Divine Encounters

I woke up on Monday and while praying I told God that am tired. Tired of waiting; tired of life; tired of everything that is life; and guess what God am tired of hearing people say they are tired of being hopeful but not seeing their desire fulfilled. As I prayed and gave God thanks that even in my tiredness I needed a solution and one that would be a cure to what I perceive to be a prevailing issue in the world today, I was certain God would answer. I am sure am not alone in this but many today are tired, just plain tired of the battles of life as life just seems draining. Since Monday, God has been reminding me of the power of joy as God given joy overides tiredness or heaviness. God takes the garment of tiredness-heaviness- and places a garment of praise-joy Isaiah 61:3 ! I made up my mind to praise God like never before. I dance anywhere and everywhere as the joy of God is my strength. Tiredness affects your attitudes towards the battles of life. Being tired of the warfare of life

One thing about life is falling down or failure has no respect of age. You may have been walking well when suddenly you trip and fall. A baby may just not have the capacity to walk fall and suddenly just falls to the ground tired by the new experience. For each person at whatever age when you fall down the most important thing is to get up and get moving again. Life may have drained you that you just want to pack it all in; I have a word of encouragement to you, get up and get moving. Where you are is not your destination and neither should you allow your experience become your life. Your present is not your future, unless you get up and move you cannot arrive at the desired destination. We all fall in differing mannerisms but don't allow a fall or failure to define you. I will end with the words of Solomon, let them inspire you to run the race. "For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again " Proverbs 24:16a

Life has a habit of painting pictures in us that many a time are limiters to our progress. The struggles of life form bonds that tie us to pain and may in some cases cause us to go down on the path of life instead of taking flight into greatness. Abraham and Sarah were barren, in need of a heir, promised by God of a miracle but wondering when. Along the way they tried to help God which resulted in a mess. But all this time God kept encouraging Abraham to maintain the right picture of the promise being fulfilled and not being denied inspite of delay. Count the stars, see the sand, images that were to reinforce the picture of the promise God had given of a son. Moses in the desert, having run away from Egypt on the count of a crime, encountered God who changed what he had settled for life and gave him an assignment that was bigger than his dreams. God never gives you a task that will not require His help to accomplish. To accomplish the assisgnment of God, Moses had to first adjust the

Words are powerful, in fact Solomon said that death and life is in the power of the words Proverbs 18:21 . Your words make your life., but I have come to realise that for dreams to become real you have to speak what is within your heart and mind. Your words must be synchronised with your thoughts to produce the dream you desire. Nobody learns to speak without first hearing someone speak. We learn to speak from our hearing others speak. Listening to many people today I have realised that we have to regulate what we hear that we may speak aright. Words are so powerful that when God spoke darkness backed off, Genesis 1:3 . Jesus said that we would be judged by the words we speak; its words that hold the world together. Looking at the world today we can see the effects of bad words and great words. What you hear affects what you speak out. Spend time listening to words that are not life filled and you will soon bring forth nothing that is life filled, consequently if you develop a habit o