Random thoughts in my favorite month...

Okay

I have a scripture that has been preying on ma mind

It's usually a good thing, I just can't get it out of my mind until I find out what I need to.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. KJV

Wow!

When I pray in an unknown tongues my spirit is praying.

That is just so awesome.

A lot of times, my mind does not even know what to pray

Cos my intelligence is limited in what to pray about and how to pray

But glory to God, my spirit isn't

I think this is cool for this week

Still on

"There is that scatters yet increaseth..."

Mindblowing!

There just is no logic to this

Its spiritual truth plain and simple

It cannot and will never make sense but it is truth

I don't need to understand this; I just need to practice it!

Anything but ordinary

God said to me,
"You need to take your eyes off them so they don't color the word...just as I say is enough"

Philippians 4:6
"Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks"

I have been preoccupied for weeks
When I am not blogging you know my mind is on something else.

My meditation scripture for today is Philippians 4:6
I don't want to be among the people talking, I want to be among the listeners
When I talk too much, I fail to listen to the voice I should be focused on

What part of Philippians 4:6 don't I understand?
Father I thank You for grace to stay out of church politics, Grace o!

"Do not worry about anything..."
Yeah, the world is calling me everyday with all kinds of things, it draws me into living an ordinary life, it calls me through my eye gate, ear gate, mouth gate, it wants me to think I am simply human when my spirit knows that I am more than a man, I am a god on this earth. Yes I said it. Eat your heart out nigga  I am supposed to take my mind off them abi, I will try No I will take my mind off them and put it on the word.

...but pray and ask God for everything you need...
God knows everything I need and I have asked but that is not the reason I have proof abi evidence of the things I have asked. I have them because my Father loves me perfectly. I am not going to embellish this any further than that.

always giving thanks.
I give thanks to my Father daily. It is a part of me experientially now. I remember the time I used to criticize everything about me. Thank God those days are gone. I don't have those issues anymore, I can safely say that God's grace has carried me thus far and He is still on moi!

Laters

Spiritual eyes...

Two things that amaze me

Jairus and recognizing divinity in Jesus

I want to think like the world briefly to explain Jairus ‘predicament. Jairus has a twelve year old daughter who was ill and at the point of death. Now the bible does not say what Jairus’ idea of Jesus was before his daughter fell ill but he had certainly heard about Jesus. All kinds of people talked about Him and the good that He did (you know those who have experienced His goodness like me) and they also talked about what they considered His badness (the people who had experienced his shining like the Pharisees) they talked about his eating and drinking with sinners, they called him traitor, drunkard, friends of sinners and everything that went against their religion. But when Jairus daughter was at the point of death, Jairus went looking for this man Jesus.

You might not know the gravity of what Jairus did if you did not understand that Jairus was a leader of the synagogue. The synagogue were the Jews who were pissed that Jesus was making himself equal with God and they were convinced that he was doing His wonders by Beelzebub; they were planning to kill him and even attacked him a couple of times but Jesus always slipped out among them.

Jairus went into the public streets and bowed before Jesus, he put His confidence in the kindness of Jesus and he acknowledged His divinity. Jews bow to no one (Do you remember Mordecai from the book of Esther and the story of the three Hebrew boys; they are pretty popular because of their stand), well Jairus publicly acknowledged that Jesus was God.

I have two questions for you

1.      Have you acknowledged publicly that Jesus is God?

2.      What does that mean to you?

There is a grace that sustains and there is a grace that brings one out of situations, you need to be able to look out for the two and recognize them when you see it.

To be cont’d (I didn't get around to saying the second thing that amazed me about Jairus)

Wisdom...

There is some wisdom that you learn from scriptures:

One of the things you consider when you are hearing God's word is the might of God, His goodness and His nature of love, along with His character and attributes, who He is.

The second person you shouldn't underestimate is the enemy. He is broke of power now but he works on human limitations. Here's some things you should remember.

1. He wants to steal God's word from your heart. Why? Because if you learn how to use God's word, you will fulfill your purpose and he will fail in his mission, to get souls to go to hell with him, his destination is already sure.

2 He brings cares for other things and deceitfulness of richness to take your attention away from God's word, they are all legitimate needs but it is the fact that he succeeds in distraction you from the word, that is should he succeed?

3. He has another strategy. When you believe God's word, he brings persecution so that you will fall away from the word because of the persecution and if you fall away from the word; he achieved his purpose.

4. Only those who with a honest heart and who understand the meaning of patience are able to bring forth fruit from God's word that was planted in their heart.

God's word is always being planted. What part are you playing to ensure that your attention does not stray from the word to other things?

Learn to focus!

You have an active enemy. You must know that. God knows that also; that is why he has equipped you to win over all the wiles of the enemy. Ensure that you are putting on the whole armor of God. Don't be distracted from God's word; that is your weapon as a child of God!

#Lessonsfromtheparableofthesower

The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places...

"When the day of the Lord comes, none of the following will be allowed to enter: "The fearful, and unbelieving..."

I did not finish yesterday.

I did not tall no write about ...and the unbelieving...

I got the initial scripture from revelations:

When the day of the Lord comes, none of the following will be allowed to enter: "The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars" (Revelation 21:8)

What does it mean to be unbelieving?

The legalistic nature of the human mind wants to dwell on whoremonger and sorcerers and idolater, not much on liars 'sef' but God cares about all of them. And without the Holy Ghost we won't be able to live the life: Zoe anyways.

What does it means to believe?

Galatians says: 

I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live BY FAITH in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20 AMP

(making some capital for the sake of emphasis)

Romans 12:3 says

For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the DEGREE OF FAITH apportioned by God to him. AMP

So it is established that we now live by faith from the book of Galatians and that everyone has a degree of faith given to us by God. That cancels out the excuses by some that their faith is nit strong enough since it is the faith of Jesus since we are inhabited by the MESSIAH, and also the ones who say they don't have any faith; the verse in Romans 12:3 checkmates you.

What is ignoble is when you have all of this and then you are armed with conversations of the heathen. 

Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you]. Colossians 4:6 AMP

The above verse gives an idea about how we should talk as Christians but if our talk is vain or coarse then we cannot complain about the things that we get out of life because there is a king in you and by your words you build your aeon (world) with God or evil.

Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness [to God]. Ephesians 5:4 AMP

If you talk filthy, indecently, silly, corrupt or sinful or make dirty jokes that are not fitting or becoming, Dwell you have made your camp with the heathen and even though you are different you will get what the heathen get. Do you ever voice your thankfulness or instead you wonder what to be thankful for, you have located yourself with the heathen. 

Voicing your thanks is not difficult. It is your nature to be thankful and gracious and pleasant and winsome and for your words to be seasoned with salt.

Since you have but one nature, which is the nature of God, those issues are not your issues except you have forgotten who you are.

Foolish words, empty words: If you have the life of God in you, that is not who you are.

So by now you gather that your conversation influences your faith, your conversation is something only you can do something about. 

A friend once said, the children of the King should speak the language of the court, there are some things you don't see kings do; they carry themselves with grace and honor because they understand whose backing they have and they speak as such.

Recognize that you have the backing of the most High God because He loved you enough to send his son to die for you. Never forget who you are, don't go to the gutter to drink when you can be drinking from the springs. 

Do change your speech and your world.

Faith follows your speaking

Not just in church but everywhere you are.

New Biblical Glossary
El Nassah - The forgiving God

Dictionary 

Heathen: To not acknowledge God...

Ramblings or Truth, you decide!

When the day of the Lord comes, none of the following will be allowed to enter: "The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars" (Revelation 21:8)

This statement is downright scary!
but it does something, it makes me glad to be the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

My focus though is the a part, lemme cut it out and just talk, write actually.

"When the day of the Lord comes, none of the following will be allowed to enter: "The fearful, and unbelieving..."

I just want to say that I miss being a believer, easily trusting, not second guessing God.
It is sad that I second guess and I do. I am just glad He doesn't hold it against me, thank God for His mercy. If it was O.T I would probably have gone up in smoke long before I finished second guessing Him. But that is not what I want to talk write about this morning, I want to talk about this morning.

I miss when I use to jump at God's word. I heard Genesis 17 read this morning and in it, God asked Abraham to circumcise his entire family and before the chapter was done, Abraham had his entire family circumscised, had started calling sarai, Sarah and started seeing himself as Abraham as opposed to Abram.

I could argue that my generation has the issue of their love waxing cold, well Abraham had no precedence whatsoever and he was the first one to believe God, the father of faith. Now today God doesn't ask us to circumcize our male (the only peeps who still do that are the Jews, they still await the Messiah; the anointed One) the rest of us do it for health reasons and not because we are acknowledging God as Lord.

These days (our era) it is a heart circumcision, I can even argue that my heart is circumcised but my actions betray me. I work at fellowship with God but it is not as good or as consistent as I know I need. I need the word day and night, it keeps me safe, it keeps my thinking right there with God. 

I am wondering if it is ramblings today:

The bible says the fearful and the unbelieving will not enter...
If the bible says the fearful and the unbelieving shall not enter, then I am glad I am neither of those things; glory to God.

2 Timothy 1:7 says God has not given me a spirit of fear but that of POWER, LOVE and a SOUND mind. I am glad that I am of the generation that believe on the name of Jesus, that look on the person of Jesus.

I am of the class that operate as Christ on earth, doing the will of the Father,  I am the seed of God's word, born of God and born of the word, I am a joint heir with Christ, I read and study the word daily so that my mind is renewed, my family are safe and secure because I am in the ark ( a type of Christ for the new testament). because of the blood of Jesus, we are safe and secure and enjoy angelic ministration daily, God sets each and every one of us apart in a million people, we are chosen because we carry the mark of Christ on us, His favor is mighty upon us daily, a shield and a protection in Jesus name, our steps are ordered, we do not stumble in darkness because we have the light of life living in us, we are joint heirs with Christ Jesus and because of our covenant with the Lord, we enjoy His protection and covering in Jesus name, amen

...About to study the word I was talking about just now!
Laters


Glossary
O.T - Old Testament
N.T- New Testament

Guest blogger not really

Today, I learnt something from Francis Frangipani
I knew I would blog today but I was going around and around in circles and I knew that I wasn't getting the tone I wanted that was till I stumbled across the article on Francis Frangipani, he got me with his talk on what ministry was, everything in me rejected it but I knew it was truth so I listened...

"God says success is becoming Christlike".
If so, how much more successful am I last year than this year?

"If you don't carry the cross, you will lose your love" 
I have lost my love-walk a couple of times and those times were like being in hell on earth, there is nothing like pretending to put you in a place like hell. Sincerity is a big deal if you want to live a victorious Christian life.

"In fact, I have discovered that only to the degree that we die to self do we lead others. Everything else is just religion without power".
Am I willing to die to self in many things? My flesh always says no. By that, I am not surprised. But my spirit is willing and since my spirit rules, I will be able to die to my flesh daily no matter what because the Holy Spirit is my leader, He is the one who leads me in predestined paths. I am willing to follow, I wonder what good will come out of this now.

In the mean time I strengthen the manifestation of the fruit of the spirit in my life, reading this scripture and doing it has done wonders for me.

2 Peter 1:5-7

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Diligence:

Dictionary definition: someone who is diligent works hard and is careful and thorough:

Bible definition: When you are diligent, you will bear rule and you will stand before kings.

Faith:

Dictionary definition: belief and trust in God:

Bible definition: the response of the human spirit to God's word

Virtue

Dictionary definition: a particular good quality in someone's character

Bible definition: it is released as power

Knowledge

Dictionary definition: the information, skills, and understanding that you have gained through learning or experience

Bible definition: the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, you can't get enough

Temperance

Dictionary definition: sensible control of the things you say and do, especially the amount of alcohol you drink

Bible definition: self control by the spirit of God, He is your helper

Patience

Dictionary definition: the ability to continue waiting or doing something for a long time without becoming angry or anxious

Bible definition: The ability to stay believing what God has said no matter how much time has elasped.

godliness:

Dictionary definition: obeying God and leading a good life

Living in alignment with God's word

Brotherly kindness

Dictionary definition: (it yielded no results)

Biblical definition: love towards one another especially those who have faith in Jesus.

Charity:

Dictionary definition: an organization that gives money, goods, or help to people who are poor, sick 

Bible definition: Love

These help to walk in the kingdom of God

Look at the word Kingdom - Kingdom.  

It refers to the King’s Domain, implying authority and lordship.  Jesus came to offer the benefits of His world to all who surrender to His rule.  The realm of God’s dominion, that realm of all sufficiency, is the realm called the kingdom.  The benefits of His rule were illustrated through His works of forgiveness, deliverance, and healing. 

If you get this, your life will be dynamite!

Do seek His kingdom!

Still learning, still growing!

Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are –face to face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiselled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it.

2 Corinthians 3:16-17 MSG Translation

God is a personal personal God, sometimes I forget and I am just doing my duty, robot-like. But when I remember that He is God, there is a peace that feels my heart that has no comparison. God is so personal that He looks beyond my church building and sees me, I matter; this is so amazing.

I could be braggadocious and say that I don’t care if He recognizes me or not but I really do. It is pretty important to me that God stops to ask me, “Child, what did I say?” not reprimanding but reminding, guiding, leading, He is God and yet He is a gentle leader.

At times, I get anxious and I try to join the rat race again (you know those things are subtle) and He says, “Child, that way is not My way, wrong direction, turn around!” not because He wants His rights at all cost but because He is leading me somewhere and only by following His way can I get to His destination for me!

I see some things and He says, “Child, no! Praise, I am working on it, remain at rest; don’t try to work things out yourself, let Me!”

Sometimes I just want to get out there and fix things cos I am a pretty good fixer, I have got a sharp brain but He says, “My purpose is better, My way is faster even if it doesn't look that way, it is stress-less, trust Me”

Then I see that my works, all of them; are proof that I don’t trust in my Father, so I stop. But when I rest in Him, confident and serving Him, He works things out to His glory, He is the author anyway; if I can trust Him to be author, then I can trust Him to be finisher.

All I need do, is what He says!

La di da

Why do I need so much convincing anyway? He made the whole earth, everything that was made was made by His word, He can make every area of my life, family, career, destiny, purpose beautiful!

#1 You’re kidding!

You’re kidding

If you think you want to put on Christ and also blend with the rest of the world

It is my opinion that a Christian should be so devoted to doing what God has said,

he/she has no time to be criticizing other Christians

If you find yourself doing that, losing your gentleness and spewing hatred towards another Christian

Be assured that you have gotten lost in the mews of comparing yourself with another

In case you are mistaken, Christianity is not a contest

It is a race against yourself to please God better today than yesterday walking in the

righteousness that is of faith

whatever your understanding of that is, is your problem

If you get the understanding right, deep down in your spirit, you will get a witness

you will know

The desire to be better than another, to tear down another, fear, guilt, the terror of not measuring up will disappear

you will be in that place where you are secure in His love, in His saving grace

And you will be fully persuaded, convinced that you are qualified for His goodness and every good thing in God

not because a man ticked you right and said, ‘nike’ with a ‘you got it right’ on his result pad

But because the most high God put His sign of approval on you

Because of the cross of Christ

You are approved, loved and accepted

No one, no argument or legal defence can make you feel otherwise

not when you have the Holy Ghost who is your legal advocate constantly defending you against the accuser; the enemy

believe me,

no, believe God’s word

just the fact that you are a Christian ensures that you are different

You will never be just another man on a street corner when you have Jesus.

who is now seated at the right hand of God

and because of the Holy Ghost

He is always present knocking at the door of your heart asking and waiting like a gentleman to see if you would let Him in and let Him bear your burdens (If you aren’t saved)

But when you are born again

You gotta accept this truth: HE LIVES IN YOU

Biology can’t explain it, physics, chemistry, logic will fail you

but it is truth all the same; its reality

Reality will witness to you, that you are God’s tabernacle

this is the greatest testimony of love

That the most high God would inhabit a man

and make Him the temple of God

A man in Christ is different from a man in the world

A man who lacks understanding will call it mystical

I call it spiritual

1 Corinthians 6:17 says same

If you don’t believe that, live it and respond to that truth

in your daily life; that is too bad

I am done with what anyone says

I am born again, born of the spirit and I make no apologies about it

I don’t even intend to prove it to you

You don’t matter

I zeroed everyone the day that I walked down that aisle and said

‘I accept Jesus as Lord’

If you don’t believe it, too bad, I do not live to please you

And yes, I have authority

I have the believers authority

Being a member of a church did not qualify me for authority

being a man in Christ qualified me to walk in authority

breaking-it-down

I have authority because I believe in Jesus Christ and on Jesus Christ

I believe that he was sent by God to be crucified on a cross for my sins

so that I might be free to walk boldly into God’s presence without fear, guilt or condemnation

I recognize and honour authority

but I also have the wisdom of God

Christ is my wisdom

so I walk pleasing God in all that I do

I believe Jesus will be the only one presiding in the white throne judgment

I long for that day with all that is in me

when the all-knowing only wise God will preside.

Glad that I know Him theoretically and practically

because He does exist beyond the pages of the bible

I see Him in my life daily doing His purposes and great things

I have seen Jehovah Rohi

I have seen El roi

Jehovah Mekoddishkem

Jehovah Tsidkenu

Jehovah Rapha

Jehovah Shalom

Jehovah Jireh my provider
My counselor

If you don’t know all the aspects of God or desire to experience all of God

you will not progress in many areas but it is up to you to seek Him

It is not something a Wednesday/Sunday service will do for you

It is a daily spending time with God, reading about and experiencing Him
Doing this will ensure you are not shaky in your faith

It will build your confidence in the goodness of God so that you don’t find it convenient to blend in or/and be like the rest of the world

If you want to know if God speaks, read Genesis 2-3, He spoke to Adam and Eve

read Jeremiah, he spoke to Jeremiah and showed him visions

He spoke to Isaiah and Ezekiel of the famous dead bones living again

That was God speaking to Ezekiel

He was a friend of Abraham, not a fake friend but a genuine friend who speaks with you, is concerned about your life, where you are going.

He spoke to Jesus Christ, told Him what to do, where to go, when to go, who to listen to
(Just read the Jewish feast where he yelled, "If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink")

He spoke to John on the Island of Patmos, the bible speaks of John being transported and seeing the revelations of the end.

If he can speak to John, why do you think he won’t speak to you?

God laughs

God rejoices when a soul is saved

God gets hurt and grieved

God sees

God speaks too

Can you find out more ways in which God expresses Himself?

if you look out for it while reading your bible, you will see it

It would help you get to know Him better and more

I did!
Am still doing!

Trusting Jesus...

It takes the Spirit of a man to by-pass the mind
and believe that God is saying.
Yes God speaks.

He speaks for a reason and because He wants to do something
There is 'grace' in surrendering to what God wants to do
His timing is excellent also

Best of all,
You don't have to do anything
If He says something
He will bring it to pass.

You do, however have to learn patience
Patience is staying believing what God has said

I can express this best with the illustration of Abraham whom God had promised a son
and Elizabeth who knew that she would birth a special child even though her husband
Zechariah was a doubter, He believed his body more than he believed God
He was just too darn old, and he focused on this, Luke 1:20 says, he did not believe
Luke 1:13 says, 'he was praying, is it that he didn't expect any answers
So why pray?
Is praying just some part of a ritual we must do to feel good with ourselves?
Or is it a cry for the attention of a gracious and merciful God? Cos He does hear us.

What am I saying today?
You need to engage your spirit, exercise it by speaking in tongues and feeding it with the word of God.
By being perfected in the love of God, by trusting and looking to Jesus always, by strengthening the weak areas in you instead of justifying them by the help of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Ghost wants you to be made perfect in Christ, your will power will never be able to accomplish that, engage the help of the Holy Spirit.
I love Enoch's testimony, it says it was recorded that Enoch pleased God all his days on the earth and that God took him, that is just so awesome to me.

My exhortation: Be diligent, be excellent, fear God, be perfected in Christ love for you. Have a great week marked with the presence of God all through.

Something I learnt this week that I plan to reinforce:
The key to trusting God is meditating on the word of God, day and night and you will be successful indeed!

Guest blogger "Larigold"

I met @lanre_olagunju on twitter though a guy called @ikeamdi whom I met through @eshiemokhai. They are all great guys, you can follow them on twitter. Also @dami_maverick is really good and @masterpiece1618. They are people I talk to regularly. They are not the only one of course and I will mention as I recall.

Okay so @lanre_olagunju says I should post an article he wrote for Mothers Day last year and so here it is.

Why Woman Matter

By Lanre Olagunju

The fact that the first woman is the only creature created from an already existing and living being tells a lot about a woman’s uniqueness and strength. But in a couple of ways, the world is yet to harness the power and strength of a woman. The saddest part is that instead of appreciating and nurturing their uniqueness, women have been subjected to some forms of hardship as a result of their gender.

You look around and you realize that violence on women and other degrading acts has been on a steady rise lately. I’m really glad and impressed that the Nigerian House of Representative has approved the recommendation of life imprisonment for rapist, and a four year jail term or a fine of not more than N 200,000 or both for persons convicted of performing Female Genital Mutilation-(F.G.M) on a woman. I think this should bring some hope of restoring human dignity to our women.

I’ll like to share two stories to buttress the fact that women matter in all aspects of life; that women have a lot more to contribute to our society than just being regarded as mere baby making machines. They practically bring joy and hope to our world. Women make our world more exciting and pleasant. We’ve got to listen and take them a lot more seriously if we’d attain economic or individual progress and prosperity.

For instance, there are several speculations as regard what would have been the state of Lehman Brothers if it were to be Lehman Sisters or perhaps, Lehman Brothers and Sister. Lehman Brothers was founded in 1850 by Henry, Emanuel and Mayer. Lehman Brothers was the fourth largest investment bank in the US and with holdings of over $600 billion, at some point, it was considered as a company too big to fail. Unfortunately, it became the largest bankruptcy filing in history when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008. It was actually forced to declare bankruptcy when it experienced drastic drop in share prices after so many clients departed, and also as a result of devaluation of its assets.

The truth remains that the closure of Lehman Brothers played a major role in the global financial meltdown that struck the world in 2008, basically because many big banks all over the world that dealt with them lost billions, leading to the crash of several millions of micro investors.

When you consider that Lehman Brothers crashed due to the high level of risk that were taken by the chief strategist at some points, amongst other bad business approaches and decisions; you just might want to assert the sentiment that our world, probably would have been saved from the present global financial crisis, if such a great investment bank had some feminine administrative influence. See I’m not critically saying that women don’t take risk at all, but the truth is that they are a lot more cautious than men who can be excessively driven by testosterone.

Several studies have supported the notion that women are more risk averse than men. Experts have also researched that women are more trustworthy and altruistic, most essentially when negotiating for others. Going by a though-provoking hypothesis by a Canadian researcher at the University of British Columbia business school, it was discovered that “high testosterone level in men of a certain age are associated with more aggressive decisions that throw caution to the winds.” It then becomes wise and imperative to include and respect the views of women as well in economic matters.

The second story is the sad story I was told about a family who lost three kids in the December 10, 2005 Sosoliso air crash. I learnt that the mother of these kids had a dream prior to the crash. In her dream, she saw coffins and that got her troubled. After she prayed about the issue, she had a premonition that her kids would be involved in a disaster. When her kids were returning home for Christmas holiday, she became more afraid and she prayed that if her kids will be involved when coming home for the Xmas holiday, may God not let them get their flight tickets. Somehow, the kids later called and said they couldn’t get their tickets for one reason or the other. So she agreed and made provision for them to come by road. But her husband won’t share in her premonitions, so he disagreed to the kids coming by road. He later made arrangement to ensure that they travelled by air; unfortunately the family lost all the kids.

The two instances might help to emphasize that men need to build a culture of listening and appreciating women and that involves acknowledging their views and opinions on crucial matters, be it in economic, political or social issues. And this goes beyond celebrating them on women/mothers’ day alone.

The issue is not about erasing the natural differences between men and women, the point is to acknowledge those differences and then harness them as a tool for our collective good.

Happy mothers’ day!  

#Good read

New week, new blessings

It's a new week
I am dropping weights and running with patience
and with faith.

I feel lighter already and my thoughts are clearer
No more unnecessary info and unnecessary directions

The bible says to 'cast down imaginations'
Any time I come across scripture in the bible, I wonder when will I get to use them
What imaginations should I be casting down?
Must I swallow everything I hear as law without cross checking in the bible?

I am practicing my faith walk better and building a strong relationship
with the Holy Ghost again

Heck if you only talk to your teacher once in a month and receive counsel once a month
what kind of student do you expect to be?

I hope the Holy Ghost does not consider me a visitor, with my constant coming and going
coming and going. If Someone has been sent to help you and you never even listen to
hear what He has to say. How can He help you?

So I am staying alert and staying sensitive to the Holy Spirit so that He can teach me
and counsel me and build me up to whom God has planned for me to be.

Shalom!

sharing...

You can call it a story or reality 
(I am publishing my book this year)

BEGINNING (I might just make it into a book)
The prose is written in the form of a letter, places with violence have interjections that look like this ***

Lord,
Imagine how much i enjoyed the weekend
watched many preachers teach, I grew almost ten feet tall, had a wonderful time in church apart from minor distractions.
I went home, got my hair done. My self esteem is soaring everyday, not just cos i look good ( i know i do) but cos i am beautiful inside and out.
So someone in the office says some nasty things that have particular targets (at me of course) and he is just so so  *** and i nearly lose control.
i said '***' under my breathe then i hold myself.
This self control thing is not as easy as i would like it to be.

I was feeling hurt, looking around and gathering my my tornadoes to destroy the people trying to decapacitate me then i remember that He (God) says that vengeance is His and that i am to love em'

I am trying this love stuff for the last 2 weeks or so. So I say under my breathe that I love them. The words sound like ashes in my mouth (lol, crazy painful) but I make myself say them because i choose to align me with God's word.

When i received the shot(verbal), no one knows more than me how my face wanted to squeeze up and crumple in tears *** but something inside me says 'greater is he that lives in me than he that lives in the world"
I know who i am, i cannot be defeated because all things are working together for my good because I love God and i am the called according to his purpose.

N.B. To end this, let me just say thank you God for strengthening my backbone. only God knows that Wednesday last week, i wanted to give up on my christian walk. God knows ever since September i have been having challenges upon challenge but i have been overcoming by the Spirit. My christian walk is all that sustains me and my r/ship with the H.spirit, as much as it has been like walking on cobwebs, it is the times he spoke to me that i received encouragement.

Let me say this direct to God. Lord, Friend, i saw those 'ivie's (two of em) wo obo when debai obo otion when. 

(No explanation necessary)

This is why i trusted you enough to move forward. I believe that you who began a good walk in me, you are faithful to complete it until the day of Christ.