Your Decision is Your Destination

                        DECISION IS YOUR DESTINATION

Decision is the act of considering something and come to conclusion, while Destination is a place to which somebody or something is going.

With the above definition it is obvious that your decision is your vehicle that will convey you to your destination. In every decision made, there are always destinations. This decision affects destinies including your own destiny either positive or negative. Your present position or condition is an ingredient of your decision or the decision someone else made. Many people have made decision, some are making decision, and some are yet to decide. Thank God for you, for this book to be present in your hand symbolizes that you want to make a positive decision and correct some mistakes.

Your conclusion is the final, because no nature can make you a figure without your signature. What you are doing presently is what you have made up your mind to be doing. This is one of the reasons why we advice people to take their decisions themselves, so that you can easily bear the positive or negative consequence that follow. Your action is what begets habit, habit begets character and character became destiny.

The best decision someone will make in life, is to know his creator (God). It is the primary factors that will take care of other decision such as the course to study, whom to marry, where to live etc. He is the creator of all, the chief engineer of every creation who gives directions and precautions of your life.

And God said let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the cattle and over the fowl of the air and over all the creeping things that crept upon the earth.Gen1:26

God created man in his image, after his likeness. What this meant is that we are small God (Psalm 86:2). God is not indecisive, he is a God of purpose he encouraged us to do the same. He (God) has a decision for creating man. What is that decision?

I have created him for my glory, i have formed him, yea I have made him. Isaiah 43:7.

But man neglected this aim and obJective of God and decided to walk according to his own leading. Bible says the way that seemeth right to a man the end thereof is destruction. But a certain man named Ananias with his wife, sold a possession and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part an laid it at the apostles feet. Acts 5:1-2

The small but mighty decision the two couple took, truncated their life. I believe

If any prophet should tell them about the impending danger they will not believe the prophecy. They have made up their mind to lie to the brethren. Do you know where it lead them early grave. God and devil are interested in our decision that is why God promised saying “i will instruct and teach you in the way you should go; i will guide you with my eye”. Psalm 32:8. Draw nearer to me and i will draw nearer to you.  Lucifer is an angel before he claimed superior being before God. THE CREATOR OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE disgraced him by taking his position from him and sends him down to earth. Since then he is looking for members that will Join and abort the decision of God to man. The enemy is not on black as we thought; he uses men and women to achieve his aim, by using the weakness of men to strategise against him. His power is limited, but he waits for an unguarded hour, then he will strike. He has sworn to divert the destiny of men since he did not fulfil his destiny. This is one of the reasons why he went to Eve and interrogated her saying yea hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not sincerely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat there of then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the tree thereof and did eat and he gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. And their eyes of them both were opened. Gen.3:1-7.  

He (devil) knows that if they should eat the fruit, it will be disobedient to God. They surely died as promised by God. Death simply means;

Separation, departing, is deviating, to expire, to lose taste, to lose power.

There two types of death namely;

Death unto production John 12:24

Death unto destruction.

 DEATH UNTO PRODUCTION

Most assuredly, i say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it produces much grain. John 12:24.

There are many things land produces, such include crops (water melon, maize, millet, beans, melon etc), Plants(Melina, obe, orange, palm, etc), vegetations(flowers, grasses,etc). The heart is the land of God where he   cultivates, where he builds to inhabit. The portion we give will determine what it will be used for, either subsistence farming or commercial farming. Some will give maJor or minor road that will lead to the farms or to the house. The heart is the power house of God’s production. That is one of the reasons David cried to God for a clean heart. If you look at David’s history, David generation can never be forgotten. Through David, the saviour (Jesus Christ) was given to us, to bring back the lost relationship we had before with God. God cannot build on dirty heart. Hear Jesus speaking “but he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understand it, who indeed bears fruit and produces some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” Matthew 13:23.

DEATH UNTO DESTRUCTION

Adam and Eve died; they have been separated from the decision of God to humanity to the satanic decision to humanity. Lust of the eye is one of the strategies the enemy uses to divert destiny of many people on earth. Look at the action of the woman; she saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes.  Every flashy decision made, the end is frazzle. Many people today is studying one course or the other, because it is lucrative not because of passion. If you study the decision lucidly you will verify the root of such decision is from flesh. Many pastors today, venture into pastoral work because of money, not because of perishing soul. This is one of the reasons power of God is leaving the church and power of money taking charge of the church. Some people do this in marriage as well. Marriage is meant for merriment but reverse is the case, miserable. Some manage marriage because of flashy cars, and flashy house. Many people in the marriage system are enslaved; in captivity as a result, it affected their children emotionally. Suffering, adultery, murder, greed, hatred, malice, poverty etc all these were not the decision of God to man at all. The root of all these could be traced to the clause she saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes. His thought towards his children is the thought of peace not the thought of evil to give you an expected end. Jer.29:11.

Since the departure of man from God’s decision to man strange things came in to existence. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the ground an offering unto the lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of the flock and of the fat thereof and the lord had respect unto Abel and unto his offering: But unto Cain and his offering he had no respect.

Cain was very wroth, and HIS countenance fell. And the lord said unto Cain why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shall rule over him. And Cain talked with his brother and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him. And the lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy brother? And he said i know not: am i my brother keeper? And he said, what has thou done? The voice of thy brother crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength, a fugitive and a vagabond shall thou be in the earth.Gen.4:3-12.

Remember Cain and Abel were sons of Adam and Eve. Abel was shepherd, while Cain was a farmer, but due to Jealousy and envy Cain killed his brother Abel. This is the first recorded murder on earth. Heaven is not happy to this incidence. The worst enemy in life is the internal enemy. John 10:10a says “the thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill and to destroy.”  

The number one enemy is sin. They eat the spiritual being of a man as cancer. They include pride, lust, envy, hatred, murder etc.  Sin will keep you away from God.

 SYTOMS OF SPIRITUAL DEATH:

Lack of quite time; the Bible will keep you away from sin, or sin will keep away from Bible. When you are finding it difficult to spend time with God, Run back to Calvary for deliverance, restoration. This is the spiritual blood tonic, there is no life without blood don’t Joke with it.

 Absent, from the fellowship of the brethren. Iron sharps iron. There are some miracles that will not happen in your house except if you go to the Zion. If you are too busy, that you absent yourself from bible study, prayer meeting, and faith clinic. You are not interested in the things of God that is number one prayer point for you ask the Lord to deliver you.

Weak prayers altar: when you cannot pray nor fast to draw near to God. This is where we draw our spiritual strength from.

Inability to evangelise: Tell others about your new faith; it will make your faith to be authentic. It will help you not to sin easily.

Inability to differentiate yourself, from the world. You do what Christians consider ungodly such as lying, ungodly dressing; even your spirit speaks against it. What you normally call sin before, is no longer sin again.

Inability to correct the wrong: you cannot find it necessary those who are missing the way, let them continue on their way

ReJection of Godly counsel: when you rely on your own understanding, Mr. A tells me not. Have you finished advising yourself, children and family before advising me? Please let me have my rest.

Lust: trying to be like others, by all means.

BITTERNESS: you always have bad sense against someone.

When these are observed, please note that your salvation is at the market centre of the enemy. Go to God, in prayer for restoration.

HOW TO MAKE DECISION

ü Define your problem: Know your problem. The problem you know is half solved. Many people die in their problem; the reason is that they do not know what it entails. Know your problem if it is sickness, mismanagement, or you want to build a house, Know the type of building you want to build if it is upstairs

ü  Enquire for the problem: ask questions, you are not passing the road anyone has not passed. There are people who have passed the same route. Ask them, they are at right position to give you right information. If it is academics, there are people who have gone far above you, but you can access them through their books or via internet services.

ü Consider solutions for the problems: ponder over the solutions they gave you through prayers. 

ü Evaluate the possible outcome of each solution: imagine the result. In every result there is always a resource. Count the possible advantages, disadvantages, and rate them. I believe any person who is not insane will not carry or take decision that has 80% disadvantages. Think about what it might cost you .may be, it might require time, money etc. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost whether he has enough to finish it. Lest after he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish. Luke 14:28-30

ü MAKE YOUR DECISION ON POSITIVE AND TRUE FACTS:

    You want to marry for instance; the number one question you need to ask              yourself is this;

   Why do I want to marry?

Do I marry because of money?

Do I want to marry because my mates have all married?

Do I because of beauty or handsomeness?

Do I marry because it is too long for the relationship?

Do I marry because of my parents persuasions?

Do I marry because of sex?

Do I marry because of curiosity?                                                                       If your answer is yes, when you subtract any of the above ask yourself questions, you have no vision in marrying no matter your age. Moreover age is Just a number not your made. So you are not qualified to get admission into the University of Marriage, continue to pray until you get clear revelation about marriage.

ü Make your decision:

Dr Crefolla Dollar says “Your decisions are what create your reality, nothing Just happen” When your decision is being aligned with the word of God, heaven will support you. His will is his word.

ü Be ready to live with the outcome:

A teenager of opposite sex who is not ready for marriage chose to stay at dark corner having naughty discussion, pause and have a rethink of where it might lead.

It might lead to romance, sex, and diseases if you are lucky pregnancy, abortion, drop out from school, shame, and lastly it might lead to frustration because the boy might not marry you. If you are ready to bear this, don’t flee from such location begin to pray or beg instead of making use of your legs. No matter what might be the cross you are ready to carry it go ahead. This is applicable to other decisions.

COMPULSORY QUESTIONS TO ASK YOU, WHEN MAKING ANY DECISION.

1.     What are the possible consequences of my decision?

2.     How will my decision affect the life of others?

3.     Will my decision influence me to be disobedient to God?

4.     Have i sought Godly counsel regarding this situation?

5.     Will my decision promote the love of God?

6.     Will God bless and approve my decision?

7.     Will i be able to thank God for the outcome of my decision?

8.     Will my decision bring glory and honour to God?

7 practical ways to make right decisions.

Surrender all your of your plans to Jesus.

Surround yourself with Godly men and women, and imitate their character

Set aside time daily to pray and study the word of God.

Ask the Lord to reveal his will in every situation you encounter.

Use scripture as the foundation for how you live.

Don’t be swayed by your emotions or the pressure of life.

Be willing to learn from your mistakes.

 KEYS, WHICH UNLUCKS THE GATES OF DESTINATION.

                             BE BORN AGAIN

 This is the best decision anybody, nation can ever make. There was a person who has interest about God’s decisions, he sneaked to Jesus. In John 1:3 it says there was a man of the Pharisee named nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews ; the same came to Jesus by night and said unto him rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God for no one can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him.

Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Born again we are talking about is total U-turn from one’s negative attitude that does not glorify God. Emulate nicodemus who disregarded his position as a ruler and sort for this. There is another group of people that this touched in acts 2:37-38 says; Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto peter and to the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do?

Then peter said unto them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost.

There was a fellow who made up his as anew resolution that he will not smoke again, and he kept to his decision and accepted Christ as his lord. But those who used to smoke with him before began to mock him, they laughed scornfully to this fellow. He changed his mind overnight and began to take little secretly.

Are you in this category?

This answer is vivid flee from them that is what the bible says. It did not say run or walk it said flee. So flee from where they are selling it and were they are consuming kit and those that consume. Don’t listen to them for your mocking will turn into miracle and your insult will turn to result.

There are two kinds of calling from God unto men;

Call for repentance

Call for service

      CALL TO BE SAVED:

This is the one you answer publicly on the altar, anywhere; it is the new hug you give Jesus on the cross as he spread his hands of welcome to you. This is the type zeachus answered and salvation was granted to him.

I know you will not hesitate to  God’s calling for reconciliation in Isaiah 1;18 it says; come now let us reason together saith the lord; though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow and whool.

Have you killed as cain or participated either directly or indirectly in shading of blood, have you eaten the forbidden fruit? God is calling you for reconciliation, no matter the quantity and quality of sin; god is willing to make you whole.

He that coveret his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forseketh them have mercy.

Some that have material things might say i have prospered already i don’t need it again, i am satisfied with my wealth. That  is not material we are talking about, if you die now and you  are not sure where you are going is either heaven or hell, not mere confession you are the one we are talking to.

Because of sinners he sent his only begotten son, that whosoever beliveth him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Will you neglect this offer? The answer is yours if you are really to answer your creator pray thus;

My father my father has, here I am. Have mercy on me take control of my life today, i say good bye to the works of the devil. I Jesus name amen.

Discover to recover: there is a wise saying that says man doesn’t have mounting except the mounting of ignorance, no wonder hosea4:6 says my people perish for lack of knowledge; because thou hast neglected knowledge i will also neglect you that thou shalt be no priest to me.

I believe that you have discovered Christ. Have you discovered who you are? Of you have not ask him/

The secret of the lord is with those that fear him, and he will show them his covenant psalm 25;14.

If you accept him in total repentance he will reveal every case of your life. He will change you story to glory, your pressure to pleasure, your obstacle to miracle and you will acquire what you desire only if you will walk in obedience to him.

The ball is in your court. The picture of your future is in your scripture. Prodigal son made a decision to be alone, he sort for independence and it were granted to him. The way that seemeth right in the eye of man, the end is destruction. There is no way a branch will bear fruit except the presence of tree itself.

He squandered everything but when the young man comes to his senses, he began to ask himself questions.

How many hired servants of my father, have bread enough and to spare and i perish with hunger. Luke 15:17-18.

He told himself;

I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, father i have sinned agaist heaven and before thee and i am not worthy to be called your son; make me one of thy servants.

How will you take bath in bathroom and you are looking for your cloth in the dining room or palor.

He realized his personality and made that reasonable decision.

My beloved reader you have done well by taking decision to accept Jesus as your saviour, i want you to arise to God by faith by meeting him on the calvary., with his two arms opened for you to come in. You are welcome, he is going to teach you and direct you, don’t wait till next second, it is too late he is waiting for you.

If you walk in obedience as the prodigal son did look at the reaction of the father in verse 22

But the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet; and bring hither the fattened calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry.

There will be Joy in heaven because of you and heaven will redesign your life decorate it and you will take a new look.

CALL TO SERVE:

PRAYER ADICT

 A prayerful Christian is a powerful Christian. It is written in numbers 14:28; say unto them truly as i live saith the lord as yee have spoken in mine ears so will i do to you;

 Are you redy to walk to God in prayer. If i should ask; do you need s change in any point of your life?

Will you like to ask God for change as Jabez did?

And Jabezz called on the God of Israel, saying; oh thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine hand might be with me and that thou wouldest  keep me from evil that it may not give me: and God granted him that which he requested.

Confess your sins before God, and walk to God abo8ut you present situation. Talk to that mounting aggressively. I pray that your mounting shall melt by fire in Jesus name. Amen.

Jabezz did it, there was a result, and there must be result in your case, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

There is another person that impresses me, David. Who remembered that nothing is impossible with Christ? He said moreover the lord that delivered me out the paw of the beer; he will deliver me out the hand of this philistine.

He fought goliath and won. The enemy have planned the captivity of Isreal  to, but  God delivered Israel. There is another foe that can delay destiny, That is the power of sin. Prayer will make sin to be far from you .when you refuse to pray you become a prey.

ASSOCIATION

Tell me your friend, and I will tell you who you are. Your association is that person who you share your ideas with.                                                                         It is what you use to earn a living.

That is your business, skills, career, profession etc.

It is your environment, it is your church. These add to you, subtract from you, multiply or divide you.

It is that thing you cannot do without, your character.

You are not complete, unless your association is been made whole. This is one of the reasons we advice our young ones to always choose their friends wisely. They will either make you or mar you. Hear the word of the lord concerning this matter “Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits”1Cor.15:33. In every command given by God there is a commission attached to it. If your association cannot change you positively, or you cannot change them please change your association. If  you don’t they will change you negatively, as that of  lot . “And the first born said unto the younger, our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come unto us after the manner of all the earth: come let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve the seed of  our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also and the first born went in and lay with her father and he perceived neither when she lay down nor when she rose. And it came to pass on the morrow that the first born said unto the younger, behold i lay yester night with my father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in and lie with him that we may preserve the seed our father. And they made their father drunk wine that night also: and the younger lay with him and perceive neither when she lay down nor when she arose”. Gen 18

Looking at the clause, come let us make our father drink wine. You will find out that the younger don’t have the intension of such attitude, but her sister lured her to such ruin. Be wear of the people you surround your life with, it could be in the church, market, office, work shop, school, bus stop etc. In every environment you find yourself, there is always an enemy to feed you with wrong information about destiny. It is always advisable to feed well on information to enhance you live well. The bread of life you eat will determine the breed of your life. Have laws and norms, it will help you not to be lured. Chose friend wisely, but before that you must know whom you are because everybody is not meant for you. Daniel purposed in his heart, that he will not defile himself with kings’ wine. Let me tell you if you don’t have a purpose when you are opposed you will fall. Hear the advice of a father to his son “my son if sinners entice you consent thou not”. There is nothing wrong with enticing, it is wrong when you yield to it. There is a sister who happened to have flat breast, their friends always make fun of her because of that. They told her that the cause is because she doesn’t have sex with men. She met her father in the lord and told him. This man of God had been working hard to contribute to her destiny because of her destiny, by praying for her always, buying books for her, giving her money etc. One day this lady comes to this man of God saying “Sir my friends are laughing at me because I have flat breast. The man of God told her that the theory is false. It has no scientific proof. He asked her, does flat breast has something to do with your destiny? She said sir, you don’t understand. She persists and yields to their advice.  The first time she had sex she got pregnant of triplet. Two were at the first and second  fallopian tube, while one was at the womb. she was bleeding profusely she was rushed to the hospital the fallopian tube have to be cut off, at cause of the surgeon the womb was lost now she is pleading for mercy. How will you know your friend that is meant for your destiny? They cooperate with you to achieve your dream. They have the same vision, which is why it is said birds of the same feather fly together.

 He align contribute to your destiny.

 He stands in the gap for you.

He always encourages each other when the road seems tough.

                   MAKE POSITVE CONFESSION

No matter what you are passing through in life, confess positive. Revolutionalise, your word to create a standard foundation. Think high, a higher level of thinking creates a higher level of living. Words produce thoughts, thought produce emotions, emotion produce decision, decision produce actions, action produces habit, habit produce character, character produces destiny. Beware that God say “say unto them truly as I live saith the lord as ye have spoken in mine ears so will i do to you” therefore, be careful on what you confess to yourself fill your thought with possibilities. Pause now and speak good words to yourself.(am a god seed, am great, am rich, i will finish well). Erase negative thought, because your imagination is your image .Your word is your world. God created man in his own image and gave dominion over all creations on earth, and God told him to give it name, and he named all of them. So any name you give to your challenges, it bears that. If you give it possible favour etc, when you call it, it will respond. You must decide to know God deeper, because any expensive mineral cannot be seen on the surface. 

For you to move to another level of life, you must hate your present devil. Your present level in life is not your bus stop, unless you chose it to be the option is lucid. Meet the engineer of your life,he is the one who drew the plan of your life. Any plan outside the plan of God is doom. His plan is to give you good success, meaning there are bad successes.

HARD WORKING

Hard work is different from hard labour. Hard work requires mental abilities. Oyedepo said if you refuse to work hard you will live a hard life. What you are doing now contributes to your destiny. It is not only prophesying positively to yourself you must be doing something positive before God can come to your aid. Peter and his brother Andrew and simon, they were fishing but their effort seems abortive, before Jesus met on the sea:

And Jesus saith unto them follow me and i will make you fishers of men. Jesus employ them where they should be. That was how their story changed to glory. Ruth is another example who worked hard in order to reach to her destination. And Ruth said entreat me not to leave thee: for wither thou goest,i will go; and where thou lodgest,i will lodge:thy people shall be my people,and thy God my God. And Ruth the Moabites saith unto Naomi let me go to feild and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight i shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go my 

daughter. Ruth 1:16,2:2

Ruth life challenges me most a young woman who married, but her husband died in chilion. She made up her mind to follow her mother in-law to where she will be. Naomi tried to discourage her, but she refused. Orpah the wife of Mahlon,has gone, because of the thorns she saw facing her as a widow. Ruth didn’t listen to what the rough road is saying, she maintained her stand, saying for where thou goest, i will go, thy people shall be my people and thy God shall be my God.Ruth case made it clear that no cross without a crown. She focuses her mind on the crown and this gave her more courage to attain to it. Orpah stopped on the way. Had it been, she stoped half way, there might not be book of Ruth.    

BE DETERMINED

Determination is said to be the key to success. Another similar to this is focus, hear Dr Daniel K. Olukoya the General overseer of mountain of fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide in this case; in my school days as an undergraduate, i determined to succeed. A young lady, who took interest in me, would always come around me. After the rendition she inquired to know if the song appealed to me, but she was disappointed as the answer is negative. She took her leave, and never showed up again till sometime when i surfaced as a counselee not recognising, having recognised her i replayed her love song of many years ago, to her amazement and i added and i told her; had it been i listened to your so called love song then, i would not have been here to help you.

    HAVE A GOOD CHARACTER

Ruth is a disciplined woman; she does the right thing at the time, with the right people at the right place, in a right manner.she Joined the reapers to glean when Boaz came, she asked whose damsel is this?

The reapers told him that she is a Moabites who followed Naomi come .so she came and hath continued even from the morning until now; that she tarried a little in the house. Reapers give good testimonies concerning Ruth and her diligences. What type of records do you keep? Whether illiterate or literate you are writing something on the lives of people around you. What are you writing, in the lives of people living within and after you? Repent from it today.you can erase it now and write reasonable and meticulous history. You may start wrongly, but the main issue is the end. It is said that end Justify the means, your beginning cannot justify, and it is the end. When i was in secondary school, as a junior student. Some of our seniors will arise after lights out and summoned the whole Junior student to provide what he will eat until the want is met we will not sleep. Most times they punish those who do not provide something such as garri, suggar, milk, corn flakes etc. Reputation is good but the best is character. Character is built as a house. I was looking for my foam over two weeks, i couldn’t see it, i was lying on a bare bonk, if  there is cold and bare floor a times i told my house captain that am looking for my foam. We went round the hostel we couldn’t see it. On vacation day,my friend saw it in one of the seniors room, where he went errand. He ran to me and asks me what to do; it happened that the boy is one of the seniors we fear most. I told him all die na die, but the difference is the situation. Come and show me the room. We got there are more than four foams that is not his.

I greeted him he responded. Ehmmm, please senior am looking for my foam and i saw it here i stammered. He responded like a lion “so am a thief, you people should lie down! He gave us fourteen (14) strokes of cane before i took the foam. We went home with tear. What is the record you have kept? The record we left will help you get to where you are going. How do you treat people under you? I was one of the tutorial staff in one school at port Harcourt when he will find fault is at the end of the month he will say on so, so day within the month you did this and that, on this note your salary will not be complete. These made him to lose his workers who are eligible and competent.

Ruth’s reputation lured Boaz into action immediately, and Boaz said unto her at meal time come thou hither and eats of the bread and dips thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers; and he reached the parched corn, and she did eat and was sufficed and left and when she risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men saying let her glean, even among the sheaves and reproach her not. 

Good reputation brings favour; it places someone on a high class people. God of Naomi, who is her God is still with her. Who you follow, will explain who follow you. There is no problem discipline and faith cannot move

Association matters a lot, if not that Naomi encouraged her to go; she would have not reached her destiny. Some friends they will divert you, and you will miss success. As a result of her good character, Boaz married.

PATIENCE

Patience simply means, wait, it is not yet your time, it is your time, patience is the elder brother of endurance, while satisfaction is the end product. It is not the hare; the tortoise arrives also at the destination. Unknown. Delay is not denial, don’t be detained by your sins. What are you asking the Lord to do for you? Does it seem abortive? Wait, a mother cannot give her child unprepared pap because her baby need it. Will she give her baby raw meat because she wants her baby to grow? It is impossible, our father gives his children their bread in due season. The praying mantis is never tired wait all day, for waiting is not wasting time.

APPRECITION

When you fail to appreciate, you depreciate. For you to be thankful you must be thoughtful. Count your blessing; name them one by one you must have one thing to appreciate. If you find nothing then, you are ungrateful. Nothing is too small to left unappreciated. Your appreciation is the key to your exaltation. Please note this fact about appreciation;

Everybody wants to be appreciated.

It only take a moment to express gratitude and appreciation.

You don’t have to spend a lot of money, graciousness is free.

When you express gratitude you become remembered yourself.

Never take lightly the favour others bestow on your life.

Learn to speak words of gratitude.

HUMILITY

Humility brings royalty.

OBEDIENCE

Obedience is said that is better than sacrifices It is divine foolishness, in the sight of God you are wise but in the sight of man you are fool. Now the lord had said to Abram, get thee out thy country and thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that i will show thee:

And i will make of thee a great, and i will bless thee and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: Gen.12:1-2.  How can a matured man of his age, will be this type of fool. You don’t know where your are going, even the direction to start with is north or south, 

                                        CHAPTER 2

LOOK NOT UNTO OTHERS

Where you are going, determines your preparation. What is your vision? Have a clear vision on your mission, for it will help you not to look others. Don’t do things because others do, it will make you to hate yourself. It will make you write wrong examination of life. It is said imitation is limitation.

Look not every man on his own thing, but every man also on the things of other. Philippians 2:4.

Who are you looking unto? if you are not looking unto Jesus you have started failing.

 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the Joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame ,and is set down at the right hand of the throne God Hebrew 12:2. What and who you are looking unto determine what and who will be looking unto you. Jesus is a finisher, he will transfer the gene of finisher to you.here are some of the qualities of a finisher;

He has plans and goals.

He is focused.

He perseveres.

He prays consistently.

 He involves others in his vision.

He appreciates others.

He obeys good instructions.

AGENT OF FAILURES

Procrastination: procrastination is invisible, visible stealer of time, and destiny. When you postpone what you ought to do today and do them tomorrow. It is caused by lack of vision and goal setting. List obtainable vision, what you want to achieve for ten years to come for instance. Have a compulsory goal for each year. Have vision for the first half of the year, each semester, and each month. Procrastination is the product of poverty. Don’t procrastinate that vision there is no time to check time, because if you wait it might be given to another person.

DISOBEDIENCE: We all succeed or fail by information.

DEMONIC OPERATION AND OPPRESSION

These are people who submits themselves to be used by Satan to abort the decision of God to man. These are powers disgracing the sons and daughters of God, using some people like King Haman. Who has sworn, to abort the decision of man using their enterprise. Mordecai the prince will not have possess his seat.

 And the King took off his ring which he had taken from Haman and gave it unto mordecai and Esther set Mordecaia over the house of Haman. Esther8:2

Herod wanted to terminate Jesus, who came to redeem the world, but the more he search for Jesus the more he get confused. What you experience is what you can express with clarity.  When i was in Junior classes i perform well, i don’t struggle for success, before the examination am sure of my results. One day in my new school an old woman came to me saying “you are giving me headache in this school, we shall see” and it was dream. The preceding term i got ill that nearly took my life if not God intervention. I came back within the term and write my continuous assessment for the term. My understanding capacity began to decrease, i will read one paragraph over one hour, yet after some minutes i will recall only 30% of what i read. I met one of our teachers and told him my predicament. He told me to continue to study harder it will expire one day. I was ignorant of these then, my teacher as well was ignorant of this also, i began to study harder as directed. Many thoughts began to encroach into my mind to quit my education and go into business. It changes celebrity to nonentity. It kills as well; here is a student who got scholarship to study abroad. His parent organised a party for him, at night his young siblings were missing him already. One of them told him, brother you are living us, abi it is well, your education and your life chose one. He thought she was Joking may be she drank, because alcoholic drink were served there. The preceding morning they accompanied him to the air port and bade him farewell. Some month’s later news got to his parents that their son died when he dived in, to swim on swimming pool. He was brought back to Nigeria without head. Let me tell you beloved, since they pursued Jesus to kill, you are not excluded. You need to surrender your life to Jesus say lord Jesus come into my take control of my, from today i say bye bye-bye to satan and his devices in Jesus name i pray amen. Congratulation you have made the greatest decision you could ever make in life. This prayer below is one of the prayers that helped me. Pray these prayers, blood of Jesus deliver me from any power that is below me, within me, and above me in the name of Jesus. 

                               PROUD

It is claiming who you are not. When you decide to show people you have even when you do not.

KEYS OF GREATNESS

Lay your life for something (hard work). Am not going to surrender unless what am pursuing surrenders.

Desire to serve others, not to be served.

To ask as Jesus do, not according to your own will, but according to the will of my father in heaven.