Mastering 2025 Day By Day!

Book Review

Reviewer: Banji Ojewale

Book: Daily Manna (A Devotional Guide, January-December 2025)

Author: W. F. Kumuyi

Publishers: Life Press, Lagos, Nigeria

Pagination: 379

William Blake was the Romantic English poet who believed that if you had it right from sun-up, you’d be positioned for success all through the day till sun-down. What he simply meant was that you needed to dedicate quality time to plot your vision of the trajectory of the day as you leave the bed. You impose your wishes on the day before you move into it, he insists; otherwise you’d run into elemental and untamable circumstances. The writer who lived between two centuries (1757-1827) put it this way: ‘’Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.’’

Kumuyi At 83: Beyond The Preacher’s Cassock

 By Banji Ojewale

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor polite, not popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him he is right.  —Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American churchman and civil liberties defender.

*Pastor Kumuyi and his wife, Mrs Esther 

In his book, An Outline of the History of the World, Herbert Abraham Davies relates the epic story of how a cleric put himself in the path of potential backlash to deliver ancient Rome from annihilation at the hands of an all-conquering army of barbarians. The predators were already in the regions of the Roman Empire; all the soldiers needed was an order from their leader, Attila the Hun, to move in and overrun Rome. From this she was saved, (so it was said), "by the earnest entreaties of Leo, Bishop of Rome, who entered Attila’s camp and warned him not to risk the vengeance of heaven by plundering the city, and the Hun leader was so impressed with the bishop’s sincerity and intensity of purpose that he withdrew his troops."

Pastor W.F. Kumuyi And A 60-Year Old Story

By Banji Ojewale

Except a man be born again…he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.-Jesus Christ.   

*Kumuyi

Dateline: Ijebu–Ode, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Sunday, April, 5, 1964.

A preacher is delivering a message in a church. Among those he’s addressing is William Folorunso Kumuyi, 23. The lad is ‘’almost like a moralist’’, as he listens and watches the cleric. The preacher is unrelenting as he insists that it isn’t just our actions that make us unacceptable to God.