Dear 2010 Ayo

In 2019, you will be working and living in the UK. But all you are thinking of now is how to quit your job in church, and leap into the unknown.

i know how scared you are, i know how desperate you have become; but i want you to know that you made it. there were a lot of unknowns after you resigned from the church, and you experienced some sad moments, but in the year 2019 you were chosen to relocate to the UK. i know that is hard for you to believe now, but this is something to encourage you. your life will get better. you may not have enjoyed your time working in church, but that time was necessary to ground you in your faith in God. it is this faith that well see you in the coming years. you will have to hold on to this faith many times, but you will see that faith does not fail you.

everytime you talk to god, he will talk back to you. and when you trust him, you will experience a blessing. right now, you are homeless and you have to move in with your girlfiend, but in a few monthss you will be doing your dream job and making more money than you have ever made in your life.

i want to tell you that you need to learn financial management, but i know that you won’t have that knowledge then. so you will lose all the money you have after about 2 years. and you will be worse off than you are now. you will have lost your girlfriend, you will have been used and cheated on by another girlfriend. but in the midst of it all, you will meet the girl that you will marry. she will encourage you when you get to the lowest point of you life; she will be the reason you do not pack up and run back home to mummy. she will stand by you, she will marry you even when you have nothing to offer her.

after you marry her, you will begin to experience some sunshine. you will find a job working with the government, but you will hate job. you should not, because that job will be like the manna that god sent to sustain the israelites in the wilderness. you will not get a lot of that job, but you will come out wiser. and you will not starve your wife.

god will keep you there for about two years. he wants you to learn how to be abased, he wants you and your wife to build something out of nothing. you both need to learn to love ech other without the distractions comfort and luxury. this will help you guys depend on each other, this will help you both to be invested in each other, this will help you both to trust each other.

after you learn this, you will begin to see new sunshines, and you will begin to blossom, slowly, safely, pleasantly. you wil grow steadility for the next 4 years, and you will not lose your innocence or your humility. but most importantly you will grow in your relationship with god. you will depend entirely on the holy spirit for every decision you take, you will not be moved by popular opinion. and because of this god will begin to open doors for you that you never imagined.

in 2019, god will give you an opportunity to relocate to the UK. you will accept it. and you will begin a new life. i have told you all of this so that you understand the road will be long, the road will be bumpy, you will experience tears and laughters, but not one moment will be unimportant. the mistake you will make is that you will always be anxious about the future, you will not spend enough time to smell the roses and savor every moment. you will not feel your sadness as you cry, you will not double over and fall as you laugh, you will miss the moments that you should savor because you are constaly thinking of the future. a future that you would never imagine.

i am writing you from 2019 so that you know you made it this far. and when you get to 2019 you will still face a lot of fears, but all you to should remember is to live in each moment because you have a father in god who will not walk out on you. there will be more bumps in the road, there will be more battles you will fight, but you must always remember than in 2010 you felt your world had ended, yet in 2019 you will feel like your world is just beginning.

so, breathe, smell the roses, and enjoy every moment that god gives you.

I am your burning bush

#AndGodSaid:

I see you. I know that you are afraid. Not afraid that I am unable, but afraid that you will miss me. Let me assure you. You worry about whether you will recognize my will and my timing. I am not a God who enjoys failure. I have a purpose to accomplish so I will ensure that I catch your attention, in the same way that I caught Moses’ attention with the burning bush. The call I have on your life is too important for me to not make sure that you do not miss your moments. I am your burning bush. I will attract you. You will not be able to miss your defining moment. I will bring into your line of sight that which you need to see, and I will cause you do that which you need to do. I am your burning bush.

Father, Son and Spirit

God is manifested in three personalities, Father, Son and Spirit.

These three are one being, with distinct personalities and expressions.

We will never see God the Father. Because created man, now and in the future, cannot stand the intensity of the energy that exudes from the Father’s presence.

This is the sole pupose for the existence of God the Son.

Without the Son, we will never be able to relate with the Father. The Son is the body of the Father. The Son is the visible image of the Father. The glory of the Father is experienced visually and audibly in the person of the Son. We can approach the Son. We can wine and dine with the Son. We can have conversations with the Son. We can express emotions to the Son. We can be serious or silly with the Son. The Son is the tangible interface through which we are able to connect with the Father.

And yet, we can only approach the Son after the Spirit introduces us to him.

The Son is only approachable through the express permission of the Spirit. Without the Spirit bringing us to the Son, we are simply spectators of the Son from a distance. The Spirit permits us to come into the presence of the Son; in the same way that a password permits us to access the contents of our email inbox. Knowing my email address does not grant you access to its contents; unless you have the password. The Spirit is the password to the Son.

The bible is a historical narrative that has documented selected experiences of other people’s interactions with God the Father. It is not the word or voice of God. It is a collection of oral and written reports, handed down through thousands of generations, and distributed through several interpretations, to paint a picture of the personality and character of God the Father. It is a history book that fuels in us, a desire to discover our original roots. It is a pointer to the Son, who is the word [visual expression] of God. It is a guide to recognize the voice of God, which is the Spirit.

To know God the Father, is to be exposed to God the Son through a connection with God the Spirit.

PS: God is both male and female.

Let me grow on you

I am in the middle of working on my dissertation when i glanced at my phone on the bed. My phone is a Samsung Note 9, the latest available in the Note series. I have always been a fan of the Note series because of it’s s-pen. I am very particular about having stylii for all my devices; i think i have about 6 or 7 different stylus at any given time for my Samsung Tab S3, Samsung Note 9 and even an Active Pen for my HP laptop.

No this post is not about my devices. As i looked at my Note 9 on the bed, I realized how reluctant i was to get the phone a few months ago. It was, in my view, too large for my comfort. I had grown to using my Tab S3 more over the last few years, and all i ever used my phone for was chatting on WhatsApp and phone calls. So i wondered why I needed to hold a large device in my hand. Especially when it was costing almost 1000 pounds. But since the phone was been paid for, I decided to get it anyway.

And now after a few months of using it, it has become so common to me, and I wondered how I ever lived without it. I now spend more time on my Note 9 than on my Tab S3. As i looked at the phone charging on the bed, the holy spirit whispered to me: Let me grow on you too.

You see, as i continued to use the Note 9, it had grown on me. The large size was no longer an unwanted feature. In fact, the longer i used the phone the more features i discovered about the phone and how useful it is to me, that i no longer had to use my huge Tab S3 that meant the world to me just a few years ago.

The holy spirit continued to speak to me – I have brought you into a place of rest, a place where you do not have to toil as before. It feels weird that you should be functioning from a place of rest, and you are struggling to earn my blessings. But you must understand that my blessings are the gift of a father to a son; they are the expressions of my heartful of love for you; I want to see you giddy like a school boy; I want to see you explore pleasant paths that i have prepared for you, in awe of me, rather than toiling. you see, when i created the garden for Adam , the plan was for him to walk around in evolving discovery. there are layers to me that adam would still be unfolding even today, had sin not come into the world. but i will recreate and restore all of this. i am giving you a shadow of what new life with me will look like, so let my love grow on you, let my mercy grow on you, let my grace on you, let my blessings grow on you; let me grow on you.

I am bigger

A few days ago, God whispered to me in the shower, “I am bigger than everything you fear”.

I have been trying to meditate on those words since then. One of the things I struggle with in my walk of faith is fear. Not knowing the details of things that concern me, not being able to control the outcomes of things that concern me, and overthinking the worst case scenario constantly weigh heavy on my faith.

When God spoke to me his vision for 2019 late last year, he also gave me my first set on instructions. He said “be still and know that I am”. This was further confirmed by the 2019 prophecy from my church – wait and see [the salvation of the lord].

For me, I need to constantly remind myself to be still. I need to remind myself that God is with me and has already done so much for me. It doesn’t matter what challenges I may face today, or what uncertainty I may think of tomorrow, God is the author of my present and my future.

This morning I opened Twitter and I saw a message that reminded me again that my present is the proof that God answers prayers. I remember early this year how afraid I was that God had failed me. Yet today I am living in the prophecy that God gave me. Against all odds.

On this side of eternity there will probably always be something to threaten our faith and our peace. But we can choose to remember that God is bigger than anything we fear.