You Do Not Need More Clarity

You need Courage.

There was a time where I sought the Lord for clarity concerning specific things. I felt lost and confused and often asked myself, “Am I not a child of God?”.

The confusion on my face was enormous.

I kept asking and asking and eventually felt very frustrated in my faith walk when I felt like I was not making headway. I began to feel like I was second best in the kingdom of God. Being on social media made it worse because I felt like everyone was making progress except for me and I adjusted in an unhealthy way through jealousy, dislike and unhealthy competition. I even became withdrawn. I was cynical and distant, which further hurt my faith. In a way, I was trying to ‘reject the God that rejected me.’

(Someone say, “The devil is a liar!”)

On one day as I continued in my tantrum, I felt a gentle nudge to spend time with the Lord. It was difficult because I had begun building a fortress of rejection around me and my heart had started getting cold. Spending time with the Lord was the last thing on my mind. But the nudge got stronger and I heeded. 

I had no formula. I decided to shelve them after none of them worked during my earnest search for clarity.

I just had time and silence.

During this time, my spirit became sensitive to the Lord’s presence and I began to have a steady flow of thoughts of business ideas, inventions and a series of progressive career moves. The well opened up! 

But then my heart sank.

The Lord let me know that these were things He had already told me through gentle nudges, visions or through conversation and other God-incidences. I had the next step mapped out but I would ignore each idea because of fear. I was scared of looking like a freshly born fawn. I was fearful of failure. I was scared of not carrying until the end. 

And so I procrastinated and became lazy. Not out of the inability to start, but due to fear. What’s on the other side? Would I fail like the last time? What if I become just another voice in the sea of voices and end up not solving any problem?

I would make excuses. From being low on finances, to improper timing, lack of support or popularity and so on. The fear produced excellent-sounding excuses and I easily partnered with it to choke my own destiny.

This is when God told me that my case was different. My life was not stangant because of lack of clarity. My search for clarity had borne fruit, but I had little to no courage to pull through.  

Friend, doing great exploits in the kingdom of God looks like the clapping of hands. It takes two hands! Many times, God does supernatural works and we have no part to play whatsoever apart from just being His children. But sometimes, God calls us to partner with Him for the next miracle. This is not for Him, but for us. To build our faith and ability to hear God because you will need to rely on God for every step in the journey. God will often call you into things bigger than yourself so that you realise that without Him, you cannot accomplish any good work. 

This is where you need to show up: walk with Him patiently and consistently. Live a life of holiness unto Him. Seek Him with all your heart even when you do not understand what is going on. And then when He asks you to move, move. Obey what He has to say even when it seems senseless. Take the first step of faith and follow the sound of His voice.

John 10:27 (NKJV) says, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”

And so every disciple of Jesus can hear Him (in different ways, but primarily through His Word). But even so, the Word also tells us, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;  for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.  But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” (James 1:22-25 NKJV).

Hearing “Well done, O good and faithful servant”, will take more than just hearing the Word of the Lord. You will have to do/live it. Fulfilling your purpose on earth will need more than cute affirmations and thoughtful prayer. It will demand a departure from comfort and self. You will need strength and courage to yield and obey what God is speaking to your spirit. You will need courage to resist zero sea-level when God is calling you to higher altitudes.

I initially felt a deep sorrow at my failure to launch and I blamed myself for my own misfortune, but as I worshipped and allowed God to heal the inner wounds in me that hindered me from being courageous, I purposed to move again- this time, boldly.

I have a Father who is rooting for me and who delights in my baby steps! (Launching forward with the foundation of knowing that God loves me has changed so many things about how I move now, perhaps a story for another post!)

Perhaps you are where I was. You are pregnant with destiny, but struggling with fear and cowardice. My encouragement to you is that it is possible to get up and get going with the help of God. You may stumble on the way, but God tells us in Philippians 1:6 (NKJV), “…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ…”

Pray this prayer: Lord, I thank You for the life You have made for me and the gifts and talents You have given me. I thank you for clarity concerning (name the thing/person) and I thank You that I can hear You. I repent for allowing fear and doubt cripple my motion, and for not trusting in You completely in my life journey. I come out of agreement with the spirit of fear for You have told me that You have not given me a spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind. I reject any temptation of the devil to ensnare me and slow me down through cowardice and fear. I commit myself to walking the full length with You, seeking You with all my heart and trusting that You will help me through the process of accomplishing Your will. I pray for boldness to move in faith and courage to do what You have assigned me to do. I believe that Your strength will be my portion as I obey Your Word. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

To every person who has clarity but lacks courage, I speak the strength of the Spirit of God, who completes what He starts unto you.

You will not miscarry. You will not fail. You will finish well. 2026 will not be a reminder of the past failures, but a prophetic window into the best years of your life by the help of God. Amen.

With love, And all the warm wishes for 2026,

W. 🌹