Pleasant thoughts fosters creativity andmotivation. It helps us cultivate optimism for better decision making, for building stronger relationships, tackling challenging situations and ultimately achieving our goals.
Question is: Given the myriad of competing and potentially distracting thoughts in our day-to-day life, how do we nurture a mindset filled with pleasant thoughts as Christians?
Dobut is a feeling of uncertainty or a lack of conviction about a thing. Contrary to doubt, faith believes for the impossible, and the invisible.
So doubt is a faith-stopper and a miracle snatcher.
How do you stop doubt from stealing your miracle? The answer to this can be seen in Mark 11:23…
What exactly is love? What does real love mean to you? A feeling of being wanted? A deep connection to someone? Enjoying unwavering support and goodwill? Commitment? A feeling of security or wholeness? Love means different things to different people, depending on how they understand it and want it expressed. Interestingly, the bible provides a definite description of real love in First John 4 verse 10. This is real love……
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” I John 4:10 NKJV
Have you suffered a heartbreak before? Have you been misrepresented, misunderstood or misinterpreted before? It hurts much more when people who are close to us hurt our feelings. Sometimes with such experiences, it becomes difficult to trust again, to hope again….
A deeply hurt heart, might struggle to love again because of lack of trust. Could it be that the person wasn’t loved right or did the person trust too much?
One day, I asked my children for a feedback on my parenting skills, I wanted to know what they thought about me. Surprisingly, my eldest daughter gave me the feedback that she didn’t feel loved. That was like a bombshell! Because from where I was standing, she demanded and received the most attention from me. Her feelings hurt mine. However, I was glad she the feedback and I adopted a different style with her.
The way God loves is the best. His kind of love is unconditional. It is not dependent on the disposition of the recipient, and has nothing to do with the feelings of the giver. Not selflish, and not compromising. It is the superior to any other kind.
How to gain victory in your life ? Inquire of the Lord for wisdom and strategy.
Thank you @Pure Glory for this reminder.
Life would be so much easier if we learnt true dependence on God. Every day we should ask Him for wisdom and strategy to successfully navigate our world.
1John 5:4 NKJV
[4] For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
A victorious Christian life is a way of life, a life of consistent victory, it is about thriving in the face of difficulties and challenging situations. With the existing complexities, hardships of the current world, a victorious life is a much cherished way of life. And the good news is; every Christian, every disciple of Jesus can enjoy this life. First John 5:4 tells us this much……
We are born of God, born of the Word and Spirit, with a spiritual genetics configured to have victory at all times and in all things.
Through faith, accepting God’s Word as true and patterning of lives according to God’s Word we set ourselves up for victory, in every situation, place or time.
God is our Father and every time we go to Him, He is ready to help us. He is always willing to help us sort even the most difficult challenges of life.
Isaiah chapter 53 verse 5, gives a picture of an exchange, it depicts the substitutionary sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus.
Faith perceives things which are not tangible to the human senses as real. This means that with faith, believing comes before seeing.
In Mark 11:24, Jesus says we are to believe that we have received whatever we are praying for, at the time of prayer, not when we see the answers to our prayers with our physical eyes, and not after we’ve expereinced them.
We carry out outreaches to charity homes, communities and groups; teaching, preaching and mentoring people to live thier best lives. We share bible-based teachings using different online platforms. And provide simple, practical answers to everyday real life issues. Through partnerships we work to improve wellbeing among elderly persons, young girls and underprivileged persons.
We hold 2 main outreaches in a year; at Christmas and Easter.
Our 2023 Christmas outreach was successful as we met all set targets.
Please enjoy a few of our short videos and pictures below….
God loves and blesses a cheerful giver
A kingdom is a territory, domain or realm ruled by a king or queen who is the highest authority and who may choose to delegate same as he/she wishes. The day you made Jesus Lord and Saviour of your life, you were translated from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God and of His dear son Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:13). You are a member of the Kingdom of God. You are royalty (1 Peter 2:9).Kings reign and rule kingdoms through words. Their decrees become established and they govern their domains through words. Kings issue commands and processes are immediately set in motion for actualization of such commands. Jesus spoke extensively about the Kingdom of God, making reference to it many times in His teachings and parables. In Matthew 16:19, Jesus reveals the Keys of the Kingdom of God to His disciples…
“And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:19
Words have power. Words are seeds. Decrees and Judgements are passed through words.
Little wonder Jesus marvelled at the Centurion’s words in Luke 7:7-9. This man understood Ecclesiastes 8:4-5 all too well….there is power in the Words of a king (Ecclesiastes 8:4-5).
The keys to unlocking every blessing in the Kingdom of God is in our words/decrees, and the keys to condemning/refuting every consequence of the curse is in our words/judgement.
Wisdom and discernment help proper use and application of decrees or judgment (Ecclesiastes 8:5). Thi is how an empty and voidless space became home to plants, animals, man (Genesis chapter 1). And how a seed of words becomes a big company/organisation offering employment and source of livelihood to many (Luke 13:18-19).
The keys of the Kingdom of God …..decrees…..judgements…. communicated through words. Loose/unlock your blessings, judge/bind every curse or a semblance of the curse.
You are royalty; your words have power. Your words are the keys to unlocking every blessing in the Kingdom of God. And words are the keys to condemning/refuting everything with semblance to the curse.
Shalom!
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Hurray! It’s time again for GRACE OBOMANU FOUNDATION (GOF) Christmas Outreach!!
Through your support, GOF continues to reach out to needy people and elderly persons in our communities especially during the Easter and Christmas holidays.
Can you believe that this is our 3rd year doing this together? From the ‘Badamia Boys Home’ visit, to the Easter and Christmas 2022 Outreaches, we have together preached the gospel of Christ, provided free medical care, distributed foodstuffs and given free health talk; especially to needy people and the elderly. I am grateful for the privilege and opportunity to impact lives together with you.
This Christmas (2023), we are planning two (2) outreach sessions in 2 communities. We have carefully selected 2 health facilities with poor patient patronage in 2 different communities. We will work in partnership with the facility staff to render free medical care as well as distribute foodstuffs to no fewer than 100 persons in both locations. As usual these sessions would also provide an opportunity to preach and evangelize especially to our primary target audience, the elderly. We also hope that our presence at the facility will help improve facility utilization going forward.
Outreach Dates: 13th & 14th December 2023.
Will this be something you’d like to be a part of?
Below are some options for partnership for you to consider;
1. Volunteer to physically attend by emailing name and location to info@graceobomanufoundation.org
2. Donate towards purchase of foodstuffs (rice, garri, sachet tomatoes, sachet salt bags, sachet vegetable oil, seasoning cubes, salt, geisha/sardines). Estimated cost of individual pack is ₦10,000 (10USD); we need 100 packs for 100 elderly persons.
3. Donate Medications ((antimalarials, antihypertensives, multivitamins, hypoglycemics, antibiotics, etc)
4. Donate towards purchase of food and transportation for volunteers.
If you’d like to donate any of the items listed above, we can make arrangements to pick up (within Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria).
If you wish to support financially, please follow this link to donate https://graceobomanu.com/give/
Or
You can do a bank transfer as follows:
Account Name: Grace Obomanu Foundation
Account Number: 0691163847 (NGN), 0691217843 (USD)
Bank: Guaranty Trust Bank Nigeria
As is our practice a breakdown of donations and expenditure will be shared with our sponsors after the outreach.
Please join me Let’s Go Feed Jesus Together this Christmas (Matthew 25:34-40).
Thank you for your prayers towards a successful outreach.
God bless and Love Always,
Dr. Grace Obomanu (Founder)
