The sexual drive in you was placed there by God. And it is kept in line by boundaries outlined in the Bible, according to moral codes. But the regulating of your physical activity is done by your spirit and your mind.
If you leave your body to yourself, it’ll do what it wants, when it wants, with whomever it wants and not feel guilty. Your soul will feel guilty, and your spirit will feel grieved but your body won’t feel guilty. Your body does not see the wedding band, which signifies that someone is in covenant with another.
If you give your physical body freedom to do what it wants, its only when you wake and your soul comes into check that you have regrets and by then it's already too late. You have to master your body and sexual urges before it leads you straight to hell and we don't want that.
To be continued..
Reemain richly blessed..
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
How To Control Your Sexual Urges(1)
Our society panders to the sensual. Sex sells, and its dangled before our eyes everywhere we turn. This is probably the number one area of temptation for everybody especially for believers today; both married and unmarried but it hits harder on our youths.
Have you noticed the bill-boards, radio and television adverts, magazines and even the goods we buy? Pictures of semi-nude ladies and gents seem to scream to our senses thereby delicately and sub-consciously heightening the sexual urges in us and before we know it, we’re busy day-dreaming and fantasizing about “prince-charming”( for the ladies) and the “hottest chic” (for the gents) instead of creatively using our minds to propagate the things of God.
Remember the bible warns us in Titus1:15 that “to the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted”. The enemy knows that if he can feed your mind often enough and long enough with the wrong things, he can make you think about and feel only the wrong things. Almost same as what Jesus said in Matthew 12:33-37.
To Be Continued..
Remain richly blessed..
Have you noticed the bill-boards, radio and television adverts, magazines and even the goods we buy? Pictures of semi-nude ladies and gents seem to scream to our senses thereby delicately and sub-consciously heightening the sexual urges in us and before we know it, we’re busy day-dreaming and fantasizing about “prince-charming”( for the ladies) and the “hottest chic” (for the gents) instead of creatively using our minds to propagate the things of God.
Remember the bible warns us in Titus1:15 that “to the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted”. The enemy knows that if he can feed your mind often enough and long enough with the wrong things, he can make you think about and feel only the wrong things. Almost same as what Jesus said in Matthew 12:33-37.
To Be Continued..
Remain richly blessed..
Friday, March 25, 2011
Love Quotes (2)
Here are more love quotes to make your day..
Most times, the heart of LOVE sees what is invincible to the eyes..
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called LOVE and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you, the world is transformed..
Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it, then you don't give the person who LOVES you a chance to LOVE you enough..
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people..
From the moment a heart is touched by LOVE, it cannot dry up..
If you have LOVE, you don't need to have anything else but if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have..
Remain richly blessed..
Most times, the heart of LOVE sees what is invincible to the eyes..
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called LOVE and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you, the world is transformed..
Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it, then you don't give the person who LOVES you a chance to LOVE you enough..
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people..
From the moment a heart is touched by LOVE, it cannot dry up..
If you have LOVE, you don't need to have anything else but if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have..
Remain richly blessed..
Thursday, March 24, 2011
How Long Is Long Enough For Courtship?
How long is long enough for dating b4 marriage?
ANSWER:
Hi Azubuike, you’re welcome to our blog. To begin answering your question, I would assume that the issue has been settled between God and you that she’s the right woman and/or wife for you.
Now as to how long is long, I believe this now depends on you as the man and how buoyant you are. Some people court for three(3) months, some for six(6) and others one(1) year depending on the agreement of both parties.
I’ll suggest that if it’s someone you’ve known for a long time(a childhood friend, primary/secondary or even university), then you can court for three(3) months as there’s nothing that much to know again BUT if it’s someone new, it’s advisable to court for at least six(6) months.
This will enable you guys to know each other better, plan for your wedding and pray for the success of your marriage as a whole because wedding is the day you say "I do" BUT marriage begins after you say "I do".
Remain richly blessed..
ANSWER:
Hi Azubuike, you’re welcome to our blog. To begin answering your question, I would assume that the issue has been settled between God and you that she’s the right woman and/or wife for you.
Now as to how long is long, I believe this now depends on you as the man and how buoyant you are. Some people court for three(3) months, some for six(6) and others one(1) year depending on the agreement of both parties.
I’ll suggest that if it’s someone you’ve known for a long time(a childhood friend, primary/secondary or even university), then you can court for three(3) months as there’s nothing that much to know again BUT if it’s someone new, it’s advisable to court for at least six(6) months.
This will enable you guys to know each other better, plan for your wedding and pray for the success of your marriage as a whole because wedding is the day you say "I do" BUT marriage begins after you say "I do".
Remain richly blessed..
How To Know When Someone Is Truly In Love With You
How do u know that a woman is truly in love with u?
ANSWER:
Hi Mulash, knowing when a girl truly loves you lies on your knowledge and understanding of 1Cor.13:4-7. Let me try and describe these verses for you:
In verse 4, if a Christian sister professes to love you, it will show in her deeds; how PATIENT is she? Is she always in a hurry? Always snapping at you? How KIND is she to you and people around her? Does she care more for herself than for you?
Does she ENVY others easily? Does she always demand money from you so that she can continue changing her wardrobe to be like other girls without caring how much you earn? Does she BOAST a lot? People that always boast tend to exaggerate a lot and lie too. Is she PROUD? Making you feel privileged to be in a relationship with her all the time? Does she find it hard to greet and respect you?
In verse 5, you keep evaluating her character. Is she RUDE? Does she talk condescendingly to you? Does she force herself and her opinions on you? Is she SELF-SEEKING? Believing that everything starts, rotates around and ends with her? How does she control her ANGER? Does she easily fly off the handle? Does she KEEP RECORD OF WRONGS? Keeping scores of your mistakes and weaknesses?
In verse 6, you will begin to check if she DELIGHTS IN EVIL rather than REJOICING WITH THE TRUTH. Evil might sound harsh to your eyes but check if she gloats when you offend her and something bad happens to you.
In verse 7 finally, you will check if she always PROTECTS you, always TRUSTS you, always has high HOPES for you, and how she PERSEVERES with and bears your weaknesess.
When the Holy Spirit helps you to answer these questions and check all these things, then you will really know when a lady is truly in love with you.
Remain richly blessed..
ANSWER:
Hi Mulash, knowing when a girl truly loves you lies on your knowledge and understanding of 1Cor.13:4-7. Let me try and describe these verses for you:
In verse 4, if a Christian sister professes to love you, it will show in her deeds; how PATIENT is she? Is she always in a hurry? Always snapping at you? How KIND is she to you and people around her? Does she care more for herself than for you?
Does she ENVY others easily? Does she always demand money from you so that she can continue changing her wardrobe to be like other girls without caring how much you earn? Does she BOAST a lot? People that always boast tend to exaggerate a lot and lie too. Is she PROUD? Making you feel privileged to be in a relationship with her all the time? Does she find it hard to greet and respect you?
In verse 5, you keep evaluating her character. Is she RUDE? Does she talk condescendingly to you? Does she force herself and her opinions on you? Is she SELF-SEEKING? Believing that everything starts, rotates around and ends with her? How does she control her ANGER? Does she easily fly off the handle? Does she KEEP RECORD OF WRONGS? Keeping scores of your mistakes and weaknesses?
In verse 6, you will begin to check if she DELIGHTS IN EVIL rather than REJOICING WITH THE TRUTH. Evil might sound harsh to your eyes but check if she gloats when you offend her and something bad happens to you.
In verse 7 finally, you will check if she always PROTECTS you, always TRUSTS you, always has high HOPES for you, and how she PERSEVERES with and bears your weaknesess.
When the Holy Spirit helps you to answer these questions and check all these things, then you will really know when a lady is truly in love with you.
Remain richly blessed..
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Love Qoutes
Here are some nice love quotes to make your day..
LOVE takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within..
The first duty of LOVE is to listen..
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and LOVE the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart..
LOVE cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it..
Let your LOVE be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break..
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are LOVED - LOVED for ourselves, or rather, LOVED in spite of ourselves..
Remain richly blessed..
LOVE takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within..
The first duty of LOVE is to listen..
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and LOVE the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart..
LOVE cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it..
Let your LOVE be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break..
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are LOVED - LOVED for ourselves, or rather, LOVED in spite of ourselves..
Remain richly blessed..
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Overcoming Infatuation, Lust, Crush..
Overcoming these negative emotions takes much more than just your personal efforts. Most of these emotions especially infatuation and crush often comes in puberty and stays till you defeat it and defeat it you must if you want to worship God with a clean heart.
You have to personally hand it over to God? Emotions are not something you can ever fight on your own. Having feelings for someone is not bad in itself but what you do with/about those feelings will weaken or strengthen you. I pray the following steps will help you to overcome such feeling:
a, Try to think less of that person: When such thoughts come, don’t start day-dreaming and creating fantasies about that person. Instead, become active, you can read your bible and pray or sing aloud to God and with time, believe me, such thoughts will subside.
b, Try never to be in close contact with the person: Don’t pay daily visits to the person you’re trying to overcome feeling for or calling him/her every hour of the day, also avoid being in a room alone with him/her. Give as much space as possible because proximity (close contact) builds feelings that won’t help you at all.
c, Try and get busy: The saying that an idle mind is the devil's workshop is so true, fill your mind with the things of God – meditation and communing with Him. So find something to engage yourself in and believe me, with prayers, you'll surely overcome those feelings.
Remain richly blessed..
You have to personally hand it over to God? Emotions are not something you can ever fight on your own. Having feelings for someone is not bad in itself but what you do with/about those feelings will weaken or strengthen you. I pray the following steps will help you to overcome such feeling:
a, Try to think less of that person: When such thoughts come, don’t start day-dreaming and creating fantasies about that person. Instead, become active, you can read your bible and pray or sing aloud to God and with time, believe me, such thoughts will subside.
b, Try never to be in close contact with the person: Don’t pay daily visits to the person you’re trying to overcome feeling for or calling him/her every hour of the day, also avoid being in a room alone with him/her. Give as much space as possible because proximity (close contact) builds feelings that won’t help you at all.
c, Try and get busy: The saying that an idle mind is the devil's workshop is so true, fill your mind with the things of God – meditation and communing with Him. So find something to engage yourself in and believe me, with prayers, you'll surely overcome those feelings.
Remain richly blessed..
Monday, March 21, 2011
Can You Truly Love But Be Without Peace?
What does it mean to be in love but not at peace in your heart about the relationship?
ANSWER:
Hi dear, being in love with someone - really loving someone carries peace with the feeling. So if you're not at peace in your heart about the relationship, then that love comes with a question mark because TRUE love comes with peace.
Infidelity, distrust, doubts can also deny you peace in your heart in a relationship but you're in the best position to answer that. What do you see in that other person or what does she do that troubles your heart and bothers you?
You may try to convince yourself that you really love him/her but something is wrong somewhere and that's why you don't have peace in your heart. It could be that you're in love with the wrong person or you guys are engaging in sexual relations and your conscience is bothered about that.
A good question to ask yourself is this; if you truly love this person, then why are you not at peace with your heart and self? There’s also a possibility of being in lust and not in love with that person. Maybe it’s her beauty, manner of speech, shape etc. that captivates you and this would not give you peace.
You also have to be honest with yourself about the relationship. Do you have plans to marry this person or are you in the relationship just to catch fun and pass time till someone better comes along? All these are bound to bother your conscience and deny you peace.
Finally, table the matter and commit everything to God in prayers because when some issues gets beyond and above us, only Him can bring the hidden things to light and grant peace to our hearts.
Remain richly blessed..
ANSWER:
Hi dear, being in love with someone - really loving someone carries peace with the feeling. So if you're not at peace in your heart about the relationship, then that love comes with a question mark because TRUE love comes with peace.
Infidelity, distrust, doubts can also deny you peace in your heart in a relationship but you're in the best position to answer that. What do you see in that other person or what does she do that troubles your heart and bothers you?
You may try to convince yourself that you really love him/her but something is wrong somewhere and that's why you don't have peace in your heart. It could be that you're in love with the wrong person or you guys are engaging in sexual relations and your conscience is bothered about that.
A good question to ask yourself is this; if you truly love this person, then why are you not at peace with your heart and self? There’s also a possibility of being in lust and not in love with that person. Maybe it’s her beauty, manner of speech, shape etc. that captivates you and this would not give you peace.
You also have to be honest with yourself about the relationship. Do you have plans to marry this person or are you in the relationship just to catch fun and pass time till someone better comes along? All these are bound to bother your conscience and deny you peace.
Finally, table the matter and commit everything to God in prayers because when some issues gets beyond and above us, only Him can bring the hidden things to light and grant peace to our hearts.
Remain richly blessed..
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