Don't be a stumbling block to the message you preach

"Sometimes we have to stop doing the things we love to do on a normal day. Sometimes, we have to change because we dont want our attitudes/character to be a stumbling block. Its not a pretence change though, its a transformation, a conviction, a sacrifice from deep within because we really want something to work out." - Peaceitimi

○1 Corinthians 9:19-23 MSG
Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn’t just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!○

Word for the year.

The Year has began in earnest and amid the theme's of our various churches and the Word God has given each of us personally for the year, I'm led to write down for you two of my most recent favourite scriptures.

COL2:6  

(TLT-the Living Translation) 'And as you have trusted Christ to save you, so also trust him for your everyday problems. Live in vital union with him.'

I'm more into the first part of that verse that says (in my own words) that If you can trust Christ Jesus to save you then you can also trust Him for any of your other problems.
If Christ can save you, me, us all from eternal damnation and from the hands of the devil; If He could shed his Blood for us and Freely forgive you of all your sins and continually intercede for you as he is sitting at the right hand of God and showing him his nailed hands and feet in other to remind God that he has paid fully your debt; If God could rescue the Israelites from Egypt and Part the red sea; If God can feed the birds of the air and if he can clothe the lilies of the field and make them more beautiful than even Solomon in all his glory then what problem, what challenge, what obstacle, what bondage, what storm will God not take away from you, rescue you from or grant you faith and strength and grace to handle?

PEACE of mind and heart

Being someone that easily gets depressed (a situation I get from being a melancholic - but you know I read somewhere that geniuses have the tendency to get overly depressed, hehehe! I'm just saying tho *wink*), I have learnt to appreciate the times where my heart is at rest and I have peace of mind.
Discovering the joy and warmness that is embedded in the having peace, I began to search for how I can attain a Lasting peace as I became tired of the mood swings - the joy today and  weight tomorrow; the peace today and the chaos tomorrow and as always, in the midst of my search Jehovah found me (as always. the guy is just super dope yea?) and taught me that peace of mind and heart is a necessity in the life of a believer as we cant function well or enjoy life or the Joy of our salvation if we are troubled and he said he's possible for one to have Peace 24/7, everyday of every week of every year, forever even in the midst of the worst of storms.

The lessons I have learnt on Peace is what I want to share with you on this post. So relax and enjoy the ride.

My Deepest Fear ...

What's your deepest fear?
I'm scared of loneliness. I'm scared I'd have no one who cares around, I'm scared everybody would leave at the end of the day. I'm scared the one's I love most would hurt and abandon me, maybe I'd stop being good enough.
I'm scared of being a failure. I'm scared I'd disappoint my mum. I'm scared I won't be as great as everyone thinks, I'm scared the potentials we all see in me is just a fallacy. I'm scared I'd marry the wrong man. I'm scared I'd be a lousy mum, I'm scared I won't be able to protect and provide for my kids as I should.
I'm scared I'd walk out on God, maybe I'd just lose faith in God one day and become a mess, I'm scared God would get worn out from a life time of endowing me with grace and mercy, maybe he'd give up on me.

I was Born with Sickle cell Anaemia and Still My Dad disowned me because I converted to Christainity.

My name is Hammed Ajiboye. I'm a Christian from a Muslim home. A writer, a reader and learner and this is my story:

My conversion to Christianity wasn't a knee jerk reaction. I had always wanted
to be a Christian. What I read in the Bible touched my heart and soul. The story of God's unending love for humanity, salvation and me as a person.

The various stories of healing I read touched the dusty chords of my heart. I desperately wanted healing. Wanted to be free. I had been born with sickle cell, a terrible life threatening, blood zapping condition that has no cure. It was a life of pain. The only way to beat the condition is through meticulous management, prevention of crisis and avoidance of complications.
For me, however, I wanted total healing, not management.

In a Storm, Faith Prevails

Touchy, super sensitive. Everything gets to heart, cries for no reason, emotional wreck.

Things seem not okay. Plans shattered. People away.

Not enough care, not much love, not much sensitivity, so little appreciation.

Feelings are sky rocketed. Every ish looks bigger than it should be. Every pain cuts deeper than it should. Every tear hurts more than can be handled.

This is one of the rough times, where feelings take control. Even old issues are coming to remembrance. Too many things.

Ever felt like this? That's how I feel, that's how I've felt for over a week now. It sucks right? I so want it to go away. God is testing my emotions, I know but that truth doesn't make it easier to bear everytime the rush comes.

I've prayed, I've sang and I've felt better then five minutes later something happens again and I feel down, hurt. My emotions are too sensitive to even get angry (funny? NAH!)

But something keeps me going, you know what it is? It's the Fact that