Saturday 16th August, 2025
Bible Reading: Habakkuk 2:1-4
Memory Verse: This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming – it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time.” Habakkuk 2:3 (MSG)
Bro Joshua Banjo wrote a piece for every young firebrand child of God to read. He said: Campus executives, students’ leaders, fellowship executives please take heed. I almost gave up in Year 2 (while in the university). Studying Philosophy at the University of Lagos felt like a mountain I didn’t ask to climb. I wanted mass communication, but I was given Philosophy. Ministry was calling, music was burning in my bones, but my CGPA? Not smiling.
I remember walking out of class one day thinking, “God, why am I here?” But I stayed. Year 3 changed everything. I found rhythm. I found grace. I stopped seeing school as a delay and started seeing it as divine training. I graduated with strong grades—not just in academics, but in character, clarity, and calling.
Then NYSC came. NCCF President. A different battlefield. That season taught me how to lead, how to pray when you’re tired, how to serve even when no one claps. After NYSC, I worked as a HR in a bank. I wore suits by day, led worship and counselled people by night. That 9–5 job taught me structure, discipline, and people skills. It wasn’t a detour—it was God’s bootcamp.
Today, I’m a full-time pastor, a counsellor, a music, drama minister, and a creative. And I’m telling you this: Don’t drop out of school because you heard God. Don’t abandon books because you’ve been called. Don’t despise process—it’s how God build generals.
Your mind matters to God. Your degree is not a distraction. Your classroom is just as spiritual as your altar. Let your intellect partner with your anointing. God didn’t just call you to be on fire. He called you to be formed.
Lesson: If the devil cannot stop you from discovering your destiny, he will try to corrupt it. A God-ordained destiny may become corrupted when you jump process. If your perspective and message must be balanced and well rounded, you must allow God lead you through every phase through process. Even in real life, the more you process a thing e.g. fruits, the higher the market value. Allow God to form every character and mature His giftings in you through process that you may be well prepared for His ultimate use.
Quote: Many dropped out of purpose because they dropped out of process.
Prophetic Decree: Let every passion bow down to the Lord of all spirits, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. I am sorry Lord for trying to run faster than You.
2. My Father, please deliver me from the rush mentality, in Jesus name.
3. I receive grace to do what the Spirit says, and to go where the Spirit orders me to go, in Jesus name.
4. I receive grace to walk in process, in the name of Jesus.
5. I receive grace to see every season of my life as an appointment with divine destiny, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 32-34
