tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325271202024-03-13T03:57:22.439-04:00Chronicles of the Life of a STRANGER called MeI may oscillate, in response to a signal transmitted by a difficulty, but because I have the Rock of Ages as my rock that can never be moved, my sensor that is quick to amplify my response signal will only pass through the check point that is my God, so that the observed physical analogue response can be converted to a digital response that has an increased positive frequency to keep my mind firmly as that of a conqueror. What story will your signal response tell? ©2006 - 2013The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-69720727827387905972013-10-23T06:15:00.002-04:002013-10-23T06:18:05.374-04:00MOVED to another addressWe've been on this address for the last 7 years, and fancied a change :) se we decided a face lift was of the order, and while at it, a change of home. And so we did just that.<br />
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We have now moved :) to <a href="http://thelifeofastrangercalledme.wordpress.com/">http://thelifeofastrangercalledme.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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We've loved everymoment of hanging out with us here. We hope to see your lovely faces over at our new address. See you there.The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-2540558101735763732011-08-12T10:44:00.000-04:002013-08-16T12:02:28.826-04:00Ignorant!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:enableopentypekerning/> <w:dontflipmirrorindents/> <w:overridetablestylehps/> </w:Compatibility> 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<br /><br />Truly indeed the word of the Lord is true. Many are not enjoying the benefits of their newly found liberation / entitlement due to ignorance. Why do you say? I am about to share a little story with you. <br /><br />My dear dear friends were finally getting married in Spain after three years of engagement. The cathedral they wanted was fully booked in 2008, and the only available slots were after August 2011, and thus we waited. They decided to splash out a bit on their guests by putting us up in a full star hotel, with all the trimmings that came along and we lacked nothing. Except that I didn’t know that. All I knew was I had found myself in a very expensive hotel. I remember collecting the keys to my room, and was shocked when I approached the room they had reserved for me. I did remember I didn’t sleep well through the night, because I was so hot. I remember waking up to noises which appeared to be made by kids having a good time, but I thought nothing of it.<br /><br />It was an evening affair, and so I had the whole day to wander about. After strolling in the sun, and the intense humidity, I was feeling a little bit exasperated and desperately wanted a really cool condition. And even though my room was rather nice, all I could think of was home. And so I waited! Finally the hour came. I was reunited with friends and was in the company of great companions, and so the topic of the exquisite hotel came into the conversation! And there it happened. I was informed of all the benefits that came with the key, and that my lovely room had air condition ;), swimming pool, spa, and much more! Unlimited internet, dare I go on! And immediately I became disappointed. <br /><br />Now, because it was an evening affair, when we returned back to the hotel the next morning at 3.30am (Did I mention it was an evening affair and the church service started at 8pm). Yes where was I? these friends of mine actually came along with me to show me where exactly they all were. And making sure my room was at a good temperature before they left for their rooms. However a question they left with me was, how come you didn’t call the porter to ask him? I was a little glum, naturally I would, but this wasn’t a business trip I exclaimed! Ahh! there you went wrong, Its Matteo and Inma’s gift for showing up at their celebration! I had only a couple more hours before catching my return bus back to Madrid airport that morning, and as I pondered upon my turn of events, I couldn’t help but wonder upon a thought! Indeed this is how many of us are with the things of God. <br /><br />Isn’t it interesting how God has told us time and time again in his word what He has made available to us. Who we are in Him, and the power we capable of controlling, only if we excersises it. The Lord has given us access to unlimited benefits, simply because we have come to His saving grace. And yet many of us have yet to experience those benefits because we don’t even know they exist. Many have seen it, have heard of it, but are still yet to enter into it. Let’s no longer continue to live in this way. We are more than the life we are leading. We have been given much more than we currently have. We have been created for greatness! <br /><br />It is my prayer that the Holy Spirit will help us to discover who we are in the Word of God! It is my prayer that we will not make this discovery too late (like I did in my example). We are still marching forward! We are still on course. Total victory is ours. Hallelujah Total victory is sure!The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-49157471807237547652011-07-29T13:42:00.001-04:002011-07-29T13:44:17.158-04:00You are more than this!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> 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Accordingly, my brother got the mower out, got all the chords safely tied in place, and showed me a piece of garden I could run through. And so I began. I remembered in my younger years when I wanted to show to my brothers why whatever they could do I could do ten times better, and that I was no sissy, no girl but a boy like them. I remembered when going beyond the tall three in the middle was a mark of an accomplishment, and how when you’ve gone beyond was indeed worthy of some accolade. And so I began on the lawn. I had barely gone 40 inches, when I started praying in the Holy Spirit, asking God to help me before I fell down helpless on the lawn while my baby brother cheered me along. After a few more, I couldn’t help but stop. I hadn’t reached the apple tree, let alone the tall three in the middle or even the beyond. I had nothing to prove to anyone I said to myself and encouraged myself that when mummy comes home she would be so proud of what I’ve done. And proceeded to go and work on my computer instead. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Some Sundays ago, the senior pastor in my church ministered to us on the importance of seeing and the importance of entering into your inheritance. Seeing it, is just the beginning, you have to enter into it as well. I saw the vast land, saw the trees, and the entire wild berries. I saw the wild grass that has somewhat encroached into our back garden. As large as it was, I remembered how beautiful it once was, and it should be. 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So don’t worry if you’re feeling a little exhausted, a little bewildered, a little confused, a little anxious, even the bible tells us that it is possible to grow tired and weary. But remember the Lord encourages you that, because you hope in Him, it doesn’t matter what state you are in at the moment, He is more than able to renew your strength, He will make you soar on wings like eagles. Do you know what that means? This is what happens to those that don’t give up. Their latter will always be greater than their former.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">After such an eventful day, my parent’s lawn was mowed. Don’t just see it, enter into it. Don’t just believe it walk into it. Don’t just assume it, live it. Don’t let the enemy trick you into believing you can’t have what you see, and thus making you give up on what you have seen. Don’t let the enemy bully you into believing that what you see is too big for God to do for you! Please don’t give the enemy a chance to show you a mediocre alternative. There is nothing too impossible for God to do (<b style=""><span style="color: green;">Genesis 18:14</span></b>). There is nothing God cannot do. My life is a living testimony of that fact and truth. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Don’t give up on the vision; don’t give up on the promise. You are more than this! You have been created for greatness! 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And yet before that week runs out, my post have not been updated, and the weeks have turned into months. It’s as if every appointment I promised God to make, I end up not showing up. Worse still, I “stand Him up”. I can’t say it’s because of how busy I am at work that it extinguishing my time, or rather that the current developments of my life that has made me not realise the time as they fling by. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It’s funny how I hear stories of people like me who are no more, people who lived and loved God, and are no more today, but I am, I am, and I am still busy missing OUR appointments.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Today is a very short post, a reflective post, a post of whatever happened to my new year resolutions of making sure this year, I make God my priority. Whatever happened to all those promises of making God’s business my business this year? The first 6 months have gone, and after much reflection, I realise that if not for His loving kindness and Grace, I still shouldn’t have been here typing away this post. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Woe to me, I am undone.</span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-81390212775338689742011-06-20T10:01:00.002-04:002011-06-20T10:02:18.770-04:00My Melting Point<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> 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style="font-size:100%;">I trust you all remembered to appreciate our father’s yesterday. It was such wonderful feelings to have my many Dads pray for me yesterday, simply because I remembered to say some nice words. Dad’s eh, they are such softies </span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >J</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. And the men of RCCG COD Cambridge too had a wonderful weekend I was told following their successful highly anticipated MEN’s conference, and the turnouts of participants from around the globe. We women definitely missed out, but our turn is coming also on 16<sup>th</sup> to 18<sup>th</sup> of September. I can’t wait!</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I learnt an important message on Sunday. The Men’s plenary speaker Rev. Kola Ewuosho was constrained to stay for the Sunday celebratory service, so that the rest of us who were not in attendance for the conference had something to take home too. And I learnt an important lesson of my life.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You see, I had lived in Isolation for four of my seven years as a Christian, and had learnt during that time of my life the many messages of perseverance, refusal to give up, the attitude of worship, a closer walk with God, and so many. And yet, I did not learn the lesson of “maturity in dealing with people”. </span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I am easily offended! And as the man of God reminded me on Sunday, is an action that means others can’t be free around you since you are not free yourself. It took getting used to. I learnt so much in my time of solitude, so much that I pleaded with God not to take me out of the mountains, but I realise now why I had to leave. I realise now, that the world is made up of relationships, and I cannot confidently say I love or I’m in LOVE with God if I don’t relate well with His people. It took the Lord to take me to a place of a meeting with so many minds and characters to reveal the truth of the state of my heart to me. And on Sunday it came to melting point. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Not everything in life is that important to lose your joy over, and your pride, your insecurities, your fear of rejection is not worth compared to the joy and freedom that you have found in Christ. To let it go, to let them go, and to allow you and they be free. I was even more encouraged on Sunday that my failure in the way I deal with people, my acceptance of my failure and my ability to admit it to God and my attitude of change is actually what prepares a way for my success. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Even though I was previously introduced to the Kingdom of God, my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my Saviour, allowed Him to become the foundation of my life. Yes, He taught me many lessons during the many seasons in my life, but I still needed to be a matured Christian. And thus I had to leave the comfort zone of the lovely mountains of Alto Adige, to a place where responsibility was key. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >To make a choice to either be easily offended, or choose to see beyond the offenses! To choose to see the offenses as a stepping stone to the manifestation of the greater person God has created me to become. A woman who is conformed in the image of Christ living in Dominion and Freedom that has been given to me, because of the finished work of Christ on the cross. Indeed I will be a fool if I choose to remain a woman in bondage, in bonds and at the mercy of people God has created me to take responsibility of my actions towards. No! From today, I choose not to be offended, and go and sleep a day I feel it’s gotten to a critical point <span style="">J</span>. But I know the Lord sees my heart, and He will help me in this new decision of mine in Jesus Name. Amen. And if you are like me, make that choice today too, and you will not regret it. The Lord will help us all in Jesus Name. Amen.</span></div>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-29386615160164938512011-06-03T14:49:00.000-04:002013-04-19T03:24:45.741-04:00Forgotten<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:enableopentypekerning/> <w:dontflipmirrorindents/> <w:overridetablestylehps/> 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<i><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">No, go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been – Mark 5:19b (NLT)</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hello family, I trust all is wonderful with you, and this new month has started wonderfully for you already. I thank God for your lives and mine, and I am indeed so grateful to God for all of his wonderful works in my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Yesterday I was reading the account of the healing of the two demon possessed men in the region of the Gadarenes in Matthew 8:28-34 [<i><span style="color: #006600;">28: When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him</span></i>]. The account ended with the villagers urging Jesus to go, but nothing further was mentioned. Immediately I became restless. Why you may ask, well of all of my years of studying the bible, I never realise that there were two to begin with. In the accounts of Mark 5:1-20 and Luke 8: 26-38 only one was mentioned, and so even though I may have read the book of Matthew on more than one occasion, I did not make a mental note of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Then I asked the Lord Jesus, how is it that this story was told three times, but only one account mentioned that in the beginning there were two men? I thought to myself, maybe I may need to take this to my pastor, check out the bible concordance and read all the commentaries that bible scholars have to say of the matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">But I didn’t even have to go that far. My eyes were drawn to Mark 5: 18-20 - <i><span style="color: #006600;">As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, “<b>Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you</b>.” So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed. </span></i>And similarly in Luke 8:38-39. Immediately I realised something. There were indeed TWO to begin with. Two had a problem, two were healed, and one was grateful for what the Lord Jesus did for him. One stayed back up until when the villagers came on the scene (Mark 5:15; Luke 8:35), this one pleaded with Jesus to follow Him, this one was the one told to go and tell his family of the goodness of God. Isn’t it amazing that when Mark and Luke investigated the story, only the account of the one that wanted to follow Jesus and who went throughout the ten cities testifying of how good God has been to him, was told. Yet the eye witness of the event Matthew told us that there were two to begin with. Dear God, only one of the two healed had his destiny justified and glorified. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Two received a touch from God, one’s account was not mentioned. He was forgotten – I don’t know if he ran away with the herd’s men, or maybe disappeared among the crowd, but one thing I do know is that I was told in Matthew 8:34 that the whole town went out to meet Jesus on hearing about the lead up to the miracle to ask Him to leave their town – while, the account of only one was remembered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I pray dear God that even after all you have done for me, it would not end there. You have been too good to me for me to forget about your wonders. You have been so awesome to me for me to forget you generosity. Many may have been blessed in the same way I have been placed, but I refuse to have my story end with me. Oh No, by God, I will proclaim your goodness at the roof tops, I will proclaim you beauty on mountain tops, oh God I will proclaim your loving kindness and mercy towards me to whoever and whatever cares to listen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Lord, so great is your mercy towards me, that I would be a fool not to acknowledge that. Thank you Lord for taking out the time to bless me, and make me a blessing to everyone you send my way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you Lord for all You have done for me. I love you Lord Jesus!<i><span style="color: #006600;"></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Lord God truly cannot be compared to any God or Man. Excellent in all ways, Good in all aspects, steady as a Rock, my shield and my defender, my strength when all fails. The only one that impresses me, and impresses me only, Dear God, You deserve all the glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Today, I watched the Royal wedding. I saw the flurry of the comments my friends made. Many said they still believed in fairy tales, that dreams indeed still came true. Dreams of marrying a prince I wonder? Or dreams that there is such a thing as marrying a prince? Whichever the case may be, one thing is certain, with God, every day has been for me a fairy tale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Of course it has been. Has He not been that lover that lays besides you at night, keeping watch over you all through the night, neither feeling sleepy or fallen deep in sleep? Has He not been the one that gently wakes you up in the morning with a loving Kiss, regardless of what state you’re in, even in those hideous “hair nets” that you use to keep your hair in place </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">. Was He not the first to bless you for the day, and equip you with all you need to have a successful day? Was He not the one that called you all through the day, to make sure your day was all right, and that you weren’t stressing over “issues” you felt were quite overwhelming. Was He not there when you ran back home at the close of day, and made sure you had enough to eat for Dinner. Was He not there to entertain your spirit, and encourage you after You told Him, what a day you’ve had, always a listening ear?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Oh Yes, with God, every day is a fairy Tale, and I thank God that because He is faithful, pure and trustworthy, I can rest assured that He will never change His love towards me. He is constant, closer than a brother, and I am confident that He will never leave me or forsake me in times of troubles – like those false gods, who cannot hear or speak – [<i><span style="color: green;">1 Kings 18:26</span></i>: <i><span style="color: green;">So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning until noontime, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made</span></i><span style="color: green;">]</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Dear Lord, thank you for being so constant and true, throughout every challenge that came my way. Lord I thank you, for remaining strong, when I am completely week. Thank You Lord for being my hope in the face of despair. Thank You Lord for being my salvation in place of destruction. Dear Lord God, You deserve all the glory.</span></div>
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That nothing is Too Impossible for You to handle and deal with. And that none of the words that You have spoken, that You are still speaking, and about to speak, ever returns to You void, invalid and cancelled.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">My God</span>, You are the very reason I am alive today, the wherewithal of my very existence, without whom I would have crumbled, deteriorated and fallen apart a long time ago. Many were the times when my legs were life less, my arms hanged limp, my head too heavy for my wearied shoulders to carry, and the strength within completely sapped out. Yet Lord You remained that backbone, which kept me standing, and standing firmly, refusing to let me be put to shame. It was You Lord that kept me standing throughout the storm, making sure the troubles that raged all around me didn’t knock me off balance and deposit me into the very ocean of it all. It was You Lord that kept me standing throughout the wind of discontent, making sure I didn’t get carried away with the gust of doubts and uncertainties that came at a speed second to none. It was always You Lord, ONLY YOU Lord that kept me standing throughout the quake, to make ardent sure that the visible cracks that had appeared all around me didn’t take the ground underneath me to bury me, never to be heard from again in the land of the living. Oh Yes, Lord, It was always YOU! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Mighty deliverer</span>, only YOU are beautiful beyond descriptions. Only You are way too wonderful for Words. 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mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">My beloved told me a story recently. A story that laid much emphasis on the account of when a man of God was told to go and anoint a King; and even though he had some ideas of what a king should look like – You know tall, handsome, stocky, strong and should be at least head and shoulders better than any man in sight – when he arrived, and after the first seven came before him (whom all appeared to have all the aforementioned qualities), the Lord told him, that the king was not among them. And yet, when a not so matured (small)young (boy)man came forward - you could imagine the shock and disappointment that came along with it – the Lord told him to rise and anoint him as king. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This got me thinking, and I couldn’t help but marvel at the testimony of such a man. I couldn’t help but marvel at my own testimony.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We all know that the story is concerning a young man who went by the Name of David and the man of God was Samuel (1 Samuel 16:1-13). We were told that he was sent for, from where he was tending sheep, </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><u><span style="">BUT</span></u></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span style=""> have we ever wondered how long he may have been out there for?</span></b><b style=""><span style=""> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">How long he spent being a shepherd. How long he lived as a shepherd.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Now we know how shepherds lived in biblical times. The life of a shepherd was indeed a very lonely one, and could at times be very dangerous. In those days, the shepherd would lead the sheep and goats, who were always herded together, to an area where they could get food and water. He also knew each and everyone one of the animals, and watched over them both night and day. He had to spend time knowing each of the animals, because he would have to give an account of them and pay a very expensive price should anything happen to a single one. At night, when the animals went to sleep in their enclosure, the shepherd was expected to sleep lying across the entrance of the enclosure, with his body acting as a gate for the enclosure so that nothing could get in or out. So </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-size:100%;" ><b style=""><span style="">as</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-size:100%;" > <b style=""><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">you can see</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="">, </span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">this meant that the shepherd </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-size:100%;" ><b style=""><span style="">had no other life, except to live for his animals</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="">1 Samuel 16:11 - </span></i></b><i style=""><span style="">"Then Samuel asked, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied. <b style="">“But he’s out in the fields watching the sheep and goats.” “Send for him at once,” Samuel said. “We will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Now this same bible told us that David was a shepherd. Even though we were not told how long he was a shepherd for, it did tell us, that after waiting, after spending time protecting and shielding his animals, after fighting any devourer that tried to steal or kill his beloved animals, he was surprisingly called back to civilization. And obviously someone would have had to take his place. But I don’t want to dwell on this.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I can tell you that while he lived a life of a shepherd, it probably never crossed his mind that a day such as that day would come. I’m sure that his animals had become his friends, his confidants, his best friends forever (BFFs), his Facebook friends, his twitter followers, his YouTube biggest fans and spectators. I’m sure you get what I am trying to say here. They were his social network. And I won’t be surprised that he had gotten so cosy living that life that he never thought that there could be any other life (better) than what he had going on. But no, God had something better. Much more better. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Friends you have got to learn how to wait.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You know sometimes we go through a period of wilderness, but one thing we must never forget is that a day is surely coming. A surprise visit, a knock on the door, an increase, a promotion, a breakthrough, a healing, friends believe me, I don’t know what you are waiting on the Lord for, such a day is surely coming. Make up your mind to wait until that day comes. Even Habakkuk, waited upon that day <i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(“I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guard post. There I will wait to see what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint” – <b style="">Habakkuk 2:1</b></span></i>). He was expectant, or else why would he be hanging out on a watchtower. He kept an eye out. Be expectant, regardless of what is going on in your life, remain resolved. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sometimes the life you are leading isn’t what you expected. Even where you are isn’t where you envisaged is where you ought to be. Wait on the Lord. Sometimes it may seem that that situation is taking longer than it should. Wait on the Lord. Sometimes, you feel that you have done all you can, and feel it is time to just accept your fate, wait on the Lord. He will surely show up and <i style="">SHOW OUT</i>. He will so show out that people will come and hold the hem of your garment asking you to show them the way to your God (<b style=""><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Zechariah 8:23</span></i></b>). Believe me, in no time that will be your testimony. This is our month of Divine Rescue; the Lord shall rescue you from all of your challenges in Jesus Name. Amen.</span></p> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Wait upon the Lord, and He will surely honour you in the sight of all men (<b style=""><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Zephaniah 3:19b-20:</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> I will give them praise and honour in every land where they have suffered shame. At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honour and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes,” <b style="">says the LORD).</b></span></i></span></div>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-58110681772963556082011-03-11T18:00:00.002-05:002011-03-11T18:03:52.518-05:00What state are you in?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> 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mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="">But the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span> hurled a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm that threatened to break the ship apart. Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship – <b>Jonah 1:4-5</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Isn’t it amazing how wonderful God is! That even in the height of our disobedience He still has plans of what we could achieve in whatever state we find ourselves. You are probably wondering “what is she on about?” I’m going somewhere with this </span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >J</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >When Jonah in the first verse of chapter one received his commission from God to preach repentance to the people of Nineveh (the capital city of Assyria, a people who are of constant threat to Israel, and of whom God had declared (many times through His prophets <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Hosea 11:5 and Amos 5:27</span>) that He would use as an instrument of punishment against the Israelites), you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand why Jonah fled from delivering the message. After all, any patriotic Israelite would have longed for Assyria’s destruction. No patriotic Israelite would want to be involved in a rescue mission for their enemies. I mean think about it! If say for example there was someone who was seriously threatening your job, you family, your very life and you received a message from God to go and help them, I think if you were very honest with yourself, you would probably think twice about it (and the really honest ones will probably start dancing, that finally the day of destruction of their enemy has finally arrived </span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >J</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >), but this post is not about enemies. </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Don’t you just Love God!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Of course God knew Jonah was going to flee. Have you not read where it says He searches the heart of man and examine secret motives (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 146, 66);">Jeremiah 17:10a</span></i></b>). Have you not read that God doesn’t want anyone to perish (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 146, 66);">Ezekiel 33:11; 1 Timothy 2:4</span></i></b>), and of course there were other lives just as important as the lives of the Ninevites. The lives of the sailor who were going to be on the ship bound for Tarshish. Obviously if Jonah wasn’t on that ship they probably would not have found themselves in danger of death by drowning as a result of the violent storm, but notwithstanding, they would have continued living, and would have been ignorant of the love of the one TRUE God, the Lord God of heaven and earth. Not the gods of the figment of their imagination that had no ear to hear them, let alone help.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Of course God knew Jonah was going to flee. Have you not read where it says He gives all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserves (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 146, 66);">Jeremiah 17:10b</span></i></b>). He probably anticipated the flight of Jonah, and through the actions of Jonah God used it to save a totally different group of people.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="">The sailors were awestruck by the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span>’s great power, and they offered him a sacrifice and vowed to serve him. – <b>Jonah 1:16</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Don’t you just Love God!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >As children of God, even in our backslidden and out of fellowship with God state, God still loves us, continues in His HOT pursuit of us, NOT willing for us to be castaways. But we must always remember that He is an all knowing God, and even in that state, He still places people in our paths whom He knows we have the ability to help. God is always forever working on bringing us back to repentance and back to fellowship with Him. Think of the example of one who is desperately in love with someone who doesn’t love them back, it is so sad but that is sometimes the relationship we have with God. He is constant chasing us, and we keep giving Him the unrequited cold shoulder love. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >But whatever state you find yourself, whether the “I am in love with God” kind of state, or the judgement condemnation of others (backslidden state), always remember, who you are, and whose you are. <i><span style="color: rgb(0, 146, 66);">“ I worship the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span>, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land” - <b>Jonah 1: 9. </b></span><b>Y</b></i>ou still have something to offer, there are people whose lives are depending on the message of the Love of God you are carrying. A time is coming when we have to give account of it, never let any opportunity pass you by regardless of how you feel or what you think. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style=";color:red;" >My Lord and my God, please forgive me in any way I have judged the people you’ve placed on my path and the times I have shyed away from delivery Your message in Jesus Name. 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Then he said to me, I’m a vegetarian and don’t like to impose my views and beliefs on others and yet I DO NOT understand why others do.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Wow I said to <i style="">ricco</i>, what would you say if I told you I was a Christ follower? and what would you do if I tried to tell you about him. <i style="">Err</i>, <i style="">he said to me,</i> I would tell you about the countless books written to dissuade you of your belief, and besides I am an atheist. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">I couldn’t help but smile to myself. You see I had set out on this particular day telling myself how tomorrow was not guaranteed to any man, and how each day I must live for God. But who would I tell about the Love of God? Surely not <i style="">ricco</i>, he’s a physicist and a good one at that. He has read all the books humanly possible and was the first to show me all the oldest books in the world, along with all the evil under the sun, which he claims should never be attributed to God. He twists all the excerpts of the bible to make out that the bible is not such a ‘divine’ book after all; and that there are other books which also have pretty good moral codes. Then he said to me, if God can promise to end all the starvation in the world I’ll follow him. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Then I remembered my post on “the mathematical code to life” and how I ended it. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color:black;">I truly understand that it may be difficult to hear and honour the “WORD” of God by believing because of our intellectual culture and all the scholarly books written on why we ought not to hear the “WORD”. 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I see them on my table tops, my guest chairs, my opened drawers, my flung open cabinets, my desk cupboard, my inbox trays, my laptop holder. I see them all over my living room floor, my bedroom table, my reading table. O if only I could have some space on my bed to lay my head. All I ask for is only a tiny bit of space devoid of this mess, just to lay my exhausted mind and body. You product of wood, how have you now over run my space, my personal space?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Wasn’t it too long ago when you wished you had more to do, studies to occupy your mind, a challenge worthy of you? Something, anything to make this passing fancy of life worth living? Wasn’t that your petition, your request, your desire, your wish, your devotion, all you ever thought of? How be it then you’ve forgotten so quickly?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Did you forget the scriptures? Did you forget where God called you “gods” children of the Most High God (<b><i><span style="color: green;">Psalm 82:6</span></i></b>)? Where He reminded you that you have the power to call things that be not as though they were? That you had the power of life? That as children of God we have the Holy Spirit who as an agent of Christ (<b><i><span style="color: green;">John 16:13</span></i></b>), guides us into all truth; who constructs and interpret our prayers (<b><i><span style="color: green;">Romans 8:26</span></i></b>) in such a way that Jesus as our mediator in heaven is able to present them with His own blood to the Father (<b><i><span style="color: green;">Leviticus 04:6-7</span></i></b>) [<i>well technically we are praying directly to the Father, the Holy Spirit helps us construct the prayers so that it lies within the remit of His will, and in the name of Jesus because of His finished work on the cross</i>]. That whatever you ask in His name He will give to you (<b><i><span style="color: green;">John 14:13</span></i></b>).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">So you see, it may have appeared that it is the Will of God for me to be Head and not the tail, and to remain above only. It may seem that it was after all the Will of God, for me to have a purpose filled challenge for my grey cells; which has now resulted in the overkill with the papers. O how quickly I have forgotten. Is it not the Lord that has done this and it is indeed marvelous in His sight. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Sugar quit being an ingrate, and just get on with it!!</span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-50803930541912280472011-01-28T08:26:00.002-05:002011-01-28T08:32:32.071-05:00STEP UP<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> 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The electrician is still working at fixing the problem, and we are still enjoying the moments of living in our house. Even the Landlord once commented on how he has never had such wonderful tenants all at a time living in his house. As the sound made up of varying frequencies and amplitudes began to resonate, I wondered if I should move my body to their rhythm as I got dressed. It was now time to leave. I unlocked my front door, and up the stairs I went. <span style="color:black;">As I climbed up the stairways which separated me from my basement flat, and the main road at the top, I couldn’t help but wonder upon a thought. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That, regardless of where I am, getting to the top requires a “step up”. The more I pondered upon it, the more I came to the realisation that irrespective of where or what that “step up” is, there is always a beginning, a starting point, a base level, a ground zero. And to get to the top requires a stair case, a ladder, a lifter upper, a shoulder, my goodness a facilitator, an enabler, a helper. <span style=""> </span>You cannot get to the top, a place higher than a base, a raise, a boost, an uplifting, by simply walking on the same level. You need help. You need direction. You need guidance. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">LORD, I know that people’s lives are not their own; <b style=""><u>it is not for them to direct their steps</u></b> – <b style="">Jeremiah 10:23</b></span></i>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and <b><u>He shall direct your paths</u></b> - <b style="">Proverbs 3:5-6</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">In their hearts humans plan their course, <b style="">but the LORD establishes their steps</b> – <b style="">Proverbs 16:9</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">Thus says the Lord, Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “<b style=""><u>I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, <span style="">who leads you by the way you should go</span></u></b>” - <b style="">Isaiah 48:17</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">For I know the plans I have for you</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">,” declares the LORD, “<b style="">plans to prosper you and not to harm you</b>, plans to give you hope and a future – <b style="">Jeremiah 29:11</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;</span></u></i></b><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);"> <b style=""><u>I will counsel you with my loving eye on you</u></b> – <b style="">Psalm 32:8.</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">For the waywardness of the simple will kill them</span></u></i></b><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; </span></i><b style=""><i style=""><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease</span></u></i></b><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">, without fear of harm – <b style="">Proverbs 1:32-33</b></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">So let me pose this to you: What are you using, or have you been using as your support system for your step up. Who are you depending on to boost you to the top? On what are you basing your confidence on to increase and accelerate your movement to the top? Friends, friends, who are you relying upon, hoping upon, to assist, grant or facilitate your entry and access to all that your next level has to offer? Remember that only those who listen to the Instructions of the Lord can have access to all He has to offer. Only those who have made up their mind to delight in all that pertain to Him does He establish!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand – Psalm 37:23-24</span></i></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 154, 70);">Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun. 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Just questions, maybe two, maybe even three, but a question no less. I wondered, when you have waited on the Lord for a while for something, and it appears that He is slow in answering. And for this reason, you then decide to take matters into your own hands. Let’s say for example that your next plan of action is to give up on Him. You stop reading your bible. You stop praying. You stop playing an active role in your church, even better you stop going to church. Worse still you have reconnected with your old friends and gone back to the way it used to be; after all you say to yourself, He does not hear me. <i style="">Hmm.</i> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Let me pose another. What will you do, if all this while, what you had asked of the Lord, the Lord felt was too small for you, and was preparing something considerably even bigger than you could ever imagine. What will you do when the time comes when He has perfected that gift and decided it was time to deliver it to your address. What will you do when it finally arrives?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >I’ll tell you what you’ll do; you will be shocked and dazed for weeks. Speechless, not sure what to do next and maybe in the end feel like a fool. But I’ll tell you what you should do, NEVER forget that God is able to do exceeding more than you can ever ask or think <b style=""><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">(Ephesians 3:20)</span></i></b>, and He is more than enough to give you the desires of your heart. So when you feel like giving up, remember that. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >I have learnt the hard way, that regardless of how long it takes, God still honours His words <b style=""><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">(Psalm 138:2b)</span></i></b>, and STILL answers prayers. I may not have stopped going to church, or re-acquainted myself with my old ways, but in my little way I once did doubt His ability to hear me and answer all my petitions. And now that He has, I wondered why it was so difficult for me to believe that He could! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="">Dear Lord Jesus, I ask that in all of my ways in which I have acted in disobedience and doubted your ability to answer my prayers, Lord forgive me, and have mercy on me. In Jesus Name. Amen.<br /></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Now friends, don’t do like I once did. A day is surely coming when your story will change, the question is, would you be faithful till then? </span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-20346856034696778552011-01-14T13:58:00.001-05:002011-01-20T06:49:55.367-05:00It has never entered into my Mind<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:targetscreensize>800x600</o:TargetScreenSize> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> 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She searches and finally finds a bundle of them. An envelope of ten €100 notes, she removes three and puts the rest back into her mother’s purse”. Her mother in disappointment wonders to herself, how could it be that she has given birth to a daughter who steals? Surely, she could not have learnt this from her. She has always been a woman of means and has never known poverty nor what it means to be in lack. Yet her child whom she has brought into this world, in her own likeness (and not of another), has mastered the art of stealing. But how did she ever get to this? How, why and when did such enter into her mind? How can this be?”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="">The daughter ….</span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >I don’t quite know what else to do. I cannot leave, but staying gets harder by the day. I know I think too much, maybe analyse too much, maybe even scrutinize so much, but I wasn’t always like this. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >The beginning will be a good place to start. I was once young and carefree, did as I wanted, made a few mistakes, but they were not life threatening. Got into a few messy spots then the <b style=""><i style="">penultimate</i></b>, I’m surprised death did not swallow me. I walked as one marked, marked for death, with a sign on my forehead. Day and night I struggled to stay alive, battle stands ensued, most of time without my knowledge. Misery had been my comfort, self-doubt my protector, and Hope, Hope my worst enemy. Hope is for the foolish, life is for the foolish. Wondered why my life would not just ebb away, when there are so many out there dying to live. Why couldn’t we make an exchange, you have what I want and I what you need. My life so <i style="">tres</i> fabulous I’m told, many wishing to give theirs in exchange for mine; Live the dream, my nightmare of sorts. But I have often wondered, do they know what it is I go through? Do they know the troubles preventing my eyelids from staying shut at night? Do they know the lengths I’ve taken just for a moment’s peace? I have tried to live in the shadows for some time now not wanting to be exposed. In constant fear that a day is coming when all will know, when they will know that I am not whom they think I am. The day is coming soon, and I dread to think of how it will be. Who am I? A repeated question I have seldom refused to stop asking myself? How did I get to this place, to this point? I need to forget, too many questions, still no answers. I need to forget.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="">Pitty parter, pitty parter, invitees only </span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Mama watches her daughter cross over to the other side of the road, and immediately she follows her. She sees her exchange what seems to be money for some goods, walk towards the roundabout, down the alley, and before she could reach her, she was already seated on a bench, by the canal, and have now fallen into a deep sleep.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style=";color:green;" >Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. <b style="">But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.</b> When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared – Matt. 13:24-26</span></i></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style=";color:green;" lang="EN-US">Your eyes will see strange sights and your <b>mind</b> imagine confusing things – Prov. 23:33</span></i></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style=";color:green;" lang="EN-US">On that day thoughts will come into your <b>mind</b> and you will devise an evil scheme – Ezekiel 38:10b</span></i></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style=";color:blue;" lang="EN-US">Check this:</span></i></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" >We in one way or the other in our lives here on earth have caused God to ask Himself such a question. He can’t quite understand how it is, we do the things we do. Doesn’t quite understand why it is we as a people are so wicked <i style=""><span style="color:green;">[Gen. 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9]</span></i>, especially when He is not. He knows no sin, and yet we his creation are continually evolving into experts in wickedness. How can that be? We can no longer use excuses like ‘life is so difficult’ or one lame excuse or another to explain away the evil things we do. We can no longer use previous bad experiences or challenges as a reason why we’ve turned to the evil things we do. The Lord never promised us that life was going to be an easy road <i style=""><span style="color:green;">[John 16:1]</span></i>, but He did promise us that we can overcome it if we make up our mind to, just as He did <i style=""><span style="color:green;">[John 16:33]</span></i>. He never promised it would be an easy journey but He did promise that the end will be worth it <i style=""><span style="color:green;">[Revelations 2:7]</span></i>. Sometimes the Lord has to take you through a process of purification, and empowerment before taking you to that next level. Is there prayers you are still waiting on the Lord for its fulfillment, or do you think you’ve been living a lie and the enemy is about to expose you. What is your confidence based on? Whom are you looking towards for help? <span style=""> </span>I pray that this 2011, we will have no more excuses for not living the life the Lord called us to live. I pray that this 2011, we find a way of realizing that the past is gone, and we can work out our relationship with God in fear and trembling. 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I have to first of all apologise for my “<i style="">incommunicardo</i>” throughout the month of November and December especially when I was starting to get back to the swing of things. I had way too many trips that kept me away, which <i style="">kinda</i> messed up my routine. But I am back (you’re probably saying: wasn’t that what she said the last time *rolling my eyes and looking the other way* now :)). <span style=""> </span>I have really missed you all.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">I was thinking of putting up a post on the “<span style="color: rgb(228, 108, 10);">journey to the top</span>”, but maybe that will wait for next <i style="">week </i><i style="">:), yep you heard me right, I have to make up for lost time </i><i style="">:).</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><i style="">Mehn </i>2010 was indeed that year that all on my wish list came to pass. God truly has been so wonderfully great and so wonderful to me that I just don’t know where to begin. As in REALLY! Even during my faithless times, God still remained faithful. <span style=""> </span>Gosh, where would I begin? I already know that some of you don’t’ like really long stories, but if I were to start to write them all one by one, I think we might be here all day and all night <span style="">J</span>. I remembered in the month of December 2010, the Lord reminded me why I need to take out some time and just tell him how much I love Him; for ALL THAT HE HAS DONE FOR ME. Gosh, what manner of praise or worship can I ever be able to render unto Him for all of His wondrous acts. Every one of them has been so great that I need to have a Thanksgiving Day every day for at least TEN years for just one of them. And if I were to start thanking Him from now, it would last till eternity and it still will not be enough. For indeed it is so true: <i style=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">When the LORD restored the fortunes of <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">lifeofastranger</span>, she was like those who dreamed. My mouth was filled with laughter, and my tongue with songs of joy. Even those around me kept saying “The LORD has done great things for her.” Indeed the LORD has done great things for me, and I am filled with joy </span></i><b style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">(Psalm 126:1-3). </span></b>I am still in shock :).</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">So as I entered this 2011, I scrapped off my wish list and instead decided that this 2011 is all about what I can do for Him. This year is not about “<i style="">Baba God do this for me</i>”, 2011 for me is about “<i style=""><u>Baba God let me do this for YOU</u></i>”. This 2011 I am resolute to make God Happy. God must be happy with me this year. This 2011 I have made up my mind to show Him that I am not an ingrate but indeed a grateful child who is overwhelmed with all of His mercies towards me, of which none of them I deserved.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">This 2011, I have made up my mind that it is that year that I will arise, and take my place among those completely sold out for God (not like the previous ones of yesteryears). This year, God I am ready and willing. I have written my list, crossed my t’s and dotted my I’s, and my plan is in place. I am ready now to get to it. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">I have my mind made up, and I won’t turn back. What about you? What do you plan to do for God this year?</p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-50344657005457379192010-10-22T15:05:00.007-04:002010-11-04T11:06:28.583-04:00It was ALL in VAIN!!<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize – <b>1 Corinthians 9:26-27</b>.</span></i></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>If only you would lend me your ears and listen to my story</i>. <i>I sighed. This story must be told, and you must hear me I continued.</i></span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As a young lass growing up, the fear of going to hell drew me even closer to the man called Jesus Christ. I came to learn very early on in life that if I must NOT make it to hell, that I had to forgo all other religious belief and focus on that man called Jesus Christ; for indeed everyone I asked told me that the only sure way of not going to hell was to go by the way of this man who was said to have died on a cross some two thousand years ago [apparently He was a son of God]. Now I wasn’t there when it happened all those years ago, but one thing I did know was if by any chance there was indeed life after death, I didn’t want to be on the wrong side. And so the journey began. I joined all the groups that professed Him; embarked on all the activities that involved telling everyone and anyone about him and his Love for the world. Journeyed to the end of the world to see that His message was spread, and one day, when the time came for me to leave this world, convinced that I had done all that was necessary, closed my eyes and waited for that faithful day when all would be revealed.</span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And so that day came. There was indeed life after death, and I was a witness to the fact. The books were flung open, and faithfully there was a record. There was a record of everything that I ever did, but for some reason (or another); my name was missing in that all important book. </span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">To make matters worse, when I thought I caught a glimpse or a silhouette of Him, the words fail me now, but it was Him that I saw. The man I had worked tirelessly my whole life. I called out to him and said to him, Hello there, it is I, and you are? He responded. Perplexed, puzzled, taken aback, this must be a nightmare, I thought. And then He continued, I do not know you, away from me you evil doer. Evil doer, me, I, how? Did I not work miraculous deeds on account of this man? Did I not preach his message to my colleagues, to my friends, to everyone that came in contact with me? Did I not set up a bible study group in my department for the “overly learned man”? Did I not hold a coveted position in my church, and a strong Pillar in the house of God? No, no, NO!! Did I not wrought good works on account of this man? Did I not?? DID I NOT!! How can He then now call me an Evil doer, when I was so good to the poor? By Jove, I set up so many charities, and no less than ten bears my name, and for what? FOR WHAT? What was the point of it all?</span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Then He responded to me and said: <i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven </span></i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">– <b>Matthew 7:21</b></span>. But I did the will of your father I responded. I got baptized, spoke in other languages, forsook all other gods, and followed only you. ONLY YOU!! And He looked upon me and said, <span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">but you did not truly believe in the Word of God</span>. It is not about the number of people who got saved through you, yes, see those actions have laid up treasures for you here (and He pointed at them), for indeed God cannot change His words (<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Numbers 23:19; 1 Samuel 15:29</span></i></b>); But you see <em><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">His Word</span></em><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> is magnified and exalted <em>above</em> all <em>His name</em></span><em><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> </span></em><em><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80); FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(</span></i></em><b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Psalm 12:6; Psalm 119:89; Psalm 138:2; Proverbs 30:5; Romans 11:28-29)</span></i></b>. And then I interrupted Him, saying, I don’t quite understand how this has to do with my present state. </span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">He continued saying, The Word of the Father was given to you saying, How He has exalted the name of Jesus, and How at HIS name, EVERY KNEE (Whether it is spirit, with human form or without), would bow <b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">(Isaiah 45:23-24; Philippians 2:9-11).</span></i></b><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)"> </span>I nodded, and said, it in the Word. Then He said, And Yet The Father compares HIS WORD to HIS name, in saying that His WORD is Magnified above HIS HIGHLY exalted NAME. I still didn’t get it, and? Yet you showed disrespect for HIS WORD. Every time you slight the authority of God’s word, you not only show disrespect of it, you also at the same time disrespect His HIGHLY EXALTED name. You show disrespect for the blood of Christ shared on the cross for all (<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Rev. 19: 13 -</span></i></b><i> <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God</span><span style="color:black;">). </span></i>Every Time you doubted His Word, You Disrespected HIS HIGHLY EXALTED NAME and all that the Lord Jesus did on the cross. <span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">And who are you, to darken the counsel of the MOST HIGH GOD, with words without knowledge</span> (<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Job 38:2</span></i></b>). </span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. Immediately I fell to the ground on my face and started to weep, for all those times and refused to be consoled. For all those times, I doubted the Validity of His Words concerning my life. I wept and refused to be consoled, For He was justifiably right. How can He say all was well, when mockers gathered and laughed at me? How could He say that I am the Head and not the tail, when all I saw was failures? It was easier to encourage others, but it was impossible to encourage my soul. How could He say that He grants the desires of our hearts when my 25 years longing was yet to be fulfilled. How did He expect me to truly believe when there were some irreconcilable issues with some of what His words were saying concerning my situation? No, how did He expect me to go on holding unto His word, when the future looked bleak. I wept, and wept, and wept and refused to be consoled.</span><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And then I woke up.</span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-19361525037286559932010-10-08T17:15:00.000-04:002010-10-08T17:17:28.502-04:00It was NO secret.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> 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Louisa was finally getting married and I couldn’t quite believe it. She’d been one of those mid to late thirties ladies who you happen to see in a church completely sold out and still no man to call their own. But it was her turn. Finally her time had arrived. As I slowly tried to make my exit, Pa K called out to me and said to me, today I will come with you to visit your home. I wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that. You see my Papa was one those who neither allowed visitors or friends to visit our home. Our house was one when looked in from the outside appeared to be a place that was quite desolate and no one would dear to venture in. It had creaky doors that annoyed the neighbours whenever someone tried to walk in through them. Broken porches and a gate hanging off its hinges. Papa kept no friends. No confidant, none. I immediately interrupted Pa K to remind him that we were in the middle of a rehearsal and I doubt Louisa will be impressed if he were to leave. 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I could see from the door window that Papa looked at BimB in bemusement and was about to ask him who the man was when I saw Pa K confidently reach out his hand and introduced himself. I immediately sprung out from where I was, grinning from cheek to cheek, holding the hem of my dress firmly and saying …. <i>Papa ahm, Papa, ahm, errm, erm, hmm, mmm</i>, this is my Pastor and he insisted that he must come to our house. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">To my surprise Papa gave out a smile and offered him a seat. He received him so warmly as such has never happened in the history of our home. BimB and I looked at each other, and I watched all three men sit down. After what seemed to be like a fraction of the time Pa K had arrived he had confidently asked Papa and BimB if they wanted him to pray for them and if they didn’t mind kneeling down. And to my amazement Papa and BimB both knelt down and I offered Papa a large cushion to rest his knees. This was history in the making. I never knew Papa could smile, I’ve never seen him smile in my entire 26years. On this day He smiled and jovially spoke to Pa K, and I proceeded to call in KK, my younger brother to come and see for himself what was going on in the house. Whilst they were talking Pa K went on to tell Papa the story of his life, and this was where it all began!!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">I watched Papa go into the next room get out a large A3 paper and start to scribble on it. He drew what seemed to be a <i>cadaver</i> in the middle of a floor, in what seemed to be an open space, a theatre of some sort, surrounded by his five friends (two young ladies and three young men). On this occasion they were his friends from Medical school and they were all there surrounded by so many equipment. Something had happened, someone had done something terribly wrong and each of them had been sworn to secrecy. They didn’t think anyone saw them. They didn’t think anyone would know. As Papa finished his drawing He went on to call all of his friends. He had kept in contact with Rhodes, and Rhodes knew how to locate the others, and they all came. They all came one after the other and in no time they had all arrived. This was the first time in thirty five years they had all been together in one place. Papa didn’t waste too much time, and went on to show them the drawing. They all looked at each other and asked him what the purpose of it all was for. He told them that a man had narrated to him this scene so precisely that he had to draw his descriptions in order to find out where the man could have been when it happened. He asked them to fasten their eyes properly on the drawing and proceeded to guide them through it. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">After they had all carefully looked at the drawing they realised that the only way anyone could have possibly seen them could have only ever been through a very large window which faced upwards. But how could it be, they were on the third floor, and they had locked themselves in. Papa realising that there was indeed a witness to their indiscretion, to their oath, to their covenant, wanted his friends to know that their secret was never one and had been witnessed all this while by an important witness. God. His friends not believing of his story sought out ways to kill Pa K, for they were convinced that Pa K had to have been a witness. For it was impossible for anyone to have known or seen what they had done all those years; what they did on the top floor of that building unless they were not among them.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">So easily with our mouths and actions we enslave ourselves. Thinking that since no one has seen us or can see us, what we do in secret remains a secret. This we know cannot be true, because the <u>word</u> of God reminds us in <b>Psalm 90:8</b><i> <span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> </span></i>that<i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> </span></i>God sees everything we do ESPECIALLY the ones we think that no one will ever find out. How sad, for indeed our lives are never hidden from Him (<i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Psalm 69:5 – O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You). </span></i>And since one can only reap what they have sowed (<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" lang="EN">Galatians 6:7-8</span> - <i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature</span></i><i><sup><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> </span></sup><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.</span></i>), therefore what they have gained from it all, can only lead them to death and destruction, for we have been reminded that the wages of sin is death (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Roman 6:23 -</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" lang="EN"> For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord</span></i>). <i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN">If Papa had known that his secret action could have brought about such wretchedness in his life, I wonder, would he have knowing gone into it? </span></i><span style="color: black;" lang="EN">I pray that this would never be our story in Jesus Name. Amen.</span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-77280380354275209842010-09-24T11:00:00.000-04:002010-09-24T11:01:06.239-04:00Humpty who?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:enableopentypekerning/> <w:dontflipmirrorindents/> <w:overridetablestylehps/> 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font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">As I strolled down a <i>resplendissant </i>lane called wonderful, I overheard just above me screams of we are undone, we are undone, the “bles<i>se</i>d curse is upon us”. I watched the wings of the first break, and as he tried to steady himself loose his loot, lost his balance and fell down to his death. The same happened to the second after him and just as it was about to happen to the third, I saw that a weird looking man with greyish wings, who appeared to be one of their oldest and most decorated member was being released and ordered to seek them all out and annihilate them all completely. It was as if the time set for them to turn against each other was upon them. However, if they were able to exchange their misfortune in time by successfully entering into the household of an unsuspecting family in one accord with one another, they might just be able to keep what they find and thus prolong the inevitable only for a moment longer. Just two doors down the road appeared to be a family, with only two young children in the house. It was a large uniquely located house with many window openings, and not one was locked. I was a bit apprehensive as to what to do, and called out to the inhabitants of the house to find out if there were any adults at home and why their windows were all left unlocked. The children at my behest ran round the house in a bid to lock all the windows they could find and indeed locked them all accordingly. I wasn’t quite sure if they had securely locked them, and thus made up my mind to go in and check. I had barely gone a few steps when I heard what appeared to be a heavy thud coming from the north east section of the house. As we hurriedly made our way there, I found that they were trying to crack open one of the elevated wooden windows by trying to drill nails through it. I realised that if I were to place log pieces over the area where the nails were being drilled in, we might just be able to prevent them from creating enough gap to forcefully enter into the house. And so we retaliated with log for nail, a process that reinforced the sturdiness of the window. They proceeded to change tactics by trying to bull doze their way in. In the instant when they were about to burst it open, did my eyes draw to a study ladder, completely made of wood, which I and indeed we hadn’t noticed was there before. We immediately grabbed hold of it and were able to push it against the window and were able to secure the window. Finally, after several blow out attempts, the intruders couldn’t manage to get in, and in the end ran out of time.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Phew what a story, but I’m going somewhere with this.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">How many times do we see friends, neighbours, strangers in great difficulty and we turn a blind ear. Yeah, you read it correctly, a deaf eye. The Lord Jesus reminded us of the importance of being vigilant [<i>John 10: 10</i> - <i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly</span></i>] and Peter also reminded us of the fact [<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">1 Peter 5:8</span></i></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> </span>- <i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour</span></i>]. And throughout the bible we have been given examples of the need to be alert [<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:16-17; Luke 10:18</span></b>]. <b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">And yet</span></b>, many of us are of the view that as long as our world is <i>resplendissant</i>, then all is indeed well in the world. In fact, Jesus told us that in order for us to inherit eternal life we NEED to LOVE LOVE LOVE God and our neighbour (<i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbour as yourself<b> – Luke 10:27</b></span></i>). <b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">So since we know that the enemy is prowling around looking for families, people to destroy. And since we know that the enemy, our adversary, will try to pick off the weak, the needy, the ailing, those among us who have grown weary and have dropped back, and is always lurking for opportunities to isolate and manoeuvre’s us into positions where he can then attack and deal that blow (<i>Pow</i>). <b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">AND</span></b> since this is a fact and the truth, what are we doing about it? When was the last time you could honestly say, “<i>I got his or her back on my knees in prayer</i>?” Exactly, are we people who genuinely care for one another? Better still as we have been taught in our worker’s class when was the last time we prayed for one another [<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">James 5:16</span></i></b>]. <b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">Some of us don’t even know the name of the person sitting next to us</span></b><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"> </span>(<i>am not even pointing an accusing finger I am so among these groups of people, but I digress</i>). </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">And if you happen to be among those (<i>of us</i>) going through some difficult situation, fear not. Remember what the Lord said to you, that He is near to those that call Him – [<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Psalm 145:18-19</span></b> - <i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them</span></i>]. <u>So we are not alone</u>. We also need to remember that God has indeed put a wall of protection around us, so there is a limit to how the enemy can toy with us (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Job 1:6-10</span></i></b>); and that God allows it all as an instrument for our elevation. To get to the top or a next level you need a ladder, a stair case, a device of some sort. A mountain is a high place because it comes after a long low area of land, or else everything will be on a plane, and the mountain will just be another level place. There needs to be a valley, a long sunken area before getting to a mountain. So also, to get to the next level, a level higher than our current position there are some tests we need to meet and overcome. Have you tried climbing a mountain before? I Have, and trust me it isn’t easy at all. During one of my earlier experiences, I was worn out, my entire waist was aching, I was out of breath and out of shape, and I wanted to give up every moment. Infact if I wasn’t with the group of people I went with, I would have happily given up a third of the way up and just sat down. And just as my friends helped me overcome the long walks to get to, up and over “<i>Monte Bondone</i>”, “<i>Monte Mezzocorona</i>” and countless others, that is what God does for us during our long low area walk and up the mountain of life. In the same way God used “these period” for Job and the Lord Jesus (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Matthew 4; and Luke 4</span></i></b>), and we know He is no respecter of person every one of us have opportunities for elevation. So therefore every situation we face are just opportunities for elevation. So don’t fret, you are so not alone. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">And for those of us with <i>resplendissant </i>lives, we’d better<i> </i>be vigilant that we don’t fall into temptations.</p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-20145499276480376902010-09-10T15:11:00.002-04:002011-01-14T09:43:05.002-05:00My Confession<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;">Wow <i>weee</i>, I am back, walking albeit gingerly but I am in “<i>da</i>” house!!! So how has everyone been? Did I hear you all try to tell me what you’ve been up to all at once? Say what? Well maybe I should start with me. Well as I got on that boat, you know the non-stop express to my next destination I was so busy being excited and rejoicing that I was finally leaving and getting on to the next level to the point that I almost did like the Israelites did when they left the land of Egypt. I was so busy doing the break dancing of touching my head, gyrating my hips, moving my legs in and out and moving my hands from side to side, that I had almost forgotten my Source. </span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Could you believe it. Since during these past four years I was pretty much on my own, I literally had God for company. I would holler at Him, have some deep and meaningful discussions with Him, and talk to Him on my way to work, to the airport, to the train station, to the market square, to the church, to the <i>Gelaritaria</i>, where ever I was I just had to talk to Him, because let’s face it, I had nobody to talk to, I mean literally. My good friends went home most weekends and my out of the country / continent friends, well you know how it is. On all of my long walks I would talk to Him. Even when the journey felt a tad too long and quite frankly unfair (<i>you know the why me sagas</i> J), I knew I had no choice, nowhere else to go, because the bottom line was JESUS Is both the WAY and HAS the WORDS to life. And in the words of Peter, to whom can I even think of going to: <b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">"Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life</span></i></b><span style="font-size:+0;">” – <b><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">John 6:68</span></b>. As in really think about it, even if you are fed up, angry, depressed, frustrated, and want to just leave and turn away from God, where would you go? Which one is better (</span>:)<span style="font-size:+0;">). Trust me, NONE is as good as Him. “<i>No one do me like He do me</i>”!!</span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:+0;">I always knew that regardless of what was going on in my life </span><span style="color:black;">there was no better place to be than to be <i>smack bang</i> in the middle of that trial, test or as some has called it, the valley experience. I mean look at me now </span><span style="color:black;">J</span><span style="color:black;">. We may never believe it, but it sure is for our greater good [</span><b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">2 Corinth. 4:17 - For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory</span></i></b><span style="color:black;">]. Think about it. To enter into any of these prestigious universities, the exams are not like the “simple simple things” my young 8 year old cousin once complained about when he was told that Mimi my baby cousin had come first in her class and Mimi is 4years old - I guess first in waking up </span><span style="color:black;">J</span><span style="color:black;"> - but I digress. </span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:black;">Now that I am at this end, and looking back, I have now realised that the time spent in the wilderness was indeed the BEST four years of my ENTIRE life. I felt a connection that was that close to God and I knew that my isolation was for my own good. </span>And then He went and sent me back to my people, significantly more than when I left all those years ago. I felt like <i>JJC </i>that had just landed in “<i>obodo oyibo</i>”; see television where people spoke in English. I ate slept, woke up, watched television, went to the Cinema and watched all of the films that I could not get to see because I was in a foreign land. Kept trying to reacclimatise myself and my “funetics” :) and started going to the theatre where they sang in English. I was indeed back to civilization (no more in the mountains of Italy or the beautiful hills of Blacksburg). And as time went by, days turned into weeks, weeks into months and slowly I began to realise that my spirit was slowly getting disconnected from my Jehovah. I had started to get busy and the time spent dissecting His word had become non-existent. And then I started to wonder, if God would have had to say to HIMSELF, did He make a mistake in bringing <i><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">lifeofastranger</span> </i>to her land of more than enough? I guess I started to feel a bit bad, and had to start telling the Good Lord that He didn’t make a mistake, and it was not a terrible thing to bless me.</span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">My Lord and my God in any way I have sinned against you and walked in the ways of the children of Israel when you took them to their promised land please God forgive me. Have mercy on me and do not treat me as my sins deserved</span></i><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">.</span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;">I realised one morning when <i>I was busy getting busy</i> that I could no longer understand what I was doing and my ability to remember was decreasing, and it hit me. The reason my mind had run a blank was because the Words to life that it functioned on had emptied itself. And only 12 weeks had passed since my return. I knew I had to go back to my Source and back to the familiar, back to the way it used to be. Back to the times when only He and His Words mattered, nothing and no one else. I had forgotten all this while that God’s Word was the very <u>foundation </u>on which He built my success on. I could see it. I didn’t need to be told the significance of the WORD of God for my daily survival. Indeed I have found Him to be my sustenance and survival [<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Acts 17:28a - for in Him we live and move and have our being</span></i></b>]. I started to become forgetful, loose focus and remember the things that people did to me J. When did this all start? How else would I have known that these are so not the exhibits of the fruits of the spirit [<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Galatians 5:22; 2 Peter 1:5-8</span></i></b>]. It’s all in His word. </span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;">So here I am back to my love. And I would be a fool to let the bright lights of civilization dim out the light of His Hope that burns in me. <span style="color:black;">Receiving my breakthrough is not the end, but instead the beginning of a new journey. I must see to it that I don’t repeat the mistakes of the past that incurred previous debilitating problems in my life or else worse could happen. I have indeed found that m</span>y ability to succeed is most definitely tied into how much I know of His Word (which is tantamount to how much time I spend in His Word). You see His Word is Life to they that find it [<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Proverbs 4:20-21</span></i></b>]<b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">. </span></i></b>If you don’t believe me check it. Check it!! [<i><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,176,80)">Jeremiah 23:28-29; Isaiah 55:10-11</span></i>]</span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-32071698792810004222010-06-04T11:01:00.002-04:002010-12-26T22:56:46.520-05:00Farewell Trento, Farewell Italy!!<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">My life surely cannot get any better than it is right now. I see myself, the way He sees me, and just the way I have always wanted my life to be. I am finally where I want to be. Everyone seems to concur. All I keep hearing from them is <b><i><span style="color:maroon;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">wow LifeofaStranger; you are finally where you’ve always wanted to be</span></span></i></b>. There is this smile that creeps up on my face. Maybe it’s a relief of some sort, maybe even a sigh of satisfaction. A giggly feeling; <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">am I dreaming or awake</span></i>? For sure I am awake, or how else am I able to hear these people stop to greet me at the door ways, on the corridor, on the stair ways, even in the conference room. <b><i><span style="color:maroon;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Wow</span></span></i><span style="color:maroon;"><span style="color:maroon;"> <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">LifeofaStranger</span>, <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">you are finally where you said you will be. You are where you have always wanted to be</span></i></span></span></b>. A surprise I’m sure on their end, since it involved me always saying things like: <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">the God that I serve is taking me places</span></b>. <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">That my God is a Real God. That my God is the Real Deal</span></b>. Another smile, maybe a cheesy grin, I don’t know what it is, a <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">sigh</span></i> of satisfaction, and a reply from me, <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">yes I am indeed where I’ve always wanted to be</span></i>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Then <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">she</span></i> walks into my office, <b><i><span style="color:purple;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">wow LifeofaStranger, you are finally where you’ve always proclaimed you will be</span></span></i></b>. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Sorry come again, I responded</span></i>. You know what I’m talking about. Another quiet smile from me, yes, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">you know I am after all the prestigious daughter of the Most High God</span></b>. She smiled back and replied, yes you have always said that, and that in Your Father’s house there are so many rooms. This is why since you walked into this place close to three years ago; we have called you a princess because you acted like one. Another smile on my face (<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">maybe a smirk</span></i>). An apology from me, I hadn’t realized that my position in my Father’s house had given me an air of arrogance. Well it made us sit up, and treat you as if you were a foreign princess [<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">sigh]</span></i>. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">I cannot begin to imagine how I’ve pranced around the corridors of this place as if my Father owned the institute. I am truly sorry</span></i>, I responded<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">. I honestly didn’t realize it. I know you all call me a princess, I just figured it was because I was one.. I smiled, she smiled, we both smiled.. I</span></i><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" lang="EN-GB"> apologised</span></i><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> again citing my</span></i><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" lang="EN-GB"> behaviour</span></i><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> was all attributed to the innate drama queen in me… we</span></i><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> <span lang="EN-GB">both smiled</span></span></i><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> again. </span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">How well am I doing? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Don’t forget to say a prayer for me. For us, and for all of us, she responded. I know God always answers your prayers she said. Look at you. The spoken, has happened to you. Even we all here know of that much. <u>Your God</u> has been so good to you. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Indeed He truly has. Indeed He truly has been. Indeed He most definitely has been too wonderful to me.</span></i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >How well am I doing?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The count down has ended just as it had barely started, my journey is done. My long walk through that desert is over. I have had to stop too many times at designated refresher points, never knowing how long it will last. But now, after all these years, the final leg of the journey – <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place> – has come to an end. My ship is set to sail to its final docking station, and indeed how magnificent it will be. <span lang="EN-GB">The Long turbulent journey is over. </span>I was almost marooned, left for dead, heart broken, distressed, almost destroyed, but thank God for God, for indeed there was nothing in this life and in this world that could have ever separated me from the Love of God. <b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? … </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang="EN-GB">Who </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,51,0)"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(153,51,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang="EN-GB">shall separate us from the love of Christ</span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang="EN-GB">? </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword</span></span></i></b><i><span style="color:black;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:black;" >? … </span></span></i><b><i><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,51,0)"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(153,51,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us – </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Romans 8:35 - 37</span></span></i></b><i><span style="color:black;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:black;" >.</span></span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I have learnt never to shut God out. He has always been everything I needed and even more; He has been my anchor through this turbulent journey. Many a long times when the day refused to break. It was as if the sun didn’t want to shine any more where I was concerned. But who would have thought? Who would have believed? Surely not you! Surely not I! Surely not them!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The sun is out, the wind is perfect and I am set to sail to my final station. My final docking station, the beginning of another GREAT journey, the journey I was born to live. I am going home. I am going home the same way Jacob did. More than He was when he left. With a renewed confidence that He truly is not just a faithful God and Father, but through all this He has been my protector and My warrior, the General of my armed forces. Forever ready to defend me. Always there to catch me when I fall, and to wipe away all of my tears. My peace in the midst of the confusion, my way maker when I did not know which way to turn. My consolation, my very great reward. My elevator, He that can only promote has indeed promoted me beyond my wildest comprehension. Who has given me beauty for all my ashes! Who has given me glory which is visible for all to see. O How can it be Lord, that You are so mindful of me? That You think so much of unworthy me! God YOU ARE TOO MUCH!! YOU ARE GOD ALONE.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I will miss the high places and the mountains. I will miss the lakes and the trees. I will miss the fountains and the buildings. But most of I will miss the people who have made this journey an unforgettable one. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I know I am destined for greatness. We are destined for greatness. <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Lets now all go become it</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Today </span></b>is <b style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">my LAST DAY</span></b> in the office. So until Next month, see you in <st1:place style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">England</st1:country-region></st1:place>. And Happy Friday Everyone!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-22210311827949814452010-05-21T11:44:00.001-04:002010-05-21T11:44:42.536-04:00Pretentious pretense the lot of them!!<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Swollen eye lids, eyes that have refused to stop tearing, swollen lips (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">geez even Homer Simpson looks hotter than I am looking right now with those lips of his</span></i>), and I’m not even in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region></st1:place>. I look like I’ve taken a serious beaten, and have been crying for days on end. What seems to be the matter I keep getting asked? Should I milk this for what it’s worth? I heard it again, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">what seems to be the matter? </span></i>I had to really think about it. Really is there anything the matter? You seem sad, you are looking rather dull?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">This took me back to when I was young, younger than I am now (technically if I’m truly honest with myself, even now), when I looked forward to not so good news days; situations when I’m allowed to feel sorry for myself, so that when my mummy asked me if everything was well, I would sullenly reply and with the most exaggerated expression, enough for her to increase her prayers on my behalf, go out and get me some garments, and increase the pampering (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">no wonder I’m labeled as “such a princess” by a ton of people</span></i>). I was jilted back again to the present, and no the enquirer is not my mummy, but still in a jiffy could run out to the shops to get me a get well card, some flowers to brighten up my room, and cherries that will last me a life time. And so I asked myself, should I milk this for what it’s worth, and is there really anything the matter with me? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I tried so much to remind myself of things and areas of my life where things weren’t working so well. Tried so hard to bring to mind situations that I appear to be currently facing that should make me sad, enough to justify why I looked dull, not emaciated, but just dull. I tried so hard to recreate broken times, times on end when things didn’t seem to be working. The fact and the state of things. My mind had become a court room where the opposition presented its case, and where the defense was armed ready to disprove it with the truth of the Word of God. The reasons presented by the opposition were quite conceited no doubt but it had a case. Can’t you see that a woman in your situation shouldn’t be happy? I mean look at you, married for so long and still with no kids? Single with no husband? Divorced twice and on your way to hell? Shut your mouth missy, what do you have to be joyful about? Yes you baby mother, you think a man wants to marry a woman who already has a child? You fat <i><span style="font-style: italic;">broke ass</span></i> chick, trust me no man will and can ever love you! You think out of the group of people in your office, you will be promoted? You think there will be jobs available for you in this economic climate? I heard that there is a list with the names of people to be fired and your name has appeared on this list? <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Hahaha LMAO</span></i> trust me you are finished! It seemed more like taunts, but in the real sense were facts being used against the defense. The opposition wasn’t making it up, their case was justifiable, and they were simply bringing to mind the current state of play. However, there was a problem with their air tight sealed case. Another fact had made it impossible for them to seal the case. The truth about the word of God which the defense team had knowledge of, which made it impossible for them to be fooled. It may have been a fact that indeed what is happening is really real, but what is coming was more real than what is. That the spiritual controlled the physical, and that the physical is not worth comparing to what is to come. And armed with this knowledge of the truth about the Word of God, the opposing thoughts could not stand a chance. And because my mind had been continuously immersed in the word of God, which I had meditated upon day and night, the opposing thoughts did not have the opportunity to come out into the open. And thus my mind a courtroom, where the defense team was actively and constantly winning, remained that of a conqueror. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And so I shrugged my shoulders, smiling and yet with a bemused sort of look, reluctantly said to him, it’s just a simple case of allergies, there is nothing internally wrong (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">nor would there ever be at the rate my defense team is working – I can’t even be allowed to feel sad just once I tell ya!!</span></i>). As I walked away sniffing and touching my swollen lips, a tad bit disappointed, I finally realized that the “<i><span style="font-style: italic;">look at me I am suffering</span></i>” days are well and truly over </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">. The childish days, times when I’ve refused to grow up are well and truly over ….<i><span style="font-style: italic;">No milking today</span></i>!!, I see now that the word of God in me no longer permits me to feel sorry for myself again.. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Aah kilode</span></i>, a whole princess attention seeking drama queen like me, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Nne</span></i> I think your days of acting are well and truly over </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">$%^ SPOILLER</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">: If you are an attention seeking drama queen, who loves to feel sorry for herself and for others to commiserate with you, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">errm</span></i>, a continuous renewal of your mind with the word of God will so spoil this show for you. Don’t say I didn’t do you a public service by giving you a heads up in this area </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Geez Louise</span></i>, I can’t even feel sorry for myself again. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Oh Mehn</span></i>! I can’t even throw an awesome pity party again. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Oh well</span></i>!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-56641416968905622312010-05-07T14:08:00.002-04:002010-09-27T10:52:31.426-04:00How Dare You!!<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: boldcolor:green;" lang="EN-GB" >Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ. Who hit you?" – </span></span></i></b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" lang="EN-GB" >Matthew 26:67-68</span></span></i><b><i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: boldcolor:green;" lang="EN-GB" ><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">He allowed himself to be handcuffed, be arrested, be hurled insults at, be spat on the face, be stripped naked, be put to shame in public and be beaten to the point of death. As if that wasn’t enough, they took him and hanged him up on a cross – for YOU and me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After all this, YOU still have the audacity to grumble; you still have the effrontery to complain about your life’s turn of events; you still have the energy to engage yourself in fruitless worries; you you you YOU still have the nerve to say why me!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I’m going to leave that with you for a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It wasn’t as if He didn’t warn us about these coming trials. It wasn’t as if He didn’t warn us of all the troubles we will face here on this earth simply because we do not belong here (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 15:19</span></span></i>). Simply because He chose us out of this world (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 17:6; 17:14; Matt. 12:18</span></span></i>). Simply because He gave us His words and made us gods (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >Psalm 82:6</span></span></i>; <i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 10:35</span></span></i>). Simply because He made us clean through His word (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 15:3</span></span></i>). And because of HIS words, things will never remain the same for us (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 17:18</span></span></i>). And since no servant can ever be greater than His master, what He went through, so too we will go through it (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 15:20-23</span></span></i>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I am utterly amazed how quickly we’ve forgotten these in times of trials.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">He told us many things about all that we will face, so that we will not abandon our trust and faith in him, on account of the troubles (<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 16:1</span></span></i>). Have you forgotten how He overcame the world? Did you forget about the truthfulness of the Words he gave to you and I, written all over in the scriptures. If we spent time researching His words, we will come to realize that Jesus is that Word, written about in the scriptures; who in the beginning was with God and came into the world to dwell among us for a time [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 1:1, 14</span></span></i>]. You will find that He is indeed the true light that came into the world to guide us through the darkness of the world [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >Matt. 4:16; Luke 2:32; John 1:14; Matt. 5:14: John 1:9; John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:46</span></span></i>]. Our good shepherd to guide us when we find ourselves at the cross roads of life and can’t seem to make up our mind which way to turn; for indeed He will never ever lead us astray [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 10:11, 14</span></span></i>]. Have you found yourselves in a midst of confusion, He is that prince of peace that you will ever need [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 14:27; John 16:33</span></span></i>]. He has been that rock that is higher than you and I. Our eternal rock of refuge, a firm place to hold onto and stand on in times of trouble [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >Psalm 31:2; 40:2; 61:2</span></span></i>]. I know there have been times when I’ve felt empty and thirsty, and I have indeed found Him to be that living water that causes me never to thirst again, because He has become a well inside of me, and I know I will never be empty again [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >Jeremiah 17:13</span></span></i>; <i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 4:10, 13-14</span></span></i>; <i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 7:38</span></span></i>; <i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >Revelations 7:17</span></span></i>]. He has never let me down [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >Proverbs 18:24</span></span></i><span style="color:green;"><span style="color:green;">]</span></span>. He loved us so much that He chose to die for us [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 10:11, 15, 17-18; John 15:13; 1 John 3:16</span></span></i>]. There were many opportunities for Him not to go through it all, I mean He is God, but for our sake, He came into this wretched world, for our cause [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 18:37</span></span></i>], to be our sacrifice, to restore back our dignity. To restore back our rightful place. Surely after this you will come to realize how precious and wonderful you are in the sight of God. Don’t you realize you are God’s collector’s item? Don’t you realize His love for you? Many times the Lord Jesus reminded us that He came to this world to reveal the Love of the Father to us [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 3:16;</span></span></i> <i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >John 16:17; John 17:25-26</span></span></i>]. Enough for the Father to give up Him (Jesus) that meant all to Him, His companion and Son for the likes of you and me. And still you have the temerity to doubt all that Jesus stands for in your life. The victories He has won in the battle for your life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Well anyways, just incase Ya’ll have forgotten, you just have to make do with my bubbling :).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I’m sure you can now realize why I am so confident in my Father. Why my walk had to move on to another dimension in terms of swagger. Why I walk with my shoulders straight and my head held up high. Why my walk can never be showcased or seen at any fashion show because it’s in a totally different dimension :). Why I love Him with reckless abandonment. Why I am so crazy in love with Him. He has been so so good to me. Every word he has declared to me He has brought to pass. Just like it did in the days of King Saul, when all the words of the Lord spoken through the prophet Samuel into life of King Saul came to pass in one day [<i><span style="color:green;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;color:green;" >1 Samuel 10: 9</span></span></i>], the Lord has done the same for me. All it took was one day. He simply blows my bind. He has done exceedingly, abundantly all I could ever, ever, ever, ever, think of, imagine, comprehend. He has done the impossible, and has put a smile on my face forever. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">He’s no respecter of person, He truly rocks my world. And in this time, His time, He has smiled on me J. He truly is and has the Words of life in Him. <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Don’t you dare give up on Him just yet</span></b>! He truly is an awesome God, and He is able to do that which He has promised you. Watch and see.. I see the clouds already forming in your horizon!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The count down has begun :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-36031955623226405442010-04-23T13:28:00.001-04:002010-04-23T13:29:51.889-04:00You weren’t there!<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" ><span style="">I watched her as she walked in. Dressed in her very best, wearing a pair of Max Mara heels and a large bag to boot. She had on a shift dress, elegantly made from burnt orange dupioni silk with Swarovski crystals embellishment. It fitted her so well, as if it had been hand crafted and made by her very own personal fashion designer. She wasn’t wearing too much jewelry, but I could notice that she wore a Tiffany signature diamond gold necklace and a matching set of earrings. You could tell she must have visited a salon the day before, because her hair was so wonderfully made, and immediately I made a note to self, to ask her where she got her hair made. I couldn’t help but ogle her, she really knew how to carry herself, and all I could think of was MasterCARD. She sat down next to <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Didi</span></i> and waited for the service to start. She participated well during the bible study group, and when it was time for the main service to start, as the choir stood to go on stage, I watched her take her heels off, and re-position herself in the center of the aisle, as if she was getting ready for a race or a dance off. I wasn’t quite sure what she was about to do, but I watched her nonetheless. Then the praise and worship session started, and she began to dance. <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">She danced, and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced</span></i></b> to the point that I got tired just watching her. Many a times I watched her jump, move her head so profusely that her nicely styled segmented hair came apart. But it didn’t stop there. I watched her as she waved her hands in the air, and was moving around as if she was in a rock concert, and I couldn’t help but say to myself, <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“ I wonder what could have ever caused her to make such a public show of herself, especially since you know, she was so nicely put together”</span></i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:purple;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;color:purple;" >You weren’t there </span></span></b></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" ><span style="">the night He found me. How He picked me up, dusted me up, and put the pieces of my broken life together. How He washed me clean and put on new garments of praise on me. How He stilled the storms raging in my life, and smiled on me. No you weren’t there when he covered me with His glory. O how can you ever imagine the depths from which He rescued me from? For all this Lord I will bless YOUR name forever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:purple;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;color:purple;" >You don’t know the kind of joy that He brought into my life. </span></span></b></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" ><span style="">How He became my joy giver in the midst of my sorrow. How He delivered me from all of my troubles. You don’t know the unimaginable peace He gave me. You don’t know the countless breakthroughs and victories that he gave me. You don’t know where He has brought me from, or where He is taking me to. No! You don’t know why I have to give Him my very best, because even that is not even good enough. You can never fathom the price that He paid to set me free. You don’t fully realize that I have nothing worthy enough to render unto Him, and even if I were to dance from now to eternity, praise Him from now to eternity, worship Him from now to eternity; it still will not even cover “<i><span style="font-style: italic;">1/thirillionth”</span></i> of what He did for me. I will forever be indebted to Him. I will forever owe Him my life. For all this Lord I will bless Your Holy Name forever. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><b><span style=";color:purple;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;color:purple;" >So please don’t you dare judge me. </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">Don’t judge me when I go overly crazy over Him. When I act like a stalker where He is concerned. Don’t ask me why I scream and shout whenever I think of Him. Why I get so excited doing the things that pertains to Him. Why I am constantly filled with His thoughts. You see He is my super star, my pin up image, the Lover of my soul, the one I dream about. Don’t you dare judge me when I go </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="" lang="EN-GB">berserk</span></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:10pt;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > over Him, because you just don’t know! You just will never know. You will never be able to comprehend what He did for me. His place in my life can never be taken. And as long as I can walk, as long as I can talk, I will continue to bless His Holy name and shock out to Him. There is no situation the Lover of my soul has not delivered me from. He has been my anchor all these years, and my way maker. My mighty warrior in battle, the commander and chief of my armed forces. He alone is God all by Himself. He truly is awesome. He truly is Great. He truly is beyond comprehension. He truly is excellent. He truly is magnificent. He truly leaves me speechless and breathless when I remember all that he has done for me. My Lord and my God, what can I ever render unto you for all your wonderful benefits? All I can say Lord is thank YOU; Thank YOU, THANK YOU, for all that You’ve done for me. Lover of my soul, Thank You for choosing to lavish your Love on me. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32527120.post-7222622384607786982010-03-26T16:19:00.003-04:002010-03-26T16:30:04.488-04:00Re-Inspire Me<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >Dear lifeofastranger it’s been a little over ten weeks since your post on </span></span></i><a href="http://reached-the-top--reckons-manybe.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-year-i-have-waited-for-all-these.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >the fight of faith</span></span></i></b></span></a><i><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >. From what I recall, it was filled with words of proclamation, and things you were not just hoping but was speaking will happen in your life this 2010, and in mine if I believed. I was hoping to find out how far along the list you’ve seen, and if indeed, it has come to pass. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Wow!! Has it been ten weeks already since my first post of 2010, and twelve weeks since the beginning of the year? <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Dearest reader, I am so pleased to hear from you, and even more so now</span></i>. You see, as I wrote then, and still writing, this 2010 has and will not just be an ordinary sort of year for me. So much has happened in these past ten weeks, and I’m not quite sure where to start from. You see it all started like this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">I had heard that there was a sound of heavy rain (</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >1 Kings 18:41</span></span></i></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">), and so I went about preparing myself in readiness for the rain (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">just like Jotham did in</span></i> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" lang="EN-GB">2 Chronicles 27:6</span></span></i></b></strong><strong><b><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" lang="EN-GB">) by believing</span></span></b></strong></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">. I was told to write down what was coming as a result of this </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >heavy down pour</span></span></i></b></span><i><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" > – </span></span></i></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">HIS </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >promises</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> of </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >restoration</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">Joel 2:23-27</span></span></i></b>), </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >increase</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> and </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >promotion</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">Isaiah 60:1-3</span></span></i></b>), </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" ><span style="font-size:130%;">open</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">doors</span></span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span>and </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >hidden treasures</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">Isaiah 45:1b-3</span></span></i></b>), </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >undeniable</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">, </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >unstoppable</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">, </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" ><span style="font-size:130%;">unfathomable</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">miracles</span></span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">, a time of <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >rejoicing</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">, a time of </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >unending testimony</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">, a time of </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(214, 0, 147);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >uncommon breakthroughs</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> <i><span style="font-style: italic;">– </span></i>PLAINLY for all to see, and to run with it, because the appointed time to favour me ( that is you and I) was now (</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" >Psalm 102:13</span></span></i></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">). And so I ran as fast as I could only stopping to tell those I found on my way who wondered if I had gone quite raving bonkers, what the Lord said He was about to do in our lives. I believed His word, and so I spoke IT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Has it all happened as He said it would happen? Am I still <i><span style="font-style: italic;">ringing</span></i> forth with a dance? </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:blue;" >CERTAINLY</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">!! I am still jubilating, and learning all the necessary break-dancing skills. I am still declaring that God is a GOOD God, for if you knew how far He has brought me, and where He is taking me to, you too will praise God on my behalf. For it has all been like a dream, and He has filled my mouth with laughter, and my tongue with songs of Joy. And everyone who sees me can’t seem to stop speaking of the Great things God has done for me. King of Glory, Lord of lords, has indeed exceeded my expectations and has brought to pass His words concerning me. Words spoken in the secret, plans He had forged without my knowledge, revelations which He had given me a glimpse of before hand - He continues to remain faithful, and TRUE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Am I experiencing the reality of life? A resounding </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:blue;" >YES</span></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">! It’s all real, no more religiosity of life; or how else will one see the difference that God has made in my life. </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:purple;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:purple;" >For the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">Kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place> is not a matter of talk but of power</span></span></i></b></span><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" > –</span></span></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" > <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">1 Corinthians 4:20</span></i></b></span></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Don’t give up just yet. KEEP RUNNING with the VISION. I heard and therefore have I believed. I believed and therefore have I spoken it. SURELY YOU and I have a delightful inheritance (<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">Psalm 16:6</span></span></i></b>). He who never slumbers nor sleeps is more than ABLE to bring His words to pass in your life. I am a living testimony of that FACT and TRUTH. You will yet see with your very own eyes what the Lord, CREATOR of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE will do in your life this 2010. And He does not show</span></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> favouritism</span></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">(<b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">Acts 10:34</span></span></i></b>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">We are still <i><span style="font-style: italic;">marching </span></i>forward! We are still on course. </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" ><span style="font-size:130%;">We will not be unnerved because of the promised down pour we have yet to see. We have heard the sound of heavy rain, and we know without a shadow of a doubt that the clouds are definitely rising on our behalf</span>.</span></span></i></b></span></p>The Life of a Stranger called mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832744663777932132noreply@blogger.com5