One of the greatest mistakes you can make in life is to become so emotionally attached to how you thought things should happen that you fail to recognize the good that can emerge from how things are actually happening.
A change of direction is not necessarily a change of destiny. An unexpected interruption is not necessarily a divine rejection, and a delayed opportunity is not proof that your life is standing still.
Sometimes, life will take you through experiences you never requested, introduce you to people you never anticipated, and expose you to situations you never imagined. Yet, hidden within those experiences may be the wisdom, strength, relationships, and opportunities you need for your next chapter.
Joseph never planned to become a slave or a prisoner, but those unpleasant experiences became part of the journey that positioned him for leadership. What others intended for evil, God used for good (Genesis 50:20).
These some truths you must never forget:
1. Don't despise unexpected seasons. Some seasons are not designed to give you immediate comfort but to develop the character required for your next level.
2. Don't confuse inconvenience with failure. Just because something is uncomfortable does not mean it is unproductive. Growth frequently happens outside your comfort zone.
3. Don't become bitter over closed doors. Learn to release what did not work without losing your enthusiasm for what can still work.
4. Don't allow yesterday's disappointment to blind you to today's opportunities. Sometimes, you are so busy mourning what you lost that you fail to appreciate what is being presented to you.
5. Don't insist that God must follow your timetable. Your responsibility is to remain faithful, prayerful, discerning, and obedient. God's responsibility is to direct your steps.
6. Don't waste the lessons hidden in difficult experiences. Every challenge should teach you something, strengthen something, or refine something within you.
Remember Isaiah 43:19: God declares that He is doing a new thing and making a way in the wilderness.
Stop spending all your energy wishing your journey had been different. Start asking God what He wants you to discover, develop, correct, and accomplish in the season you are presently experiencing.
You may not understand the interruption today, but don't allow your inability to understand it to destroy your ability to move forward.
Keep your faith alive. Keep your heart open. Keep your hands productive. Keep your spirit sensitive to the Holy Spirit.
Above all, never allow an unexpected chapter to convince you that your story is over.
Sometimes, the road you never wanted to travel becomes the very road that introduces you to the person God is preparing you to become.
Walk with God, even when the route changes. His wisdom is greater than your plans, and His ability to work through unexpected circumstances is greater than your ability to predict the future.
YOUR DETOUR IS NOT THE END OF YOUR STORY. THERE ARE STILL BEAUTIFUL CHAPTERS AHEAD!
#PstKimeamihia
The second man to ever walk on the moon came home and ended up selling Cadillacs at a dealership in Beverly Hills.
Buzz Aldrin was 39 when he stepped onto the moon in 1969. About two years later he was sitting in an Air Force doctor's office in San Antonio, telling someone for the first time that he was depressed. By the end of the '70s he'd been through two divorces and a drinking problem that nearly killed him.
If you've ever hit a big goal and felt weirdly flat a week later, you've had a tiny version of what happened to him. And there's a real reason for it.
Back in the '90s a neuroscientist named Wolfram Schultz recorded single dopamine neurons in monkeys while giving them juice. When the juice came out of nowhere, the neurons lit up. Then he started flashing a light right before the juice, and pretty quickly the monkeys figured out what the light meant. The neurons started firing at the light instead. The juice itself, the thing they actually wanted, didn't get a spike anymore. And if the light flashed and no juice showed up, the neurons dropped below normal.
So your brain cashes in on the dream the moment it starts looking real. By the time you actually get there, it already spent the money, and the only thing left that can still surprise you is losing it.
That's the anxiety this guy is talking about, the one about making it and becoming somebody, and every one of us is walking around with that wiring.
Jim Carrey learned this the hard way. He was the first actor Hollywood ever paid $20 million for one movie, and in 2005 he told a reporter he wished everybody could get rich and famous and get everything they ever dreamed of, just so they could see it's not the answer.
Honestly, the oldest version of this video is in the Bible. Ecclesiastes is written as a king in Jerusalem looking back on his life. He built houses, planted vineyards, dug pools and stacked up silver and gold, and then he called all of it hevel. He uses that word 38 times. It means vapor, like your breath on a cold morning that's gone in a second. Most English Bibles just say "vanity."
My favorite part comes in chapter 9. He tells you to eat your bread with joy, and a few verses later he says "whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." The guy who called everything vapor still told you to go all in.
Aldrin got sober in 1978 and spent the decades after that trying to get people to Mars, chasing the next big thing without needing it to make him somebody.
To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be special. You simply have to be what most people are not. Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it.
Two interesting things I discovered this week are:
1. That you can get genuine court affidavits online from the Nigerian Federal High Court. A genuine one, not the ones those roadside people give you.
The website has all sorts of affidavits, even ones I didn't know existed.
2. The National Population Commission has a working portal. You can register your newborn online and get a certified birth certificate that is accepted worldwide.
You can do all these things without any bureaucracy.
For 1, visit: https://t.co/mMEjgphabJ
For 2, visit: https://t.co/vEssNLkZ5l
Joseph Adedeji
A brilliant lawyer scored thethighest mark on the bar exam in nearly a decade, fell out with his girlfriend, and went head-to-head with a top-tier law firm.
The way the world is heading:
Please know your God,
Please know yourself,
Please know your values.
And make sure these three things you are well rooted in them very deeply.
If you just come on this app, reading things and swallowing whatever you see here, it is very likely that your life will be ruined and your reasoning will be destroyed.
When God sends you, He will also help and support you. There is a special confidence that comes from knowing God is with you. The important thing is to be sure you are following His instructions and doing His will, not just pursuing your own plans.
Sermon Title: Supernatural Guidance
✝️ Pastor Nathaniel Bassey
I listened to last night’s Halleluyah Challenge this morning…
And after listening to Pastor Emmanuel, I felt strongly compelled to share this my story again for the sake of those who have not read it before.
In 2020, right in the middle of Covid, I resigned my job with nowhere to turn to.
Then I took a 3-day fast & turned to God in prayers. God told me to use the book of Esther & on the 3rd day, I focused on Esther 6 where the kind could not sleep until the promotion belonging to Mordecai that was diverted in Esther 3:1 was restored to Him.
I prayed earnestly like my life depended on it.
Immediately after the prayers, I got 3 job offers. After praying, I choose the one God put in my heart was from Him to me.
After 1 month of resuming the job, the MD called me into his office & said he has been watching me since I resumed cos something strange happened after my interview and they had selected someone else for the role, & even typed the other person’s offer letter.
He said the night before the day they were to send the offer letter to the other guy, that while he was sleeping, he felt like a presence in His room in the middle of the night, and he heard my full name being called out into his ears. He jumped out of his sleep, looked around, saw no one & couldn’t sleep anymore for the rest of that night. That all that was in his mind was my full name.
He made sure he got to the office before the HR so he could inform her before she even sits in her office that they should give the job to me. He said the HR Director was shocked & was asking what happened but he just told her to do what he had asked, and that was how I was given the job.
This testimony alone shakes me anytime I remember.
There is a God in heaven who rules in the affairs of men. He alone is the Almighty 🙌
@nathanielblow
‼️EĞER KÖTÜ BİR GÜN VEYA DÖNEM GEÇİRİYORSAN ELON MUSK ‘IN BU VİDEOSUNU İZLE‼️
⚠️2008 yılında Elon Musk iflasa tam 16 gün kalmışken bir toplantı salonunda 109.000 dolar değerinde bir araba satmaya çalışırken…
Ne zaman motivasyonum düşse
Bu 4 dakikalık videoyu açar izlerim !!
Elon Musk had it right:
“Stop being patient and start asking yourself: How can I accomplish my 10 year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail, but you'll be far ahead of the person who simply accepted it would take 10 years.”