From One Level of Glory

 Here we go again,another week...another beautiful article,I already feel blessed let me tell you...lately I've been telling God I hope and pray that my life,my story,my testimonies,my gifts everything that embodies me makes another person see what it's like when we give you our yes...when we surrender to you,I hope they will believe in your power again God I hope the holy spirit will touch them let it be none of me and all of you,I want them to have a divine exchange with you,I hope it opens a path of a more intimate relationship with you,that they will believe they are connected to the same power this girl keeps writing about,that the same spirit in me is also in them...I know we can have a deeper connection with God,I know we can know him for ourselves,I know that all we have to do is go to your word and pray,to seek you...I just want us to know God honestly...there is so much depth so much power so much love connected to him,I can't even explain it,no words can describe it,no words can describe how good and mighty he is...our Majesty our lion of Judah...lately I've been loving this word,lion of Judah...

Anyway let me give you a little story,in fact my testimony...yeah I love that word...I always insist the importance of surrounding yourself with people who call you higher who make you a better person in the full scope of life, people who don't just tell you things you want to hear but things you need to hear no matter what...I love surrounding myself with powerful women starting with my mother,sister,friends,mentors and generally women I look upto...do we want to talk about the woman in proverbs 31 though,our babe raised the standards, sometimes it feels too high haha...I love her though.

Okay let's get back to the topic at hand,my testimony,in my mind it seems little to be called a testimony,in my heart I desperately want to keep it hidden because I love it that way,yet in my spirit something keeps telling me to put it down and give God the glory he deserves for what he did,let another person take this revelation and know it's possible even for them...one day I was listening to my woman Stephanie Ike,she was doing a series on modernization of witchcraft which I was following along keenly,that day she was speaking about God convicting her to spend more time with him in his word...honestly I related so much because God had done the same for me and I was still trying to navigate it making it a habit,I remember writing about it in my when heaven is silent article,go read it if you haven't it will bless your heart I promise...I remember her saying how it was hard at first especially concentrating while reading,she did it for a few months and it kept getting better and one day the spirit of God came into her room and all she did was bow down on the floor,she explained how the atmosphere changed suddenly and she was in awe...I couldn't relate to this part at all,I had never experienced anything like this in my life...so I shrugged it off and took the part of the story that I needed...how reading the Bible gets better and more deeper with time,that am not the only who has had such a struggle. Life moved on,till last week.

I remember I was sitting in my bed,I felt so down,so stressed so worried so anxious,I had been in this head space for some time because of the difficulties I was facing in this season...negative thoughts bombarded me,I couldn't even sleep I kept thinking when this season will come to an end,I felt I had no control over my mind...I felt alone...and I remember sitting in my bed wondering why I kept going from a good head space to a bad one,why I couldn't lay hold on God and trust him,I just want to be free from the anguish...the sadness the train of negative thoughts,I felt so powerless to fight them on my own...but I remember a voice in me saying kneel down and pray,and I looked at the floor,that floor was the same place I prayed last year,it's where I said yes to God,it's where I felt like my stomach was on fire,like something was being stirred in me,it's where everything shifted,nothing went back to the way it was since I got up from that floor...and with this remembrance fresh in my mind,I knelt down,in the same floor beside my bed,I had no words to tell God all I did was cry,I cried I couldn't control it I felt overwhelmed I felt like I was losing the battle with my mind I was tired of the stress the anxiety and worry I was tired of everything and I told God I refuse to live like this I refuse to live in doubt or stressed I refuse to be ruled by negative thoughts,I refuse to live and operate as if I don't serve the living God...i don't want to stay like this anymore and God you said where your spirit is there is freedom and liberty so God am not telling you to change my mind or shift it I am praying for your spirit God...come down God please show up right in this space in this room exactly where I am show up God you said where your spirit is there is freedom,I remember crying while saying this and I finally told God I was not leaving that place till he showed up I will stay right there...I remember just kneeling down crying then all of a sudden the mood changed,like the whole atmosphere guys I wish I can put it into words what I experienced but all I can say is I  was in awe,I just felt something shift in me,I started praising God  and worshipping,I couldn't even control it,it came naturally from my mouth,like my body my lips were moving on their own accord...I kept saying thank you God hallelujah the doubt was not there anymore not even close in fact I couldn't even remember why I had knelt down anymore,something had taken over,I just kept worshipping and thanking God I kept saying thank you I felt different,like I was on fire,I wanted to jump up and down I wanted to cry tears of joy I wanted to shout to the rooftop I wanted to sing I felt all kinds of happy emotions,I sat on my bed still trying to understand what was happening,still in disbelief yet so much joy and it hit me God was with me there...I  bowed down and prayed...I can't even remember the prayer or the words I uttered because I was in awe...

I prayed and felt the need to worship,I remembered a song I had heard earlier and downloaded it...it's the on time God song,my previous article is based on it because as I started worshipping God told me to go and read about the widow who fed Elijah with her last piece of flour,what's crazy is the more I worshipped the more this woman came in my mind,I remembered how God had used her to feed his servant Elijah and even when she told Elijah that she was preparing her last meal which then she and her son would die Elijah told her to prepare him a cake and then do as she had planned... because just at the midnight hour just when you think it's over it's finished you lost nothing is left for you to hold on just when it looks like the enemy won,that is when he shows up on time,to take you back into position that is when his spirit comes and meets you exactly where you are...right there...and let me tell you something till today I still sit down remember that night and sit in awe because I can't believe I experienced that I can't believe he showed up am left in awe and disbelief because now I have a word that no one not even the enemy can take from me,my God will never leave me nor forsake me and anytime I call unto him he hears my cry and comes to me,my God will show up just in the midnight hour....and what I love about our God is you will never be the same again once his spirit has an exchange with you,he will take you from one level of glory to another yes the storms will come the battles will come but the revelation in your spirit of what you experienced will never depart from you...one other thing I love about God is when he does something he will couple it with a word in the Bible,it's like a point of reference to show you that yes the same way I did it for them I did it for you too because I am the same God I have determined the end from the beginning I am Alpha and Omega I live and reign and when I speak a word it never returns to me void it will go and do whatever it was meant to do because I speak life,out of my lips come the words and ways of life,the truth,when you hold on to my word you hold on to me...

I took my Bible no I first took my phone and started writing my previous article,I wanted to speak about this too but it was still fresh and raw in my mind,I had to process what had happened because it was nothing of this world...at this point if someone tells me there is no God I would laugh in their face and pray that God may reveal himself to them in a way there will be no doubt it was him...I wrote halfway then took my Bible to read about our widow and what stuck out most to me is when she told Elijah she was preparing to eat her last meal and die with her son and when she prepared the cake for Elijah we are told the jar of flour and oil never went empty for the rest of the famine...and Elijah stayed in her house but a while later the widow's son died and the widow thought God was punishing her for her sins, Elijah took the son up to his room and prayed to God that the boy's spirit may come back to him...and God heard Elijah's prayer and the boy came back to life...the last interaction we see of the widow with Elijah is the widow telling Elijah that now she knew he was a man of God and the word of God in his mouth is the truth...there are so many parts in this story that needs to be broken down because I believe we would gain alot from it...but can we take a moment and see how we serve an on time God,yes that was my testimony...I think this is the first time I have used this word...I rarely use it but in this context I can't think of another better word to describe it.

You see God knew,he knew the widow would be in need of a bigger miracle,something out of this world he knew the widow's son would die,he knew the widow needed to experience the power of God and his hand to believe that he could defeat and raise what was once dead,she went from telling Elijah she was preparing her last meal and die to confronting him with her dead son because she knew what was connected to this man was nothing of this world...God had taken her from one level of glory to another,where had she heard the dead being raised...when people die we mourn and life moves on...how did she go to Elijah and confront him...what did she know,was she in so much pain that she couldn't believe...I had so many questions because I wanted to understand this word that God had given me...I hungered to know the depth of it and sometimes with my own intellect and wisdom I can't somethings need the holy spirit...his intervention his wisdom his council...I love putting it this way,the Bible is full of things out of this world and for me to understand it I need something out of this world,the spirit of God...the holy spirit to help me understand his word.

God told me I didn't have to do more than one miracle to show her my power and reveal myself to her,I only had to do one miracle for her,I only had to save her once from the death she had finally accepted was the only road left,in her mind she anticipated death after her last meal,she waited to die with her son  until I showed up and turned things around...she never sought me for this miracle I chased her down because death was not her final say I was not finished with her yet,I had plans for her I was not done revealing myself to her and I knew all I had to do was perform a miracle for her,change her situation from lack to more than enough and when she needed a bigger out of this world miracle she would know the source of miracles she would now seek me because her lips would not utter death again she knew where I am,there is life and life in abundance...she would confront me,to her it may seem I was punishing her for her sins you may wonder what this meant but when I performed the first miracle for her when I first revealed myself to her she was never left the same I had taken her from one level of glory to another I had elevated her belief I had set her apart I had given her an experience not of this world but for this world so that when she next saw death she would not accept it as the final say she would come to me and confront me...with all the doubt all the pain all the anguish that comes with loss she would still come and when I am done with her,when I raised her son from the dead...I never left her same for the rest of her life for she now knew and believed that the word of God is the truth...she got a personal encounter with me,she knows my name and I took her unbelief and turned it into belief....that is the God you serve,where my spirit is there is freedom and liberty every knee shall bow and whenever you come to me I will never leave you the same I will take you from one level of glory to another.

I am coming against and unbinding every false word you took and accepted as your truth I am not worthy my life will never change for the better only people with strong faith and belief can experience the hand of God I unbind it in Jesus name....I challenge you to call unto the name of God the God who created you,you think it's over but it's only getting started you will experience the power of God in ways you never thought possible he will take you from one level of glory to another ..you are concerned about your unbelief but he is saying give it to me it's my job to turn your unbelief to belief I will reveal myself in your life in a way your unbelief will have no choice but to believe and your belief will then become your faith in me because I don't leave you the same I will take you from one level of glory to another...yes you will experience other storms other heartaches but my revelation will never depart from you...I have created an opening in your heart...you will now know where to go to when you are against the wall again,where to run to,I will not have to come to you because you will call my name you will seek me with your whole heart and believe I will come to you because I did it once...

My testimony did not start with this profound experience I now recognize it started last year when I first knelt down on that floor and gave my yes to Jesus when I finally surrendered,it took me two years but I finally did,and what happened next was my first revelation of what God can do,how he can shift things because I was never left the same again something in me shifted and it shifted forever and when I found myself against the wall when I felt I couldn't do this like I was losing the battle...I knew where I had to go,God didn't have to chase me this time round I ran to him and called his name,I knew he would hear me,I knew I didn't have to come all presentable I just had to come.

What I experienced is not just for me,the widow or Stephanie Ike...no it's connected to all of us...believer or not...the same way I heard Stephanie's story and carried it,the same way I experienced it for myself and went to the Bible to read about a woman who experienced the same,who went from one level of glory to another who experienced God for herself is the same way you will take my story my testimony and believe it is possible for you too...and when you experience it,when God reveals himself to you and takes you from one level of glory to another you will give your own testimony to the person connected to you...the spirit of God will overflow...our God will get the glory for all he has done for us and other people will experience him because we said yes to him...we need to because so many people are connected to your story your pain your testimony...don't give up,don't settle call on his name let him elevate you,let him open you up...I promise he is not finished with you yet you will never remain the same.... Peace.