ACTIVATING YOUR SPIRIT MAN

   

To activate is to make something start working or effective. In like manner to activate your spirit man is to remain divinely connected. When your spirit is activated you will always have access to the immeasurable treasures of our father in heaven John 3:27.

   You might be wondering how you can activate your spirit man. One of the ways which you can activate your spirit man is continuous study of the word of God. Note that I did not say READ but STUDY, because reading will only expose you to the logos (the written word) but study and meditation will expose you to the rhema (the divinely inspired word). It is until you get the rhema behind the word and put it to practice that you will be able to access God’s divine treasure of which one is success. Joshua 1:8- this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall MEDITATE in it day and night that you may observe to DO according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous and then YOU WILL HAVE GOOD SUCCESS. From the above scripture it is not just to study and sit down but would have to do (to practice the word) for you to be a success.

    II Tim 2 :15 says study to show yourself approved unto God… this is to say that when you study the word of God you are enlightened in the truth if his word and if you go further to do that which the word of God says you will be approved unto God and in this case SUCCESS is inevitable. Give yourself to the study God’s word because it is a manual for success.

    Man is a spirit who has a soul and lives in the body that means that we have to pay more attention to the spirit than the physical body. It is your spirit the listens through your physical ears and sees through you physical eyes therefore you will have to train your spirit man to see and hear the right things.

To activate your spirit man you have to give yourself to prayers (in understanding and in tongues). Prayer is communication with God, talking to God and automatically connecting with God. James 5:16 says the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous prayer avails much. Therefore as a prayerful believer you will be divinely connected to God’s treasures. Faith is an important ingredient for prayer answered. No matter how small your faith is God is faithful to his word because Jesus said in mark 9: 23- if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

    There is this young girl who missed school for two weeks because her fee was not paid. She was just ten and she walked up to her mother and said ‘’mum I dreamt I went to school so I am going to school tomorrow’’. Her mother laughed because she knew there was no way she was going to get the money before the next day but surprisingly she was called by the school that the proprietor had paid the school fees of some students of which her name was enlisted. This had never happened in her school before. Now that’s the faith of a little child provoking results, so I see no reason why your faith mixed with prayers won’t work for you.

It is one thing to pray it is another thing to be consistent. I The 5: 17 says pray without ceasing. You have to continue in prayers, it avails much.

POST BY: SUCCESS EZENWIWE

                  COUNSELOR( SUCCESS WITHIN INTERNATIONAL)

PERSISTENCE: THE SECRET TO LASTING SUCCESS.

I'm sure you have heard so much about the powerful word 'Persistence', and you are wondering why this word has been so much talked about by successful people. The truth is that you can't get to the peak of your career without this virtue. It is an unavoidable tool in the race of life.

Now I've got a little activity for you to do and this will broaden your understanding on this subject. Take up the biography of five or more successful people, read them carefully and you will see the way persistence was demonstrated in the pursuit of a successful life and career. Life as they say, is not a bed of roses. There will be up's and down's, there will be challenges but your ability to foresee your success and keep pressing on will guarantee your victory. I've always said this and i will repeat it again here that any process worth going through will get tougher before it gets easier and the only virtue that will keep you through those rocky times is persistence.

Persistence is not an in-born trait, rather it is a state of mind, meaning that it is a virtue that can be formed. History has it that Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Ray Kroc, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Kay Ash, Andy Groove among others were successful people who developed this virtue and it showed extensively in their various businesses and careers. There is a story of a journalist who asked the founder of IBM what he would do if he wanted to succeed faster, and he told the curious journalist to double his rate of failure because success lies at the far end of failures. What does that tell you friends? There is no substitute for persistence in the pursuit of a successful life. 

Now i'm writing to someone who is at the point of giving up in his/her academics, business or career, there is great success ahead of you only if you could just continue with a burning desire to accomplish that which you have set out to do. See yourself as a person who owns a large piece of landed property blessed with gold, you have to dig deeper and deeper until you strike that precious element Gold.

Outlined below are 4 guidelines necessary to assist you in developing the virtue of Persistence.

1. Have a definite purpose backed up with a burning desire.

2. Have a strong willpower to win.

3. Draw out a definite plan and continue to work that plan

4. Keep a positive attitude.

In the movie "The ultimate gift", one of the precious lesson i learnt and has continued to remain with me is that life should be lived not on avoiding problems but welcoming them as challenges that will strengthen us so we can be victorious in life; and persistence is the secret to achieve victory and success after the season of challenges.