Join me as we pray for our children this Children’s Day:
We speak over our children the #blessing of knowing God, long life, good health, God’s favour, Godly associations, quick understanding, excellent spirit, divine protection, supernatural provision, prosperity, peace,
pure love, Godly homes, goodly inheritances, protected pathways, divinely orchestrated destinies, ordered steps and the blessings of heaven above and of the earth beneath. No weapon fashioned against them shall prosper.
There shall be no strange god with them. God, Himself will be their Teacher, and great will be their peace. These commanded blessings are theirs - the ones yet in the womb and those in their own homes - now and forever to the nth generation in Jesus’ name.
May all it takes to raise our children - wisdom, understanding, patience, love, strong marriages, good health, long life, divine revelation, wealth, knowledge, and much more, be abundant in the life of every parent or guardian in Jesus’ name. #HappyChildrensDay.
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I was down to my last N50. Even in 1997, that wasn’t a lot. Usually, at close of work, I would take a bike to a restaurant where I would enjoy a bowl of rice, 2 pieces of meat, some dodo & a bottle of Coke. From there, take a bike to the bus stop to catch a bus home. Not today.
Today, the only transport I could afford was the not-so-scenic walks between locations, the bus home, and a bowl of rice - no meat, no dodo, certainly no Coke. Being broke has a way of sanitising your priorities.
As I left the office that day, a friend gave me N2,500. I was excited.God is good! Yet I walked to the restaurant, had a bowl of rice (no meat, no dodo, no Coke) & proceeded to walk to the bus stop to get a bus home when it hit me: there's N2,500 in my pocket...but not in my mind
Years ago, a friend and I were walking down a dark path on campus when a lady frantically ran towards us shouting Snake! Snake! My instincts were to run, but what kind of a man would that make me.
So I turned around, picked up stones and started hurling them at the snake. My friend did the same. After this incident, my friend mentioned he had turned to run, then saw me pick up stones to throw at the snake, so he stayed and joined in the endeavour.
Had I been alone, I, too, would have run. My friend’s presence and not wanting to appear weak before a lady in distress encouraged me to do something about the situation.
It’s time to change. One of the greatest obstacles to changing is what you currently know. While learning is not always done consciously, reversing/replacing what you’ve learnt takes a deliberate effort.
1. Define what change means to you. Anything you can’t define, you struggle to measure. Without a clear goal, change is possible, but not measurable. If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you are there?
2. Be honest with where you currently are. Your location determines your path. Your GPS uses your present location to plot the journey to your destination. You need a brutally honest self-assessment.
Seeds don’t grow instantly. They grow constantly. So when you put a seed in the ground, leave it there, give it time. Pulling it up to check its progress only destroys it.
The seed determines what you harvest, but the ground determines how much you harvest. What you sow is as important as where you sow. Do your research, then invest your seed.
We DON’T always reap what we sow. Some of the things you invest yourself in won’t yield any profit because they were sown in bad ground.
The real value of education is not in what you learn but in who you become. Education is supposed to change you, not just enlighten you.
If enlightenment were enough, God would have finished His work on day one (Gen. 1:3). Light just served to make clear what needed fixing. It didn’t fix anything by itself.
Enlightenment is the lowest form of education. Anybody can achieve that. Growth/change is its highest form. And that happens when you put what you've learned into practice.