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Hey family . Today is Reflection Friday. It is important for you to answer the following questions;

1. How are you?
2. What are you most grateful for this week?
3. What did you struggle with? Did you overcome? What is your strategy to make sure that next week is different?

Holy Spirit has been teaching me a lot about my surroundings, particularly the people in my life, who l allow into my space and who I let Into my life. It’s been a hard lesson to learn in as much as I love people and am quite bubbly , I should not trust people that easily. I’m not an uptight person, I may look it though 😂 . As I look into my mirror I realise many times, all these people I seem to go an extra mile for, are not in the mirror with me. I’m there alone having emptied of myself to the masses. What does this mean? I need to sit and throughly work on my inner circle, who knows the most intimate details about me and who should not even have my address. Friendly people will understand where I’m coming from.

The girl in the mirror has been carelessly selecting friends. Opening her heart to almost everything and everyone. You know, you need to be honest with yourself. That’s why we do reflection Friday. Sit and consider your ways. Do I really need to buy this dress? Do I really need to go there? Am I protecting my space by allowing this person in? Can I trust this person ? In what way have they been proven trustworthy? The reflection you see remains the same ,week in week out until you decide to change something. You do not change the mirror, you change the person in the reflection. You change you!

Self-reflection enables you to move from just experiencing, into understanding. It Encourages a level of self-awareness and consciousness about feelings and experiences . It also enables you to identify areas for improvement and also areas where you are strong.Your self concept includes your thoughts about your traits, abilities, beliefs, values, roles, and relationships. It plays an influential role in your mood, judgment, and behavioural patterns.

”and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.“
‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭24‬ ‭NIV‬‬


Always do your self introspection through the lenses of the word of God. Be a doer. Be teachable. Be correctable. Part of what I will do is presenting to God the people I think could be in my inner circle and have Him remove whoever He wants to remove . I want to be very intentional about this because as l look into the mirror I must not forget the picture I see. Yours could be about how you spend? Which is something I need to work on as well. It can even be how you use your time. Look in the mirror today, clean it by the word of God and take a closer look, what are the flaws and how can Holy Spirit help you today for the sake of your future?

”But Lot’s wife turned and gazed longingly on the city and turned into a pillar of salt.“
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭19‬:‭26‬ ‭TPT‬‬

I love you………We are continuing with the study on Lot and his family. Imagine being in danger and you’re given a chance of salvation but you choose to die instead. Foolishness right? That is Lot’s wife. That is the world today. Being given a chance to live again but we keep running back to the place of danger thinking that because grace abounds we will still make it to heaven. The foolish virgins thought they could borrow oil at the last minute. What they didn’t realise , like Lot’s wife is that disobedience to instructions has consequences. God is a loving Father but He is not our puppet. Do not by any chance think that God jokes with His word.

Lot’s wife packed her bags, said goodbye to her friends (if she had the time) , left the city physically but because the heart was still glued to the past, she couldn’t silence the noise of the inner man. Baptised only for lust to scream and say feed me. Physically going to church but the mind is stuck on the life of the world. Leaving a place physically is not as effective as detaching from it emotionally. Ever heard of the saying “You can take me out of the ghetto but you cannot take the ghetto out of me?” Did we just physically leave the old place? Have we detached from it?

The bible says she longed to see what was happening behind. That we can be so curious only to find out things that put us in harms way. If you’re a virgin , don’t be curious about sex. Keep yourself. If you’ve never drank alcohol, don’t be curious about the taste, I can tell you for free it’s a waste of money! Curious about how it feels to take drugs? All the things we are to know are in the Bible, curiosity if usually fed by demonic spirits that want to lock you up in a cycle.

This woman was told one thing: “Don’t look back,” and the one thing she was told not to do is the one thing she did. Furthermore, I found that understanding how she looked back quite possibly held a clue as to why she looked back: “But Lot’s wife, from behind him, [foolishly, longingly] looked [back toward Sodom in an act of disobedience], and she became a pillar of salt. What is it about the past that has kept you lingering in that place? Is it a relationship? A job? Money that you lost? We may not have turned to a pillar of salt but we could be stuck on

Our emotions, 
our thoughts, 
our attitudes, 
our opinions, 
our possessions, 
our plans, 
our desires, 
our habits, 
our comfort, 
our pain, 
our wounds, 
our relationships, 
our past, 
our present, 
or even our future hopes.

Equally, it is often difficult to move on when we have experienced deep trauma, pain, or suffering, and feel utterly hopeless and helpless. Moving on is something we know we should do, what we often want to do, and at times what we actually refuse to do, but it remains something God eagerly wants for us. I pray that you identify places that have kept you stuck and make every effort to move on. Don’t look back! Don’t entertain the questions that dig up the scar! Allow yourself to detach. You don’t need to hold onto what was. My pastor, Ps KG taught me this , “Another way of deliverance is simply walking out of the trauma!” Darling get your bags and get out! Pace up and go! You have a family that needs you! You have a promise from God! You have angels around you, LEAVE THE CITY QUICKLY AND DO NOT LOOK BACK ! Why? Because the Lord has destroyed it for a reason! It is no more! The glories are gone! The future awaits you!

”Don’t always be asking, “Where are the good old days?” Wise folks don’t ask questions like that.“
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭7‬:‭10‬ ‭MSG‬‬

”Don’t forget the example of Lot’s wife and what happened to her when she turned back.“
‭‭Luke‬ ‭17‬:‭32‬ ‭TPT‬

The Holy Bible

Greetings my Yielded people, I missed you . I really did. I hope you are well. You’re still very special to me. My week off was really a time of revival for me. I had a buffet of the Bread of Life. Our God is truly good. This week I want us to look at Lot’s wife. I believe this is a very sensitive time in the spiritual realm and many are becoming or have become Lot’s wife. It is a fearful thing for one to die quietly in his bed, get into an accident or get shot, but to die suddenly in a moment, in the very act of a sin, by God’s direct imposition is dreadful indeed. There’s something different about her death.

So this woman is a wife and assumingly a mother of two based on Lot’s words to the men who wanted to sleep with the angels and the two sons in law pledged to marry his daughters. They were city people. Wealthy. This means that they had a lot to leave behind. It reminds me of the rich young ruler. So much material things to leave behind and of Abraham, a family to leave behind . The bible has many examples of people who had to leave something behind to pursue the new thing or instructions that God has given them. As a matter of fact, believers are to leave their old life behind to embrace the new life in Christ. Remember Lot’s wife.

”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!“
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Lot’s wife’s name has not been recorded in the bible but her story is one of the strangest stories in the bible. By strange I mean, it happened to her only, what a consequence of disobedience. No one shot her. She didn’t commit suicide. Her husband did not beat her to death . She did not fall sick . She died because she turned back to look at the burning cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. She didn’t run back physically but her eyes and mind were still locked onto the past, she turned to look. As she was running with her family, her mind was creating the urge to turn back. Just like your mind can sometimes create the urge to go back to sin. Many people lose the battle of the mind like Lot’s wife and they find themselves stagnated . There’s no way Lot and his daughters could carry the pillar of salt. She was left there, stagnated because of a decision to look back.

I can imagine her, debating within herself, “Should l, should l not? Should l just be strong and follow my husband? What will happen if I turn? I won’t die, certainly not! God would not save us to kill us. Maybe my husband will also turn. It’s in the nature of all of us to turn, I’m not alone. Someone feels the same way, someone somewhere is turning back as well. I will surely have another chance . God is merciful. I will repent after this,” Doesn’t this sound like us? Debating disobedience and scheduling repentance. Lot’s wife may have thought like you. Little did she know, there was a consequence to that act of disobedience that would leave her husband a widower and her children motherless.

Remember Lot’s wife. Don’t easily forget her memory. Don’t be so quick to think it was a meaningless death. Many people died in the bible but we are not warned to remember them. What is it about this woman that Jesus says remember? A woman whose name we don’t know? This is a warning!! Remember to get rid of the old, the past, what’s behind, yesterday and its glory , you cannot carry Sodom and Gomorrah in you or with you, leave it behind. What this means is, the future needs new tools, a new mind, an obedience to the new. If all you’re thinking about is the old, you’re not ready to walk with God. Think about Lot’s wife and what happened to her when she looked back.

See you tomorrow! I love you. God loves you!