Another betrayal from someone close
14TH DECEMBER, 2022.
2ND ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
Seasons greetings 💖💗❤️💝
How are you all doing today? I believe you are preparing very well for this season. Don't forget to give me my end of the year gift😀. It's another end of the year together again. I am one year old on this platform and I appreciate the help I have received from here and I pray that God will bless those He used to bring this into existence. Let's get into the work of today.
I am heartbroken. I have been betrayed. I never knew that I could be as emotional as this. This shows that what the betrayal did to me was very painful. I never expected this from her. She betrayed my trust in her and I didn't even know that it was eating deep into the fabric of my heart until people began to complain about my countenance. People said that I looked weak and I walked like someone who had no strength.
Those who cared to share in my burden came close to know what was wrong. They asked questions but I told them "it is well". I couldn't open my mouth to tell them that I was betrayed by someone who knew ninety percent of my life. Not only did she betray me. She went to join hands with someone else who made herself my enemy. They have now joined force to fight me without me offending them.
But I am rest assured that I have done no evil against them and that God is in my side, who will surely fight for me. God is not unjust to allow the will of the enemy to be fulfilled in my life. The day that I had the opportunity to talk with her, I told her, even though she wasn't listening, that
"*whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil will not depart from his house*"
She began to tell everyone that I cursed her. The statement that I made is not a curse. Is it? No, it's not. I am not the one who said it. It is the word of God. Proverbs 17;13.
The reason why people commit evil today is because judgement is not quick.
Because judgement against evil works is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 7:5
God has promised that he will not allow my soul to famish. He says he will be with me always if only I can depend on Him.
Thank you Lord for this comfort that I have received from you. Eating didn't even make sense to me anymore not to talk of writing an article. But I have received strength from your word that you will continue to keep me and preserve my going out and coming in for ever.
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I know that most of us have given our fabrics to fashion designers to help us sew. I pray that we will all end this year with joy, peace and happiness. I pray that nothing will cut short our joys and the protection of the Lord will be upon everyone of us in Jesus mighty name. Amen.
Have a great day 🤗
The joy of finishing well
13TH DECEMBER, 2022.
1ST ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
Happy new day and seasons greetings 💖💗❤️💝💗❤️💝
Can anyone who does not finish well give thanks to God? No.
It is not God's fault but it makes one upset. Making plans and following it will determine if one will finish well. If you ask any student how he/ she wants to finish his academic journey. He /she will say that he or she wants to finish well.
It is therefore important that we put God first before we can finish well.
what is Joy?
Joy is what we have after a success is achieved. Finishing is bringing a task to an end. A semester starts and also comes to an end.
A race is competing with something or someone. An athlete and does not compete alone. He or she competes with other runners. It is good to finish well. Those who finish well don't look back. They focus on their journey.
How can you finish well?
As a Christian, as a student, we need to wait patiently on the Lord. During our waiting on God to finish well, that is the time that we know who God is and how the Spirit of God will lead you. Pray to God as he has promised. He will answer. Just ask Him and he will direct your path.
Allow God to fight your battles you can't do it by yourself so surrender your all to God. As you surrender to God, he will make you finish well. Put your trust in God and not in man. Live a faithful life. Confess your sins and forsake it all. Do not go back to your bad past.
You are your own pastor, prophet and Evangelist. It is not until you see pastor before you can ask anything from God. Open your mouth and talk to God yourself. Talk to him like you are discussing with your friend.
What are the hindrances to finishing well?
SIN is an hindrance. When you commit sin, God will not answer your prayers because a sinner's prayer is an abomination to God. Move with ungodly people, serving God in the flesh, disobedience to God; when God asks you to do something, it is the opposite you do, being selfish and neglecting the way God leads are hindrances to finishing well
Do you know that selfish interest will not allow you to finish well? When we finish well, we will give glory to God and make way for others. With the way you are living your life, are you going to finish well? With the path you have chosen, people may be hailing you but what is heaven saying about you?
This is the end of my article for today. I have not written for more than a week now. I have been facing an emotional trauma lately. It ate deep into my heart 💘.
Thanks for reading and seasons greetings once again 💖💝💞💐🌺🌹🏵️
Writing down my seed phrase saved me
28TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
163RD ARTICLE IN ALL.
6TH ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
SUNDAY
Writing down my seed phrase saved me.
In August this year, I wanted to use my Luno wallet to transfer money to my bank account but it was not working. I needed money urgently and I tried and tried it was not working. I was scared that I would lose my money that I already transferred into it from my Bitcoin wallet.
I decided to download Trust wallet to help me get my money. I sent another $1 to my trust wallet. When it was received, I discovered that I could not sell it out😥. It was very saddening. I could not get my refund. It was at that time that my memory card spoilt and I had to uninstall some apps due to insufficient storage. I had forgotten about the money I sent to my trust wallet and I uninstalled it.
This afternoon, I opened my Luno wallet and discovered that the market was green, I then decided to open my Bitcoin wallet and see my balance. As I was checking my transactions I saw an amount sent to Trust. That was when my brain clicked and I remembered my Trust wallet. I already installed my wallet back after I bought another memory card. I opened it and it said I should open a wallet or import wallet. I was a bit scared at first because I was not sure whether I wrote down my seed phrase or not but I decided to check my diary.
I checked it and I found the seedphrase there. I was still not sure if it was the one but I used it and found my money there. I was grateful to myself and to God. If not that I wrote down that seedphrase, I would have lost my money.
What of you? Have you written down the seedphrase to all your wallets? Please do.
I will be answering few of these questions today. I saw it in @Tahastories ' article and here are my answers too
02- On a scale of 1-10, how funny would you say you are?
I would say that I am on the scale of 5. I make people to laugh i look DDF$n a little because I am not so funny. I'm funny with my actions at times especially at home and in the school.
03- where do you see yoh urself in ten years? Dog
I have no life of my own but by God's grace in ten years, I see myself working as a good journalist, recognized over the nation and beyond. In ten years, I see myself settled in my husband's house with children, serving the Lord. I see myself taking good care of my relatives and in-laws.
04-what was your first job?
The first job I was employed for was a teaching job after my secondary School awaiting admission.
06- how many languages do you speak?
Apart from my mother-tongue, I speak one other language which is English Language.
08- if you are to describe yourself as an animal, which one would it be?
Why should I compare myself to an animal? Should I?... Anyway, if I am to compare myself to any animal, I would compare myself to a Dove for its pure and gentle nature.
09- which is one thing you will never do again?
There are many things I will not want to do again but for the sake of this article, I will mention just one of them. I will never
10- Are you related or distance related to anyone famous?
Yes. I have two uncles who are politicians.
This will be all for today. I believe you enjoyed reading. Thanks for stopping by.
Bad attitudes of medical practitioners
26TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
162ND ARTICLE IN ALL.
6TH ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
SATURDAY
Happy weekend to you here. Have you done the necessary laundry today? I hope you did according to your capacity. For me, anytime I want to wash my clothes, I will pack only the ones I know that I will be able to wash without fainting. There is someone I know that anytime she wants to wash, she will pack her own clothes, her husband's clothes and two children's clothes to wash with her hands in a day. There was a day that she landed in the hospital before finishing the clothes she was washing. She was admitted in the hospital for some days. So,wash according to your ability.
I appreciate everyone here for your kind gestures when I wrote an article about my sibling's accident. I pray that God will not allow such to happen to anyone of us by God's grace. It is well with all of us.
My baby sister is not yet back home from where she travelled to. She was supposed to return by weekend but when they went to the hospital on Thursday, the doctor said that the stitches will be undone after ten days. This made us very worried because the BSN has really spent a lot of money and time on my sister and her friend. The doctor gave no explanation and eventually sent them out of his office.
They decided to go to another hospital and there it was discovered that there has been no improvement on the wound for the past one week. The new hospital had to admit her and begin the necessary treatments immediately. BSN has contacted their lawyer and they will take the doctor to court because he was only collecting money and the wound was not healing. He was not taking proper care of the wound. You can imagine that the wound is on the head. How can that doctor be so cruel and wicked that he will not take care of the wound properly and you have been collecting money all these days for the past one week. You can imagine the bad attitudes of this doctors.
As we were talking about this, someone also shared his own experience too that there was his brother who had an injury while travelling on the bike and he had an accident and it was a bit serious and anytime they take him to the hospital, the doctor will tell all of them to go out and not stay where they are taking care of the injured boy after about 2 weeks. The family later discovered that the wound was not improving. So later, when they went back to the hospital, they said they told them to go out again and then the family told them that they will not go out and that was how the doctor sent them away from the hospital.
They went to another hospital and it was there that it was discovered that they had not been taking proper care of the wound and the wound was already smelling and almost decaying. You can imagine that nonsense. What sort of thing is that please I want to advise our medical practitioners to please be very careful and gentle with lives. The life of a man is very precious.
Almost all the doctors and nurses we usually meet in hospitals they are very harsh sometimes. You can imagine going to the hospital with pains and then they will ask you to sit down and they will be making noise, they will be talking and talking instead of attending to the patient. That is not good enough and it's very painful. That is not supposed to be.
I know that there are some good and nice doctors. But the bad eggs among them are more than the good ones.
There was a movie I watched and the author portrayed a very good nurse attitude. The right attitude of nurses was portrayed in that movie and they were even saying that it was as if cruelness and cruelty was part of the training they got in school. Can you imagine that? I know that is not part of the training.
Doctors and other medical practitioners should please cultivate a good attitude towards patients.
Have a great day 🤗
She betrayed my trust
25TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
161ST ARTICLE IN ALL.
5TH ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
FRIDAY
Happy Friday Friends. A writer-friend of mine here wrote an article today which I read. The article was about a friend of his who betrayed his trust by exposing his private secrets and I began to think that I had a friend who did a similar thing. She betrayed me although in my own case I didn't expose any of my secrets to her but she did what I never expected of her to do.
During my 100 level in higher institution, when I resumed school, I usually sit alone, do my things alone and when others are making noise I will go to another class and be reading. I have written an article similar to this about my friend before. Later, I saw that she was also serious and she would also come to the class that I was staying and she will be reading too. That was how we became friends right from my first semester in school. People knew us together always.
Later we began to attend the same fellowship on campus. Sometimes I will sleep over at her house but this semester just two weeks before our exams, I noticed that she said she wouldn't be attending the fellowship with me again. I begged her, I asked questions, she didn't open up. She began to move with some questionable people. Those that we know that their lives are very rough and unserious. She has began to move with them and during the exams she didn't move with me again.
Before, anytime we want to start the exam, she will call my number to know whether I have gotten to school or not because during the exam we don't usually see each other often but will speak on phone before the exam. So she didn't call me, that was very unusual of her and I never expected that she will change like this. I asked questions. I told that if I offended her and she said I didn't offend her so I don't know why she did this. Anytime she needs my assistance, she will come to me. I won't mind and I always help her.
And then after sometime during the examination, I noticed that she was crying with some of her new friends. I inquired from somebody else and that person told me that she(my friend) was not able to write the exam well and she had nobody to copy from.
In any case, what I can see that made her to leave my company is because I don't engage in examination malpractice and since all these semesters, she has been doing well without examination malpractice and during her first semester, she had some carryovers and she had to rewrite and everything else. She will be crying and I've been the one encouraging her, helping her with her academics because she can't read well. I've been helping her and now she has left.
There is this particular lecturer that usually favours her because she's moving with me but this semester after our exams I went to greet that lecturers and he was telling me that this friend of mine did not perform well in the exam and coincidentally she passed in front of the office and I was trying to call her but my lecturer said I should not call her for anything and so I can see that not moving with me again has begun to affect her negatively.
Whenever I see her, I will greet her even though she might see me and not greet me but I will not use that against her. I just pray that God will help her.
Have a nice weekend.
Another accident...
23RD NOVEMBER, 2022.
WEDNESDAY
4TH ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
160TH ARTICLE IN ALL.
Hello 🙋 writers. How are you doing today? Please, stay safe.
I don't seem to understand what is happening these days. Accidents everyday. WHY?
It was yesterday that I wrote an article about my baby sister who was involved in an accident just a bit before they got to their destination for the competition they were supposed to go for. And at the end they were delayed in the hospital and were not able to attend the competition because of the accident. They got to the venue as the first position was being declared. It was so painful. These reckless drivers, only God can deliver them. People should be careful these days of the kind of vehicles they board. If not for God's mercy only God knows what would have happened to my sister by now because she's still being taken to the hospital for treatment every two-days. Only God knows the amount of money being spent by the Bible society. I pray that God will surely bless them and today now an accident almost happened.
I left the house very early this morning. A man in our house dropped me off before going to his own place of work. On his way, when he got to a village, the chain of the motorcycle hooked which made the back tyre to drag on the tarred road and stopped on motion. If not that God helped him to control the motorcycle, he would have fallen off the motorcycle be seriously injured. I even thank God that there was no vehicle or trailer coming behind him. He told us when he came back from work that he had to drag the motorcycle away from the road. He could not get a mechanic to fix the bike in the village. He had to go to the next town before he got a mechanic to fix it.
I pray that God will continue to preserve our lives for His purpose. I pray that God will make us the apple of His eyes that no one will be able to touch. I know that the devil is trying to multiply his activities now that the year is coming to an end.
Like we all set goals at the beginning of each year, the devil also set his own goals on the number of lives that he wants to claim this year. And as the year is almost ended, he wants to make sure that he achieves his goals. I pray that Satan's goals will not be achieved in our lives in Jesus name. AMEN!!!
Have a great day 🤗
My sister had an accident
22TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
3RD ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
Happy Tuesday to my virtual family. How was work today? I believe you are saving and preparing for the festive season. May God spare our lives to see the end of this year and even beyond.
I don't have a reason to praise God. I have many reasons to thank Him for all he has done for my family. He saw the plan of the enemy but He prevented Satan from accomplishing his plans. I appreciate God for not allowing my family and I to shed tears of sorrow.
For those of us who are conversant with my articles before I stopped writing due to my examination, you will remember that I wrote an article about my youngest sibling who went for a Bible competition and got the first position. The students who won the competition in each state were told that they would have the central and final one in Lagos on the 18th of November. It was first scheduled for 5th of November but due to a week midterm break in Lagos, it was postponed to 18th.
My baby sister and another student were to arrive at the guesthouse, palmgroove estate on the 17th of November in Lagos before the d-day. They were expected to return home on Saturday. They got to school at 7:10am and began the journey by 7;30am on Thursday. When it was 11am, I called my baby sister and she was excited saying that they just reached Ibadan. I was happy that I'm less than two hours, they should get to Lagos State.
I didn't bother to call her again with the hope that they will get to their destination successfully. I went to church straight from work and we finished the service around 8;30pm. When we got home, we began to try her phone number but it was switched off. We called the two sim card numbers in her phone but both were switched off. My dad was worried because we sufficiently charged the phone 🔋 battery. So what could have made the phone to switch off?
We continued calling her till 10pm before we decided to call one of their school teachers who knew about the trip. He responded positively that they were already in Lagos State and that we would be able to speak to her the following day. This made us relieved and we slept peacefully hoping to speak with her on Friday morning.
On Friday 19th November, we began to call her but her phone number was still switched off. This made us very worried even till afternoon we kept trying till evening. It was around 4 p.m. that someone said she was able to call her and she asked about the competition but she was quiet and it made me very worried. I thought if she was not able to win the competition that is not the end of life. And she should not be sorrowful because of that.
But later another phone call came in to the phone of my dad and that was when they broke the news that they were involved in a motor accident before they got to Lagos, that means a few minutes after I called my sister was when the accident happened and that they have been in the hospital. They said it was the driver who was trying to overtake the trailer or something and then the brakes failed and the bus somersaulted. My sister even said she didn't know how it happened that she just woke up and saw doctors using bandage🤕 on her head. The doctors stitched the upper part of the head🤯. Her footwear was not even seen. She wore a white blouse but it had been stained with blood and they had to throw it away and buy another one for her and the other student.
The Bible society has decided to take good care of them before they release them to come home. That is better but I miss her 😭
I have not been happy since then. I can feel her pain. It is not easy at all only God knows the number of injections she would have taken since last week but we thank God for his mercies. The other student only had an injury on her left hand. One of my uncles who lives in Lagos had to help us check up on her at the estate. We heard that the bus caught fire later. This is part of the reason why I have not been able to write any article since weekend.
Have a great day
Stick to your dream
18TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
THURSDAY
3RD ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
Hi friends.
I was privileged to be in a private secondary schools some days ago. They just reached the SS one class and when I got to the class I noticed that all of them were offering science subjects. I intentionally asked them whether it was their own free will or the school imposed it on them. One of them told me that he would like to be in art class.
I feel the school is inconsiderate because I can't imagine forcing all students in the school to be in science class just because you don't have teachers. The school should be able to get teachers for art subjects or inform the student's parents to take him to another school.
I have advised the student to get home and inform his parents that he would like to be in art class and give me the feedback the following day. The school has also said they will be starting next term but I feel that is not enough because there are basic things you need to know in the first term especially in literature and other related subjects. I am not trying to spoil the image of the school but to help the students to realise their dreams.
You need to stick to your dream. Don't allow anybody to allow you to deviate from your dream. Follow it no matter the consequence even if you will have to leave that school to go to another school it is better to follow your dream.
Your dream gives you a hope of what to realise in the future and stirs up ambition to go after it. Literally put, a dream refers to series of mental images of events appealing to an individual during his sleep. It could also mean a cherished desire for something you hope to acquire in life. Your dream gives direction to what goals to set for success. When you are having dreams for excellence, you set great goals. Small goals are usually sit by middle-of-the-road students. When you set smart goals for success, you must pursue your goals and stick to your dream. Your dream focuses your attention on your target while your goals drive you along the right path to your success.
Excellence is within your reach if only you will stick to your dream. Detractors are outside there around you to disturb your thought if you permit them. Nobody will ever make you an average performer except you allow him. The target of critics and gainsayers is to derail you on the path of progress.
You might even have around you unscrupulous students whose business is to merry-go-round in social activities and play games. You must be principled enough to stick to your dream without allowing what people say or do around you to change your focus. What makes for excellence is your ability to hold on to the principles of success without being distracted.
*Snail made it to the ark of Noah through persistence*
Do have a lovely day.
Don't waste time
17TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
THURSDAY
2ND ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
Hello 🙋 writers. I miss this group. My examination really took a lot of my time and interest. Even after my exams last Wednesday, I haven't gotten back the enthusiasm to write and read here again. I faced a lot of challenges during the examination which I will share later.
There is time for everything under heaven,so says the holy scriptures. A time to read and a time to play. A time to work and a time to rest. For the rest of this year till second week in January, I am free to do anything I want. I am on holiday. But trust me, I will make good use of my time. To prove that, I started a new job few days ago to keep me busy with something profitable. Though I am not hundred percent satisfied with the pay, it is better than me staying at home.
I was speaking with one of my Juniors during the exam period. He usually calls me his school mother but I do not agree with his line of thinking at times. He told me that he must always sleep two hours in the afternoon and six hours at night everyday, even during examination. It is not as if he has read all that is needed for him to pass his exams excellently well. He just wastes his life with sleep. Honestly, this is very strange to me. I can't even remember the last time I had a nap. This boy is just sleeping away his life. I tried explaining to him but all I said to make him understand the gains in hardwork and diligence fell on deaf ears.
Time is a precious gift of God to man. Everybody has an equal share of this gift, whether you are rich or poor, a winner or a loser, an average or an excellent performer. What makes the difference is how you use this gift of God. It is pathetic that most students while away their time doing nothing profitable.
Unfortunately the time wasted is irreversible. That explains why the Bible says that you should walk prudently as a wise student to buy back the time by doing something profitable at all times. You have no time to waste in any useless activity. Wisdom demands that you concentrate your energy to do only the things that are relevant to your success aspirations.
One important principal of time management is to always do what is profitable at every moment of time. The students who waste their time waste their lives and minimize their chance for success in life. If you spend all your time to do what is right in a day, you will have no time, left to do what is wrong.
Time will not wait for you to finish what you are to do. You are the one to trade in the time to achieve what you must achieve. A good timetable, a principled lifestyle and an outstanding commitment to pursue success will be very important to help you in the profitable use of your time. You must not allow a waste of time for it will eventually result to a waste of life at the end.
There is time for everything under the sun.
God bless you for reading 💖🌼
Have a great day 🤗
My favorite TV show...
8TH NOVEMBER, 2022.
1ST ARTICLE IN THE MONTH.
Happy New Month to my virtual family. How are you feeling now that the year is coming to a close?. I believe you should be hurrying up to achieve all your aims. I wish you all the best.
To my friends in higher institutions, how is resumption? I believe you are trying to read small small. I know that it is not easy for someone who has closed handouts for eight months to open it and still be familiar with it. I pray that this issue will be permanently resolved soon and you won't have to go on strike again.
For today's article, I would be answering a few questions for you to know more about the personality behind @tife. I got this insight from @CryptoMan4 's article.
Do you like cold drinks or hot beverages?
Who will not like to have a bottle of cold drink especially this season that the weather is so hot in the afternoon? Of course I love cold drinks but I have been warned to beware of anything cold drink so that my voice won't crack while singing.
I like hot beverages too. I love to drink a cup of hot beverage every morning. Especially if it contains a lot of milk and sugar.
I don't like coffee.
Which one do you prefer?
What is your favorite TV show or series?
It has been a long time since I watched my favorite TV show and series.
I watch a series every Sunday and Wednesday. The one on Sunday is a film series by 10pm to 12midnight. The one on Wednesday is called Teju~baby face show.
Do you prefer soft drinks or alcoholic drinks?
I prefer soft drinks. As a matter of fact, I just finished a bottle of soft drink I have been sipping few days ago. I don't like finishing it all at once😋.
I hate alcoholic drinks 😖😷
What is the food you can eat anytime?
I can eat any delicious food at any time. Most especially, I can eat pasta🍝 known as spaghetti here and mashed potatoes🍲🍜 with lots of pepper,ginger and tomatoes anytime any day.
Which season do you enjoy most? Why?
I enjoy the rainy season most. The reason is because I love to use scarf around my neck as part of my dressing but I will not be able to use it if the weather is hot .
I also love the rainy season because it gives me the opportunity to wear any of my clothes. I will only have to wear cardigan on it. If it were to be during the dry season, I will have to select soft clothings to wear.
Thank you for reading my article. I have been away from here for some time now. My examination got the best part of me. It remains one paper for me to write tommorow and bye-bye to school till January 2023.
Have a great day 🤗
I stole but I exposed myself
This is about one of my secondary school experiences. I got the inspiration to write this article after reading @Bisolammy 's article about her secondary school days.
Like I wrote in my autobiography, my first two years in secondary school was spent in the boarding house. Lucky and good enough, my aunt was the hostel mistress. I ate freely. I usually eat the food that is served her by the cook and she would eat something else. My provisions are usually untouched unless my aunt calls me to eat it by force. I didn't love eating.
Every morning, we would wake up by 5 a.m. to have our morning devotion till 6 a.m.. By 6 a.m., everyone would be getting ready for school and we would all leave the hotel by 7 a.m.. The food would have been ready before 7 and we will eat before going to school. The assembly is usually 7:30 and before 8 we should have gone back to our classes to begin the day lessons.
Lessons begin by 8:00 till around 11. All students would have just English and mathematics. We would go for break by 11 and come back.
The biscuit I usually love at that time was Fantasia. I loved this biscuit. At that time, we will put that biscuit inside a small container and add little water to it and mix until it becomes very soft and then break little biscuit into it and begin to eat😋. That was our life that time and sometimes, I usually buy Focus crunchy biscuit. The biscuit is very peppering and sweet.
There was something my classmates usually do. While eating my Focus, I will first of all eat the small small ones and then when it remains the big big ones that is when my friend will now come and ask me to give it to them. They know that if they come at the beginning when I was eating it I will give them a small one. So that was our life at that time just growing.
One day, I didn't dress up quickly for school and so I missed my breakfast. My aunt sent me to the hostel during break time to go and eat. When I got to the hostel, the whole place was empty and then I went into our room and then to the kitchen to get my food.
I don't know what happened but I just know that I went into the girls hostel, opened one of the lockers and took butter from it. As I was taking the butter, I heard footsteps approaching the hostel. Then I quickly ran back to my aunt's room and I was scattering the clothes on the bed. When the other girls came in, they noticed what I was doing and they asked what I was doing inside. They didn't notice that I had stolen anything but I was the one that even talked that I went to take senior Grace's butter. I was young and didn't know the gravity of what I had done.
I thought they saw me, I didn't know they didn't see me. They called me names went back into the school to report to the owner of the butter. They went to meet my senior that I took her butter and that was how everyone got to know. My aunt also knew that I stole butter and she beat me like anything that day. She called my parents to inform them and I had to travel home that weekend to receive extra punishment.
Do you know that the owner of the butt did not even take it serious? It was her friends that took it serious. I didn't eventually use that butter because I wanted to use it to eat biscuit. As i came out of the hostel, I threw both the biscuit and the butter into the bush and at the end I didn't eat the food I wanted to eat. Stealing the butter was useless.
That is one of the remarkable things that happened in the hotel. I begged my senior and she said everything was alright and that was how the case ended. There are many others I still remember but that is story for another day.
Thank you for reading and thanks to the person that made me to have an idea of what to write today. it's been such a long time since I wrote last Sunday but it has been due to my school activities. Our exams is just a week away and I just finished my practical with shampoo and it's also nice. So thank you so much for everything.
I didn't sleep for 48 hours
Greetings to everyone in the house 😍😇. Happy Sunday to you. How was the service? I believe you were blessed beyond expectations. We thank God for that. We had a combined service in church today and the service ended before noon.
I have not been able to write articles for two days straight and today would make it third if I don't write. My absence is not intentional. I have been very busy in school. My examination is barely two weeks away. It was not even exams I was preparing for that made me absent here. I want to specially appreciate @TheRandomRewarder for not leaving me all these while. No matter how small, we still earn. Half a loaf is better than none.
I remember that I once wrote in one of my articles few days ago that I am working on a business plan. It is a group work given by one of my lecturers. We are ten in my group. I was made the group leader. I went to the market to find out the price of the chemicals that we are to use for the product our lecturer asked us to work on.
The first time I went to the market, I priced only the chemicals. I didn't price the bottles because I thought we were only going to use ordinary bottles but when I got back to school, our lecturer asked us to buy small kegs for the products and not use ordinary water bottle. I had to go back to the market again to price the bottles and then when I got back to school again we have to select a date for the exhibition. We contributed some amount of money for ten litres and I went to buy the chemicals including the bottles.
We did the practical last Friday and that was why I was unable to write any article here. I have been so busy teaching others on how to mix the ingredients because we are to do a video coverage and send the video to our lecturer. So I taught others how to do it and then we did a video and we are to send the video to my lecturer tomorrow and to explain how we did everything.
I didn't sleep for 48 hours straight from Thursday to Saturday. I've been working on the business plan and I must confess, it has not been easy at all. I had to search online, get books from one of my leaders who is into entrepreneurship and I had to use my hand-out as a guide from the executive summary to the financial plan. So I wrote everything and then I had to give it to the person to type. So today now, I will give the financial plan and the operational plan to the person that is typing because I had not finished it.
We are to submit tomorrow and I have to go back to the computer centre today to give it to them and finish the work. I was supposed to have finished writing it on Saturday but I went to school for my drama rehearsal which took a lot of my time. I left the house around 7:30 and we finished the rehearsal around 2:30pm. It was very hectic but glory to God we were able to do it very well. Our director and the choreographer from university of Ilorin have been very wonderful. We really appreciate them.
So this is the reason why I have not been active here. I appreciate your efforts for still reading my articles.
*Thank you for everything💖💝💗*
Everyone is a teacher
Good evening friends. How are you today? I have been very busy since yesterday. I am currently working on a business plan and it has taken a lot of my time. I quickly want to post this before midnight so that I can begin with the business plan. I don't know if I will sleep tonight. I drafted this article yesterday but I didn't have time to edit and publish it. Pardon me for late post.
Happy teachers day everyone. How was your day? I hope you enjoyed it.
*Everybody is a teacher.*
The role of the teacher is not dedicated to a particular person. Everybody no matter how small or little or insignificant, we all teach. But some people have become professionals in it when they go to school to learn the art of teaching.
The roles of teachers cannot be overemphasized. There are lot of techniques in teaching. There are so many things we do wrong while teaching, but when we study to be a teacher in school, we see those mistakes and we improve.
The federal government of my country has decided to place more value on the teaching profession and encouraging students to study education courses by paying a percentage of the school fees of the students of Education in colleges and universities. This is good news for me.
How can we become a good teacher?
What are the qualities of a good teacher?
A good teacher must be strict and gentle. Be strict in class discipline but love. You should not be a teacher that your children will be afraid or scared of you. They should fear you but not in an absurd manner.
A professional teacher must have knowledge of what he is teaching. In whatever field you have chosen, whatever subject you are choosing to teach, make sure you know it very well. My Dean once told us that there are some schools that you will posted to and that the students are more intelligent than the teacher. This causes many embarrassments.
A good teacher must also be confidential in nature. Your students should be able to keep good secrets with you. You should love them that they will be able to tell you some things that they are not able to even tell their parents at home.
Something like this has happened before that a students went to her teacher to tell her some things that had been happening in her parents house. The things that parents do at home, how they fight and do a lot of pains. A reason why this this student could do this was because the teacher was nice and the student must have seem some qualities in the teacher that she will be confidential about the information she wanted to give to her and in the long run, the problem in her family was solved because this teacher gave the students and assignment to do at home. After she completed the assignment, peace was restored into that family.
A good teacher must teach students very well and not just ask them to go and read on their own. You must teach appropriately to the right level. Students shouldn't can be over- given assignments to the extent that it will be everything that you supposed to teach that you will give them as assignments.
*Thanks for stopping by🤠*
I am unique and useful
Good day family 👨👩👦👦💑. I am unique and useful because God does not lie. He says I am fairfully and wonderfully made. God has formed me and I will show forth God's praise. There is no other person like me and so I am useful. I don't have to figure it out. God will figure it out for me.
Sometimes I wonder...
Is there really anything unique about me?
Like a diamond in a rock, I am unique and useful. Each human being has a unique quality. There is something God has put in me to make maximum value. It all starts with believing in God.
If you have not given your life to Christ, don't allow the devil to rob you of your destiny. It is for a unique purpose.
Master your uniqueness
I will partner with God. I will observe my strengths and sharpen my gifts. I will not downplay my gifts. I will not be like the unprofitable servant who was given a talent but went ahead to hide it under the ground and then when his Master came back for him to give report of what he had used the gift to gain, there was nothing to show for it. I am determined to rise to excellence.
When people say something that is not in line with what God has said about me, I will counter it back with the word of God. I will not just laugh it off. During my journey, I will stay at it. I will not just give up. There's a dynamite power in me even if I do not feel like it. My God will never leave me.
How do I use my uniqueness?
I will focus on God's ability. I will partner with God and allow him take me through. I won't focus on the earthly value of my gifts. I will connect with God and He will connect my dots. I will find a way to add value to people around me. If I am good at something and I don't feel like it, I'll cast my bread upon many Waters.
I am a christian and my light must shine no matter the darkness. If I want to be great, I can do anything if I try, just try. I will arise and shine for the glory of God is risen upon me.
When my heart is confused, my brain closes up on me. When I have turmoil in my heart, my whole system shuts down. God will give me a perpetual God. God will give me a permanent peace that when I pray, there is an assurance to answered prayers. The peace that the world gives is not permanent.
When I reach an height that people don't want me to reach, the peace they have with me is cancelled because they don't want me to get higher than them. I will not allow my heart to be troubled.
God quenches all quarrels. Do you know that I once quarrelled with God? He asked me to do this and I did that. Nobody could settle that quarrel until Jesus came to settle that quarrel. As all quarrels are settled with God, minor quarrels with man will be quenched and I will live in peace with every man.
***There will not be an unsolvable problem in my life.***
I will always think of my uniqueness. Nobody on this earth has my fingerprints. I will unplug my life from every circuit that does not have a light. I will use that thing God has deposited into me because it is only me that can use it. I have been given all the letters of the alphabet to write a new story for myself. I choose to be up. Nothing will bring me down. The worst Satan can do in my life will not hinder the best God has made me to be.
I will not be less of what God has made me
Tife. writes ✍️
Excellence despite difficulties
Daniel faced challenges. He was taken into captivity with his friends but they made up their mind not to join the evil practice of the land. It was after their decision that God made them to excel. When the wicked is being punished, the righteous suffer but God will always help the righteous and deliver him from all troubles.
It was like that for Daniel. Daniel was righteous and so God was with him. He succeeded and became a leader in captivity. If you decide to succeed, God will give you the success you need. If sinners entice you, do not agree. It depends on you making up your mind and to allow it to work.
Portraits of exceptional students
If good success will come, God must be there. In our academics without God, you won't make it. Be in line with God. After one lecture, read a little scripture before the next lecturer comes in. Align with God. Some people have first class today yet, they are still looking for jobs around.
Establish a relationship with God. Have the fear of God. Be diligent. Be ready to play your part. A lot of prayers we have prayed God answers but we need to play our own parts.
When you get to the exam hall pray and cover yourself with the blood of Jesus. Bind everything bindable. A story was told of some students who were about to write an exam. God opened the eyes of a Christian and he saw one of the students who had a snake on his head and this snake's mouth was touching every student's head. That is how students forget what they have read.
Be faithful. Do not cheat. As a child of God, you will get any prosperity you want in God. Don't go to any man for sharpening your brain. Only God can give sharp memory.
Don't despise your leaders. Ask them to guide and pray for you. Know the place where you will go. It has repercussions.
A story of some guys who wanted to become another Isaac Newton and they went to an herbalist sincerely from their heart and that they want their name to be published. And so four of them on the way back home they were crushed in a motor accident and they all died. Be careful of where you go.
Forget about the level of your brain. Put your faith in God and read. God will give you recalling memory, retentive memory. You will share testimony of achievers.
The children of Israel were captives in Babylon. God will bring out sense out of your nonsense and an entity out of your non-entity. He made the king to have a dream that he could not understand and all the astrologers that could not interpret were to be killed. Daniel was called and they went into a secret place to pray. You may not have a political power but your prayer can work out. Dutifully interceed for the glory of God.
What if there is nothing wrong with you
There are things that are not true yet, they produce false steps. Satan lies to our heart and brings a Pressure to belong and to perish.
False signs and false steps
The voice of culture is very loud, casts down and drowns the voice of God. Its chief aim is to blunt your affections, hurt your soul and enslave your spirit. It makes you go down the wrong path.
48% of young adults suffered from mental health in 2022 according to research.
Footsteps and small steps
DISCOVERY
You have to look inward at what you are good at. Find out if you are an introvert or extrovert. If you are an introvert, you don't need to look down on yourself. That you are an extrovert does not also define you. God that created you well.
Observe, pry into your life. Ask questions about yourself.
" The day you discover yourself is the day you start living".
Fight, Don't give up without a fight. Vie; don't leave it.
Recovery; though your beginning is small, your latter end will greatly increase. *Start small but make steady progress.*
Final state and future steps
God knows the good plans he has for you to give you a future and a hope. Come to the Savior.
WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?
First light
Leave mediocrity and move to Mastery.
faith light
Step out, step up and step forth.
Future light
Make the days count. Set big goals.
How do you discover purpose?
At the base, God's purpose for you is great and good. We fail to discover destiny because we don't have Christ. God will always support you.
How to overcome negative thinking
You are clean through the word of God. The word of God is enough to cleanse every negative thinking.
How do we differentiate open rebuke from embarrassment?
If you get counselled and you get hurt, don't despise it. Your parents love you and everyone loves you. You're surrounded by love.
Be coordinated in your natural life. We were unuseful when we were first born it is what comes in that we produce out. Confess positively;
I will become
I am unstoppable
I am undefilable
I am undefeatable
I am unconquerable
I am unconfinable
The devil wants to transform my life but God Will Make me untouchable and unpreventable. God will work on my life and not allow anything to prevent me from reaching the peak.
Happy Sunday
Awake
Happy New Month 💖. Happy Independence day.
It is time to awake. Life is not for sleeping. You need to dust your skills. When an object has been placed on a surface for months, series of flies and dust would have dropped on it. And so, it requires cleaning.
It is time to awake out of your sleep. If you are always sleeping, you can't achieve great things in life. God created the seas, oceans, sun, 🌒 moon, vegetables and animals for something. You are not an accident. God has a purpose for your creation and it is only when you are awake that you can discover that purpose.
Look at how many years you have spent on earth, what have you contributed? What have you achieved in your life, family, socially,etc. You will awake. The advocate is the only one who can help you to advance. You need to awake so that the advocate can get you up and keep you moving.
Who is your advocate?
In the olden days, great rivers separated different villages but later, people thought of how to link to other towns and sell their products. Then they thought of bridges to allow free access. For you to have what God wants to give you, only the advocate, the bridge(Christ) is the link that can grant you the access. He is the bridge between Man and God. It doesn't matter whether you have not known Him before. A bridge may not be noticed on time but when you notice it, you make use of it.
To conquer is to overcome in life. When we are about to go to school as a little child, we cry. The reason is that we have not conquered the attachment of the mother and child. For as long as that attachment is there, the child will not make progress in education. Until you conquer fear, you cannot amount to anything useful in life. What leads us up is to conquer fear of going to school, travelling abroad, my village and so on.
No matter how big the challenge is, do what you fear to do. Do the hard things first early in the morning when your brain is still fresh. If you think a task is difficult, do it anyhow and in the process you will be able to get it right. Look at Thomas Edison, he tried a thousand times before he succeeded. A person who knows how to make decisions right will make it in life.
Eliminate all things that is limiting you. Emmanuel, God with us, will deal with every spirit that wants us to be in a stagnant position.
People call you good names on the outside but they do not know what you do inside. Only God can eliminate all the bad things in your life. The healer of all sicknesses will be by your side the rest of this year and beyond. Everything will be all right with you.
Happy new month and once again. Happy Independence day. Have a blessed day.
Doing justice to academics and spiritual life
Why is education important? Why do we need education and spirituality? Since our goal is to prepare for heaven, do we need education again?
Education is an enlightening experience. We all come to this world with an empty brain just like a clean sheet of paper. We begin to learn as we grow and that is the purpose of education, to discover our talent and liquidate the ignorance.
Why we need to be educated;
To develop our skills and knowledge.
To know the right way and correct orders.
For unforeseen circumstances.
There are some courses you will do in school that is compulsory but not related to your field of study. For example; how is mathematics related to mass communication? It is not related but you must not be limited to only your area of concentration. That is why we have general courses so that when others are speaking, you can also speak, you can also know what is happening in other field. You need to train yourself for unforeseen circumstances.
To show yourself approved before God
For someone who is not educated, he or she cannot be used of God because how can a person who cannot read or write do the work of God? Just pray that everything you do will be approved before God.
Education helps us to read and write in order to connect globally.
You can't be in front of the manager of a company or a millionaire and be speaking your dialect. The person you are talking to may understand your dialect but because it is not the official language, you might be disqualified.
Education brings honour
When we are educated, we will be honoured. Literate people are held in high esteem. The lady that won a national award recently was able to stand before the President of this nation and talk to him. If she was only into sports without education, would she have been able to stand before the 'king'?
To be spiritual means
To represent God
To follow the commandment of God
To commit our totality to God
You must cast your burdens on God because he cares for you.
To be heavenly minded.
Paul said if our hope is just for this earth, we are of most men miserable. If all the denying yourself of ungodliness is just for this world, we are of all men most miserable. We must be heavenly minded. Our gaze must be on heaven.
Stand firm in Christ
*The greatest evil that can happen to a believer is to go to the same hell fire that you have warned sinners to avoid.*
How do you manage your time? Successful people know the value of time. If you don't know the value of time, go to a radio or television station. If you waste time, who will give you back? If you lose money, you can get it back.
If you will balance academics and spirituality;
You must set time to read and pray. God is not a magician. When it is time to read, read and read. Pray at the right time.
Know your capacity both physically and academically.
When you know your capacity, you will know your strength. If you are a slow learner, start reading ahead. Don't wait until it is a week to the exam before you start reading.
Work harder and learn more
Pray always. Men ought always to pray and not to faint. pray at all times Philippians 4:6. Be anxious for nothing, it will only cause high blood pressure.
Eat the word Joshua 1:8. Study the Bible always.
Hard labour without God is in vain
No matter how knowledgeable we are, it is nothing without God because the race is not to the Swift nor the battle to the strong.
Have a nice weekend 💖
Can you live a day without your phone?
Hi friends. How are you doing today. This is the last Thursday in my birth month. I appreciate God for his wonders in my life.
I woke up this morning by 4 a.m. I prepared breakfast, I prayed and I did some revision of one of my courses. While I was leaving for school this morning at 7am, and left my phone at home I was already on the way before I remembered and I could not go back because I had gone far from the house.
I was worried when I got to school because I had a lot of things I wanted to do on my phone. I didn't go to school with my Bible because I wanted to use the Bible application on my phone but it wasn't possible. I had a drama rehearsal this afternoon and the songs for the rehearsal were also on my phone which I have not mastered properly.
I was very sad leaving my phone at home. There were some people I needed to call in the morning when I got to school. Our lecturer came around 8 a.m. and he met only me in the school. I wanted to call my coursemate who were leaving around the school so they could come to the school on time. I could not do that so, it really affected me.
I don't know how I would have... but I can live without my phone. Although I can live but it will be a bit difficult and uneasy. I left the school around 5 p.m. this evening for home.
She won an award
My sister travelled to the capital city of my state today. She went for a Bible competition. There was a competition she went for last week in town and she was the best you were to selected from her school and her school was the best among the participants and then it was taken to the capital city.
They left very early and they also performed excellently well through the help of God. They were the best school in the whole of my State. I am very happy for her. She and the other girl were given a cup for first position.
A revised standard version Bible was given to both of them
A New testament Bible with Psalms and Proverbs, two fourty leaves note and snacks were given too.
I feel sleepy as I write now please forgive my write-up today.
My autobiography
Good evening friends. It's almost two hours to the end of today in my country here while some are just preparing for work in other countries. God is marvelous for this kind of thing. He is the greatest of all.
This article is an assignment I submitted to one of my lecturers. Happy reading 😎
I was born on a very unique day😍. It was on a Saturday and that day marked the first anniversary of my parents. My parents' names are Mr and Mrs Toluwani. I was born into a middle-class family. I was brought up in the Christian way.
The first school I attended is Ololade daycare in ṣakí, Ọyọ State. I didn't like going to school but my dad would always carry me on his neck to school every morning before going to his place of work. After a year, my father, who is a civil servant and others were dismissed from work due to the arrival of a new governor known as governor Lawal. My dad began to farm and teach in a private school named Sharon Rose college for five years. He was reinstated back into service after governor Lawal's term expired.
We later moved to Osogbo in Osun State when my mother was looking for a job in a hospital. We lived at oríta sabo street. There, I attended Victoria nursery and primary school for my nursery one then I went to Grace and glory international school Ota-efun, Osogbo.
I was in nursery two and my mum was pregnant with our last born. As soon as she gave birth, she secured a good job at Otan Ayegbaju in osun state. I had to change school again we relocated to otan ayegbaju and attended tender care nursery and primary school. I repeated class when I got there because I didn't perform up to their expectations. I repeated nursery two and I stayed there till I got to primary two before we relocated to kwara state.
The first school I attended in kwara state was Bethel nursery and primary school. I stayed for one year of my primary 3 and i went back to grace and glory international college because my dad was transferred to a remote village.
A very memorable experience that I had in that school is that on a bright morning, we were lined up on the assembly ground when the girl standing in front of me fell backward and hit my chest with her head. She fainted. That is all I can remember about the story. It has been a very long time. I know that she must have been rushed to the hospital for treatment.
I stayed in the boarding house for 3 years with my Aunt who was the house mistress. I left the boarding house when my aunt secured a government job and she had to leave. I was in jss2. I had to leave for ESS where i finished my secondary school as the Assistant Head Girl. I finished my senior secondary school education and thereafter I uploaded my result on jamb caps after the result was released but I couldn't get admission because I had pass in mathematics. It was a very great struggle for me and I have written my story here. It is very interesting and take your time to read.
https://read.cash/@Boluwatife/what-life-has-thrown-at-me-2-08b76349
I feel fulfilled today
27TH SEPTEMBER, 2022.
Hello my virtual family. I'm happy to write again today. Today is the 27th day in the month of September. Very soon we will be celebrating Independence day in Nigeria. It will be fun to watch how the program will go over the television.
I feel fulfilled today. Do you want to know why? Before I share mine, how do you feel today? How is school today? How is work? I hope your boss didn't stress you too much today and I hope the traffic didn't make you too late to work.
Alright, let me share mine. I woke up this morning around 4 a.m. but I slept back and I woke up around 5:30. I prayed and got dressed for school. I prepared breakfast and I left around 7 a.m.. I got to school at 7:30 and I was very happy because it has been such a long time since I got to school at that time since the beginning of this semester more than two months ago.
When I got to school, I took my breakfast and started to read. I read one of my courses till around 8:30 and then I read another one from 8:30 till after 9 when I had my first lecture.
For some weeks now I have not been able to do that because of so much activities in the school. Immediately after lectures, I love to read but other people would want to collect my jotings and it has been affecting me negatively.
I have many group presentations to do also. If it were to be individual presentation, it will be very convenient for me as it would be individual mark. But the group presentation takes a lot of my time as I have to look for the members of my group and looking for them is great time waster. We have to discuss and plan. The one I am presently working on is how to make shampoo and to write a business plan for it. We plan to make ten litres. We have to buy the small kegs and also make a sticker label. This world cost us about $12 altogether.
So today, I studied two of my cousins without distraction in the morning before my lecturer came and after the lecture I had to do some other things. I stylishly left my coursematee and went to an empty class and I also read another one. I read my Bible and prayed. It has been such a long time since I've had this kind of routine and I am back home now. I'm so happy😃.
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I read an article from @Chelle18 that she lost her first cousin who was working on a construction site just today and the wall fell on him. He was rushed to the hospital but he died eventually😥. Such a promising young man. I pray that such a thing will not happen in our midst again. I also pray that the Almighty God will protect every one of us from the attacks of the enemy. We will all see the end of this year in peace and joy and also greet one another Happy New year in 2023.
Thank you so much for reading. Enjoy your day💐🌺🌹🥀
Growing in wisdom
I saw a book in my school library few weeks ago and I decided to take it and read it. The title of the book is growing in wisdom and Faith written by Elizabeth George. There were so many lessons I learnt while reading this book. It opened my eyes to so many things. You need to read it too. I'll be sharing some lessons I learnt.
The lessons are ;
*If your mouth is open your ears are always shut.*
When God created us, he gave us two ears and one mouth. It shows that we should listen more and talk less. People today, talk more than they listen.
*Do not hold the faith of Christ with partiality*
You don't have to be partial in the house of God. We should not favour the rich more than the poor. We should all be equal in the presence of God because God is not partial. HE will reward everyone according to his/her works.
*It is better to be rich in faith than rich in fund*
Anyone that is rich in faith has everything spiritually and is satisfied even physically. He has everything. One should not totally focus on funds. Look at Lazarus.
Give till the Savior stops giving to you
This shows the importance of giving. You must give always as long as we have what we can give out.
Faith is nurtured & strengthened by reading, hearing aid sharing the Word
Our faith in Christ is nurtured and is strengthened by daily reading and meditation on the word of God. You must hear the word of God always, meditate on it everyday and share to others. In telling others about God, that will always serve as a reminder for us not to forget God.
Take every care not to teach your own opinion but the truth
When you are telling people about Christ, make sure that you are not preaching yourself, you are not telling your story. Do not preach what you think but tell the story of Christ.
*Take every care not to contradict your teaching by your Life*
Some people preach and say do as I say. Don't do as I do. That is wrong. You must let your lifestyle be patterned according to what you are teaching. Don't live the opposite of what you teach.
*The candle lights others by consuming itself*
The candle lights orders by consuming itself. This got me thinking deep. It has a very deep meaning. That means that as we are seeking the good of others. as we are telling others about Christ, inviting them unconsciously, we are draining our strength. We are consuming ourselves but God will always replenish us.
Uncontrolled desires lead to extreme violence a
Uncontrolled desires lead to extreme violence. When you have a desire to get something and you do not control that desire, it will lead to an extreme violence that you will want to get that thing by any means possible.
Guidelines for goal-setting;
Realise that only God knows your future.
Realise that God has a purpose for your life.
Realise that God may send interruptions into your perfect today.
Remember to pray over your plans and say 'if the Lord wills...
*Thank you for your time 💖*
How to change your life
Happy Sunday to you friends. How are you doing? I believe you are well including your families.
How have you been living your life? Do you enjoy the way your life is? Are you satisfied with your current situation? If not, how do you intend to change your life? Or are you just sitting doing nothing? That must not be. If you are unsatisfied with your life then, you need to do something.
So many people in the past lived their lives as mediocrities until a sudden realization dawned on them and they became extraordinary pacesetters. You can change your life too. Nobody will help you to do it. Only you can do it Yourself. Sit up as I take you through the life of some people and what they did to change their lives. Are you ready?
You can change from
Average to achiever
Rags to riches
Rejection to recognition
Reproach to respect
Regrets to rejoicing
Bitter to better
Conquered to conqueror
Victim to Victor
There was a man who lived many years ago. Due to the circumstances that surrounded his birth, his parents could not get any meaningful name to give him. They gave him a name that means sorrow. And true to it, sorrow followed this man from birth till adulthood until he sat down and thought of how to change his life. The first thing he did was that he connected with God for transformation and that was how his story changed. He became successful in life.
There is another man who had great dreams as a young man. He dreamt of becoming a king even though he wasn't from a royal family. His told the dream to his older siblings and that was how hatred began. They sold him out to another country and innocently ended up in prison. But the sweet part of it is that through it all, he did some things that changed his life. Part of it are;
HE WAS HARDWORKING
In a strange land, he worked very hard to get to achieve his dream.
HE WAS INDUSTRIOUS
He was always busy with one thing or the other.
HE WAS FOCUSED
He focused on his God given dream and he lived a goal oriented life.
HE WAS POSITIVE MINDED
He told a friend who they were in the prison together that when he was released, he should remember him. He was positive minded that he would leave the prison someday.
You can do it too.
There was a woman named Hannah. She could not give birth to a child. She tried all she could but all to no avail. Her husband later married another woman and this woman gave birth a year after. So, Hannah decided to take it all up.
SHE DIDN'T CHOOSE TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH HER SITUATION.
SHE WAS DEFINITE ABOUT HER DESIRE.
SHE WAS DETERMINED, EXPECTANT AND CLAIMED WHAT SHE WANTED.
So, you need to be determined, expectant and claim what you want. That thing that you want to become claim it every day. Say it with your mouth and you will see that it will come to pass.
In the end, Hannah eventually gave birth to a prophetic child named Samuel and other children.
Don't sit where you are because your current position is another man's past.
This is my entry for a writing contest by @LykeLyca
My first drama rehearsal
Hello friends 😇 How are you today? How is your weekend? I hope you did your laundry today. I'm very sure you have. I soaked some clothes this morning. I had to go to school today because of I had a lecture by 10am. Due to some circumstances, I was already giving up going to school. Until ten when it was confirmed that I would go.
I got to school fourty-five minutes late. The lecture was ongoing when I entered and sat at the back. I came alongside others.
The class ended before twelve noon and after the class I went for a drama rehearsal. We are planning to stage a play on the students' week. My lecturer invited three students from the University of Ilorin to train us.
They are theatre art students and they must be in their final year. You need to listen to their spoken English. One of the trio is the drama director, another is the drummer while the only lady among them is the dancer. They had lots of experiences too and they acted very well.
This isn't my first time of actually acting a drama. I acted the first one when I was in secondary school. I played the role of a mother. During my two hundred level second semester too, I played the role of a teacher in my general course. But this is the first time I would be trained in acting.
I learnt a lot of things while acting today. I learnt never to back the audience no matter what because it shows that the audience are not important. They must never see my back.
When it was time for the cultural dance, the choreographer explained the meaning of dance.
D- Discipline
You must be disciplined. Be quiet when your director or stage-manager is speaking no matter how small he/she is.
A- Attitude
Do not show any attitude.
N- New
Be ready to learn new dance steps. The leader can decide to change the style if she feels you are not getting it.
C- Confidence
Be confident of yourself. She said that even if you are dancing rubbish, be confident with it
E- Expression
You must smile with your teeth outside unconsciously. This part really got me smiling because throughout the rehearsal, she was just shinning teeth😁.
Thanks for reading. Happy weekend.
Power outage
Power outage, a temporary loss of electric power, a regular feature in some developing countries, cripples a lot of productive activities whenever it occurs. Once the rotation of the fan blades and the hum of the refrigerator cease and darkness take the place of light, you are sure electricity supply is cut.
If the outage occurs in the early hours of the day, preparation for school is affected. You suddenly realise that your uniform would not be ironed, no news on the electronic mass media, use of electric stove, cooker or toaster is stopped except for candlelight or lantern that in most cases may not be more than one in a household. The outage may make your preparation for the activities of the day shoddy.
I find it inconvenient anytime the electricity supply is cut when I am still cooking around 5am, especially when the cooking gas is exhausted. I have to go out and use charcoal which takes a lot of my time that I would have used to read. At times, I would have to rechoose the dress I want to wear as the one I planned to wear before is not yet ironed. This shows that light is very essential to human.
Now, imagine you are rushing into the day without spiritual power, going out without tapping from your spiritual power source, without prayer, bible reading and meditation that lead to refreshing devotion. How will you be supplied with grace and strength from the Lord to face temptations of various circumstances in the day?
It is necessary to live in the power of Christ and this is only possible as we seek the Lord and His strength daily. We are told, "seek the lord and His strength, seek His face continually" 1st Chronicles 16:11.
King David resolves "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee" because "those that seek me early shall find me" says God. Think about this before you pray. *Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk, and not faint.*
*There is never a lack of God's power in prayer and reading His word.*
Thanks for reading
***Tife writes✍️***
Happy weekend in advance 💖
Who is Christ to you?
*This article was meant to be published on Sunday.*
Happy Sunday 💖💗. How was the service. A new campus fellowship was inaugurated in my school. Today is the first campus Sunday service. I have been attending an adult church before and so I am happy that a campus fellowship has come to stay in my campus. It was a glorious service. And this is the message that was preached.
Who is Christ to you?
Some see Him as a healer. Others see Him as a provider. Some even see him as a mere religious founder. But who is He to you?
Your understanding of who Christ is to you will determine the benefits you get from Him. It will also determine how far you will go with Him and how closer you will get with Him.
Matthew 16:13-23
Peter expressed the knowledge of Christ
'you are not just one of the prophets, you are more than Elias. You are the Savior and the only One to be followed.'
You must have a personal conviction that Christ is the Savior. Do not be carried away by divergent knowledge of Christ. Others may be running away from Christ because they don't get what they want or they have it all and don't need anything again from Him.
They take church as a cafeteria where you eat and leave. You don't sit down again after eating in a cafeteria. They come and sing, receive blessings and go. Peter said Christ has the word of Life. He gives everything freely.
When you have knowledge of Christ, there must be a change in your life and be who you are supposed to be. God knows who are His. And anyone that calls the name of Christ must depart from inequity. You will purge yourself from all unrighteousness and be a vessel unto honour. The knowledge of Christ gives salvation.
How can you say that you are saved and you keep it to yourself? You must expand it. You are going to talk about it to every other person when you are born again. In Luke 24 :27, Christ spoke about himself. Who then are we not to speak about his repentance and remission of sin. You will tell your brothers, sisters are parents.
The Spirit of God will reveal Christ as the Savior to you. When you see this revelation, what is your response? You can pray for the revelation of the word of God in your heart. That revelation gives you courage, faith and righteousness.
Some people say that Jesus did not die and that He was too powerful to die. He surrendered Himself. He died and rose up through Him we have complete redemption. We are justified by Faith through redemption in Christ. Christ is the justifier, no man is the justifier, no angel, no prophet not even the mother of Jesus is the justifier.
Christ is our confirmed righteousness. God made Him a sin offering that we might be holy.
Christianity is not by being moral.
There is a transformation that takes place in you that makes you to hate the bad things you used to do before, the places you used to go and it things you used to eat.
Be a Christian by way and not only by name.
Do you know how Lucifer fights?
Happy weekend 🐇🐥. I hope today isn't too stressful. Let's get into the topic.
The devil hates you and that is the reason for all your problems. If you are indifferent to it, you are in trouble. Daily, you are engaged in a spiritual warfare. Because you are eating, drinking, healthy and jumping around, you think you don't have problems? The devil is fighting over the Dominion God gave man. He fights through three things: sin, satanic activities and self.
Sin
Satan fights human being through sin. That is why we have problems. He introducing into the life of man in the garden of Eden and make man trespass against God and they became naked. Man lost God's glory and that curse was passed to their generation.
SIN brings fear. Adam and Eve became afraid after they sinned. They made covering for themselves but it would not do. Some people are stealing, fighting, committing sins and the make fig leaves of seeking anointing oil, drinking holy water, performing religious activities, working for God but these will not atone for the committed sins.
Even with fig leaves, God could not find Adam and Eve. With your figleaves, you are lost from God's presence. Sin makes man to be lost from God's presence and if you are not traced in time, you may be lost forever.
Satanic activities
Sickness, poverty, failure, stagnation, backwardness and other negative things in your life are all satanic activities. That sickness and poverty that is ravaging in your family is not God's work but Satan's. A generational experience that your father, your brother and you are experiencing is from Lucifer.
Self
Lucifer uses your self to fight you. You will not deceive yourself. You go to the herbalist and they begin to cut your head to make incisions and a black substance is rubbed on it. You are being linked with the devil for success. You then become a perpetual failure who cannot get married at the right time and give birth to children at the right time.
You are the girl who will look out for a man and unconsciously enter a covenant with a person who has been married in the spirit world. You become a lawful captive. The devil makes you to enter trouble yourself.
Man suffers and is powerless without Christ.
As a result of sin, problems followed. If you are not saved from sin, you will experience the second death. If you'll be free from sorrow, you must be free from sin. If you are not born again, you will be in trouble with yourself. This is the implication of the devil's work in Eden.
SUFFERING
Sickness, sorrow and sadness
Unsatisfactory life and unrealized goals
Fear of yesterday, today and future
Faltering and failures
Entanglement
Regret, rejection and retrogression
Iniquity
Nemesis
Grief
Hebrews 2:14. Christ manifested to take away the power of Satan on our behalf. Christ finished the work on the cross. The solution to man's problem is provided by God. The provision of fig leaves was insufficient. No matter the provision man makes to cover sin, it will be inadequate. But if you are willing to be free from self, sin and satanic activities, you must come and be cleansed. Don't be a wanderer, come. Come to Calvary and see Him who died for you.
Don't come for anyone.
COME
For mercy.
For pardon.
To unburden your heart by confessing your sins, how sin has dominated your life.
To accept His love.
To accept him as Savior of your life.
There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we can be saved but by the name of Jesus.
The Lord knows your situation
Happy Friday. This is the third Friday in this month. It feels like yesterday we greeted one another 'happy new year'. I pray that God will see us through the rest of this year in peace, health and right relationship with Him.
The Lord knows your situation. No matter who you are, no matter your colour or gender. He knows your situation. All you need to do it to depend on that god who knows all things. They that know their God shall be strong and do exploits. God expect that whenever we are facing difficult situation, we should come to Him. Whatever we are passing through, he knows the beginning and the end.
When you are in a situation that you enjoy, He knows. If that situation you are enjoying is gotten through wrong means, God knows that it will not last. He is calling you to come to Him so that he will give you everlasting enjoyment.
2nd Kings 14 verse 26 talks about the children of Israel, the people that God cherished so much. They were facing a difficult situation but it was recorded that God knew their situation and saw the affliction they were facing.
That situation that you find yourself, is it self cause. Most of the time, the situation of the children of Israel was caused by themselves. Look inward. Is that situation to the glory of God or is it self-inflicted?
Joseph's affliction was not self-inflicted. It was a trial of faith to build him for the throne. God saw all he passed-through and protected him till he got to the throne. His entire family would have died if not that Joseph was on the throne. Everything he passed through was known to God.
That situation we are passing through, is it as a result of the disobedient to God's commandment? Did God permit it in order to punish you for your unfaithfulness? You need to check your life in the mirror of God's word and know where the fault comes from and amend your ways.
Trust God and be patient. When Joseph was patient on the Lord throughout this affliction, God saw him through. Wait upon the Lord. Be of good courage and He will strengthen your heart.
WAIT I say on the Lord. psalm 27:14
Myself
Do you want to know more about the personality behind the name Tife? Then you have clicked on the right article.
This is an assignment given to me by one of my English lecturers. I edited it and post it here. Let us go into the life of Boluwatife.
My name is Boluwatife. My parents gave me this name for a unique reason. I am of the feminine gender. I'm in my twenties. I am a citizen of Nigeria by birth. I am an indigene of ondo state I am 4 feet tall and slim I have two younger siblings and the first child of my parents and the apple of their eyes.
Presently, I am in a private higher institution. I am in my semi final year. I have just two semesters left for me to be a graduate. I am a bookworm and I enjoy reading different types of literature's I am
I am a writer too. I love to write on different topics that come to my mind and I am not fond of social media. I love dancing. I love to watch movies and listen to music. I have specific music artists that I listen to their songs; Joshua Mike Bamiloye, Ojo Ade and a host of others.
I learnt a lot of good things from my parents which has become part of my life. I learnt the habit of praying very early in the morning before my chores. They taught me to commit my ways to the hands of God because He knows the end from the beginning and can see me through. I also learnt the habit of speaking the truth as God is against telling lies. I must not tell lies even if I'll be killed for it. I also plan my daily activities and I'm time-conscious so as not to waste my time with friends on the relevant things.
I enjoy learning new things. I love typing. I'm a very confident person. I'm not afraid of any assignments giving me to do. I'm studying English. I wanted to study mass communication before but when I thought deeply about my future, I changed it to English language and I will love to work in a media house as a journalist after my master's degree. I have always desired to serve my people in whatever capacity I can.
This will be all about myself for now. Thank you for the time.
Don't sell your destiny ll
Hello 🙋 writers.
14th September, 2022.
How is reading and writing? Thank you all for your usual support for my articles.
My story continues...
I called Nelson to inform him about my intention to leave the secret cult. I told him about my last semester result which was so horrible. I told him I wanted to give my life to Jesus. Nelson created fear in my heart that if I should make any attempt to quit, I would die within the space of twenty-four hours due to the oath we swore on the initiation night.
Eventually, I was expelled from campus when it was finally known to the school authority that I was into a secret cult. I was expelled after spending four good years. I was running a five-year course. I couldn't go back home. Nelson was also expelled. I searched everywhere in the school and hostel but I didn't see him. When I called his number, it was not available. I went to Allyson's room but I was told that she had traveled. My whole world was crumbling before my very eyes.
I could not go back to my poor mother to tell her that I was expelled from school. I left school that day for the city and I got to town. I didn't have any particular location in mind. So that night, I slept under a bridge and during the night, a gang of thieves met me there and I was forced into their group. I started with pickpocketing and after that I graduated into a full blown armed robber for 5 years. We collected guns from unfaithful security men and paid them.
After five years, there was a particular operation I went for. After the operation, as we were about escaping, the car we snatched refused to start because the security alarm was on. As we tried to escape in another car, the police arrived the scene and we were arrested. We killed some policemen in the process and were charged to court for robbery and murder
When we got to court that day, I saw someone who resembled one of my mates. I quickly faced another side to avoid any drama that would happen in the court. It was the turn of the prosecuting counsel to speak. I expected him to begin to count all our offences but to my surprise, he kept quiet. When I looked at him, he looked at me also and mentioned my name. That was when I recognised the face that it was the same Nelson who introduced me to cultism five years ago that was the prosecuting counsel.
I wish the ground would open and swallow me up immediately. He told the judge that he wouldn't be able to continue with the case and so the case was adjourned till the following week. After we left the court, Nelson pleaded to see me and I asked how he eventually became a lawyer. He said when he got home that day that we were expelled that his father sent him overseas to study. He gave his life to Christ while studying law and he eventually got married to Allison after nysc.
You can see that I am the greatest fool on Earth. The two people who destroyed my life got their lives moulded and secured in God but mine was a wasted destiny. I sold it out. We were eventually sentenced to death by hanging and now I'm waiting for the day that my name will be called to be killed.
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Thanks for reading. I hope you love my story. Don't forget to drop your comments.
@Tife.
