Prosper Uwihoreye

When something bad happens you have three choices: You can let it define you,you can let it destroy you,or you can let it strengthen you. The choices are yours!

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That does not nearly name everything He has planned for me! And all He asks of me, as His willing slave, is that I allow Him to use me to make His kingdom (in which I will share) even greater.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

He promises to meet my every need (Philippians 4:19), to give me my heart’s desire (Psalm 37:4), turn everything bad into something good for me (Romans 8:28), and give me a share in Jesus’ inheritance in eternity (Romans 8:16-17).

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

How can it be that by choosing to be His slave we are set free, The answer is true and pure love. If I choose to belong to and do all that is asked of me by someone who truly loves me, I know I need never fear that what will be asked will be anything but good for me.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

Eternal life is eternal perfection – perfect joy, perfect peace, perfect completion, perfect love, and we could go on with all that God is.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

How we choose is the difference between life and death. But death is not the end of things as we know them and then nothing; it is an eternal awareness of being without all that God is – love, light, joy, peace, and so on.

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But it means far more as well; it means we are a slave to someone who can make us everything He created us to be – meaning we can realize complete satisfaction and honor through letting Him change us according to His perfect plan.

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It means that we are a slave to someone who cannot ever do us harm

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

Choosing to be a slave to righteousness, to Jesus, is not like this. We will never be disappointed, we will never be shamed, we will never be cast aside by Jesus. Being a slave to Jesus means we are a slave to someone who loves us enough to die for us.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

The result is always death in some way – death of our self-esteem, death of our pride, death of our dreams.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

We make ourselves slaves to an ideal we can never reach. All we get in return is shame or fear or guilt because we cannot reach the goal we think the other person has set for us.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

Most of us will, at some time in our life, feel like we are not good enough – not smart enough, not rich enough, not good-looking enough – to be noticed by other people. We go on diets, we exercise, we work hard, all to try to be like someone else.

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If we choose to follow another person, we often choose to be a slave to sin, because every person on this earth will at some point lead us away from Jesus. Only choosing to be a slave to Jesus and His righteousness can set us free.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

We have a choice: we can be a slave to sin or we can be a slave to Jesus and His righteousness. Those are our only choices in this life. If we choose to go our own way, we have chosen to be a slave to sin.

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… Also, we often want solutions that are only good for us rather than good for everyone involved in our situation.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

Taking our situation to Jesus Christ does not mean we tell Him what to do – we do not want to limit Him to only those things we can see as possible answers. He often has answers for us which we could never have imagined as possibilities.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

We live, trusting in Jesus, by first taking our trouble to Him. Do we need to tell Him because He does not know? No, He knows everything that is happening to us. We take it to Him so WE know we have done so. Then we begin looking for how He will take action for us.

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Things happen in our lives too, situations over which we have no control, and things we cannot change. How many times do these difficult circumstances coming into our lives cause us to question God’s love for us? What is God asking of us during such times?

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

Walking by faith in Christ Jesus, trusting Him to know what is happening, and that He will take care of us can be difficult in times like this.

[Prosper Uwihoreye @process_prosper]

Following Jesus is like walking on water. Peter only began to sink when he took his eyes off Jesus and looked at his feet (Matthew 14:28-33).