CAN HE TELL YOU?

Before you dive in...

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Yes, don't think about the question now. Just breathe in again.

Right!

As you may already know, God is not a fan of idleness. There is always something for the believer (his child) to do.

And if you have been paying attention to his word, you should have discovered that sometimes, at the mention of God's instructions, there is "and I will...." A promise. 

Other times, he only instructs. No promises. Nothing to excite you.

This is why I write today. 

I want to know

                      

I want to know if you are ready to obey God when reward is not stated.

God just instructs and you do.

Is he allowed?

Can he tell you to do a thing and all you think about is how much he has loved you not how much he is going to bless you?

Can he tell you to do a thing and you are passionate to obey because you love him not because you want him to see how hard you are working for him?

Go ahead and answer my question now.

Can he tell you? 

Mouth your answer. God wants to hear, too.

© Endowed 

THE LIFESTYLE

 

Maybe if I, who had never learnt about Christ got saved three days ago, and started learning about him from Matthew. Maybe after reading the first 20 chapters, I would pause and say excitedly "Man, this Jesus guy is God. Like, he's the real deal!"

But maybe if I read 6 chapters more, I wouldn't just pause but punch my bed too. Maybe this time, I wouldn't think of any God, but a man. A Son. First, second, third time. Sighing, writhing in pain... before his Father.

And maybe I would pick up my Bible again. Maybe I would see that this Son is so different from the sons I have met, sons whose stories are reversed editions because they never please until their fathers plead. Maybe I would also see that though the rich young man I met earlier obeyed the scriptures from his youth, I was wrong for comparing him with Jesus. Wrong for calling him a son. He walked away, but his father's will, Jesus did again. Jesus stuck to his way. The way of sons. Their lifestyle.

Now, since I love to learn more and become a son, maybe I would act like the Son, bow and cry before my Father, tell him that again and again and yet again, I want my spirit and body to be willing to do as he says. 

© Endowed

DEAR EN'OLORUNFE

 

Dear En'olorunfe,

last time we met, I wrote to you on enrolling in the school of obedience for this season as that's  paramount to a sweet walk with Abba  in a time like this.

but I won't like to assume that you took time to visit the library for the school's truest GUIDE

 Eniolorounfe, I came to share with you that, in school of obedience, confusion is the easiest and first pal to meet even right at the entrance of the institution, but for that I came to let you know that, to every instruction that may be given which cannot be found  in the BIBLE, don't heed!

Remember the following:

the school of obedience is founded by God and everything you must do there should come from the Proprietor's  not from anyone's

any teacher speaking outside the scope of God (the proprietor's) thoughts, such should be disregarded...

Lest I forget, check your role in the school of obedience through the founder's guide

I pray you discernment..

Hebrews 10:7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Yours sincerely,

Oluwafemi.

DEAR FRIEND II

 

Dear Friend,

on this journey, there are many materials you would like to carry along

maybe you've been told of how prayer is the key to spiritual stamina

or you heard of how reading and meditating on the word of God is paramount to a better life in the voyage of faith 

Eniolorunfe, you're not and can never be wrong to pitch tent with prayers and in the word of God, mba!

But in all these, the school of obedience cannot be boycotted to achieve the heights God desires for you in the year...

Don't pray and study without obeying what God says!

I have come to tell you this year, be a LEARNER

not only in words but in OBEDIENCE

there your way is lightened..

"...though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered" Hebrews 5:8

selah...

© Josh' Oloyede

Dear friend...

I write to you.

You are here

In this new year

Called twenty twenty-one

I call it that, too

But just recently

I saw differently

2, 0, 2, 1

2 to 0

2 to 1

And Perhaps

like I did

you ask

"These numbers 

aren't consecutive

What sort of math

is this?"

You see

This thought

questioned my goals

raised a number of what ifs

What if 

along this year

my plans

refuse to work out?

What if 

my 2 

falls to 1

or goes down 

to 0?

At this, I cringed

2021

yet again

We may go up 

We may go down

We may succeed

We may fail

We may laugh

We may cry

Again

another reality

hit me hard

And this time

I really laughed

The reality

that when this year

we count 

1, 2, 3

There is a force

that keep us going

And even if

we happen to fall

2 to 1

2 to 0

there is a hand

that holds us up 

a power 

that lives in us

so that 

even after the seventh fall

we rise

My dear friend

This is Twenty twenty-one

2, 0, 2, 1

Go 

with these realities

Chuck what ifs

and embrace 

all your God is

© Endowed