Life's Canvas: Brushstrokes of Experience🎨

Wondering why life seems challenging? It's because you insist on living it on your terms and independently.  You will fail!  Rom 4:20 "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;"  This was Abraham,   To grasp the significance of Romans 4. God had to paint a picture, He supplied the faith Abraham had. Gen 15, God speaking to him said fear not, your reward will be great. Abraham said how am I sure that my servant Eliezer will not be the one to inherit my properties,  ‭‭Gen‭15:4‭-‬5‬ ‭NLT‬‬ "Then the Lord said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”   Then the Lord took Abraham outside and said to him, “ Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”  In   the very next chapter, he staggered and a whole cursed generation emerged, by one instruction...

Hope sets the target but faith pulls what is hoped for, bringing it into the now-PP. My mum probably never got to receive a gift of gratitude for birthing me, so as long as I live, I'll make it a duty to always say thank you. It's an honor that my birth is a product of her faith.  The just shall live be faith, faith is a currency, a substance and you need it for transactions. I love my Pastor's definition of faith. Faith is the right or positive response of the human spirit to the word of God(Rhema). It is the believing, confessing, and acting on the word of God concerning a specific situation.  I was born premature at 8 months, cause otherwise only God truly knows.  From the first few months of my mother being pregnant with me until my birth, she bled profusely. She was on hospital admission till the 8th month when she conceived me. Now you may think this is the almost regular story you hear about every pregnant woman, but no, not this one. My mother lost thr...