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Friday, February 7, 2014
The Need to Attend Church Services
By Sunday Joseph Adenuga
When the people of God gather themselves together in the church to praise and to worship the Lord of Glory, the land is always brought to subjection before them. Meaning that each of them is brought to a point of personal victory over situations and circumstances of life. In the book of Joshua 18: 1, we read, And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
The land will be subdued before you when you gather together with other children of God to praise and to worship the Almighty God. Remember that one of the five fold blessings of God upon man is that he should have power to subdue the earth. Gathering together with other children of God makes tremendous power available to subdue your problem and get the best out of any situation you may ever find yourself.
God loves man so much that after creating him in His own image He blessed him and said, Be Fruitful and Multiply, Replenish the earth and Subdue it, and have Dominion over all things. As a man, you and I have an unsatiable desire to subdue the earth, to overcome our problems. This is the reason we hate any form of oppression from any quarter, we fight to a stand still anything that will stop us from enjoying our lifes to the fullest. Man has overcome almost every obstacle that comes on his way especially in the last one hundred years.
If you also want the power to subdue your enemies and make problems to crawl before you, then you need to discover the art of joing other faithful people to worship God in the church setting at least one's in every week. The power of God is made available when people gather together to praise or worship God. The Bible says, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, I AM there in the midst of them." This implies that when more than three people gathers, the Lord will surely be there to bless them. If you want the earth to be subdued before you and to also prosper in all that you do, the missing step may be this, so start attending church services at least one's every week.
In Hebrews 10: 25, we are told, "Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching." There is a great power made available to individuals when they attend church services that are ordered in the name of the Lord. The supernatural power of the Lord supervised by Angelic beings is made available to help solve people's problems both on individual and corporate level. So look out for a church where they do things in the name of the Lord, that is the place to draw power from.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Success Is My Heritage
Success is inside you, but many people do not know it, this book titled, "Success Is My heritage" will show you how to draw out the success within you.
You have to understand that man is created to succeed. Man is so awesome, he has conquered everything that threatened his existence on planet earth. Man has mastered his environment so much that he has turned this world to near paradise. When you remember that man started his journey on planet earth with almost nothing, he came naked, given nothing but food only. This book will teach you how to discover that thing inside you that has helped man in all ages to overcome difficulties Man is so powerful, no bird in the sky can compete with him in the sky, which bird can fly to the space? Yet man did? Man is so successful, no fish in any ocean can compete with him in their natural habitat (sea). Man is built to succeed; man is built to win. Buy this book now and discover the secrets of success that never fails to help people from the begining of human race on earth. Why are some making it effortlessly and others are roasting away in abject poverty and failure, the secrets are revealed in this book In this book, I will show you That it is the will of God for you to succeed in life That You are born to succeed The seven very important steps to success The seven success strategies (this is powerful) The must have success Attitudes The indespensible success bottons you can begin to press immediately The Success Guards that will help you to safeguard your achieved success.
The book show you the age long plans of success that have helped the men that discover them to rule and reign on earth. Finally, you are about to be in possession of a mystery that have helped people all over the world to cross from failure land to success land. Now, it is your turn to succeed, nobody can have these secrets and remain poor in life, you cannot have these secrets and remain a failure. You can from the very next moment begin to swim in the ocean of success and abundance through the revelation of the success secrets in this book by simply clicking the buy now button below. For only $9.75 you can purchase and download this book now. You can use your credit card or your paypal account to effect the payment, do not delay any further purchase now and start making a success of your life now. Remember that this is the only life you have and you do have the responsibility of making a success of it, let this book help you to bring out the success in you. Please note that this book is written from the point of view of the christian belief as it is written by a pastor.
Success Is My heritage
Success is inside you, but many people do not know it, this book titled, "Success Is My heritage" will show you how to draw out the success within you.
You have to understand that man is created to succeed. Man is so awesome, he has conquered everything that threatened his existence on planet earth. Man has mastered his environment so much that he has turned this world to near paradise. When you remember that man started his journey on planet earth with almost nothing, he came naked, given nothing but food only. This book will teach you how to discover that thing inside you that has helped man in all ages to overcome difficulties Man is so powerful, no bird in the sky can compete with him in the sky, which bird can fly to the space? Yet man did? Man is so successful, no fish in any ocean can compete with him in their natural habitat (sea). Man is built to succeed; man is built to win. Buy this book now and discover the secrets of success that never fails to help people from the begining of human race on earth. Why are some making it effortlessly and others are roasting away in abject poverty and failure, the secrets are revealed in this book In this book, I will show you That it is the will of God for you to succeed in life That You are born to succeed The seven very important steps to success The seven success strategies (this is powerful) The must have success Attitudes The indespensible success bottons you can begin to press immediately The Success Guards that will help you to safeguard your achieved success.
The book show you the age long plans of success that have helped the men that discover them to rule and reign on earth. Finally, you are about to be in possession of a mystery that have helped people all over the world to cross from failure land to success land. Now, it is your turn to succeed, nobody can have these secrets and remain poor in life, you cannot have these secrets and remain a failure. You can from the very next moment begin to swim in the ocean of success and abundance through the revelation of the success secrets in this book by simply clicking the buy now button below. For only $9.75 you can purchase and download this book now. You can use your credit card or your paypal account to effect the payment, do not delay any further purchase now and start making a success of your life now. Remember that this is the only life you have and you do have the responsibility of making a success of it, let this book help you to bring out the success in you. Please note that this book is written from the point of view of the christian belief as it is written by a pastor.
Success Is My Heritage
Success is inside you, but many people do not know it, this book titled, "Success Is My heritage" will show you how to draw out the success within you.
You have to understand that man is created to succeed.
Man is so awesome, he has conquered everything that threatened his existence on planet earth. Man has mastered his environment so much that he has turned this world to near paradise. When you remember that man started his journey on planet earth with almost nothing, he came naked, given nothing but food only.
This book will teach you how to discover that thing inside you that has helped man in all ages to overcome difficulties
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Going Higher
Success Dimension Church is growing now to the glory of GOD in bounds and leaps, The Lord had been faithful to His word which He spoke to me sometimes ago about the future of this church. My experience as a founding pastor has given me a lot of opportunities and privileges to know many things about our God which daily gives me confidence and strenght to tell others about the goodness of our GOD.
What the Lord is doing in this ministry these days baffles my mind, the miracles or the level at which people all over the world who are touched one way or the other by this God inspired work.
If you reside in Ibadan, I want to specially invite you to a three days of teaching galore on the theme "Dominion Life" Pastor Niyi Adedayo will be ministering alongside with me to bless the people of God who will be eager to hear the word of the Lord. You can also be a partaker and enjoy the presence of God in this Holy Spirit empowered service.
The program starts on Monday, the 14th of march and end on Wednesday, the 16th of March 2011, be there.
What the Lord is doing in this ministry these days baffles my mind, the miracles or the level at which people all over the world who are touched one way or the other by this God inspired work.
If you reside in Ibadan, I want to specially invite you to a three days of teaching galore on the theme "Dominion Life" Pastor Niyi Adedayo will be ministering alongside with me to bless the people of God who will be eager to hear the word of the Lord. You can also be a partaker and enjoy the presence of God in this Holy Spirit empowered service.
The program starts on Monday, the 14th of march and end on Wednesday, the 16th of March 2011, be there.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Expressing Ministry With Wordpress
By Sunday Joseph Adenuga
The second way to build a free website that will give you a more professional outlook and make your website really be able to get more features is wordpress which is a better platform to have than blogger. You can get to wordpress through this link at http://wordpress.com, and it will be a very sweet experience for you to start your own very first website all for free with no string attached. I have at least three websites with wordpress, one of them is at http://successgalore.wordpress.com you may just click the link and see my own website. I have another one called http://internetchurch.wordpress.com. I encourage you to go to these sites and just see how I have done mine to help you in creating yours to make it even a better looking website than mine. Is is an easy thing to start a wordpress site with little or no guidance from anybody, but you will have to work very hard to understand the terms used and how each gadget works. This is so because it is much more complicated than the blogger platform, you need to understand this, you may need trainning and asistance to master wordpress. Go now to www.wordpress.com, then click on sign-up button, in the next window, fill in the form and submit it, follow all the instructions to open a website of your own, type in your desired website name something like www.yourchurch.wordpress.com.
Remember that creating a wordpress blog is as easy as A B C, but you have to learn the art of updating the content of your website with fresh contents like articles, pictures, audio messages, or even video recordings of your messages. You do all these from your admin panel called the dashboard as explained in the case of blogger.
I have about thirteen video tutorials that teaches in vivid terms how to set up a word press, customise it with your your graphics, use plugins, and beautiful themes that will make your website looking great and professional. If you like, I can sell the CD to you for only N3700, it sells for N5500 regularly, but to encourage you as a pastor and to contribute to your ministry I bring the price down to N3700 only. If you will have a professional website blog for your church now or in future, you are highly advised to get the CD now. This video tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about wordpress. This video tutorial teaches you how to upload new themes, install plugins, use google analytics and many other features you cannot know or understand unless you are taught. All the 13 video tutorials go for only N3700 for pastors and ministers, it is N5500 for all others.
My bank details are as follows
Bank Name: Guarantte Trust Bank
Account Name: Sunday Joseph Adenuga
Account Number: 405 4452 001590
Make your payment and text me to specify the product paid for to receive your order within 24 hours (through a download link)
You must also know that you can install wordpress blog to your paid domain and hosting account to make life easier for you when setting up your professional website. We will ellaborate on that later.
The second way to build a free website that will give you a more professional outlook and make your website really be able to get more features is wordpress which is a better platform to have than blogger. You can get to wordpress through this link at http://wordpress.com, and it will be a very sweet experience for you to start your own very first website all for free with no string attached. I have at least three websites with wordpress, one of them is at http://successgalore.wordpress.com you may just click the link and see my own website. I have another one called http://internetchurch.wordpress.com. I encourage you to go to these sites and just see how I have done mine to help you in creating yours to make it even a better looking website than mine. Is is an easy thing to start a wordpress site with little or no guidance from anybody, but you will have to work very hard to understand the terms used and how each gadget works. This is so because it is much more complicated than the blogger platform, you need to understand this, you may need trainning and asistance to master wordpress. Go now to www.wordpress.com, then click on sign-up button, in the next window, fill in the form and submit it, follow all the instructions to open a website of your own, type in your desired website name something like www.yourchurch.wordpress.com.
Remember that creating a wordpress blog is as easy as A B C, but you have to learn the art of updating the content of your website with fresh contents like articles, pictures, audio messages, or even video recordings of your messages. You do all these from your admin panel called the dashboard as explained in the case of blogger.
I have about thirteen video tutorials that teaches in vivid terms how to set up a word press, customise it with your your graphics, use plugins, and beautiful themes that will make your website looking great and professional. If you like, I can sell the CD to you for only N3700, it sells for N5500 regularly, but to encourage you as a pastor and to contribute to your ministry I bring the price down to N3700 only. If you will have a professional website blog for your church now or in future, you are highly advised to get the CD now. This video tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about wordpress. This video tutorial teaches you how to upload new themes, install plugins, use google analytics and many other features you cannot know or understand unless you are taught. All the 13 video tutorials go for only N3700 for pastors and ministers, it is N5500 for all others.
My bank details are as follows
Bank Name: Guarantte Trust Bank
Account Name: Sunday Joseph Adenuga
Account Number: 405 4452 001590
Make your payment and text me to specify the product paid for to receive your order within 24 hours (through a download link)
You must also know that you can install wordpress blog to your paid domain and hosting account to make life easier for you when setting up your professional website. We will ellaborate on that later.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
International Dimension To Your Ministry
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Hi, my name is Sunday Joseph Adenuga, I am the Senior Pastor and Founder of The Success Dimension Church, Ibadan, Nigeria. When God called me, He gave me a mandate to teach people how to succeed in spite of any difficulties they may ever be going through in their lives. This implies that I have the mandate, the ministry and the assignment to help as many people as I can to make a success of their lives despite problems, difficulties or challenges that they may be facing at the moment.
This is a clear call, but I have a challenge, and it is this, how do I get many people around the world to hear this good news? I have the cure for people's problems but nobody knows I have the solution, how do I get people to know that I have God's word that can bring them success in the midst of their difficulties? I know that Radio and Television are a great means of blasting my beliefs and teachings to the world but they are too expensive and unaffordable for me at this initial stage of my ministry. I thought for a while and then decided to begin the production of a quarterly magazine which I distributed free of charge, but due to financial limitation at that time, I could only reach my immediate environment, but my target was the whole world.
I knew it was time to do something as fast as possible to get the message out to those going through difficult times that they too can succeed in spite of difficulties. I needed to reach the whole world with the message, to teach as many people as I can the principles God asked me to teach them that will surely help them to succeed in spite of any difficulties they may be going through in life.
At a point in time the idea of Internet Ministry came to my heart, even though I did not have a personal Internet ready computer, I could still have an Online Ministry to the people around the world by using the available cybercafes around me. Thank God I now have my own internet ready computer, if you don't have you can start the way I started - using cybercafe. I knew it would favor me, it would be able to do the following if only I can invest some little amount of money and time:
(1) Have a free website/blog to post all my teachings
(2) Another website free or paid to show the world all my ministry activities
(3) Preach on video for free and have people anywhere in the world with computer and internet access to see my video presentations and hear my messages of hope.
(4) Have an audio recordings of my sermons uploaded to my website and ready to be listened to by people around the world.
(5) Sell my stuff on the internet to earn Dollars or Naira. I can sell e-books, real books, video or audio messages on CDs and DVDs or downloadable, the opportunity is vast.
(6) And many more benefit.
With the above information, I ventured into online ministry and the story of my life have changed ever since. Right now I enjoy all the above facilities, people phone me from all over the world after hearing and seeing me preach on the internet. God have used this internet ministry in my hand to bless many people around the world, more than 5000 people have downloaded my book "Winning In Life's Battles" other books have also been given freely, and many people are sending mails to thank me for allowing God to make me a blessing to them. Many are now happy and willing to support my ministry and offerings are now coming in through foreign currencies like Dollars and Pound Sterling, praise God.
I have packaged this same product for you Pastor, Missionary, Evangelist or even Singer to help you start your very own online ministry with little or no stress. The packaged is now on CD and can be downloaded to your computer hard drive through the internet. After reading through some of these materials, you will be able to start your own website in less than ten minutes from now, begin your own audio and video internet production and like me be a blessing to your generation all around the world. No longer will distance be a barrier to reaching people all over the world. If you buy into this package now, you will be able to do the following:
1.Have a website called 'blog' where you will be able to publish your articles, audio messages and printed sermons as often as you may ever want to publish it all for free
2.Have another website where you will be able to post or send your videos, recorded messages for the viewing pleasure of the internet public, and remember that about 850 million people are actively using the internet on the daily basis
3.Show you tricks on how to get people to come visiting your website and read your blog articles which are full of your messages and beliefs.
4.Teach you how to make little money here and there with your free websites
5.Give you information on how to update your weblog and get fresh ideas published without stress.
6.Teach you how to sell your audio and video messages online, and how to collect your money in Naira and even in dollars if that is what you want.
7.Show you how to use the power of social networking website to popularize your church and your website.
8.And many more.
Ministers of God and Singers should especially go for this package, you will mail me to thank me and appreciate me for showing you this secret.
To get the downloaded version will cost you just N5700 payable to my account (see instruction below). You will be able to download this version immediately your payment is confirmed by us. If you need the CD sent to you via courier then just pay the sum of N7500 to my account and you will get the CD in 3 to 4 days of confirmation of your payment.
Pay now to Guarantee Trust Bank (any branch) to Account Name: Sunday Joseph Adenuga and Account Number: 405 445 2001 590 After payment, send by text message or e-mail your name, amount paid, e-mail address, teller number to my phone number 08054041462 or e-mail address successdimensionchurch@gmail.com
Get your copy now because this is an introductory price and will go up without notice. Invest this token amount to your ministry and reap the dividend that you will continue to enjoy to eternity.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
What Success Really Mean?
By Sunday Joseph Adenuga
There are many definitions of Success as there are many people on the face of the earth. The idea that I am trying to sell to you in this book is summarized as follows, “You too can become as successful as you ever desired.”
Success is the ability to set a goal and accomplish it in record time. The synonyms of success are achievement, accomplishment, victory, triumph, hit the target, winner, sensation, and so on. The opposite of it is failure. What one considers a success, another may see as nothing meaningful or important. For example, a man that set out to climb Mount Everest is going to consider himself a success only after climbing the highest mountain on planet earth. Failure to accomplish this feat will point out to our man that he has not succeeded yet. Though presently, he may be a millionaire, but something is lacking, a goal yet to be fulfilled, this will cause a lot of heartache until that mountain is subdued, he doesn’t see himself as a success. As long as he has not climbed the great mountain, he continues to battle, plan and re-plan so that he can eventually succeed. To me, climbing Mount Everest is nothing of value to (because my interest is in something else), but it means a lot to our man who has set a goal to conquer the greatest mountain on earth.
Success therefore is the accomplishment of a purpose (or goal) that brings fulfillment, joy and satisfaction to a man. We must remember also that what a man consider a success, another man may see as a child’s play. When I was growing up (as a youth in the secondary school), I use to consider as nun-serious those other students whose goal in life was to excel and become stars in the field of sports. Every time they went out for practice was wasted as far as I was concerned then. Little did I know that with each practice, they were getting nearer to their life’s purpose and goal; they were getting nearer to their success; they were accomplishing their life’s vision as they went out early in the morning. I remember that I always pitied them and their parents for such waste of time, now I know better.
Success is not just accumulating a lot of money (although many people consider those who are rich as successful): Many strikingly rich people actually died lonely and unfulfilled in life. Many of them have been further destroyed because of large volume of money they do not know how to manage due to lack of vision. Success brings true joy (it is not money that brings joy), I have seen many people who are not so rich who have a lot of sense of accomplishment in life. I know that a truly successful person cannot remain poor in life, but I also know that money is not the only yardstick to measure how successful any person is in this life.
Success is not a destination but an adventure that continues to get better each day as you discover more secrets of how to better achieve your set goals with ease.
Success is not luck or winning large amount of money in a lottery, neither is it a gift. Many lucky winners of such lotteries have ended up really broke and some have died most miserable and shameful death because of their inability to maintain such life of affluence that they got from winning lotteries. Friends, sudden wealth has led more people to early grave than poverty. Poverty has helped more people to be wiser and better in life than sudden wealth. In fact, sudden wealth is very dangerous and should not be sought after. Go for real success that comes out of hard work and careful planning.
Success is not an inheritance. Although some inherited wealth is enough to sustain you to a life of affluence till the day of your death. Real success builds on the inherited wealth by hard-work. You cannot afford to sit down and enjoy someone's success without any input of your own. See Proverbs 20:21.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
When you work hard your inheritance will give you more success, and it shall be blessed at the end. Inheritance can give you wealth only God can give you true success, see also Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Success is not traveling abroad. Remember that if you travel, you have to work twice as hard as you will at home to make anything of note because you are now in a foreign land. Except the Lord specifically is calling you out to do something definite and productive in raising other people's lives in the foreign land, then the whole effort of traveling may be meaningless.
That your friend has traveled abroad doesn't make him to be more successful than you. If traveling is your goal and the thing that will add to your joy and give you a sense of fulfillment in life then go for it. The only point is this when you get there, do all you can to help as many people as you possibly can.
Success is not just becoming the leader of a group, organization or nation. Many leaders are not truly successful; we’ve had leaders like Adolf Hitler in this world that killed about two million Jews, his end was shrouded in mystery.
Success is not being born to a rich family, it is the ability to bring wealth and comfort to a hitherto poor family and help poor friends.
Success is not popularity or acceptability of an individual in the society, although true success always attracts many people; most of them are ready to idolize the successful one. Such successful people always know how to manage the praise of men without allowing it to get to their head.
Success is discovering God’s goal and purpose for your life and pursuing the same until you have accomplished it to the maximum, and make a mark in that God’s chosen purpose for your life.
Success is inside you, failure is around you. God is Success and He is in you so says the Bible, see 1John 4:4. Satan is outside you and he is author of failure, look inward and you will discover success. Success is in you, don't look elsewhere.
Success is the ability to exhaust your entire God given talents and gifts to make this world a better place than you met it. We are talking here about the real meaning of success, it is the ability to put smiles on the faces of those whose lives touch yours; it is the ability to make men (and women) better than you met them. No matter how rich you are, if you make people bitter instead of better than you met them, then with all your money, you are a big failure.
A successful life is that which leaves others with a desire to do something worthwhile with their own lives too. I assert again that success is beyond the accumulation of wealth; it is the ability to raise up many other successful men. It is the ability to produce many other millionaires. The success of Moses became established as he was able to produce a Joshua (a successor), Elijah produced an Elisha. Jesus, the greatest success that ever happened to mankind has raised us up as successful disciples of His. We are destined by His word to tread upon serpents and scorpions; we are the ones that will put the devil to shame in these last days. Jesus Christ is alive through us in this generation; we are the miracle workers; and we are called to do those things that He Himself had done when He was here on the earth. See John 14: 12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do: because I go to my father.
The greater work or success your successor makes, the greater your success. When your successor cannot do greater works than you, then your success is not everlasting. A success without a successor is a failure in disguise. Are you surprised at that statement? If you succeed beyond measure, and have billions of dollars, when you die, except you have a good successor, all those wealth will be squandered and wasted. If you want to know how successful Jesus was, look around you, every Christian you see is a testimony to the success of Jesus. What? Jesus who neither bought a land, nor build a house, nor own a car. He didn’t even own a donkey not to talk of owning a fast horse, yet he is the greatest man that ever lived. Why is this so? Because he has millions of successors, those who carry on His God given purpose on earth. The purpose of destroying the works of the devil in the lives of innocent people who are bound by the forces of evil. This wonderful Jesus did not get married, produced no biological children, yet have turned many sons of men to become sons of God. We are changed from ordinary mortal to supernatural beings, we are giving to have the very life of God, we are translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God and now the kingdom of God is within us. What a great success Jesus is.
To be the president of U.S or Nigeria is a success, but you see that is just the beginning of the show of success. Performing your duties in such a way that many people’s lives will be better because you are president is the REAL SUCCESS that we are talking about in this article.
There are many definitions of Success as there are many people on the face of the earth. The idea that I am trying to sell to you in this book is summarized as follows, “You too can become as successful as you ever desired.”
Success is the ability to set a goal and accomplish it in record time. The synonyms of success are achievement, accomplishment, victory, triumph, hit the target, winner, sensation, and so on. The opposite of it is failure. What one considers a success, another may see as nothing meaningful or important. For example, a man that set out to climb Mount Everest is going to consider himself a success only after climbing the highest mountain on planet earth. Failure to accomplish this feat will point out to our man that he has not succeeded yet. Though presently, he may be a millionaire, but something is lacking, a goal yet to be fulfilled, this will cause a lot of heartache until that mountain is subdued, he doesn’t see himself as a success. As long as he has not climbed the great mountain, he continues to battle, plan and re-plan so that he can eventually succeed. To me, climbing Mount Everest is nothing of value to (because my interest is in something else), but it means a lot to our man who has set a goal to conquer the greatest mountain on earth.
Success therefore is the accomplishment of a purpose (or goal) that brings fulfillment, joy and satisfaction to a man. We must remember also that what a man consider a success, another man may see as a child’s play. When I was growing up (as a youth in the secondary school), I use to consider as nun-serious those other students whose goal in life was to excel and become stars in the field of sports. Every time they went out for practice was wasted as far as I was concerned then. Little did I know that with each practice, they were getting nearer to their life’s purpose and goal; they were getting nearer to their success; they were accomplishing their life’s vision as they went out early in the morning. I remember that I always pitied them and their parents for such waste of time, now I know better.
Success is not just accumulating a lot of money (although many people consider those who are rich as successful): Many strikingly rich people actually died lonely and unfulfilled in life. Many of them have been further destroyed because of large volume of money they do not know how to manage due to lack of vision. Success brings true joy (it is not money that brings joy), I have seen many people who are not so rich who have a lot of sense of accomplishment in life. I know that a truly successful person cannot remain poor in life, but I also know that money is not the only yardstick to measure how successful any person is in this life.
Success is not a destination but an adventure that continues to get better each day as you discover more secrets of how to better achieve your set goals with ease.
Success is not luck or winning large amount of money in a lottery, neither is it a gift. Many lucky winners of such lotteries have ended up really broke and some have died most miserable and shameful death because of their inability to maintain such life of affluence that they got from winning lotteries. Friends, sudden wealth has led more people to early grave than poverty. Poverty has helped more people to be wiser and better in life than sudden wealth. In fact, sudden wealth is very dangerous and should not be sought after. Go for real success that comes out of hard work and careful planning.
Success is not an inheritance. Although some inherited wealth is enough to sustain you to a life of affluence till the day of your death. Real success builds on the inherited wealth by hard-work. You cannot afford to sit down and enjoy someone's success without any input of your own. See Proverbs 20:21.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
When you work hard your inheritance will give you more success, and it shall be blessed at the end. Inheritance can give you wealth only God can give you true success, see also Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Success is not traveling abroad. Remember that if you travel, you have to work twice as hard as you will at home to make anything of note because you are now in a foreign land. Except the Lord specifically is calling you out to do something definite and productive in raising other people's lives in the foreign land, then the whole effort of traveling may be meaningless.
That your friend has traveled abroad doesn't make him to be more successful than you. If traveling is your goal and the thing that will add to your joy and give you a sense of fulfillment in life then go for it. The only point is this when you get there, do all you can to help as many people as you possibly can.
Success is not just becoming the leader of a group, organization or nation. Many leaders are not truly successful; we’ve had leaders like Adolf Hitler in this world that killed about two million Jews, his end was shrouded in mystery.
Success is not being born to a rich family, it is the ability to bring wealth and comfort to a hitherto poor family and help poor friends.
Success is not popularity or acceptability of an individual in the society, although true success always attracts many people; most of them are ready to idolize the successful one. Such successful people always know how to manage the praise of men without allowing it to get to their head.
Success is discovering God’s goal and purpose for your life and pursuing the same until you have accomplished it to the maximum, and make a mark in that God’s chosen purpose for your life.
Success is inside you, failure is around you. God is Success and He is in you so says the Bible, see 1John 4:4. Satan is outside you and he is author of failure, look inward and you will discover success. Success is in you, don't look elsewhere.
Success is the ability to exhaust your entire God given talents and gifts to make this world a better place than you met it. We are talking here about the real meaning of success, it is the ability to put smiles on the faces of those whose lives touch yours; it is the ability to make men (and women) better than you met them. No matter how rich you are, if you make people bitter instead of better than you met them, then with all your money, you are a big failure.
A successful life is that which leaves others with a desire to do something worthwhile with their own lives too. I assert again that success is beyond the accumulation of wealth; it is the ability to raise up many other successful men. It is the ability to produce many other millionaires. The success of Moses became established as he was able to produce a Joshua (a successor), Elijah produced an Elisha. Jesus, the greatest success that ever happened to mankind has raised us up as successful disciples of His. We are destined by His word to tread upon serpents and scorpions; we are the ones that will put the devil to shame in these last days. Jesus Christ is alive through us in this generation; we are the miracle workers; and we are called to do those things that He Himself had done when He was here on the earth. See John 14: 12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do: because I go to my father.
The greater work or success your successor makes, the greater your success. When your successor cannot do greater works than you, then your success is not everlasting. A success without a successor is a failure in disguise. Are you surprised at that statement? If you succeed beyond measure, and have billions of dollars, when you die, except you have a good successor, all those wealth will be squandered and wasted. If you want to know how successful Jesus was, look around you, every Christian you see is a testimony to the success of Jesus. What? Jesus who neither bought a land, nor build a house, nor own a car. He didn’t even own a donkey not to talk of owning a fast horse, yet he is the greatest man that ever lived. Why is this so? Because he has millions of successors, those who carry on His God given purpose on earth. The purpose of destroying the works of the devil in the lives of innocent people who are bound by the forces of evil. This wonderful Jesus did not get married, produced no biological children, yet have turned many sons of men to become sons of God. We are changed from ordinary mortal to supernatural beings, we are giving to have the very life of God, we are translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God and now the kingdom of God is within us. What a great success Jesus is.
To be the president of U.S or Nigeria is a success, but you see that is just the beginning of the show of success. Performing your duties in such a way that many people’s lives will be better because you are president is the REAL SUCCESS that we are talking about in this article.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Internet For Pastors
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Pastors and Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ must know about internet, modern technology must be used to propagate the Gospel of love which our Lord and Master Jesus Christ came to promote on planet earth. I want to highlight through this write-up the importance of internet and how pastors can use it to enhance their ministries and propagate the gospel of the Lord.
Internet is the network of computers all over the world with the purpose of sharing information and data. It is not evil neither is it the instrument of the anti-Christ as some erroneously believe.
Internet is the linking together of your own computer through broadband or dial up phone lines to other computers around the world to access data by benefiting from the information already in the world database. Internet is nothing but sharing ideas and information, communicating and socializing.
Internet helps people to communicate with each other in split seconds through e-mails internet phone, chatting, webinars, and even fax. It helps us to learn from experts in the comfort of our homes through uploaded data, we can also help others by uploading our own data to the internet and have people download free or for a fee for their own benefit. Internet is a blessing to everyone involved in it, if they do it as it should be done.
Important Aspects of the Internet
We are able to use e-mails addresses because of the emergence of the internet, e-mail is cheap and affordable to all and sundry, its as easy as ABC to set up. You can get free e-mail address within two to five minutes from now. The following organizations can give you free e-mail
Yahoo
Msn/hotmail
Googlemail
Aol
and so on
These organizations have free as well as paid version, beginners are ok with free version. Pastors need to have e-mails addresses as this will be very helpful in their online ministries. It is very needful for pastors to communicate with member and prospective members through e-mails because of the advancement of technology, the church must rise up to the challenges of technological advancement.
Ministering online is now becoming a very easy thing to do to get convert to the body of Christ. Are you a pastor with a desire to start an online ministry, come, let me help you to a good start in online ministry, go now to http://pastor.motivation4today.com/pastor.html and see how to go about it.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The God Factor In Success
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God is a God of success. If you read the Bible from Genesis 1: 1-2, you will see the success of God from the very beginning.
In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light: and there was light.
In the beginning, when God created the heaven and the earth, three things happened: number one, the earth became formless; number two, the earth became void; and number three, darkness covered the earth. It was a period of confusion, but God was not confused, neither was He disturbed: He only spoke and success followed. A good look at the universe will convince you that God is a big success. Yes, He is a super success. No matter from which perspective you look and consider what success really is, God is really the biggest success. He is rich, and everything is in super abundance in the universe. Lets consider the riches of God in this our universe; as we do this you will observe with awe His wisdom, power and orderliness.
This earth contains about seven continents; they are Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. Each of these continents is a very large mass of land containing different types of living and non-living things, many countries and nations are in these continents. Apart from Antarctica (which is another mystery on earth), all other continents house millions of people of different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. Apart from these, there are many islands that stands alone and do not belong to any continent. Many rivers, seas and oceans surround the earth, mountains, vegetations, and a lot of natural resources are hidden in the depth of the earth. All these were created by the Almighty God and belong to God. Psalm 24: 1. The resources on earth cannot be fully comprehended; they are beyond the comprehension of any single human being no matter how brilliant he may be. Beyond the earth, we have the moon; the moon orbits the earth and revolves round it. Few people have traveled to the moon, the discovery of those men reveals that the moon is not habitable by any living being and besides the gravity of earth is different from that of the moon.
Now our earth and moon belongs to a solar system, this consist of the sun and nine planets, this earth is just one of them. There are some planets in this solar system that are far bigger than the earth in as much as one thousand times. Some planets have about eighteen moons orbiting them; and you know what? None of these planets can support any type of life apart from our planet, earth. Scientists have sent space probes to many of these planets and found out that the conditions in all these planets cannot support plant or animal life. Water does not exist in liquid form in many of these planets; some are extremely hot while some are extremely cold. The earth is the only planet found to be conducive to support plant and animal life. Another interesting thing I want you to know is the existence of asteroid belt. Containing many asteroids. Our solar system is very big; the size of it is beyond human imagination. Now when I first learnt of this I was dumbfounded, what is it? That the sun of our solar system is just a star, it belongs to a galaxy of stars called the ‘milky way’. This galaxy have about one hundred billion stars and our sun is just one of them. Do you know that this our sun even though it is a million times bigger than the earth, it is not considered as one of the big stars in the milky way galaxy. Another thing is that some of those stars may also have their own solar systems with planets orbiting them. Scientists even claimed that some stars have been discovered to have one or two planets orbiting them and that many other stars may have more than nine planets in their solar systems.
Are you following me with understanding? This is God’s creation, how big, how vast? That is not all; the Milky Way is not the only galaxy of stars in the universe, there are about one hundred billion observable galaxy of stars, and each of these galaxies also have about one hundred billion stars. WOW! Can you do the mathematics? Find out in one minute the number of stars there is in the universe, (that’s just a joke anyway). The truth is that God’s creation is so vast, so rich, there is an abundance of all things, and you can’t know everything God has created. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 8: 17
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
The above passage is referring to the work of God under the sun, which means this earth where we live. He is not even talking about the universe; this earth is too small when we consider the whole universe, yet no man can understand all of God’s works on this earth. The Bible also talking about God’s work says in Job5: 9
“which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number.
Yes, nobody can number all his works; you can’t count and number all the fish we have in the rivers, seas and oceans; you can’t count and number all the houseflies in all this earth; neither can you count and number all the stars in the universe. Can you see how awesome and amazing God’s work and creation is? Nobody can imagine in totality the wealth and the riches of God. Assuming we have one hundred billion galaxies of stars and each galaxy contains one hundred billion stars, how many stars do we have altogether? The answer is one hundred billion times one hundred billion that equal a number represented by 1022. Do you know the name of that number? Please send the information to me if you know it.
Friend, do you want good success? God is the Maker and Giver of success. God gives whomsoever He loves, and the good news is that He loves you. God is a God of order and details, the God who abhors waste.
Why did He create so many uncountable stars? Of what use are they? You and I may not know but there are reasons. I love God, I respect His wisdom. If you want real and lasting success, the best place to look is unto God, look unto Him and you will never be disappointed.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
The Wonders of Belief or Faith
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“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever BELIEVES in HIM should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3: 16.
What is in ‘believing’ Jesus that makes it very important? Why is God’s only demand that simple? In another place the Bible says that, “whosoever believeth in Him shall not be put to shame.” In fact Christians are called believers because, in all the Gospel of Jesus Christ, this word seem to be the strongest. When Jesus was commissioning the disciples, in the book of Mark 16:15-17, we read,
“ Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that BELIEVETH and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be. And these signs shall follow them that BELIEVE: In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak in tongues…”
The emphasis in the above passage as in all scripture is believe, the signs shall follow those who believe. These signs are the manifestation of the power of GOD; the power will come upon, and follow only those who believe. Many times, if not in all cases, the only requirement of Jesus from those seeking healing was this, “only believe”. He was always quoted as saying, “be not afraid, only believe”, or “weep no more”; this was said to the widow whose only son just died. And in another situation He said, “If thou canst believe thou shall see the glory of God”.
What is in believing that makes it so thick?
When everybody was pressing hard on Jesus, nothing happened to any of them, but a woman came with faith or believe, that if she could only touch the tip or helm of His cloth, she would be healed. This simple act of believe brought her healing from the Master Healer, the Lord of the universe, Jesus Christ the Anointed One. The force of this faith or believe drew out this virtue or power from the Lord. Many people fast and pray but could not get the job done, but when there is a heartfelt believe or faith, the miracle is always on the scene. Why is ‘believing’ so important? We read in Mark 11: 23,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he says.
The Holy Spirit opened my understanding to know that the art of believing is the major difference between a successful man and a failure. Faith is the only difference between somebody who receives answer to his prayers and the one who do not. This same faith in God is the only difference between a saint and a sinner. Do you know that nobody will go to hell because of sins like adultery, stealing, killing, etc? People will go to hell because they have refused to believe the son of God, they refuse to believe the testimony of God that have enough power to liberate them from the power of such sins like adultery, stealing, killing, etc.
Please understand this today, it will help you, faith is a very deep and important concept of life. Believing touches the very heart of man, which is the core or center of man; faith is very spiritual, and we are spirit beings. Friend, the only avenue by which we can browse the spiritual realm is through our faith.
Faith in something has a far-reaching effect on man that last beyond this material time and realm. Have you ever seen or heard of a notorious man, maybe an armed robber, or a hard drug addict who gave his life to Jesus Christ? You see the change; it’s so obvious; that change came about because of simple faith in Jesus; that faith has changed his life and destiny. The reason is very simple to understand, you see, the faith touches his heart; your heart is your spirit, your spirit is the real you. Anything that has the power to change the real you can change everything around you: and that thing is faith. Faith flows out from your heart, your spirit and it is capable of changing everything around you called your circumstances.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
How To Put Your Ministry Online
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I ca help you now to put your ministry online free of charge. You will need to buy my training kit for only N3000 to N4500 only, (equivalent of $37). You will also have to pay for your internet connection either through a service provider or through the cybercafe near you. Apart from these, you will operate a very successful online ministry from anywhere in the world and about 800 million people around the world will have access to your website where you will preach on video for free and where your audio messages will be easily heard. Copies of your written messages, pictures of your services can all be posted to the world wide web for all to see. Donations can be made to your ministry from anybody across the globe.
What you stand to benefit from taking your ministry to the next level by buying into this materials specially packaged for you to succeed online is far more valuable than the fees I am charging you. With only N3000 for downloaded version or N4500 for CD version which will be sent by courier service, you can become the proud operator of an online ministry where people from all cultures can get help through you. This is the vision of every true man of God to be a blessing to countless number of people. If you are like me, I am more excited by the knowledge that I have helped somebody succeed than by the knowledge of a fatter bank account. This is the reason why I have kept the price of this material so low, yes its so low compared to its value of everlasting blessing to you and your ministry.
Check the valuable materials included in this ministry package
1.A copy of webpage maker (with the verification number, you use this number to validate that you have actually bought it and paid, since I have paid, you do not need to pay for it again, just copy the number correctly and put it in the appropriate place and you will have the right to use this software forever). Failure to put this number will only mean that you can use it for free for only 30 days, and I think you may need it for many years to come.
2.A copy of “My Blog Starter.pdf” this e-book will teach you how to start your own website with blogger please read it and digest the information. You can even create your own website as you study the e-book because it is a safe guide.
3.A copy of pastors e-book which gives the details of the information product which you have purchased. And this is the one you should read first, it is the main product which you paid for, the others are bonuses, and I hope you will find them useful.
4.As an additional bonus, I also include a copy of how to get your website indexed fast by the search engine, if you follow the ideas in this e-book, your website will become very popular on the internet fast.
5.A copy of AdSense Book that will show you the ins and outs of how to use your new website to suck in money fast for you like a vacuum cleaner. This system will enable you to preach and get money at the same time. What an advantage you must not miss.
Make sure these items are all included or else contact me immediately for another package that will contain all the packages mentioned above.
My contact e-mail is successdimensionchurch@gmail.com while my phone number is 08054041462. I will be very glad to answer your concerns about this issue.
Putting Your Ministry Online
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Having an internet presence or address is not as difficult or as expensive as many people make us to believe. Infact you can start your own website now with no capital investment other than the cost of browsing the internet. This is true, there are so many organizations out there that can give you the priviledge of having your own domain attached to theirs for free. They are also ready to give you hosting rights whereby you can publish your articles, audio messages, even video messages on the internet all for free. In this e-book, my intension is to teach you how to get your website called blog up and running in the next thirty minutes after reading this report. Or create a traditional website with a free domain and hosting.
Yes, that is true, in less than thirty minutes of reading this report (which you can purchase today for only N3000 or $37), your weblog will be up and running, published by you and completed by you right now in the comfort of your own house if you have your own internet connection at home, if not just stroll into any of these internet cybercafe's to get the job done. The beauty of this is that, you can post your articles and messages at any time with little effort and it will instantly be available for the more than 850 million internet users all over the world.
The trick of getting people to come reading your weblog articles will also be revealed in this course, so you are fully prepared for the assignment ahead of time. Let me tell you the story of how I became convinced that any pastor can get his ministry noticed through what I am teaching here.
One day a man called me from Spain and told me he had just finished listening to my message on the internet titled, “Impossibility Doesnt Exist” he was so excited he couldnt keep it he had to phone me, and we've been friends ever since. God has used me to bless him tremendously through my internet ministry. Who knows how many people you will ever touch if you begin an internet ministry today, it does not take time, maybe just about thirty minutes to two hours or more a week will make your website looking great and updated. I personally spend about two to three hours on the internet everyday excluding Sundays. You are in charge, you get to choose the number of hours you can afford to spend in other to make your internet ministry a worthwhile experience and blessing to multiple number of people.
You may want to ask why I am so passionate about getting many pastors to start an internet ministry, its so simple, internet has the power of getting to more people all over the world with little or no cost at all, and can influence both the young and the old. One thing I found is that internet pornographic pictures and films have given a lot of bad influence to our young ones, and it is high time we pastors do something about it if we must rescue the coming generations of youth. I have my own internet ministry up and running, if yours is included and many other pastors', we will simply dominate the internet world and that means we are dominating the future of the youth of this world. We are therefore dominating the internet air waves with the message of the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
The injunction of the master is that we go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, when our Lord said that, little did we understand that he was referring to this age where we will be able to reach millions of people with just one click of the mouse of a computer. These days, the best way to obey this injunction is to keep an internet ministry, stop believing that internet is an instrument of the devil, he is not a creator but an imitator, the wisdom of internet creation came from God and not the devil. The truth is that the devil knows how to hijack a good program created by God, turn it around to mess God's creation, to this challenge I want you to arise with me to battle the devil, use this powerful tool called the internet to preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to all the world.
I was influenced into internet related matters by Dr. Sunny Obazu Ojeagbese when I attended the demystifying the internet IV organised by Success Attitude Develoment Centre, Okota, Lagos, it was a complete one week of eye opening and powerful experience of this tool called the internet. Most of the things I do on the internet were a direct impartation of God through this man and a dear lady whose name is Iyabo Oyawale, she is my internet coach, God bless her heart. You can be very sure that what I am going to show you was learnt from the best internet brains in Nigeria.
The Best Online Resourses For Pastors
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My name is Pastor Adenuga Sunday Joseph, I am the Pastor and Founder of Success Dimension Church, Ibadan, Nigeria. I have been in the ministry as a full time Pastor since the year 2006, my church was put on the web for free in the year 2008. In this report, I want to show you how to put your church and your ministry on the internet for free. You can do it whether you have a personal computer or not, if you don't have, you can use the cybercafe. Without mincing words, you will be able to put your church into the world wide web and do the following: -
1. Have a website called 'blog' where you will be able to publish your articles, audio messages and printed sermons as often as you may ever want to publish it all for free
2. Have another website where you will be able to post or send your videos, recorded audio messages for the viewing pleasure of the internet public, and remember that about 850 million people are actively using the internet on the daily basis
3. Show you tricks on how to get people to come visiting your website and read your blog articles which are full of your messages and beliefs.
4. Teach you how to make little money here and there with your free websites
5. Give you information on how to update your weblog and get fresh ideas published without stress.
6. Teach you how to sell your audio and video messages online, and how to collect your money in Naira and even in dollars if that is what you want.
7. Show you how to use the power of social networking website to popularize your church and your website.
8. And many more.
When I first learnt about this, I first created for free the website named www.successgalore.co.cc, it was such a joy in my heart to have the freedom and the flexibitlity of writing my messages into various articles and publishing them whenever I choose. The joy is that ones these articles were written and posted to my blog, it became instantly available on the web all over the world for the reading pleasure of anyone who finds it. The good part is that people can even make their comments, ask questions and make their own personal contributions as they read your blog.
One day a man called me from Spain and told me he had just finished listening to my message on the internet titled, “Impossibility Doesnt Exist” he was so excited he couldnt keep it he had to phone me, and we've been friends ever since. God has used me to bless him tremendously through my internet ministry. Who knows how many people you will ever touch if you begin an internet ministry today, it does not take time, maybe just about thirty minutes to two hours or more a week will make your website looking great and updated. I personally spend about two to three hours on the internet everyday excluding Sundays. You are in charge, you get to choose the number of hours you can afford to spend in other to make your internet ministry a worthwhile experience and blessing to multiple number of people.
If you are into any type of ministry, full time or part time, this will help you, because Internet Ministry is not only for General Overseers. As an Evangelist, or prophet, or even a music minister, drama minister or a deacon , if you have a message you want the world to hear or an announcement that will compliment the effort of your church, then this material is for you.
You will learn the following:
* The ABC's of how to start your own online ministry
* Set up a full fledged international ministry through the internet
* Have your own or ministry free websites and or blogs
* Preach for free on the internet to millions of people around the world
* Make money while you preach for free on the internet
* Sell your ministry materials online (internet) and collect your money in dollars or in naira.
* Register with a reliable payment processor in Nigeria for free
* A free application/program with which you can create your own website by yourself within 30 minutes (worth N7500)
* Get a free life-time mentor-ship and advice on how to run your online ministry
* Receive free weekly newsletter and free monthly e-books on how to improve on your online ministry and rake in more money (worth N10000)
* You can use the cybercafe to do all these without sweat
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Failure Is Not Final
By Sunday Joseph Adenuga
The Choice is yours
Let’s see what the bible says in Deuteronomy 30:15,19
“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; …
I call heaven and earth to record third day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, that both thou and thy seed may live”
One of the keys to success on planet earth is to believe very strongly the title of this book, that is, God is not partial. From the above passage of scripture, we gather that God has set before every man and woman two things; they are on one hand life, good and blessing, on the other hand, death, evil and cursing. God will not choose for you, neither will He decide for me, nor act for me the best He could do is what He had done and that is His counsel. God said, you have a choice between success and failure, but I advise you, choose success. In every department of life, we are faced with the very same decision, we are the decision makers of our destinies, we determine what we will have and the level we will be in life, even to the point of how long we will live. This does not mean that you wake up and decide that I will live for as long as ninety years, no, the decisions are made everyday, the food you eat, how you use your body etc. are your daily decisions that ultimately affects how long you will live on earth.
The decision to be rich is also reflected in your daily decisions, sleeping twelve hours a day certainly will bring you poverty, decision not to work hard, the decision not to safe and to spend all your money are made daily and these goes to affect how wealthy or poor you will ever be on the surface of the earth. One of the best points of our humanity is the free gift of choice. Not even the Almighty God can dare change the decision you make in life. So, you see, God is not partial.
Please understand this, you are where you are today because of the cumulative decisions you have made in the past. You see, I married my wife; God did not force me to. Thank God, we are blessed with children. If I had decided to marry someone else, and we had children, those children would be different from my present children because in that case my gene will be combining with another woman’s, producing a different result entirely. My decision to marry Bisi Shodeinde has brought about a whole new and different destiny for both of us. If I had married another woman, my destiny could not have been what it is now; it might be better or worse.
Do you understand what I am saying? I was called to the full time ministry; I decided for it, God did not force me to do it. You see; if I had decided not to go into the ministry, my destiny would be different from what it is now.
Let me make it clearer, in the year 1984, I got admission to study Mathematics Education in the University of Lagos: four years later I became a trained mathematics teacher. On the other hand if I had decided to read law and entered for law in 1984, I would have graduated as a lawyer and my whole life and destiny could have charted another course, I would have become another person. Becoming a lawyer would give me different approach to life and certainly today, who I would have been only God knows.
Your decisions make you or mar you. Stop blaming God for your misfortune, but blame your self. God is not partial; God loves you as well as He loves any mortal being no matter how great that human maybe. Say it out loud; “God loves me”.
So you see my dear reader, the choice is yours. The ball is in your court; the destiny of the ball (in the court) depends entirely on you.
You Have Power of Choice
You have a part to play in actualizing the plan of God for your life. It is the will of God for you to prosper and be in heath III John 2. The bible says that God is not willing that anybody should perish but that all should come to repentance II Pet. 3:9. From this passage of scripture, we gather that it is not the will of God for anybody to perish. But it is very certain that people are perishing in sin, it follows that the will of God is not been carried out. God’s will is that all should be saved and that nobody should perish, but that is evidently not happening?
Why is God’s will not fulfilled? It is because people are given the power of choice here on earth and both God and the devil respects the decision of human beings. If God’s will is for you to be greatly blessed and physically powerful and you decide otherwise, God cannot and will not enforce His will on you. On the other hand, if you are bound by poverty and ill health, and you get hold on the word of God, and you decide with all your heart to part with poverty and sickness, you will win. That is the way God design for man to live on earth, by the power of our heartfelt decision.
If you are born in a poverty-stricken environment and you decide to call it quit with poverty, so be it, you are out of poverty zone. Your strong determination takes you out of that dreadful zone of lack and never enough.
What’s on Your Mind?
Fix it now in your mind, how you want to live, the type of house you desire to live in, the type of car you want to cruise in, the caliber of people you want to move with, the type of dress you desire, the type and quality of food you want on your table. All these must be decided and settled in your mind, it must be with a mindset that is ready to do anything good and legal to achieve your aim. This decision becomes your goal; it becomes an obsession, a driving force that represents your very essence of being. Someone who has decided that he would be one of the very best doctors in his country cannot live like everybody, your decision will spell out the type of life you are expected to live on earth. Can you imagine a student who strongly desires to pass out of the secondary school with excellent result playing and wasting time like all other students? You cannot live like others if you must achieve your aim in life. Can you see now that God is not partial? He wants you to succeed but He will not force you. Have you ever seen somebody that everybody considers a failure? He comes on strongly, springing surprises here and there, beating the imagination of all and sundry and coming up to become a star in the family? You too can pull the tricks. May the Lord help you to be all that He has destined you to be in Jesus name?
Failure is Never Final
Failure needs not be final; in fact, failure is success under construction. That you failed in an attempt does not mean you will never make it. God is a loving and impartial God, anybody who persists in what he or she is doing will always get a strong backing from heaven. All over the bible, we read the stories of men who failed in their initial attempt but came back strongly to become highly successful. Failure in any endeavor adds to the experience of life, it adds to wisdom and if properly managed increases your confidence.
You should never be afraid of failure, believe it with all your heart that you cannot fail and will never fail. Even if you do, it is a mistake and as somebody said, “it is not bad to make a mistake, but it is too bad to repeat the same mistake”. If you fail, try another method and continue until you succeed. You have what it takes to succeed, give it and your success will appear for all to see.
The Choice is yours
Let’s see what the bible says in Deuteronomy 30:15,19
“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; …
I call heaven and earth to record third day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, that both thou and thy seed may live”
One of the keys to success on planet earth is to believe very strongly the title of this book, that is, God is not partial. From the above passage of scripture, we gather that God has set before every man and woman two things; they are on one hand life, good and blessing, on the other hand, death, evil and cursing. God will not choose for you, neither will He decide for me, nor act for me the best He could do is what He had done and that is His counsel. God said, you have a choice between success and failure, but I advise you, choose success. In every department of life, we are faced with the very same decision, we are the decision makers of our destinies, we determine what we will have and the level we will be in life, even to the point of how long we will live. This does not mean that you wake up and decide that I will live for as long as ninety years, no, the decisions are made everyday, the food you eat, how you use your body etc. are your daily decisions that ultimately affects how long you will live on earth.
The decision to be rich is also reflected in your daily decisions, sleeping twelve hours a day certainly will bring you poverty, decision not to work hard, the decision not to safe and to spend all your money are made daily and these goes to affect how wealthy or poor you will ever be on the surface of the earth. One of the best points of our humanity is the free gift of choice. Not even the Almighty God can dare change the decision you make in life. So, you see, God is not partial.
Please understand this, you are where you are today because of the cumulative decisions you have made in the past. You see, I married my wife; God did not force me to. Thank God, we are blessed with children. If I had decided to marry someone else, and we had children, those children would be different from my present children because in that case my gene will be combining with another woman’s, producing a different result entirely. My decision to marry Bisi Shodeinde has brought about a whole new and different destiny for both of us. If I had married another woman, my destiny could not have been what it is now; it might be better or worse.
Do you understand what I am saying? I was called to the full time ministry; I decided for it, God did not force me to do it. You see; if I had decided not to go into the ministry, my destiny would be different from what it is now.
Let me make it clearer, in the year 1984, I got admission to study Mathematics Education in the University of Lagos: four years later I became a trained mathematics teacher. On the other hand if I had decided to read law and entered for law in 1984, I would have graduated as a lawyer and my whole life and destiny could have charted another course, I would have become another person. Becoming a lawyer would give me different approach to life and certainly today, who I would have been only God knows.
Your decisions make you or mar you. Stop blaming God for your misfortune, but blame your self. God is not partial; God loves you as well as He loves any mortal being no matter how great that human maybe. Say it out loud; “God loves me”.
So you see my dear reader, the choice is yours. The ball is in your court; the destiny of the ball (in the court) depends entirely on you.
You Have Power of Choice
You have a part to play in actualizing the plan of God for your life. It is the will of God for you to prosper and be in heath III John 2. The bible says that God is not willing that anybody should perish but that all should come to repentance II Pet. 3:9. From this passage of scripture, we gather that it is not the will of God for anybody to perish. But it is very certain that people are perishing in sin, it follows that the will of God is not been carried out. God’s will is that all should be saved and that nobody should perish, but that is evidently not happening?
Why is God’s will not fulfilled? It is because people are given the power of choice here on earth and both God and the devil respects the decision of human beings. If God’s will is for you to be greatly blessed and physically powerful and you decide otherwise, God cannot and will not enforce His will on you. On the other hand, if you are bound by poverty and ill health, and you get hold on the word of God, and you decide with all your heart to part with poverty and sickness, you will win. That is the way God design for man to live on earth, by the power of our heartfelt decision.
If you are born in a poverty-stricken environment and you decide to call it quit with poverty, so be it, you are out of poverty zone. Your strong determination takes you out of that dreadful zone of lack and never enough.
What’s on Your Mind?
Fix it now in your mind, how you want to live, the type of house you desire to live in, the type of car you want to cruise in, the caliber of people you want to move with, the type of dress you desire, the type and quality of food you want on your table. All these must be decided and settled in your mind, it must be with a mindset that is ready to do anything good and legal to achieve your aim. This decision becomes your goal; it becomes an obsession, a driving force that represents your very essence of being. Someone who has decided that he would be one of the very best doctors in his country cannot live like everybody, your decision will spell out the type of life you are expected to live on earth. Can you imagine a student who strongly desires to pass out of the secondary school with excellent result playing and wasting time like all other students? You cannot live like others if you must achieve your aim in life. Can you see now that God is not partial? He wants you to succeed but He will not force you. Have you ever seen somebody that everybody considers a failure? He comes on strongly, springing surprises here and there, beating the imagination of all and sundry and coming up to become a star in the family? You too can pull the tricks. May the Lord help you to be all that He has destined you to be in Jesus name?
Failure is Never Final
Failure needs not be final; in fact, failure is success under construction. That you failed in an attempt does not mean you will never make it. God is a loving and impartial God, anybody who persists in what he or she is doing will always get a strong backing from heaven. All over the bible, we read the stories of men who failed in their initial attempt but came back strongly to become highly successful. Failure in any endeavor adds to the experience of life, it adds to wisdom and if properly managed increases your confidence.
You should never be afraid of failure, believe it with all your heart that you cannot fail and will never fail. Even if you do, it is a mistake and as somebody said, “it is not bad to make a mistake, but it is too bad to repeat the same mistake”. If you fail, try another method and continue until you succeed. You have what it takes to succeed, give it and your success will appear for all to see.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Magic or Miracle
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Miracle is different from magic because magic employs the use of the mind, hallucinations and illusions, you can study and learn the art of magic. Magic follows a certain pattern of occurrence but miracle does not. Nobody can study or fully understand how a miracle happens, when it will happen and the pattern it will take. This is so because the miracle of healing one blind man may be very different from how it will occur in healing another blind man in the same venue of occurrence.
You can understand the workings of magic but nobody can understand the workings of a true miracle. This is true because God Himself alone is the One that works miracles, but magic is worked by man, it is a science and as I mentioned earlier, anyone can learn to become a magician.
Bible examples of miracles
If you read 11Kings 4: 1-7, you will learn about the story of a widow woman whose husband, the breadwinner died untimely and was heavily indebted to her husband's creditors who threatened to take away her sons, the collaterals that were used in obtaining the loans. This woman cried to the man of God, Elisha who performed the miracle of multiplication of oil. This was a miracle no science of this day can explained, it was supernatural, and you can't beat that.
Jesus attended a wedding at Cana of Galilee, the wine got finished, they needed a miracle fast, and the story is in John 2: 3-11. The miracle of all miracles happened when Jesus Christ the son of the Living God turned water into wine before their very eyes, can you beat that?
11Kings 6:25-30, 7:1, 2, 16-20. We read here the situation in Samaria when there was a very severe famine or inflation, it was difficult to survive, and people were already killing their children and eating them as food because of the severity of the lack in the entire nation. Suddenly the man of God, Elisha declared that, "by this time of tomorrow, there shall be surplus in the land, people thought that he was crazy, but it happened because God Himself was the One involved in working that miracle.
The Bible is full of occurrences of miracles, read your Bible and see God in action. I have experienced many miracles, God have used me many times to perform unimaginable miracles. God have used me, by merely asking me to speak words of authority into some situations and I have seen God work His wonders. I have seen so many barren women conceive and gave birth to children, my friend, miracles are real, they still occur. You can witness a miracle in your life too; the starting point is to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. It is as simple as that.
Importance of miracles:
Miracles are very important to accomplish God's work in this world to convince the gainsayers and those in doubt that God is real. Some will not believe if they do not see miracles. Miracle can deliver to your hand what you may have been struggling to achieve for many years without success. Miracle is a sign that God is with us, it is very important to silence the onslaught of the devil or enemies; it keeps their mouths shut because it is a stamp of God's approval upon our lives.
How to enjoy the flow of the miraculous:
* Note that miracles happens in the atmosphere of worship, to experience miracles, you must cultivate the habit of constantly worshiping the Lord in your church and in your privacy.
* Loving the Lord with all your heart causes a wave of miracles to begin to happen in your life and ministry. Our Lord Jesus Christ said we should seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added to us.
* Study of the word of god with understanding in the spirit brings about the workings of miracles see John 1: 1-5, 14 the word of god is the work of God, it is the miracle of God. God commanded us to attend to His word see Proverbs 4: 20-23
* Purposeful personal prayer life creates a life full of the miraculous; prayer gives us a voice in the heavens, and gives us respect in the kingdom of darkness. Prayer produces power; a prayerful Christian is a powerful Christian.
* Faith is a very important ingredient in performing any miracle on earth, have faith in God. Faith believes the word of God, it is also working according to the word of God. Faith calls those things that are not as though they were Romans 4: 17-22. Faith says God has done it, or I have it now, or I am rich or blessed. As a matter of fact, faith sees beyond the NOW.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
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