Divine Restoration - Apostle Michael Orokpo, PhD.
(Full Message Title: Bethel Prayer Altar)
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If you are a Kenyan,
You must have seen a sustained narrative claiming that your president and his deputy are at loggerheads.
They are NOT.
You must have heard that the president is persecuting his deputy just the same way the former president was at loggerheads with his deputy.
They were not.
Here is the thing,
The system keeps you in a sustained political debate.
This artificial conundrum is designed to distract you and vex your spirits.
This debate is meant to sow divisions among citizens.
The system thrives in confusion, division and distraction.
Listen,
The social stratum has the wealthy, the middle class and the poor.
The poor are busy looking for survival, they have little time for political correctness.
The wealthy are busy looking after their wealth by funding politicians to write legislation that will continue making them wealthier.
The crux of the matter is in the middle class where you and I sit.
These are the pawns of the game. They are educated but are idiots.
They are the ones who go to the queue for voting. (The poor don't vote unless induced by money).
The middle class are the noise decibels.
They are the donkeys that work hard to feed the rich. They are heavily taxed.
They are the fools thrown into a heated circus to hate each other, create divisions and distract themselves.
They claim to be learned but cannot decipher the political con game.
The middle class are the ones with big televisions, smartphones and computers. It is here the rich pay the media to sow seeds of confusion and distraction.
It is only a foolish Kenyan who thinks the political crooks from both ends of the political divide don't meet privately to laugh at how they have divided the masses.
It is only a foolish citizen who thinks politicians serve them.
They don't and will never.
Politicians serve
• The World Bank
• World Economic Forum
• IMF
• USAID
• UKAID
• America
• Britain
Refuse to be drawn into imaginary conflicts.
Focus on your goals.
Mobilize your energies.
Politicians won't save you. They are part of the problem.
#DrainTheSwamp
I’m convinced that you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by showing up. By closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.
We have said this hundreds of times,
Once you have sex with a woman and she becomes pregnant,
• Accept responsibility,
• Do not force the woman to abort,
• If the woman elects to abort, leave her, dump her,
• Do not kill a woman just because she has refused to abort,
Abortion is a spiritual transgression, and no matter how long you hide it, it will haunt you for life.
Something else,
If you make your other woman pregnant, own it up. Don't fear your current woman.
Don't harm the other woman to please your current one.
However, if you know you are not ready for the consequences, then,
• Wear a condom
Or,
• Abstain
Are we angels?
NO.
Are we MEN?
Yes.
Men are rational and logical people who control their emotions and are aware that choices and actions have consequences.
CHANGE or PERISH.
David Goggins dropped a truth bomb that will rewire how you see your entire life:
Even billionaires pull him aside after talks and quietly admit:
“I have everything money can buy… but I still feel like something’s missing.”
His response is ice-cold and life-changing:
“You’re missing the version of yourself that only shows up when you voluntarily walk through hell.
The one you meet when you stop making excuses and start making yourself unbreakable.”
In this electric 3:18 clip, Goggins lays it out plain and simple:
Real peace isn’t bought.
It’s forged.
In the dark mornings.
In the moments you want to quit but don’t.
In the relentless decision to keep expanding your mind, body, and soul when everything screams stop.
That’s where the emptiness ends.
That’s where you stop living at 40% and finally step into 100%.
That’s where you become the rare human who never has to ask, “Is this all there is?”
No shortcuts. No hacks. Just you choosing to become the hardest, strongest, most alive version of yourself—every single day.
Watch this clip. Let it hit you. Then go do the hard thing you’ve been avoiding.
The version of you that’s waiting on the other side is worth it.
Jordan peterson on why it's so hard to sit down and study:
1. You sit down to study. your intent is clear: study. but you know distractions will flood in non-stop, and there's almost nothing you can do but wait them out.
2. it's not random noise. there are little subsystems inside you that want something else. one wants a sandwich. one wants a cigarette. one suddenly needs to clean under the bed. they pop up and fight you for control.
3. they get sneaky too. you'll start thinking "this is a stupid course. why am i even in university. what's the point of life." you can really get going when you're trying to avoid your homework.
4. so ask yourself. you took the course. you told yourself to sit down. why don't you listen? the honest answer is you're a mess. you don't have control over yourself at all.
5. and the less put-together you are, the less you run these systems and the more they run you. it can get badly out of hand.
6. you've felt it elsewhere. attracted to someone you don't even want to be attracted to. texting them late at night when you know you should be asleep. in the grip of something you can't control.