Like A Child - Peace Oseyenum

When a child falls over usually an adult helps the child up because it would be unreasonable for the child to fall over and to stay on the floor for a long period of time.

No matter how painful the bruise is the child simply cannot stay on the ground for hours, days or years.

Taking this a step further, an adult will also usually take time to address the bruise caused by the fall by cleansing it, which may sting then the adult may find something to sooth the pain then finally cover the bruise with a bandage or plaster.

So as an adult when you fall down or fall into a unpleasant situation don't  remain down. Do you know how irrational it is to fall and stay down? Imagine a 5 year old on the floor crying for 4 years non stop about the bruise that happened to them when they were 2 months? Do you know how irrational it is to have a wound but not deal with it? Or even worst to leave it open and carry the pain for years and years?

Just because the pain may not be physical it doesn't give it the right for it to eat at you for years on end.
Don't give a situation the yard stick to determine your life if it is contrary to the word of God.

Man can only help you so far, because man is flawed. But God has no flaw, He is the ultimate healer and deliver. Direct your sores, grazes, bruises and cares onto Him.

Just as you are the child, He is the adult that will cleanse and sanctify you. This may sting but He will heal and comfort you, He will strengthen you. Finally you'll find that the traumatic fall or circumstance followed by His healing won't just be for you but will serve a greater purpose.

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He is able, He is more than able, to help you up when it seems like you're lost and alone. It is in those times that he carries you. So trust in Him.
BUT, don't remember God only when times are hard, develop that relationship with Him so you can share everything. Love Him with your whole heart, He wants it today.
Have a great week ahead guys! x

Priorities - Peace Oseyenum

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"Sometimes we can get stuck seeking provision first, instead of seeking our Provider. 

Sometimes we can get stuck seeking out approval or affirmation from people, instead of going to God first and experiencing His love. 

Other times we'll see our value in our accomplishments instead of seeing that God created us with value, even before we ever did anything to deserve it. 

Our value is built upon His love for us.

We can so easily sell out and miss our purpose by seeking other things before God's will in our lives. What is He doing? What is He saying? Jesus said He only did what He saw the Father doing - nothing more, nothing less. (John 5:19)

Are we seeking God's kingdom first? (Matt 6:33), Are we putting His purposes first before seeking out provision? 

God will make sure our needs are met when we put His kingdom first."

I Wish - Peace Oseyenum

I wish I was flawless, faultless, without sin. 

I wish you would search the motives and intentions of my heart and find no iniquity from within.

I long for a consistent pursuit of seeking the Father and emulating him. 

I wish for my total being to reflect him.

He didn't die for me to be lukewarm, mediocre, "not so bad". 

There must be more than this, there must be more depth than this.

How I long to put away every single distraction that can deter me from abiding in the bosom of my Father.

To bear much fruit, to do much exploits, to be like him; Jesus.

This is my heart cry, but why does it feel like nothing is shifting from me.

I get up I fall down, I wake up I slumber. I'm diligent I'm lazy, I'm selfish I'm self-fulfilling.

I can't serve two masters; either I dethrone my own will or obey yours.

I can't serve myself. I can't. I won't.

There, I will find truth and encouragement in the word of God, for I know my struggles are not new to man. I know that even David fell and rose up, I know that God's mercies are new every morning.

So I endure, and patiently wait in him. I trust that he is a God of purpose, process and promise.

He didn't die for me to be lukewarm, mediocre "not so bad". 

There IS more to this.

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Have a great week ahead guys, live like there is more to this. x

Choose Wisely cont. - Peace Oseyenum

This is the continuation from part one here, which was for this guys but this is for you Ladies!

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Dear Madame,

I understand that you need stability, as a man I must provide. 

As a female you need protection and security. I mean how could I take you from the comfort if your fathers house and bring you a world of unnecessary struggle due to my inability to save and work hard to provide for our household.

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But if I told you that money wasn't the all in all, would you still be committed? If I lost it all today would you still reflect the unconditional love of God? Would you still respect me? Would you still submit?

I can assure you now, that if there is any doubt in your mind and any of the above questions have the answer of no, then it's best we go our separate ways now. It's not because I don't love you, it's because I don't want you to be with me for the things that I have the same way you don't want me to choose you for the looks you have. The bible doesn't promise a problem free life, in fact he warns us that trials and tribulations will come! 

So babe are you that helpmate? Are you the one to calm the storm or will you just add thunder? Are you the supporter or the hater? Will you intercede with me at hard-times or gossip with your girls about our problems. He who finds a wife finds a good thing. So choose wisely

The Importance of Praise & Worship - Peace Oseyenum

It is essential to develop a heart of praise and thanksgiving. If you neglect praise than you are robbing God of the gratitude he should receive, ultimately even if we praised him for all eternity it still wouldn't be enough therefore for us to not praise him at all is wrong! It is also vital to praise God because of who he is; he is faithful, merciful and loving and therefore deserves our all in all, when we do not habitually praise we habitually complain, moan and grow into depression when we don't get what we want when we want, as if it's all about us. So I encourage you to develop an intimate relationship with God whereby you seek his face and not just his hand, that you seek know him for yourself and not just for ministering purposes, that you actually grow to love him and be transformed in his very presence. 

Imagine you spent 5 hours just worshipping and praising God, no interruptions, no distractions what do you think will happen? Now you don't have to spend 5 hours with God but we all know that we can spend 5 hours with our friends some of us even speak on the phone for 5 hours some of us scroll on Instagram for more! So what more with our maker? Let us "#PushForIntimacy" and with that develop a heart of gratitude that isn't circumstances based or based on material things that will perish on this earth anyway. 

Praising and thanking God for who he is and not what we can get is true praise. I mean we simply cannot praise God only on what we have as we will never be stable, the bible doesn't promise us a journey with no issues rather it encourages us to have faith, to live by faith and not by faith, to not lean on our own understanding but to trust him, it teaches us to remain steadfast in times of troubles, trials, tribulations and suffering. So can you see that praising God when only things go our way is inconsistent? Also understand that we are not God and therefore do not know the beginning middle and end, so it would be wiser to trust God and praise him in all things seeing that the bible promises us that God will never leave nor fore-sake us and that he makes all things work out for those that love him and are called to his purpose. Therefore it would be unwise to complain, moan, be ungrateful and depressed as we can't see the end product. 

Remember God is kind and loving, so even though something painful takes place learn to trust that God is in control and that it has a purpose. When Joseph (the dreamer) received a vision in his teenage years it didn't come to pass until much later in his life, and the journey he had was extremely painful and strenuous, infact based on his process that vision/dream didn't seem like it was ever going to happen. But atlas when everything fell into place, (the good and the bad) Joseph was able to say that "The Lord had made him fruitful in the land of his afflictions". So calm down, stop crying, stop the self-pity and rebuke the enemies lies. being anxious profits nobody! Therefore make your requests known unto God with thanksgiving and the let the peace of God bring rest. Start your praise journey today!

Put No Confidence In Self Or The Flesh - Peace Oseyenum

It is lengthy, YES but I believe it definitely worth the read. Miss Peacy has written another powerful message I believe we can all benefit from, I know I did. She applies submitting all to God to every basic area of our lives and also talks about the importance of totally relying on God. Help us surrender all to you Lord. Amen.
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Yesterday we tweeted "Put no confidence in self or the flesh"- today we will be elaborating on this. Now when we say "put no confidence in self or the flesh" we are not saying that you should be shy and insecure, rather your security, assurance, reliance, and dependence is totally on God.

We are aware that our salvation isn't the work of man, but by the death and Resurrection of Christ Jesus, therefore we played no part in it, it was simply by the grace of God. Yet we still try to work everything else by ourselves and neglect the grace of God, then after everything has failed blame God for not being with us.

Now we denounce the world, we denounce satan and evil, some of us even denounce sin yet how many times do we denounce ourselves? How many times do we dethrone ourselves from our high horse? We are not our own God so why do we behave in our attitude and actions like we are collaborating with God in this walk? You can't 'partially' rely on God and 'partially' rely on yourself! This walk is a walk of FAITH, and nowhere in the Bible does it say God helps those that help themselves if that was the case why would Jesus need to die, surely he could have just come on earth to do a few miracles then go back to heaven.

What we are trying to emphasis here this season is the Sovereignty of God and how we need to trust this Sovereign God ONLY.

"Put no confidence in self or the flesh"
Concerning your sanctification process and overcoming sin, this is the power of the Cross made manifest in through the Holy Spirit. Its only by the purifying power of the Holy Spirit can that we can overcome sinful habits, stop trying to perfect your actions before aligning your heart. You don't want to be somebody that looks good on the outside but is perishing on the inside as the pharisees did. So let the work be an inward one. Don't be a person that prays God with your lips yet your heart is far away from him, don't be someone who preaches and teaches about God yet yo yourself don't even know him intimately. Many of us need to go back to God with our hearts yielded to him.

Pride: You.Dirty.Evil.Thing - Peace Oseyenum

Hey guys! Here's another post from one of my fave writers and guest blogger miss Peacy :)
Hope you enjoy and learn a thing or two
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Please Read....
Pride- self righteousness, selfish pride, pride
that is malicious, indirect/mental/psychological pride.

Pride connected with shyness/low self esteem, conceited
pride, pride related to shame and condemnation.

Pride related to un-forgiveness/offences/sensitivity/emotions.

Pride related to dignity and self importance/
authority/titles/ self exaltation, arrogant pride and ignorance in pride, egotistical pride, competitive pride.

Pride related to rudeness/ bad attitude/prideful
behaviour and characterisation/ , pride related to beauty/self appearance.

Pride related to the inability listen to people
regardless of status etc etc, or pride related to the inability to seek for
help.

There is so much pride in this world that as Christians we may actual be oblivious or just plain ignorant towards the little shapes and forms it appears in. Pride isn’t just the character image of the tall, arrogant, muscular popular guy in American high school films that everyone LOVES to hates but wants to be friends with or pride isn’t just the basic ‘popular cheerleader’ girl who is rude and evil yet everyone envy’s. Nope. Pride is diverse.

Can I Talk To You - Peace Oseyenum

Hey everyone! When I started the blog I mentioned that I'd have a few contributors on the blog from time to time, so meet Peace! She's one of my good friends here in uni and she writes really well and I think everyone can relate to this particular one here. She's said she'll write how often she gets the chance to, we're all pretty busy with uni honestly but I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!

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Fellas can I talk to you?
I think it needs to be said, guys STOP getting involved with females you have no intention of having a future with! If you're not ready to love her the way Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25-26) then don't get involved.

As a male you know when a female is emotionally attached you, and you know when you want to pursue a female... So why take the keys to heart if you know full well nothing will happen in the future?
I mean are you so insecure that you have to have a girl attached to you in order to feel good? Are you that empty that you need a girl to fill a void of a females emotional attachment to you knowing full well that no long term effects will come out of it?