CYF-IMPACT

I stumbled on this song on Sunday and I just can’t seem to stop listening to it.  How He Loves Us  by  Jesus Culture .  I had just typed the word  Love  on my music player and was listening to the search results and that was how I stumbled on this song. I had been listening to it passively till I heard the words  “Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss” .  On hearing this I said to myself [please note that I’m absolutely not a racist, I was just amusing myself], anyways, I said to myself:  “O gosh, these white people, talking about sloppy wet kisses in a Christian song?” . Well, for the wrong reasons the song caught my attention and I listened to it more raptly. Then the lady singing, Kim Walker-Smith, in sheer inspiration and joyful surrender to the precious Spirit of God, stopped singing and started to speak to the crowd.  Her words resonated in this recording so much that it absolutely shook my spirit, and still does a...

Self-esteem is all about valuing yourself and positive appraisal of oneself. On the other hand, Low self-esteem has caused a lot of problem for 21st-century youths and has pushed many into depression, self-isolation and even suicide. A typical scenario is that of a young guy who has been battling with self-esteem. He feels he is not smart, ugly always the odd one out. He can’t seem to fit in or be like every ” normal” teenager.  Sadly, he grew up hearing these negative words from loved ones. If they feel this way even with their faith, then how would strangers embrace me. So,  he decides to keep to himself and shun the world and as the universe doesnt give room for space, he began to feel the ice grip of depression and no one to rely on. To him no one will understand, no one cares? Life became a nightmare, dark and cold.  Would you blame him? He believed the negative words and they became part of him. Every minutes he hears the voice, “You can nev...

This is your victory. The battle is simply not yours. It is the Lords' If any is contending with you at work, school, home, business or even ministry, Hear the word of the Lord to you....IT SHALL NOT STAND! DO YOU BELIEVE? Source: Paul L. Getter

  The case for cultivating patience — today and over a lifetime. In 1968, a Stanford University researcher presented each member of a group of preschool children with a single marshmallow. He wanted to see which of them could resist eating it long enough to earn a second treat. Follow-up studies found the children who’d demonstrated sufficient patience to win the prize experienced greater success later in life. They were more likely than the impatient kids to earn good salaries and less likely to suffer from addictions of all kinds. The researchers’ conclusion: Those blessed with an ability to defer gratification enjoy greater life chances as the result. For the majority of us, patience doesn’t come easily. And when it does come, it’s often fleeting. The rest of the time, we rush, we interrupt, we get exasperated when people squeeze ahead of us in line, we charge things now rather than paying cash later, we curse drivers who impede our progress in the fast ...