The Original Witness Is Always Inward

As a minister, you will meet several people who will come to you to complain about the direction of their lives and how they are sure they were doing everything God told them to do, but not only are they not finding joy in what God told them to do, they are not successful at it.

You wonder why.

Why would God tell you to do something that you find no pleasure or joy in?

Why would God make your life unnecessarily burdensome by making you do something that is tedious and demanding of your all, without offering you any form of delight or rest in the fulfilment of that purpose?

That does not sound like God at all.

The place of fulfilment for every man or woman is the place of doing what they are born to do.

Nothing satisfies like destiny

Nothing stills a restless soul like coming to a place of fulfilment of purpose and destiny, and nothing troubles a soul like a lack of fulfilment.

You sometimes come across people who have made a lot of money but are still restless and searching for meaning because their success felt hollow and devoid of a sense of accomplishment.

Money cannot buy fulfilment

A man or woman who has come into a place of fulfilment in life would automatically stop wandering and rest.

When you ask such people how they knew they were doing what God told them to do, their usual response would be "A prophet told me God wanted me to drop everything I was doing in Nigeria and travel abroad because this is where my destiny lies. Now I am here, and my life is worse for it."

A prophet told me to drop everything I was doing and start a ministry. I obeyed, but my life has been a struggle since then.

A prophet told me to marry this man, and from day one, it has been hell for me.

A prophet told me to start this business, and it has been loss after loss for me from the day I started.

In every instance, without any exception, the instructions they received from the prophet did not come as a corroboration of what they already knew or what they were already skilled at or gifted at or what the Lord told them in their hearts one-on-one.

In most cases, the word of prophecy took them away from their comfort zone into a territory that they really had very little conviction about.

This is why people fail.

The word is nigh you

The instructions of the Holy Spirit must first be real to you in your spirit before a second or third person would come to you as a witness to confirm what you have already heard or known in your heart due to your relationship with God.

A lot of people have no relationship with God, but they claim all the time that God gave them an instruction or told them to follow a path or do something.

Such people are very easily deceived.

External promptings are popular in the Old Testament of the Bible because the Holy Spirit had not come upon the people of God at the time.

In Hebrews 1, the preacher said God spoke to our early fathers in different ways. He spoke through the early preachers. But in these last days, He has spoken through His Son. God gave His son everything. It was by His son the God made the world.

The Son shines with the shining greatness of the Father.

The Son is as God in every way.

We all know that John had in his documentation of the last support in John 14, 15, and 16, Jesus described the Holy Spirit as the Alos Parakletos. (One like me)

This then refers to the Spirit in the Believer as the Spirit of Jesus or the Spiritual dimension of the person of Jesus.

In essence, every born-again Christian is guided by this inward dwelling Spirit and not by a word of guidance or prophecy by the external instruction of any preacher, prophet, or pastor.

Those who do not cultivate a relationship with the Holy Spirit within them but depend on the word of a pastor or prophet as the word of God are opening themselves up to spiritual manipulation.

A whisper of "I like that brother" in the pastor's ear, and he might tell you a sister who didn't like you in any way is your wife.

A whisper from your parents in the pastor's ears could influence you to study a course, believing you are studying the course in obedience to the will of God.

So many believers have been set on the wrong path by prophets who really didn't hear from God but pretended to do so in order to retain their respect and relevance to the person whose destiny they were fiddling with.

In 2008, right after I graduated from the University, I registered myself at the CMD library in Lagos and began to fulfil my ministry.

I had received from the Lord on September 17, 2007, several instructions regarding my life and destiny.

I knew I was destined for ministry and that I would be a teacher and a writer.

My mates graduated and started pursuing employment, entrepreneurial activities, and so on.

I had no drive to do such things

I felt no energy, zeal, impetus, or enthusiasm towards finding a job or starting a business or working for that matter.

I was convinced I had to go into ministry, but I also didn't want anything to do with planting a church and becoming a pastor or the like.

I had read "In Touch," a document from Dr Charles Stanley's ministry and other materials, and felt like producing or writing such materials, but instead of publishing them, I wanted to share the materials digitally.

The question everybody asked me at the time was "How does this translate into money for you. How would you feed yourself and start a family without a job?

I had no answers, but I started anyway.

I titled the daily devotional "Daily Laughter," and I began to write daily and send them out by email to hundreds of contacts, which I had painstakingly gathered from several sources.

The CMD library provided me with electricity and a place to go every weekday.

I was doing what I was called to do, and even though I had no money, I was on top of the world.

The mistake I made was the "If you will like to support this ministry, send your donations to......" line that I attached to the email daily.

Months after I started, I received a phone call from an old schoolmate who happened to be on my email list and who was getting the daily devotional in his inbox daily.

This brother insulted me so much that I still felt the sting.

"Go and look for a job, you scoundrel. You are going about deceiving people that you are a pastor or a preacher instead of getting a job so that you can feed yourself and your family.

You are waking up, writing devotionals and stylishly begging for money from people to support your ministry.

Nobody will give you a dime, lazy bones!

The Holy Spirit sent me to rebuke you, he said I should instruct you to go out there and get a job immediately."

That phone call changed everything.

I stopped writing.

I went to look for a job

I started out with Prime Shelter on LTV as a freelance writer before becoming a producer with a media outfit in Anthony and later a News Producer with CORE TV.

I hated my life in those days.

The thing the brother said, the Holy Spirit told me to do, I was doing it with tears and sorrow.

It is one thing not to be financially settled; it is another thing to live your life feeling as if you are running out of air to breathe every second.

Five years later, I got a job with a church as a PA, and I had a visitor. A colleague of mine named Frank Omolapeh, a broadcast journalist.

As we talked about my new job and what I should do with some of my downtime, this brother said, "Write. You have a natural flair and talent for it. Use it for the Lord."

Wow.

It was what I had always been called to do, what I started to do before I was derailed.

I began to write

I began to share the gospel in my own unique way

I began to share and demonstrate the fullness of the power of God in the land of the living.

This was twelve years ago.

Obedience has taken all over the world, as far as China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and as close as every state in Nigeria.

I have sat with kings, rulers, leaders of all categories and kinds. I have literally seen the word of God come to pass in my life progressively.

I enjoy doing what I do, and I do it effortlessly. I have practically forgotten what it means to labor and toil.

I am working now at 1:35 AM Nigerian time, and I am doing so of my own will and with the aim of pleasing the Lord.

This is what it means to find yourself positioned right in the middle of your destiny.

If you are doing something, even if it is pastoring, lawyering, doctoring, singing, dancing, or prophesying, and it is a chore and a labor for you.

It is not from God.

God brings the best out of every believer from a place of rest.

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