Wednesday, 17 August 2011

ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS

This could be described as one of the  hardest thing that I have to do. I guess the question popping out of your head will be WHAT IS THE THIS? Or WHAT IS THAT THING? Life presents to us the deepest things ever and we are left with the decisions to choose which ones will make us or break us. We all go through tough hard situations and it makes we wonder, probably you do not, but it does make me wonder, we go through a situation we formally think is bigger than us and then again we scale through just fine of course after several trials, push ups and downs, and much to learn. Then life presents another one to us then we begin to wonder how we are going to go through this successfully without been beaten down or taken out by the situation. Mostly we forget that the things that wouldn’t break us will only make us stronger. So the hardest thing I have to do is to tell you my reader that you have to go through tough situations day in day out or maybe months in months out, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Okay I have let the cat out of the bag, and then I guess the next thing to do is to bear the consequence that is helping you, my readers to get through the ordeal of having to go life’s daily situations. I wish deep down that there was some pills that I could recommend to you that will make you not scale through now or will make you not go through hard situations, but gladly or sorrowfully no such prescription exists anywhere in the world. There are some healthy tips I came up with in order to help, I hope it works out seriously hope it works. Here they are
v  As we know, it’s no longer news that this life brings or presents to us situations we are likely not to like and we can do little or nothing about it, so since that’s not news; the first tip is that you stay prepared all the time to face whatever is presenting. Prior preparation prevents poor performance (5ps). This applies to every strata of life in business, education, finance planning, amongst others… so I know it going to work for this stratum of life to. Shielding yourself and preparing ahead even before you are been faced with the so called situation, you think is bigger than you are. Ask me how can I shield myself, anyways you should be able to figure that out yourself but because I brought up the matter, by writing this piece I will give out some bonuses in form of giving some things that could or would help in whatever cases to shield ourselves
ü   Accept you are going to face tough situations
ü   Be positive about life in general
ü   Do not accept defeat
ü   Peradventure you fail, know that you will have to rise again
ü   Do not expect changes, be the change around
ü   Get training in as much as you know which areas  to expect the tough heads
ü   Believe in one thing, either in God or in yourself or both
Now that you have gotten the tips to shield yourself with, can we please continue with the main matter or issue on ground
v  Be on the lookout, the situations most people tag to be tough or their trialing times happens be the normal issues they have to go through. For instance not getting an edge over your work after six days of resuming in that new workplace might just be the normal change you will have to deal with, am not talking about those situations, am talking about situations where your family member desserts you, or where your loved ones literally breaks your heart, or a situation where you can’t really figure out how to get a link over your financial status and many more. These are things we need to watch out for, oh yes trying to stop an unhealthy habit that could be breath taking and killing at the same time, when you are faced with the habit dilemma
For instance you need to seriously understand that trying to get rid of am habit is twice as difficult as trying to get one. Researchers have it that whatever you do consecutively for two weeks max becomes a habit.  Am saying if you eat every morning 9am to be precise, for two weeks, it becomes a habit. It’s that easy to form a habit, but when you want to stop a habit we want it to go away the very instance we realize we don’t like or want it anymore. Been on a look out means the ability to depict the so called almighty tough life situations and daily life strokes. I.e. knowing the difference between tough situations and normal daily life strokes.
v  Map out your plans: in deciding how to live your life to the fullest having at the back of your mind that life isn’t fair, please map out your life. Write out your mission statement and set both long and short term goals for yourself, your life, family and the people around you. Think it to be it, researches have it that what you think about for a long time comes up to be real. In the corner of your heart keep your dreams (feasible of course) running and burning. That’s why you need to set goals that are real, achievable, and solid. Your dreams should be one that you will be able to share up in minimum of three lines and maximum of five lines. Or better if you are woken up from your sleep, you would be able to share. 
v DETERMINATION: having mapped it out, you need to reach a conclusion in your heart that you will do whatever it takes to at your best and also make up your mind to meet up with life’s tough situations. Determination is one of the essential ingredients in success, alongside faith and hopes, determining to be the best come up next. You could prepare and look out for tough situations, also get your life mapped out, but you will need to be determined in your heart that you will shake up whatever life presents to you. Get determined and aspired in the spirit, talk to your soul or self about you been the best at everything and
v BELIEVE: impossible is nothing, if you believe. You might not know how to get the hang out of it, but just believe. As simple and easy as it sounds, it is difficult to do, or difficult to possess this quality, when you can seem to figure it out or you have done you can, just believe and stand. Guess it is that simple then, yes it could be when you do the right things at the right time, for instance you have applied all the tips given or presented to you in this article, then you need to believe and stand. This stage is meant for those who have done the necessary things, if you haven’t, guess someone is asking, what are the necessary things, then you need to read this piece all over again or read it if you haven’t.
In conclusion, it is important to note that these stages are subjected to personal applications for them to work. This therapy might take weeks, months, and years depending on the application by individuals, so depending on how fast you want it to work for you. SELAH. Please note that these stages can’t be used as a substitute for medical therapies on stopping unhealthy habits. If you have a habit you wish to stop, you need visit a professional and you could use their advice and prescriptions alongside this piece.
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Monday, 15 August 2011

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.


THE CHRISTIAN’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
I am free from failure for
“I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me
Phil 4:13
I am free from want for
“My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus
Phil 4:19
I am free from fear for
God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power, of love and of a sound mind
2 tim 1:17
I am free from doubt for
God hath dealt every man the measure of faith
Rom 12:3
I am free from weakness
“The lord is the strength of our life of whom shall I be afraid
Ps. 27 :1
I am free from the power of Satan
“Because greater is he that is in you that is in the world
1jhn 4:4
I am free from defeat
“Now thanks are to God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ
2 cor. 2:14
I am free from ignorance
“For Christ Jesus is made unto me wisdom from God
1 cor. 1:30
I am free from sin
For the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me from sin
1jhn 1:7
I am free from worry
“For I am to cast all my cares upon him
1 pet. 5:7
I am free from bondage
For where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty
2 cor 3:17
I am free from condemnations
“For there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are n Christ Jesus who walk not after flesh but after the spirit
Rom. 8:1
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO YOU IS BEYOND QUESTION BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR FAITHFULNESS TO HIM?

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

GET WISDOM


                                         
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom and in all thy getting get understanding- proverbs 4:7
The long age question has been what wisdom meant and in order to answer the multidollar question one needs to realize that wisdom just like love needs to be experienced, felt and then a personal definition could be given. Confused much okay let me help you out by defining what the opposite of wisdom is this is FOOLISHNESS.
Foolishness is not an abuse but rather a state of the mind characterized by immaturity and ignorance which has the end product of bad decisions and choices. Everyone at a point was foolish until a state of maturity was reached then we can say we are wise. A popular adage says that no man is an island- john donne, so it is impossible to say that a man is wise in all his ways at ago because the journey to wisdom is a progressive one, Romans 11:33-35, so we are made wise by the wisdom of God although one has to realize that a conscious deliberate effort has to been made to move away from the state of being foolish.
How do I know if am wise? Well once you have a convincing and verified points backed up by empirical data then you could be regarded has been wise. Wisdom in one area of life doesn’t guarantee wisdom in all areas, for instance a man that is wealthy but has a troubled home, is wise in business but foolish in the things relating to his home front.
                                                 HOW CAN ONE GET WISDOM

1.       WHO YOU FEAR: the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a personal relationship with the Lord matters. Dong His will, following His commandments and what have you makes you wise in all ways and makes that progressive journey  to wisdom much smoother and easier. A man asked  if the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, what then is the beginning of the fear of God and an answer was reached, PAYING YOUR TITHE. SELAH
2.       WHAT YOU READ: study to show yourself approved unto God, to get wisdom you need to study the word of God. Remember when you read the word of God, you only skim the surface; when you study, you discover the treasure, aside the bible you could read autobiographies, texts, books that will help you acquire wisdom. For instance, Nelson Mandela’s biography, the parable of dollar by Dr. Myles Munroe amongst others
3.       WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE: experience has been said to be the best teacher and mostly these are life experiences, life is a school the more we live the more we learn; so try out your possible best to always learn from your past experiences. For instance a man that got fired from a job and didn’t bother to check and improve on himself should get prepared for a whole lot of sack
Letters as time goes on. Remember you went through all those experiences to learn from them.
Wisdom gives you a new perspective about life like seeing every failure has success turned inside out and realizing that the choices you make make you. Allow me to say this it is not compulsory to get wisdom but it is quite necessary. It is a personal decision to make as to if you want to get wisdom but please remember just like there are benefits attached to wisdom so also are some cost you inquire for been foolish such as shame, servitude,(a fool will be a servant to the wise), failure, frustration etc. so the ball is in your courts I place before you foolishness and wisdom but here is a little piece of advice choose wisdom that you may grow in life cause wisdom is the principal thing so get wisdom and in all their getting please get understanding.

START WITH THE LITTLE YOU HAVE


                                             
Economic meltdown, financial crashes, broken homes and relationships, bad companies which corrupts good manners, etc all these and more are the situations each and every one of us find ourselves in at every point in time. It makes me wonder can we really get out of these messy situations without losing our faith? Then again I realize that life isn’t about what happens to you to how you respond to it.
One of the Newton’s laws of motion states: all objects remain in a state of rest until a force is applied. This law applies to all the phases of life if you don’t for instance get your car to the state of ignition it will not move or if you don’t kick a ball it will not fly so up high. Starting with what you have simply means creating what you want from what you have with you and would not cost you so much to get, if you discover on time that you have that particular thing to get what you want.  Every great dream start small and a journey of a thousand miles now could begin with a step not necessarily in a day, so dream big cause the biggest dream you have might end up happening for real.
Henry Ford loved to design engines and one day he caught the idea of designing a petrol engine. After working for several months in a workshop at the back of his house, he produced his first petrol engine. Eventually, he began to build cars. The first set of cars were expensive and were built exclusively on demand. But ford had a longing in his heart to mass produce cars, his business partners did not quite agree with him especially since they were making some good money already. Ford resigned and started another company, even the business partners were alarmed when ford announced he was increasing production to one thousand cars per day. Then he increased to four thousand cars per day. Ford started with a petrol engine and realized that he could build cars, today  out of every four cars that drives by you, one will definitely be a ford car, start with what you have.
The things you need are with and around you and they are not far fetched. Just like you don’t share your finger prints with anyone so also you have a God-given potential within you that any other person doesn’t have. Believe me when I say this that your existence in not by mistake so also is your God-given potentials which has the capacity to heal and affect people around you.  Now I hope have been able to stir up our spirit so that thing on your mind should be ‘how do I know what to start with and how do I start? Quite easy let’s take our bible case study from the book of 2kings 4:1-7. The passage in summary is about a widow ran to the prophet for help cause her husband left liabilities and she was about to lose her two sons to her husband’s debtor. The prophet, Prophet Elisha asked what he could for her and then what she had in her house. She replied that she had nothing and quickly remembered she had a jar of oil. Elisha asked her to go borrow vessels from everywhere, all the neighbor’s empty vessels and specifically told her not to borrow a few, after which she should shut her door and poured from the small jars to the big ones sounds stupid right? but she did as she was told. She was able to pay off her husband’s debt and also live on the remaining with her two sons. Your potential is just like that jar of oil, which when utilized will make you pour from it rather than the other way around. How you ask how can I pour my small jar of oil into much bigger jars and have more than enough? It’s simply where some steps
1.    The word: just like the widow ran to the prophet and she got the word, so also you need to connect to the right source at every point of your life. In your case it might not be a prophet it could be words from audio tapes, videos, books, music, friends and even enemies, or it could also be a prophet. You need the word to stir you up.
2.    Potentials: what is in your hands was the question the prophet asked the widow. The things that you already have inside of you that thing that you love doing without complaining and stress, it could be cooking, writing, teaching, playing musical instruments, talking yeah talking you only need to make it constructive. whatever it is such for you to just discover it and go for it.
3.    Jar of oil: the widow replied ‘your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil; now that you have discovered what you love doing then the question is how do I go about it? It’s easy just like ABC, A-ACQUIRE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU NEED TO DEVELOP YOUR POTENTIAL, YOU COULD GO TO A SCHOOL, FASHION SCHOOL OR WHATEVER, JUST ACQUIRE THE REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, B- BRING OUT THE BEST OUT OF YOUR POTENTIALS WITH THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, AND C- COMMERCIAL VALUE. GIVE YOUR POTENTIAL A NICE PACKAGING; GIVE THE WORLD THE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THEY NEED YOUR POTENTIAL.REMEMBER PEOPLE SEE A PRODUCT BEFORE THEY GET TO USE OR TASTE OR KNOW IT.
4.      Protect your potential: afterward the prophet told the woman to shut her doors before she pours the oil, let’s get this straight there are vision killers and dream snatchers or even worse dream scatters who will want to give you testimonies of people who had dreams in the last few decades ago and could not achieve them, you need not to be around these set of people. You need those who will encourage you and also give you the bittersweet speech of how you can make it after hard work as usual. If you can’t have people like this around you no worries, you can get biographies, auto biographies, audio tapes, books of people who actually made it to the top. A typical example is getting the book ‘audacity of hope’ by Barrack Obama (president). Whatever you do please protect your dreams.
Now make that move remember that the wool for clothes was on the back of a sheep until man discovered it, the power to generate electricity was in our rivers, our furniture was in trees, our stationery were in trees, our rayon shirts were inside crude oil and our cars and aircraft were in the soil. All these things you see around today existed before only in potential form. We did not enjoy until we recognized them and created them. Your God-given potential is like this so FIND IT DEVELOP IT AND GIVE IT COMMERCIAL VALUE.