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Avenue Lifestyle: Monday Night Goodnight PhotoCred: Unsplash Images Welcome to this pop up article.  This Monday night I'll be sharing a bit of insight into reflecting on our moments. We all wanna be someone great in our respective fields or expertise but at times we don't immediately land there. We start somewhere and feel held back, neglecting the preparation before the arrival.  Today you probably made plans to take steps towards your desired goal or you just added something new on your vision board or finally had the courage to take a leap of faith: texting your crush, applying for that job unless you're feeling like all you do is idle. Everyone else seems to have a sense of direction and purpose. They're checking in 5 star hotels, posting those lunch break selfies in their suits and you're just in your uniform as a waiter/waitress feeling like you're not where you're supposed to be. At home and watching everyone win, you're n...

Faith Avenue: Live For A Good Pay MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: LIVE FOR A GOOD PAY! TEXT: [MSB] ISAIAH 3:10-11 "Reassure the righteous that their good living will pay off. But doom to the wicked! Disaster! Everything they did will be done to them. Both righteousness and wickedness have their rewards and it is the one a man lives for that will determine the kind of reward that he will receive. Righteousness is the same as godly living and good living while wickedness is the same as ungodly living and bad living. Righteousness comes with a good pay but wickedness comes with a bad pay. God rewards those who live righteously but He judges those who are wicked. Good and godly living commands huge blessing from the Lord and that is why it is very expedient for every Christ believer to stay committed to living righteously so that they can get a reward that will truly justify that they are righteous. According to the focal scripture...

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: DON'T PRETEND! TEXT: [NLT] ROMANS 12:9 Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good. Showing love to others is something that so many people don't find it easy doing. Showing love to others as commanded by God must be done with absolute sincerity. Love must be without any iota of pretense. It's either you show love to others or you don't. Pretending to love others is hypocrisy of the highest order and it is actually very wrong anytime any day. The word coming to you today is that you shouldn't pretend that you love others when you can actually love them sincerely, deeply and truly. Anything whatsoever that God commands you to do, He doesn't want you to hide under pretense while doing it but to do it with sincerity and that is exactly what will ensure that you don't go unrewarded. According to th...

Avenue Music: Dangerous by Madison Beer Happy Friday and your weekend kick-starter is the fan favorite dreamy classic arrangement Dangerous by Madison Beer . It's such a delicate ballad that is soothing with these reflective sad lyrics about a lover who left her with a lot of questions and she ends up concluding she makes love dangerous. She's not blaming him but herself in this case, wondering if her passionate flame got destructive and burnt their love to ashes. She flows beautifully from the verses to the chorus and it has this fairytale touch to it as if you'd hear it on a theatrical Disney movie.                    Official Artwork. Official Visual Only Good Music. Avenue Music.

Star Of The Month: Jay Cracker  Jay Cracker has come a long way since his first introduction and his progress into the music scene is exciting as it has been filled with impressive growth. We had a quick catch up and here's what went down:  Welcome to Mzansi Avenue . Thank you for Joining Us. How are you? Jay: I'm good thanks and you? McKing: I'm fine thanks, it's good to have you back here. Where is Jay Cracker and how has he evolved? Since the last time we spoke? Jay: Jay cracker is still alive. like I've said before, "I am entertainment". The change is at the moment, he is more of a host than an artist, because he is willing break down doors for the artist side of him to be out there. McKing; So you stepped into different spaces to amplify your music? That's amazing. How would you best describe your sound? Jay: My sound is emotion, spiritual and motivational all come alive.  McKing: You definitely channel those elements. You...

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE REALITY! TEXT: [NIV] PSALM 37:25 I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. It has never been on record that God has ever forsaken or abandoned the righteous. If God is ever going to consider forsaking a man, then it's not a righteous man because the only man that loves Him and seeks to do His will at all times is a man that is found to be righteous in all his ways. God doesn't forsake those who love Him. God stays and abides with those who loves Him and seeks to do His will at all times. You might have one or two people you have seen around who loves God and are doing His will at all times but are going through one challenge or the other. The truth is this: God never promised that the righteous won't get into trouble but He only promised that He would give them help in trouble. Psalm 60:11 According to the ...

Star Of The Month: Keen9 Katlego professionally known as Kat Keeng and Keen9 is a star who's on the rise with a strong love for music. Popular for his onstage performances and well received releases especially with his brother in music: Reya Ray. We had a chat with him and here's what went down:  Welcome to Mzansi Avenue Thank You For Joining Us. Keen9: Thank You for having Me.  McKing: You guys are best known for working together, how did your professional and personal relationship come about?  Keen9: We met in 2016 at a Bushbuckridge fashion show at Love life in Acornhoek and everything started from there.  McKing: And it's been amazing since then.  How and when did you record your first song? Keen9; It's crazy 'cause Reya was in North West and I was at bush at the time so we had to send recordings back and forth.  McKing: Must've been fun. Y ou seem like the more chill one..reserved, how do you manage to channel your artistry and express i...

Avenue Music: Top 5 Must Listen To DJs We have a list of thee must listen to DJs Local. National & International. They're truly amazing whether on the rise or on the mainstream scene serving good dancefloor worthy music from mixes to remixes and original records which top the charts. In no particular Order.  1. Intel DeBird Urbanity SA Intelligent Nonyane best known as Intel DeBird Urbanity SA is a South African DJ who's on the rise with his well received mixes. He's been a resident DJ on RFM . Also has a strong online presence where he's always stirring the pot with dark, campy humor and as a successful entrepreneur selling some spicy and hot chilli. Intel's work is impressive as he knows now to bring songs together for an interesting blend worth the listen. So don't miss out on the magic.  Hear This Link 2. DJ Guru Tshwarelo Shokoane professionally known as DJ Guru .   He won the DJ of The Year Award last year (Mzansi ...

Avenue Lifestyle: Size & Performance.  PhotoCred: Unsplash Images. A lot of men are under massive pressure in the bedroom. They always wanna impress and be lasting but how can one truly deliver a memorable performance if they set themselves up for failure? Firstly the wrong mindset makes it even more dangerous when you feel like you need a bigger cucumber to be able to get the job done. Social Media has become a space for toxic and degrading conversations about how men have tiny penises and this adds up to the insecurity, next thing you know your partner wants to do it in the dark so you don't notice a thing.  Or they keep stalling everytime you guys have to go to electric city. Because he's worried about your view, he's using a reference from a conversation, a post where his size was seen as a joke in a man. So he doesn't want to end up on a thread on the social streets as the latest victim of mockery. Size doesn't really mat...

Faith Avenue: Protocols That Can Be Broken By Your Prayers. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE PROTOCOLS THAT CAN BE BROKEN BY YOUR PRAYERS [SERIES 3] TEXT: [NKJV] 2 CHRONICLES 7:14 If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. The potency of prayer is in its fervency and by the fervency of your prayers, certain protocols can be broken completely in and around your life. Prayer can break the protocol of misfortune, the protocol of unproductivity and also the protocol of affliction. Anytime a man is afflicted or a land is afflicted, one of the weapons to utilize to ensure that the protocol of affliction is broken completely is to turn to God in the place of prayer. When prayers are made to God, there is no protocol of affliction that can still stand to keep inflicting ...

Faith Avenue: Protocols That Can Be Broken By Prayers.  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE PROTOCOLS THAT CAN BE BROKEN BY YOUR PRAYERS [SERIES 2] TEXT: [MSB] GENESIS 25:21 Isaac prayed hard to GOD for his wife because she was barren. GOD answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. The only way to communicate effectively with God is through prayers and when prayers are made to God, things around and within the man praying will never remain the same. Prayer is so effective to an extent that it doesn't just fulfil the purpose of talking to God only but it also fulfils the purpose of getting the things that He has not approved to be in your life that are already in your to find their way out of your life. Prayers don't just suspend protocols, it also breaks protocols completely. Prayer is not just made to break the protocol of misfortune only, it is also for breaking the protocol of unproductivity. When the ...

Faith Avenue: Protocols That Can Be Broken By Your Prayers. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE PROTOCOLS THAT CAN BE BROKEN BY YOUR PRAYERS [SERIES 1] TEXT: [NKJV] 1 CHRONICLES 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. Apart from faith and obedience, prayer is also a protocol breaker because it is a means of communicating with God and there's no how you can get to communicate with God and some protocols won't be broken in and around your life. The protocol that can be broken by your prayers is the protocol of misfortune. To be misfortuned in life is to lack what it takes to be successful and prosperous in life. Misfortune is not part of the details of God's plans for your life but once it is n...

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE PROTOCOL THAT CAN BE BROKEN BY YOUR OBEDIENCE [SERIES 5] TEXT: [NKJV] ROMANS 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. What is common among those who love God is obedience. All things work together for the good of those who love God and that means the same for those who obey God. Whatever happens in the lives of those who love God is exactly what will happen in the lives of those who are obeying God. The evident trait of those who love God is their act of obedience to God. The protocol that can be broken by your obedience as a lover of God is the protocol that tends to make all things work together against you. The Bible says in Numbers 23:23a that; "For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. This is exactly the same with those who love God and obey Him. Not...

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE PROTOCOLS THAT CAN BE BROKEN BY YOUR OBEDIENCE [SERIES 4] TEXT: [AMP] 2 KINGS 5:14 Then he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, as the man of God had said, and his flesh was restored like that of a little child, and he was clean. Obedience to God is a protocol breaker because it tends to always break every protocol that had been denying the obedient access to all that is rightfully his or hers. There are so many things that are rightfully yours but had been forcefully taken away from you which can only be restored by your obedience to God's Word. There is a protocol that stands to forcefully take away from a man all that is rightfully his and that protocol can be broken just by an act of obedience to God. In other words, obedience to God can bring about restoration. There is absolutely nothing that had been forcefully taken away from you that cannot be restored...

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 2022. DIVINE CONNECTION DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY OLADELE T•E THEME: THE PROTOCOLS THAT CAN BE BROKEN BY YOUR OBEDIENCE [SERIES 3] TEXT: [NKJV] GENESIS 12:1-2 Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. [2] I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. Obedience to God's Word is a force that can break rigid protocols and the protocol it can also break is the protocol of remaining less than who God wants you to become. What do I mean by being less than who God wants you to become? God's plan is to make you become great and anything less than that is a protocol that need to be broken. Obedience is an act that helps a man to cut a covenant of becoming great with God. Becoming great is part of the fundamental packages that your obedience to God's Word will release to you. You cannot be commi...