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Godly Indignation💔

Crack the crack!
Daily writing prompt
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?
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I would love to tell Christians about cracking-the-crack!

I made up CTC this week!

My hubby said something to me today that really encouraged me!

He said –

“You thrive in diasters!”

Meaning, by inference, when life gets tougher, your happiness grows!

He likened this to the fungi growing after the Chernobyl disaster! I had no idea about this kind of fungi growing then!

I was thankful my husband told me this because I realised that I too had grown in very difficult circumstances.

It was the realisation that in the awful messiness of life, things can still grow.

I don’t rejoice in hardships, but I learn to rejoice in my God! A lot! So I give God all the glory!

As we go through another crazy season in life, I find myself surviving yet another storm.

Recently I was exhausted! I begged God to bring me rest and peace! Instead the storm kept going! So I had no choice but to continue with the battles of life.

But then a very interesting thing happened.

As I did not get the rest I desired, I faced the storm! Through it, I got sharper, more stimulated and wind blown! Even stronger! Only because I had no choice to stop the gale. So in the gale, I kept going with God’s strength and then I became curious….

Jesus is the master of your storm

This storm was not stopping. I noticed new strength I did not think I had.

It was a new dimension of a Christian storm I had never experienced before.

What was this new dimension?

It was a brand new dimension inside me that I have never had before, until now!

It was called the 53 year old Godly Indignation!

The great G.I.

This AHA! G.I. moment, can be the precursor before the fruit of the spirit called PEACE, truly grows in our lives.

Sometimes we develop greater fruits of the spirit only “after”!

Tribulations often come first!

When we realise that Satan has lied to us for too long, we fiercely protect our future growth in God, even before new growth happens.

We learn to say indignantly, “I already choose the default setting of PEACE in the new storms to come. This peace shows God I am putting my trust in Him. The enemy has no right to steal my peace!”

In my case, I said –

“You are not gonna kill me, storm! I am done with believing 53 year old lies!”

( That’s my age!)

A storm is a workout 💪 for your soul!

“I believe God! He doesn’t want me to worry in this 53rd gale!”

But bigger than all of this, is the old-peace that God has put in your and my heart! You know that old-peace that passes all understanding? It’s the ☆comfie slippers feeling that everything will turn out OK. It must! Because God is always OK.

Put your soul in God’s slippers and rest! 😉

God is fully in control and taking care of His children.

Yes, that also includes you and your loved ones!

I made up this LOL poem below today and shared it with my husband.

I hope it encourages you too!

It’s funny but true!

Crack the crack with the WORD OF GOD

My poem

I thrive on opposition!
But so do you!
When your under pressure…
You must not crack too!

Crack the crack!
Don’t let the crack, crack you!
For in fighting the crack,
You build muscle too!

Not visible muscles,
But POWER inside!
These muscles are attached to your soul,
They grow bigger
When tried!

Your soul muscles are pressed now…
Their hurting I know!
But soon your crack will be invisible
Because you
Learnt to say NO!!

NO, I will not crack!
I hear you say to me!
This crack is
My opponent (Satan)
Who will never
Crack me!

♡Author Helen Olenjin♡

Poetry~Heavenly Rhythms~

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Mind Your Mind

Daily writing prompt
Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.
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“If I wrote a blog post today Lord, what is the first thing that needs to come to my mind?”

What comes to my mind now, is the image above.

Jesus has His hand on the girl’s mind.

Why is this important?

It’s important because your mind is always speaking aloud in heaven!

Treat your mind as if it’s on God’s stage all the time. Because it is. God can hear all your thoughts. 

If you heard your mind speaking aloud, the way God hears it, would you not mind, if in heaven, the mind conversation was recorded in full? 

I can imagine Jesus saying, “My dear child, your mind is not muted, even for a second.”

Because of this fact, your mind is loud.

Really loud! 

All the time.

But this is good to know. 

Only because your mind is always on God’s stage.

This fact, helps you to think vigilantly. 

Your mind is a “thinking” 24/7 performance, all on its own. But it’s not even aware of this!

But your mind of Christ is! 

Imagine reading a big book in heaven about all your thoughts in 2025?

When I write these reflections, I am encouraged.

Only because you and I know that God is watching us think & live on a better new page right now!

As we think better thoughts now, (compared to hours ago when we perhaps got off 👣 track😊)we realise that everything will be OK.

My new thought goes like this, “I see my mind in Jesus’s hands. My mind is real to Him and it is also heaven’s place. God helps me think with the mind of Christ as I obey His Word.”

~Think like a child~

Please continue to pray for us.

We are very grateful for our church, their love, support and prayers. I am very grateful for my readers who come here from different parts of the world and also my WordPress subscribers who are writers too!

Our situation…..

My husband needs to find a new job as soon as possible.

His U.S.A. work company went bankrupt just recently. He is a Senior Software Developer.

I know God is watching me “trust Him in my mind” and this is far more significant than my husband finding a job!

Only because a relationship with God is more important than earthly resources.

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Easter Started With Doubt….

When our Saviour carried his cross to the site of execution, there was plenty of doubt!

But this great sadness, ended in great joy!

The decision to write this poem, resulted in a wonderful understanding that doubt is never justified when it seeks to gain authority over faith.

Have a restful Easter.

Love Helen ♥️

Daily writing prompt
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.
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Faith Always Wins

Don’t doubt Jesus’s promise to return!

Put your faith in Jesus.

Don’t put faith in your doubt.

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Christian Counsel Is A Good Thing…

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Describe one positive change you have made in your life.
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I write poetry!

This positive change helps me on difficult days.

Today I have decided to write a new poem in one hit and publish immediately.

I have never done this before!

 I still have three poems in draft format and they are all about defeating worry. 

If you are new here, feel free to read all my poems and posts at helenolenjin.life.❤️

I am curious about one thing today….

“What will be the topic of this new poem I am just about to write?”

I have no idea!

But God has written it already….so here goes…

Today I am looking through glass(cafe window)

I see a busy city street

I am sitting in a cafe

Where eternal souls meet!

The cafe is temporal 

Their souls are not!

I wonder if they think of God

Or just live in the knots!

The knots are life’s problems

The knots get knottier with self

When they are never shared with an unraveller

Who knows God is our HELP

Humans are unravellers 

They are often trained well

To unravel other knotty souls

Who are going through hell!

But just stop and consider…

This one truth I say!

Is another soul unravelling your knots

Who ignores God’s holy ways?

This soul may be smart

And this soul may be paid well

This soul may have studied for years

To help souls become well!

But if this person 

Excludes God

Erasing God’s holy Word

If this soul erases Jesus,

This soul is not heard!

This head knowledge may be right

But it doesn’t heal all the dross 

The soul remains unredeemed as it

Excludes Jesus’s cross! 

Meaning, heaven doesn’t hear earth, 

Why help souls without God?

Earth may temporarily help you…

But this unraveller, doesn’t know God!

You need a unraveller, dear friend,

Who is God’s child for real!

They will help unravel your difficult knots

They know the One Who heals!

Our perfect unraveller is Jesus

He knows where to find the end of your knots!

Your big knotty ball of troubles

Is a huge knot that can stop! 

How do I unknot the knot? I hear you ask today

My life gets harder and harder

The knots are all tangled, I say!

Shhhh….let’s now listen to what God is telling you and I!

He already has your knot unravelled…

It’s your blessing in disguise

Stop trying to unravel this knot ….

It’s tangled for a season

It will be incrementally unravelled …

It is there for a reason

This knot is your storm,

That heaven has already undone!

It’s like a spiritual maze for your soul

That gets easier with the Son! (Jesus)

So in simple terms 😌 I say,

Your knot is like a voice!

A “nudge” from God right now….

To listen to God’s choice!

Choose Christian friends and counsellors

Instead of the wordly ones

But pray first to God to find them!

He knows who is with the Son!

These Christians are redeemed 

They are set apart for God’s work

Their names are written in heaven 

They have experienced spiritual rebirth

They know the One Who heals!

These souls are trained well

Not just in universities and schools

But where the Holy Spirit dwells!

~Poem written by Helen Olenjin~

Psalm 1:1: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.” 

Thank you for this comment below 🙏 precious person/reader! You were my greatest encourager today!

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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The Strange Woman I Met Today….

Please Be Careful Everywhere You Go🧐
Daily writing prompt
What activities do you lose yourself in?
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I lose myself in writing!

Today a really strange “true” thing happened!

I was walking to the train station to catch a train. It was my day off and I was dying to have a break. It had been a very tough week.

Suddenly a car driving by, slowed down.

There was a lady behind the wheel. She looked Asian. She was 100% a stranger. I had never seen her before. There was nothing odd in her appearance or her car.

But her question was extremely odd.

She said, “Do you want a lift to the train station?” (the station was very close by)

I was truly shocked! (not a taxi/uber either)

She was talking to me like I was her daughter!

It wasn’t raining!

I wasn’t limping therefore suggesting I needed help. There wasn’t even any introduction.

Today, no one asks a complete stranger to get into their vehicle to go some place!

I felt really indignant.

“No thank you. I do not need help walking…” ( my own thoughts)

“You don’t even know me. For all you know, I could be a serial killer. And you are asking me to get into your car?” (my thoughts)

But the other thought I am having now, is what if she was a serial killer? How did she even ask the unthinkable question?

Now days, even women cannot trust one another.

I made sure I did not get close to her car door. Just in case she grabbed me and stuffed me in her car.

I stiffly said, “No. I don’t even know you!”

I kept walking, feeling slightly annoyed that this woman did not appear to be living in the real world!

Stop, wait a minute! Maybe she wasn’t even from our world! 😉

The Bible says some have entertained angels unaware!

Or was this a man dressed like a woman?

Or was this woman a real woman but slightly unhinged?

I really would have liked to continue the conversation and find out why this woman acted this way. But it is scary to keep talking.

I would have liked to say, “Who are you? Where do you come from? Don’t you know that your question is not a safe one?”

What is my theory?

I am not sure.

Was she perhaps lost or new to the area and needed help to find the train station herself? Early dementia? Respectfully said.

If so, it was a very weird request because long gone are the days where anyone trusts a complete stranger. In my area, no one would ever say this. No, I don’t live in a small village but near a very big city where by default, people do not converse like that!

I hope this woman will be OK.

I hope she is well.

But I must admit I feel uncomfortable to know the real truth.

I simply cannot trust a weird stranger at all. A bit sad, but that is how it is now.

Btw..please do not trust normal strangers either!

When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, she appeared indignant too!

“What are you talking to me for?”

I 🥰 know that Jesus is the only 100% safe Person to be around.

You can fully trust Him.

If He asks you a question, don’t be suspicious, He only has your best interests at heart.

When you answer His question, know that He is not out to deceive you, dress like a woman, carry a big knife to kill you or act unhinged.

Jesus is never fake and is not out to scare you!

I like these thoughts He has for us.

Jesus is always genuine.

Jesus is always good.

Maybe this lady was sincere with no ulterior motive. I have no idea.

But I still wonder….

What do you think?

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Weigh your soul…

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What’s your favorite candy?
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Soul candy 🍬 is my favourite!

I call these God’s rewards!

Only because they are the “sweetest” and they have no ill side effects.

“The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but He delights in accurate weights.”  (Proverbs 11:1)

Earth is dishonest.

Even the candy is!

The scales we use, (after eating lots of sugar!) weigh the body but not the soul. 

Did God set the “healthy weight range” on Google?

No.

Man did.

If we focus on the “ranges” set by earth, we miss God entirely. 

We may find we are stressing about a “human measure” on earth, that God Himself, never set for us.

Feel better, after reading this?

Yes! Me too!

How much does your soul weigh? 

This is the better question.

Not, how much does my body weigh?

If we focus on “soul-weight” and then get this right, then we have prioritised the most important discipline. 

God is our discipline!

Not the discipline itself. 

When God is our Program, our Process, our Discipline, our Measure, our Everything, we find that the battles we face, are greatly reduced.

This is because our soul weight, is accurate in God’s eyes! (we struggle less when we obey God the first time)

When we put Him first in everything, our soul feels the perfect weight of heaven! 

That’s the kind of weight I want to carry! 

This is heaven’s gold!

It’s not the toxic weight of earth! 

An accurate weight in your spirit, will lead to the greatest peace and joy! 

This IS God’s weight and “this scale”,  leads to the accurate spiritual measure of self. 

You may be the fattest person alive, (physically) on planet earth, but have the “perfect soul weight” in God’s eyes.

 Only because then and there, you decided the weight of your soul was the most important!

In this AHA moment, God weighed you (the fat man) and saw what earth never did! 

He saw 👀 an honest scale and an accurate soul weight!

Only here, can you start achieving physical disciplines too, according to God’s will for you!

But it always starts with weighing your eternal soul 1st!

Author ~Helen Olenjin

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~Steps For Eternity~

Hi Subi prayer partners,

This is my gift to you. ❤️

Your steps matter to God

~The steps you take on earth, have great significance~

The LORD directs the steps of the godly.

He delights in every detail of their lives.

(Psalm 37:23)

God’s home was my safety

God’s home was my guide

God’s home was my comfort

God’s will, was inside!

♡♡♡

But I chose to ignore God’s call

So I stepped out without Him

I packed all my belongings

I wanted to experience sin.

♡♡♡

I left my childhood Bible

I brought my worldly sack

I chose to walk away

I didn’t wanna turn back!

♡♡♡

As I stepped alone in freedom

My footprints came too

They quietly left their mark

Without my worn out shoes.

♡♡♡

Every time I turned around

They disappeared so quick!

I wanted my footprints to stay

But the path was no longer lit!

♡♡♡

Why are my steps vanishing?

Why are they fading away?

Where is the dark taking them?

My steps are vanishing today!

♡♡♡

My steps replied and said

“We have no lasting good”

“You stepped off track awhile back”

“We would have stopped you if we could!”

♡♡♡

You took these steps

Without God

You left His loving home

God didn’t preserve your steps

As you stepped out on your own!

♡♡♡

“As earthly steps, we vanish”

“We will never come back”

“Why don’t you step again”

“And pray for new steps”

“To come back?”

♡♡♡

How do they come back, I wondered?

Don’t all steps vanish away?

How can any steps last

As earth’s a temporal way?

♡♡♡

As I stopped and thought

My heart whispered in my ear

“Your steps that follow God”

“Will instantly re-appear!”

♡♡♡

These golden steps

Are God’s will

They will last beyond earth

These endure and

Don’t vanish away

They are supernaturally birthed!

♡♡♡

In my heart, I prayed silently

I knew these steps

Spoke truth

I hated to walk

In darkness

I now wore

Dirty boots!

♡♡♡

I tossed my boots aside

I scrubbed

My dirty feet

I begged God

To give me His steps

That walked on golden streets.

♡♡♡

God dressed my feet

With His!

God’s feet became my own

I stepped inside

His loving steps

I joyfully walked home.

♡♡♡

I paused and stared behind me,

I saw a pair of golden feet

They didn’t disappear

Like my old steps,

They stayed visible

On God’s street!

♡♡♡

They were left there

For you

God wanted them

To remain!

This poem I am

Gifting you with today,

Is written in Jesus’s name.

♡♡♡

Follow these steps dear soul

They will lead you to Psalm 103

Read these verses on your knees

God’s Word will set you free!

♡♡♡

~Poem written by Helen Olenjin~

Steps orchestrated by God Are never wasted 👣

When you follow Jesus, miracles happen

~Steps For Eternity~

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Desire God first

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What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?
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When we don’t desire God, our daily habits change….

For me personally, I find that praying and seeking God daily, is a habit that I never forget. He is so deeply ingrained in my soul that to forget Him would be unimaginable.

God allowed me to get to a state of total dependence on Him during my weakest most difficult moments, and when these moments passed, He still reminded me of Him even in good times!

He knew that if I stopped desiring Him during my daily habits, there would be no other place to go but myself.

Losing the desire for God, then opens my own doors that are fully bound to earth, doors that lead to nowhere, doors that lead to empty rooms and doors that never fill me once I open them.

I know that if I desire God in all my daily habits, life greatly improves, not because anything changed externally but rather because God saw my desire for Him, and He reached out and desired me too!

In this unified desire for each other, God and his child, experience a unity that can never be experienced by one who never desires God.

To desire God always, is a pure child like desire with no ill side effects. Because this desire is good, it leads to pure outcomes.

We never need to limit our desire for God.

This desire is the only “one” that radically changes your daily habits.

Desire God.

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37)

There is no greater desire than this.

Help me God to desire You the most.

Love Helen Olenjin ❤️

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Giving God your best fruits in leisure

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What motivates you?
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Education motivates me!

Focus on fun education not just entertainment

I am not a uni student but I see the tremendous value in educating myself all the time, on my own initiation.

As a 53 year old mother to four children, I am a Christian but God still expects me to help myself….being my own coach, my own encourager, my own motivator and my own boot camp person, is all necessary under the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

I am an independent Support Worker and as a sole trader without a boss over me, whatever I do, I have to constantly push myself as an individual.

This works very well for me as I have the freedom of great flexibility and can also choose my own clients.

But I still struggle with food. It is my unhealthy crutch in so many situations.

This morning, was a big AHA moment for me!

I thank God for this wisdom because it helped me a great deal.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” ( James 1:5)

Last night I wanted to eat again even though I had eaten enough!

It was the usual cycle of over-eating when bored, happy, sad and mad!

So I prayed, “Please God help me not to eat.”

I knew I needed to break these toxic habits around food and stop over-eating.

Today, in answer to that prayer, this marvellous line flashed through my mind!

“Educate yourself, don’t Entertain yourself, then you won’t Eat!”

Educate!

Yes!

Entertain?

Not so much!

God’s wisdom to me personally, made perfect sense.

When we focus on entertainment, we can mindlessly eat.

When we focus on educating ourselves during our leisure time, we feel good about “learning even in rest” and this natural sin-free high, sustains us and we forget about food!

I am not against a bit of fun and entertainment but I realised how empty I felt when mindlessly scrolling on my phone making no progress at all!

A hole-in-my-soul kind of feeling!

Once again, I am reminded that God is always better than Netflix! ( I was tempted to start watching the Lost series again!)

I am very thankful God helped me see that the temptation to over-eat was usually linked to entertainment, not education.

This revelation to me personally is astounding!

Even in our leisure time, we can be well rested but stimulated still!

Creating Godly spiritual universities inside self where God Himself is the “Only Teacher” but the best One, really helps to improve our quality of leisure when we have nothing left to do.

In this place, God has our full attention and our soul can learn the most, when many people learn the least.

Education during leisure! 😊

I think many people over-eat during entertainment because they are trying to fill a hole that only God can fill.

How perfectly God fills us even in rest,❤️ when we put His truths first!

Love Helen Olenjin ♥️

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Reflections in God’s mirror

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How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
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Invisible! 😉

Look at yourself through God’s eyes….

Why do humans feel the need to tweak “self” before posting their own photos?

I think it is because people don’t like how they look.

I ☺️ prefer to let the insecurity of “self” go and rather focus on how God sees me.

He sees me without all the human trimmings.

How would I look if God took a spiritual photo?

I honestly think I would be shocked.

I would also be speechless.

Firstly, my denim jeggings, purple sport jacket and sparkly love heart necklace would go!

My good quality sneakers would mean nothing to Him.

The grey hair I don’t like, would disappear! That’s a great thought!

My brown eyes would not appear as you see them.

He would perhaps see the eyes of my heart, soul and spirit.

But the Lord said unto Samuel, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” (1Samuel 16:7)

Would my “short term human face” cease to exist in God’s photo/mirror?

Would He rather “see” the qualities of heaven that He placed in me, right now?

Would there be light surrounding me that I cannot see?

Perhaps.

Or a look of heaven’s salt?

I really hope so!

(Christians are the salt of the earth.)

I don’t think my chubby bits would matter to Him.

What was in my current earthly surroundings, wouldn’t matter either….

Meaning the bench I am sitting on right now and the Swan River in front of me.

These thoughts I am having now, are profound, because we often worry about the earthly shells the most and God doesn’t want us too!

If you saw your soul’s reflection in God’s mirror 🪞, what would be the view ✨️you would want God to see?

I would say, “The truth.”

Because really there is no escape and no false tweaking (like on a photo App) of the soul in front of a God who never allows a human image, no matter how beautiful, to be acceptable in His sight.

So if your image is flawed, rejoice!

God wants your heart. ❤️