One In Christ Int‘l Church Palale Chapter

20/09/2021

09/12/2020

Wrong Perceptions 🙊

How can we say that it is wrong?
1. Being too kind/good to people, they will abuse you.
2. Prioritizing other needs will empty you and gives you restless.
3. You can add 😅

Because....

We think about ourselves more valuable than others etc.(and there's nothing wrong with that unless you always brag it, makes you rude, etc) 😅

We make ourselves the center wherein the center is God, must be in ourlives and hello 😅😅😅
The center of the universe is the Sun not you 😂😂😂✌
Come to think of it, meditate these things 🙂
We are made from dust and when we die we will go back from being dust, that's what we call cremation.
We are like flowers, grass, smoke etc; we're all gonna fade in this world, this is only temporary because, " Our citizenship is in Heaven. " 😊😍
Be glad, rejoice, and let's praise the Lord with the sound of musics. 🎉🎉🎉🎊

Stay safe everyone and God bless 😊😊😊

25/08/2020

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19/08/2020

19/08/2020

The goodness of God . . . It’s utterly overwhelming!
I could write a thousand posts and never exhaust all that He has done for me and for my family.

He brought me back from the brink of self-destruction and set me free from fear, worry, and depression.

But where He’s taking me now? This is truly another level.

Now . . . perhaps because He thinks I’m ready . . . He has awakened me to my greatest sin of all: He is exposing my idolatry.

No, I’ve never prayed to figurines or danced to try to make it rain.

My idolatry has been far more practical than that and yet equally futile.

Far too many times in life I’ve turned from God by placing my hopes and dreams in what I naively thought I could “accomplish on my own.”

I looked to Work - To define who I would be known as in this world.

I looked to Money - To provide what the world would call “security.”

I looked to Notoriety - To provide some sense of worth and importance in the eyes of other people.

I looked to Possessions - To prove to myself and others that I was capable of making my own way in life.

I looked to Human Relationships - To provide the love and acceptance that I have so desperately craved.

Let me go one step further . . . I’ll even confess this . . .

A huge portion of my prayers over the last 30 years have been asking God to help me “GET” more of one of the above.

And yet He loves me!

As much today as He ever has and forever will.

This is my prayer . . .

Sovereign Lord, creator of all that is, I come humbly before You to confess that I have broken Your first and most precious commandment . . . again and again and again.

“I am the Lord your God . . . You shall have no other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:2-3 NIV

Sometimes I had no idea I was doing it. Other times I knew full well I was.

Today I want to start anew!

I want to live my life with Jesus at the very center of every thought that I have, every word I speak . . . Wherever I go and whatever I do!

Lord, I want to live my life for YOU!

In Jesus’ name I pray.

Amen!

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19/08/2020

Victory over fear comes from total surrender to Christ!

I spent 50+ years struggling with constant anxiety and worry. It eventually turned to depression and a life lived in constant fear.

🔸 Fear of not earning enough money.

🔸 Fear of not keeping my family happy and safe.

🔸 Fear of not “accomplishing” as much as the people around me.

🔸 Fear of being abandoned by everyone I love.

Etc.

I strived every minute of every day to control outcomes . . . financially, relationally, and socially.

It took me decades to discover that I simply cannot “control” anything!

What I thought was my own ability to control outcomes was a total illusion.

The harder I tried to force things to happen, the more frustrated and discouraged I became.

So I turned the whole thing over. All of it!

My life completely changed the moment when . . .

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I surrendered the entire outcome of my life to Jesus Christ.

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I decided to trust that He alone will determine my fate. Not me!

He will keep my family happy and safe.

He will define who I am to be and what impact I will have on this world.

All I have to do is constantly seek His will and do what He leads me to do every day.

Here’s what happened . . .

Worry and anxiety left me and it hasn’t come back!

Praise the Living God! 🙂🙏🏻

19/08/2020

31/05/2020

Jesus said . . . “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.

Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.

But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.

When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7:24-27‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I’m gunna go ahead and choose to build on the rock!

You? 🙂