HE CAN BE TRUSTED

My mantra for the past one month has been “God is kind and He can be trusted”. I don’t know how I got it but I know it’s been in my spirit for the past one month and I have a deep conviction about the words.

MY TESTIMONY

I would like to share a particular testimony with you, my friends, this one blew my mind in a way because it was completely obvious that it was beyond my effort.

Sometimes in 2019, I think November precisely, I knew in my spirit that there was something big coming my way, I know that the father was setting me up for something big. I didn’t know how, but I took a posture to receive and I became hungry for the more.

I stepped into January, hmmm… guys, everything changed, even I didn’t understand. (Gist for another day). I started receiving strange instructions and visions. Instructions like God telling me to wake up at a particular hour to pray and declare the word. The Sunday after, my spiritual mother set up a small group in church and in a way, made me like the team lead, I was practically responsible for the meeting. We usually meet every Sunday after the service.

Let me quickly add here that I started to pursue professional certification in my career, and my classes were always on Saturdays and Sundays. And my exams were coming up in February. It became a struggle for me to attend my Sunday classes because of the meeting in the church. My friends in my tutorial center became so worried for me because I had not covered anything and I was going to write 6 courses. Monday to Friday, I’m off to work. Midnight, I have to wake to pray as led by the Holy Spirit.

Even some Saturdays, I won’t be able to go for classes because I went for a vigil or I would go to class and sleep almost all through .lol... 

I remember vividly, it was the last Saturday in January 2020, I was instructed by my spiritual mum to attend a meeting, it was a 7 hours meeting. As I left the meeting that Saturday, I had tears in my eyes, asking God how I was going to pass the exams, I was worried because I know I don’t have an idea about the 6 courses I was going to write exams on. I was going to board a vehicle home, and I decided to buy roasted plantain and as I paid the woman, I forgot to collect my change, she called me and said in Yoruba “My daughter, what are you thinking about, is it your exams, you will pass, God would help you”… what? I started crying like God, you had to use this medium to console me. I was reassured and I had hope again.

 God is indeed a Father, He always reassures us, He knows when our heart is weak and He knows the exact words to say to us. He doesn’t always leave us to the Journey to figure it out, He’s there every step of the way.

GOD CAN BE TRUSTED

February came and I had just 2 weeks to my exams. I still didn’t have an idea about how I was going to pass but I  did something dangerous, I told God, I said “ Lord, if you can make me pass this exam, I would pay for three people who can’t afford these exams in the next diet”. Meanwhile, even me when I made the vow, I had not paid for my exams oo, but I knew God was going to sort me and He did.

Fast forward to the week of my exams, the exams were starting Thursday, so I went to class on Sunday and there was a particular course that was a big deal in fact people paid the lecturer for extra classes. The man just spotted me and said, He’s not been seeing me in class and he told me to see him after the class. Then I met him after the class, he asked why I have not been consistent in class and asked if I knew all the topics in the course and which of them was giving me issues, I told him, all of it …lol. He gave me his number and told me to call him when I got home, on getting home he told me he was going to volunteer to teach me all I need to know to pass my exams. He told me to meet him at his office the next day… Guys, I didn’t pay a dime and this man taught me like for three days. By Thursday I was ready for the course.

I called a classmate of mine that was diligent, I photocopied her notes and I read for the other courses.

Here’s the brainer, lol… Meanwhile, there was a vigil we’ve been preparing for before my exams, but because my exams were on the same day with the vigil, I decided to tell my spiritual mum that I wasn’t going to come for the vigil, that I had exams. She replied my text 2am on Tuesday, that was her the longest text to me….and she explained a lot in the text but here’s what got me most she said “ You not coming for the vigil is a tale sign that things aren’t supposed to work, but because you am light, you take charge and allow nothing to stop you”. I then decided to go for the vigil, I finished my exams on Friday, I told my friends that I had a meeting and I would be back in the morning, they got really pissed, they were like I know it is church you are going, why would you not focus on your exams, the meeting can wait they said all sort. I attended the vigil and I knew it was a test of my faith. That night was awesome, it launched me into the depth that even me till tomorrow, I don’t understand it.

I got back to the exam center in the morning, I was tired, I took a small nap and viola... it was time for exams, I couldn’t go over the notes. I was scared yes, but I had faith. I got to the hall, hmmm, I didn’t know jack… I wrote with … I got out my friends asked me the answers I wrote down, my answers were wrong. and they said to me” It was because you chose your meeting over this course” I just smiled and said if only they know.

Guys, I saw the results of the exams during the week, I passed all… I mean all... some of those that studied all nights, failed some of these courses. I passed because God is Kind not because of the vows that I made; the vow was just like something I wanted to do to honor God. Even if I didn’t make the vow, he would still have made me pass because HE IS GOD AND HE CAN BE TRUSTED.

MY LESSON

God saw the obstacles that would come your way before He gave you the assignments. Nothing catches him by surprise. Yours might not be exams, church vigils like mine, it might be for your family. No one seeks God and ends in shame. No one.

I encourage you today to seek Him with all of your heart. And trust him, remember, everything would work against you so you can choose the easy way and the logical way. The logical way is not the way to please the father, the Holy Spirit is the guide that teaches you what is right.

I would leave you with this scripture; Philippians 2:13 “It is God that works in you both to will and do of His good pleasures”. The very thing you want to do, it is God that gave you the desire to want it in the first place and it is Him that would teach you how to go about it so it won't become an activity but instead it would please him and that’s where the reward is.

Trust you were blessed?

Till I write to you again… GOD IS KIND AND HE CAN BE TRUSTED.

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All my love.

Tolulope.