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FEAST OF GREATNESS 2011

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Out of Abraham's loins came two kinds of destinies.

1. KINGS - Stars, Royalty, Affluence, and men of importance.

2. NATIONS - Stars, City Takers, Continental Movers, Institutions and Men with Relevance.

Kings are raised or made, while nations are built.Rev 1:5-6

Kings are made for reigning.

As a king, you are designed to reign on earth and not in heaven. All you need to reign on earth is loaded in heaven.

To reign is to have dominion. To have dominion is to have a good understanding of your potential.

WHAT IS POTENTIAL?

There is a wrong notion that needs to be corrected. "We brought nothing to the world and would take nothing out of it."

This is very wrong. Rather it is Naked we came and not empty we came. No man came empty to the world. We all came wired up for a specific purpose on the earth.

A discovery of what we were wired up to do on earth is potential. An understanding of what is loaded into you before you got posted to earth is potential.

Potential is the solution to a need on earth which God loaded into you at the beginning.
Potential is what has been written of you in the pages of scriptures.
Potential is what you can do, but have not yet done.
Potential is what you have been wired to accomplish which informed youe coming to earth.
Potential is what Christ can do through you, which you are yet to discover.
It is one thing to be wired, while it is another thing to be empowered.
Let me say to your here that you have been wired up for greatness.

WHAT IS GREATNESS?
Greatness is not defined by abundant material possession. It is not what you have but who you are. Seeking first the kingdom is all about seeking potential. When you are in touch with potential, what you need to have will be attracted to you.

Potential when discovered makes you a moving magnet. Becoming a moving magnet is what defines greatness.
Greatness is the ability to attract to you all you would ever need on earth. The dynamo that generates power has at its core a magnet. You cannot become a magnet and not generate power to influence the world around you.
The quality of this influence goes a long way in defining greatness.

You can therefore be rich and hold a top position in you country and have no part with greatness.

SEVEN KEYS TO ACTIVATING GREATNESS

1. Self Discovery

Knowing who you are is the first step at unlocking the greatness bottled up in you at creation.

The first word spoken to man after he had been created were words of greatness. To be great is to be blessed. The blessing is at the root of true greatness. For instance, it is said, "it is the blessings of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow with it." This means, you can be rich and not blessed, but you can't be blessed and not be made rich"

True riches of the great is hidden in blessing. It blessings that make great. This blessing is what you need to tap into.

For Adam to tap into the blessing, God needed to make him aware of the contents of the blessing.

What is in the blessing?

1. Fruitfulness

The first thing you will find in the blessing is fruitfulness. Every seed or idea has life within it. It has the capacity to grow or prosper. It has power to reproduce within it. It is fruitful.

2. Multiplication

The second thing in the blessing is ability to multiply the products of your seed or ideas. When an idea becomes fruitful, there is need to multiply it, in other to meet the needs of a lot of people. Meeting the needs of a lot of people creates a lot of wealth.

3. Replenish

The seed is fruitful and has been multiplied, but as the years go by, there is need to have a change of face or appearance. There is need for branding or repackaging. Man is moved by what he sees, so the more you present the fruit of the seed in various dimensions, the more people you reach. God works in the same manner. The seed is the gospel, but in the body we have pastors, evangelist, teachers, prophets and apostles. All of them carry the gospel but in different packaging. This is the concept of Replenishing.

4. Subdue

When you start replenishing, you have a wider range of products and small minds with envious hearts would arise and criticize you of monopoly. Their envy will grow to become bitterness and latter lead to attack on you or your business. This is why you have to live battle ready, and all you need is to take up the shield of faith. The blessing at this point releases faith for conquest.

5. Dominion

Dominion is the ultimate of the blessing, and it does not mean lording it over others in the market place. What this means is that you have now grown to a stage where you now start the process all over again, but this time with other people. You now reproduce your success in others. What God has made out of you, you now accept responsibility to make out of others. This is the concept of dominion. This is greatness.

2. RENEW YOUR MIND

To renew is to bring your soul in subjection to your regenerated spirit. It is training your spirit man to understand the voice of the Holy Spirit. It is the ability to remember and imagine the truth only. What you imagine or remember are prayer activators.

This is because what you imagine or remember defines your declarations. Mark 11:23-24

Prayer is impotent when the mind is not renewed.

In actual fact, prayer is lending a voice to what the Spirit is saying your spirit man.

Saying what God says to you is what gives you a voice on the earth.

3. TRUE LIBERALITY

Every greatness in the kingdom is rooted in liberality. Liberality is giving to others without a thought for your own personal comfort. It is the willingness to help others reach their goal while believing God to reach yours.

Liberality secures grace that enable you delay gratification in a bid to secure glorification.

4. UNDERSTAND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

This is one law that authenticates greatness before it eventually shows up for all to see.

What is this Law?

It is attracting to yourself whatever dominates your thought life. What you think about the most soon shows up in your life.

Our heart is like a weighing scale and wherever it tilts to, always defines the direction of your life. It weighs our thought to produce corresponding actions. Proverbs 4:23-26

It is this law that births focus which ultimately results in successful outcomes.

5. COURAGE

Courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is the conquest of fear. there are two forces that makes things happen, fear and faith.

In the realm of darkness, fear is the activating switch, while in the realm of light, it takes faith.

Job feared and what he was afraid of happened to him. His fear made God permit the devil to perform a "Faith audit" on Job.

When we talk about fear, it is not synonymous to "stage fright" or that butterfly feeling you sense anytime you have a challenging task. Fear is a state of not absolutely believing God. Courage is opting for faith even when the recommendations of fear/Satan seem as the only immediate option.

Daniel refused to be intimidated by unholy decrees and it secured for him a pet in fierce Lions. The three Hebrew boys refused to bow to the treats of a brainless king, and that secured for them an "air conditioned" fiery furnace.

Greatness is consolidated on the altar of courage. Refuse to be intimidated by the possibility of failure and see God move in your direction.

ACTION

The difference between the successful and the failure is action. Fear and unbelief made Zechariah doubt the message delivered by angel Gabriel. It led to his dumbness and as a result could not relay the massage appropriately to his wife. Mary on the other hand heard from the angel that Elizabeth was pregnant. She rose up and immediately took off to see her.

On hearing the salutation of Mary, the baby in her leaped for Joy and perhaps, Elizabeth for the first time knew she was pregnant. This was after five months.

Running with a vision, activates its release and performance. Greatness is for those who take steps.

A PRAISE FILLED HEART AND A JOYFUL SPIRIT.

It takes a praise filled heart to connect with true greatness. When you pray, God sends an Angel. Angelic intervention is the ultimate in the school of prayer. After Jesus fasted and prayed for forty days and forty nights, all he got was angelic ministration.

When you praise God, He himself comes down to inspect your case. Praise is often associated with earth quakes, this is because every time God is made to move, the earth must quake.

This is a secret of true greatness. Great men are addicted praise singers. Praise is impossible without a joyful spirit. A spirit that believes absolutely that God is on its side. A spirit that knows that all things work together for it's good. A spirit that knows that even though your beginning be small, your later end shall greatly increase.

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A NEW MANDATE

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Nothing makes stale like an old idea that resist change.
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The fall of man did not send God to sleep; rather it got God working on a redemptive package. Man’s body had to be re-packaged and made ready for the garden. If you can remember, at the fall, the evil spirit was released from within the tree and the breath strove with man. That spirit reduced the eternal body of man into a time ruled body. A new being void of this “evil spirit” had to be created and introduced to earth.
A re-creation conference was held in heaven and it was agreed that a new body had to be introduced to earth. It was also agreed that this body had to be made from the word. In introducing this being, natural laws that had been contaminated had to jettison. The natural law that governed the earth had to be revisited, but the process was not an easy one.
The problem created in the natural needed a supernatural law to treat it. Abraham and Sarah were married, so Isaac was born to a couple. In the case of Joseph and Mary, they were not married, so Jesus was born purely by the operation of a supernatural law.
This new law governed his entry, his existence and his exit. It became the new law that was to govern the new kingdom within the earth. God spoke to the “mould” and it became flesh, and by the eternal power, it was planted into the womb of a virgin.
The seed within Elisabeth that represented the old generation that had the seed of death within it had no life for five whole months. The baby did not kick and the sign of its presence in the womb could not be easily ascertained. “And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” Luke 1:39-41
Elisabeth represented the old generation that operated under the law of sin and death. The “evil” that came out of the tree ruled that generation and its descendants. The law of life had to be re-introduced into earth. No one else could execute this job the way God would. He therefore needed to get himself back into the system and educate mankind.
A “school” needed to set up that would re-educate and school mankind into his original destiny. The seed that represented the old generation was in the womb of Elisabeth for five months without any kick. There was no sign of its existence. Mary who represented the new generation carried within her the power of re-creation. She saluted Elisabeth and the baby within her kicked. The power within her quickened the baby in Elisabeth. The power in the new quickened the dead soul of the old.
This power became flesh and dwelt amongst men. This baby was named Jesus. He was born a child loaded with Holy Ghost. As a child, it was in him as potential. His job on the earth was in three fold. Firstly, to dethrone the devil and give God’s Spirit the permission to directly operate in the earth. Secondly, to model the kingdom life before mankind and return man back to the garden and thirdly, to activate the law of life, which is grace.
The garden was now a wilderness by the time Jesus got there. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Matt 4:1-10
Jesus was led into the wilderness to begin where man fell. He had to overcome what man fell for to be worthy of becoming the New Testament Adam. Like Adam and Eve, the rampaging old demon came looking for Jesus and found him in the wilderness and again tried to negotiate God’s mandate for his life.
The body of Jesus was not dust; it was electroplated by the word of God. The word of God was arrow in the mouth of Jesus. He shot it at the devil three good time and, “Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him”. Matt 4:11
Everything the devil stole from man, Jesus reclaimed in the wilderness. The skill and understanding to run with the mandate was then released to him via angelic ministration. “And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding”. Dan 9:22
After being empowered by the angels, he had to announce his mission to the earth. “And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears”. Luke 4:17-21
Jesus found were it was written of him in the books. This gives you and me an idea of what God was doing immediately Adam and Eve fell in the garden to the evil spirit. He was using the old generation to write a book. For instance, Moses was a messiah sent to the Jews in Israel.
While they were in slavery in Egypt, they were as it was under bondage until Moses was sent to them. All through the leadership of Moses, God was actually writing a book. Immediately Moses died, God delivered the book to Joshua to lead them into Canaan. Canaan is the Promised Land. Every time you approach a promise land, you need a map or a guide.
Jesus came to lead mankind to the promise land so he needed a book. When the book was delivered to him, he browsed through it and found were it was written of him. He read it aloud and closed the book when he got to the termination point. He now said, the prophesy is being fulfilled in their ears.

CREATIVE WISDOM

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Nothing inspires creativity like light. Before the beginning began, the creator of the entire universe lived and dwelt in eternity. Eternity means a region not bounded by time. He stood on nothing and was standing next to nothing as far as reasoning in time is concerned. He created for himself companions that reflected His glory in that timeless region. In the beginning, He created heaven and earth. This means that while in the timeless region, He caught an idea of heaven and earth and went ahead to create it. We were told that earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Why was earth like that? We were not told that about heaven.
This means heaven was with form, full and had light. It was like a cup full of juice on one side and an empty cup on the other side. Heaven was full of juice, while earth was empty. Everything earth needed and would ever need to take shape was loaded in heaven. Upon the face of the earth moved the Spirit of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord when activated makes available on earth whatever is in heaven. Before building a house, you need an architect to make a design of what is to be built. Not only that a prototype is put together. You also make available a store house for storing all that would be needed for the building. Heaven was the architectural design and also housed everything that would be needed to build earth.
Everything was hidden in heaven, but when God decided to begin the creation process, He activated first the most important thing in heaven and that was light. He said, “Let there be light and there was light.” What did He do? He looked into heaven, where light had been stored and activated by His word. The switch that activates heaven is voice activated. Heaven is full of keys or switches, which are activated by sound.
The most important switch is that called light. Everything we see today in our world is a product of light. Light is what generates life. In the beginning, God called for light and that light enabled Him to create all that gave earth shape. I also discovered that He created other lights. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Gen 1:3-5. At this level light was shinning in the dark. It was the creator working with the light. “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” Gen 1:15-19. Now time was created. Time is an interruption in eternity. Time is a calibration of eternity. The first that God called for is what I call the higher light which is the light that generates other lights. It is the creator’s light. It is the light that gives value to the creative mind. It is inspired light. It is revelational knowledge. It is the light that confounds ignorance.
It is the light needed to give shape to the world. The other lights, even though great lights are merely to calibrate eternity. I mean to measure time. You are therefore here on earth to either mark time or be creative. The creator made man and did not put him in heaven where all things were, rather He put him on earth so that by the operation of the higher light he could transport to earth whatever earth needs that is in heaven. “Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matt 6:10. God’s intent for man is to connect with the higher light so that His will can be done on earth as it is in heaven. Rather than seek an escape route to heaven, be available to making what is in heaven reflective on the earth.
The greatest tragedy in life is not rejecting salvation, but to be saved and not know why. Many give their lives to Christ only to wait for death in anticipation of heaven. They live uneventful lives. They have no value for excellence. They stay on with mediocrity. The kingdom life style is not their watchword. The story of the talent gives me an understanding of what needs to be done after salvation. Salvation is not an escape route to heaven; rather it is embracing kingdom responsibility for making His will reflective on the earth. His will is in His word. His will is in two parts and Jesus fulfilled the first part and closed the book.
The second part as documented in Isaiah 61:3 – 8 is His will that must be fulfilled by you after salvation. The truth been communicated to you via this book will help you appreciate the need for appropriate interpretation of scriptures via the instrumentality of the higher light. This book will not give you miracles or testimonies; rather it would make you a miracle and a testimony. Open up your heart and receive grace for unbeatable insights. Higher Light is your kingdom access to the higher life.

SUDDEN MANIFESTATION OF THE WAVES OF GLORY

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SUDDEN MANIFESTATION OF THE WAVES OF GLORY
The year 2012 is a very significant year for all who believe in prophetic realisations.The year is the 12th in the new millennium and therefore presents an apostolic era. Twelve in scriptural chronology is an apostolic number. There are twelve tribes in Israel Gen 49:28, Jacob had twelve sons Gen 35:22, Moses built twelve pillars Exodus 24:4, Solomon had twelve officers 1 Kings 4:7, Jesus called unto himself twelve disciples Matt 10:1, Jesus had twelve apostles Matt 10:2, There are twelve thrones in heaven Matt 19:28, There are twelve gates and twelve pearls in Heaven Rev 21:21. All these point to the fact that the number 12 is so significant in the celestial realm.

One day by the sea show and viewing the waves of the sea, I noticed that the waves build up suddenly and then move towards the shore. So many things are trapped in the sea and it takes the waves of the sea to make them move towards the shore where they can be seen. Sudden movement of the sea waves would therefore lead to sudden manifestation of the treasures hidden in the sea.

The apostles were together in the upper room (shore) and suddenly heavens "sea waves" swept across the room they were in and the treasures hidden in heaven came on them in a moment as cloven tongues of fire. Fire went into them and burnt off all there weaknesses. It burnt off their body terrestrial and created a celestial body for them. The celestial body came with a new tongue - the voice of the Spirit. Their speech, movement, actions, and way of life became like that of the wind. This gave me an understanding of what Jesus was trying to enlighten Nicodemus with in John 3:3-8. 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.

"Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."

To be born again is to have your body terrestrial over shadowed by the wind of the Holy Ghost and then baptism of the Spirit en fires your body and transforms it into a Celestial body. This Celestial body moves like the wind and can therefore accelerate. You voice carry great effect but your actions cannot be easily understood. You operate heaven economy, live in heaven here on earth. With you, all things become possible. You are now operating in the very class of the almighty God. Shame becomes impossible, Glory becomes your only experience.

How to come on key with this Sudden wave of Glory

1. See God as a need you cannot do without.
How you see God goes a long way at defining your relationship with him. How you see God determines how He sees you. How God sees you determines your true state or nature. How you see yourself in God determines what He empowers you to become.

2. Consciously accept and walk with him.

3. Keep His words in your heart and ponder on them at all times.
You eventually become what you think about the most. The thought that dominate your mind are the thought that shape your destiny. Thoughts, when they grow become ideas and ideas when cultivated become concepts, concepts when developed become products. Meditation is at the root of all known advancement. Meditation is the art of generating the required light to fertilize creativity. in the beginning, before God began the work of creation, it was recorded that the Spirit moved upon the face of the deep before God said "let there be light". The movement of the Spirit can be likened to meditation which then generated the light needed to kick start the creation process. You can't understand fully the meaning of creativity until you know what is meditation.

4. Tarry with the word

"And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." Luke 24:49 This is non negotiable in the school of sudden manifestations. To tarry in Jerusalem is to tarry with the word of God. Luke 24:49 "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem". Isa 2:3 The word of the Lord goes forth from Jerusalem. To tarry with the word is to have an encounter with the power inherent in the word.

5. Associate with minds that carry the word.
Your association either accelerate you or cause you to decelerate. Who you follow determines what follows you. You capture to a great extent the nature of those you mingle with. Like will always be get like. Moses' companionship with God created sudden manifestation at the red sea, Joshua's companionship with the book created a sudden manifestation that made the sun to stand still as well as made the wall of Jericho to fall down flat. David's follower ship of God brought Goliath down suddenly. Daniel's trust in God enthroned him suddenly in the land of captivity. Paul and Silas' praise partnership in prison made the foundation of the prison gates to shake suddenly. Associate with word carriers and you are bound to shake your world SUDDENLY.

6. Be a committed Seed Sower
Seeding is the only way to guarantee a harvest. Harvest is superior to reaping. Reaping is a function of time but harvest is a function of season. Isa 2:3 "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease". Gen 8:22-9:1 Take not of "SEED TIME and HARVEST. Seeding is a function of time, but Harvest is a function of season. Harvest is eternity controlled. Gen 8:22-9:1 "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase." 1 Cor 3:6 Increase or harvest comes from God.

7. Live a consecrated life
It is impossible to manifest the sudden waves of glory if you live in sin. Sin is a reproach. It is what turn glory into shame. Adam and Eve lived in eternal glory until sin had its way. Sin has the power to turn glory to reproach. Drop sin before it drops you. Sin is an accredited distributor of shame and reproach. SIN is a Satanic Interference in Nature. Sin is a mystery and it is revelation that has the power to quench the sting of sin.

The year 2012, shall be an awesome year for you in Jesus name. Breakthroughs will be happening for you suddenly. Sudden fruitfulness, sudden favours, sudden graces, sudden connections, sudden interventions, sudden invitations, sudden elevations, and sudden manifestations. Receive it in Jesus name.

Daniel Kayode Jacobs
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ACCELERATE 2011

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This historical event is tailored for young people desiring a mental revolution that would lead to a life transformation. One of the greatest tragedies in life is that only a small percentage of the world’s population respond to change effectively. Many people are victims of change. Some people dread change; others refuse to accept it. In Nigeria, people believe that government needs to change for things to change, that will never happen.

These approaches are formulas for frustration, depression, and wasted potential. Are you a youth teetering at the threshold of a new season?

Change may make you feel more trepidation than trust. Yet you can learn to embrace change with a positive attitude and see it to benefit your life, as well as others’ lives. Be bold and embrace the next season of your life. It’s the only path to fulfiling your potential - and your unique contribution to your generation.

REDEFINING THE PROPHETIC

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The coming year 2012 holds a lot in stock for this generation. At the beginning of the new year, all kinds of prophesy would hit the air waves. One common denominator is negativism or doom. Every prophet would feel so free to litter the air with warnings of impending dangers. But one thing I have come to discover in my few years of hearing God is that what we voice out is what shapes what we eventually see. God saw darkness, emptiness and chaos on the earth, but spoke light. God shaped the earth with His declarations. When you speak what you see, that does not make you a prophet, rather it is declaring what you expect, even if what you see is contrary. The year 2012 holds a lot of pleasant surprises for all those who care to tune their imaginative antenna to the positive frequency.

MOVING UP WITH CREATIVE INSIGHT

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Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny:it is heaven’s own incentive to make purpose great, and Achievement greater. The instinctive impulse to keep pushing on and up is the most Curious and the most interesting thing in human life. Without this desire to get on and up, this God – urge, everything, Even the universe itself would collapse. Inertia would bring everything to a standstill. Ambition is what adds action to vision to bring about a manifestation.Vision without a corresponding action (ambition) is dead. Philippians 3:13-15

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HIGHER LIGHT

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Nothing inspires creativity like light. Before the beginning began, the creator of the entire universe lived and dwelt in eternity. Eternity means a region not bounded by time. He stood on nothing and was standing next to nothing as far as reasoning in time is concerned. He created for himself companions that reflected His glory in that timeless region. In the beginning, He created heaven and earth. This means that while in the timeless region, He caught an idea of heaven and earth and went ahead to create it. We were told that earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Why was earth like that? We were not told that about heaven.
This means heaven was with form, full and had light. It was like a cup full of juice on one side and an empty cup on the other side. Heaven was full of juice, while earth was empty. Everything earth needed and would ever need to take shape was loaded in heaven. Upon the face of the earth moved the Spirit of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord when activated makes available on earth whatever is in heaven. Before building a house, you need an architect to make a design of what is to be built. Not only that a prototype is put together. You also make available a store house for storing all that would be needed for the building. Heaven was the architectural design and also housed everything that would be needed to build earth.
Everything was hidden in heaven, but when God decided to begin the creation process, He activated first the most important thing in heaven and that was light. He said, “Let there be light and there was light.” What did He do? He looked into heaven, where light had been stored and activated by His word. The switch that activates heaven is voice activated. Heaven is full of keys or switches, which are activated by sound.
The most important switch is that called light. Everything we see today in our world is a product of light. Light is what generates life. In the beginning, God called for light and that light enabled Him to create all that gave earth shape. I also discovered that He created other lights. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Gen 1:3-5. At this level light was shinning in the dark. It was the creator working with the light. “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” Gen 1:15-19. Now time was created. Time is an interruption in eternity. Time is a calibration of eternity. The first that God called for is what I call the higher light which is the light that generates other lights. It is the creator’s light. It is the light that gives value to the creative mind. It is inspired light. It is revelational knowledge. It is the light that confounds ignorance.

It is the light needed to give shape to the world. The other lights, even though great lights are merely to calibrate eternity. I mean to measure time. You are therefore here on earth to either mark time or be creative. The creator made man and did not put him in heaven where all things were, rather He put him on earth so that by the operation of the higher light he could transport to earth whatever earth needs that is in heaven. “Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matt 6:10. God’s intent for man is to connect with the higher light so that His will can be done on earth as it is in heaven. Rather than seek an escape route to heaven, be available to making what is in heaven reflective on the earth.
The greatest tragedy in life is not rejecting salvation, but to be saved and not know why. Many give their lives to Christ only to wait for death in anticipation of heaven. They live uneventful lives. They have no value for excellence. They stay on with mediocrity. The kingdom life style is not their watchword. The story of the talent gives me an understanding of what needs to be done after salvation. Salvation is not an escape route to heaven; rather it is embracing kingdom responsibility for making His will reflective on the earth. His will is in His word. His will is in two parts and Jesus fulfilled the first part and closed the book.
The second part as documented in Isaiah 61:3 – 8 is His will that must be fulfilled by you after salvation. The truth been communicated to you via this book will help you appreciate the need for appropriate interpretation of scriptures via the instrumentality of the higher light. This book will not give you miracles or testimonies; rather it would make you a miracle and a testimony. Open up your heart and receive grace for unbeatable insights. Higher Light is your kingdom access to the higher life.

Creative Kids Tuition (CKT) - Giving hope, faith and love to less priviledged kids.

2011-04-06T10:00:00.000+01:00

WHO WE ARE:

"Creative Kids Tuition” (CKT) is a child laughter initiative of the Center for Creative Youth International (CCYI). It is a volunteer-based Creatively Nigerian charitable organization, helping the less-fortunate children and families in Nigeria, running privately and independently, without any involvement of help from government of Nigeria, our work is 100% volunteer-based and faith driven.

HOW WE OPERATE:

We believe that what we do today without conditions or constraints for the less privilege in the area of education will serve as a vital course in the coming years. We rely heavily on the support and cooperation of individuals, corporate bodies, ministries and institutions that believe in the preservation of the next generation.

We work and contact people who do not see their biological kids as the only ones that deserve a right to qualitative education.

As part of the involvement of creative minds, they create a list of families which are in need of financial support. After careful consideration and then prioritizing, they forward the list to us. Priority is based on urgency and severity of the cases, with the fear of God as a cutting edge advantage for beneficiaries.

As part of our activities, our members in Nigeria keep contact with these families and visit them on occasional basis. Soul investors can request a visit as part of their stay in Nigeria, if they so desire. That can be arranged by contacting our social workers in Nigeria.

OUR MISSION:
This non-for-profit organization has given hope, strength and joy to the less fortunate children of Nigeria. Our goal is to improve the quality of life for the lonely, the underprivileged, and those caught in the web of poverty and despair.

Thanks to the generous investment of individuals, we are able to continue our important work in:

* Living expenses – Residence, Food, Clothing
* Education – Tuition, Books, school uniforms, shoes, examination etc

SERVICES:

Child Sponsorship:

You can sponsor a child with minimum of N1500 ($10). This will provide the student with Books, uniforms, shoes, exam fees etc. You can choose your sponsored child base on our profile criteria (age, sex, family situation).

Later, you will receive a picture of your sponsored child with all other information. At the end of school year, you will receive a copy of his/her performance during the school year, as well as any other changes in family/financial situation.

When you travel to Nigeria, a visit to meet with the child and his/her family can also be arranged.

University Scholarships:
Higher mental fund is another way of sponsorship with our organization. With about N75000 ($500) you can cover tuition/books cost/per semester for university students.

This will give them the chance to continue their education and reach their goals. Students who receive this type of financial assistance will be asked to eventually pay back the money they received, after they graduated and employed. This is their way of thanking you, as well as making it possible for other less fortunate and low income families to reach their goals too. Again, at the end of each semester, you will have the right to educational performance.

Special Cases:

In addition to all the above, your financial aid can be sent to low and no income family for other purposes such as down payment on rental accommodation, purchasing appliances, etc.

One thing is sure, whatever you do for someone who might not have the means today to pay you back is a blessing waiting for you or your kids in the future.

Soul Investor

As an investor in this project, you will be known as a Soul Investor. You are investing in the souls of men. A soul educated is a generation preserved. Be a soul investor today!

To be a soul investor please sends a mail to creativekidstuition@gmail.com indicating your desire to invest. Details on how to pass across your glad tidings will be e-mailed to you as a response.

God bless you

Signed
Apostle Daniel O Jacobs

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2011-03-26T14:21:00.000+01:00

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Okotie challenges Jonathan to debate

2011-03-16T13:59:00.000+01:00

News
Mar 16, 2011

By Gbenga Oke
Pastor of Household of God and presidential candidate of Fresh Democratic Party, FRP, Pastor Chris Okotie, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to a public debate, just as he said that the only way the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can win the forthcoming elections was through rigging.

Speaking, yesterday, at the party headquarters in Lagos to formally flag-off his presidential campaign, Okotie said he was challenging President Jonathan to a debate to tell the Nigerians and the world what he intends to do when he becomes president and why Nigerians should give him their mandate.

According to him, “if not for the involvement of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his (Jonathan) emergence as the presidential candidate, how could he have emerged when the odd was even against him within the party.”

“I and President Jonathan are from the same South-South zone but I see him as a candidate trying to hide behind the PDP. If he is so confident as he claims, let him face me in a public debate and let us advice Nigerians on what direction they should go at the forthcoming elections.

“We need a president that is resolute, somebody that can withstand the treachery of the National Assembly and a compassionate president, who can take this country to next level in terms of human capital development, social security, health and education,” he said.

On the readiness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ahead of the elections, Okotie said, “the structure we need to have a free and fair elections is INEC, though INEC is supposed to be an independent entity and provide a level playing ground for the candidates, that might not eventually happen because INEC cannot go against its sponsors.”

“The oppression and slavery of Nigerians under the PDP must come to an end at this forthcoming elections because the party has become so unpopular in its ability to deliver the dividends of democracy to the populace,” he added.

He however stated that the PDP has been using their ability of coercive intimidation through inducements in their various campaigns to show the Nigerian populace that the party is still popular.

Reeling out his agenda for contesting the presidency, Okotie argued “our great party has a millennium mindset and we have clearly defined mission to take this country to the next level and we intend to sell our programmes in the most effective way and this will not be achieved by renting crowds to rallies and making empty speeches that hold no promise for the people”.

“Change in Nigeria requires certain urgency and dynamism which only Rev Chris Okotie could bring to governance and all through the years we’ve been saying that Nigeria needs a change from tired old politicians who are clueless having been in power for 12years without moving us forward because all they have is jaded ideas that have no relevance to our current state of near paralysis”.

Okotie however expressed optimism that he’d win the presidential elections come April 9th 2011.

He said “If we have a free and fair elections, we will win and the impact of the FRESH government will be felt everywhere in Nigeria by within 90days because of the unprecedented surge of economic, social and industrial activities the nation will experience”.

Feel free to drop your comments!

Creative Vacancies Today

2011-03-15T16:02:00.000+01:00

* Globacom Nigeria Graduate Recruitment 2011: Submit your CV
* Female Confidential Secretary Job Vacancy at Salco Nigeria Ltd (BSc, HND, Diploma)
* Qatar Airways Nigeria Job Vacancy for Fresh Graduate Female Cabin Crew (Minimum SSCE/NECO)
* Nampak Cartons Job: Recruitment for Pre-Press Controller (Minimum OND) March 2011
* PM News Fresh Graduate Media Vacancies for Reporters, Journalists, Sales Reps, Graphic Artistes etc (Lagos, Abuja) – BSc, HND, School Leavers
* Sales Executives Job Vacancies at a Water Company (OND)
* Customer Relationship Executive, Sales Rep and Brand Executive Job Vacancies at Robins Begg (BSc, HND, OND)
* Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) Graduate and HND NGO Vacancy for Logistics Assistant (Urgent)

Globacom Nigeria Graduate Recruitment 2011: Submit your CV

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 07:27 PM PDT

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Female Confidential Secretary Job Vacancy at Salco Nigeria Ltd (BSc, HND, Diploma)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 07:14 PM PDT

Female Confidential Secretary Job Vacancy at Salco Nigeria Ltd (BSc, HND, Diploma) The company was incorporated on the 21st of December 1972 and has offices in Abuja, Lagos, Jos and Kano. The current...

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Qatar Airways Nigeria Job Vacancy for Fresh Graduate Female Cabin Crew (Minimum SSCE/NECO)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 07:10 PM PDT

Qatar Airways Nigeria Job Vacancy for Fresh Graduate Female Cabin Crew (Minimum SSCE/NECO) Qatar Airways, winner of the Skytrax award for Best Cabin Crew in the Middle East, for seven consecutive...

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Nampak Cartons Job: Recruitment for Pre-Press Controller (Minimum OND) March 2011

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:37 PM PDT

Nampak Cartons Job: Recruitment for Pre-Press Controller (Minimum OND) Nampak Cartons Nigeria Limited, Our company is a member of a leading Gravure printing packaging multinational with over 160...

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PM News Fresh Graduate Media Vacancies for Reporters, Journalists, Sales Reps, Graphic Artistes etc (Lagos, Abuja) – BSc, HND, School Leavers

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:22 PM PDT

PM News Fresh Graduate Media Vacancies for Reporters, Journalists, Sales Reps, Graphic Artistes etc (Lagos, Abuja) A well established and a reputable media outfit (PM NEWS) a mass circulating evening...

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Sales Executives Job Vacancies at a Water Company (OND)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:06 PM PDT

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Customer Relationship Executive, Sales Rep and Brand Executive Job Vacancies at Robins Begg (BSc, HND, OND)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 05:56 PM PDT

Robins Begg Consulting – Our client is an emerging market leader in the Nigerian food manufacturing industry. Wide market acceptance resulting in explosive demand for their products have...

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Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) Graduate and HND NGO Vacancy for Logistics Assistant (Urgent)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 11:05 AM PDT

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2011-03-11T09:57:00.000+01:00

Zig Ziglar, Motivation, and Encouraging Leadership
By Bob Mason

I had the privilege of speaking to Zig Ziglar not long ago. He asked me if I had written a book and I said yes, I had. Next he asked, if the book contained lots of encouragement? I had to think about that. Yes, I think the book is encouraging; after all, it helps leaders succeed at strategic planning and avoid the many models that are hard to implement and often fail. That's encouraging. But, did I set out to write a book that was full of encouragement? I must admit that wasn't something I had really thought about.

As I considered that question, it occurred to me it also pertained to leaders. As a leader, are you encouraging? Do you approach others with lots of encouragement? If you understand individual motivation, you know that true motivation is internal, not external. As a leader you cannot really motivate your people. What you can, and must do, is help them realize and act upon their own internal motivation.

Too often leaders and leadership "experts" concentrate on external factors to motivate people. Such things as pay, compensation, time-off, and the great pile of other incentives are held up as the way to really motivate workers. While most people probably appreciate them, these incentives don't really have the motivational effect many think they do. Only when workers are challenged and provided with opportunities to improve and accomplish can they realize that internal motivation. When that internal motivation is activated, the worker becomes more productive, more engaged, and certainly more valuable to the organization.

That's where encouragement comes in. If you're cheap and don't pay your workers a decent, even competitive wage, then none of this will help you much. But if you do, then I can guarantee you that encouraging workers to improve themselves, accept challenges, and develop new talents and abilities will be more effective than any new benefit package.

I know some of you are saying, look at the news. Everything seems to be about pay and benefits these days. Unfortunately, that appears to be true. Why? I believe it's because, for the most part, the people screaming about pay and benefits don't have positive work environments that encourage more than these material factors. Yes, I'm oversimplifying some. Also, some of the current shouting and public angst has little to do with actual working conditions and everything to do with power and politics. If you look at most companies in the country you'll find the ones that do understand this concept of encouraging internal motivation are the ones which are the most successful.

Take a look at the February 7, 2011 edition of Fortune magazine. It's the annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" edition. You'll find a lot of talk about pay and benefits, but if you read a little deeper, you'll find that many of these companies practice this method of encouraging their employee's own motivation.

As a leader, you should carefully consider that question: do you provide lots of encouragement?

The Seven Skills of Resiliency
By Georgia Feiste

Resilience is the ability to persevere and adapt when the twists and turns of life go amiss. We all need resilience. It is the key to success at work and satisfaction with your life. Some think it is the basic ingredient to happiness and success, preparing us to emotionally or psychologically handle adversity, which means facing our situations bravely and with confidence, rather than giving up and feeling helpless.

Research has shown seven major factors contributing to the development and strengthening of resilience.

1. Pay attention to your thoughts. If your thoughts about the situation you are facing are inaccurate, your ability to respond effectively will be severely compromised. It's important to identify your "self-talk" when faced with a challenge, and understand how it affects your state of being - your behavior and feelings.
2. Shun thinking traps. Aaron Beck, the "father" of cognitive therapy, revealed seven thinking traps that make people particularly vulnerable to depression. a) Jumping to conclusions; b) tunnel vision based on a biased view of the entire situation; c) amplification of negative events and diminishment of positive events, or vice versa; d) making things personal, automatically blaming yourself when things go awry, or the flip side; e) blaming others when things go wrong, becoming the angry victim; f) oversimplification - always and everything generalizations; g) mind reading - assuming you know what the other person is thinking. Let's add an eighth - h) emotional reasoning, measuring reality against the emotions you feel at the moment.
3. Deeply held beliefs. These are ideas about how people and the world should operate, who they are and who they want to be. Often these values guide us in behaving in ways true to ourselves, but sometimes they get in the way of our ability to live the kind of life we want and explain why we react the way we do.
4. Problem solving abilities. Your thinking style may lead you to misinterpret the causes of a problem, which then causes you to pursue the wrong solutions. We all need the ability to test the accuracy of our beliefs about problems, then find solutions that work.
5. Gaining perspective. This is monkey mind at it's best! We often have a tendency to "what if" ourselves into abject misery, rather than recognize the obstacles that REALLY exist or are most likely to occur, and then determining solutions to get around/through those obstacles.
6. Gain focus. When your emotions overwhelm you, or you can't concentrate because your thoughts keep wandering, it is helpful to find activities that allow you to calm your mind so that you can focus on the immediate task. These could be contemplation, positive imagery, prayer, meditation, yoga, controlled breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, etc.
7. Intentional change to counter-productive beliefs. Utilizing your new found skills in problem solving and perspective to intentionally work on situations immediately. You will ask yourself one of three questions.....

a) A more accurate way of seeing this is.........,
b) That's not true because.......,
c) A more likely outcome is.....and I can....to deal with it.

Once you learn and practice these skills, you will face situations that once might have thrown you with confidence and clarity. Your composure will improve, and you will have the inner power to create the life you want for yourself.

Georgia Feiste, owner of Collaborative Transitions, located in Lincoln, NE, is a business, career and personal life coach, writer, and workshop facilitator. She has more than thirty years experience as a corporate executive in the insurance industry. Georgia currently writes columns for the Lincoln 55+ Senior Newspaper and Touche, a local magazine. Her website is http://www.collaborativetransitions.com

Decision Points
by George W. Bush

Acquiring all the books written by U.S. presidents would result in a surprisingly small collection. Though there are some anthologies of presidential papers and speeches from the 19th century, true autobiographies are rare, the most notable being that of Ulysses S. Grant. That's all changed beginning with Harry S. Truman. In fact, since Truman, every president with the obvious exception of John F. Kennedy, has written some sort of post-presidential memoir. Their writings provide an interesting look behind the fence of the White House and into the rarified atmosphere that is the U.S. presidency.

Of course, past presidents seem quite interested in their legacy and might be accused of writing memoirs to burnish their image as they fade into history. As an amateur student of history, I enjoy reading these books; but, to me their real value is the portrayal of what is certainly one of the most difficult and unique leadership challenges any person can shoulder.

The reader of an autobiography must always keep in mind that the work is written by the subject, and therefore must be more critically analyzed. Presidential autobiographies have an additional problem in that the author knows details about the events they relate that must be forever withheld from the general public. With these cautions in mind, I read Decision Points by George W. Bush.

President Bush took office under a cloud. The election of 2000 was a trying experience for the candidates in particular and the country as a whole. Though this cloud would stay with his presidency for the entire eight years, to his credit Bush did not let it sway his agenda. The keystone of that agenda was a push for education reform - until September 11, 2001.

As Bush details the events that followed that historic day the heavy weight of leadership clearly emerges. He explains his thoughts immediately following the attack and why he took the actions he did. He demonstrated that a leader is most effective when able to remain outwardly calm and remember that people are relying on him or her for thoughtful leadership.

Many other events happened during the Bush years and he is refreshingly honest about what he feels he didn't do well. In discussing Hurricane Katrina and the devastation the Gulf Coast, he clearly lays out the mistakes that were made, including his decision to fly over New Orleans, instead of landing. Again, his explanation provides a good lesson for leaders. Knowing that any presidential visit is very disruptive, and stopping at that time would pull people away from the important task of trying to save lives, it seemed like a good decision. However, leaders must always remember that the perception of their action may have more impact than the action itself. Bush's decision was based on his desire to not exacerbate the situation. His action was seen as the exact opposite; as lack of concern for suffering people.

In the 222 years since George Washington was inaugurated as the first President in 1789 there have been only 44 presidents making that office one of the world's most exclusive leadership clubs. The U.S. president accepts a leadership role more difficult, more wide ranging, and more publicly scrutinized than any other. How he performed in that role provides a treasure trove from which the rest of us can glean lessons to become better leaders.

For those who were paying attention during the Bush presidency, Decision Points provides no real historical revelations, though Bush does discuss some very effective policy to help African nations fight AIDs which didn't get a lot of notice in the American press. There does seem to be a "set the record straight" agenda and maybe even a little legacy management, but I would expect that and it certainly doesn't take away from the value of the book. Whether you thought George W. Bush was a great president, a terrible president, or somewhere in-between, if you have leadership responsibilities, you need to read this book. Its significance is the view of rare leadership challenges.

INSPIRATIONAL SAYINGS

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The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
-Mark Twain

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
-Robert Schuller

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
-Robert Collier

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
-Napoleon Hill

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
-Wayne Dyer

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer

Courage is grace under pressure.
-Ernest Hemingway

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
-Zig Ziglar

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain

PRAYER BUTTONS

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Whatever is not from the heart never reaches heaven.
Matt 16:18 ......Whatever you open on earth, opens in heaven.
John 4:24 .......Worship God with your human spirit because he is a spirit.
Some “unsaid” prayers in scriptures.
1 Sam 1:14.....Hannah poured her soul unto God.
• God responds to the heart cry of men.
• Your heart cry is key in your engagement of breakthrough prayers.
Acts 14:8-10.....A man born lame received prayers via a heart cry that got heaven’s attention.
• Engaging your heart will always culminate in supernatural breakthroughs.
Jeremiah 30:18-21.....Engage your heart to seek the lord.
• God is too much for your head.
Psalm 27:8......My heart seek the lord
Psalm 29:13.....You find God with your heart.
Isaiah 26:9.....With my whole heart have I desired thee in the night.

• God is busy searching the heart of men.
Jeremiah 17:10......God checks your heart to see what to put in your hand.

• God is in control of the elements, and cannot afford the elements disturbing his work on earth.
Matthew 9:21......She said within her heart....and she was made whole.
Proverbs 4:20-23.....Out of the heart flow the issues of life.

CAREER AND DESTINY DISCOVERY.

2011-02-16T16:54:00.000+01:00

BY DANIEL OLUKAYODE JACOBS
President Center for Creative Youth International Ministries

OBJECTIVES
1. To help young people discover their destiny early in life.
2. To expose young people to a life of personal responsibility.
3. To help them cultivate a life of reading, observations, reasoning and challenging their mind for great exploit in life.

INTRODUCTION
A Career can be defined according to the concise oxford dictionary of English as one’s advancement through life, especially in a profession. It is the progress through history of a group or institution. It is a profession or occupation.

A career is an ambition driven by vision. The quality of vision is what defines the quality of the ambition.

As young people just starting out in life, there is need to have a good understanding of vision and ambition.

One works by faith, while the other is made real by works.

What is Vision?
Vision is the unfolding of God’s divine plan for man.

Vision reveals God’s master plan for Man. Jeremiah 1:5, 29:11

Vision is seeing the end at the beginning. Isaiah 46:10

Vision is your ability to discover what God has finished but intends for you to start.

Vision is what you see from God’s word that empowers your ambition.

What is Ambition?

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny: it is heaven’s own incentive to make purpose great, and achievement greater.

The instinctive impulse to keep pushing on and up is the most curious and the most interesting thing in human life.

Without this desire to get on and up, this God – urge, everything, even the universe itself would collapse. Inertia would bring everything to a standstill.

Ambition is what adds action to vision to bring about a manifestation.
James 2:20, 26

Vision with a corresponding action (ambition) is dead. Philippians 3:13-15

The cravings for something higher and better is the best possible antidote or remedy for bad habits which one wishes to get rid of.

Vision and ambition knocks early.
Most young people seem to think that vision and ambition is a quality that is born in one and which cannot be materially changed, but the greatest vision and ambition may be very materially injured in many different ways.

The habit of procrastination, of postponing, the habit of picking out the easier task and putting off the difficulty ones, for example, will very easily impair the vision and ambition.

Vision and ambition often begins very early to knock for recognition.

The Personality behind Vision and ambition.
Recognition of the voice of the Holy Spirit early in life inspires vision and motivates us to act accordingly.

The Holy Spirit is the driver of every worthy vision. Vision without the Holy Spirit will always lead to confusion.

Be careful how you discourage or refuse to heed that inner voice which commands you to go forward, for if you do it will become less and less insistent until finally it will cease to prod you, and when ambition is dead deterioration has set it.

That inner call to go forward, to push on to a higher good, is god’s voice: heed it. It is your best friend and will lead you into light and joy.

Dynamics of Vision and Ambition
To discover a worthy vision and walk with a healthy ambition, there is need to understand your make up in God.

God made man in His own image (a spirit) and cloth him with dust (body) and the combination resulted in a Soul.

The spirit belongs to God and can only be sustained by the things of God, which is his word, prayer, fasting, meditation etc.

The body also belongs to God but was created from the dust and therefore has its sustenance in the earth. It can be sustained by trees, animals, iron ore, crude, gas, solar energy and everything visible today to man on the earth.

The body is made up of different members, with which it accesses its immediate environment. These members include the eyes, nose, mouth, hands, feet, legs etc.

The soul on the other hand is completely different. It is a part of man that resulted from the interrelationship between the spirit and the body.

God is not absolutely in control of the soul, in fact after the fall of man, God lost control of it. Both God and the devil seek dominance of the soul.

Soul Dunamis
In the same way man is a three in one being, so is the soul of man. The soul has three compartments namely the mind, intellect and emotions.

In your quest to discover your career early in life, you need to understand the workings of the various compartments of the soul.

The Mind
The mind is the factory that produces pictures that influences the vision of man. What you see is what you believe. The mind is the eyes of your spirit man. The mind two primary functions: It recalls and stores (memory) and it pre plays (Imagination).

The mind can replay or recall the past and as well can pre play the future. This is the most powerful part of the soul.

The human mind is divided into two parts, the sub conscious and the conscious.

The Sub Conscious Mind
The sub conscious is the mind of the spirit. When you receive the Holy Ghost baptism, the Holy Spirit becomes residence in your sub conscious. In a bid to express itself since it is a talking spirit, you mutter words directly from the sub conscious without the due process of the conscious mind. This is speaking in tongues. The same way your conscious mind is edified by the words you speak, the sub conscious is built by the words the Holy Ghost Speaks through you. Jude 20.

The stronger the sub conscious, the more fruitful the conscious mind.

Whatever comes out of the sub conscious is what you have been ordained by God to pursue in life.

Your assignment is hidden in your sub conscious mind.

Your place in destiny is hidden in your sub conscious mind.

Your sub conscious mind is the deep wherein your unlimited breakthroughs are hidden.

The Conscious Mind
This is the processing room of the mind. This is what enables men interact with the physical environment. It helps us to appreciate beauty, nature, space etc.

It feeds on information acquired through sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. It is a slave to observation, experimentation, inspection, supervision, interaction etc.

When developed, it is the mother science and civilization.

The Emotions
The emotion is another aspect of the soul that plays a vital role is defining our career choices.

The emotion houses our habits, attitudes, behavioural patterns and the way we perceive and react to things.

Emotions are strong inner feelings that define our mood and as result our inner strength or courage.

There is need for emotional intelligence if the right career choices must be made early in life.

What is it that you have discovered from God’s word and you feel good at pursuing irrespective of what opposing forces think of you?

The career worth pursuing is the one that you enjoy doing. Joy and inner peace are pointers to emotional stability as it relates to career choice.

The Intellect
This is the seat of reasoning things out. It is the part of man that defines his capacity to develop new ideas, new vision, new ambition, new levels etc.

It grows with quality education. The quality of career chosen can be strengthened with qualitative intellectual investment.

Intellect is not just about going to school but developing the ability to source and process information.

Intellect grows with research. Before deciding which career or profession to settle for, you need to embark on a research.

Research enables you to know what the current trend is in the occupation you might be desiring.

Seven D’s to qualitative Career Choice

1. Dedicate your life to God.
Jeremiah 1:5 & 29:11 reveals a significant truth. Only God knows your destiny. If you must therefore make a good career choice, it must begin with God.

Accepting Christ and getting baptised in the Holy Spirit activates your sub conscious mind and therefore makes your intellect, emotion and conscious mind fruitful.

2. Discover the truth about you from God’s word.
Psalm 139:13-15 reveals the truth about you. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. But you need a personal discovery of the truth for it to become a reality.

Your identity is in the discovery of the truth. Without a discovery of your true identity, your choice of career might lead you into living out another man’s destiny.

3. Discover what makes you original.
Your career is hidden in something you do that makes you original in God. Is it speaking, singing, writing, meeting people, helping people, solving problems etc.

4. Discover your assignment.
Your relevance is a product of the discovery of your assignment. Your assignment is what you were assigned by God to accomplish on the earth. It is something God has finished in heaven, but sent you to earth to start.

What you hate is sign post to your assignment. What you love is also a sign post to your assignment. What makes you sad, angry, cry, are all sign post to your assignment.
5. Distinguish yourself in your chosen career.
Now that you know what makes you original and as well know your assignment, go ahead and distinguish yourself.

Do not be afraid of being different. Jeremiah 1:17

Don’t be afraid to stand alone.

Don’t be afraid of people’s faces.

Do not be afraid if those you trusted leave you.

Do not be afraid if no one wants to support your dreams.

Do not be afraid of challenging the status quo.

Seek constantly to improve yourself and raise your standards.

6. Do not allow small minds distract you.
Too many people fail in their careers principally due to the quality of their association.

Your association determine your acceleration.

Small minds limit the rate at which you move at accomplishing your goals and aspirations.

The inherent fear and in action in the small minds that surround you create friction in the wheel of your intended progress.

7. Devote your time to kingdom and people service.
Any career that would not allow you to devote time to kingdom service and promotion will surely lead you astray. Your career must be aimed at promoting the kingdom and helping people.

Devotion is the key to promotion and distinction. Matthew 6:33

For more information on how to find God’s purpose for your life please
Call: 01-7348654, 08035690386. E-mail: ccyiministries@gmail.com, www.ccyiministries.webs.com

Jesus is Lord.

The making of a Star

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Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Matthew 5:14
The kingdom of God is a gathering of stars. The least in the kingdom is a star amongst men. Stars are men and women set apart in their field. Wherever they are found, they are a reference point for other. They are a reference point for other. They are a fulcrum, pivot or springboard of great success and achievement.
I have come to realize that the only goal of the kingdom is to raise stars. The making of man by God was primarily the making of a star. All the devil went to steal, kill and destroy in the Garden of Eden was simply the stardom in mankind.
For five days, God the creator prepared, funded and established the earth and on the sixth day created man. Before creating man, God had a picture of what He wanted. He wanted a personality that would house divinity on the earth. Why do I say this?
God’s principle of creation reveals a lot of secrets. Follow me gently as I take you through a brief exploration of the beginning before the beginning.
BEFORE THE BEGINNING
It was recorded that God created the heaven and the earth. The question now is, where was God before the beginning began? It seems God, before the beginning stood on nothing, next to nothing and beside nothing. By the inspiration of the spirit, I came to believe that God before the beginning was resident in a ‘spaceship’ known as the spirit.
This ‘spaceship’ from where God peeped into complete emptiness moved around. From the ‘spaceship’, God caught a picture. He spoke heaven and earth into existence. He created heaven and earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. [Genesis 1:1-2]
This ‘spaceship’ drew closer to the created earth, so that could have a firsthand view of the state of the earth. The ‘spaceship’, I believe by revelation had its own headlamps. Now on the surface of the earth, God put on the switch, which was voice controlled, and the ‘spaceship’ beamed its head lamps on the earth. This light gave God clear visibility from the ‘spaceship’.
This light from the ‘spaceship’ could have blinding effect on things on the earth if positioned directly on the earth. In God’s great wisdom, God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night: he made stars also.
The greater lights are greater balls needed to reflect the light from the ‘spaceship’; this is what is known as the sunlight. The sunlight is a reflection of the higher light from the ‘spaceship’ – the spirit realm. The moon and the stars in the night time reflect the light from the sun.
If you look closely, God is inside the ‘spaceship’ that beams the higher light. God is in control of this ‘spaceship’. He is therefore in control of this higher light. This ‘spaceship’ is the spirit. Scriptures make us to understand that God is a spirit. God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. [John 4:24]
Follow me carefully; I said earlier that the higher light from the ‘spaceship’ was voice controlled. God spoke a word, and light switch was automatically activated. The entrance of God’s word into the ‘spaceship’ light controlled switch gave light; it gave God an understanding of what to do to repackage the earth. [Psalm 119:130]
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. [John 1:1-3]
God used the word in the beginning to activated the power of creativity. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. [John 1:3-4]
When God activated the light switch by his word, life was transmitted to earth. Earth was enveloped with life. Ability to live and reproduce was programmed into earth.
SOURCE AND SUSTAINANCE
Creation process began with the blast of God’s word. Every time he blasted the word, light broke forth and infused life into the purposes of God.
Whatever God spoke to brought forth God’s desire and also remained to sustain the existence of that desire. He desired grass, herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruits after his kind, so He spoke to the earth. And up till tomorrow, these things depend on the earth for their sustenance.
God maintained this principle all through His creation process. He spoke to a thing, light shone into it and made it a source and sustainer of what has been created.
Everyone believes that the sun is the source of light and energy, but the truth is, the blast from God’s word infuses light into what is known as the sun.
Have you not read in the book of Isaiah 60:20 that the sun shall be no more they light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. This is the source of light.
Please stay with me, we are on a journey.
THE CREATED MAN
You now have a good understanding of how creation began and the principles involved. The creation of man followed the same principle, which made man a star on the earth. Before the beginning began, God eternally lived in the ‘spaceship’. He is a Spirit living in the spirit – ‘spaceship’. After organizing the earth in five days, He desired a new dwelling place so that He could effectively manage earth.
And God said, let us make man in our own image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creep upon the earth. [Genesis 1:26]
The principle of creation is that God speaks to a thing, light breaks forth within it and it becomes the source and sustainer of what has been created. The same principle was needed in the creation of man. Since the purpose for wanting to create man was for him to have dominion over earth, its source must be superior to all other sources. Also, he needed a parking space for His ‘spaceship’ – the spirit.
God spoke to himself and a higher dimension of light was infused into him and he became the source and sustainer of this new being called man. Man at this level was a spirit being. He possessed all the creative attributes of God Almighty. He shared power with God.
THE FORMATION OF MAN
Unlike every other thing God created, man had to rise to a new level. If he must have dominion on earth, he needed to possess some attributes of earth. And the lord God formed of dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. [Genesis 2:7]
Another man was formed from the elements of the earth. God spoke to the earth and light blazed through the earth and a man whose source and sustenance was in the earth was formed.
This man that was formed valued only the things of the earth but had no connectivity with the ‘spaceship’. The higher light manifested spirit being was later transmitted and planted into the formed man and at this point the life of light by the word dwelt in man. He became a living soul.
This unique personality had 100% humanity and 100% divinity. He was divinity in flesh and blood. He was the parking space for God’s spaceship. The ‘spaceship’ possessed higher light that gave light to the sun and moon. This higher light carrying ‘spaceship’ was resident in man. This man possessed unlimited capacity, ability, capability, and potential.
He was the king of the earth and possessor of the heavens. This man had unlimited power at his command. He was too loaded to be defeated. He was a star carrying the light of the ‘spaceship’ – higher light.

CHAPTER TWO
STARDOM CORRUPTED
The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second man is the Lord from heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:47
When I first read this scripture, it startled me. I felt apostle Paul did not really understand the makeup of the first Adam. That he was a complete description of a star. Thank God, I am not a religious man, whose mind cannot be renewed. When the mind cannot be renewed, it becomes religious. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. [Ecc 11:7]
To the spiritually enlightened, light is sweet. To renew the mind is therefore a lifelong adventure.
A FALLEN STAR
But God gives it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 1 Corinthians 15:38
God gave the created man a body made from earth. Earth was the source and sustainer of the body. In the ‘spaceship’, I discovered by revelation that God was not alone. He had created for himself heavenly bodies or angels that accompanied him.
Prominent amongst these angels was one the bible described as full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Thou has been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created.
Thou are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set thee so: thou was upon the holy mountain of God; thou has walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou was perfect in thy ways from the day thou was created, till iniquity was found in thee. Ezekiel 28:12 -15
This created being was so full of itself and desired to take control of God’s parking space. He had to wage war against the Almighty. He had an understanding that the only way to break the dominion of man was to seize that control of the heavenlies.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angel fought against dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12:7-9
This serpent lost its throne in heaven and found its way into the Garden of Eden. It wanted stardom at all cost. It had no vision but blinded by ambition and greed. Since it could not seize control of heaven, it wanted the dominion of man desperately.

THE TREE IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN
I have heard so many people lament on why God had to put the tree they did not need for food in the midst of the garden. I don’t think God put it there; rather it had to be there. Remember the principle of creation. God speaks to a thing, light is infused into it and it becomes the source and sustainer.
It is the source because that is where it came out from and it is the sustainer because that is where its replenishing is from. Which means every fruit was for eating and planting. There is the part for food and the part for sowing back to the earth.
The same principle applied to the Garden of Eden. There was the portion for food and the portion for sowing. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. [Genesis 1:28]
When God blessed them, He did that by releasing a word into them that followed after the principle of creation. God spoke to the seed in man and therefore the seed in man became the source and sustainer of the blessing in man. To sustain the blessing, the seed had to be planted or sown in the earth, that it can produce fruits. That is why he began with BE FRUITFUL.
The implication of this is that, when the seed is lost, there can be no fruitfulness. When there is no fruitfulness, there can be no multiplication, no replenishing, no subduing and no dominion.
Satan understood this principle and went straight for the tree in the midst of the Garden, which stood as the seed. He tricked them to consume the seed. Immediately the seed was consumed, the blessing stopped. When the blessing stopped they were stripped of stardom. The stardom grace departed and went to the devil. The devil had seized the ‘spaceship’ and began to move across the earth. This gave birth to evil spirits or evil spaceships. They moved mankind to do all kinds of evil.

CHAPTER THREE
AMBITION MOTIVATED STARDOM
“And the devil said unto him, all this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.” Luke 4:6
The eating of the seed terminated the flow of the blessing. The blessing was the life transmitted by the light infused into the source via the word of God.
The word of God generated light that infuses life into the created. This life was the blessing that turned seeds into fruits. Through labour fruits can be multiplied.
The termination of the blessing brought an untimely end to vision. Man could no longer see the abundance all around him, all he saw was nakedness. He now feared the voice of God and his intellect had been corrupted.
The absence of vision gave birth to greed motivated ambition. Satan was in full control. Like I earlier stated, man’s body was made from the earth – dust. The dust was the source and sustenance of man’s body and all that made up the body.
Man created is a spirit, he has a soul and both the created man and his soul live in a body. “And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst men” John1:14
That body has its source and sustenance in the earth. The spirit has its source and sustenance in God, his word or light. The soul is a rather complex part of man whose source and sustenance is in both God and the earth.
Man’s informed choice dictated the source and sustaining power of the soul. The soul comprises of the intellect, will and the emotions. The soul also has the conscious and the subconscious mind. The human mind functions in two ways.
• Memory – to replay the past.
• Imagination – to pre - plays the future.
The soul is the seat of creativity that leads ultimately to stardom. At the fall, everything was reduced to dust.
“In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Genesis 3:19
Man was completely reduced to dust. To man, human instinct had become spirituality.
“Upon thy belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of thy life:” Genesis 3:14
Satan was empowered to eat dust – man. This authenticated the devil’s control over humanity. He had the keys of life and death.

A kingdom Stardom Concept

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This concept is a deep revelation that might alter your ideology a little. In the earth today, we have all kinds of leadership concepts and styles. We have democracy, republic etc. A good understand of the kingdom stardom concept brings you into great understanding of the royal blood flowing in you. Stars in the kingdom are not religion created, rather they are relationship created. Religion is simply how that world or pagans see you. A religion is the way religious sects define what they do not understand. There are many religious institutions in the world today and regrettably numbered amongst them is Christianity. I have come to discover that God did not intend for us to be called Christians. I have always wondered why Jesus had to ask his disciples who they thought he was. Everyone else called him all kinds of name except Peter. Peter said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matt 16:16
This was simply the identity Jesus approved of. While I was schooling in the north, I discovered that this is the greatest identity one could carry. Many Islamic scholars in the university I attended in Northern Nigeria were always upset when I called myself a son of God. It was a real bone of contention. Thank God it never resulted in clash. I believe God shielded me. My point is very simple.
Stardom in the God’s light is impossible without a true picture of your real identity. “If I am not a Christian, who then am I”? I know you might curiously desire to know. The answer is crucial to your stardom.
I start by introducing you to the kingdom. Nations today are governed by democratic or republican ideologies. In this style of governance the people or a parliament holds the power. People have power to vote in their leaders. People have power to vote out a leader. People have power to change or defend a constitution. People are a vital determining factor in these forms of leadership.
This is not the same with a kingdom. In a kingdom, all power is domiciled with the king. The people are subject to the king. This is a monarchy. People are governed by the dictates of the king. The king is the supreme head of the nation where he governs. You do not succeed the king by voting him out. Rather the king can sentence you to death for going against him – treason. All lands belong to the king. Great Britain used to be a monarchy and still has some fragments of it left, which is why it is known as the United Kingdom. But this is the kingdom of this world. This picture I just painted gives you an idea of what a kingdom is. But the truth is, the kingdom of God is slightly different.
Jesus came to earth primarily to re-introduce the concept of kingdom. The kingdom concept of this world needed to step aside for the kingdom of our God. The kingdom of God is programmed to dominate the kingdom of the earth.
The difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the earth is that in the kingdom of the world, people are slaves to kings. People are called sub – jects and letter become re-jects in the kingdom of the world. A subject means that the people are below, so rising up to your full potential as a person is absolutely impossible as subject. There is an inferiority complex that exists between the people and their king. Their words don’t count.
To see the kings of the earth, you might need to book endless appointments and go through all kinds of security checks. The kings of the earth feed on the wealth of the people. People are made to perform various rituals in other to please the king and probably secure his favour. They cannot demand for their rights. They bow before the king with and trembling. Their confidence before the king can translate to treason.
The kingdom of God is in complete contrast to these. In the kingdom of God, men are not subjects; rather they are joint heirs with the king. They are in a relationship with the king. They share a common heritage with the king. Immediately you find yourself in the kingdom, you are engrafted into the lineage of the king. The king becomes your brother. Royal blood supernaturally begins flow in your blood streams.
You become a king ruled by the king of kings. This is why it is a kingdom. A kingdom of kings. Kings ruled by a king. In this kingdom, the king serves the people. The king invites the people. The king is loyal to the people. The king leaves his throne and comes out to meet with the people. The king lays his life down for the people.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Isa 9:6-7
As you can see, the government of this king is forever.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Rev 12:10
Stardom is therefore impossible without a kingdom of God mentality. You are not a Christian; you are a son of God. The world is not waiting for Christians; they are waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God. That is they are craving to see the kings manifesting on the earth.
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Rev 5:10
As a Christian, you try to live above sin, you beg God, and you try to serve God inspite of your sickness, poverty and disease. As a Christian you live a life bounded by limitations. But this is not God’s design for mankind. He made us kings and priests and on the earth, we are programmed to govern.
As a son of God, you do not try to live above sin, you are above sin.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remained in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3:9
To be born of God is to be the son of God. As the son of God, you cannot commit sin because the seed of life which Adam and Eve lost in the garden is resident in you.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24
By his stripes you were healed. If you were healed then you can’t be sick. You just can’t be sick. I came to Christ some years ago while on Campus and not too long from then, the devil struck. I woke up one day and one of my ears stopped working. I felt a very big ball rolling in my ears. I wondered how it entered into my ears. I did everything humanly and medically possible to get it out, but to no avail. During those days also, I always experienced swollen eyes, nose and parts of my body. Yet I was a Christian and suffering from sickness.
One day I caught the light of the supernatural unction hidden in the anointing oil. So I applied it and slept. When I woke up, the ball had dissolves and all my swelling came to an end permanently. It more than thirteen years now and I have not known any kind of sickness. I had to be initiated into the kingdom life.
Christianity is all about making a demand on what belongs to you by redemption. So as a kingdom citizen, you are not subject to the manipulations of the enemy.

Fundamentals of Faith

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INTRODUCTION
It is often said, “if the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable.” It is also true that if the source of a thing is not known, its relevance might be abused. Purpose will always answer to source. Relevance will always be dependent on source. Source defines the authenticity of a product. The best way to establish the quality of a product is to locate its source.
Try and look at it this way, there are many companies in the world today producing various products. There are manufacturers and distributors. For instance, windows software programs are produced by Microsoft Company. Microsoft Company is the source. If it must be authentic, it has to be sourced from Microsoft or any authorized dealer or agent. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. There are so many windows software in the market that does not have its source from manufacturer. They are called pirated copies.
The same is true with spiritual things. Earth is a reflection of what goes on in heaven. Man fell on earth because an angel fell in heaven. The fall of the angel in heaven brought about the fall of mankind on the earth.
There is the kingdom of heaven as well as the kingdom of heaven on earth. Earth mirrors what goes on in heaven.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Luke 11:2
This is the foundation for true spiritual understanding. You cannot confidently claim to understand spiritual realities if you are not in touch with this truth.
Heaven is a kingdom that stands as a source for everything the kingdom of heaven on earth would ever need. There are manufacturers, distributors and end – users. The kingdom of heaven is the manufacturer, the kingdom of heaven on earth is the authentic distributor or agent, while earth is the end – user.
Too many people in our world today have not yet understood the purpose for which God created heaven and the earth. A good understanding would help us appreciate the mind of the creator for earth.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
This scripture establishes that fact that heaven and earth where created. This then brings me to a question I love to ask, “Where was God before he created heaven and earth?” We have always been told that God dwells in heaven, I am not here to debate that, but where was God standing, dwelling or located before creation began?
An attempt at unravelling this mystery is the first step in understanding the subject of this book – faith.

ORIGIN OF FAITH
Too many people read the bible with their minds closed. Salvation is not designed to suspend your mind; rather it is programmed to stretch your mind. On a certain day while I fellowshipped with the spirit of God in the shower, the voice of God came to me with the following words:
“Meditation is subjecting the mind to the dictates of the Holy Spirit.”
“Fasting is subjecting your body to the dictates of the Holy Spirit.”
“Speaking in tongues is subjecting your spirit man to the dictates of the Holy Spirit”
These three spiritual equations handed over to me had one constant – the Holy Spirit.
“And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2
This truth fertilized my mind and brought me to the realization that there are three realms in the kingdom structure. These are the spirit realm, heavenly realm and earthly realm. This brings back the question, “where was God before creating heaven and earth?” I have this simple answer, “He was in the spirit realm.”
Paraphrasing Genesis one, “In the beginning, standing in the spirit realm, God created the heaven and the earth.” This truth would destroy every hold of darkness around any life.
For those familiar with science fiction films, you see the space ships built in form of a kingdom. These space ships move across the galaxies. This gives a clear picture of what the spirit of God was like. God was within the spirit (space ship) while it moved across the deep. God somehow not too pleased with what He saw as he peeped out of the window had to make declarations. First, He desired a platform, so He declared heaven and earth into existence. Heaven and earth initiated the beginning, but there was still a problem.
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep.” Genesis 1:2
God looked out of the space ship again and rather than complain about the situation, he did went after a solution. He did something about it.
“And God said, let there be light and there was light.” Genesis 1:3
In his quest to initiate form and fill up the void places, He called first for light. The call for light was to disarm the hold of darkness.