LET’S HAVE FUNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

          Living out for JESUS is totally fun!!! As a new creature in Christ Jesus people will try to make you feel like you’re missing out on all the fun. Rubbish fun! Do you know why it is rubbish? Because it doesn’t bring glory to God! Who will consider grieving the Holy Spirit as fun? Lord have mercy! For example, when i was still deep in the things of the world, i would do all sort of things i thought was fun. When i finished, my heart would be soooo heavy and sad and because i was always coming out empty. Deep down inside i knew the so called fun i was having wasn’t a good one because it made me feel like God was frowning at me. I was conscious of the fact that there was God and i had to please Him but i was so ignorant and lost in my ways i could not find a way out of it. 
 

Can i be real???....

I would go to this parties, get so drunk and mess myself up with guys and come home still feeling EMPTY!!! Why??? I wondered! I wasn’t having FUN God’s own way.

If you know deep down in your heart, even as a new creature in Christ Jesus that you do stuffs (i.e. your own way of having fun) and you still come out empty with a heavy heart feeling guilty (even when you still try to play ignorant) then you’re not having fun God’s own way! QUIT IT!!!

If you know you haven’t accepted Jesus as your Lord and personal saviour then you would be dead to your conscience even when you feel in a corner of your heart what your doing is wrong. You have to make a declaration to live out for JESUS CHRIST and ACCEPT Him into your heart. I repeat, THIS EARTH IS ONLY TEMPORALY. You won’t be here forever. 

I would share with you few steps to have massive fun Christ way and not feel like you have gone astray or grieved the Holy Spirit. He is not called the HOLY Spirit for nothing. If He lives inside of us because our body is His temple (2 Corinthians 6:16) then how can He stay in a filthy temple? He is HOLY, when we grieve Him He leaves. Trust me you don’t want to make Him leave because that would be an empty temple with no direction and instead of being directed God’s way the devil will slip in and direct us the wrong way. God forbid. 

After i gave my life to Christ i had to cut off fun the worlds’ way because i noticed it was always making me feel heavy and i know it was leading me down the wrong path. 

 So here are some fun i retreated to:

1.      I stopped hanging out with married or unmarried men with WRONG motives and calling them friends. (Like really??? What sort of friends please? I would convinced myself that it was a harmless date and at the end of it all, the rubbish spat out of our mouths was as good as a man hanging himself). So rather than craving for free meal ( that does not always end up FREE) and then feeling so used and all, i take all that craving, call up a few friends and have a little sit out where we could eat all we want, have good meaningful conversation and not wake up in a strangers bed. (p.s it doesn’t have to be a fancy restaurant. You can create your own fancy). 

2.     “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14. The Message Bible says, “Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple?”  Gosh i just love this translation.  *wakes up from meditating deeply on this and getting back to my point. Lol

So who are your friends? Yes Jesus had alllll sort of them, from prostitutes to money collectors, to bullies, you name it. BUT He was able to get them to FOLLOW Him and not the other way round. Who’s following you??? Who are you leading? Or they are doing the leading? You are walking this earth for a purpose miss/mister. We will not waste it in JESUS name. Amen.

                You see, even after i gave my life to Christ, i felt it was still okay to go clubbing with my friends. (i won’t want to initially, but they always seem to talk me into doing it) > That is them leading me and not me doing the leading as a followers of Christ ... So there we would be, partying all night into the morning, drinking alll sort to feel a special kinda way, cussing, etc. I look back at my past and can’t help but screammmmmm, “THANK YOU JESUS FOR SAVING ME”. I was taking God’s temple into the wrong gathering and messing it up seriously. I wanted to be saved and still be cool. Lol, i sit now and laugh at how silly i was to ever think that was a coolll thing to do. Hahahahahaha.

 Look, i plead with you to open up your hearts and digest this post the way God desires you do. He wants us to depopulate hell, don’t assist the devil in roaming this earth to SKD (steal, kill and destroy). 

So one day, there i was, during my birthday after few months of being saved, i thought i needed to go party it up with my friends and one way or the other papi got to hear about it. The next day, getting ready for lectures, i got a call from him that contributed to changing my mind-set about this sort of fun. He asked me to list the kind of people we find in the club. I started listing and listing and they also ended up as people taking me further away from God rather than drawing me closer to Him. I couldn’t even list 1 great man of God found there. How can i hang here? What sort of fun is this?.... I wondered. I quickly repented. That day, i could not get myself out of the house, i was wreaked and sober. Had to cling to the throne room of mercy. “But Joann i love to dance, i love music and flashlights”. Well, it would interest you to know there is even a more coolerrrr way to have awesome fun. 

GOSHHH!!! The thought of it alone makes me what to screammmm!!! My mother always say in church, “It’s a shame when you go out there into the world, party the worlds way, listen and scream their music out loud and come into the presence of God with a heavy mouth that can’t open up and stand still to His praises and worship. You need Jesus to deliver you”. Truth be told. She is uber right!!!

I found theee BEST way to dance till i drop, get hangovers from the deep worship, scream praises in awesome ways and get beautiful tingling in my body. And that this can happen anywhere, at any time, and anyhow!!! I do it most times at midnights, in church concerts, every Sunday in church and weekdays too.

 This can only be boring to you if you don’t know what you’re on this earth for and who is still keeping you on this earth to even be able to read on this post. 

This type of fun is fun God’s way and it even have benefits attached to it (check out my post PRAISE IS WHAT I DO).

So, rather than letting this friends lead you out of God’s plan... You should take charge and do the leading. Have them follow you to church, concerts that you know God’s presence dwells there and you can even conduct your own praise and worship session. I have done it a zillion times with my family and friends. We would wake up at midnight, not asking God for anything but getting soaked in praise and worship to Him and now see where we are..... Marvellous GOD!!! 

3.     It’s not good funnnn to cuss and listen to music that does not edify the Spirit of God. Now you should know it’s a cycle.... What you swallow in is what you spit back out. Connect it whichever way you desire, physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, etc.

You listen to this music and watch this videos to stay coolll to your friends (remember you’re to change them not the other way around). Now, you listen to this music, watch this videos and get the wrong seeds planted into your head. Days later (or even same day) you start to act out what you heard or saw. Spit cusses F**k, S**t, and act all violent. Now please be nice enough to share with me how this dirty acts clean up God’s temple? You mop the floor of your mind or heart with dirty water and expect to smell fresh? Common honey, it ain’t magical. We have to guard our hearts...... Remember, 

“Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right of the left; keep your feet from evil.” Proverbs 4: 23-27. 

We can’t seem its cool to cuss and use that same mouth to worship God, it won’t get past the roof. I found a cooler way to fun this out.  

 I got rid of alll dirty music and videos and got only music and videos that edifies the Spirit of God. My phone is almost 5 years and when people ask me how and why it hasn’t crashed or broken down, i quickly tell them because the Holy Spirit dwells inside it. (Call me spiritual) but let’s reason together, i feed my phone with just worship and praise and use it for His glory too. Now where is room for the devil to come frustrate me by making it crash? I told you what you swallow in is what you spit out. In my car, you can’t catch me listening or playing music that plants bad seeds into my heart. And i believe that’s why my car is still waxing stronger. Lol. You see boo, words are seeds, reading these words now, I’m planting seeds into your heart (believe it or not). The pastor that preaches does the same and you feel your music doesn’t?

You wonder why you have the urge to have sex and defile God’s temple, you even say the devil cost it. But YOU are letting him in. You are dancing to his beats and dwelling in the wrong company and going to the wrong places. When the Bible said, “Keep your feet from evil”. He didn’t mean going to kill or another thing you’re thinking of that is justifying you right now. Keeping your feet from evil can mean going to those houses you know pulls you away from God. E.g. drugs, gossip, premarital sex, envy, hatred, etc.

What have you been letting in???

There are lottttttttt more fun things to do. Like; Bible study with friends, games, worship, singing praises in the shower, movies, going to the spa, playing sport, cooking up new meals, learning new activities, fellowshipping with people, all this to the Glory of God... (p.s right now I’m worshipping as i type, it’s just sooo beautiful).

If you’re not saved or probably dead to your conscience or still playing ignorant, all i have written in this post would be seen as shown below:-

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It would appear to you as rubbish. 

I love you sooooo deeply and your salvation is my happiness also. Please let JESUS CHRIST into your blessed blood-pumping heart now and make Him Lord over you. You can’t do this life alone. We alllll need Him to live in us. It’s either your serving GOD or the devil. Make that decision today to serve JESUS and watch Heaven celebrate you greatly. 

Shout out to having FUNNNN God’s OWN WAY!!!

I love you but JESUS loves you most.

   JOANN ENE-ITA