Good morning friends and followers. I trust that we are staying in charge of every situation and circumstances in our lives.

Life comes with different spices. Sometimes it is sweet, sometimes just plain and sometimes bitter. Whichever life brings, make something good out it.

Today, I want to crave your indulgence to give me feedback on the daily broadcast. It could be in form of suggestion, criticism, complaint or even request. I will really appreciate a response from all my followers so I can know how helpful or otherwise this daily broadcast has been. You can either respond on this platform or send me a mail on adewumioni@gmail.com.

Thank you all and God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

There are certain laws that will make your life better and also help you to be more productive in life. Here are some of them.

1. Law of Seed and Harvest: This applies in every area of life. In relationships, only do to others what you want back in multiplied dimension. The harvest is always in multiple of the seed, so choose your seed carefully. In business, don’t lay the foundation of your business with ill gotten wealth or stealing someone else’s idea. In ministry, don’t pull down another ministry to start yours. Don’t build anything on a faulty foundation. ‘If the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do?’.  Psalm 11:3. Remember that the harvest always supercedes the seed.

2. The Law of Motion : Newton 1st law of thermodynamics state that ‘an object remains in a state of rest until an external force is applied’. Ordinary people watch things happen,  while Great People make things happen. Take daily steps towards your goal. Destiny is not happenstance, destiny is action induced. Success is not by chance, success is a result of prompt prior preparation and efforts. So don’t wait for success to happen, make it happen.

3. Law of Seizing the Moment: This can also be called the law of Right Timing. For some actions, the right time is any time. For instance, there is no time that is not right for doing good. Some actions however, require timely action. If you don’t seize the moment for such, it will become irrelevant. You must therefore be discerning and sharpen your senses and intuition to know when the moment is ‘Now’. No matter how little resources you have, when it is the ‘Now’ moment, take a step, other things will fall in place.
4. Law of Purpose : The basic underpinning of this law is that there is a purpose for everything and everyone in life. Ecclesiastes 3:1. When the purpose of a thing is not known it is subject to abuse. Your life makes the best meaning when you find your purpose and you are pursuing your purpose. Finding your purpose requires knowing that there is an Almighty God who created you and acknowledging Him. He will guide you to your purpose if you ask Him.

We will continue with the remaining laws tomorrow.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

We live in a time and age when greeting neighbors has become a once a week affair. We have no time for chit chat, we are all in a hurry. Racing against time. Losing all the little pleasures of life. No more leisurely stroll in the evening, or the pleasure of watching the sun rising majestically in the morning. We don’t even have time to enjoy the luxuries we daily labor for. The pressures of modern life have choked out real life out of many people. What vanity!

A major consequence of this is the built up of tension resulting into coldness, insensitivity and sometimes, outright hatred. We don’t have kind words for strangers any longer. We become ruthless with other road drivers when on the road. We snap at the fuel attendant who is sluggish in attending to us. Jokes don’t make much meaning to us again. We are eager to fight at the slightest provocation. We are all like walking grenades ready to explode anytime.

It will be nice if we can start spreading love deliberately. If you take time to find out what the problem is with our world today, it is lack of love. Whether religious crisis or political crisis, the root is absence of love. Make up your mind as you set out on daily basis to exude love, warmth and kindness. The more of it you give, the more it comes back to you. Be kind to strangers. Reach out to your neighbors. Sow words of Comfort into people lives.

God is Love and the more love you share, the more godly you become. So let us start spreading love.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

If you find a society where there are good leaders, it must be a society that pays attention to reading. Readers are leaders. If you don’t read you cannot be informed. An uninformed mind is more dangerous than an unformed mind. A baby has an unformed mind. An uninformed mind is a formed mind empty of knowledge. He is susceptible to errors, and an easy object of manipulation by the informed mind.  One of the main reasons people choose wrong leaders during election is because they are uninformed. They follow the dictates of others.

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson. You are a reflection of what you know. What you know is a function of your knowledge. Knowledge is acquired through learning and experiencing. The easiest of the two is learning, and one easy way to learn is by reading. Experiencing oftentimes is of more benefit to others than to the person having the experience, but reading benefits you directly.

The saying ‘Readers are leaders’ is not just a cliché. It is an enduring truth. Reading exposes you. Good books open up your mind and gives you edge above others in whatever subject you read on. They make you experience several lives while you are reading.  ‘A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.’ (William Styron). It shouldn’t come as a surprise if the depth and content of your speech or conversation leaves your audience speechless. Such brilliant and articulate speech delivery, whether prepared or ad libbed  only comes from  consistent reading.

There is a lot of things you can easily learn by reading. Reading actually gives you the opportunity to understand the workings of the minds of the writers. So if you want to be a President, read books written by and about Presidents. Whatever you want to become in life, find books on those who have already achieved it.

In reading however, be careful with your choice of books. You can easily be initiated into some dangerous cults or habits by reading certain books. So read books on science, art,  Finance, self help, autobiographies and biographies of great people.  The Bible is arguably the greatest book because it is life manual. It teaches you how to live.

If you travel with great people, you will observe that while others are sleeping or chatting, most of the time they are reading and taking notes. So if you want to be Distinguished in life, you must make reading a chronic habit.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

You are either an agent of change or an agent in chain. You are either leading or being led. There is no middle ground or fence in this matter. It is either you are influencing things or you are being influenced. You can also be an agent of change positively or negatively. Life is a reflection of these two agents (change and chain). The more of agents of positive change we have, the better our world. Likewise, the more of agents of negative change we have the poorer our world will be.

Now, what impact do the agents in chain have on our world? They help to maintain the status quo. If we have more of negative agents in chain, it is because there are more negative agents of change, and the effect on our life is continuity of negative situations, and vice versa. If we then desire for a better world, then we must become agents of positive change. Those in our circle of influence becomes our agents in chain.

As we are all eagerly hoping to see positive change in our land, it is important to know that the change starts with us. Be the Change. Lead the Change. Don’t wait for the government. Start in your own home and neighborhood. Stop littering the environment. Stop jumping queue. Maintain orderliness. Drive carefully and respect other road users. Help the needy. Be the voice for the helpless. Get involved in a volunteer service. Preach Peace. Stop the message of hatred, discord and war. Stop abusing your office and position. Stop appropriating public resources for your private use. Let the Change begin with you.

Your actions can influence the actions of others. Choose positive actions. Be a positive change agent.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

One of the harmful beliefs we grew up with, especially in Africa, is the existence of witches and wizards, and the great harm they can do to us. Our parents in their bid to protect us often went to the extreme to seek protection for us against witches and wizards. And we can’t blame them, they were also fed with the same belief, more so at a time when knowledge was extremely low. We were made to believe that our worst enemies are witches and wizards. So even in our prayers, we spend more time praying against witches and wizards. When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, not one mention was given to witches or wizards, so get your focus right in prayer.

Do they exist? Yes they do. Do they have power to harm you? Yes, but only to the extent to which you allow them. The truth is that no witch or wizard can conquer the man who has conquered himself. There is no greater enemy to yourself than yourself. If only we can spend half the time spent on praying and seeking protection from them on working on ourselves, we will be closer to the persons God destined us to be. We attribute most failures in life to the work of witches or wizards, while in truth, we are responsible for most of these failures.

We fail because we are indisciplined. We don’t manage our time well. We are lazy. We procrastinate. We don’t plan or plan poorly. We don’t take care of our health and we expect to be healthy. We are not mindful of what we eat and we complain that the resultant ailment is the work of a witch! No, you are responsible! If you focus on overcoming your weaknesses, your journey to success is half covered. A man’s enemies are those of his household. Micah 7:6. Your household refers to your body and self. If you deal with those habits, you will find solutions to your problems.

It is time for us to take responsibility for our destinies. God has invested so much in the African race, but these wrong beliefs have held us down for long. It is time to break loose and deal with our weaknesses. We can be great. Conquer within and no external force will be able to conquer you. Without an opening, a lizard cannot find abode inside the wall. Block the holes in your life. Either as individuals or a race, we are the Architects of most of our woes. The witches and wizards are only as powerful as you make them be. Stop idolizing them. Focus on the enemies within (yourself), that is your worst enemy. You are more than conqueror.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

Life is a gift and it is given for a purpose. You are given the gift of life to impact another life. If all you are living for is to acquire wealth and compete with the Joneses, then you are wasting away life. If all you are striving for is to be comfortable in life without making another person comfortable, then you are not fulfilling the purpose of life.

You need to understand that your life is beyond you. There are destinies attached to your destiny. There are people whose lives can be made better by your words, deeds, ideas and establishments. The greatness of a man is not in his wealth but in the number of lives he is able to touch. Great people focus on impacting lives, while small people focus on enjoying life.

As the world mourns Mohammed Ali (regarded as the greatest), maybe you are wondering why everyone, regardless of race or creed or religion, is talking about Ali. It is because beyond the fame of boxing Ali touched lives. He stood for the blacks. He was a social activist. He spent his life for a purpose outside the ring. What will be said about you when you die? How many people will do everything to be by your graveside when you are gone?

Are you touching lives or just enjoying life? Who are you impacting? Jesus said in Luke 4:18, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Herein lies the purpose of every man and it doesn’t have to be on the pulpit.

So, who are you impacting?

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

RIP Mohammed Ali
RIP Stephen Keshi

Fear has torment and it tortures its victims before manifesting, if it ever manifests. 1 John 4:18. It cripples every sense of reasoning and weakens one’s faith. Fear is so terrible that it can kill the victim before the thing being feared even happens. Fear is a terrible monster and it has a spirit. There is a spirit called the Spirit of Fear. 2 Tim. 1:7.

Fear is defined as false evidence appearing real. It is the conceptualization of imagination such that it becomes more real than imaginary. It can lead to a state of paranoia, hallucination, despondency, suicidal tendencies and insanity. Fear is truly powerful and can keep you sleepless all night and restless all day.

However, as terrible as fear is, there is an effective antidote designed by God to neutralize fear. Please note that there is a difference between godly fear and ungodly fear. Godly fear is a reverence awe for the things of God which leads to repentance, salvation and abundance, while ungodly fear is the type that cripples and renders one useless. All fears, except godly fear is from the devil. The devil and his demons are the ones responsible for painting those pictures in your mind and making them so real that you begin to fear them as if they have happened. They are all lies. I have been there before and I can tell you that no matter how so real they appear to be, they are like mirage in the desert.

The only antidote to fear is Faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things hoped for. Hebrews 11:1. Faith is the accepting of promises as if they had happened. There is no vacuum in is. You either have faith or fear. You can feed your faith by constantly recounting what God has done in the past, hearing the word of God, meditating on the word of God,  acting on the word of God and praying in the Holy Ghost. You can also feed your fear by constantly feeding your mind with news of terrible things happening all over, avoiding the word of God, believing enchanters, diviners and sorcerers. When the devil throws a fiery dart of fear, counter him with the word of God. This is why it is important that you are loaded with the words of God and always be mindful of what He has done in the past.

The intention behind sending the spirit of fear is to make you believe God less and weaken your faith. The devil is a liar and full of lies. There is no truth in him, when he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own. John 8:44. So when next he comes with his lies, tell him he is a liar and there is no truth in the picture he is painting. Resist him firmly by telling him what God has promised, which is the thoughts of Peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. If you feed your faith, your expectations will come to pass and if you feed your fears they will manifest eventually. Job 3:25.

Stop feeding your fears by believing the devil. He is a pathological liar and cannot tell the truth. You cannot die before your time. You cannot fail as long as you are in Christ. You will not remain childless. You will not die single. Your future and destiny is certain as long as you walk with God towards the fulfillment. Put the devil where he belongs today by telling him he is a liar. Victory is certainly yours., because you are born of God. 1 John 5:4.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. ” –  C. JoyBell C.

If there is anything that should never end in your life, it is growth. Only the dead stops growing. The moment you stop growing you start decaying. Every aspect of your life should be experiencing growth. You should experience growth physically, emotionally, intellectually, materially, financially, and spiritually. There is no room for stagnancy in nature, if you are not growing, you are simply retrogressing. Regardless of your age, you can still be productive.

We are a creature of exceedingly great capacity. Our brain has about 86 billion neurons. (James Randerson, The Guardian, February 2012). “A single firing neuron might communicate to thousands of others in a single moment. No computer comes close to the complexity of these communicating bits of organic matter.” (livescience.com). This tells you the capacity you have within you to grow.

Regardless of where you are in business, career, personal or spiritual life, there is a lot of room for growth and improvement. You can still grow that business. You can study more. You can expand your horizon. You can improve on that relationship. You can make your marriage sweeter. You can be better than the best at work. There is practically no limitation to what man can do, once he sets his mind on it. So break the limit and raise the bar. Increase your capacity. Read more. Travel more. Build more. Love more. Invest more. Sell more. Trade more. Exercise more. Just make sure you are increasing your capacity.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

Nothing lasts forever, especially on this side of the divide (earth). Every emotion, whether of pain, joy, grief, sorrow, happiness, will eventually fade away. Time has a way of changing things and the way we see them. No matter what challenge, trouble, difficulty, persecution or affliction you may be going through, be rest assured that it won’t last forever. It has an end. There is an appointed expiry date for every problem, so don’t kill yourself before the expiry date.

It is important we are mindful of our decisions during tough times. Don’t make decisions that will impact your entire life in a negative way because of a problem that has a limited time. Some people make decisions that affect even generations after them on the spur of the moment just because they allow their emotions to overwhelm them. Anytime you are making a decision or taking an action as a result of a problem, always ask yourself some of these questions:

1. Will this problem matter in a few years from now?
2. Is my decision life altering?
3. How will this affect me or others later?

Don’t be a slave to your emotion. God gave you a head and mind to rule over your emotions. Problems are part of life but they change from season to season, so why react as if the problem will be there forever? Why commit suicide because of today’s lack or betrayal? Have you been told you can’t make it tomorrow or you can’t find true love again? Why sacrifice the future of your children on the altar of money rituals? Why would you shut down that business because of a temporary loss? Who says you can’t recoup that loss within one financial year? Why throw away that marriage because of childlessness? Between Mary and Sarah (a virgin and an old woman), God has covered every conceivable situation of infertility. Yours can’t be outside that range!

Get a grip on your emotions and weigh your decisions with your mind before acting. No problem is designed to last forever. It will surely pass, because it has a life span.

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!