Ministry Success

Ministry Wednesday: Ministry Success

The word, Success' is probably the most powerful word in human motivation. Nothing drives a person like the desire to accomplish something. More importantly when such a thing centers around affluence, influence and all manners of worldly achievements. This is what the world generally calls success when achieved.

Ordinarily, success should be defined by purpose so as to trigger a pursuit that matters.
To a servant, success should be to accomplish the task set forth by his master, to a leader, success should mean taking those entrusted into your hands to their preferred destination. If there's a reason, the best achievement one should crave for is to achieve that reason.

The same goes for ministry. Today, we are gradually getting our definition of success wrong in ministry. Whenever we get the definition of success wrong, we pursue what won't add to the achievement of the ultimate reason for which we are put in the ministry.

Ministry isn't something we put ourselves into even if we are operating at the most regular level of ministry. Whatever we are called to do, is an assignment allotted by the Master, He is the one who gave 'some' to be whatever they are, in order to accomplish His own pleasure only.

1 Timothy 1
12. And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

Now, the definition of ministry success can't be different from the desires of the one who put people into the ministry. He had laid a course for each one of us to accomplish and He is faithful to make sure that everything we need to accomplish that course is given per time.
He had said no one planning to build an edifice would fail to sit down first to count the cost to ascertain that he has enough to start and to finish. He won't do less for His own work.

But this grace and all other graces He gives can't be called success, they are the invested capital for the project. The tree can't see the manure and the fertilizers applied around its roots as success or even as favor. It is what is expected of it that is success when it is delivered. If the leaves are the expected result, the greatness of its boughs will tell of its success, if it is the flowers, the beauty of the floral will be its success and if it is its fruit, then the abundance of its fruits will be success.

The question of success in ministry is only answered by purpose. And purpose is designed to be fulfilled by following the course laid before each of us.

Acts 20
24. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

This defines what success means to apostle Paul. I believe that's what God wants us to see as success. There's a course of assignment laid ahead of us that we are to follow to the end and that'll be success to us.

But we often mix it up. We often couldn't separate the definitions of success by the world system from that of the kingdom of God. We see affluence, influence, fame and popularity as success, fulfilling ministry or running to the end of the course would be secondary. This is the error of today!

With such confusion, we have pursuits that differ from running for the mark of the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus.

We have worldly goals and when we achieve them we share the testimonies as success. I don't have to mention the things we only need to acquire now to be called successful, where you live, where you shop, where you travel to, who you're connected with, what you drive, what institutions you've built, what you fly, the kind of private jet you own etc...

This we do irrespective of the level we are on our ministry course.

We need to call ourselves to order and to see how Christ sees. Will Christ welcome us as good and faithful servants just for laying up treasures on the earth when He specifically said we shouldn't? Will He applaud us for all the filthy lucre we have amassed even when the scriptures speak clearly against filthy lucre?

These are the questions we must answer. We must know the heart desire of our Master, we must seek to please Him who enlisted us in the army and not be struggling to entangle ourselves with the affairs of this world, calling that ministry success...

Let's think about this... Good day to you

The Easy Life

Monday Motivation: The Easy Life

Look closely, you'll realise that the world herds towards the easy life. We love to feel good with little or no stress. We wish responsibility isn't in existence. We wish we would only wake up from a sweet sleep, eat already prepared delicacies, play and be entertained all day long, behave as we wish, exercise our pride and prejudices, indulge in all kinds of unrestricted baseness in the name of enjoyment, make others to serve us and to get all our cravings, get tired doing all that, fall asleep and wake up next day to do the same things and live like that till death stops us...

I call that the easy life. This is what pushes many. Majority of people who woke up this morning to step into the rat race have been told that such a life is possible and that they should go for it.
Majority of those who won't lift a finger today to add value to life are also being motivated by that vision. They don't feel they came into the world for the 'hard life', suffering and stress aren't for them they think and so they lay back into idleness and lack of any sense of adding value.

Nobody likes pain. Hardship and poverty have devastating effects on people's lives and on their psychology. They aren't what we should ever wish for ourselves, not even for our enemies. This is the justification for people ever running away from poverty even after they had become very rich though fear should never be a motivation.

Where then is the balance? The truth is that both the easy life and the hard one have their places in life. And each has its role in productivity towards fulfilling purpose.

The truth however, is that we aren't in life to work for the easy life while escaping the hard life. That will be a very base reason for living. Because no amount of 'easy living' can satisfy the soul and so we'll keep searching for it without end.
And running away from poverty and the hard life will never end even when one had gained the whole world. The fear of poverty keeps people running all their lives while being useless to fulfilling purpose.

But the duo have made billionaires across human generations. People, take advantage of other people's desires to live the easy life to make money. That's why entertainment industry probably makes more money than agriculture.
The fear of poverty and of the hard life has also made so much money for those who exploit it more than it had delivered those running away from poverty. The fear of poverty, like every other kind of fear makes one vulnerable to exploiters. What you fear the most creates the easiest loophole for those who would take advantage of you by scams.

We must understand therefore, that existence is for purpose and not for mere survival. The craving for survival is futility. Why should I ever be in existence if all I am here for is to struggle to survive? What will be the reason for my surviving if survival is all the reason for surviving? Why then was I made to exist?

I once asked people, what they will do if they suddenly have all the money they crave for, all the opportunities they desired, all the importance and fame, all the conveniences and comfort bestowed upon them? I asked what would they still pursue in life?
I remember someone had responded saying he will keep investing and working so that it won't diminish. I remember also that not many others deviated from that line of thinking.

But we have people who were at birth richer than what so many have been working for all their long lives. People who, if they decide never to lift a finger all their lives can do so and never be poor... Such people were given us as what we call the control specimen of an experiment. They tell us that the easy life or running away from poverty aren't  the essence of living, otherwise such people would have been useless to life.

Both the so called
'easy life' and the other side are opportunities we have to make life and eternity better for all as we prepare for life after the world, whichever one we have here now.

King Solomon was a control specimen in the adventure of life. He was granted everything he craved for, even including those he didn't pray for. Peace, women, wisdom, riches, favor, position, adventure, fame etc, were given him in abundance till he got tired of everything and they all became vanities to him.

My question to you is, what's driving you? Let nothing drive you into futility and vanity. Discover purpose and pursue it. You'll survive and thrive but they are not an end in themselves but a means to fulfilling a divine purpose here on the earth. If you have become rich and comfortable, remember it's for a purpose. If you are yet to get there, remember your purpose in life isn't just to get there, so don't forget to keep fulfilling your life's purposes as you seek to be comfortable... The two are quite compatible and if you have to choose one, choose to pursue and to fulfill the divine purpose.

We eat to live, we don't live to eat!

God's blessings and grace to you always.

Good morning. It's a great week!

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Be Very Courageous

Ministry Wednesday: Be Very Courageous

Following Christ is a swim against the tide, being in the world but not of the world. The contrasts between the cultures of the world and that of Christ is quite conflicting. When you have an ideology that goes contrary to that of the majority to propagate, then you need a lot of stamina to withstand the wind and the current hitting against you.

So, Jesus Christ, our Lord told those who would lead the charge, to be of good cheer because He had overcome.

John 16
33. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. KJV

33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world! Berean Study Bible

So long we are true to Christ and to His cause and course, all we need do is trust in His victory over the world, no matter how formidable the opposition might be, and be courageous.

Courage isn't an absence of fear but it is a resolve never to be intimidated. It isn't also an absence of danger, but a realisation of not having any other option than confrontation.

We are expected that in the face of the conflict against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places, we must stand.

Ephesians 6
13. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

The breastplate of righteousness puts boldness in the heart and gives the courage we need to stand against the tide.

We must never lose the breastplate of righteousness. The righteous is as bold as a lion that turns not away from any. When we subject our right standing with God to barrages of abuse, it affects our conviction of divine backing and it eventually affects our resolve to withstand in the evil day.

We must cover our chest with righteousness if we would stand.
It is such that when we don't put that piece of armour on, we make the victory of Christ over the world of no effect and the courage to withstand is shaken.

Be of good courage. We need to keep our courage up. We need to be bold to preach the Word. We need to be bold to live the Word. In this world, with all sorts of voices advocating things contrary to Christ more loudly, we need to be very courageous to withstand.

Your courage, as a servant of God in deviance to the world with a resolve not to be intimidated or be shut off will be the target of the enemy. He will send fears into the heart, do things to discourage and to intimidate. He will try to isolate you and cut off supplies. He will do all to discredit you and to tarnish your reputation. He will push you against God and His purposes like He did to David, all to discourage you and to weaken your voice.

Don't fall for him. Don't let him get you to sin. Don't let him scare you with difficulties and sufferings. Don't let him shut you off with lies and opinions of men which may be popular but contrary to you... Be strong! Stay with the truth. Count God's opinion of you as the only important one and seek to please Him and do His will at all times. Be courageous.

Keep your courage intact, let nothing touch it, raise your head to declare the truth always, let no one pay you for speaking to the extent that such would shut your mouth from telling the truth. Be courageous even in suffering.

Once you got bought over, you lose the courage to be a servant of God. You'll be seeking to please men. Don't tow that line...

Preserve your courage... You'll preserve your ministry and your place with God. Beware of carnal and worldly ambitions which aren't for heaven, they make you a cheap prey for the devil. What you want to become or achieve must be within the call and the opportunities God gives, anything outside that, even in the name of ministry won't leave you innocent and eventually it'll affect your courage to stand for righteousness and truth... When you lose that, what else do you have? Let not your salt lose its savour, otherwise, it'll be good for nothing but to be thrown out and be trampled upon by men, Matthew 5. Watch out.

Don't lose your courage, don't let anything take it away from you and don't sheepishly or cheaply submit it to the enemy. Stay with God and be courageous!

It's a great day!

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The Breaking Point

Monday Motivation: The Breaking Point

2 Corinthians 1
8. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

9. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

10. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;


Every thing is made for purpose. Purpose determines the necessity of the existence of a thing. The success of anything is judged by its ability to fulfil the reason why it was created. And so is every man and every business or endeavor in life.

Now, for anything or anyone to fulfil its purpose, it must be made to last till it fulfils the purpose. If it goes bad before it satisfies its purpose, what use is it?

Potential, for instance, is important in the fulfillment of purpose. Everything made to fulfil purpose must be equipped to deliver that purpose. The potential of the object is what gives it the capacity to deliver expectation. When potential necessary is depleted, the purpose can no longer be achieved except it is restored to the level needed to achieve purpose.

So, everything must endure till it achieves its purpose otherwise it'll only achieve purposes below the original set goal by the manufacturer.

Every material has its breaking point. Everything has its elastic limit beyond where it breaks and get spoiled. Every food has its shelf life before when it's no longer good for purpose.

We each represents a purpose. There is a reason why we are here. Each of us also have an elastic limit, which we must never cross before we eventually fulfil our purposes in life.

Durability speaks of the ability to last the duration earmarked for our purposes to be fulfilled. Ordinarily, the manufacturer makes sure we are made durable enough to achieve purpose for as long as expected.

But all these are, barring abuse. Abuse is when a thing isn't used for its purposes. It eventually spoils the material. The manufacturer didn't create his product for abuse. Even if certain abuses were envisaged at design, you can't tell how abusive users and others would be and how far such will go to spoil a product.
We are all exposed to abuses when we subject ourselves to things our Manufacturer didn't plan us to be exposed to. There are conditions that brings us faster to breaking point. There are living conditions both physical, spiritual, social, psychological and so on that don't help our durability. They bring us closer faster to our breaking point to the end that we may break before we could achieve all we were made to deliver.

It is the same with relationships, with health, with finances, with development, with growth, with businesses etc.

Success is nothing without sustenability. Sustenability is developed to avoid the abuses that predispose a thing to being spoiled or damaged. Abuse leaves nothing the same, be it business, health, relationship, persons or other things. Abuse is a spoiler, it is a breaker. Nothing brings a thing to its breaking point faster than abuses that destroy.

Ask yourself today, what are the things that would bring what you have going for you closer and faster to its breaking point? It may be an environment, an attitude, a behaviour or lifestyle, it may be carelessnes or other bad habits.

After you have identified them, go on and deal with them to preserve that thing you have going for you.

Eventually, everything will have to reach its breaking point. But it must have achieved purpose and left behind things to move forward with. Nothing lasts forever but everything should be durable enough to last its use for purpose before it becomes useless. Everyone has enough strength of material to last the distance earmarked for him or her on the journey of purpose, each only needs to build a sustainable business, life and environment to avoid abuse that breaks before time.

Think deeply about this and remove everything that may stop you from achieving purpose. Anything that pushes you faster towards your breakpoint should be avoided or discarded, they aren't good for purpose, they won't help you succeed, they make a mess of your sustenability, in fact such things aren't sustenable, avoid them before they break and destroy.

God bless you and Have a great week!

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The Debt of Sexual Satisfaction

Relationship Friday: The Debt of Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage

1 Corinthians 7
1 Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

2 But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

3 A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.

4 It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

5 Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control (New English Translation)

King James Version of the Bible rendered verse 3 thus

1 Corinthians  7
3. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

The phrase "Due Benevolence" literally means in its Greek origin "The affection that one owes" and it is used in relation to sexual rights, privileges and responsibilities in marriage.

Apostle Paul addressed the specific issue of sexual immorality in the church at Corinth against the background of the issue that he earlier addressed in chapter 5 .

1 Corinthians  5
1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Of course, besides the instruction he gave them to deal with the specific issue referred to, it is in order that the church learn also what to do to prevent and how to handle such issues going forward.

The question is what has God provided to handle such a situation particularly where self control and the gift of celibacy are excluded? The answer is what prompted chapter 7 of the letter.

The solution is for every man to have his own wife and every woman her own husband. Of course, our experience of marriage hasn't given such assurance that once you're married, you can't ever commit sexual immorality. But that's our own kind of marriage, which is dysfunctional, because ordinarily, if Adam had a need for sexual satisfaction, he naturally won't seek it anywhere else outside of Eve, he had no choice.

I believe the apostle didn't say this carelessly or without been inspired to say so. Not following the instruction of 1Corinthians 7:1-5 may actually be the reason why we haven't been able to solve the problems of sexual immorality in the church.

God locked up sex within a monogamous heterosexual marital union of a male and a female human adults. That is the fundamental and exclusive source of and solution for sexual satisfaction. It means every time a man or a woman is pressed or tempted to have sex, the solution is with his or her married mate. Each should have his or her own wife or husband.

According to the instructions above, every husband owes his wife her right to sexual fulfilment and every wife owes her husband his right to sexual fulfillment. It will be wrong to deprive each other for whatever reason and it will be wrong to push a spouse to sin in seeking sexual satisfaction elsewhere. When tempted or aroused, the satisfaction lies with the spouse, it is a right that should be willingly and affectionately given.

But it is called affection or benevolence and not malevolence. It shouldn't be rape, it should be something that can be asked for and given based on mutual communication and communion and when it won't be given, it should be discussed and an agreement arrived at. We don't have a right to rape our spouses, but they have a responsibility to help diffuse our sexual pressures.

Now we should also understand that helping a spouse is beyond sexual intercourse. Marriage offers the opportunity for the couple to have an intimate environment to discuss sexual matters without restrictions, being naked and not being ashamed. It offers the ears to hear the temptations and the frustrations a spouse is experiencing sexually and to seek mutual solutions together that will save the union and preserve their holiness towards God.

If you are being tempted to get into sexual intimacy with another person, sharing such with your spouse may be a deterrent. I understand that many people may not be mature enough to act beyond the jealousy of such feelings to appreciate the recognition accorded to be intimated with such an information and role. But then, we must grow up, marriage is for grown ups who see the sexual sanctity of their spouses as their responsibility.

Instead of saying things like, "Oh, so you've been thinking of sleeping with my sister?", you should rather see your husband as being in need of help and particularly, your help. And same goes with the husband. We owe each other that much! If we are to be naked and not be ashamed. The help however exclude seeking sleeping partners for your spouse in stark lack of recognition for God, but personally rising up to the occasion of helping your spouse by providing the satisfaction needed and to overcome the temptations.

Now, when the man of God said, the right to our bodies is not ours but that of our spouses, I'm sure he said that with all due respect to the fact that our bodies belong to God as temple of the Holy Spirit bought by the blood of Jesus Christ. It is the Holy Spirit that gives us the right to His temple that our spouses hold in trust, that it their bodies and so we must handle it with a sense of responsibility and recognition for the real owner, the Holy Spirit. We must be careful not to do with our spouse's bodies things that may constitute defilement before God.

But in all, we must live with our spouses with the understanding that whenever they are in need of sexual satisfaction, we have the responsibility of giving it and that they have a right to ask for it except we both agree to abstain. It'll be wickedness to deprive each other.

You'll agree with me that we have genuine reasons not to want to have sex at all sometimes. This may be due to our emotional state a times. We transfer frustrations from other areas of life into our marital bed and render the bed contemptible. This shouldn't be. That you are having financial, job, work place frustrations should actually be the reason to seek intimacy with your spouse. It isn't a sign of weakness to fall back into the laps of your wife or into the arms of your husband when you fail on the streets. That's what God intends both the laps and the arms to provide at such times.

It is also worthy of note that when there's disaffection between spouses, and they had hurt each other, the last thing one would want is sex. It means we should resolve conflicts and hurts quickly before they bring dysfunction into the bed and push someone into seeking satisfaction elsewhere and to sin against God.

I believe we need to walk circumspectly as wise people. Let's work on our marriages, God has given us that as a safety net. If we seek to overcome sexual sins, here is our Biblical recommendation which we must never despise rather work with to build a union that would be a stronghold against the invasion of immorality on God's heritage.

Good morning and have a wonderful love filled weekend!

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Sacrificial Focus

Ministry Wednesday: Sacrificial Focus

Acts  20
20. And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house.

21. Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

22. And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

23. Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

24. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Philippians 3
12. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

13. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

The man of God wanted every mature Christian to have the sacrificial focus. He believes that's necessary for the believer that even if any hasn't gotten it yet, God will reveal that to such.

In Acts 20, he addressed the Ephesians pastors. He told them how he wasn't sure of what was going to happen to him at Jerusalem except that the Holy Spirit or say God, kept telling him that imprisonment and suffering were waiting for him there.
Ordinarily, that should dissuade him from going on with the journey. But there was a higher purpose than his safety and comfort. But that journey was crucial to his finishing his course and ministry with joy and to testify to the gospel of Christ.

What a focus, what a sacrifice!

No wonder he told the Philippians how everyone of us should forget what's behind and press towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

He wasn't pressing for a better life, not for popularity, not for riches, not for any personal reasons but to finish up the job given him by Christ.

We have a job bigger than our personal safety, wellbeing or comfort. We don't measure ministry by how much comfort we have acquired but by how far we have gone on the cause and on our courses no matter how dangerous or sacrificial the journey might be.

How much self sacrifice does your being in ministry demand from you? What have you given up to be able to deliver on the mandate God has given you? Where do you derive your comfort from? Is it from God or from the opportunities around you as you take advantage?

Can you imagine apostle Paul, who saw joy in finishing his course even if it required bondage and afflictions? Do we share same thoughts today?

Will you still be in ministry if it takes your freedom and comfort away? Will you be able to derive joy in preaching and teaching the gospel? Can you leave where you are accepted to where you aren't, if that's what finishing your course with joy demands?

Or we trip at every sign of discomfort and pain? What do we know about self sacrifice for the kingdom of God? What do we know about self denial? How dear is your life to you in the face of great afflictions in the ministry of preaching the word of God?

We must know that we aren't commended for building world class institutions and organizations in the name of ministry but for testifying to the gospel of our Lord Jesus and finishing the work of service committed to our hands at whatever costs. We aren't sent to build personal comfort, we aren't sent to get men's praise and popularity, we aren't sent to build personal empires, we are sent to preach the word and to complete our mission here.

Think about this...more grace to you! Good morning

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Success Defined by Purpose

Monday Motivation: Success Defined by Purpose

At the beginning of a year, a month, a quarter or half a year like this, we are often psychologically pressured to do some assessments, check our score sheets and plan for the next season.
We want to check how we are doing vis a vis what we had planned out doing or the goals we set to achieve in the past season. We believe this marks our progress as we continue to dream and push forward for accomplishments and personal happiness.
Goals are easy to set, dreams are easy to have. Desires are the cheapest things to acquire, visions are easy to conceive by our imaginations. We can always see a better life than what we live presently, we can envision doing something great.

And we can always achieve them. We can always acquire the things we desire too. Our dreams can set us on to achievements. Our imaginations can be pursued to accomplishment. It is possible to achieve things as we can see all around us. Everything we have in this life is someone's achievement, man was made to make things happen on the earth even if against God who made him.

And that's where correct assessment stems from. We have the power to make things happen but these things we make happen may be quite unnecessary. Their achievements may look to us as success. That's a way to describe success. We can acquire things we don't need, yet the acquisition is success to us. We can acquire things that don't last, and hardly do we have things that really lasts, but their acquisition was success to us.

People have cars they don't use, clothes they won't wear, houses they don't live in and that doesn't bring in money, people earned degrees they don't and won't use. They have opportunities they don't need and occupy positions that adds nothing to nobody. Each of these was a result of efforts and was deemed a success. Many of these things have become burdens upon their owners and they haven't brought the joys they promised when first desired.

But we must understand that nothing with divine purpose is ever a waste. Divine purpose establishes the use of a thing. What the thing is needed for is defined by its original purpose. Out of a million and one thing that a person can pursue and achieve, pursuing and achieving divine purpose is what create useful outcomes.

We have so many reasons why we desire what we desire, but not every reason is a right cause. Big things may be desired for their bigness but may not be needed. A big house with many rooms may be needed when young with many children in their teens and early 20s and are still home, but when they leave and aren't thinking of coming back and you'd become older, it becomes a burden awaiting to be discarded. (Of course it will be a good source of finance)

But real success is discovering purpose and pursuing it. When divine purpose becomes the foundation for our desires and pursuits, life becomes better and the joy becomes lasting. Divine purpose isn't a flash in the pan, it is essence of life which dictated the terms and conditions of our creation, it determines our designs, the capabilities and potentials embedded in each of us was carefully sought to ensure we deliver our purposes here in this life.

The true definition of success should therefore be the accomplishment of divine original purpose that informed our design and creation, which informed our passion and drive. It is such that if we lose sight of that purpose, we begin to chase shadows and the wind and the problem here is that we would achieve them, if we pursue them according to the basic rules of pursuits but will they bring satisfaction?

Let's think about this and reexamine our life pursuits if they are towards achieving divine purposes or they are just to create things what won't add to us or to humanity. Let's think towards leaving an eternal impact on everyone we meet and in all we do, it connects us quickly to the purpose for which we were made...

For what purpose is your life's pursuits? If you get what you are pursuing, would you still like it?

Happy new month, the end of this year shall be better than the beginning thereof in Jesus name.
Enjoy the day!

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