I am not following Jesus because of what I can get from Him, but because of what I already got from Him. Nothing I get now can be compared to the greatest gift of all.
A heard church in my neighbourhood make reference to jos Killings in order to lead the congregation in thanksgiving prayer and freedom of worship. My 💔 heart sank. I find it insensitive.
God will accept our thanksgiving without necessarily comparing our situation with others.
She left me after saying...
“I prayed about it… and I don’t think we’re meant to be.”
No fight.
No drama.
Just a quiet ending that didn’t feel like it should be the end.
I asked if she was sure. She said yes. I asked if there was someone else.
She said no.
I asked what changed. She said, “Nothing changed… I just feel peace about walking away.”
And that was the hardest part. Because how do you argue with “peace”?
So I let her go.
The weeks after felt empty.
Not dramatic, just a silence where something familiar used to be.
I prayed, not even to get her back, but just to understand what God was doing.
Slowly, I started changing too.
I stopped chasing answers in panic. I stopped forcing clarity. I focused on my own life, my walk with God, my healing.
Months passed.
Then a year.
One day, she texted: “I need to see you.”
We met at a café. She looked different, calmer, softer, like someone who had survived a storm.
She said she had been wrong.
Not wrong about feelings, but about timing, fear, and assuming peace always means exit.
“I thought God was removing you,” she said, “but I think He was shaping both of us.”
We didn’t rush anything. We talked, we prayed, we moved slowly this time, with wisdom instead of emotion.
What surprised me most wasn’t that we found our way back…
It’s that we came back as different people.
Not healed by time alone, but by surrender.
Now I don’t see it as a breakup.
I see it as a pause God used to rebuild two people who weren’t yet ready for what they were praying for.
Sometimes God doesn’t say “no.”
Sometimes He says, “not yet… I’m still working on you.”
I bank with Zenith Bank. When I slot in my ATM card, the machine will welcome me and say “Arome, welcome”. The machine is dealing with me as a personalised customer. If I give my friend, Gideon Odoma my ATM to help me make some withdrawals, when he slots in the card, the machine will still say “Arome, welcome”, it won't recognise Gideon. It accepts the transaction because it takes for granted that it is Arome.
When you give your life to Christ, the Christ that is in you is the one that has the passcode to the throne of Grace. So when you come before the throne of Grace, you're not admitted into activities or transactions with that throne because you're ‘Samuel’ or ‘Philip’ by name. Christ in you becomes the basis of your right standing with God, He doesn't see you, He sees Christ; just like the ATM machine didn't recognise my friend Gideon and thought it was dealing with Arome.
So, Christ in you becomes the reason of your acceptance. Not you in yourself, but Christ in you. As long as you have Christ in you, when you stand before God, you're Right from the perspective of the Justice system of Heaven.
It is this RIGHTNESS that gives you the platform for Prayer. It is this RIGHTNESS that makes you to be able to engage God without inferiority, guilt and condemnation.
And the proof that this RIGHTNESS is in place is that there's an inner PEACE. PEACE means you're accepted. Peace means welcomed. Peace means you're free to do transactions in the courts of Heaven.
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And that's an arrangement that was put in place not because you had anything to contribute to it. Salvation is not a reward for good behavior; it is a gift released by the grace of God. We access this grace by putting our faith in Jesus Christ.
Because it is entirely God’s doing and not our achievement, no man has grounds to boast.
Therefore, every believer must live in humility, knowing that redemption is purely the mercy of God.
(—Ephesians 2:8 & 9)
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Sermon By Apostle Arome Osayi and transferred by Kingdom Channel ✍🏼
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