Re-arrange your make-up bag and include prayer!

Make up bag Check list

• ü  Eyebrow pencil
• ü  Mascara
• ü  Lip-gloss
• ü  Mac lipstick
• ü  FOUNDATION
• ü  Eyeliner
• ü  Concealer
• ü  Eye shadow

I looked at my make up check list and it somehow got me excited. It gets a lot of ladies excited, I mean you can look good for whatever occasion and i bet you will pick up so many followers with all that make up right? okay maybe not.

Well it’s great for women to look good and i for one have never been that Christian girl that does not advocate looking good and smelling good. You don’t have to spend thousands to look  good and its very important for a lady to practice good hygiene. When you look good , you feel good right?

Back to my checklist.......

I did a little research about one of the things in my make up bag checklist. Here is what i found out about foundation.

What is a foundation (for those not aware?)

Foundation is a skin colored makeup applied to the face to create an even, uniform color to the complexion, to cover flaws and, sometimes, to change the natural skin tone. Foundation applied to the body is generally referred to as "body painting.

When we apply this foundation it basically brings about the so called perfection many ladies are hungry for, but is that the foundation ladies need to really focus on? Is that foundation going to make you a stronger woman? Is it going to help you conquer?

I mean we often speak about getting “bae” and tying the knot but will this foundation we apply help keep our relationships together? Is it going to help us be better wives? Better mothers? Is it going to give us the strength to endure?

Don’t get me wrong i have nothing against using make-up and that is the reason I have a checklist I want to cover soon, but I have a problem with the fact that we often focus so much on the outside that we forget the inner being. Have you ever wondered why you can feel so “hot” yet feel so empty? We are busy trying to create perfection on the outside that we carry  on broken and empty inside.

I have gotten to realise that there is a certain FOUNDATION that we do not include into our make-up bags and this foundation is amongst some of the things that please God and that is PRAYER.

Prayer is a divine direct communication with God. You see there are so many reasons to pray and i can list a few

1.    To have a personal experience with God

2.    To empty our hearts unto God so He can empty himself in us

3.    To anchor us to God.

4.    Provides divine direction

5.    Strengthen our intimacy with God

6.    To transform us.

7.    Move us to another level of Faith

Unlike the natural foundation we use, Prayer wont cover your flaws but it will show them to you because who you are will drive you to take care of This that you are. The bible also says in 2 Corinthians 12:9-11New International Version (NIV)

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong

 It makes no sense to cover our flaws with something that can easily be wiped off because what you cover someone else can uncover and use against you but when you put all in Gods hands,we know we are protected.

 Prayer unlike foundation does not only change your natural skin tone (your exterior) but it will transform you from the inside out. It will make you supernatural. Prayer is what creates that uniformity; YES!!! It brings about restoration and revives us.

We can try run away from this but it’s the truth that  we need to remind ourselves of. We can look beautiful all we want but we need to be prayerful women. I mean if you can’t trust God enough to open up to Him, How will you trust God if you are required to leave certain things behind?

If we focus so much on natural ways to do things, will those means sustain us? Will your beautiful make-up make you the woman God wants you to be? There is a saying that states that “You are the company you keep”, imagine the woman you would become if your company was God!!! There are so many qualities that can make us stronger and better women and all these qualities are in God. Qualities like forgiveness, Love, endurance, patience, humility, being gentle, Joy, kindness, Peace, Faithfulness and etc.

As we make our eyebrows, lipstick and foundation on fleek, let’s Make sure that our prayer life is on fleek.

Inner beauty is inside each and every one of us and the lack of confidence and acceptance has a way of moving us away from that. Investing only in outward beauty will forever leave us feeling like we are not beautiful enough, so put on that foundation called Prayer and watch your life, your confidence and the way you do things change for the best!

May we not only focus on looking good but also focus on BEING good.

Proverbs 31:30  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Proverbs 3:15   She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

thank you for reading
<3kamo

You are amazing God. by Kierra Sheard

From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creations revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming

[Chorus:]
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You place the stars in the sky and You know them by name,
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable, awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim,
You are amazing God

[Verse 2:]
Who sees lightning bolts and tells them where they should go
Or sees heavenly store houses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gave source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

[Chorus]

Incomparable, unchangeable,
You've seen the depths of my heart and You love me the same,
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

[Chorus]

[Vamp:]
You are amazing God [5x]

God is constant.

Tonight i found myself on my knees looking at how great God is. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Let me tell you a little story.

There was once a little girl who had a tree in the forest. She often went there to just sit under its shadow and enjoy the fresh air. She would do her homework there and she often fell asleep there. Thankfully for her there were no wild animals there.
One day it happened that her parents bought her toys. Its an amazing thing right? Well lets wait and see.
She started playing with her toys and went to the tree once a week. It initially looked okay because what matters is that she went to the tree ( according to her). The less she went to her tree , the less she grew fond of it and the more she found it burdening for her to even go to the forest. She started dragging her feet whenever she had to go there and that day finally came, when  she stopped going to the forest.
Everything seemed okay and she was getting more and more toys. Like sand through the hour glass, time kept ticking and the seasons embraced this change.
More trees grew and the place now looked like a bush. There was just no way one would tell which tree was the one that the little girl loved.

One afternoon in summer she sat in her room and was feeling really hot. She felt so overwhelmed and started missing her tree. She cried everyday and felt like the tree had abandoned her but how can something that is STILL abandon you?
She asked herself questions and had no one to blame. That little destruction she got eventually pulled her away from something she held dear to her heart.
One beautiful morning, she went on a journey to the forest , initially she got lost until she saw this very HUGE tree, it was GREATER than them all and with its leaves it drew her closer and right there, she knew that is the tree she had always cherished.


See where i am going?

In life we often move away from God and we somehow don't see it because we will be so distracted and enjoying whatever is distracting us. Although that alarm within rings, we somehow ignore it until we feel overwhelmed, miserable, lonely and direction less. We then start asking ourselves questions and even accuse God of leaving us. Truth is, God never moved. He is a constant God. He is consistent and the same yesterday, today and forever.The problem here is not Gods presence but its us moving away from His presence. Like the little girl, we get so distracted that the very God we held dear to our heart is the very God we feel burdened to pray to, worship and even talk to.
When we remain IN God, we allow ourselves to be fully immersed in His presence that wherever we go, We allow Him to lead us. The one voice we should never shut out is the voice of God.

Today decide to do what is right and rekindle that relationship you had/have with God.If your emotions are telling you that you are beyond reappears, walk away from them and do what is right, they (the emotions) will catch up later and by that time, you will be way ahead.
God is right where you left Him and all He requires is for you to go back to His heart. God loves you and I and may we get to realize how loved we are by Him.

thank you for reading
<3 kamo