Saying These To Myself

Information is one of the greatest asset in the race of destiny.
My Destiny is tied to information.

Bola, give yourself to reading and study!
A reader today is a leader tomorrow.
My destiny is tied to the books I read.
My taste for information has a lot to do with my destination.
Grace is multiplied by knowledge, so go for knowledge.

Bola, invest in your destiny by investing in books.
If you don't read Bola, you're making your future bleak!
Books don't only inform, they impart. Every book carries the spirit of the writer.
You are constantly moulding your destiny by the books you read...

You are what you make yourself to be.

How did I get to where I am today?

For the past few weeks now, I have been meditating on these questions..."What did I do to get to where I am today? How did I get to where I am today? Each time I think about these questions, I see very little of what I did, and more of God's mercy, love and help. I have this strong conviction in my heart that If it has been not been God, I will be nowhere really.

This thought again buttresses my long held definition about life..."Life is all about letting go and letting God"

Thanks God for being there always.

Service and Sacrifice

I came about something today (5/4/2006) in the book I am reading...(Eternity Unveiled) by Dr. Albert Odulele. He drew my attention to the fact that Sacrifice is not equal to Service in the eyes God. God delights in my service more than in my sacrifices. He made me for service, not for sacrifice. My sacrifice can only be accepted when my service to him is genuine.

I can be willing to sacrifice all I have (especially when I belive and have the hope I reproduce them) but not necessarily willing to serve him... Can this be true? Thinking about this two scenario...

1. Willing to sacrifice all I have worked for but reluctant to spend time witnessing for God.
2. Willing to sacrifice as much time I can to witness for God.

Which of these scenario best describe me?

Why was Pharoah more comforatble with releasing the Isrealites to Sacrifice to God rather than to go and Serve Him? Exo. 7:16, Exo. 8:1 and Exo. 8:8.

I think the differentiator here is PRIORITY. Sacrifice is a form of Service, and it has value only when it's done out of Service. The prority should be on Service not Sacrifice. It is Service that gives sacrifice value before God. Sacrifices done in Service to God always attract God.

Preserved for Assignment

I looked at my life and saw that I have enjoyed God's mighty protection and preservation. I have never been involved in a motor accident, never been sick or down with any sickness nor use a single drug in the past 14 years. I have been on the progress path in my career. I am not where I want to be yet, but I am not where I used to be. I have a peaceful family and a peaceful home. My wife had our first baby with no single complication whatsoever...There is peace all around me, tranquility in my mind, marriage and work. He gave me job I wasn't qualify for and keeps showing me pictures of good things to come. Indeed He has Kept me in all my ways. In every step I take, I see him involved.

How can God 'keep me in all my ways' and I forget the purpose for His Preservation? but then, can I authoritatively say I know His exact purpose for my life?

Lord Help me. I need you...Keep working on me as you lead me to doing your will. Let me be able to say at every point in time that "[Not in my own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in me [energizing and creating in me the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight." Phil. 2:13 (Amplified Version).

I also pray that you help me to understand that I am created just for one thing , to SERVE you. Help me to know that you never gave me life, preserve that life for serving the company that I work for or will work for, but to know and understand that through my career and involvements, I should SERVE YOU.

Let every day in my life be a day to SERVE YOU, regardless of the goodies or the difficulties therein.

Help me Lord.

Living In His Thought

I am an expression of God's thoughts, an expression of His mind. I live in His heart. I did not just come to be, I am an expression of a clearly thought out plan. (Jer. 29:11). I am not an accident. I live in His plan for my life (Psalm 139:15-16). He has concluded on what I will be in His thoughts before I was born. I have a focus. I am a creation of purpose. I am on assignment. I have all I need to live the life I was created to live (2 Pet. 1:3-4). All that I am and all I will be is already determined, (Isa. 49:10). I just live it out on a hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis, confirming His thoughts about me (2 Tim. 2:15).

Challenges and seeming setbacks during my days on earth notwistanding, in so much that I remain in His thought, success results (Psa. 1: 1-3). My beginning, my life, and my end is glory! (Rom. 8:30) My story is a progressing glory. I follow His guide, I follow His Word and my life goes from glory to glory and greater glory! (2 Cor. 3:18). His purpose for my life is to live a glorious life. His thoughts defines my essence, my existence, my purpose, my life.

My Heartitudes

My Heartitudes are my thoughts on Bible-based principles and information that has helped me cultivate positive mindset about issues in my life. These information had initiated and consolidate changes, positive changes in my life.

As the wise one advised in THE BOOK, that I "Keep my heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life", so I want to uphold. I once heard Bishop David Oyedepo say that "Information is the baseline for transformation: to be informed is to be transformed; to be uninformed is to be deformed". This message and many others has informed my 'heartitudes'.

To remain relevant in this ever changing world, I have given myself to continual learning which has become the vital key to my transformation. Ignorance, is not bliss. I believe, what I don't know or my wrong mindset can cost me a fortune. My life can only get better if I take time and pain to know more each day. I have therefore place premium on forming positive mindsets and enriching my mind with valuable life changing information.

Information has been my tool for survival and the instrument for the change I have experienced so far just as Charles Darwin once said that, “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

My heartitudes are God's Word, convictions, informations, opinions on issues of life from a positive heart.