Start Small, End Big!

   

Start Small,  End Big!

Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears;

wealth from hard work grows over time.

Prov. 13:11

Just as hand of the clock ticks without minding whose horse is gored, so blunt to is life everyone of us.  Whether we do something about our lives and future or not life continues move on.  Unfortunately many people are blind to this fact.  And suddenly it is nightfall in their lives!

I observe one terrible habit that is prevailing amongst the youths in my place of birth and origin.  This is the fact many youths don't want to start life small.  They want to get rich quick.  So many of them dropped out of school early enough to start 'Okada' or taxi businesses.  In their haste to grow faster than their ages, some of them engage in impregnating girls around.  I particularly know of one who impregnated three girls all at the same time so he has become the father to a set of triplets from three different mothers.  He is an Okada rider!  

In the same town, our farmers are looking for young persons to work in their farms for fees.  But none of this youths will engage in that.  And our visionary brothers from other parts of Nigeria are now doing that and with all their hearts too.  So they are reaping the benefits that ought to accrue to visionary indigenes who would have realised that life MUST OF NECESSITY start small and projected to end big.  These ignorant lazybones are the people that will flock round anyone who has the pleasure of visiting the town for cheap money and if they fail to perform, then they are nicknamed 'stingy, bad, wicked, etc' whereas the INVOICES they submit are bigger than the overall budgets of their benefactors!.  One interesting  thing is that even when they are given anything, it ends up in the beer parlours and in prostitutes workshops!

This reminded me of my early days as a village boy.  Thank God I had a good mother who developed a good vision for me - desire to be educated. And God opened me up to catch up with her vision and I became interested in schooling. First I wanted to become a teacher, then a Lawyer.  But the journey to school was near impossible. God never allowed anybody to come to my aid.  Instead he gave me the spirit, the strength, the ability and the resilience to continue to strive.  I enjoyed the pleasure of formal Primary School but the rest   was between God and me, hard work and sacrifice. Finally I  graduated in Law at the age of 46 and called to the Nigerian Bar at the age of 47.  I am now retired from paid employment venturing Legal practice.    All I can say is: I AM DETERMINED to succeed in Law as I did in other fields I have ventured.  I am used to not giving up a good struggle!

Coming to our young ones, I am saddened by the fact that they are not willing to start small and building consistently upon a small beginning to the point they can grow.  I am saddened because they see Okada business as a quick way to get rich quick and painfully they are investing the proceeds on wasteful expenditures!  I am saddened because they never again gave a thought to being educated.  I am saddened because they have sold their birthrights like Esau and may never recover them.  I am saddened because as the Bible rightly says, the lazy man shall serve the hard working one.  I am saddened because they don't seem to understand that poverty is the ruin of the poor.  I am saddened because they are toying with their destinies and very soon the night time will come like a thief in the night and no amount of explanations or justifcations will avail their success when they can actually start as an Okada (motorbike) Riders and end as Captains flying the latest Aeroplanes!  . 

As a Minister of God who believes so much in the fact that beautiful sermons without corresponding action amounts to nothing but 'entertainment' which sometimes makes the church to look like an ordinary social club, I don't just want to live a life of a sad man because of them.  I want to do something about them.  I am giving birth to a programme that will educate, enlighten and liberate as many as are willing from the shackle of ignorance. I want to teach them how to start small and end big.  They ought not to despise a little beginning!

 I just pray that the Lord will help me to make the required difference in the lives of these precious souls.  Amen.  If I can achieve this and bestow it as a legacy to my people, I will be fulfilled. 

Above all, we have people like these in our families. They are friends to our children.  We have them as neighbours and so on.  You can help to positively impact their lives by encouraging them to read my autobiography FREE.  Or better still, you can sponsor the printing of a number of copies for distribution to those whom you identify as needing it, you will be saving Nigeria from impending calamity awaiting our youths.

The book will be customised as you will be acknowledged as the sponsor and giver of the number of copies you purchase. Good morning.   

A Good Mother’s Devotion to her Children’s Destiny

A Good Mother’s Devotion to her
Children’s Destiny

 "And his mother stored all these things in her heart. 

Luke 2:51

When Angel Gabriel delivered to Mary, (the mother of Jesus),  the message concerning the birth of Jesus, the only question she asked was a clarification about how it would happen.  When the clarification was made she believed wholeheartedly that it would happen to her.  But when the same Angel delivered similar message to the Priest named Zechariah, Zechariah disbelieved!  Young Mary’s belief fetched her the prophecy without any form of punishment but Rev. Zecharaiah had to undergo  dumbness and remained so until the fulfilment of the prophesy – the birth of John the Baptist.  It is noteworthy here that the greatest unbelievers of Christ are amongst the Priests of Jesus - the highly religious and most  respected scholars!  They (the priests) who ought to protect Jesus also played prominent roles in ensuring his crucifixion!  That's of course the ironing of life knowledgeable but undiscerning! That's what many 'men of God' are today.  However let's leave out the men and their unbelieving syndrome and address our women for now. 

Another important thing that made Mary unique and which accelerated the fulfilment of God’s promises for Jesus’ life was that she took everything prophesied in the life of Jesus very seriously, believing them all.  Not only that she meditated upon them day and night in her heart and of course must expectantly be praying for their fulfilment.

In today’s materialistic world, one wonders roles mothers are playing to ensure the fulfilment of their children’s God ordained destinies.  Mothers who are hardly at home can hardly know what is happening to their children talkless of ‘meditating’ upon the future of their children.  Instead many women now meditate on money matters rather than the proper upbringing of their children.  A typical example of was a woman reported the papers recently to have offered her 14 year old daughter for prostitution!

Mothers who are reading this message, my question for you is “Are you like Mary or like the woman who offered her promising daughter for financial gains?  Remember however that whichever one you are, there will be a day of reckoning.

Good morning.

Choosing Between Poverty and Riches

Choosing Between Poverty and Riches 

"So even though wisdom is better than strength, those who are wise will be despised if they are poor. What they say will not be appreciated for long" Eccl. 9:16

The church is a place where we ought to learn the truth about how to positively shape all aspects of our lives and I thank God I was there on a particular Sunday when the above quotation was treated by my Pastor.    

If you are the 'super-holy' person who believes that it better to be poor than to be rich or you are one of the critics of 'prosperity preachers', the above quotation is worth your consideration  so that you may reconsider your thoughts towards being prosperous.

The Bible has never hidden the fact that 'Holiness' and 'Prosperity' are two wings with which a WISE believer must fly.  If you pursue one at the expense of the other, no matter how well you do in the very direction, you will end up in regrets.  For you to fulfil your destiny therefore, you must of NECESSITY BE HOLY AND PROSPEROUS. 

To be Holy, you need to become very knowledgeable in the word of God, be born again, baptised by water immersion/holy spirit-filled and of necessity, you should have specific assignment or ministry that will enable you consistently grow up in the spiritual realm. Above all, you must become your own pastor instead of being pastored all the time by another person who has himself applied himself to God. To achieve this goal, you need to prosper. Your overall goal here should be to make heaven in the end.

On the secular hand,  you must nurture your seven stages of life (i.e. birth, education, career, marriage, retirement, death and History) very well to ensure you succeed in life.  

To prosper both in the spirit and in the secular, you need to prosper and your Career or chosen profession has a direct link with how well you will prosper.  A lazy bone tends to poverty!  Therefore stage 3 of our live is something everyone must take seriously because it is where you generate the wealth required to successfully manage all the others.  No wonder the Bible rightly said that "money answers all things"!  Therefore it is very important that we all engage in profitable economic activities that will generate us the funds we need to run all the affairs of our lives. 

Failure to do so, no matter how Wise, Knowledgeable and Understanding we are, we would not be taken seriously anywhere, including the Church of God and it will be right to do so!

Good morning.

   

MM

Don't Move Ancient Boundaries!

  

Don't Move Ancient Boundaries!

“So you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all your prophets. 

For the Lord has pronounced your doom.”

It all started like a simple inspiration and/or sudden realisation or discovery.  Finally King Ahab who all along knew peace took unGodly steps to enlarge his coast! 

When God is angry with a man, anything can happen to him to ensure his destruction - even true prophets can become lying prophets! This was what happened in the life of King Ahab.  400 Prophets lied and the only one (Macaiah) that told the truth was imprisoned!  But certain that it was God that spoke with him, he prophesied further that Ahab would not return from the unjust battle he was waging.  Ahab left.  Even though he disguised, the Lord still found him out in the battle field as a 'random' shooting located and killed him.

A few years back, history repeated itself when a particular President did exactly what King Ahab did - taking over another 'WEAK' country's territory.  The world arose against him and he ended up in the gaols.

This reminds one of what Prov. 23:10-11 has to say:  

"Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers;

don’t take the land of defenseless orphans. For their Redeemer* is strong;

he himself will bring their charges against you.

In the name of aiming high or helping ourselves, many of us today have cheated our neighbours by moving the ancient boundary markers in order to enlarge our own costs.  This can take the form of a man manipulating his way through to an office; manipulating his promotion; bad-mouthing others to gain opportunities, a young girl taking over her friend's suitor, a student lying so he can get increased upkeep allowances, a person using his position to deny others opportunities or outright robbery.

One constant factor that is present with cheaters is: THEY ARE FORSAKEN BY GOD!   

Have you in any way moved the ancient boundary marks or are you about to do so?  If you have, ask for forgiveness.  Move back to your approved territory.  If you are about to do so, please  don't!  It's not going to be in your own interest as God can cause even a true prophet to lie for your sake!  Remember King Ahab!

Good morning.

It's in Your Interest to be Wise!

It's in Your 

Interest to be Wise!

"If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit.  

If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer." Prov. 9:12

1. Parents and parents to-be, give birth to the only the number of children you can cater for.Parents, send your children to school; children ensure you work hard at your studies and come out of school in flying colours
2. All, don't be lazy; choose a career and study and practise it to earn you good income.
3. Singles:  Don't marry too early or too late; involve God and your parents in your marriage.  More importantly choose a compatible partner!
4. Every money you earn IS A SEED; don't waste on luxuries (alcohol, cigarettes, immoraility) or  wasteful assets e.g. latest cars, TV's, Handsets, etc!
5. Save for your retirement!
6. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal  Saviour so as to guarantee your heavenly place after leaving this world!
7. Children, obey your parents and bless them so that ....
8.  ....  Parents, don't provoke your children!  
9. Wives, submit to your husbands IN ALL THINGS! 
10. Husbands, love your wives such that you can sacrifice your own life for them!
11. Serve no other gods other than the only true God, and so on.
12. Above all, obey the 10 commandments!

Acting in wisdom is one good thing that can ever happen to a man or woman.  Many of the things we do rightly  are in our own interest.  If we do them otherwise, there's repercussion attached.  The above 12 listed examples are not exhaustive of the various do's and don'ts in the Bible but the truth is that whether we obey them or not, we face the consequences in our family, career, ministry, parenting, educational and other aspects of life.  

The rich people being envied today are the products of their wise parents who, in those days, heeded the golden advice to educate their children.  Such children who excelled occupied strategic positions in our society today.  They not only become wealthy, but they elevate the names of their families beyond the ordinary names e.g. who does not know: the Nobel Laurette, Prof. Wole Soyinka?  Can the name of Prof. Chinua Achebe be hidden?  Can Obasanjo's family's name be difficult to identify?  Yet many of their parents' contemporaries who did nothing about the future of their children remain are unheard of today.

 It is disheartening today to see many parents still producing children indiscriminately instead of producing few that they can cater for, moreso when there is family planning!  These foolish families are destined to be perpetually ruled rather than rule.  They will produce visionless children that will be used by the politicians  (the children of the wise parents) as touts to achieve their aims.  They will be the ones to produce children that will serve as househelps to the families of the wise and the rich.  They will be the ones to produce children who are given the legacy of greed from the womb, because they have to struggle  for the little available food in the family so as to survive.  They are families that will enjoy 'pains' and may never taste pleasure.  They will for ever depend upon their expectation of reliance upon Government, relatives, etc even to feed!  

Let's reflect upon this very important matter: the need to be wise.  And act out her script as described in Prov. 9 which has this to say:  

 Wisdom has built her house;

she has carved its seven columns.

2 She has prepared a great banquet,

mixed the wines, and set the table.

3 She has sent her servants to invite everyone to come.

She calls out from the heights overlooking the city.

4 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.

To those who lack good judgment, she says,

5 “Come, eat my food,

and drink the wine I have mixed.

6 Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live;

learn to use good judgment.”

7 Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return.

Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.

8 So don’t bother correcting mockers;

they will only hate you.

But correct the wise,

and they will love you.

9 Instruct the wise,

and they will be even wiser.

Teach the righteous,

and they will learn even more.

10 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom.

Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment.

11 Wisdom will multiply your days

and add years to your life.

12 If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit.

If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.

Folly Calls for a Hearing

13 The woman named Folly is brash.

She is ignorant and doesn’t know it.

14 She sits in her doorway

on the heights overlooking the city.

15 She calls out to men going by

who are minding their own business.

16 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.

To those who lack good judgment, she says,

17 “Stolen water is refreshing;

food eaten in secret tastes the best!”

18 But little do they know that the dead are there.

Her guests are in the depths of the grave.*

 

Good morning.

Fair Hearing in Parenting (2)

Continued from yesterday

Fair Hearing in Parenting (2)

The Boy

Title: Why I don’t have to bring

a bad result home

         

“I never imagine my self to be a failure because

I am not born to be a failure… The major problem is that I don’t know how to manage my time very well”

 "I know that I have sinned against you as my parents, because I know that God has not created me to be a failure!  And I know your vision for me is not to be a failure. I never imagine myself to be a failure because I am not born to be a failure.

                    I know that I don’t have good reasons for me to bring a bad result home. My major problem is that I don’t know how to manage my time very well, why is because subjects like English, Biology, Economics and mathematics are subject need a lot of time because without these subjects I don’t think there will a breakthrough for someone like me into the university, That is why I want you to teach me how to manage my time well because out of the 24 hours I spend 9 hours in school and the remaining 15 hours I spend at home and out of this 15 hours I will have to do my assignments and after I have finish that the remaining hours will not be enough for me to do a proper study of what I have done, that is why I want you to teach me or analyse to me how to use my time judiciously.

          In my English I want to improve on my essay writing or letter writing, because these are the things I need to take note of, because when writing external exams the marker who will my essay letter will not know who I am and what he or she wants to mark is how well I compose and frame my words are (if possible) without any mistake, and how good my thinking ability is.  Why I am particular about this is because mummy has been telling me to write essays for her to know how my thinking ability is and how I can think articulately fast within a short period of  time been given.

          In my major subject like English, Economics, Biology and Mathematics I need someone that I can go to when i have some difficulties. My brother, Olu, and I had  agreed that this coming holiday will be for him to help me in my difficult areas but unfortunately for me, he left for Lagos and that arrangement which I had banked upon is not working out. However, still think with your help, I can do it myself. I know I can make good use of this holiday by attending extra lessons.

          Now it is time and a must for me not to waste this opportunity because this is my final lap and I must not let it go like that without succeeding. This is the solution and I pray God help me through."

Upon reading the above articles, our children taught us some major lessons:  that we should always give them fair hearing in matters involving their upbringing; that they will open up to us on what they feel they needed to help them overcome their challenges. That negotiation and dialogue are vital tools to resolving conflicts.  That they are willing to co-operate with us at all times if the environment be right. Finally that they do not want to cause us pains and that what we are correcting in them are things that are to them painful and which they want to get over from quickly and live a mutually satisfying lives with us their parents. 

I am happy as a father that I was led to adopt this approach which, if I had not looked at the word of God closely, I would not have done myself and we as parents would have had difficulties gaining the necessary co-operation we needed from our beautiful/handsome children to raise them in the way of the Lord that would give us all peace in the long run.

Are you a parent?  How have you been managing your children?  Do you involve them or you are always ‘enforcing the law’ by bullying and beating them? If that is so, change your style today to dialogue and negotiation.  You will be surprised how wonderful and co-operative your children can be in jointly attaining good success!  No wonder, when  God the Father wanted to create man, He consulted with “God the Son and God the Holy Spirit”  Again, no wonder why the Trinity are co-operating together till date  to ensure the salvation of the same man they consulted together to  create – Jesus willingly offered Himself to die for him while Holy Spirit is now his teacher who is teaching him on how to run the day-to-day affairs of his life!”  Good morning.

Fair Hearing in Parenting (1)

Fair Hearing in Parenting (1)

            Direct your children onto the right path,

and when they are older, they will not leave it

Fair Hearing in Parenting

Parenting is a cumbersome but at the same time an interesting assignment.  Training a child is particularly difficult unless God comes to parents’ aid. This is because children change according to the level of their development and exposure.  The rules that are effective in training children between the ages of 0 and 12 are far different from the ones that are applicable to teenagers and youths. 

And many different approaches are provided for by the Bible some of which are: ‘the rod’, advice, counseling, and so on.  Of all the instructions, the one that appeals to me most as a parent is the one that says “children obey your parents so that your days will be long in the land that the Lord has given to you” and “parents’ do not provoke your children’.

 These rules form the “equilibrium’ in the training scheme both for the children and their parents alike.  For instance, beating the children will not solve the problem if parents themselves provoke such children. 

Parents that lay bad examples for their children to follow and then beat them for committing the same offence are only provoking such children.  Parents who don’t provide for their children’s advancement in life and are blaming them for not doing well are only provoking such children.  Parents who do not give fair hearing to their children matters affecting them are not training but provoking such children.  

“They are both 17 years old so unguarded application of the ‘rod’ will surely harden rather than achieve the desired results.  So we decided to dialogue with them.  We reviewed the situations together and finally we asked them to write us essays on how they thought they could overcome their problems. In other words, we gave them fair hearing because we felt that unless we involved them in the process of resolving their issues, we cannot succeed in helping them..!”

I have noticed particularly in two of my children (one male the other female), that they have two major difficulties which are giving us parents concern. The male child had difficulties recording a breakthrough in his academics while the female has issues being slow in whatever she does such that it became worrisome to us as parents.  After thorough examinations, we observed that the two issues bordered upon time-management. The boy needs to know how to manage his time to attain effective studies that will give him academic breakthrough. The female needs to manage her time so that she will do things within reasonable time. 

They are both 17 years old so unguarded application of the ‘rod’ will surely harden rather than achieve the desired results in them.  So we decided to dialogue with them.  We reviewed the situations together and finally we asked them to write us essays on how they thought they could overcome their problems. In other words, we gave them fair hearing because we felt that unless we involved them in the process of resolving their issues, we cannot succeed in helping them! 

The two of them produced these two amazing, revealing and parent-inspiring  articles:

THE GIRL

Title: The Reasons Why a Child Should Keep to Time

There is a Yoruba adage that says’’Ilu ti ko so fin,ko si se’’ (meaning, where there’s no law, there’s no crime) .A girl-child  who is under her parents and claims to be a responsible Christian needs be wary in her ways. She should particularly be conscious of keeping to time in everything she does – time management.

She who does not keep to time leaves her parents with anxiety all the time, which is not good particularly when she calls herself a Christian. Her YES should be YES and her NO NO.  Her not keeping to time, particularly when she is sent on errand or she goes to school or church or wherever she goes gives room for dirty thoughts about her by her parents which can make  them doubt her integrity and this can create serious friction between her and her parents.

The Bible passage which says’ a bad child is of the mother, while a good child is of the father’ this implies that a bad or wayward child brings nothing but shame and disappointment to his or her parents. And as we all know’ a good name is better than silver or gold’. I as a person and a (parent to-be myself) will not like to have a child who doesn’t keep to time because it makes it hard for me as a parent to recommend such a child to any organization or anybody for that matter.

Finally, a child who is having difficulties in time keeping should be assisted by his or her parents to avoid future problems which will be accountable to the parents later in the future. I strongly believe such a child needs to be cautioned and backed up with prayers. No gender is left out in this discussion, we all need the consciousness and the Holy Spirit who the greatest teacher to teach us on time management and so help us God

I think with this little I have written, I have been able to list the little but few problems that bring about doubt and dishonesty between parents and their children. (to be continued tomorrow)

Playing Religion?

Playing Religion?

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of

 wisdom but fools despise it

Prov. 1:7

I am very conscious of the fact that among Daily Energiser readers are people of diverse faiths.  They may love the messages but if they could they would have asked me to quote less from the Bible and just make my statements and leave.   

I tried to do this at the inception of Daily Energiser.  However at a stage, I realised that  my writings are vastly influenced by what God has said on any topic. So I decided to acknowledge the Owner of the inspirations as well as His words which I think is what we do even in our secular intellectual property community.

However, this is not to say I am concerned only with my fellow Christians.  Far from it!.  My thinking is that those who are seeking after WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING based on the truth do not play religion.  Playing religion does not save anybody.  Rather, it breeds discrimination and vain arguments.  But the truth that one knows sets one free! 

Let’s be frank to ourselves.  It does not matter which religion one belongs, the fact remains that what God says concerning all issues of life has universal application to us all e.g. Prov. 6:32 says: “But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.” This statement is a universal truth for all men as it does not matter which religion they belong.  Also the verse quoted on top of this document on the fear of the Lord is relevant to all.  Likewise God’s statement concerning the danger in engaging in alcoholism!  Therefore to apply play religion and reject these statements is to lose treasures that would have enhanced one’s life as a Wisdom and Knowledge seeker.

Even when I introduce readers to Jesus Christ in my write up, I do it for the sole purpose of love, not religion.  I am offering to them a product I have tasted, tested and found to be an effective antidote to the cure illnesses that may be plaguing them whether in their health, career, marriage, parenting, retirement and of course the only antidote against the fear of death even in old age and a guarantee for living an everlasting life after this world.  If I love my friends, I could not have come across such potent ‘drug’ and keep it to myself!  If not for Christ, who would have made my life which was pre-programmed to fail by Satan to succeed the way it is doing and who would have given me the heart of self-less service to fellow human beings?

I therefore humbly implore all readers of Daily Energiser world-wide, irrespective of their religious biases, never to play religion for the “Fear of the Lord” is of universal application as only those who fear the Lord can do what is right and just to their fellow men.  Good morning.

To Weed off Temptations, market this product

To Weed off Temptations, market this product

"My People Perish from lack of Knowledge"

Hosea 4:6

At any point in our lives we are prone to temptations!  Male children below the age of 12 years are particularly prone to telling lies, falling prey to peer pressure, petty stealling etc.  By the time they are in their teenage years, then such highly destructive temptations as fornication, stubbornness, laziness, and drug addiction, alochol, excessive anger, etc are added to their stock of temptations. In their schools, examination malpractice is added and it is at this stage also that running a rat race for money through get-rich-quick or looking for quick gains through all sorts of gamblings is added. 

As a result of the above and many other unlisted temptations, many young persons never get to tertiary institutions but even when some of them abandon Godliness and substitute it for cultism!  Some survive it some perish therein but the temptation is always there and only the ones that have their heads remain calm, consistent and succeed.

When we get to career levels, it's a different kettle of fish (or temptations) entirely.  Workers who have worked hard believe they are entitled to 'enjoy' their lives and there are many ways to do this.  This brings them to the temptation of going for luxury (e.g. womanising, alcoholism, peppersoup joints, nite clubs where girls pose nude, drug addiction, , etc)  at the expense of Godliness.  Some want to play the fast one by exploiting others financially or sexually. 

Some go straight for outright  emptying of their employer's treasury.  Some in pursuit of promotion must visit God-forbiding people as sorcerers, ritual killers, etc.  Some must, with their hands, hearts and minds destroy their fellow men in order to attain the promotions they desire. They  quote such powerful bibilical statements as "from the day of John the Baptist, the Kingdom of God suffereth violence and only the violent takes it by force", to justify their distatardly acts. Some are so greedy as to use their positions to cause pains to anyone who crosses their paths!

At marriage their marriage levels, the temptations are their for men to become unloving, arrogant, careless and women beater and aggressors.  The women are tempted to struggle leadership title with their husbands!  A couple may be tempted to cheat on one another yet they appear and profess to themselves as 'faithfuls'!  At this stage some women entrust their loyalties to their friends, sisters, parents, etc instead of their husbands.  Some men, are more attached to their parents, especially their mothers than their wives!  All these are temptations.

How we all avoid these temptations or at least reduce their pressures on us?  I have a product which I believe you need to purchase (if you have not), use and then market to others.  This product is particularly useful for all ilnesses or (TEMPTATIONS), irrespective your your stage in life.  A young girl-student who is being offered dangerous advances can sell this product to weaken and save the nuances of the dangerous 'bees' that surround her. The married man can apply this product to manage his home, career, children, attract true wealth, and so on.  A woman who purchases use, and market this product will have no diffculty suceeding in all fronts be it career, marriage, business, etc. 

What is this product?  It is JESUS CHRIST who has come to save us from all the temptations we are all facing.  An active knowledge of him and a dilligent propagation of his gospel is capable of saving  us from many temptations of our lives for Prov. 1:7 says "fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; fools jettison it". 

Because the knowledge of Christ is the antidote for recognising, hating and warding off all sorts of temptations (unGodliness) that faces us all round, he will surely save "whoever comes to him".  For instance a young girl who knows Christ very well and is determined to sell  Him to wayword boys cannot be won by such wayward boys but she will use her beauty (blossoming appearance which is a bait for the infatuated boys and men alike)  to lure them into Christ or discourge them from destroying her destiny.  This way, she will save the boys and save herself. 

A man with the knowledge of Christ will know what the Bible says about the many luxuries of the world that stare him in the face and be more capable of avoiding rather than engaging himself in them.  This way he will save himself and his household.

I therefore recommend this precious product to you all, my readers.   Will you market Christ?   I urge you to do. Happy Easter!

Broken? Want to End it All? Don't!

Broken? Want to End it All? Don't!

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son 

that whosoever believes Him should not perisih but have everlasting life"

Are you overwhelmed?  Whatever the cause, that should not be allowed to determine whether you will live or not.  You don't know how precious you are to God as a living soul!    God is not interested in your death.  He has paid that price on the cross of Calvary as explained in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son for whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life".  

This is the point at which God Almighty demonstrated the peak of His love for us all.  It caused God pains to redeem us.  Therefore when He sees you passing through a painful period, He is not happy because he is not interested in your 'rushing' back to Him.  Rather he wants you to live your life to the fullest, fulfilled and happy.  That is what glorifies Him and that is what delights Him for only a living soul can praise the Lord more so that He is not a God of the dead.

Satan has come to steal, kill and destroy.  First he will still your joy either by exposing you to something disgraceful. That is where you find a Pastor divorcing his wife, committing adultery, stealing church funds, engaging in homo-sexuality, etc. After doing that Satan would have succeeded in killing him spiritually first.  Then he will continue to misbehave until he is killed physically by either committing suicide or even committing murder so that there will be more than one deaths.  After doing these, then when the Pastor is out of existence, then all his good works, his promising destiny and the glory of God that had radiated around him are completely destroyed!

No situation in this world should be so bad as to cause you to ever give a thought to killing yourself!  If you do, it means you are far away from God whereas God is nearer to you than anyone else.  Are you a murderer, an adulterer, a prostitute, or are you born out of wedlock and is causing you shame?  Have you embezzled your organisation's money and are being chased about by EFCC, ICPC, etc.  Are you bankrupt?  Or you owe people here and there such that you can no longer walk tall in the streets in broad day light?   Are you a born-again student yet you are failing your examinations and is causing you shame?  Are you faithful to your husband and he is repaying you with beatings?  Is your wife causing you shame?  Is your husband a disgrace? Is your child so bad that you wish he is dead to cover your shame?   Have you had sexual relationship with more than one man, got impregnated and the two men denied paternity and is causing you shame?  Have you snatched your supposed friend's husband or wife and the shame is torturing you?  Is your case outside all these situations but all the same, more shameful?

I bet you, yes it may weary and break you down psychologically, yet  none of them is enough to terminate your life because Jesus has taken away all these sorrows.  And that is the essence of Easter in our lives.

Today, if only you will take a bold step, go to any Bible believing Church, confess your sins to JESUS (not to the Pastor!), accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Saviour, you will be completely out of the bondage. All the   

evil contemplation of 'ending everything' about your life will fizzle out and you will become a new person and your life will blossom again. Good morning. 

Quit Before You Are

Ordered to do So!

It’s so nice to be dependent! Everyone of us passed through that stage before we become independent. Fending for oneself is a major challenge. It means no work, no food, no clothing, no shelter, no marriage and so on.

When the time to quit comes, a child who is sought after by the parents to support him will suddenly discover that the parents bothers less about their welfare any longer. Indeed the parents will now expect the child to fend for himself. The child who is unprepared for this ‘promotion’ becomes psychologically disturbed, feels unloved, displays anger, and most often withdraws to himself.

It is a universal law that at one point in life everyone must account for his or her own sustenance. Therefore the earlier we begin to let our children realise it the better so that they will not fight us when the time comes. Indeed we can help them to smoothly transform to their new life if we have educated them well ahead of time before the time comes. Trying to prepare his children for this inevitable challenge, the writer had prepared his children’s minds to quit anytime from age 25! This is to enable them know that they are not going to be dependent for ever and that plan is fast working out now, even before they attained that age.

The benefit of this is simply that as they grow older, they become more and more conscious of the fact that sooner or later, they must become independent! So both children and parents are at peace with one another when it begun to happen.

When parents give their children the impression that they would continue to depend upon them, they have succeeded in making such children unprepared for the challenges ahead of them. Therefore it is important we let our children know their possible exit day well in advance so they can work towards being independent without tears.

This is also an opportunity to address those who are dependent upon others for every bit of their needs in the name of asking for a help. Help should be specific, time-driven and should have expiry date. Put yourself in the position of the person you depend upon and ask yourself if you would like to find yourself being dependent upon throughout your life-time. If the answer is no, it’s time you let the other person rest too by being on your own. Not only that you should not forget to promote yourself to the position of a helper too by singling out some people for help! By the way, don’t wait until you are asked to quit before you do so!

Good morning.

The Root Cause of Broken Marriages

The Root Cause of

Broken Marriages 

"And the Lord God said,

it is not good that the man should be ALONE: 

I will make him an help meet for him.". Gen. 2:18

Marriage should be for life. God instituted it for the fundamental purpose of giving the man companionship.  We are therefore social beings.  It is very difficult especially for a man to survive on his own without a woman companion. He will be idle and an idle man is the devil's workshop. 

No matter how we look at it, loneliness is the single most fundamental primary cause of broken marriages.  It was during the brief period of loneliness that Satan approached Eve, enticed her with something sweet and brought her low.  If Adam was around he would not have succeeded because the two together, would have been able to resist him.  Satan therefore capitalised on the 'softness of a woman's heart'.  We all influence ourselves of course.  No wonder it did not take time for Eve, being the closest person to Adam to bring him down thinking she was helping him. 

Sarah, in her private time, hatched an idea for Abraham to bring forth children from Haggai.  And Abraham brought forth Ishmael! 

Marriages that eventually break down do so usually within a period of a couple remaining incommunicado and gradually they separate themselves in the spirit and subsequently in the physical.  Then comes loneliness.  A man would begin to explore the alternatives in his privacy while the woman begins to feel insecured and  would seek counsel from the so-called 'confidants' on how to steer the sheep of her life.  Somewhere in between, both the man and the woman begin to see in more details some 'opposite-sex friends' either in their social or official lives and begin to give some thoughts to their emotional attachment.  The men may even stray into alcohol, smoking, etc to ward of some lonely moments. 

The longer they are apart, the wider the gulf and finally, they consider formal separation which will eventually accellerate the pace of their loneliness and inability to resist other temptations because a sudden 'freedom' has been gained.   A reasonable period of physical separation is one of the fundamental ingredients that the courts will consider in any divorce proceeding before granting it. So it has to be that there's clear evidence of a period of loneliness.

How can couples break the jinx of loneliness?  It is simple but most neglected. Closeness!  Couples ought to relate as babies who are always fund of themselves.  They ought to play together, talk together, eat together, walk together, pray together, wine together, dine together or glue together as children will.  More importantly, they ought to go move together as much as is humanly possible.

Moving together should however not be an instrument to monitor or police one another.  That is jealousy, another patently dangerous factor that tears rather than unite a couple.  However the benefit of a couple moving (or even travelling) together is that such closeness or presence before one another almost all the time helps to ward of either of them from being tempted.  And this is the most potent instrument for fostering cohesion between a husband and wife.  Because they are always close, there will be more understanding fostered through unending discussions, there will be prevention of 'straying eyes' common to men. 

Therefore for any marriage to succeed, the monster called LONELINESS must be totally banished from the family. Are you far from your husband or wife?  Beware! You may be courting divorce!  Beware!   Mike Murdock the Great Minister of God and Gospel Singer has this to say on a couple staying apart "Don't let it happen in your marriage. Stay together at all times.... you're defeating the whole purpose of marriage when you are apart!"  Good morning.

Vanity Upon Vanity!

All Is Vanity!

 "Everything is meaningless,”

says the Teacher, “completely meaningless.”

Eccl. 12:8

If anybody doubts the contents of the Bible, then that person is off all people, most foolish!  If King Solomon experienced what he did and wrote what he wrote in the book of Ecclesiastes as far back as he did, then there's something in this Bible that makes it unique above all other books!  For instance all man's total existence dances around the provisions of this great book. 

For instance, if you so love luxuries of life eg. women, wealth, alcohol,  and so on, or you are tired of serving a living God and want to try other gods, King Solomon has a poser for you - to let you know that having dwelt in them all, it is all MEANINGLESS.  

The Bible roundly condemn such acts of indecency and moral bankcruptcy called "adultery".  From Genesis to beyond Revelation i.e. our own daily lives today, we all actively involve ourselves in it either physically or in our minds.  King Solomon did it intrinsically and extrinsically.  Before he physically took his 300 wives and 700 concubines to bed, he must have done so in his heart.  He must have taken some other thousands of women to bed in his heart outside the ones he was 'bold' enough (just as many of us - foolish people  - are today) even though we feel guilty in our hearts that we do it.  It is foolish.  It makes us feel guilty, yet we cannot resist it!

Then comes alcohol, Kings Solomon brewed the best of wine - my late mother would call it 'otin, otin' (undiluted, original wine right from its source!).  He came back to tell us he regretted it all. 

We want to serve God through lesser gods because the invisibility of the Omnipotent God tends to give us some elements of uncertainty.  Yet the Bible says, 'those who serve them are like them', "with eyes, but cannot see,  with legs but cannot walk, with mouths but cannot speak'.  Does that prevent us from worshipping them?  Another foolishness!

The Bible tells us to pursue one most important pursuit of life - the Kingdom of God - and that God will give us our hearts' desires as 'additionals'.  But today if you see a fluorishing church, majority of worshipers there have not come to serve God but go there to receive miraculous breakthroughs such as money, healing, prosperity, etc thereby playing down 'righteousness' and holiness that is most important to God.

The one that particularly is particulary tempting is the pursuit of money!  The Bible say's 'there's no end to pusuing money, but wise people knows where to stop'.  Yet we pursue it to the point that we forget God only to discover sometimes during our life times that it is meaningless because it doesn't particularly make us joyful even when possessed!

Why don't we all do a rethink of our ways?  We've tried pursuing money, wealth, etc but they've all given us pains instead of pleasure, thereby makingour lives meaningless!  Then why then don't for once, try God and make our lives meaningful!  Good morning.

Disclose It!

Disclose It!

Their mouths are full of lies;

they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead..

Psalm 144:8

In order to gain more benefits, human beings are in the habit of never disclosing what they already possess, especially to those whom they expect to bless them. A debtor is more inclined to sing aloud to his creditor when his or her salary is not paid as a basis to appeal to the creditor to bear with them. But the moment they are paid, the creditor has to be the one to confront them with the fact to back up their demands for their money.

Children hide from their parents whatever gift is given to them so as not to reduce their allowances. Husbands feeling insecure in their wives’ hands hide their pay slips or income details from their wives. Some wives, in order to feel secured have amassed hidden wealth that their husbands must never know about.

Some lecturers who have deliberately marked down their target students will frown at such students calling for their scripts for the purposes of ascertaining their true performance.

Employers, wanting to maximise their profit, will rather amplify the areas of failures of business than the ones that will bring rewards to their employees who have done well or pay the right tax to Government.

Indeed experience has shown that in order for their black colleagues not to agitate for more pay, some reputable international organisations have developed separate reward systems and payrolls for their black as well as white employees!

For purposes of evading tax, some Churches that engage in profit-yielding ventures would still want to be seen as charitable or non-profit making bodies thereby failing to disclose the aspect of the church ventures that actually make profits that are liable to taxation.

Many desperate Governors who stole their ways into office would rather born the authentic ballot papers so that they will not nullify is stolen mandate at the Election Tribunal.

These are the typical examples of the true nature of man. He will do anything to protect his selfish interests. He’s not bothered whether the other man is hurt or not. That is why it is very difficult for many to become Christians they desire to be because they have something to hide.

Christianity demands that there is total transparency, honesty, equity and justice. But the world system demands ‘maximisation of personal gains’, whether at the detriment of others does not matter. That’s why a debtor who does not want to pay what he owes will rather engage a smart Lawyer to enforce the notorious six-month silence which makes his debt statute-barred! Equity and Christianity will not take that for a man who is owing must pay (even with interest!) unless the creditor voluntarily forgives him.

That is the dilemma with man. Dishonesty! That’s why nobody trusts the another. This ugly situation occurs simply because of the gains we stand to make. That’s why the world may truly know no peace because those cheated will always react when discovered, if only to assert their God-given rights!

Dear reader, check yourself. What are you hiding that should not be hidden? Disclose them today. Good morning.