Heyday

I just found out yesterday that I am going to be doing a talk during the upcoming Boys Camp and suddenly I got goose bumps... 'talking in-front of young guys telling them about God. Then my mind took a journey back and I started to think of my early days as a teenager.. How I was the black sheep in everything I did... I loved music from the 80's didn't have much of a fashion sense and people didn't get my jokes. I then turned to trying to be a very responsible person, whether in my personal or my academic life. Now I am asked to speak to young guys when I never could relate to them when I was their age.. would I be funny  enough?.. would I be relevant?.... All these questions flooded my mind. Then I thought these questions must flood our minds a lot... whether we are speaking to young people or telling unsaved friends about Christ. We look to our own charm, humor or intellect to convey our message when we should be looking to the "Author and Perfecter...." to see us through. To look to the creator of the greatest orators and comedians.. the greatest comedian of all 'God'. Lets take time out to soak in His perfect love and guidance and power...   

Diagnosis

I have noticed something about moods, they can build up or destroy the very core of who you are.....

I recently have come out of a season i would not want to label as depression but more of suppression. A period when all you have been suppressing and stuffing at the back of your mind comes colliding in one moment of sheer disappointment. Only a God given miracle stopped me crumbling... I started searching for answers.. wondering why i couldn't realise my dreams.. why God in His wisdom allowed this to happen to me. And then i remembered a song by Hillsong called "Jesus The Same" and I was comforted by the fact that Jesus does not change even though I do. He doesn't waiver even if I do... I was given the strength to 'Walk by Faith' and i finally understood. That faith truly becomes faith when it is all you have left. Always remember that the ".....peace that surpasses human understanding" is real.. and only God can give it.

Security

You will never be secure in what others think of you until you are secure in what you think of yourself

The Unseen Worshipper

The Unseen Worshipper
A nineteen year old’s experience with God

What makes us who we are? I have pondered this question over and over. Is it the way we were born, or the circumstance in which we die, is it the lessons we learn or the situations that brought about those lessons. But one thing is for sure about the heart, the pump of life others call it, the organ which when stopped results in the end of all the others. It is constant never stopping to take a break or needed to grab a bite to eat during lunch hour. It has fully submitted to the body and unlike the eyes the hands the legs noone is able to fully appreciate the work it does.

Like the heart pumps out the life of the body
Blood
The unseen worshipper pumps out the life of the soul
Love

A Mothers Words

The mind i believe is the greatest tool that God has given us for one it can store up to 1.4 trillion facts and with facts come memories. Memories are in essence character shapers, but for me i have to agree with Alexander Pope when he wrote in his poem Eloisa to Abelard:
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd"
It is true that without memories I would be a happier person.. for only two types of memories flood my mind. Of the wrong i have committed and the the good stuff i no longer have. One of the most profound memories of my year was a discussion i had with my mom and how the power of a mother's love can be so insightful that she doesn't even know that what she had said can have a profound effect on your life. We were discussing in general about male and female relationships and how it hurts her to see countless young people of my age come and receive treatment for STI's, and how she worries about us since she is so far away. Thats when it hit me, the true meaning of being a christian. I realised how all my life i did good things to please my parents and now that they were far away i had to change my mindset and start doing the right thing :
(i) Because I am a child of God
(ii) For myself
Isn't it funny that on our facebook profiles we have these bible verse applications but the same book has become a spiders haven by your bedside. How on iLike we put christian artists Hillsong and Cece Winans but our ipods we have totally different vibes. How we have turned christianity into "having" instead of "being". How we aquire wisdom but do not impart it. How we have become sayers of the word but do nothing. Let are not only be people who know what is right but who also chose to do it. Let us be like the servant in Psalms 1vs2-3 "Instead they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord and they study it day and night. They are like a trees that grows beside the stream, that bear fruit at the right time and whose leaves do not dry up....."
As my brother always tells me let us be the affectors and not the affected.

Story of the Unseen worshipper

You know when you start being given prophetic thoughts by God you tend to think of turning them into something that turns out to be unfulfiling. And suddenly God opens your eyes to how he wants you to convey his word. The unseen worshipper was originally supposed to be a book but now i feel it will reach more people by being a blog. These are all my experiences and lessons and how God impacts me as a nineteen year old guy. I hope it inspires others to share their experiences because a lot of my spiritual group has been through encouragements form other peoples experiences