It is not fame that I desire, nor stature in my brothers' eyes
I pray it's said about my life, that I lived more to build YOUR name than mine!🎶
The cause of Christ, Kari Jobe
Always wondered how I'd feel when I get my first job: now I've gotten it and the excitement I thought I'd have pales in comparison to what I'm actually feeling!! 💃💃What a good God.
I'm sad, please send book pictures. 😔😞
Bookish people on the timeline, please quote this tweet, or comment with beautiful bookish pictures. Bless my timeline, guys.
I refuse to be ashamed of sharing the wonderful message of God’s liberating power unleashed in us through Christ! For I am thrilled to preach that everyone who believes is saved—the Jew first, and then people everywhere!
Romans 1:16 TPT
Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.
God be in my head, and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes, and in my looking;
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
God be in my heart, and in my thinking;
God be at my end, and at my departing (Sarum Missal).
God holds the key of all unknown,
And I am glad;
If other hands should hold the key,
Or if He trusted it to me,
I might be sad
I cannot read His future plans;
But this I know:
I have the smiling of His face,
And all the refuge of His grace
While here below.
Above all, set yourself apart as a model of a life nobly lived. With dignity, demonstrate integrity in all that you teach. Bring a clear, wholesome message that cannot be condemned, and then your critics will be embarrassed, with nothing bad to say about us.
Titus 2:7-8 TPT
Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.
You have no rival, You have no equal
Now and forever, Our God reigns
Yours is the Kingdom, Yours is the glory
Yours is the Name, above all names
What a powerful Name it is
What a powerful Name it is
The Name of Jesus Christ my King!!!
Friendship at its core is one of the most liberating practices of love. To know that you can be rejected and deeply burdened by the outside world, but when you step into the embrace of your people, nothing is required of you...
Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the roaring lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me
Jesus, yours is the victory!!
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:5-7 ESV
There was a special kind of disappointment that came with expecting little
from someone and still being let down by their actions.
Aiwanose Odafen, We were girls once
When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration
And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art
"Every complaint Mama and Papa had about my behavior and actions was linked to the imaginary husband and children I would one day have to impress"
Aiwanose Odafen - Tomorrow I become a woman
In a moment where I feel like everyone's looking at me but no one sees me yet I'm reminded that ‘God loves me unconditionally, wholeheartedly and continually!!
What a blessing it is to believe in Yahweh 😊
My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought,
My sin, not in part, but the WHOLE
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more!!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul!!!!!!!
I asked Ngũgĩ if there’s such a thing as good colonialist.
“Oh my God,” he said. “There’s no such thing. Colonialism is a system. It doesn’t matter if you’re carrying a gun or a Bible, you’re still a colonialist.”
"There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing it you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?"
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!!!
I'm really sorry about this Lisa. Your feelings are very valid: it's a testament to your generosity that you shared them in the first place. If it helps, you should know I too have cried every time someone has lost one of my books
One thing I will never do again is lend people my hard copy books. NEVER AGAIN.
I have never had good experiences with lending books and a few months ago, I lent 4 of my books to someone only to find out that he lost them. I burst into LITERAL TEARS when I found out.
"When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.."
Taylor Jenkins Reid- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
May zealous youth and cautious age
Determine not the steps we choose
Great Shepherd, guide us through each day
Oh, how we want to follow You
Come Living Way, our way make clear
Let perfect love drive out our fear
Be Thou our vision, now and here
And all of our tomorrows🎶
Before I knew my name, before I drew a breath
He was making ways for me
Now and everyday, in each and every step
He is making ways for me
When my heart is full of doubt
Feels like faith is running out
I've come too far to turn around
I know
God will work it out
First,there is no such thing as a right path,or right people,or right decisions. All we have in life is a path, people and decisions. If you find yourself along a path and it doesn’t feel right, it’s okay to change the route.
May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “The Lord be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant.”
Psalms 35:27 NIV
There will always be something better.may the day you find the courage to tell your soul the truth come; that though it is safe to exist in the presence of the familiar, you never know what joy awaits you in the arms of a new embrace.
For God has proved his love by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift of his Son. And since God freely offered him up as the sacrifice for us all, he certainly won’t withhold from us anything else he has to give.
Romans 8:32 TPT
If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love.
Ayobami Adebayo, Stay with me
".. life in general:things get broken,and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realise no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully."
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 ESV
Don’t owe anything to anyone, except your outstanding debt to continually love one another, for the one who learns to love has fulfilled every requirement of the law.
Romans 13:8 TPT
But I have trusted and relied on and been confident in Your lovingkindness and faithfulness; My heart shall rejoice and delight in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.
Psalms 13:5-6 AMP
"By
the time a child turned ten,the adults they knew would have beaten out any
cockiness that could develop into wit;any dreaminess that could give birth to
creation;any bossiness that could lead to leadership."
Sefi Atta, Everything good will come
Whate'er my God ordains is right:
his holy will abideth;
I will be still, whate'er he doth,
and follow where he guideth.
He is my God; though dark my road,
he holds me that I shall not fall:
wherefore to him I leave it all.
I console myself regularly with the fact that the problem is not unique to me, that young people everywhere are trying to figure it out. But even with this consolation, I focus on whatever peculiarity I can draw out of my circumstances.
The Lord will accomplish that which concerns me; Your [unwavering] lovingkindness, O Lord, endures forever— Do not abandon the works of Your own hands.
Psalms 138:8 AMP
"God knows. His will is best. The stretch of years which wind ahead so dim to our imperfect vision are clear to God. Our fears are premature, in Him time hath full provision"
Minnie Louise Haskins
@dglasses_girl
10 favorite novels, no author repeats:
Americanah
Tomorrow I become a woman
Stay with me
The Havoc of choice
A thousand splendid suns
A woman is no man
The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives
Daughters who walk this path
Homegoing
I do not come to you by chance
@mykoloo
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far;
Philippians 1:21-23
"Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great Ocean of literature from somewhere else, and what makes the novel available to its readers is not shared values or beliefs or experiences but the human ability to conjure new worlds in imagination."
Kwame Anthony Appiah
“Not one person can say I have it all together while trusting God…for the foundation of our salvation is faith and trust in his sufficiency, not our own.”
I've never met this Lady, but every single time I'm in a room and her name drops it's always some super human stuff she's done, your friends adore you and say beautiful stuff about you, things I wish &hope my friends say about me.
Whoever raised you did an excellent job.