Undone.

“Trust enables us to take it slow and easy.”

Christmas is around the corner. With the hustle and bustle of the season, it’s easy to get stressed or frantic with the things that are left undone.

Which gets me thinking. Perhaps what Christ really wants is for US to be undone. Yet again. Undone by the riches of His Love, Mercy and Grace that flow freely from His bosom to ours when we really take the time to rest in Our Saviour and let The One who came in a cradle, cradle us in His arms of peace, joy and righteousness.

When we make spending time with Him our first priority, I’ve noticed that things simply have a mysterious way of falling into place. No stress. No strain. No striving.

Only Grace that accompanies simple, child like trust that says, “I can’t, Lord; but You can!”

Because He can, we don’t have to. We can choose to flow in the slipstream of His Spirit, and watch with astonishment, awe and wonder at how He makes all things align. How His Power rests on us when we feel weak. How He goes to work on our behalf, and suddenly what seemed more important than the reason behind the season, is overtaken by precisely that.

The reason behind the season,

King Jesus👑

Wishing all a time of renewal and revival this Christmas!
🌟🎄⛄️❄️🎅🏻🎊❤️

O Holy Night!

Letting this Sunday night lead me to share a song appropriately six minutes long that shall hopefully transport you into another world that transcends time and calls us by name to embrace the wonder of Eternity.

Born in a manger, Majesty came wrapped in Humility and left a legacy that blazes a trail in and through our lives, a wonder that surpasses understanding but wins our hearts over time and time again.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas week ahead, as we celebrate the birth of Our Lord and Saviour,

Jesus Christ👑

🌟🎄❄️🎁⛄️🎊

A rumble and a roar.

“Rest and rejoice, and you will recover strength.”

Rest is a marvellous gift from God. It is a place where the stillness of His Presence takes over the clamour of the world. It is where we enter into a place of abiding in Christ, gently opening our hearts to Him and allowing Him to lovingly speak to us. It is where His gentle whispers become reverberant echos in our soul. It is where His Voice becomes our pathway, an experience that leaves us changed every single time.

Rest when embraced slowly gives way to rejoicing. We rejoice in who God is for us, regardless of situations and circumstances. We rejoice in the nature and character of Our God; Loving, Kind, Merciful, Faithful, Sovereign, Supreme, Majestic, Unchanging and Unfailingly Good. We rejoice in His integrity to keep His Word. We rejoice that we are held safe within the palm of His Hands. We rejoice because He plans ahead for us and His plans are to prosper us. We rejoice because we have His heart and His Favour, we have nothing to lose. We rejoice because He loved us at our worst, and now that we are in Him, nothing can separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

We rest and rejoice in the nature of God, and we learn to relax.

We relax, and as we do, we come alive once again.

We come alive with intentionality and purpose. We come alive to the wonders that surround us each day of our lives. We come alive to God.

This Christmas season, I hope and pray that as we rest in Him and rejoice in who He is, we will recover our strength. Our strength to believe outrageously, love extravagantly and pursue The Lord passionately. Our strength to go into a whole new dimension of seeing, thinking and perceiving. Our strength to let go of that which is behind us and press on to the hope of the high calling in Christ Jesus.

Our strength to enter into a whole new era that beckons us forth, with a gentle rumbling that suggests nothing shall be the same again and a triumphant roar that declares because it won’t, we can relax.

Blessings❤️

Joy.

“It is the joy of relationship that gives us the strength to endure.”

With promises released from Heaven comes a joyful expectancy of seeing God come through for us yet another time. The joy of seeing our breakthrough manifest is undeniably huge. Jesus says it best,

“A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.” (John 16:21)

Mary had her fair share of struggles as The Child destined to save the world was conceived by The Holy Spirit in her womb. When the angel, Gabriel appeared to her and foretold the plans that God had for her, despite the impossibility of the situation, her response was grounded in a humble confidence that never ceases to inspire me,

“May your word to me be fulfilled.”
(Luke 1:38)

She didn’t have a blueprint for how it was all going to work out, yet she responded in faith. The Child she eventually gave birth to is Our Saviour,

Jesus.

The Child who came as a babe in a manger and hung on a tree for our salvation, redemption and restoration; in order that we may savour the taste of having a constant and consistent relationship with The Father that takes us from one degree of glory to another,

Jesus.

The Child conceived by The Spirit of God now tabernacling with us through The Spirit of God,

Jesus.

The Child whose indwelling presence makes it possible for us to be constantly pregnant with promise,

Jesus.

The Child who came to reveal us as much loved children of God ourselves,

Jesus.

His Love inspires our trust in who He is towards us, thereby giving us the faith to believe. We begin to believe for the impossible and the outrageous, while simultaneously allowing God to cultivate within us the wisdom to not postpone joy to “one day when,” but rather enter into the peace and joy of believing in and through our relationship with Him, in the “here and now.”

It’s this joy that carries us through and enriches us through the process. It’s this joy that supersedes any traces of pain that we may have had to endure along the way. It’s this joy that intervenes on our behalf when we need it the most.

For even joy has a name,

And His Name is Jesus!

🌟

Christ.

“It’s in these moments, I find You simply because I recognise that You’ve found me.”

Even in seasons of much joy and festivity, we all go through times of chaos and difficulty. These are times that are challenging, but also rich. What makes them rich is His Magnificent Presence. It’s a presence that chases me down even when I feel weak. It’s a presence that affirms me in a way no man could. It’s a presence that finds me each time I feel lost. It’s a presence that is tangible, unmistakeable, infinite yet personal.

It’s Jesus.

The joy I feel in my soul each time I am perhaps in need of affirmation or encouragement, and The Lord sends something my way, words won’t suffice to articulate. It’s usually something unexpected yet Heaven ordained. Something that serves to draw me into His Presence afresh. Something that captures my attention in a way that tethers me to the reality of another world.

A world we call Home.

As this season marks the birth of Our Saviour, let us let Him in. Let us let Him lavish His Love afresh. Let us let Him guide us afresh. Let us let Him revive us afresh. And above all else, let us be sensitive to those times that He does, in order that we may receive the incomparable gift of Christmas,

The indwelling Christ.

Blessings❤️

Breathe.

“As You’re breathing me down, You’re building me up.”

My experience thus far tells me that Jesus loves to gently, slowly and lovingly breathe our walls down. Walls that we build up to protect ourselves, to shield ourselves and to preserve ourselves. But the life we have signed up for is one where Christ encounters us as the Lover of our souls and the Defender of our hearts. As we slowly begin to grow in the confidence of His Absolute Nature towards us; loving, kind, merciful, compassionate; He begins to slowly breathe down our walls so we can exhale.

Exhale all fear.
Exhale all anxiety.
Exhale all negativity.

And instead, let ourselves be embraced by the beauty of The One who calls us beautiful. Who calls us beloved. Who calls us fearfully and wonderfully made. Who calls us more than conquerors. And who calls us by name.

As He calls us and draws us towards Him through His loving kindness, we slowly begin to respond, thereby embracing a lifestyle that not only chooses, but delights in having our walls come crumbling down.

Simply because we know that as surely as we have inhaled His Love, it is in the exhalation thereof that we will begin to savour the taste of true life.

Poignant as it may sound, writing this post at the end of the year brings me back to what He had laid on my heart earlier in the year,

“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” (John 12:24)

As surely as I have seen Him breathe my walls down, I have also seen Him simultaneously build me up. The more His Love gave me a capacity to die to self, the more I became vulnerable to coming back to life.

The more I walked this out with My King, the more I realised that even in my vulnerabilities, I am safe because I am held within the arms of Perfect Love.

A Love that never gives up.
A Love that never fails.
A Love that continues unabated.

It’s the perfect time of the year to truly embrace and cherish the beauty of this Perfect Love.

For as surely as He is breathing us down, He is also building us up.

Selah.

Highs and lows

It’s the highs and lows,

And The Lord holds us through it all.

It’s the ebb and flow,

And The Lord will never let us fall.

Though these aren’t quite the lyrics of this song the melody of which has had me enraptured, yet I have not hesitated to share what He laid on my heart in the hope that it may resonate with you too.

❄️

Ablaze.



“What sets the soul free sets the soul on fire.”

The Love of God sets us free to be ourselves and cherish ourselves as He does. His Love brings about the revelation that across the timeline of this Universe, there will never be another version of us. When He made us, He did do with utmost intentionality and affection. He is a Father who delights in that which He creates, and the more we walk with Him, the more encounters we have with Him. The more encounters we have with Him, the more His Love has a chance to reach into the deepest crevices of our being and whisper ever so gently,

“You are My Beloved.”

Friends, we are much loved children of God. He loves us with a kind of Love that sets our soul free from the lies of fear, shame, inadequacy and insecurity; thereby releasing a freedom deep down in our souls where our very being enmeshed with His Spirit creates a passion that eagerly responds to The Love that loved us first.

Jesus Christ

As the season of Advent progresses towards the day that celebrates the birth of The One who came to reveal this kind of extravagant Love, I hope and pray that we will continue to abide in His Love for what sets the soul free, sets the soul on fire.

Together, let’s set this season ablaze!

Blessings️

As Advent continues …

“Just because we haven’t seen it, doesn’t mean He hasn’t.”

That is the very reason He tells us to believe. I recall The Holy Spirit whispering to me a couple of years back as I was struggling,

“The just shall walk by faith and not by sight,
For things make sense only in hindsight.”

Friends, when He gives us a promise, it’s a not just a personal Word from His Heart to ours but a precious gift. It’s a gift that comes wrapped in The Father’s Love and therefore, becomes a guarantee of fulfilment. There are no “if’s” and “but’s” in The Kingdom, only the language of “Yes and Amen.”

So what must we do as we journey towards the promised outcome?

My experience tells me that we must ask The Father to enlighten our spiritual eyes so that we grow up into all things in Christ. We grow closer and deeper in our intimacy with Him, allowing Him to forge and fortify our Identity in Him from one degree of glory to another. We learn to see, think and perceive the way He does. We lean into Him. We engage in conversations with Him. We glean from Him.

The waiting is where we grow. We develop. We become mature sons and daughters who don’t just hasten to unwrap the gift before the intended time, but slowly make our way towards it finding our peace, joy and delight in the pure privilege of partnering with The One who has seen the end from the beginning.

Because He has, we don’t need to.

Instead, we can joyfully give ourselves to celebrating, magnifying and glorifying Him. Not just for the gift of The Promise, but the sheer gift that Our Christ is to us.

Can anything else compare?

I don’t think so.

So come Jesus! We’re waiting ❄️🎄❤️


While.

“While You’re working, we aren’t just waiting. We’re walking.”

God is working all the time. He works tirelessly on our behalf and does more behind the scenes than in front of us. That’s why The Lord asks us to simply, “Believe.”

Even when we can’t see it or feel it, He is at work. Such times are often called, “waiting on The Lord.”

What I’m learning is this. Waiting is not passive, but active. It’s active spiritually. It’s where we learn to find the true delight of putting our hand in His, and simply caving in to the joy of the journey. Walking with Jesus means that He has gone into all our tomorrows. He has lovingly placed kisses from Heaven in each day we live. It may be a surprise gift from a loved one, an unexpected smile from a stranger that lights up our countenance or it may simply be the touch of a gentle breeze that soothes our soul. Walking with Jesus means to be alive to all that He has for us each day we are graced to embrace.

This Advent, I hope and pray, that as we continue to trust Him with all that He has promised to accomplish, we will not only wait, but learn to walk. Walk with a confident expectation of seeing His goodness not only on the other side of the promise, but even through the journey.

Blessed season to all as we walk joyfully hand in hand with The One who is not only coming, but is here with us.

Right here. Right now.

Hallelujah 🙌🏻