Remi Odedoyin - Self-Love: The Ultimate Solution

I would like to appreciate my spiritual father, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (worldwide), for providing sound and admirable leadership from which I am privileged to draw invaluable tutelage, and for kindly acceding to my request to write the foreword to this book.

I am also sincerely, profoundly indebted to the following people for a wonderful relationship and their kindness in finding time in their very tight schedule to review the book draft and write commendations on it: Dr Daniel Akhazemea, the Rector of the Christ the Redeemer College, London; Professor Dele Balogun, the Regional Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Oyo Region 1, Ibadan, Nigeria; Dr James Fadel, a special Assistant to the General Overseer (worldwide) and the Chairman of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America; Rev George Adegboye, the president of the ever-increasing word ministries (aka the walking Bible) and Founder of Rhema Chapel, Ilorin, Nigeria. I am tremendously grateful to these wonderful and great men of God. My sincere thanks also go to Pastor Peter Adeyemi (a.k.a. Daddy Mate) for his fatherly relationship and encouragement.

I am deeply appreciative of the congregation of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, House of Faith Connections, Dagenham, UK, with whom I have shared some of the ideas in the book through sermons and Bible studies. I sincerely thank you for the platform and for your questions that often set me meditating for answers.

To my pastors who pointed me towards pastoral ministry: Pastors Chris and Abi Adeoye, sincere thanks; and Pastors Sola and Grace Sola-Oludoyi, I am thankful for a cordial relationship.

I thank my children, Tola, Wale, Funmi and Tolu, for their understanding that has enabled me to have as much time as possible for the pastoral work and for the time required to write this book. My appreciation also goes to all our covenant children, without whose support, my wife and I would have found the ministry works much more heavy-going. May the Lord abundantly reward you all!

Special thanks to my biological brothers Kayode, Gbenga and Femi for their loving support and constant companionship, which help to enrich my understanding of the self and self-love beyond the purview of the family of procreation.

I am particularly immensely thankful to my wife, Christie, for her invaluable encouragement, support and prayers. Her support all along is inestimable and one of its products is this book.

For the urge and inspiration, the aspiration, the writing, and further logistics and all the human resources, all of which gave birth to this book, I am profusely thankful to Almighty God. It is unto Him and Him alone that I return all glory.

Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Jesus said unto him, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

On These two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.