Welcome to the GOOD News!

Hello and welcome to the GOOD News! I'm Joy Ohagwu, the team lead, and I am a USA Today Bestselling Author of Christian fiction with more than 40 titles published, including an awesome children's Christian fiction story titled Overcomers.
The GOOD News is a blog where we explore the WORD of GOD, and share good things happening in the kingdom of GOD. For starters, let me tell you this is a complete package. We'll discuss things you think would belong to the altar, to the academia, to arts, to fashion, to the environment, to education, to spiritual growth, prayer requests, Christian concerts & events coming up, etc. I want to thank you for visiting us amid your busy schedule. We're sure you will love it here! Please share a link to the blog with your friends.

This is a maiden edition.

There will always be something good for you to take with you, especially hope. Ready? Let's go.

YOU WILL RISE AGAIN.

YOU WILL RISE AGAIN. These words etched deep in my soul at a down moment. I'd lost my apartment, lived with so much physical uncertainty but with one spiritual certainty: GOD is with me. The moment I realized my physical reality did not match my physical challenges, it was time to write what brought the spiritual faithfulness of GOD to my physical circumstances. 

I was at a road, and as I looked, I said to myself, "Pastor Jerry will not die here." I was certain. Who is Pastor Jerry? Pastor Jerry Eze, the lead pastor of Streams of Joy Int'l churches, leads an online daily prayer platform. I tune in regularly. I remember knowing with certainty that if that man stood exactly where I stood, facing the same odds I was facing, he would not give into defeat. 
So, I asked myself, what would pastor Jerry do? It wasn't enough to say he wouldn't die here. Both my checking accounts were overdrawn. All my cards were maxed out, including my checking lines of credit. I didn't have but forty dollars to my name, twenty of which I was about to spend on food. Creditors were calling. Storage facilities for my books sent warning reminders of due notices.
I needed $500,000 to get debtfree, and grow my mailing list, and promote my books sustainably. No bank was willing to lend to me. I had a warehouse with 10,000 copies of Overcomers worth a gross $100,000 when every last copy was sold, but no money to market them. Spiritual attacks against me were still happening. Hell and the kingdom of darkness was still hunting me with desperation, and attacking me with physical proof of the attacks. I had one test to pass with GOD. Hell wanted to put everything between me and that victory because that will overturn everything in my favor. This had beat the generations before me. I had to be the final fighter of this battle. I had to win. I was at a desperate place. GOD had to intervene.

The question again was, if pastor Jerry would not die here, what would he do? I answered, He would pray in tongues until the situation stopped regressing. He would pray, through tears, until they started looking up.

If you are at the end of your rope today, hear me loud and clear, I understand. GOD does too. HE will make a way out. You will not die there. You will rise again, live again, laugh again, love again, rejoice again. I know because I am living proof of how GOD turns things around when nobody else can.

Step One: I believed GOD. I made a determination that whatever it took, I will obey GOD. I knew only GOD could help me. I was sure HE would. HE did.

I went to Walmart, changed clothes, spent that twenty and some change and bought food & necessities, taped my broken glasses together.
I went to the library. I got writing on this blog. 

Step Two: GOD taught me to love all humanity, not only Christians. I was to see all human beings as loved by GOD. I could not preach until I loved them. All of them. Rather, all of us. 

Step Three: I wrote this first blog. 

Because we are coming out of every form of darkness together. JESUS didn't leave even one of us behind on the cross. Neither will I leave my brethren. No matter what challenge you are facing today, we are rooting for you to take the next step. You can do it. You will not die here. Did you hear me? Say it aloud: I will not die here! I will rise again.

Then, look and see what GOD will do.
PRAYER:
Our Heavenly Father, we thank YOU for YOUR Love which binds us together. We can do all things through CHRIST. We love YOU SIR, GOD. We believe the depth of Love YOU have for us. May YOUR Love in CHRIST bind us together in righteousness forever. In JESUS' Name Amen.