Penned from my heart

When we were little my Dad would give us jotters or notebooks to write down what the preacher said, when we got home, He asked to see what we wrote down and what we understood form the preaching of that day. It helped reinforce that teaching. Have you noticed that after service on Sunday, today is Monday can you even recollect what the topic was? writing has been shown to help with recollecting what was taught, it helps you to stay focus on the word that is being said, because you are trying to grab enough to understand and write down. when was the last time you wrote anything down in church? do you just shout rhema, clap and after the service you say it was a great service, sermon was hot, but you can't recollect what it was all about. It takes intentional and deliberate actions to really listen, study and letting the word sink into our hearts. if you think you have heard it all, you would not learn something new, because I have noticed time and time again, that even scriptures I ...

This thought came to mind as  sometime in the past, I was speaking with a brother who was new in the area. He had said something along the lines of "People envy you when you get into a new place and start getting promotions, they forget you have existed somewhere else, and might have gone through trainings they have no idea about, that has prepared you for the new place and the attendant blessings you are receiving" His statement got me thinking ..... I have seen others come into a new area be it jobwise or environmentally, and it seems as if everything just starts to click in place, though some people had been there earlier and they never got those opportunities, someone new gets in and things change. I have been a recipient of this too. where it begins to hurt is when people who had been there before you came in start to see you as a threat, then the envy plotting's and jealousy backstabbing's begin in subtle ways, offhanded remarks and cold shoulders. While I do no...