My wedding (Repost)

I always pictured that my wedding will be like every other Nigerian wedding. The aso ebi, loud live band, the variety of food, the beautiful decorations in the hall, friends, family and strangers all having a good time. However, my wedding turned out to be the opposite of what I hoped and imagined. It was just the two of us, no other person involved and it was the happiest day of my entire existence.

My lover, you know makes me happy; he is the best thing that ever happened to me. I was one of those good girls who did everything ‘good’ but always ended up been hurt, disappointed and abandoned.

Focus on the Good

"Secret" a.k.a Law of attraction, is the idea that because of our connection with a “universal energy force,” our thoughts and feelings have the ability to manipulate this energy force to our liking. According to the secret, our thoughts and feelings attract a corresponding energy to ourselves. If our thoughts are negative, we attract negative things. If our feelings are positive, we attract positive things. The essential message is that we all have the power to determine our own destiny. We can all create our own reality. Through fully and consistently applying the “secret,” we can be who we want to be and have everything we want to have.

When you come home for Christmas

She was probably joking but it was something I reflected on. "When you come home for Christmas, come with someone".

Subconsciously, I had been checking men out but since I was meeting them while working (offering services), it's been strictly professional but deep down would hope I run into them after. I wonder how meeting them after was meant to work as I'm very anti-social...lol.

Anyway, to my disappointment, I got a call back from one. One who automatically thought he ruled my life without me agreeing to date him. It was creepy, confusing and annoying. Probably he was looking for a Christmas girlfriend too. Then I realized I had been missing my reason for the season. My Christmas was beginning to be about having a serious relationship, the type you spend holidays with. It was about romance and the little things we call love. Definitely, I was wrong!

Sacrificial love is the reason for the season.

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 😘