Public diaries with Agatha. #KeepHopeAlive

 BEAUTY FOR ASHES It is not all the time  that Jesus turns water into wine, No! Sometimes, many times, He gives you beauty for ashes.  Think of the process that turns a blossoming tree into ashes First it must be cut down,  turned into firewood, then coals and finally, ashes, meaning the absolute end.There is nothing else expected from the Ash apart from being thrown away. This is the reality also to men, today you might be blossoming and tommorrow life turns you into ashes.This is where we describes the situation as hitting the rock bottom. Once blossoming marriage is broken. Your partner marries someone else after wasting your youthful years, your dear one dies, loss of property, etc. Tragedies and unfavorable situations are real. Sometmes it feels like the lot of unbeliever and believer is the same. Its okay to feel broken,Believing in faith is not the same as pretence,  Prophet Jeremiah felt so many times, At the end of the day Christianity is not about f...

 THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT TO JESUS Worship may not be the word you use to describe your fascination with things, people or events. Any time we Trust an object, activity or even someone to give us life and meaning we worship it. When we set good things the ultimate things we set ourselves up to disappointment, heartaches.  When we trust our careers, relationships, businesses etc to give us life meaning, what happens when they don't. Worshipping these imposter gods leaves us   lodging from one disappointment to another until we come to an end  of our lives thinking that nothing truly satisfied us and that is because we settled for puny deity's. On the other hand God centered worship rescues us, it is like rain in the desert. Beloved, This Christmas, are you heartbroken, worship Jesus the Prince of peace, do you free small , worship the King of universe who holds all the galaxies in his hands and still HE dares to call you his child.  Worshipping JESUS delivere...

NATIONAL AGATHA DAY! Today is my birthday and am so grateful  to God for the gift of life. One year older, one year bolder. Following my birthday bliss am just blessed! Happy birthday to me. It has been purely God, I have relied on Him; He brought me forth out of  my mothers womb. I will forever praise HIM.  On birthdays it is always a perfect time to reflect, to reflect on a year that has been and the year that you have just began. Like  the many of you, I  have so much that I  achieved in the past 1 year and Moreso  more that that I   dint  achieve, I had dreams of what would take place on the course of the year but it didn't  actualize. I was and am still hungry for more. On my birthday today am reflecting on Matthew 4 which talks about the temptation of Jesus. Kindly note  when  the temptation came. Jesus was tired, hungry, alone and coming off a spiritual high of just being baptized. He was at the beginning of launchi...

 Put a frog into a vessel fill with water and start heating the water. As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjust its body temperature accordingly.  The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water. Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog cannot adjust anymore. At this point the frog decides to jump out. The frog tries to jump but it is unable to do so because it has lost all its strength in adjusting with the rising water temperature. Very soon the frog dies. What killed the frog? Think about it! I know many of us will say the boiling water. But the truth about what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when to jump out.  We all need to adjust with people & situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust & when we need to move on. There are times when we need to face the situation and take appropriate actions. If we allow people to exploit us physically, emoti...

  Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 (NIV) When someone says, “I have good news and bad news,” which one do you want to hear first? I usually vote for the bad news, thinking it’s better to get it over with and end on a happier note. You could also make a solid case for starting with the good news so you can have a positive mind-set for whatever follows. In this proverb the hard truth comes first. Hope deferred . . .  Proverbs 13:12 It’s been a difficult season for many people you and I know. Hope is in short supply when job hunts lead nowhere,family break up business failure,etc. Our Lord Jesus understands what “unrelenting disappointment”  feels like. He knows that “not getting what you want” is frustrating and discouraging. He realizes that when hope is “postponed” , “prolonged”, or “put off”, we need something to hang on to. Something bigger than hope. Something deeper than desire. Something immovable. Somethin...

Happy new month beloved and blessed Easter   I’ve been thinking a lot lately about growth. We all grow in so many ways, that we often don’t even acknowledge. You are doing things today, you once thought were impossible, no matter how big or how small. A lot of times we forget to stop and pause and be thankful for our growth. We forget to do the necessary reflection so we can be proud of ourselves for the growth we have experienced. I think a lot of this is due to the fact that we go through our lives looking for instant gratification. We think about our dreams and how amazing they would be if they turned out to be exactly how we want them to be, but when we realize those dreams will take time to accomplish, we get discouraged and disheartened. We don’t congratulate ourselves for even having that idea, and we often don’t feel good about the small win we accomplished. While we might never fully get our instant gratification mindsets to go away, we can be realistic with ourselves abou...