Author: tobiowoyemi
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Hearing God Discernment Framework
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. This is a resource that the Lord lead me to make, however, I want to premise this with saying that it is not meant to reflect a requirement of perfection. The Bible teaches that Jesus brings truth with grace, and…
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Hearing God: Distinguishing the Source
As human beings, we are vessels and souls that can be filled with anything. We are often more impressionable than we realize. This is the beauty of humanity. When we are filled with God, we truly reflect His love and are empowered to be positive forces of change in the world. We can be filled…
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“’Question everything’ they said, ‘Why’, you asked’”
Repost from 2014, almost 10 years later and this is a reminder that still rings true today. Today we live in a technological society where social media is generally ubiquitous and controls a great deal of our beliefs. Not only are we bits and pieces of the people we interact with or the books we…
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: Click here to see the complete report.
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Keep a Journal and One Day it will Keep You
The number one reason is that you can monitor your growth. Sometimes we tend to get lost in the day to day and not really take the time to reflect on what direction we’re headed based on our recent actions. When you journal you really get to know yourself on another level. And when you…
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Insight from my sagacious Father
My dad just told me about a Yoruba poem called Work is the Antidote of Poverty, that he was forced to memorize while he was in primary school, and being the americanized first generation child that I am I incorporated some of my sociological knowledge into the conversation and said, some people can work all…
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A broken winged bird
Originally posted on Floss and All: Hold fast to dreams. For when dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes birthed these words and today, I will try to unpack them, offering an analysis, if you will. I first heard this poem at the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s Meyerhoff…
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Proverbs 31 Phenomenal-Woman Kind of Woman
Do people actually just get up from bed one morning and decide to always look at life from a ‘glass half full’, ‘smell the roses’, ‘walking on sunshine’ perspective, or does something [unpleasant] happen to them to open their eyes to the joys of living this kind of life? I will say this, the former…
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Tobi Owoyemi 