this is one of the reasons i always feel long distance relationships creates the best lovers fr.. the moment you can take intimacy off the table & they still fill that void in you, offer you value, without being blinded by lust or inordinate affections, now that’s your person.
Spiritual warfare 101 - No matter how overwhelmed you “feel” inside, never show the devil. You see, the devil is NOT Omniscient, so he does not know all things. The things he knows about us are things said and spoken of us. Or the things we let out from our mouths ourselves or by our reactions and actions. So while you may be overwhelmed in your soul, the way he gets to know is from your reaction. And because he is a wicked and oppressive entity, when he knows where it hurts, he robs it in the more.
But responding in praise confounds him. This is exactly the rationale behind the idea that praise confuses the enemy. Because he can’t understand why his onslaught is not causing you to give up and give in.
So beloved saints of God, regardless how you feel right now, find a way to release your praise !
“14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”
Psalm 71:14.
You are BLESSED 🙂
There’s this 45 minutes favor provoking prayers by Apostle Selman on YouTube.
If you can pray it, please do!
I prayed it in a difficult season of my life for like a month and there was a shift. A lot of doors opened.
He tried to embarrass me. We were with his friends when out of nowhere he suddenly said loudly, “So what do you even bring to a relationship?”
Everyone went quiet. He smirked like he had just pulled off some genius move.
I blinked slowly, smiled, and said, “Peace. Stability. Loyalty. And honestly… good taste. That’s why I’m sitting here.” His friends laughed immediately. He didn’t.
Then I added, “But since you’re asking… what do youu bring? Apart from audacity?” His friends laughed even harder. He stared at me like I had committed a crime.
Afterwards, he said, “You disrespected me.” I just looked at him and replied, “No. I introduced you to consequences.”
And I never spoke to him again.
Listen,
Don’t go above and beyond for people anymore. Meet them as far as they meet you. Speak to them as much as they speak to you.
Include them as much as they include you.
I dated this guy who was always saying: “I need a submissive woman.”
That was his personality. Submission.
Every conversation, he found a way to mention it.
One day I asked: “What do you mean by submissive?”
He said: “A woman who listens. A woman who respects. A woman who doesn’t argue.”
I said: “So basically… a quiet woman?”
He smiled. “Yes. That’s what I want.”
Okay.
Then rent was due one month and he asked me to borrow him money.
I said: “Wait… you want me submissive but you’re asking me for rent money?”
He got angry.
He said: “A real woman supports her man.”
I said: “A real man supports himself first.”
He said: “You’re too independent.”
I said: “No. You’re too broke for your mindset.”
He blocked me.
And I laughed for two days.
Because some men want submission because it’s cheaper than therapy.
a woman working 40+ hrs a week, paying for her own hair, nails, rent, car, food, gas, handling everything by herself, is not going to be the soft, feminine woman you expect her to be. and no, she can't bring you peace when she's in survival mode.
I once knew a woman who used to complain that her husband never posted her on social media.
Anniversaries came and went. Birthdays passed quietly. No long captions. No couple pictures. Nothing.
One day, she got upset and said,
“Other men are proud of their wives. You can’t even post me.”
He didn’t argue. He just nodded.
A week later, she fell sîck
unexpectedly. It wasn’t serious, but she had to be admitted for a few days. That man didn’t leave the hospital. He slept on the plastic chair beside her bed. He fed her.
He braided her hair when it got rough. He called her office to explain. He even learned how to warm her food the way she likes it.
One evening, she woke up and saw him gently rubbing her feet because she had complained about body pâin earlier.
She looked at him and said quietly,
“You didn’t go to work?”
He smiled and replied,
“My wife is my work right now.”
No Instagram post.
No Facebook caption.
But in that hospital room, she understood something.
Some people show love online.
Some people show love in real life.
The loudest love isn’t always the deepest. ❤️