Wisdom For Living

SEVEN SIMPLE WISDOM THAT HAS HELPED ME IN RECENT TIMES:

YOU CAN ALSO APPLY THEM IT WILL HELP YOU ALSO:

1. I am not in competition with anyone. God forbid I do things because anyone is doing it. That way, I can celebrate with my friends and my brothers that God is helping without rushing to prove my own point. At least God is also helping me.
2. I no longer allow anyone to choose my friends and brothers for me, I do that based on my personal convictions and interest. I ministered for a man you know very well in Lagos state, that some people said I should not have ministered for. For three days he took me into serious fasting and prayers. I came back and my prayer life and fasting life was restored. I am glad I did not listen to anyone. That man rekindled my prayer fire. A man told me last week, how his own prayer life was also revived by that man. Don’t always judge people based on what their enemies told you, or based on their pass mistakes. Try and know them personally. Do you know till date some people believe you are into what you are not into, based on what and enemy told them about you.
3. I don’t give because I want anyone to stay. I give with the understanding that you are free to go. That way I don’t give what will injure me in the event that you choose to go. A man needed money sometimes ago, the amount needed is what I can afford. But since he is an unstable fellow, I gave him what I know I can even give to a total stranger. That way I won’t have to regret my giving, when the expected happens. The expected not the unexpected. Because he is very unstable. It is expected that he will misbehave.
4. I will never empower a rebel. No matter how genuine the need may be, I will never empower anyone that will use my empowerment to fight me or destroy me. Once I am convinced that you have the tendency to fight me if you are strong. You can go and get that strength from any other source but not me. This is why most brothers don’t help themselves. Some brothers want to be strong enough to fight you. No matter how genuine the request may be, never empower a potential rebel. Some dogs are waiting to be fed, so that they can bite you.
5. I have withdrawn from anyone or any place the right to rubbish me or dishonour privately or publicly. You do it once, I will never step my feet there. If I sense you are capable of doing it, you are on your own for life. I will just be giving you all kinds of excuses. There is a way you are disrespected, that you will even lose the few followers you have. Some people watch to see how you are treated, to know how they will treat you also. Most especially if I honour you and I don’t get it in return, you will look for me till you die, you won’t find me. If you find me, you won’t get me.
6. I don’t force anyone to stay with me or to submit to me. My life is not dependent on who stays or who submits. My internal sons and daughters are taking good care of me. My physical ministry is paying my bills. What I get in one Sunday, both in cash and in transfer, no external son or invitation can give it to me. Last Sunday and this Sunday, I was to minister for two senior men, I sowed seed to them, to be allowed not to come. That is because my own work is working. I don’t have time for myself, my family and my ministry members, where will I have the time to pastor the man who doesn’t want to stay?
   Most pastors will fight you for not submitting to them, because it boosts their ego and arrogance. All fathers should know that it is better to have one good son you raised, than to have ten sons who don’t see you as their father.
7. Once you are of economic value to me, my family and my ministry, I must find a way to manage your excesses. That may be the price I need to pay to enjoy the benefits I draw from relating with you. If I can forgive people who are not useful to me, why can’t I forgive those that are useful to me? Don’t be too perfect to the point that you use your very hands to drive away the people God brought to help you. One of my most useful daughters in church, is the most stubborn person I have ever met in this life. But I am managing both the stubbornness and the usefulness put together.