My Christian walk

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 ...

Image borrowed from Maryam Sohail on WordPress There was a village of timber makers who used to make the best timber in the country; several people could travel from near and far to come and buy their timber. But they had only one challenge: the trees from which they made the timber were too hard for them to cut down using axes. It would take one man about 100 days to cut down just one tree. However, there was a strong wind that blew through the village every once in a while and could potentially blow down some of the trees. Most villagers planted these trees and waited upon the strong wind to blow them down instead of them having to cut them down. They waited and wished as they sat down drinking and fantasizing about all the money they would get if the wind blew down their trees. Unfortunately, the wind only blew down a couple of trees in the entire village every time it came. Mr. Kweza, one of the tree growers, picked his axe and decided to spend  his time trying to cut down a tr...