I just got back from 'Cell Meeting' and I'm feeling really pumped.

After attending a one year old's birthday party and singing a ton of Sunday school songs, I now have a playlist of 'children's' songs playing in my head. I kept thinking of the 'perfect' introduction for this week's piece but all I got was a Sunday school song.

Read your Bible, pray everyday
Pray everyday, pray everyday
Read your Bible, pray everyday
If you want to grow.

I probably stayed too long in Children's church. Haha
Well, since we are treating the theme GROWTH, I decided to write on growing spiritually first. 'Growing spiritually' kinda sounds weird in my ears, I prefer to refer to it as growing in your relationship with God.

Firstly, if we are going to talk about growing a relationship with God, it only means that you have a one with Him. Just in the case that you don't have one, you can start one, better put, you can respond to His request. (that just sounds cheesy).
The christian walk, is one that is based on relationship with God.

Sometimes, as Christians we make it look vague, abstract, like God is just some guy in a far away land, the 'guy' upstairs, but the truth is that He is right next to you, His Spirit is within you.
Growing a relationship with God is just like growing a relationship with anyone else.

One of the basic truths about growing a relationship is that you have to be INTENTIONAL about it. It takes your conscious effort, your dedication to make the relationship work.

Your being intentional about this relationship is what moves you to devote time to the study of the word and prayer.
Understand that studying the word gives you insight into who God is, you see His character, His ways, His power. It also begins to reveal to you who you are, who you can be and then a transformation begins from your inside out, there's the renewing of your mind and a metamorphosis into the person, God designed you to be.

Prayer is simply communication with God. God isn't just interested in the big things that concern you, He is also interested in the seemingly small details of your life.
Some people have the idea that prayer is just you saying a truck load of words to God but that isn't entirely true. It also involves the act of staying still and listening to Him. He doesn't just want to hear you speak, He wants to speak to you too.

I have come to learn that prayer isn't something that should be reserved for a specific time; maybe just when you wake up. It is a conversation with God that should be kept all day long. Living with the consciousness of God's presence leads to our constant conversation with Him.
Do not be deceived and think, oh no, God will only speak to my Pastor, He will speak to you too. All you have to do is listen for His voice.

The christian life is one that is of faith. It is by faith that we receive salvation and it is by faith that we live. Every step that you take should be one that should be guarded and strengthened by faith.
"..for without faith, it is impossible to please God.."

God loves you and He desires that you grow deeper in the revelation of who He is. He is not far fetched, He is waiting on you to take that step and walk close to Him.




Till next time, remember that '..today belongs to you'
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It was 2 am and as usual, I was asleep but that was right up till something felt different. There was a wind just in my room and the wind seemed to have a voice, it was talking to me.
I could clearly hear it speak to me and I was sure beyond a shadow of doubt that it was God confirming His word to me.

I just made that up but I'm pretty sure that we all want our walk with God to be real dramatic. We love the signs so much that well, if we're honest with ourselves, we'll admit that we get jealous of the Israelites. I mean its just a little jealousy. What am I saying? Christians are not allowed to be jealous so we use words like, 'I desire the kind of walk they had with God. We want the fire, the wind, the earthquake, the thunder, the lightning, and when the enemy is not letting us go, He could just kill their firstborn son.

The truth is that there is really nothing wrong with signs or symbols, even Jesus said "...There will be BIG signs in the sky." Luke 21:11
However, one thing that is essential for our walk with God is FAITH. Faith according to Hebrews 11:1 is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Yeah evidence of things not seen. We, too often, want to see things with our physical eyes, sense with our human senses and you know just be VEERRY sure that it's God. Hmmm!
But we often let go of the truth that without faith, it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God.



In the christian walk, there'll be times that God will give us specific instructions and sometimes, there'll not be the very big signs that we expect God to put up. Well then how do I know that it's God leading??

• Is it in line with scriptures?

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.                                                                                                                                           Philippians 4:8 NIV  

“You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.

Life is beautiful. Life is well, incomplete without people. If you're like me, you ENJOY your company. You would rather live in a world of your own and have minimal connections with other people. But life isn't that way, everyone needs people and even when you don't really need them, there are always people around you.
A nice person is a good-natured person. Being nice doesn't have to be complicated. Be nice for real, not just because you want to put up a show.
Stay within your boundaries but honestly care. Work on your attitude and check your relationships with people especially if you don't know them personally.



It's Kaydo

Matthew 6:10
"..thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven"

 If you've been in a church for a while, you should be at least familiar with 'The Lord's Prayer'. Sometimes, I think that we've said these words so often that we've lot sight of what exactly they mean and the heart behind them.


One line that always gets my attention in the Lord's prayer is "thy will be done". When we say "God, let your will be done", do we really mean it or are we telling God to do what we want. The truth is that we have our own thoughts towards the things that concern us, we have our own desires and there's that picture we have in our head of how we expect everything to turn out. The heartbreaking part is that for everything that we think we know, we only know in part, we only see in part. That means that our mental pictures are created from partial details.

There is somebody however that knows it all, He knows the end from the beginning and He is God. It only makes sense to allow Him lead and direct the course.


When we pray, '..thy will be done', it's a prayer of surrender; total surrender. We tell God, You have your way. We tell God that we trust Him enough to direct the course of our lives.
Until we get to the place of total surrender where we stop struggling with God and just allow Him direct the course of events, we will always run into danger.

Genesis13:7-117 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Lot chose the plain of Jordan because it looked nice, it seemed to him like the best decision at that time. How many times have we often acted like Lot, making decisions on just the face value of things. Just because they look nice, feel, smell, sound or taste nice doesn't mean in general that they are nice.
Our thoughts can get clouded by things that are not substantial and we can make wrong decisions but when we get to the place where we don't just make decisions by what we see but by the leading of God, we would see that our lives will turn out for the best.

We think that we love ourselves but the love that God has for us is much more than what we have for ourselves. It's only wise to allow Him take the lead, make the decisions and channel the course for our lives.
Let's get to the place of surrender where we actually mean Lord "...THY WILL BE  DONE"




It's Kaydo