One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus
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EVERYDAYJESUS’ Love Language! 2
Have you ever been in a situation where someone really said something that made your stomach churn and you just felt like giving them a piece of your mind? Well I have!
Also has someone whose opinion mattered a lot to you, ever criticize you so sorely and destructively that you just felt that you needed to let them know how much of their imperfections you have overlooked? Oh I sure have!
You know, I have had my own share of word poisoning in this little life of mine, and I have also given people that I love a lot, enough dosage to relish for a lifetime. I tell you, words can really hurt so badly, especially when those words were intended to put one down. Sometimes, they may not even be intended to hurt, yet they end up ripping hearts into twos.
On the other hand, words can really be so few yet you end up not forgetting them till you die, because you find out that these very few words were always there for you even when the person who said them, was no longer able to be there for you!
Do you know? I found out that most people who messed people up with their dirty mouths, most times, did not really mean to! They didn’t really mean to, honestly. I found out also that what most of them had in common was carelessness and ignorance. They were very careless with how they managed the link between their hearts and tongue; and they didn’t know what you needed to hear at the moment, because they were too blind to see you.
Sometimes, an angry word can be returned with a kind one, depending on how much you can see and hear beyond the words you thought that made you furnace furious!
Also, destructive condemnation can be returned with constructive affirmation, depending on how much you could slow down, listen carefully and process them well and neat!
Even embarrassing words can be returned with really kind ones, depending on how much good thing you can pick from the love left unsaid.
I believe that most times, people do not really say what they mean, and what they do not mean, so much, they really end up saying!
Please, do not say, ‘what do I care’, ‘I just take people by their words because I am not God’. I would only excuse you if especially you are not made by the same stuff as Abba Daddy.
“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires”- James 1:19&20 ( NIV).
Therefore, I also urge us like Brother James to be ‘loving thing’-slow-to speak!
Why?
Because you need enough space to help you look part the words!
Because you need to pick the loads of things left unsaid!
Because you might also want to monitor the unsaid words of body language!
And finally, because you need to buy enough time to help you give formal touches to what you have to say; putting into considerations, what tone of voice, what lilt of voice, other custom body words, and of course your trade mark and signature talking style. Duh!
By Favouromeje, January 2017.
#rhematown iss. 124
Book Review: HOUSE by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker
Authors: Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker
Publisher: WestBow Press
Year of Publication: 2006
Pages: 192
Reviewer: Beatrice Ani
It’s a House, abandoned in a deserted environment. Empty physically, but not truly empty, it’s demon infested, holds mysteries, presence, memories and dilemmas. In a single word, it’s haunted. Ted and Frank centre this fiction on events that occur before the crucifixion of Christ; his betrayal/denial, the fierce battle we encounter daily in our hearts/minds, the purpose of Christ’s death, His resurrection and the Devil’s defeat afterwards .
The novel begins with White, also known as tin Mask- the devil himself -analysing the aforementioned “House”, his next venue for murder. White’s basic agenda is to lure people into deserted buildings, manipulate them to play his game (mind game) to his satisfaction and then kill them by dawn. Just as every game has a rule, his are as follows:
House rules: 1. God came to my house and I killed him. 2. I will kill anyone who comes to my house as I killed God. 3. Give me one dead body, and I might let rule two slide.
Despite White’s zeal and power to kill every living Human, there are still specific kinds of humans he couldn’t kill- the sinless/innocent. His victims must be sinners. And He strongly believes that all humans are guilty (sinners), until he meets Susan, An innocent young girl who finds herself in the building. White can’t kill her because of her innocence and her great knowledge. He keeps her hostage for three days, lures other victims, four to be precise, and begins to manipulate them. He asks them to kill just one person (His third rule) in order to make the second rule slide. His chosen candidate is Susan the innocent one. When the others don’t kill the girl, White decides to do so himself; then he realises his mistake, just as the devil did after crucifying Christ. Her death actually sets the other captives free.
Two major characters in the novel, Jack and Stephanie Singleton, are led into White’s trap while on their way to a marriage counselling session. Their marriage, though troubled by differences they have been unable to deal with, is restored as they emerge from the grave dangers of the house. They are saved from White’s deadly game by Susan, whose self sacrifice gives them a new chance to live.
The novel’s allusions to the ministry of Christ and the salvation that he wrought is hard to miss. It has an interesting and attention gripping plot, and more importantly, a message of redemption that shines through it, especially at its end.
QUICK QUOTEs
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Zig Ziglar
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EVERYDAYJESUS’ the joy I’ve found!
I am really excited about being in love and reuniting with my heart because I know my lover had always and would always be in love with me. His love makes me feel more like a woman- a real woman . My smile and my voice give me away and tell the world that I am a woman in love. The beauty and mystery about this love is that I can only remain in this love by
Accepting it by faith and by loving people too – I mean with the love that lays down one’s life and preferences for another. This love walk is the most exciting love in the universe and the most demanding too because you just give up your “SELF”
While I remained in His love today I saw something that got me really curious in my Bible – the Lord is always good at making me feel that way. He left me with a lot to meditate on . The kingdom of God- really?
“The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is’, or ‘There it is’, because the kingdom of God is within (among) you.’- Luke 17: 20b- 21. (NIV)
“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruits”. – Matthew 21: 43. (NIV)
“I tell you the truth, n see the kingdom of God unless he is born again”- John 3: 3b.
So what then is the kingdom of God? My joy is that at least I am born again so I know I can see and know the kingdom of God. (NIV)
Please join me as we think about this great kingdom.
By Favouromeje, 2016.
#rhematown iss. 123
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You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston
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