Author: Vanessa Moonkie

•Faith-filled🌼 •Love-driven🌺 •Spirit-led🌸
Heyyyyyyy ! I am V OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. Welcome to the Yielded Center. Through my reflections on faith, my meditations on scripture and intimacy with Holy Spirit, l aim to inspire my readers to cultivate an authentic transformative walk with God. We yield by living a spirit led life.
Do you desire this? Then keep showing up here and let’s get practical.
And hey, God loves you. 💞 [ We laugh and love here]

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The Overcoming Believer

It’s A Wrap – 2024

the yielded center in 2024 ..

Positive growth.

Wow! I cannot believe we are still here. Almost a year old. It was around about this time last year when the Lord told me to start blogging. I had failed so much as a writer that l felt anxious and very reluctant to go ahead. I don’t know if it has happened to you too. The fear of failure because you have failed before. I finally started blogging on the 9th of January 2024! The first blog was titled ‘Let’s get started’.

Beloved, l had no idea how hectic it would be for me to show up here consistently but from that first blog to date, we have published 224 posts and 23 drafts [ yeah lots of trial and failure]. I would’ve loved to share the statistics today but let’s wait for the 9th and celebrate our first year together.

How has Yielded helped you in 2024? Which blog was your favorite? Kindly share on the comment section below. Personally, l grew so muchhhh. Growth in the Word, in consistency, in my writing AND l discovered part of my purpose. It’s amazing how obedience to an instruction can lead you to alignment. It was through Yielded that l pursued my career as a counsellor. Family, obey and it will blow your mind, the things that God will do through you.

I am eternally grateful for your support and love. By God’s grace we will have a better 2025 because the path of the righteous shines brighter and brighter! Soooooo, this is our last post for 2024. l need to take some time to retreat and reflect so that l can come back stronger and wiser in the coming year.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year!!!

Numbers 6:24-26

24 “The Lord bless you and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
26 The Lord [a]lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.

Thank you for being you. I love you. Here is a Yielded Tv Christmas story

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SEE YOU IN 2025!

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The Overcoming Believer

Reflection Friday

Your reflection is what you see in the mirror. I saw mine in the mirror this morning and I WAS NOT PLEASED. I was like “Oh no you need a wash!” Lol. We are all well able to see when our hair is messy, so we brush it. I know people who carry a hairbrush in their bags. Well, l am people. I know some who carry a portable mirror, and they check themselves out all throughout the day to see if anything needs fixing. For women who love makeup there’s a particular sponge or brush that we cannot leave behind. All these things are an effort to either fix or maintain an appearance.

The bible says that’s what we ought to do with our inner man. You have to keep checking through the mirror of the word of God to see if anything needs fixing. This means you actually have to READ YOUR BIBLE. One of the things we will introduce on Yielded in 2025 is a Bible reading plan. Many believers do not read scripture, and it is evident in the characteristics that aren’t changing, the speech, and many other things. How will we know how to behave if we do not search the scriptures? Reflection is so important because it gives us the opportunity to be honest with ourselves. People will always perceive you based on what you are presenting. If its messy hair, then … Don’t say it doesn’t matter.

Many people hate confrontation. Anyone who points out their mistakes is an enemy even if it’s meant to edify. What we do when we stand before the mirror daily is confronting ourselves. Facing what does not look like our desired look. How come you don’t hate your mirror at home, but you hate a friend who tells you to fix one or two things? Not wanting to hear any sermon that brings correction, only the ones that say God loves you, amen. We are closing the year; it is the best time to reflect on both the good and bad. Congratulate yourself on the good. It is very important to see yourself, to validate yourself as well as to celebrate yourself.

Lastly, the insights developed, and the lessons learned will prompt you to make improvements. Your 2025 is so dependent on the results of your reflection time. You may also take a retreat and strategically plan your 2025 sober mindedly. I pray that you will have the courage to face yourself and the humility to allow God work on you until you become.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 1 Corinthians3;18 KJV

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The Overcoming Believer

Chilled Thursday

Hey family. Do you have your Christmas clothes yet? We are literally 5 days away and your sister still doesn’t even have a cap. Even a vest. I’m saying, even a shoelace to say aii maybe the shoe is coming. Nothing LOL. Growing up, my family used to be biggggg on Christmas and New Year’s Day. You would get a full outfit from underwear to shoe, l promise you. Stylish fashon. Every child had two outfits and mind you, we couldn’t wear them until the day finally arrives. So, you can imagine the anticipation. You would just keep going to check if the clothes are still in the wardrobe, still fresh. I didn’t know that one day it would be my responsibility to buy them for myself. Yho Santaaaaaa if l meet you once like thisss …….. l will dye your beard blue.

Anyhooooo, its chilled Thursday. I am literally chilled today. I want to watch a movie. I love animations because now everything else aii they kiss after every five seconds. I must protect my prophetic eagle dimensional eyes. Ooh shall we do Yielded men’s edition in January? I’m excited.

Ok, let me suggest a movie. Click the link below to watch

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The Overcoming Believer

Worship Wednesday

Itsssssssssssss Wednesdayyyy! I love Wednesdays. Ok l love Sundays too. And Mondays. I love being alive AND WELL. The past couple of days l haven’t been feeling well so l am very grateful for restored health. You know, life is such a gift. So very precious. I am sure many of you have seen or watched the video of the gruesome murder of the young lady from South Africa. Not to sound like the newspaper but maaaaaaan that was more than evil. It got me to think deeply about life. Life is precious guys. What’s more, the importance of having a godly community around you.

While we may look at the 2024 vision boards and maybe 6/12 prayer points are still pending, while we murmur and complain about manna, while we fuss day and night talking about ‘Lord when?’ darling, we are actually ALIVE! When l opened my Instagram this morning and saw that man with blood all over his body, someone’s blood, it pierced my heart so much. It literally changed my day. I realized that the word of God is such a need in our communities. The same way people need water and electricity. A desperate neeeeeeed. There are arrows that fly by day. There is pestilence that stalks in darkness. Eiii Read your Psalm 91 and see just how God shields us daily.

I am grateful for you. Yes you. Honestly, we have so many reasons to give thanks. It takes nine months to give birth to a child, that’s the normal span but death is cheap. Give thanks. You that has even stopped talking to God because you are upset about money, or a man, or a job , my dhiye if l katch you! And this is to remind believers, do not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever. Let me take it a step further by saying, do not enter into any relationship without the approval of God. You might be single right now and well excited to marry but hear God first, okay? Pray about it all. Listen, no matter how good the person looks. Tall even with bass zero voice, pray. Even if the lady has the most coca cola body that has ever coca cola’d, pray. Let the God who has seen the future decide for you. It’s craaaaazy out here!!!

Listen to this clip below and then find a song to give praise to the Lord. Remember on Wednesdays we show David that even ussss! Even me o!

GIVING THANKS

God loves you.

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Studying Bible Characters

The expectations of the righteous

Hey family. My apologies for not showing up yesterday as l was not feeling too well. By God’s grace l am alright now. While festive season is a joyful time, for some, it is a time where the absence of their departed loved ones is most felt. It is actually a time that triggers grief based on the fact that the people they once spent this glorious season of ‘Family Time’ with are no more. Maybe a divorce, a loss or disunity. I would like to say to you, take it a day at a time. We grieve differently and we heal at different times too. I also pray God’s loving embrace over you . .

I have been meditating on the story of Hannah from the book of 1Samuel chapter 1. Despite of the situation she was facing, the woman kept on following her husband to Shiloh. I mean our generation has sort of ‘normalized’ the detachment from God or any godly activity when the trying times come. We stop going to church, why? ‘Because l went last week and did not come back with Samuel’. We stop serving God, why? ‘Because those l serve with got their blessings, but l haven’t’. So, Hannah showing up in Shiloh year after year is really evidence of her strong character. Many people think they are Hannah, but the truth is they are not. Hannah did not ‘give up’ when she was mocked by her ‘rival’. We give up because someone said something, and we choose to leave God because of people.

Many believers do not have emotional intelligence. It shows when we would rather fight Peninnah than to present our needs before God at the temple. How did Hannah keep showing up? We read about the fact that she travailed in prayer, but l am wowed by the fact that she returned from Shiloh with nothing, for only God knows how many years, but she would still go back. Back to church. Back to prayer. Back to praise and worship. Back to scripture. Yes, without the child, without the husband, with people’s mockery, still going back to The Lord.

When you read down to chapter two, you find that a time when Hannah decides to go alone and travail. Her attitude changes. She is no longer going as a one who is following her husband because of a family tradition, but as one who is in need of a personal encounter. While many of us do show up in Shiloh, we do it out of tradition. “Its Sunday, l am expected to be in church. I am expected to serve.” And that is why we keep returning with no testimonies. We have no expectations. We have no hunger. We have no desire to engage on the altar. We simply desire to fulfil a duty. Let me be the person to tell you, you will return without a testimony.

‘For surely there is an end and the expectation of the righteous shall not be cut off’ [Proverbs 23:18]

What are your expectations? Do you have any at all or do you say, ‘It is what it is?’ What is it that you hope to receive before the end of the year? In 2025? Or have you become numb you don’t even care whether Samuel comes or not? You do know there’s people like that even in Shiloh, yes? They show up but they are not there. They are still praying but they are not engaging, still fasting but rather hunger striking because of religion and obligations but not necessarily coming into contact with the altar. Positioned by the pool but not getting healed. Being at the right place, at the right time but with the wrong posture at heart. So, the result is many trips to Shiloh with no evidence thereof. I ask again, what are your expectations? Don’t cheat yourself of a life of miracles, signs and wonders because you have killed your dreams. My darling, GOD IS ABLE TO DO JUST WHAT HE SAID HE WILL DO.

Revisit the vision board again. Dream again. Hope again. Expect. Then show up in Shiloh with those expectations. Won’t He do it?

I love you.