it is a morning of HOPE!!!

It's a beautiful  morning of Hope!


the beep of my phone was what finally woke me this morning......it was the beep of an incoming text message....and it was twice!!!!

........*WHO COULD THAT BE?*..........

It was a number I don't have on my contact..so I just went ahead to read the text.....still sleepy!

IT'S WAS IRELE.....my irele!

I had to read the text over and over to get the full import of wat she was saying...

She had just finished her 3weeks orientation camp and had received her final posting but,she was concerned about the place of primary assignment that she was posted to!

So I took a deep breathe...as I got off the bed and stepped out to get recharge card..quietly i prayed under my breathe to have the right words...I HAD TO SPEAK WITH HER!....

Her text was that of someone who was disappointed and upset..she had just completed her three weeks orientation camp yesterday and had been posted to a place of primary assignment she didn't want....apparently she had another plan! And that plan was hanging on a thin balance right now!...she was only having that momentary feeling of despair! ....(trust me I can so relate to that,being a usual customer of that route!)

She had been working with a ministry back at home in abeokuta which was in line with her passion.i think she had been hoping to work at the headquarters of that same ministry in the state where she is posted to but apparently she was posted somewhere else....

SHE WAS IN A FIX!...

(Her known place of passion was about to be taken away for some horizon she doesn't know)

She didn't want to leave her passion which was ingrained the ministry she had been working with back at home.

When I got through to her,i began by encouraging her not to forget the lord ruled in the affairs of man and that God does have a plan....(what a thing to say by someone who herself had been upset about being posted to borno state!)...

I continued by saying-

* you don't know what God thinks is profitable to your soul in sending you to this new place!...i quoted to her that *all things worked together for good for those who love God*..and...*that she should be careful for nothing...*

i sighted to her my own personal example of dreaming of minna yet was in fact posted to BORNO state (which she was very much aware of),that state has probably been on news the most in recent times for only bad news,boko haram, chiboks girls,bombings,killings and slaughterings....etc.....

*Think about someone who should be upset!!!*

I said all this while affirming her feeling but telling her to stay in faith God surely has a bigger plan that is presently unknown to her and myself....

I don't know if any of what I said was any help but she sounded relieved!...

I am not a super christain who will beat another believer over the head with her perfect faith...(i was far from that....i am not the gruelling preacher friend who will sight only moment of perfect faith to a friend who was wavering)....i could totally identify with this one....i guess that makes us a priest!

*folks really sometimes just need someone to totally affirm how they feel yet encouraging them not to stay there....

folks sometimes just need someone to encourage them in the times of disappointment and despair...

They just need someone to tell them yes I understand you are scared but it's gonna be alright, God has a plan in that moment when they hit the plains of my-plans-isnt-gonna-work-out!

Commencing a journey of an unknown path can be very scary especially when you have had your own plans...and they seem to be dashed out without you being able to do something about it...it can be upsetting too because of the disappointment you feel in those failed plans....it can also arouse questioning against God and despair!

As I hung up the call to irele, i began to wonder what question I might have to answer for myself in the nearest future....what I was up to facing.....

It was sure I wasn't going to serve in borno state but the-where is presently unknown to me.....

I have had to deal with the shock of being posted to borno.....i had dreamt minna!...i had been quietly upset.....why did he show me the dream of minna?.....why?....i had prepared my heart for minna,i had read about the state countless times,I had even researched about where their orientation camp is(paiko!).

i had even fallen in love with minna, (and when you are in love with a person or a thing, you are bold to talk freely about it, and that was what I did!), i had told the people close to me it was minna(and they believed me until we all beheld borno!)....i had been upset....

All my plans had seemly vaporised into thin air!.

I was left blank ....*planless!*

My life was once again in the hands of my parents who were already thinking of redeploying me.

NO!

MY LIFE IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD!....

I was in a place where I could do nothing...i am helpless...i don't have a plan like before!

...What about my business...HadassaH cakes&cocktails!....what about abeokuta!...what about expression...what about the agapathes!....???? What about this...what about that...???

Those were tempting questions of anxiety that i have had to pass up on in the past 1month.....

I choose to believe I wouldn't take thought for my life...yimu!...which was my top temptation in recent times! ...(thinking about my life!)

Xerxes and bugsy were very helpful in this times...especially Xerxes!.....constantly playing the role I just played for irele.
(i bless God for great people)

I choose to believe God has me where he wants....i AM perfectly in His will!....He has me where He wants me...and that for me is the beginning of a peace that held me steady and content!

I AM in the perfect will of God!

It's a place of REST!

It's a place of total TRUST!

It's the place of BELIEVING!

It's the place of knowing that He rules in my affairs!

It's the place that is He is enthroned upon the troughs and crest that my life goes!

It's a place of affirming that I don't know all but I know HE that knows all is with me...

It's the place where he reign supreme as my king!

I must say there is a peace in trusting....

A joy in knowing that the Lord has a plan...

A blessedness in knowing He is using all this to train me in faith......

A thanksgiving in knowing that all things work together for Good for all who love God and are called according to His purpose.....

IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT...IRELE.....GOD HAS A PLAN

...AND IF YOU ARE READING TOO...I SAY IT TO YOU TOO....GOD HAS A PLAN!...