DON’T BE ANOTHER SAMSON
If you are single and reading this piece, thank God you still have the opportunity to straighten out things in your life before you make the marriage leap. Marriage is a life time journey that will take you till you leave earth or when your spouse dies whichever comes first. You want to be careful to not enter the vehicle without adequate preparations. There are several things you have to note about your status, the fact that decisions you make now will determine what happens with your destiny and your future. The future of many young pe…
LEARNING FROM LEAH AND RACHEL
Marriage is for those who will leave and cleave. This was God’s original plan in establishing this institution. Genesis 3:24 reckons that a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they shall become one flesh. There is a growing concern about marriages that are breaking up because of influences from in-laws, parents, friends, neighbours and even children. As much as they have roles to play in establishing the marriage union, the plan in marriage is for them to allow the couples the freedom to establish themselves in…
DON’T KEEP THAT GIFT IDLE
Everyone is gifted but the statistics of those leaving life with unused gifts is alarming. The gifts were supposed to define the way of living life for men on earth or add some quality to the standard of living but the carriers of these gifts headed out without a bit of their gifts finding use. The result thus is that society remains the way it is. Your gift is not for you, it is for life. You have it because you are the means it is supposed to be released for life. Keeping it to yourself means you are cheating life and yourself too. Eve…
FOLLOW GOD OR GET NOTHING
Everyone in life is in a rat race pursuing something. We see men and women every morning wake, head down the road, pick a bus heading somewhere and they return at evening worn out. No matter how stressful the previous day had being, they’d still head out the next day. There is a rush in the city center; cars are hooting their horns everyone trying to outdo the other person at pace, all heading different directions. The question that permeates my mind often is “where are they all rushing to?” It’s painful that after many years of making…
LEARN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BABYLON
Babylon was the capital of the Babylonian empire. It was a cosmopolitan city welcoming people from diverse origins and locations to work and do business as well. It was no mean city, those who survived through its rigors possessed sufficient grit to go through the herculean situations that the city often revealed. Babylon’s high standards were a result of the same standards those who led the empire had. Those who worked around the king had to be well examined after a thorough period of training before they were considered qualified to wo…
DEVELOPING EAGLE-LIKE QUALITIES
There are not many birds with the qualities of the eagle. The eagle stands tall in its own class as not just a ravenous bird but one that represents insight, dignity and a strong will to survive. Eagles don’t hang around often like the other birds. They live in caves in tops of mountains. Like the eagle, those who become real champions in life are people whose goal is to arrive at the mountain top of life. Climbing to the top of a mountain is no easy task. It takes perseverance and diligence to get there. Eagles survive there. Your place…
PLANNING FOR RAINY DAYS
The prayer of every Christian is to enjoy God’s goodness, mercies and provision every day and God always provides. He has never failed to meet you at the point of your need. This does not mean that you don’t face challenges sometimes. It is that God already supplied your need during the day in anticipation of the night when you cannot work but you finished your resources in the day and when night arrived, you had nothing. Some people die during their night periods, they are unable to see another day. Learn from the ants. They work really…
CHALLENGE FROM THE PRODIGAL SON
There arrives a time when we have to leave home. No one wants to hang around their parents forever. Time arrives when you think you have to be by yourself, pursue your dreams and aspirations and perhaps get married. This was the case of the prodigal son. He was ambitious, had dreams and goals that he wanted so much to accomplish. It was probably out of his good thoughts that he went to his father to receive his share of his father’s wealth to enable him start of at his dream. This young man however failed woefully. You are young with hug…
SOMETIMES AGREEMENT IN MARRIAGE COULD BE A BAD DEAL
The challenges in marriage are often numerous, every marriage has its fair share of those challenging moments when the couples disagree over a point or two. It’s easy to define a family by the many conflicts it goes through however when there is so much agreement between couples in marriage, the devil still seizes on that united stance to his advantage. If your marriage isn’t going through hitches like those of your neighbors, congratulations you’ve passed the first test of marriage. The second test is what your seamless hitch free marri…
DARE THE IMPOSSIBLE
Every day, we face challenges that overwhelm us. Perhaps you have arrived at that place again where you always hit a wall. People might have told you what you are trying to do is impossible, they have given you a list of persons who tried and failed and perhaps have shown you their credentials and the credentials of the challenges but now you’ve found yourself before the challenge. It’s your turn to fight; will you quit or dare the impossible? What are those long standing issues in your company, family, school or community than has seeme…
LEARN FROM THE BATTLE OF AI
Have you tried and failed? Perhaps you have written an exam for the umpteenth time and you’ve met failure, you have planned for marriage but every person who hangs around leaves just in time before the marriage, you have searched for a job and you’ve failed every job interview since, you have produced song after song and none has become hit, you have written book after book and you’ve made no sales, you probably are in your battle of Ai. God wants you to know that despite your failures, you will enter into your place of success. Just have …
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
In life, we often look for material things. We want cars, houses, beautiful dresses, jobs etc. A peek into the prayer list of most Christians will reveal this. God certainly has heard lots of prayers like “oh Lord, bless me with a house”, “Give me my marriage partner oh Lord”, “it’s my time to get a car, oh Lord”, “release my new job Oh Lord”. If we were in God’s shoes, we would have been tired hearing these prayer rants. God listens to every prayer made to him and He responds sufficiently to each request. Because He is too wise, He does…
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