NEW WINGS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

Thank you for choosing to read my blog over and over again. May the peace of our everlasting Father continually abide with you and may His goodness and mercies follow you all the days of your life, Amen! I give God praise for blessing me with financial and prayer supporters like you and as a token for my appreciation, I have attached a special Christmas song video for your viewing. Indeed, we have come a mighty long way since I started this blog. I would also love to inform you that, this would be my last blog for the year 2010.

For the past three weeks now, I have been praying that God should fill my whole being with passion for the lost. wow! God has answered that prayer in a very unique way. Some of the testimonies I have to share on that, would not be necessary here because I don't have the permission from the various individuals that God used me to minister unto for His glory. I am still praying that God should fill me with more and more compassion for the lost. Amen!

While I was living in Port-Elizabeth, God began the process of shedding off all my wings through the various circumstances I went through. It has been a painful but yet gainful process because I have grown so much-Deep, Deep, within; like a tree that sends its roots to the core of the earth where no wind can uproot! My life is totally experiencing a whole lot of transformations. May Jesus be Praised! But yesterday, while having my moments of intercession, I sensed deeply in my spirit man that new wings are growing again... that was a good news from the Holy Spirit of God who indwells my whole being. I am currently at that place where the traffic light hasn't turn green, but, there is a throbbing momentum to soar higher as soon as He whispers to my spirit man that its time to soar to newer and higher heights in my God given destiny.

I am still at YWAM- Jeffery’s Bay and making the most of my time here until God says; spread your wings and fly-sky-high! I am excited and the same time wondering what my new wings and new heights would look like :) I decided to take a break from learning Afrikaans until the end of this month. I have already applied for my third core- course in April-June 2011 at YWAM WORCESTER, Capetown- while I await to take on my very first major course(School of Video Production) in June 22^nd at Media Village, Durban-ville, Capetown . For more information about what the courses I would be doing are/the cost involved, please do send me an email and I would respond to you immediately. Thank you!

I earnestly need you to pray for me regarding my VISA to be Extended before the end of January 2011 because I am looking at the possibility to visit friends and family members in Nigeria, for a month, and also, to raise more financial support before April 03, 2011. I know that God will make a way for me and I trust that with Him, nothing is Impossible: any day, anywhere, anyhow, anytime!

Secondly, I urge you to please, agree with me for provision for the both courses I will be studying by God's grace, in Capetown next year. It would be a great privilege for me and long term investment for the skills I will need to successfully run a youths/media ministry here in South Africa when the time is right:)

Thank you for reading thus far.

Finally, what specifically can I agree with you on? If you there is anything on your heart you are trusting God for, please do send me a message via this email: samzeal@gmail.com and I will consider it a great joy and honor to stand in the gap for you until God comes through. Amen! Remember: IRON SHARPENS IRON.

I love you all, my dear friends and I know that a time will come when every ounce of prayer, and cents you've sowed into my life will make your heart glad in such a way that words or songs cannot express. I  DECLARE THAT YOU HAVE A SPLENDID CHRISTMAS & THRILLING NEW YEAR CELEBRATION/HOLIDAY!!!! God is at work and always in Control!

IN CHRIST ALONE, ABIDE.

TO SAVE A LIFE !

I thank my God for His promises and pruning in my life. It's because of His promises that I am joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer and expectant while I await His response to every phone call, voice mail, email, fax message, sms and whatever communication I have had with the eternal KING of all creations and creatures both in heaven and earth, beneath the earth and even of things to come. Amen! And it's because of His pruning that I see the growth and in-depth fortification in every areas of my life and my relationship with the people He brings into my life every given moment.

Dear prayer partners and financial supporters, I love you all and I am so grateful for every ounce of compassion you have invested in praying for me through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit our senior partner in our journey as foreigners here in this soon passing world. Also, I thank all of those individuals who have invested their precious cents and gifts into my life because they believe in what God has called me to accomplish and see me through the very eyes of God's eternal and pre-designed intentions. I am so proud of you all. Please, do not faint and do not be weary in well doing for you shall reap your reward here on earth and in eternity if you faint not.

I praise God for keeping me alive and yes, Christmas is not far from our door knobs:) I must say that; I have grown so much since I started this blog site and God is never moved by my tears or cheers :) Indeed, He loves to see me rejoice and cry out to Him whenever life hurts. But He is always moved by my complete obedience and submission to Him alone and always! I had a whole lot of frustrated and complaining moments even when I know the Bible commands that I shouldn't worry, grumble, or complain. Yet, it's in those moments that I realize that God sure do know how weak I am and when I admit that I am weak and I don't think I understand and can't handle this anymore, that He comes through with me through the ragging waters and fiery tunnel of life's afflictions. A lot of issues that bothers any person in a foreign land had the best of me and made me tick, think and just felt burdened and almost hopeless but not totally hopeless for Christ in us is the hope we have to sail through His suffering and share in His glory. Hallelujah!!! God will not always make sense but it will always be clear that HE NEVER SLEPT ON THE JOB AND ALLOWED THINGS TO GO WRONG AND CHAOTIC IN OUR VERY LIVES AND THE LIVES OF THOSE WE LOVE AND IN THIS PRESENT WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN AS FOREIGNERS. A new name I got for God this past week is: “GOD OF THE FOREIGNER IN A FOREIGN LAND”. I came to the point where the Immigrations and whatever delays that my VISA status is facing didn't matter anymore. I stopped worrying over VISA extension cancellation , and deportation if nothing happens before I complete my training here in South Africa. I cease the numerous nagging thoughts of the comforts I once enjoyed and still desire to opt out and go enjoy in my home country. Also, it became clearer to me that: FOR ME TO SAVE A LIFE, I MUST FIRST BE WILLING TO LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR OTHERS. SOMETHINGS WE GO THROUGH IN LIFE, MAY NOT BE FOR US BUT FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE GOD HAS CREATED US TO DIE FOR, SUFFER FOR, AND INVEST IN FOR HIS OWN GLORY AND ETERNAL PLAN.

Wow! God is truly amazing and smarter than I am. He thinks ahead and knows what I don't know that I need to know in other to accomplish His dreams for my life here on earth. There is so much more God has done in me and through me but this one page update will not be enough for me so I have to make it short so that those of you who don't like reading for too long will want to come back to my blog and read again and again and again.

I want to thank Mrs. Christine Pike, Mrs. Mimi Oleofse, Mrs. Ingrid Yvonne Johnson, Miss Natasha Smith, Miss Julia Hauch, Miss Jessica Dys, Mr. Kayode Bolaji, Mr. Daniel Abrahams, Ms. Bruno Luiz Rodrighero, Ms. Andrew Abechi and many more who saw me through God's eyes by encouraging me, understanding me, and upholding me in fervent intercessions. Thanks to you if I didn’t mention your name :)

Die Here is jou krag ( the Lord is your strength)

A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER

Greetings to you, my wonderful friends and partners in life's journey. I can't wait to meet my Master and Maker; I don't know about you. But until then, you and I got a mission to accomplish by His divine power at work each day as we journey through this temporal life, in earnest anticipation for eternity with The KING of all creations.

Like I mentioned in my last update; I was having financial difficulties and at the verge of having no house to live in as I pursue my desire to learn Afrikaans Language and culture. Well, God did not come through for me as expected and prayed. But I am still glad that He is leading me through this present moments of afflictions which is working in me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. I am so happy that I still have His peace and joy bubbling like a fountain deep from within me. I should have given in to the temptations I encountered during this time But God stood by me and gave me the grace to move on and lock my eyes on Him who alone is King over every storm and calm of life. Friends, its a thing of joy not to understand all that God is doing in us and through us. Its a thing of joy not to understand why God allows bad things to happen to His children and in this present world we live in. My faith is growing even though am crushed and pressed and cast down. Oh, how I love Jesus! Holy Spirit, bring it on.

Yesterday, I moved out of Port-Elizabeth and return to Jeffery’s Bay for a season. I trust that the Lord will continually guide me and if it is in His purpose for me to get a job and raise some funds to go home (Nigeria) for two months holiday in April next year. I am totally resting on God's wings of faithfulness, providence, and eternal sovereignty. I sleep in a cozy dinning hall. And if the weather is hot; I got a divine shack to sleep in. Things will not always be comfortable in the physical but in the background of our lives, God is perfecting our inner attitudes, shaping our destiny, and the people He is refining through what we suffer.

Dear friends, let me know how I can agree with you in intercession. We all need each other to wade through the muddy-waters of life. I still need more of your prayer support and still in need of financial supports too. If you sense any prompting of the Holy Spirit to support me in any ways, please feel free to contact me via this email : samzeal@gmail.com and also, your comments on this blog is highly appreciated. Thank you for reading thus far. I love you and would not have made it thus far without your timely intercession on my behalf and encouragement.

Keep the flames of God's love burning within and without you!