My Christian walk

Thanks to Abby Hahn on Wordpress.com Before the good news of Jesus' birth, God used to talk to His people through prophets. And just after the book of Malachi (the last book of the Old Testament, just so you know), it is said that God went silent for four hundred years, until the birth of John the Baptist (see  The bible Journey ). Yes, the gap between the Old and the New Testament is 400+ years: 400+ years of people not hearing from God, not even the one prophet they had left at the time (Malachi,  who died around 450 BC ). And all of a sudden, miracles started happening, angels  started visiting and singing, the Holy Spirit began pouring out on people, dreams started to be fulfilled and very old prophecies began coming to pass everywhere. At such a time as then, as no one was expecting to hear from God (and even if anyone did hear from Him, most certainly everybody expected Him to speak through another prophet or the teachers of the law), ordinary people started se...

Image courtesy of Jeff Weese on Flickr The learned, the unlearned, children, adults, men, women, Christians, atheists, everybody might have wondered at some point in their life, if Jesus Christ was really born on 25th December. Many say that He wasn't even born in December, because He wasn't born during winter, while others argue that seasons shift and that's why we now have snow in December. Emotions fly over the roof as opposers and proposers try to explain their beliefs about the actual time of Jesus' birth. And I love the fact that this time of the year brings a feeling of great joy all over the world, punctuated with bright lights, gifts, food, amazing songs, family time and more. My Mum, for some reason, refused to tell us (her children) the date when she was born. However, we decided to celebrate her either way by just randomly choosing a date. In spite of the fact that it's not the actual date on which she was born, I love the fact that we get to celebrate h...

Thanks to Ngozikaa! on WordPress From this previous article  you might recall that I mentioned that God chose to grow my faith through personal interactions with the Holy Spirit. He spoke to me directly almost every day through dreams, visions, convictions, knowings and His audible voice in times when I didn't have a  pastor or spiritual mentor. With this I found myself heavily relying on the active instruction of God to make any decision in my life, until a couple of years ago when that changed and I could only hear from God through His written word in the bible. You can't imagine how nervous I got every time I needed to make a decision, especially those major decisions, because I was used to God revealing things to me beforehand, and the Holy Spirit advising me on most things; but now, there was nothing, only silence. I cried, I prayed, I fasted, I begged the Lord for instruction, but all I got was a calm silence. Then I realized  that I needed to learn more about ...