MAKE A DECISION
Most great men and woman that have some great achievements in life are men and women of great decisions, irrespective of how their backgrounds looked like. Some were born in to wretched and hopeless backgrounds. But they ignored it and determined to make a difference. If you mind your background, you will be at the background.
I discover that most prominent men and women in the society emerge from very poor families and villages. Some of them their people lost hope on them. But they decided they wouldn't take it that way and it isn't the will of God for them. You can decide to change your thinking and turn your background around. Decision affects life either positively or negatively. King David decided that he would not die but live to count the goodness of the lord to him. Abraham Lincoln succeeded in America and was enthroned because of his decision.
If you want to be turned into a better man, make a decision for decision has to do with making up of ones mind. Coming up with a conclusion after several considerations. Decision is an action stimulant. If you don't decide on anything, you cannot be motivated to act and you cannot have a result. Achievers are those who make wise decision and set up goals. One does not become an achiever if he does not have the ability to decide on what to do and what to be. What lifted the prodigal son, restored and gave him a position in the house of his father was his decision. If he had not risen from the bed of prodigality, he would have ended up feeding swine while another would have taken his position.
God has given us the ability to decide on what to be in life. That is why he said:
Make a decree and it will establish it
Don't mind your past mistakes, you rather thank God for your past mistakes because now they have become a teacher to you. They are to teach you what you have mistakenly done so that you can correct them and strike a balance. What you are today does not matter and does not determine what you are going to be tomorrow. You may be poor today, but in the future you maybe very rich. You may not be noble now, but after you may become a noble man. All depends on your ability to make a very wise decision.
What determines your future is your decision now not you're past failure or your present situation.
FAILURE- NOT AN EXCUSE
Failure is not an excuse for success. That you failed in the past does not mean you are going to fail tomorrow. It doesn't even give you the nametag, a failure. The fear of failure can stop you from having a turn around in your life. So many great men in different professions failed so many times before they succeeded.
Science is full of experiment. You don't stop at one level of experiment. It is not always possible to achieve a result at the first time with one or two tests especially when you are making a new discovering. It is full of trails and errors. You have to continue until you come out with something better. You don't get discouraged or frustrated with failure. Failure is to prove that you are a human being, and also to allow you try another way. It is only God that cannot fail in anything. Sometimes you can fail before you succeed. You don't quit because of your failure. Quitters never win and winners never quit. Press on, you can make it. Decide not be a failure but a winner. Let WINNIG be a Covenant you entered into with God.
YOUR HEART IS A PRODUCER.
What does your heart think? The bible says:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so he is (Prov. 28:7)
So many think negative things in their hearts instead of positive and beautiful things.
If you think negative things, things that are bad, your life will be directed towards evil and you will produce a dangerous result. A heart that thinks some beautiful things lives right and happy and has success as its achievement. Your heart is like a computer whatever you feed a computer with no matter how sophisticated it is, that is what it produces. Computer does not produce what it is not fed with. So is your heart, what ever you don't think you don't do and you dont achieve it.
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things:
And an evil man out of evil treasures bringeth forth evil things. (Matt 12:35)
If you fill your heart with evil you will produce evil; and if you fill your heart with good things, you produce good treasure. Let your heart be purged of evil it has the ability of transferring it into your heart which can affect your entire life. The imaginative power is in your heart. Before an artist puts down a concept, he must have drawn or imagined it in his heart. Every good idea comes from the heart of man.
You can use your imaginative power (your heart) to affect your life positively. A successful life is the product of positive thinking and positive thinking takes place in the heart. There must be perception before reception.
TAKE ACTION
Without action there will be no reaction. When you act, God will react. Most people have some good ideas but they don't put it at work. As a matter of fact, their good ideas will be sleeping with them. They cannot communicate it and cannot be fruitful.
Even so faith if it hath not work, is dead, being alone. Yet a man may say, thou hast
faith and I have works: Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee
my faith by works (James 2:17-18)
To this effect, don't be loaded with ideas only or knowledge of what to do but you don't do it. Wake up from slumber and act. Begin to put your ideas at work. If you are a graduate, with your credentials write applications; walk into offices boldly and prayerfully in sear of job. If you are a businessman, look for loan, go to manufacturing companies ask for credits with sincerity, establish a good relationship with them. If you have learned handwork, look for employment in an established workshop if you cannot open your own immediately. If a minister of the gospel, be faithful unto God, pray very well and be ready to do what the lord wants you to do at anytime. If you are a manufacturer, put your ideas at work for god will bless it for you. You can be known with a peculiar product. In whichever area you find yourself wake up and act. Stop sleeping. Don't be slothful.
“As the door turneth upon his hinges, so clothe the slothful upon his bed. (Prov. 26:14)
There is no food for a lazy man. One who stays back and has his bed as his close companion when other s had gone to work. If a man folds his hand, he becomes a beggar. Hustle and look for something to do and don't sleep and don't be lazy.
In proverb the bible says:
Give not sleeps to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids yet a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep so shall thy poverty come as one that
travelleth and thy wants as an armed man. (Prov. 6:4,10-11)
When you have never declared the place you are, nobody may know where you are.
If you are in the pit and have not indicated that you want to be pulled out of the pit, nobody may help you out. If you have not asked, God will not answer. No action, no reaction. Put God at work in your life through your action and burning zeal to succeed. You will succeed in Jesus name.
RELOCATE YOURSELF
You are what you are because of where you are. This is a geographical law.
Actually, how you a dress your bed is how you are going to be on it. You can make your environment sweet and habitable. Your environment can be fruitful and productive, very enjoyable. But it takes wisdom, creativity and determination to make it what you want it to be. America is good yet it is human beings that made it. Another important fact is that you must have to know why you are where you are. That will give you a sense of direction and the knowledge of what to do. If you don't discover the reason why you are in certain destination, you wouldn't fulfill your destiny. The discovery o the reason for where you are in certain destinations, you wouldn't fulfill your destiny. The discovery of the reason for where you are will turn your struggle into strength. But if for any given reason you are not doing well in particular environment after all your efforts, you can by divine inspiration and direction relocate your self. You can become a star in that new environment-provided the hand of God is upon you. You can make a star out of your scarce. The will of God and his promises to Abraham had to be fulfilled in him when he relocated himself through divine inspiration and direction. If he had remained where he was when God spoke to him, nothing would have happened in his life. He wouldn't have fulfilled his destiny. If you are not doing well in a particular business for years after putting every other thing into consideration, the will of God for you may be that you will change that business. If you are not comfortable in a particular environment, you may relocate yourself. You don't always stay in a particular place and watch a masquerade. Environment sometimes affects success. It is selective, regarding activities or businesses that you will be doing in particular environment. But when you change either the business or the environment, change will come.
YOUR ASSOCIATION
One of the things that affect your decision and greatness is those you associate with. You associate with a particular person or set of people may lift or mar you. An adage says:
Tell me whom you go with and I will tell you what you are.
If you mingle with mediocre you will become a mediocre. The decision is yours to make. It also happened in the academic settings, if a student pulls with the block headed students, he would become like them. But if he pulls with intelligent ones, the academic wizards, he will be challenged and affected. It also happens in the ministerial setting. If a young minister happens to get along with or serve a highly anointed man of God and desire his anointing, in due course, the anointing will be transferred onto him. Don't go with your junior to avoid reducing your level, neither go with your equals to avoid a stunted growth, but with the great and be challenged.
Be careful about whom you go with. Is he/she that will affect your life positively, or negatively? Don't go with a mediocre but with great, one whom has a vision and not the blind. Don't go with the dunces, the irrationals but those who are productive with their thinking, the rationales. Don't go with the thieves, the prodigals and the foolish but with wise, useful and had working people.
