Thoughts of A Chosen Generation

Hola Chosen! Good to be back with you…finally…right?! Lol I wouldn’t let you end the year without hearing from me. So let’s get right into our discussion… Of course, this is not a new topic. Persons have long been debating it and we have somewhat touched on this topic before and because of its importance, I think we should revisit. Now there is a ton of information out there about why we should go to church and there are arguments for the other side too; so I won’t write you ‘12 Reasons to…’ but instead, I’ll direct you to some of what I have found and share a bit of my experience. Photo by: Luis Quintero Friends, you’re probably expecting me to share with you points to back up my opinion and I will, but I also like to explore things from others’ point of view as well. In doing so, I found an interesting article titled Why Attending Church No Longer Makes Sense http://bit.ly/tonotgotochurch . Firstly, the author is a pastor and he states that he can only find two compe...

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 dear friends! This time around I’d like to share with you an experience I had and how the power of God worked in that situation. I have a family member that I didn’t speak to for a number of years. Prior to that situation we had a fairly good relationship. Then we had a brawl about something that was important to me. And since then, we didn’t speak to each other for about two years. However, with the help of another family member we eventually made up. Fast forward a couple years later and we were at a similar place to not speaking to each other again. No, there was no brawl this time, lol. I just decided that a relationship with that person would be too toxic for me and given our rocky past; decided to ‘cut them off’. What had happened this time is that I found the person to be meddling too much in my immediate family life and to me it was actually a repeat of past situations. I didn’t believe this was just an issue to be resolved but rather a defect in their personality a...

Hello Chosen! For the past few weeks I realize that I have been feeling a bit stressed with the totality of all that goes on in my life. At present, the main themes in my life are my Christianity and church, my job, personal development activities and a few volunteer activities. Important, but not too time consuming are family based activities and social activities. Even though I haven’t listed the specific tasks, I’m not sure if that seems a lot to you or just a little, but for me it’s enough to keep me on my toes. So it does feel a bit overwhelming at times. And although I’m writing this to share with you, it’s very much for me also to air out my thoughts and remind myself of the strategy I know that works for me and perhaps can work for you too. (Courtesy of: psychologytoday.com) Before we get into the approach, let me just say we firstly need to know who we are and whose we are. Jesus was fully man here on earth so he went through the same things we go through, but ...

Hello Hello my Chosen friends! It’s been a while. The truth is I’ve been busy with all sorts of things but I have to remember my number one priority, which is kingdom work, and hence I am back with you. One of those things that can keep us busy sometimes is our relationships. The type of relationship may vary, but one thing they all have in common is that they take up our time. Relationships are important and since they do take up a significant portion of our lives it’s essential that they are healthy. For now, we’ll discuss relationships in general and perhaps later we can talk about some specific types. In the body of Christ, we are all members of one family; just as a natural body with it’s different parts. Your limbs, your head, your torso, your organs are different parts that may make up your body and are similar to all of us that comprise the body of Christ. Therefore, the things we do affect other members of the body. If one member eats right and exercises that will have...

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 ...