Morenike Vincent: A Journey of Faith, Purpose and Helping Others Live Awake

There are some people whose work makes sense when you look at the different things they have done. And then there are people whose work only really makes sense when you understand what has been at the centre of their lives all along.

For Morenike Vincent, that thread is her walk with God.

She puts it beautifully: “A thread of my life lies in walking with God daily and obeying Him.” It is a simple sentence, but when you begin to look at her journey, you realise just how much of her life has grown from it.

Today, Morenike is a writer, speaker, coach and Chartered Accountant. She has written books, mentored young people, worked with women, spoken about academic excellence and career choices, created spaces for spiritual growth and spent years helping people think more intentionally about their lives.

But I think there is something more interesting beneath all of that. She says, “I want to help people to take their hands back to their Father in intimacy.” And suddenly, the different pieces of her story begin to make a little more sense.

Morenike’s story of walking with God did not begin when she became an author. While she was still an undergraduate, in 2007, she made a personal decision to grow spiritually. That season became an important foundation for what would follow.

It eventually inspired Delighting in God, one of her earlier books, which grew out of her desire to help people develop a deeper relationship with God and learn to live consciously for Him.

But while her spiritual journey was developing, so was another part of her life. Morenike was also building a professional career.

She pursued accounting and eventually became a Chartered Accountant, but getting there was not a straight or easy road. She has spoken about the years of pursuing her professional qualification, the disappointments that came with setbacks and the temptation to give up.

She didn’t.

That part of her story is easy to overlook when you simply see the title “Chartered Accountant” beside her name. But perhaps it says something important about the woman behind the title. Morenike has had to learn, in very practical ways, what it means to keep going when the thing you are working towards takes longer than you expected. And that lesson would become useful in other parts of her life too.

In 2012, another part of Morenike’s calling began to take shape.

She’s Connected FamilyLife Network ran from 2012 to 2020, bringing young ladies together to learn about family life, pray and grow together while exploring God’s design for family.

For eight years, it created a space where young women could have conversations about faith, womanhood, relationships and family, while learning from Scripture and from one another.

Looking at that chapter now, it is easy to see another recurring pattern in Morenike’s life. She doesn’t seem particularly interested in simply telling people what to do. She creates spaces where people can learn, ask questions, pray, grow and become.

That same instinct would show up again and again in her work.

Her interest in young people’s development also extended into academic excellence and career choices. Through her writing and programmes, she encouraged teenagers and young adults to pursue excellence while also thinking carefully about the kind of lives they wanted to build.

Her Academic Excellence Devotional was one expression of that work, bringing together academic excellence and spiritual growth rather than treating them as separate parts of a young person’s life.

This is probably one of the parts of Morenike’s story I find most interesting.

Because the woman who has spent years encouraging other people to live intentionally has also had to confront seasons when she wasn’t sure she was doing that herself.

She has described 2014 as a period when she felt she was “floating through life.” She was busy and working, but many of the dreams she had carried were still sitting in her journal. And by the time she entered 2015, she says her hope had begun to diminish.

It is such a human part of the story. Because from the outside, it is easy to assume that people who encourage others about purpose must have always been certain about their own. Morenike’s story suggests otherwise.

During that season, she enrolled in an email-based mentorship programme called Immerse. She did not create the programme. She was a participant. But the experience became significant in her own journey.

By the end of it, she describes something shifting within her. She became “Awake.”

And that word would stay with her.

Not simply awake in the sense of having new goals, but awake to her life, awake to purpose and awake to what she believed God was calling her to do.

There was another lesson that would become important in Morenike’s spiritual journey.

In 2017, she wrote about feeling dissatisfied with the depth of her walk with God. She had learned that there is a difference between doing and being.

You can do things for God and still long to know Him more deeply. You can be busy serving, helping, teaching and producing, and still need to slow down and cultivate intimacy.

That realisation feels particularly important when you look at the rest of Morenike’s story. Because she has done a lot. She has built, written, mentored, taught, spoken, worked professionally, created communities, encouraged young people and walked alongside women.

But underneath all the doing is a desire to be with God.

And perhaps that is why her latest chapter feels so connected to everything that came before it.

Since March 2026, Morenike has been leading monthly spiritual growth practices, creating intentional opportunities for people to grow in their relationship with God.

The desire behind it is simple: “I want to help people to take their hands back to their Father in intimacy.”

That sentence could almost be placed across the entire timeline of her life. From the young woman learning to grow spiritually, to the undergraduate who began taking her walk with God more seriously, to the accountant who learned to persevere through professional setbacks, to the years of She’s Connected bringing young women together to learn, pray and grow, to the woman who once felt she was floating through life, to the participant in Immerse who describes becoming “Awake,” to the writer who began putting some of these lessons into books, and now to the woman creating intentional spaces for spiritual growth again in 2026.

The forms have changed and the seasons have changed, but the thread has remained.

And now, that thread finds expression in two new books: Like Mary in a Martha Driven World and God Is Not Done With You Yet.

Even the titles feel like they belong to the journey.

Like Mary in a Martha Driven World speaks to the tension between doing and being, between the pressure to constantly accomplish and the invitation to sit, listen and be present with God.

God Is Not Done With You Yet carries another message that feels deeply human: that an unfinished season is not necessarily a failed one, and that there can still be purpose in a story that does not look the way you expected it to.

For Morenike, these books are therefore not simply two new titles added to an author’s bibliography. They feel like another expression of something she has been learning, living and sharing for years.

And perhaps that is what makes her story worth paying attention to.

It is not a story about someone who figured everything out early and then spent the rest of her life teaching everyone else. It is a story about someone who has kept walking, sometimes with clarity, sometimes through uncertainty, sometimes through disappointment, sometimes through seasons of doing, and increasingly through a deeper understanding of what it means simply to be with God.

When I look at Morenike’s journey, that is what stands out to me most.

Not the titles. Not even the books.

But the consistency of the thread running underneath them all.

Walk with God. Obey Him. Grow in intimacy. And help other people find their way back to Him.

Maybe that is what Morenike Vincent means when she talks about living awake.

Not having all the answers. Not having a perfect life. But being awake enough to notice where God is leading you, and willing enough to keep walking.