The Difference!

Have you ever seen a really attractive person -- someone people can't help but turn and stare at as they walk by? People with great God-given beauty may make a great impression, but it will be forgotten when the next beautiful person comes along. It takes something better for what you think was awesome to be forgotten.
We are all beautiful but are our actions beautiful? Your actions are what distinguish you, what makes the difference apart from the pretty face.
Ask yourself this question. Am I beautiful inside? Everyone falls for your outer beauty but do they also fall for your inner beauty?I think that the next time you want to call yourself beautiful or handsome, you should think twice. What are those things you do that you know are not pleasing? Ask yourself! How do I treat people around me? How do I make someone's day better? What is that one remarkable attitude that people know me for? These are the kind of questions that should be going through our minds every single time we are about to praise ourselves.
Let us always try our best to leave a lasting impact that will differentiate you from others. Do something differently. One thing I know that keeps one happy is helping people. Just change someone's life and be happy!

God matters a whole lot!

I am a great lover of Sarah Jakes and she encourages me every single time I decide to keep myself updated with what she is doing again. She wrote this on her facebook page and I decided to share this with you. #beblessed.
           I keep thinking that sharing my story will become easier. I've made so many detours in my life that being open about them makes me so vulnerable to people and their opinions. I just wanted to say that no matter how many pictures you see me taking, interviews I'm doing, or blogs I've written the nerves and fear remain. I think we spend a lifetime waiting to pursue our heart's desires because we want to be accepted. When people can't grow with us we often choose to be stuck. We allow our lives to be dictated by what we "think" people will believe about us... Foolishly, we convince ourselves that because we've done X we no longer deserve Y. When really it comes down to what we will believe about ourselves. Critics whisper when you get it right and yell when you get it wrong. None of their voices combined can match God's. Will you tune Him out to check in with "them"? I don't mind the nerves. The fear won't stop me.. And I'll no longer be on the sidelines of my own life being coached by my insecurities or opinions. I'll stand in my truth. I'll do it afraid. Because growth is just that necessary for me and I see so much grace shining in my vulnerability. Each breath we take is permission from God to not just exist, but to live. Don't waste your breath....
            I believe so much in the saying that everyone has a past and no matter how negative it is, it is that past that launches you into your future. The fact that your life has not been taken at this point, no matter what you have done, should assure you of God's love for you. I can tell you that you are never going to get everything right. We spend too much time convincing others to see our intentions through our eyes and not nearly long enough seeing our actions through theirs. Your life is yours! Everyone has an individual race. However you decide to live it, you owe no one any explanations but God. After all, its still God that never fails right?
           Anything you feel you need or want, you deserve it and no one can deny you of it. Your past should not dictate what your future is but should guide you as to what and what not to do. Live everyday with one assurance, God loves you and is full of faith in you. Whether you believe in him or not, he's there and is the only one that is ever going to be your greatest fan! God's love...

The heart made right!

          A lot of us have self made and self built walls all around us. Walls that cannot be put down by anyone except us. These walls are usually unforgiveness, hurt, pain, bitterness, all minimal emotions. Trust me, they are pretty strong walls.
          Just imagine that you have a disease and you know the particular drug or the one doctor that will cure you from it and yet you deny yourself perfect health, insisting on not doing those things because of reasons best known to you. That is what a lot of us do to our hearts unconsciously. You deny your heart love, joy, peace amongst all because you don't want to give it its medicine. What will cure your heart from that long term disease, that long term pain and hurt? What will give you the perfect wholeness that you have been waiting for? I'm sure you know the drug. I'm sure you know that one thing you need to do. For me it was forgiveness. I needed to let go of that hurt that disease was making me go through because I was fed up. I was. I was tired of being in pains every single day. I have a conviction in my heart that you feel that way too but there are a lot of fears. Will my life be normal again? You would agree with me that a particular disease makes us used to a somethings in a defined way. You might be used to your mood swings and your anger at every singe thing. but I can assure that there is a far way better life waiting for you only if u let go. Only if you break that wall yourself. Let go of that person, of that situation because that wall just keeps you from getting somewhere, from achieving the next victory, from loving and we need these things in our lives. We really do!
          We continue to be slaves to our emotions once we refuse to acknowledge that some things are in the past and we should just let them remain where they belong. There is really no need for you to go into your future so blessed, so glorious with whatever you know is holding you back. you might not see now how bright that future is now. Control that disease so it doesn't control you. 
          This is just me telling you that your heart needs to be made right. Break your self built walls.

The only best friend!

          God wants to be your best friend! I think the reason why a lot of us are not close to God is because we have not realized that he is our God. God is your God, he belongs to you. I don't know maybe you are just like me, tired of not being able to identify who really is a friend. When I got tired, I ran to God. God is not a distant person that you cannot reach or talk to anytime. He lives in you. Have you ever tried to imagine how a big God that we cannot fathom his size could live inside of you? That should assure you that he is the best thing that can ever happen to you.
         I want to tell you today one way you can become best friends with God. Now you will never know how close you are to a person until you keep talking and getting familiar with one another. First is by sharing all your life experiences with God1 ALL! Keep talking to him, tell him everything. Now, it might look like you are out of your mind but all you are doing is building a friendship with a strong foundation. You should be talking to God while shopping, driving, working, reading or anything at all.
        I know one thing! God is the best friend you can ever have. The one that will wait for you if you stray, the one that will love you no matter what you do! The one that can give you anything you want...If I were you, I won't think about this twice. I don't know of any friend that is better! He loves you! It doesn't matter what you ave been through, who has hurt you, who has turned their backs on you. I know God is waiting for you. Be blessed!

LOL!!

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Am not ready!!!

I wrote this on behalf of me and a friend of mine. I just remembered how much we both turned God down individually several times and we hope that it will help you to make that very hard but rewarding decision to follow God today.

Am not ready... am not ready
That has always been my attitude
Towards God and everything that comes with him
Time after time, day after day,
I longed for sin, and made them best friends
I played with them, danced with them
But each time, when I turned around,
Jesus was always there, waiting. Patiently.
My friend's mother- in- law's mama warned me
But all I did was turn away again
One day, as usual, by one a.m, I was staggering back
My belly filled with liquor and breaths from the lips of guys
A lot of them went into me and out, into me and out
And now am incomplete!
At first I thought, "what kind of God will want me"
I clean up everyday cos it covers my filthiness, my dirt, my mess
What kind of God will want someone like me?
To me, God was like Josh
That always waited to give me ice cream
Every time,and gosh! I didn't like him
But he did! He did!
I became convinced that God was still there when mama dint die
Cos I ran to God
I had heard that miracles fall from heaven
Though I could not understand cos the skies seemed closed to me and selfish too
Like everyone I had known in my life
When I let Josh in finally and he failed me
When everyone judged me and all God did was love me
All he did was wash me and save me and hold me
And then I realized!
God was like a man marrying a woman he knows will constantly cheat
Ever since I let him in, I think ive left him a hundred times
But my hero! He's always waiting for me
I don't want to leave him waiting no more
Cos I love him too much now
He never gave up on me and he never will!. 
Whenever you think you are ready to let God in, Fine! Take all the time you want. But think, how long do you want him to wait for you? He's always going to be there anyways. He's always going to be the best for you. In him, you have all the answers you want. He's your peace. I think you should let him in.

DON'T GIVE UP!!!

Picture in the world of your mind right now a dark room, a very dark one. Then, when you get into that room, nothing seems visible. How large is this room? Is there anyone here? These are the questions and many more that have impossible as their answers. “Is there anyone here?” that seems like a very difficult question for you to ask. And then you see something far off, blinking, a very dim light. There is relief, finally. At least you have an idea how large the room is. I know that whatever is there, no matter how dim the light is, someone put there or it’s there for a reason.

            That dark room could be somebody’s life. It just seems like there is no way out, we can’t just figure out what is happening. You can’t place your hands on who has really been there for you. It’s just you and your problems and your hurt, your pain, your disappointments. Yes! They are yours but for how long do you want to remain the person outside the door of the dark room that is too scared to get into that room? For how long do you want to keep wondering how long that darkness is going to last? For how long are you going to keep being afraid of seeing everything negative? Locate something positive..

            Can you still identify love in your life? Can you recall that it is love that has made you want to wake up every morning despite all? I mean, it is love that makes you wait at the road signal for that old woman that gets down from the bus between 6 and 6:15 that cannot cross the road alone. It is love that makes you forgive your friends the 20^th time they failed you. That’s just a guess of course, it’s more than that. It is love that gives you hope that someone, someday will show you that kind of love; that faithful, kind and selfless love, the kind that Jesus loved us with. Don’t give up on tour life. Please. Don’t give up.