What Next After Meeting Jesus

This morning, I woke up feeling amazing and grateful. Like, I was elated and felt really good about my environment (In contrast, it's only a regular day). I could go on and on about this feeling, because you see, it doesn't happen everyday. So on days like this that I wake up so happy without anything being the reason for it, I celebrate. Let me get straight to what really happened though. At the beginning of this year, I started a daily study of the women of the Bible. From Eve, to Sarah, Hagar, Lot's Wife, and now Rebekah. In my study of Rebekah, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to when we tend to drag the driver seat of our lives with God. Genesis 25:21-23 accounted for when God told Rebekah that of the twins she were carrying, the younger would rule the older. That being said, the Bible recorded the account of Rebekah masterminding the future of her sons, Genesis 27. The question then for me was, had Rebekah not swapped Esau's blessings with Jacob's, would...

Do prayers get one out of debt? I mean, by praying, is it likely you become financially stable? Does prayers change your bank statement? Can fasting make me a billionaire? To be honest I don't have any answer to these questions. While I'm not writing this post to stir up argument about whether being very rich is good or evil, I simply want to open our eyes to a way out of debt which has been proven countless times to be effective. I realized how financially poor my family was when I got to highschool. When I saw the other "cool" kids, I knew my family had nothing, that was the absolute truth. And so, with that knowledge, I constantly reminded myself that I needed to be wealthy when I grew up. Now, I have grown up (to some extent tho), and the financial situation of over a decade ago is the still same in my family. We pray and God gives us our daily bread and needs (Psalm 23), but how do one get to that height where you are rich enough to substantially impact o...

Countless times when I got in trouble or was faced by a challenge, I found it difficult to share my fears with the people of God. The reason is not farfetched. It was because I knew they would tell me to rejoice and be thankful in my trials. Whenever I was told to rejoice, I looked at them and just concluded in my heart that they simply didn't know how to help me. As I grew in Christ, I realized why I needed to actually rejoice in my trials and troubles, yeah really! Romans 5:3 NLT "We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance." After reading that verse, the next question I asked was, "So why do I need to develop endurance, am I an athlete or what? You mean I'm going through all of this to develop endurance? What's the endurance for? I don't even want the endurance!" Literally, that was how I had felt. And I'm sure some people can relate with what I'm saying. Someone lo...