Interfering or Fulfing Purpose???

Until I came across this truth I struggled with it. I wondered why in every relationship I eneterd my immediate desire was to help. I sought ways to help and when the help was not taken or rejected my thought was always ' can't he see that I'm just trying to help'?

It's not so easy to help a man so here's my 2 cents to both ladies and men:

Men- we ladies may not always use the best presentation or the right words but at the heart of it know this ' we're honestly only just trying to help'.

Ladies- you mustn't always have the last word, sometimes 'helping' means allowing him to make mistakes and supporting him through it not rubbing it in his face with statements like ' I told you so or if you had listened to me...'

(c) Iquo'Ma 2016
Have an awesome Monday guys!!!

Excerpts from a Book Review: Everything in the woman is designed to help...click and read more...

I bought the book 'Understanding the Power & Purposed of a Man' by late Dr Myles Munroe several years ago by recommendation. It would help you understand men better I was told! I didn't believe it so I allowed it to gather dust and learn from my life's experiences.

Today after several life experiences and no clear understanding of the strange species they (men) sometimes are, I decided to breeze through it during my early morning meditations...
All I can say is 'girl you should've read it a loooonnngg time ago'
but as long as there's life it's never too late...

So I'm going to be posting up the sentences, quotes and messages that spoke to me and impacted my thinking... I hope they bring light your way too...

Please Note I didn't read the WHOLE book... I'll leave that for the men... I do recommend it to them...and for the ladies you all need to read 'Understanding the Powder & Purpose of a Woman'...
It will revolutionize your thinking....

Happy weekend...
Much love

(c) 2016 Iquo'Ma

This is for people who still have one or 2 things to learn about relationships not for experts!! It's a New Understanding I got so I decided to share it!!

This is for those who like me are only now beginning to get a grasp on this whole relationship thing... If it blesses you please share with others!!! Have an awesome weekend guys! Muuaahhh

There can be no crown without a cross!! If you don't believe me ask those who are already wearing crowns...

We have spent too long rebuking God for trying to mold us... That attitude has to stop because those people you're trying to be like or looking up to have been through their own molding and making process...even the glorious vision you have for your future involves a moulding and making process...
Enjoy the process of being made thought it may be as hot as a fiery furnace and as uncomfortable as a crowd of thorns, Gods GRACE will see us through in Jesus name, Amen... Happy Thursday peeps

(C) 2016 Rosyyy

How do you see yourself asks the Lord!!!

[NIV] Exodus 5:15 Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why have you treated your servants this way?

The Israelites had been in captivity and bondage for so long that they saw themselves as servants. Their perception was a fact because they looked like servants and were treated as such in the land... Hoewever it was not the truth...

Has any situation kept you in bondage for so long now? Is it poverty? Stagnation? Unfruitfulness in relationships?

Unfruitfulness in your career or business? Have you allowed the this fact to change your identity? Do you now see yourself as someone with no prospect, someone who is stuck in life simply because a particular situation has been around for years and seemingly refuses to budge???

Remember I had earlier written a piece on ' The Truth and not the Fact Sets you Free'. I believe the Israelites had forgotten the truth and adopted the facts as the their new truth...

If a baby lion is trained in a home as a pet, the lion may think that its a house pet but does that change the Truth that its a lion??? No it does not...

The truth is that the Israelites are God's firstborn son, a chosen people, a Covenant people.   Perhaps at one point in time they believed this but when their situation persisted for so long they forgot....It is possible for us to forget who we are when we move away from the one who created us, when the issues of life become so overwhelming that we feel like we're drowning or have drowned in them as was their case..

In a world like ours where we face all kinds of difficulties it is very easy to start defining yourself by the facts (what you see) and not the truth ( what or who God says you are)...  So take this as God's reminder to you today...

In Jesus Christ you are a covenant child, birthed in purpose,equipped with all necessary tools to live a life pleasing to God, to go forth and create wealth and to be all that God created you to be.

You are His seed, you carry His greatness, you are full of His power and His love... You have the ability to be successful in all you do,you have His wisdom to direct you and keep you from falling prey to the enemy's traps...

Today i choose to believe that I'm reminded that I'm an exact replica of God Almighty Himself..

Go back to Gods word and find out who God says you are, what He says you have and what He says you can do... Write it down, post it up where your eyes will always see it and be reminded of it....
The weekend is just around the corner so have an awesome Thursday... God bless you real good..

Vengance is mine says the Lord; A New Understanding

Sometimes God's way of revenge is not the way we humans look at revenge for example God didn't punish Laban for cheating Jacob, instead He blessed Jacob more...

If you read Genesis chapters 30: 25 - 31:19, you will see how Jacob left Labans home and what he left with.

As I pondered the story I likened it to employers who cheat their employees.
You see Laban was an employer and Jacob his employee. The bible says he changed Jacobs wages 10 times; I likened that to unpaid salary and salary decrease, yet Jacob kept working faithfully for Laban UNTIL God told him it was time to leave (Gen 31:3)

Despite the injustice done to Jacob he didn't leave empty handed because God did not forget all he had suffered in his place of employment. God served justice by ensuring Jacob left a whole lot richer than when he came.

I have gone through the experience of having unpaid salary for a few months and I can tell you the various schemes of revenge I have 'helped' God to think of. I have even rehearsed the speech i would give my employer before leaving the job and trust me those schemes were neither godly nor good..

But today in the New light of understanding God has given me about His kind of revenge, I am humbled and ashamed of my earlier thoughts...

You see we all face or have faced some sort of injustice at one point in time or another and it really pleases us to think that God would mete out a harsh punishment of destruction to the individual responsible;

But today God is saying punishment is not the most important thing...What matters most is that at the end of the day, you have the last laugh, the upper hand, meaning He blesses you and that blessing is so much more than the things you were cheated of...

So smile through that injustice you're facing because as God has given me a new meaning of His promise that says ' Vengeance is mine saith the Lord' ... I am confident that when he says its time to leave that unpleasant and unjust situation, I will not be leaving empty handed but rather with more blessings than what I was cheated of...

And the same goes for you and for everyone who believes it, because God's word is alive and active to ALL that believe...
Shalom and Happy New Year!!!
Thanks for taking the time to read my write ups :-)

Thank God we have been told to live by Faith cos sight is not so encouraging right now huh!!! Read more in the link...

As 2015 draws to a close, I am bombarded with news on how terrible the new government is, how the state of the country has worsened, i am surrounded with silent and not so silent staff retrenchments in different companies and sectors of the economy. The air seems to carry fear as almost everyone is somewhat convinced that things will only get worse next year..... On top of that I am plagued daily by the impending fear of 'what will 2016 look like'....

As a Jesus lover and being the everly optimistic person that I am, one word comes to mind when I think of 2016 - GLORYYYYY'... I have been through too much to accept anything less; and as I keep making my positive declarations I am reminded by the Holy Spirit that we live by Faith and NOT by sight (2Cor5:7)

There is a reason the Bible urges us to live by Faith; it is not there to discredit what our eyes can see... That verse is there to tell us that God Almighty knew that sometimes the economy would fail, sometimes we would face so many challenges that we would want to give up, that sometimes we would become devoid of hope, discouraged, disheartened and sad...

But because He is such a great planner, He gave us a word, a command, a phrase that restores hope even in the most hopeless of cases...

What is Faith??
[NIV] Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

So today be encouraged that even though you can't see that glorious tomorrow, future, job, marriage, kids, finances, health etc right now.. God expects you to keep your assurance that it will come, to hold on to your confidence that if He said it then He will surely do it...

Drown out the 'no money' cries this season with gratefulness. Gratefulness for loved ones, for friendship and for the simple fact that we are never without hope!!

Even though I can't see that glorious destiny, glorious bank account:-)  and glorious home i desire, I choose to live by the assurance i have that it will come...

I am grateful to God for life, good health, for Sera's wedding, for my family whom I will see soon by God's grace, for new beginnings, for sister in law tins, for the joy of my friends and loved ones, for new friendships that are already taking shape in my life, lessons learnt this year and for so much more...

I urge you to do the same, list out the things you are grateful for... It doesn't change what your eyes can see or what your ears can hear, but it does change what your heart believes...

Shalom and thanks for reading...