To You Oh Lord

They are here, Oh Lord, with all their power and authority to finish up my life and all that I have built for myself through Your strength. I am small, powerless and in their eyes weak but You oh God, I revert to you for help.

You have never left me alone, you have never left me to sink in the mud nor to drown in the deepest seas. You have been my light even in the thickest darkness that the world can produce. Through my anxieties you have held my hand and rubbed my shoulder with comfort telling me that you are with me.

Thus, you are my Lord. I cling to you and I give every affliction of my soul to you for they might come with their weapons against me, still, there isn't weapon strong enough to defeat Your mighty hand. They might show up with their authority to overpower me, yet, you are King of kings and Your authority but Yours alone reigns Oh Lord!

I will Acknowledge you in good and in bad times.

Stay Blessed!  

The Ladder

Watching the ladder and having a closer look at it, i come to realise something so strong about it. We use the ladder everyday and we actually never relate it to our daily lives.


The ladder has principles. yes, basic ones even!

How we succeed and how we fall uses the same principles the ladder does. First: when climbing the ladder, you must do it ALONE, or else you’ll fall and injure yourself and even brake the ladder. Second: when on the ladder, ensure that your hands are HOLDING ON to it, if not, still you’ll fall and injure yourself again. Third: LOOK UP never down or the sides, result: Falling and injuring yourself again!

This is very strong. 1) You first should be alone when you’re making your way to the top. You should never listen to voices form your friends for few are those who want to see you succeeding than falling/ losing. You are with God, not with anybody here in this world. Any decision that’s going to bring change in your life, BE ALONE with God!
This is mostly everybody’s mistake. 2) Letting go! We hold on at the beginning of our way to success, but we get tired with time. When we get tired, our arms lose strength and then lets go of our dreams. Lets finish what we started by HOLDING ON. Its not easy at all. Especially when the winds starts to blow threatening your the stability of your ladder, you just wanna let go and move on. Not on a life changing matter, NEVER!

Now this has to do with what most if not all of us have gone through, our past! 3) We allow what happened to us in the past to hold us back and we sob and feel sorry for our selves. Where can that take us if not keep us stagnant? Instead, it builds in us, hate, grudges, anger and all those nasty feelings. We need to apply the last basic principle of the ladder, which is simply just to LOOK UP!

What’s funny is that all of the above principles have the same result if they are not carefully obeyed- FALLING! The rest is for you to think about and conclude.

Stay Blessed!

Leadership

I was once in a needy situation. I was nothing and even thought that everyone living under the surface of the earth do not care about me. Life was hard and I had nowhere else to go. I was humble to everyone because I needed their pity. I thought if would be proud I would not have anything to eat.

This the situation of many people, or rather was the situation of many. While things were not going well for you, you were so humble, loved everyone, had respect, was willing to help other people and acknowledged authority.

Because of that pleasing attitude we displayed when were were in need, we found favour in the eyes of those who were in power to put us high. They did to us what they thought would be profitable to us, giving us a job, helping us open businesses, taking us to school etc. we climbed high, we became somebodies in our areas. That pleasing character starts to change. It now starts to have a bitter touch.

When you are a millionaire, don't show that you have millions in your bank account but let your millions grow. If you are a manager, don't show that your a boss, but let what you do excel. You must not be high but your resources must be high.

Quote of the day: “A bird flies and searches for a place to land... it never flies forever”

Stay Blessed!

Whatever!!!

Do you think you can tell your friend to just get over it?

When a friend is always depressed and sobbing and you, as a good friend you try to get what's the problem, she/he tells you but, all that she says is out of emotions and they're feeling sorry for themselves.

Or maybe it's you! You never get enough or tough in what you are facing. Instead, you always feel sorry for yourself, you always cry and never see the way out, you always self centred and never have a solution. If this is the case, you might still need more problems to peel off the soft and fragile skin you have and give space for the tough you!

Yes! It is the truth. Do not expect to have the solution of whatever situation you have any time soon. That's because you are still a baby, you are not strong yet. The day you will pull your sleeves and say, I am strong and I will NOT act like a child, that's when you let go of your biggest enemy.

Whatever that has taken your self esteem, whoever abused you, whoever hurt you, they did not take your life away from you, you still have it so please Just GET OVER IT and move on!

God wants brave people to work with, not people who are forever feeling sorry for themselves.

Stay Blessed!

I woke up

I woke up

to a new day

to a new pavement

to a new beginning

I woke up

from a dream

from a deep sleep

from the un-paying sheets

I woke up

to a faith

I woke up

to faith

I woke up

to a promise

I woke up

A promise in Isaiah 41:10

An assurance in Luke 1:37

and complete care in Psalms 55:22

I woke up still a child of God!

I love Him.

This Little poem I have composed for myself gave me a sense that everyday that the

Lord Jesus is giving to me, is an opportunity to praise Him, to make the impossible possible, to fix yesterday's mistakes and embrace God's different and new blessing.

This also applies to all of us!!

Stay Blessed! 

Value

When we compare today's lifestyle with the one of the past, we notice that we have achieved quite a lot of thing today. Things that are very helpful and which also make our lives easier. The most dominant achievement is the advanced technology of today.

Also, we have achieved freedom in many other areas. There are no longer gender limits like before but we all can do everything we desire to do without gender issues. Especially for women, we have been given much freedom and we thought that it was working for us; and yes, that's true. It is working for us. But, as compared to the past life, we have lost one but most important thing- value.

A person's pride came not from what she/he eats, dresses, drives, owns etc. But it was something that was in them. Just by talking to them, seeing them pass by your street, the way kids spoke to their elders you would quickly know they are noble. That's the value they had and we lack today!

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. (Proverbs 31: 10) This is what their value was worth, far more than rubies!

Let's start looking for things that will make us remarkable people and not one of those people who have made the world chaotic.

Stay blessed!

Cast All Your Burdens

We all have been on situations that are pretty much daunting and not having a way out form them. I remember I had done something wrong and regretted after. I always thought that I am tough enough not to commit such a mistake. I found myself in that situation and I didn't even notice that I was actually doing wrong. But when the job was done, that's when my eyes were opened and I actually did something wrong!

I felt so bad and I cried bitterly. In the process of my sobbing, I started to see myself as the worst person on earth. I started feeling like a 'sinner' and never wanted to be close to people. I would see wings on them thinking that they're all angels. To make it worse, I even felt like they saw what I did. Oh! That was a bad feeling to have. Very bad!

“Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.” Psalm 55: 22.

That's exactly what I did. I did not like myself but I gave myself to God and guess what? He restored me. He actually opened my eyes that when He tests our faith, He stands and waits for our reaction. When we lose ourselves in mistake/sin, He is actually showing it to us that we are nothing without Him. Our pride falls and we become humbled and begin to acknowledge the real authority that's above us

Believe me, that's much better than being in a state of regret. God gives you the relief that you can't make it without Him in this world. You are just lost and lifeless! That's when I realised that all that I am isn't with my strength but it's actually God's strength and image.

There is nothing scary or painful about casting all your burdens to the Lord, its just a sweet feeling of humility.

Stay Blessed!