An Excerpt from My forthcoming book!

It was a dispensation in that part of eternity set apart for the use of man that savage forces had been deployed from that dark realm beyond human reach. Their target was the great continent .
For too long the great continent had been bound, dishonoured and oppressed. It is that great land of many countries from that angle where the sun rises called Africa.
The discerning, those that 'see', and star gazers could sense an unusual happening in the skies above them and a feeling of euphoria on the earth on which they stand. A great portal had opened in heaven which signifies the birth of one which was to be great in the earth, one who was to be a hero and a deliverer to his people for in every generation it was the purpose of the Divine also know as Three to raise deliverers to the oppressed nations.
As the forces that take on flesh from the dark realm- known as horns, nephilim and apollyon continued to criss cross the great continent they were oblivious to the plan of the Divine known as Three to deliver the great continent. Only those washed in royal blood called the sons of the covenant are immune from their works. The dark realm never know what Three is doing.
In the western part of African, on that great land where the Niger and River Benue rivers flow and meet together forming a confluence Olaniyi Benjamin choosen by Three to be washed in royal blood was to be born.

Mental Empowerment

The mind is one of  the  greatest  gifts  the  creator  has  given  to  man. Our mind is one of the major gifts  we  have  been  given  that  distinguishes us from every other animal or creation. For it's with the mind we have personalities, abilities and potential, our minds make us sane, our minds help us to see, gesture and do things. Its with our minds that we meditate, visualise and imagine. Our progress is directly linked with the health and development of our mental faculties. This is why we have a responsibility to look after minds and see to its proper development.
Our mental development should have a lot to do with our age, as we grow older we should grow wiser and more mature. It is also possible for an individual to be mentally developed way beyond his age, for some are mature at 17 and  some others immature at 70.
 Maturity is a state of the mind.
There is a lot we can do to see to it that are minds are healthy, our minds are like computers (the human mind has more potential than any computer) and in the same way we watch over our PC's we have to watch over our brains too. We do our best possible to see to it that our PC's are protected from viruses, it should be the same way with our brains. We have to be careful what we allow into it, be careful what you feed your brain.
There are 'gates' or 'door ways' to the brain. Our eyes, our ears, our noses and our mouths. The eyes are the most powerful door way to the brain, the things we look at and the things we constantly view become energy to the brain, which eventually sticks in the brain. What you watch could either be beneficially to your brain or act as a virus to you brain.
Other ways of developing the brain are reading, using our imaginative capacity (unfortunately many people let this die with their childhood), meditation (this is very potent becuase the brain learns and receives by saturation) and mental games like word puzzles, sudoku and chess.
The creator in his infinite love for us is not left out in his care for our brains/minds. He has given us His Spirit. The Spirit God is also a Spirit of the mind, for He brings ''all things to our remembrance''. The ability to remember is of the mind. God's Spirit brings our minds alive. In scripture He is explained as the spirit of counsel, knowledge,wisdom,understanding and fear of the Lord. All these have to do with the mind for its in the mind that wisdom and other qualities listed reside.
''God wishes that we should be in health and prosper even as our souls prosper''. The mind/brain is of the soul. For our souls are made up of our will, our minds and our emotions. So Gods Spirit comforts, encourages and brings remembrance to our minds, Gods Spirit touches our memory for the better.
It's time to be mentally empowered.

When The Storm Comes.

Storms will come and storms will go.

It's either you're just coming out of a storm or you are about to get into one, they  seem  programmed  into life.

We all face storms of life, storms of life are the expected but most times unexpected challenges that show up in our lives when we least expect it. 

What  makes  the  difference  between people  is  how  we  go  through  the  storm, our attitude  to  the  storm and our attitude in the storm,.

 Our perspective  is  very  important  when  it  comes  to  overcoming  the  storms  of  life.

 Some see the storm as an opportunity to rise to greater heights, for some others they  see  the  storm  as  the  end  of  all they  have  labored  for  or  achieved.

 The eagle  is  like  the  former, there  is  a  lot  we  can  learn  from  this  marvelous  champion  of  the  sky. 

I  am  fascinated by  the eagle.

 When  the  storm  comes  in  the  direction  of  the  eagle,  the  eagle  'smiles'  stretches  out  its  wings and uses  the  currents  of  the  wind  to  rise  above  the  storm  unhurt. 

This  should  be  the  attitude  of  every  man  to  those  challenging  situations of  life. Difficulties  do  not  come  to  break  us  but  to  make  us.
 The  eagle  is  a  bird  associated  with  many  great  qualities- speed, courage, vision, high altitude, fearlessness, gentleness and strength. 

Of  all these qualities it's ability of  vision is perhaps the most important, the eagles vision is what's responsible  for  its sense of direction, orientation  and  perspective. 

Because the eagle has an ability to see from a very far distance it survives better than other birds, it sees what they do not see and is able to scheme  faster  to catch  it's  prey.

The eagle is the only bird that can look  at the sun directly, and the only bird that has a positive outlook to the storm, so naturally it rises higher than other birds and is a better survivor. 

This is because it sees differently from other birds, that's the power of vision!
 Are you an 'eagle' ? 

Be like the eagle today.

The Genius of Charlie Chaplin.

I watched a Charlie Chaplin movie recently, it was a DVD with a collection of some of his works. I enjoyed it. I hadn't watched a Charlie Chaplin movie in years, i used to watch his films as a kid but its now as a more mature person that i understand what all the 'hype' about Charlie Chaplin was all about. In his lifetime he was one of the most recognizable people on earth. The guy is a pure genius, he has a remarkable ability to be someone else totally different from who he really is when he was in front of a camera. He was a maverick.
The ability to make people laugh just by your funny gestures, actions and facial expressions is a great gift. We need more Charlie Chaplains in the world today because we all need to laugh more.''Laughter doeth good like medicine'', life  has  a  way  of  making  us take  ourselves  too  seriously a times.
Charlie Chaplain made many people the world over laugh. That was his contribution to the world, that was his legacy. May it continue!
I salute this comedy giant, he lives on.

BALANCE - the way to life.

It  always  helps  to  know  what's  important  and  what  is not  important, so  that  we  can  prioritize effectively. 

Time management is life management, manage your time well and you have managed your life well. 

Time flies, it rather unfortunate its when we are older that we realize the days go quick. 

We won't always have time for every single thing we want to do in life that's why we should focus on the essentials of  life.

I liken life to students in an exam hall, they are timed. 

They have to use their time well and efficiently to answer all the questions presented to them or at least to focus on the essentials (the questions that gives higher scores) which will give them the higher marks. 

In a similar way our life is timed, ''there  is  a  time  for  everything''. 

That's why we have lifespans and times and seasons, we are creatures relegated to time. 

We should focus on the things that really matter in life so that when our time on earth is over, it can be said and seen of us that we focused on the issues that gave us the 'best scores' in our life's journey.

Our life is simply what we have done with the time we have been given.
The pertinent question is, how do we make the most of our time/life?
It's by living a life of balance.

 This means proper time management, spending our lives daily for the benefit of humanity and for our own personal development.
It's by knowing what  the  essentials  of   life are, and focusing on them first. 

For me they  are my relationship with God, my health, family, career and service to humanity which is my life's assignment.

 I feel other issues of life follow after these.

What are your priorities?

The Amazing Benefits of Friendship!

I wonder what life would be like without friendships, it  will be  lonely, boring, dry and slow. Yes slow, because friends help us achieve and  influence us positively which give us speed in the right direction. Your  friends  can  determine  your  momentum  in  life  because  our  friends  can  be  likened to our brains  and  hands  which  are  in  another  body. Good  friends use what they have to help us.

Our friends matter, and  friendships influence our perspective and orientation, for ''evil communication corrupts good manners''. Friendships  are  necessary  and  are  part  of  having  a  healthy  and  balanced  life.
The pertinent question is Who is a friend? Who a friend is can be explained differently from  one  person  to the other depending on what  each  person  expects, needs or  wants  from  their friend(s). Plato said  a  friend  is  someone  before  whom  you  can  think  aloud. Plato  was  a  deep  thinker  and  philosopher, for him  thoughts  matter and  he  paid  attention  to  them. 

So naturally, he valued  friends  that  he  could  openly  express his mind  to.
There  are  people  who  have  done  things  that  aren't  befitting  as  a  result  of  wrong  advise  from  people  they  assumed  were  friends. Friendships  can  make  and  break  us. I  have  learnt a lot  of  positive  things  from  good  friends  who  have  been  in  my  life  at  different  stages  on  my  life's  journey. 

I will define a friend as  someone  who  sticks  with  you  as  a  result  of  a  personal  choice  to  assist  you  and   make  your  life  better.

Below  are  things  worth  knowing  about  friends:
*Good  friends  help  to  create opportunities  for  you  knowingly  or  unknowingly.
*Friends  are  necessary  for  successful  networking.
*Friends can come in all shapes, form and complexion. We  should  be gender blind when  it  comes  to friendships.
*Friends are in ur life for the purpose of helping you get where to where you are going.
* Friendships make the journey of life worthwhile.
*Friends are the 'wine' of life. They  can  help you  appreciate  and  enjoy life. Good  friends  can  help  to  roll  your  grief  away.

CREATING A CULTURE THAT CARES.

Valentine's day just ended hours ago. I think the idea of celebrating valentine is a good idea, I think so because I am a believer in love. If we celebrate other types of festivities by singling out a day in the year to celebrate, why not single out a day to celebrate love? A day to celebrate love, I commend this.

What is wrong however is when the show of love and affection is limited to only one day, love should be a lifestyle, a way of life towards all men. There are few who truly know how to love their fellow man. 

The type of love I'm referring to is not the erotic or physical kind of  love between a man and a woman who are married or  find each other attractive.

 I'm talking about a love that emanates from the spirit, a love that's pure, has no hidden agenda and that's motivated to benefit our fellow man. This is the kind of love that changes the world and and individuals, this is the kind of love that brings a revolution, this love is based on caring for others. It's time to imbibe love into our culture and tradition.

 IT'S TIME TO CREATE A CULTURE THAT CARES.
 When we join  our hands and hearts together we can achieve this. 

We can create a culture that cares, we will get there.