Set the blessing in motion

Set the Blessing
in Motion

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
“Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
(Luke 6:38, ESV)

TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria
God is a god of abundance! He wants to pour out His abundance on you until you are so full that you are running over with His goodness. Notice how this verse starts. It says, “Give, and it will be given to you.” That’s because your giving sets the blessing of God into motion in your life. Giving is like a seed. When you plant an apple seed, it doesn’t just grow a single fruit. That one seed grows into a tree that produces an abundance of apples! That’s what happens when you obey God in your giving. You receive an abundant harvest in return. It’s overflowing, literally “running over!” And when the blessing is running over, it means you have so much that you want to give more. The cycle just keeps repeating itself! Is there something the Lord is telling you to give today? It could be financial, material or even your talents and service to others.

What do you have in your hand that you can use to bless someone else? Take a step today and set the blessing of God into motion in your life. Open the door for His blessing to be running over in every area of your life today!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father, I choose to obey Your Word. I choose to be a tither and a giver. I choose to obey Your word and step out in faith knowing that every seed I sow will come back in abundance in Jesus’ name! Amen.

Joy unspeakable

You know God blesses us everytime but sometimes we're to busy to realize but if we just look back, it's really wonderful what he has given us. Well, for me he's given me so much joy and I can't help but use these lyrics:

You give me joy that's unspeakable
And I like it, and I like it, yeah
Your love for me is irresistible
I can't fight it, I can't fight it, yeah

If life is water, I was dry as Tucson dirt
If it's a gamble, I'd already lost my shirt
If it's a journey, I was dazed without a clue
I flipped a "U" back to the first love I ever knew

You give me joy that's unspeakable
And I like it, and I like it, yeah
Your love for me is irresistible
I can't fight it, I can't fight it, yeah

You carried the cross and took my shame
I believe it, I believe it, yeah
You shine Your light of amazing grace
I receive it, I receive it, yeah

If life's a battle, the invasion is complete
If it's a rhythm, I have found the perfect beat
If it's a renaissance, I've got a new birthday
The world don't give it and the world can't take it away

You give me joy that's unspeakable
And I like it, and I like it, yeah
Your love for me is irresistible
I can't fight it, I can't fight it, yeah

You carried the cross and took my shame
I believe it, I believe it, yeah
You shine Your light of amazing grace
I receive it, I receive it, yeah

I'm bowed and broken, everything's new
All that I need, You're like water to seed
And how Your love rights everything wrong
And in my weakness, You're ever stronger
You're pulling me back where I belong

You give me joy that's unspeakable
And I like it, and I like it, yeah
Your love for me is irresistible
I can't fight it, I can't fight it

You carried the cross and took my shame
I believe it, I believe it, yeah
You shine Your light of amazing grace
I receive it, I receive it, yeah

You give me joy that's unspeakable
And I like it, and I like it, yeah
Your love for me is irresistible
I can't fight it, I can't fight it, yeah

You carried the cross and took my shame
I believe it, I believe it, yeah
You shine Your light of amazing grace
I receive it, I receive it, yeah

Read more: Newsboys - Joy Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

70*7

When you are upset, you say a lot of things that you probably don't mean and when the phase is over, you want to be forgiven, you pray that the person you said those words to let's them go.

Personally, it pains me when someone doesn't let go of whatever it is that is hurting them that another human (especially me) caused. Even if the person doesn't ask for forgiveness, letting it go frees your mind.

Ephesians 4:32 NIV

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Now if I ask for forgiveness more than 7 times, do I still deserve your forgiveness?

Matthew 18:21 KJV

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Matthew 18:22 KJV

Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Seventy times 7 is 490. Now if someone "sins" against you 490 times, then that must be the person's sole purpose in life ..lol. And for you to keep so many scores, you're jobless and don't know what to do with your life 😒 (lol)

Let's forgive one another, let's love another so we can proudly say the Lord's prayer.

Matthew 6:12 NIV

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

P.S. - I know forgiving could be hard, that's why we ourselves should try not to piss people off. Don't talk when you're angry and treat everyone like you would like to be treated. God bless 😘

The fruits of the spirit

Recently, a friend told me that I wasn't nice and I replied "niceness is not a fruit of the spirit"
Now people usually try to argue that statement with me and I don't blame them. I, personally didn't agree with the preacher that said it. Well, the examples she gave didn't cut it for me. So I will try to break it down so hopefully it cuts it for you.

What are the fruits of the spirit?
1. Love
2. Joy
3. Peace
4. Patience
5. Kindness
6. Goodness
7. Faithfulness
8. Gentleness
9. Self-control

Nice: pleasing, agreeable, delightful.
So I guess it's safe to say being nice is a good thing.
But agreeable isn't always a good thing if you think about it. You agree to stop talking to someone so you can save your friendship. Yea, you're nice to your friend at that point but keeping malice is wrong.

Someone's spouse is spoiling you everyday and you decide to be nice enough to return the favor and sleep with him/her. Yea, he/she is glad for the reward you just gave them but hey, adultery is still wrong.

Or you were so nice, you got fired at work.

Or you were so nice, you got expelled from school.

I guess the moral of this message isn't don't be nice. But don't let being nice be an excuse to do stupid things.

Everyone is smart enough to know good from bad. But don't let the fact that being nice backfired stop you from being nice when it's right.

Be nice in love. Love knoweth no wrong, it's kind, it's gentle, it's patient (pretty much wraps up everything).
God bless you 😘

#BringBackHumanity

Over 200 girls are missing, another bomb attack in the same area as the previous one. We won't stop praying, we won't stop tweeting and changing dps about the issues. We can't help but let anger in, and anyone who happens to smile has no feelings and is heartless.

Someone is gisting with you and you go, "you know they still haven't found those girls". It would be nice if what came to mind is hope that they would be found and a little prayer would do. Some would say, "hope ko, who would bring them back with this lazy government we have, our president can't set things straight" or "prayer without works". Newsflash: B*tching (pardon my french) about it is not doing anything either... When your emotions are filled with anger towards the nation, you're not helping, you're making matters worse, you're losing.

Let's picture this, your sister is missing, what's your first reaction?

Well, let's talk about my reaction, I look for her personally, even if I have no volunteers, even if I won't be sure I can overcome obstacles, I would give my best cause it's my sister and that's where we're wrong, we only go out of our way for loved ones, for fame, for power, for wealth not for humanity.

Most things are never going to make sense in this life, like why there are bad rich people amongst good rich ones. Like why the good girl has no kids in her husband's house along side the ones with terrible pasts or why the promiscuous has kids after several abortions. Like why "e ni to mo way, lo mo we". Like why people that date for long have bad marriages and ones who barely knew each other can make it work. Or why 234 girls would go missing in a school in the North. North, same north that has female children unwilling to study, now it makes sense to the "lazy girls" that just want to stay home and wait for bride price why education is bad.

On my updates, I saw in my updates, I saw "ile aye, ile asan". Vanity, all is vanity. The essence of living is lost, humanity is lost. We live for selfish desires, fame, power, wealth. Which are all good things but what's the point, we all die anyway.

When Jonathan sees the girls as his daughters, when the armed forces, police force see the girls has their children, when the people see them has sisters, then we would join hands to find these gals. So the CNN lady comes to Nigeria for this issue and we haven't left our smartphones. I understand she's getting paid but I'm sure there's a part of her that has found her humanity.

We've lost hope, we've lost joy, we've lost confidence, we've let fear in, we’re selfish, we’re greedy and we only do things for ourselves and we blame Jonathan. No doubt he’s a bad president but the people are dark too. Kill for a position you aren’t good at, bribe for grades you don’t deserve, marry someone for their money. Every little thing counts.

Love is what we need, love is what we should fight for, and unspeakable joy is what we should yearn for. Not the white men enslaving us in the name of helping us.

So we won’t stop praying, and we won’t stop hoping,we would search for the Chibok girls, we would pray for the families of the Nyanya victims but we would do our part, helping the least people we know,loving our neighbours and teaching them to pay it forward. It just might bring the girls back home. Let’s find our humanity, let’s make the world a better place while we’re still in it. I pray God gives us the heart to love. #BringBackLove #Bringbackourgirls #BringBackHumanity

The refresh button

My love for starting over!
It's easy when you're stuck, just hit the refresh button. Sometimes I head in a direction knowing fully well that I would get stuck and then I hit refresh again. I mean that's why the button is there innit? This is a new me, not doing that again and when I do, well there's the button. For every program that has frozen, that I realize is done the wrong way I refresh. The ever loving refresh helps me start all over. 

But then, "What happens when the refresh button gets stuck?". When you cant even begin to fill a new form because refresh is permanently on. You don't even get to have a chance to start something new, cause every second a refresh is made.

Well, the key has to be disabled and the new form/program/whatever has to work fine. One has to live like the key doesn't exist. It's hard to not use the button but its better to live like you don't know it exists. Cause you might think the key would always work for you, it's going to get broken at some point. Don't abuse the key!

The F5 button inspired this post, it made me realize I try starting a "new life" over and over.

The bible says:

Shall we continue in sin and grace abound? God forbid! (Rom 6:1-2).

His grace is sufficient, yea but now, sinning and asking for forgiveness over and over isn't an option anymore, because we're dead to sin. That's what being born-again is all about, that's what being is disciple is all about. Trying to live a blameless life is the solution. Looking up to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

This doesn't mean that God gets tired of us and repentance isn't going to happen after series of sins. Jesus' died for our sins (no matter how big/small) so salvation is free. So I'm not saying you can get stuck and repentance would not be granted to you, I'm saying, don't sin because you know you can ask for forgiveness after. Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God (Luke 4:12). At the end of the day, God is God and you lose if you try to outsmart him

How you gonna bind the devil?

Tablet vs hard copy
Technology vs (opposite of technology) ..lol.

I'm a lover of technology, heck my being born in the 90's was no mistake (oh, you trying to guess my age now ba). Technology keeps evolving and it's awesome. Technology for one helps in making one realize there's a God. Right? I mean if I can communicate with Peju in Australia from Nigeria, should it be hard to believe that I can communicate with a God who is in my heart but I can't see?. Or if an application can tell when you change location, how much more a God?. He created us in His image, so he is the ultimate Creator and we're the mini creators. Explains why we have this things in place, he has giving us the ability to do wonderful things. So where am I going with this? Should we stop carrying our hard copy bibles? This post is inspired my Ola and his crew (the ANT podcast).

So my opinion:

Yea, drop your bible at home and use your tablet. One thing I have learnt from being an IT person is that you never rely on one copy. Have a back up. So my hard copy is my back up for when all soft copies go bad (which would have to be an extreme case). You have your bible on your tablet, phone and lappy. If you lose them all on the same day, then (lol) dunno what could cause that. Maybe you got robbed or an earthquake. But you have to have your hard copy for the most extreme cases. So I for one think taking your tab to church is cool.

"What if a message comes in while you're reading your bible, wont you get distracted?"

Hmmm.

When you are with your hard copy, and your phone rings, you get distracted too. If you don't want to get distracted, you put the phone on mute. Same applies to tablet, or you didn't know you could turn off your network?. Your bible does work offline, innit? Thank me later :D.

Every good thing can be abused. The sweeter it is, the worse the abuse but that shouldn't stop us from looking at the advantages of good things. Married people still have sex even though it's been abused. So why shouldn't I use my phone cause others abuse it.

How you gonna bind the devil?

I really didn't know one needed to stone the devil with the bible. I believe all Jesus said was "Get thee behind me", he wasn't busy stoning him. That was a joke someone tried to crack  anyway so I shouldn't elaborate. (I have said "so" so many times. *sigh*).
If you prefer holding your hard copy bible, it's cool, at the end of the day, it's what's in our hearts that count. And if you know you like navigating through your phone in church, don't deceive yourself, carry your hard copy.

So what would you do if technology disappears one day?

It has to be the end of the world and I should be in heaven chilling ..lol. Actually, my first 4 months of nysc was without technology and it wasn't bad at all. We're built to adapt to changes in the long run.

"Those who use the things of the world should not become attached to them. For this world as we know it will soon pass away." -1 cor 7:31