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The rejected gift

My Yielded People!! Happy Monday! 💃

Last night, I was meditating deeply on how the Holy Spirit is such a precious gift. Do you know the vision behind the Yielded Center? It is, Living a Spirit-led Life. And that’s exactly what I desire. I want to live a Spirit-led life. I want the bestest of friendships with the Holy Spirit. I want to change, to be transformed. I want to make better choices. I want to be corrected when I’m wrong. Because I want to honour and keep this gift that God has so graciously given us. As I was meditating, a story came to mind… Here goes:

Let’s imagine a couple. They live in a beautiful home but one thing burdens them: they have no children. And it hurts. They’ve prayed. They’ve wept. They’ve fasted. But still, no child.Over time, their disappointment turns to frustration. Their frustration turns to bitterness. Their once-joyful home is now heavy with tension. So much so that they stop letting people in physically and emotionally. Every visitor feels like a reminder of what they don’t have.

Every baby shower, every family photo, every innocent comment feels like mockery. So they lock their doors. They isolate. They shut out anything that doesn’t look like their answered prayer. Then one day, a delivery man comes. He brings a package wrapped in paper covered with teddy bears, rattles, and baby shoes. He knocks. The woman peeks through the curtain, sees the wrapping, and without opening the door says: “Leave it there. I don’t need children’s gifts.” She doesn’t know what’s inside. She doesn’t even care. Her pain has convinced her that nothing good can come from outside that door.

The gift sits there for a day. Then three days. Then weeks. The seasons change, rain, heat, wind, dust. The box is still there, unopened. They leave the house, walk past it, ignore it. Their bitterness has made them blind. Nine months pass. Three years pass. The gift is still outside.

Then one day, a friend comes to visit. She too has struggled with the pain of childlessness. She notices the weather-worn, half-torn gift box still sitting outside by the door. “What’s this?” she asks. “Oh, just some children’s gift someone dropped off years ago,” the woman replies bitterly. “I don’t have children. I didn’t bother opening it. You can take it if you want.” The friend hesitates but accepts it. She brings it home. Some weeks pass, then months. Then unexpectedly she calls her friend, her voice trembling with emotion. “Friend! The gift you gave me…”

“Yes?” the woman replies, confused. “I opened it… and it wasn’t a toy. It was a scroll. Inside were instructions on how to obtain a promise… a child. And now… I’m pregnant. With twins!” There is silence on the other end of the call.The woman sits down. Stunned. Numb. “That’s not possible,” she whispers. “That gift… it’s been sitting by my door for years. In the rain. In the sun. It’s old. It can’t be real.”

But the friend responds gently, “Yes but you never opened it. You never welcomed it into your home.”

I feel like that’s how we are with the Holy Spirit.We shut Him out. We assume we don’t need Him or worse, that He has nothing useful to say. We pray for help, for direction, for breakthrough… and still feel stuck. Confused. Lost.But the One who was sent to guide us the One who literally has the answer is still standing quietly outside the door. Waiting. Still there. Still faithful. But someone with the exact issue as you, let Him in and things are working out!

The Holy Spirit is not pushy. He won’t barge in.He waits for an invitation. And when you finally open the door? You’ll find that He never left. We cry out to God, desperate for direction. But we ignore the Helper sent to lead us into all truth. We wrestle in confusion, drowning in our thoughts, but we reject the One who’s been standing there holding the ABC’s of our life map.

Life without the Holy Spirit is hard. I don’t know how people do it. I really don’t. It’s toil. It’s suffering. It’s endless guessing. It’s walking in the dark, when there’s a light switch within reach.That situation that’s gotten the best of you? That heartbreak, that decision, that mountain? Give it to Him. He’s not just here to make us “feel something” during worship. He’s here to lead. To teach. To comfort. To instruct.To reveal. To transform. Open the door.

The Gift is still waiting.

“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

John‬ ‭20‬:‭22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
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Reflection Friday

Imagine this: you’ve finally arrived at that sweet, long-awaited season , the one you prayed for, worked for, wept for. You’re in a good place now. Everything you once dreamed of, written down, visualised, and believed for it’s all come to pass. The vision board? Every box ticked.

You stand still for a moment and take it in. To your left: harvest. To your right: harvest. In front of you: abundance overflowing. Fruit from seeds you once planted in faith now surrounds you. You are humbled and amazed, whispering, “How did I get here?” It almost feels unreal but this is real. This is your harvest season. Can you see it?

I bet some of you couldn’t even picture it, not because you don’t want it, but because your faith didn’t allow you to go there. Your imagination has limits, not because you lack creativity, but because your belief system has built invisible fences. You try to dream big, you get the feedback “But you don’t have what it takes!” Then, you let it be. You desire the harvest, you speak of it, maybe even pray for it… but deep down, you don’t have the faith to see it.

And that’s the reality for so many. At the start of the year, there was excitement and hope, vision boards were filled, journals filled with declarations. But that’s where it stopped. The vision stayed on paper, never activated in the heart, never fueled by faith.

See, vision without faith is just wishful thinking. You wrote it, but you didn’t see it. You desired it, but you didn’t believe it. Paper holds your dreams, but only faith can pull them into reality. And faith? It doesn’t live in ink or aesthetics, it lives in you. Yep faith is not on paper because paper can be seen, faith is the substance of things unseen. It’s in YOU!

Until your mind sees what your hands wrote, and your heart believes what your mouth declared, the vision will remain disconnected. It’s time to align the page with your faith. To believe again. To imagine again. To see it before you see it.

So I’m asking you again…

Can you see it now? Can you see yourself married — walking in covenant love, hand in hand with the one God ordained for you? Can you see those beautiful children, laughter filling your home? Can you see yourself dedicating that new business, the one God gave you the blueprint for? You built a whole factory! YES, YOU! Look at God!

Is that you walking down the aisle? Girl, that dress! You look like royalty. Man of God, that suit! The oil and the elegance! KAI! What a sight! And wait is that you with that big, beautiful pregnant belly? After the doctors said it could never happen? Ha! Congratulations! I knew the report of the Lord would stand!

I know that I know that is you cashing your millions. Not for vanity, but for purpose. You’re financing the kingdom mandate, feeding the hungry, housing the broken, healing hearts with generosity. Look at you, in your beautiful home, peace all around, joy within. Look at you, winning souls everywhere God sends you. This is not just a dream. This is what you believed. This is what you held onto in faith when the odds said no. And now? Your faith has made you well.

I came here today to remind you of those dreams , the ones you whispered in prayer, the ones that made your heart race and your eyes tear up. They are possible. They are yours. They can be done. I didn’t come with hype. I came with faith. I came to reconnect you, not just to the vision, but to the belief that backs it. To stir something deep inside you that may have gone quiet. Because without faith, the dream stays locked in the pages of a notebook.

You and I ; we must believe. Believe beyond what we see. Believe past the delay.Believe through the opposition. Believe again. Hope again. Cast the net again. Again and again because faith is the bridge between where you are and where God is taking you. Do you recognise the two people in the picture below?

“Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping, believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!””
‭‭Romans‬ ‭4‬:‭18‬ ‭NLT‬‬

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Dealing with disappointments

Hello Yielded Family. If you’re in winter season please stay warm, I caught a flue that has been messing me up! Abeg, be warm! Today l want us to talk about dealing with disappointments, how to handle them & how to move on from them.

In this season of my life, my eyes have been opened to many things. I’ve come to realise that situations are revealing. They uncover your true strength, expose the nature of your surroundings and circle, and even test the depth of your faith and the condition of your heart.

There are lessons joy won’t teach you, lessons reserved for adversity. What I didn’t learn in times of peace, I was forced to learn in times of battle.I never truly understood how to handle disappointment until I faced it, repeatedly. Disappointment came through people I believed would stand by me no matter what. But in that, I learned, grew, and saw more clearly. I saw my heart.

I saw how it beat on a frequency that didn’t match the rhythm of certain people around me. I saw how hands that once offered warmth and words of love quietly held hidden knives disguised in smiles, cloaked in familiarity. I saw the unfairness… how you can pour out your all, give your 100; while someone else offers only 10, and walks away feeling justified, even blind to the imbalance.I saw how progress, opportunities even love sometimes flow by the currency of favour, not faithfulness. It broke my heart. And then came the question: Now that I’ve seen all this how do I deal with the weight of disappointment?

If you voice it, they’ll call you petty. If you speak on it, some will say you’re carrying offence. When really, it’s just the sting of disappointment… Because you never saw it coming.You just didn’t expect them to be the ones. But It happens everywhere, In marriages. In friendships. In the workplace. I remember one colleague of mine who was smiling and laughing with me all day only to report me to the manager that I don’t do my work properly & l lost my job that very day because he was trusted and l faced many months of struggle. How do you deal with that? Because every time theres no food in my fridge l remember him, laughing then backstabbing me.

People distance themselves from family not out of hate, but because someone used a lunch break to casually tear their name apart on long phone calls. Some hearts shut down not out of bitterness, but from the realisation: “I never had a place in theirs.”And family… here’s the hard part: How do you deal with it? How do you breathe through the moment when the same hand that hugged you Turns around and hands your enemy the gun whispering, “Shoot him. He’s unarmed.”

And the answer? It’s unexpected. Forgiveness. Yep, you heard me right. Forgiveness. It shatters pride and invites humility. It softens the heart and opens the door to healing. When you truly forgive, you stop demanding explanations. You stop rehearsing the pain.You’re no longer holding grudges or carrying silent offence. Instead, you find yourself in a place of surrender. A place where God becomes the One who heals and restores. Where peace replaces confusion, and grace flows freely.

So, surrender that disappointment to God. Give it up. Release it. Let Him hold what’s too heavy for you. I have so much more to say, but we’ll continue tomorrow. Keep moving forward. Keep shining. Keep winning.

I love you! ❤️

“Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭5‬:‭7‬ ‭NLT‬‬

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What’s not fixed will worsen

🌼Hey family. Happy Monday 🌼

I’ve been slowing down a bit lately to give myself a likkle ease just enough to manage fatigue and avoid burnout. BUT hallelujah, I’m back in the groove and rhythm! Thank you all so much for the book purchases, I’m deeply grateful for your support.

I truly believe that every person, regardless of race, gender, or religion, needs support whether from family, friends, community, church, or religious groups. Every person desires support, but even more than desire, we need it. I’m so glad I got yours. That means the world. It’s special and these days, quite rare. 💛.

Just a short blog to start your week.

What is not fixed is highly likely to worsen.Be it a problem in a relationship, an illness, an issue with your laptop system, a tear on your favourite dress, or an electrical problem in your apartment what is not fixed or treated will worsen.What this means is: every problem left unsolved becomes a worsening problem, with the potential of becoming the worst problem.

Now, in the context of our lives, the many things we “ignore” will sooner or later pop up with even more intensity. Something like depression, anxiety, past pains… a sore knee… or even an issue you could easily sort out now but you postpone it to a date unknown.Do you know that in five years, that unforgiveness could turn into anger and resentment? Yep. It grows too. That apology you owe someone why not do it now? If it’s not fixed, the relationship will break. Some issues don’t disappear, they silently worsen. You think it’s sorted but it’s growing muscle.

Every rising issue that is kept under the blanket yes, even that bad character trait everyone keeps warning you about, will grow. And you’ll give the enemy room to capitalise on it. All I’m saying today is: fix it! It’s not scriptural, but I can’t help but wonder did Ananias and Sapphira already have a lying problem? And did it grow until they lied to the Holy Spirit?

That person who thinks lust and pornography will just remain at the level they’re at? No, darling. Some people never made it out they made it in deeper. Neck deep. The issue of alcohol? Solve it now. Because later might be too late. Everything grows. Appetites too.

I wrote on my status last week that, if a person wants to avoid transformation, they start by lying to themselves that they don’t need it; then they avoid everyone who they may be accountable to. This means that many people have isolated with their problems and they think they are safe because the person to call you out has been blocked or you started distancing yourself. You are not safe. Day by day, every moment that passes, that thing you’re refusing to address , is addressing you. You don’t want to find out later, find out now, fix it now.

Like l said, I came with a short blog to tell you, get counselling if need be. Get help. Fix the things. Deal with the problem. Running will not stop the storm Jonah. Face the facts, you must go to Nineveh. And some of you, need to stop and face God. He’s the One you’re running from and you don’t realise, it’s killing your spiritual life day by day. Why? Everything that’s not fixed ????? Exactly.

Have a great Monday. Order your book today and let’s get reading!

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6 months in!

We are officially 6 months in! I still have a list of to-do’s but I’m most grateful for the gift of life. Life is a gift. Without it, all those 55 things you planned to do this year are useless. You must be alive to do, to plan, to build, to create, to even accumulate that wealth you dream about or that wonderful kingdom spouse. I feel like we easily downplay the fact that right now, our hearts are beating and in this every moment, we have a chance to do what we’ve never done before. You have a chance to dream, to envision and to put that into action. 6 months in, what has been accomplished?

People hate that question. Sometimes it’s because it demands an answer for time that may have been carelessly spent. It calls us out on our laziness & procrastinations. Sometimes it’s because people just don’t like confrontation. I’ve since discovered that confrontation is necessary for growth. If you were sick and went to the doctor and he gave you medication to take for a couple of days. You go back after you’re done with the medication and he asks you, “Did you take the medication? How are you feeling?” Would it be wise for you to get agitated and refuse to answer? No. Why? Because the answer you give will give him an idea of how to help you further. We need some questions even though they seem to make us uncomfortable. How have you spent your time the past 6months?

Now let me promote my book 😂 you need to get a copy. It’ll help you in wise time spending. Each copy is R150 and it’s both in hardcopy & ebook. The next 6 months of your life will be different, I promise you. Those of you who have a copy, it’s not just to support me, read that book. Don’t shelf it and then go and waste time. We have many books that are in our possession that if we just read, we’d be better than yesterday.

To purchase a copy please contact me or just comment below. Remember, the same way you spent the first 6 months can repeat itself if you don’t change somethings. I wish you all the best!

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