OUTLIVE YOUR LIFE

Max Lucado… this is an author that keeps amazing me by his writings and I must say he is gifted and is making a difference in the best way he knows how. Usage of scripture appropriately is one thing I would commend him for. An awesome read this book is. OUTLIVE YOUR LIFE. I have come to realize, after reading this book and I am truly blessed for he who thought of BookSneeze because a life here in Kenya, Africa has been touched. You may never meet me, but be sure that a life has been impacted and subsequently more lives will. I have come to realize, that one can actually live a life that may never be remembered because their actions were just as old as they were. Outliving one’s life is worship to God. I say this agreeing to a statement I always hear from a radio station here in Kenya, that: IF YOU ARE SELFISH, YOU CANT WORSHIP GOD. I agree totally because a life of impact, a life that makes a difference and leaves a legacy, is a life that gives. So that when the word says: “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought to…” then, God knows what He is saying. He simply says that, you really don’t own your life; it may never really profit you if it can’t impact another and if it isn’t for eternity’s sake, then it may never really matter.
Jesus, it is recorded in Philippians 2:6-8
“Who being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being in human likeness. And being found in the appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!”
That was the attitude of Christ, well then I guess that is why His life on earth, History has never come to really comprehend His Story!
His life: no amount of books can explain it, no great prophecies can tell. No kind of journalism can report…His story still hits headlines…His impact outlives all life…His love, no kind of measurement can determine… His wisdom, no amount of learning can outdo it….Christ outlived His live…His life is in each one of us…He has (allow me to use this) reproduced himself in each one of us, yet He is one… He is all in all! Amazing! That is why, Paul encourages that we should have an attitude the same as that of Christ.
Max Lucado brings it well and I may not bring out every aspect of his writing but he has made me realize that, each day…every single moment of my life…with every breath I take…I ought to ask myself if the action I am doing now…will outlive me.
Will it live beyond the last breath off my nostrils?
That when He who owns me takes all that is His… will he find something worthwhile? Again I say…outliving one’s life is worship to God.
I am impacted by this writing and I again pray…

O Lord, where did I see you yesterday…and didn’t recognize you? Where will I encounter you today …and fail to identify you? O my Father, give me eyes to see, a heart to respond, and hands and feet to serve you wherever you encounter me! Transform me, Lord, by your Spirit into a servant of Christ, who delights to meet the needs of those around me. Make me a billboard of your grace, a living advertisement for the riches of your compassion. I long to hear you say to me one day, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” And I pray that today I would be that faithful servant who does well at doing good. In Jesus’ Name I pray, amen. (Outlive Your Live page 173)
In conclusion, I couldn’t but agree with Sheila Walsh in her praise… “Every now and then you hear a call that is so clear, so true, that you know without a shadow of doubt it comes from the very heart of God. This book contains such a call. If we listen, it just might change the world.”
It will change the world. Thank you Max for listening to God…Thank you Thomas Nelson Publishers…Thank you BookSneeze!
Greatest thanksgiving to you, Father. I am impacted and help me to outlive my life.

The World is beautifully broken

BOOK REVIEW.

PERMISSION TO SPEAK FREELY by ANNE JACKSON

I have read books before and have always had a book to put down awesome statements that I would use next time am in a speaking engagement or better still, in my everyday conversation. Anne Jackson hasn’t given me a chance to do that. She makes me want to rip my heart apart, let the world see my pains and just realize how beautiful life can be with its pains and gains too!
She has given me a chance to go Second.
The world, the church… everyone has often lived a life knowing that there is really no permission to speak freely because in our heart of hearts, we always ask ourselves, “who cares anyway”, “everyone is hurting, so why burden others with issues that don’t matter to them?” The truth of the matter is; people care, they are and everyone is always looking for one or two, a person who would listen and understand. There is; someone said, in every person an insatiable need to be appreciated, accepted and approved. I call it the three needed As.
Accepted, that yes! It is really bad but it is OK. That, ‘buddy look here, my wound hurts too.’ That, I am also in pain; you think you can help me?
Anne Jackson has helped me realize that there is a purpose in communities. That there is a reason God calls His Church, His body. It is His body because sometimes the hand has got to apply oil to the head; that arteries need to supply blood with glucose to the brain; that when the feet ache, whole body parts take a break to rest because they need the feet; yet…there are parts that know, when others rest, they have got to keep going. Like the heart! It has got to keep beating!!
We all need each other.
And we are never alone: if only we are strong enough or even just a little to say, ‘am hurting’. Then shall we realize our healing. James5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed”
It is in confession that we find our healing. Confessing and not admitting sin. Being able to come to a point of accepting the Grace of God to work in your life.
Can Church then, be a place of refuge? Rescue?
Only when we realize that we are all products of the Amazing Grace.
When we understand that the church is not the buildings nor the clergy
But that the church is you and I
Beautifully wrapped in Grace.
Wounded soldiers nursing one another and fighting on.

Again, thank you for a book creatively expressed.

Forgetting what is behind

Paul says that forgetting what is behind, I press on towards the goal marked out for me. At some point he makes sense but if that same past affects every thing that you do; then forgetting makes you change what you have always known as life; what you have always upheld as important and needful to you.
Yet again friend, without forgetting there is no progress
Without leaving there can never be any cleaving,
It may be painful but I wonder! How do you enjoy a ripe fruit when it is still on the tree?
How; friend do I eat a sugarcane when it is still on the ground?
Some cutting off has got to be done…..
Some leaving is necessary…
Yes, a bit of letting go is crucial.

I say this with a lot of care,
Not because I have a feeling you need to forget anything
But because I have had to do some forgetting recently.
It is fresh in my life now and though it feels strange to let go; I am free
Free from having to think about….this…that…..

Is it something that happened in your childhood?
Is it an event that never went well?
Did you lose a loved one?
Is it a betrayal that you went through?
Are they exams that you failed in kindergarten?
Did your mama beat you so bad you have never forgotten?
I really don’t know what it is?
But in you; you are sure you are always affected by one of them


My dear one…..I had to do it.
I realized I couldn’t keep holding them
They were paralyzing me.
I couldn’t see the horizon.

You have some forgetting to do? JUST DO IT.
FORGET.

Now faith......

‘Faith, He says, ‘is substance of things hoped for’

‘Evidence of things not seen,’

It is saying that you have when you can’t even see it

It is; my dear friend, thanking God when you cant even see the signs.

Faith is crazy

It is outrageous,

It is; I tell you, out of this world.

Because in this world, you plan and have the end in mind

You basically look at all the pros and corns

And are almost sure whether it’s gonna work or not

Faith is believing when you don’t know what to do

It is saying, Dad, ‘I can’t figure out what you are saying’

But I’ll do it anyway; coz I trust you.

Faith is having plan A which when it fails; it can only be God

I don’t know how often we trust God that much

I actually don’t know if I trust God myself.

I kinda always want to have a glimpse of the end;

The result expected…….

Today- though now it has to be my every today

I choose to trust in you Lord

Not because I know what you are up to

But because you are God.

If you made the world from nothing and this is what it became

And you ask me to trust you and you will do the rest

Then, I really don’t need evidence yet you still give me.

I trust you Lord.

Greetings!

Hi guys!

Living a life of legacy drives me and that is what drives this blog.
I believe in impacting lives by sharing the Word of God, for this Word has insight.
It is life to those who find them and health to their bones.
It is and has been life to me and I will be more than elated to share it with you,
especially with my life experiences. You are blessed.
Welcome aboard!!
Baraka!

Winny.