2. Demand On Your Time

To achieve success for your dream, you got to pay the price of time. For you to serve in a ministry in church, you have to give up some time to serve. To get a degree in your studies, it will demand time from you from other things. Many times, you will hear people say “I don’t have time to learn. I don’t have time to do this and that.” But time, can be defined as a current of events. So time management is simply event management. If you can manage the event in your life well, you can manage time well.

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1. Demand On Your Heart

Proverbs 4:23 says “keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” It didn’t say keep your money or your pocket with all diligence. It says keep your heart for out of it spring issues and it means the geographical boundary of your life. How far you will go in life is always a matter of the heart. It is a matter of your eternal belief and attitudes. If you have a dream, your heart will be called in pursuit to fulfil your dream. High achievers are people with a deep emotion well inside of them. They are not only able to motivate other people, they also able to motivate themselves. When they are disappointed, they are able to pick themselves up. They have this great reservoir of emotional capacity within them to keep on going even if the road is tough. When they meet with problems, accusations, and criticisms from people, they have this ability to draw within their hearts to keep going again and again. In life, everything we do, there will always be disappointments. But how do we become successful, and be a high achiever? The bible uses the word “overcomer”. We are to be an overcomer. Something comes at us, we overcome it. Overcomers are people with excellent thinking. It is their attitudes in life that distinguish them from other people. (more…)

Excellence Is To Obtain Greater In Quantity

You tried to be productive as you can for the Lord. You are not satisfied at this level of productivity and you want more. John 15:16 says “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”  What Jesus is saying here is “be fruitful”. He doesn’t just call us to be faithful, He also called us to be fruitful. Many people want their life to be dramatic and have a radical change. Companies want their sales to increase. They want investors to be queuing up at their doorsteps. Students want their school grades to improve overnight. Some wants to find a quick way to be millionaires. But the truth is, all these instantaneous results don’t happen in real life. In real life situation, it takes real hard work, right mindset, to raise the quality of your life to become a productive person. In fact, it takes a lot of patience, a lot of persistency for you to see fruits. (more…)

Excellence Is To Be Superior In Quality

An army general, William Foster (1917-1945) said “Quality never happens by chance, it is always the result of high intention.”  So, quality is never going to come by you sitting around and hoping for the best. It will only come by design, by you maintaining a standard of quality. It means we have to purpose in our hearts to do excellence works. You make it a point never to compromise the quality of your work. (more…)

In this article, we will look at how we can think with excellence. We will look at how different thinking and mindset will cause you to do things differently. These new thinking will distinguish from other people. It will make you the salt of the earth and light of the world.

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Expect God To Deliver

Waiting is the hardest thing in the world. We can pray. We can read all the words of God. We can hold on to our faith. Yet we find it hard to wait upon God. The Psalmist wants us to “be still and know” that He is God (Psalm 46:10). To wait means to do nothing. Can we do nothing about the situation? How long do we have to wait until we see results? What can we do while waiting? Maybe by faith I move ahead and do this which I think is right and I am sure that God will guide me along the way. This is not faith. This is lack of faith and going ahead of God. When the Psalmist says “be still and know”, he means to do nothing except to know in your heart that God will move in His own ways and in His own timing. All that is required of us is to pray and worship Him. Caleb expected God to deliver the promised lands. He expected God to help them defeat the giants just as He had done in the previous battles. But he did not run ahead of God. The Israelites did after Moses proclaimed God’s judgements. They were defeated and killed. (more…)

Bless the people who hurt you and bless the situation.

There is power in blessing. Why? For our God is a God of love. He desires no strife, quarrels and brokenness. But the fallen nature of this world and man, we live in a world that is broken and under the dominion of the evil one. But the opposite of all negative is love. Jesus tells us to bless our enemies. There must be a reason and a purpose. The world tells us to hate our enemies and to destroy them. But Jesus tells us the opposite. He didn’t want us to carry around with us a heart of bitterness, anger, fear, and unforgiveness. He wants us to carry a heart of love, peace, and joy for He is love. (more…)

Remember the Good Reports of what God has done for you in the past.

Interestingly, as we look at Caleb’s words to the Israelites as he dissuaded them from disobeying God in Numbers 13:30 and Numbers 14:8-9, it makes you wonder where did he get his strong faith from? We are talking about giants here who are at least 5 times the size of us today. Who would not be afraid? There are people who are already afraid of mouse, cockroaches and insects that are smaller than the size of our palms. What’s more giants who are at least 5 times bigger?! (more…)

Stop Complaining. Stop Professing the Negative Results. Stop Blaming People.

The Israelites spent one night in murmuring and weeping. They complained against Moses. They complained against God. They have witnessed the glory of God and the signs yet they have no faith (Numbers 14:22). Their complains ended up in judgements from God. They did not live to see the promised lands except for Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 14:27-35). For the next forty years, they wandered in the wilderness and one generation has to die before the next generation moved into the promised lands. And yet, we read further that the people were not repentant of their sins even after Moses pronounced the judgements from God. They persisted to go up to the mountains to take the lands and they were defeated by the Amalekites and Canaanites (Numbers 14:39-45). What they had professed with their mouths had come true. Indeed, they died by the hands of the giants in the lands (Numbers 14:3). (more…)

Cast Out Fear

The Israelites were already defeated in their minds before the battle began. They found excuses and blamed Moses for taking out of Egypt. They preferred to be tortured by the Egyptians rather than to face the giants. Which people in their sanity enjoy being physically tortured and be in lack?! None and yet here we are, we read in Numbers 14:1-4 that the Israelites chose that. To me, back to Egypt will be a worse end than face the giants. Trust me, the Egyptians are not going to open their arms wide and throw a party to welcome the Israelites home. Can you see how fear has made the people lost all sense of logic and common sense? The same will happen today if we allow fear to control our minds. (more…)