Buy the Future

• Jacob buys the future. He uses what he has today to acquire his future destiny. He uses the little he has today to acquire greatness in the future. He chooses what he can become over what he already is.
• When you sit to negotiate, and you are only concerned about the emergency you are in now; be assured that you will have an Esau situation thrust upon you.
• Esau cried for a reversal but it was not possible. The birthright had already been transacted away.
• Take care not to sign away something and find that you will never never recover it.
• Be very careful what you sign away.
• Esau sells the future. He mortgages his future in order to have something to eat today. He mortgages future greatness in order to have little pleasures today. He chooses what he has now over what he can become. 
• Africa is poor by choice.
• Don't negotiate when you are tired. If you are about to make an important decision under fatigue, ask for time out.
• Tired and hungry, Esau's eyes were fixed on one thing. 
• There are alternatives. If you don't like it, look somewhere else. Don't just get stuck with one thing because that is what was offered to you. If you don't like it, you can move on.
• Don't exaggerate your need. You will not die just because you missed that one deal. The sun will rise again tomorrow.
• Why pin everything on that one deal? Why allow one situation to define your entire life?
• Try not be desperate. Do not let any one situation to be too important that you can't give it up.
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Buy the Future

Genesis 25/Hebrews 12

• There are Jacob people and there are Esau people.
• Esaus are comfortable because the odds are stacked in their favor, but Jacobs are not intimidated by the Esaus.
• Success in life is not based on who started first. Seniority is not the ticket to success in life.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; 

but time and chance happen to them all.

• Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents.
• Esau is a producer of raw material. Jacob is a developer of what has been developed. 
• Esau nations produce much, but are hungry. The Jacob nations do not produce but are satisfied. 
• God says one will be stronger than the other. The Jacob system is always stronger than the Esau system.
• The Esau nations use raw physical energy. The Jacob nations use refined methods.
• Hard work is not equivalent to success. 
• Activity is not to be confused for productivity.
• The Esaus negotiate when they are hungry. The Jacobs negotiate on full stomachs.
• Never negotiate when you are hungry. 
• Nations that negotiate while in crisis only end up in deeper crisis.
• Even when you negotiate on an empty stomach, be dignified about your hunger. Be dignified about your need. Be dignified about your poverty. Don't appear poor...
• Esaus don't think of the future. Jacobs buy the future.
• The future is potential that is yet to be revealed. As such, it has no much value today.
•  What I am today does not reflect what I will be tomorrow. Abraham was told he would be the father of the nations yet his present condition was that he was childless. Your present look can contradict your future. Therefore, do not be too concerned about who you are today that you forget about your future.
• I AM NOT ALL THAT I AM SEEING. This is not my last stop. I am in transition. I am moving. Don't act like you've come to a standstill, you are moving on.
• Esau despised his birthright.
• The people who make progress in this life have a Jacob attitude. They are always aware of the future. 
• The people who make it in life make decisions TODAY that will make their FUTURE better.
• The people who fail to make it in life make decisions TODAY that destroy their FUTURE.
• Don't sell your future for present pleasure. The Esaus of this life are deceived by the pleasure and comfort of today. In that deception, they destroy what they will become in future.
• God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
• WHO I AM TODAY IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO I WILL BECOME TOMORROW.
• MY FUTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY PRESENT.
• The Esau people, though perhaps initially bestowed with much, end up weak and have to serve the Jacob people (a people with so little but who make good choices with their future in mind.)
• Every choice Jacob made had the future in mind.
• Esau's treasure is far away. Jacob's treasure is very close by.
• At the time you need your treasure, where is it? Is it out in the field, or near the tent?
• The world is moving to the place where smart work is better than hard work.
• The more you use your brains, the better you are.
• The more you use your physical body to work, the worse for you.
• The Jacobs may not have much to start with but they end up successful.
• Your present crisis cannot be compared to your future glory. No matter how low you have fallen, it cannot be compared to how high you are going to get.
• Let not your present need obscure your future. 
• Trust God. He holds the future in His hands. He will open doors. He will provide for the vision He gives. He will make it possible. Don't sell your future. Buy the Future.

Worship vs Idolatry

• Whatever you value more than God is idolatry.  When more worth  is placed on the means than on the End, then that means becomes an idol. Any other worship than God is idolatry.
• God detests idolatry.

Psalm 78:58-59

They angered him with their high places; they aroused their jealousy with their idols.

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless.

• Worship is determined by worth. You can never worship what is not of worth to you.
• The source is more important than the resource.
• You cannot worship beyond your knowledge. You cannot worship beyond what you know.
• God takes me through experiences to introduce Himself to me, to give me more material, to give Him more worth. The bigger the situation God brings me through, the bigger the value I put on Him. 
• Worship has to be an encounter. You cannot call God Deliverer if you never needed deliverance.
• The problem with worshipers is that they forget the benefits of the Lord.

Psalm 103:1-5

Praise the Lord, o my soul; all my inmost being, praise His Holy Name.

Praise the Lord, o my soul; and forget not all His benefits - 

Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,

Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,

Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Deuteronomy 8:10-18

When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land He has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe His commands, His laws and His decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and water-less land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms His covenant, which He swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

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The Prodigal Son

• The Father never went looking for the son: "I will arise!" - Initiate a change.
• Ring represents:
• Authority
• Name
• Access
• Death to God is when you leave Access and go to employment.
• If you want to be free of the "pig-system", you need to first come to your senses. It does not begin with going to anyone else. It begins with you. The first step to end of poverty is self-visitation.

Redeeming Time-2

Ephesians 4:14-18
Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise but as wise, 
making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery.
Instead, be filled with the Spirit...

• I am a product of how I used my time.

Redeeming Time

• Deem - To own;
• Redeem - re-own or re-control;
• "Spend the next year making up for what you lost.."
•  Cut off some relationships...
• To redeem means you cant have a normal life anymore - because you lost some time so you have to make up for the lost time. 
• You have to work a little harder;
• You have to be more focused and more disciplined;
• Re-possess or re-claim.

1. Fulfill a pledge or promise;
2. Convert into value;
3. Pay an outstanding debt;
• If you wasted 30 years of your life, you have a debt to yourself that you should pay yourself.
4. Deliver on a commitment

Redeeming Time-1

Time: The Common Gift to Man

• All humans on earth have this in common: TIME.
• What I am, and what I become depends on how I use my TIME!
• The billionaire and the beggar both have 24 hours in a day.
• TIME cannot be stopped but humans can control its use.
• Have I used my past years, months, days, hours effectively?

The Advantage of a New Year/Season

• An opportunity to redefine priorities.
• An opportunity to clarify purpose.
• An opportunity to refine my life's vision.
• An opportunity to re-establish worthwhile goals.
• An opportunity to bury the past and move into a new future.

Time is a blessing or a curse depending on how I use it.

Your Life Time

• Time is life. 
• Life is defined as Time.
• Life is measured in Time.
• Life is determined by Time.
• Life is lived out in Time.
• Life is qualified by Time.
• The passing of Time is the passing of Life.
• Life stops when Time stops.
• Death is life leaving Time.
• Time is temporary, life is eternal.

What is Time

• Time is an interruption in eternity.
• Time is a small measure of eternity.
• Time is a piece of eternity.
• Time is a slice of forever.
• Time is the limited period during which an action or process exists and takes place.
• Time is the measurement of space.

From Eternity into Time

Ecc.3:10-12

I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

• God matures everything in its time. There is time for maturity.
• God created time but He does not live in it. Therefore, when God speaks to us, we have to be careful as He is in eternity.
• If you make a mistake in eternity, it is an eternal mistake!

The Limitations of Time

Job 14:5-7

Man's days are determined; You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.

• Time is determined.

Maximizing Your Days

Psalm 39:4-5 (NIV)

Show me, LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before You. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

Psalm 39:4-6 (NKJV)

LORD, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Surely every man walks about like a shadow; surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

And now Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You! Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

Psalm 90:12 (NIV)
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 8:5-6 (NIV)
Whoever obeys command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure. For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down with misery.

The Measure of Time

• Time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc;
• Time measures life in yesterday, today and tomorrow.
• Whatever I went through is now in the past.
• Time separates the past from the future. 
• Time measures life in terms of seasons.
• Time protects us from living in a permanent condition.

The Equality Commodity of Time

• Time is the only commodity on earth given equally to each human being.
• Every human every day is given the same amount of time.
• What you become in life is determined by how you use your 24 hours.

Spending Time

• Time is the currency of life.
• Every human is given the same amount each day.
• Time like all currency must be spent.
• Time is used to buy life.
• You become whatever you spend your time buying.
• What you invest your time in, you become.

Abusing-Wasting Time

Just like money...

• Time can be stolen.
• Time can be abused.
• Time can be lost.
• Time can be squandered.
• Time can be appreciated.
• Time can depreciate.
• Time can be devalued.
• Time can be revalued.

Time is more important than money.

Where do I spend my time?

Who do I spend my time with?

What do I spend my time doing?

Do I use my time to give value?

Victims of Time

• You can never stop time.
• You can never control time.
• You can never resist time.
• You can never compromise with time.
• You can never repossess time.
• You can never buy time.
• You can never slow down time.
• You can never speed time up.
• Until death you are stuck in time.

Measuring Life in Time

Psalm 90:10

The length of our days is seventy years -- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass away, and we fly away.

 

What To Do With Time

• You can manage time.
• You can use time.
• You can invest time.
• You can convert time.
• Time should be used to initiate, create, develop, build and add value to the Life that exists in it.
• Use time to fulfill your Divine Purpose.

Kingdom Motive

John 6:24-27
When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, where did you come from?" Jesus answered, "You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you ate fish and bread and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed His seal of approval."

• Their motive was that they wanted the good things. 
• The only thing that is sealed in life is Christ.
• The Kingdom is so strong, nothing can move it.

The Work of God

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the work God requires?"

Jesus answered, "The work of God is to believe in the One He has sent."

• Belief - pistis - it is the same word as faith. The work of God is to have faith in the One He sent; not in the things He does.
• He is shifting our motivation from things to Him; because things change.

Trust Him

John 6:31-33 (NIV)

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'

Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given the bread of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

John 6:31-33 (KJV)
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven."

• Things material are temporary. So we put our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but that which is not seen is eternal. 
• We put our faith on God, not on the things of God.
• Is it Jesus that you are following?

Believing Beyond the Test-5,6

• He is still God, even if He does not come through for me. He is still God even if He does not deliver me.
•  I have what it takes to overcome. He won't allow it if I can't overcome it. My test is a sign of God's confidence in me.
• HE will make a way of escape. I don't know the way out of the situation. It may be so unorthodox that all I got is faith.
• Is my faith still in God or is it in healing? If he doesn't heal, He is still God.
• Don't put my faith in the way. Put my faith in God. Don't tell Him how to do it.
• There is a God-factor! It is the area where no one can control. It is where He can turn the fire in a furnace into cool air. Don't forget the God factor. When you hit the solid wall and there is nowhere to go, just remember the God factor...
• Kingdom faith submits its limitations to the unlimited God.
• Do I only believe God when He does something? 

Psalm 131:-1-2

Lord, my heart is not proud,

my eyes are not haughty;

neither do I exercise myself in great matters,

or in things too high for me.

• The human loves to find reason for everything. It's not everything we can explain. There are some things that are too high for me to understand. We leave them alone and keep trusting God.

What is Faith?

• Faith: aman
• To believe;
• To be firm, endure;
• Be faithful, true;
• Stand fast, trust, have belief, believe.
• Belief: pistos
•  Firm persuastion;
• Deep conviction;
• Resolve
• Faith is sure hope. My hope is in God.
• I am a stronger than the crisis I'm going through. He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion. He's gonna make His Name Great!

Faith Defined

• Faith is the substance of things hoped for. It is the evidence of things not seen. By it the elders obtained a good testimony.
• I will never be known by the things I avoided;
• Am I gonna win my test?
• My story will be told by the tests I overcome.
• Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God. For he who comes to God must believe that HE is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
• The test comes to purify me. Let's be known as the people who stood after the storm. People will trust me by what I came through.
• You don't demand respect. You earn it.

Lessons from My Father

Leadership Lessons by Myles Jr. Chairo

• Leadership success is measured by the success of their successor.

Mentoring & Succession

• Succession is the effective transfer, conveyance and transition of a leader's:
• Vision
• Passion
• Purpose
• Intent
• Dreams
• Character
• Standards
• Values
• Morals
• Qualities 
• to succeeding generations of leaders
• It is reproducing yourself.
• "My father was dedicated to the mandate that God had given him and he was faithful to the vision."
• You cannot mentor someone who does not want to be mentored. 
• God places individuals in our lives to advise us. We may think that they are trying to hinder us from accomplishing what we want to accomplish; but they have gone through what we are going through already. There is no need for us to make the same mistakes that they made.
• Mentors are not overbearing to the mentees.

Mentoring & Succession

• Identify the mentee
• Wants to be mentored
• Aligns with the vision
• Sold out to the vision
• A mentor takes you out of your comfort zone because he sees something in you that you may not see at the moment.
• Pick a starting point
• Keys - Access (resources, finance, time...), Freedom, Correction, Recognition, etc. 
• My dad changes for no one because he knows who he is.
• It's important for a leader to be the exact same person they say they are, behind everybody's eyes.
• He met many people in this earth who rubbed him the wrong way - but he still loved the God in them.  
• As a leader, you can't make emotional decisions. You can't make irrational decisions. As a leader, your decision affects many.

LIFE after Divorce or Separation

Isaiah 61
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners

• God does not encourage nor enjoy division. He is not in favor of broken fellowship. He is God of unity.
• God is not the author of destruction.
• Divorce - release a commitment that you had made for life. When you come into marriage, there is a war on to destroy you. Satan instigates everything to destroy it. We commit to each other to defend each other for life. Divorce is thus apostasy. 
• Promises are made to humans - vows are made to God. A vow is unto death. (Eccl.2). Built into a vow is the penalty. My making a vow, it allows God to judge you if you break it.
• Marriage is not made for divorce.

Separation

• If you are not able to handle the effects of a divorce/separation, you will eventually die.
• A key problem with divorce/separation is denial. Healing starts with acceptance.

Psalm 43:5

Why are you so downcast oh my soul, why so disturbed within me?

• Depression is a result of disappointed expectations.

How to Recover from Divorce/Separation

1. Where are you in your recovery? Did you avoid it (emotionally and mentally). This is avoiding it.
2. Others escape it by getting into another relationship too quick. There is no escape from the real feelings of trauma. The best way to deal with it is look at it straight into the eye.
3. Denial. Mentally block it and assume it didn't happen.
4. Acceptance. Others accept and deal with it.

Kingdom Citizenship: Success Laws of Marriage

• We want to rediscover the authority of the marriage covenant.
• We are citizens of the Kingdom/Nation of God. As citizens, we must obey the laws of our Country.

The Paradox of Marriage

• Marriage is the greatest attraction and distraction in life. It can enhance or destroy your destiny.
• The most beautiful and dangerous thing in life is Marriage.
• The greatest source of joy and frustration is Marriage.
• Is the greatest dream but could also be a nightmare.
• Is the greatest source of hope and fear.

Marriage is an option given by God.

The Divine Option

1. Marriage was created by God.
2. It is a divine product.
3. It is a divine option. You should be preoccupied fulfilling God's will other than spending time chasing the prospect of marriage.
4. It is not necessary to fulfill God's purpose for your life.
5. It is a choice and not mandatory.

• Your education does not equip you for marriage.

The First Kingdom Institution

1. Marriage was the first institution God created.
2. The foundation of this institution is the single person.
3. Kingdom relationships are regulated by the standards of Heaven.
4. A successful marriage is only possible within Kingdom culture. 

• Cleave means to chase. Cleave to your wife - not just chase the woman and stop once she is married. Keep chasing her, learning her, with no one else in front of you. She is the only one you are to chase.
• The two shall become one flesh. This implies process.

Marriage-Foundational Institution

1. Marriage pre-dates all other institutions.
2. Marriage is the first foundation of the family.
3. Marriage is God's ideal context for human social development and relationship.
4. A nation is a collection of communities, which is a collection of families which is a product of marriage.
5. Destruction of marriage is the destruction of a nation.
6. Marriage is the context for successful human relationships intimately. You should only be intimate in marriage. Marriage is a safety net. He brought them together because he desired a godly offspring. Marriage is not for the people in it, it's for the product it produces.

The Principle to Marriage

1. A successful marriage has little to do with love.
2. Love does not guarantee success in marriage.
3. Love brings happiness but it does not make marriage work.
4. The thing that makes marriage work is [applied] knowledge.
5. Success depends not on what we know or what we feel.

What is Marriage

1. Marriage - "gameo" - "gem" - TO FUSE TOGETHER.
2. GEMS - diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds are all products heat, pressure, time and fusion.
3. Marriage is the fusion of two distinct human elements into one. True marriage doesn't become weak under pressure, it becomes stronger.

Reflecting Character in the Kingdom-2

1. Character is the very essence of God. He is the same yesterday today and forever. Am I? 
2. God boasts that He never changes. That is why we can trust Him. He is stable. He says heaven and earth may pass away but His word will never pass away. He would sacrifice the universe before breaking His word.
• A good man swears to his own hurt.
• The first thing God gave man was not dominion but image. Character is more important than power. Do you have the character to contain the anointing of God? Power will kill you without character. God's priority is Character. Character is necessary before dominion. God is more concerned about my character than my dominating the earth. Character is God's prerequisite for dominion and ruler-ship. Character is God's foundation for Leadership.

• Three things will test your character:
1. Power;
2. Money;
3. Access to Sex.
• Given any or all of the above, a person's character or lack of it manifests.
• Am I gonna make it to the End? The race is not to the swift... it is to the one who endures to the end. Will I still be around, 10 years from now? Will I still be the same person? Will I outlive every storm and hurricane? Will I be still standing, when every temptation has passed?
• The only way to test character is by temptation. 
• Temper is to test for weakness. You will never have a time in your life when you are without temptation. Temptation will constantly be in my life to monitor my character.
• Your character is as strong as the temptation you fall for.
• Eve wanted to be like God i.e. Power.
• Satan will only test you with what you already are. So the greatest danger is ignorance of self. You cannot tempt me to be what I know I already am.
• Ignorance will make you disbelieve yourself.
• God gave character before power.
• I am a king just like my Father. My territory is on earth. God knew that without character the power will 
• Power does not corrupt. Power simply reveals corruption. You were already defective. You finally got a chance to show it. Power is pure. 
• The fall of man distorted the Image of God. Man became a defective character. His self worth fell. He didn't know what he was worth anymore.
• The principle trait of fallen man is unpredictability.
• You cannot predict a sinner. You don't know what he gonna do next.
• I am gonna get rid of things that can destroy my character. 
• All I have built could be destroyed in 5 seconds.
• I am as safe as my character!
• Morality is a product of my values. Morals inform ethics.
• You don't lead out of your position. You lead out of your life.
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Reflecting Character in the Kingdom-1

• Principles are laws. They never change.
• "The secret to my success (as a teacher) is that I only teach principles." You can never disagree with a principle. 
• A person with character does not live on what is popular. They live on what is principled.
• Character is that which is unchanging. 
• Am I the same person all the time? Am I consistent? Am I predictable?
• Leaders must have character. People will not follow you if they don't trust you. Character attracts loyalty.

Defining Character

1. Character is commitment to a set of values without compromise. Your values will protect you.
2. Character is dedication to a set of standards without wavering. My standards produce my character. I will never violate my standards. There is no excuse in life for breaking standards.
3. Character is self-imposed discipline for the sake of moral convictions. A person of character locks themselves up in the prison of their own convictions and throw away the key. They police themselves.
• Your future depends on your character, not  your charisma.
• The only thing that can protect your gift and talent is your character.
4. Character is a constant effort to integrate one's words and deeds.
• Integrate means to become one.
5. Character is sacrifice for principles.
• Who are you with, that you shouldn't be with?
• What are you doing, in secret, that you shouldn't be doing? Are you willing to sacrifice that to protect your principles?
6. Character is simply integrity.
• Integrity means that you are ONE with yourself.
• Holy: the root word for holy is One. The Hebrew concept for holiness is integrity. The number one confession about God is that The Lord our God, the Lord is One! Holiness means I'm integrated. I am One. I am not multi-personality.
• Be One. Stop being a hypocrite.
• The foundation for trust is integrity. When you are one, people eventually trust you.
• Don't be attracted to charisma. Seek out character.
• If what you teach does not work for you, it shouldn't be taught.
• Lead with your life. Your life is the weight of your words.
• There is no such thing as a personal life. There is no such thing as a private life. What I do in private is my family's and my community's business.
• A person of character doesn't need to talk:
• Nelson Mandela went to prison for close to three decades and never changed his conviction.
• Fathers, do not exasperate your children.
• Exasperate: frustrate because of instability.
• Character protects your words.

Image before dominion. (Gen.1:26).

• Everyone is born to lead, not just people, but in an area of gifting. Your gifting attracts people. 
• Your gift makes room for you and will bring you before kings. 
• You can have a PhD and not know your gift.
• Many educated people didn't finish school. Bill Gates and Steve Jobbs found their gift.
• Your culture trains you to find a job, not to find your gift. You are 50 and still don't know why you were born.
• Your gift is your leadership fruit. When a fruit tree bears a fruit, it never brings the fruit to you. You are attracted to the tree. True leaders never seek followers! Followers are attracted to true leaders. They are not attracted to the person/individual. They are coming to the fruit. 

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Principles of an Eagle

PRINCIPLE 1

Eagles fly alone at high altitude and not with sparrows or other small birds. No other bird can got to the height of the eagle. Stay away from sparrows and ravens. Eagles fly with Eagles

PRINCIPLE 2

Eagles have strong vision. They have the ability to focus on something up to five kilometers away.

When an eagle sites his prey, he narrows his focus on it and set out to get it. No matter the obstacles, the eagle will not move his focus from the prey until he grabs it.

Have a vision and remain focused no matter what the obstacle and you will succeed.

PRINCIPLE 3

Eagles do not eat dead things. They feed only on fresh prey. Vultures eat dead animals, but eagles will not.

Be careful with what you feed your eyes and ears with, especially in movies and on TV. Steer clear of outdated and old information. Always do your research well.

PRINCIPLE 4

Eagles love the storm. When clouds gather, the eagles get excited. The eagle uses the storm’s wind to lift it higher. Once it finds the wind of the storm, the eagles uses the raging storm to lift him above the clouds. This gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. In the meantime, all the other birds hide in the leaves and branches of the trees.

We can use the storms of life to rise to greater heights. Achievers relish challenges and use them profitably.

PRINCIPLE 5

The Eagle tests before it trusts. When a female eagle meets a male and they want to mate, she flies down to earth with the male pursuing her and she picks a twig. She flies back into the air with the male pursuing her. Once she has reached a height high enough for her, she lets the twig fall to the ground and watches it as it falls. The male chases after the twig. The faster it falls, the faster he chases it. He has to catch it before it falls to the ground. He then brings it back to the female eagle.

The female eagle grabs the twig and flies to a higher altitude and then drops the twig for the male to chase. This goes on for hours, with the height increasing until the female eagle is assured that the male eagle has mastered the art of catching the twig which shows commitment. Then and only then, will she allow him to mate with her.

Whether in private life or in business, one should test commitment of people intended for partnership.

PRINCIPLE 6

When ready to lay eggs, the female and male eagle identify a place very high on a cliff where no predators can reach. The male flies to earth and picks thorns and lays them on the crevice of the cliff, then flies to earth again to collect twigs which he lays in the intended nest. He flies back to earth and picks thorns laying them on top of the twigs. He flies back to earth and picks soft grass to cover the thorns. When this first layering is complete the male eagle runs back to earth and picks more thorns, lays them on the nest; runs back to get grass it on top of the thorns, then plucks his feathers to complete the nest. The thorns on the outside of the nest protect it from possible intruders. Both male and female eagles participate in raising the eagle family. She lays the eggs and protects them; he builds the nest and hunts. During the time of training the young ones to fly, the mother eagle throws the eaglets out of the nest. Because they are scared, they jump into the nest again.

Next, she throws them out and then takes off the soft layers of the nest, leaving the thorns bare When the scared eaglets again jump into the nest, they are pricked by thorns. Shrieking and bleeding they jump out again this time wondering why the mother and father who love them so much are torturing them. Next, mother eagle pushes them off the cliff into the air. As they shriek in fear, father eagle flies out and catches them up on his back before they fall and brings them back to the cliff. This goes on for sometime until they start flapping their wings. They get excited at this new-found knowledge that they can fly.

The preparation of the nest teaches us to prepare for changes; The preparation for the family teaches us that active participation of both partners leads to success; The being pricked by the thorns tells us that sometimes being too comfortable where we are may result into our not experiencing life, not progressing and not learning at all. The thorns of life come to teach us that we need to grow, get out of the nest and live on. We may not know it but the seemingly comfortable and safe haven may have thorns.

The people who love us do not let us languish in sloth but push us hard to grow and prosper. Even in their seemingly bad actions they have good intentions for us.

PRINCIPLE 7

When an Eagle grows old, his feathers become weak and cannot take him as fast as he should. When he feels weak and about to die, he retires to a place far away in the rocks. While there, he plucks out every feather on his body until he is completely bare. He stays in this hiding place until he has grown new feathers, then he can come out.

We occasionally need to shed off old habits & items that burden us without adding to our lives.

The Power of Kingdom Faith

Keys to Building a Stable Faith

The Mysteries of Life

1. There are questions in life that we can never answer.
2. There are things in life we can never explain.
3. There are things in life we can never change. Weeping, worrying etc does not change.
4. There are things in life we cannot control.
5. There are things in life we cannot stop - so you make arrangements for it to pass you.
6. There are things in life we are not responsible for.
7. There are things in life we cannot exceed. One powerful statement in life is: I DON'T KNOW.

Facing Life
The key to life is:

• Know your limitations. My limitations keep me peaceful.
• What is my responsibility? Success in life is when you know what you are responsible for. I cannot blame anyone for something that I decided.
• What is not my responsibility? God will never, for example, violate our will.
• What I cannot do. Sometimes you gonna go to jail, to get your anointing. 
• LET GOD BE GOD. (We have a great temptation to be God.)
• There are things only God can do.
• There are things only God knows.
• There are things only God understands. Don't sweat it. Go to sleep this week.
• There are things only God can explain. Don't argue with God. 
• Don't put yourself under unnecessary pressure trying to explain things only God can.

WHAT GOD IS AFTER, IS  STRONG FAITH.

• My faith is only as strong as the test it survives.
• You can never brag on your strength unless you test it.
• What is my motive for following God? My motivation will be destiny. (John 6:24-27)
• 24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
  25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi,when did you get here?”
  26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life,which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
• I allowed this storm to see your reaction. 
• Whatever I am going through is allowed by God.
• If my faith is in God, it does not matter what happens around me.
• Some people can't even survive success!