Learn to relax.

Matthew 6: 34 “So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.”

All the people around me seem so relaxed and content with their lives while I am constantly busy and getting involved in all kinds of things. My husband is constantly telling me to relax and not to take each and everything so seriously. I think, that’s easy to say, I cannot help myself.

I don’t know if you are able to relate with me, I am the kind of person who is constantly planning ahead; making sure thing will be done at this and that time.  I walk fast, I eat fast and do things immediately and I hate things to be left for another day. I cannot accept excuses and get irritated when people don’t do what they promised.

My first lesson these days is to not always have the last word. Something I noticed most people want to have the last word. They will send sticker or something just to be the last message in your text messages. I have not resorted to not responding after I said what I wanted to.  No emphasis is necessary I said what I wanted to.

We tend to want to know what tomorrow will bring and how we can sort things out before hand and that’s people like me. I cannot wait for things to happen I am constantly seeing what I can do to make it happen.

The past couple of months have been different in that I had been at home and I could just sit around doing nothing. I was constantly busy cleaning and washing clothes and ironing the clothes.

I didn’t know that I would be back at work for a couple of months and now I need to trust in and focus on God to open a door for me next year. In the mean time I have prayed about my situation and now I have to leave this in God hands and trust He knows best. 

Prayer

O Lord God of all Your children I must be one of the most uptight kids You have adopted. Lord thank You for being patient with me and thank You for watching over my life. Thank You Lord for teaching me to relax and take things easy when I want to run you slows me down. Thank You Lord for always doing what is best for me. I humbly faith I ask bless my life today as well as all the people I come into contact. I ask this in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Amen

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Are you in God’s business?

Galatians 6: 10 “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.”

Are you open to a personal question today? If you are in God’s business what exactly are you doing? I see that your parents are struggling and they cannot keep their heads above water. They pay the rent and that is that. You ask yourself why I struggle financially. I give my tithes and I go to church each week. Still I just am not making it these days.

God wants you to get into His business by helping your parents firstly and then looking after the widows and orphans. While you get busy doing God’s business God will start getting busy doing your business.

There are so many people going through so much these days but the sad part we are building our own little empires. Gathering all these things here on earth and when we die, tell me who is going to receive all your riches?  If you do not have children it goes to the Government. 

It is my heart’s desire to leave a legacy behind for my children and I am doing everything possible to make this happen. 

I want to ask that we all rethink our situations. God I am calling out to You open our eyes and lift the veil off our eyes so that we can see. Give each one of us the wisdom and insight and understanding in looking firstly for Your kingdom.  We are all calling out to you.

Prayer

Lord God, I am asking that the Holy Spirit will work today in the lives of each person I am sharing my blog with. Please Lord soften the peoples hearts towards their parents, let them help them. We cannot survive without the roots and our parents are our roots. The branches are drying up because they are neglecting to water the roots. Holy Spirit will you speak into the hearts of the people all around us, let us be more compassionate towards our parents and people in need. I call this into life in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen

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Are you tired?

Isaiah 40: 28-31 “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

I am back at work and it seems like my life has spiralled out of control. I seem to have a double dose of everything. I was sitting down and reading how great my God is. Even when I feel exhausted and not in the mood to do much I draw my strength from the LORD. 

I am reminded that the even in my so called “Winter Season” of life God will give me the necessary strength to do my work. What I didn’t realize is that as I grow older life changes and I don’t have the strength I used to have.

Even young people grow tired and feel exhausted. Thank the LORD our God for strength and the knowledge that we have been strengthened to such an extent that we can fly like eagles and run and not grow weary.  

Prayer

Heavenly Father, LORD thank YOU for taking care of me for such a long, long time it’s so good to know I can turn to YOU.  LORD I dedicate my life back into Your hands and ask that You will help me with the renewing of my strength so that I am able to fly like an eagle and walk and not grow faint. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen

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Sing praises to Him

1 Chronicles 16: 9 “Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders.”

No one knows how much I wanted a “Tallis Prayer Shawl” and today God gave me one.  My friend Cornelia came to my office and said as she was praying God said that I should have this Shawl.

I was so taken and tears just poured from my eyes with such gratitude and gratefulness. My life is stormy at the best of times and currently, I am going through some stuff and I felt like God has forgotten me.

In all humility and with a grateful heart I can only say thank You Lord for answered prayers. This “Tallis Prayer Shawl” was very special to Cornelia as it was her mom’s and she brought it all the way from Israel.  A place I will still visit.

My thanks to a God who knows when we need an encouraging moment? Today is so significant to me I will always keep this as a special day. Thank You, Lord for sending me this beautiful shawl it is something that I will always treasure and keep close to my heart. The fact that only my husband knew that I wanted this shawl makes this even more significant to me.

God knows the desires of my heart and granted me this today. 

Prayer

Lord God all I can do is come in adoration to Your throne and say Thank You so much for this beautiful “Tallis Prayer Shawl” all the way from Israel. O Lord You know who I have desired to own my very own Shawl. I am so very grateful that You answer prayers even those which are secret. Lord all the honor and glory to You and thank You also for placing this on my best friends heart. I am so very grateful. Praise Your Holy Name, I will worship and praise You for the great God You are. Amen

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Say “Yes” to God

Isaiah 6: 8 “Then I said, “here am I! Send me.”

We are all preparing for our futures and as scholars, we are in the fortunate position in still living at home with our parents. I don’t know whether you have experienced any life-changing encounters with God. What I do know and realise is that each experience we go through is teaching us and moulding us into the person we will become in the future.

One day the prophet Isaiah was praying and this was the message he received: “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said: “here am I! Send me.” And He said: “Go, and tell these people.”

Isaiah needs to have a life-changing encounter with God before he was able to act on these words. “Then one of the “archangels” flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is purged.”

My question today is “Is God preparing you and are you ready to go?” If so, say yes.

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Are you a fully functioning part of the Church?

Ephesians 4: 16 ESV “from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.”

When last have you attended church? When Sunday morning comes along are you up and ready for church or do you pull the covers over your head? I wake up early and start rolling around and then I just jump out of bed and get ready for church. I love attending church services as I want to grow spiritually and I want to hear what God has for me that day. 

I love teaching and when the Pastor is a teacher I seem to thrive on the sermons. I think about one of the services I attended, I was so taken in with the message I complete forgot about time. Then there are times when I just keep on watching to see what time it is. 

Now are you fully functioning as a part of your church? Do you realize that the church is paralyzed when you aren’t there? Each of us has a roll to play in the church and don’t forget you are “the church”.  Looking at 1 Corinthians 12 verse 12 we see “One Body with many members – for just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.” Continue in verse 18 “But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each of them, as he chose.”

Come to church and grow spiritually, you don’t know when God is going to send Jesus back for us.  I believe if you aren’t attending church you risk the chance of missing your calling. 

If you are absent we suffer because of your absence and our numbers dwindle and you are missed.

Prayer

Lord bless each person today reading this message, Lord we need people to return to church and we are calling them back. They need to be fed and the best way is to attend church services and from there they grow and become stronger. Bless each person in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen

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