What's up, folks! I hope y'all are having a lovely week and staying safe wherever you find yourself.
It's the last day of June, how the month passed by in a blink of an eye. It is also another beautiful Wednesday. And as always, here at Patronage, it is the day of the week when we officially announce the nomination round of the next Patronage week. We call on Patronage supporters to participate in the nomination of other users for the beneficiaries of the succeeding week and we expect users to honour our call and nominate the users they feel may appreciate the little support we have to offer. But before going into the Patronage nomination round proper, let's talk about other events
In relation to mortals, a man cannot trust a fellow man until he knows that man. You cannot expect me to just trust a total stranger free of charge. I cannot give my property to a total stranger to keep.
That's how a lady arrived Lagos for the first time and gave her 'Ghana must go' bag to someone to keep in his custody until she returns from easing her self around some corner. In the next one minute, her baf was gone.
Fellow Nigerians will understand the meaning of 'Ghana must go'. I just hope that's how it's written in English. For those that don't know, 'Ghana must go' bag is a type of luggage bag, just like the one in the below:
So what I'm saying is that you cannot truly trust a person you haven't known. We can only really trust what and who we know.
Nevertheless, concerning the Absolute Divine you call God, you cannot know Him unless by trusting Him.
When it happens to be God, you'd have to just trust Him first. It is in trusting God you know Him.
It is true that you cannot trust a man except you know him first. But in God's case, you cannot know Him except you trust Him first. It is simply the other way round.
So even when you do not fully know or understand what He's doing with you, to you and for you; just trust Him.
God is not a being we can subject to mental or carnal reasoning. He's bigger than our minds.
Scientists, philosophers and logicians fail to understand that you'd have to be a FAITHician in order to know and understand God.
Yes, He can be known and understood but it is by first of all trusting in the Spirit that He is, to reveal the God that He is and His absolute workings in your life.
It is His duty to bring your mind to the place of knowing Him but you'd have to leave that to His Spirit and avoid letting the frame of carnal reasoning separate you from His truth.
Your mind alone cannot take you to the place where God dwells. It is the place of Absolute Truth.
So even when you don't see Him, feel Him and are yet to understand all that He's doing, still trust Him.
Have faith, for it is in trusting God that we truly know Him.
Faith isn't blindness at all. It is openness and awareness of the fact that it is impossible for God to do something that isn't for our best interest.
Faith is what opens your eye.
So even when you do not like it or understand it, just have faith.
Trust that He's working for your good.
God is different!
Selah - pause and consider.
Back to the Patronage
The Patronage is currently in the 26th week. And we have @Bloghound and @Peter-Molnar as the beneficiaries of the week. So far, I have subscribed and offered sponsorship to them and I've also tipped a few of the articles they have published within the week. I look forward to more days of active and quality posting.
Patronage Week 26 Nomination Round
This is the 26th nomination round of the Patronage initiative.
As usual, I ask the simple question:
Which read.cash user(s) deserves a little encouragement and should be supported by me for a whole week?
How to Nominate Newbies?
Nominating users for beneficiaries of each Patronage week has always been simple. All you have to do is come up with the users you wish to nominate and mention their correct username in the comments section of this post, and you are done. The not so simple part is coming up with the right user to nominate. It's possible you don't know any new users on the platform. Not to worry, you can find them here or simply click on "First post" located above the first boosted post on the home screen.
Keep in mind that the users you'll nominate must not be new, you can also nominate older users who are finding it hard to gain Rusty's attention. I trust we can fish them out.
So find that user and mention his or her correct username in the comments section below. Above all, let's avoid nominating older users who are earning a good amount.
You can nominate yourself
Often in the last nomination round of the month, I permit users to nominate themselves and one other user. Here it is, you can nominate yourself and any other user of your choice.
All Nominations end on Sunday and beneficiaries will be announced the same day.
Please, don't nominate previous beneficiaries
We have had sixty-seven (67) unique beneficiaries since the start of the Patronage initiative. I always share the list of previous beneficiaries in the weekly nomination round posts so we don't have to renominate them. We aim to have new users become the beneficiaries each week.
Here is a list of the users that have been Patronage beneficiaries:
@Jane
The Patronage Package
Here are the benefits users receive as beneficiaries of the Patronage week:
Subscriber(s): I will subscribe to you and I hope that other patronage supporters will do the same.
Sponsorship: I will sponsor the weekly beneficiaries. The sponsorship will be sent and the rest will be up to you to either accept or reject it.
Tips: I will get to read and tip up to 7 articles you published by the users within the week of being a Patronage beneficiary.
Nominators Bonus: The users who participate in the nomination rounds are not left out. I will tip their nomination comments with a random amount.
Other things to note
I will only tip articles written in English. I can't tip what I can neither read nor understand.
The tip amount will depend on the quality of your content.
You can nominate the same users nominated by others. As the more nominations, a user gets, the more his/her chances of topping.
That's all for today. Let the nomination begin!
Love and support.
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I would like to nominate @Oizaguirres @mirianalis