Finally Finally 2013

Finally Finally 2013
And finally here we are at the very end of year 2013. A very eventful year at that and I am grateful for all and in all. God has been faithful and He deserves all appreciation. I must say a big thank you to all of you who painstakingly took the time out to read my treatises almost on a daily basis. I appreciate all the accolades, the encouragements, the criticisms, great ideas, and every contribution, comments, facebook likes, shares, addings on google+, even whatsapp emoticons in reply to my thoughts. Some have introduced the write up to others and readership has spread to parts of Europe, Canada, USA, SA, UK, and so on from here in Nigeria. I therefore use this opportunity to again say thank you for being there.
The writings actually started just instinctively when I got whatsapp downloaded on my phone. With some emotional wranglings within me at the time and seeking a platform to share the results of the infighting the perfect platform for the birth of something new came. In our world where negativity is default staying positive requires strategic  operations as in a war, satan has never been so desperate. And winning ways must be shared to keep hope alive. I realize that our greatest weapon is our reasoning that has roots in the realm and in the principles of the spirit. As we do spiritual warfare to establish truth and freedom, the sweet smell of daily triumphs becomes the foundation for future victories in other people as we share.
Productivity and the battle for self and purpose fulfilment is a big issue in many lives. How do we find inner fulfilment when what we are wired to do isn't as lucrative as to provide what other endeavors easily provide? So many are torn apart as they daily go through the routine doing what will put food on the table while their hearts are burdened with backlogs of the demands of their true potentials and purpose left undone. What of the issue of time in productivity and self actualization? As time goes on with pregnancies staying beyond due time, middle aged folks start asking scrutinizing questions bothering on self judgment and criticisms. While assessments can be necessary sometimes, self judgment may actually lead to self sentencing and punishment which further deter the fulfilment the heart craves for.
These and many other thoughts in my mind as I meditate on the complexities of man's existence, his daily challenges spur me to keep thinking and writing. I try to find out what makes us do what we do and what stops us from doing what we should do. I try to see the power and the authority available to us and how we have used all that to bring the world to where it is and how we can shape the future with what God has already given us.
And then the issue of God. I'm sure my writings would have been more widely acceptable if I drop the issue of God and of Christ. It's simple really. The God factor can't be ignored so long we are yet to truly find out where we all came from and how it all began. And either we like it or not faith has moved man forward and kept us on to great discoveries. It takes faith so search. Curiosity has never come out of pessimism, the inner push that there is something more than meet the eye is the mother of research.  The sheer rejection of impossibilities and absolute mysteries has moved man to discover so much of his habitat to its development. So we must never jettison faith, we are yet to even start the journey its taking us. With faith in the fact that there is an intelligent designer beyond chance that designed the world so unignorable then the God factor remains important and relevant to me. The invisible things of the Godhead is clearly seen in the things created. You can see His fingerprints everywhere. That we are able to explain some shouldn't push us to wanting to explain those things we are yet to understand or explain away the things we can clearly see but that are against what we stand for. What about my romance with Christ? When I read the gospels which tell the stories of Christ and the message He taught and projected I can't but be enthralled. The greatest efforts of man hasn't been able to deal with his selfishness even in the most cutlured civilizations. Man would love himself and those who love him and hate any other thing or person. Jesus' message turns that on its head and shows us the mind of God. That makes sense to me and establishes my faith in the other essentials of the whole story. And one thing you can't argue is the personal experience in the attached and consequential spirituality and change which when sincerely explored has changed the mentalities and the cultures of nations beyond mere religiosity. Such holds me and I'm feeling good about it without regret. It has opened me practically to the spiritual realms of signs and wonders that influence the world daily both positively and negatively.
I avoid religion though except when it's seen as attached to God. I don't see it that way. Religion to me is man made and selfish and is devoid of any spirituality and reasoning and most times colonial and territorially selfish. Religion uses God and every virtue attached, to expand its territorial aggression and to give God a bad name. It cares nothing about God beyond what it gets from its merchandising. To religion as it has evolved, God is a mere commodity to sell for personal gain and establishment. God who shines His sun on both the good and the bad would not initiate hate against the same person He lavishly blessed with all these natural resources. I learnt that from Christ. If we must love as God does the only way is to love those who goes against us, religion won't take that. God would not support our lust and covetousness but religion cannot do without them.
These and many more thoughts whirl around my heart daily while I see my gift in being able to express through writing as a way of expression so that like minds can fellowship with them though without much confidence in my perfectionism. The perfect picture comes when we add all the sides. That's why your comments are important. The main reason why the blogs were created and That's what the write ups have been deprived of. Let your thoughts too be added and  let them trigger more thoughts that would bring answers. I'll be glad if after reading you click the url, the address of evansademanuel@blogspot.com and give your comments as from now. It goes a long way in making the thoughts robust.
Some have complained about the lengths of the proses. It's deliberate though converted from a weakness of finding ways to capture all the thoughts in shorter formats. But it offers the reader the opportunity to slow down and think. In these microwave computer age, we have almost lost the enjoyment of meditation because it takes time but the benefits remain enormous. The joy of pundering and stoking the fires of self development within can not be quantified that's why the length of the proses has remained long yet the wisdom in its shortening will also be explored.
Why not make scriptural references? I want something that flows. In further publishing the write ups will still go through more editing and footnotes and references will be perfected, hopefully when it comes in its book form. For now it has been straight from the cooking pots of the mind straight to the plates of the devouring eyes. So typographic errors and errors of grammatic nature based on my limited command of the English Language can't be ruled out and you have to bear with me. There was even sometimes when figures will come out in error. Like when talking about the mind and speaking of the Wright brothers, I spoke of the period between their invention and man's first exploration of space as a decade while I meant a century. In fact yesterday I'd wanted to say it remained 48 hours to the new year and I typed 24 hours instead, so embarrassing. My joy though is that you decided to overlook all of that to enjoy the essence and the core of the writings. That's why I must appreciate you and ask that we continue with the romance in the coming year. I believe God is in it otherwise I would have given up or lose inspiration and I trust Him still that His help will continue and all He has loaded me with will keep being delivered to the betterment of all His creatures particularly those He made in His image.
Beyond saying the usual good morning, I must begin to say Happy new year even if in advance. My saying good morning has no reason beyong the fact that I write at my waking moments in early mornings, and I always wish to publish immediately if my mobile internet service providers permit, sometimes they don't even if I'd paid for data service and I most times have to change from one to another making my good morning reach you at lunch please bear with me and them. The Holiday is over and we will do again what we have always done, Writing and Reading and Keep visiting evansademanuel@blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress. com and let me always know you came. Hopefully writings in other formats will come such as Bible Studies and so on and we together can make a difference in our world. Thanks for finding me worthy of reading. Again Happy New Year 2014!

Unbundle Time

Unbundle Time In less than 24 hours it will be another year and it's all about time. Time spent. Spent wisely and not so wisely. I thought deeply this morning just as every other person does I think, about what took my time this outgoing year and what I would need to do in the coming year to maximize my time. I realise that time is money as they say. It can make one rich if utilized properly or make one poor if not taken into considerations. Silently it goes, moment by moment and as it goes nothing holds it down except wise investment. The rich and the poor have same number of hours each day. One multiplies his and got paid for each in multiple while others got tied down while time flee. Productivity is in time. If fruitfulness lacks time it becomes barren. Activity is entrapped in time, when there is no time what can be done becomes undoable. I can write but if I don't have time to write no one will read my thoughts even if they carry the answers to the world's most difficult questions. If I lock my time in frivolity and my time is imprisoned in entertainment with just a little left to clean up the resulting mess, days and nights will steal away behind everlasting doors locked up within bars of iron. The music star who got on drugs may not have lost his mind or his skills but has created extra weight on his time, time of productivity is cut short to manage his addiction and no one pays for unproductive cravings. The time spent chatting, just for the sake of hanging out with friends and enjoying yourself is necessary if only the day's job is done. The time spent in entertainment is needful but that is after the birth for the day is done. For everyday some destiny pregnancies are due for parturition and it's gradual death if they keep being carried over. The pursuit of destiny's purpose is work and the race takes time. Each day comes with its purpose to be fulfilled if pursued and so daily, what I make happen becomes history. I see how that purpose fulfillment is time related and when time is used in pursuing other things aside purpose, death is courted. It may even be money or some other 'legitimate' things that I pursue outside purpose and it may put food on my table and clothes on my back, it profits me nothing if it's outside of purpose. If what takes my time daily isn't connected to maximising my potentials and the extension of my gifts to deliver to the world what I am sent with, then the time is wasted and what a pity that is! I need time to go to school, formal and informal, even when books and write ups are only my teachers, it is when I'd gone through school that I become and it takes time. I need to develop relationships even with those that came from my loins and such takes time, relationships don't grow just because we are related, it takes time to make the calls that bind, love takes time. The issue is really what takes my time but what I give it to and what impermit to take its portion. It takes time to produce and it takes time to consume. The time taken to produce is more that that taken to consume. What it takes to eat a cob of corn is insignificant to what it takes to grow it to harvest and so also is the blessings attached. It cost to eat but pays lots to produce. If I spend more time producing and less eating, I grow. So I must free more time from eating and transfer that to the making account and release myself to growth. It is more blessed to produce and give than to take and consume. When time is spent in eating, I must be mindful of the fact that if the farmer spent all his time eating I won't have the chance to eat his produce. The time I spend watching tv stars may not be available to the stars to watch if I must have them to watch. When the player spends more time as a spectator he loses his stardom. It's all about time and how it's used. Every distraction is a time waster because as I turn off the track my time travels on with its regular stride and speed and I would have to add speed and strength to catch up. Yet as each day goes so age sets in and death draws near, night comes when no man can work, even night duties require lighting and there are nights which no man can light up. I must unbundle my time and redeem it and invest it in history making and not in things that passes with time. It might take lots of preparation but I know preparation time is made up for in destiny and it is never a wasted time. Performance is determined by what preparation time is spent on, it's a waste of time to even spend preparation time on productivity, in children it's child abuse and it has never produced an expert but mediocres. There is time for everything and that controls its proper management. I must allocate time for it's purpose and make sure it serves the exact purpose. When time for sleep is used for some very good reasons it must be paid back either voluntarily or by force and that goes for every purpose. Deprive a purpose of its time and you'll have to pay back in many folds even with things hard to part with. I must so track time and make sure it goes where it was meant to go and it will sure make life better and bring success at its right time. I must stop wasting time, I must invest it and allocate it properly. I must be accountable for each moment spent and so be confident that I did my best each day expecting heaven to bless my work. There are no idle time, it may be of preparation, performance or recovery and it oscillates between pursuit of purpose and resting in harvest. In all my time is in God's hand and so the seasons of my life. With Him the years the cankerworms have eaten can be restored and with Him the delays beyond me can be explained with meaning with time. When my time comes in His program for the world I'm sure I will be ushered into the stage of life for the world to see and at backstage for now I must spend time preparing doing my dress rehearsals waiting for my time. If I spend the now well I can be sure of tomorrow and with God on my side past years lost can be restored as He grants speed in the now. As the new year knocks it's time to prepare not to waste time but to unbundle it for excellent performance in the new year. Compliments of the season! Share this and keep visiting evansademanuel@blogspot.com Good morning!

Holiday

Holiday.
There is always a place for refreshing. Productivity is enhanced by some sabbatical sessions deliberately planned periodically. After a season of productivity, there is need for coming apart and taking some rest for a while, as Jesus put it. This part of the year offers such a time. Apart from setting out time with family and friends who may have suffered from the long hours of engagement with work and projects during the work season, our own bodies need also to slow down and recuperate with good food and plenty of rest. Above all, we need time for assessment of the past period and finding out what should have been done better and how. It offers a time of deep reflections and ponderings necessary for the rejuvenation needed for the coming production season. Holidays also offer time for fresh ideas and inspiration and weakened mental muscles can breath an air of freshness again for them to bubble in excitement for better output.
Holidays must not be a wasted time and so must also be planned adequately and properly to achieve what it was meant for. It isn't a time to be encumbered with activities that offer more stress than necessary. Going out can be stressful in a busy city and so must be well planned. Eating everything available may also result in unnecessary weight gain and other health issues that may hamper the coming season. Relationships can be strengthened if that is part of the goal but if it is taken for granted, holidays may even create more problems. Holidays must not take away the good habits of productivity, it shouldn't develop complacency, it is meant to renew strength and replace lost energy. It is time to seek God for direction for the new season and prepare adequately for a better result. It's not a time to indulge. Some people see a holiday as the time to engage in activities they aren't familiar with, it may be a time to learn new things but not evil things. The atmosphere of freedom and relaxation should not be seen as idle time and it shouldn't be a time to take an appointment from the devil. Outdoor sports can be a good way to spend time with family and friends. Definitely as a Christian, it's a good time for fellowship and worthwhile sharing of scriptures and experiences with friends and family. A visit to those places as orphanages and hospices can make a huge impact on ones life and give a lot of meaning to the season.
In all, the essence is rest to get the body and the mind renovated for better productivity. Its not a time to get into trouble and put unnecessary pressure on ones finance that may lead to starting the new season trying to pay up unnecessary bills incured during the holidays on trivialities. Spending must be well monitored with the future in mind. So many people come out badly from the holiday spending. If you have to travel it's good to be on a very good budget. Impuse buying can leave one wondering why. Not everything attractive is worth it. If you have to travel watch out for safety, recklessness is rampant at such times and it's best to spend less time on the road particularly if not on sight seeing tours. Abuse of substance and driving under such influences is common. Even if you are not drunk driving someone else definitely is and so be careful. Definitely the roads have the tendency of being more busy than usual and all sorts of drivers are dangerously trying new things.
And now that the children are home it's good to be in charge of what's going on to avoid both physical and psychological accidents. Watch what is trending on the tv, computers and phones. They pick things up so easily and  you want to be sure they aren't picking up what things are not within the values and culture of your home. If they are picking up new positive tricks, you don't want to be out of the pucture too. Taking them out is good. Go to safe places and be careful of whatever risks that are out there. Make the holiday one better than the last and resume work ready to take on the world! Compliments of the season and happy holiday. Share this! Visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com

Holiday

Holiday. There is always a place for refreshing. Productivity is enhanced by some sabbatical sessions deliberately planned periodically. After a season of productivity, there is need for coming apart and taking some rest for a while, as Jesus put it. This part of the year offers such a time. Apart from setting out time with family and friends who may have suffered from the long hours of engagement with work and projects during the work season, our own bodies need also to slow down and recuperate with good food and plenty of rest. Above all, we need time for assessment of the past period and finding out what should have been done better and how. It offers a time of deep reflections and ponderings necessary for the rejuvenation needed for the coming production season. Holidays also offer time for fresh ideas and inspiration and weakened mental muscles can breath an air of freshness again for them to bubble in excitement for better output. Holidays must not be a wasted time and so must also be planned adequately and properly to achieve what it was meant for. It isn't a time to be encumbered with activities that offer more stress than necessary. Going out can be stressful in a busy city and so must be well planned. Eating everything available may also result in unnecessary weight gain and other health issues that may hamper the coming season. Relationships can be strengthened if that is part of the goal but if it is taken for granted, holidays may even create more problems. Holidays must not take away the good habits of productivity, it shouldn't develop complacency, it is meant to renew strength and replace lost energy. It is time to seek God for direction for the new season and prepare adequately for a better result. It's not a time to indulge. Some people see a holiday as the time to engage in activities they aren't familiar with, it may be a time to learn new things but not evil things. The atmosphere of freedom and relaxation should not be seen as idle time and it shouldn't be a time to take an appointment from the devil. Outdoor sports can be a good way to spend time with family and friends. Definitely as a Christian, it's a good time for fellowship and worthwhile sharing of scriptures and experiences with friends and family. A visit to those places as orphanages and hospices can make a huge impact on ones life and give a lot of meaning to the season. In all, the essence is rest to get the body and the mind renovated for better productivity. Its not a time to get into trouble and put unnecessary pressure on ones finance that may lead to starting the new season trying to pay up unnecessary bills incured during the holidays on trivialities. Spending must be well monitored with the future in mind. So many people come out badly from the holiday spending. If you have to travel it's good to be on a very good budget. Impuse buying can leave one wondering why. Not everything attractive is worth it. If you have to travel watch out for safety, recklessness is rampant at such times and it's best to spend less time on the road particularly if not on sight seeing tours. Abuse of substance and driving under such influences is common. Even if you are not drunk driving someone else definitely is and so be careful. Definitely the roads have the tendency of being more busy than usual and all sorts of drivers are dangerously trying new things. And now that the children are home it's good to be in charge of what's going on to avoid both physical and psychological accidents. Watch what is trending on the tv, computers and phones. They pick things up so easily and you want to be sure they aren't picking up what things are not within the values and culture of your home. If they are picking up new positive tricks, you don't want to be out of the pucture too. Taking them out is good. Go to safe places and be careful of whatever risks that are out there. Make the holiday one better than the last and resume work ready to take on the world! Compliments of the season and happy holiday. Share this! Visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I want to say a big merry Christmas to you my friend. It's a worthy celebration and I am grateful to God that you are alive to see yet another one one and I'm trusting God that we all shall celebrate more and more of it. What do we celebrate? We celebrate Christ and the world have decided to celebrate with us who believe and that is great. God showed us love and sent His Son to come and show us how to live in the world in which no one knows what's going on. We needed an advocate to negotiate our relationship with God and paid the sacrifice. When we sinned the repercussion was death, yet death was not enough because it wasn't perfect and sin reigned but God had to send His word to take the fall and die our death to bring reconciliation between God and His man. And so He came, He washed us, forgave us and sanctified us and now we can call on God the separation is gone, now God is our Father in deed and the power that created the universe is now available to us! His name is Jesus, who has come to save us from our sins. We celebrate His birth today and that's the least we can do in appreciation of this unspeakable gift. Thank God for His unspeakable gift. So I can celebrate and say to you Merry Christmas. Thank God Jesus came and now our sins are forgiven and we can call God Father. Merry Christmas!

The Futility of Envy

The Futility of Envy My waking thoughts whirl around the intricacies of the basal nature of man. I look at the lockdown man often gets into through his mundane tendencies and idiosyncrasies. I see from the dark glasses and faintly see the silhouette of what the innate nature of man is being revealed in awkward attitudes held so highly in pride and in false nobility. Today my mind meditates of envy and its funny futility. We look at others and judge them face value seeing the packaging but ignoring the content. I see the opportunities and the good lot that fell on many others. I see how lucky they had been and wish it was I. I look at how bad things has been for me and wonder why I am not like others. Why I am not the rich man next door or why I am not the one driving the new car going past. I wish the blessings that came upon another were mine and wonder why my lot isn't similar. I fail though to see those who had died though stronger and fitter. I fail to see those who too wished they had what I have. I couldn't see those who had worse situations than I. Envy told me I am the worst man living. Envy lied to me. I couldn't see that everyone has a fair share of good and bad and ups and downs. I couldn't feel the headache the big head I wished I had. If I had been told in detail what the rich has with his riches and the burden that is perpetually accompanying the affluent then my assessment of my blessings will make more meaning. Envy is the rotteness of the bone. Another evil device to waste away in discontent. Envy is emptiness and a saddening element of a baseless sort. And the circle of envil never ends until the wise consciously breaks out of it and develop beyond its trap. Someone envies me and I envy another and the other I envy envies another, even the one who envies me is being envied by another and nothing good comes out of the circle except evil thoughts, rivalry and bitter competition that often lead to criminality. Why should I envy someone who feel frustrated of his own life? Why should I despise the beauty of my life and the uniqueness of my being? Why would I want to inherit the troubles of another's throne when I had grown to understand and learn the management of my own palace to my taste. Envy is futility I must not permit its thoughts in my mind. My race is different from yours and the tracks fairly different. The burdens of my life fits and my desire of another's good is incogruent, the evil of a man's life is sufficient for him, why should he envy that of others. I wonder why any should envy me. Why would anyone count me lucky when I know I'm still far from who I should be though thankful. Why would anyone desire this rough pathway? I'm sure they see not the whole picture but the beauty and the fair side. They see the crown and not the cross just as I see in others. The blindness to the whole realities of others gives wrong impression of the general reality that the trials of life is common to man. The fact that man is fundamentally insatiable in want and in desire irrespective of the loads of goods he has gathered. The poor man is equal to the rich man, they both have needs and each wakes each day pursuing what his belly craves. The poor envies the rich for his money and the rich envies the poor for simplicity. The irony and emptiness of envy. Why should I wish anything less for you because you are bigger. If you fall will that make me rise? Why should I wish evil for you because I see your beauty and not your needs, if your beauty is marred will I become more beautiful as result. What can my envy of you make me? What I am didn't come out any futile envy and what I would be won't be as a result of such negativities. And if out of envy a fortune is gained it would not have been a result of any good deed done or a fine seed sown only wickedness is motivated by envy, it has never influenced an healthy competition. Envy and love are never friends, they only meet facing different ends and at best in contention. Love envies not and envy shows no compassion. Two sets that won't overlap. Love conquers envy, understanding brings contentment and envy hurts both the subject and the envious, deeply hirting the soul. When next envy comes I must see beyond the advantage the other person has to the issues he or she has to deal with too. I must see from the eyes of compassion and must be considerate of others in every area. I must realise that there are needs in other people's lives and they don't have to show it and not showing it must not in anyway make me feel they are in need of nothing. When I do these envying them leaves the equation and with love and compassion I can relate even if from afar. And if there be a helping hand I can render to alleviate the pains of the seemingly comfortable why not? Meeting needs heals the heart and make noble the soul envy os the rotteness of the bone. Love conquers all and what could be better if we relate by the responsibility of love. Keep envy away, kill it before it releases its venom, bitter than the bile's denatonium and dangerous. Give thanks for the good others enjoy and be grateful for those you enjoy, wish no man evil and heal your heart of envy it's Christmas, let's celebrate the love God has shown and not the evil of envy from the porch of the devil. Celebrate the joys of others and sympathise with their pains and release faith in intercession for their betterment and it shall be better for you too. Merry Christmas to all my friends on all platforms...even if Christmas isnt written, the birth of Christ is genuine and wheneve we choose to celebrate is acceptable and the worship received. Celebrate! Share this and visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com remain blessed and avoid the futility of envy! Good morning!

Influence

INFLUENCE I woke up this morning filled with thoughts. I look at what my life represents and the values I cherish the most. I see the power of influence. I see how powerful the phenomenon can be. When I browse through the stories of men and see their rising and falling, the hidden factors that wrote the apparent outcomes, I realise how I must manage the influences I am under and also those I exert. The society of men or maybe of animals too are not exempted from the subjective power of influence. The boldest of men and those who sits on the pyramids of life aren't immune to the power of influence even from the most unexpected. What comes out of me has been influenced no matter how stubborn I may have been. My behavior and attitude are not independent no matter how I thought they were. What influenced my last decision may have been deposited since I was a toddler hiding there waiting for the day it will manifest. It might be a bad comment, an abuse, a misdeed or a disappointment. It may also be a positive action or word, done to me or observed within my environment. It may be a book read and don't jump at calling it the Bible. It doesn't have to be, it may be a movie or a music. Everything I had submitted my pleasure or pain to releases either toxin or medicine, some with immediate response and others waiting for the day that an occasion will pull it out. Even when under the influence of substance the greater influence waiting in the mental regions still overshadows the lesser influence of the drugs. Under the influence of any substance, some will sing and others may cry, some may commit suicide while some others will commit murder. The final outcome of evil substance abuse is influenced by a subliminal factor leading the subject into what is finally done. And so also is whatever good that is done. A smile may mean so many things to different people depending on whats talking to and stalking each from within. So I have decided to manage my influence. I must first of all agree that I can't do without being influenced, and they are most times necessary afterall my education is an influence that improved and empowered my life. It is a phenomenon that is unavoidable. I must then determine those influences I am under already, some may escape the scrutiny but there are some like sore thumbs protruding that I can't miss. So I do the rough inventory and see what and who has pressured me to where I am. I would also decide where I want to go. If anything is going to push me it should be something with a current in the direction of my preferred end and divine purpose not in another direction. I must determine the direction of the pressure under which I must submit and delete those influences that won't take me to my dream. I must sort out who or what are those that will fit into what is necessary to motivate me. Changing influences will change my life and changing influence positively will resonate in positive life change. The power of influence is strong enough to see to it. I realise also that that the power of influence sometimes may sweep one of the feet as a tsunami moving every thing along its path even those standing against it, such influences as a prevailing culture and peer pressure are like a flood ot a mighty rushing wind and salvation would be only be not being expose to such. But that remind me of Lot living at the place of his lust whose righteous soul was grieved at the evil in the land and woyld have been lost with them had his uncle not intercede for his deliverance. So in such instance I will incline my hears to the sayings of the Almighty, come out from the midst of them and be ye separate, touch not the unclean thing and you shall be my child and I shall be your God and Father. I must not permit the multitude to push me into evil. I must properly manage influence and stay out of the path of its destroying power. I must position myself however to the path of the wind of the Spirit of God and of His word. I will submit myself to the ultimate influence in subjection and obedience to His leading. And He will wear me as an expert surgeon wears his gloves to perfom surgical wonders to save lives but not as a criminal wearing gloves to hide is heinous fingerprint! I see again that I am an influence also, I pass on whatever influence I'd subjected myself to on to other people who are within my circle or those afar who are enthralled or impressed in my being. Those I am exposed to knowingly or unknowingly pick things from me and I may know nothing about it. Many won't mind speaking as I do or cloning my mannerisms and that is a great responsibility on my neck which if not properly managed may become a milestone around my neck in an ocean or make me the greatest in the kingdom if well handled. Jesus said anyone who will teach any of his little ones to go contrary will be better off with a rock tied around his neck and thrown into the sea. That I don't want. Bit anyone who teaches and does what is right will be the greatest. That's what I must plan to be. In a world of sharks swimming downstream I must endeavour against all odds to swim against the flow. I must model the best act and so influence people in my circle positively. It will be easy for me if I am already submitted to the influence of God's word and His Spirit. I must watch the things I'm so passionate about, passion lowers the guard of influence. I must watch out against those things that are forcefully trying to influence me. My will must be involved and I must watch against silent motivators for eventially I will pay the most for my actions no matter who has influenced me to do so. The influence might got some kudos or knocks but I bear the most consequences. It is left to me to sift influences and watch against what might pressure me to evil doing no matter how close. The advices, the counselling, the discussions towards the wisdom of the world bothering on selfishness and envy that may inflict pain on the subject are things to avoid. Let no one push you because you are vulnerable but be an example of a believer, a follower of Christ. Let Christ and His life and principle be your ultimate influence and you'll be safe, righteous and wise! Good morning. Share this and you might be influencing a positive change, visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com and let me know you came. It's 2 days to Christmas....and I can say Merry Christmas!

The Making of a great Mind

The Making of a Great Mind.
My thoughts on the mind wont leave me, I woke up with it again today and the intricacies of the matter of the mind amaze me. I realise that the malleability of the mind is almost total and the elasticity is almost limitless. I do not speak of any transcedantal operations beyond the place of engaging the mind in thoughts that make man understand his world, subdue it and have dominion over it. I speak of the power of the mind to profer physical solutions to the limitations of the brawn of man. I speak to let us know how wisdom and understanding are better than strength and how by wisdom we should fight our troubles.  I do not speak to put the mind above its Creator, I only speak so that I can use the mind to the extent of its obvious potential. I see the works of the mind, how wonderful they are! But I also see the devastation the mind can do, how children of eternal wrath are born through the conjoining of the mind and the flesh. I see what Jesus said about the mind, the good and the bad treasure that make its owner. A good man is one because of the good things he brings out of his mind and so also the bad man and we are not defiled by the things that come from outside but the things we permit to stay and be born from our hearts. But I have also seen that wickedness and evil lower the quality of the mind, and the heart that brew evil devices will not withstand the heart that seeks to eliminate evil. Evil may deter good but it wont ever conquer, only good overcomes evil. The truth of the heart's sincerity is invincible against lies, nothing can be done against the truth but for the truth. It is the survival of the fittest but the fittest might not be largest in size and so the dinosaurs extinct and the bugs live still. The truth and the heart that permits it are the fittest nothing can ever conquer them. The good and the heart that meditates on it are the ones for the future. Eternity and the coming new creation of the world to come belong to those who are good enough to pass the test of this present generation. The future belongs to those who from the heart bring forth good and not evil, the future belongs to the good. The wickedness of a man's heart may win him some battles but the war is won by good. Love conquers all. The mind won't operate to maximal capacity when it is engaged in devising evil. It is easier and takes less intelligence and intellectualism to destroy than to build. The mind that devices death for another man has no capacity to raise the dead and restore life. This shows me quality of a heart filled with  evil and diabolism. The heart requires lot more concentration to build a car than to destroy a rocket. The mind that produces is higher than the mind that consumes and the minds that waste and abuse the products are even worse. The lazy minds that won't venture to learn how to use products of other minds at all are yet lower though better than those who will learn to use it for evil. My mind must be engaged to do good. Yet my spirit must be regenerated to give direction to my mind, for none can be good except such receives the nature of God lost in Adam and permit the last Adam to give life in the place of death. There good is empowered and is released to guide the mind to do right. Think of what is good and what is true, if such is of good report and breeds excellence, if such will be beneficial to mankind and make life better for someone for such thoughts elevate the mind and make the heart wise. Let no thought of selfishness permeate your mind, make no room for the thoughts that trigger envy and bitter rivalry, think higher thoughts and they will make you better and preserve your life. Men who make good things live eternally in the good they brought forth and as long as the earth remains their memories remain blessed. I should be like that that my words and deeds will remain indelible and go on and on to be a blessing to generations and inspiration to those that shall hereafter drink from the streams. The mind must be orgnised to device good, it may take more efforts but it will grow the heart and restore it to what its Creator installed it for. When evil thoughts come let them be like the birds of the air, they can fly but they don't have to perch nor make a nest on the head. Dwell not on the hurts that defile the heart, rather let love prevail. Let not be overcome with evil but let overcome evil with good. Let the desperate wickedness of the heart be overtaken by desperation to do good. Think no evil, engage the mind towards positive productivity and the heart will respond with great quality to generate wisdom for witty inventions. I will keep laziness far from my heart and my mind shall project beyond cheap selfishness to bless the earth and those who dwell therein. It is the restoration of my soul tuning the mind to the frequencies of heaven to do the will of God on the earth as it is in heaven. This is what makes a great mind, good makes the heart great.Good Morning! Share this! Visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com compliments of the season!

Thoughts of the Mind

Thoughts of the Mind. I thought about the mind today. I realise my mind is never blank. There are no empty heads, everyone's mind is loaded with lots. I take a look around, I see things that has filled our world, I see the creations of man to make the world better. The development I see streaming from the mind of man. I remember the blessing in Genesis, replenish the earth and subdue it, it wasn't a command, but a blessing and an impartation to make a difference. I see how much man has conquered in this his habitat not by his brawn but his brain. I realise that the brain is the womb of development and increase comes from a brain that is empowered. Jesus said there are treasures laid up in the heart and from there good and bad things are drawn out. I am the first product of my mind and then my world, made of all the products of my productivity. My transformation is a possibility to the extent to which my mind permits. I must make my mind receptive and responsive to development and so make my world better for it. The preacher said counsel in the heart of man is like a deep well and only men of understanding draws them out. In my heart is laid up great counsels, and I need understanding to bring them out. I need to apply my heart and thinking to understanding, if I must pull out solutions and applications from thence. I must not engage my thoughts with time wasting frivolities and trivialities but higher thoughts that can bring development into my world and make the world easier and better to live. That's why Jesus called the mind a chest of treasures. It is a gold mine and a terrible thing to lose. From there innovations flow and so it has been designed to function and operate, it is the greatest computer ever built, I call it so for want of words for adequate description. What the world is yet to see is locked up somewhere there and the solutions to whatever incurable or threat to man on the planet has an answer deep down there, there the power to conquer the physical realm lies and the attendant laws are mere tools to make things happen. There discoveries are fossilized kept till the times appointed. What prophecies saw are wrought to be seen by the operations of the mind of man, and as powerful as the spirit of man is, it takes the renewing of the mind to attain the transformation the Spirit promised. What my spirit knows about me only comes to pass in me when my mind is inclined. I now see that in this universe the mind is the gateway to the realm of the spirit and when the mind is blocked and encumbered, inspirations from the higher realm can't find its way to the world. So I free my mind. I set my mind free to harness its potential and open me up to my destiny. I feed my mind with thoughts of good, and dispel off the pollutants that create evil and destroys. I mould my mind to positive modification and edification. The mental metabolism must tend to anabolism and not to catabolism. I must make the mind produce what is good and beneficial and not permit the thoughts of hate and destruction. From the mind came the nuclear energy that lights up the world and from there too came the nuclear bombs. The mind makes sense of the creations of God and is authorized to consequently use it to solve man's problems. The mind that sees another man as his problem will device ways to solve the other man representing the problem. There are devices in the mind of men. What feeds the mind? I see that my mind is fed by my environment and its content. My senses being the ways in. Other minds had supplied the materials from the mind of God to the societal mental pull. Education spoonfeeds my mind as I expose it to whatever kind and forms of it. Education is fed by the curriculum gleaned from the thoughts and the sense made of what is. All is about mental exchanges. My mind is inspired by other minds and is made to produce sometimes better that where it ate from and the betterment is seen in civilization and its growth. What the Wright brothers released triggered the minds of others so inclined and so exposed to activation and within a decade man was flying into space. The preacher said, He that walks with the wise shall be wise but the companion of fools shall be destroyed. So I will expose my mind to higher thoughts for my preservation and development and not to lower thoughts that destroy. Fools die. The thoughts of what to eat and drink, what to wear and drive, where to live and be seen all weigh down the mind and Jesus said no to those thoughts. I will set my mind on things above where Christ is seated I will focus on the coming kingdom and how life will be better for someone in the present. Such thoughts trigger the mind to birth development and innovations that move the world forward. What to eat is cheap and what to wear will always come and what do I do after those needs are met? But when I engage my mind to higher thoughts, to make some tasks easier for mankind and let man have better understanding of himself, then the hoe becomes the tractor, and the bicycle becomes a car. A good man had brought out something good from the treasure of his heart according to the prophecy of Christ. But when we don't care for love and betterment and we concentrate on selling off weak and conquered folks we are proccupied with superstitions bothering on hate and thoughts remain at the border of the mundane stunting possible development. The pride of the brawn takes the lead against the brain and the blind leads both to the ditch. The body sees for the brain but its in the brain that the bulb is lit, there ideas are born that burns for the wheel of the world to turn. With truth discovered by the inquisitive mind, and understanding lighting up the dark regions, the problems of life are confronted squarely and their invincibility conquered, the devastation of the mind against the mountains of the world has no restrictions and the mind when adequately developed can accomplish almost anything in the universe. So tuberculosis bowed to the mind of man and so was the threat of small pox quenched, the incurables that raged above the law, put to shame. Now the deaf hears because the barriers are broken cos the mind unraveled the waves hidden of God beyond the eyes and webbed together the world in its network and made the world a global village even reaching to the stars. To the glory of God He conceals things and in the honor of kings they sre searched out. My searching and proding mind makes a king of me. Does my mind make me God? No, it only makes me to understand Him and to till and keep the garden and the ground upon which He has created me as I ought to. I will keep my mind with all diligence afterall from there comes out the issues of life. I see someday the rage of the heavy winds conquered and the things we call incurables bow as usual, I see someday things erroneously called the acts of God will submit to the authority of the mind in his universe so long the world has been put under his feet or is it under his mind? When the mind has been made to see its own power and authority and has been made subject to God its maker and His laws, what has been most difficult for man to conquer will then finally submit, and the harmony between man and his maker complete and then a new heaven and a new earth will emerge in which dwells righteousness. What is yet to be conquered by man is man himself and then peace can reign on the earth through the harmony between God and His man. I intended to bring light I hope it shined to your mind. Renew and empower the mind and transformation will come to light. Good morning! Visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com and don't forget to keep sharing with friends!

What is Man?

What is Man? My thoughts bother me in my waking up. Lord forgive me, all the glory goes to you. I need the blessing and the praise. What is man that God would be mindful of him, who am I that He should visit me. I do not deserve the least of the mercies I enjoy and the grace around me. He has chosen to cause light to shine out my darkness and has put His treasure in my vessel of clay. I recognise the blessedness I enjoyed, the blessedness of one whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, the blessedness of one who sins are forgiven. I understand when Christ said none is good, except God for goodness is reserved in Him alone and we like His moon can at best be the reflection of the shining of His sun. Some others have planted and I may uust be a waterer of the planting, both they and I are nothing if the increse giver turns His back. Except I am anointed where would the good come from? Does eloquence mean wisdom, does speaking suggest substance? If not for the Spirit in man whose inspiration from the almighty gives inspiration one would have been a singer of dirge to the ears of drunken mourners. If He gives no utterance where would the tongues come from? If there are no gifts from where would the room be made? So I glorify God and Him alone deserves to be praised. If I am a blessing, it is because I have been blessed. It is a curse to look to my hand and say see what you have done. For the body is dead without the spirit just as faith is dead without it's corresponding action. I am just an expression of the unseen divinity, a channel of His grace and power. If I had tried to be faithful and the strength He gave has produced a little, I can only wish for more grace to produce further for without Him I can do nothing. I can only do all the things He has strengthened me to do, the extension of my gifts has no elasticity beyond the strength he gives and if it breaks what can I further do? And that's why we fail. When I fail to recognise the extent of grace I am exposed to see the limit of my capacities. I fail so that I can be restored to strength, His own strength and not mine. I failed because I strayed from His grace to my own abilities and I see disgrace and shame. But when I turned to recognise His power and goodness I am restored to position and I shine His light. I am nothing without Him as bird would be without wings, I am gifted of Him there is nothing I have that I have not been given. It's not about me but about Him who gave me. I may use the gift against Him and that doesnt guarantee that He will withdraw it but at the end He shall ask and I shall have to give account of my stewardship. If I withold my hand also in the day of battle and my tap refused to give water to the thirsty I fail. I must keep giving to the users of the gift and keep returning the glory to the giver of the gift and so maintain the flow and the process. If I have been blessed then I must be a blessing, if I have received the gift, I also must minister the same to others as a good steward of the manifold grace of Gos. My gifts confer on me a responsibility, it pulls me into a covenant with the Giver to be faithful. It is not about me it is about Him. If I break the covenant it breaks me for no one has the capacity to break a covenant. If I keep the covenant it keeps me and I bear more fruit instead of being cut off from the vine. So today I keep myself behind Him who does the work and I maintain my position to keep being a blessing and for the blessing I am daily I receive my wages, not from the proceeds of salesmanship but because my meat is in my doing the will of Him who sent me and a labourer is worthy of His pay afterall he who reaps receives wages and lay up fruit for eternal life. I may not see the pay as soon as I have posted or as soon as my words are read or heard but it is a deposit which shall not fail and would respond to the drawings of faith and the more my faithfulness to giving to the people and to returning the glory to God the account swells and I receive the credit alert by faith. If you have seen any good in me it isn't my fault or default it is the gift of God, the righteousness which is by faith and not the filthy rags that I used to be proud of. If I wear a neat dress it's not mine to receive the praise and be proud but of Him who washed me and the clothes from the filthiness that was my make. If you have seen success it is because someone took my failures and gave me His success. If I live and you can see it's only because He lives through me for I am long dead. He must have picked up my decaying carcass and brushed it up and entered into it through His Spirit to live out His light and life which you see. Give Him praise for me. I am alive because He lives through me and I shall live because He lives in me. So you see where the watershed is, out of my bellies then flows the rivers of living water and as long as He is there it wont ever cease. It springs to eternal life. That's the water He gave me and it's been overflowing and making desert places fruitful fields and fruitful fields are becoming forests to His glory alone and to my blessing. If you are yet to die for Him to live through you now is the time to give up and let Him in and you'll see Him in His majesty. He must live for me to live because He died for me and of Hos abundance i have grace unto grace and it's enough for all for it was provided for all. Is ther good in you already, don't be deceived it is not you it is the gift of God lest you should boast. I must thank you for reading and I must encourage you to be a blessing with the blessing with which you have been blessed and give the giver the glory. Good morning!

The Malicide

The Malicide This morning My thoughts dance around certain basic nature of mankind. I thought of the funny ways we are wired and the effect of that on daily living. I meditate on the balance between instincts and reason and how our instincts rope us in with weakness. Our ability to condition response and delay gratification strengthens us. Yet, in many instances our instincts swallow up reason and makes us who we are. Why do I need relationships? Why do I need communication? Why do I need food? Why do I need sleep? The need for Food and sleep are understandable but why can't I do without relationships and why can't live without communication? Yet I crave for them as much as I crave for food and sleep. This must be the work of God. My psychology then becomes as valuable as my physiology, the reason why the deaf and dumb still has a quest for communication and even the paralysed would still feel a hug. Man is beyond the physical and its no weakness if he seeks for it for so he has been wired up just like his Maker. So a smile is like the whole of sunshine and a loving hug is as a crowd of well wishers. A 'hello' is as if the litttle bug is recognized by the world and a little pat could be felt for life. A little peck will leave the outline of the lips and no washing would remove it forever, a small gift will worth more than the national treasury and a cup of water much more than Mississippi. Yet this is our weakness and we hunger for it. So a rich man will spend his fortune seeking for a lost child and the most popular politician would still prefer to sleep in the arms of a loving wife, a powerful king will still be mesmerized by his little daughter, and a great Mafioso by a naughty toddling grandson. Why are we so weak can't we outgrow and condition these instincts? Well, they make us who we are. Only evil takes them away from us. Yet Christ demands much more when we extend these weaknesses to accommodate our enemies and win cold wars. It is here that the conditioning in response becomes necessary and strength comes of the weaknesses. We will weep if a loved one breaks out of our heart and breaks it in the process, when we lose communication with a heartthrob and a darling strikes the heart with a dart and love takes the exit but who cares if a stranger leaves? Who cares if an offender disappears? What business is it if hate is released against someone unrelated? To what advantage is the good of an antagonist who doesn't do what we please? Against such communication can be withdrawn and relationship destroyed. Here is our real weakness. The love we often see as weakness is strength. When we love the unlovable we mature and become capable of what kids are incapable of. When we thought as children, we accommodate selfishness, hatred and retaliation but when we mature we left behind childish things and thoughts and move on to higher things of love, compassion and forgiveness. But we love to fight and strife, and inflict terrible weapons on those who are not on our page. We severe communication and destroy relationship and coldly ignore things we ourselves would not take with joy. When we acknowledge only those within our circles what good have we done? The most wicked of men too have circles and relate well within them. When we break circles to reach out to those outside the set, we do Christ's bidding and spread love we become strong. Yet those closer suffer more. If I don't expect greetings from you and you pass by without one what has that removed from me? Even if I try to communicate to no avail, I can live with it, relationship is by choice but if you are a part of me but for any reason communication is withdrawn you dispense death and snuff life out, it is the cold war with the deadly cold weapon killing faster than the weapons of the world wars. I have heard of married couples who won't talk and if they had to they write notes. Homes and friendly hearts have become battle grounds for cold wars tearing homes apart and bursting hearts with great preasure. Children have abandoned their aged parents and offences have blotted out once cherished people out of the mind. Backs have been turned among best friends and long standing working relationships have turned to regrets. This is cold war raging among men. Let your heart warm up again and the blood will flow better and lives shall be preserved. I have noticed that not wanting to lose face makes starting again conversation tough, tougher that winning back a fenced city. But there strength is shown. It's not strength to remain lost to those who once were lovers, who once lived in the bossom and then lost, but it has to be done. Friends must be won. It's not the one who spoke first that is the fool, it is malice thay makes the unwise. The Christians who don't see eye to eye on earth will have no choice than to swallow pride and reconcile before the judgment seat of Christ otherwise how would they cope? It shouldn't be natural to those who have once been delivered in Christ to go back into satanic display of malice. Malice isn't of the nature we share with God and today cold wars must end. Our passover has been slain for us and the celebrations must not be done with the old leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleaven bread of sincerity and truth. We've been told that in malice we must be unlearned and unskilled as children but in understanding we should be men. The New Testament lists of what to put away made malice a.constant, obedience to Christ can never accommodate malice among brothers. Has anyone offended you? Christ said to call such and ask, simple explanations unravel great mysteries as soft answer turns away wrath. And if you won't or cannot ask let love then cover multitude of sin and let them bury under the blood of Christ. As for malice hating and hatred let them be put off as becoming saints. Forgive as Christ has forgiven. This I say about malice. Let marriages, homes and families be malice free, find a way to break the ice and pull down the Berlin wall built in the middle of the bed and let the love current flow again. Let our churches and fellowships be warm enough to take in those sent in by the coldness of the world, let the warmth of the love and blood of Jesus embrace and bath the cold and let us be as we were originally made...the great warrior who has seen blood and death can still warm his heart with the kisses of the love of his life. Receive my hugs this morning though from far away and let the tears of softness supple your heart to love again someone lost. This is what I call malicide, the insecticide that kills the bugs of malice and cold wars among lovers. Good day! Share this! Visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com.

I Have a Reason

I Have a Reason. I woke up today with heavy issues on my mind and for multitudes of reasons I didn't write. I'm sure to get my time engaged with some other things and be preoccupied with vanity. I didn't want to write after all how much do I make from it, I can always make money somewhere else. I didn't want to write because the issues on my mind weigh too heavily on my mind and hand to raise the hand. I didn't want to writs because I'm not even sure if anyone is seeing or reading it. I didn't want to write because I might offend someone with my daily tirades and get a bad name for expressing my convictions. I didn't want to write because I got offended even when the one who got me offended doesn't even know I took the offer and went on enjoying himself wherever such is. I didn't want to write because I'm tired having expended my energy in busyness outside the call. I didn't want to write because a bad comment was passed on the one I wrote in times past, I didn't want to write because it's not just convenient, I didn't want to write because the economy is bad and everything isn't working and on and on I can reel out reasons genuine reasons why I should not do what I am wired to do. And many of those reasons are pure and genuine but no reasons are genuine enough to produce anything. They only rob us of the parturitions nature demand us to deliver from He who made us. Reasons aren't just strong enough. Excuses don't attend meetings, excuses and reasons are the twins of legitimate irresponsibility, non committal and lack of productivity. They make our unfruitfulness acceptable to accountability yet the space they create nothing else can fill. If I didn't go to school for all the most genuine reasons on earth I am deprived of what is learnt and the skills acquired by those who went. If I refused to get married for the best of reasons, whatever marriage was designed to bring to life. I may have reasons not to go to church and those reasons may be understandable but whatever God ordained that meeting to bring into lives won't get to the absentees. The spirit mostly will be willing it is the flesh that weighs down through weakness. Jesus who said it never made it an excuse to run away from purpose and he didn't tell us that so that we can avoid maximizing our potentials and productivity, instead of it working against us we are responsible for making it work for us. So pull of the blanket and get out of the mood that stops you, pick up your tool and head to the place of productivity, let not your hand be slack. Go into labour and give birth to favour. Since when a brand said 'just do it' lots have been getting the incredible done excellently barring all genuine excuses and reasons not to do. Failure has been an excuse to many when it might as well be the reason to actually wake up to succeed. Success too have been a reason for mediocrity when it actually should be a stepping stone to greatness. Success is one thing and greatness is another. My mood and emotion may be reasons to slack if I don't replace my depression with excitement and zeal, it takes the zeal and the zest of the Lord to perfom. Grace responds to availability if you are not on stage performance is zero and until you hit the housetops declaration is a waste. What will you do with an unction with dysfunction. Yet it takes excitement to kill tiredness and to move on to do great things. Money to make is a motivation, significance and acceptability are too but nothing inspires as the joy of bringing purposes to birth. That joy would defy the cross and despise the shame to wear the crown. I won't wait to birth purpose just because it looks unmarketable, because eventually nothing sells as purpose whose time has come. So then, the excuse to do and perform is greater than all the excuses not to do, after its done then the investor can see its good. If I let lower excuses stop me from doing high things, what would I do to cover for the difference? The Bible became a best seller though the writers didn't have its marketability in mind otherwise that would have been a good reason not to write. Paul for one had reasons not to put down a jot afterall he was in brutal prisons yet the stocks couldn't hold back his hands writing sometimes big letters with his own hands. I won't let an excuse rob me.of my delivery no excuse has ever written a dot. Only a few may read today and none may even comment but they are leaves of life on the wings of immortality to speak to the ears of millions yet unborn in generations only forseen. When professors and learned men and women would analyse to expose thoughts inbetween these lines. Today though unborn I see them listening all around me just as we read the letters of old, so from the prisons of deterrent excuses I despise the shackles to feed the ears atuned to my speech, so the these voice can ring through eternity as long as Christ would tarry. If all I do is exchange my living for money without giving birth to legacy I waste life, for I'll eat and drink and die tomorrow under an ideology so careless. But if though none pays today and I despise the non patronage to replenish the earth with the purpose I was made to deliver and good works is released then I live a good life which shall be remembered for long and be paid for at the judgment seat of Christ incomparable to any rewards that it may have generated on the planet. My immortality lives in the things I birth today any excuse not to produce is death. I must waste no time on the ephemeral and invest only necessary little in the temporal, my mind must refocus on the eternal and when I look at the stripes I give birth to those with stripes to my increase. What people do, say or think may become mountains between me and productivity but that depends on me if I put my mind on it. Their hurts are meant to discourage I must not be fooled by the antics of Sanballat, the Horonite and Tobiah his ammoritish servant who would go any length to stop Nehemiah. If I concentrate on them my purpose would disintegrate their snares I won't step. So I am on the go, I pick up my feather dipped in the bottle of incre dye and pour out of my mind what the inspiration of the almighty have woken my ear to ear. What can I do which I haven't done being shacked with excuses and reason? Let higher reason break in to the darkness with its light and shatter the shackes to my freedom to press on to the higher calling of God in Christ to your benefit. The world waits for the manifestation of the son of God in me and no reason is is good or genuine enough to deter. I wake to live out my full potentials and make a.difference in a world being refilled according to divine mandate in Adam. I an awake...are you? Just do it...with all the excuses, just go on do it because you have a reason to do it and not to stop! Will ya? Good morning!

I Have a Reason

I Have a Reason. I woke up today with heavy issues on my mind and for multitudes of reasons I didn't write. I'm sure to get my time engaged with some other things and be preoccupied with vanity. I didn't want to write after all how much do I make from it, I can always make money somewhere else. I didn't want to write because the issues on my mind weigh too heavily on my mind and hand to raise the hand. I didn't want to writs because I'm not even sure if anyone is seeing or reading it. I didn't want to write because I might offend someone with my daily tirades and get a bad name for expressing my convictions. I didn't want to write because I got offended even when the one who got me offended doesn't even know I took the offer and went on enjoying himself wherever such is. I didn't want to write because I'm tired having expended my energy in busyness outside the call. I didn't want to write because a bad comment was passed on the one I wrote in times past, I didn't want to write because it's not just convenient, I didn't want to write because the economy is bad and everything isn't working and on and on I can reel out reasons genuine reasons why I should not do what I am wired to do. And many of those reasons are pure and genuine but no reasons are genuine enough to produce anything. They only rob us of the parturitions nature demand us to deliver from He who made us. Reasons aren't just strong enough. Excuses don't attend meetings, excuses and reasons are the twins of legitimate irresponsibility, non committal and lack of productivity. They make our unfruitfulness acceptable to accountability yet the space they create nothing else can fill. If I didn't go to school for all the most genuine reasons on earth I am deprived of what is learnt and the skills acquired by those who went. If I refused to get married for the best of reasons, whatever marriage was designed to bring to life. I may have reasons not to go to church and those reasons may be understandable but whatever God ordained that meeting to bring into lives won't get to the absentees. The spirit mostly will be willing it is the flesh that weighs down through weakness. Jesus who said it never made it an excuse to run away from purpose and he didn't tell us that so that we can avoid maximizing our potentials and productivity, instead of it working against us we are responsible for making it work for us. So pull of the blanket and get out of the mood that stops you, pick up your tool and head to the place of productivity, let not your hand be slack. Go into labour and give birth to favour. Since when a brand said 'just do it' lots have been getting the incredible done excellently barring all genuine excuses and reasons not to do. Failure has been an excuse to many when it might as well be the reason to actually wake up to succeed. Success too have been a reason for mediocrity when it actually should be a stepping stone to greatness. Success is one thing and greatness is another. My mood and emotion may be reasons to slack if I don't replace my depression with excitement and zeal, it takes the zeal and the zest of the Lord to perfom. Grace responds to availability if you are not on stage performance is zero and until you hit the housetops declaration is a waste. What will you do with an unction with dysfunction. Yet it takes excitement to kill tiredness and to move on to do great things. Money to make is a motivation, significance and acceptability are too but nothing inspires as the joy of bringing purposes to birth. That joy would defy the cross and despise the shame to wear the crown. I won't wait to birth purpose just because it looks unmarketable, because eventually nothing sells as purpose whose time has come. So then, the excuse to do and perform is greater than all the excuses not to do, after its done then the investor can see its good. If I let lower excuses stop me from doing high things, what would I do to cover for the difference? The Bible became a best seller though the writers didn't have its marketability in mind otherwise that would have been a good reason not to write. Paul for one had reasons not to put down a jot afterall he was in brutal prisons yet the stocks couldn't hold back his hands writing sometimes big letters with his own hands. I won't let an excuse rob me.of my delivery no excuse has ever written a dot. Only a few may read today and none may even comment but they are leaves of life on the wings of immortality to speak to the ears of millions yet unborn in generations only forseen. When professors and learned men and women would analyse to expose thoughts inbetween these lines. Today though unborn I see them listening all around me just as we read the letters of old, so from the prisons of deterrent excuses I despise the shackles to feed the ears atuned to my speech, so the these voice can ring through eternity as long as Christ would tarry. If all I do is exchange my living for money without giving birth to legacy I waste life, for I'll eat and drink and die tomorrow under an ideology so careless. But if though none pays today and I despise the non patronage to replenish the earth with the purpose I was made to deliver and good works is released then I live a good life which shall be remembered for long and be paid for at the judgment seat of Christ incomparable to any rewards that it may have generated on the planet. My immortality lives in the things I birth today any excuse not to produce is death. I must waste no time on the ephemeral and invest only necessary little in the temporal, my mind must refocus on the eternal and when I look at the stripes I give birth to those with stripes to my increase. What people do, say or think may become mountains between me and productivity but that depends on me if I put my mind on it. Their hurts are meant to discourage I must not be fooled by the antics of Sanballat, the Horonite and Tobiah his ammoritish servant who would go any length to stop Nehemiah. If I concentrate on them my purpose would disintegrate their snares I won't step. So I am on the go, I pick up my feather dipped in the bottle of incre dye and pour out of my mind what the inspiration of the almighty have woken my ear to ear. What can I do which I haven't done being shacked with excuses and reason? Let higher reason break in to the darkness with its light and shatter the shackes to my freedom to press on to the higher calling of God in Christ to your benefit. The world waits for the manifestation of the son of God in me and no reason is is good or genuine enough to deter. I wake to live out my full potentials and make a.difference in a world being refilled according to divine mandate in Adam. I an awake...are you? Just do it...with all the excuses, just go on do it because you have a reason to do it and not to stop! Will ya? Good morning!

Ready for Wealth Transfer?

Ready for Wealth Transfer?
A discussion with a darling pastor yesterday lingered through the night on my mind. I woke up still thinking about it. It is an issue about wealth transfer. This principle has been flogged qover and over and many look out for it more than they look out for the coming of Jesus Christ. Well, it ought to come first anyway, the restitution of all things before the final refreshing. It sounds good. The wealth of the wicked laid up for the just. The wicked being tasked with the responsibility of labouring waiting for his better neighbors. Abraham enjoyed it, Israel enjoyed it and many are already enjoying it today. The question yesterday is why isn't it widespread? While it is true that there must be a platform and a channel, it is a phenomenon which only God oversees otherwise His purpose will be defeated. He had said His cities or kingdom shall spread abroad through prosperity, He said He will shake or harvest the nations and their desires shall come to make the place of His feet glorious. Only He can do that. So to enjoy it I must learn of His principles and key into it. My starting a business is not enough even if that's what He told me to do, the commitment of my gifts and calling isn't enough though he put them there. I must first deal with the reason why I want to partake of the transfer. I must check out greed, pride and other forms of lust and implant in there the desire to spread His kingdom abroad and to do His will. I must seek to know what's on God's budget and be committed to being part of tbe execution. I must commit myself to being a steward, a good steward, faithful in connecting the kitchen to the table. My desire must not be to consume God given resources on my lust neither to oppress His people with affluence. I must understand that though He is able to cause all grace to abound towards me to the extent of me having all sufficiency in a things, He would want such sufficiency to reflect in the increase of my good works. Wealth will transfer through the potential ability to be transfered further and to flow on and on. When the intent is to hold it then it won't move from the reservoir of the eternal Source. Wealth transfer will require righteous dealings. Waiting for the transfer will be endless if the values of Christ and godliness in dealing are not employed in daily business efforts. Does God support my lies just because it is business? Would God permit and be and accomplice to cheating and fraud? Would God close His eyes to business oppression just because His anointed servant is involved? God cannot be a thief and will not support evil, He is the judge of all the earth He won't commit iniquity. I must clean my stable in readiness for the harvest. Why would God take from the wicked to give to another wicked? Is God unjust? The nations from whom God took the promised land for Israel were wicked and those who were wise and good became part of God's people, I remember the Gibeonites. Generations after in the days of Saul and David, God would still not permit them to be oppressed. But when the children of Israel themselves started cloning the wickedness of the people of the land they lost the land. Wealth transfer may become negative and that I must not let happen. Did the preacher not say wealth gotten by vanity is bound to diminish? They develop wings and fly and that has nothing to do with the status of the owner but the manner of gathering. Who is he who claim to follow Christ and merchandise where and in what Christ approves not? Let such know that what he got isn't divine wealth transfer but the vanity that diminishes. The prophet said just as the patridge sits on eggs without hatching so those who gather riches by doing wrong would leave it in the midst of their days and at the end be the rich fool. I won't want that, that tells me there is a way God does not approve in business and such won't pull divine wealth transfer. Would God take the money of oppression to build his house? Or would he use blood money to feed His poor? Would He permit the money made of betrayal to enter into the treasury of His kingdom and so become a partaker of the blood of men? I think not! Such moneys are only good for cused lands and Alcedama, the reward of iniquity and the field of blood. There God will never dwell. Yet people make millions daily from the reward of iniquity and dance to the treasury and drop envelopes filled with blood as kingdom investments waiting for hundredfold return as promised but not by God; does God spend money? Is He impressed by dollars or pounds? He is glorified when His will is done and He who caused water to flow from the rock and found money in the head of a fish wont be intimidated by dirty cash from pilfering fingers whose offering is nothing more than an abomination. While we wait and maintain the transfer let my hand touch not the unclean things, the silver, the Babylonian garments, the wedge of gold found in Jericho all accursed things, that sent Achan to the valley of Achor with all his household. Oh! Someone might say, is that not the mentality that has kept you down and magnified poverty? A little bere and little there God will understand and they will keep accommodated in best of places and send your children to the schools of prestige, your wife will become more beautiful and you'll drive one of the recent cars, and your eyes shall be open and you shall have the knowledge of good and evil and be like God. And just like the serpent did not tell Eve, such won't tell of the fall and the greater loss of Eden, the snares and the many piercings through reserved for those who will be rich by force. And at the end the serpent shall laugh having become the god of the world. Why should I let that happen, when He remains faithful who has called who will do the right thing? Why should I seek an accommodation where God is not? Why should I seek a beauty that will become leprous like that of Gehazi? Why should I sent my children to schools God hasn't sanctioned? Why should I get a car outside of God and make my own coffin for the journey to hell? If my motive is that which God has and my method is that downloaded from heaven, and I work on the platform ordained of God in my gifts and calling then I can wait in righteous expectation and my expectation shall not be cut short. The wealth will transfer and God will be justified. I will wait in righteousness and not in greed or in coveting other people's things, my mind will be focused on the final outcome of God's plan, I shall not use my positikn in God to turn satanic stones to bread, I shall not make merchandise of the people of God rather I will be a blessing and sow in righteousness and plow in hope and definitely I shall partake of my hope, it shall not make ashame! You and I. Good morning. Share this freely and let it be a blessing to all if it has blessed you. Visit evansademanuel.blogspot.com

To Whom Is Honor Due?

I woke up this morning reflecting on the issues of the past few days as it has affected and involved me. The nation and its leadership and the church and its various issues. Somewhere there I found myself getting angry something I'd long decided against because I want to be happy. I love to engage joy and live my life in peace and love. I would have preferred to stand aloof and look, pretending all is well and trusting things will go well even when not in tune with the Word of the Omnipotent. It's no faith that trusts in what God has not said relying on pillars not built on what has been heard and done from His sayings. Such is disaster in waiting be it in a life or in a nation. I was at a conference and heard about the church as designed. How the Maker had tampered His thing to accommodate diversity, to accommodate The rich and the poor, the comely and the less comely, the the honorable and the less honorable. The body exists only because the diversities exist and no one can say I need not the other and upon the less priviledged more abundant care is placed so that the members can have same care one for another. Well, that's the church. But I have come to recognise that when the church gets it right the nation will get it right. But when the church sucks from the nation the pollution is total. A church that segregates has set in motion apatheid in the nation. A church of class has condemned the poor in the nation. An unjust church empowers injustice in the nation, a corrupt church makes thieves of national leaders. What the church defines success to be is what the nation sees it to be. When the church abandons the virtues of love and kindness why should I expect national leaders to be compassionate. When the church rejects its own why should I expect the nation to accommodate them. We are the light of the world, I beg your pardon, I am the light of the world when I shine the world sees and when shut down the world go blind and gropes. If the culture in the church refuses to change for what it was designed to be, the blind will lead the blind and the ditch will receive everyone. Will my church accommodate and celebrate the poor? Will I keep them out only to visit them once in a while? It is cultural to put the blame of being weak on the weak and tell the begger to go work and learn to believe God. It's easy to preach up a storm to the sick and more convenient to tell the indigent to open his bible to 3rd John 2 and teach him under a great anointing, it sounds sweet to give sweet counsels to the frustrated and pray and declare 'be warm' upon the naked with the authority in the name of Jesus and move on without lifting a finger and worst still to make it a preaching resource for the next sermon from the pulpit. We have not so learned Christ if so be that the truth is in Jesus. Well many got to the pulpit and to influence not having learnt Christ except being apprentice to others who knew Him not and should they be blamed, for doing ministry as taught? Our culture has taught us only to bestow honor on the honorable who came in with gay clothings and we must sit him at the special places prepared. But who isn't desirable of honor? So everyone struggles to become honorable and to avoid being the runt at the last rung of the ladder and there we form a pecking order and woe betides the one at the lower end of the food chain. This culture must change to that of the Bible and we all learning to bestow more abundant honor on the less honorable members and giving more comeliness to those members without it. Otherwise biting and devouring will continue until there is total consumption. The nation needs this light from the church but the church need to vomit the poison and I must do it first. I must start with learning the truth about where the abundant honor and comeliness must be bestowed. I must come to see what Christ sees in the poor that makes him love them that much, I must close my eyes to the gay clothings and the flashy cars and give honor to whom the word says its due, I must know that a man's life does not consist in the things he posseses, I must know that where you live has nothing to do with your eternity, I must make an avatar of the avorton, see the incarnation of God in the living and respect the personification of the human concept as expressed in man as the image and likeness of God even if naked. Didn't we come into this world all naked? We all came poor with no silver spoon in any mouth and so we shall all go even if buried in a golden casket and that is the level of man and no achievements or possessions would ever change that. I then need to shift my personal culture not to disrespect the rich and the wealthy but to give more abundant honor to the part that lacks it. Its awkward for now but that is the eternal truth, the Textbook tells us so. I must learn to identify and recognise and then I can accommodate the weak. I know of man's tendency to fear the different and to attack it. When twins come different from the norm we killed them being afraid, when the color goes black and we are whites we set up apatheid for fear of pollution, and when we see him poor we fear, he must be dangerous and so we deal with him roughly, their protruding bones must not spoil my fattened and freshly flesh but we forget that light is commanded out of darkness and the treasure is kept in pots of clay and there lies the excellency of the glory and of the grace of God and not in man. Here the church must return and stop the profiling, let the people take the centre stage and let God be seen in the least of men. When the poor is treated as less than humans and the rich is exalted above God we follow not Christ and there will be schism, not political but of caste and class, and so the table of the Lord is made contemptible and so defiled. And who can survive it when the backlash comes? Who can endure the everlasting fires when it's kindled? The nations shall be judged but the judgment shall start from the household of God because in its lights the world sees light. I have made up my mind  on what to do? I shall not oppress the poor nor ignore when he cries, my eyes must be open to see the brother in need and good must reach all men starting from the household of faith. I will shine this light and change the culture, minding not high things but condescending to men of low degree and being the change I want to see, not only living above sin but actively doing righteousness even when sacrifices are demanded. I won't be quiet when the poor is oppressed nor pretend that he deserves what he's got. I won't make the fruitless run to avoid them for the poor we always have around us, I will stretch my hand to its length even if not too long to help someone and accommodate within my space. My pastor once told me, my space is never too small to accommodate if my heart is big enough to take in but no matter how big your house is it becomes too small to take any if your heart is too small to take them. But I have a big heart and I can take in and accommodate all. I have the heart of Christ. That's you I speak of...let's change our world because we can! Good morning!

I Fly Because I Believe

I Fly Because I Believe. My mind filled with so many thoughts this morning. I have come to see that the mind will seek for clarity and understanding by instinct but only reading, reason and revelation can bring satisfying answers. Just as the stomach cries of hunger when glucose level drops on behalf of the body so also the mind craves for answers when issues become dark and mystery fills the surface of the heart. The heart does not parley mysteries, the mind seeks answers because instinctively it knows there are no mysteries only ignorance. I have seen also how lies can take the place of knowledge to no avail. I have seen minds deliberately finding a way where there is none to be seen as knowledgeable with false knowledge so called. Assumptions, suspicions and superstitions are three demons of lack of communication born when the vehicle of inquisition veered off the road of reason, research and revelations the destination is bitter confusion sometimes communicated to the detriment of the gullible. The mind desires to wriggle out of the confusion and strives to grope out of the darkness yet the convenience of the carrier still hinder, his sustenance maybe attached to the lie and so handicaps his reason, political carrier and popularity may lean on those lies and become so falsely attached that a system long built crashes if truth penetrates. This I have seen over and over and the truth watches on so obviously but not helplessly for nothing can be done against the truth but for the truth. When the mind seeks for answer and refuses the lath of light then it replaces right with awkwardness. Someone like that said, if there is ever God then man made him. He said that because he must have seen man making things and within such people's constituencies Darwinism was created from the name of a man only seeking for answers. He agrees though obviously that man did not make the sun but somehow wishes its not true that would have been extremely perfect for him, he quietly craves that someday man would evolve to be. But that's what God has made man to be, God made man to be like Him and that's the direction of man's evolution that is if He keeps on looking unto Jesus for the change. But satan has always deceived man with that God's image thing and he does it all the time through man's insatiaty and lust. Man craves to be like God when He thinks God doesn't want him to be, not knowing that God has already made him so if He can endure the pains and the process of his evolution. But it won't happen denying God, it wont happen without Him. I see this confusion even among us who claim and name the name of Christ too. How far can we become like Christ and His God if we constantly explain away the picture of Christ we obviously see because we can't see how possible and real that picture can be if we put it on. Can I be like Christ? Can I live absolutely like Him? Yet this is Christianity beyond that formed for religious purposes. This was the one christened at Antioch, it was the one Jesus commanded the movement of Christ's disciples taught to do all His commandments. I can see that the more I look the more I become of His image and my imperfection will be at the areas of my non conformity. These areas will be those where I am not looking perfectly and where I rationalize and explain away what I see. But if I keep forgetting what I see straight away after looking and I keep wishing it was something else I see because of the flesh of the first Adam, then the serpent will keep selling me the forbidden fruit of the fall. Yet we package these imperfections in the garb of erudition, intelligence, eloquence and religiosity, making it look as acceptable as possible but will it ever answer the quests of the mind ever nagging? Will it satisfy the cravings of man to be in the image of God? Will I become like God explaining away holiness and righteousnes when He is called Holy! Holy! Holy! ? How can I become like God when I rationalize goodness and sacrifice? How can I become like God when I don't understand mercy and justice? How can I become like God when all I believ can ever happen are only the things that nature can make happen? I can't walk on water that way, I won't ever feed the thousands with few loaves that way, I won't heal the sick that way neither will I ever raise the dead. In fact, I won't live holy that way I would have rationalized away the path of my becoming like God even while trying to preach the gospel. And I would have become nothing better than those who said man made God because the false gospel non believeing believers preached made man to make God. But I fly because I believe and I keep flying till I come to God's image. That's my destiny as I keep looking to that mirror of Christ's image without rationalizing what I see neither explaining away things the laws of nature and of economics don't permit. I see a better law of faith and it keeps me flying into my destiny. I believe in evolution I am evolving becoming like God as He moulds me from the dust of impossibility to become the flesh of His flesh and the bone of His bone with same power and authority. I have His nature and have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. I walk in His steps till my world is changed from one level of glory to the other. My mind being renewed day by day with my inner man not minding what's perishing outside daily I am transformed by the knowledge of His reason, His reality and His revelation. I fly...because I believe! This is not mind freak it is reality on my way to becoming like God in character and in charisma conforming to the image of Christ as the first born among many children of the same God. What He did, do! Keep looking unto Jesus, do what you see! Let your mind accommodate the answer Jesus is the answer. Believe and you'll fly! Good morning!

Friends Forever

Friends Forever.
It was our 14th anniversary yesterday. There was no other thing that could fill that much space in my heart than the thoughts of our marriage. The storms had come and they'd been calmed again afterwards. The rains had come and the sun had shined affterwards. The covenant had sustained through the times and the seasons, the vows have been kept having being tested, tried and found true. Seven times and twice so tried as in hell to bring us into the third day where our revival waits to usher us into the pleasures of His presence and the joys of His right hand forever. Oh He has not left our souls in hell, He has shown the path of life and we are escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler into a new day. The tag team had chased tens of thousands and had gotten better rewards than for the solitary. The Third of the three-fold, the unseen of the three has made the cord strong and unbroken, He had made us friends. I have come to see the strength of friendship and friendship has made the relationship work. I have seen many with more years and greater troubles with love binding yet stronger than the love of Jonathan and David and friendship should be blamed because friends are forever. The father will fight his son and the son his father, the same for the other gender but friends are forever. When the son becomes friends with the father the feud fizzles out and until the relationship becomes friendship it sits on a tight rope waiting for the concrete of friendship. The work is to wring out frienship out of the dryness of whatever relationships and turns it to an everlasting darling. I have seen wives torn apart from the husband I have not seen true friends turning backs on each other except when facing oppositions together. There may be fights and there may be quarrels but the wounds are faithful which enemies' kisses cannot contend. I have enjoyed friendships but with her it's another level. I will maintain friendship and revel in the covenant, the vows I will keep and only death will do us part. My strength is hers because my weaknesses she has borne, her weaknesses are covered with my love and I identify with all her imperfections. And why would I not, since our differences make for variety and not to hurt or harm. Our friendship built an habitation for the Lord praiseworthy is it. And as we celebrate may we inspire so that many more will see the bliss in marriage built on everlasting friendship, too strong for any irreconcilable difference and will shame whatever challenge and calm storms with its weight of peace.  That's why we shall forever be friends and foes can only gnash their teeth to bluntness. The cord will remain strong and the better rewards of joint labour of love will not cease. Our oneness remains impregnable and the favour of one who found his mate renews daily and we remain friends forever at all cost whatever comes. And so God is pleased and He protects until he satisfies with all his pleasures and prosperity for the house has been built on the foundation that will never shake with Jesus being the chief cornerstone. So celebrate with me and let us celebrate conjugal bliss built on friendship and forever our celebrations shall never end. Good...