At The Scent of Water

Happy Thanksgiving

Preface: This post was meant to come out in September, but still we move!

Job 14:9 states that ..”at the scent of water, it will bud and bloom again.”

At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again and its new shoots will not fail. – Job 14:7

I started writing this blog post July 15th 2025 and honestly my headspace was quite cluttered at that point and I was being pruned and taught yet by the Holy Spirit. Not saying that I have attained all that I am meant to by now, but I am glad that at least the clutter has reduced! Lol

I have been re-introduced and seen the faithfulness of God in new dimensions in this season. For those who do not know June was a pretty monumental month for me and there was so much going on and honestly I am just really taking the moment to take it all in.

First of all I turned 29 on June 1st 2025! Whooo! God is sooo faithful! I am so incredibly grateful to God for life, for the ability to live, think, breathe, live and above all to know Him and to be known by Him. It is very important to ascertain that and remind myself of this wonderful blessing most especially when the spirit of murmuring or complaining wants to rear its ugly head. Not here satan, be gone!

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Then, I officially graduated with my postgraduate degree on June 13th 2025!

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Wow, what we waited for finally came to pass. FIVE WHOLE YEARS. If you had told me when I started my program in January 2020 that I would finally graduate from my program in June 2025, I would not believe you. Yet, the process and journey I embarked on has sharpened my spiritual walk, my understanding of life and people and made me also see new aspects of myself I never knew I had. God came through in a major way and it still blows my mind to this day.

I try to not trivialize what God has done or to sweep it under the rug in the guise of let’s keep pushing it onto the next one.

One of the biggest challenges I have had to face in this new season is the Spirit of Stillness. There is a tendency if you feel delayed to want to make ten leaps in one step and recover all you feel you might have lost. Most especially if you feel like your peers have outrun you and gone ahead of you and are achieving things you desire or want. But, the truth is anything we obtain outside of the grace and strength of God, is not a blessing, and it might not be worth having.

But even through it all I can see God’s goodness and His hand at work. The song about God being in the detail and in the story is true for every part and portion of our lives.

If the Bible says that God never leaves nor forsakes us. Even in what seems like the darkest, gloomiest and most miserable moments, the hand of God is still steadily guiding us.

I was fortunate to watch back the testimony videos of Ayo Mairo-Ese and honestly I had admired her from afar in the past. I think I was first introduced to her during her wedding to Mairo Ese and I was like who is this fine, refined babe! Sometimes seeing someone do or be who we desire and that pleases God can be appealing to us. That is why we must unapologetically shine our lights in our world, the world is waiting for the manifestation of sons and daughters of God (of which you and I are one!). So let’s live like it!

But, the fact that her maiden name was Ayo Thompson, she was well spoken, was in the media and communications, loved Jesus, loved His people, was an amazing mentor, yet was real, relatable and honest and she married a music minister! Lol, I don’t know if I am telling all my business on the streets but a few of these things appealed to me (which ones? I’d leave that to your imagination). But she was a Jesus girlie through and through with a sense of humor and a great group of friends! Omo, her friendship with Olive Emodi is so beautiful! Lol, it’s like you find one and you find both of them!

But what brought me to bring her up was listening to her testimony of how she had to wait to get married at 32 years old and then waiting for 7.5 years before she gave birth to her wonderful bundles of joy! (1 boy, 1 girl!) See, how God is such a redeemer and such a faithful Father! He gave them double for the trouble.

But in watching her Youtube videos, she made a very real comment which was: “why was it me always having to wait?” She had to wait to get admission to university, had to wait to get married and also had to wait for her children. As Christians it can be frustrating when we know or are aware of the capabilities of our Father yet it seems there is an unwillingness to give us our desires.

Something in her testimony really just made my heart leap for joy.

Beyond that I went to search for her website and found that she had a blog site from 2008 – 2017 (with one post in 2020)! She was faithful in stewarding the assignment she felt God laid on her heart per season for the audience of people God had called her to.

It’s not even always about doing things for God so He will give us that thing we long for. But sometimes, in truly spending our lives for His cause and for his Kingdom we are walking in the ultimate fulfilment of our soul. When, I am so spent and yet so filled, I don’t have the space, time or energy to be spending worrying about what has or hasn’t happened for or to me. I am too busy with my Father’s business. I carry it on top of my head. And not just as a duty but because I am ultimately aligned with Him, it brings my soul joy. I burst out in exuberant joy, because I am fulfilled.

Delight yourself in the Lord…

Delight is to have ultimate and supreme satisfaction. The Holy Spirit has a vessel to use and direct to do His bidding. Omo, I am getting excited even as I write this.

You have no idea how long I have craved to write like this!! The talk about writer’s block, but sometimes when there’s just too much distractions and so much on one’s mind, it can be difficult to sit down and put pen to paper or in this case type out words, sentences and form paragraphs that make sense. Ultimately, it’s the work of The Holy Spirit and no man can take the glory for it.

But I am convinced of this that He that started a good work in You, will complete it unto the day of the return of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6, paraphrased)

I don’t know where this verse came from but it just popped in my head as I was writing this piece.

Looking at the Mairo Ese’s testimony and also reminding myself of where God has brought me from. I am sure as the reader too you can think back to the start of this year and see God’s hands steadily leading you through. Are you in the same spot mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially or physically as you were then? We have all grown in at least one of these categories.

Our Father is not wicked and He does not intentionally withhold any good thing from us. But He wants us to be complete and lacking nothing and to come to full maturity in our faith. Being a baby Christians who haven’t encountered any struggle, hardship or obstacle does not profit the Kingdom. The Kingdom we are talking about remembers that wicked people are forcefully advancing against it o, and it is the violent that takes it by force. If you are doing jejely jejely, they will push you for road! So soldier for Christ, mount up on wings as an eagle, put on your full armor and we keep on keeping on!

We cannot afford to rest on our laurels and be laissez-faire through life (Not sure if this is the right terminology but basically just allowing anything to go and living a life that is unrestrained). There are assignments and missions with our name on it. This is a call to action to you and mostly to myself to be honest.

At the scent of water, those dreams, goals or action plans we had set in motion that seemed to have died a quiet death, begin to receive a revival!
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I am so excited to see how the Spirit leads us all for the rest of 2025. Please do not condemn yourself or feel bad because you feel you have laxed. We have all fallen short, but God’s grace is sufficient. I wonder why that verse was included in the Bible. It was for such a time as this. For us to be reminded that nothing is ever too far gone.