Category: The Overcoming Believer

Should we be resting?

It’s December 🎉

Happy new month my family. We are literally 10 months old !! I’m so grateful to God and to you for being a part of this vision. Yielded is a big part of my life and my identity. We are in the last month of the year, hooray! I would like to announce that this week l won’t be to post more than two posts because I’m tied up with so much to do. I will post a midweek check in though.
Sooooo, I personally had a rough yeah, it started off so well only to show me all the peppes in the world. All of them blended in one cup and given to me to eat. LOL! I don’t know about you but I really felt like giving up many times. I was tired. Even though I was exhausted, l had to keep showing up on mpg and yielded, with no rest. Now we’re in the holiday month and my question is, should we be resting? Should we put the weapons down and chill out? What do you think?

In October I joined command your month prayers with Ps Judy. She said something so profound ,”There are no spiritual holidays.” In as much you can even feel tired emotionally and mentally, you cannot park prayer for the January fast. I believe that extremely ignorant people would do that. They abandon their destiny because they will fast in January. I’m sorry but that is kkkkrazy. The enemy has no Christmas holiday. Demons have no time to chill out, they are always reporting for duty. I know most of us are truly exhausted but let’s read a verse that has been keeping me going.

“If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭24‬:‭10‬ ‭MSG‬‬

If you crumble now, you were never strong to begin with. Don’t stop praying this December. Don’t stop fasting. You’ll never finish all the chicken and Turkey in the world. It’ll still be there when you break the fast. Don’t follow people’s opinions about what to do this holiday, “let’s go party, just once , get some air.” Darling that’s not how we get some air in our kingdom. How many times did Lot’s wife turn her head? Once! How many times did Esau sell his birthright for soup? Once. Please be wise. Use wisdom and discernment. Find out what God wants you to do this December and DO IT!

Should we be resting? Maybe you can rest from work or your day to day business. Some people need to rest from public ministry and hand over the duties to trained people to push while they recoup and be like Mary. Leaders need physical rest too. You cannot be a loving believer and watch your leader Labour all through the year and you never step in to help when they need it. It means you’re selfish. It means you don’t love them. It means you’re a user. My Dad had to rest over the two weekends, he has been preaching and ministering, counselling, travelling, so many things. What happened? His two sons came and ministered. Martha also needs to sit by Jesus’ feet. All I’m saying is, don’t be a taker that never gives. It’s more than money. Give rest to the sibling that’s always working. Give rest to the husband or wife that keeps working. Offer to do the dishes sometime. Listen, if you overwork anyone, no matter how kind they are, they will eventually get tired.

You can also rest by blocking the noise of the mind and heart. Do you know you can literally switch off that noise if you wanted to? The overthinking. The stress. The worry. You can mute it! The problem is we have accepted that we are over-thinkers, that we worry ourselves off our feet and it looks like a normal thing to accept. You will not rest and be refreshed unless you are very intentional about controlling your emotions and being very honest with yourself when the rollercoaster starts.

Let me a close by saying, you need to build capacity for the next year. Nobody will do it for you. If anything, right now people are busy focusing on their lives, even your friends. Nobody is coming with encouragement and cheerleading. People will only reconnect in January , I’m pleading with you, take your destiny seriously. Drill it into your mind that by all means you’ll finish strong. And one more thing;

“God has no use for the prayers of the people who won’t listen to him.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭28‬:‭9‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Obey God. Trust and Obey.

Please be safe. Go to safe places. Don’t forget that you are a child of God.
I love you.

The Overcoming Believer

Worship Wednesday

“On your feet now—applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭100‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭MSG‬‬

One of the reasons why we engage in worship is to build intimacy and fellowship with God. In worship we are given an opportunity to see God, to be in His very presence, like Moses, to commune with Him. Many believers know how to pray, we are prayer warriors but in worship we stand like statues, clueless as to what to do. We need some more koinonia. We need some more encounters. We need more and more is available if we are willing to avail ourselves to engage and receive. You don’t need a dance coach or a worship coach, all you need to do is to yield .. and you know what?

Become childlike . Maybe you’re too grown in the presence of God that you can’t kneel anymore. Too shy to lift up your hands or too lazy to clap.

“Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn’t make him. We’re his people, his well-tended sheep. Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭100‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Worship

The Overcoming Believer

Chilled Thursday

Hey Yielded Family. How’s your week so far? I have had quite a rough week but I’m still and holding on to the promises of God. I realised this week, that in battle what sustains you is not the press ups you just did 5 mins ago nah. What keeps you standing is the training you’ve done over months and years. You have to build capacity so that when the day adversity comes you are able to not only stand but keep proclaiming the Name of the Lord.

It’s in the books we read. It’s in the sermons we listen to. Our day to day. Our moment to moment. Even in our resting – in our chilled Thursday. On this chilled Thursday I want to say to you, do not go back to Egypt. Whatever that means to you. Refuse to allow the small needs on the journey make you think slavery and abuse is a place to consider going back to. Don’t go back to the place of garlic and onion and spices yet also a place of heartache and pain. Don’t go back to the addiction. Don’t go back to darkness. Don’t go back to Pharaoh. Why? Because the new has already begun.

Think about it. What really will you be going back to? Shame? The mess? Slavery? What’s there to desire? I’m reminded of the children of Israel today. They always had alternatives. They always came up with other plans. How to create a god for ourselves, how to go back to Egypt , how to demand for this and that and if we don’t get it we become rude. I don’t think that’s a way to live. Any back up we create to substitute the plan of God is a pathway to failure and defeat. Why are we always thinking that God will let us down?

Today as you chill and go about your day, l want you to consider these things. Is it Egypt that feels like home or is Egypt all you’ve ever known? And if you need a prayer:

The Overcoming Believer

Worship Wednesday

Hey family. I know today is worship Wednesday but l want you to find your own playlist and time to spend with God. By all means please build intimacy with God. It’s so important. It’s more important than waiting on tables. Martha was not wrong for making dinner , the problem was not discerning the time to do so. There’s a time to Labour in the vineyard and a time to prioritise intimacy. Imagine a marriage where the woman is always busy in the kitchen, busy with children , busy with cleaning and doesn’t have a few minutes to spend with her husband, you know what will happen to that marriage right? Anytime the relationship is hanging on the peg , check the amount of time spent in intimacy and the intentionality!

“The Lord answered her, “Martha, my beloved Martha. Why are you upset and troubled, pulled away by all these many distractions?”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭41‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Im swamped with some notes to read but I had to show up to remind you that today is today 😂. I love you. 💓

The Overcoming Believer

Chilled Thursday

“Consistency in anything is hard.”

The topic of consistency cannot be separated from discipline. Consistency is a principle of priority. It is a fundamental concept of growth. Anything you’re consistently doing builds a strong system with almost an unbreakable foundation. I learned consistency through leading the Prayer Band back in 2019-2020. I learned that in building a structure, you may get sick, you may feel tired, you may not feel as motivated as you did when you started, you may want to give up and you may even feel like you can be like everyone else , “inconsistent and unreliable” but consistency demands that you show up anyways. Consistency “demands” it is like a law. You MUST.

A sister of mine just got back to the gym. She has been showing up consistently to work out not stopping until she sees the results she wants. What does that tell us? She is committed. Likewise, consistency and commitment are sisters. You commit to be consistent. An inconsistent person is an uncommitted person. If you’re not committed to your spouse you’ll be inconsistent in showing up in the relationship. This goes for all things including our relationship with God. {Side note; I didn’t plan this blog today I’m just flowing , let’s see where that gets us lol}

When l started writing on Yielded l committed to posting Monday-Friday except when l have conference at church or I’m really unwell. Believe it or not, I’ve showed up to write even when l myself needed the encouragement. I got to understand that our commitment to our dreams benefits others too. People can drink from your well and be quenched simply because you committed to a consistent prayer life, business, to education. How consistent are you in anything at all? Are you unreliable? Can we trust you to show up at 15:00hrs to do what you promised to do or you’ll call at 15:30 saying you forgot? How do we miss opportunities? By being unprepared. We are unprepared because we never committed to training while we wait.

How committed are you to God? Since the beginning of the year till now someone has to motivate you to pray? You’re unserious. You’re not committed and it’s not entirely the devil’s fault, we are just not committed because we don’t want to. Read the line at the top. It is very difficult to be consistent but shall we dodge it to stay with what’s easy? What’s easy rarely lasts. It has no impact or lasting results. Sooner or later that building will crumble. Well sooner rather than later. How committed are you to ensuring that you’re in good health? (As for me , Lord help me on this one) To your mental advancement? Do you read? Good mind transforming materials not books that teach you 100% that all your mind can grasp is novels. How about commitment to church? Or the weather determines whether you show up or not? How consistent are we in business? (I need to be serious)

On this chilled Thursday, l need us to think. To really sit and ponder. To Selah. What am l doing inconsistently that could be great if I just committed to it? In what ways can l better myself and am l willing to pay the price to get the results l want? Do l need to be babied through life or am l ready to grow up and break ground. Remember as you chill today, that you are sometimes the weapon fashioned against yourself or the mountain threatening your destiny. Nobody is coming to save you again, you’re already saved. Stop being reluctant, hesitant and cowardly.

Find a book. Pray. Study. Enrol in free courses if need be. Commit to eating healthy food and drinking water. Commit to listening to sermons. Push your business. Anything you need to do , build consistency through commitment.

There is day and night daily yes? See consistency? Exactly. ❤️