"May the best day of your past Be the worst day of your future." My Dad always wished me this Irish Blessing and I want it to matter today and every other day in my life.
Friday, 18 July 2014
I hope that I can meet these requirements .....
I try to care deeply, laugh loudly and accept my imperfects. I know I am a spit-fire as I do love fiercely. My desires are openly and stand up boldly, still struggling with trivial things, need to learn how to let go and let GOD!!!!
1 step forward ...
Its taking the first step towards God that makes a difference. I love the Lord God with all my heart and all that I am. Why don't you also take that one step?
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Finding me in Jesus Christ
People who genuinely
now; me, will know that I am passionate about the Lord Jesus Christ. I can sit and talk to you for hours and then
you may say something opening a door for me to tell you about the Lord Jesus
Christ. My husband once said to me, “All
you really talk about is God, the Bible and people in the Bible.” Yes, that’s so true, I am speaking to you as
a Christian and it is my dream of course to be able to write more about Jesus Christ
and teach people about this one true God.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but
have eternal life.
Thank the
Lord for this verse, I am so glad to see that God loved the world that he gave
us his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
This means I am able to stand before the God of our universe knowing
that Jesus Christ is my advocate and that He love me. I have failed Him so many time but He has
never turned His back on me.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
It is my wish
and desire to draw near to the Lord God each and every day, to make God and
most importantly Jesus Christ my focus point.
I pray the Holy Spirit to touch your lives and lead you to the Lord, and
I hope to find you in Jesus Christ.
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Aging ...
Me and my grandchild Anabelle on my 50th |
I don’t know if it is true for any of you
beautiful young woman, but aging has become such an issue for me. The first sign of aging is pre-menopause,
night sweats and hot flushes. Then all
the other issue that come along with menopause.
Then of course grey hairs are popping up all over my dark head.
Proverbs 20:29
“The glory of young men is their strength, grey hair the splendour of the old.” (NIV)
“The glory of young men is their strength, grey hair the splendour of the old.” (NIV)
So guess what?
I am going to embrace my grey hair and enjoy the splendour of my old age.
Then of course I don’t know about most of you
young and beautiful woman but I dream a lot and most of the dreams are
significant to me. I receive messages
and it takes me a couple of days to get to the bottom of it but I finally I get
the answer. I believe God is dealing
with me in this way; isn’t it awesome.
Joel 2:28
“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and
daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will
see visions.” (NIV)
I hope that as I age I will be treated with respect and that in turn I will treat other people the same way.
Leviticus 19:32
“You shall stand up before the grey head and honour the face of an old man, and
you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.” ( ESV)
Just one more and tomorrow we can carry on with
the aging process. I have the highest
respect for my father, I know he had his faults and what not but in my eyes he
is the greatest man that ever lived.
Then of course there is my mum, to me she means the world and I really
worry about her, she is fragile and easily offended. I keep her in prayers constantly as I know
she done the best she could and I think it paid off. All her children are respectful and decent
and she can be proud of all her grandchildren too, not to mention her grate grandchildren.
2nd Chances
This is something that makes me think about my past, my
present and my future. I just cannot
undo the past, what is done; is done!
The present is something I current have in hand, I work with what I have
and I pray the Lord to lead me each and every step of the way. Thinking back on the past I realise that I
have made some seriously bad decisions and I just have no idea how I can ever
rectify them. I also realise that it doesn’t
help me to sit and worry about what happened and see how I should have acted. The fact remains, it’s in the past.
Currently I am working on my attitude and to be honest I am
really negative as a person, I don’t see the positive of a situation unless it
is pointed out or very obvious to me.
That is difficult as I tend to be really very hard on myself. I am my worst enemy, when I feel that I have
made a mistake or spoken ill of someone, I really break myself down to almost
nothing. Hard to believe that I can do
that but it seems one of the traits I have practised for so long it is
difficult to stop.
I started to go and look for answers for this problem, as it
is a real problem for me. I then
realised that I actually don’t know and really have the ability to love people. Now as someone that is quite knowledgeable on
the Bible and has made it my business to study and learn as much as possible on
this subject I failed to learn how to love people. Don’t laugh its rather serious! How is it possible to teach and preach to
other people the Word of God and you don’t even care or love them? I pose the question to you. Is this possible? It is, I have been doing this for so long I
never realised that I just have no compassion, kindness or affection towards
people, I cry automatically when I feel sorry for them but I really cannot say
that I love them. Drastic measures needs
to be taken. I started working on my
attitude for one, thinking about the pain, hardship and discomfort and trying
to learn how to forgive people and accept them for whom they are. This of course is a process and to be honest
I am working hard on it. I then started
praying about my problem and God is faithful and creates situations that make
me feel so uncomfortable. People that
love to give one a kiss and a hug gives me the “hebie jibes”. I literarily cringe, if they are not my
family it is really hard for me to give them the same treatment.
So the process is ongoing and I am working at being kinder,
listening to people and not assuming they are on the attack. I am also working on how I view people so as
not to down grade them before I have even spoken to them. Not forgetting forgiving people. Hmm you think that’s simple they say “I’m
sorry” and tomorrow they do the same thing over again, compulsive apologies don’t
work for me and the I start to merit them.
Not trustworthy and unreliable and then of course I lose interest and
cannot be bothered with such a person. The
hard fact of the matter is why should I be stuck with people that
disappointment me constantly and think it’s okay. No, move on.
Then God and the Holy Spirit come along and remind me of
what Jesus taught the His disciples, “For if you forgive others their sins,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others,
your Father will not forgive you your sins. (Matthew 6:14-15).
Eina!!!!
So currently; I believe God for 2nd Chances, I
have so many hang-ups and problems but I still keep going back to the source
(my Bible).
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