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]

The Overcoming Believer

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!

Yielding the mind

Chilled Thursday

Ms Grace Maplanka

Hey everyone! Welcome to our chilled Thursday. I started off my day with a bad migraine but l had to show up here anyways. I’ve learnt that about consistency , it puts a system in place. Where there’s no order, there’s no consistency. I have an amazing movie for us to watch today but first let me say something about the lady on the photo above.

Grace and l met on WhatsApp through a friend. We have never met physically before yet the kind of heart she has towards me is God standard. Everyday of her life she pushes yielded blogs , she has carried this vision like her own child and so yes!! I must give honour where it is due. Grace, I celebrate you on your birthday. You are a destiny helper. I couldn’t think of any way to make this special but to put it on what you call your “favourite blog”. As the founder of yielded, together with Holy Spirit, we say happy birthday! Thank you for your support. Thank you for being you! Happy new year ! Please help me celebrate her!! 🎂❤️

Okay now, click on the link below to watch the movie! You better not miss this one!!! You’ll love it, I know!

And hey … l love you. 🩵

The Overcoming Believer

Worship Wednesday

Hey guys! I am wowed by the feedback I got from yesterday’s post. It’s so amazing how God spoke to people in so many different parts of the world about one thing. It is truly the gospel of power. We all have had different life experiences but one word from God is able to meet us all at our various points of need. I am so glad! One of the things that make me happy is knowing that people’s lives are changing from this ministry. It just makes everything worth it! When l realise I’ve not posted here I panic 😂 because I know some of you will dm me and ask. That’s good pressure! Good panic if there’s something like that. To just know that people are expectant and are willing to put in atleast 5 minutes of their time to go through the blog posts. You bless my heart!

This is a visual representation of what Holy Spirit did yesterday. One net, the word = many different fish. The net has been pulled into the boat and the fish are getting cleaned. God is stitching every heart. The rape, the abuse, the grief, the rejection , everything!

“For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

The word is effective! Ah I want us to praise Him today for HIS WORD! His word has changed my life l don’t know about you. What God speaks is what l long to hear. What He says is what l desire to live by. It is not inspiration or motivation , it is life! We are here because of His word! How else would we be saved had we not heard!!!

“When they heard this they were crushed and realized what they had done to Jesus. Deeply moved, they said to Peter and the other apostles, “What do we need to do, brothers?””
‭‭Acts‬ ‭2‬:‭37‬ ‭TPT‬‬

WHEN THEY HEARD! They decided to do something about it! Listen, we can write a million blogs, listen to a million sermons, hear the truth and still remain the same unless we decide to do something about it! What do we need to do Holy Spirit? What is it that we need to do to get that healing? This is not the season to hear and just be excited. Excitement for a word is good but it doesn’t necessarily mean transformation.

I want us to thank God for His word! This is not Shakespeare or a fictional novel written to get you through chilled Thursday, this is LIFE! You don’t need to have heard a prophecy to praise Him, the word in itself is prophetic! On this worship Wednesday say thank You! Thank You Abba for this treasure that we call the Bible! Worth more than gold! We have more than stacks of money in the Bible! It is the gospel that leads to life eternal! What a gift to us! Even in the beginning was the WORD!!!!!! Asher!

Nang' Mthokozisi | Spirit Of Praise 8 ft Mpumi Mtsweni

The Overcoming Believer

The wounded heart

While l was in prayer the other day, God gave me a new book title. l like to pray and when I’m done, I remain still in the presence of God and wait to hear Him speak. This is what He said to me; The Wound. I quickly wrote it on a piece of paper. He said, “Many people have ignored wounds and that’s why they keep losing. Attend to the wound.” This is how many of us are right now;

There’s no getting around it: healing is going to take some time and effort. There’s no pressure to become like your friend who bounced back quickly, or fictional characters in movies and books who heal and are back with tidy endings in two hours. Your wound is your wound. It is best known by you. You know what happened and how long you’ve been bleeding. If you have healed l bless God for your sake but if you know that deep down that you put a bandage and never checked if the bleeding stopped, this is for you.

Why would God say this? Is it that He has seen how we are on the field stretching hearts that are barely surviving? I have shared my story before , many times; l grew up a very broken girl. I was the kind of child that would isolate in the toilet because my family is big so you can’t “cry in your own space” because you don’t even have your own space. I would stay in the toilet and weep. My relationship with God also grew from those moments. Without healing I became an angry child, always fighting. I am saying to you, I know what a wound can do to a good person. I know how a wounded soul can change a once-was-sweet person.

You are not the same person you was before. No. The wound changes you. Just as physical wounds need to be treated in a physical way, so heart wounds – with hidden symptoms that often go unrecognized – need to be treated in a heart (emotion-centric) way. You look fine but you are limping emotionally. Infact you are on life support. The biggest lie ever told on this is, “I’m okay.” We get used to the pain and we embrace the wound as part of us. We then fool ourselves to believe that we have scars when we have wounds. Scars don’t hurt. Wounds do. You’re still hurting because you never healed. They’re not “your scars” they’re “your wounds”

The question is not necessarily whether we come from broken homes or not‚ as a large majority of people do. It’s not whether we fell in love and got burnt or not, most of us have. Eh l have shame, big big burn. More suitable questions are…did those experiences damage us? Change us? And‚ if so‚ how has the emotional damage become a part of us, and does it still manifest itself in our daily lives? Wounded hearts breed wounded hearts. Dysfunctional homes breed dysfunctional homes. If we do not choose to accept and work through our wounds‚ even though the wounds were not our fault‚ it is very likely we will repeat the very behaviours‚ in some form or another‚ that wounded us. Pain can be recycled and oh boy does it breed itself in the most horrific ways! Someone can become a serial killer because they watched their father beat their mom. You ever watch the crime channel? The wounds that never heal create a numb person .. numb people are dangerous people. Out of touch with reality, out of touch with God, out of touch with everything.

Denying the reality doesn’t change it. If you need help sweetheart, get it. What does it help to be a wounded soldier ? If an arrow is shot at you right now you could die. You can’t compete with healthy soldiers who seem to have their footing , fit and ready to conquer. You don’t have to. The wound needs your attention . I’m not saying drown in a pool of pity or depression, I’m saying address it.

I probably would play better football than a fractured Ronaldo. They even remove them from the field and replace them with other players who are in good condition. Even if the new player can’t play as good as Ronaldo, the reality is, Ronaldo cannot be in the field . However, the fact that he got a fracture and couldn’t finish the game doesn’t mean you won’t see him in the field again. Best believe he will be back like he never left. If he forces himself and plays anyways with that kind of leg, he risks never being able to play again. Not only does he play ineffectively, he will cause the whole team to lose.

The wound cannot go into marriage. You cannot keep playing games that poke the wound. Remove the bandage , it is giving you false belief of healing, let’s get that stitched instead. And beloved , give it time. God is saying to us, “Inorder to live effective lives we need to deal with what’s causing us to be ineffective.” The good news is, the wounds heal eventually.

“He heals the wounds of every shattered heart.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭147‬:‭3‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Tell Abba today , “Help. My heart is broken.”

The Overcoming Believer

The heart condition

From the book

The heart condition by Vanessa Ziyambi

Happy Monday my loves. I hope and pray that we are all doing well. Lately I’ve been going over the materials I’ve written before , books, notes and I do feel that it’s time I share some of that with the Yielded Family. Beginning of 2023 God instructed me to write a book about the Heart. It was my first ever nonfictional book and so I struggled to write it. Besides it being a complicated thing to do because I had no experience in anything else but fictional writing and poetry, the contents of the book , I felt I was unqualified to write it. Such a book takes a lot of self introspection which at the time I didn’t have the courage to do. I hated looking at myself and my life beyond the surface. I was afraid of what I’d discover about myself. With every word I was writing, a page of my life was opening. Old pages, torn pages, ruffled pages, and even the new pages. The heart condition.

Let us look at this topic this week. As I have mentioned, it takes courage to see yourself for who you really are and that’s why the world refuses to come to Jesus. Christ reveals the inner man and begins to work on us to transform us. The world isn’t brave enough to face the real man in the mirror. People hide their true nature behind big smiles, sweet tones, hugs, and even gifts to charity. People hide behind cute outfits and muscles. They hide behind trends and what is “liked”. They become what is “liked and accepted” while deep down the true nature is screaming for expression. We often suppress the inner man but he threatens to come out often. The true person is , the heart.

The heart of the person, is the person. More than their name, their wealth, the Queen’s English, the qualifications , the heart. More than the long prayers, the pool of tears in worship, the tongues in capital letters, the big bible and the chain with a cross, the heart. More than the gifts, the “I’m here for you’s” , the many words we say to look good and feel good, the heart. You are your heart. You cannot run from it by spraying nice perfume, the stench of the heart always spreads in the room faster.

If we were to ask the question , “Who amongst us is a good person?” People’s hands would go up within seconds. Isn’t it strange, we all think we are nice people. We all think we are the nicest person in the squad. If this is true, where are the fruits of it? Where’s the proof? From the biblical perspective, the heart condition of an individual can be proven by the content and quality of their lives. It takes more than someone’s testimony of you , what do you think is the truth?You know yourself don’t you? You know the things that stir up your heart and to what extent. You know how far your heart can stretch and how much room is in there for people. What we think we know, God knows better. The heart condition.

I imagine it to be like an environment. Every environment is different and unique in its own way. Part of the things that make an environment different is the weather condition. For example, in South Africa we are in the winter season, google says it’s summer in Greece. In as much as we are in the same world , we are experiencing different weather conditions because of the different environments we are in. The hearts of men are likewise. One is in winter because the environment is cold, another in summer. Same world, same house, different people, different lives. To bust your bubble, you and your friends are also not all alike. The fact that it’s the same continent doesn’t mean it’s raining in the entire Africa because it’s raining in Botswana.

“Just as no two faces are exactly alike, so every heart is different.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭27‬:‭19‬ ‭TPT‬‬

What’s the weather like in your heart? The foundation of this topic has to start with that question that we answer so casually. How are you? Without the fear of opening up to anyone else, open up to yourself, how are you? Don’t answer before you actually selah, like you answer anyone who asks you because you want to keep the conversation going. This is you to you. What’s the weather like there? Does it snow often? Do you experience many weather conditions on the same day? Is it flooding? Put everything else aside and face this truth, you are your heart. Your name is just a way to identify you amongst the billions of people in the world. Your heart is who you truly are, how tragic it is , if that heart is always snowing. How terrible it is if that environment is flooding with no drainage system.

“The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭MSG‬‬

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