MY LITTLE WHISPER

Time & time again I'll find myself

Putting my heart into things 

Trying to put all efforts

Just so it can be good

Having a desire to make the foundations solid

So no one ever gets to crumble while built on it

Did what was Right

What was in the Light

But Darkness says they don't want Light

They tried threatening, 

And if that doesn't work,

They're gonna use the weapon of their tongue

Then I thought to myself

Aren't we Lights?

What happens to the dominion we have?

The authority over darkness?

So,

Will I hold the judgment of tongues in my heart?

No!

But will I leave them to the Isaiah 54:17 judgment?

Oh yes!

Will I take a stand to have lights rise?

Yes!

Will I put my heart to it once again?

Yes!

Will I pull all efforts once again?

Yes!

Will I keep quiet?

No!

I'm too defended to be slandered!

Too defended for any tongue to be raised against!

So I'll enjoy the ride with my FORMIDABLE DEFENSE

NO GREATER GOOD THAN THIS

How do I explain he did a Good deed yet he got something else — the opposite of all he gave?

For me, I do my "little" good but, having to see it reap negativities, false reports, disgrace, unfair treatment is something that hurts — hurts deeply.

I have seen people near me reach out to do good to those around them, but get rewarded with things that end up hurting or breaking their hearts.

These make me wonder 'if we were given the chance to see how people we do good to will respond before we do it, will we go ahead with it?"

For me, I believe it would be hard to go on with it — knowing I could get hurt for my good heart.

It would have to take a strong impression & nudge to do it anyway (with a pained & struggling heart).

Yet, I see someone who despite knowing he'll be mocked, despised, rejected, did a whole lot of "Good" even to the last & greatest of them all — the greatest Good that could exist.

The fact that someone knew he won't be praised nor appreciated at that point of his doing good yet he did it anyway?

I mean why do a thing when all you'll end up getting is nothing but falsehood, condemnation & dissociation?

Yet, to my surprise, I saw he did it, not complaining, nor refusing, he did it because it was worth it. Not for Himself but for "People"; not for that moment alone, but for a life time.

And for that "Good" that still speaks, though at the moment it happen wasn't appreciated, we all remain forever grateful for all goodness that "Good" brought.

The greatest Good of all time!

SHE IS BLESSED!

They tried & tried.

They struck & struck.

They planned & planned.

They thought & thought.

They wished & wished.

They mastered & mastered.

They plotted & plotted.

They manipulated & manipulated,

Yet, she was formidable.

Whenever they played a strategy,

She escapes somehow.

It is just around her,

That FORMIDABLE WALL!

"For she is Blessed!

Destroy her not!

Destroy not what is hers!

A Blessing is in her!

Her BLESSER is her KEEPER!"

They tried to the left,

Oh, it just didn't work.

They tried to the right,

Then to the front,

And in fact, to the back,

Yet, she was defended Within & Without.

She had a STRONG DEFENCE SYSTEM.

She was defended by a MIGHTY WALL made of CONSUMING FIRE,

Hence she can't be harmed nor hurt.

She is the one doted upon by her DEFENCE,

Beloved enough to be furiously & fiercely jealoused over.

Whatever must harm her must first harm her SHIELD,

A feat found impossible through times.

Simply because, she's found.

Found right there,

Found inside her BLESSER, 

And her BLESSER inside her.

For she is blessed, 

And Her BLESSER is her KEEPER!

DON'T SEE THE WIND, SEE HIM!

It looked impossible & unreal at first.

It infact looked insane, 

Yet, it was possible,

For him it was.

"If someone could do it, 

Then I can!"

I thought to myself, "Well, will it be possible for me to do it though?"

Yet, taking the steps, I took off,

Starting this journey as if I knew what I was doing.

No, actually, as he who I saw did it already.

For in all ways, there were questions within me asking if I could do it.

But I looked up to him and was doing it anyway.

For the first few steps I was moving in amazement of the "I can do it too" fact.

But, in a little while, my focus and attention shifted too quickly.

From the "I can do it too" to "but how long do I think I can last doing it?", "the reality on ground is too real than what you're doing", "what if? Just what if?", "This situations seem to encumbering for this to be real", "maybe it's fake, just fake, I can't really be doing this".

Thoughts began to sink into my head 

But I didn't know, 

I didn't know that the more those thoughts flooded my head, the more I was sinking where I was.

I could no longer do it.

Fear had taken grip immediately after my doubts rose.

I could no longer see Him.

It was as if he wasn't right there still doing it.

I couldn't find that thoughts that could say "but you know, he's doing it despite all these things"

Well, he used his 'ability to do it' to help me. 

That was after I finally got my thoughts together, that all these thoughts were too much that they only sunk me.

After that realization, I found my voice to call out for help in fear.

Yes, I was helped,

But, no, I didn't finish the journey as I desired.

I couldn't, because I had unneeded thoughts , doubts & fears of the reality.

I replaced my sights with the reality.

I was seeing HIM doing it but I got it all replaced with the so called "reality" of impossibilities.

I couldn't, I just couldn't exercise the ability I actually had.

It was indepth, yes, but it couldn't come out because I doused it with my doubts.

But now I know better.

Now I know to let go of my doubts to avoid fears.

I know to deal with fear that may arise,

I know to "not think, but instead focus!"

I know to fix my sight on him than whatever reality I was facing,

To forget the roughness & narrowness of the journey & see Him,

To take situations & circumstances as not existing & remain focused!

MY SIGHTS vs. MY REALITY

Looking up I saw it, 

As it looked plump, radiant, colourful,

I looked down & ahead of me,

I saw something else,

It looked well decked, adorned and colourful,

Clothed with colours I never thought existed,

Sights that created warmth inside me.

I thought to myself,

"How beautiful these two are"

I looked at myself,

"Could I compare to them?

Well... maybe not,

But why the feeling that 'I'm less'?"

I took a stand beside it as it laid peacefully in its spot & its full pride

I measured myself with it,

To discover that of a truth, "I'm more than these"

I can't compare myself to these.

I asked myself this riddling question:

"Why then that weird feeling?

Why do I feel less than these things?

When in the real sense I'm more than them?

If they are this radiant & adorned, 

Shouldn't I be fuller, colourful & better adorned than them?

Could it be that I don't see it well enough?

Maybe I need a better lens to see things from,

To behold the beauty bestowed on me,

How that the DESIGNER of these beauties was more focused on designing me.

How that HE was carefully filling my colours so I could be beautiful"

I took a seat within me,

Speaking words of truth to hold dear to follow,

"You mustn't forget who you are

You should see you as you see these beautiful things

You should see you as HE sees you, 

See you as HE wants you HE's designing to come out - 

A beauty to behold!"

Inspired by Matt 6:26-31

HIS HOTSPOT IS ON! IS YOUR WI-FI CONNECTING?

Allow me share a personal story with you. 

On a particular day, a friend of mine needed to do something urgently online but she didn't have Data on her phone. She made a request to me to help her out by putting on my phone's hotspot which I did.

But there was a thing, she couldn't access the hotspot for about 5 minutes, not because it wasn't on but rather because she didn't put on her phone's WiFi & set it to connect to me. For those few minutes I already helped her she thought I hadn't set up my hotspot & was there waiting while the delay was from her inability to connect. It had to take her asking me to switch my phone hotspot on before everything could sort out as I told her I had played my part since the moment she asked me.

Those few minutes taught me something, I gave it a thought that day & realized that it's something that could happen between us & GOD too.

What do I mean?

Many times, we go to GOD (our ABBA - FATHER) to make our requests known to HIM, truth is, He hears us & makes providence for our answers to get to us. Yet, we don't see it neither do we take it. 

Why? 

Because our WiFi isn't on or because there's a connection issue from our end.

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Switching on your WiFi is opening up for GOD to work out your answers in & for you with patience.

It's in your praising HIM even if it doesn't seem like it. 

It's in having that confidence that when you've asked in HIS name & according to HIS Will, HE answers you (1 John 5:14-15).

Connecting to HIS Hotspot is in being sensitive enough to see that HE is doing it, HE has done it & HE will do it.

It's in accepting the provision made available by HIM. 

It's in seeing that HE has played HIS part & the rest is up to you.

It's in understanding that your reception may require just a step of faith, of obedience, of praise.

° So don't just ask for HIS 'Hotspot' (your answers, HIS help), set up your 'WiFi' appropriately to receive & get what you need. Stay connected appropriately to receive from HIM & play your part effectively.

I trust you'll go to GOD next time in a different position, with a ready to connect 'WiFi'.

Till next time, keep enjoying ABBA's hotspot Dear😉.

LISTEN! HE SPEAKS!...

I will listen [with expectancy] to what GOD the LORD will say, for HE will speak....(Psalms 85:8)

• Do you know GOD is always speaking to you?

• Have you ever felt a nudge or prompt that comes from within you and is definitely not from your thinking?

• Have you ever felt like someone's words to you aren't self-generated, but definitely GOD speaking through them?

• Have you ever experienced GOD speaking to you through visions, dreams?

• Have you read the BIBLE and found words specifically for your current situation, as if it was GOD directly drawing your heart to say "this is what I have for you today" or "this is what you should do today"?

• How about an inner yet soft & still voice speaking to you, that feels so real as if HE was actually beside you physically?

Well, all these are real but may be specific per person. Some even enjoy having more than 1 of these dimensions.

My experience;

I remember having an experience of feeling emotionally down for reasons I myself couldn't pinpoint. It felt challenging because I knew no one I tell would understand me or relate with me. I needed someone who knew what was happening in within me.

And in that beautiful moment came the soft and still voice that spoke to me, and I felt the warmth just there and a topping to the icing was the feeling of being gently patted on the shoulder 🤭, it was amazing and it answered to my need at that instant.

So yes, HE speaks!, but the thing is do we ever stay to listen?

Just imagine!

Imagine HIM speaking to me to meet my need at that moment but I wasn't spiritually healthy enough to hear HIM speak to me. Imagine I wasn't sensitive enough to discern that that wasn't me speaking to myself, that it wasn't an illusion neither was it a mistake, rather it was just real!?

Listen! HE speaks to you from time to time.

So here's the deal, GOD is ever ready to speak to us, but our part is to listen by being expectant, sensitive, discerning and then obedient.

It's about maintaining the position that will be suitable for you to hear HIM speak to you.

Let's like Habakkuk, stand, settle and  position ourselves to watch to see what GOD will say to us (Habakkuk 2:1)

Let's set a Goal.

So, how about we set a 'you & I' goal this year? 😇

How about we work to ensure that no day passes without us hearing HIM speak to us?

That we'll hear HIM speak to us using whatever means HE deems fit?

Let's do this together and try to be accountable for one another. 

What do you think? 

I will be awaiting your comments to know if you're interested in this...

Stay Beloved 🥰

YOU ARE THE ONE THAT WILL GET HURT.

 Some days ago, I happened to experience a thing that seemed common to most of us. 

What was it? 

I had a meeting, and I needed to pick out the cloth I desired to wear for the meeting. 

I started searching for this specific cloth, and the pain of getting any of my clothes is that I have to climb a stool & stretch myself to search my box to pick any desired cloth. 

So I did the usual this particular day, searching & searching as I kept stretching, yet I couldn't find the particular cloth; instead, I was finding other good-looking clothes, but definitely not what I was desiring to wear. 

Yeah, I even discovered a cloth I didn't remember I had through the search, but the captivating part of the whole happening was that, midway (let me say it was way before midway) of my search, I heard within my spirit to search my other box of clothes, but I tried reasoning things out with 'the voice behind my ears', pointing out that that cloth shouldn't be there since clothes in the other box are frequently worn, and with which this particular one wasn't. 

Guess what? I nudged off the voice & kept stretching & searching rigorously in the first box because I wanted to make it to the planned meeting too in time, and of course, the cloth wasn't there. 

When I was tired of stretching, I finally adjusted to check the other box, and true to it, the cloth was there! 

Infact, it was at the top layer of the clothes in the box (such that I wouldn't need to stretch nor stress to pick it). 

So I learned my lessons that instant.

Lessons learned:

• Most times we search for answers, things, and in all this, GOD prompts, nudges, instructs, guides, and directs us on where to look or what to do; we sometimes hear it coming indirectly from someone, or we hear it directly as "the voice behind you" (Isa. 30:21). 

But the question is, do we ever/always obey?

How often have you obeyed those impulse prompts, short directions, and lengthy instructions? 

• Now, another point, which was my main lesson from the whole experience, is that, when we refuse to obey those prompts, guidance, and instructions from GOD, we end up being the one getting hurt. Whether it's a strain we get or a burn or something even worse. Why? 

Just because we refuse to obey! 

Yes, while refusing or denying the voice and not obeying promptly, we might get other options along the line that seem good, but are they really what is befitting for us—what GOD has in HIS perfect plan for us concerning that thing?

Think about it, dear. 

∆ Disobedience, whether full or partial, only opens you up to hurt and nothing better.

∆ Disobedience only takes away from you the joy associated with doing the right thing.

∆ Disobedience makes you displease GOD & miss what HE is doing with you at that specific time.

∆ Disobedience can make you miss the real thing & give you something less befitting.

Remember, You are the one that will get hurt if you don't obey that INNER VOICE OF GOD.

Stay Blessed Beloved.

THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE MORE AWARE YOU ARE: PART 2

I couldn't shake off the prompt to write a follow-up to my previous post. Here it is...

In the last post, I mentioned that the more you learn about a thing, the more aware/conscious you get about it. 

Looking at this from another point, do you realize that the more you dwell on; get to know; gain knowledge about; consume carnal knowledge that feed your flesh, the more aware or conscious you are about them? So much that your flesh begin to influence your mind with thoughts about these things to the extent that you lose control over more wrong things that begin to flow in. And sure enough, these inflows only do more harm to us than good by weakening our spirit by occluding the existing knowledge of GOD's WORDS you have. Infact, it sometimes hinders hearing GOD's voice in that instance.

What am I saying?

Imagine someone who's struggling with any sort of addiction, watching something that relates to it somehow (or maybe it doesn't even relate but it's still a gratifier of the flesh), he doesn't deal with it at that point of influx, but instead keeps watching more contents that can satisfy his flesh, don't you think he might fall back into that addiction soon? 

He has by increasing his knowledge about that thing, not dealing with the wrong inflows entering his mind & letting his mind be influenced by the flesh to seek for more expose him to the addiction or its trigger. 

It can be so grave that he doesn't get to hear GOD's warnings until he falls, because his spirit is currently weak.

Do you get the point now? 

 The more you allow your mind gain carnal & negative knowledge, the more conscious your mind is about it & sure enough that doesn't help you because the more carnally aware you are, the more weakened your spirit is & that's detrimental to your spiritual health. 

What do we then do?

I believe the Solution would then be to replace every wrong, carnal, negative inflows with the knowledge of GOD's WORDS you have - either use the WORDS you know to counter them or you search out for more to deal with them. 

Let your spirit be strengthened & your flesh weakened so that as you hear & see different things, you can deal with them appropriately.

Replace the knowledge of that wrong thing with the knowledge of what is RIGHT!

• You want to do better with GOD this year?

• You want to achieve your new year resolution?

• You want to do better on that addiction issue? 

Then get the RIGHT knowledge to replace any negative inflow of knowledge!

How else do you think we can deal with this negative influx into our minds? 

I will love to know your views about this.

Stay blessed Beloved 🥰

THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE MORE AWARE YOU ARE.

Recently, while traveling back to school, I told myself I'll write a write-up about something I learnt during the journey, but I didn't, instead I hid it in my notepad, until days after (yesterday) when something made me remember it...

And I thought.."I might as well post it all today"...

The Recent Happening: 

Towards the end of Last year, I requested for some things from my parents to send to me, including an eraser, since my tests were coming up and I didn't have one. I received the load but never found the eraser, so I believed they couldn't get it for me, hence while I wrote my tests I had to borrow eraser. Fast forward to recently, I was searching for my milk packs (it was part of the load sent last year) & I found the eraser in the nylon with the milk. You can imagine the surprise on my face😯, the fact that I had the eraser with me all this while and never knew it was right there.

I had even maneuvered one to manage for my exams, not knowing I had a new big eraser bought for me by my Mum. 

While sharing the whole thing with my roommate, I related it to the writeup I had hid in my notepad.    

The Previous Happening: 

Overtime, in the course of my study (Nursing Science) we've learnt so much about Community Health centers and how they are in almost all towns in the State. 

Fact is, I was used to the roads that led to my school, yet, I wasn't conscious of the existence of these centres in all towns we passed by, until we learnt about them in class & even had postings to some areas. 

So, traveling back to school, I kept on sighting these centres that I've never been aware of from previous travels, and I got the understanding there: "The more you learn about a thing, the more aware or conscious you'll be about it". 

We were able to see these in the light of GOD's WORD & our walk with HIM; 

How that, we never know what is made available for us in GOD until we search it out by deeper intimacy with HIM. 

How that, the more we search into GOD's WORDS (in studying it), the more we'll find the answers we so seek for in it - {How that}, we'll continue to be in the dark, sitting with worrisome anticipation for answers, if we don't seek to know so that we can see that we have the answers already, and we just need to find them and draw them to use (the more we know, the conscious we are of the existence of our answers).

How that we ask things from GOD, and think HE hasn't responded when in actual sense, HE keeps stretching it to us but we don't receive it because we just don't know enough to be aware it's available.

How that Daniel's answers were sent out but there was a hindrance that he needed to pray for it to be removed so he could receive the answers (the spiritual knowledge brewed spiritual awareness about the delay to his released answer & the needed solution. 

🌟 Just as all the while, the eraser was there waiting for me to look deeper to find it, so also are your Answers, Directions, Words from GOD waiting for you to take the next action!

Stay blessed Beloved 🥰