RE: Let go and Let God!

These last couple of days have been very difficult for me because I had to review the past year and begin planning for the next coming year that I am trusting the LORD GOD to enter by His special grace!

It has been painful, harrowing and difficult because I had listed 71 things to accomplish in 2016 and was only able to successfully do 19 out of the 71 meaning that I missed out on 52 of these great goals. The entire scenario is worsened because my sales for November and December was poor so I am sitting here looking around and wondering how poorly things has been but then deep into the review the LORD points to me that things are not as simple as they appear that I needed to calculate the entire process again using a different set of criteria different from merely looking at the figures.

God Almighty showed me that my successfully clocking 50 in October and been able to celebrate successful as I wanted counted for most of my success for the year and that this would count for about 40 percent of the goals and since I scored very high here then I really did not fail in my goal setting for the year. Also the LORD showed me that my spiritual life was on point and that most of the things I was unable to accomplish was because it was just not yet the time for me to succeed in those goals. This was very comforting to hear and I had to go into thanksgiving and praise at God's method of reviewing my year.

Perhaps you are out there and you are wondering how poorly you have performed in the year about to close my admonition is that you should not be too hard on yourself because God Almighty knows how to get us to our desired destination even when we are unable to reach our set goals for the year in view.  

Please note that 2016 was a very difficult year both home and abroad and the only reason we are here standing strong and well is because of the great grace of God Almighty so let us let go and let God as we prepare to end 2016 and enter a brand new year of open doors, enlargement and rest from all struggles.

This is not the time for wailing and mourning, this is the time for deep reflections and thanksgiving and praise to God Almighty for His great mercies and grace upon our lives in 2016.

Let us inhale and exhale and give thanks for the amazing year ahead of us in 2017.   Yes learn not to continue to make the same mistakes but it is important that we are not too hard on ourselves as we close 2016 and enter 2017 by the special grace of God Almighty.

Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. DECEMBER 27, 2016

Re: With a grateful Heart......VPA

My heart is overflowing with gratitude, praise and worship....I sing my song of thanksgiving to my King, the owner, creator, and redeemer of my soul.

My heart is on fire with great love towards the lover of my soul.

My heart is overwhelmed with great joy and rejoicing for all the beautiful things my God has done for me in this year about to close because my Saviour kept me, helped me, delivered me, saved me, refreshed me, renewed me and restored me.

I know that my year in view started on a great note and the truth is that it continued on a wonderful note and is ending on an amazingly blessed and glorious note not because I have all my dreams met or all my aspirations come to pass yet but because I am confident in the God that began the beginning with me that He is able to grandly finish all that He started in me.

My heart overflows with great gratitude and thanksgiving for being alive today, for being from sicknesses, diseases, afflictions, infirmities, sorrows, pains and tragedies. My heart is overwhelmed with great love and devotion to my Creator, King and lover.

I know how far God Almighty has helped me. In the physical it seems that not much has taken place but I will be a total fool not to realize all the power and love of my King....He has done great things for me of which I am forever glad.

God Almighty has been the wind in my sail. He has been the rock in my life and He remains the shield and buckler for my soul. I cannot be removed or moved because His love for me is everlasting, ever faithful and ever true.

My heart overflows with thanksgiving for the great victories that my Redeemer has given to me on a silver platter, victories of the day, victories of the night, victories I can see, victories I can feel, victories I cannot see and victories I can only perceive. My 2016 has been an amazingly beautiful year full of fulfilled promises and greatness. I discovered faith in God that I never knew existed. I saw the goodness, greatness and glory of God Almighty first hand.   I am not where I ought to be but I am not where I used to be either.

My heart is overwhelmed with great gratitude for the awesome beauty of my God. He has proven that He is the awesome God the way maker, the miracle worker, light in the darkness, my God, the promise keeper. I look back at 2016 and I stand in awe of my King, the LORD JESUS, great and mighty things He alone has done.

I am grateful for life, my life, my health, my sanity, my great successes and the daily benefits, blessings, breakthroughs and brilliance all provided by the LORD, the God, the Almighty.

Think back and reflect on God's goodness, trust me this is not the time to murmur or to complain......Use the remaining days in 2016 to glorify, magnify, and thank God for His great power, love, mercies and grace upon your life. Please let your heart dance for joy at the thoughts of our God!!!

Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. DECEMBER 20, 2016

RE: Time to give thanks to the Living God

There is time for everything...Time to start, time to end. Time to build time to tear down that which has been built. Time to weep and time to laugh. There is also time to recount all our blessings and then time to give thanks. Trust me guys this is not the time to complain at all. Certainly not.

We all have the privilege of counting all our blessings and naming them one by one and giving thanks to the living God if at this point in time we are yet alive. Why do I say this, simple. I say this because not everyone that started 2016 on the 1st day of January is yet alive as we speak today. Some are dead, some are alive but dead, some have lost their minds and some have lost a limb or two so if you are still together and able to read this whole article all by yourself then you and I certainly need to rejoice, shout out loud and give thanks.

The truth is that only the living God deserves our thanks for He alone is the only one that has the capacity to power our lives.  We have been kept not because we are smarter, hotter or better, we have been kept only because we enjoyed the grace and the mercies of the living God.

As you read this I want you to stop at this point, grab a pen and a journal or a sheet of paper and write out all of God's blessings in your life since January till now, I am sure that at some point you will be tired writing because of the absolute faithfulness, kindness, goodness and greatness of God in all our lives.

I know that not all our prayers were answered in the course of this great and fabulous year and I know we have some unanswered questions and we have some problems that have just plain refused to go away but the truth of the matter is that our blessings outnumber our problems all put together.

So let us do ourselves a favour by ensuring that we engage the art and act of daily thanksgiving for the entire duration of the month of December.  We must work very hard not to ever complain, or be offended or bitter towards our Creator, Redeemer, Saviour and King.

We must give thanks generously, constantly, and continually this great and amazing God, who is all knowing, all loving and all caring towards us all.

This is the time to review the year 2016, recount and count our blessings and give thanks to whom all thanks is due, the only true, faithful and only wise God. The Alpha, the Omega, the very beginning and the ultimate ending of all things.  If you have nothing to be thankful for then thank God that you still have the breath of the living God in your nostrils giving you life freely without charging an arm and a leg.  Remember this is not the time for complaining, murmuring or fretting this is the time to give thanks to the living God for every blessing that has come our way since January 1st till 31st December 2016.  Yes give thanks not just for the things God has done but also for what He is yet to do.

Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. December 3, 2016.