Help Your Journey 

“If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.” Psalms 139:8 NLT

This forenoon, I picked Joyce Meyer Ministries’ quarterly magazine from my mail box. As I walked through the doorway, my eyes fell on a headline that read, ‘Help Your Journey’. I was in a hurry to fix things in the house that I just put the magazine on the telephone stand near the entrance. 

The heading stay stuck in my memory throughout the afternoon. Someway, I translated it to my personal interpretation. Sure, for me, it was a divine message. I need to add more extra devotions to my spiritual journey with God. 

A few hours afterwards, I was passing by the table when I stopped short. Straight off, I am reading a different headline that said, ‘Help FOR Your Journey’. What happened? This time, I have just read the correct title. But early on why did I miss the ‘for’? 

Then I knew it was indeed a deific transmission, which I like to apportion with you.  The point is for you to get to that realisation that you MUST help your journey. Your life is a journey and so is mine. Every soul on earth is not born at the same time. Even twins enter this Earth with time scale differences. 

If you drive, you must have noticed that drivers can partake of the road together for sometimes. Notwithstanding, they are not going to the same destination. Earlier or later, the road becomes clearer and fewer crowds as they turn one by one in their respective direction. 

This same process applies to your life. You no longer have any time to macerate. Your life is a great deal more important if you take seriously your relationship with God. It is not enough praying to Him only when you require something from Him or when you are in a messy situation. 

Help your journey of this life by prioritising the position of Christ in You. As a matter of fact, many of the weird events in the world are clarifying the situation, and this is that a Christian, who does not help his journey will not relish the trip. Life gets more proficient and better when you are deeply rooted in Christ. You will remain unshakable and unaffected by the circumstances. 

Hence, help your journey beginning from this year 2017 and watch how God will raise you up. 

Just hang in there!

“You’ll even be turned in by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. Some of you will be killed. There’s no telling who will hate you because of me. Even so, every detail of your body and soul—even the hairs of your head!—is in my care; nothing of you will be lost. Staying with it—that’s what is required. Stay with it to the end. You won’t be sorry; you’ll be saved.” Luke 21:19 MSG

Patience is a friend of time. Impatience is the best friend of destruction. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that can replace patience as invaluable virtue. Good timing produces the concrete result, which in the end somehow makes the long waiting  worthwhile.

Hanging in there does come with lots of sacrifices. First, it requires reaffirming your faith in God. Under no circumstances must you doubt the Lord’s capabilities in providing the desirable outcome. Second, it demands to embrace the spirit of positivity. Yes, you believe it and you shall have it! That’s how it works. Staying in the realm of visualising that you have already obtained what your need even when you have not received it.

Third, you have to pray. No one can pray for you as much as you can. Prayer is like the cement that solidifies the bricks to ensure they do not fall apart. Prayer is the torchlight that illuminates the dark places. Prayer is the passport to create the first point of contact with God. Overall, prayer is the mantra of a genuine Christian!

Fourth and last, be patience. The price(s) that is associated with waiting is inestimable! When you rush to obtain something, you are likely to get the counterfeit or something that you may not like at all. The best is to hang in there; wait, wait and wait until you have the real thing you asked for.

Power of Precision 

“Asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.”‭‭ Ephesians‬ ‭1:17NLT


Prior to Christmas, children announced to their parents the gifts they want. On Christmas Day, some of them are lucky to have what they asked for, while the unlucky ones ended up with the alternates. It is common in general that majorities are given exactly what they requested for. 

In the same way, Christians ought to grasp the power of being detailed when asking God for something. It is incomplete to pray to God to provide a car. You need to tell Him the brand, colour and type of vehicle you require. Not doing this is enough to make you realise that you are likely to end up with a car that is far from your dream one. Do not blame God when you ended up with something else. You get what you asked for! It is not enough wanting something. What is important is taking spiritual and eventual responsibilities for your requests during your intercession. 

Other vivid example is asking the Lord to give you a child. Okay. Fine, God has heard our prayers. Nevertheless, what kind of child did you ask for ? A girl or a male child? Do you want a child who will give you rest of mind and honour His creator throughout his life, or do you want a troublesome child? Often you wonder why your neighbour’s children are well-mannered, and yours are uncontrollable. Think back to when you were pregnant; did you intercede? If yes, what did you pray for? 

Hannah, Prophet Samuel’s mother, prayed for a child who will serve God throughout his lifetime and she got it. She was  direct! Her blunt prayer led her son into priesthood. 

How about in the job sector. Are you unhappy with your current job because you don’t understand how you ended up with it in the first instance? Then again, think about the prayers you uttered regarding the line of work. That you are so desperate to acquire a job does not simply means asking God to provide you just any kind. You have to be clear about the type of job you desire. 

God enjoys it when you ask Him for something. He will grant you anything you ask for unless He sees that what you so desire will not bring Him glory or is not the appropriate kind that you need. Even so, He will not compel you to be exact in your request. This is completely up to you.

Be specific in your petitions to God for whatever divine intervention and you will enjoy a rich relationship with God as well as save yourself lots of headaches. 

Others’ first 

“The LORD is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.”Proverbs 21:3 NLT.
The difference between the right and wrong is the final results from each of them. While doing the accurate things produced positive outcomes, the wrongdoings yield negative consequences. 

God is the proprietor of everything; our breaths, souls, bodies and whatever we possess on this earth. Hence, there is no quantity of offerings we give to Him as sacrifices that He does not already have. It is for this cause that the Almighty Jehovah is happy when we shift our attention from offering Him our gift, to giving this alms to our fellow beings. 

Contributing to others entails more than rendering physical gifts to others. Paying attention to the wellbeing of others is also doing the right thing. Sharing others’ pain as well as partaking in their sorrow or laughter. Praying for divine intervention for Christian brothers and sisters can deliver the miraculous results. 

Practicing what is right does not cost a dime. Instead, it is the perfect will of God for every genuine Christian, who sincerely loves Him. 

Doses of ‘Why’ and Pain

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.” 2 Corinthians 1:4

My 3 months old niece passed away in the early morning of the 31st December 2016, which is just two days ago. I was about 6000 kilometres from her and her family, but I shared my family’s loss.

She, her elder sister and their mother, who is my younger sister was spending the festive week at my mother’s house where it happened.

My niece was hale and hearty. They woke up to find her gone. I asked myself why infants die young when I carried out my investigation concerning SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). The results were not fascinating. Mixed feelings did further drain me , saddened and spent the new year eve as well as the new year day bombarded

While I pondered on my doses of pain and why; on the other side of the Atlantic, my family members were partaking their own doses of pain. There was my mother who even till now refuses to get over it as she embraced unfounded self-guilt. The fact that her youngest grandchild died in HER house was traumatic. She kept asking, “why”.

As for my sister; her deceased daughter was not her first child but the first in her second marriage and my niece came after three years of series of unsuccessful pregnancies.

Today, my niece is no more.  Nothing we attempt can bring her back. We are comforting my sister. We are convincing my mother to not focalised on the fact that the incident occurred in her home.

The doses of why and pain within my family at the moment increased my understanding that we MUST avoid posing questions of ‘why’ to God.

Pain is pain. Death is death. Every individual on this earth has something that hurt. People die 24 hours in 7 days and as the same time somewhere every minute is a child being born. The reality is that death is no respecter of anyone; irrespective of age, skin colour, status, race or language.

I believe instead of drenching and drowning in our pain and endless questions of , “Why God?”, instead we should praise the Lord. It may be hard to sing and thank Him, but that was exactly what I did few hours after I hear the bad news. From my phone, I listened and sang along to worship songs.

In spite of my sorrow and losses, in spite of my doses of pain and why; those songs helped me find comfort and reassurance in the Lord. No matter what we are going through, God’s love for us is eternal and He alone has the complete explication of all we are going through, and He will bring us out of the situation.

It is for the sole reason we must not pose Him any question. Simply praise Him!

The Word ‘Pardon’

‘But you offer the forgiveness that we might learn to fear you.’  Psalms 130: 4

There are three words that heal the angry soul; “I am sorry”

There are three words that remind others that they are special; “I love you”

Likewise, there are three words that can set straight every messy situation; “Please, pardon me”

Do you know that one single act of not forgiving is enough to ruin years of union with our Lord Jesus Christ?

It takes the humility to understand how much God is forever special to all of us. He first taught us how to let go. We did not learn this all alone otherwise we would have taken the credit for everything the Almighty Jehovah has done and still doing for us.

Forgiveness is vital to spiritual progression. Until a Christian can see beyond the wrongs someone did thim and start releasing the painful souvenirs associated to the act, he is not immune from demonic spirits that combine negativities such as depression, hatred and revenge.

It does not have to be hard to forgive. To let go and move on, makes life beautiful than to hold to and allow that hurts to destroy our relationship with God.