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Healing is a Journey

Healing is a Journey

Thur March 27, 2025

I started my healing journey about nine months ago, and one thing I’ve realized is just how costly it is.

Wow. It takes work, fam. And it’s hard—because I’ve come to see how much pride has stood in the way of me working through trauma.

Pride, in the sense that I’d rather act like I’m okay, like everything is fine, than be honest with myself and God that I am a 5-foot-10 pillar of beautifully broken pieces.

This journey has required so much faith.
It has led me to wrestle—month after month—with the bitterness and unforgiveness in my heart, all while God’s love patiently waits to wash them away.

It has exposed deep wounds—mother wounds, father wounds—
Revealed parts of my thinking shaped by an orphan mindset.
And it has forced me to be honest with God about the moments I felt like He had disappointed me.

Healing is like going to the dentist.
You don’t really want to go because they might come for you and expose the cavities.
But after the fillings, after the deep cleanings, you can’t help but smile at yourself in the mirror.

I’ve misunderstood this journey at times… expecting a quick fix or for it to be linear.
But healing doesn’t work like that.
It’s a process—on God’s timeline, not ours.

The best thing I’ve learned? Surrender.
To allow God’s Will, God’s When, and God’s Way in my life.
To let Him shape my character, restore my brokenness, and walk with me in the midst of it all.

The wonderful thing about God is that He is the Great Physician.
He doesn’t rush our healing.
He doesn’t stand at a distance, looking in.
He limps with us.
Sits with us.
Cries with us in the miry clay—
All while delivering us out of it.

Some days, the weight of past pain feels heavy.
Other days, I’m filled with joy and laughter as breakthrough comes.

If you’re in a season of healing, keep going.

You got this.
And more importantly, He’s got you.

The One who began a good work in you will surely see it through.

 

 

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

She had never known the love of God—
only the cruel, unrelenting grip of fear.

She knew this fear well:
from those she loved, who never truly loved her,
from those she served, who never really served her,
from rules she followed, that never truly protected her,
from people she admired, who never fully accepted her,
from places she visited, that never truly embraced her.

But then, she encountered a Love that was unconditional—

A Love sealed with acceptance,
from a man despised and rejected,
a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,
crucified—yet risen indeed.

And fear unraveled in an instant.
Her wounds of rejection, washed in living water.
Her longing to be accepted, satisfied in His blood.
Her cry for mercy, answered at the cross.
Her chains to the law, broken by grace.

Now, her eyes shine with hope and joy—
for she has finally received the love of God.

— AGOKOGA

Beyond Self-Centered Faith

Beyond Self-Centered Faith

 

Fri March 7, 2025                                        

Self-centeredness is the great perversion of the image of God in us. It’s why faith becomes a tool instead of a way to live. It’s why we pray only when we have a need. It’s why we seek titles instead of bearing fruit. But the Gospel is not a principle; it’s a person we must believe in and become like.

Really ask yourself today: Am I living for Christ, or am I trying to fit Him into my life for my sake?

Faith isn’t about making life easier—it’s about making us more like Him.

So stop letting life around you define who you are—let the life in you do that. Stop reacting to people who don’t see who you are in Christ—walk in the truth that the veil has been removed for you.

If your faith isn’t producing love, it’s time to assess: What am I really believing?

To be Fisher’s of Men

To be Fisher’s of Men

Your calling is to follow Jesus.

Your duty is to seek the LORD.

Your ministry is to worship Him in Spirit & in Truth.

And your overflow is what God will use in serving others.

When Jesus called to Peter and his brother Andrew He said:

“Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” – Matthew 4:19 

When they came to him, He did not immediately send them out to become fishermen, but instead WALKED with them in communion. 

He led them as their Good shepherd 

He taught them as their Rabbi

He comforted them as their Friend 

& He made himself known to them as their God.

And near the end of 3 years He finally sent them out saying,

NOW GO and MAKE FISHERMAN 

And they went knowing 

That they were vessels,

They were His hands and feet, 

His vehicles for miracles,

They were the instruments for His word

But they were first His. 

YOU ARE FIRST HIS

He WANTS YOU

not JUST what you can do for him. 

Baba, Let Her GrOw

A Baba from the motherland,
Holds his daughter’s hand so tight.
Fearing she may lose her way,
Yet keeping her from taking flight.

Her body grows, but her mind stays still,
For all she’s known is Baba’s will.
A love that cages, without a choice,
A life where silence drowns her voice.

—AGOKOGA