GROWING RIGHT

I learnt something very new this week which I'll be sharing here regarding my last week's blog. Be patient enough to read through. You'll be glad you did. It was earlier this week I realized that deliberate work is necessary in whatever you're doing to acquire results but it is totally incomplete without a paramount ingredient we should learn about. Reading through the words of  DELIBERATE WORK (last week's article), I discovered that it's passing across an incomplete message. So, what actually is missing? THE HAND/HELP OF GOD There are determined people with discipline, intelligence, strength and all littered everywhere but yet not all of them acquired all they've envisioned for themselves (or others) nor did it work out as planned for them. Why? Because they're failing to acknowledge a supernatural help they need. I just pity folks who downplay the essence of Christ in their lives or neglects Him altogether. It's not just because He gi...

Great things happens to the deliberate ones. Those who are intentional about their life and every sector of it. I know you reading this have come to a level of understanding about this key principle of life; You have to prepare for opportunities. You have to be intentional about life to have the results you want. It can't just fall from the sky because of your mere desires. This is 2023, a new year. Many are set to start anew. Many are preparing themselves for success in their lives. And many, even before now, have started working out on their new year plans and resolution. Now, I want you to watch carefully those people, in case you have such one close to you or around you. Observe them and you'll discover that those ones (those that choose to be deliberate in their plans and aspirations) will actually make heads way in their pursuit. You'll see continuous progress in their lives. You'll watch them make advances and speed you never thought of. All these hap...

It's exciting to know that we're wrapping up with 2022. The new year is around the corner, just a few days from now. We are thankful that we're alive to know this excitement. You're supposed to be excited because not everyone who began the year with you is alive today to have this experience. So we thank God for that privilege. And we'll live to see the upcoming year and all it promises. Now, speaking of what the upcoming year promises, have you asked how you can get into those promises? Cause I know you're really expectant of a better year than this one. By the way, what does the new year really promise? Can you be able to tell? Well, if the year promises something, it should be beautiful and exciting cause assuredly, it promises good things your way. And if it does, how can it be harnessed, maximized and used for your advantage? How can you avoid being disadvantaged and victimized as you probably were this year and the past years? Well... I have so...

"Experience is the best teacher" is a saying we hear a lot especially from elders or those who are products of their experiences either good or bad. My aim here is not to argue that popular saying but to propose to you that experience shouldn't always teach you before you learn. Experience is the collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills. In other words, experience is a feeling or process you undergo that gathers for you knowledge, opinions and skills. This is true and acceptable but I frown at one thing; it being expressed as the BEST. It isn't entirely the best teacher.  Sometime ago, I randomly heard an interesting quote from someone. It says, "If experience were to teach you everything you need to learn in life, you might get old and die before learning everything".  Yes, we need experiences to afford us better opportunities as they are prerequisites for being chosen fo...

Not everyone who is youthful is useful. Yes, I said it. It is what you do with and in your youth that will tell if you're useful or not. Or at least, will be. If you happen to sit and interview a few young individuals, you'll discover that many young folks don't have plans, vision or exciting goals for themselves and how they can contribute positively to their generation. That's why they're engaging in stupid things. This is saddening but true. A youth should be known for his/her usefulness.  Why? Because s/he is at a stage of making things happen. Young people are strong, high spirited, risk takers, filled with much vigor, alacrity and audacity. They have this propelling desire to pursue great things and a wild exuberance for adventure. They are blessed with all these, with little or no choking responsibilities. Therefore, if nothing meaningful can be produced from your life as a youth, then there's a problem. That already tells how ugly your future...

What do you do in the face of pressure? Complain, get bittered, murmur, etc? At some point in our lives, we'll face pressure from family, friends, business/finance, obligations and responsibilities, ability to meet up with life's demands, the temptation to cut corners as to make ends meet, and so on. Truth is, everyone faces pressure and in most cases, it comes in a wrong form with great temptation for us to attempt. But what matters is WHAT we do in the face of it. When friends/peers presents you with a new habit or lifestyle in school, what do you do? When life presents you with an "opportunity" to make money through a means that's never near God's purpose, how do you respond to it? Responsibilities with its burden has put you down and then shakes your mind to reconsider a fraudulent or negative proposal suggested to you, tell me, what do you do at this point? Or maybe you're mentally strained with the notion that you're supposed to be wh...

Last Friday's article was an introduction of the topic; stir up the gift. Today's article however reveals how it can be stirred up. You cannot acquire result in whatever endeavour you engage or venture into without laid out principles or guidelines to get your prospective results. Eventually, nothing will work for you if you don't know how to make it work. So you'll learn how you can stir up the gifts, potentials or talents in you, whether it's working or not.  So, how can you stir up the gift? JUST SAY YES In His words, the Holy Spirit ministered this to me some time ago, " Generations are getting blessed and enjoying the impacts of great men and our fathers (in the faith) because of their yieldness. They yielded to Me and became great blessings." This revived my consciousness of submitting and yielding to the Holy spirit more. I realized that the more you yield, the more He makes you an object of great transformation and lasting impacts.  He ...

God placed gifts, talents and potentials in every human accordingly. So many gems are buried in your inside which won't only bring you fulfilment but also riches. However, it is supposed to be multiplied not buried or kept to return it the same way to the Master. They are meant to be planted in people's lives and yield returns for them, for God and for you. No gift, potential, idea, or talent is a waste. They all need to be expressed because multitudes out there needs that thing you can offer. "For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God" ~ Romans 8:19 The world eagerly await you, so why not you stir up that gift? Do you know that keeping it in is selfishness? Do you know that you trying to hide inside your shell is selfishness? I don't have all it takes is no excuse. You're just being selfish because you are cheating creation. God invested wealth of value in you to give it out to humanity but then...

" What you are emotionally is what you are!" may be too strong a statement to be true, but it's close. We are all such emotional creatures that our emotions can influence every area of our lives—for good and for bad." ~ TIM LAHAYE And that includes our day to day DECISIONS. There are so many types of emotions and they influence how we live our lives and interact with other people. I've discovered that our emotions are responsible for the choices we make, actions we take and sometimes form our perceptions. It is one of the strongest part of man which has the capacity to out rule other important areas of a human being—the  will, mind and body of man. How do I mean? Anger is an emotion. When a person is at a state of anger over someone or something, he immediately responds to that anger hence causing him to do what he never planned doing which often leads to regret. That's if the anger isn't controlled. This also goes for fear. The fear of the un...

A man of God was instructed by God to marry a woman who was a harlot. Despite the fact the harlot got married to this man of God, it didn't restrict her from continuing in her life of fornication and adultery. This was the case of Hosea. God instructed him to marry a harlot purposefully to paint a scenerio to Hosea that the Israelites (God's own people) lived the adulterous life toward God. They belong to God yet had other things in their hearts. In His words to Hosea, God said, "...for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord". (Hosea 1:2c). The Israelites knew about God but departed from Him. They experienced His mercy, love, faithfulness, goodness, etc.  The red Sea was parted for their sake, they ate food of angels when they had no food, the rock produced water when it seemed hopeless, the strong walls of Jericho crumbled down, they had countless victories in battles against their enemies and many more miracles done for them yet...