RE: Disappointments sometimes happen!

Sometimes in life we get one disappointment or the other and at the time the disappointment is happening it is usually very painful but always with the benefits of hindsight we see that it was all the time working for our great good.

Disappointments happen sometimes. It can be very painful and disheartening when our plans do not happen, when our prayers are not answered as we planned and when our goals are not achieved when we want and how we want.

I guess this is one of life's mysteries that we can only ponder upon and never quite understand. We get disappointments from many quarters and even from God sometimes we get disappointments. He alone knows why He chooses to answer us or not to answer us as and at when we desire but the truth of the matter is that God knows best.

We start the beginning of the year, the beginning of the month and the beginning of the week and day very excited but at the end of each day, week, month and sometimes year things just do not pan out the way that we desire and we are hurt, pained and traumatized sometimes.   At such times only the comforting embrace of the LORD GOD can save and deliver us.

It is important to put things in perspective at such times because only the living can dream, aspire and plan.   A dead person is dead and has no power to do anything whatsoever so as long as we have our breath let us learn to give God thanks because once there is life then there is hope and hope will strengthen, empower and enliven us if we do not despair and slide into depression because of our disappointments.

Let us take out time to count our blessings, name them one by one and give thanks to the giver of all things beautiful and good! the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!

Let us trust God despite our many challenges, difficulties, troubles and disappointments because tomorrow will birth a greater and better day if we only keep our hopes and dreams ALIVE!

So keep hoping, trusting, believing and living! We are closer than when we first began!

Bye Bye June! Hello July!!!

Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. JUNE 30, 2017.

RE: Do not give up when you are hardest hit!

Sometimes in life we find ourselves in a difficult place where it seems absolutely nothing is working.

We all pass through this phase in our lives but the question today is what do you do when you do not know what next to do?

At such times:

1. Stay Calm and do not despair. Remember that you are stronger than your present situation and that it is darkest before the dawn.

2. Remain resolute in your belief in God the Almighty because when you are down to nothing God is always up to something.

3. Remember the past occurrences and see that in the past it has always ended in praise.

4. Note that whatever comes your way is what you can handle because if you cannot handle it, it will never be allowed by God to come to you.

5. Pray, Praise, fast because you need extra power to contend with whatever is trying to steal your joy.

6. Learn to rejoice regardless of your present situation because if the devil cannot take your joy then he cannot take your possessions. Do not give him the privilege to steal from you. Your joy is yours, it is a gift of God Almighty.

7. Reach out to people who can bolster your faith and inject your joy with more joy.

8. Take out time to remember how far God Almighty has helped you thus far and realize that this present situation too will pass and you will yet bounce back to life, joy and rejoicing if you do not slide into depression.

9. Remember you are an occurrence away from your breakthrough and the devil is fighting you because he can see the glory perhaps that you cannot yet see, so beat him at his game and send his baggage of death, despair and depression back to the him.

Finally laugh out LOUD!!! laugh at your enemy the devil because you are a victor and a champion in this game called life! You will reach your highest and best if you do not quit, surrender or give up the fight. When you are hardest hit fight back with every strength in you because you are a champion for life!

Copyright @ Victoria Praise Abraham. June 22, 2017.

RE: Change your narratives.

 

Never underestimate the power of the spoken WORD! Words are powerful, words create, inspire, and can destroy. Words help to shape our lives and our worlds. We are nothing without words!

Some of us have negative words in our subconscious all day long. Some of us were born into homes where negative words reigned as kings and queens.

Some of us battle negative words in our spirits, souls and minds. We wake up with them and go to sleep in them. Today I admonish us to change the narratives of our lives.

We need to be upbeat,
We need to be optimistic.
We need to be eternally positive.

There are some things we cannot change but our attitudes always depends on us. We need to change our narratives, we need to quit saying words such as I cannot make it! I cannot climb that mountain! or words like It is not enough! We need to change the narrative around us and inside of us.

We need to carry out an audit of some of the thoughts that constantly circle our hearts and minds. I am gradually winning this battle of the mind where I sometimes see impossibilities when in actual fact there is no impossibility with God!

We need to become powerful in being deliberate with our thoughts and our words.
We need to become positive and purposeful with our thinking patterns and monitor closely the kinds of thoughts that we allow into our conscious and subconscious minds because thoughts shape our lives.

To create a better, greater, higher and more glorious life we need to change our narratives.

We must rule our worlds by ruling over our thoughts!

 Welcome to an amazingly blessed and beautiful week!

Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. JUNE 13, 2017.

RE: HALF WAY MARK!

We have reached the half way mark in this great and glorious year and it is time for stock taking!

The half way mark is an important place to stop and to celebrate and also to see further and farther.

We have been blessed by the Almighty to witness this sixth month in the year 2017, the truth of the matter is that not many made it thus far. Some are now dead, buried and will soon be forgotten! So let us take time to thank the Almighty for the mercies and grace to see the sixth month alive, healthy, sound of spirit, soul, body and mind! This is not a small thing at all, it is a very great thing that requires us to stop to give thanks to the Almighty.

The half way mark is a great place because it is not the beginning and it is neither the end of the journey, it is the very middle of the journey and at such a time like this we must take out time to project into the end of the year ahead of us.  Are we on track? Are things working out for us just as we envisioned? Do we need to make some changes? What can we do differently? Do we need redirection? Do we need to pray, praise and fast more or are we good to go as we presently are?

We must take out time to revisit our goals book for the year and see what and what we have been able to accomplish and see what is still yet undone and work out ways of ensuring that we meet our targets for the year.  If we notice that we are not there at all then we might need to re-strategize and rework somethings in our lives so that we can meet our set goals and targets!

We have reached the half way mark let us make judicious use of this time and place and work extra hard at reaching all our goals. Let us not neglect the Lord God Almighty in any of our activities because God is the greatest ally that any man or woman needs. Let us give God His rightful place in our hearts and in our activities.

I pray that the power to do a greater and more glorious job in the remaining six months of the year ahead of us be given to us all and that at the end of this year we will have many amazing reasons to celebrate, jubilate and be thankful indeed!

Welcome to the half way mark!


Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. JUNE 06, 2017