You Are Loaded – Too Loaded!

This morning I continue my thoughts from yesterday. If you missed that, check it here. You had better believed that statement. Look at these scriptures. It will blow your mind to think that all these refer to you.

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, than he that is in the world.” (I John 4:4)

“But WE HAVE THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)

“The kingdom of God comes not with outward observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or Lo there! for, behold, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.” (Luke 17:20-21)

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to THE POWER THAT WORKS IN US.” (Ephesians 3:20)

“But THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.” (Job 32:8)

“Therefore I remind you that you stir up THE GIFT OF GOD WHICH IS IN YOU…”
(2 Timothy 1:6)

(All scriptures are taken from the King James 2000 Version of the Bible. All emphases mine.)

You are too loaded to fail! I challenge you today: Release your potential and be a blessing to your world. Don’t die with your music still in you. You will succeed!

LOOK INWARDS!

“The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you come to know who you are in God and discover what you are wired up by God to do you will find success and satisfaction. Learn to look inwards. Looking around will get you nowhere. You are loaded! Discover your gifts and talents. It’s your inside advantage – the very key to the riches, the success and the fulfilment you’ve been looking for. All you need do is discover it, develop it and display it.

An ancient legend has it that at a time in the history of man, society so abused wisdom that the council of wise men decided to hide the secret of happiness and success from mankind. A council meeting was convened. The following discussion ensued:

First Wiseman: “Let us bury it deep down in the earth.”

Chief Wiseman: “If we bury it in the earth, man will learn how to dig deep and will one day discover it.”

Second Wiseman: “Let’s carry it to the top of the highest mountain.”

Chief Wiseman: “If we take it to the top of the highest mountain, man will learn how to climb to the top of the mountains and discover it and use it for himself.”

First Wiseman: “Let us sink it deep in the ocean.”

Chief Wiseman: “If sunk into the deepest ocean, man will learn how to dive in and will one day discover it.”

After a long silence the Chief Wiseman said, “Here is what we’re going to do. We will hide it deep in the inside of man himself, for he will never think to look for it there.”

Today, are you not still running to and fro, digging, climbing and diving, searching for something you already possess within yourself? Think about it. YOU WILL SUCCEED!

DON’T STOP YOUR EDUCATION!

I’m passionate about education, education of the right kind. Education – the one that does not just swell your head but changes your mind and expands your world.

I’m a personal development junkie – buying and reading books, attending seminars, listening to CDs and watching videos and documentary TV shows is my drug. In short, learning is my addiction!

And it has improved me, expanded my world and literally changed my life. It will do the same for you too, if it hasn’t yet. When you know truth, it sets you free from the limitations of mediocrity (see John 8:32). Education, of the personal development type changes lives. Here I present supportive evidence from no less a person than Nelson Mandela in his biography, Long Walk to Freedom:

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine; that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

Don’t stop your education, now that you are out of school or once you are out of school, whatever your own case may be. Take that course, read that book. Attend that seminar. No one may notice now, but soon they will! Keep learning, it will impact your earning. Keep learning, it will enable you to keep leading. Real education is found in what changes your life, not just what goes into your head. Have a great learning week, this week. You will succeed!

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YOU ARE SPECIAL!

You are special. Has anyone ever told you that before?

You are special! Your life is too important and your heritage too great to ever be compromised!

You have a peculiar destiny. Your origin is divine (Genesis 1:26).

You are a creature of purpose (Romans 8:28) and of an infinite, unquantifiable value.

Your biological inheritance goes back in an unbroken line to the first man – Adam – created in the image of God (Luke 3:23-38).

You are fearfully made. You are wonderfully crafted (Psalm 139:14). You are the crown jewel of God’s creation – a unique specimen of divine glory!

You are one of a kind. There is nobody else like you. Amongst all the 7.1 billion people on the face of planet earth today, there is only one YOU! Your DNA proves this. Your thumb print confirms it.

You are original. Why die being an inferior copy of another. Even if you try, the best you’ll be is second best. Be uniquely you, for in that you’ve got no competition. And on that path, you’ll know no struggles.

Accept your destiny. All of your experiences have brought you to this grand moment in history. All of creation waits your unveiling (Romans 8:18-23). Manifest! Show forth!

Acknowledge your heritage. Celebrate yourself. Or nobody else will. YOU WILL SUCCEED!

I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY!

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

This thought came to my mind earlier this afternoon while on the way to picking my son from school. If you’ve been following my blog here you’ll notice I haven’t made any post in about a week now. It’s not for want of something to say but of saying something that will be a blessing to my readers. I’ve always believed that you should talk only when you have something to say, not just because you have to say something!

I think in these days and with various social media platforms – facebook, twitter, myspace etc – we have to re-learn how not to talk unless there is something important or beneficial to say. We have to learn afresh to resist the urge to talk for talking sake. We should speak to bless lives. The Scriptures put it this way: “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt…. (something) good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.” [Colossians 4:6a; Ephesians 4:29b]

If you’re feeling me on this, you might also enjoy this post I wrote earlier in the year, TURN OFF THE TAP! YOU WILL SUCCEED!

CHANGE DOES NOT TAKE TIME!

Have you always wondered why it is that you want to do something and it does not happen right away? How is it that we wish or pray for something and it just does not manifest right away? If you do, you are not alone, we all do. I think I have an answer, follow me:

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.” (John 8:31-32, emphasis mine)

This often quoted statement of Jesus led me to conclude that CHANGE DOES NOT TAKE TIME, IT TAKES THE TRUTH. That is, the change from poor to rich, from sick to healthy, from mediocre to excellent is not really a function of time but of truth. When you know the truth; (that is, once truth is sown into your mind in seed form – as a thought) your change has begun.

Nobody really changes with time (except for physical growth), we change only when we change the information streaming into our lives! This submission places the responsibility on you for regulating, qualifying and controlling the information that comes into your mind.

For this people’s HEART is waxed gross, and their EARS are dull of HEARING, and their EYES they have closed; lest at any time they should SEE with their eyes, and HEAR with their EARS, and should UNDERSTAND with their HEART and should be CONVERTED, and I should HEAL them. (Matthew 13:15, emphasis mine)

Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:9; “But as it is written, EYE hath not SEEN, nor EAR HEARD, neither have ENTERED INTO THE HEART of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

The conclusion from these two scriptures is this:

1. Whatever you hear or see consistently over a long period of time will enter your heart. You’ll start to BELIEVE it and then begin to BEHAVE it until you BECOME it!

2. Whatever has entered your heart has entered your life. Conversely too, whatever has not entered your heart cannot enter your life.

3. What you cannot see happen, what you do not believe can happen to you will never become a reality in your life. But if you can dream it, you can do it. If it happens in your mind, it will happen in time, in your life! Whatever the mind of man can believe and conceive, his hands can achieve!

You shall know the truth and the truth, not time shall CHANGE your life! You will succeed!

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Philippians 3:8, 10 (Amplified Bible)
Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege – the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, of perceiving and recognizing and understanding him more fully and clearly. For his sake I lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ, the Anointed One.

(For my determined purpose is) that I may know Him – that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding (the wonders of His person) more strongly and more clearly. And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection (which it exerts over believers); and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed (in spirit into his likeness even) to his death…”

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!

THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

You don’t get moving until you get started. And you don’t get started until you start! Ignition is the secret of motion. It takes a singular action, (taken one step at a time) fuelled by the fire of desire to get you to your destination in life! – Yomi Olufiade

THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

Faith is holding as true, the reality of what I believe God for (knowing that He has done it for me); and holding in an atmosphere of expectancy the evidence that it is done even though I as yet cannot see it. – A personal paraphrase of Hebrews 11:1