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Victory for Victoria

2006-09-27T16:19:00.000-07:00

When she was younger and aspiring to have babies the doctors told her, ‘Forget it. You’re severely anaemic. Besides you only have one tube in your womb. There no way you can have children. It is ill-advised to even try’.

She refuse that sentence and relied on her Maker Who had the last word. And so she had miracle babies, one after another.-three beautiful girls in quick succession. The doctors could not understand what was going on. They ate their words.

Her husband was initially elated to have a child, but when it turned out to be three girls he thought he had more than he had bargained for. He desperately needed boy. He actually preferred boys. So friction was unleashed on the relationship when Victoria broke the news, ‘Darling I am pregnant.’ He was so sure it would be another girl and was no longer amused and planed a pre-emptive action. He was afraid he was going to be the dad of FOUR girls! What was he going to do when boys start streaming in for their hands and their hearts? Could he cope with other ramifications of having girls, he must have thought.

To cut a long story short there was a parting of ways.
Meanwhile Victoria had heard from the Lord and He assured her it would be a boy this time round. . She held on to the promise in spite of the provocation. She kept confessing the Word of God, reaffirming the promise despite contrary winds. She even told the doctors she was expecting a boy and they wandered how she knew. It turned out to be true when she gave birth to a beautiful bouncing little bay boy. To God be the glory!

Unfortunately, they lost their house to the mortgage lender and she and the children were now in dire straights. It was another trying time for Victoria. She had been blessed with a baby boy as she had desired but she was now being broken. She kept trusting God to provide. Meanwhile, she also thought it would be a good idea to go and improve her skills by taking a course in a university. Imagine combining looking after four children alone as a single parent and going back to study. It was extremely tough but she was determined. She grappled with the researches and the essays and coursework coming from left right and centre, meeting deadlines as was required. And by the grace of God it came to pass as she passed her final exams and bagged a good qualification.

The next challenge was to get a job. She applied to many places but kept receiving letters of regret. Then she resorted to applying for jobs that were even very lowly paid just to break into the system. She was challenged from time to time to try even the high-powered jobs and trust God to make a way where there seemed no way.

Inspired, she went for the jugular, applying to a position that require lots of experience, but had to do with counselling people who had domestic abuse problems. She was called for an interview and at the interview it dawned on her that she had the practical experience of domestic abuse they were looking for even though she had not worked in that capacity for any reasonable time. The panel was impressed and she was offered the job .with a salary and benefit beyond her dreams.

The bosses were very kind and welcoming however there were others whom she was directly in -charge of who were seething, wondering why she got the job in spite of her lack of work experience. They sneered and ganged up against her and made her life living hell.
“Why should she be up there just coming out of university.” Some reasoned

She embarked on praying and fasting, realising it was an enemy attacked designed to dampen what God had one for her.. God turned it all around. Their countenance changed towards her. She now has favour with everyone and being treated like a celebrity.

What are you going through today? Victoria’s God is your God if Jesus is your Lord and Saviour. Yes, we go through difficult times. And often it is a blessing followed by a breaking but Jesus is Lord through it all. He knows the way that we take,. and He is the Way Maker when there seems to be no way. When we put our trust in Him He makes everything beautiful in His time. He allows certain difficulties to come our way, not because He is against us but because he wants us to mature, be stronger get to know Him and trust Him more.

Victoria had no hope of having children according to medical science but God had the final word. Now look what the Lord has done. She lost her house and husband and was struggling with four children alone but received wisdom to take the bull by the horn and go back to school. See what the Lord has done. It was difficult to get a job after successfully completing the university course, but look at what the Lord has done. They ganged up against her at work, but Jesus has turned it all around.

In her testimony she said, ‘Often you have to be bruised to be used’, echoing the word of the Lord when he said in John12:24
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it re’mains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
Our light affliction, Paul said works for us.
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen, is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2Cor4;16-18
V8 says We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Rom8:28)
Trust, watch and pray. Your victory is round the corner. If He can do it for Victoria, He can do it for you. He is no respecter of persons but without faith, it is not possible to please God. Learn from those who through patience and endurance obtained the promise. The just shall live by faith. Weeping may endure for the night but joy is coming in the morning.
You may be down but you’re not out. It is not over until it is over. The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Like an eagle, use the adverse winds that kill other birds and sail, soar into victory, like Victoria.

From Tribulation To Jubilation

2006-09-21T01:46:00.000-07:00

From Tribulation To Jubilation;
Suppression to resurrection;
Demotion to promotion;
Denigration to recognition.
Condemnation and vilification
to justification.
Exclusion to inclusion;
Pollution to consecration
and sanctification
and beautification,
Desertion to visitation
Deprivation to restoration;
Destitution to restitution;;
Destruction to reconstruction;
Incarceration to liberation;
Stagnation or retrogression
to progression.
Perspiration to inspiration.
Degeneration to regeneration;
Opposition and rejection
to celebration.
That is my portion.
That is your portion.
In the Name of the
Rock of Salvation.

From Saul to Paul;
Jacob to Israel;
Peter (pebble) to Rock;
Jabez to blessing;
Abram to Abraham;
Sarai to Sarah;
Stressed to blessed;
Hopelessness and fearfulness
to hopefulness;
barrenness to fruitfulness;
victim to victor;
weakness to strength to strength;
glory to glory, faith to faith
That is my portion.
That is your portion.
In the Name of the
Rock of Salvation.

Your Jubilee Has Come!

2006-09-17T00:48:00.000-07:00

Your Jubilee has come to you.
He came for Gentile and Jew.
He is the Door, the Rock
And on your door He knocks.

Friend, He has come to stay
Make hay while it is yet day
Jesus has come to set you free
He has come to make the blind see

So rise up from the grave
He has come to save
Your sin’s Hell forgive
So that you can live

Take your freedom
Enter the Kingdom
Why are you still in jail
When the blood has prevailed?

Stretch out your hand
For His great Right Hand
Say, “Lord save me.”
And you’ll be free

Why are you still in chains?
Join the freedom train.
Come to the Master
He’ll break the fetters

So, rise up today
All you need is to pray
“Lord, forgive my sins.”
And He’ll make you clean.

Come to the water-
The Living Water
Come drink and live
Come wash and live

He paid the price
Made the sacrifice
He took the curse
For you on the cross

Come now and dine
In the banquet divine
Come now and sing
Come sing to the King.

Love,love, love...

2006-09-17T00:22:00.000-07:00

Love,
How so ever faithful,
and never untruthful,
It’s like River Peaceful.
Without God, is fearful.
Love always perseveres,
In test that is severe.
Love will always preserves,
And always loves to serve.
Love will puts others first,
And quenches others thirst.

Love
Will be universal,
And is so practical;
Moving into action,
Under God’s compulsion.
It can move all mountains;
Feeds from holy fountains.
Love, more than emotion ,
And full of devotion .
Love will cover your shame,
And will remain the same.

Love,
Is sweet in friction ,
It’s never a fiction;
Quality decision,
Product of salvation.
It’s a sure foundation,
Come from revelation;
will avoid commotion.
Love leads to promotion,
Divine impartation,
From His visitation.

Love,
The highest and greatest,
and the best of the best.
It's the reality,
Bringing felicity;
Breeds endless harmony.
‘tis more than charity,
And more than empathy,
‘tis more than sympathy.
Love, full of purity,
Long as infinity.

Love,
Thinks good, will not abuse.
Does good, will not seduce,
Will remain very strong
In the face of the wrong.
Love will grow day by day;
And when it’s dark, will pray.
Love will dispel the cloud,
Love the mute and the loud.
Love is based on the Word,
The dire need of the world.

©Fenny West

Born To Blaze His Praise

2006-09-04T14:05:00.000-07:00

Born to blaze His praise.
Born to proclaim His Name.
Born to give glory to the King of Glory.
Born to adorn and adore the High and Holy.

Created to give pleasure to Him.
Created to be His treasured possession.
Created to be His Voice , Hands and Feet on earth.
Created to be His worthy ambassador.

Born to give Him honour.
Born to be a house on a hill.
Born to be a light house to the world.
Born to live a life of significance.

Born with a vision
To fulfil the Great commission.
Born for such a time as this
sold out!, totally His.
I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth

Ps. 34:1

©Fenny West

‘LET THERE BE LIGHT!’ AND THERE WAS LIGHT.(2)

2006-09-02T17:57:00.000-07:00

Light brings information and transformation.
They suffered, wallowed in ignorance.
Lack of knowledge cause them to perish.
But one day, they saw the light,
And every thing changed.
They confronted their slave masters,
Conquered their idleness,
educated themselves,
and came out of shackles of poverty.
Let there be light! And there was light.

They thought some races were good for nothing,
Only fit for hard labour, the shackles and the chains.
Man’s inhumanity to man.
Tribal chiefs were accomplices, part of the problem.
Greed blinded their eyes, drove them to sell their kit and kin.
Then light dawned on William Wilberforce and friends.
‘This is not right’, they said. ‘It must come to an end.’
The crusade began until the slaves were freed.
Let there be light! And there was light.

There was the partition of Africa,
the colonisation of America- North and South
then there was light in the minds of the enlightened.
'This is not right,' they said.
They fought until the wind of change blew.
Empires fell and the nations were freed.
Let there be light! And there was light.

And there in West Africa mosquito reigned
Apart from the rain.
And so it became the white man’s grave.
The creature was tiny, but the damage was mighty.
Then man went to work.
And with God’s help breakthrough came.
Let there be light! And there was light.

Come for the water, come to the Door

2006-09-02T17:20:00.000-07:00

Come for the water, come to the Door
Come at once, come for more
Drink the water of life
Drink and have life
Come, my friend, I say, come.

Rise now from the floor
Come into the goodly store
Come as you are, faults and all
Come and be filled, filled to the brim.

Scale the barrier in spite of your sore
Plug right into life’s core
Scale every hindering mountain
For this all –sufficient fountain
Hear my voice, it is you I implore
Just come, come and fulfil your dream.

©Fenny West

The Apple Of My Eyes

2006-09-01T12:21:00.000-07:00

The apple of my eyes, that’s what you are.
My treasured one, the best bird I can have.
Ruined and marred by the fall that kept you far.
Yet, I longed daily for you, my first love.

Wondering and pondering which day you will come.
Waiting and looking for my broken dream
To come into my garden and bosom.
I looked here and there even in the stream.

Prepared a sumptuous meal for you and I.
But there, vacant remained your seat and place.
Gone for so long, I kept asking, ‘Why, Why?’
When will you return and show me your face.

No one, nothing! can take your place beloved.
For you, any mountain I would have moved.

copyright©2006Fenny West

The Great Escape!

2006-09-01T03:34:00.000-07:00

In
A flash,
Suddenly.
It will happen.
The dead will rise first,
Then those alive in Him.
In a twinkle of an eye,
We shall be caught up in the air.
We shall be changed, mortality clothed
With immortality, the trumpet call;
The Lord Himself will descend with a shout
That sown in dishonour, raised glorious
Death, last enemy, defeated.
Grave, where is your victory?
Death, where now is your sting?
He swallowed up death
In VICTORY.
God the Son
The Lord
Wow!

I Thess4:16-18, I Cor15:42-56
©Fenny West

A Maiden Voyage of Doom

2006-09-01T03:18:00.000-07:00

It was celebrated as Number One;
One of man's greatest achievements,
The Queens of the sea had come.
The impossible was made possible.
No expense was spared,
like a peacock, she was all airs.
Heralded as unsinkable ship.
History was in the making.
And so decorated, adorned in her best dress, she stepped out on her maiden voyage amidst cheers pomp and pageantry.
We were all proud of her and of our triumph.
Southampton was the womb that gave birth to Titanic, the Maritime Colossus.

But who knew the maiden voyage day was also a doom’s day?
She was ambushed by an ice field, but she was defiant and ignored the warnings of impending danger. Wisdom kept shouting, ‘Stop, retreat, danger ahead!.’
But she said,” Shut up, shut up, I’m busy.”

Soon disaster struck;
she ran out of luck
The flag ship of the White Star Line
Was head butted by the Ice behemoth;
And it was a knockout blow that consigned her with 1500 passengers and crew to an early watery grave, far from the history she wanted to make.

Could you believe that man could be so vulnerable and limited?
Could you believe that stack warnings could be so flagrantly ignored?

What a lesson for you and me.
We are all at the mercy of God.
We must remain humble regardless of our achievements.
Pride goes before a fall.
We must heed warnings of impending dangers by changing our direction.

There is only one unsinkable ship and that is Salvation Ship and Jesus is the Captain of that Ship. His is also a life boat and unless you’re in that boat, there is no hope for you. The day is far spent and that night draws near. Watch out!
If you hear His voice this day, take heed before it is too late.

Wisdom of the Kingdom

2006-09-01T03:02:00.000-07:00

Wisdom of the Kingdom,
The bastion, repository,
Treasury of treasure
And pleasures beyond measure
Originates from the reverential fear of the Lord.
Hidden in Jesus, the Source, the Son of God.
Triggered by a wedding and immersion in the Spirit.
This is the wisdom of the Kingdom of light;
Lifts you from the gutter to heights.
Washes off the mock and mire from miry clay,
Gives birth to day born by The Way.

Often masqueraded, counterfeited
By the wisdom of the world- sensual, selfish,
unsafe and unsound.
Deceptive, dangerous, shallow, hollow,
Limited, polluted convoluted and contorted.
Informs but does not transform.
By itself foolishness to God.

Godly wisdom comes from above,
From the Prince of Peace.
Brings about peace, harmony, unity, symphony;
Guarantees divine favour to savour;
Reducing and eliminating fruitless labour.
Increasing spiritual health and wealth;
Giving the superabundant life of God.
Wisdom from above makes you stronger
And wiser than your enemies;
Equips you with divine Advanced Warning System.
Takes you from glory to glory
Prevents from retrogression and stagnation.
Paves way for promotion.
Better than silver or gold
With a lustre unequalled by diamond

Wisdom of the Kingdom of Grace
Found in the word, the mind and will of God.
Like a gold mine, you must dig deep to find the gems.
It will make your face radiant, your forehead like flint.
It sets you apart, distinguished,
radiating His beauty, glory and majesty.

F.G West

We Need Each Other

2006-09-01T02:50:00.000-07:00

We need each other,
to go on further
As the black and white keys on a piano
make beautiful, wonderful music.
Black, white or brown,
loving one another
is the way to go higher.
As the head needs the body
and the body the head,
We need each other.

Let's make music together,
flow together ,reach together
gel together, sing together,
make a difference together,
no matter the difference.

We need each other,
complimenting one another
As the flower needs the rain
and the clown, the laughter
God in His wisdom made us
to need each other
And by loving one another,
we get brighter, grow stronger
and glow better;
but only as we embrace each other. .

©Fenny West

YOU ARE AN EAGLE SAINT!

2006-08-29T09:33:00.000-07:00

You are an eagle Saint
born to scale the heavens
Not by might , but by His spirit,
Using destructive winds and storms
as your lift and staircase
making His Secret Place
your paradise and haven.

God has a great purpose for you
to be a partaker of His divine nature.
For that reason He raised you together with Christ,
and seated you with Him in heavenly places,
far principalities and powers,
far above throne and dominions.

In a desert land He found you.
In a barren and howling waste He found you.
He shielded you and cared for you,
As the apple of His eyes.
He carried you on His pinions
and covered you under His feathers.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
hovers over its young in a test,
spreads its wings to catch them,
so the Lord was near in your test.
His tests you, allows adversity, to bring out
your quality, purity integrity and maturity.

Like the goldsmith is near the furnace
when his precious metal is being tested,
the Lord will not abandon you to be incinerated.
He allows the storms so that you will shaped into a great robust form.He said ,'When you go through the fire you shall not burn. You will come out with beauty, color, music, songs of deliverance. You will come out with treasures of darkness. Your testimony shall be: 'He has made me fruitful, in the Land of my affliction.'
Though your flesh may cry now, your spirit shall rejoice as it goes from one degree of glory to another.
You are an eagle, not a barn yard chicken. Rise from the dust. Peck no more in the dust. Take your rightful place; the place of authority in Christ; the place of dominion; the place of excellence to the glory of God.

See through my eyes. Take the limits off me. Did I not say, 'Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love me?
Wait upon me and mount up with wings like an eagle, run and not be weary, walk and be not tired.

What you have seen is just the tip of the iceberg; the scratching on the surface; just a glimpse of glory, exceeding great and surpassing glory.
No foe can stop it. They will try but they will fail. They shall be clothed with shame because Christ has redeemed you from the curse of the law, and Abraham's blessings are yours.

Therefore against all hope believe in the God of Hope like Abraham. Stagger not at the promise of God through unbelief. Stand on the revealed will of God. Ignore he who says, ‘Yea, hath God said?’
Stand on the powerful, unchanging, dynamic, living, miracle-working Word of the Living God. It shall not return to Him void or empty, but accomplish that which He pleases, prosper in the thing for which it had been sent. God watches over His word to bring it to fruition. Stand to see your salvation. Weeping may endure in the night but joy, joy unspeakable and full of glory is on the horizon. See the silver lining beyond the cloud. See the rainbow, signaling a New Day, a New Era. The enemies you see today, you will see them no more. They are frantic because their days are numbered. They will throw everything they have against you, but no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper.

You are an eagle!
called to soar, mount up
called to ride on the crest ,
use the wings of adverse winds.
Be What your were created, called to be:
An Eagle Saint!
(Deut32:10-11)

SMILE PAL, ALL IS WELL.

2006-08-28T02:47:00.000-07:00

Hi! Smile pal, all is well.
Victory’s in the air, can’t you smell?
This evil wall too will fall.
So stand strong and tall like Paul.

Laugh even when it’s tough.
His word’s more than enough.
It’ll carry you to the other side;
Like a secure boat on an ocean wide.

Sing even in the rain like a robin.
Soon it’ll be over and you will win.
Ascend! The end is in sight my friend.
Go on! Go on!! On Him depend.

©2006Fenny West

Keep Your Dream Alive!

2006-08-27T22:49:00.000-07:00

Keep your dream alive!
An abundant life live.
Live a life of significance.
Live a life of substance.
Make a remarkable difference
You're different. Cause a song and dance.

Make a mark that is indelible.
With God all things are possible.
If God be for you,
Who can be against you?
Let your dream be big.
Your God is extraordinarily big.

Run to finish and finish well.
In His secret place always dwell.
Seek not His hand but His face;
And you will go from glory to glory
And from height to height;
from grace to grace in your race of grace.

Banish every fear. The Lord is near.
Go for gold, be strong and be bold.
From every pain obtain and retain a gain.
Join the Divine victory train.
Push! press into your promised land
Pursue your purpose never mind the giants in the land.

F.G. West

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