LIVING WITHOUT A DREAM.||DR MYLES MUNROE
When I speak to groups of people about vision, whether it’s in the context of business, government, or the church, I always emphasize the following truth because I believe it is crucial for each one of us to understand: The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream.
Maybe you’ve never known what you wanted to do with your life. Or maybe you had a dream once but lost sight of it through discouraging circumstances or the busyness of day-to-day living. No matter how much money you may have, if you don’t have a clear vision for your life, you are truly poor. It has been said that if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. What’s worse, you won’t even know when you have arrived. Unless you have a definite idea of where you want to go, the chances that you will get there are remote.
The problem is that most people have no vision beyond their current circumstances. Without a vision of the future, life loses its meaning. An absence of meaning then leads to a lack of hope. Whenever people are hopeless about their life situations, they can become resentful of their jobs or families. They feel as if they are wasting their lives, and they start living with a vague but constant internal longing for something more. They may even stop participating in life in any significant way. No matter how much money a person may have, anyone who lives like this is poor. A visionless life is a poverty-stricken existence.
Yet if you can see beyond your present circumstances, if you can have hope
for the future, you have true riches, no matter how much money you have in your bank account.
That is why the Bible encourages us with these words: “‘I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11). It doesn’t matter what you currently have or don’t have, as long as you can see what you could have. This vision is the key to life because where there’s a dream, there’s hope, and where there’s hope, there’s faith—and faith is the substance, or fulfillment, of what you are hoping for. (See Hebrews 11:1.)
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If you want to see the depth of someone’s emotional intelligence, confront them on something they did. Gently, with love. Not from a place of blame, but from a desire to be understood and met. Then watch what they do.
TRUE LIFE STORY
Opportunity meets preparedness.
So we attended an Heirs Insurance event in Lagos on Saturday with personalities like Tony Elumelu (He needs no introduction), Nonso Okpala GMD VFD group in attendance etc. The MC of the event randomly calls for people in the crowd to come sing, dance with Heirs Insurance name.
This young man in the video comes to the stage, sings his heart out and wows everyone. We are all stunned and impressed.
Tony Elumelu wowed by him, comes up and gifts him 1,000,000 naira, Nonso Okpala gifts him 1,000,000 naira, every other person starts gifting this young man. MC even got jealous. 😀
Now the story is this…. This young man was homeless, no job, nothing. He’s educated but life was not working for him.
Infact he said he came around for the event hoping to get free food. He was just at the right place at the right time.
His life changed forever