Category: Daily Living Blog
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Money: Is running after wealth okay? Part 1
When God favours you, the difference is clear. People have varying opinions about money and being wealthy. Years back, poverty was associated with holiness. They believe that in order to see God or make it to Heaven one would need to be poor. Some would quote Matthew 19: 24 to justify their argument. It was…
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People: It’s okay not to have many friends (part 5)
People who make it to the top are not liked by everyone. In order to make it to the top God’s way, one has to follow godly principles such as honesty, integrity, doing the right thing, not being a man-pleaser, etc. All these things the world hates and if they hated Jesus, God’s only begotten…
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Wisdom: It’s okay not to have many friends (part 4)
Jane decided to use wisdom and accept the fact that not everyone would like her and it’s okay not to be liked by people. She also weighed the risk and benefits and found out that having few friends who are heading in the right direction is much better than having lots of friends who are…
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Kind: It’s okay not to have many friends (part 3)
Still on Jane She was kind to everyone but when it came to making friends, she became careful. Jane kept meeting people and making very few friends, sometimes no friends. All through her years of meeting people, gaining friends, and disengaging from others, she learnt something interesting. Making a lot of friends could be distracting…
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Jane: It’s okay not to have many friends (part 2)
Jane decided to keep being herself rather than pretending to make other people happy and displeasing herself. She would tell people the truth when they needed to hear it and would stop every form of gossip even before it started. If she couldn’t she would move away. Although she was still her kind, friendly and…
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Friends: Beware of the Company you keep.
Day 1 Beware of the friends you keep. this is a story about a young man called Tale. One day, Tale was in the garden with friends. They were discussing how to rob a particular city. Each had their own idea with one being worse than the other. This young man, though he was friends…
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Energy: I Cannot Stress Myself but want to fulfill destiny
Well, please don’t call me lazy because really, I don’t like stress nor do i like to waste my energy. People can interpret this statement as meaning different things but I intend to address what I mean shortly. We live in a world where you have to work to get things done. Parents have to…
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Are you going Somewhere or Everywhere?
In life, there are two categories of people, those that are going somewhere and those that just follow where any kind of breeze blows them to. There are those who listen and watch others make news while there are those who are the news themselves. Where do you belong now? What category would you have…
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Give: Money and the Act of giving
Money is good and can also be bad if mismanaged, we have been commanded to give. For things to move smoothly and easily in life, money is needed. Unfortunately, this same money has taken people to their early graves. The Word of God in Timothy 6: 10 (NIV) says, “For the love of money is…
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How to stay at the top in life.
When God lifts us, we have the responsibility of staying at the top. Daniel 2: 21 says, “He changes times and seasons, he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning”. As much as God removes kings and raises up others, we have our own part…