Power belongs to our GOD!

  Sincerely speaking, there is a great need as to why we must sign into the leadership at all spheres. The Christians must understand that the effects leadership could force on us particularly and in the entire world is demandingly triggering to wrong directions. 

That is why you must collectively work hard to correct it by your involvement into all leadership arenas at its widths and length. 

For if Christians don’t work harder to correct and change this world from godless leaderships, it will surly and smartly contagion unfaithful deeds in our systems and we will be loathed by the Almighty God—we will find ourselves fighting against Him too. You must know very well that power belongs to our GOD.

 He said, “¹¹God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God” (Ps.62:11). And again,⁷For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. ⁸God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne. ⁹The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of theGod of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted. (Ps. 47: 7-9). Thus, says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool.

 Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? ²For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word. (Isaiah 66: 1-2 NKJV). When the people repent and return back from backslidings and acknowledge the LORD in their ways and become faithful to GOD with their whole hearts, the LOR will give them the right leaders—leaders after His own heart who will build their Nation and feed the people with knowledge. Jeremiah, the Hebrew prophet has this to says:¹⁴"Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. ¹⁵And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 

Remember, God has never been very well glorified by any leaderships of non-God-fearing people apart from His own Sons and daughters (Faithful ones). Even in the Old Testament, myriad lessons are there concerning God’s loathing non-God-fearing Kingdoms ruled by their wicked kings whose hearts were uncircumcised from the worship of idols. He (God) didn’t stop there, but he commanded his Servants (Hebrews kings) to destroy those kingdoms down. Hebrew King David was named “a man after God’s heart” after he slew ten thousand from the heathens (Palestine). The kinship of God did not stop there in those eras,God revealed it in a dream to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in a vision interpreted by Daniel. In the interpretation, Daniel said that after the kingdoms of Nebuchadnezzar, there would be three more kingdoms before last kingdom.

 And the last kingdom has these quotes “a stone is thrown by an unseen hand and destroyed all those kingdoms, and the stone grew and became the dominant kingdom throughout all the ages”. Daniel concluded that that it was the kingdom of the Son of Man (Messiah). You see? But there is important thing I want to elaborate on it. 

The teaching on ‘salvation of God,’ the real meaning therein must not be hijacked used only for one reason like maybe from “spiritual death” or of “going to heaven”. I am saying this to those who are striving and preaching God’s salvation, specifically normal Christians, pastors, bishops who believed that the salvation of God is only for them. God is not only obligated to render protection to casual spiritual worshippers whose services are songs, hymns, tithing and so on—rather it is for all those who are striving for GOD’s common courses. 

Both everlasting life and salvation are for every man and woman who has genuinely believed in Christ Jesus and honestly serving God’s Creations in devotion, clean heart and responsive to God’s ways. You must know that secular power belongs to the Almighty GOD, because He used leaders to take away reproaches FROM their society. King David was the right example; he slew the Palestine’s gain Goliath, who shamelessly defied the army of the living God. With very small weapon, he (David) slew his foe, this is to say that the leader doesn’t need strange powers in order fight with, but any available things within his reach. 

Leaders are determined, no matter what their normal human brothers could warn them against because their great concern is to fight away their foes’ perditions targeting society or erroneous ideas that tends to corrupt or any defying statements hurled against their people.

Moses was both king and a Prophet. But where did he grow? The Almighty God raised him inside the Egyptian Kingdom (Palace) so that he could learn Egyptian wisdom, riddles, proverbs and wise Sayings. And the word of God said “Moses grew mighty in words and deeds”. God put his Servant’s feet up on leadership realm. You should know, that when the word of God is misinterpreted, that it could produce delicate and weakling personalities.

 But when the Almighty God’s word is well-translated and lived unto its liability, it will cause even the feeblest and way-giving legs to rise up and become great leaders! Believe me or not, it is the GOD of Abraham who ALONE gives power to who He wished. King of Babylon for instance, was chosen by GOD for punishing His people for their transgressions. The GOD set Nebuchadnezzar to be King over the earth and Jeremiah prophesied this to his stiff-necked Zedekiah king of Judah and his ministers who refused to give his neck to the king Nebuchadnezzar because of the false prophets who encouraged the king of Judah not to bend to Jeremiah’s prophesies. 

But GOD spoke through Jeremiah saying:⁵"I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. ⁶And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. ⁷So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

⁸And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,' says the LORD, "with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

Jeremiah again spoke clearly to a stiff-necked Zedekiah king of Judah and his ministers who listened to false prophets’ words, saying, “⁹Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon." ¹⁰For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.¹¹But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land,' says the LORD, "and they shall till it and dwell in it." ¹²I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live! The Bible continue… ¹³Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?. The king spoke, and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the Captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah? ¹⁴I have heard of you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

Believe me, nothing God demand to host or to restore to Himself all human leaderships no matter how minor, He wish them to be giving His due glory to His Most High Name. You must know, that through leadership we glorify either God Creator of Universe, or Satan. And we must uplift God’s Kingdom. Jesus when he was ask by the disciples about the Kingdom of GOD, he (Jesus) said, ²⁰Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹nor will they say, "See here!' or "See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17: 20-22). Therefore, you must that Leadership is a glory of gods, and it is up to the society to choose the god they and their offspring wish to glorify.

Daniel was both a Leader and a Prophet. He ruled even in the foreign kingdom. In those days, the highest kingdom on earth was the Babylonian Kingdom. And when God was not pleased by the ways the kings of His anointed Kingdom were leading His people. He decided to send them into captivity and place was said to the higher kingdom, namely Babylonian kingdom under the king Nebuchadnezzar. He sent them there into captivity not because He completely did not want them, but He wished to correct them there in that great kingdom full of wisdom and strength.

And Daniel, the Hebrew, even in that great kingdom, he was found worthy to lead because of courage, wisdom and strength he depicted before Nebuchadnezzar The Great. Daniel gained the king’s favor, and managed to lead twice as the second ruler in that great kingdom. It was said that even Daniel’s friends joined leadership and were amongst the Babylonians leaders as governors to three provinces. Daniel used to sit in the royal palace with his friends deciding on matters affecting the kingdom and their words were considered above any of Babylonians’ natives. And that was where the envious men of Babylonian remonstrated the way they saw Hebrew were highly help in respect. But God was there to help them from their enemies’ plots.

You must know, the lessons the Bible is pointing out here are not about “salvation” or “everlasting life” but concerned leadership, godly leadership. The Almighty God here wants to be the real leader of His Peoples, but how would He lead the human realm, the flesh, while he is a SPIRIT? That is why he wish to use His own children—YOU! 

You must also remember also, that God had written and sealed His words in the tablets of our hearts in order to use that word both for give good governance and guidance when we go wrong some areas in thing to do with leadership. There is great urge in God heart, so He love to give the best things to His people always. 

He wants to see His people well-catered for. But He lacked reliable access since the world is corrupt and thoroughly wicked. Sometimes when God sees His people are misled or misguided, he retaliates by striking the humanity with things like earthquakes, famines, draughts, epidemics, hurricanes or fires and so many are God rebuking humans on godless leaderships.

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Serfdom inherited by Africans

Jomo Kenyatta was the first President of Kenya. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid-1890s, is unclear, and was unclear even to him, as his parents were illiterate, and no formal birth records of Africans were kept in Kenya at that time. 

However, most biographies give his date of birth as October 20, 1891. Kenya observed a public holiday every 20 October in Jomo Kenyatta’s honor until the 2010 constitution abolished Kenyatta Day and replaced it with Mashujaa (Heroes’) day.

Here are Ten Powerful Quotes by Jomo Kenyatta:

“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.”

“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”

“To .. All the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.” ~from the dedication in his book Facing Mount Kenya (1938).

“Many people may think that, now there is Uhuru, now I can see the sun of Freedom shinning, richness will pour down like manna from Heaven. I tell you there will be nothing from Heaven. We must all work hard, with our hands, to save ourselves from poverty, ignorance, and disease.” ~from an Independence Day message to the people, as quoted in Sanford Ungar’s Africa, the People and Politics of an Emerging Continent, New York, 1985.

“Many people may think that, now there is Uhuru, now I can see the sun of Freedom shinning, richness will pour down like manna from Heaven. I tell you there will be nothing from Heaven. We must all work hard, with our hands, to save ourselves from poverty, ignorance, and disease.”

“The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers … those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.”

“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people… we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.” ~from a speech given in Nyeri, Kenya, 26 July 1952.

“Europeans assume that, given the right knowledge and ideas, personal relations can be left largely to take care of themselves, and this is perhaps the most fundamental difference in outlook between Africans and Europeans.” 

“Don’t be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.”

“It Africans were left in peace on their own lands, Europeans would have to offer them the benefits of white civilization in real earnest before they could obtain the African labour which they want so much. They would have to offer the African a way of life which was really superior to the one his fathers lived before, and a share in the prosperity given them by their command of science. 

They would have to let the African choose what parts of European culture could be beneficially transplanted, and how they could be adapted … The African is conditioned, by cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom forever.” 

Rev. Malong Baak

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Never Let Things You Want Make You Forget Things You Have

Never Let Things You Want Make You Forget Things You Have

Do not let your wants deprive you of making the best use of every good thing God has already given to you. Make the best use of your life. Do not wants or seek to be like others, be yourself. Do not copy anyone, live your original life. Do not aim to speak like someone, speak the way God created you. Do not intend to walk like others, walk the way God created you. Be original.

If you copy others by living their lives, you will only be the second best because you can never be better than whosoever you are copying

You have freedom, don’t let whatever you want take away your freedom. Many people have been incapacitated today because of their wants. They can’t move to anywhere on their own without the authority knowing about it. They are imprisoned. Because they want more money, more prestige, more fame and more respect; they have gone out of their way to seek more money in an ungodly way and nemesis has catch up with them. As you may know before, there is a tiny gap between freedom and imprisonment. It is therefore important to avoid anything that can bring quick money, quick fame, quick prestige and quick honor in a way that is contrary to God. Take care and be careful so that what you want will not take away the freedom you already have.

You have families, parents, husband, wife, children, friends, relatives, colleagues and neighbors. Don’t let whatever you seek or want take away your people from you. Some people have lost their families, friends and relatives because of their wants. They traded their people for their wants and thereby they can no longer identify with such friends and families. Some others have, through their unabated wants, brought shame on their families and friends; hence, they have been renounced by their loved ones.

Your children need you. Your parents need you. Your friends will be happy to have you. Your relatives will not like to pass through the pain of visiting you in the prison or hospital or the pain of mourning you. Your colleagues still need their blossom friend in the office, your community still needs that vibrant neighbor, your nation still needs that law-abiding citizen and above all, the church, the Kingdom of God still needs that heaven-bound brother or sister.

What can make you not fulfill the above expectations of your friends, families and the church? Drop those and seek the face of God. You don’t need a million dollar before you can live peacefully and successfully here on earth. One thing you need in addition to godliness is contentment. No wonder Apostle Paul advised Timothy about contentment in 1 Timothy 6:6, he said, “But godliness with contentment is great gain” For you to have great gain, you must be content with what you have. I am not saying you should not aspire, but your aspirations must be tailored and structured by Christ to the glory of God. Anything outside that is of the devil and can never yield and good result but will only lead to perdition. Beware!

What are your wants? What are you seeking to become? Weigh those things whether they are in line with God. If not, drop them. Remember, the Bible says, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

You have peace, don’t let whatever you seek take away your peace from you. Take things easy. Do not become someone who will be running up and down, to and fro from the authority or friends and families. Take life easy! Put God first and you will have good success. Remember, the Bible says “He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.” 1 Samuel 2:9KJV)

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5 NIV)

You have Christ Jesus, don’t let whatever you seek or want take away Jesus Christ from you. To tell you the truth, there is nothing you can have, be or achieve in life that is greater than having Jesus Christ as your Lord and your Savior. Hold on tight to Him because He is the secret of your success and joy, as well as the hope of your glory.

Christ Himself said, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5 KJV.)

It is not possible to achieve anything in life outside Christ, therefore stick to Him, and you will not achieve only here on earth but you will also reign with Christ in heaven. 

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7 Powerful principles of eagle by Dr. Myles Munroe

Principle 1: Eagles fly alone at high altitude and not with sparrows or other small birds. No other bird can go to the height of the eagle. Stay away from sparrows and ravens. 

Lesson 1: Eagles fly with eagles.

Principle 2: Eagles have strong vision. They have the ability to focus on something up to five kilometres away. When an eagle sites his prey, he narrows his focus on it and sets out to get it. No matter the obstacles, the eagle will not move his focus from the prey until he grabs it.

Lesson 2: Have a vision and remain focused no matter what the obstacle and you will succeed.

Principle 3: Eagles do not eat dead things. They feed only on fresh prey. Vultures eat dead animals, but eagles will not.

Lesson 3: Be careful with what you feed your eyes and ears with, especially in movies and on TV. Steer clear of outdated and old information. Always do your research well.

Principle 4: Eagles love the storm. When clouds gather, the eagles get excited. The eagle uses the storm’s wind to lift it higher.

Once it finds the wind of the storm, the eagles uses the raging storm to lift him above the clouds. This gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. In the meantime, all the other birds hide in the leaves and branches of the trees.

Lesson 4: We can use the storms of life to rise to greater heights. Achievers relish challenges and use them profitably.

Principle 5: The eagle tests before it trusts. When a female eagle meets a male and they want to mate, she flies down to earth with the male pursuing her and she picks a twig. She flies back into the air with the male pursuing her.

Once she has reached a height high enough for her, she lets the twig fall to the ground and watches it as it falls. The male chases after the twig.

The faster it falls, the faster he chases it. He has to catch it before it falls to the ground. He then brings it back to the female eagle. The female eagle grabs the twig and flies to a higher altitude and then drops the twig for the male to chase.

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Wise quotes from former American president Abraham Lincoln

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

 “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

 “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

 “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

 “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

 “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

 “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

 “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

 “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

 “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

 “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”

 “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

 “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

 “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”

 “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

 “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

 “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

 “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

 “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

 “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

 “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

 “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

 “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

 “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

Inspirational quotes by Nelson Mandela about love and humanity

8.) “We must all strive to be inspired by a deep-seated love of our country, without regard to race, color, gender or station in life.” – Nelson Mandela

9.) “There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair.” – Nelson Mandela

10.) “Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.” – Nelson Mandela

11.) “They must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite” – Nelson Mandela

12.) “You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.” – Nelson Mandela

13.) “The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person” – Nelson Mandela

14.) “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Nelson Mandela

Inspirational quotes by Nelson Mandela about our Youth

15.) “Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don’t have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got claims.” – Nelson Mandela

16.) “History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children” – Nelson Mandela, 

17.) “Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.”– Nelson Mandela

18.) “It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine.” – Nelson Mandela

19.) “I am the product of Africa and her long-cherished view of rebirth that can now be realized so that all of her children may play in the sun.” – Nelson Mandela

20.) “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”  

21.) “The children who sleep in the streets, reduced to begging to make a living, are testimony to an unfinished job.”- Nelson Mandela

22.) “I waited for over 70 years to cast my first vote. I chose to do it near the grave of John Dube, the first President of the ANC” – Nelson Mandela

23.) “As I am former prisoner number 46664, there is a special place in my heart for all those that are denied access to their basic human rights.” – Nelson Mandela

24.) “It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on Earth irrespective of the consequences.” – Nelson Mandela

Inspirational Quotes by Nelson Mandela About Freedom

25.) “It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my people became a hunger for the freedom of all people.” – Nelson Mandela

26.) “To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one’s birth, whether one acknowledges it or not.” – Nelson Mandela

27.) “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.” – Nelson Mandela

28.) “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear” – Nelson Mandela

29.) “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

Inspirational Quotes by Nelson Mandela About Leadership and What Seems Possible

30.) “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

31.) “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Nelson Mandela

32.) “Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying.” – Nelson Mandela

33.) “When I walked out of prison that was my mission – to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.” – Nelson Mandela

34.) “You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” – Nelson Mandela

35.) “Significant progress is always possible if we ourselves try to plan every detail of our lives and actions.” – Nelson Mandela

36.) “As a leader of a mass organization, one must listen to the people from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela

37.) “It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” – Nelson Mandela

38.) “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela

39.) “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” – Nelson Mandela

40.) “One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.” – Nelson Mandela

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