Destiny Helpers

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,

    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18. 24 NIV

May the Lord bring your way people who will support and encourage your calling. May they come into your life to help you fulfil God´s destiny about your life.  

We have tomorrows for a reason

When we wake up in the morning, we are most likely to plan our day and prioritize our responsibilities. Even though we have a lot of problems in our lives but we wake up wanting to make something work for the day.

We want to get those payments processed; make that client happy; close that deal and make that money. We somehow want to get something done in spite of what we are faced with. That’s what tomorrows are for.

No matter how today might go. Today might have been the worst day of your life or the hardest. It might have been the day you wept like never before, or the day you were humiliated badly, or even the most stranded day you have ever had. You might be powerless today and you might not see any future of you. You might be devastated so much that you are for some reason forced to live a life you have no idea how to live it.



It’s okay for you to feel like that for now. Just for now. Because the great experience that pain will give you is priceless. You will be able to tell your story through that pain. However, there is a reason why there’s a TOMORROW.

Tomorrow is there for you to make what failed today work. It is there for you to turn yesterday’s no into a big YES. Tomorrow is there for you to make it better for YOU and not everybody else. It is there for you to materialize your plan and set it to motion. Tomorrow is for you to rise and wipe away yesterday’s tears and wear a smile. Tomorrow is always meant to be better than today and yesterday.

Remember, it does not matter how many tomorrows you will need in order for you to reach just that one goal, dream or even healing in your life. But each and every tomorrow draws you closer and closer to your dream and further away from your sorrow.

Make use of tomorrow and stay blessed!

Not Everything is Constructive

I know that about 80% of my readers are people who have followed my life for years now. People who know the ins and outs of my life from a young age until I was removed from the spotlight.

I recently spoke to someone who told me that among all other stories of people who fell mine was the worst. I usually don't want to know what people are saying about me but this time I wanted to know why am I considered the worst. I knew this would hurt me deeply but I wanted to know any way.

Hearing about it made me realize that the story of how and why I fell wasn't actually the worst but rather, those who told it were the worst ones. Its amazing how people can say anything to make themselves look better in font of others. Caring less about their own salvation as well as the salvation of the soul they are crucifying.

My defense to him was, believe whatever you want to believe. I was not going to say anything to justify myself. That´s what I´ve been doin
g for the past year anyway. In this God is the one who is to speak for me when He sees fit to do so.

We all have freedom of speech by the law... and yes, it is our right to speak of whatever we feel like venting out. Also, we can do whatever we want.  But while doing it, we always have to remember that:

"I have the right to do anything," you say--but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything"--but not everything is constructive." 1 Corinthians 10:23

Stay Blessed!!!

Orphan

As orphans we tend to ask ourselves questions like:  Why am I still alive? What is the purpose of my life? Each beginning year we want to know where to fro here? and all that is painful because we are being reminded of how aloe we are.

Loneliness is not pretty. It is sharp and pieces straight through the heart. We ca have friends and people whom we live with but the emptiness of not having a parent, never goes away. It´s a pain we try curing our entire lives but it just never goes away. 

Well, this is what´s important about us all orphans -  we survived.  We survived the pain, we survived the fact that we are orphans and we are still surviving the loneliness and wanting to talk but can´t because no one understands us like mom or like dad.

With that, we can continue knowing that we are survivors. 

Stay blessed!!!

What Did You Do?

And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ Matthew 25:33-40

When I first heard this passage preached at church I began to sweat and shiver at the same time visualizing the day when the Lord separates goat from sheep. It was overwhelming thinking about the day. Since then, I worked hard and dedicated my life in being there for others. I gave not just my time to visit the sick and money to provide for the poor but I gave my whole life to save lost souls. 

When this journey begins in a person's life, things start happening. A warfare against every force that is against doing good for Christ arises. And the same old law applies to this battle, "It's the survival of the fittest". 

Inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven is not easy and the results are richer than our minds can imagine. 

In whatever you do, do not be a goat - selfish, careless, proud and only take care of your own ego. Do everything in your power to take care of others and win them for Christ. 

In today's world, people don't care about the sick, the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked or even the lonely. Instead, these people are being judged, ridiculed, isolated, humiliated , laughed at and even gossiped. Be different and do the opposite bearing in mind that doing it for them will be as though you were doing it for Christ Himself and that your reward is in heaven.

Do better and stay blessed!

Are you Better?

I have lived to see and experience the following true and very odd facts about humans:
* that those who usually say they are humble are the proud ones
* the ones who say they are good are actually the evil ones
* those who are confessing holiness are the wicked ones
* and more

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in 

themselves that they were righteous, 

and 

despised 

others: 

“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other

 a tax 

collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I

 thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers,

 or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’

 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to 

heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ I tell you, this

 man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who 

exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 18: 9-14

It is unfortunate that this is real. God wants us to confront ourselves and deal with our nakedness. That is the only way we can be helped by the Holy Spirit. If we are still considering ourselves better than others, then we have lost all connections with God. What is left in us is deceit and destruction.

Unless we deal with our dispositions, we will find ourselves burning in one flame as the prostitutes, thieves, idolaters
and murderers.

Let us watch and pray.

Stay blessed!!!

Is It Worth It?

So much of what we pursue is fleeting. Once we acquire it, we have to try to preserve it because we know it will soon be gone. 

God has promised us that just as he is eternal and will live forever, so also are those who pursue a relationship with Him and are committed to do His will. So let's sit down and look at how we spend our time, our money, and our efforts and ask if what we are pursuing is really something that is worth having. 

Then let's ask one more important question: "Even if it is worth having, is it going to last long enough to make a difference?"

Stay Meditating and Blessed...

Starting Afresh with God #3: Who am I?

She had to realize who she was before what she had. She dug really deep and saw that everything she did was actually who she was.

On her death bed, she wants to fix what is broken and make sure that she dies in peace doing what she was called for in this life. "Do you know about Jesus?" She asks the lady on the next bed with passion to see her saved as well.

"I have heard of Him but I really don't believe in him for many given reasons." The lady replied. Things like this breaks the heart of the one who's greatest desire is to save souls. It is not pleasing to see that a soul is lost and has no salvation at all. She started preaching to her the good news about Jesus and the lady believed.

"Lord, it matters not where I am, if what you have called me for is to save souls, I will do it regardless. Please allow me to hold back my words and allow You to be the one who speaks through me. Thank you for this opportunity to save one more soul for you." She prayed to God.

"And we know that in all things works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28

No matter where we might be or in which condition, we have to carry out the duties of our calling because we believe and are certain that all things works out for the good of those who love Jesus. 

Stay blessed.

Starting Afresh with God #2: Will it be easy?

Once upon a time, the mind was filled with great unselfish acts and selfless thoughts daily. It was not about her or anything else that kept her in the comfort zone. Waking up every morning with one accord in mind: "Lord, how do You want to use me today?" was her daily bread. "Lord, even if you will use me in ways I can't see, my soul will rejoice in knowing that your hand is involved." she said.

Something happened and drastically she was diagnosed with a dreadful disease that she was told she hasn't enough time to live. She had a choice to either curse God and die or make the most of her last days pleasing God. Now every morning wasn't about "how do You want to use me" anymore but she now woke up to great confusion. "Lord, what must I pray for? My healing or should I just give thanks for my life until I die?" It was really hard for her. She thought of who she was when she was still healthy and prayed for God to use her everyday.

She was a very humble soul and all she cared about was others more than herself. She worked for others to have. She planted for others to reap, she cried for others to laugh, she endured pain for others to be happy. She was selfless. 

As she lies in her death bed, confused, questions started running in her mind: Why was she so selfless? Was it because she was healthy and felt like she had something to give or was it who she really was?

To be continued...

Stay Blessed!!!

Starting Afresh with God #1: Repentance

I regret the hours I have wasted
And the pleasures I have tasted
That you were never in
And I confess that though your love is in me
It doesn't always win me
When competing with my sin

And I repent
Making no excuses
I repent
No one else to blame
And I return
To fall in love with Jesus
I bow down on my knees
And I repent

I lament the idols I've accepted
The commandments I've rejected
To pursue my selfish end
And I confess I need you to revive me
Put selfishness behind me
And take up my cross again



The words might be from a song but I mean every word in the lyrics. I am starting anew with God and I know it is the wisest decision ever. I don't take falls as death but as correction. I don't take loss as the end but as an opportunity to receive much more than I previously had. 


I thank God for everything that has happened and I am humbled I had to go through what I went through. 


“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” Acts 3:19-21

Stay Blessed!

Glimpse #5: You are Nothing???

Hello dear friends,

You see that person who is always putting you down and tells you that you are nothing? The one that no  matter how hard you work and how good you are trying to be but for them it's just not enough. They are the only perfect ones and you are not. Everything is all about them and what they do and you cannot convince them otherwise.  Probably you feel like giving up the fight and letting them win because you are never good enough for them.

Well, see what the below glimpse from the Bible is saying to them:

“Do not keep talking so proudly

or let your mouth speak such arrogance,

for the Lord is a God who knows,

and by him deeds are weighed. 1 Samuel 2:3 (NIV)

So my friends, hold your head up high and don't stop doing good and being good. God weighs all our deeds and He will definitely shut their mouths and dissolve their arrogance when He exalts you.

Embrace the faith and be the best.

Stay Blessed!!!

Glimpse #4: For He Spoke and it was Done

Hello my friends,

I am back with the fourth glimpse that is going to uplift your spirit and help you face tomorrow with confidence.

Did you know that God does not take any counsel from man? He is God and what He says goes. If He says for you to live, that will happen because He does not need permission from anybody to approve anything. Instead, everybody needs permission from Him before doing anything.

 "For He spoke and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast."

Psalms 33:9

So whatever man says to you, remember, it might not be God's final word. Besides, God's plans are to help us be better not to diminish us in any way. So see what He does to man's words:

"The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations." 

           Psalms 33:10 - 11

So tell me, how else can we bombard ourselves with fear to what people are saying and planning about us? If we serve the never changing God, we will fear no man's words nor plans for what He has purposed for us is greater than anything on earth.

Stay blessed and believing!

Glimpse #3: From Suffering to Glory

Hello dear friends,

It has been a while not saying anything here but I believe that everything happens in God's perfect time. This glimpse that I am about to share now is a definite promise from God that keeps me going and has made me see the results in the past.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us." Romans 8:18

So my friend, do not worry yourself about what you are going through now. Just make sure you stay faithful to Him and away from sin for this promise to be fulfilled in your life.

Remember, God is a Man of His Words, He does not disappoint.

Stay in Faith!

Glimpse #2: Character of the Lord's Worker

Hello again friends,

It has been a while not saying anything here on my blog. I trust you are having a fruitful year and that God is manifesting His presence in your life and in things around you. 

As promised about the glimpse of faith to change our lives, see today's glimpse for meditation:

"A person may hold great promise in doing the work of God for many areas, but if fundamental features are lacking, he cannot work for the Lord, even though his desire to serve the Lord is genuine and even though he has prepared himself for it. He can never carry out a proper work for the Lord."

So, many are called but few are chosen. Certain characteristics are required to make out of us true Lord's workers.

May the mercies of God shape us to acquire the characters needed in order for us to be His perfect servant and do His work with all diligence. 

Stay Blessed!!!

Fasting to Be Seen Only by God

“Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.  But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly." Matthew 6:16 - 18




God is the one only one who knows the intentions of our hearts. If you are fasting and it is from a genuine spirit, let it not be known by many people. This is a symbol to God that you trust in His divine power that He is is in control.


Stay Blessed!!!

Glimpse #1 - No Word, No Work

Hello Friends,

I will be sharing just a glimpse of inspirations to meditate on. As we know that a person does not get converted by many words said to him but one word is enough to completely change his life. So, I would like you to join me in challenging our faith by meditating on glimpses I will be posting whenever God speaks to change our lives. Here's today's
Glimpse of Inspiration:

"Without the Word of God, there is no work of God. One cannot say they

 are doing the work of God if the Word of God is not present or 

obeyed by them. The work of the Lord Jesus is 100% about

 spreading His Word. "

Stay Blessed!!!

Taste It

How can one know if the food on their plate is a good meal or not? The smell of the food might play a role in helping to identify what has been cooked but that is not a certainty of the meal being tasty. For one to be sure about the food on their plate they have to taste it. That is the only way to know if the food is good or bad.

It is amazing to know that there are people who still say the Promises of God aren’t working for them. But the question is, why aren’t the Promises working for them? Because they haven’t tested the Word of God.

“And try Me now in this, ”Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven. And pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. “ Malachi 3:10     

               

God said it Himself that we should try/test Him in giving tithes and offerings and see what happens after. Same as with asking. He said those who ask they receive. You cannot say you don’t have if you never tested and asked. It is biblical.

Test every prophesy a man of God utters from his mouth and see if it works or not. Test it by obeying it and having faith in the One who sent the man of God to you. Remember the widow tested the prophesy said by Elijah, she exchanged the certain with the uncertain. She was certain that after eating she and her son would die and wasn't sure if the prophesy would be real or not but she tested by obeying the man of God.

If you are uncertain that the Word of God will work for you, just TEST it. Give your best shot and see what happens after, then you can testify.

God bless you. 

Do not let go

After the excitement of knowing God and being baptized with the Holy Spirit, came that time to face reality. Time for me to wake up and exercise my faith to the spiritual truths of this world. Many battles began opposing my faith and leading me to the path of doubting my spirituality.

I received blows of hunger, desperation, mockery, shame and being lonely. At that time, I had very few reasons why I should not let go of the gift I have been given by God. I had many, but beyond count reasons why I  should drop the towel. I was attacked by this painful reality almost every minute of the day.

There was a time where I felt like my decision of giving my life to God was a mistake because now my life has gone from bad to worse. It troubled me but I kept searching for more reasons why I shouldn't give up.

I'll be honest, I never found more reasons than the few I already had. All I could hear from my faith was, "Thato, if you need more reason why you should stay with God, keep going with Him and you will know".

It was true. You will never know something if you have never experienced it, right? That was my faith.

And I know because I have counselled many people lately who are attacked by the same problem that I faced and I always tell them I don't regret my decision to stay with God. It has been amazing because I have learnt to "be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that my labor is not in vain in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 15:58

Keeping this in mind, regardless of who you are, your position or your status, God has got your back.

Do not give away what you have received because "it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame." Hebrews 6:4-6

Not only will it be impossible because you have left the faith, NO. But because you have put Him in to open shame - doubting His power for eternity.

If you let go of your faith, of the Holy Spirit entrusted in you to give you eternal life, you are OPENLY saying that God is a failure. You are saying He is not eternal but He will eventually come to an end. Then it will be impossible to save you again because you would have no part in His kingdom.

Let those who have an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Stay blessed.

Paying Tithes

When I first came to the church, I was 10 years old and I did not know anything about God but only to pray. I saw my mother tithing and I thought to myself, "she is one of the most committed people of the church". I wanted to be like her. I didn't want to understand what tithe was but I wanted to give because I want to be like my mom- committed to the church.

I took envelopes of tithe in the church and gave anything I had just for me to receive the consecration of the tithers on the alter.

Oh how vulnerable I was.

I began to be very interested in knowing about what I was doing after a few months. I asked my mother and she taught me how to tithe. The pastor used to teach how to tithe in every service he held and I would be so excited about hearing the good news of being a tither. I remember when I finally got it right, how excited I was in my faith. That was the only right thing I was confident about. It gave me a push to want to more things right for God.

That was when my spirituality changed and I was only 12 years old.

Today I am grown and it is with pleasure that I am given an opportunity to teach others about the importance of Tithe.

After a year since I have invited my tenant who lives with her son at the back of my yard to the church, I was honored to sit down with them and teach them about tithe in their cottage. The excitement look I saw on their faces was priceless when they finally decided to be faithful tithers after I have taught them through the help of the Holy Spirit.

Amazingly, while teaching them my faith was revived also. God revived me not to tithe as a tradition or because I know how to tithe but to always do it in Spirit because tithes are holy.

"God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24 Giving tithes is to serve God, thus it must be done with trembling and great respect.

Stay Blessed

A Converted Christian

Some people think that the baptism in water is enough to make them true Christians. They boastfully go around telling people that they are born again because they have been baptized. They are not aware that there is more they still need to work on in their lives in order for them to be qualified for the Kingdom of God.

We have an obligation to fight our salvation daily. Either in the church or not, either in public or not. We have to rid ourselves from certain things and begin applying other methods to be better Christians.

"Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them." Colossians 3:5-7

The above passage mentions things we are to PUT TO DEATH. Meaning, they can never be found in us. We have to consider them non-existing. Totally out of the surface of the earth for good. If one is still in the practice of the above, they need to deal with them immediately because God's wrath will come upon those who will choose to look away from God's instructions. Remember that we will also reap what we sow. Galatians 6:7-8

Then we have another things we have to work on. Things that are natural to every human being but they have to be dealt with. These are things also dangerous to our faith and we are being advised to put them off.

"But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him..." Colossians 3:8-10

God never asks for what we cannot do. All these He knows they are in our power to deal with. What we cannot rid ourselves from, He will do it for us. 

After obeying His teachings from the above passages, we are now to "...put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed,do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." Colossians 3:12-17

Again, if you can meditate on the above verse you will notice that it is possible for you to practice these. 

Words will not be enough to unleash God's revelation from the passages shared in this blog. On your own, ask God to speak to you. He will be fair and just in His revelation to you. 

Stay blessed.