THE ART OF LISTENING

Listening is in five stages – 1.Receiving 2.Understanding 3.Remembering 4.Evaluating 5.Responding. Listening is not listening if it does not involve all of these five stages. Most of the time, what we do is hear not listen. To hear is to open your ears to the message without accepting the message into your mind; Very much…

IMPORTANCE OF MENTORING

Who is a mentor? A mentor is an adviser, a counsellor, a model. A mentor protects, influences and supports. What is mentoring? Relational Empowerment. Mentoring is a relational experience in which one person called the mentor, empowers another person called the mentoree/mentored, by the transfer of resources.( such as insights, skills, value, connections to people,…

I MUST NOT BECOME WOOD FOR THE FIRE!

Everyone born of God has the life of God in him. When we say we are born of God, then it means that we who were dead in our sins and condemned to destruction came willingly to God and consciously surrendered our death to Him. He in His love and mercy gave unto us His…

UNDERSTANDING SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY

All power in heaven and on earth belongs to God. He is the Almighty God the God of all creation, the God of all flesh. He has awesome power. He can do all things. There is nothing, absolutely nothing beyond His power. God in His love as a father has given His power to His…

LIGHT THAT EXTINQUISHES DARKNESS.

LIGHT THAT SWALLOWS UP DARKNESS. Darkness is heaviness. Darkness is strain, darkness is strife, struggles and pain. Darkness obscures, darkness covers. Darkness restricts, darkness stifles. When darkness grips a space, it pervades the perception and shuts down everything; so that the human eye can no longer function to see. Darkness locks down. Sorrow is darkness….

MAKING IMPACT IN THE MIDST OF MEDIOCRITY

MAKING INPACT IN THE MIDST OF MEDIOCRITY What is impact? Why must I make impact? What is mediocrity? Impact is: effect, influence, power, meaning, significance. A person who makes impact, is a person of power, a person of influence, a person of significance and of power. Mediocrity is commonplaceness, inferiority, inability, dullness, insignificance and meaninglessness….

ZIPPORAH – I AM ONE SENT! (UNCELEBRATED DELIVERER OF ISRAEL)

Though seemingly relegated to obscurity, she is by no standards insignificant. Her story opens in Exodus 2, where she and her sisters meet the fleeing Moses. Moses was on the run from Pharaoh after he had killed an Egyptian in defence of a Hebrew slave. Zipporah was one of the seven daughters of Jethro/Reuel, Prince/Priest…

ASSOCIATIONS AND FRIENDS (3)

Associations and Friendships (3) It is important to note that no one is perfect and that includes you. Everyone has one fault or failing or the other, we should all consciously work on our weaknesses, and in love help others also. However, one of the ways we help ourselves is to choose relationships that would…

ASSOCIATIONS AND FRIENDSHIPS (2)

Associations and Friendships (2) Every relationship has its place in God’s agenda for your life and for the lives of a great number of people. We must have God’s mind concerning our relationships. Every relationship has a life-span. Some relationships should have been cultivated much earlier than when they were eventually activated; One would have…

ASSOCIATIONS AND FRIENDSHIPS (1)

Associations and Friendships. A friend is an intimate acquaintance. An associate is one with whom you keep company or one with whom you join in partnership. Friendship is relationship. When two people or more connect, either by being allies or kindred, they are said to relate. Who are my friends? What kind of people do…