PRECIOUS SEEDS 018 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

A clear compelling goal is energizing…

I read this line from a book and it got me meditating. Do you want to move your life forward? Then, you need to surrender to the principle and force of goal setting.

Goal-setting is not just lining up a long list of things to do. It is a skill that should be learnt and developed.

A clear specific goal will set the tone for a clear specific result. You need this! Looking back at your life after a certain period of time to say, “wow, so I crossed this one line”!

A clear goal magnets focus. You don’t need to do everything because some other people choose to run around things; zoom your focus to a specific goal and you will encounter the vitality that can drive success. This works for anything.

Goal setting is work. Don’t take it casual. This is what you need to begin:

(1) Set clear goals. Be specific

(2) Set quantifiable goals. Avoid goals that have no progress level. The worst track event you can do is to run around the field of confusion.

(3) Set attainable goals. Don’t set goal to impress others. Set goals that have a pathway to achieving them.

(4) Set goals that are realistic, reasonable and relevant: Stop deceiving yourself with fantasies. You can’t wake up by 6am in Nigeria and eat breakfast in Dubai by 7am of the same day. That’s how some people would wish to travel to major countries of the world yet they forget that they will need visas for that to be possible. Walking by faith does not license stupidity.

(5) Set goals that are time bound. Even examinations have time table. Tag a decision to a time limit.

Friend, your goals are meant to give you a push. Clear goals have rich energy content. When you know what to do, you can be certain of where you will end.

Hey, it’s Friday! It’s a good day! A goal setting/re-setting day.

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 017 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

EVEN GOD RESISTS THE PROUD
… Who am I not to?

I have supposed friends that know everything. They call for help yet they turn around to make you wonder whether they truly needed help from you and not vice versa.

You mention “A” and when you ask them to repeat “A” they  already fly to “P” and you begin to wonder, “so they knew all these!”

You say, “Jack” and they quickly add “Robinson” without allowing you to land safely.

Behold what manner of people that live around us! I’m sure that you have encountered them too. They hardly admit that they are knowing some things for the first time. They lack the patience and the discipline of listening to teachers and mentors. They would tell you, “yes, I’ve always known this and that” when in reality they know nothing. They lack teachability. They lift off discussion from the mouth of their mentors and run their mouth as though they were typewriters, out-talking their mentors without a given privilege.

In my case, I would often wonder, “since they already knew these things, of what use was their knocking on my door?”.

Teachability affects accessibility. There are good things you can’t access until humility becomes your lifestyle. The grace for learning is only accessible to the humble. It takes humility to learn, unlearn and relearn. It takes humility to submit to someone whom you are older than. That is the way up.

Today is a good day!
Knock off pride.
Pray for the spirit of humility.
God gives grace to the humble.

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 016 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

ME , MYSELF and I……

This is a popular phrase. Some persons have used it to imply at certain times that in life, they are their everything. The sound of it can mean that there is a limit in our lives that should shut others out. I am still reasoning this out anyway. It can be true but I didn’t say so. Why should I give ears to the needs of another when mine are starring at my face?

If you had an opportunity to put a smile on three faces today, who would the three people be?

“Me, myself and I”?

Success is a reality that thrives under the culture that accommodates and reaches out liberally to other people. When your heart is moved by the tears and pains of others so that you can’t just leave them like that without a helping hand, you are a successful man needing time to be processed. Stingy people can’t survive the future. Heartless people can’t attract true greatness. True greatest is sustained by service.
“Must I always help people”?

I’m sure your problem is that you are not so buoyant for that. Well, success is first a mentality. How you respond to the needs of others in your mind will affect how you react to them in the physical.

What runs through your mind the moment someone knocks on your door for an assistance? Do you see your list of broken down appliances that needs to be fixed or do you allow compassion for the person soak your heart? God blesses those that respond to the burdens of others in love. You can’t help everybody at the same time in the same way, but nobody should pass through your door without coming alive with fresh hope that the earth is still the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. You may not have all the money to give them. Also give direction. Give assistance. Give information. Complement with helpful recommendation and contacts. Be concerned!

It’s a good day! Be a blessing.

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 015 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

Most of the things we often feel lazy to do are the things that will move our lives forward.

I woke up this morning and didn’t feel like leaving the bed but I needed to be at work. So, I forced myself up without pitying my feelings. My love for the bed died immediately I found out what next to do and responded to it.

Life is not lived by feelings but by decisions. Feelings are conquered by decisions. Let’s be sincere: there are times we don’t feel like going to work, or praying or studying, or going for lectures, or washing and so on.
But we can’t continue to risk our progress to our feelings.

Excuses are powerful when they have the support of your feelings. “You can always shift things to suit the way you feel” . That’s what an excuse preaches.

It’s a good day!
Do the needful!
Spare no excuses!

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 014 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

CLEAR THE WAY!!

A major roadblock to success is poor mentality. How a man thinks can affect the results he sees in life.

Quality thinking is a needed recipe for quality living.
Focussed thinking can stir up any dimension of desired life. Strategic thinking can move your life forward from stagnation.

Don’t ask me what a staircase is doing in the sky. Only creative thinkers can crack the nut. When your mind is up, you have no business going down. Until your thoughts go up, your life cannot go up.

Your success depends on your healthy thoughts to happen. Your life attracts what your mind accommodates. Life stinks where men fail to think.

The way across the hurdles of life is to carefully rise up in your mentality. Use your mind. Upgrade your thoughts life. See what others are too busy to see. See what others are too distracted to see. Get creative! No matter where you are today on the scale of frustration, your mental creativity can lift you above that level. The God that answers prayers also answers imaginations (Eph. 3:20)

Friend, it’s a good week! Conquer it wisely. Clear the way. Shift the roadblock. Think forward!

“Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse” (Philippians 4:8 Msg)

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 013 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

EVEN IF I FALL….

What was he really thinking of when he took the first step; When he decided to run through and not freeze in fear; when he decided to ignore the voices of onlookers just to dare a journey others were afraid to even imagine?

I heard a voice telling him, “you can get to the other side. You can find your feet on a pathway; just stay focussed” .

How do you feel when you don’t have the crowd backing you; when your destination matters to you more than to others; When others just stay by the side to tell you, “what if a stone fails?” 

Success is a risk!

The spirit of success rises when we look beyond a fall, when our passion swallows up our fears; when we look ahead; when we look out for stepping stones in the midst of seemingly frightening scenes.

Hear the language of success: “even if I fall, I will still start. I will keep running and not withdraw. I pledge my energy and zest; I sow in my strength and courage; I go alone where others retreat. Even if I fall, I may only get drowned but I am however a hero on my journey to a determined end. I just can’t die wishing; my destination is worth my determination.

It’s saturday!
A good day to stay determined.

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 012 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

It’s a good Friday!

What a name it is for one friday that turned the Joy of many to bitterness; that sent sadness across the depths of the earth. What a gloomy day, when a mother watched her 33 year old son hooked up to a cross! Tell me how good a Friday it was?

Widows were spotted shedding real tears, refusing to be comforted. The hope of the hopeless was almost lifeless on the cross. The pains, the agony, the excruciating passion was terribly unbearable. I can’t forget the night before now where He cried blood out.  If it were that good, won’t He have been celebrating?

The poor were about to miss a defender. The widows couldn’t stand the travail of their comforter. He was a man of the lowly acquainted with grief. He was a friend of the sinners.

At the top of their voices the wagon of religious bigots  screamed:  “Crucify Him Pilate, crucify him” yet He had no fault in Himself.

“Ohh! only if this cup had passed away”, people pitied Him. “What a good man He is. Why is the world this wicked”, others shared their concerns.

In a short while, the cross was up, but not without some aggressive beating. He cried, yet they mercilessly shredded his skin. “That’s my Lord”, Mother Mary screamed. It was just sour. While we thought that they’ll give Him some breathing space, one heartless guy reached out for some sharp thorns and forced it into His head and before long, his sides were pierced with the sword.

See my Lord raised up among the thieves. He was a public display of the sins of the whole world. That was my place He took. That was my shame He bore. Is this the good Friday? Then, it was a bloody Friday.

In a little while, He wasn’t breathing anymore. While others were still mocking Him with their mouths, unknown to them, the Good part was already starting, happening and settled. The journey to redemption was finished! That was the good part.  It was in the purpose of the cross. The process didn’t sound Good.

The good part was in the testimony not in the test. Imagine a world without that good Friday! You can as well imagine a world without salvation.

This is the good part: “eyes hath not seen, neither hath ears heard. It has not entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared to them that love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9). That was the price that Jesus paid.

Another Good part is that till today, Satan is regretting ever stirring up Judas to betray his master for that 30 miserable pieces of silver. (1 Cor. 2:8). Satan is ever wishing that good friday never happened. The devil didn’t understand that all things work together for good to them that love God.

What a Good Friday!

– That ended all the ceremonial laws of Moses and established grace to our perfection.

– That qualified humanity for the testament or covenant or the will of God. This is how I know that you can’t remain in the captivity of the Satan. Jesus, the testator made a public show of the devil. He died for your testament to be activated. You are fully qualified in Christ to access what Jesus paid for on the cross.

Are you in any painful season of your life? Permit me to congratulate you. It’s your good Friday. The good in the pains is a revelation of the  testimony ahead of you. After this mockery shall come your testimony. After this misery shall come your ministry. After this cross shall come your crown. It won’t be long, the holes in your palms will be a testimony to new level.

Again I say, Thank God its GOOD FRIDAY!

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 011 by Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

These Lions respect grace!

Their confidence was in their Lions. Their pride was in their den. Humans became meat for the merciless Lions. Wild jubilation greeted the faces of those hungry Lions.

When the Lion roars, the jungle wakes up. Men tremble and kings quake.

Never in a time had the Lions seen food and lost appetite; not when they were starved just for this purpose. Daniel, the servant of the living was to be the victim this time around. While men gave him up to the Lions, God gave the Lions up to him. If he had wanted those Lions dead, nothing would have stopped that from happening. He rather showed them mercy.

The Lions saw him coming but started rehearsing a welcome song for him. They made him a special bed with a baby Lion as the pillow. They manned a special guard of Lions for his security and they cried the next morning when he was about to leave the den begging him to return again. These Lions respect Grace!

Some men are not eatable! These are men that God has inscribed His grace upon. The devil sees them approaching and quickly veers through another direction. They are too defended by the angels of God.

You are one of such generals. No devil can eat you. No Lion can waste you. No satanic principality can end your life.

It’s a good day for you! Make progress despite resistances.

I believe in you!

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PRECIOUS SEEDS 010 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

As sincere as the snail!

I just love the snail.
Don’t pound me yet until I tell you again that many people are not as sincere as the snail.

If you doubt me, I’ll take you on a short walk!

The snail is not in competition with the horse. That will be a waste of its priority and time. The snail’s problem is not that the horse left it behind. The snail operates within the best of its capacity and it is not threatened by the speed of a horse, after all, not all that run with the speed of a horse make it in life.

Until you understand your race, you might waste your energy thinking that anybody that is ahead of you in life is in competition with you.

“How fast can you run?”

Some times, this may not be the best question to consider when evaluating success but rather, how well can you run assuming that you can take your eyes off people and focus your attention on yourself, endowment and capacity?

No matter how best the snail can fake, it can’t match the horse in speed and function. This tells me that in life, your configuration determines your function. Even if the snail were to be fast, it would be useless; we don’t need it for war. Usain Bolt might be the fastest in sprint race, but not when he is in competition with a Cheetah.

Certainly, you can’t be like everybody. Find your motivation within and run at the peak of your endowment. The snail’s speed is not a weakness. After all, where is it running to? However, it is more profitable than a lazy man’s excuse. We are not all running the same race of destiny but we will all give account to our God someday according to how we sincerely used our inner deposits. God will not ask you why you didn’t sing as Yolanda Adams.

Insincerity is when you lock up your snail speed just because the horse is running his race on his lane. Ungratefulness is when you question God for your tiny legs just because a neighbour intimidates you with her hot legs. Failure is when you bury your seemingly substandard abilities just because you don’t want to be laughed at.

You are more that you can fathom. That’s all I care for. Everyday is another opportunity to look inwards to discover what  I have been endowed with to face the outwards.

Today is a good day to look inwards!

Begin now!
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PRECIOUS SEEDS 009 By Godwin ‘Captain’ Kalu

Many believers don’t know how to reply the devil. They sneak into holes when the devil sneezes. That’s all that Satan needs to see in them in order to maintain his authority over them.

Our greatest threat is not the existence of the devil. He bows to a superior authority. The devil only maintains charge over the people he bounds. Expose the devil and his works with the  knowledge of light from the word of God. Take advantage of every opportunity the devil sneezes to remind him that Jesus publicly disgraced him at Calvary.

1000 coffins in the dream cannot scare a Worded believer. He knows how to reply the devil with the evidence of the cross of Jesus. There are dreams that I can never have. They can’t survive my realm. Any demon that appears in my dream is a mistake. He gets it hot from me that day. I’m seated with Christ in the heavenly places far above principalities. Satan can’t sit there. I have direct access to the mind of Christ. I know how miserable the devil will end. I can rather tell his future more than he knows. I am unstoppable.

That’s the truth that sets men free!

The devil can do anything to keep a Christian away from the word of God. He is comfortable around a believer that does not have the word of God in his spirit. When men lack the word of God, they run around for solutions where they don’t probably exist. They go scouting for healing but come back possessed with a demon. Satan can torment anybody who gives him the room.

To enjoy life, be more than a Christian; Know the truth. Revelation is the key to pleasure. The last time I fell sick was in 2008. Revelation in God’s word has kept me these 7 years without headache. Presently, I am not aware that sickness exists. My mentality now runs with that conviction. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Where will the sickness stay? As I get wild in revelation, sickness avoids my address.

I can succeed on top of a shrine. So you can! I can still produce result inside a demonic circle. Cain was cursed by God himself yet the next time we heard about him, we were told that he built a city. Satan is too small to stop my blessing.
Inside famine, Isaac still sowed and prospered. Inside the Lions’ den, Daniel was in charge. Inside the Prison, Joseph was the baba. Esther the slave girl became the madam at the top. Jesus went to hell and collected the keys of life and death from Satan. No demonic pot can contain me. I am too Christ-like to be oppressed by the devil. If Jehovah Himself could change his mind because of Hezekiah then, the devil has long given up on me. I make Satan cry everyday. He is not important to my life.

Don’t envy me! That’s how you too should make him cry. When a greater light mantles your spirit, you will rule over the devil.

Welcome!
It’s a new week.

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