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Thank God for your enemies
Contributed by
yinkafongod
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Thursday, 3rd December 2009 @ 10:47:37 AM in AEST
Topic:
InspirationalPoems
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We have reasons to count our blessing throughout
the year and thank God for them. We send out cards
to our loved ones, families and friends to express our
appreciation for the value they have placed on our lives.
This year however, I will like us to take this ritual even further.
That elite group of men and women that touched our lives
negatively on many different levels and made our lives less
pleasant are the missing links and chains that led to our success. Without them, we will never have been pushed to be our best.
For this reason, with humility and sincerity of heart, I want us to
say thank you to everybody, including all our enemies and those
who hate us; because they pushed us to improve ourselves. So
Everyone who wrote you off and counted you out, I say "Thank You."
To everyone that ignored your phone calls, text messages and
emails when you desperately needed them
To all those that talked bad about you and made a mockery of you
To those that laughed at you when you failed and made you a
caricature of what success ought to be
Those that spoke ill of you and threw stones at you, when what you
needed was a kind word and spiritual upliftment.
To those that got you fired from your job
To those that trashed your resume before HR could even see it
To those that called you brother and stabbed you in the back
To those who called your sister and then questioned your morality
over the phone
To those pastors that used their pulpits as a negative pedestal to
lambaste you, instead of preaching about the love and mercy of
Christ our Lord and Savior
All those that said “you will never do well or amount to anything..."
To those that had condemned you to perpetual dependence on
food stamps and welfare checks.
To those that gave up on you, when God was still holding onto you
To those in your households that thought your dreams were pipe
dreams and wrote you off as a non-starter and a mad man.
To those that betrayed you to your family and business partners
To all those that excluded you from what was an exclusive and
elite group, just because they were afraid of what you might become
For the long nights they made you cry bitter tears of pain and hurt
To those long sleepless nights when you thought the world was
a wicked jungle.
To that one you loved that left you heart-broken for another.
To that fiancé that left you
To those that made you feel sick
Those that prayed that you should fail
Those that wanted you to die
To that baby’s daddy that left you penniless with a small child
to clothe and feed
To those that lied about you to your husband or wife and
caused your divorce
To that man that told you he loved you when he knew perfectly
well you were not what he wanted
To the girl that left you for another man because you had nothing
To the lonely and dark nights when you felt weak and alone
You were not as ready and determined like you are now
You were not as determined to change things like you are now
So thank God for your enemies——they empower you
Thank God for them——they pushed you
Look at you now
Say thank you "Frenemy"——see how far God has brought me
I will propose that you send cards to all those that
wrote you off and thank them wholeheartedly.
Without these enemies or haters, you will never have had the drive
that you now have
You will not have been able to accomplish all that you
have accomplished so far.
So instead of fighting back, use their negativity to your advantage.
Adjust your situation and turn your weaknesses into strengths
Roll out the red carpet for your enemies and haters
They are your VIPs and honorable guests
They will have to seat with you at the high table so they could take
a closer look at what you have become
When they wrote you off, God wrote you back right in
Make sure your table is large enough to contain all of them
Do not un-invite or forget anyone of them.
The psalmist says “he prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies”
They are your greatest assets because without them, you will not
reach for your God-given inner strengths
My God, they are my steroid
They pump me up and keep me going
They cause me to work harder, run faster and to jump higher
No coach or a motivational speaker could ever get me pumped up like my enemies and haters do
No one leaves me determined to succeed like my enemies and haters.
Thank God for my enemies--
Thank your enemies this year.
Stanley Fongod
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Re: Thank God for your enemies
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by longhaircg on
Thursday, 3rd December 2009 @ 12:09:33 PM AEST
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awsome bravo great insite, i believe i will think of this for some time to come
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