Equipping young women professionals with young families to find fulfillment, contentment and joy as mothers and home makers without losing sight of who they are as women.

Volume 08, Issue 04; Board Your Bus

I have heard someone lament “Why isn’t God blessing what I am doing? Why can’t God give me even just one breakthrough? I love God, and my intentions are right. Why isn’t He helping me?” As much as their frustration left my heart breaking for them, what came to mind as I reflected on those questions is that God has no obligation to bless what He has not asked you or equipped you to do.

I believe God is always doing different things with different people every time. Our visions are not all similar, but there’s something for everyone. What is God rallying you behind this year? What vision has He put before you? Are you embracing that vision or running away from it? If God wants to do something, He will do it, with or without you, because you are not his only child. There are many of us, and He will work with whosoever will.

I have written about catching your vision for the year and running with it. I imagined I was on that route but it turned out I hadn’t caught my vision for 2018 yet. The start of last year was awesome for me. God released a great vision for me through my assembly and I caught on real quick. It didn’t take long before I penned down in great detail what that vision meant for, what my tents were, what I wanted God to enlarge, what stakes I wanted strengthened, and what cords I needed lengthened. I diligently rallied behind what God was doing around that vision all year long and got a lot out of it.

Come this year, I expected another grand vision. When my new pastor announced our theme for the new year, which turned out to be the theme for the entire ministry, I thought he failed us. I wanted a specific theme for our assembly like we had last year and the years before, that rode upon the overall theme for the entire ministry. But this new pastor didn’t have it, or so I thought.

I presumed the theme was broad and general, not specific for our assembly. I thought it had nothing for us to connect with and make returns on individually. Boy was I wrong. This morning in my quiet time, I learnt that the main reason I was hesitant to catch this vision was that I didn’t want to lose out on the grand work God did last year. I wanted to hang onto that, or move on to something similar.

Now I see that I was wrong. I can't imagine I almost missed the bus, missed my bus! I almost missed out on what God wants to do in my life this year, on account of wanting to hang on to what He did last year. The truth I learnt this morning is that I have nothing to lose out on what God did last year. Since I tuned in, those gains are mine for the rest of my life, and the balloon can only get bigger, not smaller. Those gains can never be reversed as I continue in communion with the Lord.

I now see that God had a plan for me and my fellow congregants this year by starting with last year’s plan. He enlarged our tents for a purpose. He enlarged us to position us for impact. Now I know that His enlargement agenda wasn’t just for last year. He intends to keep it that way. Armed with this revelation, I am now ready to move on with Him to His agenda for me for this year, positioned for impact.

God wants to position my fellow assembly congregants and I for impact, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and I am not going to miss out on that. And to think that I almost missed that! Unbelievable. My eyes are opened. I have bought my ticket and boarded my bus. I don't have it all figured out yet but the game is on.

God is always doing something. Sometimes when the year passes by and we have nothing to show for it, it’s not because God passed us by, but rather we didn’t plug in to what He was doing. We had our own agenda that God had no obligation to bless. Just because everyone is investing in real estate for instance doesn’t mean that is God’s agenda for you. Find out what God has lined up for you and plug in to it. There are several buses being boarded at the start of this year. Only one of them is yours. Don’t miss your bus.

For His Glory,

Lillian Chebosi