I’m about to lead a deliverance session right now.
But wait, don’t close your eyes and pray in tongues just yet.
You’ve got to listen to me.
So, open your eyes and awaken your thoughts.
Darkness is a phenomenon many of us will never identify ourselves with for what it connotes.
But in one way or the other, we’ve all been victims of this power of darkness.
Many times, we’ve been: – Oppressed by it. – Depressed. – Confused. – Stressed. – Caged. – Tied.
And a lot of people have lived this way for years without even knowing it.
This is a very important aspect of life we must become more conscious about and be intentional about escaping its shackles.
No one likes darkness. But can we ever live without it?
Can we ever have day without night?
Can light ever shine without darkness.
Can we ever appreciate light without darkness?
If you stay with me and read the next few paragraphs, you’ll learn to see, appreciate and master this power of darkness.
You’ll be so empowered for the next moment you ever feel like the power of darkness is at work again.
First, you’d need to understand that darkness is not the opposite of light. It is simply the absence of light.
This means, the moment it appears things aren’t working as planned, you don’t start looking for the enemy to send spiritual missiles to.
But to wait and first understand why it’s so. Then engage the light you’ve found.
Darkness is not always evil. Stop associating it with the devil.
Darkness is simply a moment when light is absent. Darkness was created to help use appreciate light!
Thanks to the ‘holders of power’ here, many of us already understand this concept of darkness. We do not need any further explanations.
But for clarity, I speak of a different kind of darkness.
The one that becloud you and almost halts your life.
The one that depresses you so much you just want to quit.
Or even take your life.
For the most parts, this kind of darkness is largely psychological, emotional, mental or environmental at different degrees.
You feel like your life, relationship, business or career is stuck at different levels… No progress.
This is darkness. And all you need is light.
And guess what? That night comes doesn’t mean the sun loses its light.
You have that light! Or at least, it’s within sight.
But, you have to stop groping in darkness. You can’t win darkness by fighting in it.
If you’re experiencing darkness in any aspect of your life, stop trying to manage it. Darkness will always overcome everything that stays in it.
No matter how healthy your eyes are, you cannot see in the dark and it’s not because you’ve suddenly gone blind. But that your eyes were not made for the dark.
You need light to win the dark. Take the first step by seeking help. Speak to trusted people who can help about that condition.
Learn to understand what kind of darkness you’re currently experiencing.
When you’re stressed, pressured and shrinking, that everything appears confusing and depressing, that’s a form of darkness.
Deliverance for you could be to turn off social media.
Many times, as a creative person, you find it hard to create and then you try to force it, which in most ocassions, is disastrous.
Deliverance for you could be a really sound sleep or some playful activity or laughter!
Everyone who ever made a mark in life emanated from some darkness of different sizes, degrees and levels…or why do we say stuff like “He has entered into the limelight?”
Next time the Power of Darkness is at Work in or around you, neither grope nor fight in it
Rather, get some Light and win. For when light comes, every form of darkness must give way.
Remember, Darkness is not always evil. So stop associating it with the devil.
Get some light. And more light. For the tiniest of lights still shines in the thickest darkness.
Anita Smart Manilla, a creative writer and storyteller who uses stories to impact children with lasting values explains in her debut book, the reward of education, skills and morals for the average Nigerian student.
She said the book generated from her passion for children and teaching and it’s consciously packed with cognitive and informative tools, tied up in a story form just to target the child’s intellectual abilities and values.
She also said the book looked at the period of our lives when the world experienced lockdown, showcasing the child’s experience in these times.
Before the Lockdown: A Cognitive Story Book For Learners which is the title of the book has been authored by this certified teacher and life coach to showcase necessary measures school children can take going forward while in public places.
Anita is the founder of Save Initiative Foundation; an NGO with the vision to reshape teens’ lives.
She uses this platform to speak to students in their numbers about the need for education, morals and values in their growth process and eventual success in life.
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“Bashiru Adamu writes striking words that will probably resonate with people everywhere, facing challenges at different times in their lives:” Dr. Strive Masiyiwa Watch Video👇 Book Title: Escape From Prison On September 8, 2017, my youth Afripreneurship Town Hall in Lagos was filled with young Nigerian entrepreneurs and aspiring ones: students, traders, bankers, side-hustlers, business … Continue reading African Billionaire and Business Man, Dr Strive Masiyiwa Endorses Amazon Published Book by Bashiru Adamu.→
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“Bashiru Adamu writes striking words that will probably resonate with people everywhere, facing challenges at different times in their lives:”
Dr. Strive Masiyiwa
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Book Title: Escape From Prison
On September 8, 2017, my youth Afripreneurship Town Hall in Lagos was filled with young Nigerian entrepreneurs and aspiring ones: students, traders, bankers, side-hustlers, business managers, engineers, and at least one very memorable social entrepreneur. About 425,000 viewers were also watching online!
When Bashiru Adamu stood up to share his entrepreneurial vision during the Q&A, my first impression was exactly as he tells it here in his book, “Wow, wow, wow, wow!”
He opened his brief pitch by telling me and about 300 others crowded in the room: “I help prisoners escape from prison”.
Although this slight young man from Kaduna State in North West of Nigeria, did not look like a jailbreaker, he got all our attention immediately. A few people laughed and then all grew silent. I asked: “You did?” and he answered without a hint of a smile, “I do!”
He tells the rest of the story in this book. Not only did Bashiru’s pitch show passionate commitment to serving humanity, but he had already developed and executed a plan, drawn together key decision-makers, and found partners who supported his idea of setting up libraries and business skills programs for incarcerated prisoners in Nigeria. His vision [first sparked in 2012 during his National Youth Service year in Benue State] came to be known as the Dream Again Prison and Youth Foundation.
Having heard Bashiru boldly speak in Lagos that day, I was surprised to learn in the book that when growing up, he himself felt imprisoned and paralyzed by a mindset of self-doubt and trepidation. He writes striking words that will probably resonate with people everywhere, facing challenges at different times in their lives:
“I was dead while alive. I was hopeless even when surrounded by opportunities. I just didn’t see life beyond the pain, hunger, helplessness, and the chain that held me down in my head. My life was not just a joke, it was a junk. It was a miracle of self-belief and hard work that I broke out of the chains”.
On the contrary, the social entrepreneur I met that Friday at my town hall, who’d also been following my Facebook entrepreneurship blog for years, stood out as someone special who did not just talk the talk [which he did memorably that day] but was also walking the talk of what he said was his favourite quote: “It’s better to prepare and not meet opportunity than to meet opportunity when you are not prepared”… He was prepared!
The fifth of seven children, Bashiru shares in one chapter about the life of his entrepreneurial mother. Amazing. These are the inspiring stories of resilient, visionary, and solution-seeking African business founders that need to be published as books, made into podcasts and films, and widely shared. Make no mistake: Amidst the challenges on our continent, greatness is being born and nurtured every day.
Dr. Strive Masiyiwa Founder and Chairman of Econet Group
“Escape from Prison,” is a true-life story of a young social changemaker from Nigeria presented in a simple but extraordinary way that will leave the reader with strategy and plan on how to create sustainable social change.
Bashiru Adamu is a social change maker who has brought light and hope to so many inmates across the correctional space in Nigeria and is now extending his frontiers through Africa.
Bashiru boasts about a decade’s experience in building a non-profit from scratch, beginning with a sub-rural community in Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria.
Today ,the organization Dream Again Prison & Youth Foundation is in full operation in several parts of Western and Northern Nigeria.
An alumnus of the Kanthari International Institute of Social Change Makers, India; the Leap Africa Social Innovators Program; and the Non-profit Leadership and Program at Lagos Business School.
He was the 2017 pitch winner of Dr. Strive Masiyiwa Youth Entrepreneur Town Hall meeting in Lagos, Nigeria..
“Bash” as he us fondly call is also a certified coach with Open Door Coaching Group (ODCG) and Catalyst Coach Certification (CCC) Australia.
He received the Most Outstanding Community Influencer award in Nigeria from National Youth Assembly of Nigeria in 2018. Most recently, he is also a 2022 Acumen Academy West Africa Fellow.
“His favourite slogan “In conformity many dreams die” is a propelling factor behind his passion and his unconventional approach to excellence to life and work.”
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Those who disrespected you yesterday will still disrespect you today if your personality of yesterday hasn’t changed till today!
Seth A. Thomas
The soothing feeling of self-worth and high public recognition among humans cannot be overemphasised.
We all love to be treated with preference and importance among peers, at work, school, in groups and organizations, even in our own homes. And that’s why we see people willing to go the extra-mile of “demanding” it from those who they feel “owe” it to them.
Words like: “Am I your mate?” “You better respect yourself because I’m not your mate!” Are few of the many utterances we hear from people who feel like their “authority” is being threatened.
We love to feel important but every too often, we are “guilty of ignorance,” to the simple insights we require to accord ourselves the “importance” we so crave.
It’s no surprise to me “Esteem Needs” ranks third (from the top) in Abraham Maslow‘s pyramid of Humans Needs as shown below.
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Having discovered this gap, I thought it necessary to discuss about it, perhaps someone’s understanding may be enlightened and a lesson or two learnt too.
As “ordinary” as they may seem, they are in fact, my list of recommended life-attitude every young person needing an upward shift in personality needs to adopt.
So the list now:
1. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
The consel about minding one’s business has really raised a lot of controversies today. It’s hard to come to terms with the saying upfront.
There’s this set of people who cannot just see something “wrong” happening and be cool with it. They feel it’s their responsibility to right every wrong that they unintentionally end up getting themselves into even bigger wrongs than they could possibly handle!
The second set of people are those who could see your body practically ablaze and just decide to “mind their business” – not even care!
In other to easily convey my point here, I decided to share these few thoughts from great men with you:
1. “You would be very surprise with how much positive changes that you could make in your life, if you could make it your top priority to mind your own business.”
– Edmond Mbiaka
2. “Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.”
– Epictetus
3. “Mind your own business. What your neighbor does (within the law) is none of your concern. Accept that behavior is not evil simply because it is different.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
4. “Mind your own business. But love your neighbor as yourself.”
– David C. Hill
I personally like the 4th quote, it’s simple and tries to strike a balance; as much as you’d “mind your business”, just be sure that what you do to others in their times of despair or enjoyment is what you’d prefer others to do to you as well in same or similar condition…
That way, you don’t mince your standard and your worth rises as well!
2. TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY
Develop the attitude of taking full responsibility of everything that happens to you; things that revolve around your sphere of influence and control, and you’d realise that in fact, they’re not happening to you but for you.
Granted, you may not be able to choose what happens to you on every occasion but your response to what has happened is fully your responsibility.
Avoid fault-finding and self-seeking behaviours when dealing with issues that relates with people. Make people see you as someone they could rely on; who’s in control of things and doesn’t blame but claims responsibility for their team’s actions.
That way, your worth rises as they place you high and above and always seek your counsel to execute any task.
3. THINK BIG BUT SMARTLY
Eventhough it’s advisable for young people to THINK BIG, you must note that not every thought is important and useful. Some ideas and thoughts are really garbage waiting to be trashed. Build the courage to accept it and move on.
To think smartly, you have to do it on paper, putting the past, present and future in perspective.
Smart thoughts are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound. You could have a BIG dream that isn’t SMART but you can’t have a SMART thought that doesn’t have the capacity of becoming a BIG accomplishment!
So strike out everything that doesn’t fit in. Find a calm & comfortable place to aid you too. Just let your every thought be accompanied with precision.
4. SPEAK RARELY
The Holy Bible, in Proverbs 29:20 says,
“There’s more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.”
Don’t speak because you feel like it, don’t speak because they said you should, speak only when you have something to say – having thought through it first.
Let your words always convey wisdom and truth.
Learn to control when you speak and what you say.
The difference between an intelligent and wise person is that, the former speaks when he HAS TO SAY SOMETHING but the latter speaks only when HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.
Be wise!
5. ACT QUICKLY BUT WISELY
Don’t just be someone who’s a dedicated thinker and accurate planner but never a practical “Doer.”
You must be a committed doer to ever achieve anything noteworthy in life.
“Action,” they say, “speaks louder than words.”
Don’t hesitate, neither give in to procrastination especially when your non-performance could be detrimental to your progress.
People will always trust and respect someone who speaks less but does more.
It’s only in practically “executing” thoughts and plans that progress is ever made.
You must develop a quick decision-making instinct that conveys wisdom too.
6. FORGIVE EASILY
It’s a common saying that “To err is human but to forgive is divine.”
Forgiveness is a rare virtue. People will always respect and trust anyone who’s easy going and whose mind is free from hate.
Sometimes you need to forgive others to be free yourself.
Matthew 6:14 says, “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:”
Remember “Holding a grudge doesn’t make you stronger, it make you bitter and forgiving doesn’t make you weak, it makes you free!”
So do it for yourself, set yourself free from hurt, it will accord even more respect to you too.
So that’s it from me today. I hope you found some value from it?
Till I write you again with more mind-boggling and life-transforming teachings/contents as they get unfolded to me…
Do well to share this post widely to as many young people as you can find so more people can also get value.
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Subtitle: Great People Arise From Great Moments And Opportunities
Very unlike any other book you have ever read, Kairos is a timely and a timeless book.
Living in a world regulated by chronological time has put many under pressures that result in average or below average outcomes. The most important events in the world however only exist in Kairos time, which is when the time is right.
The great men, women and nations of our times all took advantage of their kairos moments. You too can take advantage of your Kairos moment and also join their league.
With clear and easy to understand prose, Kairos offers nuggets on mastering time, reframing perspectives about problems, and developing an agile leadership mindset with an endpoint of breaking the boundaries of chronological time and making positive lasting impact in life.
Henry Oshaju is a Physician with certification in leadership and management. He is an advocate of National transformation. The central theme of his message is the maximization of human potential through time management and personal development.
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Reckless Love is a book that shows us God’s love through and through, right from the beginning, with the evidence of giving us Jesus, to how He comes through for us in our daily experiences.
Mary Katugwa is literally saying through this book, that you should come and ‘taste’ God’s love and you will ‘see’ that He is good.
God’s love is for everyone – that means you too.
Where would I be without the love of God?
No matter what you’ve done or what your background is, His love has the power to transform you into who He’s called you to be. Just embrace it.
Mary Oluranti Katugwa was born on November 23rd, 1959. She has a B.Sc Zoology and a Masters degree in Zoology as well from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University. She was a lecturer there, first in the School of Basic Studies, and then the Department of Biological Sciences, from 1985, until she relocated to Lagos in 1992. She worked with the Raw Materials Research & Development Council (RMRDC) from 1992-1995 before taking a break from work.
After the 6-year break to focus on raising her children, she joined the services of the Industrial Training Fund, in 2001, and resigned as a Deputy Director in November 2019.
She is an ordained deaconess in lkoyi Baptist Church, and also serves as a Sunday School teacher. She is married to her best friend, James Katugwa, and they are blessed with two lovely children and a cute grandson.
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Dr Anthony Ugbede-Ojoh Ukwenya is a fully licensed and practicing medical doctor with a 4 year + experience.
He is also an avid artificial intelligence enthusiast, and passionate about leveraging digital tools in the field of medicine to enhance biomedical research and clinical practice.
His interest in IT stems from the dire observation that healthcare in a lot of third world countries is plagued by inequality, inaccessibility, poor service delivery, low coverage and rising costs. Hence, he believes that emerging digital health technologies will have a significant role to play in addressing these critical issues and advancing universal health coverage.
He enjoys volunteering medical and charitable services at orphanages. He also enjoys watching anime, playing chess, creative writing and coding during his spare time.
Book Title:
Frontiers of 21st Century Medicine: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Robotics and Blockchain Technology
About the Book
We are currently at a critical inflexion point in the history of mankind. Artificial Intelligence alongside other emerging technologies are significantly disrupting various sectors of the global economy at a phenomenal rate.
In the field of medicine, these technologies are glaringly nudging us into the age of stratified and precision based therapy which has for so long seemed very elusive.
In this book, the author goes into greater details about how Artificial intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Robotics, E-health, Blockchain technology and Internet of things are poised to revolutionize the practice of medicine.
Barely a week after its publication, the book hit #1 Amazon Bestseller for Hot New Releases as shown in the picture below.
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A Beautiful world is a children’s picture book that simplifies the story of creation.
On the Sixth Day, God made the cattle, the crawling animals, and all other animals. The cows, the sheep, the snakes, cats, and tortoises. He made the lions, tigers, bears, and rabbits.
There was so much movement and sound around. The animals were a wonderful present for the first man.
Make this a companion for your children to help them fully understand and appreciate the beauty of creation.
Every children’s church around the world should get this book for their kids.
Esther Akande is a disciple of Jesus and a teacher of children. A woman on a divine assignment to raise viable seeds for Christ.
She has a calling to see every woman have a smooth pregnancy journey and a successful delivery, this birthed a fellowship of pregnant and nursing mothers called “Birthing Supernaturally”.
Esther Akande is the founder of Olive Kids Bible Club, a club established by divine inspiration to raise children in the way of the Lord. This has made way for the Olive kids Story time, a radio broadcast for story telling on weekends.
Esther, fondly known as Ayaba Akande is happily married to her heartthrob, Odunayo and they are blessed with two handsome boys.
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Book Title: Money Sources: 4 Proven Strategies to Raise and Attract Money to Start Your Business
About the Book
Making money has never been this easy, and so is starting a business. No matter who you are or where you are from, Money sources offers a proven framework to make money, start and grow your business.
Otobele Akpesiri Rooney, one of the world’s leading expert on business and nonprofit consulting reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to raise and attract the money, start and grow a business and master the art of building from the scratch anytime.
If you are broke, the fault isn’t entirely yours; the world is setup in such a way to keep you in lack.
But if you continue to be broke after seeing this book, then the fault is yours because money like everything of value is a product of what you do and that is exactly what this book is all about.
In this strategic book, Akpesiri shows us that it is possible to make money and start up a business regardless of your background or circumstances if you are willing to harness the four capital sources available to every human regardless of location, ethnicity or race.
Akpesiri is known for his ability to simplify complex topics into simple strategies that can be easily applied to daily life and work.
Here he draws on the most proven strategies from freelancing, business, nonprofit and community development to create a short and easy to understand guide for making money and building a successful business.
As you read, you will be exposed to new ideas, proven strategies that have worked across the world and the author’s own story of how he was able to overcome financial stagnancy and went on to build two successful businesses without any financial support.
Through this book, you will learn how to:
Monetize your knowledge, skills and experience
Harness your relationships
Take advantage of platforms available to you
Exploit instant sources of business capital any one can tap into
And much more
Thereby offering a blueprint anyone can use to create the same result, make more money, grow your business and become highly productive.
Money sources will reshape the way you think about making money and starting and growing a business and will give you the tools, strategies and tactics necessary to help you excel; whether you are interested in achieving financial freedom, launching a new business or simply growing an old one.
About the Author
Otobele Akpesiri is a writer, speaker and Consultant with years of experience and impact spanning the business, Nonprofit and community development sectors.
As a professional Consultant, he helps working professionals launch profitable businesses that aligns with their future aspirations and work schedule.
He presently serves as the CEO of Global Business and Nonprofit Solutions and works with a number of Companies and Organizations across the globe.
Using his own personal experience when starting out, Akpesiri gives proven strategies for attracting and raising money to start and grow any business.
Short, powerful and straight to the point, Money Sources will help you take firm control of your financial destiny..
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