Stop ‘Practising’ Gratitude

Today, I watched the US presidential inauguration and a sentence from the speech Bishop Wayne T. Jackson of Great Faith Ministries International was, “Let us not take for granted the air we breathe.”

In other words, ‘appreciate it!’ Do not suppose that you have the rights to obtaining the correct oxygen. By showing gratitude for the nonstop fresh air, you are submitting to the highest order of humility. 

Please, I besieged you, stop practising gratitude. Rather, live it! Let it be what you do; what live for. Have it be your pure sheer excitement that gratitude becomes the essential part of your daily journey. Thank everyone in your life. Thank people you come across. Thank those who furnish services to you .Show gratitude to the guy who cleaned up that gas station’s toilet you used. Thank the postmaster for delivering your letter. 

The problem with the word practicing, is that, it is often restricted. You can get bored and put aside the exercises. On the contrary, living with something or holding out for a specific reason, in the eventual, becomes part of your beautiful life. And this is what’s meant; a life worthwhile. 

I believe gratitude is more than just a requirement. It’s something that we are obligated to do. 

Overall, be thankful 100% of your lifetime. Be thankful to everything and everyone! 

Where Is Your Place? 

To Ingold Tim, every place, in comparison to a gathering of things, is a knot of stories.

There are stories revolving around families, pets, and career pathways. There are stories about rescues and losses, and there are tales of restoration. 


Every Christian must be conscious of the possession of a sacred place, where he can dedicate his time to communicate with God daily. 

At times, these spaces do not have to be physical. Creating your idyllic mental place help builds up your spiritual journey. 

Hence the reason why you must define your sacred place as a true Christian. 

[ Ingold, Tim. 2011. A Storied World: Against Space: Place, Movement, Knowledge. In Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, New York, NY: Routledge. P.154] 

What’s Your Testimony?

“In fact, you sent investigators to listen to John the Baptist, and his testimony about me was true.” John 5:33 NLT

 Miracle takes place when you demanded it. You are the one who invited it to you through your gestures of religious belief, prayer and positive mental thinking. 

What is your testimony about Christ? Are you ashamed to tell your colleagues, family members or friend about Christ? 

 Even so, what are your own testimonies afterward? Do you even know that you have one? How many times did you attest what the Lord has done in your life? What are your reactions when the answers you want are far from arriving? Do you turn around and nag at God, or do continually thank His as you recall all He’s done in the past? 

Testimony is above all; the passport to pleasing God. The more you tell of what He’s done for you, the higher you move in every endeavour of your life.  

Is Everything Okay With Your Church?

“Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything.”Colossians 1:18 NLT

I stopped going to a church few years ago. Reasons? At that place were then many things that went wrong. The church want you to be in the church for seven days a week when you’re supposed to be looking for jobs. They do not worry about your unemployment or precarious position. They desire you to remain a beggar; coming to them for food while they are lavish in ill-gotten wealth, which they gathered with your sweat. 

In 2 Thessalonians 3:8, Apostle Paul emphasis on the need for church, in particular, to church leaders, at no time is a encumbrance to their members when he said, “We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night, so we would not be a burden to any of you.”

Take flight from that church if your pastor is living off you, and you are struggling to make ends meet. It is not normal that you are in penury and your church leader is owing private jets all over the cities! 

Flee from that church that is destroying your marriage and encouraging abusive measures against your spouse. 

Flee from that church where the dress code is indecent, and where children are accused of witchcraft and spirit possession. 

Flees from that church where homosexuality is openly promoted. God is against it (1 Timothy 1:10), but He does not hate the gay people because His wish is that all do repent of their sins and turn back to Him. 

We need to be serious about what we mean by human rights and salvation. Seriously? What is the rights of a mere human being to that of the Almighty Jehovah? If you are fighting for human rights, what about God’s rights? Where do you put His? 

I am an activist first and first. I am against homosexuality, but I do not hate homosexuals, and I will not condone any forms of discrimination against them. Being a Christian is laying godly example for others to emulate so that they can come to Christ. How can unbelievers change if our lifestyles are no dissimilar from theirs. 

Hence, when you are part of a church where demonic values reign under the guise of modernity, you have to go! It is not edifying, and the Holy Spirit cannot live in such a place. 

Do not be a Christian, who places his pastor above God. “For they loved human praise more than the praise of God.”John 12:43 NLT. 

Be the Christian, who will stand up for God, no matter the situation. Be the ace that the Almighty can count on.