February reflections: Relationships

As we bid farewell to the month of February, the shortest month of the year and the month of love. I thought it was important that I reflect on the most important lesson that I learned this month, and that is the importance of relationships.

In reading the March issue of Destiny Magazine, I was reminded of the fact that it was important that an individual be able to function in relationships, to be comfortable being in a group and to be able to cultivate and mantain good relationships with the people that are around us, be it colleagues, friends, church-mates and most importantly family.

The truth is, the people around us play a very important role in who we are and in the realisation of our destinies. Being successful in life is not only about working hard and having big dreams but it is also about being able to surround yourself with the people that will "water" your potential and help you (by challenging you and otherwise) to be the best that you can be.
Relationships are very important in shaping who we are and in how successful we become in reaching our potential.


In John 13:35, Jesus Christ says, "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another".
This highlights the importance of good relationships as fellow Christians and also as fellow human beings.

I think the crux of the above scripture is that, the quality of the relationships you have say a lot about you as a person, and it is a testimony of the fact that you indeed follow Christ and know Him as your Lord and saviour.

This morning, a friend of mine tagged me in this picture on facebook and I just had to share it.

I also have a number of testimonies of instances where my friends helped me revive my dreams and work even harder in achieving what I needed to achieve this month.

I am truly grateful for good relationships and I trust that reading this will inspire you to work on building, maintaining and pursuing good relationships with the people around you.

 

See you on the ther side of the month...in March.

Lots of Love

Likeleli

I know You're with me

I know You're with me...

These words may seem easy to say when times are good and everything is going very well in our lives.
Yet they become so difficult and painful when everything in our lives seems to suggest the exact opposite of these words.
It is in these times that these words are the most powerful.
To declare them is to make a statement, not only of faith but of total trust in the knowledge that God daily fulfills the promise He made when He said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you" Deut 31:6.

May you have the boldness to say, "I know You're with me, Lord" even when you feel alone, exposed and vulnerable. Because truly, He is always with us.

lots of love
Likeleli

 

God has the final say

Hi World,

I am so excited to be sharing my first blogpost of 2013 more than a month into the year. It might seem a bit late but I believe this post will be right on time for whoever gets to read it whenever they do.

I spent the past month studying for my exams, and catching up with some admin tasks at work so I didn't get the chance to write as early as I would have liked to. However, I also spent the time praying and meditating on the word of God and I believe I am more ready now than ever to be sharing this special blogpost with you.
I hope you enjoy it and that you leave this page with motivation to take 2013 by the horns and make the best of the year.

Tonight I just want to write about the power of the word of God. This is probably a topic I have written about before, but I feel so strongly about it that I feel it's worth repeating every single day.

 

"For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.

So shall my word be that goes forth from My mouth, It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it"

Isaiah 55:10-11

In the above scripture God describes the power of His word very clearly, stating that it will accomplish what He sends it forth to accomplish. In simple terms God is saying, "If I say it is done, then it is done".
If you have any idea of the blessings and the promises that the word of God contains then I believe you are already jumping up and down at this point because what this scripture confirms is that all that God has ever promised mankind is ours to receive.

It is because of this scripture that since the year began I have been meditating on the promises and the blessings of the word of God, because we cannot have what we do not know belongs to us. So I realised that in order to recieve the blessings and to walk in His promises I have to know what they are.
I will share a few scriptures that I have been meditating on:

- John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life"
- John 15:16, "You did not choose me, I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name"
- Genesis 1:28, "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

I will be sharing more of these promises in my next blogposts and I will elaborate more on the above scriptures that I've shared to explain why they mean so much to me.
The purpose of this blogpost was to remind you that everything that we need is contained in the word of God. The answers to all our problems are to be found there.

So I hope 2013 will be a year in which you read, meditate on and declare loudly the holy word of God, in order to establish it in your life and to plant the seed so that you may walk in His blessings and promises all the days of your life.
I know that the more you seek Him, the more He will bring revelation in your life through His word and the more you will grow in Him.

Until next time (hopefully next week), keep your head buried in the word of God.

lots of love
Dkee Inspire-d!!!