A New Beginning

Before you move forward with your life and into your destiny, it is important to address any issues that might be lurking around from your past.

It is important because if you don't address them, you might not be able to move forward successfully. You might have fears or whatever that are there because of things you experienced in your childhood. 

To take hold of your marvelous future, acknowledge them and take a stand to not let them rule your life any longer. Rebuke them in the name of Jesus. And remember and say this out loud:

Everything that happened which was meant to harm me, the Lord has used to bless me. 

Say it and receive it by faith. 

I am in a new place now in my life. Old things have passed away and behold all things are new (2 Corinthians 5: 17). I have started my very own business. I am humbled and grateful for this turn that my life has taken. I know that this step of faith has become possible only because my mind is now in a different place than it was. 

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God bless. 

Change Your Thoughts: Change Your Life

"You can't speak what you haven't visualized."

Another statement that the Lord placed in my heart. 

When I opened my diary this morning, I saw that on June 13 I wrote that I need help with my words - with making confessions. I wrote that I had learned a lot  through various teachings and individuals about the subject. I asked God to help me do what I'd been learning. 

But I really couldn't say what I wasn't visualizing. I wasn't visualizing myself in positive situations, so the words couldn't really line up. I was speaking what I was visualizing. Or even if I didn't speak it (the negative), I couldn't say the positive because the negative imagery was still there. It's like even if I tried saying the positive thing, and God knows I've tried and have been trying, it just felt like I really wasn't making progress. 

The Lord opened my eyes recently one night before I fell asleep that I couldn't feel happy because I was always thinking about sad things. And so, now I have been working on thinking about happy things. And now since my mind is thinking about nice things, I am finding it easier to say nice things. 

If someone is sick and he can visualize himself as being well, he can begin to speak his healing into being. Even if he doesn't get well, I believe that just thinking about the possibility can give him comfort from the way he's feeling at the moment. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity (Proverbs 18: 14). 

If you're in a job that's not so wonderful and you can visualize yourself being in a nicer job, you can begin to speak that nicer job into being. And then even if it never happens, you'd have been so busy thinking happy thoughts that you'd forget about your miserable situation. You could even decide to find some happy thoughts about the not so wonderful situation, and begin to give thanks, which will also boost your mood. 

But you've got to flip the script and find/create those happy thoughts. 

Happy thoughts will produce a happy life. And when you're happy, you'll speak and do happy things. And when you speak and do happy things for yourself and others, you'll continue the cycle of a happy life!

Before attempting anything though, please ask God to help you. You can read and listen to every advice there is out there, read what the Bible has to say and still not see any results. You just won't get it. Little by little, I see how God has allowed me to finally get it. And once you've got it, you can begin to do it. I couldn't do it because I hadn't gotten it. I have now and I hope you can too. Go ahead and ask God to help you change your life and change your thoughts. 

**** Note that it's important to understand other factors, such as the use of medications, that can affect you. I was taking a particular product that I think was affecting me negatively. I recently stopped taking the product and I am feeling a difference in my body. So before you beat up on yourself, it's useful to consider if meds you're taking could be interfering with your mood. Just thought I'd put that out there :)

Faith Is A Choice

"If I can feel like I'm not doing well, why not feel like I am?"

I was reading the textbook in a class this week and that's the thought I had. 

And indeed, instead of thinking badly about my performance, why not think positively? Isn't it the same thing? If I can think one way, then I can also think the other way. If I can think the negative thing, then I can equally think the positive thing. If I can feel afraid, then I can also feel brave. You see what I'm saying? 

I. Can. Think. The. Other. Way. Too! 

If something bad can happen, something good can too. So instead of thinking the negative, I might as well think the positive thing! Faith is a choice!

"The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted" (Proverbs 10: 24).

Let's get some healthy desires rolling ;). 

Be Good To Yourself

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul (Proverbs 11: 17). 

Twenty-three days have gone out of the new year! 

My post today is about being good to yourself. Perhaps for you it comes easy but for me it has been a learning process. 

If I went into a store I would always be looking out for the cheapest thing. Now of course that isn't a problem in itself. The problem lies with me being so cheap that even if I could afford the pricier item, which I actually liked more and would enjoy more, I wouldn't buy it. I didn't think that I am worth the extra. 

I have come a far way though. These days I try to purposely go for the thing that I'd enjoy the most; I try to aim for the best. I am fortunate to have my husband who has served as a great example of being good to yourself. He has no problem with buying something that is nice so long as he can afford it. 

Recently, he bought us two watches. I won't lie, it was hard for me to digest the price (LOL). But he wanted to bless himself and bless me. What is interesting is after he bought them, the one I had wearing stopped working! I was going to church one Sunday, went to pick up the new one but changed my mind and put on the old one, and it almost caused me to miss the bus! Luckily hubby had been checking the time on his phone and realized it was much later than I had thought. I had no choice now but to wear the new one. And somehow I feel like God wanted me to and so He arranged for the other one to stop working. He wants me to love me. God wants you to love yourself! 

I've been a bit annoyed and uncomfortable at the lack of central heating here. I decided that instead of complaining, I'm taking matters into my own hands! I got an idea about how to be good to myself and have a more comfortable living space. I don't really like having to lock up in one room which is basically what you have to do here in the winter. I decided to put a heater in the hall area of the house. That way I can open the living room door if I want to, and even if I decide to close it, when I have to leave the room the cold won't just slap me in the face. 

Here's how it looks: 

Same area where the heater is. 

This is where we have camped since winter began. We no longer sleep upstairs in our bed but got out the futon we have. I can leave this door open because the area in the pic above has a heater. 

Happy winter, guys!!

Rhi-Keytta's Musings: Salt Up Di Ting

Rhi-Keytta's Musings: Salt Up Di Ting: Ye are the salt of the earth ( Matthew 5: 13 ) These days I am on a quest to think and ponder on happy things. Unnu pray fi mi deh :) ...

Salt Up Di Ting

Ye are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5: 13)

These days I am on a quest to think and ponder on happy things. Unnu pray fi mi deh :)

I was eating fish for dinner one evening. Hubby had prepared it. No salt had been added to the pot. Even though we knew that he hadn't put any salt on it, we decided to eat it as is (other seasonings had been added so it was 'eatable').

We had the same thing for dinner the next evening. This time I added some salt to mine. Mi seh di fish sweet so til! I could taste the awesomeness of the food man! My husband is a great cook. Hehehehe.

I thought about the big difference that the added salt made to the food. The fish was so delicious but the wonderful flavor only came to life when I added salt to it.

We who are believers in Christ ought to have that same effect. We are supposed to bring life to the place where we are at. Our workplaces should be different because we are there. 

Are you making a difference where you are?

Have a blessed week :)

Thankful

Yesterday as I stood in one of my classes, I was thinking about how awesome my life is.

What on earth am I doing in Japan? Imagine, students calling me "sensei". Who would have thought that I would be in a place like this. Traveling to other countries. I've been to the Philippines - me and my baby. I've been to South Korea - me and my baby. We have visas for places that we never thought we'd have.

I look at the students and I think about how I was once their age. I was once a student. Amazing. 

The Lord knew the plans He had for me. He knows the plans He has for our lives.  

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29: 11)