WAIT FOR HIM

 

"Where is he?" I asked the apprentice breathing heavily.

My high taste for Fashion would not allow me calm down. Immediately I got the Clothes, I ran to the Fashion designer's workshop with the all the strength I could gather.

On getting to His Shop, I was informed that he wasn't around. So with my legs crossed, I sat down on the little cylindrical chair in front of His Shop surfing the internet, of Course with my phone to get a suitable and beautiful style.

Don't mind me, I was too anxious to get the clothes sown that I forgot that I haven't gotten a style.

Immediately I saw the very style that appeals to me, the Fashionista arrived.

I flew from my seat, like someone who sat on a Hot coal and quickly gave him my clothe.

The man with surprise written all over his face looked at me and asked; "What do you want to sow with it?" 

I explained everything I wanted to him quickly and told him I would wait for him to finish sowing it before Going.

He told me that he would sow it but I insisted that I would stay with him.

Since he couldn't resist me, he started the sowing process.

He took the clothes, measured it and placed his scissors on it. The scissors moved without hindrance, cutting the clothes to pieces. I stood there looking at the way, my beautiful clothes is being turned into pieces.

When I saw that I couldn't endure seeing him turn my clothes into pieces, I shouted at him but all that came out of his mouth was; "wait for me." But with that he continued the action. I immediately collected my clothes from him and shouted at him with tears in my eyes; "I told you to sow me a nice wear but you turned my clothes to pieces. What has come over you?" I bumped out of his shops and ran to my house with tears.

I spend the whole week mourning and  looking for a solution to the torn clothes. Every Fashionista, I took my clothe to, would either tell me they cannot do it or I should return the clothes to the person who cut it into pieces. But how on Earth can I take my clothe back to the same man who destroyed it. Isn't that stupidity? 

I took my shreds of clothes and looked at it with tears flowing freely from my eyes, then something spoke softly to me from my inside saying; "This is your Life right now".

I was dazed and confused at the same time. What was that supposed to mean. As if the voice was inside my mind, hearing every thought that was flying through it, I heard it saying; "You gave your life to me because you wanted the bright and glorious future that only me can give.

You surrendered yourself willingly to and told me to work on you, and I began my work but you could not Endure the process. While I was just about to turn your pieces into the fine and beautiful clothes that is beyond what you wanted, you ran out of my hands, half-baked, unmolded and unfinished.

You took your pieces around and caused more problem with it.

You took you unfinished self and dwell daily mourning your own ignorance. When all you could have done is to come back to me.

You cannot teach me how to do my work.

I started my work, you should have allowed me to finish before running out!

If only you have waited for me, your life would have been a wonder to the world.

If only you have waited for me, I would have made the very best out of you.

But you ran away.

You ran far away from me.

When you were told to come back to me, you told them, that going back is stupidity"

Everything began to make sense to me, I left God when it seems life wasn't making sense again and here he his speaking to me through my clothes. "Jesus! Help me" I cried out and knelt down praying to God for mercy.

"Lord I repent, I come back to you. Do what you want with my life. I will wait till you're done" I prayed with tears in my eyes.

After hours of being slain before God, I took my clothes back to the Fashionista and gave it back to him and in some couple of minutes, he joined the pieces and made me a very beautiful dress!

Then I realized that; the dress would have been ready for long, if I have learnt to wait!

We have wasted a lot of time, because we cannot wait!

That unfavourable position you find yourself, might be as a result of what God is doing presently in you life, as long as God is there with you, wait for him!

Trust God with your life and get the best out of Life.

Let him do what he wants to do with you life and see how much of a wonder your life would become.

#Victor_Balogun

©Oracle Victor.

NB: Story is fictional

YOUR VOICE NEEDS TO BE HEARD.

I know you are very timid.

I know you are not from a reputable background.

I know you have not lived a decent life.

I know you have been molested and tramped upon.

I know you have been written off.

But there is a voice deep down in me telling me that; There is a voice in you that needs to be heard.

I know you have stagefright. 

I know that you cannot stand before the crowd.

I know you cannot even write. You don't even have passion for anything writing.

I Know that singing is not an option for you.

But you need to be heard.

It's not everyone that would be a writer.

It's not everyone that would be a singer.

It's not everyone that would be a speaker.

But everyone has a message.

Everyone needs to be heard.

There are some messages that are best communicated when you're in the inner chamber travailing.

There are some voice that are more clear and loud when you are at the back stage.

There are some Voice that are best heard when you are not talking.

The main thing is that your voice must be heard.

Everyone cannot be a motivational speaker.

Everyone cannot be an inspirational writer.

Everyone cannot be an excellent singer.

But everyone can make use of their specific Potentials to communicate their message.

Your platform for making people hearing your voice might be in the secret place.

Your platform for communicating your message might be in your service to others.

Your platform for communicating your message might be in at the back stage.

The message you carry can only be communicated by only you. 

Nations and kings needs to hear the message you carry.

I'm not saying you should start fighting for stage and mics. I'm saying discover your platform. 

You might not need the mic to be heard.

You might not need a stage to be heard.

Discover your own platform!

Failure to understand your Platform will give rise to Competition and inferiority complex.

Failure to understand your own platform will make you unfulfilled.

So discover your Platform.

You have no Excuse for not being heard.

Your voice needs to be heard!

#Victor Balogun

©Oracle Victor.

I WENT BACK

I thought I knew it all.

I thought I was standing strong.

I thought I could do it perfectly.

I taught several people about it.

I had given different people advice on it.

I had even gathered people to train them on it.

Those who knew it and discovered that I was out of the box,

offered to teach me for free but I told them I knew it.

They came and sat me down to advise me on it,

But like a peacock,

I flaunted my achievement,

and rejected their offer.

I really believed I knew it.

It became Dawn on me that I knew nothing when the test came.

The test came when I least expected.

At this time everyone has given up on me because I was stubborn.

Stubborn and bent on not learning.

I took the test but I failed.

I failed in that same thing I thought I knew.

I failed in that same thing that I taught several people.

I failed in that same thing that people wanted to teach me.

I was pained.

I began to regret every actions I took but it was too late.

I had to go back.

Yes! I went back.

I went back to learn that which I have taught thousands of people.

I went back to learn that which I thought I knew.

I went back to learn that which people offered to teach me for free.

I went back to learn that same thing.

I was pained.

Pained that I had to pay.

Pay for what I would have gotten for free.

I was pained.

Pained that I had to waste time.

Time on something that I would have gotten for long.

The truth is, I went back!

I went back to learn,

to correct my mistakes,

to make the necessary amendments.

I went back!

#Victor Balogun

©Oracle Victor.

KEEP HOLDING ON!

It's daybreak already but my weak body is still lying helplessly on the old bed.

I couldn't think straight because my head aches.
I try to search my mind to figure out the cause of the Headache and there it was; I had worked tirelessly at the industry yesterday.

I check my time and I knew I need to get up from the old bed immediately!

I have been trying hard for years now to put things together in my industry but it seems as though everything isn't going to work out fine.

I would be there again this morning to start-up another work!

Every Client I have gotten always complain that we don't know our job but of course I do know this thing!

I have a great passion for it. Not just passion I have also spent time to learn this thing but it seems as though all my efforts are waste!

I will be there again this morning to do all I have been doing for long without yielding results!

What's the point doing something I have tried overtime and it isn't working?

What's is the point giving myself unnecessary headache again?

What's the point wasting time and resources again?

What's the point in continuing when all hope of ever becoming successful is lost?

Before trying building this industry, I have ventured into various businesses which never yielded good results!.

I have been tagged a failure everywhere.
Even my family calls me failure!

Here are my again trying to do same time that made others call me failure.

It looks like all hope is lost.
It looks like I can never be successful!
It looks as though death is the only option!


I could not fight the tears that rush down from my eyes as I take a deep thought about my miserable life.

Just then, I heard a sound from a distant!
It's a song of a popular pastor and his family {Dr Paul Eneche Family}. It caught my attention. Just then, lyrics of the song came out so loud.

"Beyond the Cloud, the sun still shines.
 Beyond the bend, the road goes on.
 Weeping may endure the night, but Joy comes in the morning"

Those where the first words that hit me so hard!

Then this question start flowing into my heart;

Could it be that this is my night time and my morning is near?
Could this be that I'm still at the bend?
Could it be that if I endure all this, joy will come in the morning?

I was carried away pondering on this words when the second verse of the sound came in.

"With hope in God, you can make it
 With faith in him, your life is safe"

Just then, everything Begin to make sense to me; I have not included God in all I do.
I have always place my hope on my intelligence and skills.

I have given my work the place of God in my heart!

I have given Zero attention to God!

My heart was pricked!
I have missed it somewhere!
I have misplaced priorities!

Immediately, I knelt down and cry before God and ask him to forgive me.
Before I could blink my eyes twice, I felt an unusual peace from deep within me!

But this doesn't stop the struggle going on in my life and just while I was about going back into thinking about my miserable life, the third verse of the song came up.


"If you give up, you will go down
 If you loose hope, you will loose out"


Fear grip my heart as those words came.

What am I supposed to do?
If I give up I will go down, but should I continuing suffering all these trouble?

If I loose hope, I will loose out, but should I continuing doing something that has proven over the time not to work?

I was still pondering on this when the answer to my question came in through the chorus.

" So Keep Holding on
  and keep holding on
  and keep holding on and on
  So keep holding on
  And keep holding on
  There is no need to give up

  So keep holding on
  And keep holding on
  And keep holding on and on
  So keep holding on
  And keep holding on
  Your victory is here"


Joy crept into my heart immediately the chorus ended.
So God has been using all this to prepare me for the Victory ahead.

Just then, I begin to see how near my success is.

I begin to see reasons not to give up.
I begin to see reasons to keep holding on.
I begin to see reasons to continue enduring the trouble.

Here is it! My Victory is Here!
Just then I said to myself with a loud voice; I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!

==========

I don't know what you might be going through now, but I want to use this opportunity to tell you that God has better plan for you!

I don't know how far you have neglected God, but I want to tell you that God is willing to Accept you back as his own!

I don't know what you have been trying to do for long but hasn't been working out, but I want to tell you to listen to the still voice of the holy Spirit, saying; "Keep Holding on."

You might have been through a lot but I want to you to know that your Victory is near and the worse you can do to yourself at this time is to give up.

I have come to tell you to Keep Holding on, because beyond the cloud, the sun still shines!

So beyond that storm you're facing, your glory will soon shine and the only thing you can do to stop it is to Give up!

So Keep holding on!



#Victor_Balogun
©Oracle Victor.
...the voice of my innerman crying out for a generation of knowledgeable men

IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW!

We live in a world where we are all exposed to knowledge.

We all have easy access to knowledge as we can browse out and get any book we want without any stress.

The internet has been a lot of help to us.

We can build online library even in our mobile phone as book that are expensive can be gotten without having to spend much money.

All the information we need to be successful are now at our finger tips.

But it's a pity that as easy as it is to get knowledge, we still have a large number of people who are still ignorant.

As much as it's easy to get all the necessary information to be successful, we still have a large number of people who are living in mediocrity.

It seems as though, this exposure to knowledge is doing more harm than good to our world.

What could be the reason?

Many of us devour the right information with the wrong mindset.

We get the necessary knowledge but not with the right understanding.

We have a lot of people who read books and do research not to be transformed but to be informed.

Little wonder, we have a large number of people, who have read different books and can quote some of the words in the books they have read but their lives have not really changed.

We have a lot of people who read a lot but do little.

We have a lot of people who knows but fails to practice what they know.

Knowledge is good but when we fail to act on what we know, it's useless.

Ignorance is better than knowledge without actions.

Many at times we only read to gather information not because we want to be changed.

I have seen people who taught a topic in which they later become victim of.

We know too much but we act too Little.

That is one of the major problem of this generation!

Even with the unlimited access to information and knowledge, if we fail to act on what we know, we would continue to live in mediocrity.

The most awful part is that when people who knows what we do not know, wants to encourage us or impact us with knowledge, we neglect them with the mindset that we know all they want to say.

Our generation will continue to suffer and wallow in mediocrity if we fail to regard those who has gone before us.

The state of your mind when you are getting information and knowledge is very important.

Get knowledge with the intention and mindset to put them into practice, that is only when we would grow and become successful.


#Victor Balogun
©Oracle Victor.

YOU NEED MONEY?

Every passing moment, every passing day the need for money arises.

Every man you meet, tells you how desperately they are in need of money.

You see a man looking confused and bored and when you ask him the reason for his countenance, he tells you how he is in dear need of money.

Most men goes out every morning and come back very late in the night all because they want to have money.

People take all kind of risks just because of money.

Money seems to be what every man needs to be satisfied.

Almost everyone live their lives in pursuit of money.

Many people would boldly say that they would be satisfied if they have money.

But the question is can money make you satisfied?

The satisfaction you do not get when you don't have money can not be gotten when you have money.

Satisfaction come from a sense of fulfillment and feeling of being loved.

Money is part of what bring satisfaction but it is not all that is needed. In fact, it is the least of all that is needed.

You will only be satisfied not when you get money but when you are fulfilled.

If you're not satisfied when you don't have money, you will never be satisfied when you have money.

Our main problem as humans is not money, it is lack of fulfillment.

You cannot not be fulfilled without God. So you cannot be satisfied without God.

Many of us neglect God and look for satisfaction from somewhere else.

You satisfaction can only come from God and not money.

Many people who are rich today don't have a sense of satisfaction because they are not fulfilled.

You will say, you need money ,but I will tell you what you need is God because God will bring you fulfillment and when you're fulfilled, even if there is no money, you will be satisfied.

So instead  of living all your life in search of money, Get God!


#Victor Balogun
©Oracle Victor.

IT IS NOT ENOUGH

My ever moving eyes caught her picture.
Her picture brought smile to my face.
Beauty is written all over her face.

Her picture brought peace within me.
I couldn't even scroll through her picture because I already felt butterfly in my belly.
I begin to see my future wife in her.

I haven't meant her before but I begin to picture how life will like holding such a beautiful person by the hand and walking her up to the aisle.
I just cannot stop imagining after seeing that picture.

She is so beautiful.
Her eyes are sparkling.
Her smiles makes me comfortable.

Remember, I have not even met her before.
I have not even seen her.
I do not even know her name.
I do not even know if she's still alive or dead.

But just as I opened my teeth smiling at the picture of this damsel before me.
A thought slipped into my heart.

Do you know that a lot of destiny has been ruined just because they were so much caught by the beauty on the face and forget to look at the inner beauty?

Do you know a lot of people have died Young because they never find peace after marrying the beautiful face of a woman?

Do you know that a lot of people are in trouble now because they were after the beauty of the woman they married?

Do you know that a lot of people will never fulfill destiny just because they marry the physical beauty of a woman?

Then I told myself, beauty will fade away, so why marry a woman because she's beautiful. When the beauty is gone, what would happen?

I told myself, I would never marry a woman just because she's beautiful on the outside.

I would rather go for a woman whose inside is beautiful cause that kind of beauty will last till the end.

I will not walk up to the aisle with a woman who has little value but is physically beautiful.

As good as physical beauty is, it is as useless as anything.

As good as physical beauty is, your choice of marital partner should not be limited to beauty alone cause facial beauty can be deceptive.

There are women who are beautiful from the inside out, this ones are rare to find. When you get someone like that cherish them.

Beauty is good but don't go into a relationship with someone because of his or her facial beauty, because you might regret it.

To the ladies, don't just work on making yourself physically beautiful but also work on your inner beauty with include your Virtue and Value.

It's not enough to be beautiful on the outside, work on you inside.
Work on your personality.

Your marriage or relationship will not work out fine because both of you are beautiful.

Beauty is good but when it is without value and virtue, it's useless.

So don't start up a relationship because of facial beauty.

Don't be carried away by his or her facial beauty that you forget to check his or her inner beauty.

Facial beauty is not enough look out for more.


#Victor Balogun
©Oracle Victor

SLOWLY SET, BEFORE SWIFTLY AIMING AT IT

I was seated in front of his house waiting patiently for my phone to charge up before heading home. Just then my eyes moved round and eventually caught a scene.

I saw a wall gecko setting it target and moving slowly towards an ant. After moving slowly for a while, suddenly it moves with a very high speed and caught it prey.



Sometimes, we just need to sit down and slowly set our goals and then move at a very high speed to achieve our goals.

I know you have a lot of plan you want to achieve.
I know you want to impact and bless lives with your talents and potentials
I know you're striving for relevance.
I know you want to be known for what you do and how much of the impact you have made
I know how you have a lot on your head that you need to offload.

It's truly a great desire and plan and I really Celebrate you.

But can you just patiently count the cost and make your plans.

Can you just give yourself time to get all the necessary knowledge and wisdom you need to achieve that goal of yours before jumping at it.

Can you just slowly and carefully set your target and then move with an unaltered speed towards your goals.

Sometimes, when we fail to patiently spell out our plans before going for it, we end up becoming a mediocre.

Sometimes, when we fail to look beyond the pain and slowly set our target, we end up achieving little.

Don't be too passionate about becoming relevant and forgot that every good thing requires time.

So, despite the load of potential inside of you, get quality time to patiently set your goal before going for it.

You will surely become great, if you can be patient enough to set your targets right before running at it.


©Victor Balogun.
#Oracle Victor.