Kairos moments...

Kairos moments funnel the massiveness of eternity into time without breaking the beat of time, making possible, impossibilities!!!
Our minds, therefore, need to be focused on that which God has embedded in our destiny outside of time, as we look out for opportunities to bring them in time to birth them into being through set Kairos moments i.e. Funneling the eternal from the unseen realm into the seen sphere by Faith!
◄ 2 Corinthians 4:18 ►
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Through her we died, in Him we Live!

It was the most painful thing for He that created to be rejected by that which He created, because the created chose to reject eternal life with his creator and rather CHOSE to live in total separation from his creator with she whom he loved more than his God, rather than trusting in the truth that his Creator WOULD make a way to redeem the other being created from himself and restore her to life. This the first Adam did, as he chose woman over God and as a result lost his life - He said "I will not drink this cup, my will not Yours be done" In choosing the 'flesh of his flesh' over God, he lived momentarily yet died, eternally separated from God.

It was the most beautifully painful yet joyous thing to have the Begotten chose He who had begotten him rather than live in momentary pleasure, with the other begotten, but death eternal, separated from God. This the second Adam did, as He chose his GOD over the will of 'the flesh of his own flesh' - He said "Father if it were possible, remove this cup from me, But I WILL drink it, not my will, but Yours be done!" With that, he died momentarily, yet now lives eternally, ONE with God with The name above all other. He made the way through his death that we his bride could live forever.


I dare say that if Adam had chosen to be with God, he may have been temporarily separated from his bride, but that same God would have found a way to restore his bride. He would have provided a ram in the bush as he did for Abraham because He IS - Jehovah Jireh, The Lord who has 'seen'.

No wonder that the first commandment in the old covenant is this: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" - Adam's god was woman, and therefore he DIED.
And no wonder that The ONLY commandment in the new covenant is this: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.” Jesus' God was JEHOVAH, and therefore WE LIVE!

I wrote this poem a while ago - A glimpse into the heart of a strong woman who is pressed but not crushed, persecuted not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed... Out of desolation, a phoenix will arise; Halleluyah!

I wrote this poem a while ago - A glimpse into the heart of a strong woman who is pressed but not crushed, persecuted not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed... Out of desolation, a phoenix will arise; Halleluyah!


It is true that you constantly use and abuse.
It is true that your words to me are with precision care
Aimed to amuse and confuse.
It is true that every time and everything I give,
You disdain and count as dung,
It is true that in your eyes, I am nothing but a well-worn avenue,
For your feet’s traverse to destination 'My will be done'.

It is also true that many a time,
I am tempted to leave
So that you flounder and drown
(As I know you will)
It is true that I have agonized over decisions to concede,
And to forgive, time and yet time again.
It is true that blood has boiled within my veins,
My hands bound, rendered impotent to allow harm,
Even so by the cords of love that still restrain.

So why is it not true for you to suppose
That I am weak and spineless?
Why is it not true for you to summarily conclude,
Upon my apparent blindness and seeming blatant stupidity.

Could it be because of the rivers of compassion?
And love that still flow from the heart of one that though hurt and marred,
Realizes that it too was so forgiven?

Could it be because of the enduring truth of faith, of hope, and of love?
Faith… That although, at this time, you're so hopelessly blind,
Someday your eyes will open and you will see the light?

Hope… That the tears (sometimes violently angry)
That I have shed because of you and many more for the things you have done,
Would someday cease, morning breaking through with the sun’s healing rays?

Love… Once stranger to me,
Bought and brought by the Sovereign one who rules over my heart and soul?
The one to whom I cannot but say-
“Not my will but yours be done”?

Could it be because He abides in me, and therefore I can abide?

Could it be because of The One who has opened my heart
To see the impossible as possible, the unseen as seen,
And He who has opened my heart
To love the unlovably unlovely?

Could it be from the infusion of strength I have received
Through birthing cries loosed from my tongue ~
An outpouring of pleading for grace?
May it be that the rivers of supplication
for that one
For whom if it had not been poured,
The end result, dastardly doom?

Yes! It is the truth that I concede,
But this, I do, by the strength that rises up within me,
With which I say I do.
The power that propels me urging me on,
Through inner jeers and taunts, congealed spittle, and painful thrusts.

The power that graces me to walk, as He would have walked,
Head unbowed by grief, Hands lifted high in submission to His will:
“Father forgive, for they know not what they do.”

© AdePero Mettabel, 04/19/13.

Last night I had a dream.

Last night I had a dream. I was in a church congregation the service was going on. There was not a lot of music, but there was much contemplation and much praying. I do not know what the thrust of the meeting was, and I daresay that in the context of this dream, it was not the focus. During the prayer time a woman all of a sudden stood up and started prophesying. Again I cannot remember what she said, but I clearly remember her excitement, awe and wonder she said with a trembling voice “I can see the handwriting! I can read it!! Can’t you see it?” She was referring to the fact that the words of the prophecy she was giving, She was reading from Celestial projection in the air against the backdrop of the wall. The beauty of this was that in the dream I somehow knew that the woman was not literate. I somehow knew that she would not normally have been able to read what she was now reading with ease, albeit a trembling voice. It was much like the handwriting of God spoken about in the book of Daniel. I did not immediately remember this dream when I woke up. It came to me a few minutes later. I did not spend time trying to figure out the meaning of this dream. What came to my mind regarding this dream, I believe by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit were the verses spoken in the book of Joel chapter 2. "In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon ALL flesh". Sons and daughters, Young and old, young men and maidservants – ALL flesh! This is not a hocus-pocus, woo-woo Word. It is an encouragement from the Lord that He is not getting ready to do a new thing, but that He will, and is doing a new and marvelous thing. The seemingly uneducated will speak with eloquence and power, seemingly ordinary men and women will move in the miraculous. Children will declare words with wisdom far beyond their years, and the elders will speak with the simplicity of Youth. The handwriting is on the wall, but this time, it is not for doom,
IT IS FOR GLORY!

May the peace and joy of the Lord be with us all,
Maranatha.

You Are Powerful!

The conference - Entre Amigos/Among friends, was organized by my dear friend Pastor Julieta Piox. The theme was "You Are Powerful" - referring to the innate potential we have within us to achieve greatness on every level. It was a life changing experience for me! There was an incredible ministration by Dr. Verna Price based on her book The Power of People, which focuses on the four Kinds Of People Who Can Change Your Life.
The Power of People is a very clear and common sense approach to understanding your personal power by learning a simple way of understanding and sorting out people in your life. The book is designed to help people achieve personal and professional success. It is informative, inspiring, motivational and thought-provoking. If this is what you've been praying for, you may need to read her book!
And if you are a woman (or man) who has prayed for such a touch on their life, please visit her website and buy your own copy as I understand that it is sold out on amazon! You may also click on the link below to access an audio recording of the message.

God bless you and you have an inspired day!

https://soundcloud.com/mettabel-okulaja/you-are-powerful-at-entre

The Lies We Believe.

I was scrolling down my timeline on Facebook and I saw a picture with the caption
"back in the day". This caption brought back memories of a lie that I had believed for many years.

I do not have a lot of "back in the day" pictures because I had been convinced and had believe the lie that my face was so ugly, that it did not deserve to grace celluloid or any photograph. One day however, after one of my personal picture bashing sessions, The Lord made me stand in front of the mirror, and He proceeded to tell me how beautiful I was, that He had created me just the way I was, fearfully and wonderfully. He taught me that avoiding taking pictures would result in my not being able to document the stages of my life, the events that were important to me, and images of the people I love and those who have crossed my path.
I made a decision that day that ugly or not, beautiful or yes, I would never shy away from documenting my life in pictures (as my friends will tell you :-)) because 30 years from now by God's grace I would also be able to post a picture captioned "back in the day"!
Many of us still believe this lie today, and I do so tell you with absolute conviction, IT IS A LIE! You are beautiful, fabulous, fearfully and wonderfully made, AND THAT'S MY FINAL ANSWER!

So strike a pose, smile, camera, lights, action! I see you and you look just like the amazing person God created you to be.

If you look in the right mirror, you will see yourself 'just as you are':

◄ 2 Corinthians 3:18 ►
... Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Have a great Sunday and be blessed in the Lord!

Filters... Do you have them?

In my car, I have what is known as a ‘heads up’ display, which is an optically projected image of the dashboard onto the driver side windscreen. The object of this is to keep the driver safe by making all the information on the dashboard available as a virtual image on the windscreen, to keep the driver's eyes on the road.
A few months ago I had an experience that brought a powerful spiritual truth home to me. These are the events as they unfolded. My car had been in and out of the shop for various reasons and on this day as I was driving home from church, I noticed that I could no longer see my heads-up display. I became agitated because I felt that a lot of things had had to be fixed in the car recently, and I was not in the mood take my car back into the dealership. I turned to my mom who was sitting next to me and started ‘whinecomplaining’ “Mommy look at this! Something’s wrong again I can’t see the heads-up display!” and etcetera etcetera and on and on I went… my tirade went on for a few minutes, and my mother who is a saint sat patiently through my temper tantrum saying to me “at least you can get it fixed it will be okay”. “But mom that’s time again wasted going to the dealership” and on and on I went. All of a sudden something dawned on me. I said to my mom “would you please hand me the other pair of sunglasses in my bag?” I change sunglasses, and the most amazing thing happened voilà the heads-up display was back! I switched back to the previous sunglasses, and the heads-up display was gone! At this point, I realized that the first pair of sunglasses I'd had on were prescription sunglasses. My prescription glasses have cylinders in them because I have mild astigmatism, and because of the cylinders my angle of vision while viewing the heads-up display tilted and caused it to become invisible! When I switched back to regular sunglasses, no cylinders - the image reappeared!

I started laughing at myself because I tend to get worked up over simple things only to find out that they have simple solutions, and this situation was no different. My long-suffering mother just looked at me and said, “see”. And I "saw"! Thinking over this episode made me realize something really important. What we ‘see’ or do not ‘see’ may sometimes not at all be dependent on whether the object exists or not, but may be dependent solely on the filters through which we view the object. The Lord explained it to me this way: "take every promise that I have given you as that heads-up display. It was there all along, but your ability to perceive it was dependent on the lenses/ filter through which you were you were viewing it. With the prescription glasses, you could not see it even though it was there. But when that filter was removed and replaced with an appropriate one, you were then able to see it. See, that is why I urge you to stay in my Word because then and only then can you receive the ability to see things as they are. And when you see someone caught up in a sin or bad habit don’t turn on them, fight them, or judge them. Pray that the filter that's distorting their vision and preventing them from correctly perceiving be removed so that they can ‘see’ ".  Because when we truly 'see', we 'know' as it is, and not as it seems to be.

Was this not Paul’s prayer?
◄ Ephesians 1:18-19 ►
...The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power...

I always marvel at how God uses simple things to explain the deep. I came away from this experience understanding more about the spiritual principle of truth and perceived reality.  Truth is absolute and unchanging but perceived reality is always dependent on the filter through which we view the truth and makes it either of non-effect, or powerfully active.
I came away from that experience praying that God would remove all the filters that serve as strongholds in my life. That He would enable me to see things as they are, and not as they seem to be. And today, I pray the same prayer for you who are reading this article. May the Lord help us all, amen.