Masterclass

This past week has been an extremely amazing week because I attended the best Masterclass up to this point in my life. I discovered new things, I was challenged, I saw things in a different way, I got to understand why some things happen in life, I got comfort in knowing all these things and the best part about it was it was fine tuned to my present and future dreams and goals. It was perfect!

I noticed something when I went to Dubai & Egypt some years ago. I went to Burj- Khalifa and I wanted to know everything about how that building came to be. Every plaque with information that was there, I read. On a trip to the Museum in Cairo, I would literally be beside the tour guide to learn about Ancient Egypt which is one of my top 5 subjects ever. For topics that I love, I can be geek. I want to learn everything about it. So, for this Masterclass the other great thing about it was I got to sit right at the front, where I didn’t miss a thing and learn about topics that I love. The teacher was right next to me, and he was so clear, I did not have a single question after all the different modules. It was all crystal clear.

When did I sign up to this class? Had I looked for the class? Was it advertised like the millions of classes advertised on IG? How many people attended the class? My mom jokingly makes fun of me when I say I’m done with studying because usually not long after, I will then do a course. Was she right? Have I got another qualification? From the sounds of it and the VIP-ish hints its giving, how many hundreds or thousands did I pay because the transformation in my life will be much more than the content? And what was the content anyway that made it the best Masterclass I have ever attended? Let me try and explain.

I am currently in a single season and what this Masterclass taught me was singleness was never in God’s original plan. His plan for his creation, made in his image was for the man to meet his woman, become one not just for mushy/romcom/Jerry Maguire reasons, but to be an accurate reflection of God. God is Love so the couple would be an accurate reflection of Love. The trinity is one and God’s design was for the married couple to reflect that oneness in the trinity. Not just the oneness but to reflect unconditional love.

The unconditional love would come from knowing each other fully, completely, transparently, vulnerably with no hiding. When they got to know each other fully and completely, they would build intimacy, and this would further build their connection to each other and build trust. All ingredients of unconditional love including forgiveness, patience, kindness and everything in the Excellent Book in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. When Adam & Eve ate that fruit, not only did death, sickness, working, and all the raggedy things of this earth come into the picture, singleness came in too. What comfort to know it was never God’s plan for me to swipe left and right on the apps, be in a position to be catfished, be in situation-ships, or constantly receive “Hi Beautiful” messages as the only line of conversation. It was not his plan! When I say God is caring of every need, please don’t argue with me.

This Masterclass also taught me signs of a relationship coming to its end and they are centred in conflict and how it is approached. Not only did it give a sign for the end but gave me tips for how to begin the relationship. Favourite colours and teams is useless in the grand scheme of things. Where has this person been, where are they now, where are they going, what’s their full story (traumas, baggage and all), do they embrace it or are they running away from it? The same goes on my end, what’s my story, the real one, not the one I am more comfortable for you to know. Do we share each other’s values, or do we respect each other’s values? Sharing each other's values is essential.

I respect my Muslim brother’s faith, but how do we become one when we can’t share reading the Excellent Book together and ending prayers in Jesus’ name? My fellow SDA brother seems to share my values because we are the same denomination but believes in denouncing the teen who got a girl pregnant. Lo and behold we don’t share the same values. My brother in a different denomination to me or even let’s just say SDA again, indeed believes in welcoming everyone to the family of God and also believes in threesomes. These things and so many more matter and I got to see it in such a revealing and spectacular way. (When I say brother, I mean in the capacity of being children of God.)

The Masterclass also taught me how I have a father who has spoilt me. My father's bare minimum is waking me in the morning. I never ask him to, I never fast for days so he can wake me up in the morning. Many times I don't even say thanks. He just wakes me up and its a bare minimum because believer or not, a whole bunch of us woke up today. This is just one area of his bare minimum. So if that's my Fathers bare minimum, will I then accept bare minimum from Adam's descendants. No sir! I have never looked at it that way. With that, may the "hi beautiful" descendants of Adam take their less than bare minimum salutations elsewhere.

I am also in a new place of a new career/entrepreneurship and this Masterclass taught me what being Great means and its not what I thought or even what the world thinks. To the world Michael Jackson is great and yes, he is and forever. I’ve just put a Google search on great people and it’s bringing a list of top 100 famous people, inspiring people, great personalities. So, what that says is the world considers great people as those with incredible talent like Michael Jackson (yes, I am his favourite fan), those who are known all over the world for something great they have done or are doing in their field or if you have a great personality. What’s a great personality? Extro/intro/ambi vert?

This kind of infers that if you are not known in the world you are not great. Now I get why many want to be famous. They want to be recognized for something. The latter is not bad. If you are not recognized the world is saying you are not great. In that alone I can smell the stinky whiff of the devils’ worse than hydrogen sulphide perfume in that statement. If we are created in the image of a God who is Great, how is it possible that we are then not great. From our biology alone, we are already Great! Amen!

So, this Masterclass taught me the definition of greatness. Greatness is not being the best Health Coach or Pharmacist in the world. Its not about having millions of followers on all platforms. It’s not being invited to speak on big stages, it’s not being called for interviews on popular shows or podcasts, it’s not earning 6 figures (£) each month or phenomenal results. It’s not living in the multimillion-dollar mansions I love watching on YouTube, having the luxurious cars, yachts parties. If you’re thinking I have lost the plot, I don’t blame you. In the future it won’t be about being a great wife, mother, grandmother (owi!). Greatness is when you do, what I was going to call simply but actually it’s not simple, God’s will. If God has led you to do something and you do it, that my friend, is Greatness.

Doing God’s will is not simple and Jonah knows all about that. He was told to go to Nineveh, he had reservations, didn’t go, tried to run away, next thing he is in the belly of a great fish for an involuntary “staycation” of 3 days. Many times, we have an idea to do something, we don’t recognize the idea is not just coming serendipitously from ourselves but the Holy Spirit who is trying to lead us on a path that is aligned with Gods plan for good and not for evil. We see the difficulty, we resist, we dismiss, we ignore and just like that we are living in disobedience to God. We wonder why other doors are not opening up, not knowing if we take this one that looks concerning, it actually opens the other doors and widely, with what eyes haven’t seen, ears haven’t heard as the Excellent Book says.

Greatness is what Abraham did when he took Isaac up the mountain. God told him to do what in our eyes is ridiculous and out of this world. The latter is true in that God is out of this world, supernatural and above the world. When he is asking us to do something, with his ways and thoughts that are higher than ours we we need to trust him because he has plans for us for good and not evil. With that, what we need to do is show our Greatness, i.e., submit to his will. Is it hard? Off course! What this Masterclass taught me is we find God’s will hard not only because of the reservations of how it will work and such, we are most worried about what people will think.

When Noah was building the ark, people laughed at him. There had never been a flood so what was this wooden thing he was building? What that says is God gives us things to do that no one else has done. If anyone doesn’t believe you or mocks you, understand you are in a good place for God’s great work. Gods’ great work always comes with his provision so there is no need to fear. Noah didn’t measure all those cubits he had to measure then realise, goodness I don’t have a washer, allen key or bolts (look at me with my DIY expert self, see I can do all things including Carpentry post). He had everything he needed because God was in that plan. So long as God is in that plan, you must win! Amen!

Seeing Greatness this way in my new career is so comforting and relieves me of pressure which honestly, I am putting on myself unknowingly, because now I see, it’s not about likes or numbers. The Masterclass continued to show me this when 1 person attended my 10-minute club. A module on humility (something I regularly pray for) and the show must go on regardless of the numbers. It’s about did I do what prayerfully came to me? Did I do what I was instructed to do?

The best thing the Masterclass taught me is that, it is God in charge of bringing the results not me. My job is to believe, obey and do! God will handle the outcome. And whatever outcome happens, is what he wants, for NOW! There was an opportunity I applied for and felt my application was good. The very next day, they turned me down and I believe it’s the 2nd time they’ve turned me down. I really wanted the opportunity, but I quickly moved to clearly God is doing something. I don’t know what, but he is. When its his time to bring the result, I believe he will.

Doesn’t the Excellent book say all good things come from God? So, if it was going to be good, it would have come! Thank You Jesus because I’ve just got that now. On that note, how then am I putting pressure on myself to bring good things to myself? Am I God? Nop! So let God do what he does best, bring results, miracles, strength and the wisdom of not caring what people will think. I found this so comforting and now I am operating from a new dimension of just follow what is given to me and God will do the rest.

And this beautiful Jesus says in my remix, cast any pressure on him because he cares for me. I really see that because every day I am working, I can see he is right there working with me, helping me excellently, just like he has always said he would and will. Is it easy to trust him as easily as I'm saying? Sadly no. The Masterclass taught me the trick to trusting God. Besides God, who is the person you trust the most? Why do you trust them and no one else? They have shown you they are reliable, have held your back and stood for you where no one hasn't. This has built a strong connection between the 2 of you.

The key to trust God is build a strong connection with him. Hang out with him, get to know him and he will show you he is the most reliable living being you will ever have in your life, the most faithful person who will never leave you nor forsake you and he has your back so much he sacrificed his only son to die, so that you won't die. Work on your connection with God and you will build trust in him to Abraham's trust level and more.

So this Masterclass touched on significant areas of my life, gave me comfort, I think I’ve mentioned it twice and most of all helped me release pressure that is not even mine to carry. So even if the valleys of life may come and they did this week, I am just focussing on working with my Masterclass teacher, the Divine Counsellor and Divine Teacher Jesus sent for me, to help me execute what he has taught me this week and continue to be open to learn more, because I know there is so much more and I am excited to be challenged again and understand more.

Now that you’ve seen who hosted this Masterclass, you can see the best part about it in addition to what I have shared and so much more. I didn’t pay anything for it, it wasn’t advertised heavily but I was invited far more honourably than those invited to the Met Gala. It was so VVVIP I was the only one in the class. Why? Just like you, The apple of God’s eye. A lone, no? At any given time, I have a Divine Detail of 4. The Trinity and my Guardian angel who I am sure recruits more reinforcement time to time when I am being my raggedy self, a combination of ancestry genes of Adam and Eve and my choices.

I didn’t get a certificate which I love, nor did I get an additional qualification, but I got wisdom for the season I am in and for the ones to come. No qualification on earth, single or combined can ever match that. Here is the most interesting and best part (so many right!) I didn’t sign up for the class, didn’t look for it, didn’t pray for it. The Holy Spirit deemed me relevant to join his class, picked me up and I found myself in his amazing and beautiful Masterclass, because he cares deeply about me and knows where I am. He knew more than I do, I needed that Masterclass. God is Good, God is Great, God is the Ultimate Best.

Related verses

John 14:26

John 14:16-18

Romans 8:16

Ephesians 3:16

Romans 8:26

John 16:14

1 John 5:6-8

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Genesis 22:1-19

Jonah 1:15-19

James 1:17

Psalm 55:22

1 Peter 5:7

Matthew 13:16-17

Tools from the Masterclass this week and before that have inspired me can be found here

Masterclass Tools

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