YOUR TIME WILL COME

Life is all about seasons. As a tree bears fruit in it's season, so does your life have it's own seasons. There is a dry season, where nothing seems to be happening at all and you begin to wonder why. There is a season for weeping and a season for laughter. A season of mourning and a season of rejoicing. For everything in life there is a season. If nothing is happening for you right now, maybe now is not the season for you but I assure you that your own season will come. Just as a tree bears fruit in it's season, so will you bear fruit in your own season if you are patient enough and do not give up. The tree does not give up and never complains because it knows it's seasons. When you understand the season you are in then you will be patient and not give up. Maybe you are going through a dry season right now, be patient and wait for the rainy season. If you are patient, soon enough you will begin to bear fruit. Remember, there is a season for every activity under heaven, so hang in there and be patient, your time of refreshing will soon come.

YOUR LIFE

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.
You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too,
so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone
you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every
sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

CAN YOU PUSH?

Today has been quite a challenging day for me. Another trial on my journey of life, another unexpected surprise in battle. Another battle I could do without. I tell you, sometimes I feel like giving up! The only option I had was to make a choice whether I would fret and allow the circumstance I was going through to overwhelm me or rise above the tide that was coming against me. Life is full of choices and I realised that this was my opportunity to practice what I preached all the time. It's alright to encourage others to have faith and stand strong but when faced with the same adversity I wondered whether I would be able to display the same attitude I encouraged others to have. No matter what, you will be tested and proven by your own words. I tend not to panic when faced with difficult situations, as it causes more anger and confusion. Like a pregnant woman in labour about to deliver her baby, I realised that this is evidence that my breakthrough was just round the corner and I had to keep pushing despite the pain, regardless of the pressure.

My encouragement to you is to push despite your pain. Keep pushing and don't stop, you're just on the verge of your breakthrough. If you give up now you will never experience the joy that could have been, so keep pushing and don't give up now.

Victory comes through pain. There is no victory without battle. If an army does not go to war there would be no sweet taste of victory.

The breakthrough of any pregnant mother is the joy of having her baby delivered. I know that my joy is just round the corner and I choose not to give up now, though I am bit tired of going through the battle, I know that if I persist, I will surely experience the joy of breakthrough.

My choice is to keep pushing and not give up now. Can you push? I encourage and persuade you to push and not give up now. Your breakthrough is just round the corner!

WHO WILL LISTEN?

It can be quite frustrating when all you need is to be able to talk to somebody and there is no one to listen. You know, you can have a lot of people around you yet no one is listening. Their response could throw you further into the pit of frustration and anger, especially if you are the sympathetic type who always gives a word of encouragement when needed but in your time of need you find that you are screaming down a tunnel and there is no one there to respond or help, so your cry for help then echoes back to yourself.

The human race can be quite selfish in many aspects, as people know how to use others to meet their own needs but when it comes to giving other people the help that they themselves received in their own hour of need, it becomes a burden for them to sacrifice for just one moment. Such is life, but we must continue to encourage ourselves and keep going, as I have come to the conclusion that even those very close to you can deny you at any time and you cannot fully rely on the arm of flesh, as it always fails at the most needed hour.

Why, oh why is the human race like this? Why are we so selfish that we cannot sacrifice? Why do we forget so easily where we are coming from?

When we are in Canaan, the land full of milk and honey, why do we so easily and speedily forget our Egypt, the land of slavery where we came from when we needed help so badly someone came and bailed us out!

Be determined to continue and not allow the selfishness of the human race to harden you, as the only person who will get hurt is you.

Why am I publishing this today? Because someone right now is crying out for help and there is no one to listen.

I soon realised that the art of listening is a truly a gift. Some may genuinely be willing to listen but have no time, others listen only when it benefits them. It is only a minority that sacrifice and listen regardless of whatever you have to say. Just being there for someone does not cost money, neither will it cost you your life, it is only a matter of sacrifice.

I say a big THANK YOU to the minority who are always there and willing to sacrifice. God bless you.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Think, one day you may need someone to listen and there may be no one there, just as surely as you were not there for that voice crying out for help today. What you sow is what you will reap.

WORD OF WISDOM

He who answers before listening— that is his folly and his shame. (Proverbs 18:13)