YOU!!!!

So its been quiet a while since i wrote a note on here, doesn't mean I've been less inspired just means i have been in my incubation period where a lot of growth has taken place, a lot of reflecting and some decision making. As one grows older, the message and pictures become clearer and clearer with time.

I’m going to share a little bit about whats been going on while i was incubating and of course, my passion for writing will reveal it all. Its a free world and we are allowed to share our ideas and experiences, allowed to voice out whats in the depth of our heart, that’s the beauty of communication. I communicate to my audience of friends via social media, most of them i know, some i haven’t seen in ages and others well.......... they disappeared or maybe i disappeared on them, one of us disappeared, lol!

Life is an amazing journey, filled with many experiences and opportunities to grow and become one’s best self, reaching the grand potentials that are hidden inside but only exposed under certain circumstances. As most know I am Christian, which means I am a follower of Jesus Christ. And being so has shaped me and my beliefs and how i view the world. Today’s note is about YOU! yes................YOU!

YOU are a masterpiece, YOU are loved, YOU inspire others and YOU are amazing! YOU might not realize it or perhaps have not been told lately just how special YOU are. Well let me take the opportunity to say it while it was said to me too.

Never forget your worth as a human being, never forget you are a treasure, you are unique and your existence indispensable. This is not a fairy tale or some kind of motivational talk, it’s TRUTH told and shown when JESUS chose to die for YOU on that Old Rugged Cross. When no one was willing to pay for the mess your sins made, He was, when no one was there for you when you were in need, naked, hungry and weak, He was! Therefore the price of YOUR life was shown to be a high one because of the value JESUS placed on it and demonstrated it on the cross. But the story doesn’t end there. He’s preparing a PLACE for YOU so you could no longer go through the pain, hurt and suffering that this world brings. What a grand promise!

YOU were and YOU are WORTH IT!!! Wont YOU accept God’s Eternal Love today???

Mercy

Mercy, the one word that's often said. But after I sat down to truly reflect what it really means, I was astonished by what it is.

Mercy originates from God, He is the author of mercy and HE is merciful to us in so many ways. Mercy also has a lot to do with tolerance, understanding and the patience of God. Thats why I say that God is the true and complete definition of what mercy is. He is ever willing and patient with each one of us, when we are unbearable and beyond repair, He takes His precious time to work on me and shape me into who He wants me to be.

Our Father has a plan for each one of us, great and mighty plans beyond our imagination, beyond our comprehension and He is merciful in executing justice and bring before us what we need. Most times what we think we need isn't always what we really need, only God our Father knows what is best for us and when its best for us.
God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us form all unrighteousness. Once God has mercy, He forever has mercy.

God's mercy has so many dimensions to it, thats why it needs to be studied well.  One of the principle things that I have seen about His mercy is the patience that God has on each one of us. His word says that He( God) is not slack concerning His promise. He is a long suffering God and its so remarkable that one of the components of the fruit of the Spirit is patience, its actually the first to be mentioned in  Galatians 5:23,24.

God is love! God's mercy endures forever. He does not repay us according to our iniquities but He cast out our sins and they are remembered no more. Our God is just and faithful, merciful and true. There is none like Him and none that will be like Him, because He is the only God, the true Creator and owner of the universe.

God is a God of mercy, He wants us to come and reason with Him Isaiah 1:18. He wants to wash us and cleans us, He wants us to have clean hearts that will truly and wholly reflect Him. Thats why He takes His sweet and precious, holy time to work on us.
I am still learning more about the mercy of God.
SNH *vialavoluntaddeDios*

Our Father leads

As I reminisce on the numerous blessings given to me, I can't help but recall the words to the song "more than ever" by the Gaither Vocal Band. These precious words are a personal testimony and a remembrance of how and when I started my christian journey.

"
When I started my journey in fresh childlike trust
I believed that the Lord's way was best
I would read in His word how He mothered the bird
And grieve when it fell from it's nest
How I felt His delight when i chose to do right
And I prayed I would not make Him sad
We would meet on the way in the cool of the day
What a pure sweet communion we had
Oh but now more than ever
I cherish the cross
More than ever I sit at His feet
All the miles of my journey have proved my Lord true
And He is so precious to me."

The everlasting and wonderful God, the creator of all the universe who willingly gave His only begotten Son as a ransom for my sin still lives today and daily shows me my destiny, through salvation, I have access to Heaven, I have victory over sin, though my sinful nature is ever before me, Christ is working in me to will and to do of His good pleasure, thus the struggle and the conflict between my flesh and God's eternal will. He imputes in me His righteousness. By His grace I am His and He is mine.

Its good to take time and look back on how we started our journey, drawing back to the wonderful moment when we got immersed in the waters by baptism, professing to the world whose were and where we chose to belong, where we currently are in our christian walk and where Jesus wants us to be by His grace and love. Then and only then can we see the changes that Christ has made in our lives. We never feel the growth, just like we never feel the process of cell division, duplication and replication of our DNA, synthesis of our RNA and various proteins that make up a large component of our being. But as we can't feel the growth, we can see the change and others see it more.

I have come to see that only Christ gives identity, purpose, meaning, life, joy, happiness, peace.......... and the list goes on. A true and pure communion with Him is what He desires. As a mother gently leads her child through the walking process, so does our Heavenly Father, He never leaves our side and He will never forsake us. He is LOVE and He is our Father, our King, our provider and our God! We are not His robots but we have been called His children. There is a big difference between having your own child and taking care of stranger and I believe that this more profound with they that have their own offspring. In the eyes of God we are precious, wonderful, priceless and worth dying for. Now thats amazing!
THAT'S LOVE! SNH

Service

What does it really mean to serve???? For the past few days I have been deeply contemplating on service, what it takes to serve, why should I serve? And am so glad on the impressions I have received concerning this topic.

First things first, the definition of service is to genuinely place the needs of another before your own. That definition kinda sounds familiar to me........ I personally think that service has a lot to do with LOVE, that high and holy principle that only Christ teaches us. Service isn't conditional, its a sincere willingness to do whats right and what would be best for the other according to the instructions of the Divine Master Jesus Christ. Now this "other" isn't always going to be a friend, a mother or someone thats very known to us, this also applies to strangers, in fact it highly applies to our enemies, those that do us wrong, those that hurt and bruise us.

When people here this, they quickly turn their faces aways as they remember and reflect upon the horrible memories that are linked to a person that wronged them, But as Jesus said, what good is it to love only those that do good to us? Mat 5:46. The whole point of love is to apply the principle on those that hurt us. But why????????? I asked this question always, until Jesus in His mercy, through His holy word, answered me and made it all clear.

In loving someone undeserving, you show the character of your Master and trainer Jesus Christ. In loving those people, you are used as an instrument to help them know more about Jesus. The truth is this world is very old!!! Its filled with people that are always after their own pleasures and this is all because of SIN, even Jesus said it in Mat 24:12 concerning the conditions of the close of earth's history. " And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will wax cold" we don't even need to prove this statement, just by looking around us, we can see that the words of Jesus are not void. He never lies.

There's more to life than getting what we want, achieving all our aims and goals, I am in no way against determination and the goals that one has in life, but I am saying that in all we do, we should consider others. We should seek to serve and help someone's life better. We won't be super heroes with super natural powers, but in the little done, we will make a difference in Jesus name because we are ambassadors for Him in this lost and dying world.

To serve is to love, for without love I can not serve as Jesus served. Jesus was moved with compassion for the people He met, He felt their hurt and knew their deepest cries. He sympathized earnestly with them and drew close to them because their situation got to His heart. Oh what an example!!! Without Jesus, I can not serve, my carnal heart is not built for that, but as Jesus promises me in Eze 36:26,27 He will give me new heart, He will take away this heart of stone an replace it with a heart of flesh. Its the only way that a human can actually make a difference, any other method apart from this one is false and will be in vain.

The Savior asked "How can you being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." and He was right. A Chinese man can not speak Spanish naturally, he has to be trained, so it is with us, we can not serve genuinely, we have to be trained! trained by a master, the Master Jesus Christ.

The truth is I am still learning to serve, its not easy, sometimes I receive the worst of the worst treatment, and knowing my sensitive nature, I have wept a few times here and there, and sometimes, people are very receptive and warm, but regardless of the response, good or bad, its worth it, its worth it because Christ did it before I did and that's what gives me HOPE!
SNH *vialavoluntaddeDios*

You have no idea.

You have no idea how much it takes to get there,
You have no idea how I work and fulfill my desires,
You have no idea of my wisdom and my ways for the are way too complex for you,
As a result I have revealed my will and character to you through my precious Word,
The word that lies on your book shelf,
I do recognize the efforts that you make in studying it,
But the truth is, you are not doing it as much as I would love you to do it.

You have no idea what tomorrow will bring but I do,
You don't have any powers against the tests that I set before your path, but I do,
You have no idea how much I want you to succeed and prosper, but I do
Everything that I want you to know is in my Word,
Everything is there for you to read,
I will help you, I will guide you,
I will teach you and instruct you in the way that you should go,
I will guide you with my eye.

I love you and you are the apple of my eye,
You were bought with a high price,
You are my own and I will do everything in my power to make sure you know that,
But be careful my child, because around you lies an enemy,
An enemy that seeks to destroy the plan that I have for you,
I've already warned you so many times in my word,
but fear not because I am with you.

This is not to say that the road will be easy,
You will have to make some efforts as well,
Some sacrifices and decisions that not many of your companions will be in favor of,
But don't mind them, its me you should focus on,
I will give you strength because I am your strength,
You will learn and I will patiently teach you my ways,
I will walk you through the lessons as a mother helps her little child to learn how walk,
All these lessons I have given you,
Ask for wisdom and discernment and I will give it to you,
I will show you the way.

Call upon me always, for i delight to hear from you,
Call my name and will be attentive,
I told you, you were bought with a price,
You are worth dying for,
I love you so much my child, if only you knew
But I know that with time, you will understand it better by and by.

And don't be surprised if some times things don't turn out the way you would expect them to,
I love you and I know what I am doing,
Just trust my wisdom and guidance because it will keep you from unnecessary harm,
Trust me, I am here for you
And I know whats best!

Your Father in Heaven.

Just like you promised.

Each and every day that passes by is an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to grow and become a better friend, sister, daughter, student, aunt, niece, granddaughter, neighbor, and the many other roles we have been given here in on this earth, but above all these roles and responsibilities, I have come to see that everyday is an opportunity given to grow more in our Christian walk, to develop our character.

As the days go by and as everyday turns to a week, week to a month, month to a year and year to more years, I see my broken nature standing right in front of me, its with me and in me. And sadly it is so because am part of Adams fallen race and in me dwells no good thing. However there are 2 sides to it, and the very thing that determines where I stand lies within me. its called MY WILL POWER!

God granted me this powerful gift out of the LOVE He has for me. The choices I make determine all. Whether I choose to live and sob in my broken nature or rush quickly to the foot of the cross where lies a compassionate Savior, willing to give me hope, wisdom and meaning in this little life of mine likened unto a flower that withers and quickly fades away. Its a choice, a very big desicion that I need to make every single day that I am given life by the Almighty.

I choose to live with Christ, in Christ, for Christ, by Christ and always for Christ, even if my very nature rebels and protests against it. With such an important decision, I need all the strength I can get to live by and stick to these principles. This is why I CAN NOT dare be apart from Christ, the author and perfecter of my faith. My sustainer and provider!

Truth is we are a broken people, a broken and hopeless world that is in desperate need of saving, we are selfish sinful beings that are in need of cleansing, in need of purification. May the LORD have mercy upon us as we daily learn to surrender to Him our entire lives.

She took a jorney.

She took a journey, she didn't really know what it was all about, she was  willing to learn, willing to live and willing to die............so she thought until the worst came upon her. She cried, could not understand, she wondered and thought what went wrong, why she supposedly did the opposite of her beliefs, until it was shown to her her real nature, her vulnerable and hopeless state. Her broken form could not mend things.

As the famous saying goes "Words are cheap,but actions speak louder than words", it was more than enough to express her real carnal nature as she realized that her promises were as ropes of sand, she had no power what so ever to fulfill any of the sweet promises that came from her mouth. Thinking all was well,she forgot on whom she totally depends.

Allowing the enemy access to the situation, doubt and fear crept in, fear of the unknown, fear that she was all alone and that NO ONE understood her. God never forsakes His own, even when they sometimes forget that. Sin has poisoned our thinking, it has destroyed us and separated us from our loving and good Creator, we have memory problems especially when it comes to God's promises,one minuet we read and rejoice in Gods word, the next we are found doubting His very pure and precious words.

We must realize always that we are broken, but through Christ we have hope, hope of being once again restored to the wonderful image that was robbed from us. Knowing this and only this will keep us on track, will keep us in line with the God's ways, as the Comforter promised to us by the Savior Divine desperately comes to our rescue, ever working to mold, shape and from the broken human into the perfect image of God.

As she daily battled, she realized that the strength lies not in her, the urge and power don't come from her, but from her Loving Savior who promised to ever be with her as she begun her journey. She then realized that the more she grew, greater was demanded from her and the greater the demands, the more grace and power was given to her..........But the story doesn't there,........its continues with joys, sorrows, ups, downs, highs, lows, mountains, valleys, you name it,but all through her journey is present a Loving and Merciful Savior who walks with her all the days of her life on Earth.

She took a journey, she cried during her journey, she grew during her journey, but best of all, she's learning to embrace her journey with Jesus Christ!

Love

Hmmmmm....... when I look at this 4 lettered word, I have great respect and fear for it. Well that wasn't the case a few years ago, in fact up to now, I don't know how many times I have used this word but all I know is that in the most times, I abused it.

When I sit down and reflect through the true meaning of LOVE, I am amazed by how much the human race has cheapened and degraded this great and powerful word, not only is it a word, but its an ACTION too. Many times we tend to use it without even knowing what it means. There's a old saying that goes, "If you don't mean it, don't sing it", and I'll substitute some words there and come up with my own saying, "If you don't mean it, don't say it."

And its true, I mean, why on earth do we need to pretend and show the world what we are not, to me it makes no sense, it makes no sense to smile to people when we don't mean it, when were are not sincere in heart, it makes no sense to be there physically for a person when deep down in my cold and stony heart I am complaining to death. IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!!!!

Seeing that this makes no sense, what should we do???? If we are truly God's children as we claim, we definitely know that world's way of doing things should not even be an option on our list of "possible solutions", and exactly what is the "world's way" of resolving this problem??? The world's way of resolving this problem is being cold and selfish, its totally ignoring and forgetting that we are brothers and sisters in Christ, that we are one body. And we know that that is NOT the Lord's way!!!!!

If we really want to know the true meaning of LOVE, we should seek its source, we should seek its initiator or its author. And thank God that we have it both documented and demonstrated in His word! 1 John 4:7,8 says "Beloved, let us LOVE ONE ANOTHER for LOVE IS OF GOD, and everyone that LOVES IS BORN OF GOD and knows God.He that loves not knows not God; for GOD IS LOVE." and  there it is written right in front of our faces.

1 John 4:16  "And we have known and believed the love has God has for us. GOD IS LOVE; and he that DWELLS IN LOVE DWELLS IN GOD and GOD in him" its quiet clear what God is trying to tell us, He's trying to communicate to us that HE IS LOVE, without Him, I as a sinful human being can never love anybody, without JESUS, I don't know what LOVE is. More so, how dare I claim to LOVE GOD but yet hate my brother 1 John 4:20?????? again IT MAKES NO SENSE, God wouldn't do that and as He children, we should never do anything that HE wouldn't do.

Many times, especially among my fellow youths, we ask God for companionship, sometimes when things don't go our way, we take up the stirring wheel, move God from the driving seat and cruise through with our own miniature plans, forgetting that HE IS THE AUTHOR OF LOVE!!!!! when we finally come to our senses and reason with Him, we will see that IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL, If I don't know GOD, the author of LOVE, how on earth am I supposed to truly LOVE my fellow human being?????? and this is not just the " hollywood" type of love because clearly, that is NOT LOVE, TRUE LOVE is a HIGH and HOLY PRINCIPLE and if any claims to love, He ought to check diligently its source.

Thank God that He has not only documented this but demonstrated His great love for us in that while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US Romans 5:8. Because " for God so loved the world that HE GAVE his ONLY begotten SON that whosoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have EVERLASTING LIFE" John 3:16. And He is most definitely willing to TEACH US and INSTRUCT us His awesome and marvelous ways of LOVE, we are not alone in this, God is exceedingly wise and merciful and He remembers that we are dust, He is willing to help us only if we surrender and allow Him to transform our lives.

I personally want to learn more about LOVE, more about GOD, that I may best reflect my Almighty Father of LOVE, that I may give without expecting to be given in return, that just like HIM, I may put the needs of others before my own, that I may BE what He wants me to be, dying daily to self and my selfish desires because I know that there is much more than what the human eye aims , there's much more to life that achieving my goals and desires, there's much more to life that having all my dreams fulfilled. And that's BEING WHO GOD WANTS ME TO BE!!!!

Friends

Ebenezer, Ezekias and I

Chinedu

Yonalda,Rachel,Veronica and I

Rachel

Luisa

Yonalda and I

Pearla and Daniela

Melany and Tiffany

Ellen,Ann-Claire,Gloria and I

Londra Rodriguez and I

Emmanuel,Eloisa,Ciro and Leandro.

Ellen and Anna-Laura

Lord's will confirmed

I say this because this morning i just confirmed the study that i was conducting on purity,the Lord impressed me to do some asking from a very good,kind and open young aunt of mine concerning my recent study on maintaining purity especially in that of sexual purity as a daughter of God.

When she came in i asked her what the effects of kissing are in a relationship,this how she responded"When you kiss a person that you do not have feelings for ,its disgusting while when you share a kiss with some one that you have feelings for,it leads to sexual feelings towards that person,hence the danger when you are in love with someone and you share a kiss"

My sweet aunt and me

i contemplated upon this information upon receiving it for it had confirmed the final conclusion of the study,its a good thing that i decided to ask her about this because i knew that the answer would be open and honest,and am glad i now this!indeed Proverbs 19:20,21"Listen to counsel and instruction that you  may be wiser in your latter days,there are many plans in a mans heart but the Lord's counsel it shall stand"

Yesterday i was reading a good book from my favorite author,the title of the book is Help in daily living talks about the daily struggles and facts of the Christian life and walk,in chapter 1 of the book,it talks about Everyday living and here is a direct quotation from the book"There is an eloquence far more powerful than the eloquence of words in the quiet, consistent life of a pure, true Christian. What a man is has more influence than what he says. {HDL 7.1}
The officers who were sent to Jesus came back with the report that never man spoke as He spoke. But the reason for this was that never man lived as He lived. Had His life been other than it was, He could not have spoken as He did. His words bore with them a convincing power, because they came from a heart pure and holy, full of love and sympathy, benevolence and truth."
And here i am deeply and sincerely crying to my Father in Heaven for complete and utter most yielding to His awesome will.The issue is simple Psalm 138:8"The Lord shall perfect that which concerns me"

Indeed He will

Us!

blessings from above

 

Its just one of those days

Today was just one of those days,one of those days when you are struck and attentive to the Lord's love that it just humbles you to the at most ,i dont know if that happens to others but i sure do know that it happens to me,and when it does,i am speechless and awestruck by God's amazing love for us.

My day today begun with my preparation for the Sabbath where i asked Jesus to speak to me in a very special way,which He always does because He is faithful,i left home for church with my brother and cousin this morning at around 8 to 9 hrs,we always walk to church from home and back because its walkable,about 20 to 30 minuets walk.we walked to church and made it in time for the Sabbath school then branched off to the classes at the usual time,the lesson was very interesting,i belong to youth class 15,and the lessons was a good one,

It made me think and meditate on the real issues of life,the main question that almost every child of God asks,"Is my name written there?"by there i mean the book of life,thats the reality of everything,In the history of a human being,God must at least say something good about him or her,its what keeps us going as His children,if we keep Him smiling then all is well with us

Thereafter we went on to the hear the main service and the title of the sermon was,connected with a commission mainly emphasizing on the fact that in order to carry out the evangelistic campaign thats to take place in september,we must be first of all connected with God then only can things move forward and be a success we focused mostly in 1 Kings 4,where Elisha wisely advised the widow to pour the little oil she had in many vessels or jars that she borrowed


We stayed over for lunch and had a bible study with the IMPACT members,a group of youths that are passionate for Christ and seek to spread truth as it is with orders and command from God,they really inspire me i tell you.then i took time to catch up with whats been happening with my friend James and how His spiritual walk with Christ is going,he shared somereally interesting insight that i am grateful to God for,with all He told me,it really made me think more on the side on trials and having things rough and still trusting God in the midst of storms.i need to pray for my friend because he has been having struggles with his relationship with Christ,it all happens with us and when it happens to us we need friends that will be there for us and listen to us and be there that God may speak through them as vessels of hope that only He gives,i am glad i had an opportunity to hear him out,thats why this week i want to take time to see him at his campus and just chat,listen and be there for him as a friend.i love my friend James thats why it hurts me to see him down but am glad that even when i am not there Jesus is and always offers solutions to our problems.

Gloria,Me,James and my brother Shaun

i also met an old friend from the former place i used to live,her name is Martha,she is a twin,it was really great to see her,shes all grown now and in campus,i will also take time to see her next week,next week is going to be busy because its going to be my last week before i leave my sweet country and prepare to meet Argentina,il go for my university there,i hope to study medicine.well back to the story,we had outreach this afternoon and Martha,Nasilele and I went to an assigned compound to invite people for the upcoming crusade at the government complex here in Lusaka.it was a great experience seeing people really interested to come and hear Gods word.

Later in the evening i was given the task to report to the congregation about how we worked and it was beautiful!i love working for God and sharing His love,my friend Shawn,not my biological brother gave us a really good presentation on the need and motivation for service to the Lord in evangelism,Jesus paid our debt of sin,hence we also are to share to others this great news about how loving and merciful He is to sinners like us!Deep indeed!

By the time we finished with the reports and the prayers,it was dark,but praise God,He providedtransport for me and my brother to go back home,we were driven by my big sister Nasilele and Malilwe,some good sisters in the Lord!

Well now am home and sums up my day!i
Every day i see Gods amazing love and mercy for me
i can't help but share this wonder and be happy for everyone that receives Him as a Savior because He is.

I cant also believ that i wil be living my very beautiful,lovely country Zambia to go study in Argentina,its such moments like this that make me appreciate home for what it really is,HOME!

But i am persuaded that my Jesus,my Lord who has chosen Argentina for me will definately see me through in every step of the way!
Te amo mucho Dios!
Romans 8:28"For we know that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord,they that have been called according to His purpose"

too bad that James was cut out in this one

Unless the LORD builds

"Unless the Lord builds the house,they labour in vain that build it,unless the LORD keeps the city,the watchman wakes but in vain"Psalm 127:1