Be like a dove...

What a week it had been, I had a great examination. It was GREAT! I'm still on the praying mood for the 7-series post coming up.

Let me start with a joke; x_x

"Every ten years, the monks in the monastery are allowed to break their vow of silence to speak two words. Ten years go by and it’s one monk’s first chance. He thinks for a second before saying, “Food bad.” Ten years later, he says, “Bed hard.” It’s the big day, a decade later. He gives the head monk a long stare and says, “I quit.” “I’m not surprised,” the head monk says. “You’ve been complaining ever since you got here.”

Don't mind me, I just had to copy Joel Osteen, He likes to start most of His preaching with a joke. Probably that's why I had to try this out. x_x Hope it was funny. :)

Of recent, my bible reading has been from the Contemporary English Version and it's good trying it out. Have been a fan of King James Version, Amplified Bible Version, New Living Translation and Eugene Peterson (The Message). Reading the Word from different version gives a better meaning of the Word. You can try it!

"Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God." Romans 12:1 CEV

You can be poor and still go to hell, you can be rich and still go to hell. Same way you can be rich and make it to heaven or poor and make it to heaven. The condition of making heaven is if you are truly Holy. - Pastor E A Adeboye

There are rewards for living an Holy life, I know living an holy life in this an unholy life can be so difficult but with the help of the HolySpirit, it will be 'so very' easy. Jesus said we have to be perfect like our father in Heaven is perfect. Being perfect is like having all A's in an examination, where your report card has no red mark in it. That's my little understanding of it.

In 1 Peter 1:13-16, Peter writes to believers, "Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.'" Peter is quoting from Leviticus 11:44 and Leviticus 19:2.

The greatest reward for living an holy life is that You'll see God. (Matthew 5:8)

Have a great week ahead.

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My God and I...

Hello people, like I have readers. :) This past week has been really tough. My exams starts tomorrow, I'm not scared because I have Christ in me.

I'll be having a 7-series post very soon but I don't know when; I'm still praying to get direction on what I showed write about.

I want to share a testimony basically it's my walk with God. It starts like this; have been a church goer - a chorister, a brigade boy, a sunday school attendee etc. I remember I have always gone to church along with my granddad and later with my grandma. It was more like a routine for me, that every sunday I must go to church and that's all. (That's the only day I carry my bible, of which I'll have to find it on sunday morning).

I had a lot of difficulties in doing somethings back then which I still find difficult but the HolySpirit helps me now, like; reading the bible (boring), prayer time (yawning or I sleep off), fasting (eat very well).

Now, I sit and think of the terrible things have done like go to a pub before or after a church service to take a booze, those times I thought I was having fun. I remember we do quote a scripture to back it up (I wish I could remember the passage but NO!)

I love this phrase 'what if', what if I wasn't admitted to Crawford to have my undergraduate degree, where would I have ended up.

2011; Somethings just happen and you don't have explanation for them. Like the word said in Galatians 1:15 - called me by his grace. That was the time I had to surrender all to Him, commit my life to Him fully. That was it, I had conscience immediately but I was still living a life of moral basically it was an attrition initially.

The Lord help me. He saved me from the pit of hell and gave me life. The HolySpirit is my guide, now, I don't do anything without the approval of God, now, I pray...now, I read my bible...now, I know God. I've different kinds of messages from 1976-till date. Who says walking with the Lord is easy? But it is worth it. Now, I'm in love with Jesus because He has been in love with me before I knew Him (He loves YOU too).

¨Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me¨ John 15:5

I'm still growing in faith. I have to be like Jesus (Matthew 5:48). I'm like a baby, a baby doesn't just start to walk, it starts to crawl after which it attempts to walk; everytime the baby falls, the mother helps the baby up again. Now, I've an helper (HolySpirit), my friend; each time I fall short (often but not again :d) He is there to help me up.

Do I still find the Bible boring while reading? Sometimes
Do I still eat during a fast? No
Do I still yawn while praying? Yes
Do I get shy when I want to share my faith with someone?  YES (a big yes)

"Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you" James 4:8

"If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31

Walk with God is not easy but it's worth it. If we draw nigh to Him, He'll not cast you off but give you a warm embrace. If God is on your side, and you are on His side, there is nothing nobody can do.

Know that you can't serve God and not make a mark in life, I'm a testimony. I hope my walk with God will inspire you.

I'm a winner

God bless you irreversibly.

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Reverence God Totally

So many to write about but I don't know how to put all my thoughts down. I actually started penning this immediately church service ended, simply because I don't want to forget any action; to also pen it down without diluting it. ;)

It's been a really busy week for me, with so much to read, so much to cover up before the commencement of my examination. :)

Down to work, initially while penning this message; I initially wanted to make it a passive message but it later became a necessity.

The Psalmist said 'My Heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed' (Psalm 57:7). During the homily, there was a Lady, who sat beside me; I got distracted by what she did but it was a lesson though. x_x

She suddenly started searching her bag, I initially thought she was about to bring out a biro/jotter but to my surprise, it was a biscuit and straight to her mouth. :D Immediately, I remembered the above scripture.

It's very difficult to do two things at the same time, the bible says it's either you're serving God or Mammon (Matthew 6:24). Out mind gets distracted when it's wandering, such a mind wasn't at the message been passed but at the biscuit. Nehemiah said 'God is slow to anger' (Nehemiah 9:17) but we take that for granted.

Nugget: sometimes the little thing we count has irrelevant are the little foxes been talked about in Songs of Solomon (2:15). Simply because God is full of compassion doesn't mean we should take that for granted.

Je ne suis pas parfait (I am not perfect), we are admonishing each other. (Romans 15:14)

God bless you irreversibly!

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Can You Wait?

Still awake at 2:14am, thinking of what to post because I just have to publish before I sleep, after an hectic day of reading (preparing for an exam). I apologise for my inactive on the blog. I seldom publish a post without writing it down, imagine! I was writing on a different topic before my phone went off. :)

Now to business, Eccl 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (I don't have a topic yet)

A man can no more reverse the times and order of "planting," and of "digging up," and transplanting, than he can alter the times fixed for his "birth" and "death." To try to "plant" out of season is vanity, however good in season; so to make earthly things the chief end is vanity, however good they are in order and season. There is a reason for everything under the sky and there are seasons for every change in a situation. Just like there is a season to sow, there also is a season to reap.

When we think we are unwanted babies, we should always remember that for every ejaculation; there is a release of up to 500 million semen and just one fights to get to the ovary; which is YOU. The bible says ‘before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.'

‘For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.’ expected end—literally, "end and expectation," that is, a goal or result that one seeks to achieve. JUST BE EXPECTANT. 

There is a big plan already been planned out for you, there is a blueprint of your life which we must follow to achieve that expected end; ‘THE WORD OF GOD.'

Remember ‘God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?’ (Numbers 23:19) – if He says He will give you an expected end that you wish for, He will give it to you just if you fulfil His laws.

WE WILL WAIT ON YOU LORD!