Fight the Battle for Your Life

What are the problems you are facing?

Your problems are taking you to the next level in your life.

No challenge - no victory!

Get up and fight the battle for your life.

Don't sit there and allow your adversary to take your life.

You were born because God wanted someone like you to be a part of His creation. He has a plan for you - a plan for a good future.

Fight for His plan to be fulfilled in your life. Don't allow anyone to rob you of His best for you and your life.

You are worth fighting for!

You really are.

If no one has told you that you have value or worth or made you feel that way... the problem is with them, not you.

They were stingy with their words and deeds, too self-centered to see good in anyone else. Don't let their weaknesses or faults make you look down on yourself!

Don't hate yourself because they hated you.

Don't neglect yourself because others neglected you and your needs.

Don't expect others to reward you or acknowledge your goodness...

Keep doing good for the right reasons and God will reward you.

Keep fighting in faith, build up the warrior in you!

 

- Henrietta

Do you want prosperity and peace?

 

Do you want great good to come to you? Do you want to prosper and be at peace? Acquaint yourself with God and live your life as per His will, follow Him.

There is no shame in humbling ourselves before the God, the Creator who created us. Acknowledging Him and giving Him due respect only leads to good for us. Job knew this secret. He was known to be a righteous and good man who loved God and followed Him closely.

The Bible describes him as a person who 'was blameless and upright, and one who [reverently] feared God and abstained from and shunned evil [because it was wrong]." [Job 1:1]

He was also known to be one of the richest in the land of Uz, all thanks to the blessings of God. In fact, Satan said to God, 'Have You not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have conferred prosperity and happiness upon him in the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land."

This proves that God had indeed blessed Job. God is not a respecter of persons, what He did for Job, He will do for any one, if they live the way Job lived.

God goes one step further and says those who love Him and follow Him closely can decree a thing and it will come to pass too. Isn't that a very special privilege He has given His children? Of course someone who loves God will never misuse or abuse this privilege because they have the 'heart' of the Lord too.

Are you struggling to win worldly things and riches? What is the use of gaining all that without God!

Wouldn't be better to follow Him and then receive His blessings like Job did? That is something you could ponder about this week.

Read Job 22:21-30 AMPC to get a deeper understanding.

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Do What Is Right For You

Think of the people you love the most... 

Are you walking in their shoes?

Are they telling you their thoughts?

Do they share their dreams with you?

They why do you hanker after them?

Who is guiding you every day?

Who is telling you what is good for you?

Is there anyone who cares?

Why fret for those who have no time for you?

Look at the person in the mirror...

Give her a hug

She is the only one who walks in your shoes

She is you!!!

~ Henrietta Decruz

Disappointed

I am disappointed

With words spoken

Without meaning

Promises made

That are empty.

Why speak hollow words

And give someone

A reason to believe

That you will be fair

And just to them?

Why project an image

Of being a good person

If there is no goodness

Within too

Why pretend?

I’m tired of giving my best

To people

Who have no respect

For what I give

And who I am.

I’m tired of waiting

To be counted

After having made sacrifices

and giving when

it hurt to give.

In this dismal scene

It is so refreshing

To meet someone

Who means what they say

And cares, simply cares!

Musings at year end

I stare at

The canvas of my life

Wondering what I should do

With the lines, the dots and the in-betweens

Trying to make sense of the vague things

That filled my life for years. 

The Canvas of Life

As I fumble and fret about things

That didn’t go well for me

I begin to see

Some signs of lessons

I still need to learn.

‘No wonder,’ I tell myself

‘It took so long for me to get here!’

It slowly dawns on me

That if I had the things I asked for

I would not have enjoyed them

With the wrong attitudes within me.

God in His infinite wisdom

Placed obstacles and detours

In my path

Till I was ready to receive

What He had for me...

Graciously, joyfully

And with the right spirit! 

I now see my life

As a mosaic

There are different colored pieces

Of different sizes and shapes

They all come together

And fall in somehow...

Making it beautiful.

There are a few voids

Still left to fill

I’ve decided not to worry about them

God who helped me overcome

The vague things that didn’t make sense

Will surely have it all planned for me

It will all work out for good!

Armed with a new confidence

I set off again

Smiling within myself

Looking forward to good things

Thinking, doing and believing

The best of everything...

Knowing this time

The voids will be filled

I will be whole and happy

For the rest of my life! 

Have a Look at Yourself...

Friends I want to share a quote that has changed the way I see things...

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? 

Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. 

As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." 

~Marianne Williamson 

We all have potential deep inside us. Sometimes when life batters us and our spirits go down, we find it difficult to hold up to our dreams... And then there are times we do well in something and feel almost guilty for doing well. The truth is we need to let go of the pressures we put on ourselves and just do our best. If it is better than what others do... think of it as raising the mark. Don't make yourself small to accommodate mediocrity in others. Lift them and their standards up to another plane by being good and being the best you can be! 

I have learnt that each and every person I know and have come across so far... has some innate ability, some gift, some talent or skill in them. Sometimes they have been looking at others and their gifts so much that they didn't do anything about the gift they had! What a great loss, isn't it? For everything I can do well, I can also think of several things that I need to do better and I confess I am still a learner in some of them. But for those things I struggle with... I do know people who can do those things effortlessly!!! What a gift they have! What makes me sad is that they just don't seem to realize it... and they don't give it any importance at all. 

So take a good look at yourself... Appreciate the things that are good about you... be generous for a change! Give yourself the permission to be 'good' and start working at the things you can be 'better' in. Maybe there are people around you who make you feel miserable with their negative talk... maybe there were people who said you are good for nothing... Please remember that you can reject those statements. Please know that you have a right to protect yourself from such negative attacks on your person. Please care for yourself... Stand up for yourself... when you do so you will grow in confidence and be able to stand up for others too when they are in need of it. 

When we go through the storm and come out a stronger person... we become beacons of light to those who are struggling in similar situations themselves. Don't underestimate the value of your success. It is the light that inspires others to fight for victory in their own lives. No one can gain if you allow yourself to beaten and die in defeat... but everyone can gain if you fight your battles and come out a success!  

Friend, I believe in you! I believe that there is the seed of greatness sown inside of you. Won't you water it and bring out the best in you? Won't you shine your goodness and let it light up the lives of others too? 

So what are you waiting for? SHINE!!!