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Finders of The Armor is the first book in the Royal Mystery Searchers Club Book Series: a middle grade Detective and Mysteries Series.

It takes you into a world of mysteries, friendship and courage.

A world of recognizing there are two realms—visible and invisible.

A world of fighting invisible battles with deadly, merciless and immortal enemies who are not of flesh and blood.

A world of becoming Royal Mystery Searchers.

Join Ada, Toby her younger brother, and her two best friends—Ivie and Johann—on their first adventure as they embark on a new and unexpected mystery.

As they face personal challenges and overcome obstacles.

And ultimately, as they discover for themselves: the ONE TRUE ARMOR.

Finders of The Armor is available on Amazon and everywhere (good) books are sold.

Watch the Finders of the Armor book trailer here: https://youtu.be/MPDHEDTtHAU?feature=shared

Get your copy of Finders of the Armor here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3NRVVM

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What Am I Reading This Summer?

The Book of Psalms.

My favorite Psalm right now (sorry—depending on what is going on in the world—it changes all the time, lol) is Psalm 1.

Why? Because it is like a manual for life wrapped up in a Psalm.

Meditate on a Psalm A Day with me this summer…

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Battle Of The Moment: Identity (Part 1)

Your Identity. This is the first thing a Royal Mystery Searcher grabs hold of and buries in his or her heart. Chewing it over in large haphazard chunks or small deliberate bites. Mulling it over in quiet reflective moments. Turning it around over and over again. Like some precious hidden jewel worth more than all the rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds in the entire world.

The other day, this is what I thought of.

Imagine if you suffered from complete amnesia…

I was sitting at a table outside by a hotel swimming pool, staring at some oleander bushes, swaying—ever so slightly—in the wind.

Listening to the loud reverberating sound of noisy cars and motorcycles in the immediate distance.

I observed through the transparent fence, a cyclist whizz past. Then another. Then a bus full of passengers zipped by, a little too fast on the narrow road for my liking.

I observed my daughter and her friend, from the edge of the hotel swimming pool, leap—in almost choreographed unison—into the air and take rather elegant nose dives into the clear blue water. And it was then I had this thought.

What if I suffered from complete amnesia? Right here and now?

With all its frightening implications, what would that mean?

This thought was alarming enough to fill me with foreboding terror and cause my skin to break out in a cold, clammy sweat.

It would mean that I, all of a sudden, would forget who I am.

Who my husband and my daughter are.

Who my father is.

Who my mother is.

Who my siblings are. Where I come from. What is important to me.

I would forget…everything.

What feelings would that evoke in me?

Disorientation. Gripping, paralyzing fear. Feelings of extreme vulnerability.

An overwhelmingly lost feeling. Not knowing who, what, where, why I am.

Not knowing who is safe. And who is an enemy.

Who loves me. Who hates me. Who wishes to harm or protect me.

A bone-crushing feeling of terrible isolation would—most certainly—follow.

My identity. Who I am and Who made me.

That’s what Ephesians 1 and 2 tells me.

I shift in my seat. A man and a woman—an older couple—pass by and beam widely at me. Perhaps it is because of the plethora of books I’m surrounded by. My Bible— open—in front of me. A large notebook. And multiple sheets and stacks of paper and other books I have spread across the table I’m sitting at.

The pen in my hand, the end of which I’m chewing.

Unusual—it must look—at the swimming pool.

I smile back at them. The man, with a grin, says something I don’t quite catch, before walking away with his wife.

I look down at the page open in front of me. And I read Ephesians 1: 3.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.

I read on. About how I have been chosen. Ephesians 1, verse 4.

How I have been adopted through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1, verse 5.

How I have been redeemed through His blood. And forgiven according to the riches of His grace. Ephesians 1, verse 7.

How I have obtained an inheritance. Ephesians 1, verse 11.

Paul—the writer of Ephesians—prays in Ephesians 1, verse 17 and 18 that:

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray (Paul says) that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.

I repeat Paul’s prayer in my head silently. That the eyes of my own heart may be enlightened to understand better. And I go back to the beginning of Ephesians and read through Ephesians 1 again.

My identity.

Your identity.

It is the most common thing the enemy of our souls viciously, ruthlessly, systematically and calculatedly attacks. This is because it is the foundation on which you and I either stand or fall…

Be of sober spirit; be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5: 8

My identity. Your identity. Priceless.

Knowing who you are and whose you are. Infinitely more precious than all the treasure in the world.

For we are His (God’s) workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2: 10

Till next time,

Lots of love,

Uche

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Hi! I’m so glad you’re here!

I’m Uche.

I’m a wife, a mom of a beautiful daughter, a lawyer…

And a real-life Royal Mystery Searcher—navigating life.

Who, I hear you ask, is a Royal Mystery Searcher?

A Royal Mystery Searcher is—first and foremost—a child of God.

This means that a Royal Mystery Searcher centers everything on identity. Knowing the truth of who he or she was created to be.

A Royal Mystery Searcher knows that the only thing more important than his or her identity is the answer to the questions:

Whose am I?

Who made me?

And a Royal Mystery Searcher knows the answer to these questions is Jesus Christ.

Secondly, a Royal Mystery Searcher’s greatest heart desire and most sought-after passion and discipline is to learn to search the Holy Scriptures daily. This is because God’s word provides the spiritual eyes to see the world as it really is.

A Royal Mystery Searcher understands that although there is a lot of knowledge in the world, true wisdom comes from renewing your mind through God’s Word.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 9:10.

Furthermore, a Royal Mystery Searcher knows irrevocably, without a shadow of doubt, that there are two worlds in existence —the visible and the invisible.

The seen and unseen.

And sometimes, the two worlds collide.

And the veil that separates them, shimmers…thins…parts …

For God’s Word illuminates.

Every Royal Mystery Searcher, at some point or the other, stumbles onto this weighty tremendously life-altering realization. The realization that, from the moment you and I were born—without our consent or even our knowledge—we were drafted, recruited, enlisted into a grave battle. A battle we are now part of.

Whether we like it or not, we have been pulled into this fierce, raging warfare.

And it is between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness.

Yes, the world you and I live in is actually a battleground.

We are all unwitting participants fighting hard in an age-old battle (it does kind of makes sense if you think about it. And it explains why things we encounter in life can be so devastatingly hard sometimes, doesn’t it?)

Though this is all startling and thoroughly dumbfounding, a Royal Mystery Searcher soon realizes, with insurmountable joy and heady relief, that in Christ, the battle is already won.

For our Lord and Savior Jesus has paid the price in full.

He has overcome unimaginable suffering and death to give every Royal Mystery Searcher new life. In Him.

Now armed with this incredible spiritual bullet-proof vest—this Good News—you and I, as Royal Mystery Searchers, can learn how to clothe ourselves with the full armor of God.

In Jesus.

We can work on being more resilient in adverse circumstances. And—with great intent, and of course, the right weapons this time—fight this life and death battle. Knowing—in Jesus—our victory is assured.

Guaranteed and unavoidable.

And now, time for a Fun Fact. Why The Name Royal Mystery Searchers?

The word ‘Royal’ is from 1 Peter 2: 9.

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

The word ‘Mystery’ is from Daniel 2: 47.

The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.”

The word ‘Searchers’ is from Proverbs 25: 2.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.