Glory Triggers × Sarah Jakes Roberts × Busayomi Babalola
What you set before your eyes, is what you birth and become.
It's my roommate, Bisola’s birthday today and I got up to share with her what I thought was a powerful revelation I had discovered lately.
Then it hit me, that something so powerful should bless everyone who cares to hear it.
I'm so excited about what I'm about to share today, because I know it'll change your life.
How it all started…
I had some time on my hands, and so I fiddled on YouTube, wondering what I could watch and since I'm very intentional about what I watch, it couldn't just be anything.
I remembered a sermon recommended by my Ghanian 🇬🇭 friend (shout out to you Elizabeth!) by Pastor Sarah Jakes Robert titled Glory Triggers.
She recommended it last year when I travelled for
in Lagos, and the accomodation my parents graciously secured for me was situated right at the centre of my secondary school in Lagos. The one I never got a chance to graduate from (only had my Junior Secondary Education there). I was consumed by the thought of what could have been, if things didn't turn out the way they did with the school’s management and I could just graduate like my Sister or my brother (from the boys school equivalent).She mentioned that if God sent me back there, then there must have been a reason, and that I should make sure I discovered it before leaving.
Here's the sermon which I highly recommend.
So, almost 8 months after, I finally give the sermon a listen (I know! don't judge me. You have yours too)
Boy, was this sermon powerful! Child (in Pastor Sarah Jakes Robert’s voice😄) I was so blessed. While I'm not here to give the details of the sermon in anyway, I highly recommend you listen.
I found myself so drawn to the woman of excellence this Powerful woman of God is. From her hair, makeup, jewelry, nails, diction, down to her outfit everything was detailed and excellent.
Just before you call me carnal, hear me out.
As a speaker myself, I was impressed by her articulation and the way she carefully laid out her points upon careful research. She had researched into different generations and races, and at the beginning with so much humour she made her references and eventually got to the word “Triggered”. She even got down to the military detonation of it.
Watching her embody her calling, and walk in her purpose as a preacher on Monday morning, made me see what I could do. It awakened dead dreams within me, and empowered me so much to see what was possible.
Actually, I found myself being so intentional about my appearance and my communication going forward. I even got my nails done 😝.
And then I realised that what you look at is what you eventually become.
So I ask you “What are you looking at?”
The Revelation
Remember that story in the Bible about how Jacob parted with almost all of Laban, his father-in-law’s flock?
Do you remember what the hack was?
[37] Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.
[38] And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.
[39] So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
[40] Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
The trick was that he made the flocks face the streaked rods, and when they mated with the rods right before their eyes what happened was that they birth young ones that had features of what had been set before their eyes.
So, here's another question. “What have you set before your eyes?”
During your interaction with every media outlet or content, there's conception going on, on the inside of you. You begin to conceive ideas, and thoughts and when they are fully birthed they'll look like what you have constantly set before your eyes.
I hope you become intentional about what you set before your eyes, knowing fully well that the results you birth will be a replica of them.
Here's my word to you;
Set Jesus, Mentors, Teachers, Good Models and Prophetic Prototypes before your eyes. By this I mean listen to the podcasts, read the books, watch the sermons, speeches and interact with the resources of people who look like what you desire to become.
Be blessed.
Till I write to you again ☺️