YEAR 2010-WELCOME TO FLOURISHING!
The year 2010 is a year of FLOURISHING as emphasized in the book of Psalm 1.
The book of Psalm chapter 1 admonishes us NOT TO:
1. Walk in the counsel of the ungodly.
2. Stand in the way of sinners
3. Sit in the seat of the scornful.
We are rather to “DELIGHT” in the law of the LORD!
The Word of God promises that we shall be like a “TREE PLANTED by the rivers of water, and we shall bring forth our fruit in our season! Our leaves shall not wither; and whatsoever we do shall prosper.
What does it mean to flourish?
According to the Webster Universal dictionary & thesaurus, it means;
Grow, thrive, boast, bluster, brag, show off, flaunt, swing, parade, show, grandiloquence. For the sake of our understanding of this word; to flourish, let us choose to focus on the word, “THRIVE”!
In 2010 we will “THRIVE”! Everything we do will blossom, shine and expand for good.
There is a condition attached to our flourishing, we must not walk in the counsel of the ungodly this means that we must avoid ungodly people and not be led by their counsel. The Word of God says can two walk together except they be agreed. We have to choose our friends wisely in 2010, and severe relationships we know will lead us away from God.
Secondly we must not stand with sinners. We must live the talk and talk the walk.
Increasingly God will make our works clear and we shall ultimately reap what we sow, so if you desire to reap good, do not sow evil.
Do not sit with the scornful. We must ensure that we choose who we hang out with, sit with and take counsel from.
God promises flourishing, growth and prosperity.
For those who are already established expect double. And for those who lost before expect restoration.
God will show us his power on our behalf and He will manifest greatly upon our lives his grace.
God will grant us grace and glory and we will enjoy new levels of peace, power, promotions , prosperity and pleasures.
God will reward us and show us off as His trophies.
2010 will be a year of great glory. We will shine as STARS, and we must continually represent God as worthy ambassadors of his grace and His kingdom. Do not sit on the fence for God cannot be mocked whatsoever a man sows that will he also reap.
In 2010 expect God’s double in everything. It is also a year of restoration for those who have been waiting for God for a return and a release of lost opportunities and glory.
Like Job our latter end will be greater than the former and men everywhere will come and celebrate God’s grace and goodness upon our lives .
It’s a year of great expansion too. The capacity to increase, multiply has already been sown and 2010 will bring this capacity to play as everything you dreamed of achieving will be made possible by the grace of God. Go out and do the seemingly impossible. Whatever you could not do before now, begin to do them. The grace to accomplish has been released all you need to do now is simply, believe and take action.
Do not procrastinate any longer. Act decisively and quickly, and you will see miracles!
2010 will separate the boys from the men. Let God be your alpha and omega, let his will alone prevail in your life. Always do good and expect only the best whilst remaining always grateful and thankful.
In 2010 set goals beyond your ability and focus on accomplishing them.
Be courageous and consistent in achieving your goals. Keep wise company. Remain humble and do not allow pride and arrogance overtake you.
Pray continually and be a true worshipper of God.
Your motto for 2010 should be “WITH GOD I CAN”!
Seize the moment.
Secure the future!
You can read meditatively these SCRIPTURES for the year:
1. Psalm 1
2. Proverbs 11:28
3. Jeremiah 17:7-8
2010 is your year of Flourishing! Thriving and GLORY! WELCOME!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI. JANUARY 1, 2010.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
RE: TEN WAYS TO HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!
Ten Ways to have A Wonderful Christmas!
1. Imbibe the Giver’s spirit, have a giving heart. Give gifts to all your friends, families and colleagues at work.
2. Visit loved ones during this period, it’s a time for social visits
3. Visit orphanages and reach out to the poor, homeless and forgotten in the society.
4. Forgive all those that hurt you during the course of the year, forgive, let go and actually spend time praying for your offenders, ask God to forgive you too your trespasses. Open a clean slate and carry a pure heart in readiness for the new year just round the corner.
5. Send Christmas Wishes through emails, text messages, to your friends outside Nigeria, take out time to write the sweetest words because most Nigerians in the Diaspora sometimes have a nasty Christmas because of the cold and some can be lonely and miserable, so your words will become a soothing balm for their spirits and their souls. Remember the song, “Reach out and touch, somebody’s hand, make this world a better place if you can”
6. If you are married spend quality time planning a “WOW” time with your family. Buy your partner a gift that will amaze and daze them. Go the extra mile to find that special gift that will speak for your love to them. God did not just speak of His love for humanity, He proved and showed it, by sending JESUS CHRIST, to die for us. Jesus Christ is the reason Christmas! Do not just claim to love your wife or husband this Christmas, SHOW IT! Do not forget to do the same for your children too.
7. If you are single in a relationship do the same thing, show love, express your love, write something wonderful, frame it, write a love poem and be creative about your love, plan a surprise dinner with his friends, and surprise him. Buy him/her a gift that will show exactly what you feel. Don’t just love! Say it! Act it! Show it! Now more than ever.
8. If you are single and have no love in your life at the moment, take heart and do not despair. Love God! Love yourself! Love others! During this time let your heart and life be driven by LOVE! Visit a hospital, especially the children’s ward, and buy gifts for the sick child. Before you go spend time praying to God Almighty for their healing and recovery and as you spend money buying and wrapping the gift pray that your gift will be a love gift, that will bring healing and change in their lives.
9. Remember to buy your “Man of God a gift this Christmas! They labour over us in their prayers and supplications to God to keep us and prosper us throughout the year, it is time to show them some love, and gratitude for their love and effort towards our spiritual well being.
10. Have a PARTY, celebrate life with friends and loved ones, a big wonderfully planned party! Let down your hair, have a blast! Rejoice that you are alive, well and sane! Let this Christmas be different, special, unique, and wonderful.
On a final note, do something you have never done before. I do not know you so you have to take out time to figure that out. Let that be your number 11! As they say go the extra mile, to be extraordinary!! Number 11 is your extra and that makes you EXTRAORDINARY this Christmas!
Have a WONDERFUL! GLORIOUS! And FABULOUS XMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a FANTASTIC 2010!
May all your DREAMS come TRUE in the NEW YEAR!
1. Imbibe the Giver’s spirit, have a giving heart. Give gifts to all your friends, families and colleagues at work.
2. Visit loved ones during this period, it’s a time for social visits
3. Visit orphanages and reach out to the poor, homeless and forgotten in the society.
4. Forgive all those that hurt you during the course of the year, forgive, let go and actually spend time praying for your offenders, ask God to forgive you too your trespasses. Open a clean slate and carry a pure heart in readiness for the new year just round the corner.
5. Send Christmas Wishes through emails, text messages, to your friends outside Nigeria, take out time to write the sweetest words because most Nigerians in the Diaspora sometimes have a nasty Christmas because of the cold and some can be lonely and miserable, so your words will become a soothing balm for their spirits and their souls. Remember the song, “Reach out and touch, somebody’s hand, make this world a better place if you can”
6. If you are married spend quality time planning a “WOW” time with your family. Buy your partner a gift that will amaze and daze them. Go the extra mile to find that special gift that will speak for your love to them. God did not just speak of His love for humanity, He proved and showed it, by sending JESUS CHRIST, to die for us. Jesus Christ is the reason Christmas! Do not just claim to love your wife or husband this Christmas, SHOW IT! Do not forget to do the same for your children too.
7. If you are single in a relationship do the same thing, show love, express your love, write something wonderful, frame it, write a love poem and be creative about your love, plan a surprise dinner with his friends, and surprise him. Buy him/her a gift that will show exactly what you feel. Don’t just love! Say it! Act it! Show it! Now more than ever.
8. If you are single and have no love in your life at the moment, take heart and do not despair. Love God! Love yourself! Love others! During this time let your heart and life be driven by LOVE! Visit a hospital, especially the children’s ward, and buy gifts for the sick child. Before you go spend time praying to God Almighty for their healing and recovery and as you spend money buying and wrapping the gift pray that your gift will be a love gift, that will bring healing and change in their lives.
9. Remember to buy your “Man of God a gift this Christmas! They labour over us in their prayers and supplications to God to keep us and prosper us throughout the year, it is time to show them some love, and gratitude for their love and effort towards our spiritual well being.
10. Have a PARTY, celebrate life with friends and loved ones, a big wonderfully planned party! Let down your hair, have a blast! Rejoice that you are alive, well and sane! Let this Christmas be different, special, unique, and wonderful.
On a final note, do something you have never done before. I do not know you so you have to take out time to figure that out. Let that be your number 11! As they say go the extra mile, to be extraordinary!! Number 11 is your extra and that makes you EXTRAORDINARY this Christmas!
Have a WONDERFUL! GLORIOUS! And FABULOUS XMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a FANTASTIC 2010!
May all your DREAMS come TRUE in the NEW YEAR!
RE: TEN WAYS TO HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!
Ten Ways to have A Wonderful Christmas!
1. Imbibe the Giver’s spirit, have a giving heart. Give gifts to all your friends, families and colleagues at work.
2. Visit loved ones during this period, it’s a time for social visits
3. Visit orphanages and reach out to the poor, homeless and forgotten in the society.
4. Forgive all those that hurt you during the course of the year, forgive, let go and actually spend time praying for your offenders, ask God to forgive you too your trespasses. Open a clean slate and carry a pure heart in readiness for the new year just round the corner.
5. Send Christmas Wishes through emails, text messages, to your friends outside Nigeria, take out time to write the sweetest words because most Nigerians in the Diaspora sometimes have a nasty Christmas because of the cold and some can be lonely and miserable, so your words will become a soothing balm for their spirits and their souls. Remember the song, “Reach out and touch, somebody’s hand, make this world a better place if you can”
6. If you are married spend quality time planning a “WOW” time with your family. Buy your partner a gift that will amaze and daze them. Go the extra mile to find that special gift that will speak for your love to them. God did not just speak of His love for humanity, He proved and showed it, by sending JESUS CHRIST, to die for us. Jesus Christ is the reason Christmas! Do not just claim to love your wife or husband this Christmas, SHOW IT! Do not forget to do the same for your children too.
7. If you are single in a relationship do the same thing, show love, express your love, write something wonderful, frame it, write a love poem and be creative about your love, plan a surprise dinner with his friends, and surprise him. Buy him/her a gift that will show exactly what you feel. Don’t just love! Say it! Act it! Show it! Now more than ever.
8. If you are single and have no love in your life at the moment, take heart and do not despair. Love God! Love yourself! Love others! During this time let your heart and life be driven by LOVE! Visit a hospital, especially the children’s ward, and buy gifts for the sick child. Before you go spend time praying to God Almighty for their healing and recovery and as you spend money buying and wrapping the gift pray that your gift will be a love gift, that will bring healing and change in their lives.
9. Remember to buy your “Man of God a gift this Christmas! They labour over us in their prayers and supplications to God to keep us and prosper us throughout the year, it is time to show them some love, and gratitude for their love and effort towards our spiritual well being.
10. Have a PARTY, celebrate life with friends and loved ones, a big wonderfully planned party! Let down your hair, have a blast! Rejoice that you are alive, well and sane! Let this Christmas be different, special, unique, and wonderful.
On a final note, do something you have never done before. I do not know you so you have to take out time to figure that out. Let that be your number 11! As they say go the extra mile, to be extraordinary!! Number 11 is your extra and that makes you EXTRAORDINARY this Christmas!
Have a WONDERFUL! GLORIOUS! And FABULOUS XMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a FANTASTIC 2010!
May all your DREAMS come TRUE in the NEW YEAR!
1. Imbibe the Giver’s spirit, have a giving heart. Give gifts to all your friends, families and colleagues at work.
2. Visit loved ones during this period, it’s a time for social visits
3. Visit orphanages and reach out to the poor, homeless and forgotten in the society.
4. Forgive all those that hurt you during the course of the year, forgive, let go and actually spend time praying for your offenders, ask God to forgive you too your trespasses. Open a clean slate and carry a pure heart in readiness for the new year just round the corner.
5. Send Christmas Wishes through emails, text messages, to your friends outside Nigeria, take out time to write the sweetest words because most Nigerians in the Diaspora sometimes have a nasty Christmas because of the cold and some can be lonely and miserable, so your words will become a soothing balm for their spirits and their souls. Remember the song, “Reach out and touch, somebody’s hand, make this world a better place if you can”
6. If you are married spend quality time planning a “WOW” time with your family. Buy your partner a gift that will amaze and daze them. Go the extra mile to find that special gift that will speak for your love to them. God did not just speak of His love for humanity, He proved and showed it, by sending JESUS CHRIST, to die for us. Jesus Christ is the reason Christmas! Do not just claim to love your wife or husband this Christmas, SHOW IT! Do not forget to do the same for your children too.
7. If you are single in a relationship do the same thing, show love, express your love, write something wonderful, frame it, write a love poem and be creative about your love, plan a surprise dinner with his friends, and surprise him. Buy him/her a gift that will show exactly what you feel. Don’t just love! Say it! Act it! Show it! Now more than ever.
8. If you are single and have no love in your life at the moment, take heart and do not despair. Love God! Love yourself! Love others! During this time let your heart and life be driven by LOVE! Visit a hospital, especially the children’s ward, and buy gifts for the sick child. Before you go spend time praying to God Almighty for their healing and recovery and as you spend money buying and wrapping the gift pray that your gift will be a love gift, that will bring healing and change in their lives.
9. Remember to buy your “Man of God a gift this Christmas! They labour over us in their prayers and supplications to God to keep us and prosper us throughout the year, it is time to show them some love, and gratitude for their love and effort towards our spiritual well being.
10. Have a PARTY, celebrate life with friends and loved ones, a big wonderfully planned party! Let down your hair, have a blast! Rejoice that you are alive, well and sane! Let this Christmas be different, special, unique, and wonderful.
On a final note, do something you have never done before. I do not know you so you have to take out time to figure that out. Let that be your number 11! As they say go the extra mile, to be extraordinary!! Number 11 is your extra and that makes you EXTRAORDINARY this Christmas!
Have a WONDERFUL! GLORIOUS! And FABULOUS XMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a FANTASTIC 2010!
May all your DREAMS come TRUE in the NEW YEAR!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
LESSONS FROM TIGER’S TROUBLES!
We have been inundated with the news of Tiger’s Troubles since he had the accident some weeks ago when he hit a hydrant and smashed his car into a tree near his home. I remember the breaking of the news, the flurry and the buzz that his accident caused, everyone was curious to know why Tiger Woods the world’s most celebrated sports man would drive his car into a tree just a few minutes away from his home, it was just an incredible story, but within the story lay more intriguing and damaging stories. The stories gradually unfolded as we began to hear of Tiger’s Temptations and Tiger’s sins.
That is the background of this piece that I have aptly titled “Lessons From Tiger’s Troubles”! I remember a man of God, Dr Myles Munroe at a function in lagos Nigeria predicting that in 2009! Everything that could be shaken would be shaken! How prophetic he was in his predictions of the year for 2009 will go down as one of the most traumatic years in history!
Everything that can be shaken has been shaken, is it with the global recession, or the death of MJ and the unforgettable banking saga that rocked Nigeria my beloved country.
As I look back at the year I begin to ponder on the Troubles of Tiger Wood, and of course the traumas of Elin his wife! Tiger literally had the world at his feet but at the moment he must be holding on to dear life, because one minute life’s good and the next day, all hell breaks loose and as a person that is quick to learn life’s lessons I ponder at the lessons to be learnt with the Wood’s saga!
As you read further in this piece you will find some of the lessons that we must all learn from Tiger’s Troubles, because life is a school of unending lessons. To grow and get better we must continually learn from our own mistakes and from the mistakes of others.
1. Only God is perfect. Only God can sit on his high horse and remain God.
2. It is important that we do not carry on in life with a very high mien and assume that we are who we are because of our good looks, strengths, capacities and abilities. All that we are and that we can accomplish and achieve is the work of grace which is God’s No 1 gift to humanity, think of it?
Who gives us our very lives?
Who gives us breath?
Who gives us strength?
Who gives us health?
Who gives us favour?
Who gives our intelligence?
Who gives us direction?
Who gives us power?
Who gives us wealth?
Who gives us good looks?
Who gives us fame?
Who gives us wisdom?
This is why we must be very careful in life not to assume that we are products of our own hard work, self discipline and ability! It’s the greatest fallacy in life to think you are who you are by your work alone?
I am writing this piece because my heart goes out to Tiger and his entire household! In life we are prone to temptations because we are human beings! We are frail and can only carry on alone by God’s grace!
3. Thirdly we all have enemies, and sometimes we are our own worst enemies, We put up great fronts, wear massive masks and carry on though we are untouchable and impenetrable? The truth is that our very strengths and our very foundations come from God. We are nothing outside of God Almighty.
So for me it is a great lesson to learn the depths of our frailties as human beings. Yes frailties ! We are products of the earth, what beautifies our lives as human beings is the breath and the grace of God! So in life the earlier we learn to recognize our frailties and accept God’s divine grace to help us on the race of life. I am no saint! I have done my own share of failing and falling too but I have come to know and recognize that outside of God “I am nothing”! So I choose to quickly retrace my steps to my God and maker and surrender my life to God to lead and to help me.
4. Life is a STAGE! Yes a stage where every man must play his part and one day return to our Maker to tell the story of how we made it through. I am not a judge because I am not Tiger’s Creator but every time something happens around me I quickly choose to see the lessons and learn from them so that my life and the lives of those around me can benefit.
5. Everything is possible! Whoever thought a black man would become the president of America and occupy the White House in our time and generation? Whoever believed that Michael Jackson would die at only 50? Whoever believed that the Berlin Wall would crumble and the cold war would end? Whoever thought the world would witness so much technological changes that the whole world would suddenly become a global village? Who ever thought, that Tiger would lose the support of all his sponsors in just a few weeks because of infidelity? Whoever thought? Who knows what next?
My real reason for writing this piece is to solicit your prayers for Tiger and his household? You might wonder why pray for Tiger? Why not? I ask?
Jesus Christ while dealing with the adulterous woman who was caught in the very act of adultery told her haters and those that condemned her to cast the first stone for stoning to death was the penalty for this sin! One by one they all walked away, because they all had sinned And no one could cast any stone so every one of her condemners just all simply walked away.
Well the same goes for Tiger, I am not saying infidelity is acceptable or even pardonable! I cannot judge Tiger because I am equally a sinner, only free because of the finished work of Jesus. Only God can judge his own creation, and Tiger Woods is one of God’s creations, that is why we must pray for him and his entire household at this time of trial and trouble. So I am throwing away my stone, I am walking back to my own space and minding my own business but I am purposed on doing one thing and one thing alone, I am committed to spending time praying for Tiger and Elin that this trouble will not destroy their union and that this trouble will make better people of this couple!
6. To err is human to forgive is divine! We must all forgive ourselves for our errors and our mistakes and learn to forgive others too. God is love and his heart is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of his grace! Let’s find it in our hearts to forgive especially people that have hurt us and this is why we plead with Tiger’s wife to forgive the erring Tiger and love deeper and give even the more at a time when all she feels to do is to tear down and break up.
7. It is a sad day for Tiger but it is also a great day! How can sadness birth greatness, well adversity helps you see clearly because God allows you see who you really are and when you know yourself then you become a master of trouble! Adversity also helps you know your real friends because when all is well you do not know who really and truly loves you for you not just because you are the greatest man or woman in the world. Success they say has many cousins but in the day of trouble only the strong and the beloved can stand with you. So rejoice Tiger because life is clearer and your purpose hopefully will be even more defined because if you can weather adversity, then you are really and truly a MAN!
8. Finally Tigers Troubles and travails shows that we must only build our hopes and dreams on the solid rock! “On the SOLID ROCK I STAND! All other ground is SINKING SAND”! Today most of the companies that before now endorsed Tiger have backed down, how quickly they go! That is the lesson of life! Suddenly Tiger is no longer the premium brand? No longer the greatest golfer and sports man in the world? Ha! Life can be cruel sometimes so if we desire to build or rebuild let’s build our lives, our professions and our family around GOD through the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Only God will stand in the day of trouble and statistics show that every one has the potential to walk away in the day of trouble because trouble comes to us all! That is why I am never ashamed of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, as they say I am a diehard JESUS follower because I am CERTAIN of His love and commitment for me! JESUS CHRIST is the SOLID ROCK we can build upon! He is the SURE FOUNDATION! He is the anchor for our souls!
9. Life is Seasonal. Seasons come and seasons go! We must realize the seasons that we are continually! There are up seasons and down seasons! It’s important that we learn to manage every season! Like Joseph in Egypt, when there was plenty in the land, he saved for the days of drought! Know what season you are in and do not mismanage your seasons? Is it planting time? Is it harvest time? What season are you in? We will reap whatever we sow so it is important to realize that seedtime and harvest time will not cease so long as the earth remains!
10. Finally people can make or mar us, we must be careful the companies we keep! Choose your business associates and circle of friends wisely. He who moves with the wise, will become wise and a company of fools is trouble. Do not despise the WORD OF GOD! God is not mocked whatever a man sows that too will he reap! Keep godly and wise company they help you keep your soundness and secure your future!
Let’s pray for ourselves that God will continue to help us, grace us, keep us and defend our cause!
I remembered when Whitney Houston went through her travails, I choose to pray and today she is out of the woods and back on her feet, again it is time to pray for one of God’s great creations!
Let’s pray for Tiger and Elin that God will help them overcome these times and use them both for the good of his Kingdom! Do you say Amen? Or do I hear why should I? God will do His will and purpose in all our lives.
God bless Tiger Woods and His entire household, and God bless every reader of this piece.
God bless Nigeria!
God bless our president!
Merry Christmas and do have a prosperous 2010!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI. DECEMER 20, 2009.
We have been inundated with the news of Tiger’s Troubles since he had the accident some weeks ago when he hit a hydrant and smashed his car into a tree near his home. I remember the breaking of the news, the flurry and the buzz that his accident caused, everyone was curious to know why Tiger Woods the world’s most celebrated sports man would drive his car into a tree just a few minutes away from his home, it was just an incredible story, but within the story lay more intriguing and damaging stories. The stories gradually unfolded as we began to hear of Tiger’s Temptations and Tiger’s sins.
That is the background of this piece that I have aptly titled “Lessons From Tiger’s Troubles”! I remember a man of God, Dr Myles Munroe at a function in lagos Nigeria predicting that in 2009! Everything that could be shaken would be shaken! How prophetic he was in his predictions of the year for 2009 will go down as one of the most traumatic years in history!
Everything that can be shaken has been shaken, is it with the global recession, or the death of MJ and the unforgettable banking saga that rocked Nigeria my beloved country.
As I look back at the year I begin to ponder on the Troubles of Tiger Wood, and of course the traumas of Elin his wife! Tiger literally had the world at his feet but at the moment he must be holding on to dear life, because one minute life’s good and the next day, all hell breaks loose and as a person that is quick to learn life’s lessons I ponder at the lessons to be learnt with the Wood’s saga!
As you read further in this piece you will find some of the lessons that we must all learn from Tiger’s Troubles, because life is a school of unending lessons. To grow and get better we must continually learn from our own mistakes and from the mistakes of others.
1. Only God is perfect. Only God can sit on his high horse and remain God.
2. It is important that we do not carry on in life with a very high mien and assume that we are who we are because of our good looks, strengths, capacities and abilities. All that we are and that we can accomplish and achieve is the work of grace which is God’s No 1 gift to humanity, think of it?
Who gives us our very lives?
Who gives us breath?
Who gives us strength?
Who gives us health?
Who gives us favour?
Who gives our intelligence?
Who gives us direction?
Who gives us power?
Who gives us wealth?
Who gives us good looks?
Who gives us fame?
Who gives us wisdom?
This is why we must be very careful in life not to assume that we are products of our own hard work, self discipline and ability! It’s the greatest fallacy in life to think you are who you are by your work alone?
I am writing this piece because my heart goes out to Tiger and his entire household! In life we are prone to temptations because we are human beings! We are frail and can only carry on alone by God’s grace!
3. Thirdly we all have enemies, and sometimes we are our own worst enemies, We put up great fronts, wear massive masks and carry on though we are untouchable and impenetrable? The truth is that our very strengths and our very foundations come from God. We are nothing outside of God Almighty.
So for me it is a great lesson to learn the depths of our frailties as human beings. Yes frailties ! We are products of the earth, what beautifies our lives as human beings is the breath and the grace of God! So in life the earlier we learn to recognize our frailties and accept God’s divine grace to help us on the race of life. I am no saint! I have done my own share of failing and falling too but I have come to know and recognize that outside of God “I am nothing”! So I choose to quickly retrace my steps to my God and maker and surrender my life to God to lead and to help me.
4. Life is a STAGE! Yes a stage where every man must play his part and one day return to our Maker to tell the story of how we made it through. I am not a judge because I am not Tiger’s Creator but every time something happens around me I quickly choose to see the lessons and learn from them so that my life and the lives of those around me can benefit.
5. Everything is possible! Whoever thought a black man would become the president of America and occupy the White House in our time and generation? Whoever believed that Michael Jackson would die at only 50? Whoever believed that the Berlin Wall would crumble and the cold war would end? Whoever thought the world would witness so much technological changes that the whole world would suddenly become a global village? Who ever thought, that Tiger would lose the support of all his sponsors in just a few weeks because of infidelity? Whoever thought? Who knows what next?
My real reason for writing this piece is to solicit your prayers for Tiger and his household? You might wonder why pray for Tiger? Why not? I ask?
Jesus Christ while dealing with the adulterous woman who was caught in the very act of adultery told her haters and those that condemned her to cast the first stone for stoning to death was the penalty for this sin! One by one they all walked away, because they all had sinned And no one could cast any stone so every one of her condemners just all simply walked away.
Well the same goes for Tiger, I am not saying infidelity is acceptable or even pardonable! I cannot judge Tiger because I am equally a sinner, only free because of the finished work of Jesus. Only God can judge his own creation, and Tiger Woods is one of God’s creations, that is why we must pray for him and his entire household at this time of trial and trouble. So I am throwing away my stone, I am walking back to my own space and minding my own business but I am purposed on doing one thing and one thing alone, I am committed to spending time praying for Tiger and Elin that this trouble will not destroy their union and that this trouble will make better people of this couple!
6. To err is human to forgive is divine! We must all forgive ourselves for our errors and our mistakes and learn to forgive others too. God is love and his heart is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of his grace! Let’s find it in our hearts to forgive especially people that have hurt us and this is why we plead with Tiger’s wife to forgive the erring Tiger and love deeper and give even the more at a time when all she feels to do is to tear down and break up.
7. It is a sad day for Tiger but it is also a great day! How can sadness birth greatness, well adversity helps you see clearly because God allows you see who you really are and when you know yourself then you become a master of trouble! Adversity also helps you know your real friends because when all is well you do not know who really and truly loves you for you not just because you are the greatest man or woman in the world. Success they say has many cousins but in the day of trouble only the strong and the beloved can stand with you. So rejoice Tiger because life is clearer and your purpose hopefully will be even more defined because if you can weather adversity, then you are really and truly a MAN!
8. Finally Tigers Troubles and travails shows that we must only build our hopes and dreams on the solid rock! “On the SOLID ROCK I STAND! All other ground is SINKING SAND”! Today most of the companies that before now endorsed Tiger have backed down, how quickly they go! That is the lesson of life! Suddenly Tiger is no longer the premium brand? No longer the greatest golfer and sports man in the world? Ha! Life can be cruel sometimes so if we desire to build or rebuild let’s build our lives, our professions and our family around GOD through the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Only God will stand in the day of trouble and statistics show that every one has the potential to walk away in the day of trouble because trouble comes to us all! That is why I am never ashamed of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, as they say I am a diehard JESUS follower because I am CERTAIN of His love and commitment for me! JESUS CHRIST is the SOLID ROCK we can build upon! He is the SURE FOUNDATION! He is the anchor for our souls!
9. Life is Seasonal. Seasons come and seasons go! We must realize the seasons that we are continually! There are up seasons and down seasons! It’s important that we learn to manage every season! Like Joseph in Egypt, when there was plenty in the land, he saved for the days of drought! Know what season you are in and do not mismanage your seasons? Is it planting time? Is it harvest time? What season are you in? We will reap whatever we sow so it is important to realize that seedtime and harvest time will not cease so long as the earth remains!
10. Finally people can make or mar us, we must be careful the companies we keep! Choose your business associates and circle of friends wisely. He who moves with the wise, will become wise and a company of fools is trouble. Do not despise the WORD OF GOD! God is not mocked whatever a man sows that too will he reap! Keep godly and wise company they help you keep your soundness and secure your future!
Let’s pray for ourselves that God will continue to help us, grace us, keep us and defend our cause!
I remembered when Whitney Houston went through her travails, I choose to pray and today she is out of the woods and back on her feet, again it is time to pray for one of God’s great creations!
Let’s pray for Tiger and Elin that God will help them overcome these times and use them both for the good of his Kingdom! Do you say Amen? Or do I hear why should I? God will do His will and purpose in all our lives.
God bless Tiger Woods and His entire household, and God bless every reader of this piece.
God bless Nigeria!
God bless our president!
Merry Christmas and do have a prosperous 2010!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI. DECEMER 20, 2009.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
RE: GET READY FOR 2010!
GET READY FOR 2010!
You have more to be grateful for than to complain about!
You have two eyes that see.
You have two legs that walk.
You have two hands that clap and do so many other things to make life more wonderful for you.
You have two ears that hear, and hear well.
You have one great head that functions well to bring you thus far in your journey of life.
You have an amazing brain that has helped you piece together the puzzle called life.
You have more going for you than anything to complain about.
So you have lots of unaccomplished goals, and many unpaid bills? Perhaps it’s been an extremely difficult and challenging year and you feel angry, sad and depressed?
The Bible says there is a time for everything!
A time to cry, and a time to laugh!
A time to live and time to die!
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing!
A time to cast away stones and a time to gather!
The moral of this truth is the need to know what time it is? There is a time for everything under the sun! This is the time to:
Be grateful and thankful that you are alive, well, sane and sound.
Be grateful that you recorded no loss, no one died amongst you and you did not fall prey to cancer or some horrible disturbing disease whose only agenda is to terminate!
Be thankful that you did not lose your job, your house or was involved in declaring bankruptcy as a result of the recession or depression depending on what part of the world you are in.
Be grateful that 2009 did not become your death year, imagine the many that lost their lives in 2009! Michael Jackson who tops the list of deaths in this year has others not so known scattered all over the world, some died young, others died old and fulfilled but they still died, I am not gloating at being alive but it sure helps to be able to look back and see the grace and goodness of God in keeping and delivering you from the many myriads of troubles, trials and tragedies that took place in 2009.
Ask yourself this candid question, what exactly are you unhappy about? It’s not the time to complain!
It’s not the right time to moan and groan at all! It’s a time for a balanced reflection because it could have been worse!
Are we better than those that died of one ailment or the other? Lets realize that the love, goodness and faithfulness of God has kept us, preserved and protected us throughout 2009! We are products of God’s love! So let’s CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE!! CELEBRATE!!!
It’s time to celebrate!
It’s time to dance and sing rejoicing all the way forward!
Thank God for life!
Thank God for family!
Thank God for friends and well wishers!
Thank God for yesterday, today and for tomorrow!
Thank God for hopes, dreams and aspirations!
Thank God for all the latest technologies that helps make life and living better!
Thank God for the grace of a new beginning, a new chance to start all over again!
Let’s rejoice exceedingly and be glad!
Our lives have been preserved, our sanities upheld and our joys full.
Let nothing, no one steal your joy or dampen your spirit, because you deserve to be happy, and very happy too!
The questions to ask now are, what must I work on? Where can I make adjustments? Which relationships must I improve upon and which ones must I severe? What is the way forward?
We cannot change yesterday, we can only plan today for tomorrow while living our best lives today!
So roll out the drums! Sing a new song! Do that new dance! It’s a new dawn! It’s a new day!
God’s plans for you are for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.
Remember that your future is bright!
Remember that your best days are yet ahead of you.
Remember that your greatest stories are yet unfolding and your life will only get better and better and better!
So get your CHEER on, and remember that is the season of loving, giving and sharing with others.
Do good without expecting anything in return knowing that God is the rewarder.
Do not become bitter but be better.
Do not allow frustrations, limitations and stagnation, rather rise above all your frustrations, and be the best that you can be.
Think creatively and ask intelligent questions this will free your mind and help unleash God’s best upon your life.
What must you change now to get a better life tomorrow? What can you contribute? What good can you do and what value can you bring to the table of life?
As you ask these questions and answer them you bring a breath of fresh grace upon your life. There is a need to put the past behind you and resolve to forge forward with all the zest and zeal that you can muster. Life is for the prepared, not for the tired!
So put yesterday behind and celebrate today whilst planning for tomorrow! Tomorrow is knocking and it is just a few hours ahead, yes a new day is about to birth and it is brand new and fresh, exciting and edgy, it is called 2010! Even the sound alone is gratifying 1 2010!
What are your plans for 2010? What are your dreams for this great year! What are your hopes and aspirations? Whatever they are they are achievable! Doable and realizable!
Remember if OBAMA can you too CAN!
Remember you are too blessed to be distressed or stressed!
Remember you are greatly graced, enabled and energized to march forward and conquer 2010!
Remember you alone determine how far you go and nothing, no one can stand in the way of a determined, disciplined and decisive man!
Remember you were born to reach, strive and achieve so give 2010 your best and greatest SHOT!
SHINE! SHINE! SHINE! Because you are:
A gem! A treasure!
A STAR!
Enjoy the few last days left in 2009 and get ready for a great and glorious new year ahead!!
Merry CHRISTMAS and this is wishing you a great and glorious 2010!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI DECEMBER 20, 2009!
You have more to be grateful for than to complain about!
You have two eyes that see.
You have two legs that walk.
You have two hands that clap and do so many other things to make life more wonderful for you.
You have two ears that hear, and hear well.
You have one great head that functions well to bring you thus far in your journey of life.
You have an amazing brain that has helped you piece together the puzzle called life.
You have more going for you than anything to complain about.
So you have lots of unaccomplished goals, and many unpaid bills? Perhaps it’s been an extremely difficult and challenging year and you feel angry, sad and depressed?
The Bible says there is a time for everything!
A time to cry, and a time to laugh!
A time to live and time to die!
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing!
A time to cast away stones and a time to gather!
The moral of this truth is the need to know what time it is? There is a time for everything under the sun! This is the time to:
Be grateful and thankful that you are alive, well, sane and sound.
Be grateful that you recorded no loss, no one died amongst you and you did not fall prey to cancer or some horrible disturbing disease whose only agenda is to terminate!
Be thankful that you did not lose your job, your house or was involved in declaring bankruptcy as a result of the recession or depression depending on what part of the world you are in.
Be grateful that 2009 did not become your death year, imagine the many that lost their lives in 2009! Michael Jackson who tops the list of deaths in this year has others not so known scattered all over the world, some died young, others died old and fulfilled but they still died, I am not gloating at being alive but it sure helps to be able to look back and see the grace and goodness of God in keeping and delivering you from the many myriads of troubles, trials and tragedies that took place in 2009.
Ask yourself this candid question, what exactly are you unhappy about? It’s not the time to complain!
It’s not the right time to moan and groan at all! It’s a time for a balanced reflection because it could have been worse!
Are we better than those that died of one ailment or the other? Lets realize that the love, goodness and faithfulness of God has kept us, preserved and protected us throughout 2009! We are products of God’s love! So let’s CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE!! CELEBRATE!!!
It’s time to celebrate!
It’s time to dance and sing rejoicing all the way forward!
Thank God for life!
Thank God for family!
Thank God for friends and well wishers!
Thank God for yesterday, today and for tomorrow!
Thank God for hopes, dreams and aspirations!
Thank God for all the latest technologies that helps make life and living better!
Thank God for the grace of a new beginning, a new chance to start all over again!
Let’s rejoice exceedingly and be glad!
Our lives have been preserved, our sanities upheld and our joys full.
Let nothing, no one steal your joy or dampen your spirit, because you deserve to be happy, and very happy too!
The questions to ask now are, what must I work on? Where can I make adjustments? Which relationships must I improve upon and which ones must I severe? What is the way forward?
We cannot change yesterday, we can only plan today for tomorrow while living our best lives today!
So roll out the drums! Sing a new song! Do that new dance! It’s a new dawn! It’s a new day!
God’s plans for you are for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.
Remember that your future is bright!
Remember that your best days are yet ahead of you.
Remember that your greatest stories are yet unfolding and your life will only get better and better and better!
So get your CHEER on, and remember that is the season of loving, giving and sharing with others.
Do good without expecting anything in return knowing that God is the rewarder.
Do not become bitter but be better.
Do not allow frustrations, limitations and stagnation, rather rise above all your frustrations, and be the best that you can be.
Think creatively and ask intelligent questions this will free your mind and help unleash God’s best upon your life.
What must you change now to get a better life tomorrow? What can you contribute? What good can you do and what value can you bring to the table of life?
As you ask these questions and answer them you bring a breath of fresh grace upon your life. There is a need to put the past behind you and resolve to forge forward with all the zest and zeal that you can muster. Life is for the prepared, not for the tired!
So put yesterday behind and celebrate today whilst planning for tomorrow! Tomorrow is knocking and it is just a few hours ahead, yes a new day is about to birth and it is brand new and fresh, exciting and edgy, it is called 2010! Even the sound alone is gratifying 1 2010!
What are your plans for 2010? What are your dreams for this great year! What are your hopes and aspirations? Whatever they are they are achievable! Doable and realizable!
Remember if OBAMA can you too CAN!
Remember you are too blessed to be distressed or stressed!
Remember you are greatly graced, enabled and energized to march forward and conquer 2010!
Remember you alone determine how far you go and nothing, no one can stand in the way of a determined, disciplined and decisive man!
Remember you were born to reach, strive and achieve so give 2010 your best and greatest SHOT!
SHINE! SHINE! SHINE! Because you are:
A gem! A treasure!
A STAR!
Enjoy the few last days left in 2009 and get ready for a great and glorious new year ahead!!
Merry CHRISTMAS and this is wishing you a great and glorious 2010!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI DECEMBER 20, 2009!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Take Responsibility! Take Charge!
As human beings we are purely responsible for our lives. We must be in Charge at all times!
We must not relinquish responsibility to another regardless of our situation or circumstance especially if you are a bonafide adult. Sometimes it looks as though someone is the cause of all troubles, perhaps it’s our sister, brother, father or best friend or perhaps it’s the wicked boss in the office?
The truth of the matter is its NOBODY! We cannot lay the blame of our lives not working or not panning together at the feet of another. I am not saying we do not have enemies and plenty of adversaries but regardless of the opposition we face and will yet face we must not allow the devices, tricks evil imaginations and machinations of other people determine our journey in life.
There will always be challenges, problems will always abound but they come to strengthen and empower us for our reign, for the greater the test the greater the testimony.
So it’s important that we realize that our lives are our RESPONSIBILITY! We must take responsibility for the good, the bad and the ugly that happens in our lives and not just about the good alone.
When we realize that our lives are in our hands then we will work hard at ensuring it works! The only one who can directly affect our lives is GOD! God alone should be given the power, influence and the charge over our lives.
We should relinquish control of our lives to God because we are sure of:
God’s Love
God Care
God’s Support
God’s Guidance.
God’s Plans.
We do this with the knowledge that is a joint venture partnership that is bound to succeed, because one with God is a majority and if God be for us who can be against us?
Essentially the essence of this piece is for us to weigh and realize the magnitude of the great responsibility that we carry by taking control and charge of the reigns of our lives.
We must by the help of God decide:
Who we are?
Where we are going?
How we intend to get there?
It’s the greatest and most important questions we can ask and answer to live a successful and fulfilling life on earth.
Who we are is the question of identity. While where we are going is that of direction and focus!
How we get to our various destinations answers the question of strategy!
It’s important that we answer these questions in order that we do not look back and regret the actions we took or did not take at the end of our lives, God forbid that we have regrets at the end of our lives.
Who are you? Who defines who you are?
Does our past define us?
Does our occupation define us?
Does our family define us?
Does our present situation, challenges define us?
Does society define us?
Who defines who we are?
Who should define us?
Are we defined by the colour of skin or by the colour of our eyes?
Does our accent define who we are?
Who are you?
Who you are depicts what you can do! Yes who you are defines your essence.
Its imperative that we take the lead, and take time to define and redefine who we want to be rather than allow others put their definitions upon us.
I am many things to many people at different times for different reasons and for different purposes but at the end of the day only the CREATOR knows the real you. He alone can truly best define you because He made you, created you, and molded and shaped you even in your mother’s womb.
The question of identity and purpose is what helps us to have a concise and clear realization of the true visions of our lives.
If you do not know who you are then life will remould you. Take for an example an eagle bird that was born amongst chickens and left to brood with the pack for too long, after sometime the law of association sets in, and pretty soon the eagle bird begins to behave like a mere chicken. So it is with our lives, if we do not quickly realize who we are we, the environment, and our associations begin to reshape and remake us? So a prince begins to act like a commoner and God forbid like a criminal.
This is why it is important that we do ourselves one of lives biggest favours by defining who we are?
Do not let your circumstances, your past, your present, your limitations, your conditions your status, your name, your country, your people, your gender, your tribe, your church, your accent, define you.
Do not take on labels put on you by people. Do not accept unacceptable togas and discomfiting titles.
Come to terms with your heritage, and realize who you are and what you can do!
Why be a chicken when you can be an eagle?
Why be a goat when you can be a horse?
Why be tortoise when you can be lion?
Why be a dog when you can be an elephant?
Why be a follower when you can be a leader?
Why be small when you can be great?
Why die when you can live?
Why be single when you can be happily married with children?
Why be lonely, sad and depressed when you can be lovely, happy, satisfied and fulfilled?
Why stay small, limited and clueless when you can be great, incredible and enlightened?
Why settle for less when you can have the best?
Why be ordinary, when you can be sensational and dazzling?
Why complain, when you have the potential to lead, innovate and motivate millions.
Why be down and out, when you can be up and about soaring, reaching and achieving?
Why follow the brood, when you can blaze a trail and chart a new order?
Why merely survive when you can champion a cause, create a new world order.
Why allow status quo when you can change the world and make history.
Why be a, nobody when you can be an OBAMA?
Why be local, when you can be international?
Why be unknown, unsung, when you can be a hero, a superstar and a genius?
In order to leave a definite legacy we must all answer these 3 basic fundamental questions at one point or the other in our lives!
Now is the time, today is the day to answer these questions, of:
Who we are?
Where we are going?
How to get there?
When we answer these 3 important questions then we know without a shadow of a doubt that we are in control and in charge of our lives and that the only other person that can influence and impact our lives is our Creator and our God.
As the year draws to a close we must begin to take stock. We must decide that the coming year we would be more:
ORGANISED!
CREATIVE!
INNOVATIVE!
DECISIVE!
COMPOSED!
FOCUSED!
DETERMINED!
PURPOSEFUL!
CONSTRUCTIVE!
DOGGED!
PRODUCTIVE!
PROACTIVE!
It’s possible!
It’s achievable!!
Lets’ go forward!
Lets’ make progress!
Lets’ take charge!
Lets’ take control!
I see greatness.
What do you see?
I see possibilities.
What do you see?
I see glory?
What do you see?
Who are you?
I know who I am!
I am a GEM!
I am a TREASURE!
I am a STAR!
What says you?
Remember you are God’s best, highest and greatest!
Merry XMAS!
Glorious 2010!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI DECEMBER 13, 2009!
As human beings we are purely responsible for our lives. We must be in Charge at all times!
We must not relinquish responsibility to another regardless of our situation or circumstance especially if you are a bonafide adult. Sometimes it looks as though someone is the cause of all troubles, perhaps it’s our sister, brother, father or best friend or perhaps it’s the wicked boss in the office?
The truth of the matter is its NOBODY! We cannot lay the blame of our lives not working or not panning together at the feet of another. I am not saying we do not have enemies and plenty of adversaries but regardless of the opposition we face and will yet face we must not allow the devices, tricks evil imaginations and machinations of other people determine our journey in life.
There will always be challenges, problems will always abound but they come to strengthen and empower us for our reign, for the greater the test the greater the testimony.
So it’s important that we realize that our lives are our RESPONSIBILITY! We must take responsibility for the good, the bad and the ugly that happens in our lives and not just about the good alone.
When we realize that our lives are in our hands then we will work hard at ensuring it works! The only one who can directly affect our lives is GOD! God alone should be given the power, influence and the charge over our lives.
We should relinquish control of our lives to God because we are sure of:
God’s Love
God Care
God’s Support
God’s Guidance.
God’s Plans.
We do this with the knowledge that is a joint venture partnership that is bound to succeed, because one with God is a majority and if God be for us who can be against us?
Essentially the essence of this piece is for us to weigh and realize the magnitude of the great responsibility that we carry by taking control and charge of the reigns of our lives.
We must by the help of God decide:
Who we are?
Where we are going?
How we intend to get there?
It’s the greatest and most important questions we can ask and answer to live a successful and fulfilling life on earth.
Who we are is the question of identity. While where we are going is that of direction and focus!
How we get to our various destinations answers the question of strategy!
It’s important that we answer these questions in order that we do not look back and regret the actions we took or did not take at the end of our lives, God forbid that we have regrets at the end of our lives.
Who are you? Who defines who you are?
Does our past define us?
Does our occupation define us?
Does our family define us?
Does our present situation, challenges define us?
Does society define us?
Who defines who we are?
Who should define us?
Are we defined by the colour of skin or by the colour of our eyes?
Does our accent define who we are?
Who are you?
Who you are depicts what you can do! Yes who you are defines your essence.
Its imperative that we take the lead, and take time to define and redefine who we want to be rather than allow others put their definitions upon us.
I am many things to many people at different times for different reasons and for different purposes but at the end of the day only the CREATOR knows the real you. He alone can truly best define you because He made you, created you, and molded and shaped you even in your mother’s womb.
The question of identity and purpose is what helps us to have a concise and clear realization of the true visions of our lives.
If you do not know who you are then life will remould you. Take for an example an eagle bird that was born amongst chickens and left to brood with the pack for too long, after sometime the law of association sets in, and pretty soon the eagle bird begins to behave like a mere chicken. So it is with our lives, if we do not quickly realize who we are we, the environment, and our associations begin to reshape and remake us? So a prince begins to act like a commoner and God forbid like a criminal.
This is why it is important that we do ourselves one of lives biggest favours by defining who we are?
Do not let your circumstances, your past, your present, your limitations, your conditions your status, your name, your country, your people, your gender, your tribe, your church, your accent, define you.
Do not take on labels put on you by people. Do not accept unacceptable togas and discomfiting titles.
Come to terms with your heritage, and realize who you are and what you can do!
Why be a chicken when you can be an eagle?
Why be a goat when you can be a horse?
Why be tortoise when you can be lion?
Why be a dog when you can be an elephant?
Why be a follower when you can be a leader?
Why be small when you can be great?
Why die when you can live?
Why be single when you can be happily married with children?
Why be lonely, sad and depressed when you can be lovely, happy, satisfied and fulfilled?
Why stay small, limited and clueless when you can be great, incredible and enlightened?
Why settle for less when you can have the best?
Why be ordinary, when you can be sensational and dazzling?
Why complain, when you have the potential to lead, innovate and motivate millions.
Why be down and out, when you can be up and about soaring, reaching and achieving?
Why follow the brood, when you can blaze a trail and chart a new order?
Why merely survive when you can champion a cause, create a new world order.
Why allow status quo when you can change the world and make history.
Why be a, nobody when you can be an OBAMA?
Why be local, when you can be international?
Why be unknown, unsung, when you can be a hero, a superstar and a genius?
In order to leave a definite legacy we must all answer these 3 basic fundamental questions at one point or the other in our lives!
Now is the time, today is the day to answer these questions, of:
Who we are?
Where we are going?
How to get there?
When we answer these 3 important questions then we know without a shadow of a doubt that we are in control and in charge of our lives and that the only other person that can influence and impact our lives is our Creator and our God.
As the year draws to a close we must begin to take stock. We must decide that the coming year we would be more:
ORGANISED!
CREATIVE!
INNOVATIVE!
DECISIVE!
COMPOSED!
FOCUSED!
DETERMINED!
PURPOSEFUL!
CONSTRUCTIVE!
DOGGED!
PRODUCTIVE!
PROACTIVE!
It’s possible!
It’s achievable!!
Lets’ go forward!
Lets’ make progress!
Lets’ take charge!
Lets’ take control!
I see greatness.
What do you see?
I see possibilities.
What do you see?
I see glory?
What do you see?
Who are you?
I know who I am!
I am a GEM!
I am a TREASURE!
I am a STAR!
What says you?
Remember you are God’s best, highest and greatest!
Merry XMAS!
Glorious 2010!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI DECEMBER 13, 2009!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
FEAR NOT! U ARE VALUABLE!
FEAR NOT! You are VALUABLE!
There is no need to ever fear! Yes fear will come but you must resolve to never ever fear fear!
Never fear situations, circumstances, people or places. God admonishes us not to fear.
There are more than 365 “Do not fear scattered all over the Word of God, so a “Fear NOT for everyday has been provided.
We fear many things.
We fear yesterday.
We fear today.
We fear tomorrow.
We fear because we are ignorant of the truth. We fear out of insecurities and because of our inadequacies. Instead of being afraid, we must instead do the following:
1. Be Prayerful.
2. Be Courageous.
3. Be Thankful.
4. Be Grateful.
5. Be Purposeful.
6. Be Glad regardless
7. Be Joyful.
Sometimes people take you for granted, because they do not place any value on you? They say familiarity breeds contempt? Sometimes we feel unloved, undesirable, and uncared for?
We are in situations that seem as though we are the ones giving more than we are receiving? At such times we allow fear and insecurity to grip our hearts and minds and we begin to wonder about our worth, our value and our giftedness?
We allow external forces determine our place and power? We allow others put a price and value upon our lives? Perhaps our boss feels that we do not measure up? Or it is the husband and wife situation, where the woman feels she is the only one working to keep the marriage going or the man feels the woman is just a sitting duck in the marriage?
These insecurities if not immediately checked begins to build up and soon we begin to lose our power, our peace and our place. We gradually allow fear take over our lives and this menace attacks every facet of our lives and we begin to live less than God intended and created us to live?
I know that this situation is a common occurrence in most of our lives because trouble is common to all men, we all fear something that sometimes we do not completely understand and for some reason we let spiral out of control if not immediately checked! That is why I decided to write this piece.
It happened to me. I felt that I was giving more than I was getting in many areas and for a brief moment I let this emotion wash over me until I checked myself and quickly got a firm grip of the situation. I resolved that I was not going to allow this emotion which was obviously a negative emotion get the best of me.
I immediately began to rethink who I was? I am very clear about who God made me be and I decided that no situation, no trouble, no man dead or alive would be given the power to redefine who I am. I choose who I will be as a result of who God made me originally and my studies in the word of God shows me clearly who I am.
I then began to dwell on the “WORD of GOD” about who God originally intended that I be? I am not my situation, I am not my problem, I am not what you think, I am not what they wish, oh NO! I refuse to wear the togas of this world, I refuse to be misrepresented, I reject all forms of categorizations and stigmatizations, I oppose all forms of labeling that men throw around. I am in charge here because it is my life and the only person that is allowed to name me thank God is not a mere man but the Almighty God Himself.
So I return back to my Maker to find out this simple fact?
1. Who am I Lord?
2. What is my purpose?
3. Do you love me at all?
4. How much is your love for me?
5. Do you have any kinds of plans for me?
These are the answers I found, which today I desire to share with you my friend.
1. God loves me eternally.
2. God is always thinking good about me.
3. God loved me so much that He gave his only son to die in my place.
4. God has accepted me in the beloved simply put I am a member of his Church.
5. God calls me special, beloved and peculiar.
6. God has numbered the hairs on my head.
7. God has given his angels charge over me they watch over me and ensure that I do not dash my foot upon a rock.
8. God personally watches over me, He guides and guards me every moment.
9. God has called me the apple of his eyes and he is concerned about every detail of my life, because He knows my sitting and my standing, he understands my very frame.
10. God has given me the three greatest gifts possible on planet earth, his SON, his Spirit and his Word!
11. God has perfected all that concerns me because I am a finished work that is daily unfolding, but as far as God is concerned I am a “MASTERPIECE” a masterpiece is a piece of work that has been done by a master of the craft, I am better than the greatest art work ever created! I am a wonder, a gem and a treasure. To God I am a SHINNING STAR! That is why God calls me the light in my world and the salt in my earth!
12. God calls me his beloved! His special possession, a king and a priest in this life, in fact God made me a joint heir with His Son Jesus! So I am just like Jesus is! A child of a dog is a dog! A child of a goat is a goat! A child of God is a god! A god with a little G! A god all the same!
As I basked in the knowledge of who God made me be I began to “CELEBRATE”!
What a wonderful life I’ve got! No better life than God planned for me, I do not need any one to validate me, I validate me, and I encourage myself while I continue to be the motivator and inspiration that I am! This same God is the God of us all!
So whatever you have been afraid of prior to today it is time to change the toga of fear to
1.COURAGE!
2.BOLDNESS!
3.POWER!
So instead of fear, trauma, panics and despair! STOP! STOP!! STOP!!!
Resolve instead to:
RETHINK!
REFOCUS!
RENEW!
RELEASE!
RELAX!
REJOICE!
REFIRE!
REST!
1. Rest in God’s LOVE; it never fails.
2. Rest in God’s POWER; it always works.
3. Rest in God’s FAITHFULNESS; it remains the same.
4. Rest in God’s GRACE; it is given freely.
5. Rest in God’s MERCIES; it is new every morning.
6. Rest in God’s NAME; it is a strong tower.
7. Rest in God’s WORD; it stands forever.
As you can see for us all as God’s children there is no need to fear! Fear will only dominate you if you are ignorant of your status as a son and you benefits as an heir!
Are you a child of God indeed?
If you are REJOICE!
If you are not a child of God then please! RETURN! To your lover, keeper and Maker! Just simply ask God to give you the gift of HIS son for this season, HIS name is JESUS the CHRIST!
Ask Him to come and be the LORD and SAVIOUR of your life and you too can then begin to enjoy the great and wonderful benefits of being a child of God!
Enjoy a blessed week ahead and remember this is the season of God’s grace! Christmas Season depicts the birth of our Saviour! Jesus is the reason why we are all as children of God free from all fears!
Remember that God’s thoughts towards us are thoughts of good and not of disaster to give us a future and HOPE! For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to God’s purpose!
Finally the path of the just, the righteous is as the shining light that shines more and more to the perfect day! LIFE CAN ONLY GET BETTER!
Enjoy the beginning of the greatest days yet in your life!
If this piece has blessed you then you have my permission to please pass it on!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI DECEMBER 6, 2009
Inspire4everwithvictoriafadeyi.blogspot.com
There is no need to ever fear! Yes fear will come but you must resolve to never ever fear fear!
Never fear situations, circumstances, people or places. God admonishes us not to fear.
There are more than 365 “Do not fear scattered all over the Word of God, so a “Fear NOT for everyday has been provided.
We fear many things.
We fear yesterday.
We fear today.
We fear tomorrow.
We fear because we are ignorant of the truth. We fear out of insecurities and because of our inadequacies. Instead of being afraid, we must instead do the following:
1. Be Prayerful.
2. Be Courageous.
3. Be Thankful.
4. Be Grateful.
5. Be Purposeful.
6. Be Glad regardless
7. Be Joyful.
Sometimes people take you for granted, because they do not place any value on you? They say familiarity breeds contempt? Sometimes we feel unloved, undesirable, and uncared for?
We are in situations that seem as though we are the ones giving more than we are receiving? At such times we allow fear and insecurity to grip our hearts and minds and we begin to wonder about our worth, our value and our giftedness?
We allow external forces determine our place and power? We allow others put a price and value upon our lives? Perhaps our boss feels that we do not measure up? Or it is the husband and wife situation, where the woman feels she is the only one working to keep the marriage going or the man feels the woman is just a sitting duck in the marriage?
These insecurities if not immediately checked begins to build up and soon we begin to lose our power, our peace and our place. We gradually allow fear take over our lives and this menace attacks every facet of our lives and we begin to live less than God intended and created us to live?
I know that this situation is a common occurrence in most of our lives because trouble is common to all men, we all fear something that sometimes we do not completely understand and for some reason we let spiral out of control if not immediately checked! That is why I decided to write this piece.
It happened to me. I felt that I was giving more than I was getting in many areas and for a brief moment I let this emotion wash over me until I checked myself and quickly got a firm grip of the situation. I resolved that I was not going to allow this emotion which was obviously a negative emotion get the best of me.
I immediately began to rethink who I was? I am very clear about who God made me be and I decided that no situation, no trouble, no man dead or alive would be given the power to redefine who I am. I choose who I will be as a result of who God made me originally and my studies in the word of God shows me clearly who I am.
I then began to dwell on the “WORD of GOD” about who God originally intended that I be? I am not my situation, I am not my problem, I am not what you think, I am not what they wish, oh NO! I refuse to wear the togas of this world, I refuse to be misrepresented, I reject all forms of categorizations and stigmatizations, I oppose all forms of labeling that men throw around. I am in charge here because it is my life and the only person that is allowed to name me thank God is not a mere man but the Almighty God Himself.
So I return back to my Maker to find out this simple fact?
1. Who am I Lord?
2. What is my purpose?
3. Do you love me at all?
4. How much is your love for me?
5. Do you have any kinds of plans for me?
These are the answers I found, which today I desire to share with you my friend.
1. God loves me eternally.
2. God is always thinking good about me.
3. God loved me so much that He gave his only son to die in my place.
4. God has accepted me in the beloved simply put I am a member of his Church.
5. God calls me special, beloved and peculiar.
6. God has numbered the hairs on my head.
7. God has given his angels charge over me they watch over me and ensure that I do not dash my foot upon a rock.
8. God personally watches over me, He guides and guards me every moment.
9. God has called me the apple of his eyes and he is concerned about every detail of my life, because He knows my sitting and my standing, he understands my very frame.
10. God has given me the three greatest gifts possible on planet earth, his SON, his Spirit and his Word!
11. God has perfected all that concerns me because I am a finished work that is daily unfolding, but as far as God is concerned I am a “MASTERPIECE” a masterpiece is a piece of work that has been done by a master of the craft, I am better than the greatest art work ever created! I am a wonder, a gem and a treasure. To God I am a SHINNING STAR! That is why God calls me the light in my world and the salt in my earth!
12. God calls me his beloved! His special possession, a king and a priest in this life, in fact God made me a joint heir with His Son Jesus! So I am just like Jesus is! A child of a dog is a dog! A child of a goat is a goat! A child of God is a god! A god with a little G! A god all the same!
As I basked in the knowledge of who God made me be I began to “CELEBRATE”!
What a wonderful life I’ve got! No better life than God planned for me, I do not need any one to validate me, I validate me, and I encourage myself while I continue to be the motivator and inspiration that I am! This same God is the God of us all!
So whatever you have been afraid of prior to today it is time to change the toga of fear to
1.COURAGE!
2.BOLDNESS!
3.POWER!
So instead of fear, trauma, panics and despair! STOP! STOP!! STOP!!!
Resolve instead to:
RETHINK!
REFOCUS!
RENEW!
RELEASE!
RELAX!
REJOICE!
REFIRE!
REST!
1. Rest in God’s LOVE; it never fails.
2. Rest in God’s POWER; it always works.
3. Rest in God’s FAITHFULNESS; it remains the same.
4. Rest in God’s GRACE; it is given freely.
5. Rest in God’s MERCIES; it is new every morning.
6. Rest in God’s NAME; it is a strong tower.
7. Rest in God’s WORD; it stands forever.
As you can see for us all as God’s children there is no need to fear! Fear will only dominate you if you are ignorant of your status as a son and you benefits as an heir!
Are you a child of God indeed?
If you are REJOICE!
If you are not a child of God then please! RETURN! To your lover, keeper and Maker! Just simply ask God to give you the gift of HIS son for this season, HIS name is JESUS the CHRIST!
Ask Him to come and be the LORD and SAVIOUR of your life and you too can then begin to enjoy the great and wonderful benefits of being a child of God!
Enjoy a blessed week ahead and remember this is the season of God’s grace! Christmas Season depicts the birth of our Saviour! Jesus is the reason why we are all as children of God free from all fears!
Remember that God’s thoughts towards us are thoughts of good and not of disaster to give us a future and HOPE! For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to God’s purpose!
Finally the path of the just, the righteous is as the shining light that shines more and more to the perfect day! LIFE CAN ONLY GET BETTER!
Enjoy the beginning of the greatest days yet in your life!
If this piece has blessed you then you have my permission to please pass it on!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI DECEMBER 6, 2009
Inspire4everwithvictoriafadeyi.blogspot.com
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