Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers fear.
~Nelson Mandela.
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EVERYDAYJESUS’ ‘nomo’ phobia! (An update)
Since I was little, I had this strong phobia for both heights and depths. Jesus knows that unlike the woman at the well, He is not likely to find me at the well, because I would make every excuse that would excuse me from drawing from the well at my street in the Coal City let alone drawing from the well of living water- that is if well encounters or ‘being at the right place at the right time’ was a criterion for receiving the promised eternal Life.
Jesus knows too that I would never sing to ask Him to take me, and plant my feet on any higher grounds- that is if ‘ higher grounds’ were taken literally because I so cannot trade the comfort of the safe haven I have found on floors for any heights in this world- literally speaking, puhleez!
Recently, I saw myself running carefree to meet up with a deadline along a Ulysses huge overhead bridge at Abuja, with all the speeding vehicles underneath. So I was taken aback.
What had changed in me?
I realized that my phobia, (the fears behind my fears) were all gone. Then, I was not afraid of the heights but I was afraid of falling and crashing. I was not afraid of depths but I was simply afraid of falling and getting lost in the deep.
So what or who took away the fears behind my fears?
I’d say that only Love did.
I found Love and everything about me changed. The comfort and assurance in the love of my Father in Christ Jesus reassures me that He would never leave me by myself, therefore if I must crash or fall into any deep, then He would fall and crash with me. Thank God that God is safe. Besides, I know that He loves me much more than I love myself. The love of Christ changes us, and it has renewed my mind, and transformed me.
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge -that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”- Ephesians 4: 17b-19( NIV).
Because perfect love casts out all fears- including the fears behind the fears.
HAPPY CELEBRATIONS
As you celebrate this yuletide season
Always remember that Jesus’ love for is not seasonal
And all you stand to gain from believing in Him
Is available to you all year round.
Have a blissful celebration
From
The Christ A Poet Team
Grace
BLOOD TIES: THE VIDEO
FORGİVENESS STARTS FROM İNSİDE: This İs Proof.
‘Guard your heart with all dilligence for out of it is the well spring of life’ – Proverbs 4:23
Everything about life begins in your heart… İts inevitable.
‘To the pure in heart all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbeleiving, nothing is pure’ – Titus 1:15
The actions and reactions that you protray come out the way they do because that is exactly how your heart is… Kill the excuses.
‘ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God’ – Mattew 5:8
God is attracted to a heart that desires true purity… Just be honest.
‘İt is not enough to clean up your act on the outside, God is concerned about our heart’ – John Piper.
There is no need to pretend. We can fool people with our outward acts, but God knows what we are really hiding. He wants us to be real with him.
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İt sounds right to judge people by what they say or do to us without realising that we judge people right from our heart… the very seat of our personal thoughts.
They say things but we hear them and interprete from our thoughts, this often leads to misunderstanding.
The bibe says that faith comes by Hearing and Hearing the word of God. The first hearing has to do with our own reasoning while the second hearing is the actual word speaking or in this case, the other person speaking. İn other words we must hear twice in every situation. This is where the fruit of patience formed in you manifests in a behaviour called ‘ Listening’.
İt is true that we can be genuinly offended but we must Love first before we judge. Listening is Love.
‘make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace’ – Ephisiens 4:3
To believe in Christs sacrifice is to understand that we all are fatally flawed but for His grace, we too would not deserve forgiveness but for his grace we wouldnt be able to forgive ourselves… A true conviction of this truth weakens you, it humbles you, it leaves nothing else but forgiveness and understanding in your heart… yes in your heart, right back at the start. #Grace&PeaceFamily
TWS- SPIT THEM OUT!
The processed information from our hearts that gets to our mouth can either be bad or good, negative or positive, destructive or constructive. I have said that whatever form they take, you need to let them out.
Someone asked: Are we supposed to utter negative things out of our mouth?
I will try to answer this question here. My answer may not be absolute, but I think it will help you.
The last episode was a bit open ended and I will take it further in this episode. If you did not read my last post, please visit my blog site to read it so you can understand the foundation that was laid for this post.
It is instructive to know that the way you let out the processed information from your heart through your mouth differs and is dependent on the nature of the processed information. The way you let out the bad differs from the way you let out the good. It is also important to note that they are all let out as WORDS. So they can be negative words, or positive words.
How do you let out negative words?
I will want to liken negative words to phlegm. Phlegm is produced when you have a bad body condition such as cold. When phlegm comes to your mouth, how do you let it out? You SPIT IT OUT! That is exactly what you do to negative words. You do not pour it on any other person neither do you pour it on yourself. When you spit it out, you cover it with positive words.
Have you ever been so angry at someone that all you feel like doing is rain curses and abuses? You have the option to spit the curses and abuses on the person or you could let the person know that you are not happy with what they did without raining curses and abuses on the person.
If you must get to the zenith of your life, you must learn how not to pour negative words on yourself or on others. And please, swallowing the negative words will not help you. They will always find their way back to your mouth and you will never know peace until you let them out.
Do not forget, the way to let out negative words is to spit them out. Do not spit it out on yourself or others, and remember to cover it with positive words.
#UNLEASHED
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