GOD CAN BE TRUSTED

22nd April, 2012...
SERMON TOPIC: GOD CAN BE TRUSTED
SERMON TEXT: HEBREWS 6:13-20

 NOTES BY: THE REBELKWEEN (yeah that's me!)

 When the Pastor announced the sermon topic, i felt a little weird; like yeah! of course God can be trusted, who doesn't know that! But then again I thought, maybe some people don't... hence this blog is for those who don't believe, who stopped trusting in God and/or those who didn't make it church service today (@diamondaces, #Godiswatchingyou... hehe!)

So I wrote down a few points ---

1. There is no promise that God made that He is not able to fulfill

2. We are heirs of promise (see vs. 17 of the text) by virtue of being Abraham's descendants

3. God swore by Himself to Abraham (see vs. 13), so definitely when He says He will bless and keep you, He will prosper and flourish you, He will take you to the top with speed that you have never experienced before... (feel free to add your own promises); He will definitely do it. Why? Because first, you are an heir to those promises (check point 2); and because God does not lie, He swore by Himself, since there was no other person greater/powerful than Him to swear by!!!

4. God is not in the business of disappointing or changing His mind. He does not deceive people. He can be trusted... (allow me to insert here>>> for those of you who have experienced/been experiencing disappointments and let-downs in your relationships, you now know where to turn to and why!)

JOB (a perfect example)

Job trusted God even when he had lost everything, even when he knew he did not know what he did to deserve what he went through, even when he had every reason to walk away from God - He still trusted God. He became a specimen for analysis and observation to prove that he trusted God. His faith stood strong and was unshakable! The shocking part is, dude didn't even have a Bible to read constantly to keep him going and holding on, no word of God to soothe and comfort him like we have today, YET he believed.

How many of us today who even have the Bible to read all God's promises to us from can still stay faithful in the face of the sort of tribulations Job went through?! How many of us believe that our much-awaited blessings are only delayed, NOT denied?! #ponderthat

*** Whenever you begin to doubt or despair, you must always remember and believe that GOD CAN BE TRUSTED...

These words restored, rejuvenated, re-established, re-gingered my faith today; I hope it does something positive to your faith too... Shalom people!

Right hurr...

Chilling on a Sunday afternoon with this:

	Bryan Adams - I Will Be Right Here Waiting For You .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Song makes me feel all moosh-moosh and warm inside!

THE Friday, the 13th birthday...

Oh yes! Friday the 13th was nothing like a horror flick for me; on the contrary it rocked! It was so much fun... It was the RKween's mother's birthday! Yay!

I'm just gonna tell the story in pictures. Here we go:

The Celebrant (My Mother)

The Cake (it was so yum!)

The Salad (in the making)

My hands were on fire for the rest of the day for chopping these:

Du Riz

After serving guests, running errands and finally finding time to take a wash... the Rebelkween herself! Yes, emi noni!

By 8pm, most of the guests were gone... by 10pm, I was so tired crawling to bed woulda been the hugest task ever so I fell asleep right on my favourite couch; and it was indeed a happy birthday for Mama!

Wednesday Morning Muse

Can't sleep... so I'm chilling with this song:

Listen to Humein Tumse Shayad Mohabbat Hui Hai songs on Dhingana.com

Created by: Mr India For U

Listen to all Musical Greetings created by Mr India For U

Please don't ask me what the song means... cos I was up all night searching for the translation (just cos I know y'all would ask!), and I came up with nothing! Tsewww...

Let this start your morning anyways, it's a love song and it might get you in the right mood (for anything!) this lovely Wednesday morning....

Lots of love,

Your Aunt Rebelkween!

| the long HOL

They say it’s 4 days of weekend… well, not quite! Tola and V were at work yesterday, Jo is gonna be at work tomorrow, and I’m sure Aishida has been and will be at work on Monday too. So yeah, it’s the holidays except y’all still have to be at work. Too bad! Y’all have such horrible bosses…

Anyways, Good Friday was good the most boring day of my life! I don’t think I have ever been bored like that! I finally finished that novel about that stupid girl Jess who is confused about what she wants in life that eventually she gets nothing! I mean, yeah she finally gets to hook up with Dan, but who says she’s not eventually gonna dump him the same way she dumped Alex cos she wanted more! More chemistry, more commitment, more knowledge of his past, more knowledge about who and where he’s gonna hang after work, more insight about his work even though she doesn’t understand shit about hers not to talk of Alex’s (he’s a lawyer and she’s just too dumb to understand his job!), oh and yeah, more knowledge about why her best friend Lou had to be head over heels for Cassanova Andy, the same guy she already has built a family with in her head even though she’s dating sweet Alex! Stupid Hoe! Lesson to y’all out there wanting unreasonable more and more, you’re dumb and you’re gonna end up miserable!

Moving on… I had rice and chicken in the morning and felt guilty for the rest of the day! Who said ‘no meat on Good Friday’ again? It should be no ‘human meat on Good Friday’, considering Jesus was human, not chicken or cow or goat, so I don’t see why I can’t consume beef or chicken… just made me feel guilty for nothing! The likes of Clifford Orji should feel guilty on Good Friday, not me! I should sue!

Anyways, so most of the time I was in serious pain… (pain I don’t intend to tell you how it came about), and I got the idea that dancing vigorously would change things for the better, maybe strengthen the muscles in certain places and all? Well, I got on to it, had songs like Bad To The Bone (Brick and Lace), Lose Control (Missy ft. Ciara), Bad Boys (Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida), and Lose My Breath (Destiny’s Child) lined up… yeah I sweated and I think it worked cos I slept sounder than 2 days ago, although I went to bed trying to give a definition to Missy’s “do my thing, motherfucker!” What was she talking about?! *innocent look*

So it’s Saturday again, no power, about to kneel and pray boredom doesn’t drive me crazy today… about… OMG! Up Nepa! God sure answers prayers we haven’t even prayed! *jumping for joy*

Before the week wraps up, I’m giving a shout out to my very good padis whose birthdays came up during the week, and even on the same day – the shawty, Nikky; and the dude V, himself! I no go gree next year o, y’all have to throw a party together, I can be your events planner. I won’t charge too much, kwoss my hurrtt!

Enjoy your Easter. xoxox

UPDATE!!!

How have you all been enjoying this thing going on with PHCN and the whole nation? I know a lot of us have cursed and cussed, and plenty are tired of cussing already. I’m not tired tho! Stored and refrigerated foods are spoiling, no water, rashes on skin, the heat is making people fall ill… tell me why I should get tired of cussing again? Please!

Anyways, been long I been up in here, some of you’ve been wondering what and where I’ve been hiding. Well, main hoo na! :D

In the next few paragraphs, lemme me kindly indulge you in what have been up to lately. First, I got to defend my final project! Yay! I’m happy for me! Then I got my ass back to Lagos and I’ve been bored ever since!

On a particular boring afternoon, I decided to go say hello to my neighbour (although the real reason for going there was to charge my phone). There I met a guy, tall, fair in complexion, good-looking and e’erythang! I said ‘hello’ but he didn’t respond… I was like yeah, whatever. I settled down to a movie, and my neighbour came. We got gisting and all and he was talking about the dude that didn’t answer when I said hello, how he was a genius, came out with a First Class in Computer Science… I was like dude, how can you talk about the guy like he isn’t here, and to make matters worse he didn’t even pay us any attention. Pride, you would say, right? Well, that’s what I said too until my neighbour told me the guy couldn’t hear a thing! What do you mean he can’t hear a thing?! Turns out the guy is deaf! Awww… e yah! I felt sorry for him; but hey, a lotta people are born deaf, right?! Exactly! I was really sorry for him cos he wasn’t born deaf, he became deaf after his NYSC programme in a Northern state. According to what I was told, the northern wind was so bad it destroyed his hearing ability! That totally brought tears to my eyes! Only in Nigeria will you go to serve your motherland and you come back with a hazard totally ignored and uncared for by the government! No compensation, no pay for damages, nothing! I really really felt sorry for the guy. Now all he depends on is lip-reading and texting. Poor him!

Let’s move away from the sad story… another boring afternoon, I was at my friend’s dry-cleaning place and these two guys walk in.

First Guy: Oyinbo, how are you?

Me: *raises eyebrow* nodded that I was fine

Second Guy: Hey do you stay around here, cos I’ve never seen you before.

Me: Well, I’ve never seen you before too.

Second Guy: What are you studying? (pointing to my laptop)

Me: What?

Second Guy: What are you studying in school?

Me: Oh, nothing for now I just graduated.

Second Guy: Oh, you mean school is not in session?

Me: I mean I just graduated

Second Guy: From school?

Me: *whispering* No, from church!

And that’s all folks! I’m back to my bored state, maybe I’ll go to my friend’s again and see if there are more guys who wants to know if it’s school I graduated from or somewhere else!

Oh btw, TGIF! The Beat Bar Crawl is going down tonight... Y'all going should... enjoy!

WRINKLE WRINKLE LITTLE SKIN

Isn’t it weird that I’m shedding skin? Ok, that’s not what’s weird. What’s weird is I’m shedding skin, only on my left middle finger! Hehehe… keep that thought to yourself, ai? I don’t wanna be asked why or where the finger has been, please!

Anyways, I hardly shed skin (unlike my brother… he seems to always have a new skin wanting to come out almost every month!) – explains why I’m a little surprised at my left middle finger skin-shedding (let’s call it ‘my LMFSS’ henceforth). Do I hear someone asking “where is she going with this?” Where am I going? Nowhere! I just wanted to inform y’all about my LMFSS, period! Y’all can close this page now… bye bye!

Oh, you’re still here? Curiosity just wants to kill your cat, eh? Well then, let’s make this death a beautiful one, shall we?! *wicked laugh* (FYI, the codeine in my system is responsible for all of this; I am not completely responsible for everything I say on this blog, my Codeine Alter Ego is!) Let’s move on…

So I was staring at the middle finger in question, and I saw how wrinkled and old the peeling skin looked compared to the new skin underneath… huge difference! I thought to myself, since the old one is ‘kuku’ going to go off completely, I can just hasten things up myself and help it get off, so I dug my nails and started to lift and try to peel the weak and removing layer of skin… yeah, and I ended up injuring myself! Big surprise, or not!

And we come to the morale of this codeine-driven blog: Sometimes in life, we worry ourselves to death about issues that can and will absolutely take care of themselves! For example, years ago I used to date this dude, we were totally in love (I think)… then things happened and it was obvious we’d break up… I started to despair, panic and e’erything. I was so sure if we broke up, I would never find someone like him, ever again! I started to think then, would it better to hasten the break-up and just destroy everything once and for all, or should I just leave it and let it be a gradual thing… don’t ask me what I did, cos I ain’t telling… Or maybe I will – I chose the ‘hasten the break-up path’; and in the process a lot of hurtful stuff was said and done. Things that brought tears (and blood… once again, don’t ask!).

I am not about to announce a happily ever-after ending, that I found someone like or better than him… that’s irrelevant to you! What I wanna announce is that in my tiny little knowledge, at that period where I could say I exactly wasn’t mature enough to handle the situation, I worried about something I should have just let happen by itself, I hurt myself and someone else; however tho, life moved on after what seemed like months!

Some of you are not catching on… I’ll rewind… I wanted to hurry up and peel the old skin on my finger. Y? Cos my finger was looking ugly and… ugly sha! So I embarked on a quest titled ‘Avoiding The Ugliness’ – I started peeling the skin off myself! Alas, I injured the finger.

WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE:

Years ago, I should have let the relationship run till it came to a natural, more peaceful death.
Today, I shouldn’t have peeled the skin myself… I shoulda endured the ugliness and watch the beautiful new skin come out by itself.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO:
ALLOW THE UGLINESS!
Most of us are scared that if you lose your partner, or your job, that would be the end for you! Let me tell you, what won’t stay with you to the end WILL NOT stay, no matter how much you force it! You shouldn’t be afraid of the ugliness that follows a break-up, in that ugliness you’ll find yourself… at least I did. I know now what to avoid, and what not to embark on anymore. And in that period of my ugliness, I sorta ‘finished’ myself… You know, when you go to Finishing School, and they teach you all these girly, ‘etiquetty’ things! Yeah, like that. I groomed and developed myself.
After the ugliness wears off, there’d be a new skin! A new you, and as time goes on a new man/woman *wink* A better partner, if you’re lucky!

LESSON:
Don’t try to help situations that can help themselves, everything in life has to do with stages – try to jump one stage, and you might end up in soup!

EXCEPTION:
This blog is totally not for people who are being abused, especially physically, in their relationships. Y’all are free to jump all stages and get out of that relationship!

Yours sincerely,
RBLKWN

ADDENDUM:
Never trust brown bottles, especially those with ‘Codeine’ written on them…
*blowing kisses*