YOU ARE THE ONE THAT WILL GET HURT.

 Some days ago, I happened to experience a thing that seemed common to most of us. 

What was it? 

I had a meeting, and I needed to pick out the cloth I desired to wear for the meeting. 

I started searching for this specific cloth, and the pain of getting any of my clothes is that I have to climb a stool & stretch myself to search my box to pick any desired cloth. 

So I did the usual this particular day, searching & searching as I kept stretching, yet I couldn't find the particular cloth; instead, I was finding other good-looking clothes, but definitely not what I was desiring to wear. 

Yeah, I even discovered a cloth I didn't remember I had through the search, but the captivating part of the whole happening was that, midway (let me say it was way before midway) of my search, I heard within my spirit to search my other box of clothes, but I tried reasoning things out with 'the voice behind my ears', pointing out that that cloth shouldn't be there since clothes in the other box are frequently worn, and with which this particular one wasn't. 

Guess what? I nudged off the voice & kept stretching & searching rigorously in the first box because I wanted to make it to the planned meeting too in time, and of course, the cloth wasn't there. 

When I was tired of stretching, I finally adjusted to check the other box, and true to it, the cloth was there! 

Infact, it was at the top layer of the clothes in the box (such that I wouldn't need to stretch nor stress to pick it). 

So I learned my lessons that instant.

Lessons learned:

• Most times we search for answers, things, and in all this, GOD prompts, nudges, instructs, guides, and directs us on where to look or what to do; we sometimes hear it coming indirectly from someone, or we hear it directly as "the voice behind you" (Isa. 30:21). 

But the question is, do we ever/always obey?

How often have you obeyed those impulse prompts, short directions, and lengthy instructions? 

• Now, another point, which was my main lesson from the whole experience, is that, when we refuse to obey those prompts, guidance, and instructions from GOD, we end up being the one getting hurt. Whether it's a strain we get or a burn or something even worse. Why? 

Just because we refuse to obey! 

Yes, while refusing or denying the voice and not obeying promptly, we might get other options along the line that seem good, but are they really what is befitting for us—what GOD has in HIS perfect plan for us concerning that thing?

Think about it, dear. 

∆ Disobedience, whether full or partial, only opens you up to hurt and nothing better.

∆ Disobedience only takes away from you the joy associated with doing the right thing.

∆ Disobedience makes you displease GOD & miss what HE is doing with you at that specific time.

∆ Disobedience can make you miss the real thing & give you something less befitting.

Remember, You are the one that will get hurt if you don't obey that INNER VOICE OF GOD.

Stay Blessed Beloved.

THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE MORE AWARE YOU ARE: PART 2

I couldn't shake off the prompt to write a follow-up to my previous post. Here it is...

In the last post, I mentioned that the more you learn about a thing, the more aware/conscious you get about it. 

Looking at this from another point, do you realize that the more you dwell on; get to know; gain knowledge about; consume carnal knowledge that feed your flesh, the more aware or conscious you are about them? So much that your flesh begin to influence your mind with thoughts about these things to the extent that you lose control over more wrong things that begin to flow in. And sure enough, these inflows only do more harm to us than good by weakening our spirit by occluding the existing knowledge of GOD's WORDS you have. Infact, it sometimes hinders hearing GOD's voice in that instance.

What am I saying?

Imagine someone who's struggling with any sort of addiction, watching something that relates to it somehow (or maybe it doesn't even relate but it's still a gratifier of the flesh), he doesn't deal with it at that point of influx, but instead keeps watching more contents that can satisfy his flesh, don't you think he might fall back into that addiction soon? 

He has by increasing his knowledge about that thing, not dealing with the wrong inflows entering his mind & letting his mind be influenced by the flesh to seek for more expose him to the addiction or its trigger. 

It can be so grave that he doesn't get to hear GOD's warnings until he falls, because his spirit is currently weak.

Do you get the point now? 

 The more you allow your mind gain carnal & negative knowledge, the more conscious your mind is about it & sure enough that doesn't help you because the more carnally aware you are, the more weakened your spirit is & that's detrimental to your spiritual health. 

What do we then do?

I believe the Solution would then be to replace every wrong, carnal, negative inflows with the knowledge of GOD's WORDS you have - either use the WORDS you know to counter them or you search out for more to deal with them. 

Let your spirit be strengthened & your flesh weakened so that as you hear & see different things, you can deal with them appropriately.

Replace the knowledge of that wrong thing with the knowledge of what is RIGHT!

• You want to do better with GOD this year?

• You want to achieve your new year resolution?

• You want to do better on that addiction issue? 

Then get the RIGHT knowledge to replace any negative inflow of knowledge!

How else do you think we can deal with this negative influx into our minds? 

I will love to know your views about this.

Stay blessed Beloved 🥰

THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE MORE AWARE YOU ARE.

Recently, while traveling back to school, I told myself I'll write a write-up about something I learnt during the journey, but I didn't, instead I hid it in my notepad, until days after (yesterday) when something made me remember it...

And I thought.."I might as well post it all today"...

The Recent Happening: 

Towards the end of Last year, I requested for some things from my parents to send to me, including an eraser, since my tests were coming up and I didn't have one. I received the load but never found the eraser, so I believed they couldn't get it for me, hence while I wrote my tests I had to borrow eraser. Fast forward to recently, I was searching for my milk packs (it was part of the load sent last year) & I found the eraser in the nylon with the milk. You can imagine the surprise on my face😯, the fact that I had the eraser with me all this while and never knew it was right there.

I had even maneuvered one to manage for my exams, not knowing I had a new big eraser bought for me by my Mum. 

While sharing the whole thing with my roommate, I related it to the writeup I had hid in my notepad.    

The Previous Happening: 

Overtime, in the course of my study (Nursing Science) we've learnt so much about Community Health centers and how they are in almost all towns in the State. 

Fact is, I was used to the roads that led to my school, yet, I wasn't conscious of the existence of these centres in all towns we passed by, until we learnt about them in class & even had postings to some areas. 

So, traveling back to school, I kept on sighting these centres that I've never been aware of from previous travels, and I got the understanding there: "The more you learn about a thing, the more aware or conscious you'll be about it". 

We were able to see these in the light of GOD's WORD & our walk with HIM; 

How that, we never know what is made available for us in GOD until we search it out by deeper intimacy with HIM. 

How that, the more we search into GOD's WORDS (in studying it), the more we'll find the answers we so seek for in it - {How that}, we'll continue to be in the dark, sitting with worrisome anticipation for answers, if we don't seek to know so that we can see that we have the answers already, and we just need to find them and draw them to use (the more we know, the conscious we are of the existence of our answers).

How that we ask things from GOD, and think HE hasn't responded when in actual sense, HE keeps stretching it to us but we don't receive it because we just don't know enough to be aware it's available.

How that Daniel's answers were sent out but there was a hindrance that he needed to pray for it to be removed so he could receive the answers (the spiritual knowledge brewed spiritual awareness about the delay to his released answer & the needed solution. 

🌟 Just as all the while, the eraser was there waiting for me to look deeper to find it, so also are your Answers, Directions, Words from GOD waiting for you to take the next action!

Stay blessed Beloved 🥰