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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If you are African, this question may come off as more than just a question. It gradually leans towards being an insult on your personality. Before we all get mad and start throwing things across the room, lets take a while and find out who a learner is.

A learner is one who's learning. 

To learn means to acquire knowledge or skill by study, instruction, or experience.

So let me ask you again, 'are you a learner?'

It's an undeniable fact that living without knowledge is living life headed towards destruction. It just so happens that if we decide to live just with the amount of knowledge we're born with, we'll be dead in a couple of weeks.

Usually when people ask if you are a learner, they do so not with the honest desire of knowing but because they've concluded that you're a dullard. So, because of this pressure from the outside world, we decide to live like we have it all together, like we know it all.

At the end of the day, no one wants to be called a know-it-all yet we don't want to be referred to as learners. Its high time we stopped allowing the wrong ideology get in the way of our identifying with the right thing.

What if you actually did something really wrong? Students get the answers wrong all the time. No need to sulk and be all worked up about it. The mistake we often make is that we live in the error when all we're supposed to do is learn from the errors. Some people are caught up with trying to live the perfect life that they would rather not take risk. It gets worse when they start judging every other person and begin to classify others as wrong, you know, they are the only ones right.

Hmmmm! Really bro!
Don't get me wrong, I am not against working towards perfection, I indeed am a perfectionist but we must remember the balance in life.We must keep in mind that we are not perfect YET but are a still in a work in progress and must learn to give room for others and most especially for yourself to grow. You must learn to explore, to take risk, to try new things. I think one of the reasons why the universe is large is so that we can all explore its different parts.

The Learners' Attitude.

Your attitude is simply your settled way of thinking or feeling about a thing. It's important that we keep the right kind of attitude as it either enhances or impairs our learning process.

1. Be Humble. Humility is a trait that cannot be over emphasized when it comes to learning. The truth about life is that there are lessons all around us and a new born can be our teacher at any point. That's why it's important that we keep a humble spirit because without it, we would pass out on a whole lot of truth and lessons.
2. Be Tenacious. Tenacious means holding together, cohesive, tough, not easily pulled asunder. There will be things that will want to pull you apart in your process of learning. There will be people that will want to bring you down, happenings that will wan to tear you apart, roads and courses that will seem to be thorns and bushes. But in all, it's important we don't give up and that we are willing and determined to learn the lessons embedded in life.
3. One attitude a learner must avoid is a Judgmental attitude. No one is an island. One thing that judging others will do for you is that it will leave you alone. When you go on judging people and saying all kinds of nasty things about them, you cut relationship with them. You don't know it all, not even if you claim to. We must put up the attitude of appreciating others. Now, it doesn't mean that people are not gong to step on your toes and annoy you. It doesn't even mean that people will not go around doing annoying things and piss you off. BUT in all this, you must keep your character in check and not allow others be in control of our emotions.

•        You have to pursue your dreams.

•        Hold on to hope.

•       Keep your eyes on the goal.

Hello everyone!
Happy Sunday!
Woah, I get so excited just knowing that it is Sunday.
Today, I just want to continue from where I stopped on being happy.
So, in my previous write up, I said that if we were going to live happy lives, we would have to stop expecting others to make us happy and we would have to take responsibility for our own happiness. If you didn't read that one; go read it now and then come and continue :)
In taking responsibility for our happiness, it is important the kind of company that we have around us because no matter how positive and happy you try to be, if you hang out with people that are never happy, always gloomy, never seeing the good in life, you'll end up like them. Don't tell me you're stronger and that you'll resist their influence on you because it's a fact that evil communication corrupts good manners. You eventually begin to act like those you hang around so, keep a company of people with happy spirit and cheerful souls.


And one other thing I think we all agree that music is the 'food' of the soul, yea? That's why it's important the kind of music we listen to. You can't tell me that you want to be happy and get over a heartbreak and the song you're listening to is Adele's 'Someone like you', seriously! Get me clear, I don't have any sort of ish with Adele or her songs, in fact I love her style of singing. The big picture here is be careful what you are listening to. Whether consciously or not, the lyrics begin to form a thought pattern, they begin to create ideas, they, in the long run begin to paint the picture of your life. So, get some good music on your playlist!
The final thing I'll say on being happy is that you get a hobby. Find something that you delight in. Something that can be an exit point for any kind of sadness, anger, depression and negativity. Find a positive channel for you life and keep the streams of happiness flowing.
Shoot! I know that I said finally already but I just  remembered this and I think that it's important when it comes to being happy. You know that song, 'Don't worry, Be happy'. I feel like dancing just thinking about it. Those words are heavy truth. Lots of people live very sad lives because they worry a lot. Truth is that you could so much going on in your life that you honestly do not know how you could go a day without being worried. My dear, if you're going to be happy, you'll have to give up the worries.

I'll write more about worrying in my next blog but till then keep a cheerful spirit up.
Take responsibility for your HAPPINESS!!
..you are SPECIAL!

At this moment, I finally feel like I'm doing something with my life. It's not like I've arrived at my desired future, it's just that I am now walking on the path that leads to my future. I am one person that loves being an inspiration at every given opportunity. I just love to help people get better and be better and for quite a while, I've been actively working at it. Truth is, it did not always feel like I was doing anything. Most of the time, I kinda felt like all I was inspiring was the wind! There were times when I almost let go but I convinced myself not to. Looking back from now, I'm glad I didn't because I can see the fruits resulting from my commitment and dedication.

And remember this, "If you can do it now, why put it off till later?"