Photography: Skies

Hello Everyone, 

How are you all doing? Today, we 'watching' the skies :)

I Love looking at the skies, The cloud formations. All that blue *dreamy eyes* sunrise and sunset. Absolutely Love it. Here a few I have captured.

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#ThankfulThurday: 3015

Hello people,

Is it just me or Thursday last week was just yesterday? -__- The week has gone fast bah? I think so, I hope we've all been thankful through the week? Can I have a "Whooooop, Its Thankful Thursday again"???

Whoooooooooooop!!!!! This excites me, really :)

Here are the things I am thankful for this week...

1. Jesus ~ God!
2. Isaiah 30:15 Its made me talk less and be peaceful
3. My Parents, please say "Thank you" to them for me here
4. WAFBEC and the ministers.
5. Talk with Seun
6. A.W. Tozer ~ You need to read a book from him
7. That Zara bag, the same one, very faithful :)
8. Journals
9. Black biro
10. Growing book shelf
11. Sammy
12. Healing for my finger
13. Live stream
14. Google

What are you thankful for?


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Can you help me say "Thank You" to my folks?

Hello people,

I have come to ask a favour today. I mentioned in my 2013 review that December didn't go exactly as it was planned.

My younger sister had an accident on the 10th of December and when it happened my dad was away on a trip and my mum kicked into action. The only time i've seen her like that was when her dad died (which happened in the midnight) and used the little credit on her phone to literally call their whole family - and boy are they large - her strategy was call, drop the "bomb" then cut the phone and they called back... genius right? I digress

I saw my mum the next day after the accident, she hadn't changed her cloth, the bread she was supposed to eat was still in her bag and she is going up and down paying for this, paying for that and if you know all these hospitals well, where you pay is not where you will collect receipt all the while constantly checking her baby in the emergency ward.

3 hospitals and one surgery later, Jan 10 (Exactly a month), my sister was discharged from the hospital and my mum was there everyday by her side and I must say that I love how my sister was so positive through it all. She said the most hilarious things in the most critical state, Like one hospital when they wanted to turn us away and my aunt was already tearing up my sis was saying really hilarious stuff. Bless her soul.

She did this one on her hospital bed

Love the positive attitude 

She got back to school and my dad will go back and forth to the school to sort out her admission and making sure that she is comfortable there.

Now, to my favour. One day my sister pinged me and said "I cry everytime mummy says the story of when I was in the hospital, she did so much and I don't know how to say Thank you" after my "Awwww-ing" and smiling I told her that she can only Love her, pray for her and do her proud and there is no "Thank you" better than that.








But then I also wanted to do this because I understand what we all went through in that period and I want to publicly say a huge "Thank you" to my parents for being a caretaker of Toyosi. Only God can reward their efforts honestly.

Please, I also need you to drop a sincere "Thank you" to my parents(My mum reads). Thank you and God bless you!!


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#ThankfulThursdays

Whoooo whoooooop!!!
Its Thursday again when we can "show off" what we are grateful for. Yeah? What am I thankful for this week?

~ Solitude
~ BIBLE
~ Having friends to discuss the word with.
~ Uncertainty of life
~ Random strangers that are helpful
~ Random act of kindness done to you
~ Gloo.ng - grocery shopping made easy yay!
~ Sleep [But i've been having too much]
~ People being blessed by #DailyExhortations
~ Creflo Dollar
~ Jesus!!!
~ Childhood friends
~ Mosope [My probono creative director :p]
~ Clouds that make me smile
~ Every faithful black flats
~ You, You, and You!!!
~ 256!

Here is Todays #DailyExhortations:

#DailyExhortations Ezekiel 12:28 KJV

Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God .

Have a fabulous Thursday.

What are you Thankful for?

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This happened to me today...

**Disclaimer: This is a very random post and I didn't even write in a book before typing out(Which is a BIG deal) because this happened this morning and I thought to share the lesson I learnt from it **

I saw my 4:30 alarm and did all my morning rituals. Didn't leave home till like 7am and at this time you have to queue to get a keke, once again I told my self "Don't be late" after standing for about 10mins, I entered into a keke.

I had N500 in my bag and I asked the other passenger for 'change', so the keke-driver won't talk my ear off about not having 'change'. I collected the money and then he gave me one beat-down-poverty-stricken-dirty N200 as balance.

politely I said "Oga, please change this money for me"

"Hold on" he said in a very rude tone. I could sense that he was looking for trouble.
Note that all the while he said "Hold on" we were in traffic. Then he goes "I nor get change o"
and i'm like "Okay bring the 500, the girl beside me will change it for me and I will give you your money"

He stubbornly declined and said I should wait till we get to the last bus stop. Wait, I did.

I reminded him about 2 mins away from the bus stop, very calmly I should add. This time the third passenger, a man, had started shouting at him that why couldn't he just give me the balance that the issue was simple if the man himself wasn't a trouble maker. (There is a lesson here somewhere)

I was getting angry myself, I held my peace. We got to the busstop, he went ahead to rain insults on the man and the other woman and I just wanted my balance.

He asked me to give him his money first and at this time I had given him an additional 300 - which included the dirty 200 he gave me.

When I saw that he was just looking for who to be angry with him, I took the 200 and left. Then I wrote on my bbm and facebook

"Lesson Learnt today: Just because you decided to follow Jesus doesn't mean everyone made the decision with you. Guard your heart, hold your peace, Tomilola"

I have learnt this before but today, it hit me well.
whether its the bus driver trying to agitate you and get you angry or its the 'friend' that hits on you while paying a courtesy visit or the 'Christian' friend that says the meanest things to you. Always remember to hold your peace.

Don't give anyone the power to control how you feel. Now, the driver will be away making his money and I can still choose to be here brooding and getting angry over what he did OR I can just choose to be happy and let go of whatever and know that there will always be people - most days- that will try to do things like these.

I have decided this year not to allow anybody rent a space in my head/heart/mind. Its time to hold my peace and guard my heart. I think you should too.

"Above all else, guardyour heart,for everything you do flows from it" Proverbs 4:23

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Thankful Thursday ~ Counting it all Joy

Hello people,

How was the day? How has the year been? Mine has been going well.

Here is what I'm thankful for this week
~ Toothpaste
~ Audio Sermons
~ Toyosi
~ Damilare
~ Sope *Side eye @ilola*
~ New Size 6 Dress
~ Joy in my heart
~ growing bookshelf
~ Black flats
~ Being the Same shoe size with my sisters
~ Scheduled posts
~ Almost complete indomitables collection x_x
~ Empty Garri container (fresh garri soon)
~ Ever faithful zara handbag

What are you thankful for this week?

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Photography: Shameless Self Portrait

If you are not using a Tripod or taking through a mirror, its a huge challenge. This is what happens when there is public holiday and you don't have a model. :)

I was trying the hand-to-animal-shadow thing. This is a dog i guess x_x 

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Father tried to kill me

Tossing and turning through the first watch, father finally got up. Still groggy, hands on his ears trying to block out the voice. The voice spoke again, alert now, he made his way out of the tent he shared with his aged wife, careful not to wake her up.

As if to get a clearer view for the conversation that was about to take place, He knelt. Tears rolling down his wrinkled cheeks he said

"You, Look at the stars and tell me how they will be mine now"
"Why not me?"
"Why Him?"
"Why now?"
"I don't understand"

The pain and heaviness of his heart gushed out in form of tears that didn't measure up to them. Staying on his knees quietly to listen to another instruction. The one that screams back

"That was a Joke!"

But this was no joke, he meant every word. What seemed like a lifetime passed. Still Nothing.
It was almost the end of the second watch, He stood up walked back into the tent quietly and changed his robe.

Walked over to the other tent that occupied the land. There he laid, his bundle of Joy, The seed of his loins, the one that took the reproach away, The first father of nations, now the last.

"Son! Son!" tapping his feet
"Yes father"
"Wake up, we have an offering to give" Said the authoritative voice
"Can I wash up first?"
"No, son. There is no time. Just get up and lets go"

Two of his servants were out waiting for them, everything seemed to be in Order except something. The hanging silence in the between the servants for the missing item.

"Ask him" One nudged the other
"Who knows for Oga this morning?"
"Everything is always radical to him, please, lets just observe today"

They walked in silence for long hours, father was back in the moment, the voice and his instruction

"Take now they son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou Lovest and get thee into the land of moriah: and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountain which i will tell thee of"
Clenching his fist while looking at the boy walking right beside him. with held back tears he whispered

"Not my will Lord, but yours be done"
2 camp-outs and 48 hours Later, Father stopped on his tracks. Looking far ahead into the mountains then back at his servants

"Wait here, I will proceed with the child, worship and come back to you"
The hanging question on their faces, they didn't ask.

With a puzzled look on his face as they kept walking he asked
"Papa, did you say worship? Where is the lamb for the offering?"
With a reassuring smile on his face
"The one that sends, Provides"
As if to reassure himself
"He provides"

With every step that brought them closer to the mountain his insides screamed "Run"
"Take the boy with you and run the opposite direction"
With every scream from the inside he took a step further towards the mountain

Picked up the wood, one after another, the task that he could've done with his eyes closed seemed like the longest.

"Maybe he will change his mind" he thought
"Let me stall abit"
"But, its a promise from the father. I will trust"

Picked up a piece of cloth and tied it over His son's eyes, tears rolled down the corner of his eyes as he bound him and laid him on the wood to be sacrificed to the one who gave him.

"But papa! I don't understand, I thought you said the sender provides?"
He could feel him trembling as he spoke
"He does, child. He does" With that he raised his knife

"Abraham! Abraham!!" Came the voice
"Do not lay hands on the child, don't do anything to him for now I know that you fear the Lord seeing that you didn't withhold your only son from him"

With his trembling fingers he unhooked the ram from behind him, Looked his son dead in the eyes and said

"He Provides"

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Contrary to what everyone will believe, I am very sure there was no awkward silence between Abraham and Isaac on the way from the mountain that day.
Isaac learnt alot of lessons that day as he watched his father that loved him so much give him up to his heavenly father.
He learnt surrender.
He listened to God establish his covenant with his father just because of his obedience to give up his only priceless possession. He was God provide due to this act and definitely learnt to always trust a God that is moved by our faith in him.

God knew Abraham Loved and adored his son but he had to be sure he was still first place in his heart.

In this new year I want us to sincerely ask ourselves what is that one thing or "things" that is taking the place of God in our life, If God asks for it can we give it up just for him?

Say this prayer culled from "Pursuit of God" ~ TW Tozer

"Father, I want to know thee, but my cowardly heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without bleeding, and I do not try to hide from thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but i do come. Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that thou mayest enter and dwell there without rival. Then shalt thou make the place of thy feet glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there in Jesus name"


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#ThankfulThursday!

Hello people,

I missed last week of #ThankfulThursday and it was because I was under the rock (ofcourse not literally -__-) No Internet to do any blog work.

But, Its 2014 and we are back!! Can I hear a whoop?
In my mind *The crowd Whoops away*
The first week of the new year Just ended and I have alot to be thankful already;

1. Wireless Network
2. Piggy Bank. Don't ask x_x
3. Little Journals that fit into anywhere
4. Growing Library
5. Black shoes
6. Money
7. Strangers that give compliments
8. Toyosi
9. Dreams
10. NTC(Nike Training Center)
11. YOU - All of you that read this blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. The positive comments that cancel out the negative comments I get *side eye*
13. Hair band
14. Tomiwa
15. My music collection!

There you have it, What are you thankful of this week? wanna share? I'm listening :)

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I don't have an appropriate title (2013 Review)

Hello Everyone,

I know this is probably stale but I had to tell of Gods goodness towards me in the course of 2013, by the end of the post you will probably know why I couldn't put it up before now. Here is how my year went and what I hope to do in the new year.

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Lying on the bathroom floor tugging at my chest like a lion tearing apart its prey. As if to physically remove the pain I felt.
"Why?" I asked
In my mind, I was asking God, but I had also come to a place where I felt he wasn't listening anymore. The emptiness was eating me up. The clutching pain won't let me go. My lips won't part to say word to anyone about my inside.
This was always at night, most nights. I will smile in the morning after touching up my face with some powder or Just simply say
"Its the sleep that made it swollen" to anyone that noticed my eyes.

It was Dec 2012 and I just had a very rough end of the year, enough was enough, I didn't want to go into 2013 with the "depression"
For the first time in my whole life, I decided to sit at home - against my mother's wish ofcourse - for the crossover into 2013, This was going to be the last day of crying with so much pain on the inside.

Pain from being clueless.
Pain from a hurting heart.
Pain from a restless soul.
Pain from a restless heart.
Pain from an empty heart.
Pain from being Jobless.
Pain from shattered hopes and dreams.
Just Pain.

I sat and "talked" with God, cried my system out, tried to pull the hurt - once again. Then I slept into the new year.

You can guess, the year didn't start on a very high note for me, I had gotten rejected for my masters application and I wasn't even motivated to brush up my CV not to talk of applying for Jobs.
The constant nagging of my parents about me not going for Interviews

"Or you are not applying?"
"Or you don't want to work?"
"Which one do you want to do?"
I will just mumble a reply and let it rest.

I started going to my mother's Shop and I just got introduced to Andrew Wommack(Thanks Mandy). Everyday, I would drive to 'work' (Mother left her car for me on most days) and soak in the sermons, every Wednesday, I would go for morning prayer meeting which was attended mostly by the older women in the church, my tiny self, with just one or two men (Really? Are women more prayerful?)

I did all of these diligently, week in, week out.
I had a dream on the 17th of Jan, one that shook me to my very core and at the same time made me happy.
*Cuts out insignificant part*
I was on my way home and I saw 2 demon-like creatures that stood in my way, I called the name of Jesus to rebuke them and guess what? They laughed in my face "You this small girl calling a name you know nothing about" I got scared and ran back.

I didn't see a light or a bright white person but I just knew God came on the scene, this is how I put it in my journal

"God showed up among them and his voice was so calm, soothing and with so much authority like he was giving a command in the nicest voice. Not shouting and all.

Like saying "She called and I answered" maybe not in those exact words and the demons scattered into pieces of flesh"

I later wrote "Don't shout, Help is on the way"

I got a Job in March and between the time I had the dream and when I got the Job, I went for 3 interviews in those 3 weeks. My mum missed me in her shop and I miss going for Prayer meeting. 

"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call" ~ Joel 2:32

Before now, I was the only one in my house that didn't have a passport not to talk of travelling by air. In the first 3 months of working all of that changed.

In my plan, I had "Move out" as a 2014 goal, but I got an apartment by the end of August 2013. I Live in a semi-empty, small place, nothing fancy by the worlds standard, but I Love it regardless. 

I "planned" to start saving for my Camera in 2013 and get it by the end of the year, I got one by the middle of the year. I have no idea how all of these happened, It was just evident that God tore my "plans for 2013" sheet off and handed me a new one.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9

I think I attended like 4-5 different churches this year and finally settled in one, attended 4 gospel musical concerts (yay) Loved every bit of it. I Loved God and will continue to Love God.

This my small blog got to 50,000 hits this last year and the number of people that God blessed through my crappy writings was just really humbling, I started Daily Exhortations and there were some days I didn't have Bible Verses to share from not studying the Word the previous night or week and I wanted to just quit, but people just tell me in those times (talk about perfect timing) How the daily exhortations has blessed them in ways I can't understand. So, I kept on, I keep on - Daily, bringing Gods word to you one verse at a time! 

God is faithful, I tell you.

I cried so much in the year, cut my hair in one of the low points too, I had days of not knowing where the transport fare for the next day is coming from, not having what to eat and God showed up at the nick of time.

Recently My mum were joking about something (Can't remember exactly)  But I remember telling her that she won't know when I don't have money and she kinda 'yimu-ed' at me, then I went on to ask her If she knew about the days I walked to and from work, she looked back at me in disbelieve till my sister confirmed it. 

In those days, God still showed up.

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" Psalm 8:4

The end of the year had us celebrating December in the Hospital, not sleeping at night, waking up to go to work from the hospital, taking turns to go sleep at home. I watched people watch their loved ones die on Christmas day, boxing day, New years day. Sigh. 

Makes you just sit back and be Thankful (I will write about this when the smoke finally clears) 

I learnt not to limit God, I learnt to praise in the storm and put on my faith-life-Jacket because the storm raged, but I am here - standing. Lets not even talk about the days I fell, face flat, took me some time to dust myself off and stand again but the word says 

"For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again..." Proverbs 24:16

I am NOT looking forward to the new year - yet because I know Gods going to do a new thing and I feel like I didn't enjoy this phase enough but one thing I will do (regardless of how I feel) is.... "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14

I don't know what this year holds and although I've written my hopes and Visions for the year and given to HIM to do with it as he pleases, Its already the end of the first week and I already feel direction-less (Typical x_x) But, I really don't care all I want to do is seek God this year and let him take over my life, I know he has the compass, won't it be foolish of me if I don't carry my cross and follow him? 

Hope Its not too  late to say Happy New year? :) 

Happy New year Lovely people!! Lets make 2014 worthwhile shall we? 

Cheers

*Raises glass*

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