Home Ground

Do you ever wonder why in sports, it is often more difficult to beat a team at their home ground than on a foreign ground? Well I have thought about it . Is it the cheers from the thousands of home fans on the stands? Or is it the familiarity with the environment, the turf? Well I think it is the feelings that have become so attached to them, feelings derived, sourced and drawn  from the environment over the years; kind of like an attachment, a bond. However, when those cheers turn into boos and what used to be their turf becomes a ground for special hate campaigns  against the team or a singled out player, you will watch how fast the team or that player become a shadow of his former self, falling from grace to grass.

Purge and Restock your Mind

Have you ever heard the saying "you are what you eat"? Well, here is another one for you; "you become what you are conditioned to". It is Dr Paul Enenche that remarked "whatever you focus on multiplies". Everything that is going on around you is replenishing your mind and thought pattern according to their will, they are on a subconscious level selling you a lifestyle. Like I said in an earlier post, "man is a product of influence"; we eventually become what we focus on; we eventually become what constantly focus on us.

The Power of Compulsion

Compulsion, a strong desire to do something, which we find difficult to control, something in many situations we really don't want to do but we just can't help ourselves. Sometimes half way through that thing we wish we could just stop but no way, cause it always feels stronger than us, it feels over-powering. What is that thing that have such influences and power over you What is it? You know it, I know it.

Sharing mine isn't as important right now as to mastering how we could conquer this demon that is hovering over all of us. If we don't conquer it, it will us. It is a very selfish influence; all it wants is control, control over our will, snatching it's power from us.

Do you have what it takes to be you?

OK, lets talk a little about you. How are you? Deep down from within do you feel like you are living you? I don't mean having everything figured out, I mean who really do right. What I am probing here for is very simple, is it? I think it is. Every human need to know who there are; we owe it to ourselves to know this.

Again, do you know you? Can you declare a manifesto about yourself in one paragraph? Or you're just another one among many trying to go with the flow, the trends, oh the trends; it seems like that is the major goal of everyone now; what is trending!

The whole world is conforming to a particular norm nowadays that its considerably becoming more difficult to identify one's self. It has become an up-hill task to know who we really are in this world.

Self Defeat

Do you know that self defeat is the worse defeat there is? It is because it is sin against one's self even as it is a sin before God. Man, we are beings that are product of influences, everything informs us, but nothing influences us more than our own thought, word and attitude. Whatever is spoken over you has little influence as compared with same words coming from your mouth, cause what we say comes from within us, from the very depth of our being.

Today for example I almost ran myself by myself in self defeat and self pity because of a situation that unfold itself; what I was left in charge with was badly destroyed, as a matter of fact it cripped the whole service.

Live on Purpose

Have you ever been told "you can't do it"? Often times it is not spoken out, but implied.A lot of other times we get this look from others when we share with them our vision, goals or aspirations. Some other times we rebuked even by our closest companions concerning our dreams; we are seen as aiming to high, seen as proud and arrogant; this often come as sheer ignorance.

Where does this come from? Are we built this way? Is it a goal of certain individuals to pull others down? Why is this?

Everyone on earth with a negative attitude, mindset and approach towards life is a child born of his/her environment; yes he/she is a product of a certain community; why is this?

ZIPPED POCKETS

One will need only so much effort to see around the huge gap between the deep pockets and the shallow pockets. One with abundance and the other with only so much to live to see another day. We live in a world whose riches is held in custody by a group of custodians which forms barely 1 percent of the entire human population of planet earth. We live in a world where food are thrown away for rubbish in some parts and adverse hunger in another, a world filled with abundant wealth but yet so much lack.

Here is the thing, it is obvious we missed it along the way, and we have to admit it; it is the only way. We missed it.

How do I know I have lost FAITH?

Faith, it is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what  we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.

The world as we know it was made from things that cannot be seen by spoken words of faith by the Creator. It is the greatest force in the universe; it creates something out of nothing, it turns startups into blue-chips, it holds all things together.

Faith is the one thing we have to hold tightly to and never let go. So why are we letting go? Why are we allowing it fade away from our grip? Why is fear now taking the drivers seat? Yes fear is the absence of faith; as a matter of fact fear is faith in the negative, it is constantly having faith that the worse is going to happen. Why is this?

NO MORE EXCUSES

Why do I keep doing this? I mean I do this all the time. I am in a loop here, constantly complaining about everything with little or no will to change any of it. Do you actually think that the world owe you anything or an explanation? I have to change things, I can't go on like this, each time I try to break free I get held back by my own thoughts, fear of the on know, but I have to get this kind of negative thought pattern off of me.

Whatever I don't venture into now will plague me later in life  with thoughts of what ifs; what if I had moved to that other city, what if I had left that toxic relationship earlier than I eventually did, what if I had turn that idea into something actually tangible, what if?

WOULD YOU DANCE WITH HIM?

Listen! Wisdom is calling out. Reason is making herself heard. On the hilltops near the road and at the crossroads she stands. At the entrance to the city, beside the gates, she calls: “I appeal to all of you; I call to everyone on earth. Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense. Listen to my excellent words; all I tell you is right. What I say is the truth; lies are hateful to me. Everything I say is true; nothing is false or misleading. To those with insight, it is all clear; to the well-informed, it is all plain. Choose my instruction instead of silver; choose knowledge rather than the finest gold. “I am Wisdom, I am better than jewels; nothing you want can compare with me.

HIS NEED, my needs

Man, created to do, to will and to become by Him in this world is built with needs; he secretly craves and desires certain things. He is triune, a spirit having a soul living in a body. Three in one. 

All three of him have needs that needs to be met and satisfied else, else chaos. The guy across the street yelling, yelling at his wife, getting off in his car in anger has needs; unmet needs. The wife he left behind with child in her arms have needs of her own not met. The little boy now grown, angry with the world, feeling like everybody owes him something for sure has needs, he misses mommy. Wars, terrorism, oppression, depression of all sort are tied to that ultimate unmet need carried around by everyone.

What are my needs, what are yours; does Father God have needs of His own? Well lets deal with it, there is  a need everywhere we turn, we just have to look.

Obviously I am Indebted

Obviously I am indebted..., wait a minute, am I really? I mean, what is all of this? What is this place? Why am I here? Why are all of these? What is man? Did I ask to be part of any of this? Why am I? What is the reason for me being?

I just can't figure out why I am put here and given all this responsibilities. Why am I put here only to make decisions between this and that, what to do, what not to do? In choosing I will be condemned at the end if I chose wrong. What is the essence of it all? Is this just? Am i really indebted to Him or anyone else at that?

HIS PRESENCE, my presence

His Presence... I for one want more of it, I literally want more of Him every time everyday. Uhhm wait a minute is there such a thing as more of Him? Is there such a thing as more of His presence? I..., really don't think so because He has already given Himself totally to His sons and daughters(saints), to His church. 

Now if His Presence is already with us, within us, then why this "emptiness". Wait a minute, am I looking for some sort of closure or a feeling as a sign? This can't be, He cant be felt, He is a Spirit, He can  only be perceived; so do I perceive Him as much as I should or would want too? Should it be an all the time thing? Here is the thing His presence is always with us, we don't just perceive Him because, our spirit is totally choked by our physical senses and all this external forces all around our surroundings, yes this forces are literally choking our spirit being its sensitivity.