I'm Blessed

I am blessed kodwa maan, I’m not asking to be blessed, coz I’m blessed, I’m not praying to be blessed coz I’m blessed. I thank you Lord. He blessed me way before you knew I would be alive by this day. Ephesians 1: 3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” I was blessed in Christ, in the heavenly places, “in Christ”, this shows the that I was blessed in God, this means my blessing are without limit, coz I was blessed in Him who was present in the creation of this world, in Him who nothing was created without Him present, I speak my blessing coz I was blessed “in the Word” which was with God, and was God. Praise be to our Father. I was also chosen before the foundations of this world, I was chosen before man could even know about it, before man could even think of it, and I was made holly and blameless, which is why each day I have to wake up to please Him, to live according to he who He has created me to be, His child as I was chosen through Christ who paid the price for my salvation. When man was lost God sent His one and only Son to pay the price, man could not be saved through the blood of sheep coz that was an on-going sacrifices, coz it was man who sinned, now for man to be saved, for man to be redeemed, for the glory of God to be restored in man, a man had to die to pay man’s debt. This man had to leave His throne, he had to leave His Father so that man may be saved. Through Him God made me whole, through Him I was made blameless, through Him I was adopted and called the Child of the most high, a prince washed by the blood of the Lamb. Now I can stand and thank Him, I can stand in authority coz He restored it to me, Adam gave it away, but when I came into Christ, authority was restored into me. John 15: 4 “Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.” For one to be able to mount up all these blessing, one has to be in Christ, your blessing are located in Christ, your salvation, freedom, authority it is all located in Christ, for through Him we are adopted and made children of God, bear in mind our Father owns the universe, He is life, He is everything to us, remain in Him and ye shall bear fruit. Situations matter not in Him, for there is no impossibilities in Him, Job remained in Him even when everything seemed meaningless but he abide in Him, when he was shaken, everything taken away from him he still abide in Him. For we know we glory in trials and tribulations coz we walk with Him. The day may end and darkness comes but still the moon shines to show there is light, the night comes to an end and the sunshine’s to show us there is light, even when darkness come but we know there is something great coming, the sun is gona shine. What you invest in the beginning of each day is what determined the course of the day and what you get out at the end of it, invest yourself in Christ.

A life Journey

Greetings everyone, it's been sometime since I last wrote here! Things have been happening, not just things lots of great and bad things. Anyway I am not here to remind you of that, today I just thought I should write here about "A life Journey" which is basically just a journey through life, we all journey through this life, we encounter the good and the bad, each day has got it's wow challenges, losses, victories, disappointments, it's just full of everything, that is life for you.

In my life I have been through a lot just like you and him and the other one, but the challenges we meet always differ, my life journey is not at all like yours, sometime they maybe be similar but I know it for a fact they can never be the same coz we all take things differently and we all can stand different challenges, some we loose some we win. As human we always ask ourselves certain questions, why me, do I deserve this, when will I ever get through, etc. All these questions are just part of life, your life, my life and his/her life!

Sometimes we get through a time when we have so much good time that we forget there can be bad times as well, sometimes we just ignore the bad time and life in our dreams. But the fact is that life can be a dream but there is also reality and that we can not run away from. When reality strikes we turn to go down like a mountain, when we dream we turn to wish it was true, that is also just part of life. I have lived in a dream for a while and I have also lived in reality for a while these two go hand in hand, they are just helpers of each other, one can't survive without the other.

Have you ever asked yourself which worlds do you live in, a dream world or a real world? Which one do you hold on to more than the other, your dreams or the reality? To me that doesn't matter, all that matters is the balance between the two. We can dream but also have to know that we have to bring the dream world in reality, that is what we do every day but we fail to understand that not every dream can be brought in to the real world, not every dream brought in to the real world will be successful, however if not successful it's always easy do take it back into the dream world and re-dream your dream, fix the mistakes and put it back into reality.

We all have to come to a point where we understand that life is a journey and you never know what, who, how, and when you will meet something or someone on the way, you can never tell what kind of the thing, person you will meet, what characters they will have or what challenges they will give you. But all we can stand on is one, "what ever I meet, I am ready to take it up and if it may happen that I am hurt on the way there is always time to heal" that is life, which is the life we live. So why cut off your journey when you can re-dream, why give up when you can re-do. I see no reason, they only thing I will say if you give up is that you have defeated yourself.

Albert Einstein once said, "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." How true can that be, each person has their own journey to travel, if you want to travel mine just forget, if you want my strength just forget. We all differ, maybe I am not such a good writer, but I know I can always talk sense into your head, maybe I am not a good thinker but I know I can put a little motivation into you. Just think, if we all had the same mentality, gifts and skills, what would make you unique, what would give you that special feeling, the truth is "nothing". So just live with what you have and know that it is part of your life journey, don't ask why it's happening to you, anyway who should it happen to? You can see it's on your path, it was made for you coz you can handle it.

You know some people wonder why I stress so much even with a smallest mistake I make in this life, let me tell you, it's only because I am built that way, that is my mentality everyday I try to perfect my life, it doesn't matter how many times you tell me that I shouldn't be stressing it's nothing. It will happen automatically, that is just a part of my life. Most of the time I help people, give them solutions but when it comes to my life, I hardly ever have a solution for myself, it's coz that solution was not made for me but for me to give it to you. Now in all the solutions I have ever given out to people, I just look and remember that that same challenge can not beat me after I was able to help someone else, I get help from the same person I helped, the way they applied the advice to their lives. So life is a journey, you never know what to expect but I want you to know, it was made for you, and you will know once you have reached the destination.

Each and everyday you live in this life, there is a path with all the tools you need, all the challenges that will not harm you, all the enemies that will help you prosper. Yes I just said it like that, which is just the proper order not the vise-versa one of believing your enemies are there to destroy you.

Some of you are wondering why I haven’t included God’s name, or the name of Jesus as I went down with this article, the thing is that we all know that God is the Author of everything in our lives and we have been redeemed, it’s just that some times it just our faith that we need to work on so we are confident our selves first other than nagging God and asking all the time instead of speaking the word. We have to realize that God has given us abilities, through Christ we have inherited so much and what is the use of asking for freedom or a smooth road when we were freed and given strength, we just have to believe and confess God’s word and start acting in it.

So now let’s just pack our bags with all the things we think would help in the way. At some point I had to see a psychologist and there was one thing, she was please that I had analyzed myself, and she proceeded with other stuff and found her own way with me, and I got help. Some of the things that were bothering me we should in just a simple art piece I had drawn and working through it was like working through my life. But one other things if you are a believer don’t just go to any person to assist you, make sure that person is a believer coz sometimes the small things that mislead is searching for help at the wrong place from the wrong person.

Wish you all the best on your journey, maybe it will be easy maybe not, but yours can never be the same as mine. For the last tip, never judge another person with your own abilities and strengths, remember your were created for a journey that is different from his/hers, what seems easy to you may be hard on them and what seems hard on you may be easy on them.

Let's go for it, it's a path made for you!

Stay Blessed everyone.

A walk with God is a walk in Faith

Greetings Saints in the wonderful name of Jesus.

I know I have been quiet for a while, a lot has been happening and the Lord has His ways and you know each and everyday God loves us so much that He makes sure that nothing is ever hidden from His sight.

Today I would like to share with you a theme that is, “A walk with God is a walk in Faith”

Each and everyday you will find individuals that wonder where is God, because at the time, life is not good. Life is not what they think is suppose to be, sometimes it happens just because we feel empty (We do not feel His presence). At times it is just that we are depressed, feeling lonely and not cared for. Sometimes we just know that we were stronger than this, we use to do better than this, and life was good but now all is going the other way. Sometimes everything just seems like a mess, one part of your life seems like it’s being held by the devil, but today is different, today just change that mind set.

Today my heart has been led to share on the theme “A walk with God is a walk in Faith”

Before we go any further let us look at the book of Genesis 5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. ²² After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.”

This man is an example of a man that walked with God. When talking about walking with God we should have an image of walking with someone who created the way we are to walk (Imagine the privilege of walking with the Author of the road you walk), someone who knows the way, someone who foresees everything on this way that we walk. This means the Lord trusted Enoch, coz even though sin had come through man, but God choose to walk with this man, even though man had done wrong before God but God choose to walk with this man. God has chosen to walk with you as well.

Read the book of Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” 6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”

God had faith in Enoch; He walked with him for 300 years. Which brings me to conclude that God and this man had gained each other’s trust, God trusted Enoch and Enoch trusted God that he would walk with Him for so many years. God was full of love for him and he loved walking with God. God never left Him coz this man walked faithfully. These man were like friends, Father and son, they had great fellowship between them selves. That is exactly what the Lord wants from you today, for you to have fellowship with Him, for you to love Him, for you to put your trust in Him, Have faith in Him.

This man walked with God in Faith, having Faith in the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight”. This man walked with God by faith, even though things were there in his sight but he was faithful unto God coz he was walking by faith, ask yourself “do you walk by faith and not by sight” When things seem wrong where is your faith, when life seems to have no life, what do you see. People give up, people turn from God coz they are in pain, we loose hope but still say we have faith in God, what is this faith that we have when we can’t hold on to it.

“I don’t care what is going on in your life; I don’t care what went wrong, why and how. I don’t care because I have faith, I don’t care coz to me all is well, I don’t care coz I walk not by sight but by faith, I don’t care coz I have hope. I don’t care coz all I see is good all I see is what I believe that the Lord is, I see no bad, I see God glorified in me, I see the devil lying to me and forming delusions, I see God prospering me despite everything. I see the things in my heart being fulfilled, I see the things I hope for manifesting, I thanks God for everything.” To do this we just have to believe, have faith

Let’s all read from the Gospel of Mark 11: 22 “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.  24Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

Jesus said, “Have faith in God”, how can you walk with some one who you don’t have faith in, someone you don’t believe coz that means he can back stab you. But Jesus says have faith in God. He goes on and say’s who so ever says to this mountain, this was not directed to Peter but he says who so ever, me and you can also say it, but He says we should be without doubt but have one thing, believe in our hearts. Coz he first said, “Have faith in God.” He goes on and says what ever we desire when we pray; he says believe that you receive them and you shall have them. That is walking in Faith, having faith in the one you walk with. The Lord of Lords, King of Kings, your Creator.

Just imagine what life Enoch had, walking with a Lord like ours. Look Noah the word says he walked faithfully with God; Look at what God gave him, the life that God had with him. That my brother and sister is the Lord you walk with today, a faithful God. “Have faith in God” Sometimes life is not what you expected; sometimes it doesn’t go the way we planned. We go ways we never thought we would, things that we never thought could happen take part but with faith you can change that, it is not my faith nor your brothers faith but it is your faith, you having faith in God, you believing in Him, you having faith in the countless promises that the Lord has set aside for you.

Even Abraham walked a long way with God, in Long way He walked God was faithful. Faith in God is everything, walking with God is everything. Abraham was made righteous only because he believed, he was made righteous by faith. Let’s read the Book of Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness. Just by believing having faith he was made righteous, the promise had not yet been manifested but he just believe; the manifestation of the word in your life comes through faith, if God counted the faith of Abraham to righteousness then why not you. Yes nothing has happened yet, yes it has not yet come to pass, but how will it do so when you don’t have faith, why do you want to see it happen before you believe. Don’t you trust God, don’t you have faith in Him

When walking by faith we see not the worldly but that which is in our faith, we see that which we believe, that which we hope for. We see done what is not yet in the sight but because we walk by faith and not by sight.

 Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

This explains clearly what faith is to us, it is confidence in what we hope for, believing in what we expect to happen, having our hearts set that it will happen, it goes and says assurance about what we do not see, in some versions it is noted as evidence of things unseen but in your heart your see them, in your heart you have assurance that they will come to pass. That is faith for you my brother and sister, in verse 6 it says it is difficult to please God without faith, study this chapter and ask the Lord to reveal it to you.

We were all given a privilege to walk with, God everyday in our lives. Coz if you read the book of John 1 it explains well who Christ was before He came to be flesh. So when you accept Christ in your life, you are in other words allowing God to be with you everyday, you are accepting walking with God like He walked with Enoch but this is all through faith, that is why the scripture tells us that it is difficult to please God without faith, coz to accept Him you have to have faith, if then you don’t have faith today does that please your God, if you doubt Him that does that please Him.

Let us look at Christ when he walked carrying the cross, He knew that God was with Him coz without God he could not do any of that, when He felt that the presence of the Lord was not with Him was when He cried and God could hear that it is His Son crying. The Book of Ephesians clearly states that we are sons and daughters in God, adopted through Christ, then tell me if God wouldn’t here you when you cry. We have to hold on to faith even when times seem to be hard, even when things go wrong, in your Job things might not be well, in your studies things might not be well, finances might not be well, in your family things might be looking bad.

Matthew 27:46 “About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (Which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)

Even when thing went bad Christ had faith, He believed in His Father. Such that He emphasizes it and say “My God, my God why have you forsaken me?” coz He believed that God could never leave him. Today God is with you and wants you to know that He is still there no matter what, but all He wants is, “Have faith in God”, for you to trust in Him, even if things have been bad but this is the day everything changes, this is the day that the Lord has set for you, not anyone else but for you.

I don’t care what is going on or what has been happening by I want you to know, by faith you can be made righteous, coz we are justified by faith, We are made clean by faith, we receive by faith.

I want to ask you today to walk by faith and not by sight, doesn’t matter if it seems nothing will ever get better but through faith everything is okay. You are not walking alone, by faith we walk with God. We are in His presence always; we are with Him always but all this by faith. Today lets walk with God, victory is in Him, our treasures are in Him, even if we had lost Joy but with Him all is restored our struggles are no longer ours because we walk with Him.

May The Lord who we walk with keep you blessed.

The first Love

Revelations 2:4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. ⁵Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.

Today i found an email which was sent to me on the 28 April 2006 by Nokuphiwa Fulepy. At the time I didn't even know the woman, had never seen nor meet her, where she got my email I still don't know, The email ready as follows:

Good morning Saint

How are you doing? Wishing you a joyous day filled with all blessings from above.

PS: this is the year of shining so arise and shine today cause the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Let your light so shine today...

Remember as a child of the most High God, you can never walk in fear, can never be confused or live in darkness. Shine for Jesus today because He lives in you! You are a victor not a victim, a success not a failure. Always remember that all things work for good for those who live in God and whom are called according to His purpose. And no weapon formed against shall prosper. You are more than conquer and all things are possible if you'll only believe.

I'm sure you wondering why I'm sending you this email, well Saint, the Lord spoke to me and told me by the Holy Spirit I must pass this message to you.

Stay Blessed
Nokuphiwa Fulepy

This message was one of the messages that made me really recognize how much the Lord loves me, coz I had never meet this woman nor know her from anywhere. I didn't even know how she got my email. But from there I tried to call her and couldn't get hold of and got hold of her on Monday. And she really didn't know who I was.

Today the Lord had me thinking about this, reminding me of the work he has put on me, reminding me of the fact that everywhere on earth there is someone the Lord has put to pray for me. This woman said something I never understood at the time but now I do. The Lord has blessed me before I was even created, I am the chosen one. What are you to God, what value do you have in him, what does he have for you in store. He chose you before the foundations of this world, do you think that was a mistake.

What is the Lord saying to you, what does he say about your life, this message reminded me of where I have passed, the rout I have traveled with this Lord of mine. The predestination he has set before me. How many people have prophesied upon your head, have you followed the prophesy?

Child of God you were created in His image, you we adopted through Christ. Remember where though hast fallen says the Lord in the book of Revelations, you have forgotten the first love, if you have take it up. Have you ever seen a mother who has just given birth to a child, have you ever noticed the bond of a mother and child, when the bond breaks then the first love is gone.

Saint may the Lord bless you as I am blessed today, I am blessed to be me, I am blessed to be where I am today, I am so blessed to have all the people who provided guidance to me driven by the Holly Spirit. I am so blessed to have you as a brother, blessed to be called His child, blessed to share everything with Christ. Who are you sharing with, the Lord loves you, He has never left you; in hard times he is there with you, when it hurts He is there with you.

Remember the first love.

Stay Blessed

Life a life giving life (Christ)

You know when we live our lives we are driven by certain reasons; there are times when in this life we feel we are not living a proper life, what is a proper life, where is a proper life, how to we get a proper life? I have found my life to be full with Christ, I have found life if Christ, I have found life in life. Before we lived for the world, sometimes we live to please people, but the word tells us that we are not of this world and why then life for this world. The word again tells us not to conform to the standards that this world has set for us. How do you move a mountain when you believe it is impossible, how to you rise from a wheel chair and walk when you believe it's impossible coz you are measuring yourself with this world. "Have faith in me and in the Father" Christ says for he died and payed the price, while in his human nature he healed and did great things, in his word again he say we shall do even greater things.

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
Here is a poem, I know it may be to deep or have too much wording at first but I am sure you will understand

Life a life giving life (Christ)  

Once we live, we lived life
We lived life with no life
We lived life driven by our minds
We lived to satisfy who we are
But still we knew not our own being
Once we lived we lived life  

I mean once we lived for who we were
We lived with hearts unknown, a life unknown
We lived this life through life that we lived
Was it life or life but life unknown
We lived life caught in life by life we lived
Once we lived we lived life  

What is life, is it life coz we live Is it life coz we eat in life with life unknown?
Is it life as we call it life or life at our own?
Is it life coz life was given but still unknown
What is life in life lived unknown
Once we lived we lived life  

Once we lived and life reviled
Know unto man for life had come through life in life
See by many life lived life but know above
For life with no life remained unknown but life came to life
Who is life, what is life when known
Once we lived we lived life with life  

For life gave life before life was reviled
Life came to life when I was in life made by life
For He made me in life to be life
He gave me life through life to live life
Life is known only those that accept life
Once I lived life with life know to life  

Before foundation life made me life and I lived in life
He made me know unto heavens and earth
For I live my life guided by life, life know to life
I live life give by life to life so I may have life
He is life that gives life to life so we know
I live life with Christ as life living in life
I live a life for life to life in God