Breakfast With God

I believe all gifts come from God, and He really is the best gift-giver! He knows exactly what you need, when you need it. Sometimes, He'll even through in a surprise! Recently, God blessed me with one of those surprises - one that's making my heart overflow with joy, and putting a big, fat smile on my face everyday. But of course, the devil hates all that. How dare I have this much happiness? And so he sows seeds of doubt, worry and anxiety (sometimes, straight up PANIC) in my heart, which strangle the happy, ooey-gooey feelings. So, instead of enjoying God's great gift, I start to think to myself:  Don't get so excited; anything can happen!  You know all this won't last forever, right?  What if it doesn't work out?  Just wait until XYZ happens! And immediately, I subconsciously begin prepare my mind for the worst, and refuse to allow myself to celebrate God's gift, for fear of everything going south. Until today. I...

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Okay, I tricked you a little. I learnt more that one crazy important thing, thanks to UCB's Word For Today (if you don't know what I'm talking about, this is a good place to start -  http://www.ucb.co.uk/word-for-today.html . I've found UCB incredibly useful, practical and most importantly, easy to digest).  Last Friday, I started with  What I Really Learnt About Prayer This Week , but it couldn't stop there because there's JUST SO MUCH ABOUT PRAYER WE ALL SO DESPERATELY NEED TO KNOW, and I really believe understanding these things will help your prayer life the way it's helping mine. Now I've wetted your appetite (successfully?), let's get to it. 1) How you choose to pray really is up to you. You can walk and talk, vent as you jog, kneel with your head bowed down, lie on the ground, lie therapist-style on a long couch, go for a drive... whatever will help you focus your heart and your mind on God. For a long time, I didn't realise my sty...

With prayer and I, it's been a mostly up-and-down relationship. We haven't always seen eye-to-eye, we've fallen out of love quite a few times, and we've oftentimes flat out ignored each other over the years. Luckily, it's been more on the 'up' lately, for which I am super glad, because God knows I need it more than anything. The real transformation came when I realised that I didn't have to say the "right" things when I prayed, speak 'Christianese' (meaningless words that God is supposed to be impressed with), or lie to God about how/what I was feeling. A good friend of mine, Jen, once said, "Don't tell God, 'Oh Lord, I just want to worship Your holy name', when in fact you are about to combust from pain, sorrow, difficulties and frustration." That statement TOTALLY changed the way I pray. Now, that's not to say that I only run to God to cry about my problems (there's ALWAYS something), and I am complet...

"You, O God, do see trouble and grief ; you consider it to take it in hand . The victim commits himself to you; you are the Helper of the fatherless." - Psalm 10:14 Take this with you wherever you go today. Good morning! :) Kunmi x