Where it all Began

NEVER YOU EVER THROW THE TOWEL; HE IS NEAR YOU TO DELIVER

NEVER YOU EVER THROW THE TOWEL; HE IS NEAR YOU TO DELIVER

The devil will never stop lying to you. You should also never be tired of remaining to win the truth because lies ensnare you, but truth frees you. By this I mean if you do not know the truth, the devil will teach you a lesson in hell, such that you will resolve learning how to start managing negative situations instead of resisting it to enjoy the entirety of God’s blessings as ordained for you. The devil you do not resist will become your close companion, because, he loves the act of romance and subtle deceptions. He will always set in like a friend and the moment you embrace him, he will access all of your deep secrets and expose you to shame, for that is exactly what he does. You can never have the true joy, which will become your strength to carry in the face of trying situations if your focus is on what you are going through because you cannot hold God’s hand to remain secure. I said as an emphasis when you hold God’s hand; you are likely to leave Him when confronted with dangers. However, if God holds your hand, He will never leave you, nor forsake you, but that does not mean you will not go through trying times, but the good news is, He has promised not to leave, nor forsake you.

Isaiah 43: 2

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.

Deuteronomy 31: 6

Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.

The truth is very clear that truth God knows what you are going through. He will not allow you to be consumed, but will consume self in you so that what is left is the “you is Him in you”. With Him in you, you can resist and command storms to remain calm, so He allows you to go through stuff to build your character in Him and that character is what makes you stand out in excellence. Anyone who has not gone through stuff has nothing to offer. Men of great wealth are men who had gone through stuff and that stuff shows them love to see the stuff that they are going through as an opportunity to build a wealth of knowledge that the world cannot recover from its imparts.

Romans 8: 28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.

What matters in life is not what you are going through. You must push (pray until something happens) through to a breakthrough. Nevertheless, the purpose of God for your life cannot be thwarted because of what you are going through provided you stay focused on God’s sure Word. Therefore, you need to encourage yourself in the Lord. If you tend to become focused on the challenges and allow them to weigh you down into the wrong state of mind, the devil will oppress and torment you into depressions that may eventually drag you into a state that you will desire chose to take your life by yourself than to stay alive. So instead of focusing on the storms of life, focus on God who will keep your focus on your purpose for therein you will have true rest of mind, not in all of your pursuits and great ambitions? Knowing the purpose of God for your life and understanding who you are in God will set you on the dynamic platform that nothing in life will be able to limit you except you.

Nothing can stand against the Lord. Therefore, when you stand in Him, nothing can stand against you. However, when you are standing in yourself, not in God but in self that allows the devil access to come and claim to be powerful in his powerlessness. That is why when there is no light, you have no sense of life, because the things you would want to do, you will not be able since you cannot see to do, you lack the knowledge, and it will then appear as though darkness is powerful. Just turn on the light, you will see how powerless darkness is. Before light, darkness does not exist. You cannot confront darkness with darkness, but with light. You do not confront stormy and trying situations with fears, you confront them with courage and faith having a sure hope that God will come through for you. It does not matter the hour He comes. You must have exceeded the last minute tending into the twelfth hour, but the twelfth hour has not to pass, even when it is already just a microsecond, God can land you a miracle on the last second entering the twelfth hour. That is why it is a miracle. Are you not a miracle? If indeed you are, then you should always be ready for miracle packages so that you will know that it can only be God. When you are with God, whatever conspiracy levelled against you will turn out for your good, no matter the manipulations and matter how long your expectations tarries. When we understand what the grace of God is, we will stop trying to do things on our own and trust God to help us through certain situations we did not bargain for but eventually find ourselves in them.

God’s grace has always kept my focus on the course and I have never had the course to look back despite things that kept calling my attention to look back. 11th of March was another terrible day for me after God has delivered me from very trying situations that kept me homeless, sleeping in the church and later squatting with a friend and a brother who God sent my way. It was a trying time for me. It began with my formal property owner criminally assaulting me. As a result, I park out of that apartment without collecting a dime from the money I paid to him because it was beginning to raise another issue since he said what he is to refund back to me is far less than what he was supposed to. I had to leave everything for him and ask God to handle the matter. I squatted with a friend who is a brother in the Lord. I stayed with him for close to; a month and God came to my rescue. I was able to secure new accommodation. After I had rested from all the traumatic stress, I went to church for choir rehearsals and when I came back, just to open my door to enter into my room to rest, I got a call from my brother that we just lost my immediate elder sister. The news broke me down instantly. I felt wounded and struck to my bones with my heart almost falling off. This was the period that my wedding was just like two weeks to the approved date. It dawns on me that there is a horn fighting against me not to settle down in marriage, because when I was supposed to marry in 2012, the same thing happened. I decide to go against the wind to resist what happened in 2012. I chose the contrary of the program against my marriage from the pit of hell. I had to change the date of my wedding as planned and went to attend my sister’s burial. After the burial, many things transpired that I could not even imagine. Some of these things have to do with my uncle’s wife who came in. She tries explaining to me the reason why she acted the ways she acted when she heard about the news of my immediate elder sister’s death. She sat me down and we got talking. She was the one doing the talk, while I was responding. She told me how bad she felt that she could not remedy the situation that led to my immediate elder sister’s death. She made me understood that my late sister visited her three days before her death. She told me, “My immediate elder sister came to her to solicit her assistance to put her little daughter in school.” She told me that she had already arranged with her manager to send her some money, all for her to forget and now got the news that my sister is late. This was why she decided that she could not give her money to the family to take her corpse to the mortuary. I could not logically align her reasoning and could not understand the point she was trying to impress me. At the end of it all, she sounded as if my elder sisters’ were the ones that starved my immediate elder sister to death because the accusation from her tones became obvious. I could feel the rage in her eyes. I could also read her mind that she felt people will confront her to tell her why she could not help when she could have. I did not request her to tell me all that transpired, but she went into all the stories and at the end of it all, my response was very brief and direct after hearing her drive the talk for over thirty minutes. This was my response, “Love is all that matter, the love can only be expressed when we are alive to see each other. The devil is never tired of sowing seeds of discord.” I made it known to her that all that has been happening in our family is only but conspiracy from the pit of hell. The devil is at work to tear us apart as a family and we must not give the devil a chance.

After my immediate elder sister’s burial, I returned to my station. My uncle’s wife and I kept communicating because I was still going on with the plans of my wedding. Therefore, we got talking while I made plans, anticipating the new chosen date. So I went ahead with the plans despite I had not the fund literally. However, I was just taking a giant step of faith. I was able to print my invitation cards, but before the cards came out, I was updating and keeping my uncle’s wife abreast of every detail of what I was doing and had done. I told her the progress I have made thus far and my challenges. She was encouraging and that raises my hope because she told me she will release things will from her end to support me. Nevertheless, I could not have explained what happened that she stopped replying to my texts and no more picking my calls. I was worried because I could not imagine what has gone wrong. I did not want to assume what went wrong. It was when I sent my invitation cards home and my elder sister took her copy to her who was supposed to be the mother of the day that I have to know what the problem is. It was a conspiracy of the false allegation levelled at me. It was a manipulation from the pit of hell. I sensed it before it came. I had to rush down from my station to my hometown to see her clear the air, but she never avails me of the opportunity to prove my innocence.

Do not waste your time trying to prove your innocence to the devil, the more you prove the guiltier you become, save your strength and channel your focus to God to vindicate you in His own time.

I never gave up when I thought all hope was lost because God’s grace kept me. Though my towel soiled with blood and sweat, smelling rots, His grace still took me through and held me. I realize the towel I was throwing off is never leaving me. God stepped in when I thought all hope was lost and miraculous had my status quo changed, when there was no one standing with me.