tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49827666267257569652024-03-19T05:21:49.548-07:00Spirit Over MatterFor it is the Spirit that matters more than matter.Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-40649247447280126272014-11-27T05:11:00.001-08:002014-12-12T07:56:07.231-08:00Contend Discontent<div class="MsoNormal">
Discontent is fighting<o:p></o:p></div>
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Against content;<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this contest<o:p></o:p></div>
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May<o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontent not contend<o:p></o:p></div>
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Against content;<o:p></o:p></div>
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But feel contempt<o:p></o:p></div>
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In his<o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontentment<o:p></o:p></div>
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Against that, which is, content<o:p></o:p></div>
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May content<o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontent<o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontent<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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As discontent <o:p></o:p></div>
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Is fighting<o:p></o:p></div>
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Against<o:p></o:p></div>
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Content<o:p></o:p></div>
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May it be<o:p></o:p></div>
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Content<o:p></o:p></div>
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That <o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontents<o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontent;<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Content<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is intended <o:p></o:p></div>
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To thrive<o:p></o:p></div>
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And to indeed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Drive<o:p></o:p></div>
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Discontent<o:p></o:p></div>
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Out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So that <o:p></o:p></div>
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Content<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can continue<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
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To smile<o:p></o:p></div>
Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-750561592035306212014-11-27T05:08:00.003-08:002014-12-16T00:01:09.844-08:00Biblical Verse Splendour<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foxes have holes and birds of the air nests,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His
Head;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Do you not know that you are the temple of
God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the Spirit of God dwells in you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In My Father’s house are many mansions;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If it were not so I would have told you;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For I go to prepare a place for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And if I go prepare a place for you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will not leave you orphans, I will come to
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I will pray the Father,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And He will give you another Helper,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That He may abide with you forever --<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because it neither sees Him nor knows Him;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But you know Him, for He dwells with you, and
is in you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will come again and receive you to Myself;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That where I am, you may also be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“And where I go you know,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the way you know”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A little while longer, and the world will see
Me no more,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But you will see Me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because I live, you will also live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At this day you will know that I am in My
Father,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And you in Me and I in you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">P.S. >He uses your tiny little puny body
as His temple on earth whilst He goes to prepare a place for you in the house
of His Father which has many mansions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-83263793708317801322014-11-27T01:37:00.001-08:002014-11-27T01:37:06.375-08:00Thoughts about lies.<p dir="ltr">The sun does not rise and the sun does not set. I'd love to live in a world that's more honest about these things. A world which does not feel the need to incorporate lies into the language that speaks of the things this world does not yet understand. Can we not be content about the fact that there are still some things we do not yet know fully about and as a result should not make up lies to compensate for our limitations? </p>
<p dir="ltr">We are not God.<br>
Our knowledge does not cover the earth.<br>
Let us rather use the little knowledge that we do have to discover it.</p>
Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-3255139148241326542014-11-19T21:10:00.001-08:002014-11-19T21:13:17.270-08:00To love<p dir="ltr">To love is to agree with<br>
What was,<br>
What is, and <br>
What will be;<br>
To be joyful always and <br>
Kind to those who<br>
Lived their lives<br>
Not in limitations <br>
Of your life's experiences.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To love is to agree with<br>
What was,<br>
What is, and<br>
What will be.<br>
To hope and <br>
To faith.<br>
To be content<br>
With the reality that<br>
Nothing in this life<br>
Is ever in our control;<br>
Even our own lives.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To love is to agree with<br>
What was;<br>
What is, and<br>
What will be.<br>
To hope and<br>
To faith.</p>
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I find that we live in a time in which people would rather
lie than be truthful to themselves about those things which matter the most to
them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A world in which people hide their thoughts and motives and
only reveal those things which they think others will be pleased and not
shocked to hear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A disadvantaged world indeed, that fills the wise with
sorrow and makes those who see feel like their blessing is a cursing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This world does not care, it is not concerned about others
and it brings grief to the concerned, it is really unfortunate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And there is a saying that goes, seek first to understand
than to be understood, but what happens when in a conversation you are the only
one with the regard to understand others, understanding them and not being
understood in return?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This world is a careless world, consumed with breathing and
making a living, and yet forgetting the most basic thing about life, which is
to live. But to live is not only to breathe, or to eat or drink or sustain
life, to live is to grow and to see, to feel and to speak, to understand and to
express, to produce.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh yes, it can be unfortunate sometimes to be concerned
about the life which we are not prepared to live, to grow in, to feel and
speak, to understand and to express, to produce.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is all that was in my heart, something that I had to
take out before I could die by succumbing to being in the world, this careless
world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is indeed unfortunate that some people are born only to
die without having breathed, yes they have ate, drank, walked and talked, but what
is all that without having learnt something from it all. How does one walk for
20 years without perfecting that walk? How do we eat for a long time without
gaining the experience of doing it right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some people are people only because they look like people,
not because they act as people or be a people, and it is unfortunate indeed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can see that the world does not care, I won’t inquire on
why it does not care because it won’t care to give an answer, my wanting is
that those who see these things happening around them should speak and not keep
quiet about them. Life is not build out of nothingness, something has to happen
for it to continue, and there is no better opportunity to start doing that now
by starting to live.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because we allow ourselves to be slaves, we keep on doing
those things which bring us pain and affliction, on and on we keep on engaging
in them and with them, but for how long are we going to continue doing that?
Where is the faith? Let us start living now, today, because tomorrow is not
promised!<o:p></o:p></div>
Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-70044398512006411312012-08-02T03:15:00.001-07:002012-08-02T03:15:21.988-07:00Now That Since We Are In Christ (it takes Christ)I tried searching for the meaning of what blessing means, on
Google. It all seemed complicated and confusing, so therefore I decided to
share something about what I think blessing is, from my heart I deliver this.<br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are Christians, and without a doubt Christ is the true
meaning of blessing. How blessed are we that He chose to share Himself as a
blessing with us, the forgiven and children of God. I still don’t know what I am
to write but I am hoping that by the end of this letter, to us, I would at
least have something regarding blessing or being blessed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They call it being in the favour of the Lord and that is
true I won’t refuse. Blessing, as I say it in my heart, it sounds like heavenly
language, like heavenly speech, perhaps it is because the one who wears it
lives there, He lives in heaven. And not long ago I have read about how That
Man, who lives in heaven, wants to empty himself outside of heaven and to come
live within us, so that we too can live within Him. Who am I kidding, He
already does live within us and we do already live within Him. (He is not YHWH
for will do and will not. He is YHWH for I AM BLESS you) I guess the blessing
within all of this will be for us to fully realise this magnitude of truth
invisible to the physical eye and clearly visible to that eye which is of the
Spirit. His Spirit and not ours. (We were bought with a price and no longer
belong to ourselves). His Eyes, not ours, He, Himself, and not us in ourselves,
we are no more. You see, it takes Christ to recognise blessing, it takes his
eyes to see it, His Spirit to fully comprehend it. I still do not know what I
am talking about, but I don’t have to worry about that because I know and am
certain that the Christ within all of us does know what I am talking about, Him
and not us, Him in us and not us within ourselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The blessing which is Christ is such that we do not have to
do anything to attain it, blessing is freely given. We just have to believe. I
take it that to believe is a verb, a doing word, an act of doing something, but
how do we believe really? Can we believe by ourselves? I seriously at this
moment in time do not see how I could believe by myself. Perhaps that is a
blessing in disguise because it makes me to become aware that even in our
believing, it takes Jesus Christ and not us, that in anything that pertains to
Christ Jesus, it takes Christ to realise Christ. We believe because of Christ
Jesus and by Christ Jesus. Again I might not be making sense, but I am taught
that it is the foolish things that make more sense than the wise things that do
not. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So yes, it takes a blessing to be blessed and to bless; it
takes Christ Jesus our Lord, the blessing of God, that blessing which is God,
to bless that which is to be blessed, which is the Christ within us. In other
words when I bless you I am really blessing Christ and when you bless me you
are really blessing Christ for it is no longer us who live but Christ Jesus who
lives in us, To Christ then, and by Christ, do I bless each and everyone one of
you sisters and brothers, In Jesus Christ’s Name, in his fullness, I bless you.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ</i>. <i>(Ephesians 1:3)</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-55598368487647197312012-07-17T02:49:00.004-07:002012-07-17T03:30:23.586-07:00The Anointing of the Holy SpiritI have learned something very interesting and eye opening on the 17th of July whilst I was going through a Facebook profile of my sister, Kaley Mayer. In it she asks the question: <i>What is the meaning of the anointing of the Holy Spirit?</i> and then she goes on to answer <i>it by saying that it is nothing less and nothing other than the Holy Spirit taking His place as absolute LORD.</i><br />
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That made me realise that to be anointed by the Holy Spirit is to be under the complete Headship of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to be In Christ and Christ being in you and you living your life by the life of Christ.<br />
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We have been taught of the anointing of the Holy Spirit as anything other than being under the complete control of the Lord. When men are called or are said to have the anointing of the Holy Spirit is when they are usually put on a pedestal and seen as great brethren among many brethren, when they are seen as the special ones among many others, when they touch you, you are to fall to the ground because of this great anointing their holding, but it is not so.<br />
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When such things appear, Man should not glory in himself for it is only by grace that such things are happening through him. All the glory and the honour should be to the Lord that indeed Christ does live in us and that it is by him that we live, not by ourselves, matter of factly we are no more in control of our own lives, we have been bought with a price and therefore do not belong to ourselves. We have been bought with a price that we cannot afford to pay back, but a price that affords us the opportunity to live life eternally, not by ourselves, but through Christ our strength and our life, the very breath we breathe, our daily bread, the water of life, our most basic and most advanced source of life.<br />
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Therefore, it is by the LORD that we live, not by ourselves. We are in him because he has anointed us with Holy Spirit, we are covered in Him, our anointing.<br />
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P.S. Kaley Mayer has a site called The Endless Riches Of Jesus Christ, you can find the link to her site on my blogroll :)Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982766626725756965.post-31498576338218793622012-07-16T04:08:00.001-07:002012-07-16T04:08:17.383-07:00We Cannot Earn Love For Ourselves.Love does not require human effort in order for it to be earned.<br />
Matter of factly, love cannot be earned.<br />
Love is Freely given, shared and not laboured for.<br />
<br />
Love is of God and those things that are of God and are god<br />
have been freely given us as gifts so that we may not pride<br />
in ourselves for having received that which is for all God's<br />
children.<br />
<br />
It shall be liberating to us all to learn that we can do nothing of<br />
ourselves to earn love for it was for love, that we have received<br />
before the beginning of time, that we are here.<br />
<br />
Let us go on loving, as we were called to.<br />
<br />
I share this because it has freed me from trying to love better<br />
or in the best way I could think of. Love has no measure.Letshego Lechoenyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456791031680626378noreply@blogger.com1