Youspired

I started a devotional on my youversion Bible app(great app by the way) . It's called   "The last arrow: save nothing for the next life" and today's reading was about burning the past. After reading the devotional content, I just knew there was a lot I had to work on from my past that in honesty was affecting my present. The following paragraph is an extract from the devotional. "What has a negative hold on your life that you need to leave in your past to create your future? Identify three strongholds over your decisions, behaviors, and relationships that you need to ‘burn’ to move forward into the life Jesus is calling you to live." I hope this inspires you to dig deeper and make a change for the good in your life. Stay inspired

I want to know Your Grace I want to understand Your Love Let me experience Your Power Allow me but a Glimpse of Your Glory I seek them not that I may brag I desire them not that I may be satisfied I long for them not that I may be filled I seek for them that I may be found I want to know of the measures of Your Grace The depth of Your Love The might of Your Power, and The radiance of Your Glory That I may finally understand how the Almighty hung on a tree That a grain of dust as myself May forever be set free

The real battle is inside. If you can win that battle,  you can win anyone

Been a while since I actually wrote something. It's funny how confronting issues is hard but  pretending they are not there(yet constantly being tormented by them) is apparently easier. Like I said,  funny. Well here's the thing, what I've learned so far is that it actually takes more out of me to keep pain concealed than to actually let it out and face it once and for all. When I confront it and win,  yeah, awesome 🤗 !! If I lose, well,  that's pretty much all there is to it.  I get up and try again.  But when I don't even try,  the weight and burden constantly on my shoulders,  that nagging voice in my head telling me I can change that very situation I'm in.  And yet I decide to "suck it in" Here's what usually happens to me I implode. 😵 Nothing (as far as I can tell)  is worse than suffering and knowing within yourself that you have what it takes to change your situation for the better. Do something

NOTE TO SELF 07/04/17 it's not about anyone else. it's just you here. nobody else matters. do the best you can do. be happy with your effort and don't kill yourself trying to impress others. just do you. improve daily, but for you, not to please another. please you. don't settle for the status quo. if you think you can beat it, don't let anything stop you till you beat it and raise that bar; not for anyone else to see, no. it's a personal thing. do it for you.

While going through my Facebook timeline earlier today, I came across a post by my friend Ughanze Emanuel (Emma) and just could not stop reading it. I was so captivated and engrossed by the post as it spoke my mind to the very last letter. Here it is "I am really tired of the stereotypes GOSPEL nd secular music nd musicians... How are we planning to take dominion as so called GOSPEL singers if your music doesn't in anyway affect people of the world, it sometimes doesn't even affect the church .... Let's sing about love, hardwork, integrity, success, happiness,politics nd I dare say, sex!!... Don't crucify me yet just get wat i am saying.... Jesus said salvation comes from the jews right??? Songs of Solomon. Psalms, these scriptures talked about issues of lIfe through d art of music, poetry nd drama nd dey were written by isrealites in d old testament days... we don't have music ministers who sing about these things now. We have Left it to wizkid , davido nd...

The only way to get something done is to get motivated about it. The more motivated you are, the more reason you see to do what you have to . . . And do it the best you can. So whether it's coffee, the idea of the amount of rest you'll get later, for a loved one, or simply coz you love doing it, find your motivation and be the best you can be. #TGIF (and for a medical student, that means I can sleep and not feel too guilty. Going all out tonight, I even turned off the lights)