Jingles 🎧

Singing this rhyme as I crossed over into October, friends 🍁

Let’s keep the faith, brave the storms, spread the light 💙🤍

Sealed with Love 📨

Dear Friends,

I write today to say God is Good.

He is a Good, Good Father who delights in the desires of our hearts. Yes, even those tender ones that we are tempted to discount. For me, this has meant a beautiful amalgam of Loops + Journal + Bible Study these past few days.

I first saw these loops earlier this year on Jenn Johnson and I immediately knew that I would very much like a pair for myself. Was it the best time for me to indulge?

Honestly, no.

So I laid it down.

Soon after, I saw this journal in the shop next door. It caught my eye, as only some things do. I immediately knew that I wanted to purchase it, yet I wasn’t too sure. Not sure if it was needed, not sure if it even fit my budget.

But I had it in my heart. So I laid it down.

Fast forward to August. I get my hands on this awesome Bible Study by Hannah Brencher and yes, I knew I wanted to dive in. But I wasn’t so sure yet again. I was in a trial and my focus was different.

So I laid it down.

Come September 》New Beginnings

Come September, and God starts to reveal Himself as the Father He always has been, but in a whole new way.

Tender, Gracious, Extravagant.

A Father who is so intimately involved in the details of His Daughter’s life, that even when she forgets, He remembers.

He remembers the what, He knows the where, He orders the steps.

To put it bluntly, the past few seasons have been dark. Staying close to Jesus, I have learned to navigate murky waters and make my way through the fiercest storms. I didn’t know if I could even take it at times, but He carried me anyway.

And He has brought me safely through.

Come September, and God starts to reveal some tender, new truths that suddenly bring a ton of light into my life. He keeps me sensitive to the fact that times and seasons do change, and He is, in fact, Faithful. He tells me to burn the bridges to the trauma of seasons past, and create space for Him to build some new bridges in my life instead.

Some new bridges that will connect the dots… from where I am to where He has promised to take me.

But this also needs faith at a whole new level.

As surely as I have needed faith to sustain me in times of warfare and difficulty, I now also need faith to step into the breakthrough He has fought for me to receive.

“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

(Luke 9:62)

So I decide now to not look back, and instead, to let go of what was so that I can step into what is and what will be..

Legacy as the Script is in the hands of a world-changing God.

So guess what He is doing?

A new thing within the New Thing.

Revealing Fatherhood. Growing relationship. Building bridges..

… for the bridge that links my present to my future is made with the bricks of authenticity, vulnerability and transformation…

And it needs me to open up. It needs me to let go. It needs me to listen to His voice.

It needs me to listen to the still, small voice within. Cliched as it may be, but oh-so-true!

And if I pay attention, I can hear Him.

I can hear Him rap ever so gently on the door of my heart, beckoning me to open up. I can hear Him take me by the hand, inviting me to release control and choose to trust Him instead. I can hear Him bring to rememberance things long forgotten, but only until such a time as this.

Because the Truth is that times do change, desires do come to fruition and promises are made manifest.

And when its time, He can’t be stopped.

“He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them.”

(Daniel 2:21)

He is a Good, Good Father whose unrelenting Love will chase us down till we get it ..

His heart for us that is as true as the still, small voice within.

The tender whispers, the gentle musings that come up, seemingly out of nowhere, and remind me that its time for the loops to be bought, for the journal to be filled in and the Bible Study to be printed.

All because my Father knows. My Father sees. My Father cares.

Which brings me to another point.

The Word of God tells me that He will give me the desires of my heart. No – He won’t give me what I want, but rather what to want. And when He does, I know that He doesn’t give me the desires of my heart to frustrate them, but rather to fulfill them.

Whether it’s a beautiful amalgam of loops + journal + Bible study today, or may be a seemingly more important issue tomorrow, I’m beginning to realise that God is involved in the details of our lives.

After all, everything is small for a big God like Him.

All of this to say –

On the day that marks the beginning of the last quarter of 2021, may we pause and listen for His whisper. And as we do,

May we consider. May we follow. May we rejoice.

May we rejoice in the voice that wades through our thoughts, pierces through the dark, debunks all lies and brings forth light.

May we rejoice in the voice that lifts our spirits, cheers our hearts and encourages our souls to believe at a level that though seemingly outrageous, is only our normal.

May we rejoice in the voice that serves as our GPS and tells us to go another route even when we are convinced that we know what we are doing, and sometimes I think, precisely then.

May we rejoice in the voice that tells us enough price was paid for us to have the permission we need to be free, to be healed, to be whole and to be prosperous.

May we rejoice in the voice that tells us having seen all that you have, you haven’t seen nothing yet.

May we rejoice, friends in the voice deep within – so still, so small, so gentle, so tender – till it becomes the loudest in our lives. Till it is bigger than the narrative and clearer than the noise. Till it redefines reality and manifests life.

Till it is the sole thing that moves us, and as it does, we move mountains.

Till we let that voice win – every single time. Amplified by the sound of our obedience, and not diminished by the clanging of our fear or unbelief.

Till we let that voice have the Final Word.

Because I read the end of The Book, and my Bible says this:

Love wins.

So as I bring this letter to a close friends, I just want to ask you to heed that voice that is deep within you. It may be a tiny flicker, but as you fan it into a flame, know that it only takes a tiny match to set a forest on fire. He is in you and you are in Him – there is no more separation, but only the closeness of relationship. Father and Child enmeshed in Love, proclaiming Victory and rewriting Destiny.

You are a world-changer, just like your Daddy.

And don’t you let anyone tell you otherwise.

Here’s to Loops + Journal + Bible Study! And the treasures of wisdom that go for all eternity!

Love you more than most,
Simran.

👸📚🍁

Made To Bloom

On my walk last night, I clicked this. And some thoughts.

Despite the shadows that lurk, nothing stops the flower from blooming.

It still smiles. It still shows up. It still endures.

Much like you and me, eh?

I’m guessing we’re in good company.

🌸🍃🖤

Good, Good Gifts

I found myself saying this to the Lord the other day, friends.

Though I am not sure why exactly I said this, but it sure was liberating. Writing thus, I am reminded – it is the Truth that we know and stand on that makes us free.

Foxes

I think that we all do subconsciously battle with expectations – what people perhaps expect from us. What they think about us and how they may perceive us. What they think we should do and what they think we shouldn’t. It happens very subtly really – but if we pay attention, we will catch these foxes.

I call these thoughts ‘foxes’ because that is what they are. They slowly sneak in to steal our peace, our joy, our hope, our freedom and before we know it, we find ourselves in a battle that we were never designed for.

For we were designed for Freedom.

Freedom freely given

“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.'”

(Genesis 2:16-17, emphasis added)

When God made man, He gave him explicit instructions to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so that he could be free – free to be himself, free to enjoy a loving communion with God and free to abide in the Tree of Life.

We all know what happened next. The crafty serpent slithers in, sows doubt in Eve’s mind and deceives her. She eats the forbidden fruit and the whole trajectory of human history takes a turn.

Sin enters the world, and we now need a Saviour.

What am I saying all this for however?

Not sure, friends. But maybe somewhere there is a connection.

When God said – you are free – He meant it.

Adam and Eve were designed to be free, but they also had a part to play in order to protect that freedom.

They had to put up boundaries.

Protecting Freedom

When God began teaching me about boundaries earlier this year, He told me something very important –

“Boundaries are to inspire your Freedom, not take you deeper into bondage.”

See?

The enemy wants us to believe that God asks us to guard our hearts and establish healthy boundaries in our lives because He wants to rob us of our Freedom.

Nothing could be further from the Truth.

For the Truth here is that because our Father cares so much about our Freedom that He sent His one and only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to purchase it back for us – He tells us to establish and honor boundaries.

So we can protect that which He has freely given to us.

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

(Galatians 5:1)

The Dual Thief

Friends, in the fast-paced world we live in, we can easily feel burdened. We can feel burdened by the cares of this world – by things like living up to the expectations of man which is a mind-set fuelled by the dual thief of comparison and competition.

We can scroll through social media and easily feel ‘less than.’ We can feel like we don’t have it all together while the rest of the world does. We can judge our struggles by someone else’s highlight reels and feel that life is unfair. We can lose sight and have a distorted view of things if we don’t take care to take our thoughts captive and do what our Father tells us to –

Put up boundaries.

Putting up boundaries is key in learning to navigate emotional and mental health challenges. And the sooner we realise how the tricks of comparison and competition designed by the enemy of our souls are vicious tools to distract us from our destiny, the better off we will be.

And perhaps even more willing.

Even more willing to protect the good, good gift of Freedom that our Father has purchased for us.

Truth that makes us Free

It’s quite simple really.

Our job is not to live up to the expectations of man, our job is to live out the call of God on our lives.

And the call of God is simply this –

• to love God
• to be loved by God
• to love ourselves and others in a godly way.

Friends, we are called to love and serve one another, not compete or contrast against one another. We are each a masterpiece, the Designer’s Original. We each have a specific plan, purpose and destiny assigned to us by God and only we can ever fulfil it.

But we can fulfil it only when we embrace who we truly and authentically are as unique, individual expressions in Christ. We cannot fulfil it if we get distracted by the dual thief of comparison and competition that is always trying to get our focus off of Jesus and onto ourselves.

No.

We have a superior calling.

To fix our eyes on Jesus – the author and perfector of our faith.

For the goal of our salvation is to be transformed into the image of Christ.

He is the Alpha. He is the Omega.

He is our reason for being.

He is the One with whom we lock eyes because He is the One who has eyes like flames of fire. He has the answers we need because above all, He is the answer we need.

He it is who loves us, affirms us and tells us we matter. He it is that fills up the void we feel all the way to the overflow. He it is who validates us, authenticates us and identifies us by name. He it is who comes with both, hope and healing in His wings.

He it is that sets us free and He it is that sends us to then set others free.

But the Truth is that we can only ever give from the abundance of that which we ourselves have fully received. For the good, good gifts that our Father has so graciously given to us can be dispensed only from the point of overflow – an overflow of peace, an overflow of joy, an overflow of hope.

So the foxes have to flee and the thieves have to leave. For whom the Son sets free, is free indeed.

Freely we have received, freely we will give.

These good, good gifts.

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Activation

Where do you feel tempted to compare, contrast and compete friend? How can you be intentional about choosing authenticity, freedom and truth instead?

Dear Friend

Post #400 – Yipee Yay & Thank you!

🎉🎉🎉

Having penned down 400 posts on WordPress, I rejoice. I celebrate you, friend for being a unique part of my beautiful journey. I thank you for each time that you have taken the time to read, like or comment. I love you and praise God for your life.

I also take this as an opportunity to affirm you. You are a precious Child of God who has a very special place in the Father’s heart. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

I do hope that all my writing serves to connect you to His heart and truth. I ask you to share testimonies + experiences with Jesus that you have as a result of being on here.

Joy, when shared, only multiplies!

So as I draw to a close, I will leave you with one last thought –

This cyber space, friend is a safe landing place for you – a precious corner of the Internet where you are seen, valued, encouraged, covered and prayed for. Here, you are fed slices of the Living Bread till rivers of living water spring up from your innermost being.

When life gets hard, you are welcome here. When life seems good, you are welcome here. For Jesus says,

“Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”

(Romans 12:15)

And wherever you find yourself on the map of life, I just want you to know that God loves you. He cares, and He has a good plan, purpose and destiny for your life.

Wrapping my arms around you,
Simran

🤗🖤

2 Fish & 5 Loaves 🍞

The Cinderella Hour

In the weeks leading upto this season, I have had the Lord connect to me at precisely 00:00 in the night. This encounter was initiated each night for three consecutive days in a row as I was in worship. I prayed for revelation, friends; and the Lord finally took me to the Cinderella story on the third night.

Awe struck at the King of glory speaking through not just the pages of Scripture, but even a fairy tale; I couldn’t possibly have kept this secret to myself. So here I am, spilling the beans.

What are You saying, Lord?

I found myself seeking Him. Obviously, I was both amused and curious.

The Lord soon after started showing me different aspects of the Cinderella story through Heaven’s perspective. And what has really been etched out in me as a result is the stunning revelation that the Church has crossed over into ‘The Cinderella Hour.’

The midnight hour.

What do I mean?

Let me give this a fair shot, friends.

The Transition and Transformation

Going over the Cinderella story, I realised that it was precisely at the midnight hour -the stroke of midnight – that she was compelled to leave behind the pretense and the facade of the counterfeit reality where she had morphed from the cinders’ girl that she really was into a beautiful princess to appear attractive to the Prince at the city ball. It was a reality that was fake because it was not her true reality.

Evaluating the sense of purification and refinement that the Church as the family of God has been going through, I knew the Lord had me onto something.

We dig. We discover.

So as I dove into the revelation that the Lord was leading me into, what dawned on me was the truth of our own journey of growth and metamorphosis in the seasons past.

What we have had to navigate our way through in the past 18 months or so has been anything but a cake walk. On the contrary, it has felt more like a steep incline, with dangers and toils strategically placed for us on every nook and cranny.

We have all as a result, found ourselves seeking and discovering God for ourselves. The sense of the pre-eminence of Christ in all things has escalated, and anything that would stand in the way has been torn down.

What sought to threaten us has time and time again, been thwarted by the intervening hand of God, and we have through it all, continued to see Him work all things together for our good and His great glory.

In a time where the sense of isolation has been pervasive, we have managed to find our sense of completion, wholeness and security in Christ only – our true home, our firm anchor and our safe refuge.

False constructs of identity imposed upon us by society, culture and the world have been demolished, thereby setting us free to enter into our truest identity as children of God.

Consequently, we have found ourselves transformed into the knowledge of what it really means to be sons and daughters of the King of glory. We have been compelled to trust Him at a whole new level, and He has not disappointed us.

Hope never will – Christ in us, the Hope of glory.

I write all this to say that what I believe the Lord is lovingly revealing is – us.

Yes.

The Revealing

I believe what God is doing is revealing His sons and daughters who having been through hell, fire and storm; have been found not only ‘still standing,’ but successfully having emerged as the ‘shining ones,’ taking on the likeness of their Father more and more, with each passing challenge.

Forgiveness, trust, surrender, humility, wisdom and love have all been tempered and forged into us and we have now hit ‘The Cinderella Hour.’

‘The Cinderella Hour’ is when we begin to truly behold and become the Lion and the Lamb. We know what the battle really is, and we fight accordingly. The Word of God informs us that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. Our family, friends, co-workers and siblings are notour enemy. The Enemy is our enemy, and therefore we are fighting for our brethren, not against them.

If anything at all, our loved ones are our mission.

The Mission

Our mission is to reach, to love and serve, and to impact our world with the passion of Christ and the love of God. And as Children of God being made into the likeness of His image, this revelation beckons yet another question.

How did the Lord love and serve when He walked the earth in the Person of Jesus?

Like I said earlier – we dig, we discover.

Digging deeper with a shovel in hand, I unearthed some beautiful truth about how He did it. Led into the passage of Scripture where Jesus washes his disciples’ feet, I was deeply touched by the tenderness of the Lord’s compassion and the source of his motivation.

“Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”

(John 13:3-5)

A revelation about the Truth of his identity as the Son of God whose Father had put all things under his power, and that he was returning to the realm of glory to be seated at the right hand of God, provoked but one response from Jesus –

He bent down to wash His disciples’ feet.

He washed them all, despite the knowledge that one would betray Him (Judas) and yet another would deny Him (Peter). He went the distance to show them the full extent of His love for them, and did not consider washing their feet too menial or lowly a task. Rather, I believe that Jesus saw it as His mission – to love and serve all whom He was sent to, and therefore, lead with the heart of a servant-king.

As the Sovereign King, He came as the Servant-King.

Pastor Bill Johnson says something that resonates very deeply with the sentiment hidden within this revelation,

“True significance in Christ is never tarnished by servanthood. Rather, it is revealed through servanthood.”

And somewhere I learn the same from Cinderella.

Diving into her story brought forth much gold, friends.

The Reward of the Faithful

Cinderella truly personifies a heart of servanthood during her stay with her evil step mother and step sisters. She remained submitted to the call of God on her life with a pure heart and a clean conscience.

As a result, Cinderella’s humility + obedience + endurance was richly rewarded by God who not only delivered her post the Cinderella hour, causing the Prince from the city ball to find her, locate her and marry her; but also exalted her to a position where Cinderella, on the other side of forgiveness, was instrumental in finding suitable grooms and partners for her step-sisters.

“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
(Matthew 23:12)

There is so much revelation here, friends. But one thing that really stood out to me was this:

The destiny of Cinderella was never thwarted because of seasons of hardship in her life. The opposite is true rather. For in the hands of God, her persecution only served as a platform for her promotion.

In fact, what the enemy meant to disqualify her became the very thing that God used to not only qualify her, but also promote her and enable her to enjoy the fruition of a hope-filled future.

How much more is that true for us then?

Reflecting back on the past 18 months and simultaneously preparing our hearts for what the Lord will do next is an interesting intersection indeed.

Though we may have been through more than we thought we even had the capacity to endure, we made it. God has brought us safely through. We are still standing and going farther with the Lord than we had originally aspired for. That’s Good News!

We have not come this far for nothing. Some of the greatest moves of God, I believe, are right out ahead of us. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and we who are the Light of the world cannot be hidden – we must be revealed.

And this is where the story gets good.

For the unveiling of Jesus Christ will never be complete without the revealing of His Sons & Daughters. It’s what it means to be the family of God and the household of God. It’s what speaks to our legitimacy as His children. It’s what happens when both, the Bridegroom and the Bride are partnering and preparing together.

Clothed in the glory-garments of righteousness and fully immersed in the consciousness of our truest identity as Sons & Daughters of the King of glory with Heaven as our home, I believe, we have been positioned to be released into the earth to effectively love and serve those that we have been called to.

For such a time as this.

P.S:

I have been writing for nearly 2 years now friends, and this has been the first Prophetic Word that the Lord has given me to share. It is not only a personal revelation for me this season and beyond, but I do believe that it carries some very weighty revelations and truths for all of us as the Body of Christ. I do hope and pray that the Holy Spirit will give you insight as you journey on and not only light up your path, but also light up your world.

For you are the Light of the world and a city on a hill cannot be hidden.

We must be revealed.

Selah.

🕛👑

Break every chain

For it is the anointing that breaks the yoke.

With the advent of social media, I have noticed that comparison seems to be quite a game of the enemy to rob us not only of our joy, but also of our power.

We look at the look of one another’s lives, and seem to believe the lie that everyone has it better off than us. They are more talented, more gifted, more resourced, more qualified. Therefore, God can use them.

Nothing could be further from the Truth.

For Scripture tells us that who God calls, God qualifies.
It is His responsibility to give us everything we need to fulfill our destiny – the right opportunities, connections and resources. And He is not only responsible, He is Faithful.

So what’s the issue?

I think it has to do with us having the right heart.

Broken vessels

God isn’t necessarily looking for the most skilled or qualified people to use for His glory. He can and does use all, but just because we feel that we don’t have all our ducks in a row, God can’t use us – is a lie.

For the Truth is that God works with broken vessels so that whatever is done in them, through them and around them testifies to the power of God at work in their lives, and therefore, brings Him all the glory.

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”

(2 Corinthians 4:7)

So what I am learing is that our power is not in our gift mix or our skill set. It is in fact, in the anointing of the Spirit of God on our lives.

For it is the anointing that breaks the yoke.

It is NOT our gifting or talent that breaks the yoke. It is NOT the size of our platform or the number of our followers that breaks the yoke. It is NOT the processing or the packaging of our resources that breaks the yoke.

Those things are of value, but only with the right perspective. For without the anointing of the Spirit of God, even those things would be void of power.

For the Truth is that it is only and only the ANOINTING of the Spirit of God that can break the yokes off of peoples’ lives and set the captives free. For wherever the Spiritof the Living God is, there is liberty.

(2 Corinthians 3:17)

There is therefore, no need for us to compare or contrast ourselves with others. No need to want what others have and in so doing, not only devalue ourselves, what our Father is able to do with our lives, but also dilute the anointing on our lives – the potency and the power of that which is being cultivated on the inside of us.

Comparison and presenting the counterfeit have always been a snare of the enemy to distract us from the Truth of our real worth, value and mission.

TRUTH: We are of matchless worth.

The Great Deception

Creating a counterfeit version of ourselves, when God is mad about us just the way we are can perhaps be best described as The Great Deception. It started way back in the Garden of Eden, and it still carries on.

Allow me to recount the events.
The enemy of our souls found a way to deceive Eve into eating the forbidden fruit because she really did not have a sound enough revelation of who she was as an image bearer of God, in the first place.
Tempting her to eat the forbidden fruit, the enemy’s dialogue with Eve is something I strongly encourage you to take note of.

“‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman. ‘For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'”

(Genesis 3:4, emphasis added)

Notice what he says.

He tries to convince Eve to eat the forbidden fruit so that her eyes would be opened and she would become like God.

But wait a minute.

Didn’t she know that she was made in the image of God and therefore, was already like God?

“So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.”

(Genesis 1:27)

There was no need for Eve to eat the forbidden fruit in order to become like God because as His image bearer in the earth, she already was.

She had nothing to prove to anyone.

She was free.

God had designed her to be free, but she chose to relinquish that freedom by attaching the affections of her heart to the inferior.

The Great Deception – is what I call it.

The Good News

But the Good News for us is that we can learn from this so that we do not have to fall prey to his schemes and tactics.

Will he try to tempt us, deceive us and distract us into things like comparison and performance?

Absolutely.

Do we have authority over him though? Can we choose better?

Absolutely.

Friends, I am learning that God cannot bless a pretend version of who we are, but only the authentic, the original, the masterpiece of His design and make.

That is something He can work with, something He can anoint, something He can endorse, something He can sanctify, something He can wield for His glory.

This is where I believe God desires a right heart – one where the posture of the heart is surrendered before the Lord and the affections of the heart are anchored in the Lord.

We are not talking here of perfection or performance, but rather of the power and beauty of an authentic, submitted and intimate connection with the Father. We are talking of what God can and will do with a life that is whole-heartedly yielded to His will. He is not looking for our perfection, but rather for our availability.

He is longing for us to come to Him just the way we are and trust Him with our broken pieces. He invites us to move past the point of our pain and dare to believe Him to do what only He can do.

There is power in authenticity.

Whatever is authentic, will be anointed.

For when we embrace our authenticity and dare vulnerability, power is released through our lives because it carries the sound of freedom. And the Gospel says that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free and he whom the Son sets free?

Is Free indeed.

Unlocking our authenticity is unlocking our anointing as there is power in our freedom.

And the Good News is that we have permission to embrace it.

🔥

A Good Team

“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

(James 5:16, NKJV)

I have slowly allowed myself, friends to develop the habit of praying instead of fretting.

My natural bent, I admit, would be to worry. But having walked with the Lord thus far has enabled me to realise that because He is with me, I have no reason to worry or be anxious anymore.

No legit reason whatesoever.

Now does that mean that I don’t get anxious?

Absolutely not.
Of course, I do.

But I have no reason anymore to stay that way.

I can instead, pray.

Prayer, quite simply, is close connection and communion with God. It is a chance to engage in a relational dialogue with the Father and get real with Him. It is an opportunity to express my truest feelings and let myself flow in the beauty and the authenticity of the freedom that my relationship with Jesus inspires.

It is also a place where I am shaped and forged. For it is in the secret place where I get to yield my will to His and exchange His thoughts for mine. It is here that I know I can lay down the burden of the ‘performance anxiety’ that I am feeling and instead, let myself grow into the gift of the full acceptance of the Father. It is here that I am able to embrace my imperfections and my vulnerabilities simply because His strength is made perfect in my weakness.

It is also in prayer that I can transact and bridge the gap between what Jesus has died for me to receive and my current reality. Here faith is the currency of exchange as I seek to draw from what Jesus has already put in my account, and I need only ask, seek and knock till the door is opened for me.

Prayer is when Heaven touches earth and nothing is going to be the same any more. But isn’t that the reason why the Gospel is called ‘Good News?’

I reckon.

In prayer, I assume the responsibility of partnering effectively with the King of glory as well as tap into the delight of being a much loved Child of God. I rejoice in the Lord who has gone before me and call down things that are not as though they are. I learn what it is to walk by faith and not by sight.

I prophesy so that I can testify. I believe before I see. I trust even when I can’t understand.

Here it is that I meet my Creator face-to-face, skin-to-skin, bone-to-bone as I work out my salvation with awe and wonder.

Ok. Coming back to my tendency to fret.

Let me share a verse from Scripture, friends.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

(Philippians 4:6-7, ESV)

The Word of God here is talking of a beautiful barter exchange – an exchange of our yoke with His.

We give Him our yoke which is oh-so heavy and burdensome, and receive His in its place, for His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He offer Him our worries in prayer and cast all our cares on Him because He cares for us. Joyce Meyer says something quite profound,

“Cast your care, but not your responsibility.”

So what is our responsibility?

To pray, to trust and to partner.

To do what He shows us to do, and trust Him with the results. The process is our responsibility, the outcome is His.

And He is Faithful.

Takes the pressure off, doesn’t it?

So as a result, I am honestly doing much better than before, friends. When I find myself even starting to get anxious, I am learning to still myself in His Presence and pray instead.

Suffice to say,

That’s how I fight my battles.

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