SUPPORT THEORY (True Friendship)

Good Tuesday Morning to you and yours in Jesus Name.

Yesterday we commenced another teaching series that we called SUPPORT THEORY. The concept of support theory is to promote true friendship. The bond of true friendship sometimes can be stronger than the bond  of genetic connection. Consequently, a friend sticks closer than a brother.

There two things I've seen that reveals lack of true friendship:
1. Envy/Jealousy
2. Abandonment

The first one is an attitude or behaviour influenced by the reality of a good news, while the second is influenced by the reality of a bad news. I've never seen where envy is provoked by a bad news, but I have seen friends abandon each other because of an ill news.

That something nice happened to your friend should provoke you into rejoicing, excitement and gratitude; if your feeling is otherwise you are not a true friend. Getting angry because your friend got promoted is a sign of wickedness. Refusing to pick her call because she's about to marry is a sign immaturity. If you are asked to rejoice with them that  rejoice, how much more should you do so with your friends?

Will continue on this line of thought tomorrow, but if you want to be a true friend, do not envy and be jealous when your friends receives a good thing. On the other hand, do not abandon your friend when he or she needs you the most.

Get ready, Today:
- The people that abandoned you will remember you for good!
- Whosoever is holding your blessing will release it today!
- The things that will make people abandon you will Never happen to you!
- God will impress in your heart to remember and be kind to those you've abandoned.

Be blessed and highly favoured as you share with your friends and connect with me on twitter @PstIyke

Shalom!!!

Support Theory (Introduction)

It's a new day and a new week! It's your week of total recovery. Good Morning and thank God for the grace to be alive.

We've ended our Lepers Theory series. Insights from the lives of the four lepers are not finished but let's leave it for now and look at another four guys. There is another set of guys, four in number that provoked great wonder by their action. This week, we will see what God will help us glean from their lives in a series I've titled "SUPPORT THEORY."

A man was sick and seriously bedridden. Notice that when you are seriously sick people would get tired of you being a disturbance to them. some will wish for you to even die, let's know that one is over, but these four guys stood by their friend. The support theory promotes the culture of true friendship.

Calling me your friend when everything is nice and dandy is a joke. The question is, will you still call me your friend when I am down and out? True friendship is not only when the going is good. True friendship is seen when the going is tough. I want to challenge your personality...What manner of person are you? A jolly good fellow and when things are not good, nobody should disturb you?

No need to keep writing, a word as they say is enough for the wise. What is that word? Go back to those friends who stood by you and were good friends to you, who you abandoned because life happened to them negatively. That you are advantaged doesn't mean you should neglect your disadvantaged friend.

If you cannot use your advantage to help the disadvantage, you are also disadvantaged. Selah!

Get ready! This week
- You are moving from the position of disadvantage to the position of advantage!
- You will dispense help to as many that you would come across
- Your relevance and influence will increase tremendously this week
- Serious financial breakthrough will happen for you this week.

You are blessed and highly favoured as you kindly share this thought with your friends. Follow me also on twitter @PstIyke

Shalom!!!

THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE WORLD: WOMEN (Happy Int'l Women,s day)!

Good morning and happy weekend.

Today 8th of March is the 2014 International women's day with the Theme: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IS PROGRESS FOR ALL, focusing on Violence against women and girls, gender equality and mutual respect. 

The question is, can women possibly be equal with men? It's obviously a case of serious argument and my brothers that are chip of the old block would never agree. The point is, what should we base our argument on? On who's or what authority do we conclude this matter?

Being that I am not argumentative in nature, I would go straight to what I consider the best authority ever. Everybody's opinion is valid but which opinion do we consider authentic? What does the manual say about this issue? Just like other products, human beings as  products, also have the manufacturer's manual and in that manual, gender equality question was perfectly answered.

Genesis 1:26 KJV
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

It's amazing to me that when God conceptualized the idea to make man, He never thought of HE, but THEM "...and let THEM have dominion..." Couldn't this 'THEM' mean something else? Does it mean male and female? Well, let's find out:

Genesis 1:27 KJV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Now that's powerful right there..."Male and female created He Them. so the 'THEM' He made, actually were Male & Female. By God's standard, I am not superior to women, I am equal to them. Equality, as long as gender issues are concerned, is stronger than superiority.

Let me just end it with one question and I stand on behalf of the men to apologize to the women for the wrongs we've done against them. Here is my question, the men that feel superior to the women, could they have come out to the world without a woman? Could they have brought their sons and daughters out into the world without a woman? Dominion from our manual was never given to he (male-man) alone, it was given to them (the male&female He created at the same time). It therefore means that we are not meant  to dominate the women. Real men don't suppress the women! 

On this International women's day, as I congratulate the women, I call on men to love, value, respect, honour and appreciate them. I also call the men to maturity, let us be real men! The sign of manhood is not being a tyrant, it's not on the macho or ego, it is actually on his gentility. Real men are gentlemen and I have never seen a gentleman who dishonours his wife by publicly disgracing her, beating and abusing her in front of the children and having her enter public transport with the fleet of cars parked at the garage. Men, let's be real men.  

The link below is my special gift to women on this day. It's an article for women and the men who love them entitled "WOMEN, WE MEN ARE SORRY." It will bless you. Here is the link: https://m.facebook.com/notes/nnamdi-ikechukwu-samuel/women-we-men-are-sorry/265259980173377/ 

Thank you for reading. God Bless You!

Composed By: NNAMDI IKECHUKWU SAMUEL (@PstIyke)

The Lepers Theory (Vain Glory) Conclusion

Good morning and happy weekend. I wouldn't say thank God is Friday because I thank God for everyday.

We are now concluding on our lepers theory and on today, we would look at fame, validation, rewards, acknowledgement and the likes.
The 1st question running in my head is, what should necessitate our motivation for action? Should it be solution mentality or incentive mentality? Why has "WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME?" (WIIIFM) become the attitude of many, if not most people?

Please don't get me wrong, acknowledgement is good, incentives are good, reward and validation are good; but the question is what motivates your action. It has gotten so bad that some people will not event act until the WIIIFM is settled. They always tune to the FM that has 3(i)s and just 1 we (W-III-FM). To them it's never about what we've accomplished, it's always about what I've accomplished and as a result they seek reward or acknowledgement. "The-I-made-this-happen-leader" is not a good leader. The great leader is "the-we-made-this-happen-leader."

How does it connect with our study? Check out what the lepers said:
2 Kings 7:10, 11
"So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.
11 Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household. (ESV)"

Notice that our lepers were not afraid to communicate their findings to gatekeepers for the king to hear. How many of us can pass our secret to others? Some of us in our places of work will KNOW IT and HIDE IT until we are the ones to SAY IT. You wonder why that kind of attitude, the answer is simply vain glory!

Vain glory happens when you alone want to take the glory.
Vain glory is when you can't share the glory with friends.
Vain glory also happens when you refuse to give glory to God.
An attitude of feeling you are too much and not remembering you are but a grass or a vapour that appears now and it's gone tomorrow. Give Glory to God! When an accolade comes, channel it back to God, When acknowledgement comes, channel it back to God. All the glory belongs to Him alone and being a jealous God, He does not like to share His glory.

If I am to talk like a corporate consultant I would say channel the glory to your superior. A wise subordinate acknowledges that if not for the opportunity given to him by his superior, he won't be where he is now. (Food for thought)

Finally, the lepers didn't go themselves to the king. Somebody would say "it's because they were lepers!" I want to believe that it was more of their attitude and respect for order than it is for their medical condition. What is the protocol of getting a message to the king? That protocol, we will observe. Respect for protocol is a sign of maturity. Never abuse protocol simply because you think, you have access.

I'm done! Get ready! This weekend:
- You will move from the back to the front!
- Famine-terminating solution for your country would come from you!
- Your quest for vain glory will be eradicated and you will channel glory properly.
- A surprise lifting/promotion awaits you in your place of work on Monday!

Be blessed and highly favoured as you share with your friends and connect with me on twitter @PstIyke

Shalom!!! 

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The Lepers Theory (Procrastination)

Good Thursday Morning my beloved.

Here is what the lepers said in 2 kings 7: 9 
"Then they said one to another, We are not doing right. This is a day of [glad] good news and we are silent and do not speak up! If we wait until daylight, some punishment will come upon us [for not reporting at once]. So now come, let us go and tell the king’s household." (AMP). 

The truth is that, embodied in this lepers theory are many success principles. They did not just know to do good regardless of the evil done against them, they also knew to be spontaneous!

Procrastination indeed attracts many punishments.
1. The punishment of remaining at a stagnant place. The only antidote for stagnation is instant action. Never keep for tomorrow what should happen now!

2. The punishment of frustration especially when you see the people you are better off move on. I've discovered that moving on is not much of competence than it is of stepping out. I keep thinking what happens to an immobile competent fellow in comparison to a mobile incompetent one? Most likely the mobile incompetent guy would embrace competence on the go while the immobile competent guru would die only him knowing his competence.

I think of good guys who wouldn't land a job because they wouldn't accept a-day-of-little-beginning-offer as a result of their high horse competence. I also remember some guys who decided that a little is better than nothing until before their eyes they climbed to having it all.

The lepers said, "If we wait until daylight, some punishment will come upon us [for not reporting at once]. So now come, let us go and tell the king’s household." (AMP).

Here is my point, great people only turn out great because they have mastered the act of AT ONCE (spontaneous) good decision.

That I preach the AT-ONCE principle does not negate paying attention to your sensitivity.
The wrong things must not be done at once.
The wrong deal must not be signed at once.
The wrong decision must not be made at once.

Once your sensitivity detects danger, use "Delayed gratification," which is also a principle of greatness.
However, Once you've searched your spirit and all is correct and you have a strong push to move, never slack!

Most men that I know regret over land they should have bought many years ago when they had the strong nudge to, but because they procrastinated, they didn't buy and the land now is hot cake, but not theirs.

Here is my last point about procrastination
3. It will eventually deny you what you'd intended to do. By that I mean you might never do it again.
Stop the procrastination.
DO IT NOW!
Do it at once!

Get ready!
- today, grace for spontaneity is released on you!
- what others struggle to do, you will do easily!
- You will never miss a golden opportunity again and the ones you missed in this season of total recovery are coming back to you!
- Your mistakes will turn to a mighty miracle for you today!

Be blessed and highly favoured as you share this thought with your friends and follow me @PstIyke(twitter).
Shalom!

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The Lepers Theory (Forgiveness)

It's a beautiful Wednesday morning and I wish you the best of today!

I've discovered that the major indicator of GREATNESS is FORGIVENESS. Great people don't withhold or deny forgiveness to others regardless of the evil done against them.

Joseph's brothers contemplated killing him, put him in a pit and sold him out as a slave, yet he forgave them. #Joseph:Greatman!

What of Jesus who on the cross prayed and said to His father; "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." Does it really come easy to forgive the one who put you on the cross? #Jesus:Greatman!

Just remembered the late Nelson Mandela who spent 27 years of his life in the prison, yet when he occupied the position of authority refused to use his authority for revenge. #Mandela:Greatman!

I have to quickly say here that authority is not used for vindication. It's an abuse of authority to use it for vengeance!

How does it connect?
Our four lepers marched in and discovered two things,
1. Opposition is gone and
2. Enough provision available.
They began to eat, meanwhile few minutes ago it was death they had concluded on.
(..Today God will turn your worst situation to a heavy miracle)!

Later, the lepers said "if we eat all these food and forget our brethren, that won't be fine." Maybe one of them asked, "which brethren?"
People that quarantined us?
People that call us unclean?
People that refused to associate with us? Never!
I also picture another one say, "do you know if God brought us to this miracle for such a time as this?

Paying evil for evil is not a sign of greatness! Let's go announce to them what the Lord has done and be a solution. They quarantined us quite alright, but God didn't and as long as God didn't quarantine us, that of man is void.

Where real problem is, is to be accepted by men and quarantined by God.

So they went to tell their brethren thereby ending the famine in the city.

My question for you is this, ARE YOU A GREAT MAN/WOMAN?
Do you forgive?
Can you do good to them that were wicked towards you?
Do you have a vengeful spirit or a forgiving spirit? Selah!

Get ready! Today it's my prayer that:
- The Grace to forgive, love and accommodate will be released upon you now! - Every heart of stone will melt like wax and turn into a heart of flesh!
- You will be the solution to a Nationwide, Statewide, Citywide and Townwide situation in Jesus Name!
- Your influence will increase and your relevance, regardless of your condition, will spread abroad!

Great things will be said of you today! Great dance you will dance today!

Much Love and Blessings!
Shalom!!
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Thank You.

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The Lepers Theory

It's Tuesday and I wish you every thing good today! Good Morning!

The four Lepers of 2 Kings 7? I am sincerely inspired and motivated by their audacity. They had a lot going against them and they were (and are still being) quarantined. Today in almost every part of Nigeria we have leprosy colony.

Check out the laws against them:

Leviticus 13:45 "Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

Leviticus 13:46 As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.

Numbers 5:2 "Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.

Numbers 12:10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam's skin was leprous --it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease... (Her medical condition which was a judgement as a result of insubordination or rebellion stagnated their journey for some days)

Here is my point for today.

Regardless of the law or statement written against them, they marched into where they were prohibited by law.

The law was given to Moses, but Grace and Truth came through Jesus. Though it all happened before the Grace dispensation, but the four lepers switched over to grace.

Grace is the only thing that can give you what the law says you cannot have.

Get ready!

- You will have access into restricted areas as long as your blessing is there!

- Grace will show up for you today swallowing like the rod of Moses every other legal rods.

- You will perform beyond expectation! Those who think that because of your condition, nothing good will come out of you are about to be shocked.

- After today, those that quarantined you, will regret putting a solution like you, off!

It's a beautiful day for you and I bless you in it! Shalom!

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