Dry Seasons

I love “The Flash”…..😂

I know that’s weird, but if you watch the Tv series you would understand this.

You know those enchanting times when Berry Allen (sshh😷 don’t tell anyone, that’s the Flash’s alias😉) zooms through the city saving people and doing those other many fascinating things. Then those times when his friends are doing all the experiments and creating things while he just stands and watches them, (ok not stand), more of pacing as fast as you can follow….(continued in the last paragraph 😁)….

There are times in your life that everything just stops moving, not just that you are immobile but everything happening around you just stops happening and you don’t understand why but it feels like God has forgotten about you. 

At this point you may say or think..”I know God never forgets about me”, lol, I’m glad you know that but do you truly believe that? Do you act like you believe it?
When all your friends are getting married, or graduating, or starting businesses (even being a baby mama is now an achievement for most), and you look at yourself and nothing seems to be happening for you, do you still know deep down that God isn’t just watching you, He is actively working in your life? 

Yes yes yes

Someone is saying or thinking right now, most of my mates are also dead, sick, invalid, unemployed, uneducated and I’m alive and well….. I am also so glad you are thinking of that but that doesn’t matter to the person who is frustrated, or angry or sad, depressed.

 No no no…

You know what they want to hear?

Their turn is coming, they are about to move, something great is going to happen to them soon…

That is also very very true and I want you to dwell seriously on that….

But…. 

I also want you to thank God for this dry season, enjoy this season, be glad for this season…why you may ask? 

Because for there to be a rainy season, there has to be a dry season; for there to be light, darkness has exist; everything happens because something else first happened. 

You cannot be truly grateful for what you have never not had…

God allows us to experience this dry seasons because it can be a time of preparation, a time to go through tests, temptations. It can be a time to learn how to trust God, to trust His timing and to rely on Him even when you don’t feel His presence. A lot of things can happen during this season if you would just allow God. 

Don’t forget that God is never inactive in your life. Even when it looks like nothing is happening, that is when things are happening the most, that’s when battles are being fought for your life, that’s when He is setting things in place, that’s when He is preparing a table before your enemies…

….While it may look like nothing is being done because he isn’t running around and doing his “saving”, that’s when all the work is being done, what he then does at the end is to just deliver the blow to the bad guys…..(yeah, I’m that kind of girl) 😉

Beyond Time

“God exists out of space and time continuum”

Let’s look at an example 💭 

“If you were to go back in time, like let’s say 1876, then you got stranded and needed help, as a Christian your first action is to pray right? The question most people would ask “which God am I praying to?””
Which brings up the thought of a past, present and future God, right? So that means the past God doesn’t know of the God of the future yet…😞

That is His future self…💭💭

Then can the God of the past which you travelled to help you to travel to the Future? 😲

I’m stuck like literally, my mind cannot move on from there…😶

But does that not limit our God? Umm…NO😏

Can God be limited?? 💭

NO…?? *duhh😏

Which then brings us to the actual point which is that God exists out of time and space…

What is my point??…you just asked that right? 😏 

Well my point is that He has already done what you have asked of Him, God already knows what you need even before you need it, He has provided for all your needs even before you have them! 

Which is why the bible says that God knows the end from the beginning…

It then brings up the question of Freewill…

That is, if He knows the end from the beginning, does that not mean that He knows how we will end? How does that not affect our free will? 

💭 Well just cos I have looked into the future and seen that I will have an A, does that mean that the future controls my present? Do I stop reading? Do I stop preparing for my exams? If I were to stop preparing cos I know I would have an A, wouldn’t that change the future?? Lol, which means that I still have control over what I’m doing right? Over what grade I will have cos it doesn’t depend on the end, it depends on what I’m doing in the present..

It’s not your end you should be worried about, it’s not your death that should scare you. Jesus already conquered death, He won that fight, like it’s really redundant and a waste of time to be scared of dying, it’s like fighting a dead soldier….stupid right??? 

It’s your life that should scare you, how well are you living it? What are you doing now? How is that adding to your value as a christian first, as a part of your family, as a friend and as a member of your community??

There’s a lot to think about here but I want you to never forget that we serve an awesome and super cool God…like “Super God” ☺️☺️

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”Philippians 4:8

My Identity….

I want to change the world…
Phew! 😅😅
I have finally said that out loud, it’s no longer all in my head, I’m no longer scared of saying such great things, no longer scared of failing or not being good enough, not achieving what I want to achieve.

No longer scared of what people will say, will they laugh at me? The fear of sounding or looking stupid when I say it…

I want to be the “Jack of all Trades and Master of all” 😂 I want to be a lawyer, an accountant, an arbitrator, a caterer, an event manager, a mother, a wife, a philanthropist, a counsellor, a pastor, an educationist, a psychologist, an achiever of great things..

I want my name plastered everywhere in the world – scratch that, I want God’s name plastered everywhere and just below it, at the edge will be my name! 

I want to do all I can do, to achieve all I can achieve, to accomplish as much as I can and do all what God has purposed for me to do. 

I want my foundation and my identity to be rooted in Christ, so that when you hear my name in a discussion, it will be because the topic was “God”. I want it to be said of me that “there lived a woman who walked and lived in God’s purpose for her life”

There is nothing quite like being identified with and in Christ, nothing like finding out and getting to know God’s purpose for your life; because you see, the bible has been telling us for so long how much God loves us and His great plans towards us and how great and wonderful our lives are meant to be. You can then imagine what sort of plans God will have for us, for those who are being identified with Him. 

Being identified with God means that His identity and reputation is put at stake too. Who God is, is on THE LINE!! It’s not just about you anymore, it’s not just about what you want to do, or that the sky is your limit. 

Your blessings and prosperity now go in line with His glory. Your success in no longer based on a probability; it is automatically guaranteed. 

Should people see you and wonder what happened to God? Will He stand by and watch His name be soiled and put to shame? 

Don’t you think that for all the glory to be given to God, you have to be blessed and not just blessed; “abundantly and above all you could ever ask for” ( or dream of)(emphasis is mine). 

God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do. (‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬ GNB)

So my friends, I believe and know that because I am being identified in Christ….

“I can (and will) do all things through Him (Christ) who strengthens me”