Just yesterday, I had just written a couple of articles. My week was planned and then I found myself thinking, 'what do I do next week?' What!! It was  just Sunday!!! Within, I felt the Holy Spirit nudge me and say me, 'trust me, one step at a time'


God will always keep His word. If He said it, He'll do it. We can get so caught up with trying to live and make sure that everything is in order that sometimes, we lose ourselves. Sometimes our eyes just get off Jesus and our minds are clouded by decisions that we forget whom and whose we are.

This week I just want us to remember that God is watching over us and even when we don't see the whole ladder, we can trust Him enough to take the first step with Him.

Matthew 6:28-30

"Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don't work hard to make their clothes. But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth wasn't as well clothed as one of them. God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith?" 

 

Have a blessed week!

It's Kaydo 

We live in a time and age where people are less concerned about the source of where things come from. They'll rather just sit and enjoy a load of blessing and wouldn't care about who gives them. Most people don't really care how you get stuff, it's only important that you have possessions of some sort.
Many churches teach that when the praises go up, the blessings come down. Yeah!! Indirectly many minds have been shaped to only praise when blessings are desired which is not supposed to be. The more hurting part is that when we eventually get the blessings that we so praised God for, our hearts are turned from God and we do not acknowledge His sovereignty. We begin to think that the things that we have acquired is because of our strength.
Our focus instead of constantly remaining of God, shutters between being on ourselves and on the blessings that we have.

Matthew 2:2

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod,Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

Now it is stunning how the wise men were able to recognize the star but the even more amazing part is that they take a step further and look for the new born King. Very often we see the star but we 'don't have time' to search for the King. We see His works but we could care less about Him personally.
We gain from the light that He bestows on us but we are not willing to look for Him to worship Him with our lives. We live our lives so focused on the blessings that we have been given so much that we eventually begin to worship them. We reduce ourselves to the level of worshiping the things that are supposed to be additions. We abandon the King, and worship His provisions.


Let's check ourselves, and what exactly we are worshiping.
Our primary essence of existence is to worship God, let that be a check for all of our thoughts and actions.

Have a blessed week!

It's Kaydo 

Hi guys!
Happy new week. This is just something I want us to have in our minds as we go into the week.
Our minds are constantly working. It's important that we have a shield around them and are careful about the kinds of thoughts that we allow in our mind and be conscious about what we meditate on.




"A good man out of the good treasures of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasures of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks"
Luke 6:45

It's Kaydo

One of my  favourite pastimes is watching videos on Youtube. Hair tutorials to be precise. On the days when I am quite energetic with nothing much to do, I make attempts at pulling off the hairstyles. Well, braiding my hair is one thing that I have always wanted to do but the thought of it alone kept scaring me off.

A couple of days back, I just picked up courage after watching a junk of videos and started braiding my hair. Half way through, I got tired. All I wanted to do was take down the braids. I just couldn't take it anymore. By the way, this was day 3 in my hair braiding journey.
Mehn! The thought of the time I had spent was my number motivation to continue...lol.

Because I'm always looking for lessons in everyday life, I found a couple in my little hair experience (hexperience :D).
There are many things that eye catching, ideas that you just want to implement. Or maybe if you're like me, you have all these goals in your head that hope to achieve, BUT they are very scary. Like they often look so big that they kinda induce fear. You can look on yourself and see how small you are in relation to those goals.
One thing that I have come to learn is that we may all see the same thing but our perception is often different. We all see with our eyes but perception is a mind thing so things that we think are too big are seen as such because of our mindset.

Well, what if these goals are really too big and are seemingly impossible to achieve, you can split them into smaller steps. If my ultimate goal was to finish braiding my hair in a day, I probably would not have been so impressed with my progress after day one. So cut yourself some slack and split your goal into smaller bits.

Smile... wink ;)

One other thing I learnt is that, as difficult as it is to start, it is more difficult to finish. Lots of projects have been abandoned because of the lack of "finishative". We have been taught to use our initiative to do things.

Ideas are all around, everyone sees them but the smart ones use their initiative to work on them. It takes a step further into wisdom to not just start something but to work on it to the end.

Hi there!
Yay it's Monday. Well I can still be excited about Mondays because I'm still on holiday.
The time off from school has offered me so much time to myself. I've time to sleeeeeeep zzzz's because sleep is one thing that is hard to come by once the session begins. So, I've given myself to more sleep. It's just been a little annoying when I wake up early on the days that I just want to sleep in. Anyways, it's been really relaxing.

My darling roommate traveled for the holiday so I've had the room to myself. Haha! I'm a very personal person (dunno if that makes sense). I'm quite a private person and that's one of the reasons why I tend to work more at night but since I've been alone most of the time, I've spent quality time during the day doing 'stuff' that I'll usually do at night.

I've been a 'one-man gang' for quite a while and having time to yourself is so great a blessing to a loner BUT there are times when you kinda want to be around people. For me I've got amazing friends around but there are some times when the only people you want to hang around is family. I'm in Ukraine but my family is Nigeria and sometimes I wish that my superpower, teleporting was actually real.


Growing up, I wasn't really such a family person. I loved my parents, siblings and cousins but I found it quite difficult to connect with them. I'm currently in a place where I understand that family is everything. Friends come and go but family is always going to be by your side no matter what. I know it's that it's not always the case but most of the time, family will always have your back when there's no other person there.

Many times, we take for granted this gift of family that we have been given especially when we live in a very loving home, where members of your family are nice and have your best interest at heart. We forget that some people do not really get to enjoy the gift of family like we can.

CHALLENGE: Take out time to consciously appreciate your family.

Damaged goods: Products that have are broken, cracked or scratched.
Usually people don't go shopping for things that are broken or out of shape. In fact, when you buy something and discover that it isn't in the right shape, you return; when possible. It breaks my heart and I shed a little tear when I buy a pack of ice-cream; after careful selection and discover that it is squashed at the bottom. Okay, not really, it just makes me a little sad, lol!

The society has it's way of putting labels on people. From pretty to ugly and worthy to bad. It's so bad sometimes that no one remembers your name. They keep referring to you with your label. The lame man at the beautiful gate, the woman with the issue of blood, blind Bartimaeus, the 10 lepers; these names remind you of stories (if you've read the bible or attended church). They were known by what happened to them, their story.

Damaged goods: A person who is considered to be no longer desirable or valuable because of something that has happened.
Maybe you have a story and your story right up till now doesn't seem like it's heading in a good direction and it's possible that no one wants to hang around you because you are not really the kind of person to be reckoned with. Maybe you have been constantly used as a bad example for others or you've been told severally that you'll amount to nothing and that you're 'good for nothing'. Maybe you've been told that you are DAMAGED GOODS.
Okay, maybe you've taken a step further and believed it and you practically pushed people away from you because you just can't stand being around people because of who you think you are. Hmmm! Well then let's talk.

When a product is damaged, you return it to the manufacturer. The manufacturer has the parts required to repair the product. So lets assume that for real you're broken and that you're damaged. There's only so much man can do to repair you. They can correct the outside, restore a broken arm, fix a damaged face but no matter how hard man tries, fixing a broken soul and spirit is just out of his league.
It doesn't matter what your story is, it may be a little different from the ones I mentioned earlier but one thing is sure, when life happens to you and when you make mistakes, it affects your soul. It cuts so deep that it's often very difficult too recover from.
It's no wonder that you may have withdrawn and hidden under the blankets of your past and your errors.

David was quite a cool guy. He grew up in his parents home where he was taught and trained. He learnt how to work and he was pretty good at it. He was a teenage shepherd. Fast forward, he kills Goliath. Fast forward again, he's king. Quite the life huh!
One of those days as he was chilling, enjoying the luxury of being king, he climbed to the roof of his house while his soldiers were fighting. He looked around from above and saw a pretty lady having a bath and he was drawn to her and he not only commits adultery with her, he kills her husband to cover it up. His life spiraled out of the cool league.
The amazing part of David's story is that God forgives him and restores him and blesses him such that Jesus had to be born from His lineage.

Now this is not to say that if you story is clean, you should make deliberate errors but that though you may be damaged at the moment but it's not the end of your story.
After man fell, he was too damaged to come into the presence of God but that's why Jesus came; to restore life.
God made you and although you may have been labelled as damaged or useless, He doesn't see you that way.

1Peter 2: 9 

 "But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted."

You have been chosen by God and He is the One that is able to transform you from the inside out, He is the one that is able to repair your brokenness and restore to His original purpose.
People may have thought that you'll amount to  nothing but God calls you SPECIAL even just as you are. And yes He has a plan for you life, all you need do is surrender to Him and allow Him work on you.

If you don't mind, let's pray:
Dear God, thank you for the lives of all the broken people and God we thank you because we know that you have a plan for us and that you are able to repair our damaged portions and make us whole again. God we surrender to You and ask that you work in us and bring us to the place that you desire for us.
Amen

You're not a mistake!
You may have been damaged by God is a restorer!!

-Kaydo

Her fragrance brings smile to many.
Her presence commands respect.
Although she may not meet all needs,
She clearly can quench wants.

She's a gift, a reward.
She's a trainer, a steward.
She's like wine, she's like poison
A beautiful sunshine, a night-time melody.

By herself, she is neutral
She absorbs her personality from you.
She loves to work but she won't,
Except you give her a job to do.

Good jobs, bad jobs and ugly,
Your wish is her command.
And although people say she's bad,
She's good, it's your heart that's not.