Thoughts of A Chosen Generation

Hello friends, welcome back; I missed you guys. A few persons comment on the posts and most prefer to comment directly in a conversation with me and I appreciate it all. It’s important to remember that we are not in this walk alone so we do have each other to lean on. In the same breath of community spirit, we’ll briefly explore witnessing. And when I say witnessing, I’m not referring to a specific denomination; so I’m happy we cleared the air on that one. According to allaboutgod.com , Christian Witnessing is “merely sharing our heartfelt faith in Christ – what he’s personally done to change our individual lives”. All Christians should be witnesses and not just a selected few. Yes, we are given different gifts of the spirit (which we can talk about another time) but all would have experienced a certain change upon conversion and are required to share it; and you don’t have to be the best speaker, just start where you are. Read the following scriptures http://bit.ly/1Cor2-1 ...

Would you look what happened here? We’ve made it to June; bless the Lord! Welcome Chosen friends! I was told I wasn’t quite successful in making the last article not as long. * tears *. So let’s jump right into this one. Throughout our discussion I will make reference to a particular situation I had that’s applicable. All relationships don’t go as smoothly as we had them planned in our minds at inception; assuming that we don’t plan on having any hostile relationships. Speaking specifically about work relations, sometimes tension runs as high as JPS power cables. This is certainly unhealthy; after all, most of us spend most of our lives at work. Great, if majority of our work relationships aren’t like this but what do we do when we find ourselves caught up between the poles of these JPS cables with a co-worker? (Courtesy of: inc.com) I’ll share with you 8 things which I did and now recommend in such a situation: 1.        P...

Isn’t it great that we made it through another week? No really, isn’t it? We could have ceased to exist but no, we are here, still living to hopefully fulfil God’s purpose in our lives. And because you have received that gift, congratulations Chosen ! Of course, life isn’t always smooth, or as I mentioned the last time; chocolate and rainbows, but nonetheless life is a gift. We all go through hard times, whether it may be financial, spiritual, family-related, career-related, health-related, relationship-related, friendship-related, or even something I haven’t thought of, we all have our challenges in life. It may seem like some people don’t experience issues but they do. Have you ever asked them? Whether they choose to share or not, most times their problems are valid. Also, bear in mind that each of us are built differently so what you may be able to handle easily another person may not and vice versa. So, just as how we wouldn’t like for someone else to invalidate our issues, w...

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...