We need to build a new world, a new future. There must be a new order, or else the victims will remain victims, and the rich continue to be richer while the poor get poorer.
There must be a landmark for change. A new way of doing things, new concepts, new ideas. New thinking brings about new ideas.
THINK BIG. That’s the way you ought to think. Think of becoming influential, think of changing the world, think “global”. Change your generation, YOU CAN, AND YOU WILL! (say it).
And with new ideas comes the requirement of new means of doing things. When you are poor there is so much you can’t do, poverty is not the absence of required necessities, poverty begins with the mind. Africans are not poor because they lack resources, Africans are poor because of their mentality.
Why do you have a low Gross Mental Output? Because of a poor and terrible GMA Gross Mental Attitude. You must not make excuses for poverty, stop crying for handouts. Explore your mind, and find out the best in you, and bring it to the surface. I made up my mind a long time ago that I’ll never be poor or broke. However, there are things you MUST DO to culture your spirit for that kind of life; The ever-winning life. You see, people live different kinds of life, but there is an ever-winning life, THE TRANSCENDENT LIFE.
The Bible says the path of the just is as the shining light that shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day (Proverbs 4:18), that tells you that’s God’s dream for your life, living an ever-winning life. I ALWAYS WIN; I can’t fail. Now that’s not only a possibility, it’s the life given to us, when you EMBRACE IT, you start to live it. You must first accept, and endorse it, that it works, that it’s real.
How is it possible for miracles to happen? Only through the power of the Holy Spirit, now that power is the one that shapes your life when you give Him the materials, what are the materials? YOUR WORDS
7 WAYS TO TRANSFORM YOUR RELIGIOUS MINDSET TO A CHRISTLIKE MINDSET
(1) CULTIVATE DISCONTENT WITH MUNDANITY AND MEDIOCRITY IN YOUR LIFE
Create that discontent in you, refuse to be satisfied with anything mundane and not excellent—The ordinary life on earth is not excellent—Some may label you proud and braggadocious when you think that way but don’t mind, SET YOUR SAIL AND GO FOR IT. When you win it will be a different story, never mind critics, win first.
Create that conviction that you can never and will never fail or fall short of the glory of God or be lost or be unworthy because Christ has affirmed you! You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You are from above and he or she who is from above is above all. You always do all things with this consciousness.
(No critic ever won; all critics are spectators. They don’t play, have too much time to think of other people, and see many “you should have done it this way” but don’t play. But you play, and you are the one making progress. Those who you find always talking about other people for the purpose of criticizing them, do that because if they talk about themselves no man will listen to them, so they don’t have value.)
Refuse to be among the unknown, those in the stands of a stadium never win, they can rejoice or be sad when their team wins or loses the match, but they are not the ones celebrated.
Refuse to be on the stand, no matter what you do be the best, step into the limelight.
Many would rather chase the experience and the anointing of other men so that they can “tap” or “buy” or benefit of the anointing in any way they can. Refuse to be in this category
You are the anointed one, the one who bears upon his or her body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ.
You walk in the realms of glory and power effortlessly, you see visions of God, and you walk in Zion as a Bonafide citizen.
(2) BE DETERMINED TO SEE ONLY FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP
To be the best, you must be ready to embrace the unpleasantness of sacrifice. You have made the decision, now wake up and run.
You want to see visions, now practice Optasia, meditate, visualize, ascend.
You said you want to be the best writer, now wake up and start practicing writing. To be the best you there must be intimacy between you and the room for improvement. Improve your vocabulary.
It doesn’t matter what you want to do, be the best, as long as it’s good for God and people, go for it!
Put your skills/abilities in front of you and cultivate (and manage) them. TRAIN YOURSELF!
Those who spend most of their time watching TV end up being not watched. If you are that man/woman spending 10-15 hours watching movies and you are saying you want to be a winner, you are joking.
Make up your mind that they are going to watch you. Don’t go searching for News and updates, make the News! Don’t accept the path of the Newsreader, be the Newsmaker.
Change the order of your day, how do you approach every morning? What do you do when you wake up? Invest in your person! Let every second of every minute of everyday count. CHANGE YOUR THINKING; start thinking differently, SEE ANEW (daily), those who think differently are those who win. YOU CAN START TODAY.
To change your environment (and by extension, your world) you must first CHANGE YOURSELF. It begins from the inside; your mind; invest in it. When you embark on this course with all your might, nothing, absolutely nothing can stop you.
(3) THE UNSEEN YOU IS THE ONE TO MAKE YOU A SUCCESS, TRAIN THAT MAN
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind… (Romans 12:2).
The highest potential of the human nature isn’t in the outward man, but in the inward man, the human spirit.
This is why the premium must be on the education of your spirit. The best education in the world is an attempt to inform, refine, and develop the mind through the senses of the outward man. However, it’s the education of the inward man, the human spirit, that ultimately gives light and wisdom, and it’s only achievable through receiving and meditating on the Word of God.
God’s Word helps you discover the real you and improves the quality of your life from within. Read our opening verse again and notice that it talks about the spiritual education of the inward man: “…be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Now, in education, there’s practice and exercise. Thus, in educating your inward man, you practice the Word; you practice living, seeing, and relating from your spirit. You refuse to relate to things from a natural or physical standpoint. Remember part of what we read: “…be not conformed to this world…”; meaning you shouldn’t live like them, or think like them, or see from their perspective. Instead, be transfigured and translated by the renewing of your mind; by feeding and nurturing your spirit with the Word, you change the way you think.
For example, hitherto you thought you were a failure, but now you think differently because the Word says you’re a success. You thought you were a mere sinner, failing to please the Lord, but now you think and see yourself as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You have a new mindset—the mindset of the righteous which indeed is a result of the education of the inward man.
In everyone is a man/woman of substance, train that man. Don’t let that inner person be intimated. They may have called you names continually in the past that has led to your poor view of yourself today, or maybe the way you were brought up; to be timid, or to think you couldn’t amount to much; now know you can’t change the past, but you can do something today to change the future.
There is a journey each and every one of us is making and you are where you are right now because of where you’ve been, so where you are today is a result of what happened yesterday and chances are, you are going somewhere that has been programmed from the past that is not alright and to avoid that you have to MAKE NEW DECISIONS TODAY.
Make new decisions (new programming, new words, new ideas) to change the course of your life. Maybe where you are heading to is to be a victim, or to be poor, or for you to meet with the wrong things, but you can change your world today.
(4) THE PAST IS THE PRESENT YOU ARE MAKING NOW
Don’t let the memory of your past stop you. If your past does not inspire you, dump it! As long as it makes you feel bad, even cry when you think about it, LET IT GO, there is a reason it is called “THE PAST”, leave it behind, that’s where it belongs.
Don’t take an uninspiring past with you, it’s not good enough for your future. Refuse to be a slave of your past. Say I am free from my past, I’m not a slave of my past. I am fully immersed in Christ. I have no blemish; Christ is my perfection in all things. Glory!
(5) CONQUER YOUR HANDICAPS
That thing you would have given as a reason for your failure/limitation, conquer it, gain a mastery over it, refuse to allow anything stop you. Conquer (and go beyond) that excuse for your limitation/failure.
(Those who love making excuses will never grow).
Tell yourself I’m not a slave to any handicap: You see, you must identify that limitation and call it a handicap, if you don’t call it a handicap it will not be a handicap. And once you have identified it, hang up your hang-ups.
(6) TRANSCEND YOUR ENVIRONMENT
The Lord told Abraham, “As far as your eyes can see that I have given unto you.” (See Genesis 13:14-15)
HOW FAR CAN YOU SEE? and WHAT CAN YOU SEE?
I want you to start seeing yourself creating businesses and organizations that will rule nations. Start consciously envisioning (yourself doing) new things.
HERE’S A SECRET YOU MUST UNDERSTAND
The thinking of leaders is the limitations of their countries, but if you can drive yourself beyond them, beyond their thinking (and thus their territories) and do things bigger than theirs and keep at it, you will become so powerful that you will influence and control the states.
IF YOU BELIEVE IN THAT AND SET YOUR SAIL, AND GO FOR IT, YOU’LL HAVE IT.
States all over the world a lot of time follow whatever the leaders think. A lot of them don’t do what they want, they do what the bigger organizations tell them to do, if you are powerful enough, they will listen to you. How are you going to get the power? IT’S INSIDE YOU, BRING IT UP.
When you decide you are somebody, when you know who you are and walk in the light of your identity you will be influential.
When Moses asked God, “who will I say sent me?” God didn’t say I don’t know who I am, rather He said, tell them I AM THAT I AM has sent you!
If you don’t say who you are they will say you are not. (say this: I am somebody special!)
BE A MAN/WOMAN OF CONVICTIONS.
What are your convictions? If you are not sure, take a pen and note and ask yourself, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT I BELIEVE/HOLD DEAR TO?
First, what do I believe about God and His Christ? And then, what do I believe (and want) for my country?
Be a man/woman of convictions, YOUR CONVICTIONS WILL FLY YOU ON EAGLE’s WINGS.
You must have convictions; you must have things that you hold absolutely. In St. Luke’s letter to Theophilus (see Luke 1:1-4), he said two things in this light: (i) Those things most surely believed among us and (ii) The certainty of those things.
Your convictions will help you have the right mental attitude (mindset).
YOU CAN’T STOP A MAN/WOMAN WITH A CONVICTION
I believe Christ dwells in me, Christ is alive in me, the Word of God is alive in me, the grace of God is alive in me, and I am full of power and grace.
Glory be to God.
–GSW–