14:04:14 - THE DARK JOURNAL

Blind Widow: Why me, oh my pikin... keeping her gaze to the sky she asked God why didn't He take her instead? Lying next to her was the bread winner of the family - a 7 year old hawking in order to afford the daily bread for her blind mom and herself in almost unrecognizable look. Everyone around her couldn't fight the tears from falling.

Dumb Boy: (repeated blabbing and rapid hand movement) He witnessed the whole incidence from afar off and was struggling to tell the tale. No one understood his sign even though he kept at it, trembling in shock. Some minutes later, a junior student showed up and said he beckoning on his younger brother who was playing behind the buses that was engulfed by the explosion but now, he is no more.

Success Series III: Success Factors

Still on super success (III)
"This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success" (Joshua 1:8).
I'm sure you know that success cannot hide itself, neither does it come by wishes. Success has no preference. It has no favorite skin color, state of origin; rather success takes the skin color of any who dares to pay the price! Success does not select people it; it's people that select success. "Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Isreal from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion" (Isaiah 8:18). 
Everyone that carries God has the capacity to succeed. As a light of the world, you are designed to command attention anywhere you are. It is not a gift but a result that answers to the operation of the Iron law of life - the Law of Cause and Effect, you have to make it happen. It obeys the law of sowing and reaping and requires effort. 

But why then do many believers fail today?
They refuse to realize that Salvation is only a platform to succeed but does not guarantee automatic success, it only gives you an edge to succeed. Success obeys a law therefore all that obey the law succeed, that's what proves your journey ends in good success.

What then are these success factors? 

• A Burning Desire: All success stories begin with a burning desire resident in the heart of man. Desire is the pacesetter for success. A burning desire is a motivation for action. Have you asked yourself how bad you want success? How much do you want it that you are willing to sacrifice for it? The extent of your achievement in life is determined by the intensity of your desires! Desire breeds hunger. As the rocket propellant is to a rocket engine so is desire to a man. If you so much desire it, you will behave it. A burning desire is reflective in your behaviors and attitudes in life. "One thing have i desired of the Lord, that will i seek after, that i may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple" (Psalms 27:4). "The proof of desire is pursuit"...Dr Mike Murdock. Nothing powers self discipline to attain success like a sense of burning desire.

Prayer, a binding force

Excerpt from Why Revival Tarries...

The words of E.M Bounds says "No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence,  no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire o prayer with flame"

That is why i know that prayer is conditioned by spirituality and it affects eternity. In an unction-less preacher, the word is dead but a sermon born in the heart reaches the heart. Unction cannot be learned, only earned through prayer. Unction is God's knighthood for the soldier, preacher who preaches has wrestled in prayer and gained victory. Victory is won in the prayer closet. Unction is like dynamite that will pierce and percolate, sweeten and soften, when the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the strong heart.

Success Series (II): The Success Journey

"While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" Genesis 8;22

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers" 3 John 2.

We established the act that success is the discovery of God's goals for your life and the continuous achievement of same. Jeremiah 29:11 reveals: "For I know the thoughts I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

However, success is NOT a product of luck. Neither is it result of chance. Success results from deliberate acts. Luck and chance cannot be predicted but success in any endeavor of life is predictable. Those who look for success end up locked up in life. Success has to be deliberately prepared for. No one strolls into it by chance. Success is predictable because it responds to certain time tested and proven laws or principles. It's been said that the iron law of life is the law of cause and effect. This law is also called the law of sowing and reaping. it is whatever you sow that you are permitted to reap. Success therefore is an effect it can be caused.

Boy released by kidnapper after singing gospel music

(Photo: 11Alive News)

A young boy's love of gospel music may have saved his life.
Earlier this month, police say a man kidnapped then nine-year-old Willie Myrick from his southwest Atlanta driveway. He allegedly drove the boy around for some time before dropping him off unharmed in East Point.
But Willie's actions during those terrifying three hours are inspiring people around the country. Willie says he sang the gospel song Every Praise until the man let him go.
Thursday evening, community leaders held a meeting in Willie's honor, celebrating his happy ending, but also telling other parents and children what to do if this happens to them.
In front of a crowded sanctuary at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Willie recounted the moment he was freed from the car. Willie said while he was singing, the man kept cursing and telling him to shut up before eventually kicking him out.
"He opened the door and threw me out," Willie said. "He told me not to tell anyone."

Success Defined

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think that you dare not, you don’t
If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost
For out in the world you’ll find
Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can .
~ Arnold Palmer

Love

Love lies at the foundation of the society and permeates unconsciously the thoughts, aspirations and hopes of mankind. Love is glorified as the source of the most admirable productions of art, of the sublime creations of poetry and music; it is accepted as the greatest factor in human civilization, as the basis of the family and state. Love is the greatest conqueror, it is as strong as death...it is rather foolish to believe that this life exists on anything less than love.
Here is this pertinent question,"what is the true meaning of LOVE?"...
"True love gives meaning to life and makes life worth living". It is love that keeps us alive, since it alone makes life lovable. It is love that saves, and love itself must be saved. There is but one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
Whether or not life is worth the pain of being lived, or, rather, whether it is worth the pain and the pleasure of being lived depends on one’s capacity for love.To have no love at all defines unhappiness, only souls that love and are loved are happy.

Success Series (1): Success Defined

The words of a man of Success-Rev Duro Aina. The blessing of God is the maker of man: “The blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow- Proverb 10:22). You are the heir of Abraham, his blessings are your inheritance. If you don't know what u carry u tend to miscarry. Let no man run you down, you have what it takes to be successful. Success is not far away from you, it's right there in u.

Encounter

The word encounter means to come upon or to meet with. Most literary meaning would say unexpected meeting. No! That’s not the kind of encounter I’m referring to. Every being always have a deep need to see or meet with someone, mostly someone you’ve not seen before, someone greater and mightier than you’ve seen. For most believers this person could be their God. This deep need to see God is what I’m referring to. So you could term it encounter with God.

God’s desire is to bring you into a relationship with him. For you to have a passionate pursuit for Him. Knowing you are in the world and so many thing craves for your attention, at times we even end up giving these things more attention than we give him. Nevertheless he sits waiting for us to come to him.