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Kies jy, of word jy beheer?

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Jy kan nie jou maat se optrede beheer nie, jy kan nog minder jou maat verander. Al wat jy wel kan beheer is hoe jy gaan voel, dink en reageer (optree) ten opsigte van jou maat se optrede.

Wie wil jy wees?? Hoe wil jy optree?? Wil jy as die kwaai, klakous, mislike, stilstuipe, ens. eggenoot bekend staan?

Of ‘n vriendelike, grappige, liefdevolle, warm, ens. eggenoot wees …. ten spyte van hoe jou maat optree?

Jy sien, as jy gaan toelaat dat jou optrede en gevoelens beheer word deur jou maat se optrede, beheer hy/sy jou en sal jy nooit wees of beleef wie God jou geskape het om te wees nie. Dus, as jou maat SÓ maak druk hy/sy jou knoppie en jy reageer SÓ!?

Ons grootste uitdaging as gelowiges in hierdie lewe is om ten spyte van mense se optrede of omstandighede aan te hou wees wie God sê ons is. Spreuke 15:15 in die Amplified sê dit vir my so mooi: “die persoon met ‘n blymoedige hart se hele lewe is ‘n fees ten spyte van omstandighede of mense se optrede.”

Dit kom vir my alles neer op of jy vertrou dat God vir jou veg, dat Hy in beheer is en net die beste vir jou wil hê. Jy sien as jy deur buie of optredes jou maat probeer beheer vetrou jy op jou eie kragte. Maar as jy met jou maat op ‘n mooi manier kan praat oor dit wat jou ontstel, kies om nogsteeds mooi op te tree en op God vertrou om die res te doen, het jy reeds die oorwinning en heel moontlik ‘n baie positiewer uitkoms!

Ek bid dat jy ‘n bonatuurlike vreugdevolle hart sal ontvang sodat elke situasie (ten spyte van mense se optrede of omstandighede) ‘n fees sal wees! Mag jy besef hoe ‘n kragtevolle mens jy is en mag jy reg kies!”

Maak tyd vir opwinding

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Wanneer mens saam lag en aktiwiteite geniet, bind mense met mekaar. Soms, as jy nie werk daaraan, kan die huwelik net voel soos werk… kinders, administrasie, reëlings, finansies ens. Al hierdie dinge is belangrik, maar as mens nét dit doen, raak jou verhouding net ‘n ooreenkoms.

Om romanse en verliefdheid terug te bring moet jy tyd maak om te doen wat jul gedoen het toe julle nog net uitgegaan het. Toe jul nog mekaar se harte probeer wen het, het jul tyd gemaak om lekker dinge saam te doen, het jul moeite met mekaar gedoen en geluister na mekaar. Dit het julle verlief laat voel en die lewe sommer lekkerder gemaak.

Ek glo vas dat Vader God hoeka ons maat vir ons gegee het sodat die lewe lekkerder kan wees en avontuur kan inhou. Maar dan moet ons moeite doen, dit uitboek in ons dagboeke en voluit gaan as jy die kans het! Sal dit perfek wees? Nee heel moontlik nie, maar as jy kies om met dankbaarheid na jou maat te kyk en te fokus om met hom/haar te “connect” sal die opwinding vloei.”

Eenheid of Geheime

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Wanneer jy en jou lewensmaat trou word jul EEN. Dus as jy ‘n stryery wen en jou maat verloor verloor jy ook eintlik want julle is EEN. 

So as ek dinge doen wat ek dink bevoordeel my of is lekker vir my maar nie noodwendig vir my maat nie dan benadeel dit ons albei. 

Net so is dit om geheime (of selfs openlike) verhoudings op jou foon met die teenoorgestelde geslag aan te kweek. 

Jou maat is veronderstel om jou beste vriend te wees waarmee jy alles deel en nie geheime van weg hou nie. 

Sodra jy jouself in ‘n situasie bevind waar jy dinge deel met iemand anders wat jy nie met jou maat sal deel nie is jy besig om: 

  1. jouself in ‘n situasie te sit waar jy versoek kan word. 

  2. jou maat nie ‘n kans gee om te deel in jou lewe nie. 

  3. ‘n behoefte te probeer bevredig (soos aan aandag en liefde of om goed te voel oor jouself) buite God se wil vir jou – jou maat en God is daar om daardie behoeftes te vervul. 

Hoe kom jy uit die situasie? Kom agter wat jy rerig nodig het en kommunikeer dit aan jou maat en aan God sodat hul die geleentheid kan kry om dit te bevredig. En indien jul reeds op so plek is waar daar net te veel seer is soek hulp sodat jul als kan beleef wat God bedoel het die huwelik moet wees!! 

God het immers nie die huwelik geskape vir swaarkry nie maar sodat jy en jou maat oorvloedig vol ‘n mean team kan wees teen die wêreld en sy druk! 

Head or heart knowledge?

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God loves you completely and unconditionally! His love for you can’t be change! He loves you as much as He loves Jesus! His love can’t be earned! Even  if you do the greatest thing right now, lead a thousand to Christ etc. will it not make His love for you more because His love for you is complete, overflowing and unchanging. Even if you never change or sin or do the most  horrible thing (even constantly) it will not make Gods love for you any less! He loves you because that is who He is!

The thing God wants to change is our ability to receive and experience His love in our hearts.

For a long time in my life I new God loved me, I mean Jesus died for me on the cross and there is no greater love than that!!! But in my heart that true knowing and feeling wasn’t always there and it showed in my actions. Not experiencing Gods love caused me to feel lonely even though people where around me, i was afraid of rejection, i was always ready to fight for myself etc. But then God changed my ability to receive and experience His love and that changed me whole life!

You see, Gods love hates rejection, fear, anxiety, loneliness, depression and anything negative! When you ask and allow God to change you in order for you to truely experience His love in your heart, circumstances and peoples actions doesn’t determine our emotions and behavior anymore because we are rooted in His love, we experience His love and walk in it! Nothing can satisfy like Gods love!

But we must make time to experience it in our lives! I challenge you today to take a few moments everyday for the rest of you life and put some worship music on and ask God to pour His love on you and help you to experience it. Believe me, its life changing and deliberating! Pure joy!

Father God I pray today that you will touch each person reading this article right now and continue to touch them with your love! Change their ability to receive and experience your love! In Jesus Name

Desires? 

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“[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:13‬ ‭AMP
What are you struggling with today? Do you know that right now as you are reading this article God is changing your desire into His desire? Do you know that at this very moment He is giving you the power and strength to do His will? 

My friend you are not alone in your battles, God is with you and it is actually He that has been changing your desire into His desire in order for you to change. He is busy renewing your thoughts and that will change your behavior (Rom 12:2).  

Just tap into and use this power that He has available to you through Holy Spirt. 

Falling in love all over again

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I just sence that God is putting a desire in your heart to fall in love with Him all over again! As soon as you give in to this desire He will answer the call and it will be to you like when you fell in love for the first time! Nothing else matters, everything taste, feel and looks so much better, circumstances doesn’t have such a great impact on you etc. because you will have only eyes for your Beloved! As soon as this happens God will put the great exchange into place!  Major things will shift for you and breakthrough will happen in significant ways!

Why dont you take this momnet and ask God to fall in love with Him all over again? Its the best thing to do and the best ‘thing’ to be in love with!

“[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:13‬ ‭AMP

 

Oil of joy

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“All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances].” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭15:15‬ ‭AMP
Can you imagine living a life that is a continual feast regardless of your circumstances, challenges or the way people act towards you? How is that at all possible? Well humanly it is not possible. Usually, what is going on around us influence our mood, like whether we have money or not, what your partner or children is doing or not doing, who ever upset you etc. But there is a way, a way that brings freedom, that is above the worlds way and that is Gods way where He touched us, our heart and anoints us with oil of joy in order for us to have a feast regardless of what is going on around us!

“You love righteousness and hate wickedness. No wonder God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy more than all your companions!” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭45:7‬ ‭CEB
“to provide for Zion’s mourners, to give them a crown in place of ashes, oil of joy in place of mourning, a mantle of praise in place of discouragement. They will be called Oaks of Righteousness, planted by the Lord to glorify himself.” Isaiah 61:3 CEB

I can honestly testify of this in my life where God has touched me to experience this joy regardless of whats happening around me! Sometimes i can feel the pressures and how it taps my energy and peace but as soon as i make time to tap into God and His presence, the oil of joy flows over me. Sometimes i burst out laughing other times its just a joy bubbling up in me but always i feel relief even though nothing has changed in my circumstances! God is truely our outcome, excape, comforter and relief! And it is His will that we would rather turn to Him for joy then to anything else for short term escape.

So, what is stopping you from experiencing this joy? God promises it, He actually expect it of you and will also give it to you when you turn to Him for escape and joy!

“They will come shouting for joy on the hills of Zion, jubilant over the Lord’s gifts: grain, wine, oil, flocks, and herds. Their lives will be like a lush garden; they will grieve no more.” Jeremiah 31:12 CEB