YOUR EXPECTATIONS, HIS WORKINGS

Hello there!

How are you doing today? It's the last Thursday of April, how has your month been so far? I pray that in these last days before the month runs out you experience God's love more than ever before. 

It's another Guest Feature Thursday! One of my dearest friends, Daniel Adima, has been gracious enough to share his thoughts with us today. I've read it multiple times and I've been blessed each time, I hope you are too by his testimony. 

So, without much ado, welcome to today's gist. 

If we were to divide this year into 3 parts, this would still be the first. This year I adopted the habit of penning down things I’m thankful to God for. Looking back on these first four months since I started, I feel really blessed. The marveling thing about this is, I can’t even put a number on these favors, blessing, & love. Let me gist you about one of such blessings.

The last time I wrote on Achiee’s blog, I was thanking God for the opportunities He had so graciously brought my way on a platter (That was a new job with gratifying pay), little did I know that God had plans. To cut the long story short, I lost the job for reasons I’m just getting to understand now. During the 'job loss' period, I took time to list out reasons why this opportunity, God so abundantly placed on my lap, ended the way it did. Normal human instincts –I blamed myself, blamed the job, blamed my employers, even blamed God for raising my expectations, totally forgetting what the Bible says in Proverbs 19:21. 

Yes, I took out lessons from that period; faced with the fear of how to cope and what to do next, I drew close to God once more. Though, I was still pissed at Him, my closeness to God increased massively (maybe I was still searching for answers to the disappointment). That period made me realize one human trait; it’s only in situations where we are faced with issues that we draw close to God. 

But here's the thing, God is always there: standing, watching, waiting for you with open arms to accept you back into his arms and I pray God grants us the awareness to realize that in times when we are lost, we can always beckon on him for help.

I called upon him during this period, after gaining realization, and as always, I never lacked for once. In fact, during that period I got some temporary job offers, sometimes for only 11 days and with a pay that was equivalent to the entire salary, for a month, that I was being paid at the previous job I lost. Fast forward to 2 months later, I got another job & I am still receiving temporary, contract, job offers. 

Another thing I learnt from this experience was that I worried in vain. I think I've said this before, but I'll say it again: when we face these challenges in life, we forget totally that we have someone watching over us and our affairs just waiting on you to beckon on Him and to trust Him.

Learn to trust God in all situations. If there’s one thing I’m certain of is that God’s faithfulness has never been proven false. 

Thanks Achiee for the opportunity to share once more… hope say your pink gown don set for December😅??

Thank you so much my guy for sharing your testimony with us on the blog today, I'm immensely grateful 🙇🏾‍♀️, and my pink gown don set 😂 (don't mind us, our friend is purportedly getting married in December and we have chosen to wear pink to the wedding😅). 

NLS HOT GIST: We had our first of three 'Body of Benchers' dinner this week at the Nigerian Law School in all the 7 Campuses. To say the conditions of our dinner in Port-Harcourt were dismal is praising it, I've never seen a more terribly planned event in my life. So terribly planned was it that we had a classmate collapse, and eventually die, on the first day of the dinner💔 ( maybe I'll talk about it sometime). Sha just be praying for those of us in Law School because the system seems to be after our lives, literally. 

Well, that's that about that as far as that is concerned, I pray that God will help us to lean on Him and trust Him through our difficult seasons. 

See you next week!

Love,

Achenyo.