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Do You Have A Life?

Everyone will die but not everyone has lived. By that, I don’t mean that there are more people to be born, but that there are some existing who are not living. Is it possible to exist and not be fully alive?

Priorities

A sign that you probably don’t have a life is when you’re always going with the flow of events that suddenly pop up. People who have a life have priorities. They understand the idea that time is a precious commodity and that it should be allocated to matters that are deemed important and/or relevant at the time.

People who are going nowhere want you to go with them. Be careful of people who rather parasite on people’s lives. They feel okay in their mess as long as they have someone in the same soup as them.

Balance

Productivity and busyness are not alike, they are opposites. The most productive people are not those who brush off almost everything because they have “priorities”, deadlines or tight schedules. It is actually those whose priorities and schedule are pretty much balanced.

Once in a while, they may even go in their way to brush off their tight schedules and go with the flow of events. No matter what you make your life, it will eat you up if you don’t balance it with other priorities. Be flexible!

Identity

Life is basically about purpose. So whenever we’re sluggishly going through life though we’re partying every weekend, getting high every moment and getting laid every time, we still feel unsatisfied on the inside and we actually do not have a life because we can’t get our heads around the meaning and purpose for our doings.

If we do not have a deep sense of meaning, we distract ourselves with pleasure.
Daniel Good

Remember, a purposeless life – no matter how fun it seems – is encapsulated with depression. Make sure your life isn’t centred around a job you can be fired from or friends you can lose.

Life is an art. Every mistake is a new style. There are no rigid rules yet there are certain aspects that must be ancillary to the life we live. These aspects are meant to complement our lives rather than be it.

Be mindful what you invest your life into. If it’s a job or position or relationship you can lose, don’t make it your life. Trust me. It will leave you devastated when it’s all gone. Invest your life in your identity; something you’ll always be no matter what, something that can never be taken away from you because it’s basically what you are. Live from within!

March 17, 2019
Tapping Into The New Year Energy ✨
It is yet another new year of our lives and aren’t we so grateful? The new year always starts with a pure type of energy of hope and serenity where we think anything is possible, every goal is achievable, every wrong is forgivable and every moment of our past is far out of reach. Over the years, we get caught up in the enthusiasm and make resolutions that are basically baseless solutions. When this occurs over a considerable number of years, we tend to walk into the new year with a kind of indifference that scoffs at the whole idea of making resolutions.
The fact that you failed in your business approach doesn’t mean the whole business thingy is useless. The fact that you suck at fishing doesn’t mean those who fish are wasting their time. The fact that you made resolutions in the past that changed nothing doesn’t mean resolutions change nothing. You simply need to change your approach rather than decimate the whole idea.

The questions we need to ask ourselves are,
- how are we going to be consistent?
- how are we going to keep that same energy till the end of the year?
- how are we going to actually do what we know we should do?
1. Clear Objectives

More often than not, we focus on the struggle rather than the objective. If you want to go the gym, what is your objective? The vaguer your objectives, the more likely you are to fall along the line. When you ask people what they want to do this year, they say basically the same things from the past 4 or more years; get closer to God, pray more, exercise more, eat well, save more money, get organized, live life to the fullest etc. These are extremely vague. After you have identified these vague objectives, clarify them the more by asking two simple questions; why? and how?

Save more money.

Why? I want to purchase a new LG phone. (amount = 750-1000 Ghana cedis)

How? Save 100 cedis for 10 months.

Save 25 cedis each week.

Save 4 cedis a day

Once the objective is clear and explicit, accountability is possible. Once you don’t know what the end result must look like, you wouldn’t be able to track your progress properly. If you don’t know where your destination is, you’d never know how far you are from there.

2. Accountability

In order to be consistent, we need to be disciplined. In order to be disciplined, we need to be accountable. Of course, we all know that it takes discipline, but we struggle with discipline all year long because of, perhaps, this one missing ingredient; accountability. Want to save more money? Then you should be able to review how much you spent every month. Once you keep a gradual track of your progress, you find new momentum to continue. If you first of all know how much you spend, then you can choose to either compromise your expenses or earn more. Once you have a goal, you need to have a plan.

See! Everybody wants to save money, even the richest man in the world. There are several ways of saving money. Find out which one best fits your situation and break it down to an everyday lifestyle. Once you know you have to save 4 cedis today, you can at least make it a point to. There are times when you’d fail, no doubt. But at least, you’re well aware of it. There’s nothing worse than failing and not being aware because there’s no accountability. There is a need to review your life on the daily. Every day is a new day to be better than yesterday. But remember that it’s only possible with accountability. It is highly recommended that you have a friend or partner who holds you accountable for your actions.

3. Time Allocation
One factor that is most essential determines whether something is achievable or not is TIME. Everything is possible, but some things become impossible when time is not on our side. In other words, what makes the impossible possible is time. Time is the x factor. Everything is possible with time. Therefore, your time allocation will determine whether your set goal is achievable or not.

Once you get the time factor wrong, your set goals become unrealistic. On the other hand, where there is no time allocation – what you’d do every day, every 2 weeks, every month etc – the goal becomes “immortal” and is never achieved. Even with goals concerning behaviours which must last a lifetime, time allocation is very essential;

Want to spend more time with your spouse?

Why? To have a more intimate relationship and communicate better as a couple.

How? Go on a trip to resorts in the locality.

Time allocation: Every last weekend of the month.

Progress takes a long time to materialise suddenly. Realise that you’d need more time than you think you would. Even in matters of faith. At the end of the day, it wouldn’t be able about how long it took, it would be about how long it lasts. Take your time and establish something concrete that will stand the test of time rather than riding on the illusion of progress in taking less time and seeing everything fall into shambles later. Choose deeper roots first; taller trees will follow.

I love you ❤
January 1, 2019
The Faith Of God

“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith…”
Hebrews 12:2

Faith in the Greek world basically means “God’s persuasion”. Faith isn’t man’s work. It is God’s. He’s the author and perfecter of your faith. He believes in you and that’s how you’re able to believe in him.

And also, everywhere that says “faith in God” actually translates as “faith of God” in the Greek (Mark 11:22). Not that God needs faith but that your faith in God is sourced from His faith in you.

This is why Paul says there’s “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph 4:5) and that’s because it’s Christ’s faith we all have. You don’t take part in perfecting or puffing up your faith. Christ does it for you in you. Remember, He is the author (He gave you a measure of faith: Romans 12:3) and finisher (perfecter, completer: Phil 1:6) of Faith.

“…even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not (visible yet) as though they were”.
Romans 4:17

Faith isn’t a magical substance. What we understand as faith is merely waking up to a reality that has always been here.

October 17, 2018
The Realities Of Faith

“For we walk by faith, and not by sight.”
2 Corinthians 5:7
“the just shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is seeing with God’s Eyes. The LORD, the timeless God, sees not as man sees. Everything that is happening or will ever happen has been planned and prepared beforehand, even before the foundations of the world.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 NKJV

God not only knows the future; God in reality is the future. (Rev 1:8)

Don’t live from earth towards heaven, live from heaven towards earth. Why? Cuz you’re a citizen of Heaven.

We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven.
Philippians 3:20 GNB

God’s Word is settled in Heaven (Psalm 119:108). In God’s time, there is no future. Therefore, when we see through God’s eyes, we speak from the future into our present realities.

This is the true meaning of prophecy. Prophecy is not speaking from the present into the future. It is rather speaking from the future into present realities. And there is an evidence, a knowing, a confident assurance, that it will come to pass. That is Faith.

October 7, 2018
Mother Nature

Poured water

Poured fire

Poured air

Earth enveloped

Became clean and pure.

Walking her up the stairs
Jesus cleaned her feet

Her smile was perfect
Crown on top of her head
As she sat on her throne

Purple robe was given her to keep her warm

Sprinkles of God came from her to her children
and husband

Husband the only one able to connect the children

Everyone was important to make us complete

Her throne spinned in our midst
As we engulfed into the heavens

June 17, 2018
Was Jesus’ Death An Afterthought?

Once upon a time, there lived Adam and Eve in a beautiful fragrant Garden called Eden. Heaven on Earth. Then a serpent came by, and the rest was history. Man has fallen. Sin has entered into the heart of man. What will God do now? Wait thousands of years after to die on the Cross?

The Gospel is not that man fell and rose up again. The Gospel is that man mystically rose up even before He fell. For many generations, Evangelism has been approached from the Western view popularised by St. Augustine. To start from the fall of man and end at the Cross is not exactly wrong per se. It just doesnt tell the whole story. The Gospel is meant to make us happy, to make us laugh. It’s the Good News!

Why? Because it is the foolishness of God which insults every known wisdom of man. Using the Western view lens brings up questions like why did God allow Adam to sin? The Gospel is that man’s sins were paid for even before He sinned. And that was a better way of dealing with sin than stopping man from sinning.

The Gospel is a constant mockery of Sin, Death, Hell, Evil and the Grave. Because they thought they had the upper hand from day 1. But even before the foundations of the world..hallelujah!..God had everything under control. Psalm 2 is very prophetic. The kings of the earth talked about was Death, Evil and the Grave.

When they gathered for battle and thought they had won the possessions of the earth and overthrown God’s sovereignty, God was simply laughing uncontrollably at them in mockery at their futile efforts.

The Greek word for care is ” melo “. It means anticipating a person’s need and meeting it right now. When you care about someone, you anticipate a need tomorrow and meet it today.

Was His Death on the Cross an afterthought? No. Because that is not caring. His death was foreknown and predestined.

When God created man, He anticipated the fall of man, thus the lamb was slained before the foundations of the world. Hallelujah! Before you got into that situation, God had already made your way of escape (1 Cor 10:13).

In Romans 3:25‭-‬26, Paul talks about why God overlooked the sins of the people in the Old Testament. Because they were all mystically included in the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ.
The likes of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah, the nation of Israel, you name it.

Jesus paid for our sins even before Adam knew how to sin. This is why the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ is called the Gospel, the Good News. The Gospel is that the lamb was slained before the foundations of the world, before man fell from glory. And with this knowledge, I can also emphatically laugh in ecstatic glory in tantalisation reaction to sin, death and the grave.

“Now death, where is your sting?” hahaha

I love you ❤

March 30, 2018
Living a Porn-free Life

There is a thick line between what we need and what we can’t live without. Chemically, that has to do with the levels of dopamine. Drugs like sugar, coffee and spices produces dopamine which makes us feel good. But they don’t produce dopamine as such a high level that we can’t do without it. Yet we go back to it all the time. Just like soft porn.

Watching porn, in my view, is a habit that can be altered if one has the needed info.

Some can’t prepare food without spices. Others can’t eat food without drinking water afterwards. Those are habits that could be changed with time and preference.

Research

When I researched on porn and saw the stats, I realised it’s becoming epidemic. One research was to see what porn does to our brain. And when they searched for an American male teenager who had never watched internet porn before for studies, they found none. That was a shock to me. So I’ve provided a list of important info to help y’all willing to break this unhealthy habit.

One Huge Misconception

Watching porn does not make you sexually healthy. Watching porn will not stop when you marry or start having sex. It doesn’t even give you the right info about sex. Don’t believe those filthy lies. That is not how to feed your needs. Your sexual attraction needs are not a justification to indulge in porn. Pornography is an instant gratification activity. It does not satisfy you, it sucks from you.

Breaking the porn habit

1. First of all, don’t make it a priority to stop watching pornography. This may sound wrong but what is actually wrong is that the focus is still on porn. It is like me saying, “don’t imagine a white bear.” You have already subconsciously imagined it. It is called the white bear effect. I’m not saying don’t face the problem head-on. All I’m saying is, fighting a problem that has become a part of you fights back harder. It rather needs to be starved. Dr. K V Anand said it better;

2. Your belief in porn addiction makes things worse. The label of “porn addict” causes depression but porn watching doesn’t.

People who believe themselves to be porn addicts need help with understanding what their use of porn means, and why they may have problems around their sexuality. They deserve help unpacking the conflicts between their sexual desires, and the moral/religious society around them. They also need help to understand how and why porn use is not an addiction, and how viewing themselves as a porn addict may affect their self-image and emotional health. These men (and some women) deserve help in understanding their sexuality and their porn use. They don’t need the shame and stigma that comes along with the “addiction” label.

3. One major reason why people who don’t want to watch porn, go back and even watch it in excess is boredom. Whenever you are bored, you do what subconsciously makes you feel good instantly. This is because boredom is unhealthy and health is multi-dimensional. Our body needs fun. Our soul needs adventure. Our spirit needs intimacy. Stop blaming your old man which is dead or even the devil. Change the cycle.

4. Life functions because it is in an ecosystem. Society thrives on culture. Our body has a rhythm. Even the weather has a pattern. Pornography is not the problem. It is the fruit of the problem. Whether someone is addicted to drugs or porn or any form of perversion, it is because they didn’t understand their inner needs and misunderstood their emotions.

Change the pattern

Set in motion another chain, another culture, another ecosystem. Don’t focus on stopping. Don’t count the days you didn’t watch it. Don’t entertain those thoughts in your head to watch a little bit. Rewire your brain. Renew your mind. Do what you have always loved to do as a child. Don’t be afraid to be bored. Don’t entertain boredom either.

Everything all around us is calling for our attention, but when you change what you are aware of, you change your reality. People who see sin everywhere make sin omnipresent in their minds. People who see love everywhere see the omnipresence of God. Develop healthy habits that make you spiritually, mentally and physically healthy.

Habits are not difficult to develop if we look at it from this perspective; we always develop new habits when we renew the old ones. Habits are set in motion with our minds not our wills. Don’t fight your habits, consciously change them. Whatever you force yourself to do cannot really become a habit until we set it in motion with our minds. Easier said than done but hey..you gotta start from somewhere. It is time to live at your utmost potential and be your best self. Greatness is within us and ahead of us. You can start off with a good read by Derek Doepker

Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
II Timothy 2:22 NKJV

I love you ❤

March 7, 2018
Understanding Understanding

In understanding something, we normally want to differentiate it from all others and see it’s uniqueness. It’s good. We begin our question with, “what’s the difference between…” and there we go. What’s the difference between faith and belief, courage and confidence, arrogance and pride…and the list goes on and on.

What if I told you that full understanding is not in the differentiation but in the integration?

Certainly, full understanding is not just in the differentiation but also in the integration. That is to say the deeper you go, the more integrated everything is.

Try dissecting the human skin. The deeper you go, the more integrated everything is.

Try dissecting an onion, digging up a place or researching on human skin.

Moreover, surgeons will tell you that though a part of the body can be understood when separated, a full understanding is when you see the part in the integral whole coordinating with all the other parts as one body.

We can apply this understanding to the Body of Christ. Don’t go crying on God to know which mantle you carry or anointing you have or “office” you belong to. “Lord, am I a prophet or an evangelist?”. No! You would have missed the entire purpose of ministry.

It is a whole new world of discovery out there. The technology industry has got this understanding and is integrating new stuff; your phone has a flashlight, radio, camera, notepad, tv, telephone and what not integrated into it.

The technology industry is now integrating old inventions into new multi-purpose ones

Full understanding is not the end in itself; It’s a means to a whole new beginning. It can be applied to virtually anything. Try it in your studies. For instance, when you’re reading the Bible, perceive the entire forest before identifying the individual trees. Therefore, understand the central theme, the bigger picture, before dissecting the details. In that way, your understanding is fruitful, confusion becomes an illusion; it will not be based on single verses pulled out of context.

This is important in understanding every series on this blog. Are you ready for this?

I love you ♥

July 7, 2017