Webster Mike

Drummer & Guitarist.
Poet.

[Nana Akua💕 @mxcurrieyy_]

I think the greatest privilege God has ever given us is the freedom to approach him at anytime

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

I used to think God’s purpose for my life was probably one big thing.

One big calling.

One door I had to find.

And if I walked past it, chose wrong, got scared, messed up too much, wasted too many years, or took the wrong road, then that was it.

I’d missed it.

Somewhere out there was the life God had meant for me, and I had somehow taken a wrong turn twenty miles back.

But I don’t believe that anymore.

Because the longer I walk with God, the more I realize His purpose ain’t usually hiding behind one mysterious door waiting to see if I’m smart enough to find it.

God’s purpose starts much closer than that.

Love Him.

Love people.

Tell the truth.

Forgive.

Pray.

Help somebody.

Use what He put in your hands.

Be faithful where your feet are standing today.

Sometimes we’re looking toward the horizon asking God to show us our purpose while He’s pointing toward the person sitting right beside us.

We want a burning bush.

God may give us a telephone call we need to make.

We want a great ministry.

He may give us one hurting person.

We want to know what we were put on this earth to accomplish.

And sometimes God says,

“Start with today.”

I think about all the people in the Bible who probably didn’t understand what God was doing while they were living it.

Joseph had a purpose, but for a while it looked like a pit.

Moses had a purpose, but for forty years it looked like sheep.

David had a purpose, but first it looked like being overlooked by his own family.

Peter had a purpose, but there were days when it looked like failure.

Paul had a purpose, but before he understood it, he was walking in the completely wrong direction.

And still God found him.

That comforts me.

Because if God could reach Paul while Paul was literally headed down the wrong road, I reckon God knows how to find us too.

Maybe you’re afraid you’ve wasted too much time.

Maybe you’re thinking,

“What if my purpose was twenty years ago?”

“What if I was supposed to do something and didn’t?”

“What if I made the wrong choices?”

“What if I missed God?”

But God is not standing twenty years behind you yelling for you to come back.

He is here.

Right now.

And as long as there is breath in your body, there is still something you can give Him.

Maybe purpose isn’t one assignment anyway.

Maybe it’s a lifetime of little obediences that only make sense when God finally lets us see the whole picture.

A prayer you prayed over somebody.

A child you encouraged.

A stranger you treated kindly.

A testimony you finally told.

A person you forgave.

A meal you carried.

A Bible verse you shared.

A lonely person you sat beside.

A broken person who watched you survive and thought,

“If God carried her through it, maybe He’ll carry me too.”

You may never know how many times God used you.

And that might be part of the beauty of it.

We spend so much time asking,

“God, what great thing am I supposed to do?”

Maybe heaven measures greatness differently.

Maybe one day we’ll discover that some of the most important things we ever did were things we barely remember doing.

So how do you know God’s purpose?

Stay close to Him.

Read His Word.

Pray.

Pay attention to what breaks your heart.

Pay attention to what He has placed in your hands.

Pay attention to the people He keeps putting in your path.

And take the next faithful step.

You don’t have to see the whole road.

God does.

And what if you mess up?

Then turn around.

What if you waste some years?

Give Him the years you have left.

What if you walk down the wrong road?

God knows where roads lead.

What if you miss a door?

He knows how to open another one.

God’s plan is bigger than one mistake.

His mercy is bigger than your confusion.

His ability to guide you is bigger than your ability to get lost.

Maybe the question isn’t,

“What if I miss my purpose?”

Maybe the better question is,

“Lord, what can You do with me from right here?”

And then give Him your yes.

Not tomorrow’s yes

[mabogunje joshua @bogunjejoshua]

Holy Spirit, I am slowing down again.

I wake up and reach for my phone before I reach for You. I give my first moments to notifications, distractions, and the cares of the day.

Please, receive me again.

Restore my hunger for Your presence. Restore my prayer life. Restore my desire for Your Word and sensitivity to Your voice.

Help me seek You before I seek everything else.

Holy Spirit, draw me back. I am Yours.

Amen.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I found a prayer in Isaiah 45:2–3 this morning. Lord, go before me into places I cannot enter by myself. Straighten what has been difficult, break through what has stood in my way, and make a way where I cannot yet see one. For the things concerning my life that I have no idea how to solve, I ask You to handle what is beyond my reach. Open doors I cannot open. Bring the right people into my path. Give me access to what You have prepared for me, even in places I never thought to look.
And when You begin to do these things, help me recognize that it was You. Let me not become so focused on the method that I miss the miracle.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I found a prayer in Habakkuk 2:3 this morning...
Lord, for the things You have shown me that have not happened yet, teach me how to wait without losing heart. When the vision takes longer than I expected, keep me from assuming You have forgotten me. When I cannot see movement, keep me from creating movement out of panic. Give me the discernment to know the difference between a promise that needs my obedience and a promise that simply needs my patience.
When everyone around me seems to be moving ahead and my own life feels suspended, keep me from measuring Your faithfulness by somebody else’s timeline. Let me remember that something can be taking longer without being denied. And when I am tempted to walk away because I have waited longer than I thought I would, remind me that “though it linger, wait for it.” Lord, teach me to wait without turning the waiting into evidence that You are not working.

[Ugochukwu @EkeVanVictor]

I spent a good part of the month of June studying the book of Luke and I learnt something powerful that could propel your pursuit for the knowledge of God.

For the longest time, I thought Jesus used parables simply to make His teachings easier to understand. 🧵

[Jossy | Kingdom Influencer. @JossyCOG]

Being Christ-like is not about trying harder to act like Jesus.

You can imitate His behavior
and still be led by yourself.

Jesus lived in complete dependence on the Father and the Holy Spirit.

So the question isn’t only:

“What would Jesus do?”

But:

“Holy Spirit, lead me.”

Christ is not formed in us by human effort.

He is formed in us as we yield to the Spirit.

[Froyd @Froyd369]

Being a deep thinker is definitely a gift and a curse.

I keep thinking about this verse:

Ecclesiastes 1:18;

“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

[Jossy | Kingdom Influencer. @JossyCOG]

Lord, kill my flesh.

Kill everything in me that resists Your will.

Because sometimes I know what is right and still find myself wanting what is wrong.

Like Paul, I can say, “For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.”

So I don’t want to win this battle by human effort.

Holy Spirit, teach me to deny the flesh, make no provision for it, and yield to Your work in me.

I don’t need to keep feeding what I am asking You to kill.

I need grace to put the flesh on the cross and let Christ live through me.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

There’s a man in the book of Ruth, who I’d never heard of before I was Christian, who explains exactly why God had to become human.

Boaz. 

A “kinsman-redeemer.” 

In that culture, if you fell into ruin, a relative with means could pay your debt and bring you into his family. But he had to meet three conditions.

He had to be ABLE to pay. 

He had to be WILLING. 

And he had to be RELATED, close enough kin to qualify.

After my radical conversion to Christianity, I realized that to redeem me, someone needed all three. 

Able: only God has the means. 

Willing: only love would choose it. 

Related: He had to become one of us.

That’s the whole reason for the incarnation.

God couldn’t redeem me from a distance.

He had to become my relative to buy me back.

Islam gave me a God too far to ever be my kin. Jesus became my brother to become my Redeemer.

He came close enough to qualify.

[Kristy Williams @WilliamsKr88077]

Amen 🙌🙌💯

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Jacob got buried next to the wife he never wanted.

Not Rachel. Not the love of his life he cried over and worked fourteen years to get.

Leah. The one he got tricked into marrying in the dark and spent twenty years looking past.

Now watch what God does with her.

Jacob worked seven years for Rachel and it felt like a few days, he loved her that much. Then his father in law swapped the brides in the dark. Worst best man in history. He woke up married to Leah and worked seven more years for the girl he actually wanted.

Here is the line everybody scrolls past.

"And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb."

Hated. In her own house. Second place at her own table, across from a man whose eyes were always parked down the road.

Heaven did not fix it by handing Jacob some feelings. God walked to the exact spot where Leah was rejected and built there. Out of the hated wife came Judah. Out of Judah came the line that ends in a manger. God does His best work in the dirt where you got overlooked.

Rachel, the one everybody wanted, got buried on the side of the road. Leah got laid in the covenant ground with Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah. The woman he did not choose is the one God ran His whole rescue through. Heaven does not hold recounts.

If you have spent years being tolerated instead of treasured, that might be the exact soil God builds a legacy in. And if you are the man always reaching for Rachel while you step over the Leah at home, repent, and go love what God actually gave you.

[Webster Mike @WebstarMike]

For THE LORD is good!
His unfailing love continues forever.
Hos faithfulness continues to each generation.

Psalms 100:5 NLT

[Faith Alakija @FaithKhenny]

Prayer is a discipline that must be developed. No one is born a prayer champion; we become strong in prayer by praying consistently. Learn to pray, grow in prayer, and discipline yourself to keep praying even when you don’t feel like it.

[Altine Kasire @altinekasre1]

DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS VERSE:

Do not despise
the season of small beginnings.
Every great thing God built
started somewhere small.
Zechariah 4:10

[NaNa🌼✨ @sil_vee_yah]

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~AJS

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

As a man,

1. Stay silent. Not everything needs to be said.

2. Silence is better than unnecessary drama.

3. If you find someone smarter than you, work with them, don't compete. Competition is weakness.

4. The family you create is more important than the family you come from.

5. Your current job doesn't care about you. They only pay you enough to kill your dreams.

6. Free yourself from the society's advice, most of them have no idea of what they're doing.

7. It's better to have 1 friend who's;

• Happy for you
• Supports your win
• Encourages your dreams

Than a bunch of acquittance who're

• Lazy
• Self-centered
• Jealous of your success

8. You'll be 10x happier if you forgive your parents and stop blaming them.

9. If you continue waiting for the "right time ”, you’ll waste your whole life and nothing will happen.

10. No one will ever come save you. Your life is 100% your responsibility.

11. Your inner circle should be more focused on money, success, and starting a family

12. You don't need 100 self-help books. All you need is actions and self-discipline.

[Godly Revival @Pastmora]

There’s a conversation in the Bible where Satan admits there are some people he can’t touch…

And almost nobody talks about it.

In Job 1, Satan tells God:

“Have You not put a hedge around him?”

Job was protected by God.

Satan could see the blessing.
He could see the favor.
But he also saw the hedge.

That means some things you thought were “luck” may have actually been God’s protection.

Some attacks never reached you.
Some doors never opened.
Some disasters never happened.

Because God had you surrounded. 🙏🏽🔥

— Job 1:10

[Nana Akua💕 @mxcurrieyy_]

The more time you spend with God, the easier it becomes to recognize what doesn't sound like him
Discernment grows where intimacy with God grows

[mabogunje joshua @bogunjejoshua]

My wife and I were reading Genesis 6.

When we got to the part where God was grieved by the wickedness of mankind, one statement stood out to us:

“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”

We got excited and immediately began to pray, “Lord, let us find grace in Your sight.”

But in the middle of the prayer, a thought came to me:

Was Noah simply fortunate, or was there something about his life that positioned him for that grace?

So we kept reading.

The next verses revealed that Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation, and he walked with God. Later, God gave him instructions, and Noah obeyed.

That changed the direction of our prayer.

Instead of only asking God for grace, we began asking Him to help us cultivate the kind of life that attracts His favor. A life of righteousness, fellowship with Him, and obedience to His word.

Sometimes we are quick to pray for what Noah had, but we should also desire to become who Noah was.

May God help us not only to seek grace, but to live in a way that finds it.