Reflection Friday

Hey friends!

“When the bridegroom didn’t come when they expected, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭25‬:‭5‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Today l woke up with a pressing message! I feel it really weighing on my heart to talk about this. By God it came on a reflection Friday because that’s what we need to do. I need us to take this as serious as l believe it is. As l woke up today l suddenly began to think about the end times. A friend of mine and my pastor had the exact same dream and I couldn’t help but think about them. I realised nah, the church is really not ready. Individuals aren’t ready, families, prayer groups, ministries, people are not ready! Listen, all of us! Even those who are standing! Many have lamps and they’re chilling without oil. Our mindset is, “We will get it tomorrow, later, soon!” But what guarantee do we have that we will have the chance to?

We don’t want to talk about death because “it’s scary” or whoever “talks about it” could be “dying” Relax, I am yet to win souls so l’m here l am believing for the 120 o but let’s talk about it. All those people we started the year with who have passed away, did they know? Did we know? They probably thought “not me” like I am but who has the dates for when it will actually be them? Who has the timetable? Nobody. It’s all nice &games living like you’ll be there to repent in December. My friend, fix it now. Stay with the oil in the lamp.The delay of the bridegroom doesn’t mean He’s not coming. It’s not an excuse to chill without oil.

We team up with those with oil and fool ourselves into believing it’s “team work” that proximity to those who are ready automatically makes us like them? I live with a pastor “we” are going to heaven? I’m married to a praying woman, “we” are going to heaven. My sister is a prophetess “we” will make it? In the group, in the mix , let me burst your bubble to say when the bridegroom comes, everyone will mind their own story! Everyone will act as if y’all were never together! People will act like you never had “virgin” conversations, probably laughed the whole night together, waiting for the groom to show up! The problem is some laugh with their things in order, some are giggling while destiny wastes away! Proximity to anointing doesn’t mean we are exempted from meeting the requirements for heaven! OH BOY and this generation with “we this” “we that” totally love our unity and harmony, very good but my beloved family, it’s an individual deal. Your lamp is yours, their lamp is theirs.

Can we see that “borrowing” is not a thing in the kingdom of God? The world borrows a lot. They thought they could “borrow” but they didn’t realise that The Kingdom doesn’t operate like Absa or FNB , nah the Kingdom doesn’t operate like a loan shark organisation or MTN when you don’t have airtime , the Kingdom is a “what do you have in your hands” place. Hmm! We cannot bring our mindset of borrowing money and clothes and wigs and everything to the kingdom! Oil cannot be borrowed! Apostle Felix cannot borrow me his oil to go preach in Zambia, l must work out my own salvation with fear and trembling. You have a lamp that has no oil? Go get the oil! Stop thinking about how you can hold onto the skirts of your granny for more prayers. Stop depending on short clips on TikTok and Instagram to help you keep your faith in tune! Snoring the night away depending on when things go bad “l will call Apostle” my darling .. we are not entering as teams.

Didn’t Esther make a couple of friends during the beauty treatments? 6 months is a long time to not make friends especially if you’re in one place but when the day finally came to meet the King, we are not told that Esther said “King please can l come with my friend?” There’s a place for that. Encouraging each other to take the treatments on time, etcetera but when it was time to meet the King? Esther had no business tag teaming! This was her presentation, her profile, her show! The problem is we assume we will always face God as “the world” no! A day is coming when it will be a face to face encounter and not even your friends can “support you” because files will be opened that are more exact than your friend’s testimony of your “godliness”

I love this scripture in Haggai 1:7 , it says , this is what the Lord your God says , “Give careful thought to YOUR ways.” We are so busy giving careful and serious thought to other people’s ways but what about me? What about you? While we are busy calling out sin on TikTok which is a GREAT thing to do by the way, let’s not forget ourselves. We are still part of the recipients of the gospel. We are not exempted. Blogging here doesn’t exclude me from the congregation/audience. What are we actually busy doing? How are we still the same as when we received Christ five years ago? How are we warming ourselves with the fires in the court like Peter and when we’re asked of the Man we boldly said we love, we change our speech to “l don’t know what you’re talking about!” They asked who, you responded what?! Is that all He is to us? A secret lover?

Posting verses we don’t live by. Singing songs whose meanings we don’t understand. Attending services and conferences hearing messages we will not obey. Serving and being too busy in public when the secret place is as cold as this July. Chasing shadows of the past because we have attachment problems. Depending on youversion bible verse notifications to remind me of a Saviour I “chose”. But creation is groaning! The sons are prostituting themselves with other gods! Our nakedness must be covered!

And lastly, why are we seeking validation from those whose hearts have turned from God? Did we think they’d agree with us? Does the blind man agree with the seeing man on a colour? How does the know the difference between baby blue and navy blue? And we want the world’s opinion? The world is BLIND! We are scared to stand up for our faith because people will call us names? Just names? The apostles went though worse! We’re scared of being called “pastor” we fear family so we do what they do, we fear friends so we play for two teams .. is the gospel shameful? Is life shameful? Listen, jokes aside, choose today! Even worse if you read this because God will remind you!

Please hear my heart on this, the gates are slowly closing & the sons are still modelling between two kingdoms. Samson is on Delilah’s lap fooling himself into thinking “we are in love.” It is only a matter of time Samson. The delusion will go away when the Philistines arrive. We need to WAKE UP and GET RRADY!

ZION BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING!