On September 15, 2004, I decided to make Jesus my Savior and my Lord, at Dakar, in Senegal. From that day, I started my journey with the Lord, and it is the best decision I ever took into my life. 

After my new birth, I early discovered that any child of God was created by God for a purpose, according to Ephesians 2:10, that declares:”For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” This passage, one of my favorites in the Bible, always reminds me why I am doing what I am doing now. At the early stage of my Christian life, the desire to know this purpose created a thirst, a thirst to know exactly what the Lord wanted from me. I prayed, I fasted, in order to know this purpose. In this quest, there has been achievements, there has been mistakes, but there has been a training all along this process, and I realize today that everything I went through in this process was necessary, because it made me the person I am today. However, in this process, there was always a frustration in my heart, the lack of knowledge of what the Lord wanted to do exactly with me. I had some skills, I had some responsibilities in my church, I even exercised some spiritual gifts sometimes, but I had no real knowledge of what the Lord wanted from me. I believed sometimes to know, but then I realized after a moment that I was wrong. However, even so I saw a growth in my life, through the practice of some spiritual habits, I also recognized that I was not as mature as I wanted it, and it was another frustration in my life. In fact, I wanted to get fast what had took time for others. I was in a sort of competition with others. I wanted to prove that I was more spiritual than others. Today, I understand that the real motivation of growth in the life of some believers is not to look like Christ more and more, it is simply to look more spiritual than others. But it is pride, and God resists to pride, but He gives grace to humble people. 

In 2009, while I was in Senegal and was going through a time of spiritual confusion in my life, always in the quest to know the plan of God for my life, God put in my heart a burden, which drives me until today: the desire to be an instrument of restoration in the life of broken people. Many people, in the Church like in the world, are actually suffering emotionally or spiritually, because of past emotional wounds. They are not internally healed, and they are broken. But God can restore their lives, if only they believe He can accomplish this miracle into their lives. In the middle of this season of confusion, I discovered what the Lord wanted for me and it started like a burden in my heart. it is sometimes in the middle of storms that God reveals us His plan for our lives, because at this moment, all our spiritual senses are oriented to seek God. Back to Gabon, my country, this desire continued to grow, becoming a burning desire. However, as Christian life is always full of storms and hardships, I went through an emotional and spiritual storm in 2015, a few years later, and at this time I discovered the power of social media to communicate a message. Watching videos on YouTube, it can seem strange, but while I was at my workplace I was watching a motivational video, and suddenly I understood that I had to stop to lower myself because of what I was living. God can use any way to guide us in His plan, we just need to be sensitive.

In the weeks which follow, I started to watch more and more videos talking about different subjects, such as the creation of a blog, how to communicate on social media, etc., and I continue to do it until today. All along this process, I did not exactly know what I wanted, I was just looking for something that I did not yet identify. Sometimes, it can happen that you go through something that God put into your heart, without exactly knowing what it is. However, we just need to trust the Lord, even so we do not have all the responses. This is how I began to start some blogs (which are no more active today), I started to publish videos on YouTube, I was just trying to do something that burned into my heart, and it was about communicating the gospel of Christ. Unfortunately, it was so intense that I did not take care of myself, and it finally made me sick for two weeks. From all those experiences, and the others which followed, I finally understood what was the motivation which was leading me: I wanted to communicate through social media the gospel of Christ. This is how everything started, and it became clear to my mind since that time. In 2020, the project to create a blog that would be financially autonomous and centered on the mission to help Christian believers became clear, and this is how today herveonangakingbo.com exists.

It is for me the occasion to explain that at a moment of my quest, it became very clear that the direction I wanted to give to this activity is not to create an amateur website, but to create a professional website, offering great content to visitors and subscribers, not only free but also paid. It is then a Christian lifestyle and spiritual coaching platform, and other projects are coming.

Now, my question is for you: what did the Lord tell you about His purpose for your life? Do you know it? What is actually your spiritual maturity? Do you feel you are growing? I pray that through this blog, you find some responses that will help you to grow into your faith, and also to accomplish the purpose of God for your life.

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