WE’RE PRODUCTS OF OUR BACKGROUND

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WE’RE PRODUCTS OF OUR BACKGROUND 

What did you notice in relationships between your parents, guardians, siblings, friends etc when you were growing up? Maybe anger, possessiveness, fighting, hatred, bitterness, injustice, cheating, fault finding, jealousy, criticism and a whole lot. They are poisons that contaminate relationships and cause resentment. These things register in our subconscious subtly. Your environment has a way of affecting your thoughts and actions. It is garbage in garbage out. There’s a tendency to reproduce those things unconsciously even when you don’t like them, unless you intentionally do something about them. They are like weeds that choke the good seeds planted. You don’t wish them out of your life. You do something about them now not when you get married or get older. Constantly pull them out. Nature abhors vacuum so when you pull them out, you plant what you want to see. It takes effort to work on these things but they can be changed if you are deliberate and consistent.

How do you overcome those things that you don’t like?

-Identify them

-Be determined to work at it and on yourself

-Look for substitute for them. In place of hatred, choose love.

-Renew your mind with the Word of God

-Make positive confession

-Act out what you want. Practice love

-Pray. We can not do anything by our power or might but by the help of God

-Constant appraisal 

The list of what to do can continue but if you can start with these, you will make a remarkable progress. Dare to make a difference. You are a light, so keep making positive impact.


Folakemi Olukoyede 

Comments

  1. Esther Fadumiye10 June 2020 at 00:53

    I'm blessed. Thank you ma

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  2. Dupe10 June 2020 at 01:04

    Thank you mommymee. Insightful for me. More grace ma'am.

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  3. Plizzy10 June 2020 at 01:07

    Great grace ma. This is insightful. God bless

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  4. Joana10 June 2020 at 02:18

    Wow!!am blessed by this.

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  5. Unknown10 June 2020 at 03:15

    Great and impactful piece. More grace always.

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  6. Unknown10 June 2020 at 05:14

    Lord help me in my identified areas that need improvement.Impactful msg.Greater grace ma

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  7. Rachel,10 June 2020 at 13:15

    Thank you mummy pastor.

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  8. Rachel,10 June 2020 at 13:19

    God grace shall surely increase in you more spiritually mummy.ijn

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  9. Bose Banji-Idowu11 June 2020 at 08:23

    God bless you ma

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  10. Unknown24 June 2020 at 00:14

    Very true. Every change starts with self.

    Awesome. God bless you ma.

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