Anchored in the storm. Have you ever stood in a moment of life where everything you trusted seemed to crumble? Your well thought out plans, spirit filled postulations and calculations going down the drain. And the more you strive to get it all back, the more the Spirit is insisting you let it all go. Seasons when the prayers felt unanswered, the future unclear, and even faith seemed fragile. Behoove it to say then, that storms come to us all as believers—fierce, unrelenting, and uninvited. But what happens in us during those storms determines who we become after the storm. Consequently, it…
Author: Chisom
Living with eternal perspective. Many things happening on earth screams for our attention and competes for our affection. And the call to live with an eternal perspective is increasingly difficult — yet it is absolutely essential. Oftentimes, even as believers we’re tempted to live for the now. At the very back of our minds is the desire to throw caution to the wind “and just live for the moment” There is nothing inherently wrong with rest or even comfort. Like really, these things in itself are not bad per say. But here’s the challenge! Sometimes as believers overtime it becomes…
Living the sacrificial Life; The idea of sacrifice seems alien, out of date, and undesired in a society where self-gratification is the mantra. However, the Bible exhorts believers to become living sacrifices as well as to understand sacrifice. Daily offering ourselves on the altar of God, not in death, but in continuous, willing surrender. I mean it takes a lot for the believer to be “dead, yet alive” And no matter how much it is said, it is better experienced than told. For only then, can true life be ministered, for the ministration of life is not possible if one…
Gratitude is not just a polite “thank you” after receiving a gift. However, saying thank you is important because it is like one of the characteristics of gratitude but gratitude goes deeper than that. Consequently, if we are truly grateful to God, it most definitely has to affect the way we live our lives as believers. Because true gratitude impacts in us the reasonability of presenting our bodies to God. When a believer acknowledges God’s goodness, mercy, and sovereignty, gratitude naturally flows from their heart. Bringing us to the point of daily offering of a heart, trusting the Father’s hands,…