State Of Mind With Jb: Recent Episodes
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It is in human nature to be afraid in life. Let’s always remember that God is never afraid as he is our master. Don’t be afraid just pray in every situation you find yourself in.
Graves are full of soul that never live up to their potential. We are all victims of procrastination when we underestimate ourselves, when we doubt ourselves.
God will bring people to play their purposes according to his will in your life. Sometimes you won't like how they play the purpose but it has to be that.
Building Self-respect is a form of taking care of yourself as you learn to respect yourself and give you time.
He always delivers on his promises. Luke 1 verse 37, " God is able to enable the unable." Learn to lean on his promises just like Abraham did.
It is okay to be alright to be an Overthinker, to be a Overthinker doesn't mean that you are crazy no you just think more than an average person.
They say let go of the past so that you can become the best version of yourself. I say that you need that to help you be your best version of yourself. I say the past shapes who are. I say that the past is the best tool that you have for you to be able to face the future. So hold to the past.
Keep hope and lose faith as God operates by faith, and he expects us to have faith. Remember Job, he went through a lot but God was him as he was David. Philippians 4 verse says,”Don’t worry about anything; instead pray about everything.” God want us to give him all our sorrows and troubles and have faith.
Finding who are is a difficult on its own yet try to find who you are at a young age is extremely difficult. You must find yourself to avoid getting lost in life.
And whenever you standing praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him or her, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. We inflict pain on each other and we fail to forgive each other yet wr want God to forgive us our sins.
We can learn a lot from a hen, most us just assume that a hen is meant to be eaten only. A hen has leadership skills.
The Lord is not too slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, He is patient with you, because he doesn't anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to away from sins. We must learn to wait for God. As nothing is too hard for God we must wait for his time as God's time is the best time.
The supporters of Isreal are far from the Middle East, and if what Hezbollah from Lebanon said was to happen that the whole region would get involved if Isreal continues it would mean that Isreal would be surrounded. The Western powers that are giving Isreal support will lose nothing if Isreal is surrounded and the fight gets serious as they will just keep selling Isreal war weapons as they did to Ukraine.
You will never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you. You will only be criticized by someone doing less.
Tobit and Sarah's prayers came at the moment where they were both go through tough times as Tobit was blind for a period of 4 years. On the other hand Sarah had been married 7 times at all the husbands passed away before the marriage could take off.
The book of Sirach chapter 19 verses 6-7 says that,"6. Avoid idle talk, and you will avoid a lot of trouble.7. Never repeat what you hear, and you will have no regrets." Let's be people who get our facts right before we just speak to avoid unnecessary fights with others.
We are in a era where the world choses followers Over Talent. You can be very talented but if you don't have the numbers on Social Platforms you won't be recognised easily by the world.
As a mother or as a woman bear in mind that leadership is like parenting, so God has trusted you with this position, a role of leadership.
Sometimes our selfish and arrogant actions push the special people away from our lives and all we will have is just a bowl of regret only. Never lose a person who thinks about you all the time. Never lose a person who tries to make your life better and happier. Never lose a person who always tells you the truth no matter how painful it is. Never lose a person who always wants to be with you. Caring for someone is easy, but to make someone care for you is difficult, so never the one who cares for you.
Jesus says let the children come to me, but the young people are into the earthly things which are no good for us.
Loneliness is addictive, once you see how peaceful it is you wouldn't want to deal with people anymore. You are just going to enjoy your own company.
He is God who cares about you. He is God who said that "I will be your strength."~ Philippines 4 verse 13. He is God who said that,"I have plans for."~ Jeremiah 29 verse 11. He is God who said that,"I will fight for you."~ Exodus 14 verse 14. He is God who said that," I will never leave you." ~ Hebrews 13 verse 5. He is God who said that," I hear your prayers."~ Jeremiah 23 verse 3. He is God who said that," I will give you peace."~ Numbers 26 verse 6. He is God who said that,"I will always love you." ~ 1 John 4 verse 16.
Laziness is a sin, nothing is for free in this world. Seasons and time have changed as the Bible says that we are going to eat from our sweat.
We have destroyed the land that the Lord has given us to protect. As the book of Jeremiah 2 verse 7 says that, " I brought them into a fertile land, to enjoy its harvests and its other good things. But instead they ruined my land; they defiled the country I had given to them." Our human activities have ruined the world that God made for us.
Music is Life, the person who I will be having on the 10/03/2023, if consistency was a person it would be him. He is has been in the music industry for a period over 10 years he started when he was in grade 7 at the age 13 years. He is Da Vynalist.
An apology is an admission of guilt. A good apology has three parts the 1st part is to say I am sorry, 2nd part to acknowledge that it was my fault, and 3rd part what can I do to make things right. The 1st part most of us can do it but issues arise from the 2nd and 3rd as it can prove to be difficult for people.
We need to be stubborn when we are following God. When Elijah was about to be taken up to Heaven, he told Elisha to stay behind more than four times but Elisha was divinely stubborn. Even prophets told Elisha that God is going to take his master but Elisha kept going with Elijah until the final moment of his life. This found in 2 Kings chapter 2 verses 1-9.
I like people who are regarded as being weird or the black sheeps as I have been with them so I understand that they are normal. I know that I have been labeled as weird myself in someone else's eyes as in life we don't have a blueprint of how life is be lived just because of I different from the rest I will take to be weird.
Human beings have the ability to make their own choices, it is up to you to choose if you to be in agreement with God and live in harmony with him. As the book of Habakkuk 2 verse 3 says, "For the revelation awaits appoi time; it speaks to the end and will not prove false. Though it lingers, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay." Your destiny is in God's hands and it will never be delayed it just has the right time for it to happen.
Divorce is scattered all over the place. In the generation that my grandmother was part marriage had a strong value as it was respected. Nowadays we see many divorces taking place in our everyday life. Marriage lost its value.
Betrayal is a painful reality to grasp and is never sought, desired or welcomed whether in Bible times or today. But betrayal happens to everyone. We have been betrayed or betrayed someone ourselves. Joseph and Juses are some of the the people who are betrayed in the Bible. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers, Potiphar's wife, and Pharaoh's chief cup holder. Joseph could have stayed bitter and wandered off track. But Joseph repeatedly forgive them and moved forward with his purpose. God granted him favor and an overwhelming degree of success in his life. While Juses knew in advance that he was going to be betrayed which led to his death.
We all have to be mentally strong in our busy lives. Write 3 things that you are grateful for each day.
We should learn that important people come and go, that's okay so don't hold on to people like they are precious treasures. Your diet isn't just what you eat, as the more you grow up you realize that your diet isn't what you eat. You have to let people down to be happy in life, so if you have to let someone down in order to be happy so be it because you are very important in your life. Never let rejection lead to self-rejection if you are rejected the first don't fear being rejected again remember that movie of Harry Potter was rejected several times before it was accepted. Own your responsibilities, own your future don't let your past control the present moment, what happened yesterday may not be your responsibility, but how you behave today is. Quality over quantity remember that life is about quality, not quantity as one quality experience gives you more than 100 drunken nights. Fun is yours so if you want to enjoy your life, don't subscribe to other people's definition of "fun" remember that your fun belongs to you, make sure you define it.
We are sinners and the Lord forgive us everyday, what is stopping you from forgive your brothers and sisters when they sin against you. In the book of Matthew 18 verses 21-35 in this book the was servant that owed a king million dollars, the servant begged the king not to sell and his wife, and children and everything he had. The king forgive the servant. Few seconds after the same servant was refusing to forgive a fellow servant that owed him a few dollars, as this shows that commit our sins in a split seconds after God has forgive us our sins.
God never said that he will try in the Bible but God does has best to give us life. So we should throw away the mentality of saying that we are going to try, but we just need to do our best each every day.
Obedience is the key that will open up your gifts that God gives you, his grace is the one that will keep you up.
This world is full of favoritism making other people feel special while we make other people feel like they are worth nothing. The Bible is in the book of James chapter 2 verses 1-12 that favoritism is forbidden as God loves us in same as his children, so where do we find favoritism among ourselves.
Intimacy is the closeness between two people. Intimacy requires effort and attention to make sure that the close relationship between two people is achieved. There are five types which are emotional Intimacy, psychical Intimacy, experiential Intimacy, Intellectual Intimacy and Spiritual Intimacy.
In life you are going to be tempted and you go through difficult times. In the book of James 1 verses 2-18, we are taught that trials test our faith to develop perseverance, and perseverance helps us to be mature and be complete.
Lies and Gossip are destroying the world as people are failing to focus on their own lives. People should focus on what they are doing instead diving into other people's lives.
Respect your parents in life no matter what in life. This is one the 10 Commandments that God said to the children of Israel. This is found in the book of Exodus chapter 20 verse 12 which says, "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God has giving you." Always remember that your parents have the keys to your blessings and it all depends on how you treat them.
Don't be surprised when people reject you as Juses was rejected by His. From John 6 from verses 22-70 we see that Juses was truly rejected by his in public. So do not be surprised if this happens to you in life as is a journey which requires us to be strong and believe in God better than anyone on this world.
Yes indeed charity begins at home what you are taught at home is what you will carry to the world. This is was what I got from a conversation with a friend of mine that what you are taught at is what you are going to carry out to the world.
Set your goal in life on having peace and organize around it as you will definitely get the peacefully life you are searching for.
When the call of holy living arrives will you be ready to answer it. Remember that holy living does not go with earthly living it requires a person to be near the standards set by God of loving one with a pure, of not judge one as that is the duty for God, as all of this is touched upon in the book of 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 13-25.
In life life even if you are doing the right you are bound to suffer a bit. Juses was doing good but he suffered during his.
Be thankful when God shows you dream of life. People only want to have dreams of good things and forget that good things take time. As Jacob had a dream at Bethel where God told him that he was going to giving him land for him and his descendants as said in Genesis 29 verses 10-22. Jacob just said that God is awesome.
It may feel safe to keep your feelings to yourself as you may feel that it is easy and safe to do so. But it is a unhealthy habit to do in this life.
The two Saul in the Bible shows us that a person can start of well with God and end very badly with God.
Jacob worked for a total of 14 years in the of love. Jacob wanted to work for seven years for Rachel the daughter of Laban. He worked for 7 years which felt like a few days for him because he loved Rachel, my question is will you find a person who is going to work for seven years for as a woman, and as a man will you find a lady who is going to wait for for 7 years in our current generation, the answer might be a big no. Jacob's Love Story is in the book of Genesis 29 verses 15-30.
Take the person who cares about you seriously as the person will always carry you in his or her heart each day. The beauty of someone caring for you is beautiful to level that words cannot express the truth beauty of it.
It is up to you if you want to to know God, but remember that God created you to have a relationship with you.
The Trip I took taught me that in life you will have uncomfortable times, but you just have to hanging on and keeping pushing in life better days will come. What will complain bring you as it will bring you nothing in life.
People will hate you even if you don't know them, they will want to see you down in life. Ask the Lord to be with you through everything in life. As the book of Psalm 35 verses 1 to 4 says, "1. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me. 2. Take up shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid. 3. Brandish spear and javelin against those who pursue me. Say to my soul," I am your salvation." 4. May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plot my ruin be turned back in dismay."People will fight against you for what reason suits themselves.
Losing anything is acceptable except yourself so love yourself and be true to yourself.
Why do we have divisions amongst when we all believe in God. As Paul tells us about the divisions between us in the book 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verses 10-17 as he appeals to us, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of us should agree with one another so that there are no divisions amongst ourselves and that we should be perfectly united in mind and thought. So it that we would have a better peaceful.
The high cost of living is the main topic around the world. We thought that we were going to out of the pandemic yet the unfortunate events of the world made our cost of living to sky rocket above the roof. Every essential good has increased so we paying the price of the sanctions.
How many of us can remain humble as we become more greater in life. The book of Sirach(GNT Bible) chapter 3 verse 17-28 asks for you to remain humble in your life.
There was a time where it took a community to raise a child. This system is slowly fading away as we are all became individuals and no longer a community.
Never be scared to vibe alone in life. You don't need to lean on a person as someone can just like a palm tree and when they leave you will fall down and have to suffer the consequences of starting over again.
No one can be like Abraham in this modern world. Abraham did everything that God told him to do. We see from the book Genesis 22 from verses 1-19 that he was ready to sacrifice his only son Isaac who he loved so much. Abraham did not refuse to sacrifice with his own son to God when he was about to do it at the place where God told to do sacrifice, the moment he was about to kill his son the word of God called onto Abraham saying don't hurt the boy we see that you obey God. Most people would refuse to do it even if God told them himself they would say I can't do it to my only child God.
The situation on ground is that the world is embracing wrong ideas. We are just getting lost and lost each day as we're enjoying embracing wrong things because we are scared of being different and standing on our own.
Let us try to be like Nehemiah and be concerned about the where we are coming from. Nehemiah was the son of Hachaliah and he was the cupbearer for king Artaxerxes. So Nehemiah asked about how things were back in Judah and Jerusalem he was told that things were bad the people who survived were in great distress, while the wall was down and the gates were burned with fire. Nehemiah felt sad and concerned about people that he prayed and fasted for the people. Remember he was working for the King so we could assume life was a bit soft for him, but the news brought a lot sorrows for him for a lot days that it was noticed by the king, and the allowed to leave.
Mental health is something that we should talk about on a daily basis because it continues on making people to commit suicide around the world.
God's promises are not like campaigning promises they will become a reality either in your life time or in the generation that follows. As God has plans for you for prosperity in life as it was said in the book of Jeremiah 29 verse 11.
South Africa is blessed with a lot of musicians and today I had a great conversation with Tukz Ancestral telling me about his journey through music.
Enter into a relationship when you know that you are ready to be in a relationship. Do not rush into relationships because peer pressure, being or because you are financially stable.
Behavior can open doors for you, and behavior can close the doors for you. The world does not only look at how good you are doing but world also looks at your behavior and attitude. Even if you are the best in what you do if you have a bad behavior plus a bad attitude only a few will work with you.
It is human nature to complain and assume that God is not there when bad things happen in our. He is always there as the book 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 says, "God is faithful;He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it." We expect to live in prosperity, happiness and wealth always because of God's presence in our lives.
Mashudu S. Mathebula, a gifted and strong-willed prophet of God who is led by the holy spirit shares her visions and talks in her book titled A Place Called Faith. This book is about her journey and relationship with God as she tells us that faith is important for us to have a the relationship with God.
- The great law- whatever you put into the universe will come back to you. 2. The law of creation - life does not happen by itself, you need to make it happen. 3. The law of humility - one must accept something in order to change it. 4. The law of truth - when you change yourself, your life follow suit and change too. 5. The law of responsibility - you must take responsibility for what is in your life. 6. The law of connection - the past, present and future are all connected. 7. The law of focus - you cannot think of two different things at the same time. 8. The law of giving and hospitality - your behaviour should match your thoughts and actions. 9. The law of here and now - one cannot be present if they are looking backward. 10. The law of change - history repeats itself until you learn from it and change your path. 11. The law of patience and reward - the most valuable rewards requires persistence. 12. The law of significance and inspiration - rewards are a direct result of the energy and effort you put in it.
As people we should learn to tell the truth, because if I lie about something, you will go and someone else will tell you the truth as it's. As John chapter 8 verse 32 says, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." I know you heard of the expression of "The Naked Truth" as it is a interesting expression as people like things that are naked. Yet people are failing out to the naked truth as it is because they are scared of hurting someone's feelings so they choose to take the easy route of the white lie. What is the point of hiding the truth because the truth always has a of coming out. People who love the truth are people after God's heart. These are people who do not constantly keep track of what they said to whom.
There are things that we do that waste our time with being aware. Not living your life, do things that you want and stop living life that other people want you to live. The fear of failure is a time waster as you will spend time thinking about what will happen if you fail it is life and failure is part of life. Lack of priorities is a time waster because your life will have no direction as you will be doing everything in life. Perfectionism is a time wasted because a person will spend time making sure that something is perfect, but life will never be perfect at all.
Good times move faster while we feel each moment of the tough times. We should respect our parents as will miss when they are gone.
God will always love us and he never leave us. As he showed us this by sending his only to die for our sins.
Men are struggling with talking about their issues so the world should help men to reduce the amount of abuse or men committing suicide. Please help us to be able unlock the ability to talk and know men also have feelings in life.
Gershom Ntimane is an award winning gospel artist who is from South Africa he writes his own music and teaches us about God.
We are all fighting our own battles in life. We should be aware that life has no short cuts it is just one way traffic in life.
Words can build up a person and words can also destroy a person. We must be careful when saying things because words are super powerful. The book of Titus 3 verse 2 says that, "Believers must not slander anyone and must avoid quarreling. Instead, they should be gentle and show true humility to everyone." Tell yourself that my tongue is not mine to do with as I please. As words can create a distance between you and someone, and words can bring you closer with a person. I should not use words randomly. Words are weapons of mass destruction as words can be like a spear it can be very sharp to destroy a person, or words can be a protective medicine.
We are bound to make friends this is a fact because this how we have to live life. Some friends care and some friends act to care if you are only near the area they want you to be.
God doesn't always gave us treasure that we must dig from the ground some time the precious treasure is near us. As the book Matthew 6 verse 21, "Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be." Everything that glitters is not gold. Sometimes the most precious treasures are not buried deep under the ground, but can be found near the surface. Do not go far just look at your companion, your siblings, your parents and your children those are the Lord's special gifts to you. God does not want you to struggle alone in life. That's why God gave you your loved ones.
Family gathering are becoming rare in our as individualism is slowly replacing our traditional family gatherings.
The Lord is our first aid he will always heal us when stumble upon our sins in our lives. As the book Psalm 103 verse 12 says, " He removed our sins far from us as the east is from the west."We are sinners as we do it every day because God still loves us as he is our first aid kit.
Many of the youth are under pressure, sadly not to achieve but to look like they are achieving. Social Media is causing pressure for the youth as the youth want to be like they role models who they see on the different platforms of social media. We end being in Debts because the social media lifestyle is expensive and we can't afford it.
How can we stay in the same step with the Lord if we all have a busy day after day. The earthly lifestyle is a busy life. As I heard a song which says that, "You said that we should pray you the Lord and leave the things of earth, it is alright if that is the what you want Lord." As the book of Proverbs 4 verses 11-12 says the following, "I WILL TEACH YOU WISDOM'S WAYS AND LEAD YOU IN STRAIGHT PATHS. WHEN YOU TALK, YOU WON'T BE HELD BACK; WHEN YOU RUN, YOU WON'T STUMBLE." The big question is how do keep pace with the rhythm of the Lord if we all have a close connection to the activities of earth with our daily super busy schedules. The are three ways you can try to keep pace with the Lord, 1) Make time for the Word (2) Make time for prayer (3) Make the right kind of friends.
You don't need a big house house or a fancy car to show that you are doing well in life, because there are small things that show you that you are doing well in life. If you have a roof over your head each day you doing well in life because a lot of people would be glad to have a roof over their heads each day. If you ate today it shows that you are doing well in life, because time and time again the World Food Program keeps on saying that people will go hungry in different parts so if you ate today you are doing well.
Living Humble is something that is definitely difficult for us as human beings on earth. God will give us a gift instead of thanking God we will go out and brag to the world and forget to live humble. The book of Ecclesiastes 5 verse 19 says that, "19. It is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life - this indeed a gift from God." There was King Hezekiah who got a second chance from God. When the prophet Isaiah gave him the bad news that he would soon die (Isaiah 38), he began to begging God for mercy. God who is always good to us heard his cry for help. Right there, the king got a handful of extra life, a full 15 years. Instead of allowing God's mercy to make him humble, he later bragged about his wealth and power to a foreign delegation. He even took them on a sight seeing tour, showing off his weapons and his palace to make them understand just how large and glorious his kingdom was. King Hezekiah's arrogant behavior upset the Lord to the extent that He announced that his rule would come to an end, and that his sons would not rule in his place. Then followed Hezekiah's shocking reaction, "As long as it does not happen in my lifetime." Talk about selfishness, which was displayed by King Hezekiah. Let others suffer as long as I am exclude, instead of being humble. Let's try to avoid the route of arrogance which King took, as we should make room for others, for the generation to follow. Do not keep the best part for yourself. Do not live arrogantly. Everything you have is a gift of grace from the hand of the living God.
Be educated rather than be entertained. People like being entertained for example if a billionaire decides to post a video himself or herself driving a car like Bugatti the person will get more than a million views, but if the same person decides to post a video teaching people on how to become successful as the is the video will only receive less than a million views. This is because people like being entertained and don't want to be educated about how life operates. Each person who is successful was just like you with nothing at the start they to invest in themselves in order to be able to get things that will entertain them in the future.
There are reasons which we pray each day and here are some of the reasons: 1. Prayer protects us in everything we do. 2. Prayer changes things in our lives. 3. Prayer keeps you in the will of God. 4. Prayer draws closer to God. 5. Prayer makes you happy. 6. Prayer gives you hope. 7. Prayer makes you less selfish. 8. Prayer heals you from all pain which you keep arriving in your life. 9. Prayer makes you stronger spiritually. 10. Prayer gives us peace. As you pray please ask for peace to be distributed in all parts of the world.
Engagement with the world will open up doors. I am a person who is usually scared of engaging with other people as this has been my most difficult thing to do in my life. As I have seen that the difference between me and the person who was popular in school was just that other person had mastered the art of engaging with other people and me on the other hand I had mastered the art of lock myself from the world. So people like me who face challenges in engaging in other people just know that you are closing the doors which would take you place by being scared of engagement with the world.
People like condemn someone when they have done something wrong but we should ask ourselves does Juses condemn us as we sin each other. We should always remember the words that were said in Matthew 5 verse 16,"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven."
Burn out is real as it will take you to the darkest place that you have never been. Burn Out is able to ruin everything you have worked for years, we always remember that we are humans and not machines so we must be in that we should take time outs. Take care of yourself because burn out is a natural thing that can take weeks or months even years for a person to recover from.
Do we still believe in marriages today or we just go with the flow of love. The book of Hebrews 13 verse 4 says, "Marriage should be honored by all the, and the marriage bed kept pure." The reality on the ground now is the opposite of what the Bible tells which leaves us to be asked do we read the Bible to understand or we only read the Bible when we need God's help in tough times. As too many relationships between men and women are purely physical, they never get to each other's hearts.
How our minds have been wired to believe that things in life will happen in a certain way. Like our minds are wired to believe that from high school we jump straight into university from there we get jobs and we get married to live happily ever after. Yet we start to experience the reality on the ground when we start to live not through the false perceptions which were placed before us.
How often do we year people say,"If I listened I would have been in a better place now."Listening is for free but we fail to listen most of the time because we think we know better.
We sweat for everything we that we want in life. Our Lord is always there for us. As the book of Psalm 30 verses 5-12 says the following, "5. His anger lasts only a moment, his goodness for a lifetime. Tears may flow in the night, but joy comes in the morning. 6. I felt secure and said to myself," I will never be defeated." 7. You were good to me, Lord; you protected me like a mountain fortress. But then you hid yourself from me, and I was afraid. 8. I called you, Lord;I begged for your help: 9."What will you gain from my death? What profit from my going to grave? Are dead people able to praise you? Can they proclaim your unfailing goodness? 10. Hear me, Lord, and be merciful! Help me, Lord!" 11. You have changed my sadness into a joyful dance;you have taken away my sorrow and surrounded me with joy. 12. So I will not be silent; I will sing praise to you. Lord, you are my God; I will give you thanks forever."
We should carry a never die spirit like foreigners who are called immigrants. I don't call them immigrants because they are foreigners also and governments around the world fear them because they know that they are never shy to work.
"In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." ~Matthew 7 verse 12. Don't gossip about others if you don't want them to gossip about you.
We are not professionals when we serve God. As the book of 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 9-10, "You are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do His work and speak out for Him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference He made for you."
When I look back on my life, I see pain, mistakes and headaches. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons and pride in myself. Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see. Life is a mirror and you see in it the reflection of inner self.
Everything on earth loses value as time goes by. As the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 16 says that, "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." All the things in our houses lose value the minute we exit the store we bought the product. Just like a car the minute I leave the dealership the car loses value. Even our bodies are wasting away as we grow and we are going to be seen as less consumer value to the society around us. This does not apply to God. The Bible teaches us that exact opposite happens in His presence. Day by day we grow substantially in wisdom and spiritual knowledge.
Peer pressure goes beyond the school premises. Peer pressure is found in all stages of life as we are all going through the stage of peer pressure but we have to swim through it. Be strong and move through this stigma of peer pressure.
"Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife that God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil.", Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 9. God looks at how use your borrowed time on earth. God gives us 24 hours, where we should learn to be full of hope and enjoy life. As the book of Matthew 11 verse 28 says that," Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." We are living our lives like we are on a bullet train, as we are chasing for more earthly possessions. We worry today about the problems and expenses of tomorrow. But listen to this: God measures out of grace only" one day at a time " Matthew 6 verse 11.
Let's be real, let's be honest. We should learn to be real at a young age because the world is full of fake people.
"May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed." Psalm 20 verse 4. It is once again that time of the year when New Year's resolutions are made at every turn, the big and small resolutions may all of them be successful.
Listen to the TheLasti.Offical015 as he shares with me his journey in the music industry.
We are all unique and our differences between us are also different as we come from different unique backgrounds. I wish all families would be happy this Christmas because not everyone is happy with going home.
We can do not control our lives but God is the only one in control. As the book of Proverbs chapter 19 verse 21 says that, " You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail." Life is not all about you! I am talking about your faith. Remember that God does not work for you but you are serving God. So even if you pray every day that does not give God instructions concerning what He ought to do for you and others. Many people walk around sulking about God, apparently he did not help them when He was supposed to. Well, that happens because many of us have the idea in our heads that the Lord really owes us something. We serve Him, and therefore He has to do something for us in return. Listen, the only reason why we serve God is because He is God. He is mercifully redeemed us when we were lost. He loved us while we were still His enemies. He made us His own while we were so far away from Him. That's why we serve Him. It's all about Him. We serve Him on His terms. As the book of Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 says, "Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us." God is not in our service; He does not work for us. We do not determine the conditions of the relationship. We should get to know God and serve Him as He reveals Himself to us in the Bible. The Lord is our oxygen, our breath, our entire lives. The Lord is with us in every storm. He walks with us through every dark valley and every straight road. He remains at our side until well past the finishing post.
We should learn to be silent as we could avoid to get into trouble,but we are human beings we don't like to be silent and we end up in trouble. Be silent if your words could damage a friendship, a lot of friendships get damaged by words because people just say words without thinking how it will affect the next person. If you think those words that you want to say were going to be bad if you were the one receiving them then remain silent. A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words, silence is always beautiful as it will help you to avoid getting yourself into trouble.
Everything you requires you to be patient enough. Even when you pray you must have patience because what you pray for won't happen overnight. Here is what James chapter 5 verses 7-20 say about patience and prayer,"7. Be patient, then, my friends, until the Lord comes. See how patient farmers are as they wait for their land to produce precious crops. They wait patiently for the autumn and spring rains. 8. You also must be patient. Keep your hopes high, for the day of the Lord's coming is near. 9. Do not complain against one another, my friends, so that God will not judge you. The Judge is near, ready to appear. 10. My friends, remember the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Take them as examples of patient endurance under suffering. 11. We call them happy because they endured. You have heard of Job's patience, and you know how the Lord provided for him in the end. For the Lord is full of mercy and compassion. 12. Above all, my friends, do not use an oath when you make a promise. Do not swear by the heaven or by earth or by anything else. Say only "Yes" when you mean yes, and "No" when you mean no, and then you will not come under God's judgment. 13. Are any among you in trouble? They should pray. Are any among you happy? They should sing praises. 14. Are any among you sick? They should send for the church elders, who will pray for them and rub olive oil on them in the name of the Lord. 15. This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and sins they have committed will be forgiven. 16. So then, confess your sins to one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect. 17. Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years. 18. Once again he prayed, and the sky poured out its rain and the earth produced its crops. 19. My friends, if any of you wander away from the truth and another one brings you back again, 20. remember this: whoever turns a Sinner back from the wrong way will save that sinner's soul from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins."
We all want to be loved by our parents but sometimes we don't get the love we want from our parents. If you have parents who love and support please know that you are lucky as children outside do not have such a relationship with their parents.
There is a saying stating, "put your money where your mouth is," and there is another saying, "Actions speak loud than words." Even when it comes to faith if you can't prove your faith by your actions it is pointless to tell people that you have faith. The book of James chapter 2 verses 14-26 says the following about faith and actions, "14. My friends, what is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you? 15. Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to eat. 16. What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!" - if you don't give them the necessities of life? 17. So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions, then it is dead. 18. But someone will say, "One person has faith, another has actions." My answer is, "Show me how anyone can have faith without actions. I will show you my faith by my actions." 19. Do you believe that there is only one God? Good! The demons also believe - and tremble with fear. 20. You fool! Do you want to be shown that faith without actions is useless? 21. How was our ancestor Abraham put right with God? It was through his actions, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar. 22. Can't you see? His faith and his actions worked together; his faith made perfect through his actions. 23. And the scripture came true that said, "Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous." And so Abraham was called the God's friend. 24. You see, then, that faith it is by our actions that we are put right with God, and not by our faith alone. 25. It was the same with the prostitute Rahab. She was put right with God through her actions, by welcoming the Israelite spies and helping them to escape by a different road. 26. So then, as the body without the spirit is dead, also faith without actions is dead."
Self-Love is a language that can be used to help you understand yourself. Most languages are used for communication between people around, but self-love language is a language that a person uses to communicate self-love to him or herself. You can do things like cleaning the place where you stay and make it always clean. You can cook food for yourself to enjoy. Self-Love is important for to understand your worthy in life.
For everything we do we have responsibilities, even when it comes being a believer you have responsibleties. The minute people start to learn that you are a believer they will expect you to to leave in certain manner, do not please but follow the responsibilities in the book 1 Timothy chapter 5 verses 1-25.
Let's be honest with one another dreams do not pay the bills but a workaholic lifestyle does. What is a workaholic lifestyle is a life that where a person who is not shy to work for everything he or she has and what the person still wants to have in life. The formula for a workaholic life is sleep, conquer and repeat until you have what in life and you even get more than you expected to have. Not all of us are fans of this lifestyle as some of think that if we have dreams we have made it in life, but here is some sad truth all of us have dreams but they will remain forever remain dreams if you don't have workaholic lifestyle in your system. Most of people want to look fancy and have a big mansion and big brand cars parking, everything is possible in life you just have to be ready to get your hands dirty by getting your hands dirty, I mean you must ready to work for everything you want to have in life.
We are human beings we have the spirit and human which are opposing each other in every way possible. Let's see what the book of Galatians chapter 5 verses 16-26 have to say about the spirit and human. Galatians 5 says, "16. What I say is this : let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. 17. For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do. 18. If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the Law. 19. What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy, and indecent actions; 20. in worship of Idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups; 21. they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have done before: those who who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God. 22. But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness faithfulness, 23. humility, and self-control. There is no law against such things as these. 24. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires. 25. The Spirit has given us life; he must control our lives. 26. We must not be proud or irritate one another or be jealous of one another. "
Sometimes in life you will ask yourself who am I and where am I going because my life is not making sense. You are you for a reason and getting lost in life is not a strang thing to go through. You must dig deeper into your self and search for who you are because what you are looking for you won't be able to find it outside. You are unique so you dig out that unique mineral from deep inside you.
Everything that God gives us requires us to have as God's promise is received through faith. As this is also said in the book of Romans 4 verses 13-25, "13. When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God. 14. For if what God promises is to be given to those who obey, then faith means nothing and God's promise is worthless. 15. The law brings down God's anger; but where is no law, there is no disobeying of the law. 16. And so the promise was based on faith, in order that the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to all of Abraham's descendants - not just to those who obey the law, but also to those believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all; 17. as the scripture says, "I have made you father of many nations." So the the promise is good in the sight of God, in whom Abraham believed - the God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist. 18. Abraham believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping, and so became "the father of many nations."Just as the scripture says," Your descendants will be as many as the stars."19. He was then almost hundred years old; but his faith did not weaken when he thought of his body, which was already practically dead, or of the fact that Sarah could not have children. 20. His faith did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God. 21. He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised. 22. That is why Abraham, through faith, "was accepted as righteous by God."23. The words"he was accepted as righteous" were not written for him alone. 24. They were written for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death. 25. Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with."
Unequal Love for a child is love which is distributed unevenly at home. It will affect a lot of aspects of the child's life such as a low self estimate. The child will most likely be depressed most of the time. We should be encouraged to take ourselves to talk about this issues from home for us to be able to be happy at home. Sorry for the poor flow of the episode it was network problems.
Everything that God gives us has a benefits which will help us to grow even wisdom has benefits. The book of Proverbs 2 says that wisdom has the benefit of understanding so if you have wisdom you have the power to understand.
Who cares if you try again so never be shy to try again. You made a plan and it failed, who cares, try again. Got in a relationship and it failed, who cares, try again. Lost money trying something new, who cares, try again. Fell off your gym routine, who cares, try again. Gained back the weight you lost, try again. The moral of the story in life is try again because the best is yet to come.
When we face challenges this when we need God the most as challenges never end. We should always remember that God is always there in good times and bad times. When you need God look at Psalm 91,"1. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in shadow of the Almighty. 2. I will say of the Lord," He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."3. Surely he will save from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. 4. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6. nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 9. If you make the Most High your dwelling - even the Lord who is my refuge - 10. then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12. they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 13. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 14."Because he loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges. 15. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him. 16. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."
Your story should be you vs you because it is all about you in the world. Learn to compete with yourself and let the world compare you with other people for you to grow in this world.
The world can reject you and sometimes the world won't recognize you but the Lord will never call you an outcast in his book. An outcast is a person who has been rejected by their society, family, or at a school. As I have said before the world is very judgemental and the world is not afraid to take the duties of the Lord of judging others, this is why the world is not afraid to make you feel like a outcast. Sometimes people are made to feel like outcasts when they lose one or both of their parents. Instead of your relative take care of you it is them you that fuels the world to see you as an outcast as if you chose to lose one or both of your parents. The relatives come to the funeral and say we will take of the children, but they become difficult for you as their make your life a living hell. Sometimes when you are different from the rest of the people the world will sometimes reject to accept and the world will make feel alone. The book of Romans chapter 8 verses 31-39 comforts the people who feel like a outcast. The book says, "31. In view of all this, what we say? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32. Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son - will he not also freely give us all things? 33. Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty! 34. Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised of life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us! 35. Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardships or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? 36. As the scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered." 37. No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! 38. For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future, 39. neither the world above nor the world below - there is nothing in creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord."
It is easy to find a beautiful or handsome person to love but it is very difficult to find a person who has a beautiful heart and willing to live in a hard life with you. There are a lot beautiful ladies and handsome guys out there but are only a few in hundred who have a beautiful heart. Why a beautiful heart because love is to understand that when you are in love with someone it is like that person has given you their heart for to take of it and always know that when you do something it will always affect the other person because being in means that you are connected to the person who are in love with. So it becomes a perfect picture when you find a person who has a beautiful heart because not everyone has a beautiful heart in this world when it comes to love. A person who has a beautiful heart will always have you in their mind, the person will always want make sure that everything is going well in your life each day. The fun thing is that most of the time people with beautiful hearts are single, that is we find people crying with their relationships saying that love is a pandemic on its own, love is not a pandemic but love needs to be natured, built from scratch and love needs patience. When you are in love it is like you are planting a tree plant as you will make sure that you water the plant with the right amount of water each day and you will be patient as the plant grows.
We face situations where we are left wounded and weak in life. We question if God can see us and what we are going through in life, I think that God sees us but we mi remember that life on earth is moving faster nowadays and God's will needs you to be patient. Let's see what the book of Psalm chapter 18 verses 1-29 is saying when you are weak and how does it comfort you. Psalm 18 verses 1-29 says, "1. How do I love you, Lord! You are my defender. 2. The Lord is my protector; he is my strong fortress. My God is my protection, and with him I am safe. He protects me like a shield; he defends me and keeps me safe. 3. I call to the Lord, and he saves me from my enemies. Praise the Lord. 4. The danger of death was all around me, the waves of destruction rolled over me. 5. The danger of death was all around me, and the grave yard set its trap for me. 6. In my trouble I called to the Lord; I called to my God for help. In his temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help. 7. Then the earth trembled and shook; the foundations of the mountains rocked and quivered, because God was angry. 8. Smoke poured out of nostrils, a consuming flame and burning coals from his mouth. 9. He tore the sky open and came down with a dark cloud under his feet. 10. He flew swiftly on his winged creature, he traveled on the wings of the wind. 11. He covered himself with darkness; thick clouds, full of water, surrounded him. 12. Hailstones and flashes of fire came from the lightning before him and broke through the dark clouds. 13. Then the Lord thundered from the sky; and the voice of the Most High was heard. 14. He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies; with flashes of lightning sent them running. 15. The floor of the ocean was laid bare, the foundations of the earth were uncovered, when you rebuked your enemies, Lord, and roared at them in anger. 16. The Lord reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me out of the deep waters. 17. He rescued me from my powerful enemies and from all those who hate me - they were too strong for me. 18. When I was in trouble, they attacked me, but the Lord protected me. 19. He helped me out of danger; he saved me because he was pleased with me. 20. The Lord rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent. 21. I have obeyed the law of the Lord; I have not turned away from my God. 22. I observed all his laws; I have not disobeyed his commands. 23. He knows that I am faultless, that I have kept myself from doing wrong. 24. And so he rewards me because I do what is right, because he knows that I am innocent. 25. O Lord, you are faithful to those who are faithful to you; completely good to those who are perfect. 26. You are pure to those who are pure, but hostile to who are wicked. 27. You save those who are humble, but you humble to those who are proud. 28. O Lord, you give me light; you dispel my darkness. 29. You give me strength to attack my enemies and power to overcome their defenses. " Just like King David we can all call for help from God because God will hear us and he will respond by coming to our aid.
In all corners of the world life is becoming more expensive. The cost of living is seriously becoming too expensive and difficult. I sometimes wish I could have lived in the times that my parents were growing up because back than the cost of living was cheaper to be honest because I really use to enjoy when I was told that life was cheaper and jobs were at a larger pool available, because if we look at how things are currently going life will forever be expansive. As a child you will never understand when your parents are saying use things wisely because things are super expensive, I fell in love with what I used to be told that money is picked from trees because I can see that life is expensive and it will forever be expensive.
God is not judgemental but God is love. It is people who will judge you not the Lord, for example if I use to steal money from the banks and from people if I change and to the place of worship they will judge instead of welcoming me as the God would have done so. Even if I go for five years without stealing they still not believe that I have changed. If God wants you to be part of people who worship God he will come to you directly and you will but they will judge. Let us look at the book Acts chapter 9 verses 1-31, "1. In the meantime Saul kept up his violent threats of murder against the follower of the Lord. He went to the High Priest 2. and asked for letters of introduction to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he should find there any followers of the Way of the Lord, he would be able to arrest them, both m and women, and bring them back to Jerusalem. 3. As Saul was coming near the city of Damascus, suddenly a light from the sky flashed around him. 4. He fell to the ground and heard a voice sayin to him, "Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?" 5. "Who are you, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you persecute," the voice said. 6."But get up and go into the city, where you will be told what you must do." 7. The men who were traveling with Saul had stopped, not saying a word; they heard the voice but could not see anyone. 8. Saul got up from the ground and opened his eyes, but could not see a thing. So they took him by hand and led him into Damascus. 9. For three days he was not able to see, and during the that time he did not eat or drink anything. 10. There was a believer in Damascus named Ananias. He had a vision, in which the Lord said to him, "Ananias!" "Here I am, Lord," he answered. 11. The Lord said to him, "Get ready and go to Straight Street, and at the house of Judas ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying, 12. and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come in and place his hands on him so that he might see again." 13. Ananias answered, "Lord, many people have told me about this man and about all the terrible things he has done to your people in Jerusalem. 14. And he has come to Damascus with authority from the chief priests to arrest all worship you." 15. The Lord said to him, "Go because I have chosen him to serve me, to make my name known to Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel. 16. And I myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake." 17. So Ananias went, entered the house where Saul was, and placed his hands on him."Brother Saul," he said, "the Lord sent me - Jesus himself, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here. He sent me so that you might see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit." 18. At once something like fish scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he was able to see again. He stood up and was baptismed; 19. and after he had eaten, his strength came back. Saul stayed for a few days with the believers in Damascus. 20. He went straight to the synagogues and began to preach that Jesus was the Son of God. 21. All who heard were amazed and asked, "Isn't he the one who in Jerusalem was killing those who worship Jesus? And didn't come here for the very purpose of arresting those people and taking them back to the chief priests.?" 22. But Saul's preaching became even more powerful, and his proofs that Jesus the Messiah were so convincing that the Jews who lived in Damascus could not answer. 23. After many days had gone by, the Jews met together and made plans to kill Saul, 24. but he was told of their plans. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him. 25. But one night Saul's followers took him and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket." Please continue listening to the episode as I ran out of the word count.
People are always falling from success due to their own actions. We all want to climbe the ladder of or to have made it in life but staying there is not easy. I ask myself why do people fall from the top after they worked so hard to reach the top as it does not make sense how people fail to stay at top and being successful. There are two things that I have noticed causes the downfall for most people and they things are too much pride and ego. I am not saying that you must have pride in your own success but too much pride will be your downfall from the top. Too much pride can cost you everything because a person with too much pride cannot learn anything. A proud person is always looking down on things and other people, and it is obvious that as long as you are looking down you can't see what's above you and the only thing that will happen is to fall from the top. Pride is a spiritual cancer, it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment and even common sense. Too much pride always invites ego, ego will you think that everything is about you and no one likes to work with such a person with a big ego and is driven by too much pride. People with too much pride and a big ego always make others feel like they are worth nothing in because he or she is doing well in their life. Believe me if a lot of people are crying about you just know that your days are number of being at the top because people's tears always make a painful ending for the person they are crying about. The key to staying on the is to be humble and show humanity towards other people because in life we are all connected you will need help from others in life.
We need courage to do everything in life. Without courage we cannot do anything as I said before we face a lot crisis in our everyday lives if you lack courage it is also a crisis because things are going to be difficult. Just like Moses did not have courage when God told him that he must go to Egypt and rescue the children of Israel from Phora. Even Jeremiah did not have courage when God sent him to speak to people who were older than him as he thought that they were not going to listen to him because he was still a child. God gave Moses and Jeremiah the courage after he spoke to them. After Moses passed away courage was highly needed because the children of Israel were in disbelief that Moses was no more. Let us look at the book of Joshua 1 as God gave Joshua courage to take over from Moses, Joshua 1, "1. After the death of the Lord's servant Moses, the Lord spoke to Moses's helper, Joshua son of Nun. 2. He said,"My servant Moses is dead. Get ready now, you and all the people of Israel, and cross the Jordan River into the land that I am giving them. 3. As I told Moses, I have given you and all my people the entire land that you will be marching over. 4. Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, though the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. 5. Joshua, no one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will always be with you;I will never abandon you. 6. Be determined and confident, for you will be the leader of these people as they occupy this land which I promised their ancestors. 7. Just be determined, be confident; and make sure that you obey the whole Law that my servant Moses gave you. Do not neglect any part of it and you will succeed wherever you go. 8. Be sure that the book of the Law is always read in your worship. Study it day and night, and make sure that you obey everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9. Remember that I have commanded you to be determined and confident! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for I, the Lord your God, am with you wherever you go. " 10. Then Joshua ordered the leaders to 11. go through the camp and say to the people,"Get some food ready, because in three days you are going to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land that your God is giving you." 12. Joshua said to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, 13. "Remember how the Lord's servant Moses told you that the Lord your God would give you this land on the east of the Jordan as your home. 14. Your wives, your children, and your livestock stay here, but your soldiers, armed for battle, will cross over ahead of the other Israelites in order to help them 15. until they have occupied the land west of the Jordan that the Lord has given them. When he has given safety to all the tribes of Israel, then you may come back and settle here in your own land east of the Jordan, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you." 16. They answered Joshua,"We will do everything you have told us and will go anywhere you send us. 17. We will obey you, just as we always obeyed Moses, and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses! 18. Whoever questions your authority or disobeys any of your orders will be put to death. Be determined and confident."
We are human beings and we are going through different things in life sometimes everything seems to be be perfect but sometimes we face our crisis and we should not forget God. It can be a external crisis or it can be a internal crisis tell God about your crisis. The book of Psalm 121 trys to inspire people when they are facing a crisis. Psalm 121,"1. I look to the mountains;where my help will come from? 2. My help will come from the Lord, who made the heaven and earth. 3. He will not let you fall, your protector is always awake. 4. The protector of Israel never dozes or sleeps. 5. The Lord will guard you; he is by your side to protect you. 6. The sun will not hurt you during the day, nor the moon during the night. 7. The Lord will protect you from all danger, he will keep you safe. 8. He will protect you as you come and go, now and forever." Talk to him about everything that is happening in your life weather good or bad tell him.
Life is made up of common things and rare things where life is dominated with common things which it difficult for us to see the rare elements of life. There are things that are found everywhere which makes easy for us to fail to see rare things in life. From my point of view these are the rare elements of life the truth, trust, respect, true love, true friends, patience and happiness in intelligent people. The truth is a rare element because a lot of people are happy with telling you lies instead of the truth. The second rare element of life is trust, trust is rare in this world, you will meet a lot of people in the world but you will only trust a few out of the every 100 of people you meet. The 3rd rare element is respect, respect is earned not just given out for free. The 4th rare elements of life is true love, we all want to have someone who is go to love us for who we are,but remember not everyone who you fall in love with is going to give you true love. The 5th rare element of life is true friends, true friends are like diamonds, precious and rare to find, while false friends are like leaves, found everywhere. The 6th rare element of life is patience, people just often think that life moves fastly but good things take time so you must have patience with life. The last rare elementof life is happiness in intelligent people, intelligent people are always busy and they forget that they have live life to the full.
Why is it hard to appreciate what a person has done in his or her life when he or she is still alive? Life is surrounded by people who judge us day in and day out. They will talk about us when we succeed and laugh when we fail. They can make us or break us. But the secret is to live a humble life that pleases the Lord not people. For he will exalt you in his perfect timing. Most of the time a person gets highly appropriate when they pass on in life. When a person is still alive he or she gets little appreciation if he or she is lucky enough because a lot of people get zero appreciation for what they are doing when they are still alive. Instead of getting appreciation you will get people compete with you for whatever reason that makes them happy to compete with you.
We all need guidance at some point in our lives as we get lost in life. We sometimes need rules in life as we face huge challenges as we lose hope in ourselves. The Bible should become our best friend as the Bible has everything we need to survive in life for us to live in the best way possible in our lives. The Bible offers guidance in the book of Romans Chapter 12 from the beginning to the last verse which verse 21. Let's go through the guidance of the Bible in the book of Romans chapter 12,"1. So then, my friends, because of God's greet mercy to us I appeal to you : Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer. 2. Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God - what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect. 3. And because of God's gracious gift to me I say to every one of you : Do not think of yourself more highly than you should. Instead, be modest in your thinking, and judge yourself according to the amount of faith God has given you. 4. We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions. 5. In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are joined to each other as different parts of one body. 6. So we are our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to speak God's message, we should do it according to the faith that we have. 7. If it is to serve, we should serve, if it is to teach, we should teach. 8. If it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully. 9. Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good. 10. Love one another warmly as Christians, and be eager to show respect for one another. 11. Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion. 12. Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times. 13. Share your belongings with your needy fellow Christians, and open your homes to strangers. 14. Ask God to bless those who persecute you - yes ask him to bless them, not curse. 15. Be happy with those who are happy, weep with those who weep. 16. Have the same concern for everyone. Do not be proud, but accept humble duties. Do not think of yourselves as wise. 17. If someone has done you wrong, do not repay him with a wrong. Try to do what every one considers to be good. 18. Do everything possible on your part to live in peace with everybody. 19. Never take revenge, my friends, but instead let God's anger do it. For the scripture says, "I will take revenge, I will pay back, says the Lord." 20. Instead, as the scripture says, "if your enemies are hungry, feed them, if they are thirsty, give them a drink, for by doing this you will make them burn with shame." 21. Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good. "
Our efforts will determine how long it will take take for each of us to reach our destinies in life. Some people live their dreams while others let destiny pass they by, telling me that there is no hope in life. We should always remember that nothing stays the same in life it all depends on the amount of effort you are willing to put in to reach your destiny in life. All of us are moving towards our destinies which is driven by our efforts to move forward in life. Sometimes life moves faster for some people to reach their destinies at a young age while life moves slowly for other people where they sometimes feel like giving up but at the end they will reach their destinies if they keep on going in life. Someone may take a lot of years in university just to find a job the minute after the person graduates, while someone may graduate early in university just to find a job after a few years. Someone may get married at a young age in their 20s and find a true soul mate while it may take me a long time to get a true soul mate in life. Life is a journey where you do not have to rush the events of life and allow life to unfold itself to you.
Why do you have to swim in depression alone when you know that the Lord said that I will never abandon you, I will never leave you. We all go through the route of being depressed in life. Depress means that you are at a state of unhappiness which the world is currently going through at the moment. I would like to invite you to open the book of Psalm 27 and comfort your depression. Psalm 27, 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation, I will fear no one. The Lord protects me from all danger, I will never be afraid. 2. When evil people attack me and try to kill me, they will stumble and fall. 3. Even if a whole army surrounds me, I will not be afraid even if enemies attack me, I will still trust God. 4. I have asked the Lord for one thing; one thing only do I want : to live in the Lord's house all my life, to marvel there at his goodness, and to ask for his guidance. 5. In times of trouble he will shelter me; he will keep me safe in his Temple and make me secure on a high rock. 6. So I will triumph over my enemies around me. With shouts of joy I will offer sacrifices in his Temple ; I will sing, I will praise the Lord. 7. Hear me Lord, when I call you! Be merciful and answer me! 8. When you said, "Come worship me," I answered, "I will come, Lord." 9. Don't hide yourself from me! Don't be angry with me; don't turn your servant away. You have been my help; don't leave me, don't abandon me, O God, my savior. 10. My father and mother may abandon me, but the Lord will take care of me. 11. Teach me, Lord, what you want me to do, and lead me along a safe path, because I have many enemies. 12. Don't abandon me to my enemies, who attack me with lies and threats. 13. I know that I will live to see the Lord's goodness in this present life. 14. Trust in the Lord, do not despair. Trust in the Lord.
It's sad when you realize you are not as important to someone as you thought you were. Feeling neglected is one of the most disheartening feelings in the world. In many cases it is even worse than being disliked because it is simply a person's passive response to your existence. When someone is being neglected it may feel like the person who is neglecting you is saying, "You are not important enough to me to waste my time and energy on." Many of us are used to saying that states that, "treat other people the way you wish to be treated." But sometimes in life you don't get what you want, you can treat a person in a better manner, and pour out your heart for a person just to get half of the treatment you give that person. At this point it will be obvious that you are going to be drowning in emotions like sadness and depression by the ill treatment you will be receiving. You will also feel your efforts are being underrated by the other person because a relationship requires two people putting in the same efforts on the table for the relationship to run like a well oiled machine.
God is the best ally as God never changes. This is seen in the book of the Hebrews chapter 13 verse 8 which says, "Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever." and even if we look verses 5 and 6 of this chapter which solidify that God is a true ally, verse 5 says,' Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said"I will never you ;I will never abandon you"' verse 6 says that, 'Let's be told, then and say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?"' So in God we have a true ally as God never changes even in this time when there is a lot of uncertainty in the world where we have ask, O God can you see our troubles are just climbing up each day as death is just the normal order of the day, where our brothers and sisters are losing their jobs as the economies are crumbling, we must ally our with God our true alliance who will never disappoint us not even one day. The problem with us is that we want to take issues into our hands and solve our problems as we forget God our true ally. If we decide to deal with our problems without inviting God those problems will definitely over power us and we won't be happy anymore as those problems will be our stress which we wake up with for breakfast and we go to bed with our dinner. We should say those which were said in the book of Hebrews 13 verse 6 which says that, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me."
How you treat people comes from your mindset. We treat people according to our mindset because what we tell our minds our minds will believe it. What you feed your mind plays a big role in how you are going to treat others. I seen this when people treat others differently because of their mindset and this is wrong because sometimes what you tell your mind is not supported by facts which makes it to be pointless. Let us treat each other the same we want to be treated in.
No one will offer you unconditional love like your parents. Our parents always want to see us happy even if we let them down their love for us never changes throughout our life time. Let us see what our scripture reading says as our scripture comes from Luke 15 verses 11-32: 11)Jesus went on to say, "There was once a man who had two sons." 12)The younger son said to him,'Father, give me my share of the property now.' So the father divided his property between his two sons. 13) After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living. 14) He spent everything he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country, and he was left without a thing. 15) So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs. 16) He wished he could fill himself with the bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat. 17) At last he came to his senses and said, ' All my father's hired workers have more than they can eat, and here I am about to starve!' 18) I will get up and go to my father and say, 'Father, I have sinned against God and against you. 19) I am no longer fit to be called your;treat me as of your hired workers.' 20) So he got up and started started going back to his father. He was still a long way from home when father saw him, his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him. 21)'Father,' the son said, 'I have sinned against God and against you. I no longer fit to be called your son.' 22) But the father called to his servants, 'Hurry!' he said, 'Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. 23) Then go and get the prize calf and kill it and let us celebrate with a feast! 24) For this son of mine was dead, but now he has been found.' And so the feasting began. 25) In the meantime the older son was out in the field. On his way back, when he came close to the house, he heard the music and dancing. 26) So he called one servants and asked him,' What's going on?' 27)'Your brother is back home.' the servant answered, 'and your father has killed the prize calf, because he got him back safe and sound.' 28)The older brother was so angry that he would not into the house, so his father came out and begged him to come in. 29)But he spoke back his father, 'Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends! 30) But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back, you killed the prize calf for him!' 31)' My son' the father answered, 'you are always here with me, and everything I have is yours. 32) But we had to celebrate and be happy, because your brother was dead, but now he is alive, he was lost but now he has been found.' "
In life we struggle from birth until we close our eyes for the last time. We all have a different meaning to the word struggle, as we all have our own different types of struggles in life. In general the meaning of the word struggle refers to make forceful efforts to get free of restraint. When it comes to life the meaning of struggle it differs from person to person, sometimes you might think that you are facing a up hill struggle while you don't know that the person next to you is facing 5 times your struggle but person is able to put a smile on each day. Life is a journey full of struggles day-in and day-out, we all face our own struggles, my struggles will never be the same as yours because we are coming from different worlds and we have different ambitious in life but sometimes you might find that you your struggle is similar to the next person because in life we are connected to one another in many ways. We should not be ashamed of our struggles in life as one day we will look back and say yes my struggles were worth it or my struggles were really my down fall. Some people grow from their struggles while others die from their struggles in life.
Life is built in God's hands as he knows our ups and downs in life. Good days, bad days, and just OK days they are all part of life. God is always there to offer us support, he sees the decision we make each, he sees our tribulations and he sees our celebrations that are all part of our everyday lives. Your faith plays a vital role in your life. Ephesians 5 verses 15-16 says, "Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every every opportunity, because the days are evil." This tells that we should take advantage of new opportunities to strengthen your faith and create meaning in your everyday life. Proverbs 27 verse 29 says," As water reflects the face, one's life reflects the heart." Remember that your life is a reflection of the ideals and faith you hold in your heart.
Have you wonder why it is hard to be a dreamer? The is a reason for everything so today we are looking at the reason why it's hard to be a dreamer. The first reason is that you will have to go to bed late and get up early. The second reason is that you will have few friends. The third reason is that you are going to be misunderstood by people. The fourth reason is that you will be single unless you are lucky enough to find someone who understands your lifestyle. The fifth reason is that people will want to do good, but never better than them, so you will be discouraged. For those reasons, you will do a lot things alone.
Always remember that God will never fore sake you. Let's try to be Job as Job had everything in life and he lost in life but he still remained faithful to God. Here chapter 1 from the book of Job versu 1) There was a man named Job living in the land of the Unknown, who worshiped God and was faithful to him. He was a good man, careful not to do anything evil. 2) He had seven sons and three daughters. 3) And owned 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 1000 head cattle, and 500 donkeys. He also had a large number of servants and was the richest man in the East. Job had everything in life which most of us would like to have in life but the important question is to ask whether we would remain the same people if we were to have what Job had, would we be the same person? Or we would change to something we are not. As chapter 1 continues Job starts to lose everything he had as he was in the hands of Satan and no longer in God's hands this is because God loved and trusted that Job would remain the person even if he lost everything he had. Verse 21) Job said, "I was born with nothing, and I will die with nothing. The Lord gave, and now he has taken away. May his name be praised." 22) In spite of everything that had happened, Job did not sin by blaming God.
Property is the true investment class in which it does not take money to make money. I am mostly surprised by people who decide to buy a car first instead of investing in a home to stay in. From property investment you can make more money in a year than a job salary. This will eventually turn your salary into a second source of income for you. We must overcome the fear of investing in property by diving deeper into getting knowledge about property just give yourself time first to think about property investment. Why property? Out of everything? Let's dive in to the knowledge of investments. There is shares investment in all of the countries there is a stock market where businesses are listed and share prices are available for sale. The issue with shares investment is that the price of the shares go up and down as a investor you don't have control over the situation but you can just hope that it will bounce back. Banks will not help you out if you want funds to buy the shares because will not allow themselves to be in a position money if the lose value. Another investment is to start a business or to buy an existing one as an investment. Banks also do not give out loans to new business even although you probably hear them saying that they help new business it is because banks know that new most business shut down within three years of trading. Banks are not in the business of losing money. Banks however will be happy to give you a loan if you are doing a property investment as this investment makes a lot of sense to banks, as banks know that they will definitely make profit from this investment.
God does mysterious unique things using people who are looked down upon by others. If we look at Jesus was just a normal man who God chose to use to come and save us as people who have a lot of sins. Was there anything extra special about Jesus no but God used Jesus because he was a person who had a good heart and was a very understanding person. God also used Moses to go and take the children of Israel from Egypt. Moses was a shepherd of sheeps when God chose him to save his children. Was there anything extraordinary about Moses no one but Moses took his role after God spoke to him. Even in today's world God uses people who are looked down upon by others, for example if a family is a victim of poverty, God will give a child in that family to have high level of wisdom to be able to take his family out of poverty.
It is not easy staying motivated in life especially in the time we are living in. It is really difficult to stay motivated all the way to success. Sometimes it is hard to stay motivated the whole day or the whole week. Being motivated is just a special zone which does not last long in life. When I am must record my podcast, most of the time people take me out of the zone by making noise at my door and I will be out of my zone. It will take me a while to get to my zone where I can record my podcast with the same spirit of motivation.
David cried out to God,"Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish." We all battle loneliness at some point in our lives as we don't know if we should keep going or take a break from life. Feeling alone can come of nowhere in life as we cannot plan to be alone or feel lonely it just happens out of the blue. At some point it feels like our prayers don't get above the ceiling. It is depressing when we feel lonely. However we should be thankful for the lonely seasons we go through time after time, because we get to witness God's unfailing love and faithfulness. Feeling alone is the worst way of being hurt and feeling the pain in life. You can be in a crowd and still feel like you are alone when you are not connected to anyone. In Genesis chapter 2, God made a man and then said, "It is not good that a man should be alone." That's why God made a woman, to be a companion for a man.
Don't rule yourself out because there is always a chance in life. I also ruled myself out in as I thought I couldn't do what I have accomplished in life and I am not bragging about. But we must stop ruling out ourselves before we do anything. We are unique and the world needs us with our uniqueness to we share our unique with one another.
God is the master of our dreams. God knows all of our dreams which we have and how they will occur in our lives. We see this by Joseph in the book of Genesis chapter 37 verses 5-8; 5- One time Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more. 6- He said, "Listen to the dream I had." 7- We were in the field tying up sheaves of wheat, when my sheaf got up and stood up straight. Yours formed a circle around mine and bowed down to it. 8- "Do you think that you are going to be a king and rule over us?" his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them. We should learn not to be surprised if people hate us if we have dreams, as Joseph was hate by his own brothers because of his dream. Joseph did not choose to have those dreams but God gave Joseph those dreams to indicate to Joseph that he was destined for greatness in his own life.
Nobody is real in this world except mother. A poor person has no friends. People do not like good thoughts but they like good looks. People respect the money not the person. The person you love the most, will hurt you the most. Truth is simple, But, the moment you try to explain it, it becomes difficult. When you are happy you enjoy the music, but when you are sad, you understand the lyrics. In life two things define you, your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
Quality is not a act, but it is a habit. Quality is never a accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. It is not quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. Do not live by quantity. Live by quality.
It's not a lot of people that are going to stand with you when the going gets tough in life. Even some of Jesus's disciples turned against Jesus, when Jesus knew that the end was near for him on Earth. Jesus knew that some of his disciples were gone turn against him as we see in the John 13 verses 36-38 when Jesus predicts Peter's denial, verse 36: "Where are you going, Lord?" Simon Peter asked him. "You cannot follow me where I am going," answered Jesus; "but later you will follow me." 37: "Lord, why can't I follow you now?" asked Peter. "I am ready to die for you!" 38: Jesus answered, "Are really ready to die for me? I am telling you the truth: before the rooster crows you will have say three times that you don't know me." This is what happens in life people will say that they will be there for you even when you are struggling in life. Until that time comes for them to reveal their true colours to you. Just like when the time came for Jesus to die for us, before this happened we got to see the true colours of Simon Peter in John 18 in three different verses the first on verse 17:The girl at the gate said to Peter, "Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?" Peter answered, "No I am not." the second verse 25:Peter was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him, "Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?" But Peter denied it again. "No, I am not," he said. The third verse 27: Again Peter said "No" - and at once a rooster crowed. So don't be surprised in your life when someone who you thought you would trust in life turns his back on you and let's you fall.
We aim to change to fill the gaps which were missing within ourselves. All of us have gaps within ourselves to fill in the gaps you must be prepared to change your mind set. We have different gaps in ourselves as individuals as we all have a different story of lives but with the help of the hands of the next person, we can be successful in filling the gaps. This is the reason why it's said that we are people and we are not perfect in life.
Words are powerful just learn to use the right words. Most fail to understand that words are not just words but words can either build someone or words can destroy someone. If what you are going to say is not more beautiful than silence, please don't say anything as you are going to emotionally abuse a person with the boom which will be produced by your mouth.
Allocate time for our family and friends is not an easy task to do. We have three levels wherein setting up priorities have different types of results, as there three levels are the different levels of age which is the young age group, adult age group, and the elder age group. At the young age group setting priorities is an easy activity as we have time and energy but money is very scarce at this point in life. Adult groupage is the time in life where we are very busy chasing our goals, as a result, we have energy and money as we do not have time to set out our priorities in life. Elder groupage is the last part of life as it marks that a person has lived his life to the fullest and all the energy is exhausted as a result of a person at this age group only has time and money, and energy is all gone.
Life is built upon different zones which we need to go through to be fully complete as a person. Life has 4 Zones which are Comfort Zone, Fear Zone, Learning Zone and Growth Zone. Comfort Zone is the most popular Zone out of the four Zones of Life. Comfort is the zone where we feel safe and in control. Fear Zone is the zone that is make us to fear change from the comfort zone. The Learning Zone is the most important one because this where start to learn how to deal with problems and challenges as we acquire new skills in life. Growth Zone is the zone that where we start to find our purpose as individuals.
Make positive changes that God. Change is often feared by many people even Christians. This is because because change means we are moving into unknown territory in our lives. But we should not fear change because if the Lord wants us to change we will do so even if we are scared of the change which is called for by God. The book of Romans 12:2 says that, " Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will."
We are all binder to different laws across the world, these laws govern all of us across the world in our everyday lives. The JB Laws Of Life are to inspire people to conquer life and believe in themselves. JB Laws number 1. Rubbing off the kindness, this is about you rubbing off the kindness in you to the person who is next to you. Law number 2. Respect and Trust, this law reminds us that Respect and Trust are not just giving out to anyone but they are both earned in life.
When you is real it finds a way. It is hard to get the meaning of true love as is the feeling of warmth, tenderness, passion, desire, and a sentiment that is unconditional, regardless of the of good times or hardships. True love has no ill intentions, there is only encouragement rather than envy when a partner has monumental thing happening to them. True love can wait through anything.
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is with gratitude that life becomes rich. We are always told that why choose ordinary life if extraordinary is one step ahead. Ask yourself where is this extraordinary life that we are told about because extraordinary life becomes a ordinary life after a certain period as extraordinary is just there for a small peak and the rest is a ordinary life. It is like when you want a boyfriend or girlfriend at the being if you meet him or her the face is still new to you but after a while there is nothing about it. The secret of life isn't what happens to you and what you have, but what do with what happens to you and how much you appreciate what you have.
Problems are always there this why God is always here for us to give us strength along the way. As people we know that problems always appear in our lives even if you run away from them you will find other problems ahead. We just need strength to fade off our problems in life. Where do we find our strength? In the Lord our God. As the book of Proverbs chapter 18 verse 10 says, "The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe."
In life you will never have everything at the same time. In life we accumulate what we want to have step by step as we keep on pushing life. We first build our confidence by winning the the smallest thing in life. We accumulated the skill required to keep our confidence levels in the same level. We face a setback in life for us to see that we cannot have everything at the same time as we build our lives step by step putting in the different elements which are required.
Live is a daring adventure or nothing. However how you choose to live your life is your own choice. Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. If you find life is empty, why not try putting something into it. The difference between living your life to the full and living a life of regrets is that do you choose to risks in your life or you are just going to live in your comfort zone. If you choose your comfort zone you will never grow in life but you will miss a of opportunities in life. If you choose taking risks you will capitalize in a lot of opportunities and you are going to grow in life and you will definitely enjoy your life. The best way to play dead is to risk nothing! Life is a risk and living it to the full is indeed risky business. Take some necessary risks in life - love completely, give freely, do will, speak openly and have your say while you still can, make a stand, realize your dreams and above all else, make your worth living!
Without patience, we cannot serve God. Sometimes we are faced with so many tribulations and we feel like giving up. You must have patience of steel when you are serving God and we should remember what Paul said in Romans 12:12, "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."
We all have a fighting spirit inside of us. For every single person, there's always a cause that's worth fighting for, whether physically or emotionally. Both positive and negative changes can happen through fighting, but one must decide if their own fight is worth the battle. You are a true fighter believe this, so tell yourself that you are a fighter, I will never give up, I will stumble and I will fall but I will stand back up, it might take longer at times but I stand back up and keep fighting.
Good people are underrated in this world. It is not easy being a good person, believe me, but it is always better to be yourself than being someone else. A good person takes care of others in life. A good person supports others in life. The sad truth is that a good person takes care of him or herself and always offers support to himself or herself. This is because people most of the time they exit the life of the good person when things start going well for them in their lives.
Virtual events will never be the same as live events. Live events made human interaction to be the best way of learning different people. Virtual events are just making us to grow more apart from each other. Live events are in high demand from the world more than ever before as virtual events are opening the door for depression and anxiety to coming our lives. At this point the world is full of more depressed people as we are all hiding in our own places.
Faith determines an individual's outcome. Faith means that we believe in what God tells us will happen even before it happens. We must learn to keep faith and don't lose hope in God as God loves us. Looking at John 11, when Lazarus was sick, Martha and Mary and called God and God did not answer their prayers. They called Jesus and Jesus did not come, Lazarus passed and they buried him. After a few days Jesus finally arrived, when they saw Jesus they, "Lord if you were here our brother Lazarus would be alive." Jesus felt the pain that Martha and Mary were going through as Jesus knows the pain that we go through when we lose our loved ones. Mary said to Jesus, " Now I still know that you can talk to your God and our brother Lazarus will wake up from the dead. " Jesus did give Lazarus life from the day as this was what he came to do. We should have the faith that Mary had, because she kept faith and never losed hope in Jesus and God. It is only people who have true faith who can say what Mary said to Jesus.
Happiness is for free as happiness has no price tag, but not all us are happy in life. I want you to ask yourself what is stopping you from being happy each day. I don't believe that the reason most people find themselves to be unhappy in life is due to the stressful world that we live in. We find people who are in happy in this stressful world we live in, so stress has nothing to do with your happiness. The happiness people do not necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
Growing up is scary as a lot of expectations are set for us. We are expected to be more responsible and be serious about life. We have have to start showing elements of being matured and making wise decisions. We have to for go our childish elements as we have to start to take care of ourselves as grown ups.
Just be thankful for everything that you have in life. You may not always consider yourself to be fortunate, but you still have all your body parts as your legs and arms are still functioning properly. Gave thanks as your eyes and ears are functioning every day. If just one of the body parts I mentioned suddenly stopped working your life would take a turn and everything would change withi minutes. It is easy to dismiss the fact that a huge percentage of our lives and body are working exactly how it is supposed to be. Too often we don't take the time to stop and appreciate the things we have weather big or small. The fact we are able to start a new week and we always survived the weekend madness we should be grateful, while other people didn't make it the weekend. I know that those people would loved the chance to start a new week just like you and me, we must be grateful and appreciate the we are still here.
God is the master of time. Our scripture read comes from the book of Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1-12. 1- Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses. 2- He sets the time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for pulling up, 3- the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building. 4- He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing,5- the time for making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the time for not kissing. 6- He sets the time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time for throwing away, 7- the time for tearing and the time for mending, the time for silence and the time for talking. 8- He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace. 9- What do we gain from all our work? 10- I know the heavy burdens that God has laid on us. 11- He has set the right time for everything. He has given us the desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does. 12- So I realized that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still alive. We must not rush anything as God has everything planned for us.
Just unplug yourself from the world to be able to put a smile on your face and a real smile. As a person there is a lot things that you need to unplug from for you to connect to your real self. The big things to unplug from is technology and all the trends on the social media platforms. You find yourself guled to smart phones trying to chasing the hottest trends. I just wish you could see the beauty of nature which outside your room just unplug before you damage your eyes.
Childhood is the best time of lives as we create the most beautiful moments of our lives. Childhood means simplicity, look at the world with a child's eye, it is very beautiful. Playing is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning, but for children playing is serious learning. Playing is really the work of childhood.
Is the current version of the world what people died for? I thought the world saw what happened in the two World Wars that fight leads to nightmares occurring in the world. Women died for equality but the gap between the two genders is a big one as it benefits the male. We have voting rights but people are not interested in voting as unemployment and corruption is growing in different parts of the world. Is this what they died for I ask myself.
Talking to yourself doesn't mean that you're crazy at all. Think of self talk as your inner voice. While you may not have focused on it before, you've practiced self talk throughout your entire life. It's the running commentary always going on in the background, and it influences how you see yourself and the world around you. Self talk is an inner monologue that makes you feel good about yourself and everything going on in your life.
In this life where everything is moving in a 5G network speed as we are trying to survive and achieve our goals, to a break just seems far wide and too far from our lives. We should remember that it is okay to take a break as it's not a crime to a break. We should learn to take a break when we are tired as a break means that you are resting and not quitting from what you are doing. Live your life like a butterfly by taking a rest when you need one.
People will hate you even if you are a good person. Today scripture comes 1 Samuel 18 verses 1-14. From this I believe that sometimes in life you will meet people who are going to like you from day one even before you speak to them. This is because we're connected to each through the holy spirit which God has given you and others around you. Always remember that even if you are a good person people will hate for the good that you are doing.
Caring about people, about things, about life is an act of maturity. By showing that you care, you can make a difference in peoples' lives. Be a difference maker. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
How can you keep a promise to the world if you fail to keep a promise to yourself. The most important person to keep your promises to, is yourself. Keeping a promise to yourself is a reflection of the love you have for yourself. You can lie to everyone but you can't lie to yourself as you know what you want to achieve in life. It will all depend on you keep your promise to yourself at the end of your day and don't get carried away by the wind of life's events.
Never confuse a single defeated with a final defeat. A lifetime is not forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren't second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn't take a first chance at? That's a true failure. Second chances are rare learn to use your first chance more wisely. Ask yourself what life would be without second chances? All of us have made mistakes at some point in our lives and we will make more mistakes. But if all was lost after, we'd have no motivation to try anything ever again.
We are being tested regularly by God. God tests us because he loves us dearly and wants us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of him. So we must rejoice when being tested by the Lord. Being tested by God has been misunderstood by many. It is clear in the scriptures that God does test us. However, God does not send sickness, disease, or poverty into our lives to test us. Those things steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus is the Good Shepard who came to give us abundant life. He warned us in John 16:33 which says, "we will encounter trouble in the world, but then he encouraged us by telling us he had overcome it."
We fall, we break, we fail, but then, we rise, we heal, we overcome. In life we all get hurt sometimes it is the nature of life. The wounds mostly take time to heal as pain is a peasky part of of journey in life. Pain sometimes gets the better of us as we often find it hard to recover from the wounds which are opened up. There are two ways to respond to pain you can react with bitterness or you can just choose to learn from the experience and move on.
There will come a point in life when you will find love to be a confusing feeling, when you will realize that you are unsure of your feelings. At this point you will not get it if you are in love or if what you are feeling is simply infatuation and it is going to be hard to actually figure out which is which. But nevertheless you have to take a moment to actually try to digest the things that are inside of your head.
Love is beautiful when it lasts for a life time. Love your partner by offering word of encouragement when things are not going well in life. Take the off the load when your partner is going through a tough time of pressure, just wash the dishes and make your partner food. As lovers you must spoil each even the gifts is small it is all about the thought that counts. As lovers do not forget important events about your relationship. Send quality time and give each full attention no phones when spending time together. Physical touch is important important in a relationship the holding of hands, the hugs and the kisses are important in a relationship. Love is the language spoken by the hearts and soul as the minds do not understand love.
The battles in the world are not God's will. This seen from the book James chapter 4 verses 1-6. Verse 1- Where do all the fights and quarrels come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. 2-You want things, but you cannot have them, so you are to kill ;you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. 3- And when you ask, you don't receive it, because your motives are bad, you ask for things to use for your own pleasures. 4- Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy. 5- Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says, "The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires." 6- But the grace that God gives is even stronger. As the scripture says," God resists the proud, but the gives grace to the humble. "
Many vaccines are available but two faced set backs which ruined the trust in them. The people react like the economy if we don't trust something it will be hard to make us take it. We should always remain with our freedom of choice to choose if we want to take the vaccine or not.
Even if people cut ties with you, you must remember that you are loyal to yourself. People cut ties with each other every day so do not change who you are because of people. Be you and that's it.
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind. At this time when we are at the pick of the world pandemic this is when our stress levels are very high as we taking a lot of pressure each day not knowing what tomorrow will bring. We never take some time to relax and see how nature is very calm and relaxed. We just need only 30 minutes to relax at the end of each difficult day.
Respect is rare to find in this world. In this present day and age, respect is declining day by day. People are becoming more and more self-centered and unsympathetic to those around them. So it is becoming more clear that this statement was right saying that, "you cannot force people to respect you but always refuse to be disrespected."
Don't be scared to be you because God knows everything about you. This can take from the book of Jeremiah chapter 1, 4-8 which says 4- The lord said to me, 5- "I chose you before I gave you life and before you were born I selected you to be a prophetic to the nations."6- I answered, " Oh Lord, I don't know how to speak;I am too young." 7- But the lord said to me," Do not say that you are too young, but go to the people I send you to, and tell them everything I command you to say. 8- Do not be afraid of them, for I will be with you to protect you. I, the Lord, have spoken!" So we should not just take this as a story from the Bible but we should we know that God has chosen us before we saw the light so it is up to us to go to the light. Be you every day God knows.
I wonder where humanity has went to because it is definitely gone from this world. Everyone only cares about what is trending and this why humanity left us to suffer as much we are. People should really stop this act of posting someone when they are being bullied or being abuse.
One day it will be raining good news for you just be prepared. Your going may seem meaningless at the moment but you choose to hang in there as everything is going to be worth it. In the morning you have two choices one is to wake up and go and survive with the big boys and girls, or you can sleep and hang with bed sheets.
Life is not a a problem to be solved but an experience to be had. The way things work in this world is that nobody has time to be holding your hands through it. This may sound harsh but it is the sad truth. Wisdom is the product of experience and experience comes from mistakes.
It is not easy being you right. We are all caught up in a world where we following what is trending. But you must choose to be you and not what is trending because you need to be different to be unique in this.
Matthew 5 verses 3&4 - God blesses those who realize their need for him and who mourn will be comforted. God's grace is enough for all of us everyday. So this week we must start with P. U. S. H. as this means that we learn Pray Until Something Happens (P. U. S. H).
Attachment is another name of disappointment and pain. Accept what comes and allow it to leave when it is time. Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness as it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Letting go is never easy weather it is a relationship, a friend, your ego, or even a job it can be hard to let go of attachments because it feels like you are letting go of some part of yourself. Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There is nothing you can do to bring it back. So you can't "should've" done something. You can only Do something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day.
I thought being alone worst thing that could happen to me. But by being alone is where I started to learn about myself and know who I am. Being alone makes you to take decisions after I have a thought about it.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. All of us across the global community share a common tradition that has been here for many generations and it will still be here for many generations to come this tradition is music. Through out history music has been there because life without music has no meaning. Our parents listened to their music, our grandparents listened to their music and all of us listen to music because music gives life the best meaning.
Don't carry grudges, for they are the heaviest of all life's burdens. Clean up your mind for you to be able to be active in life and perform better.
1 Corinthians 16: 13. Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong. 14. Do everything in. So I want you to start the week and end the week strongly by believing that you are going to make it through each day. Have a lovely new week let it be amazing.
I had a lot of expectations when I wrote my book Pieces Of Life but I met a world where doors are closed. I tried everything I could to knock on the doors as some doors open and the big doors remained shut. It is not like the doors are can't be opened but doors only open when you are well known person and I Jb am not well known so I don't know how long it will take to get the doors opened up for me to enter.
Be a one person show as you must try to break out from the begging system. Begging is like becoming a shadow of a certain individual as you want to prove that you are loyal but you must be loyal to yourself.
If you don't like being treated in a bad way don't treat others in a bad way. Gender Based Violence and Racism are the oldest pandemics in the world as no one wants to deal with them face to face but they just want to set policies which take us no where.
Struggling is not the identity, you must learn to live while you struggle such that anyone who sees you can separate the struggle from your life. Life is like a bicycle to keep your life in balance you must keep moving. So keep moving forward with your struggle as you will see the light and the end of the tunnel.
Defeat is always present in our lives but we only seem to acknowledge it when we fall in its path. Some people are born into a life where defeat is already and they have no choices but to swim in defeat.
Memory is the dairy we all carry about with us. Memories are made each day as this is what we are on earth to do. So weather it is a bad time memories will always be made.
You are at the start of something great, don't let another person's progress discourage you. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it, it just blooms. Be like a flower and don't competing with anyone just do what you have to do and don't worry about what people will about it.
Let your imagination run like a well oiled machine. You have inner voice which is the main switch to your imagination to listen to your inner voice to build your imaginary world of you see the world. So believe in what you can imagine as you never know where it will take you as imagination is King.
You always have to choices:your commitment versus your fear. Commitment is defined as a willingness to give your time and energy to do something that you believe in and you take a firm decision to do. Commitment gives you a chance to take yourself seriously before anyone believes in you.
Change does not come overnight it requires effort and sacrifice from an individual. If you choose to change one aspect of your life it will highly affect another aspect in your life one way or another.
Let them talk because their words won't stop. Why should we be judged on how we should live our lives. People set expectations on what you can do and do not in your life.
A clear rejection is better than a fake promise. Rejection is our friend as life is full of up and downs. We just need to swim through the rejection of this world.
As time moves by more events unfold across the world. The poor people also need to be treated as the same way as wealth people.
A woman is a pillar to the world. Women are courageous, brave and resilient. I don't only celebrate the amazing things that women do on women's day or mother's day but I celebrate it every day because when I wake up each day I see women and young girls continuing to strive each day.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Education is a important human right across at a young age for people.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Most people have a concept of what they want to do but they don't know how to develop their concept. The big thing in is to press the start button.
The world is full of back stabbing people. It is better sometimes to work alone because some people will see your potential and they will sponsor your talent. I just wish the world could be better with no back stabbing people.
Mother Nature is the best philosopher as nature is very calm. Mother Nature is the best philosopher as it has no race or gender problems we should take notes from Mother Nature.
Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease about something of an uncertain outcome. Even in 1920 when the world was faced with the Spanish flu the was a lot of uncertainty about the future and the world survived and even during the different world wars anxiety was there but life went back to normal. Depression on the other hand is a mood of disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and a loss of interest, most of us have lost interest in the life as we are losing our loved ones each day.
The world seems to act to what is trending on the social platforms and after the trend the world stops following up. The jobs are lost during the pandemic will be recreated as the world is supporting the 4th industrial revolution which will wipe out mosy of the jobs. I fear that in the future we will have a up rise against the 4th industrial revolution as people will feel like governments have failed them.
Life is built upon a lot pressure since day one when you see life you were under pressure. We just need to swim through the pressure and keep going because we are capable of doing a lot of things under pressure. We will always have a lot of pressure in life because only mistake that will open up a door for pressure to come back to our lives. We always see the sun light even if we are under pressure.
When hunger, passion meets hard work it is a match made in heaven. You must allow hard work to be part of your DNA for you to be successful. People will only recognize when you are at the top of the summit of your hard work as you have become successful with hard work in your sights.
Love yourself is like building a foundation for how to love others. Learn to love yourself as you are still trying to know who you are and where. We must love everything about ourselves and know makes you feel uncomfortable to be able to treat others better.
We should celebrate the love that our grandparents give us it is very rare. I wish I could have a day where we celebrate our grandparents as their living legends
Most of us fail in life because we often lack belief in ourselves. The truth should be told that we have no one to blame but ourselves by underestimating our abilities in life. Just imagine a bird does not worry that the branch it is hanging on might break because the bird believes in its own wings.
The world is losing good people as people become ruthless as success never comes. Which should stick to be a world of kindness helping others is what we should be what we do each day.
Failure is always one step away from us. We must dust ourselves and move forward from our fall from our glory. Believe in yourself as failure is there to remind us that no has permanent position in the world things change time to time but always dust out of your failure and be the best version of yourself.
Let us celebrate Valentines because the only thing that we have left is love as Covid19 is ruin everything. Love is beautiful
We should learn to avoid Debts at a young age because we are creating a big burden upon ourselves and families. Don't chase big brands at a young it is not worth as it is like digging your own grave at a young age.
Success differs from person to person some people live to support their families. Success for others is to end up buying cars and houses.
We all have is dreams and our aim is to make our dreams a reality. Nothing come easy in life without working hard in.
We must always ask questions as questions will help us understand who we are and where we are going in life. Questions helps to always learn new things as life is all about learning day in day out.
The major economies did not grow except Chinese economy which grew with 2.3%. May the 46th president of USA bring peace to the world.