ASK AND YOU SHALL BE GIVEN.

On Sunday, as I left church after a very beautiful sermon, something come to my mind, it kept playing over and over in my head for a longtime. As I layered in bed after my lunch, taking a nap, I started thinking about the chapter in ”Matthew 7:7” Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. But my mind kept focusing and reflection more on the “Ask and it will be given to you” line and that is when it became clear, the depth of the line. All we have to do is literally just ask, I said to myself it doesn’t say; ask and then pray nonstop, or ask and fast for a week so I will hear you more, or say ask and then give money to the church, it doesn’t say any of that which are also very good gestures and deeds by the way, don’t get me wrong. Just want to talk more of this simple act of faith we take for granted yet we’ve been given power indirectly.

It also got me thinking of; let’s say when you enter a restaurant or coffee shop, the waiter automatically comes up to you and you ask for what you want, be it; food or a drink, she or he then takes your request/order, but you don’t keep repeating the order for them now do you? You just give it once and you sit back and relax instead, chat with your friends, Sometimes even when it’s taking a bit longer than usual we don’t go back and ask again, no we just sit and wait. While we wait we don’t even think for a second; oh maybe my order is not coming, or maybe she forgot about it. We are calmly waiting instead keeping ourselves occupied.

That is the EXACT SAME attitude, we should have towards God. We should be able to humble ourselves, ask for a certain thing then wait patiently, better yet immediately start being thank him for delivering , thank God for he has heard you , and you are about to receive soon. Plus the word says in patience and humbleness God is working.

Beginning of this month (November), I was talking to close friend of mine, we started talking about the “40 days” of prayer and fasting before the year ends, I then begun this thing whereby my everyday prayer doesn’t consist of anything else but “Giving Thanks”, I don’t ask God for anything because quite frankly since the year beginner all I did was asked and asked and asked, so I took this month and the following month (December) to do nothing else but thank God for what he has done and what he is about to do, and as we thank him that is when you realize what he has done, God opened my eyes to realizing even the smallest  things and be grateful for them and of course the major ones we take for granted. Hey I even started thanking God for what I asked for that hasn’t been answered but I still thanked him because I know and have learned to understand; not what our pastors have said, not what our parents have said but what HE, MY GOD said himself and no one else. ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE.

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CHOICES IN LIFE

Over the years, something very interesting has been popping up in my mind, well to be more specific, it all started this year, all changed in my life throughout out this year and I am not talking about physical changes rather mind changes, my mind set was slipped all the way.

Before I go into details, let me start off with “an experience of mine”

Towards the end of 2012, In September to be more specific, my illness became so worse I completely stopped eating and this was not by choice, I developed a very critical medical condition whereby nothing was able to go down my throat, in the beginning just liquid substances and in the long run, they also became impossible to pass. Anyways this is what would happen, every time I tried eating or drinking something it would get stuck right around my esophagus and it would irritated it then I throw it all out, that went on for a long time, it was a very confusing medical condition I was experiencing; I’d never heard of it, I didn’t know anything or what was going on, I just stopped eating because what was the point? even my appetite reduced, I even lose the urge of eating completely.

So, with that traumatic experience, like they always say; every experience leaves you tougher than before. This one on the other hand opened my eyes wider, they are so many things in our lives we think we have no control over yet we have 100% control over it like; Our happiness, Our ability to control our emotions, our thoughts and so many mindset related, think about all those uncontrolled things in our lives for me I refer back to my illness but everyone has their story and struggles, We’ve all been through this and that we had no control over yet we kept calm and carried on, now think about those things we can control. Wake up and say today I AM GOING TO SMILE NO MATTER WHAT, i assure you that this is a decision that no illness, no person, nothing can stand in the way of, CHOICE TO BE HAPPY, honestly who can come and tell you, hey you I order you not to be happy today, uumh nobody…so you see what am trying to say here, let’s take great advantage of the advantage of the many things in our lives we are in control of to make up for those uncontrolled situations which will occur in our lives from time to time

The last months, I’ve been through a lot of pressure of trying to organize some personal matters in my life, I got overwhelmed to the point I completely forgot about the ability of choice making in my life, even after what I’ve been through you’d think nothing can shake me but often time, I am blindsided then I think to myself; Karen really? Really though? I like to think its God’s voice in my head. He is speaking to me, reminding me to take a minute, look back and think again

And then something happened a few days ago, It was a long day at work, I’d been so stressed both with work and school stuff and just like any other human would do, I started complaining, ah today I had a horrible day, my day sucked blah blah all that nagging business, and then out of no one I received a phone call with no caller ID and it was my cousin’s house help, This woman had been in a terrible car accident, we had been talking about her at home, everyone was really worried about her condition, so she decided to call, I honestly didn’t even know this woman had my number, because we don’t communicate a lot other than the fact that I bump into her at my cousins place, anyways I picked up, when I heard her voices, it hit me, oh my gosh, why is this lady calling me? Isn’t she suppose to be incautious? i was in shock to the point where I didn’t have any words to say, I just rumbled up stuff to say but I was in total shock, basically this is how I see it, I thought I was having a bad day, God was like, you don’t even you know, let me show you, even remind you a little bit of how a bad looks like. Before she hung up after a 10 minutes conversation, when I asked if she needed anything and how everything was, she said to me, well you know how hospitals are. Oh my gosh like she couldn’t have said it better, she said it so innocently though, don’t get me wrong but It spoke to me from within,

Anyways, I really wanted to share this with everyone here, remember you have A CHOICE TO YOUR EMOTIONAL STATUS. Be blessed

                                                   xoxo