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A Note on Bitterness

02/11/2013 danitaogandaga

A Note on Bitterness

When you ask God to come in and evaluate your life, He begins to show you the areas of your life that may be clogging your potential and ability to hear from Him.

So many people have been hurt to their core. Hurt, anger, and bitterness holds us captive and unable to move. We are justified by our reasoning but are in serious need of letting go so that we can be released into things of God.

Feeding families, ministers leaving the church to start their own ministries and taking your members, stealing husbands and girlfriends. We may think it is not fair and seek to go after our own justice nurturing the hurt while injuring ourselves in the process.

So many of us have been hurt so much but we retreated from the very things we are supposed to pursue and use the pain to build walls and thus have become isolated and lost the ability to be relational.

God loves us so much and He wants us to be sensitive to His voice so that we can become sensitive once again to His people.

When we forgive, God opens the doors! Often the ones who have hurt us will bless us! Forgive so God can forgive you and most importantly use you.

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Ephphatha! Be Opened!

02/06/2013 danitaogandaga

Society has many doors to go through. When we are born, we become the children of our parents and learn their mores and values. Once they die we become orphans according to the cultural system.

The beauty of the paths that we take is no matter how far we go away from our original birthplace, we always have a way of coming back home to the embrace of Father God.

No matter what distractions that you may face today, don’t get weary. Jobs are decreasing daily and value of the almighty dollar is fading; yet amid all of this, you have the fortitude that you need on the inside of you to make it through any circumstance that you face.

Ask Father God to open your ears and eyes to him and for you to begin to see things as he sees them and to keep your perspective aerial.

You can make it!

Let this song by Carrie Allwine comfort you.

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Culture & Communications

UNLESS: A Bottle of Prescription

06/07/201212/24/2012 danitaogandaga

Photo Credit: The Bridge

Unless………this word has been affiliated with so many of the things that I have untaken in life. Unless defined simply means “except on the condition that”. So, if A does B then C. Many of the transactions that we undertake in life are gauged by the cause and effect relationship of a powerful and robust unless.

Unless…….Mackie comes home he will be kicked out of the house.

Unless…….Daddy buys me a new pair of shoes, he does not really love me.

Unless……William gets off of drugs, he will be banned from our family.

Unless……I can wear Christian Louboutin, I will not fit into the elite group at work

Unless, unless, unless. The new culture of communications. How pressure filled is that?

Adults daze around in circles wondering what their life will be life if only they had made a different decision on life and because of it can never get a firm footing in the life they are currently living because the security of a life already lived had never sunk in.

The love of God is a love that is not built upon an unless. His love is unconditional and without pretense. The love of God says, “Even though you were addicted to drugs, I can still love you extravagantly.” It is hard for many to comprehend being given such an awesome gift to be liberated when you were once walking around like a slave in the rat race of life and trying to remain on the plantation of society and culture.

The word unless has been responsible for so much grief in life after all, we are a series of the events that we untake and products of our environments right? Unless has become a bottle of prescriptions for many where they believe that conditions must be thrown out in order to get someone to act the way that they should but who are we to always try to direct the traffic of the pain that we are not willing to treat. People don’t want your stuff, they want to know that you care. This may be the cause for the high rate of persons cutting themselves all over the globe…to the tune of 4 million people because they may have been met with an Unless which elevated their stress absent the unconditional love to work through the drama and get to the healing.

Unless, I keep writing, will you not believe that I love to?

Stay tuned….”Unless: A Bottle of Prescription”- Coming July 2012 on www.danitaogandaga.com and the Orphan No More Podcast!

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