Never has there been a time in the history of humanity where accessibility to knowledge is unwittingly easy as there is now. Unfortunately, one can’t seem to find a parallel with the increase in knowledge and an increase in life and conditions. Could it be that this knowledge is defective or just that there is a chasm between the knowledge and its application!
There’s a need to manage strength!
Our lives are meant to move from grace to grace, glory to glory, by the working of His Spirit. In the kingdom, our path is a shining light brighter and brighter till the end of time. We are meant to grow into a place of increasing peace, rest and decreasing stress and unrest.
This promise is definitely in tangent with our persistent struggle for a living. Infact, in returning and rest shall be our strength! Transfiguration takes place only when we reach the Holy of Holies where no sweat is allowed on the priest.
With life expectancy reducing daily, there’s a need for my generation to conserve strength Remember, the glory of the youth is his strength! This strength is what makes the purpose of God effective…since the young men shall see visions (the devil cannot do anything about this), the warfare truly is with managing our strength because if you fall in the day of adversity, your strength is small!
The strength I speak of is not the fleshly one as by it shall no man prevail, but by the life through the spirit…The young men shall faint and be utterly weary, but they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength! The technology for strength renewal is meant to be understood by anyone who wants to see the victorious purpose of God revealed in them.
Consequently, In the next few weeks, we shall look into the Technology of Renewing Strength on our way to being transfigured to the fullness of God!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sound the alarm!
The Ministry of the Pen
Come October 1, 2010, As Nigeria turns 50 years, she will step into her jubilee season. For even the lawful captive will be set free... Nigeria will yet rise again to take her place as a prophetic arrow for global reformation... Let the saints sound the alarm! Jubilee is here!
Come October 1, 2010, As Nigeria turns 50 years, she will step into her jubilee season. For even the lawful captive will be set free... Nigeria will yet rise again to take her place as a prophetic arrow for global reformation... Let the saints sound the alarm! Jubilee is here!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The Passion for Transfiguration - How badly do you want it?
I think of the future, not as a space of time, but as a realm of great influence, less in terms of the number of years, but more in the reality of the impact of my existence. Deep-seated in my innermost chambers lies the thought of profound generational responsibility I feel born into. Yet I sometimes carnally consider my desires of perishable wealth in material things. Nevertheless, the thought of immortality through the legacy of my life hunts me stronger than the vainest wishes of vapour-like acquisitions and recognitions of the short sighted.
Why should we wait? For whom should we wait? How long should we wait? Clearly, there are things our Creator has determined sovereign to Him. The fool says in his heart, ‘there is no God’. Even our lives are clear evidences of His Awesome Personality. His ways, much higher than ours demand our daily subservience to His unfathomable wisdom. Oh when we see Him, we shall be like Him. Better still, the more we see Him, the more we become as He. Little wonder, we live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. We can only cry ‘Give us our daily bread’.
My soul thirsts, my heart hungers… This I realise is a sign of life! I want more…more of Him. Life is good, let’s make it better!
Why should we wait? For whom should we wait? How long should we wait? Clearly, there are things our Creator has determined sovereign to Him. The fool says in his heart, ‘there is no God’. Even our lives are clear evidences of His Awesome Personality. His ways, much higher than ours demand our daily subservience to His unfathomable wisdom. Oh when we see Him, we shall be like Him. Better still, the more we see Him, the more we become as He. Little wonder, we live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. We can only cry ‘Give us our daily bread’.
My soul thirsts, my heart hungers… This I realise is a sign of life! I want more…more of Him. Life is good, let’s make it better!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Path to Transfiguration – The Purpose of Strength
The Path to Transfiguration – The Purpose of Strength
He who does not get wings to fly to this realm will live to hear tidings of it from the mute
- Dante Alighieri 'Paradiso' (1265-1321)
'Your eyes show the strength of your soul!' These words, I read from what I consider one of the greatest writings to humanity - ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho. The simple truth is our vision is a product of the strength of our minds. Remember the words of the scripture, ‘the glory of the youth is his strength’, not his vision. Like the biblical Samson, we will perish because we lack vision, but we lose our vision because we lose our strength. Consequently, the key to preserving your vision rests on the preservation of your strength. Then, we can soar with wings as eagles, walk and not faint.
One reality we must face on our path to experiencing our true being, fulfilment or what I call ‘tranfiguration' is the fact that our vision is for an appointed time. Visions are for seasons and without the strength to see a manifestation in due season, the vision is fruitless; we merely become as a woman in labor, with no strength to bring forth children. As hard as it may seem to accept, the truth is our vision cannot be stopped by our enemies because it is Divinely purposed. However, our strength to come into the reality of the vision is where we can win or lose this war.
Our generation is losing out because we have so many strength drainers. These, as the writer of Numbers(chapter 33,vs55) in the Holy Scripture puts it have become ‘thorns in our sides’ and ultimately ‘pricks in our eyes’. Unhealed wounds drain blood until we have no life in us, and hence, no sight! Remember, the life and the strength is in our blood, not in our eyes! Beloved, we cannot afford to become weary now, for if we fall in the day of tribulation, our strength is small.
This is a call to conserve, preserve and multiply strength. Here lies our hope for transfiguration!
He who does not get wings to fly to this realm will live to hear tidings of it from the mute
- Dante Alighieri 'Paradiso' (1265-1321)
'Your eyes show the strength of your soul!' These words, I read from what I consider one of the greatest writings to humanity - ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho. The simple truth is our vision is a product of the strength of our minds. Remember the words of the scripture, ‘the glory of the youth is his strength’, not his vision. Like the biblical Samson, we will perish because we lack vision, but we lose our vision because we lose our strength. Consequently, the key to preserving your vision rests on the preservation of your strength. Then, we can soar with wings as eagles, walk and not faint.
One reality we must face on our path to experiencing our true being, fulfilment or what I call ‘tranfiguration' is the fact that our vision is for an appointed time. Visions are for seasons and without the strength to see a manifestation in due season, the vision is fruitless; we merely become as a woman in labor, with no strength to bring forth children. As hard as it may seem to accept, the truth is our vision cannot be stopped by our enemies because it is Divinely purposed. However, our strength to come into the reality of the vision is where we can win or lose this war.
Our generation is losing out because we have so many strength drainers. These, as the writer of Numbers(chapter 33,vs55) in the Holy Scripture puts it have become ‘thorns in our sides’ and ultimately ‘pricks in our eyes’. Unhealed wounds drain blood until we have no life in us, and hence, no sight! Remember, the life and the strength is in our blood, not in our eyes! Beloved, we cannot afford to become weary now, for if we fall in the day of tribulation, our strength is small.
This is a call to conserve, preserve and multiply strength. Here lies our hope for transfiguration!
Friday, June 20, 2008
The path to transfiguration - preparing for motion
Variety and Vicissitude - even exile - may be the apprenticeship and bondage needed before the freedom of oneness can be reached.
- Dante Alighieri 'Paradiso' (1265-1321)
There is a constant fight to sustain motion. This struggle for upward mobility has its root in our natural evolution. The success of our transition is hinged on our ability to manage this struggle. Some species have gone into extinction because they couldn’t handle this move. Some others have biologically become more advance because they chose to embrace the fight. Larmack spoke of this in his theory of use and disuse.
While some manage this transition out of an all evident necessity, a few wise men handle the transition with a proactive courage.
Two things stand out is this journey 'Sight and Strength'
A scripture says '…the young men shall see vision', another says '…the glory of the youth is his strength'.
My emphasis will be less on vision and more on strength. This is however not an indication of priority as both are necessary partners. My believe is that we only require calm passiveness to see, but the strength to sustain motion towards the reality of our vision is where we often miss it.
I have come to realize that our generation suffers less from the lack of vision than it does from the lack of strength. The story of the biblical Samson gives credence to it. A lack of strength to accomplish vision will ultimately lead to the death of the vision. The very first evidence of a lack of strength is the diminishing of our vision. For those who are not familiar with the story of our brother Samson, the Philistines' first action after Samson lost strength was to get rid of his vision (eyes). Even when the strength was restored, the lack of vision made him wish to die with mediocres. If we will be sincere to ourselves, a cursory look at our very lives may show a lowering of our vision and dreams . What were your dreams 5 yrs ago, what are they now!. If our mind truthfully attests to a diminishing of our dreams, it is because of the perceived lack of strength to see its manifestation. In subsequent postings, we will see the technology of strength which I sum up in the word - detachment!
First things first, stillness is the perfect substitute to undirected motion. Consequently, there is a constant need to remain as still as we move. It is more important to possess clarity in motion than it is to move with the hope for sight.
The path to transfiguration requires great strength, one of the very first things that we must learn is the grace to wait! This is when our mind transition can become complete enough to find external expression. Your seemingly silent chapters are often the most influential chapters where reformation takes place. This is where energy is created and conserved, reality defined and oneness reached. Clarity of sight is the end product of this process. All who wait have their strength renewed. This grants them access to not just sustained motion, but sustained speedy motion.
- Dante Alighieri 'Paradiso' (1265-1321)
There is a constant fight to sustain motion. This struggle for upward mobility has its root in our natural evolution. The success of our transition is hinged on our ability to manage this struggle. Some species have gone into extinction because they couldn’t handle this move. Some others have biologically become more advance because they chose to embrace the fight. Larmack spoke of this in his theory of use and disuse.
While some manage this transition out of an all evident necessity, a few wise men handle the transition with a proactive courage.
Two things stand out is this journey 'Sight and Strength'
A scripture says '…the young men shall see vision', another says '…the glory of the youth is his strength'.
My emphasis will be less on vision and more on strength. This is however not an indication of priority as both are necessary partners. My believe is that we only require calm passiveness to see, but the strength to sustain motion towards the reality of our vision is where we often miss it.
I have come to realize that our generation suffers less from the lack of vision than it does from the lack of strength. The story of the biblical Samson gives credence to it. A lack of strength to accomplish vision will ultimately lead to the death of the vision. The very first evidence of a lack of strength is the diminishing of our vision. For those who are not familiar with the story of our brother Samson, the Philistines' first action after Samson lost strength was to get rid of his vision (eyes). Even when the strength was restored, the lack of vision made him wish to die with mediocres. If we will be sincere to ourselves, a cursory look at our very lives may show a lowering of our vision and dreams . What were your dreams 5 yrs ago, what are they now!. If our mind truthfully attests to a diminishing of our dreams, it is because of the perceived lack of strength to see its manifestation. In subsequent postings, we will see the technology of strength which I sum up in the word - detachment!
First things first, stillness is the perfect substitute to undirected motion. Consequently, there is a constant need to remain as still as we move. It is more important to possess clarity in motion than it is to move with the hope for sight.
The path to transfiguration requires great strength, one of the very first things that we must learn is the grace to wait! This is when our mind transition can become complete enough to find external expression. Your seemingly silent chapters are often the most influential chapters where reformation takes place. This is where energy is created and conserved, reality defined and oneness reached. Clarity of sight is the end product of this process. All who wait have their strength renewed. This grants them access to not just sustained motion, but sustained speedy motion.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The path to transfiguration
Yet if I am a timid friend of truth, I fear that I may lose my life among those who will call this present, ancient times" Dante Aligiero 'Paradiso' (1265-1321)
In this demanding drive to fulfilment, we will encounter some revelations that will conflict with our present realities and state. Some of these insights will require a great deal of courage to live by. We become strangers and outcasts when we live ahead of the times and seasons. However, this is only another stage in the transition.
The men who have led their times often were not revered by the generations in which they lived. Nevertheless, they made live-long disciples of the generations to come, mainly because they saw into the times and seasons ahead. He who sees the farthest rules the affairs of the earth.
The very nature of the earth requires a consistent movement along its axis to remain existent and relevant in its support of the other elements in the universe.
For every revolution that we have experienced on the face of the earth be it business or spiritual moves, the pioneers have always been very courageous visioneers who not only saw but had the courage to live such experiences in the now without even experiencing an immediate physical transition. They were bold enough to subject their souls to an unprecedented reformation before the world saw the need for it. This is the path very few take. This is the path of transfiguration!!!!!!!
The path of transfiguration is an evolving antithesis. It is characterised by stilness in mobility, a harmonious blend of pain and peace, purposeful yet resting only experienced by men who valued mystery above matter. This is the cross, this is the glory!
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