I went out to find a friend,
But could not find one there,
I went out to be a friend,
And friends were everywhere! – Goethe
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I WAS WRONG!
The family is on my mind again. Since I read Jim Bakker’s book by the title above several years back, my priorities took shape. I don’t know about you but I do not want to do ministry at the expense of my family. My goal is still to be the best husband my wife could have ever had and to be the world’s best dad to my kids. I want to represent God well to my children. I don’t want them turning their backs on God and ministry because their dad committed adultery – loving God’s wife (the church) at the expense of loving his own wife and family!
Let’s prioritize family. Do not neglect your relationship with God and with your family. Love your spouse and children if you have them. Spend quality time with them. It pays you both in the short and long run.
Read here the submission of Jim Bakker. It’s been said that to know the road, you should ask someone coming back. Selah!
“In the midst of the swirl of activity, I lost touch with my family, and especially with Jamie. I was not there when he needed me. I confused the work of God for God Himself.
I was wrong.
I am now convinced that God must come first in our lives, then our family, and then the work that we are doing for God. If our family crumbles while we are trying to serve God, we have missed our primary ministry.” (Jim Bakker, I Was Wrong)
Think about this and make amends where you need to. I pray you will not make the same mistake. YOU WILL SUCCEED!
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When Books Commit Suicide!
I had always believed that we should raise our kids on books and not on the TV. And here I found supportive evidence.
But by the way, how will you raise your kids on books when you yourself, don’t read. I am an avid reader. I love books. And I read like there is no other thing else to do. And my wife and I are raising our two kids to do the same too. We try as much as possible to reduce TV time and substitute it with reading. Think about it. If you watch too much TV, we might never see you on TV. (I mean, you just might not make that much impact in life to ever warrant an appearance on TV). Today a reader, tomorrow a leader!
Let me conclude with this quote: “I strongly believe that we should turn the TV way down in our lives and get back to reading – reading broadly, deeply, outside our comfort zones and outside our professional fields.” (Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit) You will succeed!
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20 DEFINITIONS YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT (part 3)
Oh! Oh! Oh! Are you feeling this? Words are powerful and the meaning you attach to them defines you. I mean, you define words and in turn, they come to define you! Let these definitions help you, motivate you, encourage you or anger you, if need be. But please do not be indifferent.
Just check out these last set of definitions: having an education is not about going to school; worldliness is not rocket science, John Wesley cuts it to the bare bones for us. Enjoy and be blessed by these. You will succeed!
14. EDUCATION is that which we remember when we have forgotten all we learnt! – Unknown
15. COOPERATION is spelled with two letters: WE. – G. M. Verity
16. WORLDLINESS is that which cools my affection towards God. – John Wesley
17. COURAGE is fear that has said its prayers! – Karle Wilson Baker
18. THE WILL OF GOD is saying and doing the right thing in the right place with the right people at the right time and in the right sequence under the right leadership using the right method with the right attitude of heart. – Loren Cunningham
19. A GOOD MARRIAGE is a union of two forgivers. – Ruth Bell Graham
20. Okay now, add yours. I’m waiting.
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THE BATTLE OF POSTERITY
The pursuit of destiny is real warfare. And a council of hell is sitting right now to make sure you lose the battle. But you will win!
Don’t trade away your birthright. Don’t cheapen your destiny. “Sell me this day your birthright” (Genesis 25:31) is the demand of the battle of posterity. It is a conflict of choices. A test of the strength of your will:
Today versus Tomorrow
Now versus Later
The Present versus the Future
The Urgent versus the Important
The Immediate versus the Ultimate
The Temporal versus the Lasting.
“Sell me this day your birthright!”
Your destiny might not have matured but I challenge you, don’t sell it! Do not trade away your future on the altar of present enjoyment.
Esau had to choose between his hunger and his heritage.
Samson – between Delilah and delivering the Hebrews.
Moses – between Egypt’s treasures and Christ’s reproach.
Joseph – between Potiphar’s wife and a prominent place in Egypt.
Their eventual decisions tilted the battle in their favor or disfavor.
The battle of posterity is a war between TODAY and TOMORROW; between the PRESENT and the FUTURE. When losers fight it, they sacrifice the NOW on the altar of the LATER. They choose the TEMPORAL instead of the LASTING. They respond to the URGENT in the face of the IMPORTANT. They mistake enjoying the IMMEDIATE for the apprehension of the ULTIMATE.
Esau abandoned his birthright for a mess of pottage. Samson wasted his destiny on the laps of harlotry! You will not lose out!
The battle is in your choices. Anything that sacrifices your future on the platform of the now is against your ultimate good. Fight it!
Today is the most important day of your life. Your choice today decides your destiny tomorrow. Today is the cash deposit which you withdraw in tomorrow’s bank account.
There is a future for you. Don’t use today to deny yourself of tomorrow. Esau lost out in the battle of posterity. Will you too?
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12 DAILY REMINDERS FOR 2012
Today, and every day, please be reminded of:
1. The Value of TIME
2. The Success of PERSEVERANCE
3. The Pleasure of WORKING
4. The Dignity of SIMPLICITY
5. The Worth of CHARACTER
6. The Power of KINDNESS
7. The Influence of EXAMPLE
8. The Obligation of DUTY
9. The Wisdom of ECONOMY
10. The Virtue of PATIENCE
11. The Improvement of TALENT
12. The Joy of ORIGINATING
YOU WILL SUCCEED!
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THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON
WHAT’S AGE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Age is not an asset
It’s just a figure
Age is not an accomplishment
It’s just a consequence of nature
Age is not supreme
The value of life is more
It’s not how long but how well you lived
And the value of a life is not computed by its duration but by its donation.
– Yomi Olufiade
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THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON
Every problem you have can always be traced to a relationship in your life. Every benefit you have too can also be traced to a particular relationship in your life! – Yomi Olufiade
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15 THINGS TO REMEMBER….EVERYDAY
As we go about our daily businesses we have a tendency to gloss over many things. Today and always, please be reminded of these.
1. If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. (Proverbs 6: 9-11; 24:30-34)
2. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
3. Of all the things you wear, your expression is most important.
4. The best vitamin for making friends is …B1! (Get that? To make friends, be one!) (Proverbs 18:24a)
5. The 10 commandments are not multiple choice.
6. Minds are like parachutes…they function best only when open.
7. Ideas won’t work unless YOU do.
8. One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
9. The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge.
10. Don’t learn safety rules by accident.
11. We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. (If you persist, the day will come that you won’t believe yourself anymore!)
12. Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise.
13. The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.
14. One thing you give and still keep…is your word.
15. God is always there: loving you and looking out for you!
YOU WILL SUCCEED!
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I WANT TO LIVE LONG. WHAT OF YOU?
I don’t know about you, but I want to live long and healthy. If Christ tarries I would like to live well into my eighties and nineties still enjoying God and my family, living life and fulfilling my destiny.
I love the testimony of John Wesley, the 18th century revivalist, evangelist and founder of Methodism who lived to be 88 years. At age 86, he still embarked on a nine (9) week preaching tour, preaching an estimated 100 sermons in 60 towns and villages. He said, “For above 86 years, I found none of the infirmities of old age; my eyes did not wax dim, neither was my natural strength abated.”
When he turned eighty-five (85), he (Wesley) attributed his good health to the following as he recorded it in his journal:
1. To my constant exercise and change of air (EXERCISE)
2. To my never having lost a night’s sleep, sick or well, at land or at sea, since I was born. (GOOD SLEEP)
3. To my having sleep at command so that, whenever I feel myself almost worn out, I call it and it comes day or night. (REST and RELAXATION at FREQUENT INTERVALS. CALLING A REGULAR “TIME-OUT” IN YOUR SCHEDULE.)
4. To my having constantly for over sixty years risen at four in the morning. (DISCIPLINE and a GREAT DEVOTIONAL LIFE.)
5. To my constant preaching at five in the morning, for above fifty years. (HARD WORK and DILIGENCE)
6. To my having had so little pain in my life, and so little sorrow or anxious care. (NO ANXIETY NOR WORRIES)
Watch your health. You might have heard it said, and it’s true: When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. But when health is lost, all is lost! Do not end up like Robert Murray McCheyne the famed Scottish missionary who on his death bed at the tender age of twenty-nine dying of exhaustion, lamented, “God gave me a message to deliver and a horse to ride. Alas, I have killed the horse, and I cannot deliver the message!”
I do not just want to shine, I want to last. Selah! YOU WILL SUCCEED!
