True Arranged Marriage

I been thinking a lot about marriage for some reason, many people have been asking me what the bible says about marriage and relationships etc. It got me thinking this morning about a situation and had to type up my thoughts.

Imagine one day, whether by vision, dream or prophecy, the Lord came upon you and told you who you would marry. I know the first thing you would say is wow, how lucky am I, great!!! Where do I sign! But isn’t there more to it than that, isn’t there a certain fear you would have to face. What if you didn’t know the person that well or at least you thought you didn’t? Although you been told by the almighty who knows all, would you safely hand on heart say you wouldn’t be a little concerned, that you desires wouldn’t get in the way?

Now I want you to put yourself in this predicament, your laying on your bed or at work and God whispers to you that a person you know is going to be your husband/wife. He explains it to be a friend whom you don’t consider yourself to know well. I mean we would it expect it to be someone we know quite well right? Or someone you’ve known for years at least. But say if you didn’t know this person that well, would you still trust his will. Say if you were told of whom your partner shall be and you were happy with the choice, for example you did kind of like that person and knew there was something about them, something special. Would you still commit to marry even within a short time?

A Bishop once told me that she met her husband at the beginning of one year and got married exactly 12 month later. A lot of people would call this crazy but if God says it shall be so, is it still crazy? More so, I’ve met a lot of married Christians and there one thing that always strikes me and its the quick time in which they get hitched. Does time really play a part if God says so considering he lives in eternity? Once he says it, the delay is then with us right?

The bible says in Deuteronomy 28:2 that all God’s blessings will overtake you if you abide in him. Daily we pray for blessings, recently I’ve heard a lot of people praying for the right partner in their life but if God came to you in this way and answered you directly could you comprehend it all? It would be so overwhelming, I guess that’s why the scripture says it will overtake us, it would surpass human expectation and knowledge.

It leads me to think how much do we actually trust God If a prayer of this type is answered and we struggle to believe it?

If given the all clear should we not just dive right in, despite any reasons you may sense or see with your carnal knowledge. I mean we walk by faith and not sight, right?

So I leave you with this question;

If God came unto you tonight while you slept and told you to marry a person whom you never knew very well yet really liked, only knew for a short time and didn’t for-see the ability to marry that person in terms of finances etc, would you do it within good time?

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War & Peace

Today has been somewhat eventful. It’s been terrible, yet wonderful, sad, but funny, long yet short. I wonder if you’ve ever had one of those days where everything went wrong at first but by the end of it you look back and wonder why it got to you so much. It got me thinking things that us humans let get to us really isn’t as bad as they seem. Going through the storm always seems worse than when you look back at the storm. I guess this is the same thing as when something bad happens to you and it hurts, you cry out and cuss but when your friend tells you they gone through the same thing it doesn’t affect you.

How is it, at the time, I was having a terrible day someone else out there was having a wonderful day? More so it made me think that sorrow, hurt or anything that gets you angry is only for a moment. Now I feel fine, after my madness today I sat back, prayed and let it die down and amazingly it did die down. You know sometimes you’re going through something and the person says calm down, don’t worry you feel to just tump the person but today I learnt that it works.

It seems that patience really does diffuse a situation as before today I would have let off shots.

Sometimes experience is a virtue.

Looking at my past experiences where I did kick off I look back and noticed I reacted with my first reaction. Sometimes your first reaction isn’t always going to work, our emotions don’t really work for us but yet they work against us. If this is true then we don’t need emotions when we have a problem, its unnecessary and has a negative reaction almost all the time. For example, what’s the reason for shouting? If we speak in a normal tone the person still hears us, do we think they will hear us anymore than they would normally? When we lash out physically is it because you need to hit the person or is it because you’re not mature enough to communicate in a likely manner?

The bible says to not hate, fight, speak evil or anything on that level and when these things are preached to us, we say ok, fine I won’t but soon after when something bad happens again we can’t help but lash out again. It made me think that simply hearing the do’s and don’ts of our faith isn’t actually enough to keep us from doing it once were tempted. I feel we must understand the actual reason for the reaction and what it leads to, this way if you know the outcome of your reactions you won’t do it, not just because you’re taught not to.

Consequently, I now look back at past problems I’ve had and consider them to be minor even those that seemed like life or death. How is it that time can actually heal, I thought, then I realised it’s not time that heals. Time heals nothing! It’s our patience and experience that makes a mountain a molehill. With this said, I thank God for my past hurts and trials because what use to affect me doesn’t anymore and I would know that unless I had been through them.

Thankfully also the latter part of my day was fantastic, had some chicken shish and it was niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee took a step back and had faith and my problems solved themselves.

From now I’ll be more patient in decisions as my emotions are not sufficient and are very selfish sometimes selfishness breeds disappointment.
Thought of the day is: If a care is too small to turn into a prayer then it’s too small to be a burden and if you’ve prayed on it then believe God has got it covered!!!

God Bless
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My First Blog: The Intro

Hello & Welcome!

I wasn’t actually sure whether I should come on here or not, I’ve always wanted to but never thought of myself as much of a writer until now. More so, being my first post I was completely baffled as to what to write. So I thought to introduce myself;

My names Ashley Robinson aka Swagga Dagga aka Romantic Murphy aka Fredrick aka Dontae aka Mr Xclusive. Im a smart, easy going, fun, sociable and different kind of guy. I’m a son, father & entrepreneur. I have a son named Thailan who’s 4 and is my pride & joy and i currently reside in palmers green, North London.

Anyone who knows me always says I’m totally different, funny and spontaneous which I am lol but there’s more to me than that, it gets deeper. I have a very strong relationship with God and consequently am very spiritual. I minister a lot to friends and family and just love helping people out where I can. Love going to church and conferences and Christian events being inspired to now dive into the world of spreading the gospel through media. At present I’m working on a few secret ideas which shall be launched next year to do this (Watch this space!!!)

Apart from that my info’s in the about me box etc so read it lol....One of the main reasons I’m on here is because of I’ve got so much to say and also as I have the most eventful days due to this people have asked me to go into more depth about my thinking and about my experiences. I endeavour to post these things with as much formality as possible.

I’ll be hopefully posting a blog every night or more of not only my day in respect to my thoughts but I'll also be posting song lyrics, sermons I write, inspirational messages and much more. My own little diary. So keep following & tell a friend.

God Bless
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