Let War Cease

Let War Cease!
I woke up today with a determination in my mind to love. To love my neighbors as myself. To take their idiosyncrasies and absorb their rubbish. I have decided to follow Jesus. I'm sure you too have heard the song before.
I have had pains and I suffer no more. I have suffered, I fear no sin anymore. He that has suffered is free from sin, so said Apostle Peter because no trial or travail will be strong enough to make such transgress. I can dare the greatest adversity and I'm sure my resolve will remain the same. If you throw corn at me when you know I'm no cork, I'll pick your corn, make a meal and take the pap.
It takes two to tango, I will only tango with you in a dance and not in a fight. If you send the invite I can reject the call. I won't fight you but love you.
Words may mould into arrows and darts sent as if to an enemy. Attitudes may sapp strength when one receives its downsides.  A man's ego may be wounded yet he hears the giggles of his afflictors and so the pains deepen. There is no end to wickedness, humans seek the most deadly to release against every perceived enemy and so make themselves enemies of their perceived enemies.
I have seen those who campaign against hate in the same seat they cry out against. Some cries are armoury to prevent the opposition from expression so that the opposition might take a position of an easy target. I see ambush set by propagators of peaceable propaganda. Man loves to deceive himself.
I've seen discouragement sent in the direction of perceived adversaries maybe it might weaken him in case he came to fight. So fights are raised against the peaceful and the innocent is caught unawares.

Why should insecurity drive me? Why should my self interest push me against my lovers? Why must I think of competitions and adversity and see errors where there are none?
But that is man who should be god. There the foundations of the world went out of position and gods die as men and fall as one of the princes. Ye are gods, the psalmist said, and all of you the children of the Most High but without behaving at the highest level, baseness will bring the gods down into the graves of men.
The answer is to love. Love like God loves. Love your enemies.
So he used a bad language on you? Don't use a bad language on him in return, step higher. So he judged you wrongly? And that's not right but engage mercy towards him. Or else when will all the rancor ever come to an end? When will wars cease to the ends of the earth? Yet all wars are fuelled by self interest, even the the mediator too has some interests to protect.
The answer is true love. Can we afford it? So elusive it has become in as much as we believe in the survival of the fittest. Who wants to be the runt that dies? But who will fight for the weak? Yet when only the strongest had survived, his components would still compete for the best meat and eventually self-destruct. Survival of the fittest can only make the survivor lonely if nor suicidal. When I lock myself in the unnecessary fight for survival against you, I fight myself since you were already made part of me. But when the strong supports the weak, we both survive and the strength gained pushes us better faster.
Why wars when we can love. Why fear me when I can't hurt you? Why hurt me just because you feel I may hurt you? Yes, I may be different but I may not be dangerous. But I may become dangerous when I have to defend myself against the expression of your wrong perceptions of me. That's what makes violence plenty. That's where wars come from. But if I choose to love you even when you are an avowed enemy, love conquers you and saves both of us. When Jesus said love your enemies it is so that we all can survive together and reign as gods on the earth.
But I doubt if they'll listen! I hope you will because I have made up my mind to flow with Jesus and end all wars in my life. I'm sure if I obey Him, He'll protect me and cause wars to cease.
The wars within my members will have to end first. My desires must be on proper co-ordinates. My selfishness must soft-pedal on me. I must lose my lust and kill my fears. I must see good in all and know I'm good if you are. Your good removes nothing from me and the scarce world resources are good enough for us all. I must see that the weak survives and become part of the work force and realise that then we can all move forward. I must see that there is no runt to kill and being handicapped only make you special and being different doesn't make you dangerous.
Why should I kill you because you don't believe in what I perceive as real? If it's truly real you can only deprive yourself not believing,  afterall baal should be powerful enough to defend itself if it's great enough to be bowed down to.

There will always be reason for love and wars make no sense. Don't be afraid of me, if I ever hurt you it is a faithful wound of a friend better than the kisses of an enemy. Your fear of me can only trigger my fear for you and your trust in me makes me want to please you. That's the way it goes. And if wars must cease let love take the lead and not fear.
But I have seen that in world politics vocabularies such as love and forgiveness do not exist. In nationalism selfishness is key and when many nations are locked up in one, nationalism could only mean bitter competitions at best and full blown wars at worst, either hot or cold. I heard a leader said he was sorry and asked for forgiveness for some assaults I heard also that the other nation declined. And what would be the result if not wars. But we can stop wars and make them to cease if we permit love to push us on either within the family, friendships or among nations. Good morning. Let's do love!  Share this and let love flow...keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and leave a comment since you are more than a visiting number. Reach me thru toyintoks2011@gmail.com ...keep on loving!

Troubling Dreams!

Troubling Dreams!
I woke up today with dreams in my head. Now I know what that pharaoh went through to call for Joseph. I can relate with Nebuchadnezzar when he was ready to waste all his wise men of thoughts and interpretation within his kingdom because of distressing dreams. Some dreams may have been the results of much activities and thoughts as said by the preacher the son of David, yet he won't interpret the one he had as such after he offered a thousand sacrifices that changed his life. Dreams matter and dealing with them matters the more. Many a times our spirits engage with the Holy Spirit to bring pictural messages that are significant to our destinies. Most of us have seen the performance of the dreams we had upon our beds in reality. Why then should dreams be seen as mere concentration of deep thoughts? God spoke through dreams  to Joseph, else how would he have known where the strange pregnancy came from to accept it? God spoke to the apostles at different times through dreams and what they consequently wrote of those experiences were documented and accepted as inspired by the Holy Spirit. Dreams beyond the modernism of tagging them to our desires are real. There lies one avenue God reaches out to us. God would speak through any means and He has the right to, He is God, isn't it? His word is primary but too generalized. He could use other people but there has to be a personalized way of knowing what God wants to specifically pass across. He desires a personal relationship and mouth to mouth talks are always better. He could speak to my heart and work through my spirit within and He could also send those video messages through dreams, what difference would it make. So long He speaks my language and I can understand his tongue and get the message. Oh yes, I understand that even Satan manifests as an angel of light to deceive and such spirits may invade the privacy of my dreams to torment or trouble my heart. But the nightmares they bring are mere suggestions that aren't binding on me to implement. And they always come with their loopholes for quick detection so we can deal with them. Yes, many leave them undealt with and pay dare consequences. When they come inflicting fear and sapping faith, no matter how real, they are satanic suggestions and must be cast out with authority. I won't be careless with those bombs, they must be detonated asap. The trouble of those kings had been the meanings their dreams carried. Even if the dreams are of God and salient messages subliminates within them, they would still require interpretations for understanding. Some would interpret themselves, others will interpret with time as events of life unfold. Whichever however every dream should be dealt with spiritually at the waking moments at the place of prayer.
I normally ask why. Why would God tell me this? To what gain do I have this revelation? And the answers would give direction of what to do, how and when. Why would God send Peter the whole lots of 'unclean' animals to kill and eat with a message that what he had made clean shouldn't be called unclean? Clearly, an instruction was coming and he would have to be careful not to reject a divine offer through mere religiosity. With time the specificity of the message unfolded directly relatable to the dream.  Dreams would come to warn and others would come to prepare. Some would indicate and explain disguised prevalent situations and an instruction should come with it to unveil the masquerade. Others will tell what are coming forth in order to be prepared. Some would be subject to change and the dreamer would know what to do to effect desirable changes, others won't change they are glimpses into devine pre-determinate counsels of God and we would just have to prepare to live with them.
When dreams come confusing the dreamer it isn't out of place if an interpreter isn't far away. Or how would you preach in other tongues and not interpret? God is not an author of confusion. It would become out of place if the interpretation becomes even more confusing. The interpretation may show the requirements of  extreme sacrifices but it would be clear what are demanded. And when a dream comes repeating itself its urgency is in no doubt and to wake up and deal with such immediately isn't an option. No matter what, every dream demands the dreamer to wake up and do something about it, so many calamities have been averted by promptly doing so and many too have gone unabated because of unbelief and laziness only to be referred to when the evil is accomplished.
Now I am asking, Lord what would I do with this dream? I'm sure the dream is tied to an event nearby or a situation I'm presently misinterpreting in which I need the correct interpretations. While Peter thought on the dream, he had a knock which became a practical continuation of the dream he just had. The physical twin part of the dream will never lie though it doesn't have to arise the second time if the dream is of affliction. Is it not written that afflictions would not arise the second time? Deal with the dreams and they won't. The afflictions I had gone through in my dreams won't materialize in the physical but the joys of my good dreams will live ever with me I'll see to it on my knees.
There's no issue beyond the power of God and God and issues meet at the altar of prayer, while revelations are the wood that stokes the fires of the altar. Revelations from the word of God and those from His Spirit's activities within us. And when they are borne in dreams they must be pushed into the fire and definitely their smokes will reach the throne of grace and return with a change in prevalent situations. God changes situations if only we can devote time to pray. Now I know what to do and happy am I of I do what I know is true. I can pray away the evil dreams and pray the good dream to reality. God awaits my response no matter how terrible the dreams. Good dreams too may bring troubles and Joseph can testify and holding on in faith in spite of how long it's taking to distill will surely make the moon and the stars to bow to the sun and the sheaves of Joseph's brothers and parents eventially bowed to his. Pray about it, get the interpretations, wait for it and it won't fail. Pray away the evil dreams and the afflictions will not arise the second time. Good Morning. Share this with feiends and it may lift  burdens not a few and keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and re-read those you have read before. There are still more things to see. Contact me thru toyintoks2011@gmail.com ...lets share dreams, maybe interpretations too...and whatever you might desire we think about together! Keep thinking!

Starting out with Vision!

Starting out with Vision!
My thoughts zeroed in on visions today. Vision has been a sweet subject discussed with glee in many arenas where the philosophies of life are on centre stage. I have partook of some and hardly can one meet another who hasn't been an audience. So it is, because success is an issue and many see vision a subject that every traveller must be equipped with to arrive at. Vision is what I see. It should be a revelation and not mere thoughts empowered by my greed, need or desires. My vision must be attached to my purpose in life and so couldn't have been self made since only the manufacturer can tell why. My vision must be a revelation from my Maker consisting of things that won't perish with time or use. It is the picture revealing my end or me when my purpose has been fulfilled. When I lift up my eyes, what do I see? Vision is seeing the invisible so that I can do the impossible. When I'm moved to the mountains and I'm shown the pattern of what I'm sent to build, and instructed as to how, where and when then I'm envisioned and ready to roll and roar! Yet I must realise that vision is just a peep into the room of fulfilled purpose and its revelations can only be continuous. A little now to spur me on and a little later to keep me going. The parables of vision are explained in time. The mysteries are subject to the unfolding of seasons. When their time come then we see plainly. Visions and the intrigues made plain in their fulfilment. Timing is a thought for another day but how do you think of vision today and forget to talk about time till tomorrow since vision happens in time? The happenings for a lifetime packaged in the vision are programmed in time. Many a times visions won't come with dates and the snippets of life's journeys packaged in parables of vision won't explain every experience waiting along the way nor the details of the path never treaded. Here faith comes in. Now I will have to answer the reproves of life asking of where I got the authority to do what I do. Here I will have to be armed with the evidence of faith to keep moving till I arrive at what I saw. The truth is that the road doesn't look like the destination, the vision reveals the end and not the road, at the most it may reveal some stops and that not all. It calls for assurance and the confidence of faith as companions on the journey to vision.
I thought also of the blind spot in my eyes. I'm sure every good eye has it. My vision makes me blind to things irrelevant to my focus. If I see everything then I am yet to see my vision. My vision constrains me and locks me into the pathway it has created for me, how vision loves to envy! It will choose my friends and all I permit, it will control my hearing and what I speak. Vision won't let me be what I want to be but what it wants me to be; I must build according to the pattern shown me on the mount. So I submit and learn to enjoy the dictates of vision so I can arrive.
That's why I must get it right. I can't imagine what happens if I got it all wrong, so that the wrong things put me in constraints and I'm locked in a wrong straitjacket going nowhere. What if I make transient things my focal point and eternal realities fall upon my blind spot? Then I pursue frivolities and end up in oblivion. That's why I looked well and waited upon my watch to see clearly what He would tell me and what to answer when I'm reproved and that also should help me to write the vision and make it plain in communications to those who should run with it. So you had a vision? One that's not related to the potentials you have? I doubt. So you have a vision, one not related to the story of your life so far! I doubt! The vision must have started running itself even before I was born and my make up was well instructed by the purpose for which I was made. So the revelation of the vision came long after it has started working and the tools have been there doing wonders since then. There must be visions so that people can run on a course of achievements otherwise they lose constraints and perish. Every vision has come to answer a question and so safe souls. Visions are permanent while the tools are only relevant per time. In the life of Joseph there was a time for his dreams when that had accomplished its purpose his wisdom and managerial prowess took over all pointing to the 400years sojourn prophesied for Abraham's descendants and it was Joe that was raised to lead the pre-exodus and to preserve life. That was his ultimate purpose and there his vision led him. When the clan came to join him in Egypt and bowed, the vision was fulfilled and the sojourn began and every other thing including his throne and riches became irrelevant, the deed has been done! So what are you seeing? Eternal things or temporal? Is it the position and the riches or the aftermaths of the possessions and the positions? See well please!
I have come to see a vision of conformity to God's image in character and in charisma and I know when I get there all other thing will bow to divine nature. I have seen a vision to bless my generation and many more to come so I offer myself freely to give birth to children that will move the world up. I see more than red Lamborghinis, I see much more that the biggest yachts on the exotic beaches of Dubai, I see more than the palaces of the tsars for they will all perish with use in time but I see eternity and history I see a vision of a world filled with the knowledge of the love of Christ. I see a world learned in the ways of peace and a vision of a better world. Let vision move you but make sure the vision is true and not of greed to the glory of God and a blessing to eternity. Its afternoon already but I'll like to say good morning I'd started this since morning being distracted often times. Thanks for reading my long prose, I'm fulfilled if it has blessed you. Make comments on the blog evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com  call or mail toyintoks2011@gmail.com and maintain the blessing!

When All Hell Breaks Loose!

When All Hell Breaks Loose!
When all hell breaks loose and the storms of life rage, with hearts sinking into fear, despair and hopelessness there is a force beyond the strength of trouble, there is an ark heading to the shore riding in the waves of the turbulence to bring to the lighthouse. The strength of peace. In the stormy sea Jesus said peace be still and there was a great calm. Daily we are troubled. Things that hardly matter comes out with heavy negativity affecting the course of life. A word spoken tearing apart seemingly stable homes. A little indulgence setting up a chain reaction of woes:definitely there are tribulations and troubles in this world disturbing tranquility and stealing joy.  But there is also peace and quiet which when located can't be dislodged. When peace came the raging sea was suppressed. Peace is calm and should guard the heart. I won't lose my peace. It is my choice. I have the prince of peace and I would be careful for nothing. The anxiety that I permit takes away my peace and when peace left that's when hell steps in. When negative things happen the temptations come to react in like manners.  The pictures of woes bring worries and apprehension sets in. We try to stop the trend, nothing worse than this must happen. Agitation and restlessness are strolling in and moving men. Stablity is lost and peace is crowded out. Yet we want a solution where everything is broken and vital parts are missing. We engage brute force but that's not the language trouble listens to. And when it won't answer frustration steps in. Be careful for nothing. Have no anxiety about anything. Fret not yourself. Be calm. Faith sings through trouble and tribulation is reward for those who trouble you and you who is troubled rest. Storms come and go, when you hear and do what Christ says your house remains on the rock unshakeable. A little word of prayer, supplication and thanksgiving would go a long way, committing your case into the hands of the Master, casting all your cares on Him to sustain because He truly cares. His compassion won't let you go, He sure cares that you don't perish. Peace is what results. The weight of peace suppresses the rage of storms. When the word of peace is released and the authority of heaven backs it Christ sees to it that it is sustained. They who believe enter into their rest.
Let peace reign within and the trouble without will mean nothing. Let the serenity of the kingdom swallow up the wars outside and reign on in His glory. The cacophony of voices and the noise that ensues won't be strong enough to subdue the still small voice of peace if it is allowed to ring. Peace, great peace have they who meditate on His word nothing will trouble them. Take the mind off earthly things and stay it on Him, and perfect peace will be the result. When He gives quietness who can make trouble. Within the crushing noise of warfaring metals andthe booming of bombs the quiet breeze blowsb undisturbed peaceful still and so are the rays of light travelling for so long a distance all these long while landing quietly peacefully even at the war fronts undisturbed such is the power of peace. The flowing rivers and the quiet streams flowing down the everlasting mountains of the orients, the quiet streams of the waterfalls of the tropical jungles, the still waters of the streams of David's poems, the quiet sand dunes moving slowly across the deserts and the quiet falling flakes of ice at the caps solidifying into smooth pathways for those who skates the land icebergs and its slow glaciers...these all speak the language of peace, undisturbed and stable transforming the surface of the earth in their quiet tranquillity cut off from the ever so near unrest of men. When trouble comes I'll go to these and learn that trouble comes and goes and those who let peace live long after the disturbances. Peace can reign if tou let it be. Peace is strength and can conquer every trouble. Nature supports quietness and the peaceful is king. Peace arrests trouble and peacemakers are called sons of Gods. Let peace be and I'll be quiet. Peace will arrest the hell that is let loose if peace is let loose. Peace be unto you! Keep visiting and telling friends about evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com

When Knowledge is a Burden

When Knowledge is a Burden!
Is ignorance weakness all the time? Is the ability to remember strength always? Can I choose not to know and be saved? Are there issues I  must delete to live? To us all who were rated by our ability to remember to move on in life, the ability to recalling events and information is intelligence and success depends on it. But to those troubled by their past how they wish they can forget certain incidences in their lives. I'm sure God has the ability to forget or why would He say my sins and my iniquities He would remember no more? That means my ability to forget may not always be a weakness. If I don't forget wrongs done against me my relationships might not stand and I may not be able to please God. I need strength to forget and cover multitudes of sins. I need no refreshments of my memory when it comes to wrongs suffered.  There are things better unknown... they might become hard to unlearn. There were two very significant trees in the garden of Eden. The tree of life and that of the knowledge of good and evil. Both were matters of life and death. Eat life and you'll live but when you taste of the knowledge of good and evil you die. God made our minds to be inquisitive and hungry for knowledge of the truth. So we learn all sorts. We learn and we love it. We learned to kill since we discovered where life is sustained. We learned to hurt since we discovered where pleasure lies. We learned to steal since we discovered the joy of possessing yet a man's life doesn't consist in the abundance of what he possesses. He had learnt the wrong thing he would have been better off not knowing. He tasted of the pleasure of women and just a woman and only women won't be enough. He learnt to be high and alcohol won't do he had to discover coca leaves and its effect on his head and soul. Since then he would kill to get high if it so takes. Now cocaine and the drugs we used to know won't do. Man learns and the knowledge designed to set free enslaves him. He gets addicted to what he learnt to enjoy and would spend his life's earning to be free from it. Many would still not be healed till what they'd learnt would kill them. There are things never to know. There are skills never to learn. There are fruits not meant to be eaten, they weren't made to satisfy hunger. Don't learn to drink alcohol, don't learn to pervert sex, don't learn to kill and don't develop the skills to rob another of his possessions. They are knowledge you'll love to forget, when their pains come, forgetfulness would be a precious but a very elusive gift.
I may choose not to know. I am not free if I have no such powers. If it won't help anyone why should I seek to know it. Why should I learn malice and have great skills in evilness, why should I learn hatred and use anger to destroy another? Hatred is one thing to unlearn, discrimination must be a thing to delete. In malice I must be unskillful but in understanding I must be a man. I may learn how to be street wise and not learn my maths and afterwards wonder why I couldn't read and write. I may learn how to use a knife to earn respect in being viscous and master the wisdom to reign supreme in the underworld, I may be learned in luring men into the blackmailer's net as a lady, I may study the tricks of diabolism and become master in trading my body for wealth. The knowledge of spiritual manipulation maybe at my fingertips and to deceive may be a hobby done with cherish learnt probably frok the masters of the game. These knowledge of evil adds nothing even if through them I'd gathered untrue riches untold. When their venom has been released and the cockatrice dragon spits its fires then regrets of knowledge and learning sets in at a time when correction would make so sense. It's better not to learn some things and remain ignorant and live. It's better not to enter into the secret covenants with dire consequence which you dare not share with a friend, not even a spouse.  It's better not to be part of another's secrecy, knowing will tarnish and take innocence away, knowing cannot make guiltless. Many have lost their lives for knowing too much and much learning had made many mad. There's the knowledge that makes mad which is better avoided. It's better to live on the tree of life than to feed on the tree of knowledge of evil. What have I learnt that I must unlearn? Now, forgetting is a treasure so that I can become ignorant again so as to remove from under the pile of life's rubbles the little child I once was, ignorant of the errors of life without fear and prejudice. Except I become a little child again, paradise is lost but I shall be released and regain my innocence, devoid of negative meanings and interpretations, take life in good faith and be free. There ignorance is strength and forgetfulness is a treasure. There Knowledge is a burden and to remember hurts, reliving what should have been better left unlearned and unexperienced. Things that if left alone years back would have made life more meaningful and full. Good morning folks! Keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and godspeeps.wordpress.com for the bible studies. Let me know you came or mail me thru toyintoks2011@gmail.com or call. Remain blessed and forget what should be unlearned!

Managing Thoughts

Managing Thoughts
Some thoughts come awkwardly. If the mind of man had been constructed to be seen by all it would be worse than the revelation of physical nudity if unclothed. Foolishness will be seen in men in reputation for wisdom, ignorance will show itself in a seat thought to have inhabited inexhaustible database. But now we are covered and our heart hides our true nakedness and when the fool is silent it is mistaken for wisdom, so said the preacher, the son of David and my mother tongue said borrowing wisdom from the wise would not let the aged  be termed a fool. The wise is not always wise and the fool may still display some discretion. When wild thoughts flow into the mind the wise restrains the tongue until the sieve of understanding separates the chaff from the wheat and releases glory instead of shame. Thoughts, as said by a father, are like flying birds and what can you do if they fly across the sky above the head? But if one so dare to perch to try building a nest on the head even a lunatic would hardly let. Some thoughts must not perch, and those that have perched must not build their nests, if they haven't any good sires or offsprings to birth. The thoughts of hate would bring forth witchcraft and who knows the extent to which wicked arrows can cause harm? The thoughts of greed breed thieves and deprive what's due to the deserving. The thoughts of love bring good and grow development and enlightenment. Evil thoughts defile the man and create a different person from the noble. When negative thoughts foster, either towards self or others, monstrous demons are released to make life conform to negativity. When deadly thoughts are released they quickly make thrones and from there rule and enlist the enemy into a grand army against self. You need not an enemy if evil thoughts take over the heart, external oppositions are no longer necessary, one's thoughts have made one a major enemy of self. When the mind is engaged in good thoughts the force released solves recalcitrant problem and provides solutions to long standing impossibilities. Mundane thoughts lack the power to lift, thoughts of wickedness are crippled from birth they have no capacity to fly. Imaginations of evil add nothing and schemes to harm are eternally irresponsible. Except the deep calls out, only the ephemeral and the shallow will swim. When the deep calls and the deep hears, baseless arguments are undermined and understanding and wisdom stabilize the times. The wise often sounds foolish in the ear of those without depths. Yet it takes good mental fellowship with the wisdom of the wise for the mind to ascend to heights possible. First wisdom is to delete every thought of foolishness and give the room to a better tenant. The mind must receive a renewal for a more noble occupant. The mind must become discriminative against thoughts that do not glorify or fear God and His laws. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The thoughts of wickedness and selfishness destroy the mind's capacity to attain sound wisdom. The wisdom to carry out wickedness is never perfect and the shortcomings will not outwit the Judge of all the earth. Think well of people and issues, let peace guard your heart with all diligence. Think through towards solutions and resolutions, don't complicate matters with matters not relevant. Release thoughts to achieve movement in right directions let not the heart breed setbacks. There is a way in the heart and only good thoughts locate the compass through compassion. When the heart's hard and stubborn, it deliberately turns its back on wisdom and such have regrets untold in years to come. Stubborness and witchcraft are relations their wisdom never yields to appeasement, always wiser than many men with plenty thoughtful reasons. It's only the wise that most easily recognizes and listens to the wise, the stubborn acknowledges only self as wise and how can that be reasonable? Bar Stubborness and wisdom will thrive.
Pay attention to what thoughts are knocking and don't leave the door of your heart unattended. Thoughts fly but only the thought of love must stay. There wisdom rise and solutions to life's problems are released and development results. Such has brought us thus far and only such can take us further either as a person or as a nation. Good morning and don't stop visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and let me know you came.
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The Easy Job

The Easy Job Waking up this morning my mind revved to catch up with some thoughts. Scrutinizing man and his weaknesses which he gleefully boasts of in conceit, covering his mentality in deliberate ignorance as he cuddles his downside in vicious embrace that keeps him down from being god. And so gods die as men and fall as sons of earthly princes. My thoughts trap the phenomenon I see as the most successful venture man has ever embarked on. He finds faults and he never fails. He needs no planning to achieve, all he needs is to look and wherever he sees. Faults are more glaring than the most grandiose edifice man has ever built. Without lifting a finger the errors of the hard worker glows as a million stars the slothful has enough ocular gadgets to see the small crack on the surface of the pent house upon the empire state building. Ideas aren't ever possible his vision is quick to see the short side of the ideas that took man to the moon. His eyes would not appreciate excellence because something must ever be wrong somewhere. The best efforts are laden with imperfections but we always make do with them as we journey to better days working to perfect what we already appreciate. The fault finder does nothing yet he is ever successful in his endeavour. If you ever try to find fault you will succeed but to no rewards. Perfection hardly comes with fault finding but it creeps to those who keep trying to be better. Why is fault finding so easy but unlucrative? When you scrutinize imperfect and fallible beings you will find faults. And when your envy become your weighing balance, your imaginations and bitter 'it-should-have-been-me' feeling turns add-ons on jobs well done to cracks, that to you, the lazy judge, would bring the edifice down. 'Oh', the lazy judge says, 'had it been me with such opportunities, I would have done better' The question is, what had come out of those opportunities that he had had? I am sure that when I face my own task and enjoy what little I'm blessed with the imperfect efforts of others I'll no more have enough time to see the faults of others. Why should I be a scorner who does nothing but scorns? What goals do I score sitting at the podiums of life scorning at the players on the fields of life? Scorners don't score, players do! I will enlist and become a player and won't mind those who remain at the sidelines finding faults, I'll play and so stand the chance of winning the laurels those on the stands cannot win. And I won't care about your faults except if to make your performance better. But to use your fault to paint a blemish to tarnish your efforts is to celebrate mediocrity and that not yours but mine. And that's yet better still, or what would I say of those who create faults where there is none? When the heart in its corruption and wickedness envisages error, the evil eye reads fault into an excellent product. When evil men are cornered they smear and sling the mud on those who are good. If everyone looks bad who then will recognize the real one? So let's indict the perfect man and generalize evil and create an opportunity of escape for the culprit. To the fault finder good becomes evil and if there's a little mystery, he seeks not light, he already has an explanation, his answer must nail the innocent, let the innocent proves his innocence. But the truth prevails. And the result of the fault finder is shame. He sets precedence as a self ensnaring trap waiting for himself to fall into. When he is tested by the standard he sets he has no qualification to measure up since the faults he finds are always imaginary and baseless, common mistakes which he is embroiled in himself. When the wise sees a fault in another he quickly measures himself with the fault and preserves himself from comitting such errors he sees from the life mirror he had seen. I am your life mirror and you are mine. So I must use whatever imperfection in you to help me remove the log in my own eyes before worrying about the speck I see in your eyes. When you do same we get better together and grow in unison. I make mistakes and you do too simply because we are human on a journey to becoming not God but like God. Why then should your mistake especially when they are mistakes in deed on the stage of doing good and not deliberate wickedness which the corruption of this world commonly affords through the heart and the intents of men. When the error is sincere why should I use it as a weapon to destroy you and rubbish whatever good you do and are convinced of? Wherever I have seen error I should be wise enough to acknowledge the good that may be around. To harp on the errors and become blind to the good is deliberate evil and a habit of devils. If I am yet to admit the good if present I have no right to point out the error. When I had commended you for the efforts shown in trying doing good then I can correct in love. Do I have the right to try to correct who I don't genuinely love? If I can't receive corrections why should I try to give it? Won't it be tarnished with my punitive heart? Find fault less except when it is in love to get the performer better consider your self lest you fall into same condemnation. Be free in your heart by sincerity. If you see good deny it not it doesn't have to have a blemish and if it does enjoy the good first and if there's time left after the joy of that moment then you can chip in the observation. Don't spoil someone's joy of achievements with the little mistakes you see or that which your envy reads into the product. No product has reached its ultimate evolution but at the point of transformation it has reached let's celebrate the journey so far and together. Join the party don't sulk at the sides. Good morning. 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I Can Trust...

I Can Trust... So many things on my mind. I've not had time and space to put what's on my mind down for a few days. And I'm pressed, but I won't burst and if I do, it'll be on my notepad. I speak like Elihu, I'm full of matter by the inspiration of the Almighty within me. One of those thoughts lingering on my mind is that of trust. I had stuggled with that for years and it is a matter that's so bothering to man. I see that we all want it, but find it hard to give, yet we wish we can give it without reservation and many have been burnt to ashes for trusting without discretion. How I wish to relate without hinderances but how I fear to flow into an unknown ocean. How I wish I could be free in expression but I can't trust my hearer to see exactly what I say and to say same with same accompanying motive. How I wish I can leave my valuables at your disposal if this demon of distrust won't speak to my ears. My distrust feeds on my imaginations and vision, my mental designs of what is possible and what experiences I've had and heard of. It feeds on tendencies, the tilt that sends the fear of falling yet the Eiffel tower remains with its tilt till date, yet it's that tilt that my distrust is strengthened on for fear that tendencies may end up in activities. My distrust also looks at what I'd done before and what I have the capacity and the boldness to do and believes every other in the same disposition will react in like manners. Yet, we see differently, hear differently and understand differently. Experiences differ and they give different filters to what comes in and responses are triggered accordingly. So we respond differently but how hard that is to see? The different ways we see further takes the contents of another's intents farther away. The mystery of what the wells within my neighbors hold gives me wild assumptions that hasn't helped my faith and produces superstitions that trigger fear. Fear in it's best garment will bring distrust at a worse state cannot avoid violent defence. Yet we all crave for trust, to trust and to be trusted. And its dangerous to play foolhardy to the potential of homosapiens to be intrinsically selfish that pushes him to invade the territories of his neighbor even of same specie and progenitors with extreme wickedness and violence. The wickedness of man cannot be slightly esteemed, its self destruct to lay down life to the wiles of man. So how do I trust and who do I trust? If I totally omit trust on the other side the world stops. I won't be able to step out of my closet without trust, the tendencies of the lion on the street would keep me in. I won't be able to talk who knows what the audience is hearing and what response that would draw? And so many such sceneries can be painted till the world stops moving. The world silently runs on trust and man gives his trust away unconsciously even when the result sometimes go awry. I have seen that integrity powers trust and faithfulness triggers faith. When experience bears integrity above the brim faith and trust overflow unconsciously as the breathe. When integrity remains at the ebbs, faith and trust remain at their low estates. When you give faith to he who hasn't the capacity to respond with positive power and productivity, you throw your pearls to a swine to trample upon and turn again to attack. Faith and trust turns on power to perform. When you throw the meal at the broken tooth you empower failure and trigger disappointments. When you rest your overweight on a broken leg you fall. So I test who I throw my expectations at. If I must chew to satisfaction as I expect with my sumptuous meal then I must prove the teeth. If I must go all the way with my weight I must before know where my feet has issues. So let them first be proven and then let them use the office if found blameless so said the Apostle pertaining to appointments in the church and the same goes for committing things to people. I must find out and truth is never afraid of scrutiny. I must see how tou have dealt with others I must know how you have handled those who had passed through you. A spouse who never loved any other before can not start loving with the present partner. Afterall such could have had a test run of his love with those of his household before promising love to another. Test is no lack of trust, it is the gateway to faith. When I'm tested my integrity will be revealed and my examiners will experience my faithfulness and know my strong points upon which to rest and not fall. Don't rest on my weak points I may not sustain you and such is trust and expectations, I won't disappoint you on my strong points. Discover what I can willingly give, and you will always enjoy that from me. Discover also where I'm not so good and avoid demands no matter how willingly I am to give I may not have the capacity to deliver and so I fail. My failure isn't my default. When you flow with how I'm wired failure becomes impossible. So trust me on my strength and I won't fail. When I put you to test I discover where your purpose and potential are and there we can flow and there I can trust you. When I discover your convictions I also discover what you won't do even with a gun to your head. When I trust you with what you can do I trigger your performance and when I distrust your abilities and intentions I dampen your spirit to produce. When I know what you have faith in I also discover what to have faith for in you. If you don't believe in your abilities, my expectations from same abilities will be in futility. So there are different colors to the outlook of the trust issues. When I research into you and experience you I will know where to plug my pins to receive what God made you to give me and disappointments would be out of our relationship so I won't take the one equipped only to be my Secretary to be my wife and I won't make the one equipped just for my marital bliss to be some other thing and my expectations won't be cut short. I can trust if I have tested... and found true! Do same. Good morning! And share with all your friends and contacts. Keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and let me know you came and join the Bible study at godspeeps.wordpress.com and let's grow together, my convictions is to be a blessing to you with what God has given me and that's all. Call if you feel like talking +234818321156 any questions mail me toyintoks2011@gmail.com

No Boasting!

No Boasting I woke up with my mind searching my life and asking why I should be proud. I wonder, maybe if I'd been a great achiever and have founded great institutions with my face so popular on tv maybe I may have somewhat to be pride about. Yet such doesn't describe me. If I'd been born from the womb of a prominent potentate and have a kingly paternity may be my shoulders should square up conceited, well, I came from a back on the ground background nothing to write home about. If I had made great wealth and Forbes have had to mention my name a few times, I may see myself better than the rest yet my name hasn't been in my compound forbes' yet . If I'd been in competition where I'd broken some records and set some more, maybe I may justify some pride, but no records broken yet that I am aware of. Oh maybe my skills should make me proud and my fair speeches and write ups should make me feel important, I doubt because I have not done better than any in preparations, or what would best selling authors do if I ever thought myself as anything? Somethings just fall in line for you to make you look good. Even if I'd been born with a silver spoon and I'd achieved greater things than any other or broken records and discover great theories and postulated solutions for the world, there is still no reason to boast many may have even put in much more than I did while grace made up for the difference. If I raise myself up, I can't prop myself up. If I am down I am safe from falling, when I humble myself I create space for upward movement, when I reach the pinnacle I have no place else to rise to. In humility I can't be humiliated, and they put themselves to shame who try to reproach me. Why mind high things? It's better to condesend to men of low degree. Why show forth my high profile if I am not applying for a job? Why must people see me and not my products? Why should I esteem myself more highly than what I am able to give? Why should I boast even if I'd been the best giver since I'd received first the best I can give which I may not have given yet? What makes me different from other people? Why am I more important than the rest? Why do I want to show off my ostrich feathers as the peacock's? Simply because of the pride I'm yet to deal with within. To the proud others are no better than ants, even ants have reasons and without them the world isn't complete and should be respected. The proud always has what other don't have and can't have, it's easy to rate others selfishly with impaired knowledge and the arrogant is made in the lab of ignorance. He sees his good and is blind to the good of others, and when he thinks he knows he then needs also to know that he hasnt known as much as he should. Such levels of knowledge make up for its inadequacies by bloating up waiting for the pinch of truth to be deflated. Why won't I simply remain as humble seeking to be lifted someday? Why would I apply the 'lifting-do-it-by-yourself' strategy that has no maintenance manual or after sale service options? If I had set records definitely someday someone else would break it. If I had great wealth it is laid up for some others after death. Popularity always ends up in the history books, not minding how short the memories of fans are, besides death also levels everyone together under. Pride may be the fad but fads fade. The fad of pride fades into a fall and plunges from the highest self made mountains to the deeps never caressed by a diver's webs. So I respect myself and shun pride. When I feel humiliated then I must check my pride, I realise pride locates the proud faster and it feels humiliated easily. Pride can't tolerate the proud, its a pill the prescriber doesn't ever wants to take. He reels it out but reacts to it fast when it flows in its direction. The boastful will boast of everything including his simplicity and offers no place to any other who praises self. Yet its about a healthy self esteem, why can't I feel okay until another is down? Why should I need to pull another down to feel important? Why should I wait for another to look bad for me to look good? Why should my significance be dependent on another's insignificance? Why should my thoughts imagine the failure of another in order to see my self beauty? Pride will see others as less important and will never recognise good except in self and so deprive itself of the prop of others. I must realize that my importance is in how much I've made my acquaintances feel important. My significance is in the significance I see in those around me. I know pride won't let me see the importance and the significance of others, to pride such is a matter of course, nothing special. I will check the habitation of pride within me and evacuate it and its belongings. Though it may be hard to see, I'll create a rival in abasement capable of abating the scourge of pride. Self must take a back seat and allow others to display. I must see others better in their purposes and in their peculiar situations and offices and give them the space to pursue their purposes while I'm edified through them. I must show due respect, and play down every racial or intra-racial class consciousness. Religious pride and holier-than-thou thoughts must be far from me. I must see no down person I must esteem others better than myself. Segregation isn't an idea that should take a seat in my heart, love must accommodate all. My heart must be big enough to take all in and there learn and see what others see that I can't see by myself. I must see my limitations and my imperfections, employing my strength to my productivity without hiding my weaknesses at the awards. My weaknesses tell my humanity ignoring them denies gravity and sends me to the lonely space. Acknowledging my shortcomings makes me grateful of how God has so had mercy on me to get me to do what I am good at. I have nothing to boast of, I'd only been opportuned to be heard. Nothing I have makes me better than any other and less won't make me bitter. No competition except with my self, I must only compete with my ultimate potential and bless the world more, I must not compete to be seen more than others. I must be comfortable with those moving on and be grateful for every step I'm able to take towards my purpose. I'm grateful because He's been graceful. No place for boasting no reason for any pride. My thinking this morning. Good morning. Someone might be blesssed by this so share it far and wide. And keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and leave a note. 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Clean Thoughts Clean Words

Clean Thoughts Clean Words
I often consider thoughts as winds blowing. They breeze in and out and go here and there and with so effective impact bringing changes so amazing. They conform to who the thinker is and the thinker responds also to his thoughts, he too conforms. The abundance permitted in the heart overflows to fill the mouth and the speech colors life and builds destiny. When such words are quoted, they go wherever with the speaker's name and the words must not be foolish otherwise the one whose name is attached is seen as mad. Wise men are seen not just by the solutions they bring but also the words they utter. Words are weapons of war in the battlefields of the spirit and of life and the minds and the imaginations of men are the foundries where the devastating weapons of words are crafted. They come two edged and like arrows they fly by the unseen waves, read and heard by the effect they left. One word would send the whole world reeling in laughter and another will send fear and jitters across the universe. One world will make the world shout another will freeze the hearts of men. Why do we so respond to words? One of the vulnerabilities of men and one of the weaknesses man hasn't been able to wrestle. So the speaker is powerful, and when you have no say you are as good as dead. When men hear you, your glory shines even a word spoken makes lengthy meaning. There you have orators and manipulators. Their words made them. There you have educators professing to the buiding up of men and their world from great minds and erudite thoughts. They were made by the speeches they made. Enthralled by the words spoken by Christ they said no one ever spoke like him. Words have moved the world to wars and worlds have sent many to suicides. Words have built cities both Babylons and Zions as they were fired from the mind. Words kill. Words revive. Words make the speaker and the hearers are either made or marred. Words may be meals of life or arrows piercing to the soul. It all depends on the quality of the foundries that made them. One word can turn good away from the one to whom its due and another can recommend a pauper to the top of the world. Bad men don't speak good words and good men don't make killing comments. Courage flows from the thoughts of the righteous but the comments of the wicked saps strength. Yet the wicked will speak and hearts will be hardened to commit evil, the ears that hear them shall not be innocent, but a good man will speak and the laws of kindness will uphold the faint to show forth nobility. Some will speak and darkness, doom and death will cover the faces that receive the bath yet the first recorded speech was one which brought about light and life. Somewhere in the evolution of words corruption sets in when the thoughts of men got contaminated with wickedness. So I must purge my thoughts so that my fountain would be blessed. Then men who drink from the brooks would live and not die. The river that flows from my heart will be rivers of life and not the harbinger of death. My words would not turn away good rather it will provoke to love and rigjteousness. My mouth shall feed many. The arrows of my mouth shall destroy evil and scrutinize the hearts that ponder to fish out virtues hidden within. My heart imagines good and nobility and my mouth should not make contrary comments. I will meditate on the beauties of man and his world and my songs shall not be of hatred but love. When pains are made to fester in the mind lyrics of hate will write music for the dirge that will move the hearers to unending mourning. When I take the platforms, the mikes must let loose the melodies of love and I see sworn enemies in holy embrace. When I pick my pen let the letters of love flow that will spur the readers to run the race of righteousness. How good is it for my words to recommend another for a lifting! How noble will it be if the power of my words turns away destruction from a city! How sweet is it for my words to bring enlightenment to a soul in darkness! When good comes to a home by a word I speak, sweetness fills the heart and overflows to make me even better. Why should I rejoice when my speech brings sorrows and not repentance? Why should I boast on how my words deprived another of his needs. Why should my word send another to his death when he isn't murderous? I'll rather my mouth be bridled than for a curse to proceed thenceforth. I'll position my mouth for edification and not for destruction, it will exhort and comfort and bring many to their fortune. Hearing me must make good, listening must be to good pleasure, reading must be to learning, and the reports must make the heart see good and not evil. My heart shall not device evil to destroy another, my words shall feed and not with poison, I will speak kindly and peaceably to the city and proclaim good that will bring joy. My recomendations must be sweet and fair because out of my belly flow rivers of healing and wherever it goes men live! Let not your heart be polluted for it to bring evil, let light and life spring up and shine good on those who hear. Let no corrupt communications proceed out of your mouth but that which is good for edification that it may brimg grace to those who hear. Good morning and share this. Keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and our weekly Bible Study notes at godspeeps.wordpress.com and for counselling and personal discussions call +234818321156. Remain blessed!

Managing Man!

Managing Man I thought of the Yoruba adage, I'm only clothed with people. Another one says people are the harbingers of good. I realise the importance of people in the destinies of men and in the operations of God on the earth. I understood from the good book, that if Reuben must live and not die, his men must not be few. Where no vision is people perish and where no people are vision die. And it seems that my destiny can only survive by the degree of management I put into managing the people in my world. Nothing happens outside of people. The man who said he had no man wasn't lying? He had been just meters away from his healing for thirty eight years until a man stepped-in in Christ. The world was created light years back, until the sixth day when man came, the ground was not tilled of there was no man it would have remained so even through eternity. Man has been down in disobedience and cut short from God's glory till a man was sent, the mediator between man and God who destroyed the midwall of separation and made peace between God and man and between the races competing to reach God's pleasure. So what is man? And we can see why God is mindful of him and visits him. Same reason why I must be mindful and visit man if my world must develop beyond here. My connections to those above to lift me must remain strong, the connections must be strong enough to carry me till parturition like the umbilical cord. My connections with my contemporaries must be firm as we company each other towards greatness, it isn't good for a man to be alone. Two are always better than one if together, the solitary will dwell in dry land. I must connect well with those subordinate upcoming behind me, they have a way of proping me up and making me look good to go. The seeds I sow into their soils someday will feed me over the top. I must recognise those destiny has brought to me, some are sent to me and are the ones who will release me with impartations, some are sent with me to go through the thick and the thin with me till we both arrive at the place prepared, many others are those I am sent to starting from the outputs of my loins to millions beyond borders and across the world. And there are yet millions I have no business with at all and meeting such is the most dangerous thing in destiny. Don't partner with them, don't employ them no matter how skillful, don't marry them, don't fall for their mesmerism, when they sweep you off your feet they are about to make you fall. For as good as man may be he is also the undoing of men. He is the reason for the fall of man. Watch who is watching and manage well your connections. I must not abuse those who destiny has a place for in my life even if we were not from same womb. Same womb is not same destiny, it seldom works that way. I must not embrace the suicide bombers smilling so heartily. Yet, the good doesn't have a badge to ID, the bad too may look so inviting and the ugly may be the most beautiful in the outside. But those with me from creation are written in my heart, for who knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man within him? So my spirit knows and I must consult my spirit and respect its opinions concerning the people in my life. When they tally, the one on the outside and one within there is always an agreement beyong the CV and the profiling of the experts which though has its place but has no power to be the final word. The brothers of David were well profiled yet all were rejected because none was destined to be the demise of Goliath because even the prophet can fall for a good profile but God who only sees the heart knows the end of each man and what each carries. Look out as you journey, locate and connect with those your destiny awaits, judge them not by their looks, let the God of destiny lead you. I have seen hearts broken mercilessly by men and I have seen the same breaker mend other hearts. Vicious outlaws have made space for some others in their hardened hearts just by connecting to the right people. I have seen promising lovers getting married with their lives turning sour just afterwards, what God hasn't joined remains asunder even if the pope tries to join. Don't join yourself to an unequal yoke as it applies in marriage so it does in business and you know it came from farming. Don't join yourself to an idol, don't join yourself to an abomination. A betrayal will stab without remembering and whatever good done him will be the reason to kill but the one sent to your life will cover shame and endure the rough with you. Such won't lie to you, they hardly placate they'll be Peter to you and not Judas. They are those we love to throw away but they are the one who won't mind to stay. The future belongs to Ruth though a stranger and hopeless but there is a place in destiny for such in the life of Naomi, a nation and history. So I'll be the Ruth and remain loyal, it may look like foolish but unselfish, there the future lies and it won't lie. It may not look too good but if it's destiny the good will come. If you are left don't fight it, maybe space is being left for those who were made for it. I must always seek to be the harbinger of good and the clothing of men in the cold of life. Let me be the company of the lonely and the prop of them who are going higher, I'll gladly be the deliverer of good to the prodigy, imparting and impacting upon my connections to reach the goal. Maybe through me the visions might survive and my little contributions would complete the puzzle and the whole picture made to bring applause to your life. I can cover and I shall be covered in this cold of life. That's the essence of man in your life. Good morning! Share this and keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com Questions about life and counseling on pressing issues call +234813211564

Man....!

Managing Man I thought of the Yoruba adage, I'm only clothed with people. Another one says people are the harbingers of good. I realise the importance of people in the destinies of men and in the operations of God on the earth. I understood from the good book, that if Reuben must live and not die, his men must not be few. Where no vision is people perish and where no people are vision die. And it seems that my destiny can only survive by the degree of management I put into managing the people in my world. Nothing happens outside of people. The man who said he had no man wasn't lying? He had been just meters away from his healing for thirty eight years until a man stepped-in in Christ. The world was created light years back, until the sixth day when man came, the ground was not tilled of there was no man it would have remained so even through eternity. Man has been down in disobedience and cut short from God's glory till a man was sent, the mediator between man and God who destroyed the midwall of separation and made peace between God and man and between the races competing to reach God's pleasure. So what is man? And we can see why God is mindful of him and visits him. Same reason why I must be mindful and visit man if my world must develop beyond here. My connections to those above to lift me must remain strong, the connections must be strong enough to carry me till parturition like the umbilical cord. My connections with my contemporaries must be firm as we company each other towards greatness, it isn't good for a man to be alone. Two are always better than one if together, the solitary will dwell in dry land. I must connect well with those subordinate upcoming behind me, they have a way of proping me up and making me look good to go. The seeds I sow into their soils someday will feed me over the top. I must recognise those destiny has brought to me, some are sent to me and are the ones who will release me with impartations, some are sent with me to go through the thick and the thin with me till we both arrive at the place prepared, many others are those I am sent to starting from the outputs of my loins to millions beyond borders and across the world. And there are yet millions I have no business with at all and meeting such is the most dangerous thing in destiny. Don't partner with them, don't employ them no matter how skillful, don't marry them, don't fall for their mesmerism, when they sweep you off your feet they are about to make you fall. For as good as man may be he is also the undoing of men. He is the reason for the fall of man. Watch who is watching and manage well your connections. I must not abuse those who destiny has a place for in my life even if we were not from same womb. Same womb is not same destiny, it seldom works that way. I must not embrace the suicide bombers smilling so heartily. Yet, the good doesn't have a badge to ID, the bad too may look so inviting and the ugly may be the most beautiful in the outside. But those with me from creation are written in my heart, for who knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man within him? So my spirit knows and I must consult my spirit and respect its opinions concerning the people in my life. When they tally, the one on the outside and one within there is always an agreement beyong the CV and the profiling of the experts which though has its place but has no power to be the final word. The brothers of David were well profiled yet all were rejected because none was destined to be the demise of Goliath because even the prophet can fall for a good profile but God who only sees the heart knows the end of each man and what each carries. Look out as you journey, locate and connect with those your destiny awaits, judge them not by their looks, let the God of destiny lead you. I have seen hearts broken mercilessly by men and I have seen the same breaker mend other hearts. Vicious outlaws have made space for some others in their hardened hearts just by connecting to the right people. I have seen promising lovers getting married with their lives turning sour just afterwards, what God hasn't joined remains asunder even if the pope tries to join. Don't join yourself to an unequal yoke as it applies in marriage so it does in business and you know it came from farming. Don't join yourself to an idol, don't join yourself to an abomination. A betrayal will stab without remembering and whatever good done him will be the reason to kill but the one sent to your life will cover shame and endure the rough with you. Such won't lie to you, they hardly placate they'll be Peter to you and not Judas. They are those we love to throw away but they are the one who won't mind to stay. The future belongs to Ruth though a stranger and hopeless but there is a place in destiny for such in the life of Naomi, a nation and history. So I'll be the Ruth and remain loyal, it may look like foolish but unselfish, there the future lies and it won't lie. It may not look too good but if it's destiny the good will come. If you are left don't fight it, maybe space is being left for those who were made for it. I must always seek to be the harbinger of good and the clothing of men in the cold of life. Let me be the company of the lonely and the prop of them who are going higher, I'll gladly be the deliverer of good to the prodigy, imparting and impacting upon my connections to reach the goal. Maybe through me the visions might survive and my little contributions would complete the puzzle and the whole picture made to bring applause to your life. I can cover and I shall be covered in this cold of life. That's the essence of man in your life. Good morning! Share this and keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com Questions about life and counseling on pressing issues call +234813211564

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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!

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Read!

Read! I was just thinking. Thinking about reading and its power. The power of the pen or is it the fingers as it translates thoughts into tabloids for the reading of generations. I also thought of how so much of such works go unread due to the weight and burden of reading that we hate to bear. It takes books to know even if it will take a teacher to understand what's read. The more reading we do the more we fellowship with the essence of beings far away or long gone. The greatness of minds are read in their writings and also their folly but how will you know if not read. Someone said you can safely hide things from people if kept inside books even if not written in the books since the books may never be opened not to mention being read. Secrets that will unlock treasures of life and answer the pertinent questions plaguing the mind of men are kept in books and in writings great and small, unfortunately we have no time to read. I have seen great personal libraries of books never read and not better than wall paintings or 3D animations on walls, leave the fortune that was used to purchase them and consider the treasures within the books and the good they'd kept waiting for the wise. For the wise will learn and will increase in knowledge but who is wiser and more knowledgeable than the fool in his own eyes? In those books lies the truth that sets free be it of the laws of nature or of the spirit. In books lies the stories of success and the folly of failure, there, what to avoid and to avail are present and the ignorant is destroyed for lack of available knowledge. What have you read lately? Deep calls to the deep, let books take you to the depths, fellowship with thoughts beyond the surface and see what the foundations of the world was made of and lick the sweetness of knowledge be it psychic or of physics. And now you can search for it or google it, somewhere there you'll pick up something that will make you go wow! The missing link and the piece of the jigsaw puzzle of life is waiting somewhere, waiting to be read, but will it? Researches are being made, discoveries are encountered and documented it takes the wise and the inquisitive to fall on them and make of them the most sence. Maybe we love to be satisfied with what meet the eye and block our minds with superstition that rests the questions of life, we wonder at mysteries and put them in the exclusive and rsstricted files but there are answers to the mysteries, what was hard yesterday are common knowledge today and tomorrow holds the light to the dark mysteries of today and who knows if they have been stored in some books kept and locked up? Only those who can read will open the seals and read the scrolls. Read about what you claim you believe and read extensively, read about your profession and waste no time on frivolities and trivialities. Why read gossips when you know nothing about what matters to your life. What problems do you have? Why not locate what has been written concerning them, because you have not heard does not mean it has not been written so said my pastor sometimes ago. Not everything you need is preached or taught by the professor, many are kept away in books, big and small. The mountain of knowledge is so big that we circling it only see some parts, the big picture is seen when we compare notes. But when one refuses to read the notes such remains parochial and shortsightedly myopic and in pride may even make jest of superior and more accurate knowledge that works. Yes, not every book is pregnant with relevance but somewhere there we learn how the mind of men works when it takes a different perspective from ours and there we can learn accommodation and some virtues. Even where it is necessary to antagonize, it is good to do so informed and that calls for research. Why then don't we make time to read? Daniel said he understood divine plan by reading the prophesy of Jeremiah and there what to do for freedom was revealed. From Daniel's writings I too understand that there are books written but sealed till the time appointed, there are books written for my time and until I read, the solutions within remain sealed. I must plan to read more, make out time to search and be enlightened, there are yet great and mighty things to know and the hunt for them must be in earnest. If there are parchment forgotten on the journey they must now be called for to be read, if there are notes scribbled on tablets of old they must be deciphered and read. If they were written in other tongues they should be translatable and if they were encoded they will be decoded. Whatever is it we must read. Yet if we don't read, others will, maybe not in our clime or time, they will read and get better for it, it isn't a favor to the writer done when his thoughts spread and are read, for if there be any virtue within, it is the reader that is blessed with it. Yet the writer wishes that all the world would read what is written, but in reality there are only a little percentage of books ever written that end up bestsellers, yet good thoughts thrive as they strive to survive and books and writings do live till their times. I have seen also that news sell but their values are short-lived even if a billion of copies are sold they only last but a few days satisfying the cravings of the mind to know trends. But in many the cravings to understand don't live so long, they are soon seared with hot iron and the few who care rule over the multitude who don't. Readers are never shallow, they swim the deep and discover creatures of great wonders. Read history, read geography, seek to know politics and how men are governed, read the Bible and study other religions, don't be ignorant of the sciences and let not any be a mystery to you, read the ideas and the imaginations of others and be acquainted with the basics of all that affect you. Let this be a challenge of the season and it isn't just for you but also for me, for I long to know knowing that I do not know as I ought to know. I long to break the fear of reading and make more time to read wider to expand my thoughts to bless those who read me much more. There will be thoughts that will make the stomach ache and some so annoying that they will tempt one to tear the book that contains them, some you bare gladly like you bear comedians and some you discard as soon as read into mental trash cans but in the rubbles, dirt and mud you strike gold sometimes which makes up for all the stress and troubles gone through. As we read it's good to know that the knowledge of evil lives on also in the books. The inventors of evil write too. The ideologies that brought wars and untold sufferings to the world are also locked up in books, the techniques of oppression and control are scribbled and left behind for evil men that would incarnate afterwards to feed on and grow their fangs. The strategies of old time manipulators are being gleaned by their successors and packaged to equip more tyrants that will emerge at this close of the age. When you fall on such packages read but hold on to that which is virtuous and let not such influence you but let them instruct you as to the ways of the wicked and how the callous go and avoid them. You will also meet many that will speak to yoir development such drink as much as you can, they are rivers of life and not death. Read wide and be learned maybe someday you might write a few pages and be read and your fattened thoughts can immortalize you till the world and its books come to an end. Read and keep reading and you've just done well reading this not minding the length and when you have read its time to meditate to wring out the juice of life in it. Thanks for reading and read even more. Share this widely and Keep reading and keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and you can also join the Bible study at godspeeps.wordpress.com. Good morning.

Empowered Optimism

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Empowered Optimism.
I must say a very big Happy New year to you my friends. I love the optimism that characterizes the turn of every new year. We all look forward that things will be better and it's commendable and must be encouraged. Faith and positivity has unquantifiable benefits and power to shape things in line with what we believe.  That God responds to faith is well proven. It is unto me according to my faith even if I am yet to see the end of that faith, definitely and eventually I will see it. However my positivity must follow certain rules to bring it to possibility. My faith must be based on the promises, provisions, prophecies and principles of the performing entity. If God is the one who will perform with His power my self generated positivity and optimism then I must be sure He has such promises or plans for me. My positivity must be accommodated in His principles if His power is to respond in performance. Positivity by itself maynot be powerful enough to produce beyond what wishful thinking will do which leads to disappointments at the end of the day and sometimes can be very painful. But if my positivity is based on a promise, a prophecy or a principle of a divine nature then I have a basis to expect a harvest of my optimism. If I obey the laws the laws will work for me just like the physical laws around me. I know certain things are within my reach and those I must make happen by myself but many are beyond me which I must not at same time leave to chance to handle as it may not favor me being out of any control or driver. If I leave the preservation of my going out and coming in to uncontrolled chance without putting it in care of the One who can handle it successfully, the year may not be as happy as I had wished. If I put my health at the mercy of the health system of the nation and expect that whatever comes would be handled between my health insurer and my doctors even in the best of nations, then I had signed to die as those who die daily even under the best medical practices if chance so dictates and that isn't what I meant when I thought positively about the new year. Instead I can believe God for my healing and health as provided for by Christ on the cross by His crisscross stripes dripping with blood for the healing of the world. By His stripes I am healed. That is surer than the health insurer if ever there was one. By that God can make the year happy for me and the family. Can I put my finance in the hand of the uncertain economy and be sure that the year will be a happy one? Even in nations where corruption quotient is almost zero, meltdowns don't easily allow the economic prophets and seers to see them coming that fast, and if your economy is run by corruption where its almost sure that only a trickle of the bloated budget will reach those panting at the grassroots, you can't afford to and I won't put my financial happiness under such arrangements, what if a devilish policy is released by a demon possessed authority to scatter what is being built? Will that guarantee the possibility of my positivity? Why won't I just leave it in the hand of the One who became poor that I might be rich, my shepherd who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of all flesh? I'll rather hang my happiness on the eternal providence who shall meet my needs according to His riches in glory and not according to the faulty policies of a corrupt system.  Then my expectations of a happy year can be sure and shall not be cut short. Then I can be sure that my investment would grow and my wares and services will be patronized, even the fish will bring me more, many will minister to my needs from their substance and five loaves and two fishes will even feed my thousands and the poor can then say I'm rich and it will be a happy year!
So when I say Happy New year or when a friend so says to me, I assure myself of the One who will take responsibility of making sure that such a wish comes to reality by making His word and promises become flesh to dwell amongst us and become useful to me. Meaning I must seek His face and push my wishes to Him through prayer and hold it there by the prop of my faith until I see the manifestation here on earth. I must see Him as wiling to do what I wish by locating His word for it and only His love guarantee His willingness of wich I'm sure of based on His permission to let His Son die for me. I must see Him not just willing but also able to do and bring my positivity to possibility and finally see that He is faithful and trustworthy enough to be relied upon to make it real. When all these are settled I can relax, locate what duty and role I have to do and make sure I don't do what will jeopardize my faith like jumping off the cliff or being careless with my responsibilities. I can then be assured that as I do my part faithfully God too will be faithful to complete His part and then my initial optimism can be empowered to create the happy year of my dream. As I sow my potential and ensure my responsibilities are faithfully done with those beyond me adequately put in the care of Him who can do all things through prayer and faith, I can rejoice on shouting Happy New year and as the year runs older and older the spiritually settled impossibilities become realities and then the envisaged joy will then be full to overflowing running towards thanksgiving at the year end. If we are on the same plane, empowering our optimism with divinity's principles, prophecies, promises, purposes, plans and power then we can keep shouting to each other HAPPY NEW YEAR knowing full well that having settled things spiritially that the physical must resonate to make it happen. I'm so sure that we are on that same plane and I can boldly say again and again to you Happy New Year. Share this with your contacts and keep on visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and leave a mark everytime to make me know you came! It's a year of unspeakable mercy, it is a year of vision! Enjoy the whole 365 days of it in empowered happiness and joy! Let's go!

Empowered Optimism

Empowered Optimism.
I must say a very big Happy New year to you my friends. I love the optimism that characterizes the turn of every new year. We all look forward that things will be better and it's commendable and must be encouraged. Faith and positivity has unquantifiable benefits and power to shape things in line with what we believe.  That God responds to faith is well proven. It is unto me according to my faith even if I am yet to see the end of that faith, definitely and eventually I will see it. However my positivity must follow certain rules to bring it to possibility. My faith must be based on the promises, provisions, prophecies and principles of the performing entity. If God is the one who will perform with His power my self generated positivity and optimism then I must be sure He has such promises or plans for me. My positivity must be accommodated in His principles if His power is to respond in performance. Positivity by itself maynot be powerful enough to produce beyond what wishful thinking will do which leads to disappointments at the end of the day and sometimes can be very painful. But if my positivity is based on a promise, a prophecy or a principle of a divine nature then I have a basis to expect a harvest of my optimism. If I obey the laws the laws will work for me just like the physical laws around me. I know certain things are within my reach and those I must make happen by myself but many are beyond me which I must not at same time leave to chance to handle as it may not favor me being out of any control or driver. If I leave the preservation of my going out and coming in to uncontrolled chance without putting it in care of the One who can handle it successfully, the year may not be as happy as I had wished. If I put my health at the mercy of the health system of the nation and expect that whatever comes would be handled between my health insurer and my doctors even in the best of nations, then I had signed to die as those who die daily even under the best medical practices if chance so dictates and that isn't what I meant when I thought positively about the new year. Instead I can believe God for my healing and health as provided for by Christ on the cross by His crisscross stripes dripping with blood for the healing of the world. By His stripes I am healed. That is surer than the health insurer if ever there was one. By that God can make the year happy for me and the family. Can I put my finance in the hand of the uncertain economy and be sure that the year will be a happy one? Even in nations where corruption quotient is almost zero, meltdowns don't easily allow the economic prophets and seers to see them coming that fast, and if your economy is run by corruption where its almost sure that only a trickle of the bloated budget will reach those panting at the grassroots, you can't afford to and I won't put my financial happiness under such arrangements, what if a devilish policy is released by a demon possessed authority to scatter what is being built? Will that guarantee the possibility of my positivity? Why won't I just leave it in the hand of the One who became poor that I might be rich, my shepherd who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of all flesh? I'll rather hang my happiness on the eternal providence who shall meet my needs according to His riches in glory and not according to the faulty policies of a corrupt system.  Then my expectations of a happy year can be sure and shall not be cut short. Then I can be sure that my investment would grow and my wares and services will be patronized, even the fish will bring me more, many will minister to my needs from their substance and five loaves and two fishes will even feed my thousands and the poor can then say I'm rich and it will be a happy year!
So when I say Happy New year or when a friend so says to me, I assure myself of the One who will take responsibility of making sure that such a wish comes to reality by making His word and promises become flesh to dwell amongst us and become useful to me. Meaning I must seek His face and push my wishes to Him through prayer and hold it there by the prop of my faith until I see the manifestation here on earth. I must see Him as wiling to do what I wish by locating His word for it and only His love guarantee His willingness of wich I'm sure of based on His permission to let His Son die for me. I must see Him not just willing but also able to do and bring my positivity to possibility and finally see that He is faithful and trustworthy enough to be relied upon to make it real. When all these are settled I can relax, locate what duty and role I have to do and make sure I don't do what will jeopardize my faith like jumping off the cliff or being careless with my responsibilities. I can then be assured that as I do my part faithfully God too will be faithful to complete His part and then my initial optimism can be empowered to create the happy year of my dream. As I sow my potential and ensure my responsibilities are faithfully done with those beyond me adequately put in the care of Him who can do all things through prayer and faith, I can rejoice on shouting Happy New year and as the year runs older and older the spiritually settled impossibilities become realities and then the envisaged joy will then be full to overflowing running towards thanksgiving at the year end. If we are on the same plane, empowering our optimism with divinity's principles, prophecies, promises, purposes, plans and power then we can keep shouting to each other HAPPY NEW YEAR knowing full well that having settled things spiritially that the physical must resonate to make it happen. I'm so sure that we are on that same plane and I can boldly say again and again to you Happy New Year. Share this with your contacts and keep on visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and leave a mark everytime to make me know you came! It's a year of unspeakable mercy, it is a year of vision! Enjoy the whole 365 days of it in empowered happiness and joy! Let's go!

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Seeing There! Getting There!

Seeing There! Getting There!
Woke up this morning to fish out a thought lingering in the recesses of my mind for a while now.  The journey of life as it relates to the years we spend here. With a New year breaking it is pertinent that I consider such issues of destiny. The new year will be a portion of that journey and can be very significant to my arrival at the place possible. The year to some will be a begining while to others it will be an end. To most people it is the midterm if we are to follow the normal sigmoid curve. No matter where I am on the curve the journey requires proper management to bring it to destiny and destination. Where do I go from here? That is a question most of us normally ask and it is good to ask before the journey starts so that it won't end up at a wrong place. I can not define that for another in specificity but I can describe the characteristics of that place and the features that must be in place in order to recognize the place. When someone prays that you will get there, it's good you ask 'where?' before you say 'Amen'. I must be see it before I get there. I must see it to call it forth, I must see it the land that flows with milk and honey and taste of the grapes before getting there. I must see the picture so I can receive it in a figure, when I see the city which the foundation and the builder is God, then I can tune off my mind from the place I'd left so that I can close the opportunity of going back there. I must see thw invisible so that I can accomplish the impossible. If all I see are the things I can do there is no reason to believe and the Omnipotence won't have to accompany me on the journey there. But what I see must be much bigger and greater, something the eye is yet to see, which the ear has not heared nor have been caught by the wildest of human imagination, that's when I would know why it's necessary for the Almighty to go with me. It is a great place and not a place that can be overlooked. I must set my eyes to see that which eyes can not see and not that which can be seen but is passing away. When I can describe even vaguely then I can recognise when I arrive safely.
Where am I going? As far as I can see has been given to me. I become what I see. I see a place where lives are preserved today and generations unborn can use as platforms to go higher like of Joseph. I see a place where every hidden abilities are expressed and maximised, accepted, encouraged and celebrated. I see the housetops where the hidden messages to the world are delivered to those it was meant for, where I am beyond what I possess no matter how enormous but can be the greatest blessing to my generation, a vantage place to affect nations positively and make a mark. A lofty height of influence that can reshape the world to something better and create a landmark not necessarily a physical edifice but may be a mental hallmark that can make men's trees better to bear better fruits. Imagine all of us arriving there and not just at the place of great personal possessions administered by selfishness that create rich fools. If the latter is what I see then my direction is wrong, if all I see are better cars and posh houses with fat bank accounts to rest my souls and arrest my conscience then purpose has committed suicide within me and the stench of its decadence has become the perfume of my joy, to which my nasal glands have become conditioned. It's a wrong direction to go and a wrong journey to take. A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions, aren't they meant to sustain us to accomplish purpose? When sustenance becomes the ultimate goal, where then is the reason for living, if I live only to eat, where is the reason for the resulting strength and growth? If I live to be healthy, what would I use the health I live for to do? Do I feed on my own fruits? Which tree produces fruit for itself? Does the vine drink wine? Does the olive oil its skin? My fruits are not to feed my lusts and so my ultimate reason must not be to my selfishness, my greatness must be the greatness of the world otherwise its greatness that has missed its way. That is the picture of where I am going, its the direction to the place where I am of the greatest blessing to the world and to the glory of God. Where my fruits will feed the world and my wine will make merry the hearts of men and my oil will make their faces shine. If this journey isn't taking you in that direction then its time to stop and reconsider. If you are racing in another direction then it's time to stop and receive your real vision, this journey isn't much about eating, drinking and dying, it is a journey to make recognisable impacts and make that difference that will affect the world for the better. That is what to see, that is what you are equipped to do, that is why the Everlasting Arms are underneath you, that is why the Almighty is travelling with you, that is why the angels are accompanying you, that is why the creation is waiting for you, that is why God invested in your creation, that is why He sent you, that is why you are here and you musy see there to get there! I declare that you will get there, how I wish you've seen there...because when you see you become! Good morning and Happy New year. Share this also and don't stop visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com
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