Month: August 2019

Being top of your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be the top of your life.

You can graduate as the best student in your class but that does not guarantee that you will make more money than your other contemporaries that you started out together with in life. The truth of the matter is that as you are graduating as the best student in your class do not translate you to being the best in your chosen field of career. There is far more to success than this. The fact of life is that success requires more than the ability to understand a concept, memorise it and reproduce such concept in an examination.

School usually rewards people for their memories while Life rewards people for their imaginations; School rewards caution while Life rewards daring; School hails those who live by the rules while Life exalts those who break those rules and set new ones.

We should not misconstrued the above to mean that it is wrong for people to go to school and study hard but the truth of the matter is that you should not sacrifice the success of your life on the altar of making First Grades in School.

As someone that wants to go far in life, you do not need to limit yourself to the four walls of the classroom in order to succeed but rather think and explore doing something more practical in life. Learn to take up Leadership position. Venture into business while you care less if it succeeds or fails while you learn from your mistakes and improve on it. Learn to read other books and articles even outside your chosen field of career in an attempt to broaden your mind!

To make it big in Life therefore, think less of becoming an excellent student alone but think more of becoming an excellent person in Life.

… In other words, make the “WORLD YOUR CLASSROOM!”

Moses Durodola

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1: 5)

Light was first called out to show forth in the book of Genesis 1: 3 when God was about to commence the creation of everything in the world so that it can “SHINE” brightly and illuminate all that He was about to create thereafter to behold their beauty. Man therefore as a creation made after the image of God therefore assumes that same role thereafter. Anytime they need to make a statement about themselves, they will want “TO SHINE” brightly like a “STAR” so that every other person around them will behold their beauty and recognise their presence.

To shine since that initial conception of light by God means different things to different people. It could mean to show forth light. Light has something in it to give from itself that will be beneficial to others around it. Man is created to shine and so anyone not shining is defeating the purpose of God for his creation. Unlike the sun that shines brightly and rules over the affairs during the day, the “STAR” was created to shine brightly at night and provide some form of rays of light when darkness has sets-in – so in the true sense of it, it takes darkness to expose stars. It takes a time of trouble to reveal the “TRUE STAR” in you as it marks your time to bring forth the “God” in your life for the world to see.

When darkness covered the land of Egypt and the Egyptians were losing their firstborns, the children of Israel were getting set to shine forth in Joy – marching out from the land of bondage into the Promised Land (a land flowing with milk and honey). In Mathew 2: 10; it was recorded that when the Wise Men saw the “STAR” that they rejoiced greatly because they knew something good and wonderful is about to happen to them.

Stars therefore shine brightly in darkness – even when darkness attempts to cover-up the glory of the stars; it ended up bringing out the glory of the “STAR” the more. This month, the darkness that was meant to cover-up your glory shall expose you the more instead. That darkness shall not swallow you. Usually, stars are more appreciated and celebrated at night and at such times there is a lot feasting. The stars of this world are always celebrated in a big way in the same vein!

There is a link between destiny and light. Until light that appears when its agents are revealed, destiny on the other hand remains concealed and buried deep down its carrier. The truth of the matter is that every man has a worthy destiny but sadly enough, not everyone that was born into the world gets to fulfil their destiny in life.

Every man attempts to set personal goals for themselves but God has a better plan for all of His creations. When light comes in contact with an individual’s destiny, the personal’s potential will blossomed into limelight for the world’s admirations. You will not leave this world without fulfilling all of your destinies in Jesus Name!

However for you to “SHINE”, you have to address some basic things. The first thing is that you must be willing to shine. A lot of people are not shining like a star for which they are born to be because they do not have the strong desires inside of them to shine. According to Isaiah 1: 19; it takes a combination of willingness and obedience for you to shine.

Others do not shine because they tend to see God as a tool or an object to be used at their own volition and so God will not allow such to shine. They remember God only when they are in need of His assistance. Some other categories do not shine because they are only compelled to love, worship or serve God. Many children of Pastors fall under this category. They only respond to their spiritual lifestyles because they ihgntend to avoid the punitive measures that will follow suit for their refusal and so they may play the church acts for a number of years but still maintain a devilish heart.

Friends, the burning question here is that are you willing to shine? The truth of the matter is that nothing can happen to make the “STAR IN YOU SHINE” without your express permission.

“Shine Jesus Shine, fill this place with the Father’s Glory…”

… The Good News pertaining to how glorious your “STARS” are meant to “SHINE” in life is a function of your response to the things of God. Choose wisely by being on the side of God!

Shalom!

Isaiah 60: 1 says it is time for you to arise and shine. This simply implies that anyone that is ready to shine must be ready to put in an effort and pay a price in terms of hard work.

Also of note here is that there are various degrees of shining depending on the size of each light and its make-up. When light rays are beamed towards a particular location with a specified intensity, they usually go dim over time as the battery weakens if adequate plans are not made to recharge the battery.

The same applies to the light that comes from a star that shines brightly for God if adequate maintenance culture is not maintained; they will definitely go down spiritually. Therefore, in order to shine brightly and continuously as a star, you must consciously make up your mind on the level of rays you want to release, the circumference of your glow and how long it must be sustained for you to remain shining brightly or you planned to recharge it.

The Glory that comes with shining varies according to what we have in 1Corinthians 15: 41; “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.”

The intensity of the shining that you expect must also be commensurate with the expected glory. Some people desire to radiate the glory of the sun but cannot pay the price to carry it and so shine as an ordinary torchlight instead – things do not get to work like that; especially if adequate preparations were not made for your so called desires. You can only carry the level of glory you have paid the price for on your knees in praying, fasting, sowing, worshipping etc. The higher the price you pay the greater the extent to which you go and shine ultimately.

God has destined you for greatness and you shall be great in Jesus Mighty Name. God can raise up a beggar from the dunghill and set him among the greatest (1Samuel 2: 8). However, you have a role to play. Proverbs 22: 29 says that it is diligence that will make you wine and dine with kings. If you are the lazy bone, you may never shine as God has destined you to shine.

… The Good News that you have heard concerning how glorious your future will be is just the starting point and beginning of the hard work you will put into life. The extent to which you will go in life is a function of the hard work you put into the task that needed to be done as and when due because delay and procrastination can be very dangerous indeed!

To what extent do you work? Are you the type that leaves what you ought to do today undone preferring to leave it till tomorrow and you expect superb success in life?

Friends, things do not get to work that way. Always x this nursery rhythm everytime:

“Tick says the clock: tick, tick, what you have to do, do quick!”

The truth of the matter is that: “every daily effort you fail to make use of gradually erodes your position in life”.

…The choice is therefore yours…”So PAY THE PRICE!”

Thank You

The Wisdom that we needed as a star that is meant to shine brightly in not resident in us as an individual but in God’s custody and so, we should never think that we are wise at all of our own volition. This is why Jesus Christ while on earth compared us to the weakest and most foolish animal on earth – SHEEP. A sheep cannot do anything on its own accord including a simple act of fending for food and water except the Shepherd directs it to places it can graze and drink.

Yet, even though God freely gives us this WISDOM TO SUCCEED, He expects us to demonstrate our sincere need for it by asking for it – this should be by asking persistently until you receive it.

James 1:5 states that: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

Wisdom is required in every area of your life. Your rate of success in any given area is a function of the level of wisdom you have in that given area of life. Wisdom is a very important tool for victory: It is better than weapons of war. If you have this wisdom in question, you may not need weapons.

You should know that you may have all the latest gadget and armoury that you need for a battle but still lose the battle if you lack wisdom. This is why the bible refers to it as the PRINCIPAL THING. “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” (Proverb 4:7). Therefore friends, the first thing you need to acquire is WISDOM and continually request for more of it as there is never an OVERDOSE OF WISDOM!

As students, there is INTELLECTUAL WISDOM. Those who pass examinations with distinctions are not necessarily the most knowledgeable in those subjects but it could be that they are wiser intellectually than all their other contemporaries are in their class.

There are simple success skills that the most successful apply that put them ahead of their contemporaries. Therefore, if you must excel, you must acquire all those skills. Many students end up failing their examinations not because they have not paid the price of studying but because they lack the wisdom for academic success.

The skill to write West Africa Secondary School Certificate examinations for instance is quite very different from that required to pass the Joint Admission Matriculation Board examinations. In WAEC, you answer the questions as if you are a teacher stating out the step-by-step guide in the way you answer the questions such that your examiner is now your student (you should create an imaginative impression that you are a teacher teaching an invincible student in your examiner).

Whereas in JAMB, you need to develop your own skills – something like a short cut for you to arrive at the answers (no one is interested in whether those skills are crude or modern; what is required is accuracy under limited timing).

In addition, you need to cultivate the habit of buying and reading different numbers of books on salient and relevant topics and areas of life: specifically, study them hard intensively – by burning the mid-night oil in the process and apply all the good principles learnt into your life. There is a popular saying that says that the number of questions you have come across during the course of your study that you are able to solve shows how experienced you are in life.

God has WISDOM TIPS FOR SUCCESS. He has the most sophisticated and simplest success strategies for all areas. Therefore, you are strongly advised to go back to ask Him in prayers for it and am sure He will surely give you liberally because He is interested in your success as a “SHINING STAR!”

Regards!

The Altar right from time immemorial is a place where Patriarchs met with God. Starting from the Altar built by Noah after the flood, the Altar had featured prominently as a place of Worship throughout the Old Testament till date. God’s covenants were also linked with Altars. The truth of the matter is that those who met with God at the place of the Altar are bound to hear from Him directly more than the others that are not rightly connected to the Altar of God.

There are several benefits you can derive as Help from “THE GREAT HELPER” when you consciously partake in the building of a “New Altar” to God. This may involve you pulling down or repairing the Old Altar and eventually building a New Altar to God in its stead. The truth of the matter is that we want to launch ourselves into a new dimension of walk with God by tapping into the numerous Blessings that is associated with building a “New Altar” to God Almighty. Some of the benefits are as highlighted below; taking our clue from 1Kings 18: 19-39:

First among the benefits of building a “New Altar” to God is that your prayers will be answered instantly according to Psalm 50: 14-15 and also your offerings will be expressly acceptable as in the case of Abel in Genesis 4: 3-5. One major reason why so many prayers tarry is because for too long, the Altar on which such prayers were offered is in disrepair.

God is also interested in the state of your heart and life along with the state of your Altar before you can receive His Help and be blessed indeed!

Also, when you construct a befitting Altar for God, your potentials will be fully activated. When the fire fell on the Altar on Mount Carmel, it took up the offering to Heaven and consumed the firewood…turning the wood into fire. Note that every wood has the potential of becoming fire…that is if it is made to do so – which incidentally is a blessing in cooking food and warming people up.

Right there within you is a potential of being a blessing to your generation and the world at large which is lurking deep inside you and waiting earnestly to be unveiled. God did not just create you to eat, drink and jump about without any specific purpose; rather you are created for a purpose and the whole world is awaiting your manifestations. The actualization of your potentials however is a function of the state of your Altar.

A “New Altar” will equally bring an end to hardship in your life. The fire that fell on Mount Carmel not only consumed the firewood but it also consumed the rocks. A rock is a symbol of hardship. In other words when obedience is adequately mobilized in the atmosphere of purity, it becomes a potent weapon that breaks in pieces the toughest of rocks. This is achievable on a “New Altar”!

In addition, after the “New Altar” was set-up and the fire came down; the fire licked the water. Don’t you know that when you repair the Altar of God by building a “New Altar”; you will never be in sorrow again as His fire will dry up ALL your tears. Hence Psalm 30: 5 says: “For His anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

From all the aforementioned friends, when an opportunity to build a New Altar like this beckons on you; the truth of the matter is that it is a sure way to receive Help from “The Great Helper” as you will be surely blessed in such if you obey.

This is a rare opportunity that I will besiege you all in the Name of God not to miss for any reason even if it means going out of your way to ensure that you have a part to play in the construction of the New Altar! Prosperity will adjudge you rightly or wrongly for this friends!

… Remember that if you fail to yield to this clarion call… God can raise up HELP even from among the stones to complete His Project. He is just giving you this great opportunity to use it as an excuse for Him to Open the Treasures of Heaven to you and your household!

The choice of what you want is definitely yours…. CHOOSE WISELY!

In order to prosper and succeed in life, you must be connected to a “Helper”. The Greatest Help however can only be gotten from God – this is why God is referred to as “THE GREAT HELPER”. Our God is “Infinitely Good”. Infact He is Goodness-Personified in all ramifications. The whole creations benefits daily from His Goodness (Psalm 107: 15). As the Creator of everything in the universe, He watches and keeps track of all events that is taking place in the whole universe even to the most insignificant ones that man takes no cognisance of.

The Presence of God in any situation causes a positive turnaround in that situation. In Mark 5: 22-23; the account was about an encounter Jairus (a man with uncommon achievements) had with Jesus Christ. In spite of his great achievements however, he had one problem that money cannot solve. His only daughter was at the verge of death. In this seemingly hopeless situation, Jairus sought for Help from the Lord and the Lord met him at the point of his need. My Prayer for a reader of this piece is that God will meet you at the point of your need in Jesus Name!

There is no one that has a pact with God that his/her life will not be better off afterwards. He is the Greatest Provider of all times. In John 6: 5-13, the Lord provided for a multitude, a small meal was multiplied supernaturally. In another other case, we learnt how He sent Help to a situation and changed the entire course of the situation – when God comes into the situation of a debtor for instance, the debtor can become extremely rich and a lender to many nations.

This same God that we are referring to as the “Great Helper” can do virtually all things. In the midst of famine in Israel for instance, the Lord spoke of the sound of abundance of rain as we have in 1Kings 18: 41-45. Can you imagine God feeding His servant for a whole year during famine through a bird? When the opinion of Jesus was sought about if paying of tax is ideal or not and He needed to demonstrate that we should be law abiding to the Government of our country, He used a fish by commanding the fish to provide a coin for the purpose.

When the people of Samaria were undergoing the worst famine and had lost all hope of a turnaround. God had to use the most abhorred in the land – lepers to orchestrate the turnaround within twenty four (24) hours even when the King’s Financial Adviser doubted the workability of it (2King 7: 1-11). When your “Great Helper” volunteered to help you, your “Destiny Helpers” will be the one looking for you. In John 5: 2-9; we saw the story of a man at the pool of Bethesda – a man on a spot for 38 years. All his helpers had been frustrated and abandoned him.

However, in this state of hopelessness; the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in the picture, walked straight to him, offered him unsolicited help by asking him: “Would you like to be healed?” Straightaway, that very minute; the man received his healing simultaneously! The widow of Nain in Luke 7: 11-15 is also a beneficiary of this kind of Help. After losing her husband, then her only son that remained her source of joy died too suddenly. On their way to the graveyard to bury him and without seeking for Help, Jesus Christ stopped the procession, raised the boy back to life and gave him back to the joyous mother.

Understanding the workability and capability of “The Great Helper” is however very important as this will give you hope for a better future to come. The “Great Helper can even send His Angelic Being in form of a familiar thing in order to execute the intended assignment.” Friends, all you need to do to experience your much desired turnaround in your present situation may not exceed twenty four (24) hours.

Are you at a cross road and in doubt on where Help will come your way? Friends, in that present state you are, God is sending Help to you (Amen). The Lord is turning things around for you in your favour. Even those you never thought useful will be instrumental to delivering your joy, promotion, prosperity and deliverance.
Your Helper is right there at the corner. The “Great Helper” will send Help to you and will grant you the Grace to overtake even those who had gone ahead of you.

All you need to do to receive Help from “The Great Helper” is to put your faith totally on the God of Heaven and Earth and be rest assured that He will never fail or disappoint you.

Now it may appear as if God had forgotten you but I can confidently tell you this Month is your Month of “Divine Remembrance”.

… Your HELP is finally here friends!!!

Goliath is an epitome of Pride. At the first sight of David, it was recorded that he despised him. He was amazed that the children of Israel could find no man to fight him but a little boy. As if that was not enough, Goliath did not see any conventional weapon of war on David. That was what led him to ask the question that am I a dog.

As someone who plans to go far in life therefore, we must learn never to underestimate your friends talkless of your enemies. The truth of the matter is that a small snake can be full of potent poison. In the book of Joshua 7: 2-6, it was recorded that after the fall of Jericho, Joshua relaxed; thinking that since they can pulled down the mighty wall of Jericho and take over the city, then a small town like Ai would take them just a stroll to pass through. He underestimated the strength of the enemy and he was thought a bitter pill of lesson with the lost thirty six (36) men in the process as well.

The truth of the matter is that any man that is over-confident will fall like a pack of card. Pride they say goes before a fall. Sadly however, there is a thin line of difference between self-confidence and over-confidence and so we need to be very careful so as not to fall for it as it leads to Pride in the life of a man. It was the same over-confidence that destroyed Samson totally and even lost his life in the process in Judges 16: 6-30. Or how else will you fathom the response of his when Delilah asked him about the secret of his strength and how he would be bounded and tormented.

Little wonder the Bible warned us to be careful of little foxes in Song of Solomon 2: 15 – these are things we thought are not very important and insignificant in our life. For example a little indulgence in something bad can cost you so much in life if you are not careful!

Back to the Goliath story, he came to the battle with swords, bow and arrow while David came in the Name of the Lord of Hosts. One of them said he will do it on his own accord while the other said that the Lord will do it for him. We are all living witnesses to the man that won at the end of the day!

Goliath never thought that David could come near him talkless of defeating him. Many of us boast that nothing can stop us from attaining the pinnacle of our career in life and so we tend to be careless, relax and thus become over-confident (Pride). Most times…this kind of people ends up as the greatest flop!

Friends, flee from every spirit of pride if you want to make it big in life and end well.

… The Lord will “Help” us all in Jesus Name!

In 2Kings 6: 24-31; the city of Samaria was under siege by the Syrian army and so they are deprived access to fresh food supplies. After they have exhausted the food they had with them, there was definitely no way for them to bring in more foods and a fall out from this is that the famine was such rife to the extent that the Israelites began to eat unclean animals and to practice cannibalism. However when God personally resolved Himself to intervene in this dire state of affairs, nothing whatsoever could stop Him.

From the account of the famine we just described above, it simply shows that there is no kind of famine no matter how grievious it may be that cannot be reversed within twenty four (24) hours. A song writer wrote that “It’s always darkest before the dawn”.

The truth of the matter is that most times things had to get to the point of it being at the most unbearable level of severity before the much desired turn-around takes place.
Are you going through any form of famine in your life? Does it seem so big that you doubted if it can ever be resolved? The Chief Financial Adviser in Samaria assumed same as you by saying “Can this thing come to past even if God opened the window of the Floodgate of Heaven?”

Friends, the Lord will turn-around your problems within a twinkle of an eye. You shall go to bed and by the time you wake up, the famine will be over. Infact, the famine will abruptly come to an end that you will look around but will not find any sign that it ever existed in the first place.

Most importantly from the account of the Samarians above, we can see that the word of Prophesy preceded the turn-around. Friends, that same Word of Prophesy has come to you this Month. Our Daddy in the Lord, Pastor E.A Adeboye has released the mindset of God to us that we are about to experience “The Floodgates of Heaven” being opened to us. Do you believe him? Usually, God’s Word of Prophesy usually goes ahead of what God is about to do. So rejoice and be of good cheers friends!

Finally, the account of the story above will not be completed without acknowledging the instrument that God used to initiate the turn-around. God used the four (4) lepers to terminate the famine in Samaria. You can never tell who God has designed to terminate the famine that you are experiencing. He may decide to use those that you have regarded as useless in your mind. No one is useless in God’s hands.

I have a Good News for a reader of this production that the Lord is set to turn-around your famine this Month and beyond!

The Season we are in now is a period that coincides with the birth of the Son of God and Saviour of the world – JESUS CHRIST!

In Luke 2:7-14, there was an account of a group of Shepherds receiving the News of this Great and Historic event. After the joyful news was released to them the shepherds saw a multiple of Angelic Host praising God. They had no choice than to follow suit and then traced the footsteps to the baby Jesus Christ.

The following events are worth mentioning at this crucial moment of the Epic Event that happened:

1. While the shepherds watched, they received Angelic visitations. Hebrew 1:13-14 says Angels are Ministering Spirits sent to minister to those in need of salvation. Angels are very powerful beings and an example of Heavenly visitations.

When Heaven visits the earth, Angels are released to strengthened, encouraged and Open Doors. As we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ this season, Heaven will visit your own earth and you will benefit from such visitations in ways beyond your wildest human understandings and comprehensions.

1. Another thing that happened was that the Glory of God shone around those visited. Friends, it is an amazing and desirable thing for God’s Glory to shine on you. This season, God’s glory will shine on you and your family. Jesus is the light of men who dispels every form of darkness (John 1:4-5). 1Timothy 6:16 says that God dwells in unapproachable light. However, on that very fateful night that Heaven visited the earth and by extension the shepherds, the unapproachable became approachable. Friends, as the Heaven visits the earth once again in this festive season, every form or manner of hindrance to your breakthrough in life will be removed and you will possess your possessions in Jesus Mighty Name.
2. Aside this, the Angels began to speak to them and say: “FEAR NOT”. Many people have been battling with so much fear in their life and this has affected the kind of progress they should have gotten in life. I have Good News for you friends even as you approach this uncommon festive season. Is there any area of your life that you have been battling with fear and concluded that your strength cannot carry you through again? The Lord asked me to tell you to “FEAR NOT.” He will for sure sustain you and carry you through by His own strength.

The truth of the matter is that: “every daily effort you fail to make use of gradually erodes your position in life”.

…The choice is therefore yours…”So PAY THE PRICE!”

Merry Christmas to you all!

Right back from the time of creation, man has been endowed with so many promises, potentials and innumerable number of blessings. It is however quite sad that they are yet to have any commensurable results to show for such immense endowments from God. An average man can therefore be simply viewed as being so fully loaded but yet a gross under-achiever in life – even as we speak, they are not able to break away from this ugly trend of event of things till date sadly.

The question that will readily therefore come to the mind of an agitated mind is: “What reason(s) can be adduced or attributed for this monumental evident of failure by Man?

Obviously the reason(s) may not be far- fetched: Man is sowing into an unfertile land that is just too dry and hard for any seed to break-forth out successfully no matter the kind of efforts expended by the man. One basic truth of life is that every breakthrough efforts that Men had devised require breaking up of a “Fallow Ground”. As human being, we all have “Fallow Grounds” that needs to be broken, lands that need to be possessed, songs that need to be sung, poetries that need to be recited, books that need to be read or written, projects that need to be initiated and business that need to be incorporated before there can be the Beginning of Increase in the life of such a Man!
To break-forth your “Fallow Ground” however you must do the following: stir up that hidden quest inside of you, step up to attain Greater and New Heights, Open and create New Door Opportunities and then find/embrace better alternatives which can all be achieved mostly by clinging squarely to God Almighty.

As you commence the New Year, it is time that you follow a New Path of Life and allows God to lead and guide you to your Promised-Land.

To achieve this however, all you need do is to make “Positive Confessions” of all those Good Things that you desire in the New Year. Also, begin to think of “New Solutions” to pending problems around you – shift your focus from the “good-old-days” but set your affections on “better-days-ahead”.

More than ever before, make personal resolutions that as from today you will cease to sow your seeds in the wrong places (rocky or thorny grounds) but rather on good loamy soils.

… By so doing, you will surely become a “Beautiful Fruitful Garden” like the Garden of Eden that God planted Himself. And ultimately, your life and destiny will change significantly to God’s Glory all through the course of the New Year and beyond!

Friends….the choice of what you want is definitely yours….

So CHOOSE WISELY!

Regards

Moses Durodola