You are at your Best Under Pressure!!

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure"
~ Peter Marshall

Diamond

Scientific literature according to Wikipedia describes Diamond as "a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. It has been established that under very high pressure and temperature, carbon-containing fluids dissolved minerals and replaced them with precious diamonds"

Have you looked at how carbon looks like? not so fancy in any way if you ask me. Especially how dirty it will make you when you touch or handle it. Wow! how strange life can be as the very dirty looking element is actually the lovely precious diamond when under Pressure. It's a jewel that can make anyone rich overnight when owned. How wonderfull the Almighty Creator is such that Precious things are most of the time invisible to the evil eye. 

Carbon

Now, look at your self and the circumstances that you may be going through. Your perception of yourself right now maybe that you think that you are not good enough or beautiful enough in this scheme of life for anyone to consider for anything. You don't even count yourself amongst the worthy ones. Today, GROW OUT OF THAT because you are precious beyond measure without any competitor. Someone may be going through really tough times and the pressure keeps rising like some evil one is pushing the pressure dial upwards without any regard. I encourage you to accept and thank God for the pressure because you are the highest grade of Diamond in the process of being unveiled to the world. Do not curse the troubles or blame anyone for the misfortunes you may be going through. Everyone playing the evil role in your life's movie is just porn in the Master's Chess game for your life and they don't even know it. Just persevere and soon it will be CHECKMATE. All things, according to the scriptures, work together for our good.

Some may want to leave you for others they think are better! Don't hold on to them as their role in your life's movie may just be over. What is yours will always come to you and what is not yours will always be in a hurry to leave. Therefore, don't stress over what or whoever decides to leave your life. You may think that you have invested so much in a relationship and believe that you can't live without the partner who is just about to give you the boot! I say to you, yes you can make it because you are a DIAMOND and your partner is too color blind to the extent that they can only see Carbon black. This is the reason why the wise speak in parables so that the wise can become wiser and the foolish can become more foolish. Life is a parable and the wise prosper from its mess

Jeremy Sisto's words come to mind:

"Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that's like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you"

You may be in business and you have achieved a certain level of success and believe that you can now retire peacefully! Hell No! no one retires from life. You need to go inside yourself again and experience the pressure of pondering on a new idea. Its time to experience how the new pressure will give birth to another Million Dollar Idea never seen before to move you higher above your peers,

Do not entertain fear because a wise man once said no one gets out of Life Alive. What a comfort to know ... Why waste time on fear which can't even save you from leaving life Alive.

Don't Stress over a Job the Almighty has already finished for you

Don't Kill the Rich! They are a Blessing..

You cannot make the Poor people rich by killing all the rich people around. You can bet on your life, you need the rich and famous around for a reference point. You can sympathize and empathize with the poor, but don't remain in their midst just to conform to the common narrative. You cannot help the poor by being and remaining one of them, but you need to get out like Jesus Christ put it in one of His parables, to get some new wine (knowledge and Wisdom) in a new wineskin (mindset) and grow. 

Its time to open your eyes and ears for some fresh understanding of what you are capable of achieving by God's default. Don't take the scripture that says 'blessed are the poor' out of context to justify your laziness and lack of resolve to pursue a better life. Still doubting? news flash ... whether you are male or female, you are carrying seeds to bring forth other human beings (children) and when you create the right environment, you bring them forth effortlessly regardless of your status; rich, poor, educated and uneducated. 

What an equalizer that human beings have been created with! The human body doesn't even need a power charger plugged into some energy socket in order to function. Humans are so self-contained with everything in one place such that evil just wonders how a so sophisticated creative being wallows in poverty and lack in the midst of so much abundance both visible and invisible.

Choose to build your life and then acquire the capacity to pull the poor out of their abodes with the precision of your growth experience. Remember, the presence of the Rich and famous is evidence enough that anything in life is possible for anyone who dares to challenge the status quo. Therefore, bless the rich because what you appreciate will also appreciate in your life. What you hate will always stay far away from your life. Its time to give some love to everything you want to eventually fill your life with. Don't Constrict the God essence in you with the mediocrity of people who relegate the pursuit of a good life as the works of evil. Don't ask people who have never tried anything for advice, you can be surprised how they can successfully point you to nowhere. 

For God's sake change your friends and the social environment if you have to. some wise guy once said if you are moving around with 9 broke friends, you can be sure you are about to become the tenth broke dude. Don't aim so low in order to hit your target and start a life in the overcrowded zone, but aim for the top which is always vacant 

I know someone is asking the question, what about the poor we see all over places begging in the streets, who will help them? Good question! the fact that you are able to see and identify them, you are the chosen one to rescue them. However, if you are unable to help in a meaningful and transformative way, means you are also poor probably, like most of the people, living paycheck to paycheck. For as long as you, who is supposed to be the hero of the poor is still poor, the people you feel affectionate for will also remain in the same state. Feeling affection alone cannot put food on anyone's table. We need to go the extra mile. 

Coming to think of it in our society today, probably the churches or religious entities are supposed to be the sanctuaries for the poor. Well, just count how many so-called local and International religious entities have built Schools, orphanages, hospitals to allow the vulnerable groups to access services for free like Jesus Christ alluded to in Matt 25:40-45.  You will be surprised how many do actually care about the poor.

Food for thought,,,

Our Deepest Fear?

Quoting from a popular writer Marianne Williamson who wrote and I quote "Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate. Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do".


Come to think about it, Who Am I? and Who are you even as you read through this article now? We have read and learned from spiritual texts that we are created in the image and likeness of  God the creator and source of all things. We are everything God is without a doubt. Yet we have been told that we fall short in everything and are not worthy in any way to live a triumphant life. We go to spiritual and religious leaders to understand our purpose, they pretend to open the door yet keep the key and ensures that we believe that God cannot open the Windows of Blessing without the spiritual teacher or whatever title we have chosen to give them, just to keep you within their control. The first lie starts with believing that God is outside you. This seems to make religious sense so that you can go and look for God in the temple. Correct? Wrong! for as long as you keep looking for God outside you, you will always fall short. Why? Because God does not come with a feeling, bells! No! actually, He does not even dwell in temples built by human hands. If I go to church and I am told that it is the place where God dwells, I should be worried. If I am created in the likeness of God and God is actually dwelling in the church building, then who am I carrying as me? The devil? I wonder where the spiritual giants of our time are while Coronavirus is having such a good time devastating people's lives.

The average Christian is anxious about how to find that Kingdom of God! Why don't we as Jesus and hear what He said in Luke 17:21 Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is within you.” BINGO! Eureka!

Put simply you carry the Kingdom within you where ever you go. Its a matter of awareness and understanding it. Look, nothing happens without your permission. Every human being is a creative being and its a question of what you are creating, positive or negative, good or evil, the choice is yours. Anybody can tell you about your past, your failures, and successes. So what? like they say S**t happens in life.

This brings us to the question of the location of heaven. Where is Heaven? is it Up or down, East, West, or where? When I see most people in an attitude of prayer, I see them lifting their hands to the so-called Up direction. The question is, which way is Up? consider the guy at the North and South Poles of the globe, which direction is their true Up? I know, someone reading this right now is saying even the Bible says lift your hands to the Lord. Well, do we really know what that even means? Do we merely look up to the sky as the symbolism of where the Almighty God is supposedly seated on the throne of Glory as told to us by religious teachers without asking the deeper questions why!

It all comes down to the Fundamental truth that if one does not know the direction and location of their desired Treasure, it's worthless even to embark on the journey because they will never arrive and are literally lost in the maze of life. If one does not know where the Kingdom of God lies, they will never unleash the power of the Kingdom to change their lives. They will spend all their lives chasing after prophets and seers, going through deliverance from deliverance with no solution in sight. Consider this, right now the fact that you are able to read this article is proof that your computer is configured to access the Internet streams around in your area from within the computer. Therefore, without the Internet configuration, your computer will never receive any Internet data. You can pray, take the computer to the mountain, fast, pour anointed water on the computer, the computer will never have an Internet connection until the Internet configuration happens. Are you catching the drift here?

If you want to be a good football player, train your legs to kick and maneuver with a Ball. If you want to be a good singer, train your voice, it's that simple. It is not fair to tell someone that I see wealth coming your way without helping their minds, hands, and the required character and skills to handle, keep, and grow the wealth. In my opinion, Prayer helps to keep the connection to the Divine while Thinking helps you to develop Ideas even Million Dollar Ideas. It's dangerous to replace Thinking with Prayer. Set aside time for prayer and set aside time for thinking also. above all commit to learning new things to help you in your thinking.

You can be endowed with Wealth around, but you can also be the poorest amongst all at the same time. The continent of Africa has all the mineral and oil wealth, yet it is still struggling with high poverty levels. Like they say, dying of thirst whilst in a freshwater lake. Africa needs "outside and away from the BOX" Thinkers. How can you solve Africa's economic problems when you are actually schooled in the economics of scarcity with a Ph.D. qualification probably. All you see is scarcity and probably you always believe that a loan of some kind might do the trick to get an economy out of problems. Well, the story of debt is an open secret for all to see. Why not develop a new economic paradigm for Africa. Instead of looking at what Africa lacks or what is scarce, let's look at what Africa has in abundance that is being underutilized. We may just realize that whatever  Africa seems not to have, exists in another form that we may have not paid attention to. Sometimes the solution to a complex problem might just be as simple as a + b, who knows...

Just think about it. Whatever is happening in our lives is within our control and God is counting on us to awaken from the slumber and be the "more than conquerer that we are meant to be".