Only because it takes away your craving for more chocolate and this one bar, leaves you feeling satisfied, for life.
This bar would kill the chocolate urge forever!
This is my dream chocolate bar.
This daily prompt reminds me of a phone convo I had with my brother last night….
He lives in Russia. I live in Australia.
I said to him, “You sound pretty chirpy. Did you just have a coffee?”
He said, “I haven’t had a coffee in around five years.”
He was serious when he said this.
I said to him….
“Let me know when you find the secret ingredients to that one special coffee that lasts for years!!! It sounds like you “nailed” that last cup you made!! ( the one from five years ago!) ❤️
Sadly this sort of chocolate and coffee don’t exist. ☺️
But there is good news.
When I became a real genuine Christian, I lost the urge to fill that empty place inside me. Only because when God enters your heart, you will feel eternally satisfied forever and the cravings go!
Many people are still very hungry, even after eating a delicious meal.
Why?
Is it because they are yet to meet Jesus and fully surrender their life to Him?
Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” (John 6:35)
Sometimes I like to sit and do nothing in my free time. But then I remember that I can share an encouraging post with others.
I love what Charles Stanley said, “Refocus on someone to serve, not yourself, and your loneliness will dissipate.”
Then funnily enough, when I give “this free time” to God, I end up in a better place. Only because time spent for Him, never is a waste of time.
I hope you enjoy the poem I wrote below!
If you feel you have nothing left in life, but God, then know that He can never say this to you…..
God knows what you need
“And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19
I like to discuss topics that “help” to change me, for the better.
My topic today is about the observation of people and why they behave the way they do.
I’m still puzzled about a lady’s behaviour I observed this morning.
I just saw her walk away and I am still wondering why…..
I am sitting in the Coffee Club right now.
When I feel stressed, I like to leave my home and go out and relax. That is precisely what I am doing now.
Next to me on another table, was a lady. She looked like she was waiting for her order to come. Sure enough it did, and as I looked over, I saw the waitress bring over her plate. It looked delicious. I saw toast and scrambled eggs. I imagined how much she would enjoy it. You know that feeling of satisfaction you have for other people, even though you haven’t eaten the eggs yourself?
But then something odd happened.
She stood up and simply walked away.
She left her full plate of food.
Did she eat a little bit?
I’m not sure as I obviously wasn’t staring at her. But when I looked at her table, after she left, the food was still sitting there and it looked untouched.
Why did she order it, pay for it, then simply leave?
Then shortly after, a man came to her table. I thought, “Maybe that is her husband and the eggs are for him.”
But they weren’t.
The man simply removed the plate and proceeded to sit down. He naturally thought the table was vacant. Which it was.
When I observed this refusal of such good food, I thought about how people refuse God’s free gifts.
Every day, He offers us good free food. Not literally like the scrambled eggs, but rather soul-food, that comes from His Word.
Jeremiah 31:3 – “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
Every day, He sees human souls push away Hisfree love.
Why?
Is it because God’s goodness feels too good to be true?
In this world, nobody believes in freebies!
We think, “If it’s free, it must be poor quality and second hand.”
So instead of accepting God’s free love, kindness and forgiveness, we choose to push Him away, because this sort of goodness, feels impossible and unreal.
Like an unimaginable perfect freebie!
But, what if you simply accepted God’s free gifts today, where you 100% knew it would not come back and bite you later?
These gifts are on the table for you today.
There is no evil catch, in God’s message of love for you.
God’s love is a free gift.
God’s grace is a free gift.
Jesus is a free gift.
I prayed for the lady who left the Coffee Club.
Did she receive some bad news and then had to leave?
Did she feel sick?
Whatever the reason, there was One, she always needed. Eggs or no eggs.
It was God.
Did she recognise she needed Him all the time?
I have no idea.
No matter how good or bad life is, one fact remains.
God’s love is 100% free.
You don’t need to pay Him back for anything.
Even if that lady’s eggs remained untouched on the table, if she walked out knowing God loved her and could help her in everything, this lesson would be the most important, even without the eggs being eaten.
Look for GodYou will find HimSeek Him with your whole heart, soul and mindDon’t stop praying God is everywhere God will help you
I like to share my poems and writings on social media. Here is my latest reflection below….
Jeremiah 23:24
“Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the LORD.
A wandering lost soul, searched for the place that God had “made” just for her.
A place where even He, didn’t have the key.
The soul looked for her own tiny piece of sky that only belonged to her.
Was there a place to hide under His sky?
A part of the sky that God never saw?
Was there a door for her, God couldn’t unlock?
Only because He made the door, and then promised not to peak inside?
What there a place to rest her soul, where no one looked for her?
“I am so weary,” she said.
“I don’t want to be found.”
So off she went.
She looked everywhere.
She looked for her place to rest, alone.
She looked for a place where God could not read her thoughts.
She looked high and low.
She looked up.
She looked down.
She looked for no one but herself.
She looked for a place where God wasn’t.
Did she find a place without God?
No.
She only saw more and more of God.
She found God everywhere she went.
God was on every corner.
God’s presence was found in every place on earth.
“Am I a God who is only close at hand?” says the LORD.
“No, I am far away at the same time. Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:23-24)
God wasn’t hiding!
God was in full view.
God was reading all her thoughts.
“You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.” (Psalm 139:2)
He was in her mind.
Always.
God was inside every soul.
God was invisible.
But He was still everywhere.
She then stopped.
She thought.
“God is not going anywhere.”
“God is always there.”
“God can never be lost.”
She understood.
She then said, “God, because you are everywhere, I am everywhere too.”
“Only because you carry me inside your heart and your heart is everywhere.”
Then she understood what she never understood before.
God had made her heart.
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
God had placed His own feelings inside her.
She was created to love Him and others.
“Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.” (1 John 4:11-12)
God was so big that there was plenty of Him to go around.
His heart was so big that it covered the whole world.
She then understood how big God’s love was.
His heart was the biggest heart there was.
His omnipresent heart was big enough to love the whole world.
She knew that God’s Word was true.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
Last night, I felt really distressed about issues with my teenager, and it felt like God wanted to comfort me. And He truly did comfort me!
What was He trying to teach me?
God is invisible and because we can’t see Him, it can be easy to “forget” His presence because we can’t see Him.
But it felt God was encouraging me so I knew I was never invisible to Him.
HIM seeing “me visibly” really encouraged me.
He always can “see me and you.”
We just can’t “see” Him seeing us 😊.
But He is always looking at us.
He is always looking at you.
Truly, truly.
I love the fact that God is watching me type this message about Him.
All humans are visible to God.
He always “sees us”.
He won’t forget us.
Seeing is POWERFUL.
Faith is HARD.
I CAN’T SEE God, but He sees me right now and always.
This really encourages me as His invisibility doesn’t make Him less powerful, a less of a God, less able to help, less loving and less present.
He IS a spirit.
“For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” ( John 4:24)
He is really really really really with me and knows my struggles with my child and gets it!
God is truly visible.
But we are the ones who cannot see Him. Yet.
Our spiritual eyes are closed. For now.
But, if you think about it, you would surely freak out if you saw Him and you would die.
God doesn’t want you to die just yet!
God said no man can see my face and live!
“But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.” (Exodus 33:20)
So, yep, I get it….
But it still does hurt praying to an invisible God.
I really want to see God’s face all the time.
I want to see His changing expressions and the concerned look that says, “Helen, I really hear you and I know raising teenagers is hard but I will help you.”
Jesus said, “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew 28:20)
“With you”, means right now!
That’s a good 👍 fact to dwell on.
Funny thing…As I am just typing this, I hear a lady talking about God at the other table in this cafe.
I love ❤️ this because other people out there are thinking of Him too.
I would like to improve the social-media community, by removing the LIKE button. Permanently.
There are brilliant posts that deserve a LIKE.
I love to encourage others with my LIKE.
I love when others encourage me with their LIKE.
But sometimes, the LIKE can become youridol.
Did you know that you can buy LIKES? My kids told me….I had no idea!
As Christian writers, we don’t write to get likes.
We write because it is the right thing to do.
Our post remains as a small gorgeous diamond, hidden in the grass, watching for God to join it to a soul. Not to a LIKE.
And not to the whole world!
A seed (your post)and a soul ✨️ ❤️ will only bear fruit when God plants to begin with.
Jesus must be at that root.
The LIKE itself is not the Jesus root.
It is merely someone liking your post.
It could be a carnal LIKE, a tired LIKE, a jealous LIKE, a grumpy LIKE or the millionth and one LIKE, only because the first million LIKED first and you felt the need to follow the masses.
I think the LIKES that get 5 gold stars, are the LIKES that don’t shine much on earth at all. But will in heaven.
I will make a confession….many posts I liked on FB, I didn’t even want to LIKE. I was merely falling in the trap of social media and joining the crowds so I wouldn’t feel lonely and ignored.
As Christian writers, don’t allow the absence of LIKES, to mess with your head.
I sometimes get them, I sometimes don’t. Big deal! God isn’t fussed, why should I be?
I have had over 8000 visits at helenolenjin.life and on my published writings posts, I don’t have masses of readers visiting every week. However, readers still do come, and these are the ones that count.
Short videos are very popular today but who said writing needs to become extinct?
We keep writing, because we know this is God’s desire for us.
Please do not stop writing your posts for God.
The absence of LIKES or the fact that your post is not in exciting video TikTok format, does not mean you are not doing God’s will.
Think of when LIKES and TikTok never existed.
How freeing!
Write like these never existed!
Then enjoy the freedom of Christ.
This is how God’s work is meant to be.
I like what someone said, “Go cold turkey on the LIKES!”
But I greatly dislike the proof reading part and checking ✔️ everything just before posting!
It would be awesome to be perfect at proof reading all my posts instantly, by checking so thoroughly, just once, that there would be no need to do it again and again.
Once upon a time, I felt severely stressed about something. At that moment, I really begged God to show me the answer.
His response was so simple it was almost ridiculous!
He simply told me to “slow down.”
I took His advice seriously and it was life changing.
The poem I wrote below is about slowing down. I wrote it for myself firstly so that I would never forget God’s message to me personally. Secondly, I hoped a few others would read this so it would slow them down too.
Many people do not realise that slowing down is the answer to many things.
Recently I have learnt to surrender my weight fear to God.
I pray alot and I find God really helps me.
Here are my Christian ramblings tonight…
I had an irrational fear of getting fatter and fatter. Not that I am really overweight, only 10 kgs! After having four kids, it’s hard to shift! I am 52 years old and at a great stage in life but abit rounder than I would like to be.
I used to obsess a lot with losing weight and after many failed programs, I surrendered the 10kgs to God. I still haven’t lost them but instead, I put the onus on God Himself!
If He wants me to be 10kgs less, I am sure I will be. If not, the 10kgs belongs to Him and if He is not fussed about this, I shouldn’t be either. This is significant. Simply because there is a time to actually quit and give up! In this place, you give the unresolved issue to God permanently!
One day, it felt like God was speaking to me.
His words were very simple.
“I am the Program.” (worthy of a capital)
Wow!
Not Weight Watchers, Noom…but God.
Sometimes programs can be like idols.
We often trust these more than God.
Imagine losing 10kgs in the flesh…and this not registering on heaven’s scales at all.
I can’t imagine God saying, “Wow, your skinner, I love you more now.”
My “fat fear” was nothing about losing weight but rather I was not trusting God to help menot get fat!
So….guess what?
I stopped all programs. I put the scale in the garage. I stopped keeping a food diary. That didn’t work anyway. Years ago it did!
Now, thank God, I am starting to heal.
Without programs.☺️
God is my new program and nothing else.
When God is your only program, everything starts to make sense.
Maybe I will go on an actual weight loss program later down the track but that’s God’s business and His money!
Instead, the program remains Him.
God is an amazing program.
He is real.
He will help you. 🙏
He doesn’t cost a cent and He has no side effects. There is no need to keep a diary because of Him. If you weighed God on our scale, I am sure He would not even register, and my spirit/soul weight wouldn’t register either! Often weight is not important from the perspective of heaven.
As He weans me off earthly programs and plans for now I have felt great joy and freedom and have started to heal from these destructive food patterns.
Sometimes it is OK to give up, when your soul lessons are more important.
I’m sure God never looked down at me and said, “Look at Helen. Still 10kgs overweight!”
Rather maybe He thought, “She still doesn’t trust me. Her trust in me, is what counts.”
One thing I do know, is that heaven’s scale matters more and you can put the human scale away (for good). God knows your weight (without even weighing you)! I would rather Him be “my scale” when I find myself getting overly obsessive.
God doesn’t lead you to obsessions, He leads you away from them.
Trust God-in-the-moment with healthy food.
Take a break from failures. ☺️
If you trust a program, you just get a program only.
If you trust God (zero cost by the way), you get Him (all free) and nothing stands in the way, plus He may also bless you with a free program that actually works. (The 16:8 intermittent fasting works really well for me)
Now I eat-in-the-moment and eat in the present. This feels very freeing. Like a child, sort-of-ish! Remember when we were kids? We ate normally, no F.O.F. (fear of fat)
I think that’s the way God wants us to eat.
If you are struggling to lose weight, maybe this post will help you. Maybe a weight loss program is the worst plan for you. Maybe you need to quit altogether and forget all about diets. Maybe you can’t even afford to pay the fees for a new weight loss program.
God’s help is free but overlooked by so many.
God may not even want you to lose weight right now.
Ask Him to help you identify the root issues.
Sometimes they are not in your body at all, but rather your soul.
(Send me a message at helenolenjin71@gmail.com if you are struggling)
He may tell you to quit everything but Him. For now.
When this happens, you are in the best place for a miracle, way bigger than weight loss.
Enjoy my Christian poems below. They will encourage you. ❤️
They will make you think of God.
They help me forget (about food, etc….).
God takes away our hungry feelings.
Jesus said that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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