Saved by Grace

Hey peeps! I hope y'all have been well. This sermon really spoke to me and I hope it speaks to you too. I will also share with you why it got to me. If you knew me in high school one of the first things you would notice was that music and dance were my heart beats! I could be having a conversation that is a matter of life and death and a single beat or the first few words of a song would completely distract me. In short I WAS a zealous worshiper of the world!  I remember in my first year of University, now feels like billion years ago, when I decided to do a week long fast from music..I thought I was going to die! I am not being dramatic (Though I can be :D), it was a real concern. But, by the end of the week I not only found that I could live without secular music, I also started to develop a taste for Christian music. Fast forward 5 years, God has completely set me free from that attachment to secular music! Now, I not only listen to Christian songs at church, but I jam to...

Come out of hiding loved one. He sees you were you are! He knows all your hurts and your pains. Yet, you choose to hide from the one who knows it all? How does that make sense? How is that logical?   How and why would you run away from your healer? From the one who can set you free from all your bondages? From the one who would give you peace when you need it the most? I mean seriously why?   Dear loved ones, do not feel like I am pointing at you when I ask these questions because I am talking to me too! Even when we know He is all we need, we choose to seek comfort and peace from elsewhere. And when the scar seems to deepen we wonder why?   Join me in saying no more! No more will I run away from the one who is the centre of my universe. The one who has paid the ultimate price for my sins! The one who calls me friend! The one who has left me with the Holy Spirit, the bestest best friend anyone could ever ask for. The one who says you are new and your pas...

Hey lovely people :) How have you been? I hope you are smiling at your screen as you say ..good! :) If not read this verse: Psalms 30:5 God is so awesome eh! SO AWESOME!  I am not sure what to call what I will share with you today. I can't call it a poem because it does't rhyme..spoken word? Whatever it is I hope it does more thank give you warm and fuzzy feeling in your hearts! I pray it directs you to the one who invented Unconditional Love! To the one and only that loves 'Just Because'! To the one who is Love Himself. Here goes... Imagine God saying this to you Spontaneous Worship : is when You love ME so much that you surrender even your speech! I care for you I love you You are MY one thing You are MY precious gift ( Deuteronomy 26:18  ) Though wrapped differently I AM equally excited when I open each one (think of a kid on Christmas morning)  What do I need to do to make you see that you can trust ME Can you not see I AM ev...

I was in the middle of worship and the Lord reminded me that the Blind Will See! I then opened my journal to write some things down. Interesting how the Holy Spirit works because I had already written (I don't know how long ago that was) about three Blind men in the bible. The Blind men we will look at in this post are Samson, the blind man that Jesus not only gave sight to but made eyes for, and Paul in his transition from Saul to Paul.  Samson If you haven't noticed already the times supposed barren women give birth, usually the first born, to kids who are called to do works for God's kingdom. Samson was no different. His parents needed special instructions on how to raise him. He was set apart for the Lord and like John the Baptist and Paul, Samson was a Nazirite. He vowed to set himself apart for the things of the Lord. However, Samson lost track of that and fell into a trap from the devil. One by one he broke his vows to the lord. It resulted in him losing his...

First of,  I want to start by saying I am alive! Most importantly I am alive in the Lord! I pray you won't confuse the lack of posts with lack of things to post about! In fact, God has been doing crazy amazing things! I mean it when I say this...He has blown/ is blowing me away! Hear me out... Part of my daily struggle comes from my deep liking( I didn't want to say love) of having structure, order and routine in place for everything! I know to most that sounds crazy...but to me that is the icing on my cake! Like the best kind of Icing too! :) I started this blog by following a schedule, I had a system in place...I post Prayer of the Week on Mondays, Challenge of the Week on Tuesdays, Sermons on Wednesdays, Video of the Week on Thursdays and sermon illustrations on Fridays! I started it and still is with great intentions! It is from a heart of wanting to show you my daily walk with Him that you may find your story in Him as I found mine. But you see, even in this, reli...

Hello hello! I hope your week is going great! :) Mine is going fairly fast but God has been so amazing! He seems to never cease to amaze me! He is full of surprises! Sometimes we pray from a place of desperation or even defeat. Sometimes our prayers make God sound like this evil step dad..when He actually is our amazingly loving heavenly daddy! We pray as if we won't be heard. We pray and forget that the name of Jesus is a name above all names! Prayer of the Week: This week pray and expect Him to show up! Pray as sons and daughters of the most High King God! Pray with authority in the name of Jesus. Pray from the stand point of victory not defeat! Pray knowing that your father hears every cry and counts every tear! Pray knowing that He loves you! "You keep track of all my sorrows.       You have collected all my tears in your bottle.       You have recorded each one in your book." Psalms 56:8  "The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears...

Good evening :) I hope you had a fantastic day! My day was super long..kinda tiring...BUT He always supplies my needs. Today's need was energy for the day...He definitely showed up :) Sometimes we are faced with difficult situations in life. We are given two options: 1) We can stress out and be worse off or 2) We you can choose to trust His word. Like legit! Like actually live out His word! Live in His promise. Challenge of the Week: This week I challenge both you and I to trust Him for the impossible. When He says I will supply your needs, even when all you have left is your voice to cry out to Him, trust that He would. When He says I am your strength, even when you are running on low sleep and a long day ahead of you, trust that He is. I challenge you and I to give God a chance to show up. I challenge us to expect great things. I challenge us to know that He is not a man that He should lie...He will keep His promises!! "Now to him who is able  to do immeasurably more ...

Good Evening everyone :) I hope you are having a fantastic Monday :D As I look out my window all I see is God's beautiful creation. He is so artistic :) Just seeing the sun reflect off of a river, watching the formerly lifeless/leafless trees beautifully green and hearing birds outside gives me a sense of peace. Peace in knowing that He has it all figured out. If you are anything like me then you don't like letting go of the comfy spot you have to move into a new and uncomfortable territory. You almost get anxious when you are not sure whats going to happen next. You are probably asking God to move in your life and for Him to direct you to where He wants you to go. Is there something wrong with that picture? Yes, I want to stay where I am and Still MOVE for the LORD! How that make sense??? Prayer of the Week: This week let us pray that we learn the art of letting go. Let us learn to let go and let God. Let us pray that He will be our sense of security not the familiarity in...

Hello hello :) I hope your Monday went well. Mine was productive and it went by too fast if you ask me! This beautiful weather is such a blessing :D  Do we live like we have been bought by precious blood of Jesus? Do we live like people who know what they are worth? Do we understand that God had to sacrifice His only begotten son for us? Do we get it??? If we do, then let's not forget it! Prayer of the Week: Please pray that we are people who will always remember that we are worth so much more than the labels we are given. Pray that we will always remember what it took for us to become children of God...a precious sacrifice by the name of Jesus Christ. Pray that we will be people who know and live out our purpose. That His blood will not have been spilled in vain. Let us be intentional about reminding ourselves and others of His love.  "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8 Stay Blesse...

Good morning everyone :) How was your Monday? The best one yet eh??? :) Even if it wasn't God is still God, so we have tonnes to celebrate :)! When I was younger, both physically and in the Lord, my aunt told me with excitement that she was just reading her bible and she learned so many new things. In my head I was like I thought you had read the bible millions of times before...you are still learning stuff from it?? Another incident with my cousin touched on the same theme. It was New Years and we got talking about resolutions. My cousin, who at that time I thought was the closest she could be with God, said her New Years resolution is to grow closer to God! Challenge of the week: This week I challenge all of us to dig deeper. I challenge you to read His word more. I challenge you to pray more. I challenge you to recognize that there is no such thing as 'I know it all' when it comes to God! But take heart there is grace in that! He has given us His Holy Spirit to guide...

Good morning lovely people. How was your weekend? Praise God mine was amazing!  One thing about me is when I love, I go all out. I love with all that I have. I simply put my heart on a platter and hand it out. I become so transparent and vulnerable, it's like if the person stared at me closely he would see through my soul.  My question is, are we this madly in-love with our Savior?  Does He get our heart on a platter? Do we trust Him enough to be vulnerable before Him? Does He get all our attention? Prayer of the Week: This week let us pray to be more and more in-love with our Savior. Pray we will be willing to go all out for the one who died for us, for the one who died for love! Pray that we will come to know that He is to be trusted. Pray that we recognize, unlike earthly relationships, His love never fails. Pray that we choose to cling to Him.  Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' Matth...

I may be weak, but Your Spirit's strong in me. My flesh may fail, but My God You never will Give me faith to trust what You say That You're good, and Your love is great. I'm broken inside, I give You my life "9  But he said to me,  “My grace  is sufficient for you, for my power  is made perfect in weakness. ”  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.   10  That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight  in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,  in persecutions,  in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Stay Blessed<3

It is not just about God giving you the gift, it's about you being able to handle it! Sometimes we struggle to receive the gifts we asked God to give us because they appear in a manner different from what we expected! 1) Joseph's Strangely Wrapped Gift : His brothers had to throw him in a ditch then sell him off to foreigners. Then he had to be imprisoned for 13 years before he received his promise from God. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."  Genesis  50:20 2) Job's Strangely Wrapped Gift : He lost his cattle, then his 10 kids, then his health, then his wife told him to curse God and die. His friends ridiculed him. He was down to nothing and yet he stuck to God! Then God gave him double portions of what he had before. He also gave him 10 kids. " I know that my redeemer lives,      and that in the end He will stand on the earth." Job 19:25 ...

How was your day? Mine went by fairly quickly :) My Tuesdays are usually very busy at work, so the day tends to feel like the it went by fast and dragged at the same time. But I thank God for another day under my belt :) Sometimes we tend to forget to be thankful for the smallest of victories. Specially when we have a 'major' pending issues at hand. Do you think that goes inline with God's word? Or do you think He is a God of both small and big/major Victories?? Just the same way He looked for the 1 lost sheep when He had 99, our Savior rejoices over our small victories as He would over the big/major ones! Challenge of the Week: I challenge both you and I to come before the Lord with thanksgiving even for the smallest of victories. I challenge you to make testimonies of those small victories. I challenge you to record those victories. I challenge you to look out for the time when those small victories birth bigger ones. How would we learn to be thankful for the major th...

Hello...Yes I am alive :) If I tried to explain why I haven't blogged it will end up sounding like bunch of excuses! The main thing is that I am back :) Do you want to know the amazing work of God though? Even in the last three months that I haven't blogged over 2 thousand people have viewed past postings. You know what that means...God is able to use anything and anyone...even a seemingly abandoned blog! Let's Jump straight into prayer! Prayer of the Week: Please pray for loved ones of those lives lost at the hands of cruel men. Let us pray that God protects the rest of the people in those regions. Pray that faith is revived and people are not disheartened. Pray that people will see that those people preferred death over denouncing Jesus Christ. Pray that even as we live our lives today, we will learn to live in that reality. In the reality of living for Him and dying for sin! Living for Him no matter what the cost! Answer honestly, if they held you at gun point would ...

I remember that week as if it was last week. I got grounded for the first time! It was beginning of August of 2009. My parents came to me one day and said that I was not allowed to leave the house. Mind you it was the last week in Ethiopia. You see I was heading to Canada in a weeks time. I thought to spend each and every single day by being productive. Or so I thought! I had planned to meet at least 3 people a day in order to have a proper good bye with my closest friends. My parents were firm! I cried..they stood their ground! I cried even more...it was still a no! They told me that they would provide refreshments for my friends if they came to my house to say goodbye instead of me going out. I was not too pleased but I thought it was better than nothing. And so that week passed and I came to Canada. Till this day I do not understand why my parents did what they did..may be I will never understand it..but I know they had great intentions at heart! Sometimes in our walks with God ...