Friday 27 February 2015

Tina Campbell and Husband Teddy 2015 Goals: ‘Love More Purely, Listen to Holy Spirit’


Singer Tina Campbell (MARY MARY) and her husband Teddy mended their marital issues in 2014, and now the gospel star and drummer are sharing some of their joint goals for 2015.
The couple has a joint Instagram account where they recently wrote a note about some things they hope to achieve in 2015.
“Note to self: For 2015 love more purely, give the understanding you’d like to get, be more patient with others, consider others, be less insensitive, compliment others more, let stuff go, pray for people even when there’s no crisis, practice listening instead of being heard, read the Bible and talk to Jesus more than anyone else,” the Instagram note reads. “Be quiet and listen to the Holy Spirit more than anyone else. Be disciplined! Stop making excuses! Be better..on purpose!”
Tina overcame her husband’s nine infidelities in 2013 and watched God heal her brokenness in 2014. This year Tina will release a solo album and book.
After publicly battling the death of her father and husband’s infidelities in public forums in 2013, the singer insisted that she and her husband are living proof that modern day miracles still happen.
“I know God opened up the Red Sea for the children of Israel; He kept the three Hebrew boys from getting burned up in the fire; He kept Daniel from getting eaten by that lion, but He also kept Tina and Teddy from a broken marriage and He did it in one year,” Tina said. “That is a modern-day miracle. So anybody who can come to experience that God is still doing miracles, God is still proving Himself, the Bible is still real and it can still work in your life, I would think that anybody can be encouraged by that.”

Thursday 26 February 2015

Amid Basketball Struggles, Jeremy Lin Reveals How He Plans to Bring Back Joy in God



Jeremy Lin has admitted that he has had one of the toughest seasons of his basketball career but now vows to find joy in God despite his circumstances.
Lin, the 26-year-old Los Angeles Lakers guard, took to his personal website to admit that he was disappointed in his season. Still, the Christian athlete acknowledged that God was present during his trials.
“At times, it has felt like the barriers were insurmountable or that I was powerless to control things around me,” Lin wrote. “From a basketball standpoint, I’m obviously disappointed, but God is always working — even through life’s struggles and disappointments.”
He admitted to feeling challenges with finding joy in his circumstances.
“There have been many times this past season where I was filled with frustration, many situations where I felt overwhelmed and many nights where I couldn’t sleep much because I was thinking about the game,” Lin wrote. “But through it all, I’ve been learning how to surrender the results to God, how to walk by faith and not by sight, how to be renewed through times of prayer/Scripture and how to fight for a life of joy in the midst of trials.”
The basketball player said he is now dedicating his games to God and taking time to be grateful to be healthy and do what he loves. While Lin said his trials have allowed him to focus on Jesus Christ, he quoted Romans 8:28 and Romans 5:13 in order to focus on God’s promises of peace, joy and everything working for the good of those who believe.