I want.....

"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours" Mark 11:24 I have kind of always known this verse, but it came to me in a whole new way today. Folks, this is God the Almighty saying this. Whatever; meaning absolutely anything! "believe" that's the bit of challenge there coz you see, this is your part to fulfill not God's. "will" one of my childhood teachers taught me that if someone used "shall" in a sentence, there is a degree of uncertainty. However, if someone uses the word "will" it is a sealed deal. They sure as hell would do it. So, from this verse I learn that I have to Ask, believe and God Almighty WILL do it. Hallelujah! Where can I start: Is for health? Ask Is it finances? Ask Is it family? Ask Is it a car? Ask Is it a wife/husband? Ask Is it children? Ask Is it career? Ask It's just like God has written out a cheque for me and my part is to fill out the amount and cash it. God's cheque does not bounce! You know what, I am out of here be ause I have to get asking!!! Watch this space

STRANGER

I am so excited this morning. Truthfully, I think my excitement spilled over from yester night( I always hear people say that, is it correct?)

Well, last evening  I decided to log onto my school website to read my mail something that I hadn’t done in a while. This is because i have spent the greater part of this month(read whole month) exploring my new found joy- my ipad( I hope I can blog about it sometime J) Back to my story, I discovered the assignment I had handed in had been marked already (isn’t my tutor cool?) actually two weeks back. 

If you are like me, you always approach the results with a racing heart and you are thinking “damn, did i meet the pass mark!  I have news, I was impressed by my performance and  my  tutor also gave very good feedback so ama make an A for my next assignment which is soon by the way.  

This might give you an idea of how excited I was: I had to listen to my tutor’s voice remarks over and over again. Trust me, I will listen in once more when I am about to do the next assignment. It was really good news especially after the dampening email he wrote to the class explaining how most of us might be disappointed by our performance.

Then, this morning on my way to work I meet this stranger. I over slept( that is when you wake up past the time you normally wake up) and was running late. I contemplated whether iIshould drive or use public transport, I decided to use public transport. So here I was racing towards the stage( like the bus stop) and a car slows down, driver lowers their window and asks whether i am heading to town. (side note:  kidnap is common in this town and it happens to adults as well so i am not keen on free rides) Without much thought I popped into the car and off we went. I was thinking, ah ah !

This stranger was handsome, smart, he didn’t talk much and I did what was out of the ordinary for me; introduced myself first. By that I mean telling him my name by the way. So we listened to radio throughout the 20mins or so we spent together(read drove through the heavy morning traffic). I happen to work further than him but he drove past his office and dropped me. Isn’t he so kind?

So,  angelic strangers exist after all.  That, folks  is  the cause of my excitement this morning !

NEHEMAIAH

So what have I been upto? I have been very busy this year trying to follow through my plan of reading the bible in one year. I started quite well and was always a little ahead of the plan. Then the assignments and exams set in, I got lazier and guess what, I am only in the book of Nehemaiah!

I should be somewhere in Psalms if I was going according to plan. Nehemaiah, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Sometimes you will find resistance even when what you are doing is the right thing even from the people that are closest. We have to hear from God and let God alone be true and every man a liar as one of my pastors loves to say.

May God give me the wisdom to be able to judge when to listen and not to listen to all these voices around me.