You can rise from the ashes

MOTIVATION

There are seasons of the soul, as Job could attest. Just as winter is not the time to cut a tree because a tree that looks dead may have more life in it than you think, a dark time in your life is not the right time to make decision.

Never set your goals when you are at low ebb. Believe that springtime will come, and be encouraged by the words of job in chapter 42.

Always remember that this depressing season will pass and that positive feelings will return to you. You will come back again.

Heap of ashes

 

Yes, your faith will pluck you from the ashes and new life will come from the places that felt dead. Your youthful enthusiasm will return.

Are you burned out? Well, you need to take a break. Refuel. Seek a retreat. Find renewal. Replenish. Rest, so that you can go on again!

Never make a move from weakness. Always move from strength, and your spring will turn to summer, and the summer to harvest time.

You must know that you will reap simply because you didn’t give up. Once again, I want you to know that you will rise from your ashes.

Bye for now.

Disciplined or disqualified

The words discipline and disciple come from the same root. Early Christians were called disciples. That means they became persons so totally and completely committed to the Christian cause that they were willing to die for it. That, essentially, is the spirit that makes up the word discipline.

Solomon wrote: “Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls” (Prov. 25:28). The person who disciplines his body practices faith and doing the right thing, whether it’s through controlling appetite for food or drink, or any other natural physical appetite.
 

 

There are mysterious, intricate, and complex links of body, brain, and soul. Persons who discipline their eating, drinking, and sexual appetites often experience a mysterious upsurge of creativity and a rebirth of spirituality. In contrast, the undisciplined person who “lets himself go” and doesn’t care about proper exercise, physical fitness, or dietary finds his faith becoming “flabby.” Undisciplined is another word for disqualified.

Today you can pledge to discipline your eyes, your ears, your mouth, your stomach, your hands, and your sexual desires. Try it and you would agree with me that it’s really worth it.

With God’s help, bring your body under control. Become a spiritual athlete!

 O di gba kan na.       

HOW DO I TELL HER THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO PART?

Saying goodbye is one of the most difficult words to say to your friends and loved ones, especially if you intend to end a relationship with someone you once claimed to love. That someone might be your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend.

Trust  me, it's always difficult to say goodbye whether it's for good or bad, but if you did tell someone  you once loved that it is time to part, it does not mean you hate that person, and neither should it be seen as declaration of war or enemy for life.However,no matter how painful it might be for  both parties, they need to tell the truth to each other on why their relationship must come to an end.

But how precisely would you tell the person that the time indeed has come to part? I have no idea, so I thought I should post the below lyric from R Kelly “Love Letter." It depict the agony of someone who was struggling to end a relationship with a loved girlfriend. 

 Enjoy the lyric.

How do I tell her that I'm going away?
When I know that she'll be begging me to stay

And how do I tell her that the time has come to part?

When she's, she's gonna take it so hard

I don't wanna break her heart

I don't wanna see her cry, no

'Cause I promised her forever

That I'd be by her side so

So how do I tell her, how do I tell her?

Tell her goodbye? Oh yeah

How do I tell her that my path has gone and changed?

When I know that her heart won't be able to stand the pain, oh no

And how do I tell her that I'm moving on with my life

When she's just gonna break down and die, oh

I don't wanna break her heart, no
I don't wanna see her cry, no

When I promised the girl forever

I'd be by her side so

So how do I tell her?
Tell her, tell her goodbye? Oh yeah, whoa

Listen, she's been forever faithful, honest and true, yes, she has
My God, this has gotta be the worst thing that I ever had to do

How, how, how, how, how, how?

 How do I tell her, oh, oh, that the time has come to part?

When I know that she's gonna take it so very hard, yes, she is

 Said, I don't wanna break her heart

I don't wanna see the little girl cry

When I promised her forever, oh, oh

That I'd be by her side

 How do I tell her?

Tell her; tell her goodbye, bye, bye, and bye?
Oh baby, bye and whoa

 How, how do I tell her?

How do I tell her goodbye, baby

Won't somebody tell me?

How do I tell the girl?

Bye, bye baby, bye, bye baby
Bye, bye baby, bye, bye baby

Bye, bye baby, bye, bye baby

Bye, bye baby, bye, bye baby, ooh

Cheers

Give Life To Those Around You

This post is inspired by one of the biblical documentaries I watched on pay-per-view history channel.  It was about the Jordan Rift Valley which is one of the most interesting geological structures in the world, stretching from Lake Homs in Syria, all the way down to Lake Victoria in Africa. The Rift Valley encompasses two landlocked bodies of water: the Sea of Galilee, located 700 feet below sea level, and the Dead Sea, located 1,300 feet below sea level.

Both seas are located in the same valley, fed by the same Jordan River. Yet, they are completely different in nature. The Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake packed with fish, while the Dead Sea is thirty-three percent salt in which no living thing can exist.

The difference between the two lakes is that the northern Sea of Galilee has a southern exit through which it can give out the water it takes in. The Dead Sea does not. The water that enters the Dead Sea is not allowed to circulate. It has no exit, so it stagnates, dries up, and gel, until it forms large blocks of salt around the shores of the sea.

That history got me thinking endlessly, and I thought within me, perhaps it would be nice if all of us can be like the northern Sea of Galilee and allow dreams and creative ideas to flow into our lives and circulate with our time, talents, abilities, energies, and education.  We must share our knowledge with others because as we share our knowledge with others, “we will be enriching their lives and cause the growth of the body for the [building up] of itself in love” (Ephesians 4:15-16).

Let’s all be service minded, so that we can be used by God and give life to those around us. Trust me on this, it’s not easy to share your knowledge continually, but we can all give it a try.

Ki olorun wa pelu yin - Amin!