Revive Your body God!

Hey everyone,

so I'm sitting here watching GOD Channel. a programme called the Ramp http://www.theramp.org/ and its so deep. Thousands of young people worshipping God in Alabama... so on fire for Jesus and i'm so humbled...

 

sometimes we find ourselves living in a box, putting one kind of copyright on God. The majority of the people are white, but thats not  the issue. what i'm saying is, God is the father of all. His spirit moves everywhere, not just your church.

Lets stop thinking God ONLY moves in our small, pentecostal, black, african churches. For sure He does. He's moving half way across the world too.

He is so awesome, His presence so sweet.

We are one in Christ. white, black, asian, old, young... if You belong to the body of Christ, we are brothers and sisters. 

Hmmm just caught a rev lol, a body is whole right. you don't have limbs just jamming up and down road, see one hand over there, one leg on the other side of the street and call it a 'body'. yes there are hands, legs, etc, but its a body, a collective, one.

thats what we Christians are.

Lets stop dividing and separating ourselves. it doesn't matter the name of your church or denomination or branch, we are one.

 Ministered in a worship programme tonight called the King and i. One thing that i loved was that we were all from different churches, but we had one vision - to worship Jehovah.

Lord, we ask for a revival.

Revive the body of Christ to look past race, denomination, culture and all other man made barriers. Revive our attitudes and mindsets.

Unite us so that we can revive our cities together. And the people say?! Lerrit be. (Amen). 

Yo, does the Bible not say a house divided against itself cant stand?   Matthew 12:25

Make a day of it!

Today was a great day!


Hung out with my closest friends... had a girly day out, shopping, lunch and then a film...

Quick shout out to them, for being friends that inspire, encourage and challenge! 


lol... life is full of lessons. 


Learnt one today myself... be bold to speak up when you disagree with a statement or decision... it saves a lot of stress! Keeping quiet in fear of offending people doesn't really work... just speak up especially when you know you're right! 


Also! learnt that you really do only have one life to live in this life! so... take risks. be bold. enjoy it. Why play it safe?  


do that 'crazy' hairstyle, buy that bright nail varnish lol... 


Live a little!

Everyday we should jump out of bed and... 


                                              MAKE.A.DAY.OF.IT :) 






 P.S. not had the internet for the past few days. Thank God for the World Wide Web! 

                                                      

10 steps to become a terrible friend!

1. Make snide remarks every time you see your friend. without fail. Your friend should be put down at all times. Who needs encouragement?

2. Belittle every dream, vision and plan your friend has. If they tell you their hopes for the future, laugh heartily and categorically inform them that it will never happen. 

3. Refuse outright to do anything for your friend, even little things that you have the capacity to do. Just say no. They have hands and legs!

                           

4. Talk incessantly about your friend behind their back. Tell all who care to listen about their secrets. There is love in sharing...

                  

5. Always lie to your friend. When they do things wrong, do not tell them. Never give advice or urge them to rethink a decision. Just nod, agree and watch gleefully as they make a mistake. 

6. Continually make your friend attend to your every whim and fancy. If they refuse to serve you, tell them what a terrible friend they are. Send them on errands and ignore the fact that they too have a life to live. 

7. Ignore your friend as much as you can get away with. Do NOT be quick to respond to any form of message. Hardly spend time together. It really is such an effort.  

8. Consistently hold grudges against your friend. Keep a detailed record, preferably in eXcel, with precise dates and times. Always bring up the past, its good for their memory...

              9. Repeatedly  be disrespectful to those your friend holds dear. Parents, siblings and other friends. You’re not directly friends with them so why be kind?!

10. Make sure you wish your friend all the bad in the world. They should not succeed because attention will not be on you. Try with all your might to ensure that they do not achieve their destiny or reach their eternal rest. 

If, and only if, you follow these steps religiously, you are well on your way to becoming a terrible friend! :|

Restraint

“HE WHOSE SPIRIT IS WITHOUT RESTRAINT IS LIKE A CITY THAT IS BROKEN DOWN AND WITHOUT WALLS”. Word. Literally. (Proverbs 25:28)

Restraint has been my buzzword for the past few days. It means to hold back, to exercise control and ‘hinderance of the will’. Wow.

Emotions are wild little things arent they? Anger, Lust, love, sadness, joy… all can grab one with such a ferocious grip that we often get lost in them.

I, Demi Gbenle, am an emotional person and for the most part, have allowed emotions to dictate my mood and actions. Ok so someone with a name close to mine bar a different vowel,  annoys with one innocuous statement. Im angry. instead of getting over it in 5 minutes and being a happy person of life, i (used to by God’s grace) go into one rage, slapping on potential statements and past scenarios, all culminating in violent words and ending in a genuine, physical headache lol.

What am i saying? I could have chosen to take the emotion of anger, massage it a bit, if it all, and put it in the bin. We can choose how we react when emotions come. Thats where restraint comes in. People, my dear people, can be stressful. I know you find me stressful at times, as do i, you :p. But restraint is vital in all our human relations.

Number a. Parents. Parents can be difficult, #NoRudeness, Its just the truth. But we should exercise restraint in the way we talk to our parents, they aren’t our ‘mates’. So the next time you feel an *i hate you, slam door* coming on, RESTRAIN yourself. Hold back the rude response and breathe.                                    

part 2. Friends. Great tools to survive in this jungle called life. lets all take a moment to thank God for friends. *Amen* but friends can annoy. Alie? Friends can vex, frustrate and upset us. in those hopefully rare occasions, restraint is great. Hmm, this just came to mind. Restraint may be slightly more vital in friendships than with family, because blood cant bedisregarded. Friendships can. So when you are just hot with anger, your heart is racing, ready to knock his block off or ready to give her a piece of your mind and foot, pause for a hot minute and restrain yourself.

If you need to not reply that text for a bit, dont. carry your legs and walk away when the argument is getting heated. Hold your right fist in your left hand and massage it gently lol. RESTRAIN yourself.

erm, 3. lol. people you know, like, fancy. Woi, this is neccestrrry! to the max. Trust.me. yeah, so he’s so like super cute, even like seeing his name on fb just makes your tummy go in knots. I cant write from the guys perspective because frankly, i dont get them lol but im sure they have parallel feelings.

Anyway, please, lets exercise restraint. Listen, im preaching to myself so dont start thinking ehn you dont even understand, cos i really do. Its hard but in the end it pays off. why? Because if the ‘feelings’ arent recip’d, we may not be as hurt as when we have text till our thumbs are mere nubs and frankly, embarrassed ourselves.

And also, one ideology i hear kicking about is that guys like to pursue. So if you’re just ‘all up in his grill’, he wont have any work to do!

thats it. Restraint. I urge you to practice it in whichever way you need to…

Proverbs 17:27: A man of knowledge uses words with restraint…

Galatians 5:23: …gentleness and self-control. There                                                                                         is no law against such things.