No Pain, No Pleasure

Those who sow in tears

Shall reap in joy

He who continually goes forth weeping

Bearing seed for sowing

Shall doubtless come again  with rejoicing

Psa. 126:5-6

Pains always precede pleasure.  When a woman is pregnant, her pains begins.  That goes on to the point of labour which is the height of her pains.  When it is time to deliver her baby, she goes deep into the valley of death. She becomes dead at the actual point of delivery.  Then she comes back to life again.  Then both the mother and the baby become objects of celebrations.  That is how it is.  For us to have food to eat in another year, we must, painfully, part with parts of our harvests this year.  The bits we parted with must die before they can reproduce for us better and bountiful harvests.  Therefore to expect any gain without pain is folly.  Be ready today to sacrifice something to get something better.  Remain blessed. 

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Not Letting Go, our Past

Not Letting Go our Past

The constant review of our past history serves the useful purpose of enabling us identify what we ought to have done better.  It is useful in two ways:  for us to guide ourselves as we execute present ideas and help us avoid the avoidable pitfalls for the future.  Secondly, it serves as a good tool for counsel for those who might be seeking our advice on such matters.    Because we have failed, in it and knew why we failed, it becomes easy to guide ourselves and others needing our help on the matter.

However, the issue with us i we never use past regrets for these positive purposes, rather we use it to destroy our future and also to misguide other people.   Let’s take an example.  A girl who get impregnated and dropped out of school did not have a major issue in her hands.  She still have two opportunities to make her way in life the better of which is to return to school after delivery or learn a trade she has passion for and take apply her life to it.  Also she ought to become a role model to let young girls know that having such an experience is not the end of their lives but that they can make amends and still get fulfilled anyway.  

However if she refuses to take to either of the two alternatives open to her and begins to blame others or even her irresponsible boyfriend over the incident or worse still decides to go for superstitious believes and goes spiritual thereby trying to know who in her family ‘pushed’ her into such mistake, she has missed the point.  She will be on this while shortly, poverty will strike her down like a plague.  Like our pregnant girl, a student who fails an examination and gives up has handed him or herself to poverty.  But the one who fails and continues to rewrite the examinations until he eventually passes is the wise one.

Many of us are like those two students who experienced disappointments but instead of finding ways around them, sat down, lamenting them! If you are in such position, nobody will help you unless you help yourself. God has done his own bit by letting you know either by yourself or through other people’s advice that you still have escape routes.  If you fail to do take to the escape routes, it’s your own matter.    Do something about your own  life YOURSELF today. 

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Your Life Is In Your Hands

My life is continuously in my hand,

Yet I do not forget Your Law

Ps. 119:109

My Life is in My Hands

We have control over our lives all the time, especially, in areas of the quest for knowledge – education, career, marriage (including parenting), how we intend to retire, and the kind of history or legacies we wish to bequeath to generations after us.   What we become is a matter of the choices we make those circumstances. Choice making, is the greatest freedom God has bestowed on us – to shape our lives the way we wish.  But we must remember that we are accountable to Him on how we do it.  Following His Law is what will make us to attain our destinies according to His purpose and without hurting themselves.

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What's Life for me?

That's the answer everyone of us is searching for throughout our daily struggles!  

When a child is born, he or she cannot comprehend the essence of life.  Merely looking at his parents, he feels secured.  He is  unconditional supplied of food, clothing, shelter, and as he grows he is introduced to education.  All is fun to him until he suddenly realises that the school he has been sent to is not a child's play.  He begins to receive pressure from his parents to take his studies seriously.  He begins to be told that his future lies in his hands.  He is told that not too long, he will graduate from a life of independence to a dependent life.  

Suddenly he notices himself struggling like others in his school to pass his examinations. not because it was fun but because he has been told that without passing well his future is bleak.  Then the struggle begins!  Suddenly he finishes his Secondary and tertiary education and his parents now shows him the way into the larger space called 'the world' to go and begin to fend for himself. He's reminded also to remember them and his siblings and indeed, other persons in terms of care - to give back!

It then dawns on him that the dependency syndrome is fast giving way to independence and the otherwise cheerful boy begins to look serious, moody and unstable in his thoughts.  He begins to ask himself, "what does the future holds for me?" which is now what propels all his searches for life's opportunities which in themselves are becoming harder and harder to find.

He chooses a career, pursues it rigorously, get married and begins to rear his own children.  Finally he becomes a parent himself.  Even though he might have built a house over his head, paying his children's school fees, bought himself a car or two, yet he still keeps on asking himself: "What's in life for me?".  This is because no matter how much he has achieved, one thing is constant in his mind: THERE'S UNCERTAINTY about everything in life.  He was still contemplating the safety in investing in shares when suddenly he saw everything crashed far below the capital invested in them! One thing therefore is clearer to him: that all his achievements can be wiped out in a second!  For this reason, fear grips him and this fear in turn propels him to become restless to the point that he might develop raised blood pressure.   This anxiety lives with him all the days of his life!

The wise one runs to God hinging all the hopes of his future in His hands. Dear reader, this is the best decision anybody can take - knowing God.  It is in God that life has meaning otherwise it is useless and a just a bundle of frustrations.  It is in God there's certainty of an assured future.  Life is full of unhappiness. No amount of struggles can give man the achievements that can guarantee his joy.  Only God can do that.  Therefore struggle but never make the mistake of forgetting to cling to God.  He loves* you and the fear of your tomorrow is unreal if you truly know Him. Good morning. 

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(*John 3:16)

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Thank You

Dear Readers/Subscribers to Daily Energiser,

After God Almighty,

The giver of positive inspirations

You are the next

For me to appreciate

I am grateful to you

For buying

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To read Daily Energiser

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It has been my joy

Figuring that in your state of mind

That if you thoroughly read

The contents of Daily Energiser

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Would have been ameliorated

And advanced  thereby

inspiring you to attaining greater heights in life and 

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Positive & Nevative Fame

Fame

Jesus Christ,

Mohammed,

Satan,

President W. Bush

Osama Bin Laden

Arthur Andersen

Bill Gates

The American Gay Priests

Enron,

Power Holding Company of Nigeria

President Olusegun Obasanjo

Late Messrs Oyenusi and Anini

Late Pope John Paul II

Michael Jackson

Peter F. Drucker

Lords Denning and Atkins,

Chief Rotimi Willliams,

Prof. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe

And innumerable other accomplished men in History

Are all famous but in differing degrees.

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Positive and Negative Fame

The Two Sides of Life

Like the positive and negative sides

of mathematical calculations

There are two sides to Life

The positive and the negative

There is no end to exploring both sides

And indeed either side,

Can lead to pain, fame and prosperity

But the only fame, wealth, and prosperity

That carries no sorrow with it

Is the one earned

From the positive side –  the side of God.

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Securing Your Future

Secure Your Future

For an organization

to survive competition,

It may sometimes result

In its pruning down

All areas of wastage

And reposition itself

For the challenges ahead

The painful thing

about such re-structuring

Is that human capital

 is victimised!

And when this occurs

There are tensions

And  serious industrial relations issues

There is agitation

Which even generates litigation

By those affected

And all these

Tend to produce negative results

For both the employees

And concerned concerned.

But employee and employer

Can reduce the gravity of the pains

By planning well ahead of time

Employers sacking staff

Should pay good severance package

While employees affected

Ought before then

To have made himself

An employer of labour

Either by engaging

In part-time business ventures

Like by investing in shares

Therefore every employee must,

From time to time

Critically review his or her life

Physically, spiritually and emotionally

To enable him survive

any negative development

Where the answer points to possible failure

We must take painful decisions

To put our lives on the right track

We must upgrade our values

from time to time

To bring about a secured future

For us here on earth

And sufficient even for heaven.

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My passion for children ...And Teenagers

Passion For Children

And Teenagers

Childhood and Teenage years

Are two most critical stages

In a person’s life

These are the periods

When parents, the schools

And the total environment

Mould (or mar) the children

Such vulnerability

elicited my passion for them

Enhanced with enabling contributions

To shape their focus

Or direction in life

So that they may live purposeful

And vision-driven lives

That will ensure

That their today

Would be better

Than our today

And their tomorrow

Brighter than our tomorrow

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Many Guarantees in Life

Many Guarantees

 in Life

Birth, death, tax;

Sunshine, rainfall;

Brightness and Darkness

The Moon and the stars

Fresh Air, Constant change

Good and Bad successes

Failures,

Pain and pleasure

Day and Night

Thoughtfulness and mediocrity

Peace and War

Rich and Poor

Wear and Tear

God and Man’s existence

Male and female genders

Deserts and Tropics

The rotation and movement

Of the planet earth around its orbits

The oceans, the seas, the rivers,

The streams, and swamps

The rocks and the solid ground

The sky and the milky galaxy

The vegetation, the animals

The valleys, the level lands

And the mountains,

The struggle between good and evil

All these and many more

Are guaranteed to remain constant in life

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Don't be caught by the snare called "Conflict of Interest"!

Conflict of Interest

No organisation wants disloyal

and corrupt employees

So it ab initio makes employees

To sign a conflict of interest document

Unfortunately majority of employees

Invariably misinterpret such document

To limit or eliminate investment

In their own future

Or prohibit them

From setting up their own businesses

This is a wrong notion or assumption

That will neither compete nor conflict

With their employment or employer

To be sure to avoid such situation

Employees should skip businesses

That deal directly or indirectly

With their employers

Either as Suppliers or Contractors.

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Everybody Owes Money, But you Must

Discover or

Invent Something

Yes, Bill Gates,

With his computers

Has captured the globe

The Wright brothers

Put the airplane in the air

The ships sail majestically in the oceans

The automobiles cruise about

On the highways

The calculators,

The palmtops,

The handhelds

And all the gadgets

Have synchronized together

Our private and official lives

To the little-minded therefore

All these inventions suggests

An end to further development or invention

I can assure you

There are still uncountable ideas undiscovered

And to be invented

That will make the discoverer stand out

As Bill Gates, the current champion!

 Think of one, work on it,

And bring it to the market place

Whatever you come up with

Your potential customers are waiting

Ready to pay for it, any day, any time

So your greatness awaits you

Just try your hand at it.

Everybody, including the writer

Owes you some money

So, you, everybody

Some money

So your wealth is in my hands

While mine is in yours

But the immutable law says:

Unless I give you something of value

And you do same to me,

We will not exchange the monies

between us!

This supports the Biblical command

That when you give,

In return, you receive

Good measure, pressed down

And running over.

Even in the house of God

where salvation is inherently free

The people of God

still need to pay a price –

forgoing their old odd ways

And embrace Christ,

Showing mercy, devotion and love

And in return receiving salvation,

Forgiveness, prosperity, peace and joy

So to deny the law

Of sowing and harvesting

Is a big lie

So begin now to add value

To the lives of others

And thereby increase the value

Of your own life!

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Polygamy is a Snare, if caught by it what do you do?

Polygamy

And Women

Polygamy, though permissible culturally

Is not the best thing

To happen to anybody

If, however, as a woman

You are ensnared in it,

How would you live it?

Would you follow the ancient

(And now deadly modernized) route

Of leaving the substance

And chasing the shadows?

Would  you engage yourself

In such destiny busters

As quarreling with your rivals,

Setting your children against theirs,

Going for magical means

To win your husband to your side

Or worse still

Engaging yourself, praying for nothing else

But for God to help

Kill your rivals - envying?

Or would you, in humility and wisdom,

Do what Daddy Adeboye’s Mum did

When in a similar situation

In a polygamous setting?

Read what she did:

While the other women busied

Fighting their husband,

Daddy Adeboye’s Mom rather

Praised the man

For being ‘brave, kind, etc’

When her mates

Were mocking their husband

About his weaknesses,

Daddy’s mummy insisted on

Re-echoing,  to his hearing, his strengths

His redoubtable exploits!

Proclaiming her husband

As the best man

God ever created!

Where the wives demonstrated

How tough they could be

To their husband,

Daddy’s Mum dealt lovingly

With her husband

Never challenging his authority!

For those reasons,

She was able to get

The best attention possible

From her husband

She was able to bring her children

close to their father

Instead of distancing them

Today, one of her own

Has ended up being a great pillar

in the world.

In humility too, he calls himself

Simply “a Pastor”

But Presidents, Governors, Ministers,

The high and mighty of society

Call him Daddy, Bishop, Prophet!

Christendom sees him righteously

A true man of God,

A man whose early aspiration

Was to become the youngest Vice Chancellor of a University

Has now been promoted by God

To establish a University!

If old Mum, Adeboye,

Had not displayed

A rare wisdom

In her polygamous home

It is possible

She would have lost this genius

To the bickering and infighting

That usually characterise

The polygamous family!

Women in polygamy,

Choose ye this day

Who your mentor would be

But I dare recommend to you

Daddy Adeboye’s Mom

And reap the benefits

Of her humility and wisdom

With which she tackled and untangled

The knotty webs of polygamy

She had stooped to conquer

Why can’t you?

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