The Chase vs. The Choice

Chasing is cultural and based on perception. Choosing is natural and based on desire —

— and there is nothing more powerful than a person’s freely made choice.
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That’s why you can tell me a story of how your best friend was the one who toasted her husband and he married her and loves her with allll his might, and on the other side you can show me a man who toasted the life out of a babe and walked away from the relationship. OR married her and is now cheating.
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PS: Making the wrong choice is still a choice.
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PS2: God does not force any single human being to do any single thing. That’s why you can also show me someone who agreed because “God said” but they’re struggling and miserable in their relationship.
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PS3: if you’re looking for God to punish the person who broke your heart 😓 you’ll be there a looong while. Take the remnants of your broken heart to God who heals the broken-hearted.
It’s a promise, it’s what He came for:

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has [...] sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives...”
(Isaiah 61:1 ESV)

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Your broken heart is as important to Him as your healing and your salvation. He will fix it for you — but God does not choose sides; He chooses Love ALL THE TIME.
For example:

“One day, Joshua was near Jericho when he saw a man standing some distance in front of him. The man was holding a sword, so Joshua walked up to him and asked, "Are you on our side or on our enemies' side?"
"Neither," he answered. "I am here because I am the commander of the LORD's army." Joshua fell to his knees and bowed down to the ground. "I am your servant," he said. "Tell me what to do."
(Joshua 5:13-14 CEV)

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And that’s the response we should have whenever we get confused: drop our arguments and defenses and fears and anger before the Lord and say, “Okay, Lord, please tell me what to do, now.”
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NB: How you choose to apply this will make the difference between being free and being confused. But God is not a God of confusion so don’t be an agent of confusion, either 😂

The (crooked) Way 😕

Look at these beautiful buildings ahead.

To get to them, it looks like all I’ll have to do is drive straight, get to the next street, then turn in and park. Right?
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Wrong.
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This picture was taken in Parkview estate and those buildings are in Banana Island. As close as they appear, the way there is not straight ahead. In fact, the first step toward these buildings from where this picture was taken, is in the opposite direction.
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But how can that be?
How can it be that God gave you a promise and showed it to you SO CLEARLY, and now the directions to the promise are taking you in the opposite direction from it??
I mean, you can see it right in front of you. IT’S RIGHT THERE. You can almost touch it. And now, they’re saying you have to turn away from it in order to get to it?
That you have to be willing to •not• see it in order to get there...
that you have to turn your back away from it and head away from it, to get there...
That you have to let go in order to get close to it?
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it doesn’t make sense.
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When we use google maps, we understand that the route will lead to the destination even when it leads us away from it. Because we trust the satellite navigation system.
But when it comes to God, we fret. We worry. We ask if He’s lying to us. Did He trick us? Was it the devil? Maybe we didn’t really hear clearly...
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but Jesus said, “I Am the Way...”
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He leads us. He knows the expected end. He goes before us to make every crooked path straight.
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He shows us the promise to give us HOPE, knowing that the journey may lead us far away from the promise. But even when we’re stuck in the traffic of life and we can’t see anything about the promise manifesting in any way, we must hold on to our Hope - that picture He showed us at the start of the journey. Knowing that He can NOT lie, and that He can see obstacles we cannot see.
He knows the end and He is the Way. As long as we remain in Him, it is impossible to get lost or to miss our turn. He is our direction and our destination and we will get there.
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#AWomansWealth

Vain Imaginations

>Disclaimer: I’m on this table so I’m talking to myself. But if you happen to have a similar-looking table at home, examine it closely 😅<

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So, this has happened to me in this single season: I meet someone, he’s nice but he’s fighting with the whole idea of God. So I say to myself, “Maybe when we talk, he’ll see my faith, then he’ll give his life- it’ll be such a wonderful story!”
God can do all things o, but that is a vain imagination😂
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Or I’m praying for breakthrough & someone important follows me, so I think: maybe they’ll like my profile, then offer me a job, & through it I’ll meet the head of the company, who’ll then pay for me to go on an all-expense-paid trip, then I’ll start my business & his wife will tell her friends & even my ministry will grow... yes, that must be why God has kept me broke, so that He could align me with this person in the place of purpose at the right time...”
Erm.
At this point we have entered into Spi-Fi — Spiritual Fiction 😂
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God works in mysterious ways. He said the things He has planned have not entered into our minds.
Which means that, unless He Himself •tells• you that’s what He’s doing, this house you’re building in your mind is a figment of your personal imagination.

“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” (Psalm 127:1 ESV)

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The thing with these imaginations is that we start to hold on to them as if God gave them to us as prophesies.
We build our hopes on them and are completely shattered + disappointed when they don’t work out— then we turn to God in anger.
Ephesians 3:20 says He’ll do more than we can imagine — He didn’t say He will do •exactly what• we have imagined!
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One way to tell our imaginations from “God said” is that •we• build the imagination from our desires and hope God will align.
Yes, God can honour our requests, but that’s called prayer: and prayer involves asking God & LISTENING for His response. Vain imaginations are expectations we hold on to as prophesy and throw tantrums over when they don’t work out.
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Las las,

“... do not fuel your sinful imagination by indulging your self-seeking desire for the pleasures of the flesh.” (Rom 13:14 Voice)

Selah.

I luh' God

When this song came out I judged ittttttt 😂😂😂 I had just started taking God really seriously - you know, just had my heart broken, promised to stop quaving the boys 🤭 and stop listening to the music that facilitates the desire which meant switching off my radio, throwing out my old CD’s, binge-listening to sermons, going to church on Sunday, fellowship on Monday, Masterlife on Wednesday, Ignite on Saturday — and switching to gospel.

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So when I heard this I was like, NO! ❌🚫🚯 ENOUGH OF THE CHURCH TRYING TO IMITATE THE WORLD! The world should be imitating the Church!
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You know when you just start learning you think you know it all. Judgmentalism (lol) is a sign of immaturity, really. You know how, when children first start learning and they LOVE to correct everyone around them? It’s cute because they’re excited to learn. But have you also felt that feeling like, the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know and how MUCH MORE you have to learn? Yeah, •that• brings humility.
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I realise now how MUCH the world needs art - music, literature, books, blogs, films, art, content - that includes them and draws them in, rather than preaching that shuts them out.
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Anyway I bumped into @imericacampbell on @kevonstage’s page today and couldn’t stop listening to this on repeat.
I guess... 🎵 I luh God! You ‘on luh God? What’s wrong witchu?! 😄
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“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!””
(Romans 10:14-15 NIV)