SELF EDUCATION

 

Notes on Self-Education

Some History

Man has always been able to educate himself without instructors. In third world countries, there are limited education opportunities —  self-education is the only way to acquire skills. Up until about 1960, a job applicant with self-education skills was desirable. Chuck Yeager was the first man to fly faster than sound, yet his formal education was limited to high school. His skills helped us learn how to put man in space. When the first astronauts were chosen, Chuck Yeager, the man who showed us how, was disqualified because he did not have a college education. From this time on, self-educated people were not recognized on employment application forms. In the last 40 years, self-education has gone underground. It is still active, but is not recognized by society.

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e Panama Canal

The Panama Canal Commission has always adapted advancing technology as soon as it was available. This may be tradition from the construction days. Because of the demand for skilled employees in advancing technology and lack of formal training opportunity, the Commission has to rely on the self-educated. This was especially true during the construction days when most of the workers came from Jamaica with almost no formal education.

Mr. John F. Stevens, the chief engineer, did not have a grade school education. He understood self-education concepts and implemented a leadership style that took full advantage of man's ability to educate himself. There is a saying: 

"If employers treat their employees like engineers, they will think and act like engineers. If they treat them like helpers, they will think and act as helpers."

The Panama Canal Commission treats blue-collar craftsmen like engineers. As a result, they make decisions equal to that of college-educated engineers in the United States. In most parts of the US, blue-collar craftsmen are treated as helpers.

The Experience

In 1980, the Panama Canal Commission installed timesharing computers in all offices. (Timesharing was a typewriter controlled by a computer at a central location. There was no monitor, input and output was typed on rolled paper.). I was working as a machinist when assigned to the office to operate the computer. My only experience was reading about them.

My assignment was to write programs that would be useful in the office. There was no instructor available; the only source of help was a small manual that came with the computer. There was no software, so the first assignment was to learn BASIC computer language, then design programs that would be useful in the office. 

A year later, IBM-PCs were installed. The same policy, no outside help and write your own software. It really wasn't policy, there was no one available to help and there was no useful software on the market that met our needs. I retired 8 years later as supervisor of the computer department.

I had a similar experience in 1954 when I was 19 years old, in the Marine Corps, during the Korean War. I was sent to Japan. First day off the troop ship, an officer told me, "you are a machinist. You are also in charge of the machine shop." Using a small manual, I taught myself to be a machinist, which became my primary occupation.

During extended combat, there is no time for years of training. Teenagers are able to learn skills in weeks, if not days, when under combat pressure. They are learning with hands-on in real word environments. It takes years to learn the same skills in classrooms.

My ability to educate myself is the secret that open the doors of opportunity. Number of years in the classroom may determine the ease of getting a job, but self-education skill determines the ability to advance.

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MY DREAMS

How I Made My Dreams Come True

by Captain Bob Webb

Public schools are supposed to remove barriers so people can succeed. For some, the system does remove barriers and provide a solid base for achievement. For others, the system replaces one set of barriers with another. For example, creativity is killed by pressuring students to accept the status quo, by establishing a fear to be different and a fear of failure. Independent thinking is replaced by dependency. In some cases, pressure to excel in academics kills the love to learn — a skill needed for success in the real world. People, who have a vision that motivates, will maintain a love to learn and overcome all barriers.

My Story

My story begins in Summit, NJ, at the age of sixteen, where I am sitting in a classroom starring out the window. Out of the first window I could see myself exploring the jungles of South America searching for gold, I could see myself drifting down the Amazon River on a raft, I could see monkeys swinging through the trees, I could see myself as Tarzan swinging on a vine. Through the next window, I could see the bow of my sailboat plowing through the towering waves, heading toward the South Pacific. I could see myself on a white sand beach chasing girls.

Then BANG! The teacher's yardstick hitting my desk brought me back to the real world where subjects did not relate to my interest and dreamers are related to dummies. In a loud voice the teacher said, "You are a failure! If you don't pay attention you will continue to be a failure!"

When the bell rang, instead of going to the next class I walked out of school never to return. I was tired of being called a failure. Right or wrong, I took charge of my future. When I left school, I carried the single most important element for success... A DREAM. During the next twenty years, every one of my teenage dreams came true.

You may be asking, "How does one make their dreams come true?" There are three elements:

• First - We must have a dream that motivates us. No one has ever achieved anything without a dream attached to a burning desire.
• Second - We must learn how-to-learn. In school, we learn how to memorize or be taught. Learning how to learn frees our dependency on others for knowledge.
• Third - We must learn from failure and learn how to bounce back from failure. No one ever succeed without failure. In the classroom, failure is a no-no.

In my early teens, I read the book Kon-Tiki. This is a story about six Norwegians sailing a raft across the Pacific Ocean.  Their adventure inspired my dream of duplicating their raft voyage. As a teenager with normal parents, a dream like this was considered ridiculous. Not only did friends and family not support my dream, they told me to get serious. But the Kon-Tiki dream turned me on. I wanted to know more about the ocean world and how it could be challenged. I went to the public library looking for more books and found plenty.

During the next few years, I joined the seas scouts, read boating magazines, studied nautical books, and went to boat shows. To help understand seamanship techniques, I made model charts, buoys, and boats. With models, comprehension was easy. Unknowingly, I was learning the art of learning how-to-learn —  self-education —  a technique that would follow me the rest of my life, a technique that would bring me success and make my wildest dreams come true.

At the age of nineteen, during the Korean War, I was in the Marine Corps and in Japan. On my first day of duty an officer told me, "You are a machinist and will be in charge of the machine shop." As he gave me the shop keys, he pointed to a trailer. In the Marine Corps, everything is on wheels. When I opened the doors I had my first look ever at a machine shop. In the shop was one short instruction manual titled "How to Run a Lathe." When a job came in, I followed the manual's instructions. I was surprised at my ability to complete assigned tasks. The Marine Corps experience launched my machinist career. It also made me realize that learning how-to-learn is a powerful tool. For example, every manmade object around us is the result of someone's dream and failures. Consider the light bulb. Thomas Edison believed something could burn white-hot and not burn up. A wild unrealistic dream? Everyone knows everything burns up in a short time. A thousand failures later, Thomas Edison burned a steel wire white hot that never burned up. Continuous white heat creates light.

Opportunity is attracted to people with a dream. They are the first to be hired, first to be offered opportunity, and first to be promoted. Bigger the dream the faster doors open. People without a dream are last to be hired, last to be promoted and first to be laid-off in a force reduction. For non-dreamers, doors remain closed. WHY? People with a dream act differently than non-dreamers. Dreamers develop an attitude that radiates energy; they have a sense of purpose and meaning to their lives. Radiant energy is an attitude that bosses like and to which they offer opportunity. This is how the impossible becomes possible.

When I was discharged from the Marine Corps, I decided people were right, my wild teenage dream was ridicules. Real people do not drift across oceans on rafts. I am now an adult, I should think and act like one. The raft dream was dead. For the next five years my life went nowhere, my ambition, hope, dreams were gone. Something else was also gone — opportunity that came fast during my earlier years also dried up.

One day I dusted off the Kon-Tiki book. My dream jumped off the pages and came to life. I said to myself, "I must find a way!" Two years later, I was in Hawaii and learned how the Polynesian people populated the Pacific Islands in dugout canoes 1,000 years ago. My dream was changed from a raft to a dugout canoe. At this time, opportunity came back and fast.

I helped crew a 36-foot sailboat from Hawaii to California. This provided my ocean sailing experience.

Next, I was hired by the Panama Canal Company, Panama. Soon, my supervisor asked me to attend hard-hat diver school at company expense. With this skill, money was no longer a problem.

A short time later, I was living on a beach in Tahiti building a 40-foot Polynesian double-hull boat named Liki Tiki. The hulls were built by Choco Indians in the Darien Providence of Panama and shipped to Tahiti. I built the boat according to popular theory and information supplied by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Three days at sea convinced me the double-hull theory was wrong. The two hulls worked against each other and would soon breakup.

Back in Panama, I took the problem to the Indians in the Darien Jungle. They said, "Outriggers is what works." I then succeed in sailing a 36-foot dugout canoe with outriggers, named Liki Tiki Too, from Panama, 5,000 miles, to Hawaii. 

Opportunity never stopped. For the Navy Undersea Center Hawaii I help develop a two-man Plexiglas submarine. Moving back to the Panama Canal Zone, I learned five computer languages and became supervisor of the computer department, I became Captain of the Canal Zone's training schooner Chief Aptakisic on which we took a group of teenagers to New York. My wife and I spent five years sailing the South Pacific Ocean in our own 50-foot sail boat, Hunky-Dory, which I designed and self-built. Opportunity came my way because I could educate myself, was motivated and did not let a wild teenage dream die.

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THE GIFT AND THE NATURAL TALENT OF MAN

                                               Lets analyze!!!

Sitting in a high school classroom are two highly intelligent teenagers:

• Student "X" is highly proficient in academics, his natural talent. He clearly understands literary structures, parts of speech, and is an excellent speller. When he looks under the hood of a car, he has no understanding of mechanical structures or the process that make the car run. He makes efficient use of the car without understanding mechanical systems.
• Student "Y" is highly proficient in mechanics, his natural talent. When looking under the hood of a car, he clearly understands mechanical systems, internal parts of the engine and what their function is. In the classroom he has no comprehension of literary structures, neither can he transfer his thoughts to paper. He makes efficient use of spoken language without understanding its structures.

The formal education system only measures academic talents, not mechanical or other non-academic skills. Question:

1. Which student will be labeled most likely to succeed and receive scholarships?
2. Which student will be labeled a failure and drop out of school?

You know the answer. What you may not know is, if the school offers auto mechanics training, student "Y" would not be allowed to participate if his academic grades were below "C", the one subject he could excel in. Through self-fulfilling prophecy, the education system trains non-academic talented teenagers to be failures. This failure is guarantee by societies acceptance that "anyone who cannot master academics lack ambition and cannot learn." The Self-Discovery program can give these teenagers a second chance.

Inspiration is a Motivator

• Maritime Theme Park would inspire teenagers to seek a professional skills in the blue-collar world.
• Inspiration and interest that motivates is achieved through the discovery of natural talent.
• The discovery of natural talent is achieved with Project Based Education.

• All teenagers have a burning desire to learn, be considered intelligent and have ambitions of being an achiever. Classroom failure does not mean they lack ambition, they need a different learning environment.
  • Teenagers join gangs because the education system has no alternatives for classroom failures. Street gangs fulfill this natural desire while gaining social recognition among their peers. Crime is the tool to achieve these goals. Our society must offer alternatives!
  • There will always be highly intelligent teenagers that are in conflict with classroom environments and/or cannot learn in competitive classroom environments. Classroom performance is not a measurement of true capabilities.
• All of us have different natural talents, intellectual, artist, mechanical, to name some. For this reason, there needs to be alternative learning environments to meet different natural talents. In the right learning environment, anyone can excel.
  • For intellectuals, the academic base education system inspires a vision, discovery of natural talent, opportunity to develop it, career guidance, and job placement. The system does not provide the same opportunity for non-intellectuals.
  • Most high schools will not allow students with below grade "C" average to take shop/vocational courses, an opportunity they could excel at. Self-fulfilling prophecy proves the education system right, "anyone who does not comply with our policies will be a failure."
  • The education system does not prepare students that are going into the job market out of high school. Their careers are hit and miss.
• In high school, placing intellectuals and non-intellectuals in the same classroom does both groups a disservice. This is like having automobiles compete with bicycles and expect the same performance. It will never happen. If both are required to be at the finish line together, the automobile will operate well below its capabilities. If not, the bicycle will be called a failure. The bike has the ability to do things automobiles can't and vise versa. The education system should recognize the various abilities and provide opportunity for uniqueness.
  • Teenagers that become failures are taught to be failures through self-fulfilling prophecy. When teenagers are told they are a failure 5 times a day, 5 days a week, for as long as they can remember, they believe it. Most teenagers believe and accept the limits placed on them by authority.
  • For many failing students, the classroom is their enemy and/or prison from which they feel there is no escape. Through self-fulfilling prophecy, they become misfits who believe they are NOT wanted at home, in the classroom or by fellow students. To them, there is not much difference between a prison with bars and a classroom without bars, either place is a reminder of not being wanted. With negative feelings like this, there is no motivation to learn.
• Education system's motivation tool is reward and punishment. Intellectuals receive the rewards while non-intellectual are punished. Does this develop a love to learn?
• Non-intellectual people learn best with hands-on projects, learning by doing. This can be achieved with opportunity to experience a verity of blue-collar skills. Hands-on projects give students opportunity to discover their natural talent.
  • In the blue-collar world, the ability to work with tools is a skill that has value.
• Ten days aboard a tall ship, at sea, gives inspiration needed to break through self-imposed barriers. In 1963, at the age of 27, I helped crew a 36-foot sailboat from Hawaii to Los Angeles. That experience gave me the ability to break through self-imposed barriers and carry out my teenage dream of becoming a hard-hat diver, drift down the Amazon River on a raft, and sail across the Pacific Ocean in a dugout canoe.
  • Teenagers use role models as a symbol of the person they want to be. They inspire a vision of the person they want to be. This can be constructive or self-destructive.
  • Leadership style and the ability to inspire a motivating vision is the key to efficient programs.      
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THE PICTURE MINDSET OF STREET GANGS

Mindset of The Street Gangs

What do astronauts and street gang members have in common?

Both groups are highly motivated. Both had role models, at an early age, of the person they wanted to be.

Both attached a dream to their role model. The astronaut's dreams lead them into the world of aviation. The street gang members dreams lead to imprisonment.

Why do some people's ambitions lead to self-destruction when the same skills can be used to develop a motivating career and productive lifestyle?

It is important to note here that all of us follow our dreams. Some of us have weak dreams that offer limited motivation - others have powerful dreams that are highly motivating. For most of us, our dreams are positive, for others, their dreams are self-destructive. Street gangs have very powerful, self-destructive ambitions, usually related to criminal activity. Our mind is a powerhouse that searches for ways to fulfill our dreams, whether they are right or wrong.

Street Gang Members are Super Motivated! Gang members are highly intelligent and ambitious. They want to learn and be recognized as an achiever. They reject the classroom method of education; therefore, they are straight "F" students. Street gangs are teams that share knowledge, which is a powerful form of education. In this case, they are learning how to be efficient criminals. Our education system does not recognize teams' as an education tool. The education system drives young people into gang environments by defining a group as failures and reminding them in every classroom, 5 times a day, 5 days a week that they are failures. This produces low self-esteem. Street gangs are organized in a way that produces high self-esteem. This makes them attractive to classroom failures. We all like to associate with people with high self-esteem, including young teens who do not consider the outcome. Role models of gang members are people serving time in prison. A person in prison is an achiever, from their perspective. They actively seek criminal opportunity. They want to be caught, see their picture on TV and in the newspapers. Their peers recognize them as an achiever. This is a positive status symbol in the street gang world. They care less what society thinks of them. Young people, admitting to crimes they did not commit can give them instant status recognition among their peers. Serving prison time, guilty or not, is an achievement, from their perspective.

The above-stated elements are that of a super achiever. The problem is, these people embraced criminals as their role model and attached a dream to them. This leads to self-destruction. Because negative influences got to these people first, our society is putting highly motivated, ambitious people in prison. If these people were inspired with positive goals, at an early age, they would be helping to build a better world. We are talking about millions of intelligent minds wasting away in prison, because of self-destructive dreams, people who could be living highly productive lives.

Education's policy of using standardized tests, for measuring education efficiency, is increasing the number of students who give up and join the self-destructive group. The 30% student failure rate is the result of a "one system for all" policy. The academic based education system will never meet their needs no matter how much money is spent. There needs to be alternate education opportunities. Instead of pressuring students to adapt to the system, the system should adapt to the students' by recognizing individual learning personalities and offered learning opportunity that is in harmony with their learning personality.

Every individual not only has a social personality that is different from everyone else, we also have a learning personality that is different from everyone else. Our learning personality is the combination of natural talent, personal interest, current opportunity, social environment, character, motivation and how the brain processes information. Anyone can develop a productive skill if their learning opportunity is in harmony with their learning personality.

The education system requires every student to be an intellectual. If they don't measure up to intellectual standards, they are labeled failures and considered dummies. Through self-fulfilling prophecy, the labels prove to be correct. Because the system conflicts with learning personalities, 30% of our teenagers drop out of high school. If our society wants to solve the street gang problem, we have to recognize learning personalities and expose young people to positive role models in a different type of learning environment, where academics is a byproduct. Project based education can achieve this goal through self-discovery.

• Self-fulfilling Prophecy
• Learning Personalities
• Project Based Education

Some Notes

• Just because students get straight "Fs" in the classroom does not mean they lack intelligence, motivation or ambition. Goal driven "F" students need exposure to positive role models. Today, only "A" students have opportunity for exposure, or they are the one's selected when opportunity is offered.
• Labeling a student a failure 5 times a day, 5 days a week, builds low self-esteem. Motivated people will not accept this; they will find an environment that will give them high self-esteem. For many, opportunity is found in street gangs. These people have a love to learn, but not in the classroom.
• Some teenagers accept the label that they are dumb, stupid and a failure. Self-fulfilling prophecy proves educators right, "people who do not master academics will be losers."
• For many failing students, the classroom is their enemy and/or prison from which they feel there is no escape. Through self-fulfilling prophecy, they become misfits who believe they are NOT wanted at home, in the classroom or by fellow students. To them, there is not much difference between a prison with bars and a classroom without bars, either place is a reminder of not being wanted. With negative feelings like this, there is no motivation to learn.
• All of us admire highly motivated people with positive self-esteem. If young students can't find it in the classroom, they need to be exposed to other forms of education where they have that opportunity.

A One system for All is NOT Feasible Society creates opportunity for the intellectual learning personality. They are coached all the way through their school years to their first job. Their natural talent, interest, and ability are in harmony with the system. For non-intellectuals, there is little or no coaching, their natural talents are out of harmony with the system. People with an intellectual learning personality are viewed as high on the social ladder. People with a dexterity learning personality are low on the social ladder, therefore, their needs are ignored. High school students are taught, “blue-collar skills are something to avoid at all cost, they are beneath acceptable standards.” The teaching of social prejudice prevents non-intellectual students from discovering their natural talents. The formal education system wants to believe that people who succeed in life played by the formal education rules. To reinforce this belief, they put up barriers that many non-intellectuals cannot overcome, mainly academic requirements. For example, in high school, to take vocational courses, students must have a “C” average or better. Students who could benefit, who could discover their natural talent, are not allowed to take vocational courses. Educations' policies prove educators right, students who do not comply to the rules become failures in life. It is easy to understand why educators take this view. The formal education gave them a vision, helped them discover their natural talent, and helped them develop it. They are intellectuals and their natural talent is in harmony with the system. Where does this leave the dexterous talented student who is not allowed to take vocational courses?

My resource on street gangs is based on a seminar I attended titled "Understanding the Gang Mentality" by Deputy Richardson, Richland County, SC, Sheriff's Department Gang Task Force. It was held in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, December 7, 2001. At the end of the lecture I was so shaken I had to sit in my car and calm my emotions down before I could drive home. No lecture has ever had an impact on me like this did. I think what got to me was, these same gang members could be living successful productive lives if they had learning opportunity in non-classroom environments such as teams.

People Doing Jail Time are Heroes From The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, Friday, July 18, 2003. Commenting about the NAACP July 14 convention in Miami with 2004 presidential candidates. "Al Sharpton brought the audience to its feet by bellowing that he was the only presidential candidate to have done jailtime." People doing jail time are role models for many of our youth, not people or programs in the public education system.  Teenagers adapt role models from surroundings that inspire them. Theme high schools can provide this missing link.

In the News - June 16, 2003 The Massachusetts education system mandates that high school students pass MCAS test to qualify for a diploma. 92% of the students passed the test and this is considered a success story. This leaves 8% who did not pass. If we add 8% to the 30% who dropped out, we have 38% of our teenagers without a high school diploma. If the test can pressure more struggling students drop out then the MCAS success story can jump to 99%. That will leave 50% of our teenagers without a high school diploma. Is this success? What is the goal of education anyhow, for statistics or help students discover their capabilities? In Houston, Texas, high school students, that drop out, must sign a statement that they are transferring to another school. The results - Houston has the lowest dropout rate in the nation, statistically. High statistics increases school funding. For this reason the goal of education is based on enhancing statistics, not what is best for the students. Students are not numbers, they are individuals.

THE STRUGGLE OF A MAN {PART II}

“O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?  How long must I struggle with anguish  in my soul, sorrow in my heart everyday? How long will my enemy have the upper hand?” – Psalm 13:1-3

Continuation of  The Struggles of  A Man Part 1…….

The world is an open field where we have to face struggle and battle in life. This battle started from the womb and in this continual battle of life the one who stands firm through it all comes out of it victorious in the end. Even with all power and understanding, if one gives up through lack of hope and courage, one has failed. What brings bad luck in this life, in this battle, is a pessimistic attitude; and what helps man to conquer in the battle of life, however difficult, is an optimistic attitude. 

In this battle, drill is necessary. And that drill is the control over one’s physical organs and over the faculties of mind. For if one is not prepared for this battle, however courageous and optimistic one may be, one cannot succeed. Another thing is to know something about this warfare; to know when to retreat and when to advance. If one does not know how to retreat and wishes always to advance, one will continually be in danger and become a victim of life’s battle. 

There are times when one must give in; there are times when one must relax things somewhat; and there are times when one must hold fast the reins of life. There are moments when one must be persistent, and there are moments when one must be easy.

Life is such an intoxication that although everybody thinks that it is working in their own interest, hardly one among thousands is really doing so. And the reason is that people become so absorbed in what they are trying to get that they become intoxicated by it, and they lose the track that leads to real success. Very often people, in order to get one particular benefit, sacrifice many other benefits because they do not think of them. The thing to do is to look all around, not only in one direction. It is easy to be powerful, it is easy to be good, but it is difficult to be wise – and it is the wise who are truly victorious in life. 

The nature of life is illusive. Under a gain a loss is hidden; under a loss a gain is hidden; and living in this life of illusion it is very difficult for a person to realize what is really good for them. Even with a wise person, much of his wisdom is demanded by life and its battle. One cannot be gentle enough, one cannot be sufficiently kind; the more one gives to life, the more life asks of one. There again is a battle.

In this battle a battery is needed. And that battery is the power of will. In this battle of life arms are needed. And these arms are the thoughts and actions which work psychologically towards success.

For instance a person says to himself or herself every morning, ‘Everybody is against me, nobody likes me, everything is wrong, everywhere is injustice, all is failure for me, there is no hope.’ When they go out they take that influence with themselves. Before they arrive anywhere, at their business, profession, or whatever they do, they have sent their influence before them, and they meet with all wrongs and failure; nothing seems worthwhile, there is coldness everywhere. And there is another person who knows what human nature is, who knows that one has to meet with selfishness and ill consideration everywhere. But what do they think of it all? They think it is like a lot of drunken people. They think they are all falling upon each other, fighting each other, offending each other; and naturally a sober person who is thoughtful will not trouble with those who are drunk. They will help them, but they will not take seriously what they say or do.

In this world of drunkenness a person who is drunk naturally has to fight more than those who are sober, for the latter will always avoid it. They will tolerate, they will give in, they will understand; for they know that the others are drunk, and they cannot expect better from them.

The reason for life’s battle is often very small when it is looked at in the light of wisdom. This shows that the knowledge of life does not always come by battling. It comes by throwing light upon it. They are not warriors who become impatient immediately, who loses their temper suddenly, who have no control over their impulses, who are ready to give up hope and courage. The true warriors are those who can endure, who have a great capacity for tolerance, who have depth enough in their heart to assimilate all things, whose mind reaches far enough to understand all things, whose very desire is to understand others and to help them understand.

If together with sensitiveness one has not developed one’s will-power, it is certainly dangerous…There must be a balance between sensitiveness and will-power. Will-power should enable one to endure all influences, all conditions, all attacks that one meets from morning till night. And sensitiveness should enable one to feel life, to appreciate it, and to live in the beauty of life. It is true that by the cultivation of will-power one sometimes persuades oneself wrongly; that there is danger. There is danger in most things but one must acquire balance between power and wisdom.

What is most advisable in life is to be sensitive enough to feel life and its beauty and to appreciate it, but at the same time to consider that one’s soul is divine, and that all else is foreign to it; that all things that belong to the earth are foreign to one’s soul. They should not affect one’s soul. 

There is no doubt that what we lack most in life is to be tuned with the infinite and to be in rhythm with the infinite; in other words to be in rhythm with the conditions of life and to be in tune with the source of our existence. Our perpetual complaints against all things in life come from our not being in rhythm with the diverse conditions of life that we have to face. And then we think that if these conditions would only change into something that we wish, it would make our Life easier; but that is an inexperienced expectation. 

And now the question is how can one become at one with the rhythm of life, in other words with the conditions of life? One’s condition of life and one’s own desire are generally two conflicting things. If desire gives in to the condition, then the condition gets the upper hand; and if the condition is mastered, then no doubt desire has the upper hand. But the condition is not always master when there is a conflict, a struggle; only one needs caution in fighting a condition in life. If harmony can be established peacefully it is better to avoid battling, though it is a fact that those who complain most about life and those who are most disappointed and troubled with life are the ones who struggle most with life’s conditions. Therefore in achieving oneness with the conditions of life one need not always use a weapon; one should first try to harmonize with a particular condition of life. 

A condition as bitter as poison will be turned into nectar if we can get into rhythm with that condition, if we can understand it, if we will endure that condition with patience, with courage, with hope. When there is a favourable condition we are very often afraid that it may pass, but when there is an adverse condition we do not generally think that it will pass; we think that it will last for ever. This comes from fear, from agitation, from the desire to get out of this condition, and thus we lose even hope, the only source that keeps us alive.

The best thing is to go through every condition that life presents with patience, understanding, open mind, and so try to rise above it with every little effort we can make.

Tuning ourselves to the infinite is achieved by the way of silence, by the way of meditation, by the way of thinking of something which is beyond and above all things of this mortal world; by giving some moments of our life to the thought of getting in tune with that which is the source and goal of all of us, realizing that in that source alone is the secret of our happiness and peace.

The nature of being in tune with the infinite is this: comparing our soul to a string of an instrument, it is tied at both ends; one is the infinite, and the other is the finite. When a person is conscious all the time of the finite then they are tuned to the finite, while the one who is conscious of the infinite is tuned to the infinite. Being in tune with the former makes us limited, weak, hopeless, and powerless; but by being in tune with the latter we obtain the power and strength that will pull us through life in whatever adverse conditions may arise.

The work that one considers to be a sacred task has nothing to do with any particular creed, nor has it to do with any particular religion; it is only this simple thing: to be in rhythm with life’s conditions and to be in tune with the infinite. And when one asks how one can arrive at being in accord with life instead of being frightened by life’s conditions, the answer is: by meeting it and observing it keenly, and then by trying to harmonize oneself for the time being with that condition, while the next effort is to rise above it if it is an adverse one.

Never expect that the events of life are favourable all through. You will have to make a continual struggle and fight with others, whether you like it or not, whether you love them or not. You will find that this fight must be encountered on every side. So you must face it patiently. Do not turn your back to it. Face the conflict with courage and bravery and tranquillity. Since you know that you are on the path of truth you can go on trustfully.

Although there is a great responsibility in this worldly life, it is through this responsibility that you are enabled to evolve spiritually. In fact your evolution will become much greater even than that of the saints who have renounced the world.

Finally, the reason for this is that, when you pursue your life’s journey steadily and with tranquillity through all the struggles and conflicts you have to undergo, success will surely come in time. This success will perhaps enable you in your turn to bring great success and potentials to the lives of many other souls too.

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HOW TO BOOST YOUR COURAGE

“Be strong and courageous! Don’t be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria or his mighty army, for there is a power far greater on our side!.” – Deuteronomy 31:6 

Deuteronomy 31:6 English: World English Bible - WEB
 

6 Be strong and of good courage, don’t be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you. (NIV)

WHAT IS COURAGE?

Courage is the inner strength that enables you to stand against all odds at all cost with a determination to reach your goal.

Satan brings negative circumstances your way so as to discourage you, his aim is to reduce your courage in order to stop you from taking steps towards your goal in life.

Most people that are stagnated today are simply victims of discouragement. This is why you must know how to keep boosting your courage or to keep encouraging yourself in the Lord.

A time came in the life of David when he would have been overtaken by discouragement but he encouraged himself in the Lord; he boosted his courage. As a result, he was strengthened to pursue the enemy and recover all that he and his men had lost (1 Samuel 30:1-18).

Now, the foremost way to boost your courage is by making bold declarations. Jesus said, “…Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:23). 

That means, no matter the mountain you are faced with, if you will make bold declarations and refuse to be discouraged in your heart, you shall have whatsoever you say.

You have to learn how to make your boast in Lord. Every proper Christian is a boaster, not in himself but in the Lord. Rather than bemoan your situation, begin to declare what you believe your God can do for you.

You may have fallen or failed many times, but you can tell yourself, “I know I can still make it, my God will make a way for me, I cannot be stranded, I am not a failure, I am destined to be above only and never beneath. My enemies that come against me in one way shall flee before me in seven ways.”

As you do that, you will discover that strength is infused into your hands and feet and you will begin to achieve what the devil said you won’t be able to achieve.

Your words are the strength of your life. If you cannot speak then you will remain discouraged and stranded. Never be tired of charging yourself up with the word of God. In the midst of the hottest battle, keep speaking. For your information, the greatest battles of life are first won with words before they are won in the physical.

When David stepped out to face Goliath, he first engaged him in a battle of words. Goliath said to David, “I will give your flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.” David did not keep quiet, he replied immediately and said, “You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts.

This day will the Lord deliver you into my hand and I will kill you, and take your head from you; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines to the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth” 

(1 Sam 17:44-47). If you check those scriptures you will discover that David spoke much more than Goliath and he also spoke the last word.

After that, he ran towards the giant and killed him. So, when Satan begins to speak negative words to you, he tells you, “You can never make it again”, reply him immediately with words of faith.

As you make your boast in the Lord with strong declarations, not only are you strengthened to move forward, the enemy is driven back and God arises to confirm what you say.

I inspired you to boost your courage in Christ, meditate in the word, and say to your self that you can overcome from the past and of the failures you have encountered  in life.

And you are blessed as you boost your courage today.

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THE STRUGGLES OF MAN {PART 1}

“I will not let you go until you bless me”  - Genesis 32:26

To everyone in the  world, I want you to listen to the word, for every of your struggle in life without God it determines your limitation of progress in life. It’s not by our understanding or our thinking of knowing it right, but with God all things are possible to him that believeth.

Your struggle with God determine your progress in life, this is not a game of 50-50 chance as God his concerned.

The scriputures says “Your heavenly father already knows all your needs, and he will surely give you and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the kingdom of God your primary concern. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring it’s own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” (Matt 6:32-34)

The one who does not know the struggle of life is either an immature soul, or a soul who has risen above the life of this world. The object of a human being in this world is to attain to the perfection of humanity, and therefore it is necessary that people should go through what we call the struggle of life.

Because life is a continual battle, one’s success, failure, happiness, or unhappiness mostly depends upon one’s knowledge of this battle. Whatever be one’s occupation in life, whatever be one’s knowledge, if one lacks the knowledge of the battle of life one lacks the most important knowledge of all.

As soon as a person loses the courage to go through the struggle of life, the burden of the whole world falls on his head. But those who go on struggling through life, they alone make their way.

One must study the nature of life, one must understand the psychology of this struggle. In order to understand this struggle one must see that there are three sides to it: struggle with oneself, struggle with others, and struggle with circumstances. One person may be capable of struggling with himself, but that is not sufficient. Another is able to struggle with others, but even that is not sufficient. A third person may answer the demands of circumstance, but this is not enough either; what is needed is that all three should be studied and learnt, and one must be able to manage the struggle in all three directions.

Struggle with oneself: The one who struggles with himself first is the wisest, for once he has struggled with himself, which is the most difficult struggle, the other struggles will become easy for him.

There are three aspects to the struggle with oneself;

1. To make one’s thought, speech, and action answer the demands of one’s own ideal, while at the same time giving expression to all the impulses and desires which belong to one’s natural being.
2. To fit in with others, with their various ideas and demands. For this a man has to make himself as narrow or as wide as the place that one asks him to fill, which is a delicate matter, difficult for all to comprehend and practice.
3. To give accommodation to others in one’s own life, in one’s own heart, large or small as the demand may be.

Struggle with others:  When we consider the struggle with others there are also three things to think about, of which the first is to control and govern people and activities which happen to be our duty, our responsibility. Another aspect is how to allow ourselves to be used by others in various situations in life; to know to what extent one should allow others to make use of our time, our energy, our work, or our patience, and where to draw the line. And the third aspect is to fit in with the standards and conceptions of different personalities who are at various stages of evolution.

He struggles with power, with understanding, with open eyes, and with patience.

The nature of life is illusive. Under a gain a loss is hidden; under a loss a gain is hidden; and living in this life of illusion it is very difficult for man to realize what is really good for him. Even with a wise person, much of his wisdom is demanded by life and by its battle.

One cannot be gentle enough, one cannot be sufficiently kind; the more one gives to life, the more life asks of one. There again is a battle.

The worldly struggle is outward struggle. The struggle on the spiritual path is inward struggle. No sooner does one take the spiritual direction than the first enemy one meets is one’s own self. What does the self do?

It is most mischievous. When one says one wants to fight it, it says, ‘I am yourself. Do you want to fight me?’ And when it brings failure, it is clever enough to put the blame on someone else.

The balance of life lies in being as fine as a thread and as strong as a steel wire. If one does not show endurance, tolerance and strength to withstand all the opposing and disturbing influences among which one always has to be in life, one certainly reveals a weakness and lack of development.

Struggle with circumstances: Every circumstance, favourable or unfavourable, in which a man finds himself, and every person, agreeable or disagreeable, in whose presence he is, causes him to react. Upon this reaction depends the man’s happiness and his spiritual progress. If he has control over this reaction, it means that he is progressing; if he has no control over it, it shows that he is going backward.

When a person progresses towards spirituality he must bear in mind that together with his spiritual progress he must strengthen himself against disturbing influences. If not, he should know that however much he desires to make progress he will be pulled back against his will by conditions, by circumstances

All such things as passion and anger and irritation one looks upon as very bad, as evil; but if that evil were kept in hand it could be used for a good purpose, because it is a power, it is an energy. In other words evil, properly used, becomes a virtue; and virtue wrongly used becomes an evil. For instance, when a person is in a rage, or when he really feels like being angry, if he controls that thought and does not express it in words, that gives him great power. Otherwise the expression has a bad effect upon his nerves. His control of it has given him an extra strength which will remain with him.

A person who has anger and control is to be preferred to the person who has got neither.

The only difference between spiritual attainment and the continual struggle of life is that in worldly life one struggles in another direction. In worldly life, be it in business or politics or industry or whatever be life’s path, if a person proves to be lacking in that power which enables him to struggle along, he meets nothing but failure. He may be a good person, a saintly person, a spiritual person, but that does not count.

It is for this reason that many in the world lose faith in goodness and in spirituality when they see that this goodness does not seem to count in life. It is absurd for a spiritual person to say that by spirituality, goodness, and piety one’s worldly struggle will be helped. One should have the inspiration and power to answer life’s demands in life’s struggle. The seeker on the spiritual path should not forget that floating in the air is no good; standing on the earth is the first thing necessary.

The point is to meet one’s condition with understanding and with complete resignation. Thus the first thing is to meet the condition as it is and the second is to better the condition. The more one can avoid conflict the better; at the same time we cannot always avoid a conflict, and we must not turn our back on it if it comes to us. After all, life is a struggle and we must be ready to struggle. Only, struggle must not make us drunk so that we lose the way of peace which is the first thing to consider.

The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner, together with an everlasting heart full of love.

The end and the sum total of all mysticism, philosophy, and meditation, of everything one learns and develops, is to be a better servant to humanity. Everything from the beginning to the end in the spiritual path is a training to be able to serve mankind better, and if one does not do it with that intention, one will find in the end that one has accomplished nothing.
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PRAISE: THE KEY TO UNLOCK!!!

Are you ever discouraged? When you are, what do you do about it? Are you ever worried, even scared about your future? Are there times that you are facing monstrous problems and you do not know what to do about them? What about facing persistent pain that seems to follow you wherever you go? Are there any remedies to help us deal with these struggles?

Absolutely! Why not praise God through song?
“But”, you ask, “How could that help me with all those problems?”

We often forget that we live in two different dimensions – the dimension that we see and the dimension that we do not see-the eternal dimension.
“But where is that found in the Bible?”

Eph 6:12 
 (NIV) ”For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

“Wow! You mean there are actually agents trying to discourage me by creating huge stumble blocks in my life?”

Absolutely. Only through God’s power can you resist them. The most effective ways of fighting these are through dependence on God and through praise Him through songs of worship. The principle is simple: When we praise God, the devil and his agents cannot stand by. They will flee from you. However, the opposite is also true of God. When we are praising Him, we are inviting His Holy Spirit to dwell in us and remove any insecurities that we may be facing.

James 4:7-8
(NIV) ”Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.”

Tom White, president of The Voice of Martyrs experienced this when he was captured by Cuban authorities on May 27, 1979 after his plane crashed on a Cuban highway after dropping Christian literature over Cuba.

The Cuban authorities weren’t too keen about what he had done and tried to break his spirit by placing him alone in a dark, ice-cold cell. A terrible icy draft was coming into his room through the vents.

At first he was discouraged. He tried to keep himself warm by walking around. It didn’t work and he was getting colder by the minute. He then tried to put himself into a foetal position in the corner of his cell with his pant legs stuffed into his socks so that the cold air would not go up his pants. He then put his head in his shirt and tried to keep himself warm with his breath. It helped for a few minutes, but the cold soon became intolerable again, and he started to shake more and more.

The only comfortable position would be to stand and lean against the ice-cold wall with his forehead. He was in despair and started to panic. He then remembered why he was in prison and told himself that he was approaching his problems the wrong way. He invited God’s Spirit to come dwell in him and started to praise God out loud by singing every Christian song he knew. The Cuban guards were confused, but every time they went to check on him, he was continuing to sing.

When asked how he could sing, even in such circumstances, he answered, “Because I love Jesus!” They replied: “If you love Jesus, stop singing.” But he didn’t. He continued to praise God through song, and soon he realized he wasn’t that cold any more. In fact, the cold was not bothering him at all! God had come to his rescue from the bitter cold!

Praising God through our singing is effective my friends! Try it. Sing with conviction and with love towards your Heavenly Father and you will notice an immediate a change in how you are feeling about your situation. God is awesome!

Now I would like to base the effectiveness of praising God on God’s Word. There are so many texts to choose from. Paul and Silas in prison, David facing trouble, etc.…. But I would like to base this message on a text that isn’t as well known in our Western world. The text is found in 2 Chron 20:1-27

We find ourselves in a time period where Jehoshaphat is king of Judah. Unlike his predecessors, He was a good king who had a close relationship with his Maker. Being a firm believer doesn’t keep trouble out of our way though! The Moabites joined ranks with the Ammonites and the Menunites and decided to conquer Judah. This was a “vast army” and Jehoshaphat had no way to match it. The inhabitants of Judah, naturally, became discouraged. They were sure they would all perish or become enslaved by their enemies!

Jehoshaphat first reaction was to assemble his people and pray to God. You know, my friend, you can never go wrong when you consult first with your God in Heaven! Whenever you are facing a huge problem or an impossible trial, try God first, not last!
I love Jehoshaphat’s conclusion in his prayer:

2 Chron 20:12
“For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.” In other words, Jehosaphat is saying, “with our eyes on you Lord, I hand over my problem, because it is a God-sized problem! Humanly there are no solutions to it. Only You have the solution!”

Immediately God’s Spirit revealed Himself through Jahaziel and he made the following prophecy:  

2 Chron 20:15-17
(NIV)”Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. 

Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.’”

More easily said that done, right? Of course we know we should not be afraid when facing problems, because we know that: “the battle is not yours, but God’s.” But so often we forget who our partner is when we become Christians. God is our Father, why would He neglect helping His children?

“You will not have to fight this battle.” The people of Judah received God’s guarantee that they would not have to lift one finger or sword against this huge army. Incredible! How is this possible? Because God is in control!

2 Chron 20:20-21
(NIV) “Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.” After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: “Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever.” 

Can you imagine facing a vast enemy army and instead of spears and swords, you only have songs of praise? This defies logic. Some would even say that this is ridiculous! However, the fact remain that Jehosaphat and the inhabitants of Judah were facing their enemies with only songs of praise! “Can a song of praise defeat an army?” Let us find out.

2 Chron 20:22-24
(NIV) “As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.” 

The whole enemy’s army started to fight one another and kill each other! None of them remained alive! Jehosaphat never even lifted his sword! Are songs of praise effective? Absolutely! They defeat vast armies!

Let’s especially pay attention to the phrase: “As they began to sing and praise”. The cause of Judah’s victory is given to their songs of praise. Praising God invites Him into your situation and chases the enemy away!

Are you facing huge problems? Are you facing monstrous uncertainties? Is pain your companion? No matter your situation, start praising God through songs of worship and hand over your problems to Him. All your problems will be placed in their right perspective and victory will be yours! God will come and rescue you! 

Encouragement will replace discouragement, peace will replace worries, relief will replace pain. But most important of all, you will feel God’s Spirit dwell in you and feel his loving arms embrace you, telling you that you are not alone in this, you have the most powerful ally on your side: Jesus Christ and His armies!
Jesus promised:

Matt 11:28
(NIV) “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Do you have burdens? Hand them over to Jesus. Do you have worries? Hand them over to Jesus. Do you have discouragements? Hand them over to Jesus by praising Him through joyful singing. He will give you rest, my friends! He is your Sabbath. He is the only one who can give you that inner peace!
But let’s finish the story:

2 Chron 20:25-26
(NIV) “So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value-more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it. On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, where they praised the LORD. This is why it is called the Valley of Beracah to this day.”

Not only was Jehoshaphat victorious over his enemy, he was blessed beyond imagination with their spoil! My friends, your problems are insignificant when you hand them over to God. Not only does He guarantee you victory, he also guarantees you eternal blessings! Could there be a better blessing than obtaining eternal life?-life without strive, life without pain or suffering, life filled with love and peace, life without death-this is what awaits you, my friends! Praise be to God, our awesome God!

When it was all said and done, notice what Jehoshaphat and his men did:

2 Chron 20:27
(NIV) “Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies.” 

You can rejoice over your calamities as well. What do you need to do? Just hand over your problems, your pains, your uncertainties, your anxieties, your depression to Jesus, and He will give you rest!

Will you invite Him in your life now? Will you try the Praise Principle in your life? Try it. You will not be disappointed!!!!

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IT IS TIME TO EXPECT AND ACCEPT GOD’S VISITATION

You will discover from scriptures that every case of divine visitation, were cases that had been termed impossible or dead. Often times, God does not visit a man until his case has been declared humanly impossible, closed or dead.

When men say, “It is over!” That is when God takes over. And when God takes over, the case is over. When men give up on an issue, that is when God comes down. When men take their exit, God makes His entry. So, if doctors have given up on your health, it is because God, the Doctor of doctor wants to take over from you.

Your relationship with God determines your level of expectation, also your relationship with God determine God’s visitation in your life. You might be charismatic about prayer and fasting but if your foundational relationship with God is not well-built in Christ you can’t be an expectant of God’s visitation.

God steps in a situation when hope has gone, faith could not be established as the situation regards. As man thinketh in his heart, when to accept God’s visitation is when things began to fall apart beyond redemption that is when God’s visitation is required, in order to re-activate the power of de-activation of your soul.

The purpose of divine visitation is to terminate satanic activities in the life of a man, no matter how long it has been. God cannot be stopped by circumstances and situations, neither is He moved by age-long problems.

When God visits, He speeds up events to restore all that you may have lost over the years.
Joseph and his brethren were the first generation of Israelites that moved to Egypt and when he was about to die, Joseph said to them, “…God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob” (Gen 50:24 
Gen 50:24
English: World English Bible - WEB
 
''24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”). So, God’s visitation is substantial, it is describable. When God visits it is not to give you a feeling or a shaking, it is to deliver something tangible to you.''

Joseph said, “God will surely visit you…” And this is the proof of the visitation: He will bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and Jacob. So, when you expect God’s visitation, it should be to bring you out of your present circumstances to your desired place.

The situation you are going through now, no matter how long it has been, is temporal. After Joseph died, his brethren remained in Egypt for over 400 years; they were in the house of bondage, but one day, God visited them and terminated their slavery. Your situation may have been long but it has a time tag, God’s visitation will bring you out!

Another word for God’s visitation is ''Divine Encounters''; strange acts of God or unusual happenings. It is much more of a turn around than an event. People will see you and say, “We knew him before, but his story has changed. He used to be a borrower, but now he is a lender.” That will be your experience from now! God will visit you and terminate your age-long problem!

Joseph told his brethren, “God will surely visit you.” From that time they began to expect God’s visitation. Even when it looked as if their captivity would never end, they were expectant, and after 400 years, God visited them. If you will refuse to close up your case, God will soon visit you! Be expectant because what you expect is what you experience.

The reason for you to expect and accept God’s visitation is when you believe, demonstrating your level of faith, acknowledging the fact that “to him all the glory, honour and adoration must be to  the Lord” God’s visitation is secured and guaranty indeed in your life.

We all need God’s visitation for several reasons or the other, by the fact that we believe that no one else can do it except Jesus Christ who can do all things. However, our believe and understanding about God’s visitation is until when we faced reality of life, ups and down, atmosphere of suffering and complaining, whereby it’s difficult to progress, succeed, prosperous and triumph in life, that is when we believe we will needs God’s visitation but it goes beyond that of our thinking and understanding.

Expecting and accepting God’s visitation in your life, is determined on the platform of your relationship core value with him, God his willingly to visit you but not only at the point of your needs rather he loved to do greater and mighty things for you and your loved one’s !.

God will surely visit you, and every thing that seems to look dead in your life, career, businesses, marriage, finances, I prayed by the visitation of God they shall rise again.

Thank you Jesus for your visitation…………

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ENGAGE THE FORCE OF FAITH!

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. - Hebrews 11:6

(NIV) 

What is faith?

Faith is not believing that God can, it’s knowing that he will….

When you activate and engage the force of faith every of your heart desire will come to manifestation……..

The level of your faith determines God’s position in your life. It’s the level of your supernatural faith that determines whether the problem you are facing should stay or not. It depends on how you manage the story and situation of your life Engage the force of faith for the great physician to perform the supernatural healing concerning your health. Luke 7:50

  Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace”. Forget about doctor’s reports and believe God’s reports for your life

In 1 Samuel 2:3

, the Bible says, “God is a God of knowledge by whom actions are weighed.” God will never favor you beyond your action of faith. He weighs your actions to deliver your miracle to you. As you are declaring your faith, you must also be acting it because it is in the process of your step taking that your miracle begins to move closer to you.

Maybe you have been desiring to build a house. You don’t wait to gather all the money, start with what you have. Go and look for land first and then drop one tipper of sand there. As you do that, the other materials that you need will begin to gather together gradually till the project is completed. Even if it is only 20 blocks you can afford, go and start with it. There is no law that says you must have 5,000 blocks before you can start building.

Without you engaging the force of faith you can’t recover what you have lost to the devil.

The scriptures says Matthew 17:20
(NKJV)  

Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief;for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Faith disregards protocols. If you are waiting for protocol, you will wait very long on the queue. The four men who brought their sick friend to see Jesus must have looked for a way to pass through the door, but when they saw that the place was jammed and no one was ready to make way for them, they broke the roof and let their sick friend down in front of Jesus. And Jesus commended them for it.

No matter what is threatening your life; be it sickness or poverty, act against it! Don’t let any devil suggest any thing to you, take practical steps contrary to the wind that is blowing around you! Every day, when you wake up, be on the move, don’t let satan catch up with you. That is how to have daily victories. Victory does not come by chance, it comes by the violence of faith. Jesus said, “…The Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force”  Matthew 11:12

. Which means, the non-violent will lose it by gentleness.
Satan is not a gentleman, the only language he understands is the language of violence. The gentler you are, the better for the devil. When you engage the force of faith you will give command and they shall obey you. Speak to that situation of your life it will obey you.
In Matthew 21:21

 (KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

You have to take what belongs to you by force and by faith! You have to let the devil see your red eye! Stop negotiating with him, negotiation is the practice of gentlemen. When they see oppositions they run back.

Great ones, each time you engage the force of faith there is absolutely no access for the devil to terrorize your soul and everything you are connected to by the faith you have in whom that created you….

My prayer for you today is for every area of your life that requires changes and perfections by faith will experience speedily answer in Jesus name Amen…

God Bless you...

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