HAPPY BIRTHDAY IJATO..

Happy birthday to my dear friend Ijato Zainab Ahmed née Elagbaje. JT as she is fondly called, a name she didn't like. 

One of the kindest people I know. I misunderstood her as a young girl because of my own insecurities and selfishness. I've known her like 15 years now. I remember our Kano and Zaria days, remember our book of 'arrows', remember maiduguri road, Some sweet and some Crazy but in all very memorable days that has formed me in ways i can't explain. We lived like sisters, from the same purse, from the same box. I learnt first hand that every great relationship starts with a hello. Life long friendships.

Thank you for being my friend even when I was difficult to be friends with. 

Happy birthday babay, may you fulfil Gods purpose for your life, God bless and prosper you.

STOP THE ACCUSER..

I know many people are afraid to come into Gods presence when they feel they have sinned. Infact that's when His presence is most needed.

The devil will accuse you, remind you of your wrong doing, But He's God, He's love, He's father, ever waiting to recieve us back. There's no shadow of turning in Him, there's nothing He can't forgive, No sin shocks Him. Ask the prodigal son. Ask David.

When you pray, God listens, when you worship God speaks and it is what He says He performs, that is when you can be guilt free.

Hebrew 4:16

GOD CAN BE TRUSTED

Have you ever had a plan and you left God out of the equation and it worked out? Did it last? Did it give you joy? 

Even when things happen to us by chance, most of us still shout thank God, I've never heard anyone shout 'devil thank you'.

Yet many times we are afraid to trust God.

All the times I have trusted a man, it has failed me woefully and I always hear the Holy Spirit say to me, "you could have asked me Tega". 

I watched a movie yesterday, and a man asked his wife to go get money from his room to give to someone who just had a baby. The wife got back, passed the man she was meant to give, and gave it to her husband, who in turn handed it to the man. I wondered why, because the man stood closer to the wife but it was the husband who sent her on the errand, he didn't ask her to give the man. She didn't bypass her husband,

That's how God is with us, He doesn't want us to bypass Him. It is true that it is a man God will send to sort us out, but He wants us to ask Him. Then He in turn will send the man to help us to us, if you bypass God, you will get disappointed, humiliated, embarrassed. Faith they say grows. If you have trusted Him for a meal, You can trust Him for a house. May we not see shame this year as we trust Him.

God can be trusted.

Jeremiah 17:5-8

ON AN ASSIGNMENT OR THE ASSIGNMENT.

Have you ever looked at your life or situation and asked yourself " How on earth did I get myself into this?" Or " How did I get here?" 

I bet Joseph did, I bet mary mother of Jesus did, at a point even Jesus said that God should take the cup of suffering from Him.

So if you have ever asked yourself those kind of questions, you are on assignment. Top secret one sef, because all of them were on serious assignments.

And like Sheila says, God sends His finest agents on those kind of mind boggling assignments. The kind that will question your sanity. But He also equips you, so no matter how many times you want out of the situation, the manifesto keeps flashing through your mind and the Holy Spirit keeps nudging you on.

Recently I was asked if the assignment was too heavy and if it can be passed to someone else? I fear na, I beg with speed because all your ground work will be in vain. Imagine Mary saying "God how will I push out a baby when I've never met with a man?With no medical assistance or CS?" (How e take end with women wey don meet men sef? There's still pain.)

He will have found a 'Martha' to be mother of Jesus and Mary will have been known as Mary the carpenters wife not the mother of our Saviour.

In your life situation, are you the assignment or on an assignment? It will help not to give up when the times get tough.

Xoxo

John 15:16

IS THERE REALLY POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

A while ago I was listening to Benny Hinn talk about how he watches some people shout the name of Jesus hysterically until they are blue in the face and nothing seems to happen, and aunty Kathryn khulman will whisper "in Jesus name get out" and the demons will shriek and flee. I felt he was speaking my mind. Me sef don wonder am tire, especially as the bible teaches that the name of Jesus is potent, and all knees shall bow at this name, the name that saves, also for God to say anything you ask in Jesus name you will get. so why na?

Then I also realise that we also shout His name for the stupidest reasons. We can call His name several times a day but in worship and adoration. Like if there's turbulence in the air, instead of that vain random 'Jesus' like say na ya houseboy, say 'Jesus you are Lord', that's worshipping Him. ( remember the kid who cried wolf). We have so watered down the name of Jesus, how do we expect it to work for us? Pour plenty water into okro soup and see if it will still be thick.

Something else is we don't want to do the things that God wants us to do but we want His help to subdue issues of life. 

Imagine leaving ya boyfriends house and having 'time' with him then at night spirit husband comes to have his own time with you, then you wake up and start binding him, to where na? In whose name kwa? Ya daytime boyfriend? 

Submit to God and demons will submit to your authority.

John 16:23

NEW YEAR, NEW LOVE..

Love no be easy thing o, it isn't that gooey feeling we feel, butterflies in the tummy etc. It is an action, it is doing thing, not a feeling and as Christians that is what we are meant to exhibit and be known for. 

Someone I know converted to Islam even though at the beginning she was a Christian and he let her go to church. When I asked the reason she converted she said the Muslims showed her more love than the Christians. 

It broke my heart. Not because she's a Muslim now, but because Christians are forgetting that love is what God is.

We are more afraid of thou shall not steal, kill etc but we are forgetting that the law of the New Testament is love your neighbour as you love yourself. 

If you love your neighbour, you won't steal from him, you won't kill him, you won't beat him lower when he's down. For those of us that the way we treated a person has sent them flying to the wrong direction, mercy Lord! 

I think all Christians should read 'The Final Quest'. We will all understand the gimmicks of the devil.

When we see a fellow christian fall, instead of pulling the person up, we talk down on them, those of us that want to form 'good christian' still have a condescending tone in the 'help' we offer. 

A girl has a child outside wedlock, instead of loving that child to ensure there's no reoccurrence, we ostracize the child, of course she will look for comfort elsewhere and most times in the wrong places. How have we helped that situation? Would you like to be helped up or stepped upon when you slip? We should love to the point that unbelievers will begin to question their unbelief.

Even a dog likes where he's being loved and cared for.  I intend to show more love this year, to the lovable and unlovable, because I know I am unlovable to some people as well.

Love is a habit, cultivate it.

What's your code of conduct as a Christian? 

Happy new year people. Lets make sure we give quality Christianity back to God as He has given us 2015.

John 13:34-35, Matthew 5:43-47