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The tongue is a very small member of the body but it is a powerful instrument. Our tongues are there to be used and HOW we use them is up to us! Shalt you kill or give life!!!!!Prov 18 vs 21:
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.Our destinies are shaped by what we say - we are all pregnant with destiny- we carry spiritual babies that need to be nurtured and protected by the fruits of what we confess. As we open our mouths and keep on speaking upon those babies the gestation period is shortened, no-one can be pregnant forever!
Before you know it you are in labour and the baby is birthed whole and mature (full-term). You cannot afford to kill what God has begun to do in your life with your own tongue.
Remember, we are prophets of our own destinies.Ephesians 4:29:
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.Beloveds, Let us also stop abusing the power in the tongue by gossiping about one another, involving ourselves in idle talk, and bringing one another down. We must be careful of the things we say. We have authority that needs to be exercised and the power is in our tongues.
Beloveds? Prophesy life to yourself!
And Let's also learn to prophesy Life to one another!
Being vessels of life and not death !
There is a cry in the body of Christ for midwives of integrity, wisdom, knowledge, love, maturity and full of the fear of God. Midwives who will not abort, kill or endanger their fellow sister’s spiritual babies, but rally around for the safe labour and delivery of those babies.
That the name of the Father may be glorified!
Let's Endeavour to use our Tongues Only to Build, not only our own lives and Destinies, but also of those around us.
ANONYMOUS
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The following articles was written by a woman of real distinction in our midst....and she says:
The scourge of rape and violence against women we are faced with as a society is a very sad reality to say the least. It is an issue that not only affects the victim or their immediate family but affects every one of us, regardless of our walk in life or social standing. I wish to put forward that the church, in its role as a traditional place of refuge for those who are in distress or hurting, is one of the institutions that are most affected.
I have learned from personal experience that at least one in every four women in the local church has been sexually or emotionally violated at some point in their life. These ladies, young girls and sisters live among us; they worship with us; they are in our home cell-groups and are members of our departments. Perhaps you sit next to one in the church pew every Sunday morning. These dear ones are each at different stages of healing from the emotional pain associated with such incidents. My question is; have we as sisters and mothers been sensitive enough to their pain? Are we able to recognise the signs associated with their emotional pain, its traits and the way it expresses itself? Have we modelled and expressed unconditional love even in the face of behaviour that was unnecessary and hurtful?
The problem with emotional pain is that it expresses or reveals itself in behaviour. It is unlike physical injury that can be seen but it lurks deep within and articulates itself through certain mannerism and character. Such behaviour if not understood may end up hurting and putting off the very people a woman who has been violated needs; because they are expressing themselves from a position of hurt. In her emotionally wounded state, this sister may have tendencies of being irrationally self-protective or even unintentionally push others away. It is a defence mechanism that develops as a result of their trauma.
Am I advocating tolerance to ungodly behaviour or saying that ladies who have encountered emotional trauma should not be held spiritually accountable? No, that is not the intention at all. What I am saying though is that we must be “our sister’s keeper.” Let us be conscious and aware of the signs and behaviour associated with emotional pain. Let us be sensitive to the Spirit’s leading on how to respond in the face of such behaviour. Be the sister who will not be quick to take offence and judge but rather practise God’s unconditional love. Create an environment where those who are in distress are able to find purpose, hope and a reason to carry on. Do not only create the environment, be that environment. Remember, church is not a place; it is a people who have been called out by God for a task. Lady, that simply means you are the church.
Sister woman, make a choice today to be the inspiration for your broken sister to be transformed. Re-affirm this sister, she needs it. Remind her that God has loved her unconditionally. Tell her that God’s purposes include her, it will minister healing and life to her deep seated wound. This is your vocation and your call as the church of Christ. I borrow from Bishop Desmond Tutu who said “We are good because we are loved; we are not loved because we are good.” What a powerful statement.
So sister, lady friend, Woman of Real Distinction, be relevant to your community. Your community needs you to be relevant to your hurting sister who has been violated in the deepest form. Yes, she worships with you; she is in your home cell-group and she is a member of your department. She needs you to help her rise from being a victim to being a victor. Will you walk the journey with her in love?
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Am so saddened by the reports and news of rape that has
taken over our media platforms. This is totally a spiritual warfare remember
life is more spiritual than it is physical. Am calling all the wailing women to
get on their knees, and war against this demonic plaque. I am also calling all
women of distinction to take precautions more than ever before, this are not the
days we blindly left our kids with crazy uncles n cousins, its a bad thing to
imagine that we can’t even rely on our own family members, but this are evil
days as the world continues to descend in moral decay, we just have to be
cautious. Even in our choice of a house help we have to be totally discerning.
Let’s educate our little boys and girls the reality of cruelty though not in
details but let’s teach them boundaries and warning signs. Then another
suggestion I would like to share, to be conscious of our kids when conversing
on the phone on negative news. Let us shield our kids from hearing this
conversations, switch off some of the news station that keeps reporting
negative news, ‘imagine a little girl hearing every day on her way to school
4women will be raped in 16mins. Its devastates them then we have to start
explaining what is rape to tiny minds let’s try protect their innocence, we can
teach them the right skill without bombarding their minds with a view of a
horrific world, lets show them the world where God rules and in he is control
at the end of the day , the earth is the Lord and the fullness there off.
Ev J
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Honorable Act
You
will all agree with me that as long as we are living in this fallen world which
still suffers from the impact of sin, we will every so often need to forgive or
to be forgiven. That is because in life
under the sun offence must come. Personally I can’t remember how many times I
had to forgive and was in need of forgiveness.
I have learnt that forgiveness can be either instantaneous or gradual
depending on the magnitude of the offence.
The hardest pill to swallow as a Christian is that you have to forgive (who
said Christianity was easy, living for God is the hardest job on earth!!!! (But
the most honourable). But the words of
Jesus are still living through the ages and they are simple you can’t misspell
them “forgive as your father has forgiven you” super oooouuch! Isn’t? . Forgiveness is like a journey, a journey
begins with an intention, you plan to get somewhere. No one boards a bus and
have way the trip starts wondering, where am I headed, (unless the wires upstairs
are incorrect or loose, for such help should be provided). So we embark on a
journey after we have decided on our destination, which in this case is
emotional freedom and healing. Deciding
to start this journey may not be as hard as the ability to stay focused, follow
through, to refuse distraction and actually get there. I have had to take this journey in the time
past and half way the trip the fresh memories of the offence would wash away
with great intensity all the strength I had gathered. A times the offender may
belittle your agony, sometimes they may repeat it again, they may come across
as non-remorseful, this can easily distract you from your goal or even weaken
you , you might actually decide to cut short the journey and justify the right to remain in offence.
It is at this point that you remind yourself this truth “it takes the will to
obey God not the emotions”. In the scriptures we see many times when David had
to address his will, e.g.” I will praise the Lord” he will pour out his overwhelming
negative emotions and lament on why God
can’t just ‘break somebody’s neck’ but then he would make a choice to overcome
those emotions and remain focused. I have trained myself to be honest with God and
speak to him about the difficulties I encounter as I try to obey him. This is
not your usual prayers it’s an honest chat with my dad….. . This conversation
with God leaves me very energized. It is in this kind of chats that God reminds
me that he had justifiable reasons not to forgive us without violating his
justice, but he had to sacrifice in order to forgive. It has to cost somebody
something for forgiveness to take place.
God accepted to give away his son because he was motivated by love. We can be motivated by our love for God, when
faced with the need to forgive, we can always choose between obeying God and
nursing our feelings and our rights, it not easy I know, but I said earlier
living for God is not easy. Honest
prayers for extra grace will see you through this most honourable act of
forgiving. I would like to hear from you
how you cope with forgiveness, the challenges you face and how you follow through.
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When an ordinary woman meets an extraordinary God, normal life takes on a whole new meaning. Knowing God changes everything. We cannot encounter the living God and be the same. A personal relationship with Him produces a holy discontent with the status quo and compels us to live in such a way that miracles are a daily occurrence and i am one of those daily miracles. People are desperately looking for ordinary women like you and me whose lives have been changed by an extraordinary God. I want to be hungry and thirsty for God as never before. I want my normal life to be abnormally extraordinary because God is alive and well and at work in and around me. How about you? Are you ready to step out in faith? Are you willing to live a normal life filled with people and circumstances that can only be explained by the extraordinary power and presence of God? ~ estracted from Girlfriends in God..
Posted by Siziwe on WORD facebook page .
Thank you for sharing!!!!
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I have been reading on the
power of imagination a topic that Lester Sumrall has written on in-depth.
Based on Romans 12 “And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind (a mind that could not think straight), to do those things which are not convenient”.
In other words all the sinners in the world became so by imagination. This sent
me thinking, we are creatures of thought; our mind is the organ of thought. My
mind has power to reason, decide, and imagine unborn things. As you know our minds occupies a large part
of our total life. We demonstrate what we imagine through the way we act and
live, it is said that imagination is the force of destiny.
As Christians we are
not to let our imaginations run loose, but harness them as Apostle Paul would
have us do by ,staying on the things that are pure things that are acceptable
,noble and of good report. Sumrall warns
“If your mind is empty, the devil will activate it. If you do not know what to
think about, the devil will give you something.
I now understand why the scriptures
keeps telling us to watch out on where our minds are they have great peace
whose minds are stayed on Him). As a man thinketh or (imagines) so is he. It is
our responsibility to imagine right.
Now am imagining myself size 8, am
imagining myself with arms like Michele Obama,
am imagining feeding my chicken in my dream farmhouse , eating veggies from my
organic farm food.
Before you judge me,
of being self-centred I am also imagining Africa saved, free from sickness,
poverty and ignorance. The list continues; remember there is tremendous power
locked in our imagination.
From now imagine the right, when wrong imaginations
invade you do as Paul said pull them down and bring to subjection……………let love
reign
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Charles Haun once stated that "knowing God requires personal loss"...
But that is a pill that not many people are not willing to swallow. To know Christ is to know perfection, to know blamelessness, it is to know life itself but many of us are not willing to get there.
You see my sisters and friends I have come to learn that they are many levels of knowing God and we decide the extent we are willing to sacrifice to know Him better.
I have also come to learn that Jesus is not only the great I am but he is the great Distuber, he disturbed the Sadducees,
he disturbed the Pharisees,
he disturbs the makers if the law,
by shedding His light too brightly and I guarantee that He will disturb you too!!!!.
He has personally interfered with me a lot, messed my perception completely, fixed my attitude and I can tell you the He continues. Through the many experiences I have had and my personal journey with God I have come to the realisation that if I can accept His disturbance, I can get to know perfection itself.
As we live this life we often try to balance pursuing Jesus and maintaining the status quo... by this I mean maintaining how we want to live, what we want to do and when as long as he disturbs nothing or re- arrange anything, but often times Jesus will bring the temple down to its purpose 'house of prayer'
As i write this I am looking back at the numerous times I had to go and apologize to people who should have apologized to me instead and it was just because Jesus said " when our brother offends you take heed of yourself'. And I often times at face value I am justified to be hurt and upset, feeling betrayed and let down but I remember my life should always be a testimony so just because of this DISTURBANCE I find myself letting go of my ego and pride but the reward is
always worthwhile!!!
So share with me and the many other ladies that read this blog and find inspiration- How Jesus has disturbed your life, how he has wrestled with you, thrown you according to your terms 'of- course' forced you to reflect on the perceptions you have held so dearly
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