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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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!

20 DEFINITIONS YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT (part 1)

Words convey meaning. If you are like me, when I come across a word and do not understand its meaning, I reach for the dictionary. But here I am attempting to share with you thoughts from different people, myself included, on the meaning of some words. Please think about them because the definitions you’re about to read are not in your everyday dictionary. May you be blessed!

1. MEDIOCRITY is a region bounded on the north by compromise, on the south by indecision, on the east by past thinking, and on the west by a lack of vision. – John C. Mason

2. COMPROMISE is accepting what we don’t believe because we refuse to fight for what we do believe. – Casey Treat

3. WORRY is an old man with a bended head carrying a load feathers he thinks is lead. – Corrie Ten Boom

4. FEAR is the dark room where negatives are developed. – Unknown

5. A LEADER is a man who knows the road, who can keep ahead, and who pulls others after him. – John R. Mott

6. OBSTACLES are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. – Hannah More

7. HARDSHIP is only a HARD ship. Stay on board, it is taking you somewhere! – Yomi Olufiade

YOU WILL SUCCEED!

THE TOP 7 BLOG POSTS OF 2012

As I celebrate the 150th post on this blog I want to appreciate you my dear friend for hanging out with me. For those who have taken the time to do that, I have enjoyed and been blessed by your comments. It’s such a joy. The greatest fulfillment of a writer is having readers. And for that privilege I’m most grateful.

(I want you to know that I enjoy reading your comments and really appreciate it when you take time to let me know what and how you feel about this blog. So, please feel free to give me a feed back and God bless you as you do so.)

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The first quarter of 2012 is almost at a close, and at this blog I am taking stock of blog posts from the beginning of the year to find out what topics and issues ministered most to you.

So, here we go, these are the Top Seven Blog Posts of the year 2012 thus far:

1. 5 Things I Wish Every Christian Leader Be Reminded Of (1-5)
2. 25 Things I Refuse
3. 7 Keys to Maximizing 2012
4. What Will Be Your Legacy?
5. 7 Good Habits (of A Champion) You Should Cultivate
6. The Greatest General of All Time
7. If You Are Willing To Do These 5 Things Success Would Be Easy

Thank you for staying with me. You will succeed!

If you’re in or around Abuja on Sunday, April 1, 2012, I invite you to join me at this meeting. It promises to be life-changing.

THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

Vision without action is only a dream. Action without vision is just passing the time. Vision with action can change the world! -UNKNOWN

THE GREATEST GENERAL OF ALL TIME

Welcome to a new working week. Today I want to share with you a story.

A man died and met the apostle Peter at the pearly gates. Realizing immediately this is an opportunity to ask the wise and knowledgeable Peter, the man inquired, “St. Peter, I have been interested in military history for many years. Tell me, ‘Who was the greatest general of all time?’”

Peter responded quickly, “Oh, that’s a simple question. It’s that man right over there.”

“You must be mistaken,” our man responded, now very perplexed. “I knew that man on earth and he was just a common labourer.”

“That’s right, my friend,” assured St. Peter. “He would have been the greatest general of all time, if he had been a general.”

You see, dear friend, “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!” (John Greenleaf Whittier)

“He would have been the greatest general…if he had been a general.”

My charge to you today is simple: Do not die with your music still in you. Do not fertilize the grave. Be all, and do all God meant for you to be and do. It was this truth that Thomas A. Edison espoused when he said that “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.”

“Your life has the potential to fulfil your purpose. If you imprison that potential however, you rob your life of its purpose,” Dr. Myles Munroe said. You’ve got all it takes to reach the zenith of your dreams and life goals. The Second epistle of Peter says, “His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness.” (1:3) Go for it! YOU WILL SUCCEED! (Excerpts from the book, DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE by Yomi Olufiade)

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?

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!

THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
– Henry David Thoreau