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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Consider your ways

”And then a little later, God-of-the-Angel-Armies spoke out again: “Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over.”

‭‭Haggai‬ ‭1‬:‭7MSG‬‬

If you are not yielding to God you’re yielding to the Devil. There’s no in between. If you are not of God you’re of Satan. He says today, “Give careful thought to your ways” .. What and Who have you been yielding to?
It’s not too late to consider your ways.

  • It is through salvation that we yield to Christ
  • Yielded people are dead people, only alive in Christ
  • Yielded people are obedient
  • Yielded people are not feelers. They walk by the Spirit not by feelings 
  • Yielded people are irritated by what irritates God and grieved by what grieves Holy Spirit
  • Yielded people don’t follow trends they follow the Word
  • Yielded people seek God first 
  • Yielded people are not ashamed of the gospel
  • Yielded people serve God and man
  • Yielded people do not contradict the Bible to suit their fantasies
  • Yielded people do not crave fame or to fit into the world
  • Yielded people do not follow their hearts. They follow Christ
  • Yielded people are flexible to be used of God. They’re His battle axe
  • Yielded people do not serve God and other gods.
  • Yielded people do not have appetites for Egypt delicacies.
  • Yielded people subject their flesh to the Spirit
  • Yielded people are not stiff necked or stubborn , they’re not complainers
  • Yielded people enjoy the presence of God
  • Yielded people are …….
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What will it cost?

Everything. The cost is all of you for all of God. All of you, for all of the Spirit. A bit of you will not cut it. “God knows my heart” while you still lie and cheat won’t cut it.  “God only looks at the heart” while you make excuses for riotous and reckless living won’t cut it. In the book of Luke chapter 5, the disciples finally got what they toiled all night for. THE FISH. A net breaking number of fish that filled two boats but the bible says they left it all to follow Jesus. They left the boats, the nets, the fish they worked so hard to get, the customers, to follow Jesus. Do you know what it means to follow Jesus after you have received what you want? Would you still follow if you woke up a millionaire? Would you still serve as much as you do now? If you got the job? If you met the Ruth and Boaz? Would you still follow Him? Would l ? Yet Simon in John 6 says , “Master we have forsaken everything to follow you!”

You leave something for something. Nobody ever leaves for no reason, people only leave when they have found something better, have been chased away or rejected or are fed up of something. In this instance we are not told that they were fed up of fishing or they were chased from the sea ,they found something better. Let me tell you, there’s no yielding in bits and pieces. You don’t yield the fish and keep the net. They left everything! Meaning right now if God asks you to yield all your finances for the church building project, you literally yield every cent. My friend, here we will go from milk to solids, we will teach each other the meat of the gospel. “Oh no God wouldn’t ask me for that much” Ehh do you know a man called Abraham? Why did he go to mount Moriah? For a braai? To sightsee? For fresh air? Was he exercising or participating in some hiking challenge? No. He went to yield what was in that moment his boat, net and fish , Isaac.

Are you ready to yield? To walk the hard but necessary path? If God says give me Isaac, would you? Lay him on the altar, bind him up and raise your hand to stab him, shoo! Yielding costs everything and you’ll soon understand why l say so as we keep climbing the ladder. The cost of yielding is never calculated by man … the one who totals it is GOD.

What did it cost Jesus to yield to the Father?Everything. It cost Him heaven, He left It to come to earth. It also cost Him earth, He hung there on the cross, a yielded Son, even unto His last breath, never did He yield to His own will… that’s it family. To yield. To surrender. To submit. It is everything. It costs everything. It demands everything. 
Selah.

You are special. God loves you, l love you.💞

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Yielding to Christ

Hello beautiful family💞 If you’re new here HI 5 🤚🏾

The train is leaving the station, get your finest seat. (I sit by the window, always because Incase of emergency 🚨 😂 but you don’t have to here. The only danger is hell )

In a nutshell yielding is defined as surrender, submission, to comply with, to be overcome , to conform to. This is something many many Christians sing but do not understand. “I surrender all to thee my blessed Saviour” is “l submit or yield all to you Jesus” now take a moment to Selah.

You sang it but did you understand the words? If you did , how come the next moment you refused to yield your finances and only tithed 2%? Why is it that you decided by yourself who to date or marry? Didn’t you say you surrendered all to Him? Hmmm… do we really understand or do we say words carelessly to stir up emotions or to sound spiritual?

Before we go in too deep and we start swimming with the sharks, l want to give an opportunity to someone who is not saved to receive Christ. The truth is, these things we talk about remain empty words if you are not saved. We can only yield to Holy Spirit if we have yielded to Christ. You cannot get on a plane you don’t have a ticket for. You don’t just pack and rush to the airport. The first step is to book your flight which is yielding to be taken to a destination by a particular airline, you understand that you cannot walk to Egypt or swim to China, you can’t, so you getting on their plane is you surrendering your life to them .

Likewise, the first step is salvation because we can’t get to the deep things of the Spirit if we ignore Jesus Christ. Nobody arrives in heaven without Him. Honestly, if you can entrust your life to a pilot you do not know, if you can entrust a human being with your heart then you can give your life to Christ. The greater part of this journey is us experiencing God to the point where our lives are a full experience and expression of Christ. God wants to help you in every aspect of your life but you must yield by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn’t that beautiful? He’s saying YIELD TO MY LOVE! ”For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.“ ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Come on, pray with me my friend.

Dear Lord Jesus Christ, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to give my life to you. I receive you today as my Lord and Saviour. I believe that you came from God, died for me, rose from the dead and has now returned in glory and to glory to the Father. My heart has received many people but today my heart is receiving the best, The Messiah. Thank you for washing away my sins, henceforth, l am a new creation and l belong to you.

___________ (your name) “and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Remember, YOU ARE SPECIAL, God loves you, l love you! 💓

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OK! Let’s buckle up!

Hey family!
If you’re new here here’s a holy huggy 🤗

Now that we have all settled in, let’s get ready for the work! We will kickstart with the Yielded series where we will be discussing what yielding is, as well as how we can yield to Holy Spirit. Please meditate on the verse on the photo above as much as you can, that my beloved, is our anchor scripture! Get your besties, bro’s , enemies, colleagues , fiancés, spouses, (etcetera) here, I honestly do not want you to miss out on this because we will laying the foundation which will hold this entire building.

l do not wish for this platform to be a place where you just show up and read because I’m your friend or you know me from somewhere, no! It’s beyond our relationship if we are related in anyway, it’s about our personal relationships with our Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to show up here because it is worth it, because God is here, because we deal with issues here! I mean business, I know God does but do you? The upcoming posts will be very sensitive and crucial for us as the yielded squad, let’s get our pretty and handsome~selves here for a ride with Holy Spirit as l type for Him. Remember to share your thoughts on the comment section, that way l can also learn from you! This train takes off tomorrow!

You probably know this but Imma type it!

YOU ARE SPECIAL. God loves you, l love you. 💞

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2024 , is there no better strategy ?

Hey family ! If you are new here big hugs to you 💞

Today I want us to look at the unfamiliar strategies of the Lord to bring us to a point of breakthrough. Shoooo!! Many times l thought the breakthrough would come from me doing ABC but nope, it would actually come from God doing 123 . Then I’m like, “Lord but my way is shorter and simpler and you know, it’s my way, I know what’s best for me, just bless me so I can go my way please!” Have you ever felt like if you had a chance to deal with something your way you’d be faster than God? Oh if it were up to me I’d have married Jack? He was available and cute yet, God says no , Jude is coming in 5 years! YHO JEHOVAHHHHHH! ( and in obedience you still follow) While I’m on that here’s a song to blast as you wait my friend 🤣https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJsr2OvVx4

The blind man had to get a mud paste to see https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.9.6.NIV while Naaman https://bible.com/bible/111/2ki.5.11-12.NIV had to dip in a particular river to be cleansed. The strategy for your breakthrough in 2024 may be different and unsual but remember, our God has already seen the future. Sarah’s strategy to give Abraham a son came with many problems that she as the strategist🤣 suffered. Careful to not write resolutions that are not backed by God. Careful to ask God for the best way to take this season. Be sure to follow precisely as Noah when he built the ark because therein lies your joy, peace and protection. Heish, I’m still thinking of the 5 years ( God didn’t say it to me though🤣) Abeg my Lord. 😂

Anyhoo, till next time. You are special. God loves you , I love you!! 💞