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Have you ever been scared of what might, or what if, and you just could not stay still? And the best way you think of dealing with it is to keep going even when your heartbeat is moving faster than a ticking clock and your mind is racing faster than the fastest 100-meter marathon champion. Well, that is the type of environment we live in currently, and it can cripple you if you let it. The media is not helping but amplifying the heat of the electric tide of our current atmosphere, wiring us to keep going so we don’t miss out rather than stop and deal with our scary internal narratives limiting us.

The question of ‘what is driving us like a moving force?’ needs an answer to determine the cause. Is it fear of missing out, or is it purpose-led? Fear of missing out is the current atmosphere. However, purpose beckons us to move with grace and intentionality for the consummation of destiny.

Surrounded by what-ifs and what-might is a very unsettling place in any season. They paralyse your ability to move and take action, lock you in a suspicious box of fear, and silence the purpose-led instincts telling you to move irrespective of the surrounding notices.

Being scared is not a bad thing, but letting it cripple you to the point of lameness is destructive to your inner man and your ability to move into purpose.
What are you scared of?
What is trying to maim your ideas even before they get formed into destiny-shaping initiatives?
Let this 2024 propel you to get up and take action, digging out the long-buried ideas and taking back abandoned plans and initiatives God has laid in your heart long ago.
Let procrastination be the Goliath you must slay this year. No, I take it back. It has to be slayed right NOW! Enough of procrastination.
So join me as I jump on the moving train of purpose fulfilment and allow God to perfect His Will in our lives. Scared or not, I am moving with God!

What are you waiting for?
Do not let another year pass you living in scary-land.
He is rich in MERCY and abounding in GRACE!

What is your Though?

Job said this, ‘though he slay me, yet will I praise Him.

I have many ‘thoughs’ in life, and sometimes it looks like they will never end. The list grows long every time I get hit by life’s choices or my faith gets challenged with questions beyond my capability to handle.

Yes, I know life can get surmounted with unexpected seasons that challenge our ‘though’ statements, and if we are not careful, they can rob us from focusing on God’s ‘Almightiness’ and Sovereign rule over all. But it takes an intimate relationship with The Father to make ‘though’ statements and stand by them while passing through a stormy season or getting hit by the unending life turbulences.

This season, I’ve been focusing on finishing the last books of the Old Testament, and some of the passages have hit me right in between my eyes. One I can’t shake off is Habakkuk 3:17-19.

“Though the fig tree may not blossom,

Nor fruit be on the vines;

Though the labour of the olive may fail,

And the fields yield no food;

Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,

And there be no herb in the stalls – Yet I will rejoice in the LORD,

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The LORD God is my strength;

He will make my feet like deer’s feet,

And He will make me walk on my high hills.”

Wow! That is enough assurance for me to hold on to God, though I haven’t seen the manifestation of all my prayers as we draw close to the end of 2023.

What are your ‘though’ moments?

I don’t know what your season looks like. Perhaps you are still lingering in a situation waiting for deliverance or answered prayers, and it all seems far from happening. Don’t lose hope. Faithful is HE!

Whatever the promise God has given you, though it tarries, wait for it; because the vision is for an appointed time; and it shall surely come to pass.

As for me, chapter 1:5 of Habakkuk is the assurance for my ‘though’ statements no matter what I am going through now or how long I have been waiting.

“Look among the nations and watch. Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.”

How about you? What is the anchor holding the vows you’ve made to God?

Have a blessed 2023 Christmas and a purpose-filled 2024!

Amid all the celebrations for this festive season, don’t forget the real meaning of Christmas. It is JESUS! May you encounter His unconditional love and salvation.

Thank you all for following and supporting my writing journey!

God’s blessings!

Oh, The Beauty and Selflessness of Intercession.
The act of interceding always leaves me in tears.
It takes a selfless heart to let down or let go of their desires and problems and pick up the burden of someone else unselfishly.

Most of the time, we have no idea of the knees hitting the floor on our behalf every day or occasionally, lifting you and me in prayers and constantly bombarding the Throne of Grace for our salvation, deliverance, welfare, healing, wellbeing, and so much more.
It’s not that those people don’t have anything else to do. No, they have other matters to attend to, but the burden for others placed on their hearts beckons them to pour their hearts ungrudgingly before God’s Throne of Mercy. And that burden can only be lifted by their selfless intercession before His Throne.

Have you ever wondered who’s on their knees for you?
Whether it’s an occasional or an ongoing act, it takes a heart of compassion to stand in the gap for another.
I have been tremendously impacted and blessed with a community of people standing in the gap for me at different seasons. In the stormy weather, through the waves, under the rain, through the fiery darts seasons, on the dry valleys of life, and in the joyous moments of my life. A community of selfless intercessors are life-impacting and a groundmoving destiny-shifting force that no mountain can contest.
Not even hell and its forces can stop them.

We are called to be our brothers and sisters’ keepers. What better way to do this ‘keeping’ than to fall on our knees and raise thunder-moving intercession on their behalf to strengthen their weak hands and make firm the feeble knees? And to say to those fearful in heart, ‘Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you.’

Now, over to you and me, who are we lifting in prayers in our quiet time?
Imagine a chain of compassionate hearts giving selfless attention to the heart-cry of many through intercession and their ongoing floor-hitting knees of love before the Throne of Grace. What an overwhelming experience for the ears and a grateful atmosphere to behold!

Who are you standing in the gap for in intercessory prayers?
You don’t have to wait until something terrible or challenging hits them. We can lift them before God’s merciful and gracious throne now.
Would you join me in standing for our families, our loved ones, our friends, our colleagues, our neighbourhood, our communities, our nation, the Church and the community of believers around the Globe, our leaders, those in places of authority, and for ‘Salvation’ for all?

Comments are welcome.

It’s one of the things we don’t talk about much or give enough attention to match its worth. But the birthright defines our identity while linking us to our future, and without the birthright, our heritage and connection to our genealogy remains unknown. There is a reason for that birthright, but if you are ignorant of the purpose, you can trade it for anything you find more desirable.

Birthrights may not look fancy to treasure if your desires are on something else more appealing to the eyes.
But remember, not everything appealing is right for you.
Some facades are bare glitters imposing to be gold when the inside is clay, though covered with sparkling glitters to entice and attract for exchange with the most valuable ‘your birthright’ though you may not know it.

Esau learned the bitter truth of the priceless value of his birthright after losing it to exchange for the desirable in his eyes. Though he sorted for it again with deep regret, unfortunately, it was another man’s right.

What have you been given or promised by the Lord, and you feel it’s taking too long to manifest? Instead, you put it on the trading table for an exchange. What are you trading your birthright for?
What are you trading your gifts and calling for?
What are you trading His temple for? What’s the counteroffer?
Is it, or are they worth the trade? I hope it’s not for a bowl of stew or some perishables. Even if it is for gold, do you think that’s what your birthright or calling costs?

P.S. What is motivating you to do the trade? Or rather, who is pressuring you to take a bid?

Comments are welcome.

I can still remember my first encounter with Ezekiel Chapter 1. I was stuck, speechless, captured in a revelation moment I had never experienced reading this book. How did I read past this chapter before? The images became alive, and for days it felt like I got caught in a scene right before the four living creatures. I began with writing the descriptions in my imagination, the majesty in their movements, the way they sync from one direction to another, the detail and awe in their features, and the beholding wonder of everything around them. Their 360-degree multi-dimensional vision and the mind-blowing awe of the wheels around them all moving in a whirlwind.

The sound and sight of an approaching whirlwind engulfed with raging fire and a great cloud, radiating with the brightness of amber, and within, the awestruck living creatures with appearances and demeanour that one can’t put into words but stare with trembling reverential fear of the Creator. It’s understandable why John the beloved fell to his keens as though dead when he encountered the countenance of The King of Glory in Reve 1:12-18 which would have been more wondrous to behold.

My question became, who could fathom the greatness of our Creator?
Such detail and beauty, wonder, awe and unimaginable comprehension of their chef-d’oeuvre is a lifetime encounter to behold!
Yet, unworthy still, He beckons me into a journey of deeper fellowship and intimacy with Him. The One who has the power to create such beings and ride upon the clouds calls me His very own beloved.
It takes me back to Isaiah 40:28
‘Have you not heard
Have you not known
The everlasting God, The Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth
Never faints, nor is weary
And His understanding is unsearchable.’
Truly who can comprehend His greatness and the wonder of His marvellous works? The works of His hands are unimaginable, and the extent of His creation unreached by any human mind. The One who creates the earth and all its fullness, yes, the world and all who dwell in it. He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. His is Majesty!
What a privilege to walk with the Great Creator and get direction for life!
If you have never done so, for this second half of the year, may you surrender to His leading and watch His Majesty unravel the greatness of His will and purpose for your life. For me, there’s no questioning. Jesus is my Majesty!
Is He yours? Would you let Him be?

Comments are welcome.

He was among those sent to arrest Him.
The warrant must be executed.
They went armed to seize Him.
What they didn’t know, no fight or force was needed to take Him.
He gave himself, willingly, to fulfil the prophecy about Him and the Father’s will.

Running towards Him to carry out the arrest, he watched Him stand still, unmoved by what was about to happen; not that He couldn’t stop it, but the fulfilment of prophecy was greater than the pain He bears.
Before he could lay his hands on Him, he felt a sharp cut running off his right ear. The adrenaline rush of pain and agony racing through his brain was inexplicable. Feeling his heart stop and his body trembling, he fell to his knees as the pain became unbearable for Malchus.

Malchus! When hate and rage met with LOVE!

Afraid to confirm what he knew, placing his hand on his right ear, but it was gone. With his hand covered in blood, he screamed in pain.
Right there, the Master reached him and fixing the unconditional gaze of love into his eyes, He placed His hand on the right ear and restored it.
His gaze penetrates the heart of a broken yet redeemable soul.
Speechless, he couldn’t stop looking into His eyes.
Malchus felt seen and known by the eyes that locked with his soul.

Why was his ear restored?
Why is his heart burning with inexplicable sensations?
Why such love from a Man he received orders to arrest?
Why show him compassion and mercy when he had come to exercise the grip of the fierce law of the accusers?
Why was the warrant made in the first place?

Though little is known and said about him to us, yet one thing I know, Malchus never recovered from his Gethsemane experience!
Gethsemane, a place of encounter and surrender!
May this Good Friday unveil the REAL meaning of His surrender Life to save humanity, especially, You.
Wherever you are, Jesus’ LOVE can reach you, and He is waiting for your surrender to His unconditional Love and Sacrifice.
The Gethsemane event written, prophesied, and brought into fulfilment for you.

Thank You, LORD, for loving us this much.
Malchus! When hate and rage met with LOVE!

Would you receive His Love and Sacrifice today?

Have a Blessed Good Friday and Easter!

Sometimes finishing well doesn’t necessarily mean finishing strong.
You can finish strong but not according to purpose.
However, finishing well according to purpose can come with scars, aches, tears, and possibly rare moments of laughter.
How did you finish 2022? Is it on high notes or low, with tears or lots of laughter?
My 2022 was challenging, with many tears, disappointments, and rejection. However, God was right by my side, journeying with me through those low seasons.

At the beginning of the lows, hope was scarce, patience was painful, faith got shaken, and perseverance was out of reach. It took God’s divine intervention to pull me out of a long tunnel of hurt, anxiety, and emotional run down. From December 2021 to July 2022, those seven months were painful. Then the light of breakthrough began to crack through my dark tunnel and gradually overtook and outlasted the tough seasons.

I still came out with some scars and aches, but the remaining five months of 2022 brought back laughter, joy, healing, unlimited opportunities, new beginnings, and the job I desired amid the scars. I called them the five months of grace, God’s grace. He kept me through it all, and now I am grateful for His mercies. Though I would love to have smashed more goals and achievements, purpose kept me aligned.

As I look on to 2023 with a grateful expectation of God’s plans and the journey chiselled for me, I can only say, ‘let your will be done, Lord.’

How was your 2022? Irrespective of the ups and downs, God is faithful to see you through life’s journey if you’ll let Him do so for you.

To all my readers and followers, ‘thank you’ for reading and following this Blog website. I am grateful to have every one of you on this page.
Have a blessed and purpose-filled 2023.
May joy, laughter, good health, and peace guide your footsteps throughout the New Year.

Blessings

I’ve heard it said many times, and often in a sermon, ‘Take a leap of faith.’
It sounds encouraging hearing it served to someone else. However, when it is your turn, or you find yourself in a situation where you have to walk in it, that will take some courage-wrecking effort to brave the first step. It’s like a journey into the unknown. You got hit with a situation that demands the testing of your faith to step into waters with no idea what its temperature is or the current controlling its speed and capacity.

I found myself in a situation where I either take the step of faith into the unknown or tarry to see everything straighten up first. What do you do, or how do you respond when you find yourself amid uncertainty?
We always know the answer to give someone in a similar circumstance but then fail to walk through those answers when the table turns around our path. When I think about the word ‘FAITH,’ it is an action word. You can’t say you have faith without acting on it. It needs to be followed by your action as proof of what you are testifying.

I don’t mind leaping from one end to another as long as I can see the opposite end where I will land. But when it’s a faith leap, you don’t know where it will land you, or you may not even like where it will take you. That’s why it’s called faith! It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things NOT SEEN. Yeah, I said it.
Well, it’s not faith if you can see it before moving. It is only faith when you don’t see it yet believe it.

Now, I must tell you that is where I find myself this season, and honestly, it is unsettling, frightening and at times very overwhelming. Your mind will tell you it is not a place to tarry in, especially with the uncertainty surrounding our World, but you need to remind yourself or have people around you who will remind you that our faith is in The One (Jesus) who holds the Universe. It’s okay if I don’t know what tomorrow holds as I leap into the unknown by faith, but I know The One (Jesus) who holds tomorrow. And as I leap, my faith is not tied to the place I may land but in The One who holds my future.

Have you ever taken the leap of faith? Or are you in a situation challenging you to take a leap of faith? Remember, if God is in it, you are never alone. He has gone ahead of you to straighten the crooked places and smoothen the rough paths. Trust Him as you take that leap.

Comments are welcome.