When you look at your life
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You will find that
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You're satisfied.
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
The Truth
I pondered on a thought that lead to this personal realization, to my truth:
I do not pursue a relationship with God because I am perfect,
I seek Him because I am in need of Perfecting.
After all those who are well have no need for the Physician.
Matt9:12
I do not pursue a relationship with God because I am perfect,
I seek Him because I am in need of Perfecting.
After all those who are well have no need for the Physician.
Matt9:12
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
this thing called grace
so as you all know 'levels has changed!!' lol- as in my blog title or is it banner. amongst other things, it is also a remider to me that if not for Grace nothing that he has done, he is doing or yet to do will be, has been or is possible.
Grace is a leveler, the christain of ten plus years and the one of 10 seconds are both covered by grace. if we want to be honest so many of 'saved ones' tend to get all high and what not conciously or not, looking down on people who are saved but don't act/talk or walk like it or even those who are totally on the other side of the fence. I can be honest it happens to me everynow and again.
But I had a humbling experice and I heard that word "Grace."
i realized that honestly Grace had never meant more to me than its meaning now, 2009 is a year of Grace, of Gods Grace.
Grace is a force so strong and at work within us that causes us to cease from struggling with the same things, that enables us to declare victory over the very things that we( in the absence of grace) could have failed at.
Grace is the enviable generosity of God: blessed so much, people-even you are amazed. Grace is not about perfomance, but about who God is.
Ps23:3 'he leads me beside green pastures for HIS name sake.'
my hope is to come to rely more and more on grace, and to Know about this thing called grace.
But the trick is if grace abounds, as God said to paul 'My grace is sufficient for you.' why bother about uprightness, about the things of God since Grace is God choosing to be generous, tolerant, kind and understanding inspite of our short comings et al.
well grace is God's gift to us, in the form of his word, his son, his holy spirit and all other things pertaining to our salvation.
what is our gift to God? it is a love that causes us not to take his gift of grace for granted, in the absence of relying on self-power to fufil his calling of holiness upon our lives (1pet.2:13-16) but embracing everything he has made avaliable, provided inorder that we might fufil that calling;things as general as his word, and fellowship with the spirit, and the house of God i.e. church; and more specific like christain friends/mentors, christian literature and blogsville!!!
father in the name of Jesus I thank you for your Grace, for what it means and what it is meaning to me. for what it gives and what it is givivng to me. Lord let your grace transform me from the inside out, let your grace remain my testimony. in your grace i move, live and have my being. thank you lord in jesus name.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit (Phil.4:23).chichi
Grace is a leveler, the christain of ten plus years and the one of 10 seconds are both covered by grace. if we want to be honest so many of 'saved ones' tend to get all high and what not conciously or not, looking down on people who are saved but don't act/talk or walk like it or even those who are totally on the other side of the fence. I can be honest it happens to me everynow and again.
But I had a humbling experice and I heard that word "Grace."
i realized that honestly Grace had never meant more to me than its meaning now, 2009 is a year of Grace, of Gods Grace.
Grace is a force so strong and at work within us that causes us to cease from struggling with the same things, that enables us to declare victory over the very things that we( in the absence of grace) could have failed at.
Grace is the enviable generosity of God: blessed so much, people-even you are amazed. Grace is not about perfomance, but about who God is.
Ps23:3 'he leads me beside green pastures for HIS name sake.'
my hope is to come to rely more and more on grace, and to Know about this thing called grace.
But the trick is if grace abounds, as God said to paul 'My grace is sufficient for you.' why bother about uprightness, about the things of God since Grace is God choosing to be generous, tolerant, kind and understanding inspite of our short comings et al.
well grace is God's gift to us, in the form of his word, his son, his holy spirit and all other things pertaining to our salvation.
what is our gift to God? it is a love that causes us not to take his gift of grace for granted, in the absence of relying on self-power to fufil his calling of holiness upon our lives (1pet.2:13-16) but embracing everything he has made avaliable, provided inorder that we might fufil that calling;things as general as his word, and fellowship with the spirit, and the house of God i.e. church; and more specific like christain friends/mentors, christian literature and blogsville!!!
father in the name of Jesus I thank you for your Grace, for what it means and what it is meaning to me. for what it gives and what it is givivng to me. Lord let your grace transform me from the inside out, let your grace remain my testimony. in your grace i move, live and have my being. thank you lord in jesus name.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit (Phil.4:23).chichi
Thursday, 27 March 2008
THE TAKE OVER!!!
1 peter 3:9-: 'don't repay evil for evil. Don't retaliate when people say unkind things about you.INSTEAD pay them back with A BLESSING. this is what GOD WANTS YOU TO DO , and he will bless you for it.' [NLT version].
how hard is that? don't we just itch to have that infamous 'last word' , isn't the lure to 'hit them BACK where it hurts' the most appealing and tintilating?
somedays ago i heard something someone* said about me.... a relatively close someone; it was nothing 'bad' per say but it hurt me...
i walked into my room* and sat on mybed meditating on what had been said; immediatedly, the devil began to stir up anger within me, the 'how could so-and-so say that' 'what have i done to warrant this' 'it is not soand so 's fault... i blame condtion'.... yes i was getting furious; i knew to fight it but i let such emotons linger on for some seconds; until the above verse came up in my spirit....
'don't repay evil for evil' the holy spirit said to me and spent some time talking to me on this.
then i made up my mind; and i told the devil to carry is negativity outta here; i aint buying into bitterness and anger.... God's love is perfected in me. God wants me to repay 'evil' with 'good' and that is just what i am going to do! best believe satan carried his 'goods' away!!
my dearest the 'TAKE OVER' can/will only happen when you MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!
when i say 'take over' i am refering to God filling you up so much so that you both are intertwined.... he becomes you and you become him!!
vs 15 of the same book and chapter of the bible says this :'... you must worship christ as the Lord of your life.'
you get it?
2cor 5:15 says this : "he {christ} died for everyone so that those who recieve his new life will no longer live to please themselves instead, they will live to please christ, who died and was raised for them."
i have one word for you 'altar'.
that is what your life and mine our; an altar unto God; a LIFE set aside/concencrated to him.
you desire the take over; then MAKE UP YOUR MIND TODAY; decide to live for God's pleasure; to give him the best of your life.... to be AS HE IS.
the 'TAKE OVER' is possible; the 'ultimate disappering act of self' can happen to you; but we have to go a step further from desiring.... we have to MAKE UP OUR MINDS.... TO CHOOSE those things which cause God delight.
i know, i know... it is hard; but like God once told me : 'it may be hard but NOT impossible.'
his peace, my love. chichi.
how hard is that? don't we just itch to have that infamous 'last word' , isn't the lure to 'hit them BACK where it hurts' the most appealing and tintilating?
somedays ago i heard something someone* said about me.... a relatively close someone; it was nothing 'bad' per say but it hurt me...
i walked into my room* and sat on mybed meditating on what had been said; immediatedly, the devil began to stir up anger within me, the 'how could so-and-so say that' 'what have i done to warrant this' 'it is not soand so 's fault... i blame condtion'.... yes i was getting furious; i knew to fight it but i let such emotons linger on for some seconds; until the above verse came up in my spirit....
'don't repay evil for evil' the holy spirit said to me and spent some time talking to me on this.
then i made up my mind; and i told the devil to carry is negativity outta here; i aint buying into bitterness and anger.... God's love is perfected in me. God wants me to repay 'evil' with 'good' and that is just what i am going to do! best believe satan carried his 'goods' away!!
my dearest the 'TAKE OVER' can/will only happen when you MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!
when i say 'take over' i am refering to God filling you up so much so that you both are intertwined.... he becomes you and you become him!!
vs 15 of the same book and chapter of the bible says this :'... you must worship christ as the Lord of your life.'
you get it?
2cor 5:15 says this : "he {christ} died for everyone so that those who recieve his new life will no longer live to please themselves instead, they will live to please christ, who died and was raised for them."
i have one word for you 'altar'.
that is what your life and mine our; an altar unto God; a LIFE set aside/concencrated to him.
you desire the take over; then MAKE UP YOUR MIND TODAY; decide to live for God's pleasure; to give him the best of your life.... to be AS HE IS.
the 'TAKE OVER' is possible; the 'ultimate disappering act of self' can happen to you; but we have to go a step further from desiring.... we have to MAKE UP OUR MINDS.... TO CHOOSE those things which cause God delight.
i know, i know... it is hard; but like God once told me : 'it may be hard but NOT impossible.'
his peace, my love. chichi.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
the choice the price.
as i lay in bed unwilling to arise from my slumber and begin my day, a scripture was wisphered into my spirit-Exoduos 8 vs 1-10.
it happens to me like that sometimes; God just 'wisphers' a word to me. anyway i jumped out from bed, reached for my bible, opened to the passage and began to study.
the gist of it: Moses had been sent to pharaoh with a message from God "let my people go, so they can worship me" that was the message the instruction; the command. however God added "...IF you refuse.... i will send vast hordes of frogs across your entire land...."
pharaoh refused- and payed the price; ' .... frogs covered the WHOLE land of Egypt..." vs6
time passed- and pharoah sent for Moses and Aaron and begged "plead with the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people...."
Moses replied that it was Pharoah who decided when he will pray for the Land to be rid of the plaugue of frogs.
pharoah's answer: "do it tomorrow.
i personally have wondered why pharoah said 'tomorrow' but it was a choice HE MADE and once again he paid the price "another day of frogs!"
then the Lord said to me: THE CHOICES WE{i} MAKE AFFECT NOT JUST US BUT THOSE WHO ARE AROUND US-THOSE WHO MEET WITH US.
it's not just us who 'suffer' or 'gain' from the choices we make in our personal lifes but every other person we know or would meet.
IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT YOU- and that is the coffee you need to wake up to meaning-this is the truth you have to accept.
the choices we make in 'our' lifes either ENRICHES the lives of those we come across or makes them the 'POORER'-.
it was pharoah's choice that got the entire land of Egypt into a horrible situation- and instead of him to LEARN from that and correct himself he repeated the same FOLLY.
we leave in a 'self-obsessed' world; we want to constantly have our way-do as we like thta we make the CHOICES we eventually would regret; the CHOICES those around join to pay the price for.
the bible says in James 'he who lacks wisdom should ask God who gives generously.' you and I NEED wisdom for choice- once we understand that it does not END with us, but BEGINS with us; we become more dependent on the Lord's leading for direction {as it should be anyway.}.
so yea : 'THE CHOICE THE PRICE'; remember its NOT just us who reap from our choices BUT those around us. this is a message on selflessness in a way- becos once you are out to do right by God and by those around you {like paul admnishes us in one of the epistles to do our best to live at peace with those around us} you cease to live for self, and if that is not christ-like, then i wonder which christ we talking about here.
his peace. chichi
it happens to me like that sometimes; God just 'wisphers' a word to me. anyway i jumped out from bed, reached for my bible, opened to the passage and began to study.
the gist of it: Moses had been sent to pharaoh with a message from God "let my people go, so they can worship me" that was the message the instruction; the command. however God added "...IF you refuse.... i will send vast hordes of frogs across your entire land...."
pharaoh refused- and payed the price; ' .... frogs covered the WHOLE land of Egypt..." vs6
time passed- and pharoah sent for Moses and Aaron and begged "plead with the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people...."
Moses replied that it was Pharoah who decided when he will pray for the Land to be rid of the plaugue of frogs.
pharoah's answer: "do it tomorrow.
i personally have wondered why pharoah said 'tomorrow' but it was a choice HE MADE and once again he paid the price "another day of frogs!"
then the Lord said to me: THE CHOICES WE{i} MAKE AFFECT NOT JUST US BUT THOSE WHO ARE AROUND US-THOSE WHO MEET WITH US.
it's not just us who 'suffer' or 'gain' from the choices we make in our personal lifes but every other person we know or would meet.
IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT YOU- and that is the coffee you need to wake up to meaning-this is the truth you have to accept.
the choices we make in 'our' lifes either ENRICHES the lives of those we come across or makes them the 'POORER'-.
it was pharoah's choice that got the entire land of Egypt into a horrible situation- and instead of him to LEARN from that and correct himself he repeated the same FOLLY.
we leave in a 'self-obsessed' world; we want to constantly have our way-do as we like thta we make the CHOICES we eventually would regret; the CHOICES those around join to pay the price for.
- the husband/father who CHOOSES not to break free from his addiction to alcohol- he is NOT the only one who suffers his entire family suffers as well.
- the man/woman whose REFUSES to abandon a pessimistic outlook on life is NOT the only one to suffer; but those who surround him/her.
the thng baout choices , is that conciously or unconciously, we are MAKING them- we either choose life or death; and have the consequence of our choices to look forward to.
the bible says in James 'he who lacks wisdom should ask God who gives generously.' you and I NEED wisdom for choice- once we understand that it does not END with us, but BEGINS with us; we become more dependent on the Lord's leading for direction {as it should be anyway.}.
so yea : 'THE CHOICE THE PRICE'; remember its NOT just us who reap from our choices BUT those around us. this is a message on selflessness in a way- becos once you are out to do right by God and by those around you {like paul admnishes us in one of the epistles to do our best to live at peace with those around us} you cease to live for self, and if that is not christ-like, then i wonder which christ we talking about here.
his peace. chichi
Friday, 22 February 2008
gospel truth again... the begining of it all.
"for God so loved the world that he gave his only son
so that everyone who beleives
will not perish BUT have eternal life."
the following verse of the above scripture{john 3:16} says Jesus did NOT come to condemn the world but to save it.
the truth is it hurts me; it hurts me when i see people NOT regard God; it hurts me when EVEN I do NOT regard him as i should. what more do we want? HE loves us so much he "gave up" the one important person/being in his life and world. he made him who KNEW NO sin know sin that we may be saved.
CHRIST CAME AND DIEDTHAT WE MAY LIVE AND REGIN {not just in heaven but here on earth.}
in class a lecturer wanted to show a 'film clip' on TV but before he did he asked if there were christians were in this class becos will be offensive to them.... out of over twenty people THREE rose up their hands? out of those three people GOD knows those that are realy HIS; those in a relationship and not in a religion.
where hs the love gone?
i read some one's blog {by accident} where the person said and i quote "Swing.life is to short."
that rubbed me the 'wrong way'; whatever 'swing' means is up in the air but all i know is it did not sound right... it sounded like that misguided and ignorant thing people say to excuse their'wrong' actions "you only live once!"
we live in ageneration that has forgotten its God. i do not want people to be suprised come judgement day.... but some are bent on being suprised.
jesus knocks on the door of each heart... who will open? who will let him in? who will not laugh at his love but will rather acept and trust it.
when it comes to this God i do get very touchy; it breaks my heart when i see people 'not care' why? do they not know HOW much he loves them, what he gave up for them.... why will they treat him or speak of him iwthout revere, respect with a lack of apppreciation!!
i do not get it at all!!
so i thought remind them... for those who have forgotton; tell them... for those who have NOT heard,
GOD LOVES YOU, WANTS YOU. YOU NEED HIM
FOR THERE IS NO HOPE, NO LIFE OUTSIDE OF HIM
HIS ARMS ARE OPEN NOT TO CONDEMN
BUT TO SAVE.
MY GOD IS MIGHTY TO SAVE INDEED
NO MATTER WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE HAVE DONE
WHERE WE HAVE BEEN
HE IS READY
TO LOVE YOU
GUIDE YOU
TEACH YOU
BUILD YOU
PURIFY YOU
MAKE YOU
FOR HOW LONG WILL YOU WANDER OUTSIDE THE GATES
THE DOOR TO HIM IS OPEN AND YOU
YOU ARE WELCOME.
give your ALL to jesus... you wont regret it; believe me i know.
keeping it real. his peace. chichi
Thursday, 21 February 2008
TAKING CHARGE...
i dunno if like me there is anyone who this is for... but really im writing this for me. getting outside myself and speaking to self....
siting around waiting for things to 'change'? you might as well get ready to wait for a long time....
there is the change that only God can deleiver and there is the change only you can deleiver.
'you need to take charge'. quit crying, mopping, day-dreaming, wishing... and TAKE CHARGE!!
moses did... God said {not really} from here on out it is you... you strech forth that 'stick' and the sea will part.... you dont and well the egyptians will catch up at get ya!
so what are you waiting for.
do the cruches.
do the sit up.
eat right.{try}
your dream {body} will remain a dream other wise.
ps 18 vs 29: God's got your back.
his peace my love.chichi
siting around waiting for things to 'change'? you might as well get ready to wait for a long time....
there is the change that only God can deleiver and there is the change only you can deleiver.
'you need to take charge'. quit crying, mopping, day-dreaming, wishing... and TAKE CHARGE!!
moses did... God said {not really} from here on out it is you... you strech forth that 'stick' and the sea will part.... you dont and well the egyptians will catch up at get ya!
so what are you waiting for.
do the cruches.
do the sit up.
eat right.{try}
your dream {body} will remain a dream other wise.
ps 18 vs 29: God's got your back.
his peace my love.chichi
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
A PORT IN A STORM...
ps 9 vs 9: "the lord is a SHELTER for the oppressed, a REFUGE in times of trouble. "
my devotional this morning passed on a message; it challenged me to fearlessly commit yourself {myself} to what is written in te bible.
once upon a time last year, life as i knew it seemed 'over'; the hardest thing for me was looking at God as the same, beleiving he was in control of my life and the situation i was facing.
it was tough. just thinking of that time in my life makes me shiver and makes me say "thank you Lord."
life is filled with battles, challenges, i mean Paul would not have told us about ' putting on the armour of God." if life was one party after another.
you and I are going to have to FIGHT; FIGHT the enemy of our lives and our destinies.
when i read the above psalm i wondered "refuge? shelter?" so i decided to find out a synonym for the words and this one hit me 'WHAM' a port in a storm.
this is who Jesus is : a port in a storm. i then decided to find pictures of Ports and i did and one thing that was the same in the pictures of ALL the different Ports was that the boats or cars were all at a stand still... resting if you will.
God brought me out of my fire, and even today he is bringing his children out of trouble and trials still...
the holy spirit kept telling me then during my 'fire' "it is never too late to have faith."
he kept telling me this because my faith at this point was t an all time low... i am not even going to lie and say i was strong, i kept falling apart and getting up again.... it was a nightmare of a time in my life indeed.
but i did NOT have to suffer all that emotional , physical and spiritual battering... God is a PORT in a STORM. all i had to do then.... {and what intend to do hence forth} was go to him and REST , to STAND STILL and know that he is God.
when the rain is pouring , and the sea of life is churning Jesus is the place to go, and the place to stay.
we do not have to loose our heads when Life hits, neither to have to live in a perpetual state of fear of thinking of WHEN life hits...
Faith is good. God is his word, and according to Malachai 3vs 6 he {God hence his word} does NOT change , he will never change!!
often wondered how people will be going through DEEP, DARK stuff and they excude this peace, joy, moutain moving faith? i would tell you their not so secret secret...
"they are at the PORT... standing still, resting in HIM, waiting quietly for the coming day of victory."
he loves us so MUCH. so so MUCH.
he is home, he is ALL we would need.
i have fed a heart.
his peace. chichi
my devotional this morning passed on a message; it challenged me to fearlessly commit yourself {myself} to what is written in te bible.
once upon a time last year, life as i knew it seemed 'over'; the hardest thing for me was looking at God as the same, beleiving he was in control of my life and the situation i was facing.
it was tough. just thinking of that time in my life makes me shiver and makes me say "thank you Lord."
life is filled with battles, challenges, i mean Paul would not have told us about ' putting on the armour of God." if life was one party after another.
you and I are going to have to FIGHT; FIGHT the enemy of our lives and our destinies.
when i read the above psalm i wondered "refuge? shelter?" so i decided to find out a synonym for the words and this one hit me 'WHAM' a port in a storm.
this is who Jesus is : a port in a storm. i then decided to find pictures of Ports and i did and one thing that was the same in the pictures of ALL the different Ports was that the boats or cars were all at a stand still... resting if you will.
God brought me out of my fire, and even today he is bringing his children out of trouble and trials still...
the holy spirit kept telling me then during my 'fire' "it is never too late to have faith."
he kept telling me this because my faith at this point was t an all time low... i am not even going to lie and say i was strong, i kept falling apart and getting up again.... it was a nightmare of a time in my life indeed.
but i did NOT have to suffer all that emotional , physical and spiritual battering... God is a PORT in a STORM. all i had to do then.... {and what intend to do hence forth} was go to him and REST , to STAND STILL and know that he is God.
when the rain is pouring , and the sea of life is churning Jesus is the place to go, and the place to stay.
we do not have to loose our heads when Life hits, neither to have to live in a perpetual state of fear of thinking of WHEN life hits...
Faith is good. God is his word, and according to Malachai 3vs 6 he {God hence his word} does NOT change , he will never change!!
often wondered how people will be going through DEEP, DARK stuff and they excude this peace, joy, moutain moving faith? i would tell you their not so secret secret...
"they are at the PORT... standing still, resting in HIM, waiting quietly for the coming day of victory."
he loves us so MUCH. so so MUCH.
he is home, he is ALL we would need.
i have fed a heart.
his peace. chichi
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