Monday, 1 December 2008

Joy

If you look around today you’ll find people that are morose physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually; I’ve often wondered what causes this state of being, and I’m convinced that the main root of this feeling is the fact that most people have lost or forgotten the way of being joyous.

A majority of people in this daynage find themselves bondsman to a system that tirelessly put demand on their resource, physically, mentally and to an ever increasing extent, spiritually. We are made to be so busy and expanding all our energy in activities that doesn’t satisfy or fulfil us, that we don’t have the time to engage in fulfilling regenerative pursuits.

Religion, that for a long time has tried to act as the equaliser, has fallen prey to the old adage ‘if you can’t beat them join them’; today people see religion as a duty that must be transacted, as opposed to a transformational experience.

I recall reading somewhere in the scriptures the statement “… be still and know that I am God”, translated, we sometimes need to stop and smell the coffee, stop and enjoy the fruits of our labour, stop and smell the roses, stop and bask in the pleasures ‘beauty of the moment’.

Faith

There is a lot of talk about having faith; however, whom should one have faith in? Some say have faith in God; another school of thought says, have faith in your fellow Human Being, yet others say, have faith in yourself. This is what the scriptures say:
1. What profit is it to a person to have faith and not work
2. Faith without work is dead
3. Show me your work and I’ll show you your faith
4. By work a man is justified and not by faith
5. The body without spirit is dead, likewise so faith without work is dead also
The heart of the matter is, the more we expand our energy in daily toil we are relieved. Active Faith is finding the will from within our self.

Why Me?

Sometimes we are so focused on our own problems & challenges that we makes ourselves inaccessible (unapproachable) to people, and sometimes the very people that can aid us.

If you think about it, Jesus Christ, still preached, showed love, caring, compassion, healed the sick, raised the dead, etc. He did all this with the full knowledge that the Scriptures had to be fulfilled (about) by Him.

So, what can we learn from this? That we ought to aspire to grow into the fullness of the Measure of Christ in our daily lives.

Agapa; If we walk in Agapa, if we can only walk from Agapa, then in the mist of turmoil we’ll have Peace.

Is There …

A Difference, in saying ‘I Am tired, I Am hungry, I Am angry’ and ‘I feel tired, I feel hungry, I feel angry’?

Well, ‘I Am’ is a language of the Spirit denotes ones Spiritual Being - hence, when we say ‘I Am …’ we make confessions, proclamation in the Spiritual Realms which in time gets manifested in the Physical Realms.

On the other side ‘I feel’ refers to the natural body, the body can feel, hungry, tired, or sleepy, because it was designed to. If the body is in need of food, feed it; if it’s tired, rest it; if it’s sleepy, sleep.

All these things does not affect your Spiritual Self, save the thing you speak ‘I Am …’

It gives a whole new meaning to Self Talk

You R a Candle

The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 5 verse 14; lets us know that we are the light of the world, a city on a hill top.

True, true, yet; The Spirit of Man is as a candle, but the Holy Spirit is the Light that alight the candle.

Without the Holy Spirit, although we may have within us the means to illuminate, we remain in total Darkness.

With the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, we shine! we shine boldly, we shine magnificently, we shine brightly toward the perfect day.