DO AS I....

 Hi there!

It's been a minute, how are you doing? How was October for you? And how's November looking? Happy new month!

Welcome to today's gist. 

I have a testimony of something really spectacular that God did for me and I want to share the lesson He taught me from it. 

When I was leaving for strike (strike's over by the way), I took my file home with me, "in case of incassity". It was always in my laptop bag, then one day in August, I realized it suddenly wasn't in it; I had needed to get something from it and I just couldn't find it. I asked everyone in my house and no one knew where it went to, it simply just vanished! Once in a while, I'd look around the house for it but I couldn't seem to find it, I kept thinking "wetin go happen when school resume, my every every dey inside that file oo" but it simply refused to show up. When the strike was eventually suspended, I knew that it had happened now, I really needed to find my file, I began to get worried and I intensified my search but I simply couldn't find it; a lot of thoughts ran through my head "how I want take do am now?" All my receipts for school fees since 100 level, my course forms, literally everything that pertained to my studentship in UJ was in that missing file.  

At the time I was doing a training and I was given a Bible passage to prepare a lesson on: Matthew 14:22-33, and the central lesson I decided to teach on was trusting God. Na me dey prepare lesson on trusting God for everything, na still me dey worry for my file. One day, God literally called me out, He asked me how it was possible that I was preparing a lesson on trusting Him while I was busy doing the exact opposite. The moment I felt that rebuke in my spirit, I worried not. I decided that I was going to trust God to either show me the file or show someone else the file for me. A few nights (I don't know how many) later, God showed me the file in a dream, I woke up and told my sister that I saw my file oo, but now that I am awake I can't remember where I saw it. Before then, I was already wondering if someone, probably my little ones, had mistakenly torn some of the documents in the file then decided to hide it out of fear, but when I woke from that dream, I knew that all was well with my file. Trusting God that I would find the file became all the more easier because I had seen the proof that it was fine. A day to my returning back to school, I was looking among my "I no dey too wear these ones" clothes and as I raised a trouser, I saw my file! I honestly cannot still tell you how it got under clothes I hadn't worn since I went home for the strike, but there it was! Complete and in perfect condition. 

As I picked my file, very happy of course, I understood something very important: it is easier to teach someone to do a thing, than to learn it yourself. I could have gone on and on in my lesson about trusting God while I was myself not trusting God. My lesson from that experience is of course to trust God more, and also to make sure that I am not a "do as I say" person, I have learnt that to teach a thing with words, I must first love that thing, as that is even more important. Another thing I learned was that I really should not wait to see proof before I trust, I mean what kind of faith would it be in the first place if I couldn't trust God without proof? I don't have to wait till I see physical manifestation, Jesus Himself said in John 20:29 that those who believe without seeing are blessed, so I must believe even before it becomes something I can see manifesting.  

Pheeew! Such a long read.... I do hope you found it interesting and we're able to learn something from my long story. 

I'm back now, I think. It was wonderful to take that break but I also felt like my Thursdays weren't complete without coming here to talk to you so I'm glad to be back!! 

Have a blessed month, and see you next week! 

Love,

Achenyo. 

PS, do leave a comment on how the last month has been, I'll be waiting to hear from you in the comments.