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Good Tuesday morning to you.

Life indeed is progressive! Some corporations understanding the nature of life play along. For instance, we had ipad1, and then ipad2 until there is ipad mini and I can boldly say that until life becomes un-progressive then they will relent. But as long as life progresses they will keep progressing until at the wink of your eyes, you can dial a friend even without touching the phone. Same with samsung, Tecno, LG and other companies.

This is what I am driving at, allow both your conscious and subconscious mind drive into your system that life is progressive and those that will be advantaged are those willing to progress with life. Slothfulness, laziness, procrastination, excuses, apportioning blames and self-pity are not what you need to progress in this progressive life.

SO WHAT DO I NEED?
1. Integrity
2. Vision
3. Enthusiasm
We considered enthusiasm yesterday, but I will love to take another stab on it. I said that whatever dampens your passion, dampens your progress and if there is anything I want to add or caution today, that thing would be to fight and protect your passion from being dampened.

DISCOURAGEMENT is one wicked factor from the pit of hell used to dampen your passion. The worst kind of discouragement is the one you encounter from people you are expecting encouragement from. One of the worst days in King David's life was when he saw his men pick up stones to stone him after having returned with them from a battle. Hmmmm, May God give you men that will not think of stoning you!! David cried, but wiped his tears and encouraged himself in the Lord.

Let me end it this way; "It's ok to cry, but don't make crying your habitation." Rise up, dust yourself & move on. Encourage yourself. Self-encouragement is better than outer-encouragement.

If it made sense, kindly share with your own contacts. Do have a good day! ...@A'000Thoughts!

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Good beautiful Monday morning! 2014 is here for you and if there is anybody that will dance continually this year, that person is you!

Life is progressive! So progressive that if you refuse to progress with it, you will become obsolete. I once said that it's horrible to be outmoded in an updated world. If where people saw you five years ago is still where you are this year, you need a forceful breaking forth.

HOW DO I GO ABOUT IT?
In my last posts, I'd given us two points already which are:
1. INTEGRITY where I said that "progressing in life rides on opportunities and opportunities must be respected if it must assume multiplicity."
2. VISION: You often receive what you've seen in the eye of your mind. It's only as far as your eyes can see, will God give you. The undoing of most young people is just myopia.

Just one point for today and we'll continue tomorrow and my point is Enthusiasm. No car, no matter how new the engine, tires or the battery are that will move without fuel. On the other hand if your car refuses to move, your destination will not become your experience. What fuel is to the car is what enthusiasm is to life. The main thing to dampen and dampen your progress, is your passion. Anything that reduces your passion, reduces your progress.
The devil's greatest target is your joy which is the source of your passion and I charge you in 2014 to give him no room.

My final word for today would be to keep your spirit excited because a broken spirit dries the bone.

...If it made sense to you, kindly share with your friends too and remember to keep a positive attitude and spirit in 2014. ...@A'000Thoughts

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Great and irrevocable blessings to you today! Happy new year!

Life is indeed progressive and that's what we are considering this week. Integrity helps you to progress because what integrity does is that it keeps the channel of opportunities flowing. Recommendation is what helps progressive people to progress and it takes integrity for recommendation to be possible.

On today, I want to talk about vision. You have to be able to forecast, project, have a great and in-depth insight about what the future holds. One of the enemies of vision is present negative situation, but remember that we look not at what is seen but what is not seen. God had to show Abraham a very beautiful constellation and sands of the sea shore so numerous to measure yet there was not a single child.
It was not just a show, it was a conscious lesson that must be learnt especially when God said to him, "As far as your eyes can see, I will give to you."

As I conclude for today please understand that there is no stumbling into a bright future, deliberate capturing of the picture for your future is what will work. Don't wish it, see it! Visualize it! Please don't go seeing negative things in 2014. Turn your greatest desire into picture and hold tightly on that picture. See your wedding day even though there is no man/woman, see your car when though you are trekking presently.

It's a good year for you! CATCH A VISION for that is the attitude of the progressives! Kindly share with your own contacts. ...@A'000Thoughts

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Happy New Year your greatness!
LIP though it spells lips, simply stands for Life is Progressive, so it's an acronym.
The question is, why are some progressing and others not? Why are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Until you understand what the progressives do, you can never become like them.

So my 1st point on how to progress with this progressive life is to know HOW. It's not enough to know what to do, you have to know how to do it. Operating a gun without being trained might not give the requisit result. There is a need for a gun, you know what it is, but you are clueless on how to do what you know to do and as a result you inflet injury on yourself.

True progressives are men of integrity. Integrity is how we do whatever we do. If there is deficiency in integrity you inped continuity. Progressing in life rides on opportunities and opportunities must be respected if it must assume multiplicity. Integrity therefore is the fertilizer that guarantees the multiplicity of opportunities.

If you are trusted with anything please show that you are trust worthy and you will be trusted with more! Don't stagnate yourself and blame it on a witch in the village, do the right thing and keep the door of progress open. (Did I get across)?

Kindly share with friends too! @A'000Thoughts

Surviving Adversity in 2014

Surviving adversity in 2014

Truth be told, 2014 is not void of adversity. To some it might come the 1st month, 1st week or even 1st day. To others it might come any time in the year. Quickly somebody would want to say GOD FORBID! And truly He will but how do you forbid it too?

Jesus said in this realm, we would have tribulations, then He instructs for us to be of good cheer because He has overcome the world. Cheerfulness, joy and a positive spirit are what the adversity or tribulations come to attack.

That you lost what you lost is not as important as losing your joy. If you lose your joy, you've actually lost big time! So regardless of the storm, hold tight to your joy and your praise. Don't let tears take the place of smiles. Do not let depression override or over-write excitement. The devil goes mad when, after all He has done, you are still happy! On the hospital bed, yet put together with a beautiful smile on your face. That indeed, is how to forbid along side with God.

WHAT ABOUT JOY?
1.  It's with joy that you draw water from the wells of salvation! Maybe the year started with tears for you, but hear me! God will show you His salvation!

2. It's your joy that fuels your strength and your strength is the secret of your survival. The joy of the Lord is defined as your strength. You need joy for strength and you need strength for continuous victory. Therefore, if your strength fails you in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

As I conclude, let me say it again, what the target is, in the day of adversity, is your strength and if you suffer strength failure then the devil wins. But if you can bounce back regardless of what you've been through, then you are truly POWERFUL!

In 2014, there is no mountain you cannot surmount and there is no storm you cannot survive! At the end of the year, you will have the last laugh!

Happy weekend and good morning!

Preaching 202: The Noel Jones Approach

HIGH FAVOUR

It’s been a while I dropped a note, but I want to

believe this one will bless somebody. Just before we go straight into the note,
I need you to have a confession in your mouth, that I AM BLESSED AND HIGHLY
FAVOURED. Let me also wish you a merry Christmas.
I am beginning to believe that there is a
difference between favour and high favour. You can receive favour from men, but
high favour comes only from the most high. High favour will do far better than
what ordinary favour can do for you. I said all to say that this Christmas season
is your season of high favour. Be expectant, be on the lookout, favour is not
just coming your way, HIGH FAVOUR is. This is my way of bringing a simple Christmas
word to you and yours.
During our festival
of nine lessons and carol my attention was drawn to a scripture:
Luke
1:28-30 (KJV)
28 And the angel came in unto her,
and said, Hail, thou that art
highly favoured, the Lord is
with thee: blessed art thou
among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying,
and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her,
Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

A young lady was about to carry in her womb what
was bigger than her and her qualification for that awesome responsibility was
never because she was a virgin. Let me state it here, that the immaculate conception
had nothing to do with virginity. Mary was not qualified because she was a
virgin, Mary was qualified because she was favoured. “...and the angel came in unto her, and said, hail, thou that art
highly favoured…” her immediate reaction was fear, she became afraid and
was wondering what kind of salutation is this, then the angel said again, “…fear
not, Mary for thou hast found favour with God.” The person that finds favour
with God is the person that is said to be highly favoured.

In the days of Mary, it was a taboo for a young
lady, not to be found a virgin. You will be stoned to death if you are not a
virgin. It was so much of a taboo that it’s the husband that married you that
will expose you to the public and recommend you for stoning because trying to consummate
the marriage he discovered that you are not a virgin. Joseph was a kind and honourable
man, instead of bringing Mary out for a public disgrace he sought to divorce
her quietly. An angel had to appear to him in a dream, just to make him
appreciate that Mary was innocent, she was just playing out a divine script. So
it could not have been because she was a virgin, because being a virgin was
very normal. Almost all the young ladies were virgins. If the qualification was
virginity, God would have been confused on who to choose, but thank God the
qualification was not on that. I’m not writing to condemn you that have lost
your virginity, I’m writing to let you know that if God points at you for the
task, there is nothing anybody can do against it.
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If God says you are the lady for the
man, even those parading their virginity cannot take him away from you.
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You are qualified just because you are
my choice. “many are called, but you are among the few that are chosen.” [Matthew
22: 14].
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God said, you did not choose me, but I
chose you. I have discovered that the mercies of God are not for all, the
mercies of God are for selected few. “I will have mercy upon whom I will have
mercy…” [John 15: 16; Exodus 33: 19].
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If you made it from January till now,
it’s never because of your qualifications or that you are better than others,
it’s simply because His favour is on you.
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His favour is for life. To the one
that weeps, His favour ends the night of weeping and introduces you to your
morning of Joy. [Psalm 30: 5].
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It was favour that made Queen Esther’s
risk to become fruitful. To a woman of favour, even when she says “if I perish,
I perish,” she will end up not perishing, because favour makes it impossible
for you to perish. [Esther 4: 16].
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This Christmas I prophecy that you are
blessed and highly favoured. The high favour of God is on you wherever you go.
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The eyes of the wicked will go blind
towards you. their rod will not rest on the lots of the righteous. [Psalm 125:
3]
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Anyone that thinks evil for you ends
up in a million fold evil. You are untouchable because you are favoured. You are
unstoppable because you are favoured. You are unkillable because you are
favoured. Don’t be afraid Mary you have found favour with God. Favour cancels
fear. I say to you, fear not! God is with you wherever you go. You will go out
in peace and sure enough you will come back in peace. If mistakenly you drink
or eat any deadly thing, it will not hurt you. [Proverbs 26: 27;Mark 16: 18]

Let me end with the fact that Mary will be wishing
where she is now for people to stop idolizing her. There was nothing to Mary
that should make her a god that she has become to some people now [Exodus 20:
4]. What sense does it make praying to Mary when you know that the prayer will
not be answered [John 14: 6; John 16: 23-24]. Mary is just like you and she
would appreciate if you understand that. Just as apostle Paul said, “I am what
I am by the grace of God.” Mary also became what she was [the mother of Jesus]
by the grace/favour of God. It could have also been somebody else even you. So
stop worshiping satan in the name of Mary. I can say this categorically, Mary
does not want anybody to worship her, or even as much as mention her name in
the pretence that you are praying. The only way to the father is Christ Jesus.
Don’t let the devil deceive you any further, When the favour of God comes on
you, you too can carry something that is bigger than you.

My last statement would be this: Mary was not
carrying Jesus, she was too small to carry her creator and maker, The one that
made all things and was not made Himself, The self existing one, The one that
speaks and rivers are divided through the blast of His nostrils, the one that
watches over 6 billion people excluding the angels, yet knows every detail
about you, the one that cannot be dethroned, because He was not enthroned by
any and the one who is to you and I, the present help in times of wahala.
Believe me, Mary could not have carried Him. He was the one that carried her.
If you understand this, you will know where and who to channel your worship and
prayers to.
Ladies and gentlemen with these few words of mine,
I know you are convinced beyond doubt, that you are blessed and HIGHLY
FAVOURED! MERRY CHRISTMAS