Thoughts of A Chosen Generation

Hello Chosen, Glad to see you sticking with me. And if you’re new, welcome! I haven’t been keeping in touch with you as often as I'd like but hey, that’s life, it gets hectic sometimes. Going forward, I will try to write to you at least once per month. And along that line, I couldn’t let this month end without bringing you greetings. Happy New Year!!! I truly hope you get all the good desires of your heart this year and beyond. Amidst all our busyness, we do need some time for relax, right? Right! And as we have mentioned before, there is a time for this, so there is no need to feel guilty about it. Even Jesus, sometimes went away with his disciples, from the crowds he often taught to rest. A lot of evidence of this is found in the Gospels. Here are a few passages you may read to find evidence of this: Matthew 14:22-23 ( bit.ly/Matthew14-22 ) Mark 6:30-32 ( bit.ly/Mark6-30 ) Luke 22:41 ( bit.ly/Luke22-41 ). (Photo credit: Alexis Azabache @alexazabache1) ...

Hello Chosen! Thanks for joining me again. We have spoken about the importance of prayer before in a Christian’s life, but how should we pray? I believe something so important should be done in a way that pleases God and affords us the maximum benefits. I’m not saying prayers should be monotonous but approaching prayer with structure, does help. How often do we go to pray, and we don’t know what to say? Or we hear someone else praying and we wonder how did they think of all those things to say? Well, that used to happen to me a lot and still does happen at times. What we’ll discuss won’t be a rigid formula for prayer but simply a guide. After all, prayer is a conversation with God; but the most important conversation we can ever have. The information I’ll share is not new information as with anything discussed on this blog but just a topic I find worthwhile to bring to our forethoughts. (Source: ibelieve.com)   In Luke 11 , one of Jesus’ disciples asked him ...

Hi Friends! I know, I know it’s been a long while, three months to be exact. Who would have thought that I would have stayed away so long from you? However, life happens. A bit of housekeeping before we jump into today’s topic; I had promised that I would do two things soon and I am happy to report that I did. I wrote out my life’s mission and vision statements and I apologized to the cousin I was malicing (let’s call it what it really was). See, I’m a woman of my word and I feel so much better for it, yay me 😊 Now, what I want to explore with you today is the importance of leading a synergistic life or as the title states Sharpening the Saw . This article was inspired by Stephen Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that I read earlier this year. By the way, that is one of my recommended reads. My interpretation of Sharpening the Saw is that we should constantly be working on four core aspects of our being; body, mind, heart and soul. I use the term synergy ...

Hello there Chosen, so happy to have you with me. I wonder if you’re thinking to yourself why I hadn’t written about this before. If I were you, I’d be thinking that exact thing. Actually, I asked myself why I didn’t. The idea to write my testimony only came to me about a week ago and I was excited about it but somehow didn’t quite get to it until now. However, I trust that it has happened in God’s perfect timing. It took me quite a while to get here. And though I’m not quite a finished product, I’ve been through many iterations. Nonetheless, I can confidently say I am where God wants me to be at this point in my life. I can’t quite cover everything in this article since it has been literally every moment in my life that has culminated and led me to the present but I hope I cover a number of the significant areas. As a child, I grew up with the knowledge of God, as with most children in Jamaica, thankfully. However, my parents weren’t, and still aren’t Christians. They in...

Hello Chosen, welcome back! If you’re new, it’s good to have you J Overcoming temptations is a very interesting topic, if I do say so myself. Allow me to just jog your thoughts a bit. Do you think non-Christians are not tempted? Do you think that new believers have finally escaped and will no longer be tempted? Or mature Christians have passed that stage and will not face temptation? Let’s see if we can answer those questions while we explore the main question that we are trying to answer, How Do We Overcome Temptations? Let us first try to understand what Temptation is before we get to how to overcome it. Bishop Robert Ellis describes temptation as an enticement to do evil or a desire to abstain from doing good. Let me guess, you didn’t expect that second part, did you? Well James 4:17 says “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is a sin.” http://bit.ly/Jam4-17 . For that reason, we can say in essence that temptation is a pull towards evil or...

Glory be to God! Deciding to become a follower of Christ, is the best decision you could ever make in your life. And you are indeed,  Chosen . Now, you are completely a new person and who you were before doesn't really matter. Friends, I sort of found this a bit hard to wrap my head around. Like, I’ve heard the term ‘born again’ throughout my previous life but now I fully understand it. Don’t take my word for it, it says so in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” But after birth, comes growth. Growth may be defined as “the process of developing physically, mentally or spiritually” according to the Oxford Dictionary. So just as a new born baby needs to experience growth in order to move from his baby stage, new Christians need growth in order to improve our relationship with Christ. Not only do we just need to grow, we should Grow in Grace. B.B. Warfield defines grace a...