One day,my friend shared with me the new perspective of seeking to know what your creator had in mind about you, I saw this psalm and thought it is right for us to rehearse it daily in our lives.

PSALMS 139
O Lord, you have searched me

and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue

you know it completely, O Lord.

You hem me in—behind and before;

you have laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths,a you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,”

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

How precious tob me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand.

When I awake,

I am still with you.

If only you would slay the wicked, O God!

Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

They speak of you with evil intent;

your adversaries misuse your name.


Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord,


and abhor those who rise up against you?


I have nothing but hatred for them;


I count them my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting

Something to Learn About Stress

Did you know that stress is the body's normal response to an abnormal situation, n that its a potential you can use for the betterment of yourself? Indeed, how u get to handle it may drive u toward a state of self discovery and understanding that will makes you better, understand what you are experiencing and get the best out of it. Indeed, you are able to generate internal energy and use it to go through the tough times. When u take it as such, we call it eustress. 

However if you are negative and feeling desperate, fatigued and bila morale, the reverse is true. You lack the internal strength to drive you through the situation n start seeking exogenous energies. Negative body condition like cognitive dissonance, headache, stomach upset n other diseases masks you such that you are unable to see the opportunities that lies within the stressing situation. Now, that we call it distress. In managing our stress we should strive toward turning it eustress much more than distress. Its said that tough times challenges one toward realizing their hidden potential. 

Therefore you may choose to either avoid the stressor, alter it, accept it or adapt to it. Simple things that i do when am stressed is writting down what is stressing me, how its affecting me what the stress is making me feel. Then i divert my mind from the stress n do thing that relaxes me. Maybe listen to music, read or take a walk or talk about it with a pal. 

Sometimes i find myself crying if am overwhelmed n feel very relaxed! Well maybe u can even try this simple 'first aid' activity for stress. Sit comfortable on a chair, relax, close your eyes n drift into a sweet memories. Take 5deep breaths making sure you hold air in your lungs for close 30seconds. Am sure your tension will easen up. All the best dear and i hope you find my sharing useful. Cheers. Rem God loves you!!! 

Who Am I?

Understanding oneself is a very important aspect of personal development, realization and actualization. In every way of our lives the key important thing that really determine our achievements, be it at personal social economic or spiritual level, is not much of our background, money, or how big our dreams are, but much of how well we understand ourselves, and the people who are around us. 

To start it is my hope and belief that we all, that is you and me agree that we are human beings. That unlike other animals that we may be sharing taxonomic groups with, we show a high level of complexity and development in anatomic, physiological, social, intellectual capabilities. Above all is that we have over time acquired great and dynamic skills that help us to thrive quite well in most environments.

As earlier stated, human beings are complex in nature and it is therefore hard for me as it is for you and many other to really get a definitive way of defining and understanding oneself. But one thing that am very sure of is that understanding oneself is so vital that we can not overlook it. As far as am concerned, it is actually the basic essence of realizing what one is destined to be and achieve. It is indeed a diving board into one’s life.
There are different ways that people define themselves. Some will go by their names, others by their status in the family society, others by their profession, and others by their sexual orientation. Well at personal level we maybe satistifed with the definitions that we offer to ourselves, however are those definitions really good enough to define who we are? Given the fact that human beings are complex in nature and that who one is at this instance is as a result of an interplay of different factors, forces and influences over one’s lifetime, I tend to believe that there is some static part of us that would not really change under whichever circumstance or place we are. And that is the real us. At some point I take it as the constant in every human being, such that one can say that he or she is a product of the constant call it K and many other influences in life. In fact one person once said that we are a product of nature and nurture. Therefore what people see and appreciate about of you on the outside stems from that innate constant and your environment. Just as in genetic they say that one’s phenotype is a product of genotype and the environment.

In such a case the most important thing that one need to be aware of and understand is that constant. This is because we have very little control over it unlike nurture or environment. In trying to do so, consider this:
• sexual being
What makes you be a boy or girl? What is it like being a boy or a girl? What makes me be attracted to boy/girl?
• Social being.
Do i need other people? Is my family worth being? Do i have friends? Are they important?
• Intellectual/mental being.
What makes me different from animals? Why can i make my world better? What control me such that i do not work on instinct always as an animal?
• Physical being.
Why is my body the way it is? Did i decide it to be the way it is?
• Spiritual being
Do i desire the to feel or experience a connection to a supernatural power? Of what importance is that to me?
I can not make any conclusive ending to this note because the conclusion is within you!!!!
Love you friends.

Tough times, for Tough People!!

In my difficult times, I often loose my ability to face the future optimistically, I do begin to think about my tomorrow negatively wondering what else is going to happen. I forget that tough times are here for a short while and soon they shall be gone. I concentrate on the problems that are bothering me today and not the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing I not only loose the potential of today but also throw away the beauty of tomorrow. And that always makes my tough times a tragedy.

With all these happening in my life, I need only one thing. On medicine that shall cure my mind and cure my life all together. And that is hope. I need someone who shall encourage me remind me of the promises that the lord has set out for me. I need someone who shall instill some pie of hope in my heart and hence give me hope for a better tomorrow. Yah am still young and have a big life ahead of me. I want to thrive in my life, but sometimes I just don't have the strength to move on. I do not have the courage to step into tomorrow.

I want to design some sensational plan that will drive me through my entire life successfully, but sometimes I don't have someone to motivate me to start it up. Listen now, here someone called Robert Schuller has spoken a lot in my life. I have learn that tough times never last but do tough people do. I have to to stand tough. I do not want to wither with the times and the challenges, but stand with the promises that the Lord have made in my life. I am not going to give up in the toughest of all the times. Even if it mean to literally stand on the bible and tell God am standing on the promises he has made in my life, I will!

It does not matter what I have been through, what I have done, where I have come from. Who are my parents, bothers, sisters or friends. All I care about is that I have a tomorrow and have the option of taking it positively and making the best out of it, or throwing it away.

Sometimes I have been making goals and plans for my life, but something small disappoint me an j throw them away. Throw away my future. Do not start thinking how irrational and inconsistent I maybe, but I know you too whether you want to accept publicly as I have done or not, you have in one way or another been tearing and throwing away the dreams and the plans you have made in your life at one time or the other. Yah....i mean you tear and throw away your future. But from today you can stand with me and say that you are not going to do that again. Say that every idea is worth considering and pursuing. And that I wont waste away the possibility of a potential holding dreams and ideas.

APPRECIATE YOUR PAST, GATHER ENERGIES FOR THE FUTURE

Isn't it funny how most people blame their present circumstances on mistakes made in the past?

It is often easy to look at the past as a series of events that led to sadness, despair and bitter disappointment.
However, it is more healing to learn from the past, appreciate what we have today and plan for a brighter future.

Our past is a series of lessons that advance us to higher levels of living, loving and learning.

Without the past as our teacher, we would be unable to learn valuable lessons about who we are and gain greater insight into our character.

If we didn't encounter difficulties in our life or face adversity once in a while, it would be next to impossible to appreciate the blessings in our lives.

In short, be thankful of your past and of the circumstances that brought you to today. It is often past circumstances that lead us to find our blessings.

LISTEN TO THIS WORDS AS YOU READ THEM THEN RESPOND

I have loved you since before you were born. I understand all that you have gone through. I have been with you through all those times. My desire is that you should know Me, the God and Maker of the whole world, as a friend and helper.

But there is a wall between us. It is called 'sin', 'wrongdoing', 'going your own way'. Only I can break the wall down, but only if you ask Me.

Jesus has paid the punishment for your sin. He died for you personally. Turn around, and ask Me to forgive you. Serve me and follow me, as Lord and Messiah. I will be like a father and mother to you. I will show you love that you could never imagine. I have plans for your life - plans for good. By yourself, you will never find those good things. With me, walking together with you through your life, you will be a new person.

I will set you free to be yourself, and will never leave you. You will be with me forever. Hand over your life to me, and I will give it back to you - new, different, and wonderful."

Forever Living: Pain is for real.

Forever Living: Pain is for real.: "Pain is for real and if not dealt with, it can become a baggage that weighs us down and make us loose hope. Pain comes from people hurting u..."

Pain is for real.

Pain is for real and if not dealt with, it can become a baggage that weighs us down and make us loose hope. Pain comes from people hurting us, taking advantage of us, from hopes and dreams that are shuttered. It may results from mistakes made, relationships broken, and tough life situations that leave deeply indented scars in our bodies, hearts, soul and mind. Many at times we may have felt like or in some cases, have given up life because this pain is too much. On the other side in some cases or rather some of us have crawled along life with the pain without relief or hope. Being shattered, having dead conscious, so to speak, being walking corpses. Well as a human being am not spared either, but i have come to learn something or rather i may say am learning something. In such instances of pain, God wants us to seek and we him in our pain. We should stop being prisoners of our painful past, but as son, be pioneers of a good future. Well, not focusing so much on physical pain, but spiritual n emotional pain, I am realizing that such instances are opportunities to be closer to God. Knowing that Jesus was tortured, bruised and died but more to that He rose, am empowered toward a great n better future. Just believe as I am. With that as my spring board, am learning to accept my past, face and reality of my pain. For i really need to forget the painful past n focus on the great future, am writing the things n people n situations that have caused me pain on loose sand such that when the wind of forgiveness blows they will be blown away; learn to forgive. Do not carry it anymore. God have alot that He wants in us and through us, therefore giving up is no option. Keep your eyes focussed on God, be drawn by the dreams of hope and a good future. Simply just press on.

TAKING THE POSITIVE PATH

What is the answer to every difficult circumstance in life? 
Take the positive path. 

Choosing the positive path can be easy at some times in our life and more difficult at other times. When everything is going along well, when we are on a roll, choosing the positive path just flows through us as an easy, natural choice. When something negative comes along it can be far more challenging for us to choose the positive path. But choose it we must! No matter how challenging the negativity may be, there is simply no other way to bring our lives back into positivity. 

If negative situations appear, you must use your will and refuse to lower yourself to negative thoughts, words, actions, and emotions. Use your will and decide that not only will you focus on the positive, but you will ramp up the positive in every thought, word, and action of your day. 

It takes determination, strength, faith, and the power of your will to focus on the positive when intense negativity descends, but remember that the Universe and the law of attraction are with you. As you focus on the positive, focus more on the positive, think of the positive, speak of the positive, and take positive and good actions, the law of attraction will give your life wings. Suddenly you will look around you and you will find that the negativity has gone, and that your life has been filled with goodness and joy.

A Butterfly’s Lesson

”One day, a small oppening appeared on a cocoon; a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then, it seems to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could not go any further. 

So the man decided to help the butterfly: he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon.  
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a withered body, it was tiny and shrivelled wings. The man continued to watch because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would open, enlarge and expand, to be able to support the butterfly’s body, and become firm. 

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a withered body and shrivelled wings. It never was able to fly. What the man, in his kindness and his goodwill did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening, were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. 


Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. Never been able to fly.
Live life without fear, confront all obstacles and evince that you can overcome them. 

Forever Living: THE FRUIT OF JOY; THE JOY OF LIVING

Forever Living: THE FRUIT OF JOY; THE JOY OF LIVING: "Sometimes back i discovered a Secret I realized that I had been living my entire life backwards. If things were good in my life, I was happy..."

THE FRUIT OF JOY; THE JOY OF LIVING

Sometimes back i discovered a Secret I realized that I had been living my entire life backwards. If things were good in my life, I was happy. If things were difficult in my life and everything was going wrong, I was stressed and miserable. In my ignorance, I had been misusing the law of attraction all of my life. But all of that changed when I had the knowledge of The Secret- finding the inner joy. 

The secret is this simple, you must be in Joy first - and then everything will change. To live our lives by emotionally reacting to what is happening outside of us is misusing the law! As we react with negative emotion to any difficulties, we attract more negativity into our lives. We cannot defy the law of attraction, which operates on the most microscopic levels of vibration, and with absolute exactitude. 

You must be in Joy first. And then your life will change into Joy. 

Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguisebold. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into Joy. But let me tell you, when you can get yourself into Joy despite what is happening around you, your life must change - it's the law! 

In addition, as you become Joy in difficult times you are becoming the master of your emotions, the master of your life, and the master of the law of attraction. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into Joy. 

Of course if your life is going along swimmingly then it is very easy to be in Joy. During those times your Joy is most likely a reaction to the good times. But the magnificence and the power that you really have within you will be seen when you can be in Joy during difficult times. It is then that you will see the true power that you have within you, because as you hold to Joy, you will shift all the energies of the Universe, and your life and your world will change. 

The cause of everything is within you, and the effect is what you experience in your life. You have the power within you to change everything by putting yourself in Joy. You can change everything so easily by becoming Joy first! And nothing can change until you get yourself in Joy, because that is the law of attraction. Like attracts like! The energy of Joy attracts energy of Joy! 

Do whatever it takes to find your Joy, and then keep yourself in it no matter what. Keep ramping up your level of Joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of Joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of Joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the Joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the Joy, the faster the change. Once you get yourself in Joy it is easy to maintain it, because your emanation of Joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of Joy. 

You cannot criticize or blame or complain when you are in Joy. You cannot be afraid when you are in Joy. You cannot speak negatively when you are in Joy. You cannot harm another when you are in Joy. Negativity cannot reach you when you are in Joy. 

When you are in Joy you are compassionate. When you are in Joy you are considerate and caring. When you are in Joy you love others. When you are in Joy you appreciate everything. When you are in Joy you are in love with the world, and the Universe is in love with you. 

Be in Joy. Seek it with all of your heart, and you will find it. 

May the Joy be with you, 

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