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Tolu Fiz Akanee is a thinker, writer and speaker; the author of A-Z Life lessons

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sabbath thots...

It's been an interesting Sunday majorly because I was privileged to hear my best Sunday sermon in 3 months and the blessings I received for the week came in mega packs.

I love Rev Sam Adeyemi and I'm always excited whenever I worship in Daystar christain centre..I pray that God will continue to enlarge him

I attended a second service that I didnt plan for in a second church and it's really exciting to see that the church has evolved. Pentecostal churches are doing WOW stuffs and it's now possible to refer to a couple of churches as 'cool'

And of cos there was radio service as well...so I went to plenty churches today!

Lemme just share a couple of things I learnt in church today.

Each one of us is a celebrity seed
The bible through Prophet Isaiah says to us "Arise and shine for the glory of God is risen upon thee"
We are called to 'shine'
Only stars shine, so if men are called to shine that means those men are stars and a 'star' is who u would refer to as a 'celebrity'
In essence, it is God's will for each one of us to excel in doing that one thing he has placed in our hand; and excel so much that the sons of men will begin to consider us a celebrities.

Your job is not your work
As God created man, he gave man 'work' to do and it was in the course of man's work that God provided him with a help mate.
Your job is not your work simply because your job is what man hires u to do...ur boss doesnt expect anyone to do it for u. Your work is however ur God-given assignment, it is ur purpose, the reason for ur existence and until u find work and ure actively engaged in carrying it out effectively and efficiently, the right help-mate might not come ur way.


People don't see the sacrifice
People don't see the sacrifice, it is the material they see.
In paying the price toward the right cause ppl dont always get it, it is when u suddenly spring up with a new car that they now begin to wonder if ure now a con-artiste "how could he have bought that?" "no, no, no...its not something he can afford"
However, once in a while we get carried away this remarks/opinions and so we shy away from reflecting our true self and the true glory of God at work in our life because of what people will say...I call that "medicority++"
..keep paying the price
Also "Whatever is worth living for is worth dying for" is often misinterpreted as a success principle that calls for intensive labour
When u are in ur place u can be blessed and not be stressed
It's not biblical to first suffer hardship and great depression before u amount to something meaningful in life

Success in christ is simple and straight forward, don't get it twisted!

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