SELF DISCIPLINE
By
self discipline, I mean being able to control the way you behave or respond to
a given situation and make yourself dot things that you believe you should do
without being compelled. It is the capital price that must be paid to
obtain the price (greatness) it is doing what is demanded and not what is convenient,
it is the key to success, the gateway to distinction, the guarantee for dignity
and the key to relevance. When you are not disciplined, you can as well forget
about success. As a student, you should be able to go extra mils by studying
hard while others are fast asleep. As a worker or a business man, you should be
diligent, dedicated and be punctual at the place of your work and be ready to
put in extra time and efforts, if necessary. As a minister of the gospel, you
must discipline yourself not o live to the way others do. You must be
disciplined enough to put in extra effort in fasting, prayer and in studying of
the word. You must go at least a step higher than the laities. Remember
success in life and ministry do not come by chance, neither is it meant for the
wreck less; otherwise Samson, Esau and Judas Iscariot won’t have missed
it. Put on the virtue of self discipline.
Sheep’s Clothing! Matthew 7:14 – Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. It is no more a news that there are many false prophets in this world. They have been even since the Bible days. Elymas in Acts 13:8 was a false prophet that tried to pervert the heart of the people from God. That is the work of these false prophets. They are workers of the devil and nothing about their life is God’s; from the outside they look like God’s prophets and messengers but they are recruiting souls for the devil. They use magic, human wisdom, human strategies to do their work. Consider again, Balaam to an extent I will consider him as a false prophet because he tried to curse the blessed of God and to stop the will of God for His children. Though Balaam hears from God but he wasn’t doing things according to God’s plan and agenda. He planned to even make God’s children fall. Please read Revelation 2:14 and Jude 1:11. Those in sheep’s c
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