Update yourself !

I hate it when one of my apps or softwares require an update not because of the COST but rather the PROCESS and TIME .

Strikingly I decided to learn from this "Update" thing. I read through the new TERMS , the new IMPROVEMENTS and I AGREED. 

Up-date  , we are moving up but we need to be on date . Elevation that is relevant . Character that is contagious . Impact that is indestructible  .

So often in life , we get too comfortable with our current versions while God has intended us to change and grow. Update simply means that there is new version of yourself awaiting our response .  A wiser you , a emotionally intelligent you and a innovative you only if you AGREE .

Microsoft office suite 2007 is nothing compared to the lastest office suite . Why remain the same when even your age changes ?

Update your thinking , your heart attitude and your perspective.

PLEASE UPDATE TO BE COMPATIBLE TO THE WORK THAT GOD NEEDS DONE WITH AND THROUGH YOUR LIFE.

Standardized treatment

Pride cannot be without prejudice. They  are couples that ensure a man's fall from his own height of exclusivity. 

The reason we ignore people who are below our rank is because we think they cannot help us . We tend grow the tendency to parasitically receive more than we sincerely give to others.

If we don't become honest about our habitual pride and prejudice then we cannot administrate well the things given to us by God Almighty.

It doesn't help us to treat others as they deserve nor as per their rank but it does help us to standardize our treatment from and in Love regardless of the situation at hand.

 We are to expose ungodliness by revealing godliness , expose a lie by revealing the truth and expose prejudice by revealing love. Your virtue is to add value and to devalue dishonesty. 

My father always said , " If the poor man isn't going to be served pudding , in the same glossy bowl as the rich man at your banquet - don't serve pudding at all".

Serving for the audience of ONE

What if I told you that God and all heaven is watching you ? That you have been entrusted to serve ? That you are a steward of heavenly supplies ?

Consider what Mother Teresa said ,

"God is love and love is service".

" A highly skilled carpenter who had grown old was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire.

The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter agreed to this proposal but made sure that this will be his last project. Being in a mood to retire, the carpenter was not paying much attention to building this house. His heart was not in his work. He resorted to poor workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the job was done, the carpenter called his employer and showed him the house. The employer handed over some papers and the front door key to the carpenter and said "This is your house, my gift to you."

The carpenter was in a shock! What a shame! If he had only known that he was building his own house, he would have made it better than any other house that he ever built!" .

Now come to me . How you treat people reflects you. You can't afford to be partial in your treatment.  It is not that you don't have time for the person at inquiry, it is the prejudice in your perception that will leave you with a lifetime of regrets especially when the person at your inquiry succeeds.

You can't pursue peace with all men until you have that God-kinda peace from within that yields to you treating others equally and equitably. 

Let it not there be an attitude to think highly of ourselves as we should. Humility in God's sight is evident in unconditional love given to all men . LET LOVE LEAD ABOVE ALL ELSE .

How would you treat God if He was to appear to you in human form?  Your consciousness of Him will be to treat Him best . Guess what ? You have already met God. You encounter Him everyday and everywhere .

Take charge of your will , learn to respond and to initiate everything with a God-consciousness. 

The missing recipient

Lazarus was dead for four days but that didn't disturb the Lord's chill . He foreknew the occurrence and nothing could have caused Him to be unstable. 

Now that was just the caption. Take a seat and let me drive you to a site of new wonders. 

Yesterday my cousin came back from school demanding and not asking that i open the door for him. Since he demanded I decided to take my time and I continued with cleaning my room .He yelled and yelled until he got tired.  In the midst of that he yelled exaggeratedly about how important it was for him to get into the house. After 10 minutes I decided to open up for him only to find out that he had already left.  

I was trying to teach him a valuable lesson that hinders the requests of many prayers . Many believers treat God like an ignorant Governor.  They "Demand" instead of "Ask" . Jesus teaches us to "Ask the Father in His name" . 

God Almighty is virtuous and responds virtuously to virtue . 

When God decides to hear your demand because of His merciful nature , you are no longer there to receive.  You disappear at the reception of your disposed blessing . 

You were not at a position to ask and now you are absent at a position to receive.  God Almighty is a giver of givers . 

You need to understand that God is diverse in response to your request.  You can ask Him for rain and He gives you snow instead. You ask Him for a car and He gives you taxis. He is into sustainable blessings but to see that , it will require you to move with Him .

Sometimes God hides the blessing in what looks like work and if you will work the work , you will bump purposefully into the blessing - surprise!  

Imagine your name being called in your midst that you have won a great deal of money but you are unable to hear  it .Why ? Your unbelief , stubborn heart and pride has caused your deafness.   Don't inflict misfortune upon yourself. 

Today decide to ask God for anything and position yourself to receive by clearing all sabotageous heart issues. 

Purposefully positioned endorsor

Is it not intriguing that after Joseph in the prison had interpreted dreams of  Pharoah's cupbearer and official , he said to the cupbearer not forget him when the king reinstates him ? Unfortunately the cupbearer forgot Joseph for 2 years . It wasn't until the Pharoah had a dream that disturbed him that it was remembered of Joseph by the cupbearer.  Pharaoh exalted Joseph above Potiphar who had put him falsely in prison and the cupbearer who had forgotten him . 

Joseph was remembered because of what he had done to the cupbearer at his lowest . So often we forget people who have done us good at our lowest and in our humble beginnings. Some, we have viewed as nuisances especially when it our time to repriocate their kindness.

You can't do unto any person anymore than you do unto God therefore it is God who will repay . 

Are you keeping an opportunity from someone you know exactly deserves it ? Whether you hold on to it or not . God Almighty will overtake you because you are failing to be a useful vessel . Yes! A branch that produces bitter fruits . 

" But he is going to be bigger than me and what's in it for me if I help him ?", you say.  What a selfish person you with a short-sighted perspective you are ! Don't you know that God will honor your kindness ? 

Could it be that your breakthrough is blocked by your greed and jealousy towards someone you need to endorse ?  God cannot do unto you anymore than what you do unto to others . 

Tests : 

1. It is not easy but godly to endorse somebody else to opportunities that will enable him/her to be greater than you. 

2. Endorsing someone who does exactly what you do better isn't easy but it is character because it echoes love to God and to everyone that sees it . 

3. Endorse people unconditionally.  Why ? It is your service to men but your worship to God . Your humility ,God will honor .

4. Refrain from just being a receiver of endorsements - translate this Kingdom mandate. 

5. Someone you know is looking for what you know somebody else can optimally offer - don't deprive them of that opportunity.  

You are the hand and the mouth of God wired directly to His heart . You are called to be the light . You are to expose darkness and to reveal the Kingdom on earth . 

This world is only a survival of the fittest because of our greed . In order to strive and thrive as we should ,  we will need to love one another in all possible ways .

You are given a valuable task to connect talents and gifts with kings and queens. Don't let the enemy have the most of your joy especially in glorifying God Almighty .

You are trusted to overcome

I am reminded of a man called "Job" who was trusted by God so much that even when he was tried and tested by the devil in all possible ways - He never yielded to cursing God then I wonder how many times have we cursed the God Almighty for all the unfair occurrences in our lives ? Are we not people of faith or perhaps we are guilty of making love to our fears and complanecies?

For some hours it struck me that God qualifies us to be tried and tested by the enemy not because He doesn't love us but because He trusts and entrusts power to us to overcome.

The enemy not only creates the situations , he will also suggest that we conform to what's happening and to accept it as a staying point rather than a place of transactions and transformation.

A place of transactions

When the enemy of has you at your lowest so much that you are cornered;  remember to send an SOS to the Almighty that He may strengthen you and gve you His joy for your misery . This is a time where you draw from God's best  as He draws from your worst .

A place of transformation

You need to make a radical decison to renew your thinking about what you are going through , to deactivate your survival mode,  to turn on your striving mode and to use the authority you have been given. The enemy's weapons are nothing compared to the armour of God that you are wearing. This is not your dying spot but your praising spot - victory is certain.

Remember that the silence of God in your storm doesn't verdict His absence nor does it disqualify the truth that you are still favoured by God anyway.

The reason God is in heaven and we are on earth is because He trusts us and has entrusted to us power to do to the devil exactly what He did to him at the Cross - to overcome , to subdue and replenish over the enemy.

We are authorized to sanction, to ban and  to terrorize the enemy. Earth is our territory. God's goodness and mercies are our portions .

It has come to humble you

Hannah was a beautiful woman but she had pride so much that God caused her to be barren . All this was so that He might humble her in His own sight . After years of HUMBLY seeking God's intervention to bear a son , God Almighty heard her and granted her a son on the condition that the boy is to be dedicated to the Lord for all his life -Samuel . That was the beginning of Hannah's fertility which we see more children after .

Funny how you can be that beautiful,that handsome,  that rich and intelligent yet have a that one aspect of your life that gets you on your knees.  No amount of friends ,lovers , drugs and alcohol can fill that void of dissatisfication. 

Is it not amazing that your enemies are flourishing in what you lack and desperately need ? So is the opposite true for your enemies. 

Yet in all this dilemma,  there is a great  solution . That void in your life cannot be filled until you get off that high horse of yours and seek the Lord with all your heart.

You want that void to be filled up so that you can prove a point or even showoff . If you reasons are all about self then you have a lot to deal with.

God Almighty requires you to love your enemies unconditionally so . Remember you can fake nothing before the Almighty.  He knows your heart. That other face , that stinking attitude you have been giving others when they turn their back.  Baby that spirit of pretence is keeping you from being a position to receive and to give God's best to all men .

Your whole life's assignment is a humble prayer away from beginning. You have been doing all you can without God - The God Almighty who is mindful of all your ways .

It is intriguing how about 50% of divorces and relationship breakups are fueled by pride to settle differences , to accept apologies , to overlook faults and mostly to love unconditionally . You can win an argument and lose a life partner . God can bless us with companions but how we sustain and maintain those relationships is up to us not God.

What if your next level of breakthrough is in helping and endorsing your enemy or someone you don't like ?

Naaham was a captain of the armies of Israel ,had an issue with leprosy that Prophet Elijah was inquired on his behalf . A divine instructions came that he should dip himself 7 times in the Jordan river but Naaham questioned the divine instruction . It wasn't until he listened to the instruction that he got healed .

How often have you despised divine instruction especially from a man or woman below your rank or status quo ?

Your breakthrough is first in humbling yourself before the God Almighty so that you can acknowledge those used of Him and that you may learn to live in love.

God can entrust everything to a humble man. True humility enables divine prosperity but not without a season of worthwhile and perplexing sufferings especially when unconditional love is your motive in all things .

Humility is far more than a gesture or body posture . It is first a worship unto God as result of it being your heart's attitude that streams down from your selective godly meditations .

What are you missing out because of your pride , arrogance and ignorance ?

Progressive introspection - The beauty of perspective

I am not a television person for many reasons but recently my eyes caught a new show called "Undercover boss" on BBC . Owners of big corporates go undercover to check out their companies from operational , managerial  perspectives and get to understand who works for them.  In that exercise,  they come back with great feedback that enables their businesses to thrive yet in the process of the investigation,  they  apply virtues in order to not blow their cover .

In all its great sense . They are using the magic called "Perspective" . It is one thing  to see your business,church and relationships from your current position but doesn't mean that's all to it. You know a thing from the eye that you decide to see it from ,from the ears that you decide to hear it from and from the touch you decide to touch it from. Is your perspective biased to only from the position you stand ? 

Complains and grievances from everywhere are poorly addressed as to the truth that a solution is not always a conclusion from a 360 degree perspective.  There is a cause to a fault . A spirit behind every action. 

If there are questions then the possible answers will usher the ultimate truth if you seek it with enough emotional intelligence.  

It's easy to say that Shelby Mustang has outdone themselves with the new GT-500 but according to them ; they have only tried to reach a mark set by themselves regardless whether their customers ard happy and whether not is their competitors moved .

You need to accept critique and complements but don't rest if you know that you have the capability to do more and the capacity to handle its execution, successes and failures .

While the corporate bosses are undercover , they make harsh discoveries   . Discoveries that answer the many questions of poor sales , incompetent staff and just everything possible that went wrong that affected their companies. 

The outcomes 

1.They come to a reflection of the threats and opportunities they face . The important part is that they agree to change company policies that hinder the company's functions from achieving the company's objectives. 

2.The owners get to asses their own companies from their customer's view point , employee's viewpoint , competitor's viewpoint and from an employer view point that enables them to make rational rather than emotional changes. 

So applies to our lives . We need to go undercover timely with emotional intelligence so that we can avoid reacting impulsively instead respond informatively . 

Here are life's viewpoints : 

1.God's viewpoint 

2. Family's viewpoint  

3. Spouse viewpoint 

4. Friendship viewpoint 

5. Neighbour viewpoint 

6. Stranger viewpoint 

7. Enemy's viewpoint 

To be progressive in all you set out to do , you will need to not to only see things from your perspective but from the perspective of others . You will lose important valuable lessons if you are stagnant and self-centred in your thinking.  

There is feedback in every failure ,critique  and improvements to be made in every success.

Wired to finish great

I grew up having difficulties with finishing anything that I started.  The temptation to give up ;I fell for always. 

When it seemed difficult especially when nothing was giving way of noticeable progress - I got discouraged. 

What changed my life ? 

God ! Seeing and knowing that everything He had set out to do is FINISHED. I knew instantly with great affirmation that I am able to create all that I imagine. 

What's the secret ? 

All work requires character and all character requires work . In the process of working that project out - celebrate the virtues that you acquire.  Learn to learn to love yourself in the process . Nothing will stimulate a drive to accomplish anything better than self-encouragement that is a friend of positive self-talk . 

Let that work be "Good" because you visualize it and let that work "Not be good" because you understand your capability . 

You can't do anything until you believe that you are wired by God to do it exceedingly beyond what is required.  

Discipline your will.  Take charge of your influencing circumstances otherwise they will frustrate your work and overwhelm your creativity . Recycle your shortcomings and downfalls into resources that enable your drive . No matter what you do - refrain from doubters and pessimistic people.  You are nothing of your past but rather you are everything needed for the present . You are the right dosage for life .

Buddy don't snap but do break your complacency , your ignorance and arrogance otherwise growth will be an enemy.  

Wipe those tears.  Remember the years . You are going towards better days . Set your time , re-calculate and procrastinate a bit less than you did before .

You are making progress . Celebrate it . Today is that day to say "Well done" to yourself even to the tiniest accomplishments . Why ? Try taking out the fuse of your car's fuel pump and see whether your car will start . Little accomplishments are enablers to the big accomplishments.  

Finish that chapter today. You will sleep better. Parent that child well . You will sleep even way better . Love unconditionally. You are already in Heaven .

You are just a decision away from finishing great ! 

Life is God's movie

GOD Writes it , We play it and watch it at the same time .

God is the Director
 He chose the setting of our lives so that nothing is a coincidence but rather a revealing reality. 
Nothing we do is a surprise to Him .
Our mistakes ,our imperfections and weaknesses never stop the camera of life from rolling. He cuts everything we don't need and edits everything we need on play.
He interlinks our roles , connects us with great breaks and orders our sadden separations.

What we say and do is never out of His script - its supernatural how He makes sense out of everything,  how we see clearer once our eyes are open into His greatness. 

You are either the villian or the victor . The villian wins at the beginning but suffers at the end. The victor suffers at the beginning but wins at the end. There is always redemption for the villian and destruction for the victor provided they swap parts .

He sprinkles the waters with little beats of thunder on earth now and then , He dusts flakes , blows a long kiss from the north and switches His light on .

God saw the whole movie . We just know parts that evolve daily with new meanings. Not even the heavenly hosts know what God the Director is up to. There isn't an end to His movie called Life.