Empowering Thoughts | 22nd May 2026 | Evil Influenced Past | God Blessed Future! Thoughts | Words | And Feelings! — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — The easiest thing for the devil to do is to keep us in constant fear of the future, worry of the present and embarrassment of the past. That way we will never be able to look at the future with excitement, joy and fulfilment. We will live and die re-living mediocrity day-after-day. That’s why God is so…
Ask and You Shall Receive | What About Timid Feelings and Fears | Can I Ask for Courage and Bravery? Ask and You Shall Receive | Took Me A Long Time to Believe This Yeah, let’s get down to basics. Ask and you shall receive is Biblical, and I, for some reason, kept the Bible at arm’s length. You can ask me why, and I will tell you that the ungodly did not want me to go to the Bible at all. Because when the Bible starts to make sense, then the ungodly have to find a new home.…
Prayer Raises You Above the Noise Level | When That Happens | Sense Between the Good and the Bad Noise Level Back in my college days, we used to have an interesting concept called the “noise level” in physics. What is it? It simply means that there is an inherent noise level in our environment under which any signal that we present won’t be clearly heard. This concept was true at the time of discovering the superheterodyne receiver as much as discerning audio signals from…
Does Prayer Actually Deliver? | The Younger Phase | The Depression Phase | The Prayer Phase! Growing Up | Prayer Was Too Much Effort The growing-up days were all about playing and having fun. But Mom used to ask me to pray all the while. My elder sister was different. She used to play and also pray. I used to find that strange. How could she be taking time out from the fun times to pray? Prayer to me was an arduous task and one that was devoid of fun. There were too many…
Thorn in the Throat | Betrayed Promise | Depression | God’s Saving | Single Connected Experience Thorn in the Throat I think I was ten or eleven years old when, while having my food, a fish bone decided to lodge itself in my throat. Now, that wasn’t new. Like any fish-eating human, it was expected to happen, had happened to me before, but it eventually got washed down the throat. So, it was a momentary pain, and then it was all fine. Not this time, though. For some reason,…
Kept Watching Money | Lost Interest in Work | Grew Tired | And Then Blamed Money for It Interesting Experience | Unwanted Outcome I had spoken about my energy exercises around money, and how I had a breakthrough in my perception of money. I had spoken about it in my previous article, and those interested can have a read. Money Problem | Somehow Managed to Drive Money Out of Work | And Hence Had Work But No Money | by Awakenedgyani | Dec, 2025 | Medium…
Money Problem | Somehow Managed to Drive Money Out of Work | And Hence Had Work But No Money Odd Conundrum As confusing as the main title reads, that’s how I had been going through life for a good amount of time. I couldn’t work the logic behind it, but it went something like this — I shouldn’t be focused on money; instead, I should be focused on work. There’s nothing wrong with the statement, as the underlying assumption is that if my work is good, then money should follow.…
Self-Pity | Perfect Plot to Stay Stuck | Wanna Progress | Discard Self-Pity Feeling Bad For Oneself | Why? The idea of feeling pity for someone else for the struggles they are going through and taking action to help them is seen as a big-hearted approach. To see the discomfort of a fellow human and do something to alleviate that discomfort is surely commendable. And it is. But to take the same term “pity” and apply it to ourselves is actually an incredibly troublesome…
Want to Turn a Winner? | Then Play By the No Choice Rule Rule? | Ok, Let’s Not Call It A Rule Now, this may sound harsh when you are told that there are no choices in many matters, and we just have to go on and move forward. The element of choice appears to be a gift, but in many ways, it turns out to be a curse that is well-packaged and perfume-sprayed. And that’s the kindest definition for choice. I am not against choice, but where the choice is applied. Our parents’…
Holy Spirit’s Voice | Choose It! Thoughts | Words | And Deeds The voices that tell us that we are not good, not worthy, useless, or can’t win are not from God. Imagine how much stronger God’s voice through the Holy Spirit would be! But.. We have a choice. The Holy Spirit does not overpower you or take over without your will. You can choose to listen to the Holy Spirit. So, call in the Holy Spirit and let Him tell you how wonderful a creation you are!! Video | Spiritual…
Bible | Jesus Christ | Book: Matthew | Chapter 3 | Verses 1 – 17 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **John the Baptist Prepares the Way** 1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness,…
The Word of God | Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 21 | Verses 1 – 34 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Birth of Isaac** 1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac {Isaac means he laughs.}…
Bible | Jesus Christ | Book: Matthew | Chapter 2 | Verses 1 – 23 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Magi Visit the Messiah** 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi {Traditionally wise men} from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to…
Bible | Jesus Christ | Book: Matthew | Chapter 1 | Verses 1 – 25 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah** 1 This is the genealogy {Or is an account of the origin} of Jesus the Messiah {Or Jesus Christ. Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean Anointed One; also in verse 18.} the son of David, the son of Abraham: 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,…
Perfectionist Childhood | What It Does To You | What You Can Do To Deal With It Perfectionist Childhood | What Does That Mean? The title of this section is a play on words over the normally known perfectionist parents. The idea is that parents who seek an unprecedented level of perfection from their children put the child under excessive stress and therefore scar them for life. While this is true, what psychologists fail to realize is that those parents themselves would have…
The Word of God | Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 20 | Verses 1 – 18 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **Abraham and Abimelek** 1 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her. 3 But…
Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 19 | Verses 1–29 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed** 1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your…
Money and The Anxious Heart | God Is The Solution! Thoughts | Words | And Deeds We mistake the situations of ‘lack of money’ and ‘anxiety’ as cases of cause and effect. Then we deduce that if we had money, our anxiety would be taken care of. Not so. The quivering and anxious heart could be calmed by God and God alone. If you had God on your side, you wouldn’t have grown anxious at all. Money has no role in it. Taste and see that the Lord is Good! Spiritual Strengthening…
Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 18 | Verses 1 – 33 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Three Visitors** 1 The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to…
Getting Back In the Groove | Experiencing Withdrawal | Easy to Mistake It For Depression Silence and Loneliness Most of those like me who have gone through depression know what silence and loneliness are all about. It is one of the crippling attributes that we somehow imbibed, and it remained with us, driving us crazy. To understand the extent of the problem, people in such circumstances not only feel lonely but yearn for it, even in a crowded place with acquaintances. I…
The Word of God | Jesus Christ | The Way, the Truth and the Life! Thoughts | Words | And Deeds The number of times Jesus Christ Has made a path for me, or shown me the direction, is astounding. Now, I truly understand what the Savior meant when He said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” I realize that Jesus Christ is not just the way to the Father but also the way in this life while I am still here! Spiritual Strengthening https://youtu.be/G8aLytbyEZQ
Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 17 | Verses 1 – 27 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Covenant of Circumcision** 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty {1 Hebrew El-Shaddai}; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. 2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” 3 Abram fell…
Crazy Perspective Change | I Am Left Behind | To Let’s Catch Them and Overtake | World Has Changed Perspective | Paradigm | Life | Change I mentioned in one of my articles yesterday about a change in perspective that occurred by the grace of God. I don’t know how or when it did, but it just did, and then I hit the ‘aha’ moment. I had heard of these literal “Eureka” moments, but I experienced one for the first time yesterday. Life had been on an autopilot of pessimism,…
Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 16 | Verses 1 – 16 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **Hagar and Ishmael** 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after…
Have Been Left Behind | What Say? | Can I Catch Up? | Catching Up Was Fun While Driving A Bit Down Over The Past Few Days I had been a bit down in the past few days, wondering how I could have been at the wrong end of life, receiving all the unhappy endings. I seem to be getting things wrong, and to make matters worse, I can’t even keep up doing what I am doing. How could I succeed if I am unable to do what I am supposed to do? Back in school days, it was quite…
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All That I Hoped to Happen In Life Has Not Happened | Doesn’t Seem to Be Happening Either The Past I started with a lot of excitement after my graduation, that I would be taking care of my parents and would be instrumental in earning and supporting them in life, and in the foreseeable future, would be some big guy with a big name and unheard of fame. I thought this would be life to the fullest. And the life to the fullest also started in that manner. The victories were…
Check Your Inner Voices | Don’t Be Naïve to Dismiss Them As Mere Thoughts | You May Regret It Inner Voice | Not Equal to Inner Peace The inner voice is most confusing at first, then becomes an uninvited guest if not dealt with, and finally merges effortlessly with our being so much so that we tend to call it thoughts. And then starts the obvious change in our personality depending on who that inner voice belongs to. But what’s the confusing part? The confusing part is the…
Have You Experienced This? | Completely Stuck | Unable to Move Out of the Depressed Zone? Emotionally Stuck | No Way Out I have been in this situation for a long time in my life, and the most recent one was last week. What was the situation? Emotionally and mentally, so stuck in an episode that coming out was absolutely impossible. I haven’t been able to shake it off, but I think I got a breakthrough recently. I will share the breakthrough and what happened, but before that,…
Generational Trauma | Wouldn’t Have Believed It Six Months Back | Now I Do | Bible Thoughts As Well! Generational Trauma My whole life was spent vehemently opposing anything about generational wealth, curses, trauma, etc., and their likes. It just didn’t make sense, and I used to dismiss it with utmost disrespect. But now things have changed. It has been only six months since I accepted the idea of generational passes. And I mean it with respect, since there are Bible verses…
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