Dominion

By Taffy Bete Imagine a child running with her friends who falls over her shoelaces, quickly jumps up and starts running again without tying the lace. How far can this child go before tripping over the lace again? Until that shoelace is tied, that child will keep falling with each fall, making her dirty and draining a bit of her enthusiasm. We all have moments when we find ourselves knocked down on our knees, haunted by self doubt, painful memories and past failures. Emotions and thoughts that dare us to just give up, stop dreaming big and just settle for the ordinary. A number of greatness thoughts tell us to rise and run again but a recent incident had me wondering what if when we found ourselves in the basement we sit for a bit, tie our shoelaces then rise again. A powerful strong woman I know was once asked how she made it through all the hard times she had been through and she said ''I have learnt I will find myself in the basement several times along the way. I have em...

I was watching a documentary of one of these hollywood stars whose name i am not going to mention for obvious reasons and what caught my attention was the number of men she either was married  or engaged to. Those people are setting trends in general people's lives and it disheartens me to note that my little brothers and sisters have someone as that as a role model. We wonder why there is a lot of divorces in marriages but why not if the people who are being used as models are married four or five times. seriously are they the kind of people we can look up to. What good has come out of hollywood in terms of shaping family life. How many hollywood stars have been in a single marriage and never divorced. How many hollywood stars have upheld the 'til death' vow. The movies these guys make set the tone for the lives people lead out there. We need to seriously look at how we view these people with regards to marriage and divorce.

The Stolen Goose Confessor: I have stolen a fat goose from a poultry yard! Priest: That is very wrong. Confessor: Would you like to accept it, Father? Priest: Certainly not- return it to the man whom you stole it from. Confessor: But I have offered it to him and he won't have it. Priest: In that case you may keep it yourself. Confessor: Thank you, Father. The Priest arrived home to find one of his geese had been stolen

An Acient Greek Legend There's an ancient Greek legend that sets the stage in which we confrontand learn to tackle the joy-stealer of jealousy. It seems a young Greekathlete ran in a race and placed second. In honor of the winner, thevillage placed a large statue of the athlete in the town square.As you might imagine the second place runner was attacked by envy andjealousy. He struggled with those joy-stealers to the point where hemade plans to destroy the statue. Every night, just after dark, he wentout and chipped away at the foundation of the statue, expecting it tofall on its own someday. One night, however, he chipped too much. Thestatue's weakened base suddenly cracked and fell on top of him. He diedunder the crushing weight of the person he had come to despise.But the truth is, he died a long time before the statue fell on him. Inreality he cased to live when envy and jealousy began to govern hislife. He became a slave to the joy-stealer of jealousy.

Fable of the Holy Man The Devil was crossing the Libyan Desert when he came across a group of junior devils that were tempting a holy man. They tried to tempt him with the flesh, with doubts, with fear, and then with lies. But, nothing they did could tempt the holy man to sin. The Devil asked the junior demons to step aside so that he might show them how to get at the old man. The Devil leaned forward and whispered in the man's ear, "Have you heard the news? Your brother has just been made Bishop of Alexandria." With that, the cloud of jealousy clouded the now not-so-holy man's face - and the Devil had him. Don't be jealous, you just giving the devil another one more reason to celebrate Steve

Dont get used to negative things in your life. The attitude and mentality of someone with total control and domination of their life is not to accept anything. You should have the willingness to question occurances in your life. at times God allows certain situations to plague our lives so that we learn from them but if we get used to them and accept them as part of us then we will never learn from them. Poor judgement and decisionmaking lead to negative consequances. If you just adapt to the negatives that come from the bad decisions you made, you wont appreciate the poor decisions you made and you will never learn to make the right decisions in future. You have to develop a sense where you just have to question every thing that happens in your life. That way th devil won't sneak into your life without you unawawre. If  the devil gets access to you camp, he will cause severe damage to you and everything around you Steve

Growing up in the Zimbabwe of early 90's, before divorces were fashionable it was still fairly common to have two parents at home. In school, I was the only one in our class that didn't have a father at home, because of a divorce. I know depression and hatred all too well. Like many, I have had my heart broken. Dumped. Depleted. Rejected. Various forms of physical anguish, different kinds of sad-various shades. Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you could eliminate the pain, auction off your past? I sure have, though I am grateful for my youth--it helped shape me. I wouldn't be who I am today. I've been asked, "What kept you going?" My mother, some would say, isn't well spoken or well educated, but she was always nurturing, there. She is a quiet leader. Accountable. She isn't superficial or shallow. She wasn't out using men. In fact she never remarried after separating from dad – yet she was in her early 30s. My te...

Every father on earth desire to and do leave an inheritance for their children. Most parents are prepared to live in lack and to sacrifice a lot of good things this life on earth has to offer so that they may be able to live a decent inheritance for their children. If our earthly fathers imperfect as they are, go to such lengths for their children's inheritance how much more our Almighty Father in heaven. He has an inheritance for me, for you. The Israelites had an inheritance yet they lived in bondage in Egypt. They travelled to Canaan to possess their inheritance but along the way some beacame weary and fell along the way. In as much as we are destined to inherit  heaven and earth, we are not to be like the Israelites who lost it because they were stiff-necked.

        Thou my everlasting portion,         more than friend or life to me,         all along my pilgrim journey,         Savior, let me walk with thee.         Close to thee, close to thee,         close to thee, close to thee,         all along my pilgrim journey,         Savior, let me walk with thee.         Not for ease or worldly pleasure,         nor for fame my prayer shall be;         gladly will I toil and suffer,         only let me walk with thee.         Lead me through the vale of shadows, ...