A certain group of unemployed people, gathered together for an interview, they had been invited to the interview (job interview) because they applied to the company following its advertisement in a Newspaper that it had vacancies. While they were waiting for the panel that was to conduct the interview to arrive, they got talking to each other. One of them asked a question, is this organization known to do things right? Do they employ people based on merit, or do they employ based on who you know; what about bribery? A lady also wanted to know if there are any stories about women getting what they wanted, by giving what they had as women.
That was when one of them got himself into trouble, he had heard that the Managing Director of the Company/Chief Executive Officer, liked women a lot, but wisdom demanded that since he never knew this man, and had never caught this man with a woman before, and he ought to have kept quiet, about it. He had all that was required to get that job. He was brilliant and hardworking and was going to score the highest in the aptitude test. Without thinking, and without first looking behind him, he said ‘The managing Director/CEO, is a womanizer, and will go after anything in skirt’, humorously.
Unfortunately for him, the person that was coming right behind him was the man he was talking about. A few years back, his colleagues in the place of work, had started that lie against him, and were using it to destroy, his image, hoping that they will be able to take him down, eventually, because he was too talented for them and too brilliant. The whole thing rocked his very existence, because he was a disciplined and honest man. He managed to get over the whole thing and still rose to become the M.D./CEO of the company. Immediately the man heard his about- to -be employee talking about him, and saying the same things that his enemies used to wound his soul, he concluded that his enemies were about to plant another agent of theirs in the organization. He was the most powerful man in that organization, and in that panel, and was not about to let that happen. He marked the face of the naïve and unfortunate job seeker. His naivety and folly had cost him a job that he was most qualified for. Our perfect master and Lord had said, “That men shall give account of every idle word that they speak.”Matt 12:36.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
YOUR TOUNGUE/YOURLIFE:1
We all have heard so much said about the power of your tongue, and the inherent ability of the words you speak, the power of such words to determine your future, and guarantee your victory in life. That will be our subject for another day, but for today, our emphasis will be on the benefits of keeping quiet, about things and people that we do not understand. I have personally had some experiences that I regretted because of the wrong use of words and the wrong use of my tongue in relation to people and situations that I did not understand fully and spoke ignorantly about them, and entered into trouble with them.
In June 2008, I was in Lagos Nigeria to work on my new music CD, my album titled Greatest Love. While we were working in the studio, there was power outage, something that is very common in Nigeria, so we stopped working for a while, and somebody went to put on the studio generator. We stepped outside the studio and I was together with three other guys, then I remembered something I had seen on television, a few days earlier. A pregnant woman who had what the doctors’ call-cervical dystocia -, i.e. a plastic cervix that refuses to thin out and open out and allow the baby to pass through it; and the doctors had decided to operate on the woman because that is the solution, humanly speaking. She and her husband hadn’t the kind of money required for the surgery. As a result of this, she came to a church to meet a certain man of God. The man of God, during the service, pointed at this woman’s abdomen (belly), and within a two minute interval she delivered a bouncing baby boy who was healthy, alive and well, and herself was equally in sound health, after the delivery of the child. I decided to share that story with my friends and tell them to try and visit that minister’s church on a Sunday, and see things for themselves. I was however shocked by the response that I got from them. One of them, though a passerby, said, you don’t know that man, he is a criminal. He does not know God; we have heard a lot of things concerning him. That thing he is doing is nothing but magic and God has nothing to do with it.
I was shocked by what my friend said, he said all those things about a man that I witnessed a mighty work that only God could do, through a man, performed by him, a man he did not know and has never been with before, all that he could say was that he heard from people, who said that they heard, from people. The whole thing did not make any sense to me. He had never made any efforts to find out what the truth was, but he had already drawn his conclusion and was busy spreading the bad news.
One very important thing my friend did not know is the fact that the that there is a spiritual law that says that you are not to curse or speak evil about one that God has blessed, because that is certain to bring a curse back to you. A lot of people are are suffering today because of what I have just told you, and please do not become one of them. This one who speaks negatively, about the Lord’s anointed, may one day need help of the kind that will require the ministry of that prophet of God, and except God shows him mercy, he has already repelled the spirit of God that is at work in that man, and may die from his problem.
A word is enough for the wise, let us learn to only say those things that we know, and that we have proven to be true. The manual of life tells us that- Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it, will eat its fruit.
In June 2008, I was in Lagos Nigeria to work on my new music CD, my album titled Greatest Love. While we were working in the studio, there was power outage, something that is very common in Nigeria, so we stopped working for a while, and somebody went to put on the studio generator. We stepped outside the studio and I was together with three other guys, then I remembered something I had seen on television, a few days earlier. A pregnant woman who had what the doctors’ call-cervical dystocia -, i.e. a plastic cervix that refuses to thin out and open out and allow the baby to pass through it; and the doctors had decided to operate on the woman because that is the solution, humanly speaking. She and her husband hadn’t the kind of money required for the surgery. As a result of this, she came to a church to meet a certain man of God. The man of God, during the service, pointed at this woman’s abdomen (belly), and within a two minute interval she delivered a bouncing baby boy who was healthy, alive and well, and herself was equally in sound health, after the delivery of the child. I decided to share that story with my friends and tell them to try and visit that minister’s church on a Sunday, and see things for themselves. I was however shocked by the response that I got from them. One of them, though a passerby, said, you don’t know that man, he is a criminal. He does not know God; we have heard a lot of things concerning him. That thing he is doing is nothing but magic and God has nothing to do with it.
I was shocked by what my friend said, he said all those things about a man that I witnessed a mighty work that only God could do, through a man, performed by him, a man he did not know and has never been with before, all that he could say was that he heard from people, who said that they heard, from people. The whole thing did not make any sense to me. He had never made any efforts to find out what the truth was, but he had already drawn his conclusion and was busy spreading the bad news.
One very important thing my friend did not know is the fact that the that there is a spiritual law that says that you are not to curse or speak evil about one that God has blessed, because that is certain to bring a curse back to you. A lot of people are are suffering today because of what I have just told you, and please do not become one of them. This one who speaks negatively, about the Lord’s anointed, may one day need help of the kind that will require the ministry of that prophet of God, and except God shows him mercy, he has already repelled the spirit of God that is at work in that man, and may die from his problem.
A word is enough for the wise, let us learn to only say those things that we know, and that we have proven to be true. The manual of life tells us that- Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it, will eat its fruit.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
BELIEVING IN HOPE, AGAINST HOPE
This term or title really looks funny to me, but it very accurately describes, the condition of some people that will read this article. It is important to know however that these words are not just my words, neither are these terms my terms, I saw them first in the word of God.
One day recently, while watching a television program on a satellite T.V. channel known as DBN, transmitting from London, I heard a man , a preacher, tell a story that seems to me to be the most impossible situation that became possible in the World. This story that ought to be investigated, and documented in the Guinness book of records. He told the story of a woman, who was well into her late fifty’s who came with her husband to his ministry unable to conceive as it were, therefore childless. According to him, this woman, not only conceived, but delivered for children over a space of four years.
The shocking aspect of the story is that the woman delivered one or two of the children within a space of two months after the previous pregnancy and delivery, and as a doctor, I know that this is medically impossible, but we serve a God who does impossible things. A normal pregnancy lasts for between 7 and nine months, but to talk of 2 months? This ought to be investigated by the medical community and the media.
There is an older and related story in the Bible that talks about a man Abraham, whose wife had a child at the age of seventy-five years and he was ninety years old at that time. Thus we read from the Book of Romans in the Bible, chapter4, verses 17 and 18, “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations.)Before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead and calls those things that be not(do not exist), as though they were. Who against hope, believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.”
One day recently, while watching a television program on a satellite T.V. channel known as DBN, transmitting from London, I heard a man , a preacher, tell a story that seems to me to be the most impossible situation that became possible in the World. This story that ought to be investigated, and documented in the Guinness book of records. He told the story of a woman, who was well into her late fifty’s who came with her husband to his ministry unable to conceive as it were, therefore childless. According to him, this woman, not only conceived, but delivered for children over a space of four years.
The shocking aspect of the story is that the woman delivered one or two of the children within a space of two months after the previous pregnancy and delivery, and as a doctor, I know that this is medically impossible, but we serve a God who does impossible things. A normal pregnancy lasts for between 7 and nine months, but to talk of 2 months? This ought to be investigated by the medical community and the media.
There is an older and related story in the Bible that talks about a man Abraham, whose wife had a child at the age of seventy-five years and he was ninety years old at that time. Thus we read from the Book of Romans in the Bible, chapter4, verses 17 and 18, “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations.)Before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead and calls those things that be not(do not exist), as though they were. Who against hope, believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.”
Thursday, May 7, 2009
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOODNESS OF GOD/BIBLICAL PROOFS OF GOD’S GOODNESS3
In the book of James, chapter 1 verse 17, we read: “Every good and perfect gift, comes from above from the father of lights in whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. “Our Lord Jesus Christ said that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness. All these point to the fact that God’s good ness is real and so true that it cannot and should never be doubted by anyone .Many times when people face difficult times, they begin to wonder whether God is still there and whether he still cares, but the truth is that he does. I heard the story of a young man, who lost his mother, was mad with God because he said that he could not understand what God wanted him to now and why God would take his good mother away. What he was never taught is the fact that God is not the killer that the one who steals, and kills and destroys is the devil, and as a matter of fact death is caused by an evil spirit-the spirit of death! Rather than these we read in the book of Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse 11 we read,” For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of peace (good) and not of evil, to bring you to an expected end. “Thus we can see that God thinks only Good thoughts towards us and not evil thoughts and wants good to happen to us, not evil.
Following his knowledge of these things, King David writes in the book of Psalms 100:5,106:1,107:1,118 verses 1 and 29,: O Give thanks unto the Lord , for He is good and his mercy endures forever.Again, in Psalm 107 verse 8, 15, 21, and 31 we read: “Oh that men would praise the Lord, for his goodness and for his wonderful works, to the children of men!”
Finally, “He has not dealt with us according to our sins; nor has he rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high over the earth, so great is his mercy towards them that fear him. And as the East is far from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear him. For he knows our frame, and he remembers that we are dust!”Psalm 103, verses10-14.What a good God He is! My prayer for you is that your whole mind, soul, spirit and body, be always conscious of who he is, of his goodness, and of his unfailing love, and the fact that he himself said, I will never leave you nor forsake you, and lo, I am with you until the end of the age. Amen.
Following his knowledge of these things, King David writes in the book of Psalms 100:5,106:1,107:1,118 verses 1 and 29,: O Give thanks unto the Lord , for He is good and his mercy endures forever.Again, in Psalm 107 verse 8, 15, 21, and 31 we read: “Oh that men would praise the Lord, for his goodness and for his wonderful works, to the children of men!”
Finally, “He has not dealt with us according to our sins; nor has he rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high over the earth, so great is his mercy towards them that fear him. And as the East is far from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear him. For he knows our frame, and he remembers that we are dust!”Psalm 103, verses10-14.What a good God He is! My prayer for you is that your whole mind, soul, spirit and body, be always conscious of who he is, of his goodness, and of his unfailing love, and the fact that he himself said, I will never leave you nor forsake you, and lo, I am with you until the end of the age. Amen.
Monday, May 4, 2009
NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN 'CAUSE, HOPE NEVER FAILS.
Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder and the President of Winners chapel worldwide, is an outstanding example of how God can raise the poor out of the dust, and lift a beggar out of the dunghill.Recently, his church celebrated its 28th anniversary, and the man who built the largest church auditorium in the world shared the story of how he suffered,and how he sruggled with poverty in his early days of ministry.What God does for one, he can do for another under the same circumstances.Do you believe it?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOODNESS OF GOD/BIBLICAL PROOFS OF GOD’S GOODNESS 2: MORE BIBLICAL PROOFS.
The Bible tells us that God causes or allows His sun and His rain to shine upon both the good and the evil. You and I know too well that if we had an opportunity, to distribute something to people around us, and we heard about one of those people who happens to be a criminal, there is every tendency, that we may try to punish such a person by denying him that thing or out of resentment, avoid such a person, but God is not like that, as we can see from above.
King David, of ancient Israel, was one man who experienced the goodness of God. We are told, of how God took him from tendering sheep (sheepcote) and made him King over the entire Israel. He alludes to this in Psalm 113 verse7,’He raises the poor out of the dust, and the needy out of the dunghill’, just as it is written in 1Samuel chapter2 and verse 8, He raises up the poor out of the dust, and the beggar out of the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make the inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S and he has set the world upon them.’
However, even though God was good to King David, he messed up by killing an innocent man and taking over his wife. The law demanded that king David be condemned to death, i.e. capital punishment, but God showed him mercy, thus the Bible ,especially, the book of Psalms most of which King David wrote is full of: O Give thanks unto the Lord , for He is good and his mercy endures forever!
King David, of ancient Israel, was one man who experienced the goodness of God. We are told, of how God took him from tendering sheep (sheepcote) and made him King over the entire Israel. He alludes to this in Psalm 113 verse7,’He raises the poor out of the dust, and the needy out of the dunghill’, just as it is written in 1Samuel chapter2 and verse 8, He raises up the poor out of the dust, and the beggar out of the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make the inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S and he has set the world upon them.’
However, even though God was good to King David, he messed up by killing an innocent man and taking over his wife. The law demanded that king David be condemned to death, i.e. capital punishment, but God showed him mercy, thus the Bible ,especially, the book of Psalms most of which King David wrote is full of: O Give thanks unto the Lord , for He is good and his mercy endures forever!
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