Monday, October 26, 2009
RE: FOCUS ON THANKSGIVING!
FOCUS ON THANKSGIVINGS!
We have spent exactly 9months and 25days in the year 2009!
We have two months and about 6days left to the close of the end of 2009!
What a grace!
What a glorious grace, a release of God’s mercies and God’s love.
We have more to be thankful about than to complain of.
Think back to yesterday, when you were down, out, broke, discouraged, bruised and battered?
Think back to yesterday, see how far God has brought you. Today you are happy, blessed, strong, fruitful, rich, resourceful, highly favoured, healthy and whole.
On my way to Church today the 25th of October 2009, I saw a stark naked woman on the main street as I drove out of my estate, I was shocked and dazed and wondered why a human being would be out of the street stark naked on a Sunday morning whilst most people journeyed to Church to worship their maker.
My heart bled for her and I said a simple prayer of recovery and restorations for her. I also began to thank God for my life, and my sanity. Am I any better? Any smarter? Any more gifted than the stark naked woman on the street on a Sunday morning, Heavens NO! I just happen to enjoy the goodness and the grace of God, for all I am and all I will ever be is simply all the GRACE OF GOD!
We are all products of grace. God’s grace, God’s blessings, and God’s love!
Let us thank God always for life, peace, joy, sanity, power, pleasures, health, purpose, our giftings and our abilities, our yesterdays, our todays and our tomorrows!
Remember those you started with in life, today as we write, some are dead, some diseased, some forgotten in obscurity, and some have lost hope and joy of living, but here you are able to stand, sing, dance, laugh, smile, eat, work, and live an independent and purposefully fulfilling life! We are able to live our lives the way we want to at our own time and at our own pace!
We call the shots at our own work places, we are top of our class, and the best in our fields of endeavours. We live as kings and queens in our worlds.
We are champions, Victors, and Conquerors of this life. We are living LIFE sometimes larger than ourselves!
We are not carried about begging, we are not assisted to the bathroom, diseased and assisted to knot our ties, we do not need special aid and special diets, we are not on any weird medications that we have to take at specific times just to stay alive.
We do not need handouts from life!
We are strong mentally, socially, financially, and materially.
We are happy. We are blessed and yet we do not see, we do not understand that it is all by God’s grace.
It’s all been the work of GRACE! The work of God! If we recall we were not the brightest in our classes, neither were we the best in our families, yet today we are celebrities, stars, icons and role models that others strive to be like.
Back to my earlier story of today, as I drove past the mentally challenged woman after praying for her for deliverance and recovery, I began to thank God for my life, my beauty, my intelligence, my numerous and wonderful friends scattered all over the world, my family, my abilities, my gifting, my stable lifestyle, my sanity, my essence, my books written and yet to be written, my song writing ability and my ability to communicate effectively.
I thanked God that I was clothed in a beautiful attire , and I thanked God for my present situation and my future.
I realize that I have not yet arrived, but I know that I am not where I used to be. I am improving daily, maturing and getting better every day.
I know I am like fine wine the more my years increase the more accomplished, the more blessed and favoured I will become.
I realize that the journey ahead of me is yet long and to win in this journey called life I must cultivate the attitude of gratitude, and always be thankful.
So today I want us both to spend the entire coming week in great and glorious thanksgiving. I want to advice a simple and wonderful exercise, actually two exercises, the first is that you should take time to write out all the things you can do all by yourself including all your gifting and abilities.
Yes my friend write it all down. It seems a childish exercise to participate in but when you are done you will see the reasons why you need to be grateful and thankful for your precious life.
Yes your life is precious, you are multi-talented, and very well endowed. The second exercise is simple too, just take time to write down all the good things that God has done for you.
These two exercises are very insightful and rewarding because it will help you see the goodness and grace of God even the more. Let’s spend the remaining days in October thanking God continually. Give thanks for the good and not so good!
Count your blessings name them one by one, thank God continually. Thank God for journey mercies, everyday across many seas many roads and may air journeys.
Thank God that you are not a terminally ill person. Thank God that you are not locked up for a crime you know nothing of. Thank God for the big stuff and for all the little things. Thank God for yesterday, today and for the future.
Thank God for the goodness and greatness of God upon your life.
Let’s cultivate the heart of gratitude. A heart of gratitude gives God honour, pleasure and makes our hearts to be tender towards God thereby aiding our ability to effectively communicate with God.
Be thankful! Be grateful. We are all products of God’s goodness, God’s grace and God’s glory!
Welcome to the last few days in the month of October, my month!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
RE: FOCUS ON UR EXPECTATIONS NOT UR PROBLEMS!
FOCUS ON YOUR EXPECTATIONS NOT ON YOUR PROBLEMS!
The great book says, “BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING, BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION MAKE YOUR REQUESTS KNOWN TO GOD”!
My piece for this week is simply admonishing us to REFOCUS! Yes REFOCUS! Take the focus from you to others and from your problems to the SOLUTIONS in the form of your expectations in God!
Instead of focusing on our problems, our troubles and our fears let us spend time PRAYING for GOD’s help and comfort.
Write down every problem presently facing you and spend time looking through the WORD OF GOD for the SOLUTIONS!
Are you down and helpless, read Isaiah 41:10/11
Are you poor and wanting, read Psalm 23, 84:11/12
Are you in need of guidance, read Psalm 32:8
Are you sick, afflicted and tormented by disease, read Isaiah 53:1/5, Jeremiah 30:17
Are you in need of comfort, read Isaiah 40:1
Are you desirous of been established and prosperous, read 2Chronicles 20:20B, and Joshua 1:8
Are you anxious, terrified and afraid, read Philippians 4:6/8 and Isaiah 54:14
Are you in need of Peace, read 2 Thessalonians 3:16, and Romans 5:1
Are you lacking in wisdom, read James 1:5, and James 3:17
Do you think you are working under a curse, doing much and harvesting little, read Numbers 23.23, Galatians 3:13/15 and Deuteronomy 28:1/13.
Do you feel unloved and all alone, read 1John 3:1, John 3:16 and Matthew 28:20B and Joshua 1:5B.
Are you afraid of evil tidings, read Psalm 91 and Psalm 121.
Whatever might be the situation, no matter how threatening the SOLUTION is present in the WORD OF GOD!
We are sons and daughters of the great God, just as God saw the crisis that loomed at Him at the beginning, God did not panic, he merely restrategized and spoke forth, “He said, let there be light and light was”!
We too must ACT just like our God by taking charge and taking control of the present situation, because if you are defeated in your thoughts then you are defeated already! We must FOCUS on our EXPECTATIONS IN GOD by believing and DECLARING the WORD of God regardless of what we feel and see! It is time to REFOCUS our energies on the SOLUTIONS and not on the problem.
The problem we face is a good avenue for God to prove his greatness and glory in our lives.
The Word of God promises that God will crown our year with goodness and God has made everything beautiful in this time.
This is your DAY of CHANGE!
This is your opportunity for a LIFTING!
Your day of GRACE is TODAY and your season of Glory has finally come!
The great book commands the weak to say “ I am Strong, and the poor to say I am rich”!
You are not your situation!
You are not your condition!
You are blessed and highly favoured.
You are the head and not the tail, above and never beneath!
As from TODAY and the remaining days of your life;
Choose to see SOLUTIONS!
Choose to see OPPORTUNITIES!
Choose to See VICTORIES!
Choose to See BREAKTHROUGHS!
Choose to See God’s HANDS and God’s FACE!
See God’s abilities working in your life and destiny bringing about the needed CHANGE!
Do not fear! Fear!
Do not allow worries, anxieties and harassments to tear you apart!
Instead REFOCUS your energies to PRAY and profess your way out of the situation.
Do not stop praying until you see positive changes! Use your mouth to recreate your world!
You are not down, you are up!
You are not poor, you are rich!
You are not sick, you are well!
You are not despised; you are loved, cherished and valuable.
You are not alone; you are surrounded by lovers, family members and great and wonderful friends.
You are not foolish, and irrelevant, No! No! No! You are treasure, valuable, a gem and a national treasure!
You are not what they say, you are not what they wish, you are not what they desire, you are what God created, ordained and carefully planned out!
You are not a mistake, a face and a mere phase, you are incredible, beautiful, wonderful and highly sought after from coast to coast, men and women seek you out for your wisdom, intelligence and special skills that is synonymous to only you!
You are not alone, God loves you, guards and protects you, angels watch over you every step and they ensure that no evil befalls you.
STOP focusing on the problems, START focusing on the SOLUTIONS!
There is a solution to every problem in the WORD OF GOD! Just because you cannot see the solution does not mean there is no solution! God is God and good regardless of our peculiar problems, if you presently are faced with any problem right now, you are in it because you can handle it because God will not give us more than we can take per time.
Inside our troubles lie our TRIUMPHS!
Inside our tests lie our TESTIMONIES!
Inside our confusions lie our DIRECTIONS!
The WORD of God is the POWER OF GOD! Get a strong grip and hold of the Word of God today and begin to read, meditate and declare the Word of God over your situation, and soon the Word will over run and over take your problem soon you will begin to see what you say!
Speak what you believe and not what you see or feel. Through out the remaining days of this month of October FOCUS ON your POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS and not on the problems you face!
Imagine the possibilities.
Imagine a new you with a new hope and a new song!
See yourself accomplishing, reaching and excelling!
See open doors everywhere, people are looking for you for great and amazing opportunities so they can partner with you. People want to bless you and help you, because you are the light of the world, a city set on a hill and you cannot be hid.
You are solutions to man’s myriads of problems, YES! You are the solution!
You are somebody’s joy!
You are somebody’s delight!
You are somebody’s light!
You are somebody’s song!
You are somebody’s dance!
You are a gem, a treasure and a STAR!
You are winning, because you are wise and winsome!
Ask yourself today, “What good can I do”?
What gifts and talents can I deplore at this point of my life’s journey?
How can you use your gifts and talents for the benefits and development of humanity?
Who can you bless?
Who can you positively impact, impart and influence?
What is the message you can make out of your mess?
What victories have you recorded that you can use to solve the problems of those in the same quagmire, you were in last year?
Can you be a light?
Can you give love to the loveless?
Can you give hope to the hopeless?
Can you feed a hungry soul, both materially and spiritually?
Can you fund that special project that will give succor to thousands?
Can you offset that debt that your brother is carrying that is a great burden to him but that is small change to your income?
What good can you do?
Whose destiny can you positively change today?
It is TIME to STOP focusing on me! ME! And I!
Let’s celebrate the goodness of God upon our lives, we are too blessed to complain and we are too blessed to keep the spotlight on just us! Let’s destroy the me and me mentality and think what can I give for once rather than what can I take and who can I take from.
STOP focusing on what you do not have, rather START to take INVENTORY of all your great and massive blessings! Being alive, been sane, been strong, vital and able to make your own bed is no mean blessings, not to talk of the millions we all have in our bank accounts and of course the many cars packed in our garages and the new clothes and shoes and bags we have and the state of the art gadgets we buy every time we fly to Dubai and all the exotic places we visit every time opportunity presents itself?
Let’s STOP complaining, whining, and grumbling, we ought to be thankful, grateful and give more of ourselves to others for it is better to give than to receive!
Enjoy the week! Be a blessing! Be your best possible!
Copyright @ Victoria Fadeyi October 18, 2009.
The great book says, “BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING, BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION MAKE YOUR REQUESTS KNOWN TO GOD”!
My piece for this week is simply admonishing us to REFOCUS! Yes REFOCUS! Take the focus from you to others and from your problems to the SOLUTIONS in the form of your expectations in God!
Instead of focusing on our problems, our troubles and our fears let us spend time PRAYING for GOD’s help and comfort.
Write down every problem presently facing you and spend time looking through the WORD OF GOD for the SOLUTIONS!
Are you down and helpless, read Isaiah 41:10/11
Are you poor and wanting, read Psalm 23, 84:11/12
Are you in need of guidance, read Psalm 32:8
Are you sick, afflicted and tormented by disease, read Isaiah 53:1/5, Jeremiah 30:17
Are you in need of comfort, read Isaiah 40:1
Are you desirous of been established and prosperous, read 2Chronicles 20:20B, and Joshua 1:8
Are you anxious, terrified and afraid, read Philippians 4:6/8 and Isaiah 54:14
Are you in need of Peace, read 2 Thessalonians 3:16, and Romans 5:1
Are you lacking in wisdom, read James 1:5, and James 3:17
Do you think you are working under a curse, doing much and harvesting little, read Numbers 23.23, Galatians 3:13/15 and Deuteronomy 28:1/13.
Do you feel unloved and all alone, read 1John 3:1, John 3:16 and Matthew 28:20B and Joshua 1:5B.
Are you afraid of evil tidings, read Psalm 91 and Psalm 121.
Whatever might be the situation, no matter how threatening the SOLUTION is present in the WORD OF GOD!
We are sons and daughters of the great God, just as God saw the crisis that loomed at Him at the beginning, God did not panic, he merely restrategized and spoke forth, “He said, let there be light and light was”!
We too must ACT just like our God by taking charge and taking control of the present situation, because if you are defeated in your thoughts then you are defeated already! We must FOCUS on our EXPECTATIONS IN GOD by believing and DECLARING the WORD of God regardless of what we feel and see! It is time to REFOCUS our energies on the SOLUTIONS and not on the problem.
The problem we face is a good avenue for God to prove his greatness and glory in our lives.
The Word of God promises that God will crown our year with goodness and God has made everything beautiful in this time.
This is your DAY of CHANGE!
This is your opportunity for a LIFTING!
Your day of GRACE is TODAY and your season of Glory has finally come!
The great book commands the weak to say “ I am Strong, and the poor to say I am rich”!
You are not your situation!
You are not your condition!
You are blessed and highly favoured.
You are the head and not the tail, above and never beneath!
As from TODAY and the remaining days of your life;
Choose to see SOLUTIONS!
Choose to see OPPORTUNITIES!
Choose to See VICTORIES!
Choose to See BREAKTHROUGHS!
Choose to See God’s HANDS and God’s FACE!
See God’s abilities working in your life and destiny bringing about the needed CHANGE!
Do not fear! Fear!
Do not allow worries, anxieties and harassments to tear you apart!
Instead REFOCUS your energies to PRAY and profess your way out of the situation.
Do not stop praying until you see positive changes! Use your mouth to recreate your world!
You are not down, you are up!
You are not poor, you are rich!
You are not sick, you are well!
You are not despised; you are loved, cherished and valuable.
You are not alone; you are surrounded by lovers, family members and great and wonderful friends.
You are not foolish, and irrelevant, No! No! No! You are treasure, valuable, a gem and a national treasure!
You are not what they say, you are not what they wish, you are not what they desire, you are what God created, ordained and carefully planned out!
You are not a mistake, a face and a mere phase, you are incredible, beautiful, wonderful and highly sought after from coast to coast, men and women seek you out for your wisdom, intelligence and special skills that is synonymous to only you!
You are not alone, God loves you, guards and protects you, angels watch over you every step and they ensure that no evil befalls you.
STOP focusing on the problems, START focusing on the SOLUTIONS!
There is a solution to every problem in the WORD OF GOD! Just because you cannot see the solution does not mean there is no solution! God is God and good regardless of our peculiar problems, if you presently are faced with any problem right now, you are in it because you can handle it because God will not give us more than we can take per time.
Inside our troubles lie our TRIUMPHS!
Inside our tests lie our TESTIMONIES!
Inside our confusions lie our DIRECTIONS!
The WORD of God is the POWER OF GOD! Get a strong grip and hold of the Word of God today and begin to read, meditate and declare the Word of God over your situation, and soon the Word will over run and over take your problem soon you will begin to see what you say!
Speak what you believe and not what you see or feel. Through out the remaining days of this month of October FOCUS ON your POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS and not on the problems you face!
Imagine the possibilities.
Imagine a new you with a new hope and a new song!
See yourself accomplishing, reaching and excelling!
See open doors everywhere, people are looking for you for great and amazing opportunities so they can partner with you. People want to bless you and help you, because you are the light of the world, a city set on a hill and you cannot be hid.
You are solutions to man’s myriads of problems, YES! You are the solution!
You are somebody’s joy!
You are somebody’s delight!
You are somebody’s light!
You are somebody’s song!
You are somebody’s dance!
You are a gem, a treasure and a STAR!
You are winning, because you are wise and winsome!
Ask yourself today, “What good can I do”?
What gifts and talents can I deplore at this point of my life’s journey?
How can you use your gifts and talents for the benefits and development of humanity?
Who can you bless?
Who can you positively impact, impart and influence?
What is the message you can make out of your mess?
What victories have you recorded that you can use to solve the problems of those in the same quagmire, you were in last year?
Can you be a light?
Can you give love to the loveless?
Can you give hope to the hopeless?
Can you feed a hungry soul, both materially and spiritually?
Can you fund that special project that will give succor to thousands?
Can you offset that debt that your brother is carrying that is a great burden to him but that is small change to your income?
What good can you do?
Whose destiny can you positively change today?
It is TIME to STOP focusing on me! ME! And I!
Let’s celebrate the goodness of God upon our lives, we are too blessed to complain and we are too blessed to keep the spotlight on just us! Let’s destroy the me and me mentality and think what can I give for once rather than what can I take and who can I take from.
STOP focusing on what you do not have, rather START to take INVENTORY of all your great and massive blessings! Being alive, been sane, been strong, vital and able to make your own bed is no mean blessings, not to talk of the millions we all have in our bank accounts and of course the many cars packed in our garages and the new clothes and shoes and bags we have and the state of the art gadgets we buy every time we fly to Dubai and all the exotic places we visit every time opportunity presents itself?
Let’s STOP complaining, whining, and grumbling, we ought to be thankful, grateful and give more of ourselves to others for it is better to give than to receive!
Enjoy the week! Be a blessing! Be your best possible!
Copyright @ Victoria Fadeyi October 18, 2009.
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