The Leaves, the Branches and the Roots

 A Let-Them-Go Message, from Madea

I'm sharing this video from vimeo, saw that a friend just posted it on Facebook and I like the way she categorized the people in your life. I do not support smoking but i need you to concentrate on the message in the video

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Let them know I got you

I have done a lot of crazy things for love. Not every time, I don't fall in love all the time but when I do..., and some of those crazy things, I never share, they just serve as means to an end, and when the final result is perfect, I act like it was effortless...I smile like it cost me no pain, no stress, I didn't work so hard, I'm just happy to see the outcome and the priceless look on the face of the mortal that inadvertently made me a secret superwoman.

I don't even seek the chance to say "You won't imagine the crazy hell I went through to get this, or the stupid things I did or how I fooled myself to make sure I got out of work to see you or how I had to use my school fees to get on that flight and stuff like that". You all know all the fences you have jumped over and things you have borrowed and the people you have slapped to make someone you love feel great.




Sometimes, when we need to have a good laugh, we may share with our friends, or tell the story using the third person, some of us even call that 'person' my friend or 'one of my friends', smh... Love can bring out the idiot in you.

The annoying part sometimes is when we never shut up. The world knows we have fallen in love, that we met someone, we don't care if anyone gets jealous, very few times, the idea is to make everyone know that you've got something sweet that should be envied, desired, you've found your happiness, your haven in life, a perfect lady or gentleman. Love never shuts up, love doesn't keep quiet. Even though we like our privacy, something inside us wants to explode and say "I've found my happy, love her till death".









We share photos on all the social platforms, tweet about them, take them to almost every gathering, have their photos on our tables. But isn't that part of what love is about?


Should I not be worried if I love someone, or I think I'm in love with someone and he doesn't treat me the way I treat him or plan to, or even half as much, or is ashamed of me?

Shouldn't I panic if other 'seekers' don't know yet that he's got me, and may never know, because he will never tell? Some of my guy friends have whispered to me about how they show-off their special lady but she's never displayed them on any social network or said anything sweet about them anywhere. "I guess she likes to keep her private life private, or she's not sure it will last and can't keep changing photos and names when everyone's watching..." that's often my consolation speech.

Enough about mortals and their conditional love. Some of the people we love with so much excitement are not even so deserving...yet there's someone else we could have spent as much energy on...

This post is about Jesus, He's not man, and I may be wrong to say he feels just as we do when our significant other doesn't carry us with pride, but love is universal, the song of the universe, when love is love, it burns, even when we don't feel like love, if we're still committed, we still do acts of love.

If I love God, and I don't tell the world about Him, I'm not so proud of Him. I could love Him in secret, praise Him in my car, give huge donations in church, fast and pray in secret, but he hasn't become my pride...


He might as well be my ugly maga boyfriend whom I just want to manage because He's rich and He gives me everything I need. He might as well be one guy on the side who thinks he's the one but I'm really looking for something better with which to replace him...


"I don't want to mess my profile up with some Jesus post, I may loose all my friends and followers."

"If I talk about Jesus, I could lose my job, expose myself to persecution and die before my time." But how do you know when it's your time... Sometimes you have to be still to hear your heart beating but Jesus hears it all the time, He knows how many beats you've had and how many more are left... He loves you so much, if you're not proud of Him, it will break His heart like the heart of a poor mother would shatter when she is denied in public by her tear-eye* daughter.

If you are ashamed of Him, He will deny you also before His Father. We are still graced in this part of the country that we can express our religion freely. Go beyond religion...show passion for Christ. You don't need a pulpit, show Him off anyhow.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes...

Dr. Mike Murdock says "Leave no love unspoken and unused inside you, that too is an emptied life"

I always tell my friends "Why be a small boy's secret, when you can be a real man's pride"... I don't think Jesus wants to be your secret either...

Go tell them about Jesus, do something crazy and smile about it... Tell me how you felt when you're done. *wink*

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Get busy pursuing your dreams

I think about how I used to be a wonderful singer, back then in kids choir, on to teenage choir  then the big choir in church.

Then the decline started when I wouldn't join the choir in school cos my sister was there already,  and I didn't want to steal anyone's thunder.

I joined another team and thot I was happy. But was I?

When you aren't doing what God has called you to do, u feel a certain pain, a certain uneasiness.  You know something is missing in your life, you're not living yet.

Life is about finding and fulfilling purpose, you're favoured to have found your purpose, now get to fulfilling it.

What God starts,  He finishes. You cant do it by yourself without God's favour.

Yestrday, the first of February,  I would say I started living afresh.  Cos I reviewed my goals  my life, took giant steps and said Hey! I want to sing!!!

Use it or loose it. The gift of singing is really delicate. My voice isn't as good now as it was ten years ago, I kept thinking to myself. But with God's grace and favour, knowing that God is pleased with my new decision to pursue my dreams, I know He'll crown my efforts with success. Maybe this is the set time. I guess it's time for my ministry to begin.

God will bring all the favour that is required to accomplish your God-given dreams. Quit working on the figures and facts, believe that we have a God of wonders; He turned water to wine, parted the red sea, helped Joseph bring his dreams to pass, even after many years.

DONT EVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF!

Making it happen for others.

Part of our honest and sincere expressions of true love for God's people whom He has created and definitely loves would be caring for them. This also, is our expression of love for God. (1John 4:20)

This involves giving, meeting their needs, taking time to talk with them on what concerns them, helping them out at home, on their jobs, at school, looking out for them.

But again, we show how much we care about people when we talk to their maker about them. When we decree blessings upon them, when we pray.

Many times, I pray and talk to God about people whom I don't even know. I see a grown man driving a school bus, hes sad, doesn't feel like he's happy, maybe he has issues at home, maybe he needs another job, and i just talk to God about it.

Have a friend who just got in a new relationship and I start speaking the blessings in my quiet corner, a friend is celebrating their birthday and even though you have gifts to offer, you just bless them and keep blessing them.

I believe that God smiles when we decree blessings on others as if we ourselves dont need them. Sometimes when we pray for people, we may be tempted to say "Hey! I just spoke out all the blessings for a perfect life on someone else"

But know today that God is not unfaithful. He's the only one who can truly judge intentions, He is pleased when you care for others even when they are not aware. God loves a cheerful giver. So be not weary in well-doing (Galatians 6:9).

He is God, He knows what you need. And even if you find out (however possible that is) that no one else is praying for you like you pray for others, realize that you're already connected to the source, to the one people pray to, to God.

And I know that what you make happen for others, God will make happen for you. Hebrews 6:10 "God is not unrighteous..."

Hope maketh not ashamed...

While you're waiting for the promise and speaking rhe things that be not as though they were, it's easy to get discouraged by the circumstances around you and people jeering and making you feel like you're not good enough.

I encourage you to note that those who put their trust in the Lord are like Mt. Zion.

Psalm 34:5 reads " They looked to Him and their faces were enlightened and they were not ahsamed."

Keep believing and saying those things.
"O my God! I trust in thee, let me not be ashamed."

Relax in God