It’s always good to be kind to people, you never know, you might have entertained an Angel on your way who will in turn be a helper in your time of need. Do not hesitate to be kind to people because at some point you will in turn need someone’s kindness along the way. Being charitable is being kind. I encourage you to be kind today and someday you will reap the blessings. God bless you.
There are lessons we must learn in the walk of life. If we do not take our time and allow the season of learning to take it’s full toll, we end up experiencing a bit of what could have been greater and more rewarding for us. We must try and maintain an attitude of learning all the time and never get to a place where we think there is nothing else to learn and we know it all. Nobody knows it all; we must continue the learning process as long as we live. Every experience we encounter is a learning curve depending on how you see it. The lessons we learn in life are there to stretch, to challenge and to teach us new things. Life teaches how to correct our wrongs, to learn what we could have done better, to think and see things from a different perspective and to know that every experience is worth going through as long as we have something to learn from it. Life is an educational institution and experience is our teacher. We must learn something every day if we must grow in knowledge and in wisdom. Some people will never learn anything because they usually believe they understand the lesson before it is fully taught by the teacher and this is a great mistake and folly. The key is that you must be wiser today than you were yesterday otherwise you have not learnt anything. Many do not always like being taught but we must always be ready to learn, otherwise we are on the highway that leads to many mistakes. I encourage you to keep learning; for the purpose of learning is growth and we must continue to grow as we continue to live. 
Money cannot buy you the finer things in life, for instance, your health.
I would like to encourage you today by saying, “get back up again”. You can get back up again no matter how hard you fall. Get back up again and don’t be afraid of making mistakes, it is part of life’s building process. You must get back up again. Before you fell to the position you are in now, you must have been up at some point doing the right thing but because of an error or mistake you find yourself where you are now. I encourage you not to remain where you are but to get back up again. Though you fall, you can get back up again. You can do it, so get back up again! The only real mistake you and I can make is if we have not learnt anything from our errors, and that’s a big mistake. Mistakes enable us to work harder and see where we’ve gone wrong so we can correct our error. Life is all about making mistakes and realising what we could have done better, it helps us to work harder, it is a stepping stone to greater heights, so you should never be ashamed to own up to the fact that you have been in the wrong. Our mistakes help us to realise that at least we are wiser today than we were yesterday, so you can get back up again. Don’t blame your mistakes on others, own up to them, make amends and get back up again. You are not a mistake, you’ve only made an error and hopefully you are wiser today than you were yesterday, so please get back up again.
If I told you, you are beautiful, what would you say? Would you just say, “Get out of here, who are you trying to kid, do you know me?” 
You and I cannot avoid adversity or difficulty; it is inevitable. We live in a troubled world. If you want to be great you will go through adversity, difficulties or hardship. Adversity will tear a lot away from you and leave those things that cannot be torn, so that your true self can come through. We go through pain, not by choice but by chance and circumstance but our pain must be used as fuel for our journey in life. If you are going through hell, I encourage you to keep going and ask God for a broader shoulder to bear the burdens that life throws on you. The pain you’ve gone through becomes your history and turns out beautiful at the end. Adversity is meant to shake your soul and let the glory out. If you can’t change your situation, change the way you think about it. If you are in a bad situation don’t worry, it will change. Good situations change and bad situations are also subject to change. No situation or circumstance is permanent; everything is seasonal and subject to change. We’ve all come into a hard world, not by choice and there is nothing we can do to make it go away, but we have a choice in how we deal with every situation. A path without obstacles leads nowhere. If you are going somewhere there will surely be obstacles on your path and you had better learn how to overcome those obstacles so you can reach your destination faster. Wisdom comes with experience and the adversities of life teach us lessons we would not have learnt had life been such an easy ride. You are who you are today as a result of the adversities you’ve had to face in life. The difficulties of life are not meant to make us bitter but are intended to make us better, so I would encourage you to convert your difficulty into an opportunity. Adversity is there to make you grow and growth comes with pain. Life reveals its beauty through adversity. I pray that your adversity will turn out into something beautiful at the end. There is never a rose without thorns. Be encouraged and keep going.
What do your words say about you? The words that we speak are very powerful and effective. It can do and undo a lot of things. You can tell more of a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. What do your words say about you? What did you say yesterday that’s worth remembering?
Time is powerful; it depends on what you do with it. “Time goes so fast”, we say, but the reality is that time stays, we go! We spend eight hours at work, eight hours to sleep and we have eight hours left. What we do with the rest of the eight hours that is left is so crucial. Whether rich or poor, we all have the same number of hours and minutes everyday. Time does not discriminate. Rich people cant buy more hours, it is what you do with your time that matters. Time is not temporary, it is eternal. We are the temporary beings who live within the framework of time. I would encourage you today, make sure you make good use of your time and don’t waste it. Our lives are framed by time. If God permits and we live to a 100 years old, that means we have 4 quarters in our lives. Each quarter is equal to 25 years. How we spend the first and second quarter of our lives will determine the course of the rest of our lives. Each hour of our life is golden; don’t let your golden hour slip by without doing something valuable with it. Time is the coin of your life, don’t let others spend it for you, determine what you want to do with it, value it, cherish it, invest it and it will yield profits for you. Only you can determine how your coin will be spent, and remember it is the only coin you have, you cant save your time to spend it another day. If you want to be creative, start doing it now, if you want to be an artist, start practicing now, if you want to be a lawyer, start studying now, whatever you want to achieve or become in life depends on what you do with your time now. If you want to be a skilled musician, you will need many hours of practice. If those hours slip by and you don’t do anything, then you may not become anything. Be constructive with your time. As the hours slip by, so does our age. Time is eternal and ageless, we cannot slow it down, that is why you must start doing what you have to do now and not leave it till tomorrow. If you don’t watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you. Procrastination is the thief of time; don’t wait to do tomorrow what you could have done today. If you yield to time, you will find time on your side. Opportunity walks with time but repentance walks behind it, so make the best of every opportunity. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to come, now is the time to invest so we do not regret tomorrow what we could have done with the time we had yesterday, for yesterday is no more. The grace is of time is that no matter what time you’ve wasted yesterday, you still have an entire tomorrow. I encourage you today to make the best of what time is left, don’t throw your time away. God bless you as you motivate yourself to do better with your time.
I just realised that there’s more to life than the eyes can see;
Are you keeping a record of wrongs done to you?
Sometimes I wonder, what is there to be happy about? So many things are going wrong, bills are higher, wages are low, people are depressed, and nothing is improving. All our material security is being eroded. People are in massive debts; they have no solution to the problem. The rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer. Big companies are making more profit while small businesses are folding up. The world is becoming more selfish and people become lovers of self. We are more “me” focused and people are more self-centred than ever before. Everybody is now taking care of number “1”. I wonder, is there anything to really be happy about? Then I realised that in order to be happy, I have to make others happy. In order to be rich, I have to enrich others. In order to have friends, I must make myself friendly. In order to find help, I must help someone else. If you are not happy, you had better stop worrying about it and look for what treasures you can find around you. It is proven that poverty and wealth does not bring happiness. We are so fond of counting our troubles that we forget to count our joys. The happiness you are looking for will not come as a result of getting something you don’t have or attaining more riches but it is only when we recognise and appreciate what we have that we find true happiness. If you want to be happy practice compassion, be kind to others, give a helping hand. Whenever you can, say kind words and encourage others, prefer others to yourself and sacrifice for others. If you want to be cheerful, cheer others up. Happiness is not far away, it is like a butterfly, when you pursue it, it flies away beyond your grasp but if you sit quietly, it will alight on you. There is a seed in your hand; it is called happiness, share it and you will be surprised to see that it blossoms into a beautiful flower. In order to find true happiness, we must give it. A great obstacle to happiness is expecting others to give what we ourselves cannot share. Happiness is a gift, share it and it will bring you great joy. The secret to being happy is in the giving.
What a life, you wake up in the morning, go to work or for lectures, go to the gym or pre lecture activities, come back home, and sleep and oh my!
Today, I would like to encourage you to fill your mind with good and positive things. The mind is a powerful minefield, out of it comes the issues of life. What you think matters and what you allow to dwell on your mind matters. If you think and meditate on something long enough, you soon act on what you’ve been thinking. Nobody can think for you, you are the only who can think for yourself. People can make suggestions, negative or positive, the choice is yours to decide what you allow to dwell and remain on your mind. You can pollute your mind by accepting the negatives that people throw at you and you can cleanse your mind by being positive and choosing not to accept the rubbish that is being thrown your way. The world we have created is a product of our thinking. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. If you think negative all the time, you must try and change your line of thought, as all you will produce is a negative. Read encouraging, inspirational and motivational books. Feed your mind with good things. Go on courses that will inspire, motivate and energise your mind. Renewal of the mind is the key to positive thinking, you have to renew your mind and feed your mind with good things. Your thoughts become words, if they are negative, you will speak negative, if they are positive, you will speak positive. It’s better to train your mind so that it always sees the positive things in life, then you will act and speak positively. Negative produces negative, positive produces positive, what you sow is what you will reap. Why don’t you sow good things so that you reap good? It is easier to dwell on the negative than the positive. Renewing your mind to think positive takes more effort but produces good results. You could be a prisoner of your own mind, thinking you are ugly when you are beautiful, thinking you are fat and ugly when you are not, thinking you are no good when you have abilities that other people envy. Renewing your mind is important if you are going to make it in life, so keep a positive outlook, think positive and act positive. Weed your mind of the negative and fill your mind with the positive. May God enable you to overcome the negative. God bless you as you think on these things.
Today is a new day, another day in your life, another day in my life, another opportunity to look at things differently, another opportunity to see the good and the bad in our lives, another opportunity to be nice to someone, another opportunity to make up with someone. Today is another day, another day to consider what we could have done better, another day to see if we can make a difference, another opportunity to make the best of the time we’ve got left, another opportunity to share our gift, another opportunity to pray for a friend in need, another opportunity to lend a helping hand. Today is another day, another opportunity to take what belongs to you and make good use of your talent, another opportunity to discard yesterday’s doubts and try something new, another opportunity to do what you procrastinated about yesterday. Take today and don’t waste it. Each new day is there for you to use, to create and birth something new. Don’t waste today; it will not be there tomorrow, so do something with today. If you don’t make use of the opportunity you have today, someone else will take the opportunity you’ve missed and make good use of it. Make an opportunity of your difficulties today. Don’t sit down regretting the chances you’ve lost, take hold of opportunity and don’t let it fly away. Be wise with your time and make the best of today. Today is another opportunity to make a new happy ending. Opportunity is like a bird, it never perches. Today is one moment in your life, seize the opportunity and don’t let it slip, take hold of it and make good use of your day. May this week be productive and successful for you. Have a blessed day.
Maybe you woke up this morning with so much on your mind and you are wondering how your problems are going to be sorted out. I am encouraging you today to not lose heart. Problems come and problems will go. Just as night turns into day and day into night, I am encouraging you that your night will soon turn into day. You must continue to persevere and not give up. Don’t give up yet. Obstacles will come in your way but everytime you conquer one obstacle, you become much stronger to take on the next one. No one can help you as much as you can help yourself. If your soul is cast down, I will encourage you today to arise and shine. Arise and shine. You must hold your ground. It takes a little acorn to grow into an oak tree. If the acorn did not hold in the ground, it would not have turned into an oak. You must hold your ground; you can’t go through life quitting everything. You have to persevere and stick in there. If you should fall, pick yourself up again and don’t quit. Life is full of challenges, the race is not for the swift but for those who keep on running, so keep running and don’t give up now. If you are going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something. Your victory comes not in the falling but in rising up everytime you fall, so I encourage you today to rise up. Rise up to the challenge, rise up and face the world, rise up, it’s not over yet. Each time you conquer and overcome a circumstance or situation you become more than a conqueror, so rise up and conquer. My encouragement to you today is not to give up at the edge of your miracle. If you fall seven times, arise on the eighth and keep going. You can make it if you persevere. For you to have come this far is an act of courage, so be courageous and keep going. Resist fear and keep going, keep going anyway, don’t rest on your laurels. May God strengthen you in this hour and everytime you need help, may His angels lift you and strengthen you. All hope is not lost if you don’t give up. I will encourage you to kneel down and ask God for help, He is waiting to hear your voice and He loves you.
If you doubt yourself, then you are standing on shaky ground
As we live our day-to-day lives I am prompted to ask this question. When I see strife and division I am prompted to ask this question. When I see other people hurting, I am prompted to ask this question. When someone loses his or her confidence, there is a reason why. When someone has low self-esteem, there is a reason why. When I see someone crying and in pain, I know they are not making it up or faking it. I know their pain is real. Are you a bully? Do you enjoy inflicting pain? Please forgive me for asking. The world is hurting and dying because of the pain we inflict on each other. We hurt each other daily, though we may not want to admit it, as it’s always easier to point at the next person and blame them. Do we show compassion when we see the suffering of others? Does it make you feel better when you pass rude comments to others? Do you feel good when you shout at others and you hurt if they do the same to you? Are you a bully or are you not? Do you easily feel insulted when others try to correct and point you in the way of peace? Do you easily misunderstand and misconstrue what people say to you? Are you too proud to say sorry knowing very well what you have done is not good? It makes me wonder if you are a bully. Do you easily point the finger and blame others for your own errors and do you make others laugh or cry? Ask yourself that question once again. Do you make others laugh or cry or are you constantly at war with others? Do you compliment your loved ones or do you pull them down?
When you feel low in yourself it’s always good to talk to somebody who is reliable and can be held in confidence. Feeling low is not a bad thing, as it is a feeling that we all have at some point or the other. The key thing is not to allow your feeling to overcome you to a point where you descend into depression, as depression is more difficult to deal with. It is important to find a source of encouragement where you can get some advice, prayer or support of some kind. Remember, you are not alone; there are thousands of people going through the same road. Help must be sought in time of need, if not this leads into isolation and danger. If you are feeling low right now remember there are plenty of people worse off than yourself. Look up and try and see the brighter side of life. Nobody promised us a bed of roses but if we choose to look on the bright side, things could be better. Whatever you are going through try and keep hope alive. Try and look up. Try and do something to make the situation better. You are the important one here, you are valuable, you are worth more than many sparrows, and your life is worth much more than money can buy. There is no one like you, you are unique, you are special, just believe in yourself and keep hope alive. There is light at the end of the tunnel, so don’t give up just yet. Somebody out there needs you so don’t cut your life short.
One thing we must remember is that we are an army in this world and we are here to fight a battle. We are to fight a battle in which only God can be our helper, our guide and our aid. He is the only one who has the perfect strategy for the battle. Our battle began from conception until the present day. Tell me who in this world has not faced one adversity or the other? Our being birthed safely into this world is a battle and victory in itself but our battle only just begun. Imagine a fatherless child or a child whose mother died during labour or just after being born. These are the people we need to remember to pray for, the orphans, widows, the sick, people going through mental attacks, the hurting and those who find themselves in a position they are not able to do anything about. This is proof in itself that there must be something precious in us that some devil is after. That is why I created this site to encourage people. I don’t know what you might be going through right now but I would like to encourage you to forgive those who have hurt you. I know it is not easy but this is the first step towards spiritual freedom. You and I are a treasure in this world and we have the potential for greatness in us, you have the potential for greatness, believe it or not. You and I have the capability of changing the world and helping to make it a better place. We have the ability to create in our minds and bring that creativity into manifestation. We have the ability to create good things and empower others to do the same. We have the ability to transform other people’s lives and bring a change. We have the ability to make the world a better and safer place. There is power invested in us by the Almighty but there is an element of evil in the world that is trying to stop us from achieving our full potential. There are destiny killers in our way, obstacles, trials, tribulations, pain, heartache etc. All these stem from evil. My encouragement today is not to look at what has been done to you, look and see what you can do for others to bring about a change in this world. With a positive mind and outlook, the world can be better even if it is only by a fraction. Your efforts are worth it. God bless you as you think on these things.
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