HAPPY 42ND BIRTHDAY
Lord, thank you for helping me !
Lord, thank you for showing me Mercy !!
If there be any Trophy, I lay it all at your feet.
TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY !!!
Daddy Kumuyi and Daddy Adeboye had to go to the toilet to find a quiet time to read their Bible.
To seek God and be like Christ is not easy. It will cost you everything.
Papa Oyedepo fasted for a year praying for the advancement of the kingdom. He coughed one day and blood came out.
He said thank God for His mercy that kept him.
Apst. Arome fasted for more than a year during his NYSC. Why?
He was seeking God's face. He wanted to meet the Lord, He desired nothing but the Lord.
He said the fasting made him look like an HIV patient, but his spirit was greatly anointed.
He did meet the Lord, yes he did.
Apostle Joshua Selman prayed alone in a room for 72 hours for God's people. In there he was assailed by terrible demons but he still stayed.
We can go on and on and on about how many of our favorite ministers sought and still seek the Lord.
But the underlying fact is this: they spent their lives seeking God.
To seek God is not easy, it will drain, and strain, you. It is a principle of death working in you to produce the life of Christ.
That was why Paul said-
Rom. 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
A sacrifice dies. Your fleshly nature, desires, wants, needs, and pleasures will have to die.
That process is dreadful, but God can help you do it.
Why have we said all this? To tell you to seek God.
Make it mechanical. Vow never to go a day without praying, and never to go a day without reading your Bible.
Do a long-hour prayer once every week and fast at least once every week.
Find a church that prays and join them. Emphasis on prayer and preaching the word.
Brothers and sisters, find God tangibly. Find God till the things described in the Bible become something you experience.
Please, guys, find God. With all your life. That starts with prayers and the word and fasting. Consistently.
Let's leave you with the words of Peter the Apostle-
Matt. 19:27
"Peter said to Jesus, 'Look, we have left everything and followed you..."
May God help you. Amen.
My notes from the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims:
1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.
2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily.
3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000 years. Read them.
4. Avoiding stupid mistakes is more important than being smart.
5. Don’t work with anyone you don’t admire.
6. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy.
7. Avoiding a bad habit is easier than breaking a bad habit.
8. Work on your best idea. Don't diversify
9. Incentives rule everything around you.
10. Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
11. The most important rule in management is: Get the incentives right.
12. The storyteller is the most powerful person in the world.
13. Education is the process whereby the ability to lead a good life is acquired.
14. Be dependable for your tribe.
15. Trust is one of the greatest economic forces on Earth.
16. Don’t over optimize for growth at the expense of durability.
17. Great businesses are built by going ridiculously far in maximizing or minimizing one or a few things. Think Costco.
18. The combination of scale and fanaticism is *very* powerful. Think Sam Walton.
19. Do the unpleasant task first.
20. Don’t multitask.
21. Learning is changing behavior.
22. Avoiding stupidity for a long time *is* genius.
23. Many hard problems are solved best when approached backwards.
24. Think of ideas as tools. When a better tool comes along use it.
25. Clip your business and personal expenses. Small leaks sink big ships.
26. Make friends with smart dead people. Adam Smith, Darwin, Cicero, Ben Franklin —whoever interests you. Read their writing. Steal their ideas. They don’t need them anymore.
27. Only focus on great businesses and great businesses have moats.
28. Dominating a niche can produce profit margins that make you salivate.
29. Telling people WHY increases compliance.
30. Stay in the game long enough to get lucky.
31. Stack cash to survive unexpected problems and seize unexpected opportunities.
32. Don't confuse intelligence with invincibility.
33. Panic spreads and compounds quickly.
34. If you’re not winning —scale down and intensify.
35. Appeal to interest, not to reason.
36. Understanding opportunity cost is a superpower.
37. Don’t confuse the map for the territory.
38. People often interpret price as a signal for quality.
39. All human systems are gamed.
40. Beating back bureaucracy is a never ending battle.
41. The acquisition of knowledge is a moral duty.
42. Learning from history is a form of leverage.
43. Make sure your best players get the most playing time.
44. It is inevitable that bad things will happen to you. When they do get up, keep going, and remember the next maxim:
45. Self pity has no utility.
46. Find out what you are best at. Then pound away at it. Forever.
47. Envy is weakness.
48. The behavior of peer companies will be mindlessly imitated.
49. Emotion blurs judgement.
50. Only play games where you have an edge.
51. Avoid mob rule. Avoid demagogues. Avoid dogma. Avoid bureaucracy.
52. Optimize for independence.
53. Use money to buy freedom.
54. Aim for durability.
55. Keep the people who don’t matter from interfering with the work of the people who do.
56. What do you have an *intense* interest in? Do that for your living.
57. Self improvement has no end.
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Just a Reminder that Your flesh doesn't care about your eternity because it's not going there with you.
Learn to subject it to the Holy Spirit and the Word.