Friday, 19 June 2015

Rejoice and celebrate...God is able!








Rejoice and celebrate with us....!
For the Lord God is good. I am sure many people have heard me talking about her. She is the one who was always sleeping in class as a way to escape her problems. She was joyless and always moody. But after a week of prayer with the staff, I started praying specifically for joy over her life. It was not long before God answered that prayer. One morning out of the blue she burst out laughing. I couldn’t believe it! It left my mouth hanging wide open. I wasn’t sure whether she was laughing as in laughing or something was wrong with her. But she was laughing. She made my day that day and I couldn’t stop talking about it. I always refer back to it some times when she is sad.

Now I realize that that was only the beginning of what God was about to do in her life. It was a starting point. It is funny because as the other students started to come to Christ, she just held back and observed from a distance. I invited her to some of the disciple classes I was having with my other students but she didn’t come. After school she would just walk out. It was interesting because in her prayers she would ask God to open up the other students’ heart and eyes to receive and know God, but hardly had she prayed saying we or us; only they and them. Slowly though but surely she then started to open up and moved from help them to help us...then me!
A few time she approached me asking me if I had time because she wanted to speak to me. Every time I would say yes, but she would never show up or come to me. To make the long story short I have observed Ladiwa reading the bible by herself which motivated me to pray for a greater hunger and thirst to know God and that God would help her know him better. And so finally after many days and weeks of praying and waiting, She finally approached me today!
 My last day with them before leaving for SA, she didn’t want me leave without making that decision.  She called me a side not honestly sure what she wanted to talk to me about. Then she said it;
“ I want to be a Christian. I want God to use me in order to change my family.”
I was speechless!
I took the time to ask her why and explain to her what it truly means to be a Christian and the costs we have to count when embarking on that journey, but her mind was made up. She wanted it, not for what she can get from him, but she wanted to know him more in a deep and personal way. And she wanted him to use her to bring change her families’ lives!
Yes! God is able! I wish I could shout it clearly through this pages. God is at work when all seem still. What we cannot do on our own, He is able. I love it! I love the fact that we can never walk away with any of it. We can never say we did it. Because it is all Him. We sow  and go to sleep like the farmer. ( Matt 4:27) and he takes care of the rest.
A New creation. I honestly love the sound of that. He removes the stubborn hearts of stones and replaces it with tender and receptive hearts . ( Ezekiel 11:19-20 I find this to be a prayer of hope)
He will give the new heart. He will place in the new Spirit. It is him not us. It is surely a great relieve to know that it is not up to me to change a man's heat but that it is God's doing, all I have to do is to faithfully share the Good News, pray, and God will work on the hearts. He is busy redeeming souls one by one! And I am excited because my children will get to be a part of the workers when they go out and declare what God has done in their own lives!
I find nothing more worth to live for than this!
A vessel of honor: that's what I pray and hope for each an everyone of them.
It's all God and it is all by Grace nothing and no one else.

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