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BECOMING A STAR OUT OF YOUR SCARS

How to win despite your wounds

By HERTITAGE JAME

ADDRESS: C/O Pastor Rotimi Adetayo

Winners International
12 Dadeban loop,
North Kaneshie,
Accra, Ghana
Tel +233-242-705703
Email ukeebless@yahoo.com
My synopsis

A man had a ghastly automobile accident where the auto was badly damage without repairs. But he
came out unhurt. When he testified of it as a miraculous deliverance from God, I questioned the
situation so intensely. ‘Why does he have to first of all suffer the accident before God can save
him? Why didn’t God waive the accident before it came? Why do people have to look for a
miraculous healing after being sick? Why not they stay safe from sickness? Why do people do
have great testimonies after great disaster, crisis and catastrophe? Does God’s power become
effective only when there is crisis? Can’t he act to avoid the disaster before it came?
As my innocent mind continues to ruminate on these questions, a silent voice seems to response
within me with another question; how can they proof the power of the creator without a trial? How
can people know or be undoubtedly convinced that God is with them except when his power is
manifested through a period of trouble? Those answers are what this book cry for. This book
comes to set your mind on a part of possessing the right perspective about problems. Problems are
one of our life’s teachers. It is in the period of crisis that a Christ is born. It is in the period of
misery that a messiah is born. it is during a time of hitch that give birth heroes.

Moses was born for a time like that; to conquer slavery crisis for the Israelites.

Gideon was born for a time like that; to conquer the midianites, who afflicted his people.

David came at a point as that to eliminate Goliath, who was the greatest problem of Israeli
soldiers.

Crises always become a birth point of Christs

Obstacles always give birth to miracles. Pains can beget gains. Hurts can instruct. It is tough times
that produce tough people. That is the cry of this timely book. It promises to educate you on
having the right perspective on problems. The book will inspire you, elevate you, and instruct you.
You cannot but get your copy and copies for your love ones.

Praises for the book

Such a book as this is very welcome in this time where we need to master our life for better.
Pastor Heritage James is very précised in explaining to us the very reason we suffer most of
the things we suffer.
For those who desire to maximize their life, this masterpiece become a must read for them.
Bishop Gregory Dan
Faith life powerhouse chapel,
South Africa.

Pastor James is my very covenant brother. We have prayed and ministered together before he
traveled out of our city.
He has proved in this book that God has given him a worthy and urgent necessary message
for the church today.
You will be elated and elevated as you encounter profound truths in this book. I think you need
to make it available to those you adore.
Evangelist Benjamin Smith
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Houston, Texas, U SA

When I first went through the manuscript, I was amazed at such an adept insight into the vital
concepts of life that Pastor Heritage made available to us. I was touched, inspired, and
instructed from the manuscript stage of this book to see problem as my friend. Please hurry
up and write part two or a revise edition of this book, because it has hit the nail at the head.
Bravo!!!
Dr Eno Bob
Torchbearers Bible school,
Carpanwray house, London

Pastor heritage is a voice in this generation to quench the fiery darts of problems. He is the
most articulate young man I have ever met. He can see facts in every fight, and decode news
in every noise. He needs to he heard. The book is a must read for every modern day Christian.
Pastor Joschamb Dan
Eagle Base Foundation Int’l
Kentucky, U SA.

The vital secrets contain in this master piece is for our better life most desired. Bravo! To
pastor Heritage James for the courage to package this product for the Christian edification.
Barrister clement Umoh, precious chambers, Uyo.

The combination of thoughts in this book is very startling, inspiring, idea bound, and
interesting. You need to read it.
Pastor Samuel Owusu
Faith Alive charismatic Church
Accra, Ghana

It is my joy, and happiness to see this truth coming to us from such a vessel as this.
Chief Inyang James
Author’s father
Eket, Nigeria
Dedication

I dedicate this book to my compassionate sister and friend, IMA

ZION MARTINS. My affection for you came to stay.

Acknowledgement.
A vision that is well accomplished like mine cannot be without the
involvement of others. I am indebted with a thousand thank you to
the following:
Pastor ROTIMI ADETAYO, my pastor and mentor who mentored me
at the time I needed it most.
My father, chief INYANG JAMES, for his courage and strictness on
my education.
My spiritual father, JUDE UMOH, for his patience on my questions
when I was a young Christian.
My covenant brother, Evangelist BENJAMIN SMITH, for his financial
support and prayers.
My friend, BILLS AKPADIAHA, for his jokes and humor while writing
this book.
My compassionate sister and friend, IMA MARTINS, for the courage
I derive from knowing her.
My dear bosom friend and sister VERONICA EDEM, for staying by
me while editing this book.
Lastly, my ministry partner, JOSCHAMB DAN, for letting me love
writing.
INTRODUCTION
A scar is a mark or traces of an earlier injury. It is a kind of a scratch
mark that remains with you to remind you that you have had an
unforgettable bad experience in the past that seems to be haunting you
all about. It can be very traumatic and mind draining to look at your body
and see the trace of an accident you wished had not happened. It could
be very sad to look among your children and see a child born out of rape
you wished had not taken place. What about looking at your handicapped
situation and wished it has passed over you. We all wished something
bad, traumatic, upsetting, distressful, disturbing, and painful had never
happened to us. No one ever wants to have the memory of a horrific
past. Every one wished a flood of an amassing ocean should flush off in a
moment, the past that seems haunting. I think, this is the reason most
people go into hiding when issues that remind them of their scars are
being discussed. Is this true of you? Are you always trying had to run
away from a traumatic experience that will never let you rest? Are you
easily traced with an incident because of its mark on you? Do people look
at you and say ‘that’s the child that was born out of that rape’? Do they
easily remember the year an incident took place by the scar they see on
you? Do you seem to weep when men talk about a thing that looks like
No one has ever
been like you
nor will anyone
ever be like you.
you were a victim? Is this a picture of you or your situation? This book
has come to address this very important topic about your life. I have
been burdened to write this book to let you know that despite the injury
you must have had in the past that seems to suggest to you that you
cannot amount to anything worth in life, this book will show you how you
can be encouraged in the same circumstances and rise to the top of your
career and become the best that the world had ever seen. You are the
best of your kind that ever emerge on earth. You don’t have duplicates.
You are the only you that ever exist here. No one has ever been like you
nor will anyone ever be like you. You are unique in your very essence and
person. This is the reason you should never allow any limitation in your
body to keep you in lock and key. There is nothing you imagine to achieve
that could ever be impossible to you though you may have any form of
restrictions in your life right now. No matter the situation, you can be
the best God had designed you to be. Your life was meant to be
unrivalled. God himself said concerning you when he declared that he
would

“Make you the head and not the tail, and you only
Will be above only and you will not be underneath.” (Duet. 28:13)

This indicates that the top is where you belong. In other words, the top
will never be filled until you reach there, because God specifically said
you could be there. Never settle for a down life because that is never
part of your destiny entitlements. No matter your scar, you can still be
what God has ordain you to be.
 Your scar may be a broken marriage, a rape case, a poor education,
poor family background, a physical disability, one sickness that will not
seems to go. Or perhaps your scar is a husband who is always drunk. Or a
child, who will never live the street. Name the list. What ever your own
may be, you can still rise out that to be a great man or woman the world
will ever see. There should be no compromise on your part of a glorious
position God had destined for you. You are not meant to live a low life.
What ever you call your limitation is never an excuse to remove yourself
from the great opportunity you have in God to get to the top of your
dreams in life. You can be what you were meant to be.

He believed in his
inner ability in
order to overpower
his outer disability.

YOU BELONG TO THE TOP

I watched a video clip of a twenty seven year old pastor who has no
hands and legs. I mean NO HANDS AND LEGS. But out of that
apparent, and obvious disability, he has up to a master degree, built his
own home and even pastor a thriving church in his community. He trained
himself to do what every other human with hands and legs could do. I
saw him swim in his swimming pool; answer a telephone call, and
witnessed him preached a soul-refreshing sermon with such ego and
optimistic faith. He had dreams to marry and raise his own children. He
refuses to see himself as a non-entity in the society but took it upon
himself to build and believe in his inner ability in order to overpower his
outer disability. He had able men and women of substance who listened
to his messages. He even believed he has an assignment from God to
disciple people for him. You do not have and excuse. The bible adds
credence to the fact you can be anything despite your so-called
limitation when he applauded heroes of faith as; “out of weakness were made
strong”(Hebrews 12:34). You can be made strong from that weakness. The
pastor I told you about rose to the top of his career, academics,
ministry, social life, and even planning for marital life. As at the time I
met him through his video clip, he was still full of dreams for life. He is
never tired of living. Why have you expired your life because of a
disability you think can never allow you to go forward? Why do you
retire to doldrums just because you think you can never be of anything
good for the society? This book has been written to give you the
opportunity to rethink, and rationally look at the life of others who have
similar bad experience, and a lot of them, like you have and still rise to
the top of their career and profession. You too can do it. You belong to
the top. Wake up to who you are!

YOU ARE A LIMIT’S BREAKER

One time, the children of Israel were coming to inherit the land of
Jericho. God had given the land to them by promise and instructed them
to go and spy the land so as to prepare for possession. But when they
went there, the land was fortified with great walls. Bible scholars tell us
that the wall was so large such that a car can drive comfortably on it. In
fact, it was on that wall that Rahab the harlot built her house. Such a
magnificent, that it posted a threat to some of them and makes their
dream of inheriting the land to look bleak. The wall was their limitation.
It became an obstacle to them not to even have the opportunity to enter
the land. With the wall, their dream of entering the land becomes a
clear impossibility, let alone to possess it. They were at the very
presence of their dreamland, but were hindered by a fortified security
device of the Jericho people. No seeming way of any possibility of ever
trying to break the world was available. Anyone who tries to break the
world by any means might have done that not without hopelessness. But
in the face of those seeming huddles, God let them know that they are
limits breakers. God let them believe that they can by his unlimited
ability in them, pull down the wall and gain unlimited access into the land
of Jericho. That happened exactly so. By divine instruction, they sang
round the wall for seven days, and seven times the last day, and behold
their limitation crumble before them. The great wall of Jericho had
fallen. They have gone beyond their limits and have broken the status
quo. Their limitations were no more.
May be, right now in your life, you may be faced with such obvious
limitation of any kind or form, which seems to continually suggest your
inability to get pass it. With the example you have just read, I want you
to note that you can overcome it, and with it become a star. This book
will impart and impact you to become a star out of your scars. To become
a general out of you injuries. To become a Christ out of your crises, and
to become a messiah out of your miseries. You can turn your breakdown
into a breakthrough. You can turn your wounds into winning. You can turn
your dread ness into your greatness. You can turn your terror into
fervor, and your life’s fears into success gear. All you need to do is to
keep reading. You will never end until your limitation become your bread.
This is your turn for a rising!
You can turn your
terror into fervor,
and your life’s
fears into success
gear.

YOU ARE A RESULT PRODUCER

A life without results will only amount to insults. A life without a product
is a problem. When you exist without proof, is like living in a house
without roof.
You see, it is only your results that will proof your method. That is the
reason you need to rise out of your obscurity, take your place in stardom
and manifest your true self. The world is waiting for your product. Rise
up to the challenge. You can make it!

ATTITUDE IS FOUNDAMEMTAL
This story will bless you. “There’s the story of two show salesmen,
who were sent to an Island to sell shoes. The first salesman, upon
arrival, was shocked to realize that no one wore shores.
Immediately he sent a telegram to his home office in Chicago
saying, “I will return home tomorrow. No one wears shoes here.”

The second salesman was thrilled by the same realization.

Immediately he also sent a telegram to his home office saying,
“Please sent me more 10,000 shoes. Everyone here needs them.”
Friends the difference between the two salesmen is attitude. The
first salesman had a negative attitude towards the situation and
environment, so he couldn’t see it as an opportunity. But the
second salesman with the right and positive attitude saw it as an
opportunity and he maximize it.

John C. Maxwell says, “Adversity is prosperity to those who posses

a great attitude.” And I add, Adversity causes many to break, but
some to break record. Your future is save only when you have right
attitude and positive approach toward your set goals today. This is
what determines and dictate where you will stand tomorrow with
the right attitude; you can convert your failure to a land – slide
success.

Heritage James
2006
CHAPTER ONE
You are a born star
Where is he that is born king
Of the Jews? For we have seen his
Star in the east, and are come to
Worship him (Matthew 2:2)

God is so very happy about you today. He is excited that you are living,
progressing, advancing, and improving every day. He is glad about your
character and integrity. He believes and applauds your effort that is
applied in moving you to be what he has made you to be. You see, God
does not have two opinions about you. Never! He has only one opinion
about you. And that is that you are very good. The bible said ‘and God saw
everything that he has made (including you) and behold, it was very good’
(Genesis 1:31).There could be no better summary of a creator’s work than
this. You see, you should never allow your self to be threatened or
devastated when men mistaken you for a misfit in the world. Because
the do not know you. They may be limited in their view about you and
may even say you will never amount to anything in life. You should never
allow their view about you to hinder your advancement because when
they do so, they are simply voicing out a contrary opinion of you as
against God’s opinion of you. For the fact that God’ opinion about you is
the final authority to decide your case, their opinion, who ever they are
holds no water.
When Eve, decided to accept an opposing opinion of herself, that she
could not amount to anything except she eats of the fruit they were
told never to eat, she transgressed, and ate with her husband, putting
herself and the husband into a dilemma they never experienced before.
When God came to them as usual, and called them, they answered from
the background and said they were afraid because of their nakedness.
God was surprised and asked rhetorically, ‘ who told you that you were naked? Have
you…. (Genesis 3:1). In that startling question, God let them know that the
opinion they held about themselves, which had led them into hiding from
their very creator, was not from him. He asked them, ‘ who told you’
meaning, that the opinion must have been from a source outside God.
God affirmed by his question that he was not responsible for the
negative view they held about themselves at that time.

WHO TOLD YOU

Your life is a working collection of information. Your decisions, steps,
view and judgment about life are controlled by the knowledge you have
learnt from different sources. In other words, you are the product of
the information you gather all through life whether good or bad.
Information is the factor that decides your life. The question is, the
very information you hold so dear to yourself, if I may ask as God did,
who told you? Where did you obtain the view you hold about yourself and
situation from? Where? Who told you that you cannot be rich? Who told
you that you cannot afford college fee? Who told you that you cannot be
great? Who told you that there is no hope for you? Who told you that
you are good for nothing? Who told you that you are a failure? Who told
you that you would never make good grades? The question is who told
you? God needs an answer to these questions that will change your life
forever. Did your parent say you would never amount to anything? Or did
your college teacher tell you that you are a dull head? Who have you
allowed to become responsible for the poor self-image you hold about
yourself? Is your progress hindered because someone once said you
cannot make it in that area? Have you gone into hiding with your great
gifts and talents just because someone said you are good for nothing?
Are you right now in a doldrums just because you thing you disability will
never give way for you? If so, don’t you think that you may be
considering contrary opinions as against God’s opinion about yourself?
Think about it.

THE RIGHT SOURCE OF KNOWLEGDE

Information is the key to your freedom. When you are armed with the
right knowledge in your mind, though you may have scars, you will shine
as a star. Paul noted this when he told timothy; ‘but continue thou in the
things which thou hast learned, and has been assured of, knowing of
whom thou hast learned them (2 timothy 3:14). The source of knowledge
is so very crucial to establish your dominion on earth. Paul added in verse
fifteen that ‘ from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are
able to make thee wise…’wisdom is the by-product of what is known.
Wisdom bells you out of some dangerous situation that even great
strength could not. Go for the right and quality information form the
right source and your star will shine out soonest.

YOU CAN COME TO LIMELIGHT

God believes in your shining. He never hides a man or makes him a local
champion. God wants you to be famous and very popular. ‘Let your light so shine
before men, that they may see your good works and glory your father which is in heaven’ (Matthew
God is interested in your shining. Not to angels, but to men. You can
5:16).
arise out of any situation to be a bright shining star in your school,
community, nation, and world. The season of your hiding has expired.
Come out of your doldrums. This is your time. This is your season to
awake out of the dungeon of limitations and rise to take your place in
destiny.

YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY

‘Let your light so shine’ (Matthew 5:16)

You have the duty to allow your light shine. God will never shine for you.
You must grant permission to the light to shine. To ‘let’ means, to allow,
permit, agree to, consent to, or accept. You must accept the picture God
has shown in his word about you to prevail over the scar in your life. You
must let it out. Just as a woman in labor is told to push the baby out no
matter the pains, the same way you must push your baby of dreams,
visions, and goals out no matter the pains. You must pay the price to take
You must pay the price to take
the prize. You must go the way
to show the way. You must test
the grape to share the grace
the prize. You must go the way to show the way. You must test the grape
to share the grace. Don’t let laziness kill you. God say let your light
shine.

YOU HAVE THE LIGHT

‘Let your light so shine
You can never become anything with what is never yours. If you cannot
own it in the word, you cannot own it in the world. You cannot rise with
another’s light. It got to be your personal revelation before your
experience elevation. Don’t die with your father’s knowledge when there
could be your own discoveries. What worked for your father may never
work for you. God said ‘let your light so shine’ not his light, but your own
light. Your shining can never be possible without your own light. You
cannot take your place on the top, until you possess your own light. Look
this; ‘Arise and shine for your light has come (Isaiah 60:1) every up
rising of a person is traceable to the emergence of his own light. Until
you know what pave way for you, you may never become a star in this
world. It is light that makes way for you not luck. And the light, which is
not yours, cannot lighten your part. It is light that generates creativity.
‘And the lord said le there be light and there was light’ God could not
make it in creation without his own light, so you cannot make it in your
creation without your own light.

THERE MUST BE AN ATTRACTION

You cannot shine and not attract the best to you. Take for instance, a
halogen bulb that glows in your neighborhood. It cannot shine without
attracting the insect to them. Every one desires where there is light. So
as you shine in your corner, you will begin to attract light seekers. Some
of them will carry the treasure that you need. When the star of Jesus
attracted the three wise men to him they opened their bags and gave
him Gold, myrrh and frankincense. The things that will make your life
add meaning is now in the purse of those who your light must attract to
you. So start shining now. When you start shining, they must come; ‘the
gentile come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising’ (Isaiah 60:3)
Even leaders of nations will not avoid but come to your light. ‘ And kings to
the brightness of thy rising’. Men of authority will recognize your presence in
the nation. Valuable men of great renown will flock in to you for
instruction on how to lead their lives. You will never be hidden. You
become a point of note. A point of reference and you become an
illustration. Men will begin to find their solace in your wings of rising.
The bible said; ‘the sun of righteousness shall arise with healings in his wings’. Your wing of
rising will become a home for the homeless, comfort to the needy, and
food to the hungry. The world is crying for solutions. And you are the
solution. Give it out. Your wing of rising will
become a home for the
homeless, comfort to
the needy, and food to
the hungry.

DARKNESS CANNOT COVER YOUR SHINING

The light shineth in darkness
And the darkness comprehended it not (John I: 5)
There is a provision for you to shine unhindered. Darkness will never be
able to overshadow you. When God releases his marvelous light to you,
you will live a marvelous life on earth. Obscurity will no more have power
over you. ‘Darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people, but the light of God shall
 Your case is deferent. Every other person may suffer
be seen upon the’.
these things but not you. Why? Because, the light is in you. All your
fears will crumble at the sight of this great light. It is your turn to
shine. There is a place of dignity for you in life. Irrespective of your
scars, you can be a star. So arise and shine.

CHAPTER TWO

YOUR SCAR CANNOT STOP YOU

And Zechariah said to the angel,

Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man
And my wife is well stricken in years (Luke 1:18)

Luke, in his effort to explain the gospel to theophilus, began his analogy
with the story of a recognized priest of the Jewish people at the time
of Herod’s kingship. His name is Zechariah. He was given a beautiful and
straightforward profile begriming from verse five, and was interrupted
with a seeming scar of his life. ‘There was in the days of Herod, the king
of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia: and
his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in the commandments
and ordinances of the lord blameless. And they had no child, because
that Elizabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in
years’
(Luke 1:5-8).
What an interruption to a great profile as such. They were righteous,
and very apparently obedient to all known instructions of God. They both
were from the priestly lineage. They lived blameless lives before God.
Someone will readily thing that such great and applauding testimony of a
man will never be ended with such abrupt diversion from a positive to
the negative. They have no child, because that Elizabeth was barren. To
add more injury, they were both well stricken in years. They have
passed menopause; the age of childbirth. That was their scar. This scar
was so evident in their lives such that it becomes very easy for
Zachariah to proof it to the Angel that his message may never
materialize. After all, it is God who fixed the menopause. There could
have some justification on Zechariah’s part to point the angel to a scar
in their lives, which he believed would never allow child bearing to be
possible or come true. The dream of ever having a child had gone off
their memory. They were now preparing their minds toward leaving the
earth after their assignments were completed. They were now very old
and stricken in years. All evidences were available to readily announce to
them that to think of having a child at that time will be very
unreasonable and unjustifiable. It might have been very acceptable if
the angel had brought them the news of their retirement. That will have
been expected rather. Instead of giving them the news of entering into
a venture they believed was impossible due to their scars of bareness.
Zechariah wondered how possible they could have a child in the face of
obvious disability.

GOD RECOGNIZES YOUR SCAR

God knew that there is that limitation in the lives of Zechariah and his
wife. It was not strange to him. He knew the were childless and that
Elizabeth was barren. You see, God was not far from them. Because
according to the angel, he said, ‘thy prayers is heard’, meaning they have
been praying for it but it has remained without any seeming or visible
change. God heard them and was part of their lives all the way. God
knows that you are black and will never had made you that way for lack.
God recognizes your scar of a rape case you will never let go. You think
that your life is rules by that incident in so doing has allow the small
circumstance to now decide how you feel about yourself. You strongly
believe you will never make because nono in your family made. You always
doubt your ability to become someone useful because a particular
sickness seems to eat up you life. What, for God sake made Zachariah to
point to his scar to God? Did he think God was oblivion of it before he
sent the angel? Had God not been part of their lives all the while? Who
made their bodies? Who give people babies? Can he not reorganize his
creature as he wills? Who own the very details of their lives? Doesn’t he
have the right to fulfill his plan at his will? I want you to put yourself
here. Should God tell you now at the age of a hundred and ten, that you
can still beat that your scar and give birth to you first baby, will you
believe? Should he tell you that your husband can still come though you
are fifty now without one yet, will you agree with him? If he comes to
you now with surprising news that you will become the head of your
nation, won’t you say he is mistaken? Because, as far as you are concern,
you are good for nothing? Never entered college? Never had some one
to help? Should God tell you now that you would be great in life, will you
refer him to what you see in your life and think it will never work? Hnn!
If God were to visit you with the news that he want to use you for his
glory, won’t you ask him to go next door? Because to you, the last
abortion you committed has made you unqualified? Or the last sin you
asked for forgiveness, never left your memory? To you does sin become
superior to grace? Will you tell God to use your sister because you have
had a divorce that makes you incompetent? Didn’t God know it before he
came to you?

YOU WERE BORN A STAR BEFORE YOU HAD A SCAR

Your life is never a coincidence of event, or a mistake. You were planned for in
God’s agenda before you ever arrived here. Your life was decided before you
ever step your feet here on earth. God said ‘before I formed thee, I knew thee’ (Jeremiah 1:5)
your true life predates your formation in the womb. You are a destined star
from the beginning. You are not an accident. You are not unfortunate. You came
in time and where you were meant to be. Your life is never a mistake. Your life is
the outcome of God’s careful and deliberate arrangement. God was freely
disposed, before he made you. He was never pummeled into it. The bible says, ‘of
his own will begat he us by the word of truth’ (James 1:18) God was not under any form of
compulsion or pressure to make you. He did it out of his free will. So you are not
a mistake. You are not a product of your father’s blunder. God brought you here
for a purpose.
Stop rating your life by the affairs that goes on here. You existed before them.
Jesus, went confronted by the Pharisees about his true identity, declared to the
without mincing words; ‘before Abraham was, I am’. He knew his life was never a
product of Mary and Joseph. He came from God and has his root in him. When
you are not armed with this reality; you will allow what ever comes to you to
decide what should happen around you. David had a perfect understanding of this
truth so he declared, “I am wonderfully and fearfully made” (psalms 139:14).
Nothing that happens here should be the reason you decide for your life. You
should understand that your life was made unique before you ever began. You are
a special germ. You are a rare breed. You are a distinctive personality of a
special specie and kind. The only one of your brand that exists is you. You are a
product with class and a unique breed. You are a distinguished specie. You fit
into a matchless class. You are born to be a notable figure in this world. Don’t die
hidden because, you are a prince of power and worth with God. ‘Ye are a chosen
generation, a peculiar people…’(1 peter 2:9). You have the right to live, the right to have, and
the right to do. There is no force on earth strong enough to stop you. Why?
Because, your life does not depend on them. Your life has its source in God. ‘In him
we live and move, and have our being’( acts 17:28). You are a working God. You are a God man. ‘I
have said ye are Gods, all of you who are the children of the most high’ (psalms 82:6). You are a God,
don’t live like a Dog. You are a superior being to the little challenges you face;
don’t let them fix on your life for you. You should be the God to those
circumstances. ‘ See I have made thee a God to pharaoh’ (Exodus 7:1). God is not trying to make
you a God. He had already made you so. So, don’t try to run away from who you
really are.

YOU ARE GOD’S PRODUCT

(Isaiah 43:1)
When we bought wristwatches in those days, and got spoilt by water, we
become so upset about it until we discovered sometime later that the
manufacturer had made a water resistance wrist watches, whereby no
amount of water could spoil it. Your life was manufactured by God to be
Failure will never
make you a
failure until you
permit it.

a problem resistant. You are meant to breakthrough all despite these

seeming huddles. Nothing will be able to stop you, all your life. You are a
bullet proof to all circumstances, because God made you so. You are a
product of God’s ability and strength. Don’t be a run away. You are made
up to the task. You are manufactured at the right time, for the right
market, and to the right consumers. Your life is made a solution to
others. You are a candidate for greatness!
God had to let Zechariah understand that his scar of bareness and old
age will never be able to stop them from having a baby. They were not to
be afraid, because they will become over- comers. The good news is,
they gave birth to a great man and a prophet, a forerunner of the
messiah. The same bareness and old age that stared at their face and
become a scar, which make it look impossible for them to have a child,
became the very avenue whereby they give birth to a great man and
prophet. John the Baptist, who was born out of the scar, became a
notable figure in the history of the Israeli people and caused the names
of Zechariah and Elizabeth to enter the greatest archive of life, the
bible. They never believed they could bear seed due to the scar that was
notable in their life, but it became the boulevard through which their
great son, John the Baptist, emerged. May, we will never have heard
about Zechariah and Elizabeth, should they not have experienced
bareness even up to old age. When John the Baptist, out of the sheer
impossible situation, was born, it became a story and memorable event in
the Jewish history. You too can make history, when out of your same
scar; become what God had ordain you to be. Never give up. Though it
may look unattainable, but something beautiful will come out of it. You
cannot fail. There is no seed of failure in you. Your time of breakdown is
point of sudden breakthrough. Failure in never final. When you fail, it is
an opportunity to foster your success. The point of disappointment is
never the finishing line. There is something more to the distress. Failure
will never make you a failure until you permit it. Failure is not meant to
end your progress but to enhance your. You cannot fail until you see
failure as final. Until you hit your goal in life, there should be nothing to
accept as the ultimate.

NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP

There will always be a time in your life whereby it will look as if the
things people discourage you about are not forthcoming. Perhaps, You
have displayed your faith over a matter and have told them that you will
succeed on it. But to your very amazement, the very issue becomes what
looks like it will never work. And when you consider your detractors, you
may become discouraged and want to quit. But I want to let you
understand that, it is at that point that you should hold on to it. It is at
that moment you should hang on till something break out in your favour.
Don’t ever think of quitting. Don’t ever dream of giving up. Don’t ever
consider retirement. Don’t ever accept failure as the final score. There
is a seed of success in you. Release it. You see, if you fail in the first
quarter of the year, you may succeed in the second quarter. Or, the
third quarter. So don’t stop at the first quarter and conclude on failure.

YOUR SCAR MAY JUST BE YOUR ONLY QUALIFICATION

One day, I was selecting cloths in my boutique for display to the
customers. I came across one particular dress that never look nice at all.
The pattern of sowing was never attractive. I hated it and decided to
dump it. But, my sales lady told me to live it there for a while. I was
surprise to come back to the shop and was told that someone saw the
dress and couldn’t pass until he bought it. According to her, the person
who bought the dress said he bought it because of how it was sown. To
me, the way it was sown was a scar, but to him the way it was sown
become a star. The scar I saw in the cloth becomes a star in the eye of
the owner. They always say, “ Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder”.
What I saw as a mistake become what another person saw as a miracle.
Do you know that a torn in a cloth make it qualified for a cleaning cloth?
Do you know that broken cans become a qualification for it to be used as
a seal? I have seen the things we call junks in my community becomes
the most expensive food in another nation. Or don’t you think it’s when
fresh green leaves decompose and look useless that it’s qualified for
manure? Think about it, may be, your very scar, which look like a
limitation, is actually your qualification of that needed breakthrough.
Your unemployment may be your qualification for a better employment.
Your exit may just be an approval for your entry. Your minus in one way
may become a plus in another area. If literature in English becomes
useless to a physicist, it will become useful to a lawyer or journalist. A
man who scored A grade in literature may be rejected for a course in
medicine, but will become a hot cake for a course in linguistic. What
make you look not fitted for a marital partner to Mr. A can just be the
look out of Mr. B. May be, Mr. A look at your lack of education as a scar,
but Mr. B can see it as a qualification for him to marry you. So why
worry. The very things that men see as nothing is what become useful
things to others. The key that cannot open door A, can be the very one
that flings door B open. So it may be very useless to give that key to the
owner of door A, but very useful to give it to the owner of door B. the
bible says, ‘ God had chosen the weak things of this world to
confound the wise’ ( 1 Corinthian 1: 17). It also said in another place,
‘the stone which the builders refuse has become the head of the
corner’ (psalms 118:22) When the Angel Gabriel came to Mary and told
her God’s message of being the mother to the expected messiah, she
questioned the possibility with the thing in her life she saw as a
limitation. ‘How shall this thing be? Seeing I no not a man’ ( Luke 1:34).
To her, her chastity or virginity was a limitation, but to God, it was the
very qualification that made her womb suitable to carry the sinless seed
of the Christ. The messiah was not to be conceived in a womb that has
received a man’s sperm before, so for she not to have known a man was
the very condition that made her qualified for the mother of the
greatest man that ever lived and will ever live. Though she saw it as a
limitation, the angel saw it as a qualification. Today, Mary’s name goes
anywhere the gospel of salvation goes. That scar in your life may be the
door to your prosperity. Even dead, as horrible as it is, has become the
source of breakthrough to the casket maker. What people criticize in
you can just be what others see as a criterion in you.

YOUR SCAR CAN BE YOUR ADDED VALUE

There is a powerful statement I head while growing up. It says, ‘ every
mistake in London, is a style in Africa’. I do not know who propounded it.
But I see wisdom in it. Today’s world is a fast growing world. We are
living in a time where geniuses are multiplying, where creativity is
abounding such that nothing, virtually nothing becomes useless. This is a
time where, to fail is actually seen as added advantage. It is a time
where creativity has turned junks to usable goods. This is the time when
what look like your minus can actually become a plus for you. You can
turn your zero to zenith. This is the time.

This is the time

when what look like
your minus can
actually become a
plus for you
CHAPTER THREE
FROM ZERO TO ZENITH

Look unto Abraham your father,

And Sarah that Bare you: for I
Called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him (Isaiah 51:2)

The story of papa Abraham, one of our Patriarchs of faith, is such a

remarkable account that is worthy of note, especially when a topic like
that of this book is considered. It is the story of a man who moved from
a life of nothing to a life of something. It is an account of a man who
came from the back door to the front page of destiny. He moved from
nothing to prominence. A life full of several scars that could be
considered impossible for prominence, but rose from an ordinary
Chaldeans, to an extra ordinary, strong and prosperous nations of both
Jews and Arabs. His greatness became evidenced by the involvement of
God in his life, though he had scars, as we will consider. He was so
prosperous and great such that the bible born record of his lucrative
ventures and businesses. He was a cattle rearer, a gold miner, and even a
silver miner. ‘And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold’ (Genesis 13:2). You
know what it means for a man to be rich in silver and gold. It means, he
had them as resources he traded for money. You know how many nations
today scramble for gold. That is how your father Abraham was a sought
after to supply gold and silver to the merchants who needed them. But it
never started overnight. He had to overcome many huddles, limitation,
weaknesses, and opposition to rise to the place of dignity that he
occupied till he died. He never became the father of faith, and the
friend of God he is today suddenly. He passed through several tests,
trials, and temptation to become the hero of faith we adore today.

YOU MEAN PAPA ABRAHAM HAD SCARS?

It is always very difficult to understand the story of a man when it’s
just given in a summary. Perhaps, he has rose to a notable position and is
honoured with awards of excellence and so on and so forth. The glory
may be so glittering that if care is not taken, none will take into account
the story of that man. You see, there will always be a process before
the product. There must be a story, before the glory. No one rises to
the top without a few wounds on his way. So Abraham, had several scars
that could have stop him, but out of those scars, he rose to become the
millions of the stars that shined and is still shining today. He had to
suffer the effect of Sarah’s bareness for years. He was also attacked
by old age such that it will seems impossible for him and Sarah to bare
children. But out of these situations came up victoriously and today his
name is ringing bell on all nations of the world. The two major religions
of the world, Islam and Christianity still see him as a father and a role
model. But he had scars. He was weak on several occasions. He even
thought it impossible to have a child on several occasion. He had fears.
He had doubts. You that think that the whole world is against you, do
you ever consider what Abraham had to passed through to be crowned
the father of faith? Mostly, the reason we killed our life prematurely is
simply that we do not consider that the things we pass through is just a
phase of life. Life is of phases, men are of sizes. You will always come
across a phase of life that will expose your scars.
YOU MUST OVERULE YOUR HANDICAP
Roger Crawford was born with a condition called ectrodactylism. When
he emerged from the mother’s womb, the doctors saw that he had a
thumblike projection extending out of his right forearm, and a thumb
and finger growing out of his left forearm. He had no palms. His legs and
arms were shortened. And his left legs possessed a shrunken foot with
only three toes. The foot was amputated when he was five years old.
Several qualified medical professionals and personnel told Rogers parent
that he will never be able to walk, probably will never be able to take
care of himself, and will never lead a normal life. After recovering from
the shock, Roger’s parents were determined to give him the best
opportunity possible to live a normal life. They raised him to feel loved,
to be strong, and to develop independence. ”You are as handicap as you
want to be,” his father always told him. Never considering his scar as a
limitation. When he was old enough, they sent him to regular public
schools. They involved him is sports. They encouraged him to do
everything his heart ever desired. And they thought him to think
positively. One time, Roger said, “ something my parent never deed was
to allow me to feel sorry for myself, or to take advantage of people
because of my handicap.’

YOU CAN DO IT
Roger appreciated the encouragement and training he received from his
parents, but I don’t think he really understood the significant or the
extend of his achievements until he was in college and he interacted
with someone who wanted to meet him. He had received phone call from
a man who had heard about his tennis victories, and Roger agreed to
meet him at a nearby restaurant. When he stood up to shake hand with
the man, he discovered that the other man had hands that were similar
to his. He was excited to find someone older with his similar case only to
observe later that the man was the opposite. There may be a possibility
that the scars you have in your life is nothing near that of Roger, but
you saw that out of them, with a positive mental attitude instilled into
him by his parents, he rose to be a tennis legend. Though he had scars,
he never allowed it to post any limitation on his way to living a normal life
God has destined him to live. You see, you will only become handicap to
the level your mind can handle it. I believe that real limitations are
created in the mind and not in the body. Handicap can only disable you if
you let them. So failure is more of inside that outside. That is the
reason I always say, don’t ever let what grows around you to grow within.

LET GO THE PAST

There could never be completion to the explanation on dealing with your
scars without torching the past. Because, scars are actually the mark of
memory to a wound gotten in the past. Yesterday has a way of affecting
the present if it is never properly handled. The level to which a man will
become a star out of his scars is traceable to his ability to put the past
in proper perspective.

DON’T LET IT BE A BREAKDOWN, BREAKTHROUGH IT

The problems of people’s past can impact them in two ways; it is either a
breakdown or a breakthrough. The reasons below can account for people
holding to past difficulties.
• Comparison: when you see people begin to complain of how much
harder they have had it over so, and so, you should not that he is
allowing the past hold him back. Comparison is the worse form of
effectiveness measure. It is no wisdom to live in comparison. “They
that compare themselves among themselves are not wise.” Wisdom
demands that your effectiveness should be a personal thing not a
relational thing. For the fact that Mr. A fails in a venture does not
necessarily means you will fail in the same thing, and vise versa.
• Rationalization: you cannot get better from excuses, no matter
how genuine they may appear to be. For people to think that there
is no reason they believe something good can come to them due to
 their past bad experience, is a clue that they have allowed the past
to hold them down. No mater how had you tried, excuses will never
move you forward.
• Isolation: it is obvious that majority of people tend to withdraw to
the back door when the ugly past trap them. Their past hurts make
them retrace their step with the presumption of self protection
and carefulness. It even very worse when reasonable outgoing
people isolate themselves because of past hurts. They become
more especially miserable and depressed.
• Regret: a very notable hindrance to living life to the fullest in the
present time is the evil of regret. The poison of regret can sap all
your positive energy and put you in a state of no ability to take
positive actions. We all have some kind of regret. Regret for any
reason is the enemy of success.
• Bitterness: if you keep keeping and hipping the load of past pain
and hurt, you will tend to get into bitterness. Don’t be a prisoner
of the past. You don’t need to remain victim of the past. Don’t let
your past hold you hostage. The truth is, there are people who
have had it better than you but did poorly. And there are people
who have had it worse than you and did very apparently well. The
circumstances you find your self should not be the reason you
shouldn’t get over your past history. Your scars can make you
bitter or better, the choice is yours.

HOW DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR SCARS

I want you to consider the following points:

#1 You may think your scar is a limitation- it’s not

If you have had an injury in your life from past hurts, it will be self-
demeaning to think that; you are limited in life through that. Nothing
actually stops you in life except you. You can only be handicapped in life
to the degree you accept. Your scar can never be a limitation to you if
you don’t allow it. There is no limit against you.

#2 you think that your scar is a demotion-it’s not

Supposing you are a cripple now, you may consider it to be a decrease in
status, but it is not. Why? You should note that a man is only what his
mind is, not what is body is. When your mind is disfigured, your life is
actually disfigured. But when your mind is sound, though you may be
cripple on your feet, you can see it as a promotion to life. You can work
on your two feet if your mind in correct.

#3 you think your scar is a stigma- it’s not

If you believe that your scar is an object of ridicule, change your
thinking. You should not allow shame to fill your mind. You see, there is
nothing in your life except it exists in your mind. Your mind should be
your factory where you create what you want. But adversely, your mind
can still create negative experience. This is because it has a multi
dimensional effect. It can function positively, if you put it in the right
tract. And it can operate negative, if you allow it to divert downward.
Don’t let your scar make you have inferiority complex about your
personality.

#4 you think your scar is an enemy-it’s not

In my second book, ‘problems are friends not enemies’, I tried to let
people understand that problems are actually for your promotion not
demotion. You scar can never your enemy, if you don’t see it so. Your
scar is a source of promotion. For instance, in Nollywood (Nigerian movie
industry) there are two men who are les than three quarter in height.
These men have through this height qualified to become notable
comedian in the industries. They refuse to see their abnormal statuses,
as an enemy, but are very fulfilled being notable actors in the industries.
They have shake hands with presidents and Chief executives of
companies.
#5 you think your scar is oblivion- it’s not
You may consider your scar to be the worse form of rejection that could
ever happen to any man. It may appear to you as God had rejected you.
And that no one loves you to identify with your ordeal. You see, God had
not rejected you. He loves you. Gideon thought so, when he believed that
the midianite’s torture over them was a result of God’s rejecting them.
But it’s not. God is never going to do what you are supposed to do for
you.

#6 you think that your scar is aloof-it’s not

There should not be time you are tempted to believe that the things you
pass through is just in your world alone. There is a story of a man who
thought he had more problems than any other living person. So he always
acclaimed, ‘why me! Why me? So one day, he decided to take the only
banana he had, get to the nearby bush, eat it then commit suicide. When
he finished eating the banana and dropped the peel down, before he
approached the suicide rope, he saw another man rushed at the peel he
dropped, ate it up, and began to give glory to God. The man was humbled,
and reasoned that, if the man who ate the peel is being grateful to God,
it’s not worth him dying. He came down from the tree and went home
with a changed mentality. Why think that you are the only unfortunate
person on earth. May be you are from a poor family background, don’t
you think others are too? Yet still succeed? May be you have a physical
disability. Don’t you think others have too? Yet still move forward with
their life normally?

#7 you think that your scar is permanent-it’s not

That limitation can never be permanent beyond when you accept it. If
you are barren, you can give birth. If you are crippled, you can walk with
your two feet. If you are divorced, you can move on with your life and
get the best. What ever your scar may be, it is still possible to be free
from it forever. It is you that let looks permanent. It can go. Get rid of
the defeat mentality and rise out of the box today. You can come of it.
You can! You have the inhibitive power to come out of it today.

BETTER OR BITTER?
Everything you passed through in life that had left a mark in your life
should not live you bitter. Don’t allow your situation to lessen you but to
be a lesson to you. Become better everyday though you have scars.
Joseph through the hatred of his brothers was sold to slavery and later
was sent to prison, lost all childhood care through these incidents. He
lost parental care. He lost brotherly love. And was throne into an alien
country where he had no one to care for him. In his prison, he never
allows the scar of being a convict to make him become bitter. He loved
people, and care about how they feel each day. This attitude helped him
to network with a man who will later take him out of the prison to the
very presence of pharaoh. He rightly interpreted the man’s dream and
later was remembered for that. Bishop David Oyedepo once asserted. “
Joseph was the most happiest slave who ever lived.” When Joseph was
later reconnected to his brothers, he never grew bitter because of what
they did to him, but he become better in relating with them and become
their saviour from hunger that was destined. Don’t let your scar make
you become bitter. But let it make you better.

EXCELLING, OR EXCUSING?
Many people will chose to live short of their full potentials because of a
physical disability, emotional hurts, mental limitation, or social
incompetence they may have. They excuse themselves from reaching the
top because to them, there is no way they could make it. Instead of
going forward with their life, they reason out how impossible it is for
them to have what they want. You see, excellence is a key word to life.
It is never a respect of class or condition. It response to principles. You
 must excel with your life even in the face of obvious odds. It is better
to die in front than to live at the back.
It is better to
die on top
than to live at
the bottom

MOVE YOUR LIFE FORWARD

There were two lepers in 2 kings 7:3, their scar was leprosy, which could
never allow them to stay where others stayed. They said to themselves,
‘Why sit we here till we die?” out of the self-improvement question, they
decide to go forward in their lives. That decision led them to causing
abundance for the people of Samaria, the same day. “ Ye have compass
on this mountain long enough:” (Duet. 2:3) God protested. And when on to
instruct in the later part of the verse, “ turn you northward” meaning, go
forward. Your life is a bundle of success. Don’t die at the bottom. A life
spent in making mistake while moving is still better than a life spent in
doing nothing. Always be in performance about your destiny. Get busy
and forget about your scars. Faith is not just believing God but much
more behaving God. It is your performance that determines your
importance. The watchword is, move on. Nothing is always against a
moving force.

AVOID THE FOLLOWING

Self-pity; don’t ever feel sorry for your limitation and believe they are
the reason you don’t progress. Don’t.

Excuse; never allowed your scar to disfigure your sense of judgment

thereby making you live in the country of excuses. The bible declares,
“thou art inexcusable oh man” (Romance 2:2).

Faith is not
just believing
God, but
much more
behaving God
Excuses are the real enemy of your progress. They give you false hope
and satisfaction. The make you satisfied, and complacent in an average
and mediocre life.

Despair; never you allow your scar to put you in a situation where you
become hopeless. The setting of a great hope is like the

Setting of the sun. The brightness of your life is gone when this
happens.

Your
performance
determines your
importance

CHAPTER FOUR
FROM JAIL TO REIGN
Then pharaoh sent and called Joseph,
And they brought him hastily out of the dungeon:
And shaved himself, and change his raiment,
And came in unto pharaoh (Genesis 41:14)

Jacob’s other wives were apparently fruitful in child bearing. They

delivered children at will and at every mating. But the case was
different for Rachel, Jacob’s best and lovely wife. Rachel was the very
wife that moved Jacob to labored for fourteen years for Laban, his
uncle. But here Rachel never had any baby of her own. She wailed,
complaint, cried, prayed, and said to her husband, “ give me children, or
else I die” (Genesis 30:1). When her cries for a baby continue to
intensify, God visited her, and she conceived and gave birth to her first
born. Joseph. My story here will center on Joseph. The boy grew up very
normally and became daddy’s pet. “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all
his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a
coat of many colours” (Genesis 37:3). I think Joseph came at the right
time where he could draw the love of his father’s heart.

A DREAM CAN MAKE A GREAT DIFFERENCE

As Joseph advanced in years, he began to experience a torch of mental
alertness. He began to understand some spiritual occurrences. Then he
got a dream for life. His brothers were merely satisfied with what goes.
They were contented with the status quo. They were pleased with
leading just a normal and ordinary life. But not so with Joseph. He hated
the ordinary life. He was never satisfied with the run of the mill life. He
needed something unusual to happen to him. He craved greatness with a
passion. He did not allow what the mediocre did to win his love. He
noticed and reported injustice. “And Joseph brought unto his father
their evil report” (Genesis 37:2). He loved justice such that he never
meddled with negativities. So he had a dream.

A DREAM TO BE THE HEAD

One of the reason God’s people suffer a lot is due to their low mentality.
They think so small that the only succeed to lead small lives. They
believe in going to small schools, get small job, marry a small wife, build a
small house, drive a small car, have small children, live a small life. They
are in a small world. No stretch for the unusual. To them, as it was, so
let it be forever, amen. Such a small life to live! That was the same
situation with Joseph’s brothers. What a pity! But Joseph had a dream
of greatness. He stretched his mind to reach God’s best for him. He
believed he could be a leader. He could be a source of liberation to many
generations. To him, being small will mean dying before his dream could
come true. Therefore he open up his mind to see the invisible and
dreamt the impossible.

BUT HE IS ALMOST THE LAST BORN

Though Joseph position in the family was almost the last, he never saw it
as a scar to hinder him from going forward. Some would have thought, “
I’m just the last born anyway, let me take it cool.” Not Joseph. He
never had an example in his family to steer him, but he chose to become
the pace setter to his entire family for a beyond the ordinary life. No
possible example in his. No support from brothers or parents. The
father who loved him even questioned him with caution, “ what is this
dream that thou has dreamed? Shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren
indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?” (Genesis
37:12). The whole family was in upheaval, because a just last-born is
trying to think beyond his reach. “ You are too small to think that way.”
They rebuked him. “Are you trying to lord it over us?” they questioned
hysterically.

IT GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE

Joseph discovered what his brothers where ignorant of. That is, he
knew early enough that greatness was never of age but of the mind. He
knew that he could be greater than all, if he dream so, think so, and
believe so. So he expanded his mind beyond the average. He believed
that it would never be as convenience but as commanded. While his
brother where busy deliberating, quarrelling, in disputing, and arguing on
who should be the leader, Joseph was busy dreaming his way to it. So
they became uncomfortable with him. His greatness mentality could not
fit in with their smallness reasoning. The scar of being the last born was
their main bone of contention, but his disregard to his scar become his
strength of character. They saw him as not match for that position,
because he was the last born, but he saw himself as a perfect match
because it was his dream. Age does not matter here. Most of the time,
you will stop yourself from your great future because you think you are
unfit for it. You see, there is no age in the realm of the spirit. We only
have ranks there. And as you know, rank has nothing to do with age. In
other words, a thirty years old man can be a general while a forty-five
years old man is his bodyguard. That has no regard to age. A king could
be younger than his subordinates. So, why the much ado about age? Men,
it got nothing to with age.

WHAT A PROSPEROUS SLAVE

As though Joseph age was not enough scar to think possible to hinder
him, his brothers added more scar to it by turning a free born, beloved
of his father, into a sudden slave to the Arabians. He became a slave to
Potipher. A slave? What bad image could be than such to a young growing
lad who had a dream of greatness? What scar could be more to this for
a dreamer to suddenly saw himself becoming a slave? But Joseph never
thought it so. He saw it as an opportunity to proof his leadership
potentials. He work had such that his master handed everything to his
care. There were other servants that he met there, but his dream of
greatness moved him higher than them. Sooner he became the master
for his master. And the bible had this summary, “ and his master saw
that the lord was with him, and that the lord made all that he did to
prosper in his hand… and he made him overseer over all his house, and all
the he had he put into his hands.” What an honor to a slave. Though he
was a slave, which was not the ground for him to blame life. And cursed
destiny, but he joyously accept his present status and hold vigorously to
his dreams, labored with excellence. And it became evidenced to his
master, who handed all he had to his care. Joseph took over because he
had a take over mentality. He became the leader because he served as
one that worth it. How can you pare prosperity with slavery? What
match do they have with each other? But, yet he prospered as a slave.
You see, there is no need for you to carry long face. And become older
than your age because you think your scar is more than any other. This
story can be an encouragement to you. Such that despite the scar of
slavery, Joseph made it as a leader in potipher’s house. You too can make
it. Don’t you think so?

IS THERE ANY REASON FOR BEING IN PRISON?

As though the scar of slavery was not enough, his master’s wife, moved
with lust conspired against Joseph. Here he is throne by his master into
prison. He has no reason on earth to be there. Was he guilty? A capital
no. Did he do it? A capital no. Why then on earth will he ever get into
prison for what he never committed? No answer to it. You see, Joseph
never gave up his dream of greatness. Here he is in the prison. He began
his service again. Here is another oxymoron, where a prisoner becomes a
leader. Sooner, Joseph skills surfaced in the prison such that the
keeper of the prison committed every thing again to him. Even in prison,
he loved people, and care about how people felt. He observed people
countenance and seek for way he could be of help to them. You see;
when you see people, who are really great, try to ask questions. I heard a
story of a great man whom when a young man came to him and asked that
he should put his hands on him to transfer his greatness to him. The
great man put his hands and declared, “ Let all the troubles I face come
to you now.” The young man was afraid and asked “why such a prayer?”
Then the old man told him that it is not to his good to envy his place but
to labor to get there. Your scar will never be more than Joseph’s own.
Hated by his brothers, and even cautioned by his father, throne into a
pit, sold into slavery, and now throne into prison. Such a catalogue of
scars could be enough for him to have given up and said, “it’s not worth it
any more, I’ll blow the racket” never! He held to his dream of greatness.
You can still make to your dreams. So keep your dreams. No matter what
you are passing through right now, just keep your dreams. For sooner or
later, they will materialize.
IS IT JUST A THEORY? OR CAN IT WORK?
You see, the story of Joseph is never an assumption, or an imaginary
story. It is not a fiction. It is never any form of literature or creative
writing. It is a factual, practical, real story of a man. Joseph really
existed on earth here. May you think it happened in heaven or
somewhere in the paradise. He was here as

Others went,
and won despite
their so many
scars; you too
can go, and win
despite your so
many wounds.

You are. So tighten your seat belt. There is an example to follow. Cheer
up. Your are not alone in this battle. Others went and won despite their
so many scars; you too can win despite your so many wounds.

NOW, HERE IS YOUR THRONE

Joseph had overcome all the huddles and was removed from prison to
the present of pharaoh. He is given the throne of Egypt to rule as the
second in command. His leadership dream has seen the light or is on the
way. You too can make it. Never give up. Joseph was asked to take over
again, but now a much larger estate, the entire Egyptian empire. No
more hatred. Potipher and his dear wife were now under Joseph. Joseph
could now order that he be throne into prison too. What a true reality of
becoming a star out many scars. Joseph did.
CHAPTER FIVE
FROM ORPHANAGE TO PERSONAGE
And the king loved Esther above all the women
And she obtained grace and favour in his sight
More than all the virgins, so that he set the royal
Crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti
(Esther 2:17)

There is a VIP nature in you. You may not immediately see it, but out of
your seeming scars, you can become a celebrity in life. You can become
an important personality that your opinion will keep people waiting for
your present. You can move from nobody to somebody. You can advance
from bottom to top. The story of Esther, an orphan Jew in a strange
land will show you an example to tie your faith to.
Esther was a Jew who when Mordecai was carried captive in the days of
Nebuchadneza, took her along, because she had no father and mother.
Esther had two scars that could have been enough to stop her in life.
She was an orphan, and also a foreigner in a strange land. You can agree
with me that an alien in a foreign land does not have equal right with the
citizens of that land. He or she will never be able to have the same
opportunities that the citizen have. The kind of job he does will be far
below what a citizen is allowed to do. He can never rise to the position
of authority easily in that land. This was the case with Esther. Her
orphanage status was not enough; she also was a stranger in the mist of
strange people. Mordecai took up Esther when her mother and father
died. But the same Esther out of the scar of orphanage became a
celebrity, the queen of the entire hundred and twenty-seven states of
Persian kingdom.

THE NECESSARY MISTAKE

Your position in life is not vacant. Some one is sited there now. There is
no vacant place in life. Especially a worthy place will never be vacant. All
you need is to meet up the requirement above the present occupant and
it will be handed to you. The queen Vashti of Shusan palace, the wife of
king Ahasuerus made a mistake of refusing to honor the king’s invitation
to appear before him in royal apparels to display her beauty to the
entire kingdom. “He commanded…to bring Vashti the queen before the
king with a crown royal, to shew the people and the princess her beauty:
for she was fair to look upon. But the queen Vashti refused to come at
the king’s command by his chamberlains therefore was the king very
wroth and his anger burn in him” (Esther 1:10-12). The queen refusal to
appear at the king’s command was the necessary mistake she made which
was an open door for an orphan Esther to become the next queen. When
God is about to favor you, he causes the unbeliever that is occupying
your place in life to make a fatal error that will make you the only person
to correct the error and take over. According the story, the king
became angry with Vashti the queen and sought a new queen to replace
her. So the virgins were to be paraded before the king so he could chose
the one that is more beautiful enough to occupy the queen Vashti’s
position as the next queen. Esther originally did not qualify to contest,
because she was not a citizen, which was the reason Mordecai had to
hide her identity. “ Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for
Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it” (Esther 2:10) if she was
told to hide the identity, it means it would have stop her. But she was
loved by the king and was chosen to replace Vashti as the next queen at
the shusan palace. Esther rose from orphanage to personage. She
became the first lady over night. You may admire some position in life
now, and dream you could be there. But you may also disqualify yourself
because you think, that you can never make it to such position with your
present evident scar. I want you to understand that you can rise to any
position in life you dream to, only if you can dream it. Now what are the
principles that Esther displayed that took her from orphanage to
personage.

# 1 she was open to opportunity

Most of us have closed our destiny because of how we think. We think that we are no fit to live that
is the reason our eyes are continually closed to the opportunity that abounds on earth. Opportunity is
greeting us every second of the day, but we cannot see it because we believe it cannot be us. Esther
never locked herself out of the way by not being open to opportunity the presents itself. She was
ready at any time to grab any given opportunity. My friend once said that
‘Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dancing floor”
that means, opportunity only responses to them the are ready for it.
Every handshake is an opportunity. Every mistake is an opportunity.
Don’t be pessimistic. Open up yourself to opportunity and your life will
rise from nowhere to somewhere.

#2 she tried despite her scar

Esther never thought because she was an orphans and a stranger, she
was not qualified to try, it is only trial that does not require credentials.
Though she had scars, she never allowed them to stop her from trying.
She believed she could make it despite her scars, so she tried. You need
to get out of your bed of complacency and get on the street to try. Try
the governorship. You could win. Try the examination, you could pass. Try
the lady, she could say yes to you. Try the business, you could succeed.
Esther risked it all and took it all. You too can do it.

#3 Esther was sensitive to her turn in life

Life is turn by turn. When your turn comes, everything turns out for
your good. The bible said, “ and when her turn came” she was very
sensitive to the right timing for her breakthrough. I always wonder how
a young lady will say to her suitor, “let me seek the face of God about it”
or let me wait on the lord about it” and forget that the lord must have
passed while she is waiting. You must be sensitive to your turn in life.
And everything will turn for you. Or towards you.

#4 Esther stood where the seeker seeks

Favour in life is all about sight seeing. It is who sees you that favor you.
Most time, you hide from opportunity because you think you are not
qualified. Little do you know that you very scar may be the source of
your qualification. Stand where the seeker seeks. Esther never went to
her bed room and practiced how to be a queen, she went right to the
interview room. You have been complaining that you have no job, yet you
wake up ten o’clock every morning. That is not the posture of someone
looking for a job. You complain you are not yet married; yet you cannot
cook a pot of soup. How could you be married? All I mean here is be a
wife, if you want to be married. Be a diligent person if you want to
succeed. Be on the street looking for job if you desire one. Get out of
your comfort zone. Mostly, we mist it because we think comfort and
luxury is all we need to enjoy life. You need some opposite to get what
you want in life. So go out.

YOU CAN GO FAR DESPITE YOUR SCARS

There is a purpose behind your scar. Most of the time, God uses
circumstances to develop you. In fact you go far more through your
scars than any other means. Jesus noted that you would experience
negativity in the world. So you are not immune to the scar you may have.
No one is immune to pain or trauma. No one is insulated from one kid of
suffering or the other. You can never get through life problem-free.
Basically, life is a series of problems. Whenever you solve one, another
shows up. Not all scars are big, but all are important to take you far.
SOMEONE ELSE MADE IT; YOU TOO CAN
You would appreciate the story I’m about to relate. It’s about the man
called Harry Moore. Harry was a one-time U.S. senator and four terms a
governor of New Jersey. He broke the world record. Read how he began.
Harry lived with his widowed mother in Jersey in three rooms in a run
down neighborhood. They were very poor people but clean, decent, and
church going. One day after school Harry came disconsolately into the
kitchen, which doubled as a living room, sailed his cap on to a hat rack in
corner, and sprawled in to a chair.
His mother was stirring something that was cooking on the cool stove.

‘Mama’, he said, ‘I sometimes have strange feelings. They’re funny. I get

them everyone in a while.’ ‘What kind of feelings, son?’ the mom asked
‘Oh, I don’t know, but its like something inside of me keeps saying I’m
somebody or can be somebody great. I just don’t know what it all means.’
‘I do, Harry. I know exactly what it means. God is preparing you to be a
great man sometime’. This simple woman had never heard of THE
POWER-MIND in people, but she had enough sensitivity to know when it
was stirring in the boy’s soul.
‘But mama, I can never amount to anything. We just don’t have money or
someone willing to help. We are so poor and we have no pull or anything.
Only the rich and famous can get to the top’. Harry lamented.
Mama stopped and pointed the dripping ladle at him, drops falling
unheeded to the floor. ‘Listen to me. Don’t ever let me hear you talk like
that again. All you need is just two things-God and gumption.’

Gumption is an old-fashioned word meaning common sense to some people

but to me, it means POWER MIND.
It’s still a mighty good expression. Years later when Harry Moore was
serving one of his three terms as governor, he was making a speech
about America and it’s opportunity. He was a terrific speaker, with
know-how and enthusiasm.
Afterward a young fellow came up and said, ‘Guv, I don’t buy that
stuff you were handing out. You know as well as I do that unless
you’ve got money and pull and connections you can’t get
anywhere in this capitalist society. That’s why I’ve decided to join
the Communists. They have a program for the poor people’.

When you activate ‘Guess you don’t know who you’re talking to and where
your power mind,
this man talking to you comes from.’ answered the
exciting things begin
happening. From thengovernor. ‘I talked just that way to my mother when
on you are very likely
to become different
I was a kid, all accept that communist bit. I never
was that dumb, poor as we were’. He told about the
God and gumption advice.
Okay, so, what is your goal? The boy had one.’ want to be the best
surgeon in this state’.
‘Great,’ said Governor Harry. ‘What you can conceive you can achieve. Go
with God and gumption’. A few years later Governor Harry Moore gave
the commencement talk at a large university on his usual theme,
‘
YOU CAN BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE’.
After the ceremony a graduate wearing the green hood of a new doctor
of medicine came up and said, ‘Hello, Guy. Remember me? Thanks to you
I made it. That God and gumption bit did it.’

The governor commented, ‘Get a person to activate his power mind and
all the other necessary qualities for success are activated. Things like a
goal, persistence, and ability to work hard, determination to study. Etc.
‘Then’, he said, ‘you know something? God the creator put an extra
something in to all of us. Some people let that something special
atrophy. But when the power mind gets to working, that extra
quality develops and grows’. How right he was! He didn’t name
that extra quality to which he referred, but what he was talking
about was clearly THE POWE-MIND.
The most unlikely person may have a huge power inside of him.

DON’T PLACE LIMITS ON YOURSELF

You can place limit on God’s power within you and cap off your latent
power from producing by doing the following;

1. When you feel unworthy

Some time, when you look at your circumstances, you will be tempted to
decline your thought and begin to have a sense of self-depreciation.
Some time you hear people say such things as, “I’m not important, I’m
not good; I don’t have the right qualification to get things done, I don’t
have the qualification to do anything worthwhile, my life may never
amount to anything good.” When you hear that, know that low self-
esteem had set in. we all feel this way some times in our lives. But your
future will really suffer if you begin to act like a worthless nobody. Even
if you have failed before is no guarantee that you will fail again. Don’t
allow negative thinking, and talking to rule your life today. If you believe
you are worthless, that’s the same as saying that God made you a junk,
and he is not sure of what he makes.

2. When you believe the worst

Whenever there is a wrong information in the air, people become afraid
and loss confidence in themselves. For instance, if you here that there in
a recession in the economy of your nation, you believe the worse and quit
buying, become afraid of loosing your job. When president Richard
Nixon was asked, “ What is recession?” he answered; “ a recession is
when people loss confidence in them, the future, and think there are no
answers?” don’t let the brainwashing and make believe information you
hear make you loose your self worth God had made you. Don’t let them
deprive you of the positive happening the God can achieve through you.
Your life is not under the economy of any nation on earth. Your life in
directly sourced from God.

3. when you dwell on your circumstances

You constantly limit the power of the creator in your life when you
continually think about problems and challenges that may probably never
happen to you. Why dare say your situation is hopeless? How dare you
believe that your condition is impossible. Your attitude is more
important than you down finances or IQ or circumstances. You may not
deny that fact, but you can deny the fact the power to paralyze your
life, and make be in one spot. Many people do not succeed because they
were born with silver spoon. No, a lot of people in this world have to
struggle out of the similar situation you see and become a success. You
too can overcome all odds and headed toward success if you will use your
mind in the right direction. Your scar is never too strong to stop you.

4. when you yield to depression

you can choose to be joyful, happy, and content with the level you are
while going toward where you desire to be. Or you can allow sadness and
despair to rule your existence. It’s all about choice. Some people have
millions of dollars yet their lives are empty and frustrating. Some too
have a few dollars and lead prosperous and happy lives. You can have
enough money and yet live a fulfilling and happy life, irrespective of your
scars. Everyone, at some point in their lives experience certain scars
that may be demoralizing, but yet it is not time to let the circumstance
paralyze their lives’ advancement. You will loose balance in your life when
you magnify your scars over God, and the power to be what he wants you
to be. At some time in the past, I have severally hit the red spot where
I think of giving up, but when I personally dealt with the situation, I
when on victorious. You can be your own cheerleader instead of becoming
your enemy by brooding on your circumstances. The bible noted that; “
David encourage himself in the lord.” Don’t be depressed. Stand strong
and face your future with faith. God will never fail you. So don’t fail
yourself.

TURNING YOUR SCARS INTO STARS

Many dreams have slipped into a crack because of little failures. Most
people give up because they fail, and thing there is a limitation in their
lives that is responsible for their failure. Even though you have a scar
that seems to appear as a failure condoner, turn that scar into star.
Robert Schuler said; “ turn your scars into stars.” There is no shortage
with God. Take for instant, the air, such six billion people on earth
breathing the one air, yet it still remain more fore children yet unborn.
No matter how much people breath the air, it will never run out. How can
you then think God is not sufficient for you, because you have a
disability in you? Men, turn that failure into success. Turn that
breakdown into a break record. Turn that situation that looks like the
end into a bent. Yes, you can do it. When Thomas Edison was asked my a
new York news paper, how does it fell to fail 700 times in trying to
invent a practical filament for the electric bulb? He answered; “ I have
not failed, not even once. However I have proven the 700 ways it won’t
work, and when I evaluate the way it won’t work I found the way it will
work.” You see, the things that seem to support failures in our lives can
actually be our success antidotes. You need to possess the will to
succeed. Some once said, “ When there is a will, there is a way.” It is the
will to succeed that will pull you out of the box and put you on the tract
of success. Louie Pasteur received a C grade in chemistry. That looks
like a scar of low IQ, but out of that, he discovered and developed the
process of pasteurization of milk and cure for rabies.
Einstein never passed mathematics in high school, yet his theories
revolutionized science, as we know.
J C Penney was said to have been sent home from school because he was
not smart enough to learn, but today after his death, his royalty checks
are still being sent to him.
Professor Wole Soyinga, left school with pass, yet become the world
winner of Nobel laureate, and an accomplished poet, playwright, and
novelist.
At the age of 65,colonel Harlan Sanders was broke, but today his
Kentucky fried chicken business and its success in known worldwide.
Abraham Lincoln quoted a word; “you can do it with God” this word
helped him to come out of many scars to become the sixteen president
of the United States.
1831 - he failed in business
1832 - he defeated for the legislature
1833 - he failed in business again
1836 - he had a nervous breakdown
1838 - he was defeated for the house speaker
1840 - he was defeated for the elector
1843 - he was defeated for the congress.
1855 – he was defeated for the senate.
1858 – he was defeated for the vice president.
But in 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteen president of the
United States because he refuses to quite despite his scars.
The 3M company was built by taking advantage of what seems like a big
failure. In 1929, developed an adhesive tape to use as seal for insulation.
In practical application, it did not work. But when they experiment
further with it, they found out that it did a great job in repairing turn
papers. As a result scotch brand transparent tape was born. From an
apparent scar of failure, the scotch tape today is about 1 billion dollars
per year cooperation. 3M took the scar, and turned it into star. This
company refused to see the scar as failure but as an opportunity to
derive a star from it.

GO AGAINST THE ODDS

Life always tends to look like the way you though or believed. Things will
always go badly if you expect them so. you life will go out when you faith
level goes out. When you face a crisis, all you need is to raise your faith
level.
PART TWO

Introduction

I have lived on earth for about three decades now. I have been a practicing
and committed Christian for a decade of that total time. I have had experience
of being in other nations outside my nationality. In all my little life, I have
discovered that men have a common enemy. Every one are faced with the
similar problem. The poor and the rich emerge out of the same situation. The
sick and healthy face the same health hazards. Every one has a common
adversary. No one is apportioned to have more problem than the other. The
only deference among them is not in the magnitude of problems they faced
but in their ability to ride on the wings of problem to get to the top of their
career, profession, business, and education in particular and life in general.
Problems are not meant to kill us but to grill us. Problems are not for our
destruction, but for our instructions. They are not supposed to mar us, but to
make us. The numerous challenges we face daily should not inflict us with
scars, but should turn us to stars. I have written this book to help you see,
explore and benefit from the better part of problems. I believe that after
reading this book, problems will no longer break you, but you will
breakthrough them. You will become a master on problem management. I wish
you an impact adventure in reading this book. Keep at it, for problem will soon
become your friend. You will never finish until the things that look like the
enemy soon looks like your friend.
Breakthrough is your lot in Christ, go for it.
 Chapter SIX
Making problems your friend

‘The greatest friends in life are the oppositions of life’

I have discovered in my about a three decade life that there are no real
problems meant to destroy a man, but what looks like the enemy or problem is
actually a sign post to the most desired switch in life. What may look like the
end may just be a bend. What seems like a breakdown may just be a
breakthrough in disguise. What look like a barrier may just be a springboard
for advancement. So what you need is wisdom in discovering the disguised
promotions in the seemingly problems you face in life. This book will let this
wisdom enter your life, the wisdom to put problems in the right perspective.
Jesus, in one of his teachings asserted that a man’s enemies are those of his
household (Mathew 10:36), by this he meant that, your enemies are not
strange but familiar. In other words, real friends are strange, enemies are
familiar. That is, familiarity is the greatest enemy that ever exists. I remember
I had a neighbor some years ago that never greeted me once since we had
been living in the same neighborhood for years. He never smiled to me once
when we where in the same community where we hail from. But, much to my
amazement, some time later, I met him in another country different from
where we traveled from; he rushed to me and greeted me with much
excitement and enthusiasm. That made me learnt a great wisdom that day.
When we where too familiar in the same community, he overlooked my
importance until we met in an unfamiliar environment, then the friendliness
becomes real. You see, the best way to look for friends is to search for them in
what look like opposition. Mostly, the greatest opposition will be your most
cherished palley.true friendship is not found among friends but true and
beneficial friendship is drawn from hostility. What will benefit your life will
never be found in the familiar zone but in the seemingly unfamiliar
circumstances. There is an adage in my community that says, ‘a man’s true
brother is in the bush’. When the halve brothers of Joseph, moved with envy
sold Joseph into a strange land, they did not realize that they were actually
moving him towards the direction of the fulfillment of his dreams. When God is
about to lift a man, he moves him out of the comfort zone. And this happen
through adversities. True friendship in not found among friends but among
antagonistic situation. What people tag as problems is simply their promotion
examination. It is opportunity in mask. Problems really, are not meant to
destroy a man but they destroy us through our ignorant. They are instrument
of help. They are sent to serve as mechanism to improve people’s lives. The
earlier you catch this reality the better for you. Make problem your best friend.
Welcome a lot of them because they are the tonic for advancement in life. I
read a story some years ago of one of the American most popular presidents,
Abraham Lincoln, how that when he was elected into office as US president, he
appointed his greatest oppositionist as his new government secretary of war.
That did not sound well to his allies, but he knew how to draw out the living
juice that is content in opposition. He understood that every treasure in life is
at the threshold of opposition. It is in the hottest opposition that you can
locate your position in life. God demonstrated this wisdom to the children of
Israel when he told them to inherit the land of Canaan that flow with milk and
honey, but they needed to contend for it in battle.

YOUR ATTITUDE IS VITAL

Attitude is very crucial to life. Your outlook to life enhances its
outcome to you. You cannot see life as black and get white. It is to
you as you see. God said to Abraham;
For the land, which thou seest, to thee will I give it
(Genesis 13:14)

You cannot see poverty and get prosperity. It is impossible to see

sickness and live in health. It is your viewpoint to life that opens
door for your turning point in life. Attitude is very necessary to life.
It is the bedrock of every success. Attitude is the foundation for
progress. An attitude entails:
Your approach to life
Your perspective about life
Your reaction to life
Your attitude to life can define how you will handle life. It can go a
long way to foster your potential to benefit from problems, or be
marred by them. Attitudes are everything. There are negative
attitude and there are positive attitudes. Negative attitude is when
you allow problems to decide your fate in life. It is when you allow
the atmosphere to shape your state of life. But positive attitude is
a point in your life whereby you do not allow what grows around
you to hamper what grows within you. Positive attitude will never
allow what you are born into, to affect what you are born for. That
is the reason I always say, if you are born in poverty, never let
poverty be born in you. Jesus was born to a poor carpenter, to a
village of about twelve houses in total, and most humiliatingly,
born in where cattle are kept because his parent never afforded a
hotel or hospital bill. Though he was born into that poverty-stricken
situation, his posture to life never allowed that circumstance to hinder
what he was born for. His low family level in the society, never obstruct his
destiny. He was born to be a priest, but was not born to a high priest. He was
born to be a prophet but his entire family never had a prophet. His parent
were just ordinary people in the community who by human standard has
nothing to do with giving birth to such a great and fulfilled personality. You
see, a positive posture to life will help you to hold unto your status irrespective
of the experiences. That is, though you are born a handicap, you never allow a
handicap mentality to be born in you. Though you may be born without hands
and legs, but a positive attitude will help you never to allow your mind to go
without hands and legs, because at a long run, it is your mind you need mostly
to succeed and the least your hands. The hands in your mind can make way
for the lack of hands in your body. But if your mind is handicapped, though
you’re physically fit, that will be the worse form of handicap.

WHEN PROBLEMS LOOK LIKE ENEMIES

The late president elect of the June 12 1993 election of the federal
republic of Nigeria, chief MKO Abiola made a profound statement
that I want to use to illustrate a point here. He said, ‘a woman does
not say yes, if a woman say no, it means may be, if a woman say
may be, it means yes, a woman does not say yes’. What I want you
to learn from the wise words above is that no problem will come to
you with a yes signal. Problem will never come to presenting itself
as opportunity. They will only come as enemies. But the truth is
this; the problem you see today is a road map to the promotion you
will enjoy tomorrow. The adversary you encounter today is a hint to
the advantages you will derive in the future. Jesus dying on the
cross was like the greatest problem to his disciples, but that was a
way for our salvation today. When Joseph was throne into the pit,
sold to strangers, became a slave and throne into prison, all these
circumstances where the roadmap to his throne in Egypt to save a
posterity for God’s people. But, it never appeared so, until the
throne of Egypt was handed over to him. Opportunities do not
always appear like one. Every future greatness always hid itself in
the shameful pitiable, and despiteful small beginning. Greatness is
always in smallness. Power is always hidden in weakness. Apostle
Paul learnt this when he received an admonition from God of noting
that; ‘my strength is made perfect in weakness’ (2 corinthian11: 9)
You need to understand that the thing that pains contain gains.
Problems can serve as the channel through which good and
benefits in life are issued. The situation that is full of adversities is
a breeding ground for the upshot of advantages. In other words, to
draw honey, you must be ready for some stings of the bees. So
gains and advantages in life are reproduced in the porter’s house
of challenges. There is no progress without pressure.

HOW TO BENEFIT FROM PROBLEMS

How then can you benefit from problem though the do not
appear as benefits. How can you deploy problems to your benefits
and not for your disadvantage though the come to you as the
greatest enemies. The point below will help you to drill benefits
from problems and not harm;

Decode the symbols

The main reason behind the many problems people face in life is
their ignorance of the symbols of life. The greatest limitation to a
man’s destiny is his inability to decipher the secret code of life. Just
as a driver who is ignorant of road signs will never avoid accidents,
that is the same way a man who is not armed with the power to
interpret the puzzles of life. Life is full of mysteries. Life is full of
signs. It’s only those that build themselves up to the point where
they are able to break the symbols of life that will benefits from
problems. This is because problems are actually the secret code to
promotion. Problems are the cipher of progress. It is only when
you learn to interpret them that you will move your life forward
through the many challenges you have. I discovered in the bible a
profound profile I will use as an instance to project this truth to
you. Daniel, in the book of Daniel, was profiled by the queen of the
Babylonian empire as a man that has the ability to draw benefits
from problem with his knowledge to decode the symbols of life.
Look at what she said; ‘there is a man in thy kingdom in whom is
the spirit of the holy gods…for as much as an excellent spirit and
knowledge and understanding, Interpretation of dreams, and
showing hard sentences and dissolving doubt was found in the
same Daniel (Dan 5:11-12)
what a profile! Daniel had that ability because he demonstrated it
in earlier situations where things seems difficult but he turn it by
his symbol decoding ability into what become solutions.
Basically, if you study the background story very well, you will
discover that there was a symbol given to a king in Babylon that no
one could interpret. That made the king to decree a death
sentence to all the wise men in Babylon in whom Daniel was one of
them. That problem would have send Daniel to his early grave
except that he could decode the symbols of life. But he interpreted
the dreams and saved the whole astrologers from imminent death.
That was a problem, but a man who understood how to see
opportunity in problems, turned the problems to his advantage and
promotion. Because through that he was appointed as one of the
three presidents in the entire Babylonian empire. You can easily
observed that Daniel, in the mist of several difficulties, challenges,
hatred, and problems rose to become the most preferred among all
the presidents in the Persian kingdom, because he was able,
according to the profile in Daniel 5:11-12 to decode the symbols of
problems. He had the prowess to decipher hard matters and made
it simple for all to benefit. He had the technical know how of
breaking had sentences in simple and beneficial ways. Inside the
symbols that look like a threat to king Darius was one of the
president’s seats for Daniel. But it was only after he decoded the
symbols that he got to that throne. Daniel took occasion by his
ability and owned one of the seats. Later on he went on to the
lion’s den and came out to turn the whole kingdom to the worship
of his true God.
I want you to understand that, problems are success code
numbers. They are the symbols of progress and the road signs to
the bend of success. Only when you know how to break the signs
that you will take them to your advantage. The truth is this, every
phases of life itself is as a result of the function of decoded secrets.
The quality of life a man enjoys is traceable to the degree of the
discoveries in his disposal. The beauty of every generation is
anchored on the number of the symbols of life that generation is
able to break. Brian Tracy noted this when he wrote; ‘this is a
wonderful time to live. There have never been more opportunities
for more people to accomplish more of their goals, both personally
and professionally, than exist today. And if anything, our situation
is getting better and better with each passing year. Why is this
happening? The simplest reason is that we know more today about
how to achieve better results in more areas of business than we
have ever known. And this information, these ideas and insights,
are like water, flowing everywhere and to everyone who is open to
them and willing to use them’. That is what I was trying to inject
into your sub conscious mind. The accumulation of knowledge is
also the accumulation of a better life. The more information that is
discovered, the more quality of life we get into. Another important
factor to note is that knowledge has links; it has the ability to
connect to other fields of life when it is received. Knowledge, when
revealed will continue to remain in existence for as much people as
are open to it uses. Every access to new knowledge creates new
opportunities that abound as the knowledge is being utilized. There
is a car in very steel you see. But the man who can decode it will
bring it out to the benefit of all. You see God the creator of life
always releases his benefit to life in symbols. God always speak in
similitude. It’s when you do not understand how to decode those
signs that it becomes a problem to you. Whereas it was meant for
your advantage. Problems become enemies where there is no
solution to the issue of understanding. People suffer from problem,
not because it was meant for suffering, but because the goods in
the problems are not tapped due to lack of knowledge. In the book
of revelation chapter five verse one to ten, the whole creation were
in doom, and tears prevailed because there was non found to break
the seal and open the book of success. In that book was success,
prosperity, breakthrough, advancement, that was meant for all but
as there was no one found to decode it, there was only tears in
return. But, fortunately, someone special, and able was found, His
name is Jesus the lion of the tribe of Judah in verse five, there was
an announcement made to all creation; ‘WEAP NOT’. You see, tears
and sorrows will always prevail when problems are allowed to
continue unrefined. You can stop weeping when the symbols
attached to the challenges you face are dissolved.
Similarly, the prime minister’s position in Egypt was presented as a
symbol of problem of seven years of famine in Egypt. But no one
was able to decode except a prisoner alien, Joseph came to the
scene. He decoded the symbols and proffers the solution. That
brought to bare the throne to which he mounted an become the
prime minister of the most populous nation as at that time. These
examples are enough to send your mind to work. You cannot make
problem your friend until you know how to break the symbols of
life. David said through the inspiration of God in psalm 82:5; ‘they
know not neither do they understand, so they walk on in darkness,
all the foundations of the earth are out of course’
Emphases are again and again added to the fact that when
revelation is not added to life, elevation will be far fetch. All the
blessings of life are coded. And one of those codes is problems. If
you develop the attitude of welcoming troubles and decode them,
you will benefits from life mostly.
In our contemporary world, the first presidency of the South African
republic was coded as twenty-seven years prison. By
understanding, Nelson Mandela, decoded the symbols and located
the president’s seat inside the problem. He came to be the first
black South African and best president. The good you expect in life
in coded in the bad you experience in life. So decode and enjoy.

#2 Keep the right formula

Mathematicians will more easily understand the subject of
formulas. Because, they deal with formulas in order to solve even
the most difficult problems in mathematics. To them, no matter
how difficult an equation is, when once you are armed with the
right formula, you will break the problems in stages and arrive at a
preferable and desirable answer. So to say, there are no solutions
to mathematical problems without the right formulas. When you
solve the problems with the right formula, you get rewarded with
high marks. So, in making problems your friend and benefiting
from them, you must learn to always be armed with the right
formulas. After you decode the symbols, you need to proffer
accurate formula that will turn the problems to progress, obstacles
to up standers, barriers to springboard, and hindrances to
stepping-stones. It is the right formula that will convert zero to
zenith, shame to fame, story to glory, and toiling to enjoying. You
cannot truly benefit from problems until you get the right recipe in
place. Earlier we saw how slave, alien, prisoner called Joseph,
decoded the symbol of the problem that was imminent in the land
of Egypt. He did not just stop there; he went on to create a formula
that will avert the ordeal of seven years of famine into plentiful
years of abundance to the Egyptian empire. He made sure the
formula was such that only he alone can use. And that took him to
the throne. You know the story more. Yet, you have suffered and
lamented enough from that small adversity. It is time to rise to the
occasion and create a new formula that will solve the problem once
and for all. This book is in your hand to encourage you to look at
the problems and smile. I always say that every profession in this
world is people’s discovered secret for solving the problems of life.
You need the right formula to make problems your friend.

#3 Share the answers

The next bus stop of making problem your friend is to realize that
you are not the only one facing problems. That is, if you have been
able to decode the symbols and keep the right formula, you need
to share the answers you have gotten with others. Bryan Tracy
noted clearly that ‘if you have an idea that can help me to be more
effective in some part of my business and you share it with me, we
both are enriched. If I then share this idea with someone else, and
that person shares it with someone else again, everyone who
receives the new idea is better off’. Service to others should be the
sole reason you exist in this world. Until you break free from
selfishness and egoism, you have not yet truly begun to live. Living
is giving, and life without giving is a minus. The world is the field
of investment. It is what to give to live that should be your greatest
burden, and not what to get out of life. That is the reason you
should be in search for the solution to contribute and not to own.
My greatest burden is to see people of all races and color gain back
their value consciousness. I love to contribute to people’s lives. I
am satisfied to go unfed to see others being fed. I rather go
undress to see others dress well. Problem will never benefit you if
you are egocentric. Problems open their treasure to you, when
people matter to you. Any position you occupy in life is not the
fulfillment of your destiny, but it is the services your position
renders to people that constitute fulfillment in life for you.
Fulfillment is derived through discovery and offering of required
services to the benefit or promote the quality of life to others. That
is the reason life only opens up its treasure to those who are
concern about serving others. Selfishness is self-murder, but
selflessness is self-builder. Remember, when job prayed for his
friends, God turn his problems to double honor. (Job 42:10)

#4 put a question tag

In life, most people draw conclusion on issues without a think back
perspective. Basically, there is no bus stop to your life if you will
not put a full stop to your life. There are no failures, there are only
quitters. Because those who quit should have succeeded if they
stay on longer enough. In benefiting from problems, you must learn
never to say ‘ I cannot handle this problem again’ rather you learn
to say it by questioning the situation thus ‘ how can I handle this
problem?’ the reason is this, when you say ‘ I cannot handle this
problem again’, you draw conclusion and take your life to a close,
but when you question the situation by saying ‘how can I handle
this problem’, you send your mind, subconsciously and consciously
to go to work to gather data that will proffer solution to your
situation. ‘I can’t is a signal for mental laziness but ‘how can I is a
license for mental productivity. You see, the more questionable to
situation you are, the more your chances for solution increases.
When Isaac Newton saw a mango fruit fell down, instead of just
saying ‘it falls down’ then pick it and eat, he rather question the
situation by saying ‘why did it fall down, why did it not go up’? That
question went on to task his mind to discover the law of gravity.
Some of the conclusion you draw on issues are the reason you
suffer. Because may be through the circumstance was your most
desired breakthrough had you question it. When the angel Gabriel
brought a surprising news to Mary of how she will be conceived of
a baby in her womb, she never concluded by saying ‘this is not
possible seeing I do not know a man’ but rather, she question the
issue by asking ‘ how shall this be seeing I know not a man’? (Luke
1:34). Learn to question the situation not to conclude on the
situation for most secret in the bible were discovered when men
dared to ask.
#5 program yourself
You are the master of your destiny. You can decide what comes in
and goes out of your life. My pastor, Rotini Adetayo always says,
‘you have the right to have, the right to choose, and the right to
live’. He also adds ‘ you are who God says you are, you can have
what God says you can have, and you can do what God says you
can do’. Don’t be a scapegoat. Don’t be a dummy. You can plan
yourself for what you want you to do. You can organize your life to
operate according to specification. Take for instance, a traffic light.
It can order the movement of cars not because it has the
intelligence to decide when each car should go, but it has been
preset to do so. It is the way the traffic light is automated that it
will function. No traffic light will adjust it function out side the
preset functions. Your life can some time function that way in
certain areas. You can build yourself to do certain key things that
can make your life count. You see, what ever happen unconsciously
and produce result should be taken and do consciously for
repeated result. What ever you do more than once master you.

Look at this!
Do you know that those who came to the world with the true
answers to people perplexing problems are the once that
encounter problems the more? Think about Moses, it was just a bit;
pharaoh would have murdered him. Think about Gideon, his
greatest problems were the midianites who he was sent to deliver
the Israelite from. Think about David, Saul would have killed him.
Think about Joseph, the brothers almost killed him. He was in
slavery and in prison. Think about Thomas Edison, he failed 999
times. Think about Abraham Lincoln, he fail except the president’s
seat. Think about Nelson Mandela, he would have died in twenty-
seven years prison sentence. A child that was born the same day
he was throne into prison was now a man of twenty-seven years
old. Think about Jesus, the greatest of all men ever to live on earth,
problem still never feared him. Herod almost murdered him, his
peers rejected him. Think about Paul, he faced many trials in his
entire life. All who are on a mission to others in this world are the
once that faced the most problem. That let us understand that the
solutions to life’s problems are manufactured in the threshold of
problems. Therefore your service spirit is the screw that let loose
the knot of blessing from problems.

CHAPTER SEVEN
DISCOVER THE ‘GOOD’ IN THE ‘BAD’
And Joseph said unto them, As for you, ye meant it for EVIL,
 Against me, but God meant it for GOOD,
To bring to pass as it this day to save
much people alive (Genesis 50:19-20)

The evil we feared yesterday was meant for the good we enjoy today.

The wise words of Joseph above are embodied with one of the
greatest wisdom that you could ever learn. The statement contains
the wisdom that instructs us that there is good in every bad. There
is success in every failure, there are advantages in every adversity,
and there is position in every opposition. There are quite a number
of stories of people living and dead, that I can use to add more
proof to the fact that there is a good in every bad. Jesus, through
the worse form of dead at a tender age of thirty three, seen as bad,
but contain good which is our eternal salvation. What bad could be
more, than to die at thirty-three. And what good could be more
than to save from sins. Why should he die to save? Why not live to
enjoy? There is good in every bad. That is the reason I include this
chapter to help you see problem more as a friend and not as an
enemy.

The two sides of the coin

Ye thought EVIL against me but God meant it unto GOOD (Genesis
50:20)

In his words, Joseph clearly let us know that ‘bad’ is the other side
of the coin to ‘good’. Failure is the other side of the coin to success.
Disappointment is the other side of the coin to appointment. That
is, the potential of a thing is in the side that is presented, but the
effect of it is in the side that is accepted or interpreted. To Joseph,
the brothers presented the EVIL side of problem, but he chooses by
understanding to receive the GOOD side of it. The wisdom here is
that you have the right to choose the side you want to experience
in your life. Though situation may be meted out against you for
hurt, you can choose by your perspective about life to receive the
good part of it. Learn to see good in every situation.

Give your meaning to it

God meant it for GOOD (Gen 50:20)
I read a story of Thomas Edison, how that when his laboratory of
about several thousands of dollars caught fire, he sent for his wife
to come and see ‘this miracle’ he gave his own meaning to the
disaster by calling it a miracle. The meanings you give to the
problem you encounter determine the good you derive from the
situation later in your life. You can convert a negative situation to a
positive by giving your own meaning to the situation. When Jesus
was told that Lazarus is dead, he gave his own meaning to it by
saying he is sleeping. Later, he went on to raise him from the dead
because he gave his own meaning to the situation. When the
brothers throne Joseph into pit and sold him out to slavery and
later to prison. He never complains but ever smiling because he
had his own meaning to all he went through. Bishop David
Oyedepo said, ‘Joseph was the happiest slave that ever lived’.
Every man that is ready to make the most of his life reaping from
problems must be ready to give his own meaning to every
challenge that he faces.

Who is behind your meaning?

God meant it unto GOOD (Gen 50:20)

There is always a reason to succeed in life. There is a reason you

must enjoy good in life. That reason is the God of goodness is your
God. The consciousness of a good God will strengthen the meaning
you give to any situation you face. God is a good God and does not
propagate any evil. Joseph understood this, that made the meaning
he had to problems had meaning. God behind you is the root of all
good you will enjoy. Jesus said; ‘They shall lay hands on you, and
persecute you delivering you up…into prisons…and it shall turn to
you for a testimony’ (Luke 21:12-13)
It is the meaning you give to it, that determines what it turns to
you for.

Watch the process

God meant it UNTO (towards) good (Gen 50:20)

Every finished goods, was once a raw material. It took a rigorous

process of production which some times take days, weeks, and
months to reach a finished stage. Joseph, in his opinion about the
thing he went through understood that he was in the process of a
better tomorrow. Though the journey was tough, difficult, he held
to his understanding and confession that ‘God meant it UNTO
good. The word ‘unto’ is another word for ‘towards’. So in a
paraphrase, the statement should read, as ‘the evil you thought
was God’s plan towards good for me’. In discovering the good from
the bad, the process is so very important. Some times it is in the
process that the problem arise. Because no one want to pass
through the process. The one simple reason problem overwhelm a
lot of people is because they overestimate the event and
underestimate the process. Before David could arrive at ‘ goodness
and mercy will follow me all the days of my life’, he had to pass
through ‘though I walked through the valleys of the shadows of
dead, I will fear no evil’. (Psalm 23:4-6) you need to understand
that until there is a process, there will never be any product. Any
time spent in the process in never a wasted time. Life and destiny
are the offspring of time.

CHAPTER EIGHT

FALLING UPWARD THROUGH PROBLEMS

When there is a casting down,
Thou shall say there is a lifting up (Job 22:29)

Problems are not meant to destroy people, but to strengthen

people. Problems are not supposed to step people down but to step
people up. No one can go up with success, but you can only
advance at the presence of odds. All your best effort at the
disposal of success has no benefits but your effort at the time of
adversities is what adds meaning to your life. Success without
failure is not success. Advancement without adversities is not
available. At this point in your life, may be you have already fallen
flat in your life, and contemplating how you can get up. Problems
must have made you look at it as enemies. Don’t give up. This is
the time and opportunity to fall upward.
HOW TO FALL UPWARD
Falling upward is possible? You may ask. Ye it is. The under listed
keys will assist you to fall upward.

#1 cultivate a right perspective

The outlook to which you see life determine the result you derive
from it. Specifically, the view you have about problem enhances
the result you get from life. If you see problems as enemies, you
will fall downward. But if you well come problems as friends, you
will fall upward. You see it is only in your mind that you can stand
up while you may be down on the floor in you physical body.
Perspective is of the mind. It is your mindset that balances your life
and not your math set. When your mind is disorganized, you life is
in disarray. Your mind is like a watch; the watch came from the
manufacturer with the wrong time or a deferent time zone. If you
want to enjoy the right time as it is in your zone, you have to set
the wristwatch to the right time. The same way with your mind.
God made your mind with the potential to be, but your mind set
will be what you want it to be. And the setting of the mind is your
responsibility. God will not think for you. In fact a wise man once
said ‘ use your brain and give God rest’ God expect you to use your
mind for him to help you. The bible says ‘ without your mind will I
do nothing’ (Philemon 1:14). So when you cultivate a healthy
perspective about the problems you face, it will turn out for your
good.

# 2 grow in a positive mind group

Another important factor to help you fall upward is to choose the
right kind of association. The reason is simple, when you are with
the right people, right things happen through you. But when you
are with the wrong people, wrong thing occur through you. Choose your
friends wisely for effective life.
#3Maintain the flow of positive language.
In life, what you say is very important to determine what you
experience. Positive words create positive experiences, and
unconstructive words create negative experience. For you to fall
upward, you need to maintain the flow of positive language. You
need and accurate mouth for an accurate life.
If you can fail, then you can succeed
As I noted earlier, the good and the bad are the two sides of the
same coin. The ability to fail is the same ability to succeed the
other side of the coin. All you need to is when you fail this side,
know that success in near; just turn the other side and the go
ahead and succeed. Failure is not falling down, but failure is the
road map top real success. The ability to succeed is hidden in the
ability to fail. The rates of failure double the chances for success in
the life of a man. If you are able to maximize failure, you will
succeed indefinitely. There is no reason to fear failure, convert the
fear of failure into the faith for success. You cannot truly fear failure
without the possibility to succeed. If you think you can fail, then
you have the prospect to succeed.

THE BENEFITS OF PROBLEMS

#1 problems create opportunity for discoveries.
Problems post to us the opportunity to know who we really are and
what we can do. You cannot truly know yourself until you face an
adverse situation which refine you and let you see or discover the
real you. It also through problem, that you can really know the
nature of people and things. Problems are the mother of discovery.
You see, if there were no transport problems, there will be no
discovery of cars, canoes, and airplanes. Problems open door for
the best invention of our time.

#2 problems give birth to professions

All careers, professions, business, are the result of finding ways to
solving problems. It a search of ways to solve some specific
problems that give birth to what we call profession. In fact, the
purpose of any business, career and profession is to solve human
multiple problems. They to reduce problems and not to create
more of it. For instance, teaching profession was created to solve
ignorance problems. Medical proffe3ssion was created to solve
health problems. So problems calve out ways for people to become
professional.

#3 problems unlocks your possibility

Problems can release you untapped ability and launch you into an
unrealized realms in your life. For instance, a man the get into a
compound with walled fence only to be chased by a wiled dog will
jump the fence before he realized it. The ability in you will remain
dormant until you are faced with a challenge that sends you
thinking for solutions. It is troubles
That releases you real strength.

#4 problems makes way for productivity.

As established earlier, that problems give birth to professions, it
also give birth to productivity. When a man is in search of how to
solve problems he is being productive.
 PART THREE
THE SEVEN INDISPUTABLE LAWS OF VALUE

INTRODUCTION
A lot of people, because of the problems they seems to face, may
allow the scars of their challenges to make them look small. They
allow inferiority complex to set in and make them look as misfits in
the society. May be the societal standard had made them see
themselves as nonconformists to the presumed standard of the
society. In this section, I want to enumerate the most vital laws that
govern and measure your worth in God and in life. The reason is
because, if you do not know how important you are, problems can
make you look like a non-entity. God is the author of your value. He
custom built you in such a unique and special way so you could
function to his specification. If you function less than what he made
you to be, it becomes a deadly blow on his personality. You will
never be satisfied in life until you know who you are and what you
are meant for.

CHAPTER NINE
THE LAW OF THE MAKER
‘And the lord said, let us make man in our image,
and after our likeness (Genesis 1:26)’

Every product goes to the market with the value inbuilt in it by the
reputation of the maker. When the manufacturer of a particular
product is superior, that product cannot be inferior in the market.
In fact, the superiority of any product in the market is related to the
reputation of his maker. Every commodity can win in the market
when its maker has a name in that market. Who made a product,
enhances how valuable the product becomes in the marketplace.
The class of the manufacturer becomes automatically, the class of
his product in the world. Every product receives higher attention in
the market, when its manufacturer is high class. For instance, if
you go to the stores to shop for shoes, you are more likely to be
attracted to ‘made in Italy’ shoes than any other manufacturer in
the market. The reason is that Italy has a high-class reputation in
fashion than any other competitors in the field. So you trust Italy
for quality more, because of their name in the fashion industry. In
essence, value is placed on product mostly because of who made
that product. If the maker has a superior name in the market, the
product will become hot cake in that market. Look at your life in
this picture. Consider it in your thought a while. Do you imagine
that it is God, the greatest manufacturer that made you? And that
he can be trusted for quality product? He never makes mistake in
his product. So you are not a mistake. You may have been born out
of wedlock but you are not a mistake. God carefully planned your
production. Your life as a whole is a product of God’s careful design
and purpose. That is the reason you should not let problems make
you appear lower than what the manufacturer has on you. The
psalmist said, “I am wonderfully and fearfully made” (psalm
139:14). God is your maker, so you have a high-class attention in
the market of life and success. God said, ‘let us make man’. So
God is your manufacturer. That makes it a settle case on your
value and important. If people can place high value on a car just
because it is made by a reputable manufacturer, how much more
you who have been intricately designed
By the most and ever reputable maker. You carry great worth and
important about because God made you. If he made you, you have
made it.

THE MAKER’S PERSPECTIVE.

In trying to establish that every product is highly value because of

its manufacturer, that is, your worth in life is establish by who
made you, there are powerful concept that could be traced to
further elaborate on this truth. That concept is what I call the
maker’s perspective. No manufacturer in this world has a wrong
perspective on his product. No producer can look down on his
product. Every manufacturer himself has a penchant for his
brainchild. He seeks ways to make his product look important in
the market. He develops plans to decorate it product for
acceptance in the public. They do not talk down their product. The
same way, God cannot make you and at the same time look down
on you. He loves you to be outstanding. He wants you to be great
and important in the market of life and success. He believes in your
value. That is the reason he said ‘fear ye not, ye are of more value
than many sparrows’. God believes in your important because he
made you.

What the maker thinks about his product.

The same way, a manufacturer thinks well about his product, God
also think well about you. The bible said: ‘ I know the thought that I
think towards you, they are thought of peace and not of evil, to
give you an expected end” (Jere 11:29). God said by himself that
he is thinking of you. Even the angels observed this and
commented; ‘what is man that thou art mindful of him’ (heb 2:6).
Your value is placed on what you maker thinks of you. God feels
good of you.

What the maker sees in his product.

Every manufacturer sees well in his product. No manufacturer will
see his brainchild as misfit. God when he made you ‘ saw that
everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good’
(Genesis 1:31) when God came to Gideon one day, God addressed
him as, ‘thou mighty man of valor’ (Judges 6:12). In such strange
salutation, Gideon thought there was another man there who could
be addressed as such. As far as he is concerned, the problem the
Israelites faced from the midianites and made him think he is a
nobody. He never believed his ear let alone to ever think that he is
a mighty man of valor. But God who is his manufacturer so the
mighty man in him and address him so. Though physically he may
not look mighty. God sees well about you and declares it to the
world. Problems made Gideon looked down on himself, but the
maker say no, you are somebody. Don’t let problems wear you
down. Rather ride on the wings of the problem and let your name
be known. You see, after God was able to convince Gideon that he
is a mighty man of valor indeed, he rose up to defeat the entire
midianites and became one of the strongest Judges of Israel. The
same midianites that was a problem to him became the source
through which he became the leader of Israel. You see, the things
you call problems are just your promotion in disguise. You will still
remain in doldrums until you discover what your maker sees in
you. Though you may be dangerously fearful now, God still sees a
courageous man in you. May be right now, you are down on
poverty role now, God still see a rich man in you. That means you
can be rich, no matter what. Though you may be so small now, God
sees a great man in you. So he said ‘ though you beginning may be
small, yet thy later shall be greatly increased”.

What the maker know about his product.

It is the manufacturer that has a perfect knowledge on the
workability of his product. His knows the ability and the
potentialities of all he made. Only Mercedes’ Benz can give perfect
specification on Benz brand. Only Honda can give perfect
specification on Honda cars. The same way, God is your
manufacturer, and he is the only one to give a specification on you.
The product has no right to consult any other for knowledge about
itself except it own maker. The reason so many people fall a prey to
problem is because they never look to the manufacturer for what
he perfectly knows about them. God knows you perfectly, because
he made you. No wander he said, “before I formed thee, I knew
thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jere 1:5) you
see, you will never go to Toyota, to ask about Peugeot products.
Neither will you go to Samsung to ask about Motorola products.
The same way you should not determine your identity by the
things you face but God should be you source of knowledge. Every
manufacturer knows only about its product.

What the maker says about his products

When you watch adverts on the television, you will best
understand what I want to pass across here. One day, I saw an
advertisement on star beer, which says ‘come alive’. You see many
people have died through alcohol than any war in the world. Yet
they still speak well of their product. A lot of children brains had
been splashed due to drunk driving, yet they still say that you will
come alive if you drink star beer. Every manufacturer says well
about his product. God said ‘ye are the light of the world’ (math
5:14). God never said you are bad. He will never say so. If the
manufacturer of star beer could still say positive about his product
irrespective of its nature, how much more God who made you as a
wonder package to this generation.

THE MAKER’S IMPUT

Another important way to appreciate your value over problems through the
law of the maker is to know your maker’s input in you. No manufacturer sends
it product the market without spending time to input it what will make it
relevance in the market. When a maker wants to keep his name in the market,
he spend time to update and make it product according to demand. God, in
the same way made you with great treasure. You are not empty. You carry
essential commodity. What God input into you is much needed in the world. So
you become very important in your world. The bible said ‘ and the lord God…
breath into his nostril, the breath of life, and man become a living soul’ (Gen
2:7) man was lifeless until the maker input into him what makes him
relevance.

What the maker invest in his product

Investment is putting aside some thing for gain in the future. Very
manufacturer invest quality time, energy, resources, money and knowledge to
make his product to be of quality and relevance in the market. God invest all
the above in making you what you ought to be.
 CHAPTER TEN
THE LAW OF THE PRICE TAG
For Ye are bought with a price: there fore, (1 cor.6:20)

Every product goes about its duty with the pride of how much it was bought

The true value of money is in what it can buy. We were taught in economics
that money is what money can buy’. In other words, the value of money is
measured by the good it can buy. There is no real value of money except in
the product it can buy. Every product has great because of how much it was
bought. The dearer a product, the more value it commands in the duty post.
For instance, suppose, you buy two cars today, one cost you $8000 dollars and
the other cost you $1000,000, you could imagine how much value you will
place on the car that cost you one million dollars over the one that cost just
eight thousand dollars. The reason is that you ay more for that product, so you
place more value on it over the other. The more money you ay for a product,
the higher its value. That is what I call the law of the price tag. The same way
concerning you, God paid a dear price on you to buy you that determine how
important you are. God is not a bad businessman who will pay much on what
has no importance to him. You mean a lot to God and his plan so he bought
you with the precious blood of Jesus. God bought you that expensive because
he knew you are so significant to him. That is the reason you should not allow
problem to detect for you but stand your ground and take the lead.

You are not bought on credit

The earlier you get this truth, the better. You are not bought on hire purchase.
You are not cheap. You are bought with price. So you should understand how
you carry yourself. You can imagine, your creator paying a price on your head.
Who then can get you cheap? You are very expensive. You are a rare
commodity. The most sought after in the market. Never you look pitiable
before any problem. You more than them. You are not to be pitied but to be
envied even in the mist of angels. He said ‘ ye are bought with a price,
therefore be ye not the servants of men’ (1cor 7:23).

The purchasing power of the blood

As I established that money is what it can buy, it notable that the power of any
money to purchase in the quality of good it can buy. The blood of Jesus has the
power because it was able to buy you and me as a valuable commodity. The
bible says, ‘ the church of God which he purchased with his own blood’ (Acts
20:28)

The blood negotiates

One of the powers of the blood is its potential to negotiates value. Money is a
tool for negotiation in business. Negotiation is a powerful opportunity to
measure the value of the money and the commodity being negotiated for. The
more skillful a man is in negotiation, the more value he adds to the money and
product in negotiation. The truth is, the blood of Jesus duly and efficiently
negotiated for your purchase and won in the deal. The bible declares, ‘ the
blood of Jesus speaketh better things (terms) than the blood of Abel’

The legal tender

A legal tender is anything issued by statutory authority to be accepted as a
means of exchange for good and services. The blood of Jesus was issued by
heaven’s statutory authority to serve as our kingdom means of exchange for
good and services. That is the reason it has the power to buy you. If the blood
of Jesus was used to purchase you and me, it then applies that it was or had
been issued by statutory authority to be accepted for the exchange of good
and services. So the blood of Jesus is our country’s (Zion’s) currency.

The citizenship
Before you can appreciate your worth through your price tag, and accept the
blood as a price paid on you, you must recognize the power behind your
citizenship in the kingdom of God. Christianity is a country coded in language
and the bible is the constitution of a pass worded nationality. Everything about
the kingdom of God is built into words. If you don’t receive God’s kingdom as a
word, you will never likely see it. The kingdom of is coded in mysteries. And
we are the citizens of that country. The blood of Jesus is our country currency.
The name of our country is Zion.

CHAPTER ELEVEN
THE LAW OF FEATURES
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessel,
That the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us”
(2 Corinthian 4:7)

The feature of every product is the element of that product that will make it
has a high command in the market. Features enhance value. The better
features a product has, the more value it has over the existing products. For
instance, the feature of a mobile phone is what enhances the value of that
mobile phone in the market. Some mobile phone is only for making calls only.
That is all the features they have. But at the same time some other mobile
phones has so many features as, camera, video camera, color screen,
symphonic sounds, recording and internet facilities. Such phone has a high
demand in the market because of it features. It has high value and worth in
the market just because it can do what others cannot do. Further more, when
the television manufacturers came up with a new feature for television that
allows it to have color screen, it sends the black and white out of market
automatically. Every product always has value due to the feature it has. God
carefully coupled the best feature into you; this was done to place you higher
than all he created. So, ‘ ye are of more value than many sparrows’ (matt
10:31). And somewhere else, the bible further said ‘ye have this treasure in
earthen vessels’ (2 Corinthian 4:6) that is the features that will take you to
places. Your worth and relevance in this world lies in the features that God has
coupled in you that makes you unique to others. The features of a Motorola
phones does not perform the same way with that of Samsung counterpart. The
feature of a Mercedes Benz car does not perform similarly with the features
of a Toyota counterpart. So God made you to perform your features so
uniquely so you can stand out of the crowd and shine. Jesus came into the
world to save sinners. He came to die for the lost. That was his feature that
made him greater than Solomon. He was the only sinless human that ever
lived then, that made him greater than all. Then he said, ‘ as my father hath
sent me even so send I you’ so you came in the same quality features as Jesus
so you cannot afford to be hidden. You are destined for the best.

You have what it takes

The feature you have to offer builds value. You cannot increase your worth
except by the features you can exhibit. But I want you to note that you have
the features already. God did not say you will have treasure, but he said it in
the affirmative ‘ye have’ .you what it take already to come to limelight
irrespective of the challenges and problems you may face. What you have now
is enough to get you started on the part of victory over all you face. Life may
place demand on you so overwhelmingly such that it appears that you don’t
measure up, but I want to let you understand that you can get through it.

You are a point of reference

Whenever a product comes to the market with a better and most updated
features, that product become the point of reference in the market. It will
become the most talked about and the most heard about. Its demand
increases, its value increases, and it utility increases as well. The product will
become the most sought for in the market. The same about you, God made
you with the best features, so you should be a point of reference in the world.
God is not the one hiding you. God is not interested in making you a local
champion, whereby; only your wife and two children know that you can sing.
Only your small community of three hundred people knows that you can
dance. God said to Satan in a conversation: ‘ have you considered my servant
Job’? That let us know that God was interested in Job being known, even to
Satan. The same way he is saying concerning all his children. He wants you to
be known. No wander he said, ‘arise and shine, for thy light has come’ (Isaiah
60:1). It who sees you that enhances who values you. You cannot be valued
until you have displayed your features. That is the reason God said: ‘ let your
light so shine, that they may see your good works and glorify, your father
(Matthew 5:16) Glory here means worth and value. When you let you feature
show to the world, it will bring value to your life.

Your service spirit

In exhibiting your features to enhance you value over problems, you need to
understand that service is the vital link it is service that links features with
value. The more services your feature is able to offer, the more attention you
wheel toward your direction. The more quality service your feature can offer
will determine the value you attract. Your incentive in life will be in direct ratio
to the value of your service to others. Meaning is added to our life in some
way as we serve others. Life at a larger extent is built on dependent factors;
that is, we need others and others need us. That is what service entails. The
various basics that make life meaningful and valuable are what are derived
from dependability. Such essentials as; cloths, water, shelter, and food. That is
the reason it is important for us to engage in seeking ways we can serve other
in a better and quality ways. If you want to increase the quality and quantity
of your value and proceeds, you must in effect increase the quantity and
quality of your service to others. The service of an office messenger will never
be compared to the service of a lawyer or a medical doctor. The services of a
president of a nation cannot be measured up in value to the service of a police
constable. The more quality and demanding your service is, the more value
you will draw. It is service that unlocks the power of your features. The
treasure that God put in you were not for nothing. Dedicated service will
unlock your treasure, which in turn ill unlock your value. What you must know
is that value and fortune begins as we offer services.

Your uniqueness
Any product that comes to the market with the features that is common to
others will at best attract common attention. Nothing general is attractive.
Nothing familiar is valued. Men seem to ignore a thing when it becomes too
broad-spectrum. Familiarity breads contempt. The best way for you to loss
your taste is for you to continue to operate in familiar ground. Principles don’t
change but practices must change. The bible says; ‘now there are diversities of gift
but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administration, but the same lord. And there
are diversities of operations, but it is the same God that worketh all in all’ (1 Corinthian 12:4-
6) the more unique you are in the display of your feature, the more valuable
you become.

Your healthiness
No matter how powerful the features of a product are, if that product
continues to exhibit fault, will be neglected. You will need to be in total
soundness, spirit, soul and body to release your full features. When fault
entered Adam, his feature became distorted. Adam no longer trusted himself
in the market of life. He ran away to hide himself just because of his faultiness.
When God asked ‘Adam where are you’ shows that God never hid him in the
first place. When a product’s credibility becomes questionable, that product
had lost its place in the market. For instance, when the new of birth flue came
on the scene, the value of chicken and turkey in the market was lost. No one
wants to get infected with the flue. For you to remain valuable in the market of
life over problem, you need to remain virus free. Sin is the virus. God never
put sin in you as a feature; rather it is a mal-functioning, so stay free from it.
Your faultless feature will take you to lime light.

CHAPTER TWELF
THE LAW OF MODEL
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature,
Old things are passed away, behold all things are become new (2 Corinthian 5:17)

Every product goes to the market with the pride of its model. The more newer
the model of a product is, the more importance that product assumes in the
market. A product cannot not loss its place of relevance if his model in
constant update. The more latest a product is, the more tasteful it becomes. It
will be a shameful scene for you to discover that the car you drive is 1981
model while your friend drives 2006 model. I was trying to price for cars the
other day, I was told that the prices varies based on the model and the year of
manufacturing. The cars are expensive if it is more latest and cheaper if it not
latest. Every manufacturer keeps his product in the market by bringing in new
models constantly.
The same way with you, God understood the situation better. He is wiser than
all manufacturers. So he made you in a new model that can never be old or
outdated. Never! He said in Christ Jesus, you become a new model. The latest
model that is reigning currently. God made you latest specie. Your brand
becomes the newest in the system. As we saw earlier, you should be the most
valued because you are a new breed, a new model. Look at what the bible
says here, ‘they sacrificed unto devils not God. To new gods that come newly
up’ (Duet 32:17) every one is fascinated with new things. So even new gods
wins their attention. When the worship of God become too dogmatic and
stereotyped, men will resort to what are new to them though it may be error.
When you are the latest, you become the tastiest. When you are modern, you
become moved to. When you are updated, you become mandated. When you
are new, you win the pew. You cannot add color to your life when you remain
antique. That is the reason even the bible enjoins us to keep updated always
when it says; ‘therefore…. as Christ…even so we also should walk in newness
of (updated) life (Rom 6:4)’. More so it says; ‘but now we were delivered that
we should serve in newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of the
letter”(Romans 7:6) God believes in models. When you remain old, it is your
fault. But he made provision for your renewal. Stop being crude. Crudeness is
rudeness. No one minds you when you are not mined. You will remain
undefined when you are not refined.

Exploring the model factors

There are certain key factors that enhance the release of models of products.
The following factors make it possible for new models to be realized.

# 1 innovation
Nothing, no matter how latest or beautiful it may be is in its best state.
Nothing in this world has reached it finest condition yet. Everything still
undergoes changes to maintain its taste. That is the reason change is a
constant experience. For you to be tiered of change means you are to tiered to
live. Living is changing and changing is living. You cannot truly affirm that you
exist unless you undergo change. You see, what makes change possible is
innovation. An innovative manufacturer cannot be stranded in the competitive
market. Innovation adds meaning to things. A products utility cannot
appreciate without innovation. All advancements in life come from innovation;
from bringing something in a newer way, a quicker way, a economical way and
a more resourceful way. Take for instance, a piece of wood that looks like junk.
A man’s picks it up and with an innovative mind change the piece of wood to
an art. The utility of that wood will automatically appreciate. Even the bible
records that ‘ the word was made flesh” that was innovation. God saw that the
law he gave to the Jews has become so familiar to them that the no longer
place value on it. It has become mere tradition. God was looking for a way to
still give them the same word so his word will nod loss value. So he decided to
innovate it. So he made the word to become human. Jesus is that word. He is
the result of that innovation in God’ s mind. That is innovation. Innovation is
adding color to things that already exist to make it appreciates in his value.
Innovation turns obsolete things to usable things. It turns rejected things to
accepted things. Innovation allows what was tolerated to be celebrated. The
reason you keep seeing cars in deferent models is because of the spirit of
novelty. Innovation allows the possibility of bringing old thing in new ways.

# 2 ideas
Another better way to make new models possible is to absorb new ideas. It is
the wonders of ideas that that turns dreams into creams. Ideas turns one-
sided object to a multi-sided product. When ideas are in place, limitation are
removed. So ideas are tools to help you remain updated. Every breakthrough
in human existence can be traceable to an idea in the mind of a person. Ideas
are the keys to the future of a person. The ideas you are able to generate will
help you to solve your problems, overcome huddles, and achieve your
objectives in life.

#3 creativity
Creativity is the ability to generate activities in the face of dormancy. Ideas are
ways of doing things, but creativity is finding way of doing things. You will
never achieve something valuable until you become a creative thinker. A
person who does think different from the usual way. What you need is
creativity to launch you to your limelight. You see, imagination is more real
than fact. What you see as real today were ones in the hidden imagination of
someone. ‘Imagination rules the world’ Napoleon Bonaparte once said. You
must grow in your life up to a point were you ideas is able to do what facts
cannot do. A point where, though fact may say yes but your ideas could say
No. Creativity is when fact says one thing but your creative genius help you to
do something entirely deferent for result. Napoleon Hill said; ‘whatever the
mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve’.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
THE LAW OF WARRANTY
This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him (matth 17:

To strengthen the utility and functional ability of a product, the manufacturer

seeks to assure the buyer or consumer of its strength and functional ability by
giving the buyer a statement that reassure him of the power of that product.
That kind of approach to marketing will add value to a product and it power in
the market will appreciate. No product that have name in the market will be
without a guarantee. The producer must be sure the product has a warrantee
mark. Some can have six months, one year, two years three years, and even
ten years guarantee as the case may be. Until the buyer is assured of the
ability of the product by a warranty, there is no possibility of purchase of that
product. So warranty is another way to establish the value of the product. Any
product with a better warranty is more likely to win in the market than a
product without it. God manufactured you as his own product. He could not be
less understandable about the power of a warranty, so he issued one on your
be half, to assure the world that you are of utmost important to him. You see,
there is a statement of warranty on you. You have been issued with a
specification to the buyers and the consumers. That is the reason it is so very
important for you to function to the degree of the warrantee that God has
issued on you. Many try to live their life less than the warrantee on them. For
instance, some people, their guarantee is one hundred years, but they refuse
to perform up to that, and caused to be returned to the manufacturer
prematurely. I think the reason you are not satisfied in your life may be traced
to living below the warranty report that God has issued on you. Problems will
never overwhelm you should you recognize the power behind the warranty
your manufacturer had issued on you. When you understand the length of
your ability and operation, it becomes a source of strength and power. This will
in turn build your value and importance in the world.

The present condition

The manufacturer always issues a warrantee on his product for the present
condition of the product. He knows what he had invested on the product to
satisfy the consumer needs. So the condition of the product is what motivates
a warranty. The consumer wants to be sure he buys a solution and not a
burden. He needs to be assured that the purchased product is in a better
condition and will serve to its specification. When Jesus came into the world,
God seeks to assure the world that Jesus as his product that comes to solve
the sin problem was in a good condition to do so. So he issued a warranty on
him in Matthew 17:5, ‘ this is my beloveth son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him’.
The hearing every product receives in the market is dependent on its
warranty. So God issued a warranty on you because Jesus said, ‘as my father hath
send me so send I you’. So you posses the same warranty as Jesus for better
quality and function. Your condition should be as God has issued. Sad to say, a
lot still function less than that.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
THE LAW OF PURPOSE
There is a season to every purpose under the sun (eccle 3:1)
Every product goes to the market with the pride of what it goes to do. The
more specific a product’s purpose is, the more valuable the product will be.
When what a product comes to do is necessary and needed, that product will
increase its value in the market. A sense of purpose creates value. You see, it
is the purpose of transportation that makes car valuable. It is the purpose of
entertainment that makes football valuable. Everything feels important if their
purpose is fulfilled. When light becomes important, bulb will become valuable.
God, your manufacturer, is the God of purpose. He has original intent for
manufacturing you. He knew what you should do before it create you. You see,
no product is created before the purpose is determined. No! Every product is
preceded by a need. The purpose of all products is to meet an already existed
need. So God created you to fill a gap somewhere. The car was built to fill in
transportation need. The water was created to fill in the need of taste. The
clock was manufactured to meet the time need. The microphone was created
to meet the sound needs. You see, before God made the woman for Adam, he
already felt a need for her, when he said ‘it is not good that the man should be
alone, I will make a helpmeet for him’ God perceived the need for a helper to
Adam. Before he made the woman. So the ultimate purpose of a woman is to
complement a man. God said to Jeremiah ‘ before I formed thee, I knew thee…
and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations’ (Jere 1:5). So God established
that only a need could precede a product’s manufacturing. You are made to
fulfill a need. You are built to fulfill a dream. You are design uniquely and
specifically to fit in to somewhere and fulfill a purpose that is peculiar to that
place. You see, you will enhance your value when you discover your purpose.
Your purpose for living is your value base. Remember, a product, which comes
to do what is most needed, will become much desired. Your value and
important in life will be to the degree of how well you fulfill your purpose.
Purpose is the key word to life. Without purpose, life is not complete.

The purpose factors

There are some vital links to the subject of purpose. When you begin to sense
this factors, you know that you are on the way to locating your purpose in life.

# 1 desire
This is a vital ingredient for the discovery of purpose. What you mostly desire
is a signal to what you are meant for. Desire is an indicator to a destination.
Most people find their feat in life through the profession or career they most
desired. When your desires are rightly channeled, you will find it to unfold your
potion in life.

#2 gifting
Your gift is another purpose to your purpose in life. Discovered gift is a solution
to the question of purpose. It is time for you to look inward you to find out
what the creator has put in you. The deposit in you most time can be pointer
to the task you are manufactured to handle. Such are the thing that turns you
on easily. What you possess natural flair for is call your gift. Things that you
enjoy doing can define your purpose for life.
#3 passion
This is what makes you react emotionally. Your passion for life can define your
purpose in life.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
THE LAW OF DURABILITY
Whatever the lord doeth shall be forever
This is a very important law of value in the sense that every product is valued
for how long they will last. No perishable product has a lasting value. That is
the reason every manufacturer will issue a warrantee on how long his products
will last. When a product is made to last, its value will increase. You see, you
were meant to last because the bible said what ever God did was to be
forever. God made you, so you were meant to last. That is the reason, when
the devil interrupted on God’s eternal plan for you, God have to send his only
son to pay a final price to redeem you. When you are born again, you receive
the gift of eternal life, meaning you will live for ever. When a product won’t
last, people will not mind it. Perishable product cannot be more important
because of their short-lived ability. You see, we are living in an age when
everything is in a fast lane. Fast food, fast plane, fast everything. But we
should never put God into those fast lanes. He is a God of durability.

PART FOUR
INTRODUCTION
MAXIMISING YOUR POSSIBILITIES IN THE MIST OF PROBLEMS
‘I can do all things through Christ which strenghteneth me’ (Phil 4:13)

Problems are inevitable. You must have them. You cannot travel on the journey
of success without a few or more puncture on you tire. So anticipate them.
Welcome them. You cannot but ignore problems. You see, all you need is the
necessary training that will help you to handle problems. And see them as
bread for you strength. In this part, I will outline the keys that will help you to
maximize your odds over problems.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CULTIVATE YOUR PERSON- the seat of all possibilities
I can do all things through
Christ which strenghtenth me ( Philipians 4:13)
In the market of success, the first product that you will ever sell will be
yourself. You cannot truly succeed without you. You are the you, you will use to
succeed. You are the first and the most important luggage you must carry
along on your journey of life. I always tell people that everything about
success in life rises and falls around self. Everything that you will ever use or
need to succeed in this life is already in you. Nothing is anywhere else. Some
run to America from their native land for greener pasture only to find out that
they really needed to look at themselves. So it is very important for you to
cultivate your person. To cultivate means to develop, to tend, to plow, to
nurture, to care for, be attentive to, to grow. You see, you must carry yourself
along your entire life endeavor. A lot of people have left themselves already
somewhere and are wondering like they are in the wilderness. Some went to
college with themselves but has come out with another. Some have gone into
business that have made them abandon who the really are. Quite a lot of men
and women right now are in marriages that have caused them their identity.
What a life! Until you truly reconcile with your real person, you have not yet
started to live. The greatest discovery is the discovery of self. So to maximize
your ability to make problems your friend, you have to build yourself. A wise
man once said, ‘if you want to change a nation, change a man’ change should
begin with you. Daisy Osborn once said, ‘ work on being and not on having, for
with who you are, you will have’. The greatest investment in life is the
investment on self. Yourself is your greatest asset in life. You are the capital
you need to begin in life’s journey. So do not play with yourself. You see, you
cannot increase your worth until you have developed yourself. Self is
everything. If you look at our text above, you will see that Paul traced his
ability to do all things to himself, he said ‘I’ not we, not them, not all, but I.
You see, when it comes to success, it has to be entirely a personal affair. No
one can succeed for you.

The component of your person

Man in himself is a triune being. You are made up of three parts of your total
being. Your are a spirit, that has a soul and lives in a body. In other words, the
three component of your person is spirit soul and body. Your spirit is where you
have contact with the divine essence. That the seat of your real person. It is in
your spirit that everything about you emanates from. Equally, your soul is
where you interpret all that your spirit gathers from the divine essence for the
body. Mind is the functional part of your soul. It is in your soul that you
interpret all you know in you spirit. So you spirit without your soul will be
useless. So all your investment in you person should concentrate on these
components of your person.

The investment for your spirit

Moment in prayers
Time in worship
Time in meditation
Quality quietness
Moment in prayers
Prayer is a compulsory spiritual activity. Prayer help to boost the antenna of
your spirit for signal decoding. Prayer is never a waste of energy. But it is an
investment to your spirit. Prayer is an asset for the prayee. A truly prayerful
person cannot be stranded in the mist of problems. Prayer will increase you
wisdom in the face of challenges. If you seldom or scarcely pray, you are doing
your spirit a great harm. Because you will be so shortsighted in every aspect
of your life. Jesus himself, the greatest man who ever lived, prayed on several
occasion. He who is the Son of God, so closed to his bosom, why did he ever
need to pray? The simply answer is that he was on earth. The divine essence
in us need permit ion from us to perform any supernatural feats here. So what
prayer does is to make that permission possible. When you pray, you allow
you spirit to inform the Spirit of God in you that you need his attention. Prayer
is inevitable. It is never an option, but an essential divine action that builds
your spirit for effective living on earth. Your are not a mere human being but a
spiritual being having human experience. So prayer is very necessary for you.

Time in worship
Worship is another very important spiritual activity that builds your spirit. It is
a source of adoration to God and empowerment to you. Worship is a must to a
truly spiritual person.
Jesus adds credence to this, when he said; ‘ for God is a spirit, and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth’ (John 4:24). So worship is
food for the spirit. Worship is to the spirit what sex is to the soul. In fact, in the
Hebrew rendering for worship, it means the same thing for sex. The Hebrew
word, ‘yadah’ used for worship is equally used for sexual intercourse. So
basically, worship has a reproductive and communal power for the spirit. I
think in my opinion that worship is the mating point of God’s Spirit and man’s
spirit. It is a moment where God’s genes are released into the worshiper. So
you cannot overemphasize the power of worship. It is the point of
encountering the divine recipe for life. It is in the place of worship that
instructions are received. So you must engage in quality worship regularly as
an investment for your spirit, which is a component in your person.

Time in meditation
Meditation is a moment to consider, ruminate, reflect, deliberate and
contemplate on an issue to get the nitty-gritty of the subject matter. You
cannot understand without meditation. You have to reason with God on your
life and destiny for efficiency and effectiveness. That happens for strength to
your spirit. Meditation is a compulsory spiritual activity, if you desire to
maximize your possibility in life.
 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
BUILD YOUR ABILITIES

Another word for ability is talents, gifting, skills, potentials, qualifications,

capabilities, expertise, and know-how. Your ability is your only source of
function. It is your only power base. It what you are gifted to do, that you
should be doing. There is no limit to the power within you if you can nurture it.
You see, you will never be of worth until you grow yourself, expand the horizon
of you operation, and broaden you dexterity. There has been much said about
gifts, but too many people still neglect this important area of their life. They
are busy being what they are not supposed to be. Your ability is what you can
do that you need to grow. You cannot discover new ocean until you loose sight
of the shore. When you settle for less, you have put a cap on the best. So
cultivate your ability.

How to build your abilities

There are key ways to building your abilities.
# 1 be a learner
There is real danger in neglecting knowledge. Knowledge encourages growth.
It boosts your ability. You cannot truly advance without the intake of vital
information. It is fact that makes you fat. It is understanding that makes you
outstanding. You cannot truly know and not be known. Learning is a life style.
If you stop learning, you start leaning. In fact, those who are tired of learning
are tired of living. Learning is living. Your ability is enhanced truly by the power
of continuous learning. That is the reason the bible says, ‘learn to do well…’
(Isaiah 1:17). As far as God is concern, how well you know set pace for how
well you do. Learning is to your ability what food is to your body. You cannot do
well until you learn well. Knowledge is what should precede action otherwise
there will be damage. When you act at the dispose of ignorant, you will reap
the fruit of harm.

# 2 be a positive thinker.
Thinking broadens your perspective and view about issues. It opens you up to
options in dealing with the challenges you face. So those who don’t think,
stink. The mind is a tool for solution. But it cannot function until you task it
with rational options. Without rational thinking, you will never be mind in this
world. This is the thinker’s world. You must be a thinker to broaden the power
of your ability.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
BE IN PERFORMANCE
There is some evil in being idle
Actions promote life, but laziness is a killer. You must dare to release your
ability be being active. You cannot maximize your possibility in problems until
you become truly on the go. Be smart and smarter. You see, faith is not only
believing God but also and much more behaving God. Until you behave your
faith, it will only be taken as fake. The bible says, ‘ faith without works is
dead’. You will kill your faith if action is not added to it. You see, laziness is
deciding on suicide bombing. It is your performance that determines your
importance. One of the world strongest man contestants from USA, Jersey
Missouri made a profound statement when he was asked by the referee why
he choose the crazy game. He said, ‘ life is all about finding what you can do
and do it’.

The enemies of performance

#1 Procrastination
This is a dangerous enemy to action. It is when what should be done today is
shifted to tomorrow. It is a killer. In fact a wise man said that procrastination is
a suicide spirit. It murders ideas and goals. Procrastination hinders action. If
you really desire to maximize you life, you need to deal with procrastination in
your life. It has destroyed many dreams than any war in the world.

#2 Indecision
It can be dangerous to be uncertain about life. To waver on issues until much
time is lost. There is no benefit in indecision. In fact the bible says, ‘ a double
minded man is unstable in all his ways’ (James 1:8) you see, indecision
disorganizes every areas of your life. It makes all you do to go in disarray. You
become confuse in all areas of your life if any area is suffering indecision. And
that will destroy your prowess for purposeful action in life.

#3 fear
Fear has caused a lot of people to loose out on God’s plan for their lives. It has
made so many people to live short of God’s provision for their lives. Fear
introduces what does not exist as though it does. Fear magnifies the
unnecessary at the expense of the necessary. Fear makes problem look like
enemies. Fear breads the eggs of heart attacks. You must destroy fear in your
life if you desire to move forward. Fear is a killer of destinies. The things you
fear are the reason you remain in one spot for years. The truth is that, the
things you have feared all your life are not real. They are vanities. Any danger
you encountered is as a result of your fear. What ever you fear can become a
reality by the power of imagination. Job said ‘ the things that I greatly feared has
come upon me’. Fear makes what is not real to become so if brooded upon. Fear
hinders action. Peter was able to take action and walk on the sea at the
instruction of Jesus until fear entered him. Even at the very presence of Jesus,
he started to sink when he feared. You see, God cannot have faith for you. He
only helps you when you want to sink. But when you are up, you need to build
your faith. You can take purposeful actions for your destiny if you destroy fear
in your life.

CHAPTER NINETEEN
ADEPT TO VERSATILITY.
What I mean by being versatile is to know many ways to do a thing. It is to be
multi-skill. You see, in this fast growing world, if you are not growing, you will
be left behind. If you are an office messenger, and remain thus, when
computer will communicate office to office, you will waste. You will become
unwanted when what you do is no more needed. You are most needed for
what you can do, if what you can do is helping people to solve their problem
faster, cheaper, and easier. You need to be resourceful in your given area of
specialization. If you are a teacher, add human management skill to it. If you
are a lawyer, you can be anything else that can help your profession also. If
you are a pastor, add human development skill to it. When you become multi
skill, you will maximize your possibility in managing problems. You see, there
is no future to your dreams without skills. Even though you have known your
reason for being here, without skills, you will not be outfitted to fulfill it. No
mater how faithful and sincere you are, you will never amount to anything
worthwhile without expertise. It is your dexterity that determines your
output’s flexibility. You mostly see a devil in your failure. I think, you must be
the devil because of the lack of your skills. To be resourceful, is to be result
full. To be inventive, is to be incentive. To be creative is to be ingenious. It is
only expertise that breeds excellence. You see, one day, my uncle Mr Ini
Umoren said something to me that became my reason to strive for success.
He said, ‘my son, the world still celebrate excellence, so in anything you do try
to break the mediocre line’. He was exactly correct. Excellence is the reason a
black man as Kofi Anan is the leader of the whole world. He may be black, but
he has what is needed. When your expertise is in place, they will forget your
race. The reason you are not wanted is because you are not worth it.
Whenever you become updated, you will become mandated. No wander Oprah
Winfrey said, ‘excellence is the greatest deterrent against racism and sexism’.
That is the reason I always say, if you buy the certificate, you can get it, but
you will never buy potentials. You have to cultivate it.

How to cultivate skill

Information is the gateway to skill. Knowledge is the access to dexterity. The
validity of the knowledge in your disposal enhances the value of the expertise
you possess. It is only facts that increase marks. So learning becomes your
greatest way to build your skills. You see, to be skillful is never just to know,
but to possess the working knowledge of a given proposal. It is when you know
how it applies that you will attract applause. Learning is your life’s long assert.
You should never stop learning until you exit the earth. J F Kennedy said,
‘anyone who stop learning is old, either at twenty or eighty’. Information, or
what I call quality information is the only medication for preventing old age.
The problem of African nations is that they are traditional explorers. They
spend billions of dollars every year to celebrate too many festivals, but there
are no investment on quality conferences and seminars that educate people
on sensitive and practical aspect of life. Africans value tradition more than
ideas. It is only when Africa become ideas explorers that her problems will be
turn to progress. You don’t lack because you are black, you only lack because
you are ignorant. You are not backward because you are black; you are
backward because you are fact less. Information can be found through
reading. There was a time in my life that I read such that my father threatens
to disown me with the fear that I will become mad. Because to him, those who
read much get mad. You much be a reader to become a leader. You must read
to win a seat. You must study to have stamina. Only those who read facts that
will eat fat. The books you read will be the reason for the feats you command.
So go in an insatiable hunt for insight, because they contribute to your life.

CHAPTER TWENTY
BE MENTORABLE
I believe that you cannot be mention in life until you are mentored.
Further more, you cannot go far until you are fathered. Mentoring is
a must for those who desire to maximize their lives in this world. A
mentor is a coach, a trusted adviser. He is an instructor. A reliable
guide. A counselor, and a tutor. A mentor is the link between
dreams and the fulfillment of them. A mentor knows the way, goes
the way, and shows the way. Where you desire to tread on, some
one has gone through there before, so you need his directive to
avoid danger. A Mentor points your weakness to you with the
purpose of making you better than he met you. You will always
need a mentor in life. I remember when I set out to write my first
book, I discovered that I was so uncertain of my ability in
completing the book. I was afraid of criticism. So I decided to get a
mentor, who could guide me through the process. But I was
amazed that in about a few weeks, with the contribution of the
mentor I got, all my fears had crumble. I was now with the
challenge of meeting the deadline. In fact, I was now afraid of
being seen by him as a failure. So I press hard towards the dream.
The good news was that, the book saw the light and is now on
circulation. A mentor challenges you to be your best. He takes you
towards the right procedure to becoming your best. I read a story
some years ago of a young man who went to a mentor to be train
as a boxer. Afterwards, the mentor sent him to paint the wall, mob
the car. The young man became agitated and complaint that he
wanted to be a boxer and not a painter or car washer. But unknown
to him, that his mentor was taking him through the process of
stretching his hands, to gain fitness for the ring. You could be under
a mentor now who seems to be taking you off your desired tract. If
he is a reputable mentor, stay at it for soon you will come out with
the experience that will match your expectations.

The benefits of mentoring

Harnessed potential
It is through the effective hands of a mentor that your potentials
are discovered, cultivated, broadened, and refined for competence
and usefulness. Your gifts need to be explored for use to benefit
mankind. So a mentor helps you to do that. Until your potentials
are refined, you will not be defined.

Warns of pitfalls
Mentors had gone the way you desire to go. So by experience, they
have the data in their disposal of where there is danger and where
there is safety. They are In a good position to warn you before hand
of the pitfalls in the road you intend to tread.

Builds confidence
There is nothing as good as being guided by a person who knows
better than you do. You will have the poise and the conviction to go
through the way. You will be enthusiastic and optimistic about all
you do because at the back of your mind, you know that there is
some one trustworthy to see you through.

Produces motivation
You cannot succeed without motivation. The mentor encourages
you to take risk that will help you to rise. He motivates you with
words of faith and influence. Paul was about to give up because
of what he thought was his weakness, until the greatest of all
mentors, Jesus came to him and motivated him by saying, ‘ my
grace is sufficient for thee, and my strength is made perfect in
weakness’. A mentor will let you know that it is possible though it
seems impossible. You need a mentor to be motivated in life, in
order to enhance your possibility in problems.

Brings needed support

A mentor will be ready to support you at any given opportunity that
arises. This could be financially, emotionally, socially, mentally,
and materially. Most mentors will help you to handle most of you
initial bills for you.

Makes networking possible

Through mentoring, you gain access to many more other worthy
mentors in different fields of life. You can easily connect with
important people in your career, business, profession, and job.
 CHAPTER TWENTYONE
NOTE THE REFERENCE POINTS
I can do all things through Christ which strenghteneth me (Philippians 4:13)

In life, I have discovered that God will not give you anything but
will refer you to where to get it. God will not do anything for you
but will tell you where to have what you want. When God want to
give Adam food, he refers him to the herbs and green tree. Gen
1:29
‘And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
meat’. You see, as far as God is concern, he told Adam, ‘I don’t want you
coming to worry me any time you need food, so I give you the
herbs bearing seed for your food’. If you need for, your reference
point from today is green tree and fruits for your food. If you need
knowledge, God refer you to his word; ‘I commend you to…the
word of his grace which is able to build you up’…(acts 20:32).
When you need power, God refer you to the Holy Spirit; ‘ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…. (Acts
1:8). When you request for help, God refer you to your wife; ‘ and I
will make him an help meet for him’ (Genesis 2:18). When you
desire creativity, God refer you to your brain. When God want to
prosper you, he refer you to his prophets; ‘ Believe his prophets so
shall ye prosper’ (2 chronicles 20:20). This is the reason God is
being called Jehovah Jireh. That is the lord our provider. God only
provide for what you need. All you need to do is to take note of the
different reference points he has stored what you need. You see, to
refer means to turn to somewhere for consultation. So, most of the
things you see as problems are actually your ignorant of the point
of consultation for help. God is so meticulous in his creation. If
you need health, God will refer you to a doctor. If you need
financial solutions, God refer you to an accountant. When you need
justice, God refer you to a lawyer. This is to promote division of
labor. Jesus practiced this law through out his ministry. When he
needed a coin from the belly of the fish to pay tax, he knew that he
must first catch the fish. So he sent peter; because, peter was a
fisherman. So in your effort to be master at problem management,
you need to note the reference point in life where God had stored
your solution.
Some one may ask; ‘why do we pray then?’ Well, we pray to
access the wisdom that opens us to our God given provisions. You
see, when you pray for a car, God refer you to your brain for an
idea to trade for money to buy a car. You will never hold God
responsible for your lack because he has provided all you need.
Take note of the reference point.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
UPDATE YOUR WISDOM BANK
Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom in all thy getting,
Get understanding (proverb 4:7)

Wisdom is for sale

You will need wisdom than any other thing in life. Wisdom is your capital in
life. You see, I have discovered that wisdom is the most expensive mineral
resources on earth. Crude oil is not. Gold does not match. Even precious
stones cannot be measured up with the worth of wisdom. Wisdom is more
crucial in life than all. Wisdom is God’s revenue generating system. Wisdom
has greater exchange rate as compared to other resources. That is the reason
it is so very important for you to update your wisdom bank. When wisdom
becomes important to you, your quality of life will change. Wisdom is what
changes your perspective about life from negative to positive. You will become
most wanted with the power of wisdom. Your exploits in life will be tied to the
level of wisdom that is operating in you. So, for you to be a candidate for
maximized possibility, you must increase your wisdom storage tank. Wisdom
promotes inventions. You will gain prominence in life by the increased of your
wisdom bank. Wisdom makes you to shine as a star in the world. It makes you
super innovative. Joseph became the prime minister in Egypt by the use of the
wisdom that worked in him. Daniel saw his way to the position of one of the
three presidents in Babylonian empire when he diploid the power of the
wisdom that was stored in him. You will not do without wisdom.

Wisdom is for sale

You see, you will never become rich until you have wisdom to trade for money.
The bible says; ‘the merchandise of wisdom much more than the merchandise of silver and
gold’. Wisdom is for sale. You will trade your wisdom in life for money.

Wisdom is a mineral resource

Money is a mineral resource for your profiting. God releases wisdom as a
source of revenue generation. The Government raises their revenue from the
natural resources, but you will raise your revenue from the amount of wisdom
you posses.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
HOW TO MAXIMISE EVERYDAY IN THE MIST OF PROBLEMS
This is the day, which the LORD hath made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24)

No day in your life should be handle with levity. Attitudes are very important to
life; than circumstances. In this chapter, I have put together some vital
principles from God’s word to help you give your days a different touch of bliss
and fulfillment. Accomplishment in life is in your ability to see life in a peculiar,
and unique perspective. I think, the reason most people experience reproach
in life is traceable to their approach to life. Your success in life has it bearing
on your mind-set about life. These principles will change your life for ever,
when you apply them in your daily life.

Nugget one
Approach your day with a sense of the present
Everyday in your life should be approached with the mind of contemporary
and current trends. The best and the most current, updated things must be
put into your day. You must discover new things everyday, if you desire to
maximize your day. New ideas, dreams, goals, plans, and visions, must be
discovered and put into your everyday activities to get the most out of life. In
fact, as a born again child of God, you should put yourself into the day as an
investment to get the best out of your days. You are the one that counts. If
you do not discover new thing for your days, it will remain the same. Now is
never too late to start.

Nugget two
Approach your day as the most expected
When you see everyday as the most expected day in your life, it will bring the
best for you. God always follow his plans with a daily sequence. See genesis
one. ‘the lord daily loadeth us with benefits’( psalms 68:19). You be creative
and catch the more ideas when you see every day as the very day you have
been waiting for. Truly saying, God has a good plan for you each passing day.
No other day could come that will be more better and promising than today.
Do not despise a day just because you think tomorrow will be more better.
Many people still think that tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year will
be better. Forgetting that the future to be better or worse will depend at most
on their attitude to today. The best you can do to prepare for your future is to
accept today as the day you most want to have and enjoy. Work as such and
get the best into today. Treat today as the best you could ever get from God.
Work today as never going to get any other again, for the picture you in your
mind for the future can be put into the present moment.

Nugget three
Approach your day as created to you by God
Today, and everyday is for you. Everything God created is for you. In fact but
for you, God would not have created anything. Never forget that; ‘therefore,
let no man glory in men; for all things are yours’ handle everyday as a
precious gift from God. It is the most important gift he has given you for your
productivity. Today is an exclusive reserve of God for you. Nothing can tamper
with the best of today except you. The reason the day seems empty is
because you have net treated it as a treasure. Change you approach, and
handle it as a treasure from God. It is fashion to fit you.

Nugget four
Approach your day with the mental picture of what is expected
There is something in everyday for your benefits. You have to specifically
expect that. It is very unwholesome to wake up in the morning with a vague
mind. Never knowing in particular what is anticipated from the day. Every day
comes to you with trailer loads of blessings and benefits for your use, but your
expectations is the only toll that will unlock these. See every day with the
mind to get goods from the day. God made it for you. God is never holding
anything back for you. So never enter any day with ambiguity. Always break
the day with a ready made plan of what is expected. Determine to discover
new thing today and be ready to put the best of your talents, time, energy,
resources, and focus into today. Remember, it your day, loaded to do you
good. The one you have been waiting for.

Nugget five
Get into your day with the mental picture of what must be done
There is something to be done. Actions promotes life, laziness kills. Don’t let
your day go by empty. Deliberately put something productive into the day for
a maximize life. It is a pity, a lot of people are so lazy to work. Never
attempting any noble course in life. They have dozen of excuses to give at any
of their slothfulness. There is evil in being idle. No wander come to abject
poverty. Laziness is never an attribute that leads one to anywhere. Even the
kingdom of God is a labor conscious kingdom. No one is expected to be
satisfied with the status quo. Mediocrity is never an identity of the kingdom of
God. Stop procrastinating. There is what must be done now. So get on doing
something.

Nugget six
Approach your day with a sense of collective endeavors
You are not alone, and you will never be. Do not try to succeed unaided.
Everyone is involve in the business of the day. ‘No one is an island, they say.
Never forget; angels are working ministering, today.
God himself never sleeps or slumber at all.
Jesus is in the right hand of God interceding today.
The Holy Spirit is guiding, teaching, reminding, comforting today.
You must believe in collective power for success. Always face your day with a
sense of networking. That is, grow in a positive mind group. Remember,
David had Jonathan, he help him.
There must be people working with you for success. Life is always fulfilled in
unison.

Nugget seven
Approach your day with a sense of excitement
You should never get moody. Never worry, never sorry, and never sorrow.
Jesus said; ‘cheer up’, he meant it.
Paul instructed; ‘ rejoice and again I say rejoice’.
Brother James advised; ‘count it all joy
Nehemiah admonished ‘ the joy of the lord is your strength’.
Solomon cautioned; ‘a merry heart is like medicine’.
You must get keyed up everyday. There is a force of dynamism in you. Be
delighted and shout for joy. Never look dejected. Do everything today and
always with a touch of vitality and jubilation. It is a blissful day for you.
Enthusiasm is a factor to get you to your summit.
Nugget eight
Approach your day with a sense of hunts for contents.
One thing you must discourage your self from is to be deceived by packaging.
The container can be very beautiful but deceptive. When you purchase a milk,
as soon as the contents finishes, you dump the container. That means you
only need the contents and not the container. The container only has value as
long as the contents is in it. After wards, when the contents is removed, the
container becomes useless. In fact it only has added value if you have
something else to sore in it. You see, there is something inside everyone,
everywhere, every time, and every place for you. The bible always point us
inward. Take for instance when it says; ‘while we look not at the thing which
are seen, but the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are
temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal’(11 Corinthians 4:18).
Handle your day for a look out for the inner essence of all things. Nothing ia
always the way the seems to be. You must place more value on contents,
components, and potentials. Cover is never all that is. Contents fulfill you.
There is always something more in what men applaud. What people see is
never the end of what should be seen. When you focus all your attention on
what is seen, your eyes will be blinded to what is real. The unseen substance
of things are limitless and boundless. You must see the invisible, dream the
impossible, and believe the unfathomable. Crave for what is more on stuff.
Nothing here is in it best state. They are undergoing a process of
improvement, innovations, creativity and modification. Even you, you must
invest on your inner man everyday to maximize your days. You know,
everything worth having start from the inside. So approach your day with a
sense of what is in it, and not for what if on it. Your fulfillment is always in your
inner essence.

Nugget nine
Come into your day with a touch of assurance
Always be definite, confident, positive, convinced, and sure of what you have,
know and be everyday. Paul said; ‘prove all things, hold unto that which is
good’ (1 thes 5:21). You must be sure of who you are and what you believe.
Paul said; ‘ I know whom I believed and I’m persuaded’ a lot of people go out
everyday double minded. Never sure of what to do, where to go, who to be
with, and who not to be with. Their only language is; ‘ may be’ ‘ I think this’
‘that’. They are never sure. It’s sad. Beloved, you need be sensitive to locate
your place in this world. Be confident in God and in yourself. Stay confident of
who you are and where you are going. Always approach your day with a sense
of poise and dignity. Certainty is the bedrock of progress.

Nugget ten
Approach your day with a sense of absolute displeasure with
alternatives to God
God is all you need. Parent may not be there always. Money may not meet all
your needs. Even friends may be rare. You see, God is jealous over you. He
hates idolatry. Be totally yielded to him without options. Any time you pose a
substitute with God, you create an enmity with him. Jesus said, ‘apart from
me, ye can do nothing’ (John 15:5). You might do all you could, but realize that
without God nothing can be organized. ‘Except the lord builds the house, they
that build labour but in vain’. You can discover that God is dependable. You
could replace your shoes. You can replace your clothes, but God is
irreplaceable. He is one and the same. You need him in order to make it. God
is never an option, but the ultimate.

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

PROBLEM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
There are powerful principles that can help you manage the
problems you face and benefits from them. These principles will
work for you if you use them.

#1 value problems
Value problems and your potential power to turn the problems to
your benefit. Create a catalogue of your challenges and ask
yourself such questions as, how much value do I place on the
power of this problem and my potential power to turn it to my
advantage. Millions other than you equally face the problems you
face. So take the problems seriously and release your latent power
that is lying untapped in you to turn the problems to your
advantage. The more serious you take a problem, the more power
you will release to handle the problems appropriately. Your
response to problems and the problems itself will determine the
outcome. People have face the most catastrophes with the right
attitude and turned their shame to fame, story to glory. The turned
their breakdown to breakthrough. Even their scars into stars.

#2 play it down
Whatever problems you may face, when you value the problems,
you need to play it down. Don’t take it to the extreme. Don’t make
it so intense that your sense of judgment becomes distorted. Let
the problems realize that their pressure on you does not perturb
you, and you will be balanced. Your problems should never be
exaggerated.

#3 be on the going
Don’t let problems make you stop your progress. If poverty is your
problem, laziness will never solve it. If unemployment is your
problem, idleness will add power to it. No mater the magnitude of
your problem, keep on the search for solutions. Never be stagnant.
Stagnant water always stings. Keep busy and your problem will
soon look to you as food. To wait on problem can be dangerous
because it can grow into what could not be handle easily. A lot of
people some times wait for people to handle their problems for
them. Don’t wait for others. Tackle your problems yourself and get
the solution.

PART FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
WISDOM SENSE FOR LIVING IN THE
FRIENDSHIP PROBLEMS

How to foresee the future

But those things which God before had showed

By the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should suffer,
he hath so fulfilled

We are told that when Jesus was twelve years old, he deserted his
parent on their way back from the Jewish feast in Jerusalem, and
resorted to the temple, and sat in the mist of doctors of the law. He
did two profound things that I will love you to note here today. He
was “both hearing them and asking them questions” (luke2: 46).
Note that he was ‘hearing’ and ‘asking’ questions; both verbs
connote action that lead to learning certain key things. Basically,
the doctors in questions were the custodians of the vital
information in the law and the prophets about the future of God’s
redemptive package for his covenant people, to which Jesus came
to pioneer. So for Jesus to foresee into that future, he had to
deliberately and
Attentively listen to those who had the information in their
disposal.
So for you to foresee into God’s future plan for your life, you have
to
Firstly, be a good listener, you must locate words that are
spoken by proven men of God and listen to it again and again. For
“faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”
(Romans 10:17)
Secondly, be inquisitive, you must try to ask question about
things you do not understand, even things of interest to you; things
that has to do with your destiny. Ask questions always because,
most secret in the bible were revealed when someone dare to ask.
Thirdly, be a versatile learner, we are told that God reveal the
future by all his prophets. That is each of the prophets received
part of the message. God did not show it to one person. So you
must learn from as much people as are available to you who are
proven to have the true message of God’s word. Remember, in the
multitude of counselors there is safety (proverb11: 14, 24:6).
Your future in God is so great, so as you practice the principles
above you will truly see into the future that God has destined for
you to work on a glorious life.
.

Power thought
What ever you can
do best attracts
what you will do
more

WISDON KEY TWO

How to practice the word of God
And he answered and said unto them, my mother
And my brethren are these, which hear the word of
God and do it (Luke 8: 21)

One of the most hidden concepts in the lives of most Christian youth today is
the ability to practice the word of God. The truth is, it is in doing the word of
God that results in life can be attained; but a lot of youth still struggle with
this. Brother James told us that if we are not doers of God’s word, we are
deceivers of our very selves; that is the worse form of deception.
How then can we practice the word of God? Now, the Greek word translated
‘do’ in the text above is ‘poieo’ which means to grant something a quality or
make sufficient. That is, that ability to be given a nature that help something
or someone to act in a manner that is consistent with that nature. In other
words, the potential of anything or anyone to perform is always in conformity
to the trueness of his nature. That is why Jesus said, “make the tree good and
his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is
known by his fruit” (matthew12:33). So to do the word of God implies that you
become the very nature of the word. As you keep listening to God’s word, you
are being transformed into the very image of the word ( 2 Corinthians 3: 17-
18) by this, the word will create in you the very nature of God which in turn is
the ability within you that does the word of God. This is the only way to
practice the word of God, because it must be “God which worketh in you both to will
and to do of his own good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). So let Him work it through you,
for he will not accept your mechanical way.

Power thought
Until your words go
forth, your world
cannot come forth.

WISDOM SENSE THREE

Training your mind
But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind
Romans 12:2.

I discovered something from God’s word that changed my perspective about life so uniquely. I
learned from the word, that all I know from God begins in my spirit, because God can only talk
to (contact) my spirit, “there is a spirit in man that the inspiration of the almighty giveth
understanding” (Job 328) I think that is the reason Jesus said “theyThat worship God must
worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 2:24).
But the case is different with your mind, because your mind cannot hear God.
It is only your spirit that hears God. But the irony is that until your mind
understands what you learn from God, it will never be of benefit to you. That is
the reason it is so very important for you to train your mind to understand
along the lines of God’s destiny for your life. To train your mind, you must:
Meditate on God’s word regularly; if you cannot meditate on the word of
God, you allow your mind to be dormant.
Speak the word to yourself: this is self-talk. That ability for you to talk the
word of God always to yourself. We see example in psalm 103:1 where David
instructed his soul to carry out certain key obligation to God. He said ‘bless the
lord oh my soul’. He has to keep talking to himself, because there is a
tendency for his soul to do otherwise if not instructed. So to let your mind to
understand, you must keep talking to it. As you practice these principles, you
will constantly train your mind in the line of all you know about your destiny in
God that will be of benefit to your life.
 Power thought
Your level of ability attracts
your level of responsibility

WISDOM SENSE FOUR

Do you have the capital?
Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom and in all thy getting, get understanding
Proverbs 4:7

When someone is set to begin a business, he first of all set his mind on
gathering the capital that is needed to get started in his business. So seen, the
capital serve as an initial fun needed to for him to get started. So the first
contemplation of anyone who desires to begin in life is always the capital to
get stared with. Even education, investment etc, all need capital.
In the kingdom of God, we are told that wisdom is the principal thing. That
means, what you need to get started in life as a youth, is not capital in terms
of ‘cash’, but capital in terms of the wealth of information, ideas, knowledge
within your disposal. That is, in God’s ways of doing things, how well you know
determines how better you begin in life. That is the reason he enjoins you to
get wisdom; meaning, you only get started in life with God’s wisdom, not on
man’s way of getting started. A man may tell you that you are poor when you
do not have money in your pocket, but God will tell you that you are actually
poor, if you have a lot of dollars, pound sterling, and euro, in your pocket, but
lack divine wisdom.
So true riches begins when you are full of ideas of God’s ways of doing things.
How terrible it will be for you as a youth to live without wisdom! The question
is, do you have the capital? That is the wisdom of God. It will get you started
well in life.

Power
thought
Ideas rule the
mind but action
rules the world.
WISDOM SENSE FIVE
Try to know your real essence
not, is Man that is in honor, and undertandeth like the beast that perish
Psalms 49:20

Man is essentially a spirit that has a soul and lives in a body. Man is not limited
to a body, nor does he have a spirit, but he himself is a spirit. His real nature is
spirit, his soul is a tool, and the body is his domicile. You have to clearly
understand this when you see, Job 32:8 and Job 10:11-12. if you do not
understand this as a youth, the bible say you are like a perishing beast. What
a contrast! That is the reason it is so very important for you to get to know
your true self in the light of God’s word.
The greatest discovery is the discovery of self; this is because, if you do not
know yourself, you will live short of your full potential. There is no limit to what
you can be and do, if you truly know who you are.
Someone once said that we set young men for a fall if we let them envision
what they can do without first knowing who they are. That is very true in the
sense that you should never be so occupied on what to do, rather first of all,
sit down with the bible which is the creator’s life’s manual, and of course the
only true mirror that can show you your true self (Corinthians 3:17-18). As you
do this, you will discover yourself as God sees you, then your true abilities and
possibilities will surface.
Study the word of God always, be in the positive mind group, and change your
perspective about yourself from that of a mere human being to that of a spirit
being, that is absolutely boundless and limitless. That is how God made you,
and never try to be less than that
Prayer: thank you father for making me in your very image and likeness,
As I explore this reality, I develop myself to my true essence, in Jesus Name,
Amen.
References: Jeremiah 1:5, 1 Thessalonica 5:23

Power thought
When you overcome
opposition, you will locate
your position.
WISDOM SENSE SIX
Understand your value
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows
Matthew 10:31

The bible clearly outlines certain key factors that establish your value in God.
These factors are what I will let you think about today.
Before then, I want you to understand that the way the world measure value is
quite contrasting to the way God does it. The world will celebrate you when
you have money, popularity, properties, and so on; non of these is bad in itself
anywhere, but God will tell you that all those phenomena are the result of
exploring your value factors. That is the reason I seek to delineate the factors
in God’s word that you can use to measure your value:
Your maker: one of the most vital sources of true value is the maker. The
fact that all product are valued because of the manufacturer is not hidden.
Every one seems to place value on goods because of who made it. For
instance, you will value shoes that are labeled made in Italy than the one that
is labeled made in Ghana, the reason is simple, and you trust Italy for quality
shoes than Ghana. In that same light, you should know your value by your
maker. God made you (Genesis 2:28), and you can trust God for quality before
you consider anything else.
Your ability, people also place value on a product because of what it can do.
For instance, you will value a product for its performance not for its name. The
bible says you can do all things through Christ
(Philippians 3:13), in other words God demonstrates your value by what he
has send you to do.
The price paid on you, if you buy a pen $1000 and another $5, you will
know how most you value the one you bought for one thousand dollars,
because it cost you more. God paid a costly price to buy you, that is the blood
of Jesus ( 1 Corinthians 6:20, 7:23) by this, in God’s sight you are so valuable
to him because he is not a wasteful business man. He knows your value before
he bought you so costly.

Power thought
Your performance
determines your
importance

WISDOM SENSE SEVEN

What happen when you are born again?

Which were born, not of blood,

Nor of the will of man,
nor of the will of the flesh, but of God
(John1: 12-13)
To be born again does not necessarily means that you make resolutions to live
right; neither does it means for you to turn a new leaf as it is always said.
More so, it does not suggest a renewal or correction. But what really occurred
when you are born again is that God gave birth to you as his son, it is when he
totally forgiven your sins, and implanted into you his divine nature. That is,
from the moment you are born again, you no more belong to your old life
again; neither do you refer to them as reality. But only Jesus and his word now
becomes your reality. What God needed to do in your life, he has done it. All
he needed to put in your life to make it accepted by him; he has put it there.
He gave you his nature of righteousness and goodness (2 Corinthians 5:21).
You became more like him. All you need now is keep growing in that grace till
Jesus comes. Keep learning everyday about Jesus and his covenant of love for
you, by studying the bible, listening to messages, praying everyday and going
to church regularly, these will help you to grow. However all he needed to give
you, he has already given you. Keep thanking God always as you grow in him
into his fullness. You are his child when you are born again.

Power thought
Everything that is, has the potential of what should be

WISDOM SENSE EIGHT

Life winning substance.
The word that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life (John 6:63)

To a lot, life is a mystery. Yet to many too, life is seen as magic or myth that
could not be understood. Perhaps to many, it is a product of luck, fate, and
accident. They wander aimlessly, yearning hopelessly at their presumed
misfortune meted out to them by their mythical perception of life. They cursed
nature. They yell at almost every thing as the source of their problem. They
ask, ‘when will I ever get out of these’? ‘How did I get here’? ‘Who will save
me from these burdens of mine’? To them, their ordeal seems uncountable.
Their jinx seems to be increasing everyday. What a situation!
I want to ask you some questions today, are you part of the masses above?
Do you seem not to understand life? Is life a myth, mystery, or magic to you?
Are you merely living your life as a product of fate? Does evolution wins your
intellect? What is your perspective about life? What is your life view? What
does life mean to you? How do you understand life? What is most important
about life, and what is less important?
Your perfect cognizance of the reality of life will bring you into fulfillment.
That is where I am driving at here.
To answer most of the questions above, you need to sit down with the bible
and get the real meaning of life. That will help you to win your battles of life.
The word of God is the only solution.

Power though
Life
and destiny are
the offspring of
time

WISDOM SENSE NINE

The God factor
Those who do know their God shall be strong and do exploit (Daniel 32:11)

To many, even Christians, God is still a mystery. The reality of the presence of
God is to them a mirage. They cannot fathom how God could ever be involved
with anything that has to do with men. To them, it is impossible to ever know
God. I do not know the reason they think that way, may be, merely because of
their traditional, religious, mythical, and nominal perception about God. Their
limited minds are deceived to look at God as a being that is so very huge, and
unfathomable, high and very wrathful. To them, yet God cannot deal with any
human at all. If this is how you see God, you will never fail to have problem,
and a lot of them.
You see, a man that will never be overwhelmed by problems is a man that
sees God as a father. He knows that God is always with him. Not just with him
only, but with him to do him good (Jeremiah 32:41). You must know that God is
for you, with you, and in you. God cannot let you alone. He is with you to
succeed.
God cares for you. How wonderful will life look like for you to fully grasp the
fact that God almighty cares about your welfare. Your success in life depends
on this to a larger extent.
He thinks about you. He is making plans for your future.
God loves you: the love of God is too amazing. A lot of people need to be
loved. May be that is the reason for the so much sexual problems we have in
our society today. Youths, men, Ladies need to be loved. So you have to
fathom that God loves you. He does. The bible says, for God so love the
world. So you go about life with the consciousness of God’s unchanging love
for you.
God needs you. Do you have problem about being needed? Do you ever
think that no one needs you? That may be the source of your problem. But you
need to understand that God needs you. He needs you to be by his side. He
needs your fellowship. You must understand that God trust your ability to be
the best in his hands.
.

Power thought
When you are below
inspiration, your
chance of error
increases
WISDOM SENSE TEN

You are a possessor

Whoever believeth in him should not perish,
But have everlasting life (John 3:16)

To totally be in charge, and make your life count in this world, you must
discover and recognize what you have in you. If you are empty, you life will be
empty. But when you are full of potentials, gifts, abilities, skills, ideas, and
initiative, your life will be radiating with unquenchable radiant that chart the
course of your existence.
You are not empty. God has loaded potentials in you by redemption. You carry
the divine elixir within you. There is a winning force within your person. The
real you, is waiting for your discovery and exploration. You see, a lot of
Christian youths are looking for help where there is no help. They are crying
for solution while the very solution is in their hands. What they say is opposite
of what they have. They talk failure, disappointment, rejection, and all kinds of
confusion towards their life. They say ‘where is my solution’? The bible
instructs in Romans 10:6-8 that we should …say not in your heart, who shall ascend
into heavens (that is to bring Christ down from above) or who shall descend into the deep?
(That is to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But …the word is nigh thee, even in thy
mouth and in thy heart: that is the word of faith, which we preach. That is touchy! In
other words, all you need to get to where you want to be in life is absolutely
within your reach. It is right within your sphere of contact. You can touch it,
you can handle it, and you can discern it. They are qualified in term of infinite
realities. It is within your reach to make you rich. Do not run anyhow again. Sit
down and discover your rich uniqueness that the maker has stored in you.
You must be a possessor to take your position.

Power
thought
If nothing
works within you,
nothing works for

WISDOM SENSE ELEVEN

You are in control

When a man is in control of his life, nothing happen in his domain without his
knowledge. No one takes him for granted. No one regulates his life for him. He
may have adviser, counselors and mentors, but none of those can actually
detect for him. He operates within the auspices of facts available to him
through his learning, imaginations, and intuition. He is not moved by public
opinion or view. He does not allow outside forces to deter him. As far as he is
in total harmony within him, no external aggression is of important to him.
You must come to a point in your life where you are totally in control of all
that resolve around you. The whole of your life must be in your control. Do not
allow any wicked forces to be the reason for what is happening around you.
When God is in charge, it means you are in shape. You are complete and
whole. Be decisive. Jesus said ‘I give unto you power to tread on serpent and scorpion, and all
the power of the Enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you’ (Luke 10:19) that is authority.
That is control. He said ‘I give you’, meaning you have it.
When you have it, you are in control.

Power thought
If you are born in
poverty never let
poverty be born
in you.
WISDOM SENSE TWELF
You must have a guideline
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth….
That thou mayest observe
To do according to all that is written therein :( Joshua1:8)

You are taking charge of your life because you have been given the blue print
for life. You have been given a set of instruction to run by. You are not just
doing things anyhow, but you are within a set of values that control your
existence. You know where to go, what to do, where to be and where not to
be. You know what to say. Your success was decided before you get started.
You are on tract with destiny. Nothing is happening around you without order.
The bible is the greatest and the most authentic book ever read by people. It
is the only final authority on any issue in your life. It is your first, continuous
and last resort. Don’t go left and right, back and front, that’s the devil’s job.
Settle down with the creator’s life manual. Study it, Meditate on its contents.
Talk it always to yourself. It is your reservoir of wisdom. Through it, you know
the will and the mind of God on any issue about your life and destiny. That
book call the bible will put you in charge of your resources in life. It will make
you wiser than your peers, even your teachers. The bible is your blue print for
life.
Remember if you don’t have a guideline, you will be sidelined.

Power thought
If you don’t
have a
guideline you
will be sidelined
WISDOM SENSE THIRTEEN
Create your own future!
Lift up now thy eyes, and look… for all the land
Which thou seest, to thee will I give it. (Genesis 13:14-15)
The word of God, which we read and listen to always, is powerful, quick and
sharper (Hebrews 4:12). And the word does not fail at any time, place or
purpose it is used according to God’s will to get result in life. But there is
something very crucial I want you to note today, That is, the word of God is
not only supportive, but it is also and even more creative. The word is not just
for you to use to support yourself but it is for you to use it as an instrument or
a guide to create a desirable future.
The word is not sympathetic but initiative. For instance, the word of God does
not just support you having a baby, but the very baby is created by the word.
The word does not just support you to be rich, but the word is the only
authentic instrument to create lasting wealth and riches. The word does not
agree with you to succeed but it the word itself that create good success
(Joshua 1:8). You see, a lot of believers just quote the bible as a support or
perhaps all they know about the bible (God’s word) is to look at how the word
agrees with what they are doing. But the basic usefulness of God’s word is
that, it should be the initiator not the alignment. Not when things are spoilt
then you look for the word.

Power thought
Where you desire to
be in life must be
created in you.

WISDOM SENSE FOURTEEN

Get over your past
But this one thing I do,
forgetting those things, which are behind,
And reaching forth unto those things,
which are before, (Philippians 3:13)

Your pass is over; your future is born in you. One of the ways you will get over
your pass mistakes, failures, disappointment, setbacks and guilt, is to consider
your pass as dead. Mike Murdock said, the pass is in the grave, your present is born,
and your future is in the womb. That is the truth. The bible said ‘remember ye not the former
things, neither consider the things of old’ (Isaiah 43:18). Because old things are passed away,
behold all things are become new (2 Corinthian 5:17)
 To pass away is a figure of speech that stands for being dead. The negative
pass was dead in Christ and the future is born. So do not see your past as real
again but rather see your future as more important that the past…. This one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind. ( at the back)
and reaching unto those things which are before( in the future)
(Philippians3:13). Get over your pass, it is gone. Set your mind on a positive
future, and your life will never remain the same.

Power thought
When the future
is born within
you, your past
should be over
behind you.

WISDOM SENSE FIVETEEN

Have a dream and set goals
And Joseph dreamed a dream,
and told it to his brethren (Genesis37:5)

You can never make it in life without a dream. It is not enough to be good. You
must have a vision that is strong in your heart, that no policy or criticism can
hinder. A dream is the seed of the future. It is your mental picture of the
desired future. The only future that is assured of is the one that begins as a
picture in you. You see, anything God will ever use you to do in life will first be
conceived within you. What is your purpose for being? Why did you come here
in this generation? Why didn’t you come years before or later, why now? There
must be a reason for your being on earth. Discover your purpose and build
your dream around that.
Remember, ‘without vision the people perish’ get a dream and a vision and never
let it go. Set goal for your future. Goals are dreams with deadline. Or dreams
with timing and priority. Goals are interpreting your dreams into scale of
preference. Get serious with your life today for your future in God is so great
to toil with.
 Power thought
Whatever you are
gifted to do, is
what you should
be doing.

WISDOM SENSE SIXTEEN

Be creative and innovative
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis1:1)
Creativity is the art of discovering something new everyday. Innovations and
ideas is the sure way of success in life. Nothing around you is always in its
best state; that is the reason innovation is necessary for you to take all around
you to excellence. Creativity and innovation begins in you. Everything you
could ever need for your dream to come true is inside you ‘he had also set the
world in their heart’ (Ecclesiastes 3:11)” and “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians
1:27) more so, ‘greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world’ (1 John 4:4). So
look inward and imagine the future you want to walk into, the job you want to
get, the wife or husband you want to marry, the business you want to begin,
the school you want to attend, and even the amount of money you want to
have, and create it from within you. All is in you. If it is not in you, it is not for
you. Stop running around looking for help. The only help you need in within
your reach right now. What is in you will make it for you.

Po
wer thought
Where you desire to
be in life must be
created in you
WISDOM SENSE SEVENTEEN
Build positive habits
Search the scripture daily……..(acts 17:10)
Whatever you cannot do everyday is not your behavior……uko James

Habits are powerful. They are objective. They have the power to decide
your future. In fact, your future is in you daily routine. What ever you do on a
daily bases which become your behavior can fix your future. You have to be
careful of the things you do daily.
Habits are daily lifestyles that culminate into behavior which can decide a
future. Know that if your daily habits are negative, you are approaching a
negative future, and if positive, you are approaching a good future.
I have discovered that, even careers are products of habits. Yes they are. For
instance, if you decide to be a lawyer, you get to the university and put
yourself under study habit for six years and that’s it. You become a lawyer.
You even need to make in an habit while practicing law to remain updated
in the profession by reading journals and periodicals

Profession is the child of routine

Life is input and output
You see, you will never get out of life, what you did not give to it. It is a law
that cannot be broken. Your tomorrow is in your lifestyles today. What you
choose as your habit today are deciding your future. You must be careful.
There is no accidental future. There is no magic in life. The one you are now
you created it yesterday, and your tomorrow are being constructed now by the
things you are doing now. Be wise. No body can build your future for you, even
God only play a part by giving you the principles on how to live in his word. So
you see, it is your responsibility to create a future for your self by choosing
positive and productive lifestyles.
Such habits as, prayer, studying, thinking, planning, exercising, integrity,
honesty, and off course, working. Avoid habits as lying, smoking, sex outside
marriage, drinking alcohol, laziness, haste, procrastination, stealing, and
dishonesty, excessive sleeping. Refuse these negative habits and build the
positive habits daily. Remember, whatever you do more than once master you.
Practice makes perfect, they say.
You can create a great future for yourself and avoid mistakes.
 Power thought: To
be out of God is
to be wrong

WISDOM SENSE EIGHTEEN

Pray always
Men ought always to pray and not to faint (Luke 18:1)

Supplication is useful. Prayer is never an option, but a necessity. It is

vital. It is inevitable, and very crucial in your life in this world. You see, you will
never succeed alone. You cannot succeed without the divine back up. That is
the reason prayer is very crucial in your life. Payer is a kind of communication
with God, and you see, you can never talk to God and he fail to show you the
way to escape danger. He will.
There are certain things that will never have happened in your life had you
prayed. Think about that. More so, there are mistakes you will never have
made if you took time to pray. I read a profound story years back that I will
love to share with you. A woman in the USA was traveling to somewhere in a
car, while on her way she just sensed a burden in her spirit, so she alighted
from the car and sat down by the road side and started praying in tongues
until the burden left. Then she continued her journey. On her way home she
discovered that robbers came to her neighborhood to rob, but only her house
was exonerated from the loot. When she found out, she discovered that it was
the exact time she had prayed, that the plunder went on. You see God has
given us a weapon to use in our life to breakthrough impossible situations that
are beyond our human abilities.
Mike Murdock says a lot of thousands of dollars had been saved in his
ministry as certain mistakes were revealed in his prayer alter. He calls it ‘the
secret place.’ Prayer works. If you had never, or scarcely pray in your life, you
are putting your self in a big danger. To avoid mistakes in your journey, you
must pray always. Pastor Cris oyakilome said prayer is a spiritual fertilizer; he
said it is a means of raising your spiritual antenna. Prayer submerges your
human nature and builds your divine nature, which is gotten when you are
born again. Prayer builds you. It helps you to develop your heart in love. A
truly prayerful Christian cannot be in confusion.
 But it is necessary for me to let you know that your confession in prayer is
very important. Do not be negative in your words while praying.

Power thought
When you pursue
God’s command,
you will meet
man’s demand

WISDOM SENSE NINETEEN

Understand your uniqueness
Ye are… A peculiar people…(1 peter 2:9)
You are not part of the masses. You must know that. You are a unique
being in your specie. Nobody is like you, and no body will ever be like you. No
body can do what you can do. If you understand this you will come out of error
automatically. You see, you will never avoid mistakes, when you are trying to
be like others. Mistakes will abound in your life if you try to copy others.
John Mason in his book, the enemy called average said, ‘many people waste
their lives time trying to change how God made them’. God is not a
photocopier, he is a creator.
God does not photocopy people, he creates them.
God does not duplicate lives, he changes lives. David said I am wonderfully
and fearfully made, and my soul knoweth very well.
You see, if you understand your real difference from others, which will
remove you from envy and jealousy. Your freedom from error is in your real
value of your distinction from others. There is no fingerprint alike in the whole
world. So don’t copy others.
Have you ever come across a book by John Mason, Imitation is Limitation?
That is it. You place a limitation on your potentials and abilities when you try
to be like others.
I am not saying you should not learn from others. No, I am only saying try and
be yourself. Find about your true person in the light of God word. Don’t try to
do what others are doing. Find out what you can do well with your talents.
Whatever you are gifted to do is what you should be doing.
Because Mr. a is doing it or saying it does not make it right for you,
neither does it means you should do same.
For instance, if your friend is a musician and is making it does not means
you will make it in music. You need to find out which area you are gifted. Know
your gift, live your life. Your gifts are unique to you. It opens special doors to
you. Even in character, if you see people enjoy evil, does not mean you should
join them.
Stay aware of your real difference from others. Be yourself.
That is one of the steps to correcting and avoiding mistakes in life

Power thought
What ever you can do
best attracts what you
will do more.

WISDOM SENSE TWENTY

Approach your day with a sense of hunt for contents.

There is something inside everyone, everywhere, every time, every place, for
you. There is always something in it for your good. Never forget that.
The bible points us inward; it says While we look not at the things which are seen, But
at the things which are not seen: for the things Which are seen are temporal, but the things
which Are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).Handle your day with the look out
for inner essence of all things. Nothing is always the way they seem to be. You
must place value and worth on contents, component, and potentials. Never be
deceived by the decorated beauty of the container. Packets may be catchy,
but they are deceptive. Cover is never all there is. It is the content that fulfills
you. There is always something more to what men applaud. What people ever
see is never the end of what should be seen. There is always more in it. That is
the reason.
There is something more to what is visible. If you focus all your attention to
what is seen, your eyes will be blind to the reality of things. The unseen
substance of things is limitless. And boundless. See the invisible, Dream the
unfathomable, and believe the impossible. Crave for what is more in stuff.
Nothing here is in its perfect state. They are undergoing a process of growth,
improvement, innovations and creativity.
Even you, you must invest on your inner man every day. Every thing worth
having, start from the inside.
So, approach your day with a sense of hunt for what is in it, and not what is
on it.
 Power
thought
Whatever you
will do in the
world around
you
must be
envisioned in
the world within

WISDOM SENSE TWENTY ONE

Dare to be outstanding
Yea, have I strive to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named,
Lest I should build upon another’s foundation: (Romans 15:20)

I have discovered that in life, you will never get anywhere or perhaps get far
remaining in the crowd, doing what everybody is doing, going where everyone
is going, choosing what every body is choosing, always living life in the
surface; waiting fore people to detect things for you. Even for jobs just
because people are making it in the job.
You see, Jesus said “you are not of the world”( John 17:16), that is you are not
part of the masses. You have been selected out of the crowd and chosen for
outstanding purpose. So it will be unwise for you to now be living like the
world.
Discover your peculiarity, and deploy the power of yo0ur difference to create
something that no one has ever done before. No one has ever been like you
neither will anyone ever be like you. You are the only you available on the
whole earth. Be yourself and live your life for no body can ever do it as you
could.

Power
thought
Where you
desire to be in
life must be
created in you
WISDOM SENSE TWENTY TWO
Ups and down is the devil’s idea
Then the lord said unto Satan, whence comest thou?
Then Satan answered the lord and said,
From going to and fro in the earth,
and from working up and down in it. (Job 1:7)

Some years ago, I came across a sticker in a room written, “Recognize people
on your way up, for you may see them on your way down”. That kind of
statement is a very subtle trap from hell. When I read it, I laughed and ask
rhetorically, “Am I going up to come down”? Never! Again I say never!
The devil is the originator of ups and down life. That is the reason he said to
God that he is going to and fro and up and down in the earth.
What do I mean in essence? That is your life should be in one direction always.
And that is the path of perpetual progress. Never accept ups and down life, for
it is not God’s will for you. God never takes a man up to bring him down.
Neither does he condone it. He said,” I know the thoughts I think towards you,
they are thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end”
(Jeremiah 29:11) so get it into your mind today and never forget that your
progress in life is unending and never to be reversed by any power. For “the
path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the
perfect day”
(Proverb 4:18).

Power thought
If you are born
in poverty
never let
poverty be
born in you.
WISDOM SENSE TWENTY THREE
Nurture your potentials

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given the by prophecy,
With the laying on of hands of the presbytery. (1 timothy 4:14)

When I was in the polytechnic, I felt so sad to observe so many young me full
of undiscovered potentials, which were cheating their way through school.
They cheated in examinations, bribe the lecturers to pass, or even quite a
number of young ladies will even open their precious laps to lecturers just to
get grades, so they can pass. Why did they do all these? So they can get the
certificate. To their mind, the greatest source of their hope is the certificate
they will get. That is, if they could just get it, life will be promising.
But, you see, they were totally wrong, education is never to get certificates,
but it is a process of developing your mind in order for you to be able to tackle
the challenges of life. When you do all forms of cheating just to pass and get
the certificate, you may get, no doubt; but never forget that, you will never
cheat to get potentials. You have to sit down and cultivate your potentials for
they are the only source of true and lasting fulfillment in life. Be an itinerant
learner, by this you will explore the goldmine that is reserved in your person.

Power
thought
You cannot
increase your
worth, until
you have
developed
yourself.
WISDOM SENSE TWENTY FOUR
How to connect to your next phase of destiny
And the servant answered Saul again, and said,
Behold I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver:
That will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. (1 Samuel 9:8)

The story of how Saul got to the throne is one of my most inspiring
biographies in the bible. He set out in the morning looking for his father’s lost
ass, and ended up the next day as the first president of the only God chosen
nation as at that time. “But how”? You may ask; when you study the story
closely, in 1 Samuel 9 from verse one to the end, you will discover that in
verse seven to nine, he did something that even his father never told him to
do. When he came to a point in their journey where there was no seeming
hope that they will succeed in it, when all effort proves abortive, they decided
to meet a prophet to show them their way.
By wisdom, he knew that they should have a seed to sow in the life of the
prophet that will connect them to their destination. That is the connection
seed! With that seed, he got to the throne.
I want you to think about it a bit. May be there is something in your hands
that can serve as a link to that your most desired place in life. There is a future
in that seed you posses. The seed of time, energy, resources, money,
knowledge, and ideas. Never keep it; sow them in the soil of other lives and
reap the harvest of a beautiful future. It is how much you give up that lightens
and fasten your way up.

Power thought
Anything you
don’t develop
interest for,
you will not be
selected for
WISDOM SENSE TWENTY FIVE
Incorporate with God
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,
With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible.

When someone wants to establish a company, by requirement in the

constitution of a given nation, will first all incorporate the company with the
government. That will help the company to operate with the executive and
legal authority, whereby no one can hinder the scope of operation of the
company. He will have the right to buy and own properties as far as the
company is concerned.
In like picture or pattern, you as a young man need to incorporate your life,
destiny, business, schooling, Job, career or profession with God. Your personal
and family life should have divine incorporation document. When you do this,
the scripture you read above tells us that all things are possible with God.
In order words, there will be no limitation to you and all that concerns you in
this world. It is a spiritual law that cannot be broken. That is the reason Jesus
kept saying “ I and my father are one”( John 10:30) So integrate you life with
God today and wheel into the realm of impossibilities in all your endeavors.

Power
thought
When you
pursue God’s
command, you
will meet man’s
demand
WISDOM SENSE TWENTY SIX
Be a multi skill believer
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; (Psalm 92:12)

When I first met the bible verse you have just read above, I decided to make a
case study of the palm tree, to know how God wanted me to be, that he could
liken me to the palm tree. I was amazed at my findings, when I discovered
that only the palm tree has about three hundred and sixty produces. If I may
mention just a few, the palm tree produces; palm oil, palm kernel, palm kernel
oil (used for soap and cream making), broom, the stem is used for mushroom
cultivation, the stump is used for planting due to high fertility. I will give you
an assignment to go and find out more about the palm tree. You see, the palm
tree will remain in one place but its products are reaching the whole world. You
see, there is no human being born on the earth that does not benefit from the
palm tree. If you do not eat oil, you will bath with soap, and the palm tree
contributes to the production of the soap. For God to say that you will flourish
like the palm tree means that you should dare to be versatile. A young man
who is diverse in skill and dexterity will never be turn down in life. He will be
ready to act at any open opportunities that warrant itself to him. Paul said, “I
can do all things through Christ which strengthened me” (Philippians 4:13)
that is to say, the power of Christ in you will energize you to be multi skill in
your approach to life. Dare to take your place in life and be what you have
been empowered to be. If you are a teacher, add computer knowledge to it. If
you are a pastor, study human relations alongside. If you are an accountant,
add marketing ability to it. Be resourceful and multitalented, and your destiny
will add color.

Power thought
If nothing works
within you,
nothing works
WISDOM SENSE TWENTY SEVENfor you
Be the right person
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature,
Old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. (2 Corinthians
5:17)

Daisy Osborn once said, “Work on being and not on having, for with what you
are you will have” being should precede having. When you start struggle for
what to get in life and neglect to develop yourself, you are heading to disaster
in life; do not let anyone deceive you. I agree with someone that said, “We set
young people for a fall if we let them envision what they can do without first
considering who they should be”. In other words, you should never be
preoccupied with what to do, but rather settle down and work on yourself, in
character, integrity. Develop yourself in all aspect of sincerity and goodness
and suddenly your true possibilities will surface. Nothing is right to the wrong,
but to the right person, he knows how to walk in the path of rightness to
achieve his purpose in life. So the question to ask you today is “who am I”?
What have I become over the years”? When you can answer these questions,
you can now ask “what can I do”? Then will your true fulfillment in life emerge.

Power thought
To do the right
you must be the
right person

WISDOM SENSE TWENTY SEVEN

Think and Talk big
Think on these things (Philippians 4:8)
Thoughts and words are living things. The are creative in nature. In fact, the
way you think and talk is the way you are. (Proverb 23:7) thought and words
create experiences. Whatever you experience in life positive or negative is
from your thoughts and talks. You can only create a future by the words you
say. Words are the vehicle of creation. Never say negative.
Always talk your belief into existence. Remember, ‘…as ye have spoken
into my ears so will I do to you:’(numbers 14:28).
Your mind understands only when words are spoken to it. In other words, when
you know anything thing by intuition, it only takes your confession to create
an effective understanding in your mind. So your positive talk is very
important to create a future you desire in your spirit. Speak your faith into
existence. If you believe you can be rich, speak riches not poverty. If you
believe you will be great in life, speak greatness, and never talk as a pauper.
Your words shape your mood. The way you talk establishes the way you act
most of the time. For instance, when you say, ‘I can’t’, you have created a
negative force of action within you. So as a matter of fact, through out that
period, you will act ineffective in any thing or place. Say word as ‘I can make
it’. For surely, you can make it.
You can do it, if you know it.

Power thought
Until your words go
forth, your world
cannot come forth

WISDOM KEY TWENTY EIGHT

Take action everyday!
Even so faith if it hast not works is dead, being alone.( James 2:17)

Action promotes you, but laziness kills. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Take actions toward your dreams today. Any time Jesus heals people, he told
them to take action. He always said to them, ‘Take up your bed and work’ ‘go and sin
no more’ ‘go and show yourself to the priest’ Jesus believe in action as a proof of
faith. No wander he said, ‘I must work the work of him that send me’. If you do not
take action, you will never get to anywhere in life. Get up and go. Promptness
is the seed and test of obedience. Any time God gives you an idea about your
future, how do you respond to it? Men who became great in the bible and in
contemporary days are men who learn to respond to signals as fast as
possible. Speed is necessary for success. You see, you do not need patience
for action; you only need patience for result. That is why the bible says; you
have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise
(Hebrews 10:36) patience is always needed after action and not the other way
round. Take action for your future today.

Power thought
Profession is the
child of routine.

WISDOM SENSE TWENTY NINE

Respect the Guidance of the Holy Spirit

Howbeit, when he, the Spirit Of truth, is come, he will guide

You into all truth…. John 16:13
It is one thing to know the voice of the Holy Spirit,
It is another thing to follow his voice… Kris Oyakilome

The Holy Spirit speaks. He teaches. He is a real person sent by God to

accomplish a unique task in our lives. He holds a special assignment to fulfill
in our lives as Christians. The scripture above informs us that the Holy Spirit is
sent to guide us into all truth, notice that it did not just say truth, but all truth.
The apostle John also had the same understanding, he penned down.
But ye have unction
From the holy one, and
Ye know all things...1 John 2:20-27
You see, the Holy Spirit teaches you all things. Get it, that when Jesus says
all things, he meant all things in its entirety. Not just all, but all truth.
 Truth, as you know is the opposite of error or mistakes. Sadly, to say, if the
Holy Spirit is not leading you, mistakes will be the order of the day. Without
the leading of the Holy Spirit you cannot avoid error and mistakes. You see, it
is very dangerous to live your life a s a believer without the leading of the holy
Spirit.
.

Power thought
Anything you
don’t develop
interest for,
you will not be
selected for

WISDOM SENSE THIRTY

Build positive friendships

I am a companion of them that fear thee,

And of them that keep thy precepts (psalm119: 63)

Not all in church are godly. Never forget that. Not all are truly friendly. That is
the truth. There are folks in church, or living close to you, who are the devil’s
children. You need to be careful of your choice of friendship. You can only grow
and avoid mistakes in the positive network of friendship. You cannot succeed
alone. You need companion to thrive. Positive friendship builds you and makes
you avert mistakes. You cannot thrive alone.

Jesus never tried to succeed alone,

He had the disciples. They took over from him.

David believes in friendship, he had Jonathan, that saved his life.

Paul had timothy, he ministered with him

Daniel had shad rack, meshack, and abednego, they prayed with him.

Despise wrong friendship. Get rid of the wrong people that always get you to
do evil. You must value your destiny in Christ more than anything.
It is the value you place on your self that help you. You have to love God
more in your life. God love you more. He paid a dear price for you; to get you
out of the mess Adam put all men. You are so precious to your heavenly father.
Never forget that.

You are his treasure

You are his darling
You are his pate. He has need of you. Stay conscious of that.
You are the apple of his eyes.
So you need to detach yourself from people that keep you far from God. Mick
Murdock said weakness is contagious, conduct allows becomes conduct
approved. Any wrong thing you allow around you, affects you. Anything you
tolerate will remain. Anything you refuse to give in to, diminish around
you.
Summit yourself therefore to God
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you
(James4.7)
Mick Murdock shared a story of a woman whose son went to jail for
keeping company with drugs addicts though he never took drugs in his life.
Choose the right kind of friends
Power today.
thought
Whatever you are
gifted to do, is what
you should be doing.

WISDOM SENSE THIRTY ONE

Build positive habits
Search the scripture daily…(acts 17:10)
Whatever you cannot do everyday is not your behavior

Habits are powerful. They are objective. They have the power to decide
your future. In fact, your future is in you daily routine. What ever you do on a
daily bases, which become your behavior can fix your future. You have to be
careful of the things you do daily.
 Habits are daily lifestyles that culminate into behavior, which can decide a
future. Know that if your daily habits are negative, you are approaching a
negative future, and if positive, you are approaching a good future.
I have discovered that, even careers are products of habits. Yes they are. For
instance, if you decide to be a lawyer, you get to the university and put
yourself under study habit for six years and that’s it. You become a lawyer.
You even need to make in an habit while practicing law to remain updated
in the profession by reading journals and periodicals

Profession is the child of routine

Life is input and output
You see, you will never get out of life, what you did not give to it. It is a law
that cannot be broken. Your tomorrow is in your lifestyles today. What you
choose as your habit today are deciding your future. You must be careful.
There is no accidental future. There is no magic in life. The one you are now
you created it yesterday, and your tomorrow are being constructed now by the
things you are doing now. Be wise. No body can build your future for you, even
God only play a part by giving you the principles on how to live in his word. So
you see, it is your responsibility to create a future for your self by choosing
positive and productive lifestyles.
Such habits as, prayer, studying, thinking, planning, exercising, integrity,
honesty, and off course, working. Avoid habits as lying, smoking, sex outside
marriage, drinking alcohol, laziness, haste, procrastination, stealing, and
dishonesty, excessive sleeping. Refuse these negative habits and build the
positive habits daily. Remember; whatever you do more than once master you.
Practice makes perfect, they say.
You can create a great future for yourself and avoid mistakes.

Power thought
To be out of God
is to be wrong
WISDOM SENSE THIRTY TWO
Recharge your account regularly
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance,
that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee..(2 Timothy 1:6)

When you purchase a mobile phone, particularly, the global system for mobile
communication (GSM), where you have to get connection by a service provider
through their Sims pact; it will never be all through with just getting
connected. You have to constantly recharge your call account to be able to
make calls. After some specified period of time, mostly ninety days depending
on the particular service provider, if you refuse to recharge your account, you
will be disconnected from the network and loose your number.
In the same way, in God’s kingdom network, you have to constantly recharge
your account to maintain you place in the network. You may ask, ‘brother
James, how do I recharge my count as a Christian’? Good! The under listed
answer the question;
Firstly, you recharge your account by prayer; you need to be instant in prayer
to keep you place in God’s network. Prayer is an energizer. It is a booster to
your spiritual antenna.
Secondly, you must meditate regularly on Scripture and any other helpful
Christian and secular materials. When you meditate, you suck the juice that is
embedded in facts. Meditation fetch out the truth from the fact. It makes you
see the reality of hidden matters.
Thirdly, you must speak a positive language. Negative words dampen you
perspective, but positive words sharpen you view. You must speak healthy
words always to keep you account recharged. Especially to speak in other
tongues. It edifies you.
WISDOM SENSE THIRTY THREE
Deal with the cause of your problems

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

because thou hast rejected knowledge,
I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6)

In psychiatry, there are several means to dealing with mental disorders. For
them, there are way such as; psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and
psychosomatic medicine. Among all these, the one I want to illustrate with is
psychosomatic medicine. According to them, psychosomatic medicine entails
that, to deal with a mental disorder, you stop the cause of it. For instance, if a
man suffers mental disorder any time he takes alcohol, the best cure for that
mental problem is to stop taking alcohol.
Similarly, in your life, you need to always deal with the cause of your problems
first. The bible portion above let us know that the only cause of any problem
you could ever face is traceable to ignorance. That is, if you can deal with
ignorance, you have solved your entire problems. The truth is, if you lack
money, your problem is the ignorance of how to make money; nothing else.
Also, if you lack good health, your problem is link to the ignorance of how to
live healthy. Everywhere, every time, the source of all problems people face is
the level of ignorant that operates in their life. So right now, as you read this,
determine to deal with ignorance with perfect hatred, for that is the source of
all you problems.

Power thought.
Lack of knowledge is never
unavailability of knowledge.
WISDOM SENSE THIRTY FOUR
You have what it takes
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none;
but such as I have give I thee:
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. (Acts 3:6)

Mostly in life, you are faced with circumstances that seem to make you look
unqualified or as a misfit in life. Experiences that you have appear to make
you think you are below the required level of achievement. You may even
think you are under the dream status in life. May your discovered status in
Christ seems to be greeted with a measure that does not match with the
physical phenomenon you see. Most people wander why! Well when you ask
the right question, you will get the right answer. I want to let you know that
you have what it takes to meet up with the teeming demands that come to
you daily. Though it may seem above your limit, you can get it done.
One day, peter was confronted with a similar demand when he met a cripple
in the beautiful gate. The cripple demanded what peter never had naturally,
but peter discovered that there is something he has that can still get the job
done, and even better. He went on to say ‘… such as I have give I thee’ (acts
3:6). You see, if you could look a bit further, you will discover that there is
something you have, or readily possess now that can solve that financial
crises, marital crises, career tussle, and spiritual problems in your life. All you
need is to discover them as peter did and deploy them to your advantage. You
have what it takes.

Power thought
When you have what it
takes, you take what it has.
WISDOM SENSE THIRTY FIVE
Identify what you have
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;
yea, I have a goodly heritage. (Ps 16:6)

The challenge with most people in life is not that of possessions, but that of
discoveries. People are not poor because the lack what it takes to be rich, but
because they never discover what it take to be rich, which they have. Every
body has something, only that most don’t know what they have. The bible
says, ‘ the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal’ (1 Corinthians
12:7). So every one has something, including you. All you need to do now is to
identify what you have and use it for your profiting. Mike Murdock said,
‘everything you need is already in your life awaiting your recognition’. I think that the
most important subject should be the subject of discoveries, because all that
is there is not known. That is why it is so very important for you to set your life
on a discovery channel. By doing so, you will constantly be able to identify
what you have. The bible adds; ‘ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. (Matt 7:7-8)

How to identify what you have

#1 make the right consult: until you have a reference, you will never
become a reference. No one will be crowned a professor until his references
are in place. What you have is there but you need to find it with the right
reference. There numeral example of people who possessed the kind of gift
you do and made mark with it. All you need is to consult their mind through
their books, tapes, meetings, and even presence. When a widow in 2 kings 4
consulted Elijah, she found out she had the oil that could produce all the
money she needed to pay her dept. she became an oil merchant overnight,
just for the right consult she made. There is someone you must meet. There is
information you must get to change your life.
#2 don’t overlook you: most people, in seeking solution for their life, never
realized that they could be of help also. When the widow met Elijah, he
pointed her back to herself, by questioning; ‘And Elisha said unto her, what shall I do
for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any
thing in the house, save a pot of oil ( 2 kings 4:2). You are the solution first.
WISDOM SENSE THIRTY SIX
You are problems resistance
When thou passest through the waters,
I will be with thee; and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. (Isa 43:2)

When my friends and I were growing up, we used to purchase some

wristwatches for ourselves. As young chaps, we were used to swimming in a
neighborhood river. Mostly, we will dive into the water before we realize that
our watch had been spoilt because of the entrance of water. We spent money
often on watches until one day when we were told there is a watch call water
resistance. According to the, the manufacturer had felt the challenge of
watches being spoilt by water and made another brand, which could not be
spoilt though it enters water. We were joyful to discover that our ordeal had
ended. We will now be using water resistance watches. This will give us the
freedom to dive as fast as we can, knowing our watch will never be spoilt
again because of water. If you read Isaiah 43:2 very well, you will see that God
had made you as a problem resistance. God noticed before hand that there
are problems on the way of your destiny, so he custom built you to meet up
with the task. Like those watches, God had made you sickness, poverty, lack,
oppression, and problems resistance. Go ahead, for though they appear to be
there, they cannot harm you. You have a custom built power to resist them.
Remember he said; ‘resist the devil and he will flee from thee’ (James 4:7) and also ‘ if
they drink of any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them’ (mark 16:16). You are
problem resistance.
WISDOM SENSE THIRTY SEVEN
You are a first class citizen

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,

that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created (James 1:18 N I V).

Expert, into what they call first world, and third world nations has categorized
the world. That is, they say, there are, developed nations, developing nations,
and the under developed nations. According to them, your standard of living
should be measured by which part of these categories you hail from. Those
from the so-called underdeveloped or developing nations are seen as those
who should be help. That account for the fact when those in the other part see
you, they will always welcome you with ‘ hello’ how can I help you’? Though
the world has this perspective, God’s view id totally different. If you are a
Christian, whichever continent you come from, you must realize that you are a
first class citizen. God made you so by reason of your new birth. You don’t
need to be downcast, inferior, or in a doldrums. Only know that in God eyes,
you rank first. You have the fist place. In God’s scale of preference, you rank
high. The bible is so very clear about this when it said;’ And the LORD shall make
thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath;
(Deut 28:13) with this so obvious, comprehensive, plain, lucid, and apparent
information, every other ranking of you is wrong and false. You are a first class
citizen.

WISDOM SENSE THIRTY EIGHT

Understand God’s wealth sharing formula
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. (James 1:17-18)

Every nation has a formula for sharing their national cake. That is, a given
country has her formula for distributing the national wealth among her
constituencies, regions, provinces, states, or local government. The formula,
as it is, is determined by a number of factors, such as could be, the population
of the region or state, the mineral resources available in the region or state, or
the population of the labor force of the deferent states. The wealth is shared
dependent on the rankings of each state in respect to the factors mentioned.
Similarly, here I want you to learn an important wisdom. The scripture we read
above tells us that there are allocations that come down from the treasure
room of God above. And that treasures are shared based on the ranking of
each person. Those who are God’s new creation are rank first in receiving
from the kingdom cake. You need to understand this so you can position
yourself to receive your due always when it comes. Most of the time we mist
out on our due because we are not sensitive enough by knowledge to receive
from the release of the kingdom allocation that always comes towards us daily.
The bible confirms this when it said; ‘the lord daily loadeth us with benefits’.
Gird up the loins of your heart and be always ready to receive for it is meant
for you.

CONCLUDING NOTE
ADVERSITY; A TONIC FOR ADVANCEMENT.
Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance carries with them the seed of
equivalent or greater benefits. One of the wonder filled characteristic of
human being is the potential to turn minus to a plus. To move from zero to
zenith. The human being has an inherent power to become a star out of scars.
A man can use a breakdown to break record. It is possible. That is the ability to
turn lemon into lemonade.

Every open door is at the threshold of oppositions

Paul said; ‘a great and effectual door is opened unto me, but there are many adversaries’ (1
Corinthians 16:9). Adversities are not foes to kill a man but a man’s approach to
them is what makes them enemies. There is a wall of differences between a
man who has problems and a man who makes problems look big. Worry is a
magnifying glass for problems. It makes problem to hurt instead of to instruct.
Worry makes problem to inflict instead of to inspire. Worry makes problems to
lessen us instead of to be a lesson to us. The way you look at adversities is
very crucial to life. You see, the time of adversity is a special time in which you
can do your best or worse. It depends on you. Everything centers on you;
either to allow adversities to stop you or to advance you. Instead of allowing
adversities to break you, you break record with them. Adversities will help to
develop your mental and spiritual muscle and enhance your potentials.
Adversities are raw materials for God’s miracle production. They are
essentials and necessary ingredients for life. And I know that every individual
has the innate power to make problems turn to his or her advantages.
Every opportunity carries its own adversities that needed to be discovered
and use. Every man that closes his eyes to adversities will never encounter
advancement in his life endeavors. On your journey to milk and honey, there
are Giants on the way. God will never get the giants off the way. The remedy is
to face them. Running from opposition is never escape from them, but
postponing them for future. Any problem you refuse to confront today may
back front you tomorrow. An unconfronted problem is a reschedule problem. It
is never a break away from. The power of God on your life will greatly be
useful when you face opposition. You will never know what you can do until
you face a problem at a point where there is no seeming help except to
release is in you. The bible confirms this when it said about Sampson; ‘and the
spirit of the lord came upon Sampson, when the lion roared’. The bible also
adds to that when it says; ‘ when the enemy rise up like a flood, the spirit of
God will raise up a standard against it’. The power of God is always release
through you at the disposal of adversities. So if you run away from problems,
you will never experience the power of God. The challenges you face are the
breakpoint of success and failure. No one loves adversities, but you must
welcome a lot of them with joy because they will surely come even without
invitation. When David faces the lion that came to take his father’s sheep in
his care, he received an experience that will help him to kill goliath in the
future. That is the reason he used it as an instance of the power of God behind
him. To him, if God could help him kill the lion yesterday, it is more likely to
hand over goliath’s head to him today. Every problem you solve today for your
benefit has a future schedules of winning. But every problem you dodge has a
future schedule of losses. It is up to you. There is no war free zone in the
realms of life. Every switch in your life will take you to a new and
stronger devil to confront and conger. You will never become
anything of worth when you stay at comfort zone. It should not be
as convenience but as demanded. Life demands that you must
face adversities as a promotion examination before you cross the
poverty, failure, and mediocrity line. Problems are never solved
through negligence. So wake up to the task. No society has ever
realized her heroes in the time of peace. It is always through the
hottest problems that heroes are born. There is no champion
without a contest. Without the wrestling ring, you cannot be a
world heavy weight champion. Every champion is born to tackle a
problem that has become a jinx. Jesus was sent to handle the sin
problem. Moses was sent to settle the slavery problem of Israel.
Every champion is realized at the bend of crises.

There is always a solution

Dr T L Osborn said; ‘every problem carries in itself the seed of its own
solution’. There is no problem that you cannot solve. There is no adversity that
can be stronger than your ability to win over them. The bible says; ‘ There hath
no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer
you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)’ that is the reason you
should think positively always. You can do even the mere impossible and
dare the not dare able. There is a wise word that says ‘when there
is a will, there is a way’. The bible says, ‘ I will even make a way in
the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:19). You need to
understand that there is no problem without the solution. All you
need is an insight into the problem and you will see solution in it. If
you ask the right question, you will get the right answer. There is
an answer to that your long awaiting question. Key into the
principles in this book and your answer will be delivered to your
hands.

As this books draws near going to the press, I will love to end it by
telling you again and again that every problem comes with
promotion potential in itself. My friend once said, testimony is not
faith money, but worked money. You need work to release the
power of problems to your advantage. Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo
once said, ‘ don’t let your going through stop you going to’. You
should never allow what you are going through to stop where you
are going. Don’t let what you are down with stop what you are up
to. Everything you will ever get in life will be through a fight.
Remember, miracle is a twin brother to obstacle, and adversity is a
married couple to advancement. The answers you need lies in the
questions you have. The opportunities you have been waiting for
are the once coming to you wearing a cloth called problems.

Knowledge is vital
In facing adversities, you cannot truly separate the vital place of
knowledge. You see, the bible declares that if a man faint in the
day of adversity, his strength is small. And the same bible says
that a man of knowledge increases strength. So it is knowledge
that becomes the vital link for the handling of adversities. You
cannot truly know and not own. Knowledge is your basic need for
the time of adversities. The things you suffer are at the mercy of
the things you don’t know. If you don’t know, you will be ignored.
So arm your self with vital knowledge that will empower you to
pass through your challenge and come out a star. It is your turn to
shine.

About the author

Heritage James is prolific, forthright and intelligent young man. He
has a disciplined in mass communication from the polytechnic. His
vision is to take God’s glory to all nations. And his purpose is to
awaken the value consciousness in the redeemed. He is burdened
with an overriding passion to see God’s people experience the
fullness of life. His ministry spans from crusades, conferences,
seminars, and has been a source of tremendous blessing to many
believers in deferent parts of the world. He receives invitations
from churches and corporations to speak in topics that handle the
sensitive and practical aspect of life. He is also a graduate of the
reputable word of faith bible institute (WOFBI) A training wing of
winners’ chapel int’l.
Pastor Heritage James is open for invitation from churches,
corporations, and schools.
To invite, please call:
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