THE DAY YOU DIE...WHAT HAPPENS?

The day YOU die! Have you ever thought about it before?  

The day you die, you won't have to do anything,

People will gather to do everything for you!

They will be there, taking off your clothes and bathing you

And then wrapping your body with a shroud

Some will go around with heavy hearts

 Informing others that you're no more!!!

Many will come to your funeral

Some will leave their work, just to be present

Some of these will be the same ones who never really cared

Or thought of advising and showing you the right path

And there will be a few good ones who gave their best while you lived.

Some of your wealth will go to your family,

Some might even go to loved ones and 'smart friends'.

If you did good while bringing up your children,

They'll pay off your debts,

Otherwise, most of your belongings will be disposed

Or nicely donated to charity

Be sure of this one thing,

This whole world won't be sad you left

Nothing will stop, everything will continue,

 Just as normal as it is today and was yesterday!!!

People who truly loved you will feel sorry

Close friends will be sad for some time,

Family members will feel terrible for weeks, months or probably years.

Then everyone is back to their normal lives

And you'll be just a memory.

By then, no one will be worrying about you,

You'll be left alone in your grave,

Having nothing but your deeds, good or bad ones!!!

Truly speaking, many don’t really care how you feel now,

So how do you expect them to worry about you when you're far gone?

Is it these same people who care-less about life, body, soul and spirit

You try your very best to please today?

Even when it costs you disobeying God?

Don't be a fool !!!

The day YOU die, you will be left alone for judgement

Heaven or Hell could be your permanent residence for eternity

Depending on how well you live on earth

Accept Jesus now!

Love Him, walk in Him and with him!

No one deserves to be pleased at the expense of God’s word

Not even yourself!

The day you die, you’ll realise

Death is never the end

 It's just the real beginning!!!

This is an alarm, a call to alertness and vibrancy...It's a reminder to me first, because honestly I came to realise many things I wasn't conscious of. Dear friends, please be reminded that no one deserves anything that could make you sin and nothing worth it outside God, your creator! What the rest of the world thinks or says is just a minority, it is nothing compared to what God thinks so don’t let anyone intimate or influence negatively!  Give yourself to pleasing God in all you do, the bible says in Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”

P.S. I really want to say a big thank you to my very good friend, Olugbenga Obaduyi for sharing this interesting write up with me. He sent me a message earlier saying “ I’m going to send you a write up now, read it, edit it, do justice to it and then share it on your blog”. I have done exactly what He said because I was really blessed by it and I think this is worth sharing. PLEASE DON’T JUST READ THIS, MAKE SURE YOU SHARE WITH OTHERS SO THEY CAN BE BLESSED TOO. Thank you.

Enjoy the rest of the week,

Much love,

LadyMayxx

The Pains & Gains of Waiting on God

Waiting for something to happen isn't always an exciting experience. It is a lot easier to wait when you know that at a set period your wishes will be granted but things can get really stressful when waiting on God for something and it seems like nothing is happening for years. The bible says in Isaiah 40:31   "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint".  According to this verse, waiting on the Lord when things are not fine should strengthen Christians but in my case I realised ‘waiting on God’ made me very restless a few times in the past.

 It was really a painful and annoying experience but after searching my heart, I discovered that those times I said I was waiting on God for something, what I really meant was “I'm waiting on time and chance for something to happen”. Instead of totally putting all my trust and hope in God who is capable of doing all things, I unconsciously consoled myself by assuming with time everything will be just fine with time...Big mistake! That mind-set made the waiting period very frustrating. 

Many of us have things we are waiting on God for, some need children of their own, good spouse, better job, good house etc. but when you say you are waiting on God, are you really waiting on Him? Do you trust and depend totally on Him to do exceedingly abundantly above all you think and desire?There is a huge difference between waiting and waiting on God. An online dictionary says to wait is to remain inactive until something expected happens but I think waiting on God is to stay active till something expected happens. Waiting on God doesn't mean you stay idle, it involves you actively trusting God and praying until something positive happens. Waiting on God means even when God seems quiet, you are at peace, relying fully on Him to step in and grant your heart desires right on time. Waiting on God means making efforts to strip yourself off your self-strength (I can handle it attitude) and depending totally on God for strength. It is only the strength from God that can keep you at peace in the midst of the storm and mount you up with wings as eagles so that you can soar far above your challenges. 

  Having said these, the waiting room isn't a bed of roses! While waiting on God, there will be diverse temptations both from the devil and loved ones who mean well. People will suggest so many alternatives and sometimes due to pressure it is very easy to start considering these options even when we know that is not the will of God for us. I have seen Christian youths who due to lack of jobs ended up doing all sort of crazy things just to make money. When you ask such people why they do these wrong things they come up with excuses like 'I was frustrated, I got tired of waiting'.  Dear friend, I know it is not easy when most of your classmates who were not as smart as you back in high school are driving Bentley's and you, with all your church activities are going around in a footwagon. I understand the feeling but you have to "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth."- Psalm 37:7-9

I do not know exactly what you are going through and even if I did, I may not have the solutions but God does and I encourage you to wait on Him! We all have our waiting seasons! Joseph waited 13 years, Abraham waited for 25 years and even Jesus had to wait for 30 years so you are in good company if you are in a waiting season JJJ. I have had painful periods of waiting in the past when it seemed like God had turned his back on me, I waited, prayed, cried, grumbled, ranted and then prayed a little more but despite all my effort nothing was happening. Even as I type this blog post, some of my prayer requests are yet to be answered but then I'm still waiting!  I've given up being so anxious and surrendered everything into the hands of a Sovereign God who can do anything whenever, wherever and however!  Life is so much easier that way and it is my prayer that very soon, like the psalmist, we will share our testimonies saying "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry"- Psalm 40:1. AMEN!

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD -Psalm 27:14

Have a blessed week,

With love

LadyMay.

WHERE AM I HEADING? HEAVEN OR HELL?

For some weird reason, since Goldie Harvey (A Nigerian Artist) passed away on Valentine's day, I have spent more time reflecting about life and life after death. I think her death made me realise how sudden death could be (it's not like I didn't know that before but the sudden death of a musician I knew nothing about really shook me). The truth is that I'm not afraid to die but what got me thinking was life after death. “If I died now, would I really wake up in heaven? Am I blameless before God or have I given the devil room to distract me?”  While I was reflecting one night, the Holy spirit really ministered to me, I was so blessed and I know it is worth sharing so here you go J

My Midnight Reflection: WOULD I MAKE HEAVEN?

The bible says in John 10:10 that the ministry of the devil is to steal, to kill and to destroy. One of my favourite pastors, Elder G. Craig Lewis further broke the verse down by explaining that the devil does these by stealing one's innocence, killing one's conscience and then destroying one's future.

The devil has little or no business trying to destroy a sinner because he/she is headed for hell anyway. We Christians are the devil's target! That cunning guy is constantly on the move strategising, skimming and plotting ways to devour us. He'll toy with our emotions, try to use our weaknesses to get us, he could try to get us through a friend, family member, boss or even a pastor. He could steal our innocence and kill our conscience by making us feel those 'little' sins and besetting sins do not really matter, and also give us good excuses to justify our unrighteous acts! Less I forget, sometimes he makes us so busy with 'church' activities and then we get too tired to spend quality time with God.

Too many of us are busy doing things in the house of God but are asleep spiritually! Wake up and smell the coffee Christians We are in those last days the bible talks about and Christ could return any moment from now. The devil isn't sleeping; he is doing everything in his power to make sure Christians leave the straight and narrow way. That's why the bible told us in 1Peter 5:8 to "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour"

This week, take time out to reflect! Are you really where God wants you to be spiritually? If the rapture happened now, would you make it? God forbid but if you die the next minute would you wake up in heaven or hell?

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves." - 2 Corinthians 13:5a

Enjoy the rest of the week

With love,
LadyMay

AFFLICTION by Gracefulthinking.

AFFLICTION:  a state of being in pain, grief, misery, or distress.

There have been moments when I have felt pain. My heart hurt. Uncontrollable tears fall from my eye, and an internal turmoil began.

I would battle with myself for being weak. For allowing, the pressures of my circumstance weigh me down. I would tell myself that I was stronger than this. Vulnerability, equated weakness, and I could not, would not allow the world giggle at my imperfection.

But the truth is. I wasn’t. I wasn’t even strong enough to hold back tears.

Like many of us, I used to wallow in my grief, misery and distress. I would allow the enemy make a fool of me. I would act, react, overreact, and underreact to my current state, from a heart that was consumed by disdain, unhappiness and sorrow. My mood would reflect my mood and I would be unable to shield that from my countenance.

What I was unconsciously doing here was giving too much power to that AFFLICTION.

BUT GOD…….(Halleluyah*********)

I have come to realise that as a child of the creator, external/internal factors that seek to make a mockery of the Joy, which is my strength, run the risk of being ‘taken out’ by the creator. God is in the business of ‘uprooting’.

I am daily learning to let God fight my battles for me because he already won the WAR. I have to admit, allowing a deity that is so much more beautiful, divine; awesome than my mind could ever comprehend to mitigate my misfortunes is difficult. However, as I previously mentioned, God is in the business of ‘uprooting’.

Again, like many of us, I can be adamant, headstrong, sometimes unyielding, and I would rather try and fail, fail and fail again before I ever ask anyone for help. Nevertheless, God is renewing my mind, and daily teaching me that I need to want to need him, otherwise he cannot deliver me. He bids me to come to him, because I am weary and he will give me rest. I have to obey that commandment and COME.

What are those afflictions, which continue to hurt your heart, ruin your mascara, birth more afflictions?

There is an overwhelming sense of freedom that comes with release. When you know that someone greater, bigger, stronger has got it, and you no longer have to hold it, rack your brain for a way to fix it, cry over it…

Release yourself from the shackles of affliction. Cease to grant them the power to control you…. Let God Deliver You.

Love and Light xx

P.S. Today's post was written by a sister friend of mine, Grace Nquot (You can check out her blog http://gracefulthinking.wordpress.com/). I could relate to every single sentence in the post because I've been there before, I know exactly how it feels to be suffering deep within when everybody thinks you are okay based on what they see but God saw me through it all.

 I don't know what kind of pain, distress, misery or trial you are currently going through LL The good news I know is that God is able and willing to see you through it all only if you will just cast all your cares upon him. Remember the bible says in Psalms 34:19 "Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”  God will surely deliver you so keep trusting! Hold on and be strong JJJ All will be well JJJ

Need something else to cheer you up? Check out this video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrr2aqlCPz8

Have a fabulous weekend

With Love,

LadyMayxx