Success God's Way

For a while I have struggled with the modern common definition of success, a tertiary qualification, a house and a car or two and marriage as a cherry on top. How did people measure success a millennium ago, when there were no educational institutions, nor were there fancy housing and cars.

Whenever people speak of success they always associate it with these tangible yet destructible things, forgetting the more permanent/crucial articles of success. Such articles include success in keeping a healthy relationship with people and nature, thus companions, family and friends, and also good eating habits, socio-economically responsible through personal, private or public charitable offerings, and respectful to nature in the sense of taking care of your pet(s) and plant life. I am being general here of course, but the idea is that success shouldn't be measured by things that can be lost through one tragic event such as a collapse of an economy: for the things often listed in measuring success were lost by some due to the economic depression more than a year ago. However it is only through death that one can lose the articles I have mentioned in my casual definition.

Personally I will never think myself a success until I have success within my family, in terms of having a healthy relationship with them, and in my marriage [when I am married of course], in my business affairs, in fulfilling God's purpose for my life [more significantly], in my socio-economic roles, in sustaining a good living for all those I can help and therefore everything I do. I have set my eyes for the success which David had. The bible says David "had success in all his undertakings, for the LORD was with him" 1 Samuel 18:14. In everything I do I wish to have success and have no wasted efforts, but I understand that what underlies that is the presence of the Lord.

I will continue to seek Him, I need Him, because I want to achieve what He wants me to achieve. I am His, and thus I seek only to please He, after saving a certain woman from hypocrites my Lord said "He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him" John 8:29. Let me please Him.

I need Success God's way because only then can I know that I am pleasing Him, success in one aspect of my life is not enough, not stating that I don't want challenges but in fact stating that I need VICTORY over all challenges I encounter, which will therefore be confirmation of my being a fragrant offering of thanksgiving to the Lord, which is acceptable and pleasing to my Lord.

Let us try to have Success God's Way, and see if we will not be content.

Decisions

As clouds can be frightening from a distance but are merely mist when you are within them, so are decisions...they seem too big before you make them, but once you are done, they are very light...I guess it is the rain that should be frightening, and similarly the consequence(s) of the decisions we make.

Greatness

Personally I believe greatness to be a substance of belief, and thus I believe that great things are for ordinary people who only think greatness of themselves. People who say "I am great, and I know it....God packed me with greatness and sent me on a physical pilgrimage to carry out a task which matches this awesomeness that lies within me"..these are the people who become great in life, because they realised, through a sudden or gradual awakening, that inside them, lies immeasurable greatness.

I am great, because the Son is in me, and therefore He has multiplied my abilities

Be Still And Know

Funny how we always remember the songs and the verses, yet constantly forget their meaning...for instance, what does this song taken from a verse in Psalm 46, "Be still and know, that I am God" really mean. Yes we love this song, we enjoy and are blessed by it whenever a beautiful anointed voice sings it in praise...but are we conscious of its message.

I have learnt that awareness is not acquiring knowledge, but reacting according to the message received. For example, in almost all cigarette packs, there is a message that nearly reads "Smoking is not good for your lungs" and some even read "Smoking can cause lung cancer"..what? Yes. So is the person who smoke aware that it can cause lung cancer? No, definitely not. A person whom you can be certain is aware is the one who eventually quits smoking because of realising this message. So the person who continue reading this message and still smokes, just knows it but is yet to be aware. Therefore awareness is a state of being, not the acquirement of knowledge. I think this is why the Lord Jesus, says to His disciples "If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it"(John 13:17)Moffatt NT, meaning that knowing is far from doing, which eventually proves your awareness.

So I went to visit a church yesterday, I'd helped them with something and so they invited me, the Pastor wanted to thank me personally. It was lovely, I was so blessed, they sing so beautifully and the message, it was out of this world, a message of Perfection, rarely ever preached anywhere. But after the service, I came to think of these songs that were sang...such songs were the song like "Noko noko ndingahamba nawe, Nkosi enofefe, ndiwonyuke amadabi...mhh". And then it came to these two songs that this lady medleyed together so wonderfully. She started with the one which sings "Kuwe baba, ngibekithemba lam, to you oh Lord, do I put my trust" and she went on to "Be still and know, that I am God" my goodness I couldn't even sing, I just wanted to cry...this song is enough to help everyone who's anyone through any circumstance or predicament, stumbling block or wall of obstacles. And I was amazed at how often it is sang through without any consciousness of its powerful meaning.

Amid the noise of the whirlwinds, all I can do is "Be Still and Know...that HE is GOD"...and I love Him, with all my Heart, my Mind and my humble Soul.

The Power Of The Mind And The Subconscious

I look at an average thirty year old male, and I see someone who is running out of time for making his life fulfilling. But in reality the average males, most of them,are quite oblivious of their age, how many used and how many are left. You can attribute this unawareness to the fact that nobody knows when they will depart, and you would be nearly right. But I believe even if we knew our date of departure, things would remain the same. There is what is called procrastination, to regularly postpone something. This means that we push away things the we know for certain their due time, and we do something else more satisfying, which could be doing nothing else at times.

Now, it bewilders me how the mind can allow a person to postpone things,because it is a calculating machine, it should inform you beforehand what the repercussions of such an act as procrastinating are. Quite contrary to that, the mind calculates for itself over you, the person. Can you believe it? The mind actually cares more about itself, than it does the rest of the body, you. How? In procrastination, the mind gets some free time, it gets a break, and it can think about those things it likes the most, those that it favours. What? Yes, that is how the mind is like. Take it from the point of physics, the mind has inertia. It is reluctant to change.

Breaking this down a little, the mind likes more of what you have already put in it, and anything contradicting what the mind likes, the mind rejects or is reluctant to do. So if you were relaxing watching TV and now you want to go and jog, the mind will try by all means to convince you to watch a little more of TV, unless the mind also likes to jog, because it doesn't work much, but the body gets to do the tiresome work. Physical activity is more tiring than mental activity, according to the mind of course.

Now these favourites are in the subconscious, they are engraved in the nonphysical part of the human, and they are as very much difficult to remove as they are to embed. But when they are there, they are there. Once a philosopher gave me an example of how powerful the mind is. He said when a person learns how to drive a car, they will not change the gear without first looking at the gear lever. But when the habit of driving has gone into the subconscious, the subconscious does it for you. As he was telling me this example, he was driving he's own car, and he had just received a phone call. And he continued,"but when your subconscious does it for you, you can answer a your phone, you can look around. You don't even see yourself indicating or changing the gears, or even driving the car, you can think about other things until you reach your destination.

So I guess the average male has fed the mind sweets and the mind liked them. Now when he wants food, the mind wants sweets. Sweets represent living the young life, the life perpetuated by the pop-culture through media, and food represents the natural life, the more settled life,and even family life. In essence this male does not see how grown he his, and therefore how out of time he is, because the mind doesn't want him to see it. That would mean no more sweets, but the mind likes sweets, it enjoys sweets.

The mind is very powerful, so be careful of what you put in it, it is the worst addict.

"Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered." Proverbs 28:26 ESV.

You Need To Free Your Mind

After watching docs like Illuminati and The Arrivals, you can definitely start to believe in mind control schemes that are ran by money hungry people who want more and more of what they already have. But I honestly believe that we are first slaves of our evil desires, as in James 1:14, and that the mind controllers of this world use what they know about us.

I personally think that if we can be individuals in our thinking and be capable of making sound decisions without the influences of society or media or popular culture, then these mind control schemes will not have as much impact on us as they currently do. But to stop them is close to impossible, because God says they will be and so they have to be. But we can live more fulfilling lives if we were less effected by these schemes. Free you own mind. The bibles says no evil was found in Him, I guess this is why Jesus was tempted in vain. This then means that He was free in His mind.

Bishop Jakes says you need to free your mind from you own self-enslavement...

Why are we here anyway?

It bothers me that most people don't care about the significance of Life. This has lead to the point where the value of life itself has depreciated below the least degree. People have forgotten or perhaps are missing the crucial fact that Life is a God given experience, meant to be enjoyed. Who after brushing her teeth and washing her mouth, immediately indulges in a chocolate treat, or who goes to cinema to talk throughout the movies? Well, that is exactly what most people are doing.

Life is a demo, and like all demos for you to order the full version you have to try it first, and if you enjoy the demo or you like it to some degree, then you proceed with ordering the full version.

At Gethsemane again

For the past few days I have been overly depressed. And as much as I know that God loves me and is here right next to me, I feel so distant from Him and His love. What could I do without my Faith, without my Trust in Him. I trust that He is here and I know He is here for all those who trust in the Lord will never be let down.

I love the Lord, but He loves me more. I wish I could love Him as much. I try.

Thank you Jesus, thank you my Lord for I know you will carry me through this predicament too. I love you.

I am glad

I am so delighted today at the fact that I have finished the first chapter of my book, and also on this day we have managed to get finance of a R100K for starting our business, we need another R200K and we are there. It is our intention that we start operating by mid August, with the Lord's help we will.

As I write this book I feel something out of the ordinary. I feel the same way I felt when I wrote the spiritual poem, also posted on this blog, titled "Who is there?". I was still at varsity when I wrote it.I just got out of bed and went to sit in front of the computer and started writing. An hour later I was done and a friend of mine, Mcebisi, came in. When he read the poem he couldn't believe me when I told him I had just written it, he was awed by what soon fell onto the oblivious side of my brain. Not until later the following year did I realize what was going on in my life. God was present, and vigorously so. He was forcefully claiming my life. I can't say I mind, He has saved me from an awful lot of misery.

Now I feel the same way as I write this book. I feel like I am a spectator in writing it, even though it is my hands pressing the keys of the laptop, and my mind thinking and my eyes editing the information. I feel like I'm watching myself being surrogated by God, and again I don't mind. So I am amazed at how the book is progressing, at a speed I have not witnessed before, as I have been writing a book on my own for 3 years now, yes 3 years, and it's not even half-done.

So I am very glad at what God is doing in and with my life...where you lead me Lord, where you lead me...I will follow...laph' engiholela khona, laph' engiholela khona....Jesus I love you Lord.

And You love me more.

Dream On

Today's Though For Today from : http://www.thoughfortoday.org.uk/ was amazing I just have to post it as it is. It is so true and it is "killing me softly...whw...telling my whole life"...











Dream On

Why have we forgotten how to dream? With our innocence gone, and the entertainment industry doing all the work for us, we quickly lose our capacity to dream possible futures. Stop. Close your eyes. And dream again. Put the stars in your dreams. And then reach for them. No need to struggle. Simply nurture the dream, sustain the vision, and watch it come true. It must, it's the law.

Keep dreaming and you will see yourself living your dreams...I am so close

Hang On And Wait

Hang on and wait is about the best thing a person can do, through any personal crisis. The Eternal says "Be still and know, that I am God". As much as I have been inspired by a hair product advert to write this post, the part that said "...hang on and wait...Mamase...let your true colors show". Most of the time we make decisions hastily and they cost us a lot in terms of what could have been.


I have come to learn that the most important virtue in all of life is Patience, it is the core of all purposed things.

As it is, I am hanging on and waiting on God's shower of blessings over my life. And why must God bless me, because it's what He wills, and also because I humbly asked Him to - in order that I may convey the message of Good News, without being corrupted by dangerous temptations. Like He did to Gideon, to Hanna and to many people who made humble request, the Lord will do to me.


Thank you Lord, what is man that you are so mindful of him.

Thought of the Day: Foolish Pride

Thought of the Day: Foolish Pride

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Thought of the Day: Be Relentless

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Where you lead me I will follow

It has been difficult, still is, to allow God to lead me. He has been patient in moulding me in the likeness of His son Jesus the Christ. He has been patient in cleaning me off the vanity in my mind and teaching me the way of the Kingdom, the way of Love - the way of God.

I thank the Lord for His mercies on me and His endless love with-which He has bestowed knowledge upon me. It is a great privilege that I know the Lord, let alone the knowledge of Him and His Father's kingdom. I wish I could leave this world, for I would be with my Lord Jesus, but even staying is gain in the form of crowns (Phil 1verse21-21).

I am blessed, thank you Lord. I am blessed coming in and I am blessed going out. I bless the Lord and I praise Him, exalting His name. I love you Jesus,...and You love me more.

The Glory is Yours oh God!

A lot has happened in my life since the last time I posted and I feel I don't know where to start.

I just want to thank the Lord for His wonders in my life. God tested me in the most vigorous ways and as His promises state, in James 1verse12, "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial...", and now He has blessed me.

I thank Him for the awesome knowledge that He has bestowed on me, and more than I do for the material blessings I thank God for the spiritual blessings that have become a complement to my spirituality. I have seen and read and heard so much in very little time and this tells me that there is more that God is doing with my life and I thank Him for choosing me. And I trust that I may continue doing everything to please Him and I know He will do everything to please me. Earlier today I read the 7th chapter of the book of the prophet Jeremiah and was blessed by the words of the Lord from verse 9 to 10, amongst other blessing words. And an hour ago I was blessed by the thought of the passage starting from the first verse of the first Psalm to the third. The latter verses from the book of Psalms - Psalm 1 helps and has helped me become who I am, a true lover of the word of God, meditating in His word all day and night.

I am so blessed by the knowledge of the Lord and I just wish He could come back. Let your will be done.

I love the Lord Jesus, His Father and their Holy Spirit. I love God. And He loves me more.