Unmask You

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

To succeed, the real you has to come to the fore. The real you is God’s original design of you created to fulfill His divine plans and purposes for your life. The following questions may guide you into identifying that you if answered truthfully.

• Whose dreams and visions are you interpreting and for what purpose?

• Whose ideas are you implementing and for what purpose?

• What drives you – your dreams and visions coupled with a desire to excel; or the desire to please and impress other people by deploying your energy and resources to service their dreams and visions while yours are left fallow?

• Do you desire greatness or servitude? The choice is actually yours. 

• Who is God to you?

• Have you identified your purpose in life or you are hoping it will fall on you like a bag of cherries?

• Do you have a trajectory for your life?

• What do you hope to be remembered for in the next ten years?

• What does the gift of time mean to you?

The Power of Words

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Words are powerful. They frame thought patterns. What a person hears and believes is very important as words always have the capacity to impact people and their lives either positively or negatively. That is why you should cross check the source of the words you hear, internalize and believe. Therefore, whoever you pay attention to; internalize the words and speak the words is very important. Who you listen to is very important.

Words that originate from God always have the capacity to enrich and enlarge you and make you a better person. These words are like the rain that comes in due season; that is at the right time to bless the earth. The word of God is powerful. The word of God gives believers advantage over the world by giving believers advance information of what God has done concerning our lives and whatever situation confronts us.

It is a battle of words and words that originate from the kingdom of darkness are like the polluted waters of Jericho that was causing barrenness and death in the land. Please see 2^nd Kings Chapter 2 verses 18 to 22, Exodus Chapter 15 verses 22 to 26. That is why Elisha went to the source of the water where the water was polluted to bring about healing of the water, decontamination from source and healing in the land.

This is why the devil manipulates through negative reports. Refuse to entertain and believe negative reports. The devil consistently uses his agents to create and foster contrary and negative situations through their speeches and actions – daily confessions of negativity, impossibilities and what have you to make you think, focus on and reflect on impossibilities, and how to cope; sometimes resulting in worries, anxieties, and fear and of course, unbelief and consequently recourse to sinful actions, usually suggestions from the pit of hell.

Do Not Walk in the Shadow of Anyone

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Isaiah’s ministry flourished after the death of King Uzziah – the implication is that Isaiah probably played second fiddle to Uzziah and Uzziah overshadowed Isaiah’s ministry, downplayed his commitment to God and the ministry. But after the death of Uzziah, Isaiah came back to his senses and realized how filthy he had become, repented and returned to God. Significantly, Isaiah voluntarily offered to be used of God. Please see Isaiah Chapter 6 verses 1 to 9 for details.

Beloved, do not walk in the shadow of anyone. Walk in the steps of Jesus Christ. Walking in the shadow of anyone can bring about limitations to divine purpose. This is because there is a limit to walking in anyone’s shadow as the shadow will limit your speed, the distance to be covered and whatever has to be done as all your activities and actions will hover around the parameters of the shadow and not necessarily the ground you have been divinely assigned to cover.

Abraham did not exactly walk in the shadow of Lot his nephew. However, Lot was fast becoming a distraction to Abraham and divine purposes – the constant friction between the herdsmen of Abraham and Lot was snowballing into contention and strife – a crucial ingredient for stagnation and retrogression, distraction from forward movement into divine purpose. If Abraham consistently frittered time away resolving conflicts, how much time would he have to invest in pursuing activities and relationships pertinent to divine purpose? Little or no time; which explains why the decision taken by Abraham to separate from Lot, was a quality destiny defining decision. How?

Enhance Your Brand 1

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

A brand is the sum total of your true worth, capabilities and influence.  This includes your contacts – all the people you know that can support your brand. Your brand is wealth worth billions if only you know what to do with the brand.

The Presence of God is what you need to enhance your brand. To start with, you did not create your brand. God created you and your brand and He alone knows how you can enhance your brand. That is why you need His Presence in your life to enhance the brand. Besides, He designed that brand in you for a purpose and therefore knows best what you need to enhance that brand to suit the divine purpose for which He created that brand in you.

Jeremiah for instance was divinely designed as a prophet unto the nations and within the makeup of a prophet unto the nations are special characteristics required to function effectively in that brand. Jeremiah obviously had to develop and perfect those characteristics over time in order to be effective in that brand. To achieve this, Jeremiah had to depend on God completely to develop and perfect the characteristics that would enhance his brand as a prophet unto the nations.

Prepare for Tomorrow

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Everything God created exists in time and everything God created has a purpose and a season (the time frame for the implementation of that purpose). The season is the time for improvement and the time to move your life forward. When a season is missed, there is usually a problem with change. There is a correlation between time and purpose. God in His infinite wisdom gives the exact amount of time to fulfill a purpose. When the time expires, it is assumed that the purpose is fulfilled but when the purpose is not fulfilled, a person becomes a victim of change and carries over a purpose. The issue of how time is used is therefore very critical. If you are caught up in a new season with carried over purpose, it means that you mismanaged time and when time is mismanaged, purpose and destiny is mismanaged.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Some people use it wisely while others fritter it. Unfortunately, time cannot be managed, recouped, saved or created. Rather it is our lives that can be managed to achieve divine purpose and success. People who achieve much in life are likely to be those who make efficient use of their time. Conversely is the case with those who waste time. Effective use of time correlates with purpose. What separates successful disciples of Jesus Christ is the way they use their time.

Time, a rather limited resource is a resource given for the actualization of purpose, a resource to create value and wealth. Time is effectively used when time is used to achieve divine purpose. It is therefore a colossal waste of time to pursue things contrary to divine purpose. Man lives by purpose and not instinct. Purpose is the precursor of success. What then is the value of all the ever busy you if the ever busy you is not achieving divine purpose and success.  The model of Jesus Christ teaches on how to manage time effectively.  When it came to spending time, Jesus was conscious of His purpose. Jesus used time to achieve divine purpose and that purpose guided what He did, who He spent time with and what He spent time on. Please see John Chapters 12 verse 27, 9 verse 4, 4 verse 34 and 17 verse 4. He glorified God by finishing the work He was assigned to do on earth.

Initiate Abundant Harvests

Written by Uyoyou Charles-Iyoha

Every opportunity to plant seeds is an opportunity to be blessed and expanded by God. Everything you do in life such as utterances and actions are seeds and because every seed initiates a harvest, they will definitely produce harvests. You can therefore initiate abundant harvests by planting seeds at all times. Seeds vary from time, expertise, skills, money, love, care and concern to plant seeds that are planted for eating. Seed planting is not an easy task. It involves a lot of labor and pain, an investment of your time and other resources. Besides, you can be called upon at a time that is not convenient to plant your seed. Nevertheless, it is for your own benefit. By divine arrangement, Jesus chose Peter’s boat and Peter planted a seed by giving his means of livelihood for a preaching and teaching session by Jesus Christ. Thereafter, Jesus rewarded Peter for the kind gesture. Significantly, Peter’s reward was exponential.

Some seeds are not visible when they are being planted but when the harvests comes, they become visible.

As you plant the seeds of your time, your energy, and intellect to propagate the Word of God and expand the kingdom of God, you are actually working for God who rewards in multiples. God will direct you to plant generous seeds on the right soils so that several people will benefit from the abundant harvests that will accrue to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. The harvests are usually more than the seed. Begin to plant your seeds today for harvests because the harvest of today is the seed of yesterday and the harvest of tomorrow is today’s seed. All plants do not have the same gestation period. This therefore calls for patience when you anticipate harvests.

Pay Attention to Priorities

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

One of the ways to succeed in life is to pay attention to priorities. What are priorities? The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines priority as something that is more important than other things and that needs to be done or dealt with first. priorities: the things that someone cares about and thinks are important. : the condition of being more important than something or someone else and therefore coming or being dealt with ...www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/priority.

This implies that priorities are more important than what may appear very urgent. True, there is some urgency that should be attended to especially a life threatening situation over a priority. However, there are some urgent situations that should never take the place of priorities. For instance, if a non life threatening situation that is not a priority, is not on your priority list of activities and is designed to infringe on your time; what to do is to ignore it completely and leave to the person who created it to deal with it. There are people who through their non chalance create urgent situations that should never arise if they paid adequate attention to their tasks for other people with whom they work. Unfortunately, they usually do not have the capacity to manage such urgent situations and are usually glad to pass them on to people busy on the way to Success Street. 

Give Up Limitations

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Limitations are obstacles and barriers designed to keep a person, people, families, communities, businesses and nations from moving to their God ordained heights in life. Limitations vary – they can be man-made, self made or satanically engineered.  Permit me to say that satanically engineered limitations are easier to dislodge if a person is in Christ Jesus and living right. But self made limitations are especially difficult to dislodge as they are strongholds in a person’s mental processes that only the truth of the Word of God can dislodge. For this to happen, a person has to believe and accept the truth of God’s Word as final so that the self made limitations can be dislodged.

That is why I dare to say that what you hold on to, to an extent is an evidence of the height you have purposed to remain in and that to a large extent determines how far you want to get to in life.

Holding on to something you consider very dear or important can constitute a major limitation to your progress and increase. That is why giving up limitations is the fastest way to increase and progress. Giving up limitations is also a way of stretching your faith, trusting God to take you to a higher altitude in life. Do away with limitations by giving up that thing which God wants you to give up. Otherwise it becomes a stronghold which barricades your progress. Significantly, such things may not necessarily be money, talents, skills, expertise, time and material resources for the work of God.

Succeed Through God Created Opportunities

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

God designed every child of His for success and one of the ways through which God empowers His children to be successful is by creating divine opportunities for His children. Whenever God wants to bring about a change in your life, He brings about an opportunity which if utilized brings about a change in your life.  It is also significant to note that God is always creating opportunities for His children. However it is necessary to understand the types of opportunities that God brings to His children to effect changes in their lives.

Opportunity can be described as a favorable time, moment, location or set of circumstances. The purpose of opportunity is to function as an agent of change. God created opportunities on the other hand are divinely appointed times, moments, locations or set of circumstances designed to move you from point A to B in life. Significantly such moments often come disguised as challenges, appear inconsequential and if a person is not sensitive to the Spirit of God, chances are you will miss out on such opportunities. Martha, the sister of Mary missed a very significant opportunity of fellowshipping with the Lord Jesus Christ in her house because she paid attention to serving food rather than spending quality time with her Savior.