WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN (DO YOUR BEST AND LEAVE THE REST TO GOD)

 

Hey everyone

How has this week been treating for you? I trust we are winging it and winning. Myself I am trying to hang in there and do my very possible best. I believe that when we do our best in any situation we are in, if nothing else happens we will feel the peace of having tried, of having given till there was no more to give. and then we can with a peaceful heart leave the rest to God.

One thing bothers me though, how do you know when you have done your best, how do you know when to say there is nothing else I can do? For some people there may be an easy answer to this but not for me. Especially with my business, I give and give and do and do and I don't believe I have given enough till I have achieved success. I mean how can it be my best if I have not achieved my goals?

How do you do know when to leave the rest to God as the adage goes? I have been trying to make my first movie for sometime now and nothing seem to be working. I have practically tried all ways and done all things I can do, spoken to brands, business partners, friends and family and nothing seem to have worked. I want to know is it time to throw in towel, fold my hands and leave it to God?

I need answers readers. Can I even be happy doing nothing to bring out my goals? Is this what it is all about, knowing when to cease adding work to faith and trusting that God would perform all the work?

The answer I keep coming up with is that I can't give up. There must still be other ways and other things I can do but I still keep wondering, if I keep trying to do it by myself when and how do I trust God enough to allow Him to do the rest. As I am writing, I keep getting the inspiration that one does not exist without the other

That is faith, work, patience and prayers. These four must come first before miracles. I cannot have faith and not have work to show for it. The work here may sound like this prayer by Nephi a Book of Mormon prophet when he was asked to build a ship to cross the many waters and he asked. 'whither shall I go to find ore to molten' so that he can make the tools he needed to build the ship. he and his family had been travelling alone in wilderness for eight years and had no way of cutting timbers let alone to build a ship. The lesson here is that he didn't put his helpless situation first. He didn't expect God to understand his lack of resources and throw down tools from Heaven to build the ship. After all it was Him who commanded them to take the journey in the first place. He was not afraid of the work so instead of asking for already made tools, He asked for where he could find the raw materials to make the tools. This story has always been a great lesson for me. At this point, could he not have accepted that he has done enough and asked God to do the rest. The eight year journey on foot has worn him and family out, the least He could do was provide a ship or at most the tools to build it. 

Another story that inspires me is also from the book of Mormon. It is also about another prophet who needed to cross the great deep with his family. This time around they built what they called barges and made it water tight to hold water like a dish. the problem was that there was no source of light and the prophet despaired how they were going to travel in the sea in darkness so he asked the Lord but Lord answered with a question 'What would thou have me do for you so you might have light' the prophet didn't expect this question, he had thought the Lord with a flick of his wrist would give them light. what he didn't know was that the Lord would ask him to put on his thinking cap. So he had make use of his brain and come up with a solution of how best his mode of transportation might be lighted.

The truth is I still don't know where the adage do your best and leave the rest to God came from or what it really means but this I know, Heavenly Father expects us to use our brains. He expects us to never give up. He wants us to do our part. And when we have done that, then His grace is sufficient. 

Another scripture goes like this 'For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things, for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward' the next verse  goes like this 'Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in good cause and do many things of their own freewill, and bring to pass much righteousness. for the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And in as much as men do good they shall in no wise loose their reward. But he that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth the commandment with a doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.

So I believe in prayers, I believe in having faith that prayers will be answered, I also believe in work, the readiness to do what is necessary to achieve our goals and I believe in patience not just for prayers to be answered but with ourselves and our efforts. If these things are present in all our endeavors, then we are a success already.

Pray like it depends solely on God, work like it depends solely on you. Get on your knees and pray but get on feet and work. If you get this formula right then your result would be success.

Heavenly Father has blessed us all with talents and gifts, it is time to start thinking about how to develop these talents. 

I have many gifts, teaching motivational and inspiring topic as you have verily well read from this post. I also have the gift of writing. 

I have published two eBooks. Please click the links below to read them and oh they are not motivational books, they are romance novels. Did I just surprise you, you don't know the half till you read my romance novels

I love you all and hope that my post today touches you

enjoy the rest of your week no matter what it brings. Trust God and don't ever give up.

Click the links below to read my books

WHEN THE HEART KNOW

BILLIONAIRE BAD BOYS SERIES BOOK 1

AMAZON KINDLE

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YLX4WGW   WHEN THE HEART KNOWS

OKADABOOKS

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/when_the_heart_knows/29061 WHEN THE HEART KNOWS 

BAM BOOKS

https://bambooks.io/Book/BookDetail/When-the-Heart-Knows/11975 WHEN THE HEART KNOWS 

PAY HIP

https://payhip.com/b/bM1R  WHEN THE HEART KNOWS

AMAZON PAPER BACK

https://amzn.to/31EOhwI

EVERY WAKING MOMENT 

BILLIONAIRE BAD BOYS SERIES BOOK 2

AMAZON KINDLE

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08F3R3SZK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0  EVERY WAKING MOMENT

OKADA BOOKS

 https://okadabooks.com/book/about/every_waking_moment/35661  EVERY WAKING MOMENT 

PAY HIP 

https://payhip.com/b/pC3w EVERY WAKING MOMENT 

AMAZON PAPERBACK 

https://amzn.to/3kQfpBC

RESOURCES 

BOOK OF MORMON

DOCTRINE AND COVENANT

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng

 

click link to know more about them.

I HAVE A DREAM

 

Hello everyone! 

I trust you had a great week? I know, I know, it was tough, or good or happy or even successful but one thing I am sure about is it wasn't easy. Yeah it wasn't easy but here we are grateful to our Heavenly Father that we are safely at the weekend to rejuvenate and get ready for another week so we can try again because we can't give up neither can we give in.

Much like life, this life is not easy, not even the wealthiest man on earth can say that. I mean if we look around us the evidence is clear. We can only go on living and striving to be better versions of ourselves no matter how tough or how sad the journey might be.

This is pretty much how my life has been. Right from a young age, I have always been a dreamer. I would sit and gaze at nothing but space yet I am seeing a another world of happiness and love, where easy really does exist and this would help me get through my day no matter how challenging it is.

Maybe that is why I am writer, and from my genre of writing you could tell that really a lot of my time was spent day dreaming. And when I am not daydreaming of tall, dark and handsome heroes and the women who love them, you would find me observing. Observing the world and every thing that makes it up. the rising and setting of the sun, the wind, the cloud when they are dark and brooding angrily warning about a coming rain with winds that would bend trees and swirl dusts. Most times scenes and occurrences in nature like these are all I need to conjure up a powerful love story

You would find me at night looking at the stars and moon and imagining that I am somewhere in Caribbeans, the dwarf palm trees in our compound would become coconut trees in my head and the red sand turns to white and there I am sitting at the beach and most times with a handsome stranger looking at me with so much intensity and the power of his elemental gaze would spark a flame in my heart and we would spend our Caribbean night talking the night away like we have known each other for a thousand years.

And If I doing none of those, I would be with my grandmothers.  I remember my grandmothers, they both lived over a hundred years old. I sat at their feet each chance I got and quizzed them about their lives growing up before the white men came. Though they were mildly curious at my interest but they were only too happy to oblige me. Learning about their time, their social life, the men they loved, their traditions, religion, beliefs and how strong they had to be in a world that subdued women made me want to tell their stories.

Oh how I love period stories, I have written a few of them and have few synopsis of more I wish to write soon. One of those stories just came to my mind now. I titled it Ebubedike Son of Thunder. I wrote it when I was between fourteen and sixteen. That story is going to change our notion of our land before colonization forever. This story will be out next year. You would love it, It is about a demi god who comes to save his people from tyranny. and oh it is a romance too. I don't think I would ever write anything that does not tell a powerful love story. 

I believe in love event though it is yet to happen to me. Sometimes I think it is because I have created so much fantasy that I expect it to be my reality. Maybe I am waiting for one of the heroes in my stories to become my reality. I should do better because I create this fantastic world to get away from the harsh realities of my life not that it is my life, NOTE TO SELF. 

The truth is no matter how much I daydream or create a fantasy world, I know who I am, I know what I want and I would get it. Yeah the road map to getting all that I want may not always be clear, may most times be filled with so much bumps and road blocks and even dead ends yet I won't give up, I would stay on that road trudging on till I get to my destination.

My name is Chioma Onuoha, I am an author, TV personality and entrepreneur. All my life I have been driven with this ferocious need and a powerful force to tell stories, to tell the African story especially about the continent before the white men came.

I began story telling as far back as I can remember, I would gather my numerous siblings together and tell them fairy tales of love and romance made up on the go. One would ask why did she start so late to explore what obviously have been her calling on this earth? It's simple, distractions and fear. I feared Nigerians would not read because we don't really have a reading culture. And I became distracted with what was lucrative at the time, screenplays.

Over the years I have delved into screenplays and have written block buster movies and TV series some of which were nominated for awards both locally and internationally. Then I started my own media and entertainment content production, sales and marketing company Amber Falls Production. I produce and host my premium TV talk show magazine Amber World. I also produce a lifestyle content AMBER VOGUE.

Even with these achievements, I still feel incomplete not just because I promised my grandmothers that their voices will be heard, their morals emulated and heroism known through the stories I would tell but because I yearned and still yearn deeply to go back to my first love and passion which is writing novels about exceptional heroes and the heroines who love them.

So please, read my novels, they come from somewhere deep inside me. When I write, words cannot describe on what dimension I am. I become another person, like this power over takes me and my heroes and heroines play out their story and all I need to do is watch and write down their antics.

My fear was that Nigerians would not read, because first of all I write our story, the Nigerian story. So if the people whose story I tell, the people I write for first do not read, how can I convince the rest of the world to do so.

I am pleading with you today to support me and click the links below to read my books.

I hope my story would touch you to become more optimistic, more hopeful, less afraid and more determined to go out there next week and try again, work towards achieving your goals.

Have the most beautiful and profitable week

Chioma

LINKS TO READ BELOW

WHEN THE HEART KNOWS 

BILLIONAIRE BAD BOYS SERIES BOOK 1 

AMAZON KINDLE

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YLX4WGW   WHEN THE HEART KNOWS

OKADABOOKS

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/when_the_heart_knows/29061 WHEN THE HEART KNOWS 

BAM BOOKS

https://bambooks.io/Book/BookDetail/When-the-Heart-Knows/11975 WHEN THE HEART KNOWS 

PAY HIP

https://payhip.com/b/bM1R  WHEN THE HEART KNOWS 

EVERY WAKING MOMENT 

BILLIONAIRE BAD BOYS SERIES BOOK 2

AMAZON KINDLE

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08F3R3SZK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0  EVERY WAKING MOMENT

OKADA BOOKS

 https://okadabooks.com/book/about/every_waking_moment/35661  EVERY WAKING MOMENT 

PAY HIP 

https://payhip.com/b/pC3w EVERY WAKING MOMENT 

 

 

 

 

 

(HUNGRY HEARTS) IS COMING BACK YAAY!!!!!!!

Hello Fam

Barka de Sallah!!!

How are you all enjoying this holiday? With no parties, no hang outs and no clubbing. It's tough right? Well don't despair much, I have one tip for you on how not to get bored this long holiday.

Now pay attention.

Find a comfortable place and curl up with this steamy romance novel dripping with passion and desire. What romance novel are we talking about again? EVERY WAKING MOMENT. Book 2 in the billionaire Bad boys series.

go read on the links below and thank me later.

I promise you that I am never stopping again. you will get regular write ups from me from now on and that includes reviving some of our favorite segments like HUNGRY HEARTS. Even mentioning this gladens my heart.

I will announce the date I am going to start posting Hungry Hearts again so stay tuned. You are not familiar with Hungry Hearts? It is a segment on this blog where people email me their true life experiences regarding matters of the heart and asking you readers to advice them by commenting your thoughts on the issue. It could be about a heart break, a crush, friendship or family dynamics. Read up on the blog to familiarize yourself with it but i assure you, you will never look at life same way again.

On my next write up I am going to gist you what has been happening in my life all these while I have been silent. Get ready for the gist of a life time. There is no story more touching like a true life story. so I guess Hungry Hearts begins with my story. Did I just say when hungry heart would start again. I bet I just did. On my next post. so please watch out for it.

I guess my message for you today is to be happy, Life is tough, I know this from personal experience but this I have also come to know, happiness maybe free but it is hard to find. so indulge yourself with activities that will bring you happiness. Remember evil and wickedness will never bring you lasting happiness.

So today if you are not sure what can bring you happiness, read my romance novel. I promise you wouldn't want to put down for one second. 

For those of you who know my writing style, you know I paint love and loving in dark but vivid colors consistent with the volatile nature of an elemental force. Short version, it is a once in a life time kind of experience. Some will say I have to much pride describing myself as a writer but I tell it is not pride, it is confidence in my craft but the fact I cannot ignore is that only you can tell if it is pride or confidence. so go ahead and read

Once again the summary of the novel is below and so also are the links.

happy reading fam

and if you enjoy what you read, leave a comment here or on the app you read

thank you and God bless you

 EVERY WAKING MOMENT SYNOPSIS

 

 

A BILLIONAIRE NOT LOOKING FOR LOVE

 

Billionaire, international soccer star and sexiest man alive Chuck Obi Okoha has sworn never to pass his mother’s monstrous genes to the next generation, he has also sworn never let anyone know who his real mother is or what she did for a living, He has done everything in his power to keep his life before his adoption into the Okoha’s family a secret. The consequences of his vow meant never marrying and never having a child. Until Helen fell into his arms literally, another tortured hero with a past to keep secret too.

 

 

TORTURED SOUL WHO CAN’T GET HIM OFF HER MIND

 

Helen has had amnesia for three years and counting. A secret she hides from all her friends. she shouldn't be in love not knowing who she was and what she was but she couldn’t seem to get him off her mind, she is irrevocably in love with the most handsome and wealthiest heart breaker of all times, she should find a way to fall out of in love with him because she is also a danger to him. There are assassins after her, her mind tells her to run away from him to keep him safe but her feet keeps running back into his arms.

 

SECRETS

 

Each having a past so dark that they are too afraid divulge a word of it, how would they survive this love that never was meant to be.

 

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https://payhip.com/b/pC3w EVERY WAKING MOMENT PAY HIP

https://payhip.com/b/bM1R  WHEN THE HEART KNOWS PAY HIP

 https://okadabooks.com/book/about/every_waking_moment/35661  EVERY WAKING MOMENT OKADA BOOKS

https://bambooks.io/Book/BookDetail/When-the-Heart-Knows/11975 WHEN THE HEART KNOWS BAM BOOKS

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/when_the_heart_knows/29061   WHEN THE HEART KNOWS OKADA BOOKS

MORE PLATFORMS WILL ANNOUNCED ON NEXT POST

 

EVERY WAKING MOMENT BILLIONAIRE BAD BOYS SERIES BOOK 2 FULL NOVEL OUT (WHAT A FUN WAY TO SPEND THE HOLIDAY)

Hello everyone

It's been a long time I know but that is not the worst of it, the worst of part of it is knowing how many times I have disappointed you. To say I am sorry doesn't begin to cut it but nevertheless I am truly sorry for all the promises broken. One thing I am glad about though is that I show my remorse and give my apology bearing gifts.

If you were an ardent follower of my blog, you must have read some of my romance novels. WHEN THE HEART KNOWS which I completed here on the blog and EVERY WAKING MOMENT which I am sorry to say I left half finished to the disappointment of many.

The good news is these two novels are completed and published on these platforms. You can hurry up to go and read on OKADA BOOK, BAMBOOKS, PAY HIP, amazon kindle

BELOW IS THE SYNOPSIS OF EVERY WAKING MOMENT, BOOK 2 IN THE BILLIONAIRE BAD BOYS BOYS SERIES.

You may also catch up with book 1 here or on the platforms mentioned

And oh before I forget, in 7 days I will be deleting When the heart knows from this blog, so hurry up and catch up.

Enjoy the synopsis below  and as usual fam, share with friends, families and colleaagues

What a fun way to spend this long holiday with no hang outs, no clubs or parties.

why not relax with this steamy hot romance novel just for ONE THOUSAND NAIRA

A BILLIONAIRE NOT LOOKING FOR LOVE

Billionaire, international soccer star and sexiest man alive Chuck Obi Okoha has sworn never to pass his mother’s monstrous genes to the next generation, he has also sworn never let anyone know who his real mother is or what she did for a living, He has done everything in his power to keep his life before his adoption into the Okoha’s family a secret. The consequences of his vow meant never marrying and never having a child. Until Helen fell into his arms literally, another tortured hero with a past to keep secret too.

TORTURED SOUL WHO CAN’T GET HIM OFF HER MIND

Helen has had amnesia for three years and counting. A secret she hides from all her friends. she shouldn't be in love not knowing who she was and what she was but she couldn’t seem to get him off her mind, she is irrevocably in love with the most handsome and wealthiest heart breaker of all times, she should find a way to fall out of in love with him because she is also a danger to him. There are assassins after her, her mind tells her to run away from him to keep him safe but her feet keeps running back into his arms.

SECRETS

Each having a past so dark that they are too afraid divulge a word of it, how would they survive this love that never was meant to be.

https://payhip.com/b/pC3w EVERY WAKING MOMENT PAY HIP

https://payhip.com/b/bM1R  WHEN THE HEART KNOWS PAY HIP

 https://okadabooks.com/book/about/every_waking_moment/35661  EVERY WAKING MOMENT OKADA BOOKS

https://bambooks.io/Book/BookDetail/When-the-Heart-Knows/11975 WHEN THE HEART KNOWS BAM BOOKS

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/when_the_heart_knows/29061   WHEN THE HEART KNOWS OKADA BOOKS

MORE PLATFORMS WILL ANNOUNCED ON NEXT POST