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Oftentimes we wake up and believe that we are the best navigators of our lives. Going on a journey that you are not familiar with requires getting a sat nav or using google maps or Waze to assist in directing you. You rely on these so badly that any attempt of power failure destabilizes you.  

This Instrument becomes the key component in leading you to your destination on that journey. It literally becomes your life guide and anchor. As wonderful and beautiful as this instrument is, there is a place it cannot direct you to. That place is You. Your Maker is the most powerful and legitimate navigator you will ever need in life. He formed you and has the manuscript of your life. The A to Z of your journey on earth. He is the sat nav of your life.

It is irrelevant to plan your life without Him because it would be headed for ruin and you would never be fully fulfilled. In every season and point in your life, He knows which direction is best for you. Your Maker cannot be manoeuvred or manipulated. He is not caught unaware by your misbehaviour. His expectation from you is your surrender and engagement with Him.  

As you continue this journey of life with Him, allow Him to be the Ultimate Navigator! Completely lean on Him, build a lasting relationship with Him and trust Him to direct your life. Life is fragile and short and can only be lived well when we allow the Ultimate Navigator to lead us. A ship depends on the captain to sail, it can never lead itself. 

Stop assuming you have all it takes to lead your life by yourself without the help of your Maker. You need Him because you cannot control the wind that blows on your path. The Ultimate Navigator is the master skilled driver. He never crashes or stops by any force. No barrier can hold Him down. He rules and reigns over the affairs of life. He created all that exists and He is timeless. He never runs out of resources that would lead you to your destination. He has everything needed for the journey. 

Our God is a Limitless God! Why don’t you take the passenger’s seat of your life and allow Him to drive! He’s the best and most reliable driver you would ever require in life.

We are in a beautiful season called “Passover”. It is a time of the Year, where I take out time to study the book of Exodus. That book brings me back to a place of detoxification in my body, spirit and mind.  It reminds me of the essence of True Freedom- I begin to look within and see places that I have been in bondage and begin to allow the Power of Jesus’ Blood to set me free.

Passover is a feast that reminds me of how the children of Israel were delivered from oppression in Egypt and most importantly it was also a time Jesus died and rose from the grave. This feast is so significant in the sense, that it shows how much we are loved by God.

I am reminded of how Israel has been in severe bondage and oppression. It was so hard on them, that the only choice they had was to cry to God. I remember going through oppression, and how I wept internally everyday, wondering “when am I going to be Free?”

It was the most difficult time of my life, my true identity was thwarted. I was abused emotionally and physically by people I looked up to. I began to have suicidal thoughts and felt not worthy of living. Today, it is history, because I had to reach out to My Only Anchor and He stretched out His Hands, delivered me and gave me victory.

We have different things that have kept us in bondage, but we can experience Freedom today by going back to where it all started. The cry of the Israelites got God’s attention and He came down for them. Are you ready to get God to come down for you in this season?

He is the same, yesterday today and forever, so He will do it for you. All you need is just weep, cry out. Psalm 34:7 says: The Righteous cry and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.

I believe you can experience the same victory. Not only were they delivered, He brought them out up to a land that was flowing with milk; a place of abundance.  The price of Freedom for God’s people is incomprehensible. The cost of our freedom is worth God’s while. It’s Time to be Free.

‘As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God.’ Psalm 42.

How I sit in deep admiration and total appreciation of His goodness in my life these forty-one years!I have often wondered how I made it through. It has been days of weeping and laughing. It has been lonely and fruitful. My life has been at a hard place for a long time, wondering when it will be over.

I learnt how to worship God and stick to him like glue. I learnt how to lock myself in my room and cry, weep, talk, be quiet before Him. He is my backbone, my rock, my anchor, my defence, my keeper, my lover, my teacher, my all in all.

He never ceases to amaze me. He fills my whole being with His Presence. Anything or anyone outside of Him cannot get to the depth of me. I fly when I am with Him. He is My Healer. Ever healing my wounds and restoring what is lost.

My inner-most being ever longs for my Maker, who alone has brought me out of deep, murky waters. He has shown me mercy like no one could and lifted my head dropping from shame and pains. He has clothed me with His righteousness, dusted my forehead and place His shine upon my downcast vesture.

You changed my rags, constantly waiting around the corner for my home-coming, turned my poverty away-gave me a song, put a dance in my feet. Precious God, Holy Father! ‘My soul thirsts for God, yes for the living God: when shall I come and appear before Him?There is no God like you, no, not one! How You love me!

I lift up my tambourine, my voice-all of me in humble declaration that You alone are worthy oh God to receive honour, glory and praise! You that chart the destiny of the destitute and rejects of men, and make ‘something’ out of ‘nothing’ who is a god like our God?

Merciful Father! Ancient of days, the all-knowing, all-sufficient God! You rule in the affairs of men. How I Celebrate Your faithfulness. Your wisdom is unsearchable. Your grandeur cannot be compared with the wealthiest of men. Yet you are my Father!

Oh! How much I love you Daddy. He is never tired of having me, always opening His arms wide for me. My cheerleader, always cheering me on and giving me His hand to accompany me. My life is all yours and will never exist without you. Even when family and friends turned their backs and said I am not good and hopeless, then You said to me, ‘no not you, but you are beautiful and the best’.

The very nature of Me is in you, daughter and you glow in My light; Stand tall and know that I am here and will never leave you nor forsake you. Your word has kept me and will continue till you call me home. I love you. I am glad I was forsaken and despised by man so that you will have all of me.

How do you feel walking whole heartedly with God, while waiting to possess your inheritance? Did you have to wait like Caleb, for forty five years for the fulfilment of it. It’s interesting How God works. When the twelve spies were sent by Moses to spy the land, it was said that Joshua and Caleb brought back positive news, the rest were negative.

Moses declared a word over Caleb that the Land on which your feet had walked will be for your inheritance and that of your children forever. Just as Moses’ proclamation, promises, words, declarations did not happen instantly. Caleb went through many processes for it to manifest.

The beauty of our testimony you will agree, is not always what the congregation or the public see, it is the ‘Things that lie in-between’ the period we receive the word and its full manifestation. The period can be termed, ‘The Cooking Period’.

The period where you deny yourself  food, drink and sleep in the middle of the night when others are sleep…and you know that this type goeth not out except by prayer and fasting; Those periods when you do not care if you are grammatically or politically correct; Those moments when your acrylic finger-fitting or fixing don’t matter to you; When you let your well-kneaded hair loose mixed with the tears and sweat, and say God, ‘I am your handmaid, defend your name for my sake, heal my deranged or wayward child even husband or wife; The midnights when you hold unto God for dear life or are in the gap for a dear one just handed ‘a critical doctors’ report or on life-support-when you know  deep down your guts that if God does not show up, you’d bury your head in shame, and the heathen will ask you, ‘Where is now that your God?’ My dear that is the waiting time, hidden from the publics’ eye. That is the real testimony.

The time of the word and manifestation was a time he had to learn how to wait on the promise. He was grateful for where he was and was also anticipating the manifestation of the promise- waiting on God in worship of Who He is and not your situation and confessing His word in spite of what your physical senses tell you. How much do you  wait on His promise, or do you easily run out of patience, and feel well let me work it out my own way?

Caleb did not gather an army to take over the land immediately. He was carefully studying about the place and taking notes of the government that ruled the place. He knew that at the right time he would possess it but also must be fully equipped to engage in the battle of ownership. He had to think of how to overthrow and dislodge the powers ruling over the land and establish the government of God. The Land was occupied by heathens and so it was not going to be an overnight victory without any war.

What battles for your inheritance are you willing to engage in and dislodge the present occupier? What are you doing as you wait for it to manifest? Study the place, find out the history and carefully seek the Lord on how to possess it and wait for the right time. At eighty-five years, his strength was as though he was forty (young). It goes to show that he was a person of His Presence. In God’s Presence, you receive strength and strategies to conquer your mountains.

He knew he had not lost the strength and capacity to go to war. When it was time he requested for His inheritance and got it. You do not need to toil to get what is rightfully yours, wait for your time and it will be given to you.

Remember to ask. Caleb asked, and that provoked God to fulfil His word and cause His servant Joshua to bless Him. Ask and it shall be given, Knock and it shall be opened….

Have you ever wondered why, women tend to spend lots of time on their external looks. Some say, because they are vain by nature, so say it reflects who you are. I see it from a place of how beauty is important.  Going back to creation, God is beautiful and all His works are splendid. He is beauty and everything He fashioned and designed on earth was to express His creativity. When He formed man, He placed His unique nature on Him, which means no one was born to be ugly but to reveal His beauty. In Psalm 139:14, it says “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

The process women go through to look beautiful externally, can be likened to how Our Father desires to see us embrace His works in our lives and live it out daily. We get so consumed with lots of mundane things that we forget, the Indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit in us and what it is meant to produce in our daily lives

We are called to move from one level of Glory to another. This Glory is the abiding Presence of God which we are expected to carry within us and reveal it everywhere we go. It was like in the days of Jesus. He did not announce Himself, what He was on the inside revealed who He was. I believe it is important we get our internal thoroughly cleaned and purged of every dirt, so that we can manifest His Beauty and Power on earth.

I can imagine what our lives will look like when we are beautiful inside-out.  I am sure the transformation that would take place in our community and nations would be awesome. Do not limit yourself to look good for what people can see, get into that hidden part and begin to scrub the dirt out with brush, the brush which is God’s Word.  As you consistently do that you will begin to see the beauty being restored back and you will like the fruit it produces.

We live in a world where all that matters is to hide the internal, and push out the external, but I have seen that over time if not addressed and dealt with, it will completely mess up the external and ruin your Identity.

There were ten virgins who were expecting the Bridegroom. They needed to make some preparations, while they waited for his arrival. Five were well prepared and had extra oil for their lamps, but the other five prepared but did not have extra oil for their lamps. Could it be that they were so occupied and carried away with their external  look on that day for the bridegroom, and forgot about having an extra oil, in case things do not turn out as  planned?

The Bridegroom came in late and they could not see him, due to the oil in the lamp was finished and their lights gone dim, unlike the other five, who had gone through an inward and outward pruning/process and knew it goes beyond what the external looks like. They were proactive and positioned themselves for the worst.

Now the five foolish virgins had to go out to buy extra oil, which they should have thought of before embarking on the journey. They would not have missed the groom if they had carefully gone beyond preparing externally.  Their internal should have been positioned for unforeseen circumstances. I believe that the process they took in preparing themselves was one that they might have been carried away with just wanting to show off to the groom, but the groom was expecting something more than the external beauty.

He did not want to be impressed by just the beauty; He was looking for fruits and wisdom in them. How much do you spend on your externals, at the expense of your internal? Do you not know that your body is the Temple of the Lord, and you are to keep it fresh and healthy?

It should be constantly checked on and see that it does not entertain any form of impurities. It is through cultivating a healthy heart that our beauty radiates the One in whom we believe. It’s time to take our beauty to a new level. Let it shine from the inside-out.

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

Have you ever found it not too easy doing your cry in the rain? Have you been through mountain-top situations where you hallowed for help until you got exhausted with no help in sight? Ever been at a crossroad and you couldn’t ‘take it as a man? ‘Pain is not sweet.

The journey of life has a lot of ups and downs, and it does not need your permission before you are given your own dose of it. How can difficult situations have lessons in them! Do not tell me, it is ok dear, I know what you are going through…you don’t know until you have been through it.

Ruth was a Moabite woman married to one of the sons of Naomi, an Israelite- a Hebrew, a seed of Abraham. Having been married, after awhile she lost her husband. This was a tragedy. She was at his bedside at the hospital, holding unto hope and a breakthrough, because she had heard about the great wonders of the God of the Hebrews, ‘My husband will not die, he will live’…she must have confessed. Yet he died, making her a widow at young age.

Where will she go from here? She left her people, joined to a man, and then she lost him. Many times, we embark on a journey with hope and assurance of a good end, and along the way a shift occurs. Do we say, God is unfair, or do we give up living?

Have you ever trekked that long laborious road of experience when your faith in God was tested and it felt like gall, where all that you ever believed was brought to the slaughter-it is either God or the devil? ‘Curse God and die’, that type of a situation that Job found himself- lost everything you hold dear and close to your heart in one day and the very ones who are your intimate, close, confidants say those cold words to you!

Tragedy Street is not an enviable place to live in. The rush of pain, blame and rejection that parade that lane is only left to the imagination. What would Ruth do, or what should she have done? Married off, married away perhaps with no child to show for it, she could not return home to her people. She was driven by the commitment of marriage-the fraternity of the holy matrimony, the sacredness of everlasting love, the pledge of fidelity to the one with whom she had become one in body, soul and the spirit.

This not so cute story of pain and tragedy reaches a boiling point and Ruth makes a resolve that will forever be reiterated, ‘Entreat me not to leave you’, she said to her mother in-law, Naomi, who had earlier indicated that she had nothing more, nothing extra to offer. ‘Your God will be my God, your people, my people’. Her pain created an everlasting reward and compensation that only God could give.

As much we have been given wonderful promises in the Word of God, and also we have hope to have a glorious end, we should never seize to embrace the joy that comes in our trials. The trials and difficult times we go through, is allowed to bring us to a place of maturity and growth. It is not to destroy us, or keep us in a place of despair. It is the platform for us to accelerate.

How do you handle your trials? Do you quit or grumble, complain and murmur? Do you feel life is unfair to you? Ruth had her losses, she embraced to forge ahead by establishing a relationship with her mother-in-law on a deeper level, and she went beyond mourning her husband to being a source of strength and anchor to her. She looked beyond her pains, and saw a future ahead.

The shift in her mind-set is something every one of us should learn to embrace. No matter what life throws at you, look at the opportunity in your pain and tragedy. There is no way she would have gone on a journey with her mother in-law if her husband was alive. His death took her on a whole new journey of discovery, which at the end turned her mourning into dancing.

The trials are birthing a greater opportunity for you, and  aligning you to a place of victory and restoration. Do not end your life’s dreams, because of the trials you are facing. It’s time to explore new opportunities and to break out.