and he went further to say, “I don't know how it happened and I don't want to know, but I want us as parents to handle this peacefully. I love my daughter and I don't think this is a reason to be mad.”

Now, my parents were shocked and so was I, because I just learned on the same day that I was able to do that and I am going to be a father, and my parents found out on the same day I found out. Such a way to unite 🙂. Anyways, there was no noise about it till she put to bed. She had someone write her WAEC for her, and while she was in Cameroon with her aunt.

That was how I had my first child. Now, I tried to summarize this whole story, so forgive me for cutting important parts, but where I'd want you to forgive me even more is this part I am about to say: this whole story isn't true, and that's why we're not f_cked. We are entirely, wholesomely, absolutely f_cked if we don't stay away from the news in this generation. Nothing on there is true. Nothing on the media is true. It's all falsified and full of bloody brilliant, well-constructed lies.

At least I confessed, but they won't. They are bio-engineering us to live the way they want us to. They put things on the news for fear and to get a certain response from us. Just like Covid-19, it's all a lie. If we don't saturate the media and our world with Truth, we will be fed lies every day and we'd do nothing but feast on them.

Spreading the Truth starts by knowing the truth. Jesus is the truth and He's showed us what lies are like. You many times can't tell the difference if you're not discerning. Well, if you don't know the truth, you've known lies your whole life. Go for knowledge, true knowledge. Go for light, the true light. This world has been filled with lots of deceptions and distraction. You can't scroll through 2 articles without hearing about sex, exactly what I used to get our attention. We are so highly sexually responsive now, we can't focus anymore. This is a strategy. I mean, pornography should be illegal, but now it's everywhere, and that is the devil's most effective destructive tool.

I can't even speak enough on this. I beseech you, Brethren, by the mercies of God, seek the truth and the truth only. That way can you only truly be separated from the curse of this world.

I love youuuu ❤

You might actually find peace if she's a girl though many times they are not peaceful. Wait wait, wait a minute, what are you reading this article with your face like that, what were you expecting ? I already told you from the beginning Peace is not here, exactly that's how life is, unfair.

You're badly looking for something but you can't find it, you want something so bad, you don't get it, you get it when you're not looking and then you forget how to be grateful for it. Isn't it absurd that you think some people have it easy ? If e easy do am na. Trust me this life is hard but yours shouldn't be. If you're still looking for the purpose of this article sorry to say you won't find it either.

Here's something interesting, if you really had your life in shape the way you want it, maybe just maybe out of a 100, there's a 99 percent chance you won't be reading this article. I don't mean to be throw shades, the sun is not out, I mean its 23:31 pm. I can't understand why things happen the way they do I mean look at it this way, you felt if you had a bigger butt life will treat you nicely right ? Well you don't have one so we'll never know. Exactly, no don't feel bad oh yess, life is not fair.

Why do we need a big butt anyways is there a special award for those who's got one in heaven ? I doubt. Money is everything the world responds to, money buys everything apart from life, the very important thing needed to enjoy money, you can't purchase it, again I say life is unfair. Its only a constant.

You get the best from life when you live, its called life for a reason. Well you don't have to take this, but life is unfair but it can be beautiful so why not we live life and not chase after the things in life ? See the difference now ?

I'm not even making any sense but I'll post this anyways. Life is unfair. Live !!!

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I was scrolling when I came across Dami's stack post with her stunning gorgeous 😍 Pictures and mind you I've been a subscriber since I joined 3 or 4 days ago. I went ahead to check her profile again and it read that she's a model and photographer, a Christopher Nolan no 1 lover (I love him too), and then finally I saw something that caught my attention she said I love Jesus ❤

Guess what ? The normal me decided to judge her in my head, not that I had a problem with what she's wearing honestly speaking, but in my head I am like “you love Jesus and you're showing all these cleavage” Now in that split moment of judgement, I take my time to tell myself the truth.

I looked at this picture again, mind you I think Dami is absolutely gorgeous and stunning 😍 She's a fine piece. Now while I am looking, my thoughts were taken back to the scriptures in Genesis that, God made man and woman and they were without clothes on their bodies, and Until they ate the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, did they know they were naked.

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It takes me to the thought that, there was no such thing as “nakedness” it existed at the fall of man, when Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, he hid from God and covered himself, he and his wife with leaves. God came down and asked Adam, “where are you ?” And Adam replied that he was in hiding because he was naked and God was in awe asking Adam “who told you, you are naked?”

Now you see God's Original plan for man was to wear His skin in confidence, Man/Woman wasn't to conform to this world but to adore, cherish and live in BEAUTIFULLY in the skin God made for them. Remember God, after he made anything the Bible said “and He saw it was beautiful” after He made man He “In my image and likeness have I made you”

I'll draw a solid theory from these two scenarios in the bible;

Matthew 5:27-28 — in the Sermon on the Mount.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Now you'll notice that Jesus didn't say, “ If you look at a woman lustfully when she's not dressed appropriately” The sin is practically in looking lustfully. I won't make my full statement but I'll quote you my final scripture.

2 Samuel 6:14-16, 20-23

v14-16:David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord with all his might, while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets. As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

v20-23:When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.” And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

Now to draw a conclusion and my theory, I will say that the problem was never being naked, because there was never a problem with that and Adam had seen himself bare without clothes and never saw a problem with that till he ate of the forbidden fruit. Even when David danced he danced to the point he showed part of his nakedness and he didn't think it a problem and that was in God's presence, and most of all in the old testament where God took laws into His hands most times. So if David was wrong, God would have wiped him out. Rather, He made His wife barren just because of how she reacted to him. Isn't that interesting? I mean read the words of David to his wife again to see what he said.

I am not saying we have to walk naked on the streets, neither am I saying “intentionally wear revealing clothes” but when there's a cause for the occasion let's not see it as a problem, because we might think something is wrong with it mostly because of the content of our heart.

The bible said in the book of Proverbs “Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life" That's why even though a lady is properly dressed men still go ahead to rape them. The problem was never what they wore, or if they showed “too much skin" it was in the content of their heart, what went through in the hearts of men.

I think even as Christians, let's do the word of God that says we shouldn't judge one another lest we be judged. Because its easy for us to draw up judgemental conclusions without solid cause.

Finally, Brethren even though I have taken my time to expound on these things I believe that the scriptures also said;

1 Corinthians 6:12

"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any."

Ecclesiastes 7:18

"It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes."

In as much as you dress, be mindful and avoid extremes especially when you have the intention to draw all eyes to you in the name of “thirst trap"

Damilola is a pretty woman and I believe she is just doing her job and expressing art, showing us how beautiful God has made us so I revoke that judgement and repent. Thank you for blessing our screens and thank you for reading God bless you.❤

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A little backstory of how I met , I work a 9-5 job in tech firm and I earn a decent amount good enough for me, I don't go out, I am barely outside if not at work.

So on this day while I drove home from work, I stopped at a fuel station ⛽ to refill my tank, I had my tank filled and now it was time to pay, I swear that I had the money on me I promise. My FIRST BANK app and card decided to show me Shege 😭😭 .

I stood at the pump there for 15 minutes and I had other cars honk for me to move my car, omo shame wear me cloth. The pump attendant had informed the manager of the incident and that I wasn't able to make payments of 120k.

I hated asking for favors. So while I was trying to move my car and thinking of how I'd text my guy to send cash to my Opay account, (because Opay is fast and reliable) I saw a pretty slim thick lady walking towards me from a G-WAGON and she said “Heyy" … (don't forget this Heyy)

I was honestly carried away, but I got back to my senses in split when I heard another honking from the car behind to move. After, I had parked I rushed to approach her and before I had come she paid for my Petrol, and I was just dumbfounded because that was not a kind gesture, it was a heavenly one coming from an Angel I had just met.😭😭

I said to her “Thank you so much, please how can refund this money” knowing fully well that it was my bank that messed me up, She said “ Don't bother, pretty men like you shouldn't stress over little things” Omo in that moment I was utterly dumbfounded. Long story short, we exchanged contacts and 1 week later this lady is my babe because why the heck not !!!

is a light skinned gorgeous damsel, she owns her own publications company, and she's a foreign investor in Chinese industrial firms.

She loved me so much according to her, in her words I gave the best hugs and best kisses. She'd rush to my place from work most times just to recieve “the best hugs and kisses”

In fact she laid emphasis on the kissing so much so that one day she cried after a session of saliva exchange, and she said “I promise I'd never kiss you goodbye"

One month into our love story, Yinka got so busy with work, she traveled a lot, barely had time for us and she'd barely be around town. So I took a weeks leave just to try to you know spend time with her in Dubai where she had to attend a business meeting. It wasn't so serious so she had to make time for us. We didn't do anything nasty, just the regular hugs and kisses we both enjoyed. She believes in keeping herself for marriage.

On the day I left Dubai, Yinka was in tears and I thought it was that she was gonna miss me and all. When I hugged her and said don't worry baby we'll have time to see again when you're back in town. She cried even more and said “I don't know about that” and I was shocked and suddenly I got scared and immediately she wiped her tears and said hey baby you're gonna miss your flight.

Honestly I was gonna miss my flight ✈️ if I didn't leave immediately. Throughout my flight I had this in my head, even when I arrived Lagos, Nigeria, I couldn't think or work well. For days we couldn't even talk she was inactive and on the day after she arrives Lagos, she sends me that message….

Back to current time. While I paced the floor, I thought of what we were gonna talk about and guess what, I couldn't even believe my ears guys😭😭😭😭

I met Yinka at the underground parking lot of her company and I hugged her and she held me so tight with tears rolling down her eyes and I said “Baby what is it?”

She cried even more and when she could speak, and honestly I wasn't ready to hear but well, she said

“I am to marry Anthony, the son of Mr Kayode a big business guru as to seal the family bond and business relationship and I cant say no because my dad is retiring and the company has been doing bad of late and this marriage is gonna strengthen the business and bring it back up, that was why I was in Dubai. I am honestly sorry for wasting your time, but just know this, everything i ever said to you was true and yes I love you Wealth, you're a kind and lovely man, I wish it could be different but I have to go”

She kissed me one last time and drove off and just like when we met I stood there dumbfounded again.

End of story

Please this is a Fiction and Yinka in question is my mutual on Substack, she writes beautifully and this story was in response to the fun thing I said I was gonna do. This is also my first story on substack and everywhere please rate me how did I do.

I am not a writer so I'll love corrections and commendations as well. SEE YOU ON THE NEXT ONE BYEEEEEEE❤

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