Go back to your testimonies

Hi friends, how are you doing? How has your week been so far? As for me, it has had its ups and downs, but Abba always shows forth Himself. While thinking of what to write to you today, nothing came to mind. I paused the podcast I was listening to and made a short prayer,

Lord, tell me what to tell Your people. I don’t want to say what is not from me to them because this isn’t my platform, I am only a vessel. Like Paul writes to the church, I write to Your people. Unless there is nothing You have to say, drop a word in my spirit and guide me while I write.

Almost immediately, as I left my room, my mind was taken back to earlier this week and I heard this voice impressed on my spirit, saying, go back to your testimonies.

Quick question, how many of you have watched this new movie on Netflix, The Wait?

It’s a phenomenal movie that talks about the life of a believer. It’s so easy to say to someone, hold on, God is working for you but what we don’t realize is that we’re human beings and we’re wired in a way that we get from someone before we can trust.

What is trust even? Google defines it as a firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.

Trusting in a God that you have never seen, believing the promises He has given to you when you don’t even have a child and your wife has passed her prime, like Abraham.

See eh, in this life, I want the kind of faith Abraham had, we will come to that soon. Let’s focus on why I brought up the movie, towards the end, one of the ladies waiting for a child goes back to her journal and it broke her how far she had turned away from God.

On Tuesday, I was invited to a youth fellowship and what a coincidence that the topic they spoke on was Faith. I know for a fact that Abba keeps bringing that word to me because it has taken me a lot of time to have faith but when I talked at that gathering, I reminded myself of something. We were asked, how can we have faith in God? And I said they should go back to the previous miracles that God has done for them.

There’s a lot going on in the world and that makes it easy for us to be drowned in the noise of the problems we’re facing that we forget that there is King who sits in the Heavens with the earth as His footstool, who can help us. Waiting for us to call on Him, to wait on Him. I shared the testimony of when my parents wanted to relocate to a foreign land. Visa application all done but it was as though only negative news was flying around that period. On the group chat they would talk about how they’re returning families back to Nigeria, or denial of visas and for us it was taking a long time. One day a voice asked me, what do you want as a birthday gift? I simply said that I want their visas to be approved, that’s the only thing I want. After that instance, I moved on like it was already settled. During morning prayers or night prayers, fasting and all that, my parents would say we should begin to ask God for the visa. I stopped asking Him. I started thanking Him. Really thanked Him as though we held the evidence in our hands already. When my mom wants to talk negatively, I’d tune her mind to the positive track. On my birthday, exactly a week after that encounter, my father comes home with the biggest smile on his face, the passports all approved in his hands and I knew that it could only be God.

Why am I sharing this? I’m trusting God for something and it looks like it’s falling on deaf ears but it’s really not. This letter I’m writing is not just for you but for me as well. To encourage you that the same God who gave you Isaac can give you children as many as the stars in the sky. When I shared that testimony, I realized how much faith I had in God then and how I didn’t have any now. I felt like crying, screaming, but that gentle reminder came, He’s working for you. You cannot see it, but you best believe that He’s working it out for you. He exhausted all of my options until the only option I had was Him. His option is better though, it’s less stressful and tasking but I was in such a hurry that I could have gotten in trouble.

The lady went back to her journal. Let’s take a pause there, and think about it for a moment. I want to urge everyone reading this, get yourself a journal. Write. His promises to you, your thoughts, letters to Him, questions, prophecies, write them down. You will need it someday. Next thing, after reading this, I want you to sit in your room, shutting out all the distractions, take a trip down memory lane and ponder on the ways that God has come through for you. I want you to consciously remember them, as you remember, write them down. The songwriter says, count your blessings, name them one by one, see what God has done, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. That story is one out of the many other ways that He has come through for me. Go back to your testimonies. Testimonies are powerful.

Before David went after Goliath, he testified of his victory over the lions and bears. Those testimonies are to remind you that if God brought you out of that situation, best believe that He can level that mountain before you. Abraham’s faith marvels me till today. I went out today and was talking to God because I really needed to let things off and He’s the only one I could do that to and feel the burden lifted.

I told Him I want that faith that I had to trust in Him. I want the faith that Abraham had to the point of sacrificing Isaac. Like, when Isaac asked his father where the sacrifice was, Abraham answered that the Lord will provide, and I said what if He didn’t provide? Abraham was about to sacrifice his son when the Angel appeared to Him. God told Abraham to move and he moved. That’s a lot, and I want that and I want anyone reading this to desire it. When I was returning home, the Holy Spirit prompted me to change my prayer from doubts to thanksgiving. Thank you Lord because you have done it for me.

Friends, today, I want you to change how you view God and I want you to start building this faith in Him. Let’s do it together and put the devil to shame. That business, that school, that job, that spouse, stop complaining to God, start thanking Him for it. Start living a life of Thanksgiving not leaving it to Sundays alone.

Pray this prayer,

Dear Father, have mercy on my for my unbelief. I am sorry that I doubted your power in my life, in this situation. I am sorry that I resorted to other options thus putting you last. Forgive me Father. I chose to trust You even though I cannot see anything. I know the plans and thoughts You have for me, they’re good plans, to help me prosper. You know what I need, and I know that You’ll give me the best. I trust you in this situation so I am thankful that You have done it for me already. Let Your spirit strengthen me when I grow weak, and let it remind me of Your faithfulness in the past seasons that I may hold on to that truth. You are never late, and never too early. In Your due Season, You make all things work out. I’m in a win - win situation, because when when it looks like I’m failing, I am winning. When it looks like things are falling apart, You are right there putting the pieces together for me. Blessed be Your name forever more, Amen.

With that, I have come to the end of my letter. I hope that this blesses you and gives you the reassurance you’ve been desiring. Go back to your testimonies.

See what the Lord has done by Pst. Nathaniel Bassey should be your anthem. Until I write to you again, take care.

~Lessiwrites🫶🏽