SUPPORT THEORY (Risk)

It's obviously a beautiful Thursday Morning and I'm glad you made it into another day.

Today, we would attempt to answer one important question which is, What do I do to show true friendship? Remember that, following our discuss since Monday
* a true friend is not envious or jealous,
* a true friend does not abandon his or her friend when in trouble
* a true friend sticks closer than a brother
* a true friend shows himself friendly.

Our inspiration is from the four friends who showed their paraplegic friend true friendship. Let's take a look at that account and what actually transpired.

Mark 2: 1-5 (Msg) "After a few days, Jesus returned to Capernaum, and word got around that he was back home. A crowd gathered, jamming the entrance so no one could get in or out. He was teaching the Word. They brought a paraplegic to him, carried by four men. When they weren’t able to get in because of the crowd, they removed part of the roof and lowered the paraplegic on his stretcher. Impressed by their bold belief, Jesus said to the paraplegic, “Son, I forgive your sins.”

Jesus got interrupted and excited at the same time. His excitement, which was as a result of His impression by these guys' action, provoked not just healing but salvation. In fact, He first saved the man before He healed him(talk for another day). My concern for today is that true friendship can be measured by the distance you can cover or risk you can take for your friend.

My question for you is, How far can you go for your friends? How far can you go to bring him/her out of his/her predicament? How far can you go during his/her wedding? How far can you go to fix him/her up? How far can you go when others have abandoned her? How far can you go when she's guilty and imprisoned?

These four friends didn't care about the consequences of breaking somebody's roof. They were careless about the laws of intrusion. As long as they were concerned, by any means possible our friend must be healed. True friendship involves risk. Can you really take some risk for your friends? Selah!

Get Ready! Today
- God will send people that will go all out for you!
- You will come to the end of a long lasting predicament today in Jesus Name!
- By all means possible, that which is responsible for calamity is rolled out forever today!
- Bad, insensitive and envious friends will be taken away from you and replaced by true friends in Jesus Name!

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SUPPORT THEORY (ABANDONMENT)

Beautiful Wednesday Morning to you and yours! Hope you had a nice night?

Today we are continuing on our discuss about the four friends of a paralytic man in a series we've titled "SUPPORT THEORY." The idea is to promote the powerful value of true friendship. The bond of true friendship is stronger than the bond of genetic connection.

We talked about two signs of lack of friendship which are 1. Envy/Jealousy and 2. Abandonment. Having touched the 1st one briefly, I want us to consider the second one briefly too. It's a popular saying worth mentioning again that "a friend in need is a friend indeed." If I can look around and still see you especially when I am down and out, indeed you are my friend. If you are there for me when I am needy, you are for real.

If I was good to be in your class when you are at my level, don't change levels and abandon me simply because I am no longer in your class. If you are truly my friend help me get to your elevated class so that social factors will not make you ashamed to call me your friend. Was that not what this four friends in Mark 2: 1 - 5 did?

Their friend as a result of health challenge was no longer at their class or level. Non of them was paraplegic but their friend was. They didn't say, "well we are four we don't need to be five." They didn't judge (like most people would do today) saying, "who knows what he has done to attract this calamity?" Instead, they stood by him and helped elevate him to their own status. That's friendship right there! Like the Holy Book would say, "he that wants to have a friend, must make himself friendly." ...Continues tomorrow!

Get ready! Today
- God will use you to bring people out of difficult situation!
- Your influence would not just increase, but would become global!
- Your enemies will be put to shame as they see you change levels from glory to glory!
- Your blessings will not be short-lived. Your blessings will outlast you! I command the Grace for Trans-generational blessing upon you in Jesus Name!

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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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