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A Letter to a Friend

Dear Friend, After our conversation I decided to write to you and encourage you. It's been a while since I wrote a letter but your tears brought me to tears as I felt your pain. Everyone has a fight in their hands one day or other. Let God fight on your behalf as He is the Creator and fully understands our aches and pains. Challenging circumstances in whatever shape or form they come create only darkness. Darkness that seems to make everything else void and of null effect. You know that darkness that even when someone is trying to encourage you all your mind is saying is you don't understand!! Whatever your situation is right now, I want to hold your hand and extend a hug with these few pointers of encouragement. Firstly, don't lose hope. The enemy knows that once hope is gone from within, you are simply a sitting duck that will be ticked off this cycle of life. Without hope you cannot have faith Hebrews 11:1 . Look up to God not the situation Psalms 121:1-2. Secondly, ...

The Bridge

I had gone through a tumultuous few days and really just wanted to hear God soothe me and tell me it will be fine even though I was down but not out when I realised the importance of a bridge in life. We use bridges to get to the other side usually going over something that stands or seats as an obstacle to your progress. As I thanked God for being alive even though I really didn't feel like it I began to walk on the bridge to the other side. Many times when we are faced with trouble we remain at one spot instead of crossing to the other side. What makes the bridge from the place of trouble to the place of safety? The first bridge builder is the Word of God. Abraham and Sarah were barren but God promised them a son. In Genesis 21 we read that God visited and did to Sarah what He had promised to do, which was cause her womb to become alive and to conceive. She held onto the promise of God and this promise built her future bringing her from impossibility to the miraculous. As you ...