Rivers of living waters

When I look at my timeline on social media, I know I am a blessing.

The words I have spoken to my

life over the years have come to

pass over and over again.

Mind you, it was in 2018 I learned

that nothing is evil unless I

agree in my spirit that it is.

I was a moaner and groaner

before then. Looking at the promising future I thought I had when I left the university in 2008 ebbing away

like the tide of the sea.

I was deep in despair, lost in

depression. A minstrel started to

sing on YouTube. I was watching

her in my small office. Then this pastor's message interrupted the song

He said "Nothing happens to you by mistake, you're a product of your words.

Either it is spoken or written, the reality you live today is a product of your words of yesterday. Don't blame anybody for

your failures. Your words are the blocks

with which you build your future.

I will never forget that day

September 18, 2018

I snapped out of misery and told myself good words and poverty is better than

evil words and poverty. I have tried the latter and it led me deeper into the miry clay. It was time to try the former.

I used to be constantly angry.

I and my colleagues at the

office will speak ill of everything

in sight. Our bosses, life, the government, Nigeria, America, the world, God, and his penchant for favoritism. I had lost

my faith and was barely holding on.

The river of creativity had

long dried up in my belly.

All I had left was Mara.

The bitterness of a failed destiny.

The words I spoke led me there.

I changed my thought pattern, I became grateful and cheerful.

It was as if a bulb was switched on

in my head

I got it.

"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith, goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection and to mutual affection, love.

For if these things be in you in increasing measure they will keep you from

being ineffective and unproductive

(in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ) but whoever does not have

them is nearsighted (lacks vision,

creativity and foresight) and blind forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins (inadequacies, mistakes,ills)

2 Peter 1:5-9.

The scripture that changed my reality

I was a pastor for many years and these scriptures didn't make any difference to me until that day. I suddenly realized I was nearsighted and couldn't see the

future the Holy Spirit showed me

anymore because of my stage of mind

I changed.

I started consciously speaking to my

life and destiny.

I was deliberate and consistent.

Daily I call myself blessed

I declare that I have become a blessing.

I declared that everyone who comes across me shall call me blessed

I declared that I am full of joy and gladness!

I disregarded my salary of 60000 naira

as my source. With joy, I began

to draw from the well of salvation.

Joy is indeed a fetcher of glorious

wonders.

It's been four years.

Every day when Facebook brings me memories from the past year,

I scroll all the way down and

I see the how huge the difference was between my far past until 2018 and

how it changed till date.

I used to post about governments

failings and current affairs (I was a journalist and all I saw and attended

were events and news conferences

that I took on as my reality)

I wrote editorials, opinions

and lived a life that saw only the

evil things in the world as news.

I couldn't remember any sermon I preached that didn't result in tears

and mourning and sorrow.

I wanted people to feel sorry for

their sins and I will bring the "sins"

of our leaders to the consciousness

of the church so that they can cry

and plead for mercy.

My favorite scripture was "If my

people who are called by my name

shall humble themselves, pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked

ways, then I will hear from heaven

and will heal their land"

I had forgotten that I belong

to a nation that Jesus purchased

by his blood and all I had to do

was live like it. I had forgotten that

I dwell in Zion and can bring the

reality of Zion to bear in my life.

My land became Hepzibah.

I became Beulah by the words of my mouth and my convictions.

I changed my mindset.

Like Samson at Beit Lahi, just as

I was about to die of thirst, the land

gave way and a gusher gushed forth.

Things turned around for me quickly

I realized angels are attracted to joy.

Their domain is righteousness, peace

and joy in the Holy Ghost.

I found the key to the spring of

fulfillment and I have never looked back.

No politicians or policy can affect my rise in Christ. My life is heading in only one direction Only.

Upward and forward only.

There is no hindrance in my way.

There is no obstacle.

I am the blessed of the Lord.

Nations opened their doors unto me.

Every currency in the world finds its way to me. By free course, the river of goodness and abundance flows to me

I struggle for nothing.

As soon as I desire a thing, it is mine.

My once dried river of hope began to overflow. I became a bearer of good tidings.

When I get to any venue

people present there know for sure

that their tears must dry up

For I am the harbinger of the glory of God

The presence of God abides with me.

I am a custodian of divine verities.

The helped of the Lord.

When the dollar was exchanged for 100 Naira, I was blessed

The rates didn't affect my rising

when it became 632 to 1 dollar

I go out in peace and I return in safety.

My coast is perpetually enlarged.

Favour is mine.

Joy is mine.

Peace is mine.

Love abounds in me.

I am a lifter of destinies from

Obscurity to greatness.

I am the one in whom Christ dwells!

This is the life you should be living.

You have been called into a reality of blessings and glory in Jesus Christ

You can have it all and more.

You can drink of a river that never

runs dry. You can be a channel of blessing.

Again check your timelines over the years and reflect on it's content.

What does it say to you?

Then you will know why my path is

ever shining and my life is rising from

glory to glory perpetually.

I write to believers on that will

come across this regardless of denomination, language and tribe

Turn to the Light.

Leave behind the reality of

griping and complaining behind.

Come into your rest

If these things be in you...

Try this and see that the Lord is good

I bless you in Jesus name

-GSW-

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