Sometimes in life, we come across potholes, obstacles, challenges that seem so overwhelming and threatening to veer us off the path of our vision and goals. We tend to give up and throw in the towel. We lose focus, we are destabilized, we are disoriented, we are confused and ultimately down tool on our dreams.
However, setbacks are part of life. They are meant to serve as checks and balances to see where we have gone wrong. Setbacks help us to re-strategize, re-focus and re-double our efforts in order to move forward. Setbacks are not meant to set us back, they are meant to serve as springboards for re-launch of our dreams and visions.
Anyone who does not experience setbacks in life can never understand or feel the joy of conquest.
Setbacks are necessary, they are important and useful to the realization of our dreams in life. The major thing we have to do is to ensure we 'imbibe' the right attitude. Setbacks can be seen by different people in different ways due to each person's 'frame of reference' comprising experiences, culture, religion, personal opinion and the likes.
Whatever your frame of reference, setbacks can either make or mar your progress in life. You however have the power to decide what you make out of every setback.
The ball is in your court!
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Sunday, 5 February 2012
The Manifestation of the Sons of God
Who are the sons of God? These are people (both made and female) that are recognized by God as his children. These are people who have forsaken the love and lust of this world and have determined to pitch their tent with Jesus Christ, the only forgotten son of God.
What are you presently doing with your life as a child of God? What are you manifesting? Are you revealing what God has asked that you reveal to the world through that book, song, article/write-up, word of encouragement, sermon, hour of evangelism, waiting upon Him?
Sons of God, arise to the responsibility your Father has given you for the whole world awaits your manifestation. They await that song to wipe away their tears. They await that write-up to encourage them in the daily journey in life. They await the smile and hope that emanates from the one-on-one words of encouragement.
Sons of God! Arise to your responsibilities for God and indeed the whole world awaits your manifestation.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
The Power of Sleep
Sleep as we all know is good for the body. Sleep enables you to rest from your daily activities, relaxes your body, refreshes your brain, and generally refreshes and prepares you for a new day. 8-10 hour sleep is recommended as appropriate for an adult.
However, sleep is a major inhibiting factor to success. How can this be? How can a supposedly good thing be a hindrance to another good thing? Friend, you’ve got to wake up from your sleep. If you are to become a truly successful and fulfilled person in life, then you have to minimize the number of hours you sleep. Yes, you have to minimize the number of hours you spend sleeping.
It is said that “While their mates slept, great men toiled at their experiments and came out with inventions that change the world.” Look, if you sleep for 8hrs/day, it means you have spent one-third of your life sleeping on that particular day.
Let’s take a look at this simple arithmetic. We want to consider the life of a man who slept for 8hrs/day from the age of 20 to 50. So, we are taking into consideration, 30yrs of his life.
Recall that:
1yr = 365 days
30 yrs = 30 x 365
= 10, 950 days
Since the man slept for 8hrs in each day, it therefore means that the total no of hours he slept in 30yrs (10, 950 days)
= 8hrs x 10, 950 days
= 87, 600 hrs
We therefore want to know the equivalent of the number of hours he slept in days.
Recall that:
24hrs = 1 day
87,600 hrs = 87,600hrs/24hrs
= 3, 650 days
It means the man slept for 3, 650 days out of the whole 10, 950 days.
Let’s do this last calculation.
Since 365 days = 1yr
Therefore,
3,650 days = 3650days/365 days
= 10 years.
From the above calculations, it shows that out of the 30yrs of the man’s life taken into consideration, he has spent 10yrs sleeping. Don’t be amazed! Your case is even worse than him. If your own life is taken into consideration, only God knows how many years you would have spent sleeping. Friend, it is time to deny the eyes of sleep. You’ve got to remain dogged and determined to reach the end of your goal. It however takes the “abundant grace of God” to be able to accomplish this. Your power can do but nothing. You need to rely on God to enable you crucify sleep on the altar of grace.
Sleep is a killer of destiny and glory. No matter the volume of potential that resides in you, once you are sold out to sleep, you can never and I repeat, you will never amount to anything in life. Proverbs 20:13 has this to say about sleep - "Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread." (American Standard Version). Sleep can become a curse rather than a blessing..
Proverbs 6:9-11 reads, "How long wilt thous sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."
If sleep takes hold of your life, you are done for! So many people are under the excruciating pains of the arrow of the enemy fired into their lives to make them sleep anytime, anyday. The enemy knows that if they are awake, they will strive to fulfill their destiny. Another area where the enemy is cheating us as children of God is in the area of waking up in the middle of the night to rise up and pray. The bible says; 'when man slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.'
If you are a child of God and you find it difficult to rise up and pray in the middle of the night, you have made yourself a cheap article in the hands of the enemy. The enemy will plant things God never planted into your life and make you a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone that sees you. Why are you where you are? It's simply because you love sleep, it's because the arrow of sleep shot by the enemy has settled comfortably in your life.
Do you want to be free? Yes, you can be free if you will be willing and ready to pay the price....
God bless you.
However, sleep is a major inhibiting factor to success. How can this be? How can a supposedly good thing be a hindrance to another good thing? Friend, you’ve got to wake up from your sleep. If you are to become a truly successful and fulfilled person in life, then you have to minimize the number of hours you sleep. Yes, you have to minimize the number of hours you spend sleeping.
It is said that “While their mates slept, great men toiled at their experiments and came out with inventions that change the world.” Look, if you sleep for 8hrs/day, it means you have spent one-third of your life sleeping on that particular day.
Let’s take a look at this simple arithmetic. We want to consider the life of a man who slept for 8hrs/day from the age of 20 to 50. So, we are taking into consideration, 30yrs of his life.
Recall that:
1yr = 365 days
30 yrs = 30 x 365
= 10, 950 days
Since the man slept for 8hrs in each day, it therefore means that the total no of hours he slept in 30yrs (10, 950 days)
= 8hrs x 10, 950 days
= 87, 600 hrs
We therefore want to know the equivalent of the number of hours he slept in days.
Recall that:
24hrs = 1 day
87,600 hrs = 87,600hrs/24hrs
= 3, 650 days
It means the man slept for 3, 650 days out of the whole 10, 950 days.
Let’s do this last calculation.
Since 365 days = 1yr
Therefore,
3,650 days = 3650days/365 days
= 10 years.
From the above calculations, it shows that out of the 30yrs of the man’s life taken into consideration, he has spent 10yrs sleeping. Don’t be amazed! Your case is even worse than him. If your own life is taken into consideration, only God knows how many years you would have spent sleeping. Friend, it is time to deny the eyes of sleep. You’ve got to remain dogged and determined to reach the end of your goal. It however takes the “abundant grace of God” to be able to accomplish this. Your power can do but nothing. You need to rely on God to enable you crucify sleep on the altar of grace.
Sleep is a killer of destiny and glory. No matter the volume of potential that resides in you, once you are sold out to sleep, you can never and I repeat, you will never amount to anything in life. Proverbs 20:13 has this to say about sleep - "Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread." (American Standard Version). Sleep can become a curse rather than a blessing..
Proverbs 6:9-11 reads, "How long wilt thous sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."
If sleep takes hold of your life, you are done for! So many people are under the excruciating pains of the arrow of the enemy fired into their lives to make them sleep anytime, anyday. The enemy knows that if they are awake, they will strive to fulfill their destiny. Another area where the enemy is cheating us as children of God is in the area of waking up in the middle of the night to rise up and pray. The bible says; 'when man slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.'
If you are a child of God and you find it difficult to rise up and pray in the middle of the night, you have made yourself a cheap article in the hands of the enemy. The enemy will plant things God never planted into your life and make you a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone that sees you. Why are you where you are? It's simply because you love sleep, it's because the arrow of sleep shot by the enemy has settled comfortably in your life.
Do you want to be free? Yes, you can be free if you will be willing and ready to pay the price....
God bless you.
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