GRACE HOLDS ME NOW!

I still crave for freedom,

I still wish to be free

I still hope one day these chains will be broken

I still dream of a day I will break free from this captivity

*sigh* Old Souls need rest too

The desire to live in sin has taken over me

Sometimes when I close my eyes and wonder I can’t help but feel I have failed

If sin is an Ocean, I am drowning

What do you do when your deeds explicitly reminds you of how unworthy and not good enough you are?

When sin has superabound in your life ?

When the spirit is willing to be righteous but the body is weak?

When what you don’t want to do is what you find yourself doing?

When you feel like you are a disappointment in God’s eyes?

It hurts but all you need to realise is that Grace is attracted by weaknesses

When you are weak his power is made perfect

Keep remaining and see his Grace superabound in your life!

The Hope Cycle

Usually when I look at my life I see nothing but the Grace of God, most people who know me usually think I have it all together as a Christian but me too I go through things and I’m still trying to put it all together. Though I wonder if I will ever put it all together, because the moment I become perfect by my own then there’s no need of Grace. Recently I was going through something I wasn’t happy with like Apostle Paul I found myself doing what I never want to do besides that life had just been a roller coaster for me lately. I was at the verge but God always has a way he talks to me his beloved. On Monday I downloaded the sermon Holly Furtick preached on mother’s day and on Tuesday I watched it. That message ministered to my spirit. I want to encourage someone on my blog today through the same message.

When you look at this hope cycle it is a different kind of hope this is the hope we find in Romans 8:28 . This means that God takes every disappointment, every mistake, every suffering, every rejection and make them work for our good. It may not really turnout as I wished but his turnout is always accompanied by hope!

When we look in the cycle immediately after hope we have suffering, as followers of Christ we are not exempted from suffering , we will go through suffering but it doesn’t end there. Suffering is what brings perseverance, when you are going through hard time and you keep moving even if the future is not clear and your feelings are saying you can’t, unconsciously you develop perseverance .

Life doesn’t stop moving just because you are going through something. As a result we keep moving even when we are weary, this is perseverance. Perseverance reveals to us how strong we actually are not because of our strength but because of the strength God’s grace has empowered us with. When we preserve God develops a character in us. You begin to realise you are stronger, compassionate, more kind, more honest after you preserve.Now the beauty is that every time we go through this cycle our hope becomes even more stronger. That’s why when the cycle starts again I go into it even stronger and more hopeful. Now what we must draw to our attention is that these cycles don’t happen one at a time usually they are simultaneous. They often happen at the same time, some are big while others are small but what we must realise is that all these cycles always build up our hope!

These hope cycles actually draw us closer to God, tge stdength our relationship with God. God want us to keep moving at every stage of the cycle he doesn’t want us to be stuck at one point. When complain and fail to run to God we get stuck and we prolong our cycle. When we blame others we also prolong our cycle. Yes it hurts but complaining and blaming others will prolong our cycle. There are things that will give you momentum as you go through these cycles one of them is communion with other believers and having the right voices in your life when you are going through the cycles. The prayer and words of a good friend can give you hope in these cycles. When you are surrounded by a strong support system going through the cycle won’t be as hard as it seem.

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Thank you very much for reading . This message has really changed my perception of things forever! You can watch the sermon here. Have a blessed day!

What Are You Hearing about Jesus?

She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
Mark 5:27–29, NLT

Perhaps like the woman with the issue of blood in the Gospels (see Mark 5:25–34), you are facing an impossibly hopeless situation in your life. It could be a debilitating sickness, a marital situation, a financial crisis, or a prolonged challenge. In the natural, the future looks dismal and there appears to be no reason to hope. If that is you, I encourage you to believe that you too can experience the kind of breakthrough this woman experienced.

Imagine: for twelve long years, she had watched helplessly as her condition went from bad to worse no matter what she tried. Most of us would have given up. How did she find hope in the midst of her hopelessness? What gave her the courage to hope again?

I believe that the secret to her faith can be found in these five words: “She had heard about Jesus.”

What do you think she heard about Jesus? This is an important question because whatever she had heard imparted an audacious sense of Bible hope and confidence in her. And this imbued her with a boldness and tenacity to risk everything just to touch the hem of His garment. She knew well the religious laws concerning unclean persons such as herself meant that she could be subjected to public humiliation and, very possibly, violence if she was recognized. Clearly she must have had no doubt in her heart that she would be completely healed the moment she touched the hem of His garment or she would not have risked it.

The Bible does not tell us exactly what she heard about Jesus, but I submit to you that she must have heard story after story of how Jesus healed the sick everywhere He went, how good and gracious He was even to the unclean lepers or the down-and-out who came to Him. What she heard about Jesus produced in her a positive, confident expectation of good, which we can see in what she declared: “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.” This hope then resulted in a faith that was effortless.

Faith as defined in God’s Word is “the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen” (Heb. 11:1, NLT). In other words, the hope that she had in the goodness of Jesus became faith, and this faith gave her the boldness to press through the crowd and receive her healing from Jesus.

What are you hearing about Jesus? The more you hear about His goodness and grace, the more faith will unconsciously arise in you to receive your miracle.

-Joseph Prince

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The worst is behind its hurts but in time I know you will recover

I AM NOT ASHAMED!

“I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.”

“I won’t be labeled as average.”

“How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?”

“Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.”

“I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.”

“Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.”

“Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people.”

“I admire those who trust and are trustworthy.”

“Don’t let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.”

“I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything… I will.”

“This will be my last year Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank you.”

Rachel Joy Scott

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I love Rachel scott She was murdered in the same year I was born but I have had the opportunity to know about her life because of the impact she has left behind. Each and everytime I watch her movie I learn something new. May her soul rest in peace she’s one of the people I look forward to see in Heaven ❤! I love you Rachel!

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Man Enough

The Pressure to self identify as a man is hard to break
Especially when it’s shelved in your face every single day
From day one we are told what is expected from us as men
Conform, be strong, have the girls, you have to be the best no room to mess up
When you are constantly fed with the same thing it conditions your brain, manipulate your mind until you begin to think it’s right
So we put our Fate in the control of others and wait to be judged
Define ourselves by how many girls we get or how many bottles of barcadi we leave empty before we are drunk
Forever believing we are not good enough
What do you do when freedom looks like slavery and slavery looks like freedom?
When the truth looks like lies and lies look like the Truth?
We do so many things trying to fit in but none of them make us whole
instead they all leave us more empty and tired than before
We try having as many girls as possible because to some extent we are made to believe the number of girls you date determine how much of a man you truly are
Unfortunately it fails so we end up doing drugs or alcohol . Thinking maybe when we get high enough one day we will fly into being a real man.So we now do life between two garden
The fake happy jolly one for the public and the real one that hunt us with our failures every night before we sleep.

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I wrote this poetry for all my men who feel they are inadequate because they have failed on the examination of society standards for masculinity. I want to tell you, you are brave you have a God given Identity!

ROMANS 8

I am extremely sorry I took this long to blog the second part of Romans chapter 8. I was really occupied but as the saying goes better late than never. If you haven’t read part One I advise you to do so it’s just the blog post before this one ..

Romans 8:26
[26]So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer itworthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.

Please read that verse again! Or maybe even three times. The holy spirit who is fully God comes to our aid in our weaknesses and plead on our behalf. This chapter explains God’s grace in its details. So this mean in my weaknesses I should not feel condemned because it’s in the same weaknesses that the holy spirit is made manifest. When I am overwhelmed and I don’t know what to say the holy spirit prays through me! All because of Jesus Finished work on the cross of calvary!

Romans 8:28
[28]We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.

Have you seen why I love this chapter with every part of me? The Bible is clearly saying all things work together for my good, even what the enemy planned for my destruction God will make it work for my good. I don’t know what you are going through but trust me one day you will seat down and begin to connect the circles, then you will see that actually everything was actually working for your good.

Romans 8:31-32
[31]What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] [Ps. 118:6.]
[32]He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?

Who? Please answer my question who can be against us. When we understand the depth of this scripture we realise that fear has no room in ourlives when we choose to see past ourselves and look upto Jesus. What room does fear have when the great I Am is on my side? Things might seem rough but still fear has no room!

Romans 8:37
[37]Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.

Dear Reader I can’t say it better but you are not a conqueror you are something more, you are more than a conqueror!

Romans 8:39
[39]Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I don’t know how your life has been recently but nothing can separate you from the love of God. Nothing Jesus is saying stop condemning yourself instead come along with me it’s going to be great, it’s going to lit, it’s going to be wild But it’s gonna be full of me!

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Thank you very much for reading and have a great and fruitful new week. May the Grace our God be upon you . # HappySunday !!