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Passion for Impact 4 (How To Generate Passion) | Rev. COS Fawenu

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  1. Who is this of Wisdom Bible? Church, The Church of.

  2. A distance generation passion for impact is still the therapy.

  3. We are running on the fourth leg on this very important

  4. discussion and for today, we will focus on how to generate

  5. passion. Last week we traced the root of

  6. passion and we blessed God for our mummy in the house that the

  7. Lord used very mightily. I was following on all the way

  8. from Ibadan and it was such a wonderful session.

  9. Can we appreciate God in our life?

  10. So we did that last week, tracing the root of passion

  11. because the ability to trace the source of the thing guarantee

  12. the opportunity to assess and even possess that thing.

  13. What you want to assess? What you want to possess.

  14. OK, you must learn to trace its source.

  15. For instance, if you know where to get fish, you will search for

  16. it in the woods. Hello, who carry is gone, bows

  17. and arrow into the woods, into the forest, because they want to

  18. catch fish, they want to catch fish.

  19. Since you are aware that fish live in waters, you go to the

  20. river. I pray that you will be guided

  21. by the Spirit of God. You will be led by the Spirit of

  22. God to the place where your success and destiny is

  23. guaranteed in the name of Jesus. So based on the earlier three

  24. previous studies we have had, I think by now you should know

  25. that the acts of indifference, that is people who are generally

  26. disinterested on matters, the act of complacency in form of I

  27. don't careless, a fair attitude, including the Big Brother of

  28. them all. Indolence which you know as

  29. laziness can be traced to absence of passion.

  30. Where there is passion for a thing, you will not be lukewarm

  31. towards that thing. Where you have passion for

  32. collective sources, you will not be in the group and be passive.

  33. There will not be. There will not be complacency.

  34. Where you have a goal that you are pursuing now, you have

  35. passion for it. Listeners and everything that

  36. represents all points in the direction of listeners will not

  37. be part of your attitude. So by now, from the previous

  38. studies we have done, you should know that anywhere you see

  39. indifference, complacency and indolence, such can be traced to

  40. absence of passion. Say, Father, baptize me with the

  41. Spirit of passion. Say it again, baptize me with

  42. the spirit of Passion. You see to make it ultimately in

  43. life you need safe motivation to make it ultimately a life you

  44. need self motivation and passion is the power behind self

  45. motivation. Anybody who will be self

  46. motivated must be passionate. So passion is the power behind

  47. self motivation about You can be an active person, but the type

  48. of action that will produce the desired result must be powered

  49. by the right passion. Must be powered by a passion

  50. that is well channeled for positive purpose, for godly

  51. purpose. Am I talking to somebody?

  52. So a passion back action is the only type of action that can

  53. produce the desire results and that is why today we will focus

  54. on how you can generate passion. You must know fundamentally that

  55. vision or put differently, purpose must precede passion.

  56. Otherwise any action you take will be fruitless action.

  57. So before we can talk about passion, there is always

  58. something behind it, something that must come first.

  59. And that thing that must come first is vision, which otherwise

  60. you can call purpose. So in the step by step sequence

  61. of success, you know success is built precept by precept, line

  62. upon line. Success is not something

  63. sporadic, OK, you build drop onto success.

  64. Success don't jump on people. Am I talking to somebody?

  65. So in the step by step sequence of sources, vision, which I also

  66. call purpose, must precede passion.

  67. Vision must precede what passion?

  68. You must have a specific destination in mind.

  69. That's what we mean by vision or purpose.

  70. You have a specific definition in mind.

  71. If you don't have a specific destination in mind, are you

  72. engaged in locomotion? You are moving, you are taking

  73. action. Such action will hand in mere

  74. fruitless activity. So without a specific

  75. destination in mind, locomotion is a mere exercise in futility.

  76. I pray over your destiny. You will not label in vain in

  77. the name of Jesus. You will not plant so much and

  78. adverse nothing in the name of Jesus.

  79. So you must have a destination in mind Before you're running up

  80. and down can be meaningful and fruitful.

  81. Before you're running up and down can be meaningful and

  82. fruitful. You must have a specific

  83. destination in mind. And that's why I'm saying vision

  84. must precede passion in the step by step sequence to success.

  85. Visual or purpose must precede passion.

  86. So if your life will not be about motion without movement,

  87. if your life will not be about activity without productivity,

  88. then you must live for purpose. Tap your neighbor, say neighbor,

  89. live for purpose. Tell somebody live for purpose.

  90. So if your life will not just be about motion without movement,

  91. if your life will not be Mr. Atlas, OK, we're engaging in

  92. motion without movement. If your life will not be about

  93. activity without productivity, then you must live for purpose.

  94. If your energy will not be wasted, if your investment will

  95. not be wasted, you must live for purpose.

  96. So the focus of today's study, like I mentioned earlier, is to

  97. now put in your hands tools that you can engage to generate

  98. passion, tools that you can engage to generate passion.

  99. And then we are going to study the life of the patriarch Jacob

  100. in the Bible, how he was able to mobilize his passion and channel

  101. it properly for purposeful achievement.

  102. Genesis 27, we read verse 41 to 46.

  103. Then we'll go to chapter 28. I will also partly read from

  104. chapter 29. Are we set to go church?

  105. Are we set to go So Genesis chapter 27 from verse 41 and

    Genesis 27 chapter mention

  106. Esau he tell Jacob because of the blessing we are with his

  107. father blessed him and Esau said in his heart the days of

  108. mourning for my father and then will I slay my brother Jacob.

  109. So if from here Jacob will respond to the situation around

  110. him, it will not be responding to vision, rather it will be

  111. responding to persecution. Am I talking to somebody?

  112. And that is the problem of so many destiny rather than

  113. responding to vision, OK, one thing or the other has happened

  114. around them that is making them to respond to persecution.

  115. So you see people labour in place of prayer.

  116. They're actually not labour in place of prayer to be focused in

  117. life about their purpose in destiny, but rather their energy

  118. is being depleted or distracted, OK Labouring on what the enemy

  119. wants to do to them. As many of you that are

  120. listening to me and the issues surrounding your destiny, the

  121. issues that the adversities are racing against you is the reason

  122. you are not living for purpose. The Lord with silence such

  123. powers that are distracting you in the name of Jesus.

  124. Do you understand what I'm talking about?

  125. This was a man that has a great destiny ahead of him, spoke even

  126. before he was born. But one thing or the other that

  127. you can also not absorb him from happened.

  128. You know the the way he plays some games and they offended his

  129. brother, made his brother to say OK, one day when our father is

  130. gone, I know what to do to him. I will slay him.

  131. OK, So when you not see him running, he was not running

  132. after purpose. He was running away from

  133. persecution. AM I talking to somebody then

  134. verse 4 through and this was of Esau our elder son were total

  135. Rebecca as he sent and called Jacob our younger son and said

  136. unto him, Behold thy brother Esau as touching the dot comfort

  137. himself proposing to kill thee now Yeah, it's another man that

  138. had a purpose but a purpose in the wrong direction, not a

  139. purpose to fulfill his own destiny, but a purpose to fight

  140. his brother. I pray again in the name of

  141. Jesus, you will not be an instrument in the hand of the

  142. devil. Your passion will not be

  143. mobilized to pursue wrong purpose in the name of Jesus.

  144. There was 43 now. Therefore, my son, obey my voice

  145. and arise, flee down to Lebanon, my brother to Iran, and tally

  146. with him a few days until thy brothers fully torn away.

  147. So the mission the mother was sending him was not to go there

  148. and be fulfilled, but to just escape for a moment from evil

  149. and return empty handed. Waste his years in exile was

  150. fortified on to thy brothers. I got turned away from thee and

  151. he forget that without us done to him.

  152. Then I will send and fake thee from them.

  153. Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day and verse 26

  154. and Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the

  155. daughters of heads. So she has to come up with the

  156. reason that we justify his movements to exile.

  157. Not necessarily that that reason he was putting up OK was

  158. concrete enough a propose that Jacob should pursue.

  159. Am I talking to somebody? Because as we are reading all

  160. you will now see a Rebecca said. I think I am wary of my life

  161. because of the daughters of em. If Jacob take a wife of the

  162. daughters of em such as this, which are the daughters of the

  163. land, what cool shall my life do me?

  164. Then when you get to chapter 28, you will not see the way the

  165. manner she went to the father and I told the father that let

  166. us allow Jacob to relocate to go and get married.

  167. Marriage is good but everything about life is not marriage.

  168. Are you listening to me? Marriage is wonderful, but

  169. everything about life is not just what married.

  170. This is a this is a man that the patriarchal anointing is upon

  171. him to bear responsibility, OK, for the covenant that was with

  172. the grandfather Abraham, and they just wanted to reduce him

  173. to just a child bearing machine. So yeah, we discovered that

  174. Jacob left home without a personal destiny scripts.

  175. Hello. He left home without a personal

  176. destiny scripts to pursue. He left home only to carry out

  177. the instruction of the model. Whatever you see Jacob doing,

  178. stepping out OK was not a thing that was intentional about

  179. himself, was not generated by himself.

  180. For how long will you continue to live by the script written

  181. for you by others? When will you sit down and

  182. identify by yourself the purpose you must live your life to

  183. fulfill? A godly 1.

  184. He left home without even a map of his destiny, no clear

  185. understanding of the map of his destiny, not a personal script

  186. of the purpose he should pursue. He left home unprepared, but

  187. thank God along the line, he developed the passion to

  188. continue the journey because he caught a passionate vision.

  189. We're going to read that in chapter 28 so that I hear

  190. listening to me where you left. Oh, maybe just on the structure

  191. of the father. My father want me to go to

  192. school. My mother want me to study.

  193. Mercy, am I talking to somebody? My uncle is ready to sponsor me

  194. to go to school. Why are you in school?

  195. You don't know. At the end of the schooling, to

  196. what purpose and destiny will you apply your study?

  197. You don't know. Are you a Hardy years upon

  198. years? It is time for you to catch a

  199. concrete vision that will generate passion in you to live

  200. for purpose. Is that time so for Jacob, OK,

  201. he left home. No personal Destiny scripts, no

  202. Destiny map, he was not even prepared for where he was being

  203. sent to. Even the married thing that the

  204. mother cooked up, OK, it has never occurred to him that that

  205. was the next purpose to pursue in Destiny.

  206. But tango that along the line he was able to develop the passion

  207. to continue the journey because he caught a vision.

  208. That vision is so along the line became the fuel that triggered

  209. his passion. Initially, as I mentioned, it

  210. was merely responding to persecution.

  211. Suppose persecution, it was not running towards a predetermined

  212. destination. May I say to you and warn you,

  213. your life should not just be based on responding to

  214. persecution. Your life should not just be

  215. based on responding to what the enemies, the adversary are doing

  216. around you. You are wasting too much energy

  217. concentrating on the enemy. Hello, rather than running

  218. around because of the enemy, run towards your vision.

  219. So your life should not be based on responding to provocation.

  220. It should be a baronet towards a predetermined destination.

  221. Can we read verse 10 to 16 of chapter 28?

  222. We are moving from chapter 27 to chapter 28.

  223. How the story eventually change? For Jacob, let's stay.

  224. Are we there? Are we there?

  225. And Jacob went out from Bathsheba and went towards Iran.

  226. He level, and he lighted upon a certain place, and started there

  227. all night, because the sun was said.

  228. And he took off the stone of that place, and put them for

  229. pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

  230. And he dreamed. And behold a ladder set up on

  231. the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.

  232. And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on him.

  233. And behold the law stood above it and said I am the Lord God of

  234. Abraham, thy father and the God of I See the land we are on down

  235. lies to thee will I give it and to thy sea.

  236. Hello. That where you are going to

  237. don't get there OK, and get married and become distracted.

  238. There is a purpose that is higher than you just going to

  239. here. And am I talking to somebody

  240. now? If this encounter had not

  241. happened, Jacob will have just gone there, get married, have

  242. all the prosperity he had, and continue forever in that place.

  243. But God was saying to him, that place where your mother is

  244. sending you is just a land of preparation.

  245. It is not your destination. AM I talking to somebody?

  246. And I still shall be as doors of the earth, and thou shall spread

  247. abroad to the West, and to the east, and to the north and to

  248. the South, and in the And I see shall all the families of the

  249. earth be blessed. And behold, I help with thee,

  250. and we keep thee in all places without that way, and we bring

  251. thee again to this land. So where you are running to is a

  252. land of preparation is not your destination.

  253. For I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have

  254. spoken to thee of. Now at this point God is not

  255. giving him a personal destiny script.

  256. I will give on to thee that which I have spoken to thee of.

  257. Have you come to that level in your intimacy with God, in your

  258. personal relationship with God in the place of prayer, study of

  259. the Word of God and meditation to be able to say that this is

  260. the purpose for which God wants me to apply my talents.

  261. This is my pursuit in destiny. This is my personal destiny

  262. script. This is what I will leave to

  263. achieve. Tell somebody again, leave for

  264. purpose. I can't hear you which I have

  265. spoken to the of and Jacob awake out of his sleep and he said

  266. surely the law is in this place and I knew it not.

  267. So from that time on. He did not wait for others

  268. before he will do the needful. So shortly after that vision of

  269. following that vision immediately what we saw Jacob

  270. demonstrate was passion. And one of the way you identify

  271. a personal demand is that it need not wait for instruction to

  272. do the needful. Hello.

  273. A personal person need not wait for instruction to do the

  274. needful. A personal person need not wait

  275. for instruction or be teleguided before we do the right thing.

  276. He knows that there's the need for him to wake up early.

  277. He wake up early. There's need for him to observe

  278. quiet time. You observe quiet time.

  279. There's the need for him to set up a schedule of what he will do

  280. daily. He does all of that and he

  281. ensure that without being teleguided, without being

  282. monitored, he's doing the right thing by himself, for himself

  283. for all that and for destiny fulfillment.

  284. Chapter 29 The 1st 10 verses Then Jacob went on his journey.

  285. He need not wait again. He went on and he came to the

  286. land of the people of the East, and he look and behold a well in

  287. the feet. And lo, there were three flocks

  288. of sleep lined by he. For out of that world they

  289. watered the floor, and the greystone was upon the West

  290. mouth. Take note, a greystone was upon

  291. the West mouth, and leader were all the flaws gathered.

  292. And they rolled the stone from the West mouth, and watered the

  293. sheep, and put the stone again upon the West mouth in his

  294. place. And Jacob said unto them, the

  295. men he met around the world, my brother, where do you come from?

  296. And they said of Iran are we? And they said unto them, Know ye

  297. Lebanon, the son of Naha? And they said, We know him.

  298. And he said unto them, Is he well?

  299. And they said It is well and beyond Rachel his daughter

  300. cometh with the sheep. And he said no it is yet I pay

  301. listen to the several very critical.

  302. He now said to those other indifferent complacent men who

  303. had sheep that are tested for water.

  304. Are we together? And they allow those sheep to

  305. lie there because they were not self motivated enough to lift

  306. the stool. We are afraid that that world

  307. will always be covered by a stone.

  308. And it said to them, it is high yet high day.

  309. Neither is it time that the cartoon should be gathered

  310. together. Make ease answer me, I can't

  311. hear you. Why the sunshine?

  312. But why the sunshine? They were sleeping no passion,

  313. but the man that has encountered gold that not had a vision and a

  314. purpose that is living for he didn't get there and join them

  315. to be whiling away when the ship should be watered.

  316. He confronted and he said to them what are doing strange?

  317. Why you at ease It is yet I day my brother it is yet I day my

  318. sister it is yet I day this was said I will walk.

  319. Why the day is still on for the night comet when no one can walk

  320. but when it was I day and the ship need water.

  321. This man from Iran OK they were by the West side but could not

  322. lift a finger to remove the stool so that they can water the

  323. animal. You have the energy now to run

  324. around. What are you applying the energy

  325. to? And no, it is yet I day neither

  326. is it time that the cattle should be gathered together.

  327. What are you, the sheep? And go and feed them.

  328. And they said, look at the excuse.

  329. We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, until they

  330. roll the stone from the worst mouth.

  331. Whose responsibility is it? I had Mama saying to you last

  332. Sunday that there are some of you, OK?

  333. You live at the mercy of others. People's favor and your style

  334. and attitude to life is that every other people should do

  335. everything for you. You are not ready to do anything

  336. either for yourself or for others.

  337. Everybody man who by profession, by career are shepherd that

  338. should be concerned about how to water the animal and feed the

  339. animal. They kept the animal by the

  340. website. They did not hold the stool

  341. waiting for people who will do it for them.

  342. And they said, can you see that in verse 8?

  343. We cannot impossibility thinkers when there is no passion.

  344. You always parade excuse when there is no passion, OK,

  345. Excellence will not characterize your activity, your daily

  346. living. And they said we cannot also all

  347. the floss be gathered together until they roll the stone from

  348. the West mouth. I will never want to allow you

  349. Kutakuru. Who are those days that should

  350. do it for them. Then we water the sheep and I

  351. often say to you that your motto in life should not be I do my

  352. best, I live the rest. Your motto in life should be

  353. after you have done your best and that is small to do you have

  354. the rest. So they are trying to observe,

  355. observe a protocol, A protocol that we don't allow the animals

  356. to be welfare, that it is some people that roll away the store.

  357. Ours is to water the sheep and the person that rolled the

  358. stone. If that person didn't come, your

  359. animal will not be fed. Who is losing?

  360. Am I talking to somebody? Can you see the sequence there?

  361. I want to. Hello.

  362. The fact that the people that surround you are not serious

  363. does not mean you should not be serious.

  364. You should be different. Tell somebody be different, tell

  365. somebody be different. Let's check that.

  366. Verse 20, verse 8 again, Chapter 29.

  367. And they say we cannot until all the flocks be gathered together

  368. until they rolled the stone from the well mouth.

  369. Then we water the sheep. But yeah, they are they are

  370. friendly and they are failure. We are factual negatively.

  371. Why would you rush up OK, and not limit yourself to all your

  372. own duty? Hide their own duty.

  373. So that one if it were copied. And why he expect with them?

  374. Rachel came with her father ship for she kept them.

  375. Look at a woman. She had she had brother.

  376. So hello. She had what?

  377. Brothers. When animals were to be taken to

  378. the feed, it was richer. When animals were to be water,

  379. it was richer. Do nothing.

  380. Elder brothers, am I talking to somebody only for them to wake

  381. up late and begin to fight Jacob, who came in from nowhere

  382. to replace them in terms of family business, You know, there

  383. were the people that eventually conspired against Jacob.

  384. They said he has taken everything that belongs to our

  385. father, that would belong to their father that they did not

  386. manage. They left to their sister to

  387. manage. And we have some young men like

  388. that in families. The only productive member of

  389. the family is the daughter. What can we get back in the name

  390. of Corinnewa of Corinne Lada? Hello.

  391. And that's what you prefer? So why must it be rich and not

  392. those brother that were later that that later were fighting

  393. Jacob over sharing of family inheritance?

  394. Don't forget the Yoruba poem that says I bought you local of

  395. your a fool sheeta still of a stain.

  396. It came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Lebanon

  397. is brought his mother's brother, and the sheep of Lebanon, his

  398. mother's brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone

  399. from the worst mouth. And what are the flock of

  400. Lebanon? His mother's brother.

  401. None of these were the duty of Jacob.

  402. Hello. He was such a newcomer.

  403. He was a stranger asking for direction.

  404. Are you with me? But the storm that this man that

  405. have been there refused to roll away.

  406. What did he do? He went there.

  407. He didn't even ask them to to join him, support him to do it.

  408. He did it alone by himself. Now the duty of watering the

  409. ship, the ships that were not even his own, he went ahead and

  410. do what? What are them?

  411. So what I will say, essentially we are connecting this with the

  412. fact that even though he left home without a personal

  413. Destiny's creep or a Destiny map along the line, he caught the

  414. vision and that vision translated to passion.

  415. And the way the passion manifested was the fact that

  416. from that point on, he started to do the needful without any

  417. external prompting. That's passion.

  418. That's what passion. So we are tracing the roots of

  419. passion, how to generate passion.

  420. So from here we can conclude conveniently that vision,

  421. otherwise known as purpose or which you can also call sense of

  422. direction, was the source of Jacob's passion.

  423. So vision will always come before passion.

  424. Where there's no vision, there will be no passion.

  425. So how do you generate passion? Let me attempt to discuss one

  426. out of three today. Number one, you must discover

  427. purpose and live for it. Discover purpose and do what?

  428. And live for it. Where there is no purpose, there

  429. will be no passion for impacts. And what is it that we call

  430. vision? Vision is basically tangible

  431. purpose. That's vision.

  432. It's not about sleeping and dreaming dreams.

  433. OK, it may, It may come that way.

  434. But basically vision means tangible purpose that you are

  435. living for. And that purpose of vision is

  436. the reason you will choose diligence over indolence.

  437. Purpose is the reason you will choose courage over despair in

  438. Left home in fear. But it became both to pursue

  439. destiny because it caught a vision and that vision

  440. translated to passion. Purpose will compel you to pay

  441. the price been demanded by sources.

  442. This purpose that will make you or compel you to pay the price

  443. that has been demanded by sources.

  444. Purpose is the brain behind the power you need to define all

  445. odds to attain sources. There are always obstacles on

  446. the way to success. OK.

  447. It is when you have purpose that you will now generate the power

  448. that you need to define all those all before you can attain

  449. sources. And without purpose, passion

  450. cannot be triggered. Without purpose, passion cannot

  451. be triggered. It is purpose that generate

  452. passion. But we need to not ask ourselves

  453. how do we develop purpose? So what are the things that can

  454. generate purpose? What can we describe as the

  455. stimulus for purpose? Things that can stimulate

  456. purpose. Take note of this and hold it

  457. tight. Purpose does not evolve.

  458. Purpose does not evolve by itself.

  459. Rather, purpose is informed. Purpose does not evolve by

  460. itself. So purpose is not a thing that

  461. metamorphosize, OK? It doesn't have X stage, sea

  462. lava stage, Puppa stage and then the complete inset stage.

  463. No, purpose don't evolve OK Rather purpose is informed.

  464. It is not a spontaneous phenomenon, is an intentional

  465. affair. It is a stimulated endeavor.

  466. You have to be deliberate about life before you can live for

  467. purpose. You have to be intentional about

  468. wanting to achieve in life before you can have a purpose

  469. that you will live for. So purpose does not evolve.

  470. Purpose is informed. Purpose is not a spent

  471. spontaneous phenomenon. Purpose is a stimulated

  472. endeavour. And what are those things that

  473. can stimulate purpose? Let's quickly run through them

  474. and close for today. Stimulus of purpose, number one,

  475. is information. That's why I said purpose does

  476. not evolve. Purpose is informed.

  477. You must have had it said over and over again that if you are

  478. not informed you will be deformed.

  479. Have you had it said before? If you are not informed, you

  480. will be what you will be deformed?

  481. So #1 symbol of purpose is information.

  482. But I want to hardly write that to that popular saying.

  483. If you are not informed, you will be informed that if you are

  484. deformed, you cannot perform. It is said that if you are not

  485. informed, you will be deformed. But I am adding a writer to it

  486. that if you are now deformed because you are not informed,

  487. you will not be able to perform. In life, nobody can operate

  488. above the level of information that is available to him.

  489. So whatever you can do to have the right information about life

  490. because it will have to stimulate purpose.

  491. OK, Please do your best to be informed.

  492. Tell your neighbor, do your best to be informed.

  493. I can't hear that sister. I can't hear that Mama.

  494. Let me hear that Father. Do your best to be want to be

  495. informed and I will point to you directions or how good from

  496. which you can gain the right information.

  497. Number one education #2 inspiration.

  498. So you obtain information by education.

  499. I describe education as the natural route to purpose, the

  500. natural route to information. Education.

  501. Then inspiration is virtual link to information.

  502. Are we together? The natural route to information

  503. is education. The spiritual roots that is road

  504. or link to information is inspiration.

  505. So that information you seek by practical means is education.

  506. The one you seek by spiritual means is revelation.

  507. Hello, do you understand the two dimensions?

  508. Now? The natural Rd. you travel to to

  509. obtain information is through education.

  510. The spiritual route to obtain information is what inspiration.

  511. So whether you are now get it by education or by revelation, the

  512. important thing is that information is key to destiny

  513. pursuit. Information is very key to

  514. destiny pursuit. When you see a man that you call

  515. an activist that cannot watch injustice, it is because he has

  516. education. There is no ignore Amos who is a

  517. freedom fighter. When you see somebody rise up

  518. and fight against injustice and defend the oppressed, there is

  519. an information he has that others don't have.

  520. There's a perspective to life that they ask that others don't

  521. have. If you live in ignorance, they

  522. will be cheating you. I will not know that you are

  523. being cheated. Am I talking to somebody?

  524. So an activist can stand up against injustice because he has

  525. education. If you have education, you will

  526. hate intimidation. So if you enjoy intimidation, I

  527. query the quality of your education.

  528. I query the Genuity of your education.

  529. If you are passive and indolent, if our happenings around you and

  530. you can ask responsible question and seek the right answer.

  531. I query the kind of education you are parading.

  532. Am I talking to somebody? Ditto for spiritual revelation.

  533. If you have it, you will escape frustration.

  534. If you are spiritual revelation, you will not be comfortable

  535. around mediocrity, and it will help you to escape frustration.

  536. You see, those who succumb easily to intimidation are

  537. without passion because they lack information.

  538. If you succumb easily to intimidation, you succumb easily

  539. to injustice, you succumb easily to poverty, you succumb easily

  540. to anything less than excellent is a pointer to the fact that

  541. you lack passion because you are not operating by the right

  542. information #2 stimulus of purpose is observation.

  543. You recollect that in one of the previous session we had, there

  544. was this terminal testimony given by Dickness Ulubenga on

  545. how she observed a head passionate episode 1 to dress is

  546. wound and from that day on she developed passion for the

  547. nursing profession and today is an excellent nurse.

  548. Praise the name of the Lord by what observation?

  549. But many of us, OK, we don't even take note of our

  550. environment, the scarcity in our environment, the abundance in

  551. our environment. That's what there is a thing you

  552. can do about this scarcity in your environment and lead to

  553. lead you to prosperity. There's something you can do

  554. about the abundance in your environment, OK, and lead you to

  555. become a manager of resources. Am I talking to somebody?

  556. So wisdom is the form of education you don't pay school

  557. fees to assess. If you are a master of managing

  558. your observation, you gain wisdom that you don't pay school

  559. fees to assess. Church are we together?

  560. So when look at we know, we know, we know.

  561. Go. Are you following the logic?

  562. So that is that form of education.

  563. You don't pay school fees to assess and it is called wisdom.

  564. And one of the way to assess that level of education is that

  565. you are a person that observe and you make good out of your

  566. observation. All you need to do that is to

  567. have a teachable heart and you master the act of learning by

  568. observation. You learn by observation.

  569. You see somebody doing well, OK, and you query what is he doing

  570. differently? You may not even move closer to

  571. that person from a distance. You observe and you gain.

  572. You clean wisdom from that person.

  573. You see somebody failing and you see and you take a decision by

  574. looking at his life and the trajectory of where he's heading

  575. to. And you avoid and say, this is

  576. not the type of person I can move with just by mere critical

  577. world observation. But if you are not a master of

  578. observation, OK, you will leave. You will, you will leave the

  579. person that can help your destiny.

  580. And you also say with the person that will ruin your destiny.

  581. The third one, inspiration, if you are not inspired, you will

  582. easily retire from the center of action.

  583. We are not inspired, you easily retire from the centre of

  584. action. It is passion that keeps a man

  585. in the centre of action without losing interest.

  586. If you start and finish strong and you will not lose steam, you

  587. must be regularly inspired. So what is the source of your

  588. inspiration? How close are you to the Bible

  589. to draw inspiration? How much of your pastor's

  590. message you listen to after Sunday to draw information that

  591. will give you the energy OK to stay strong in the race?

  592. Because outside there are there are many discouraging factors.

  593. Am I talking to somebody? So it is passion that keeps a

  594. man the center of action without losing interest.

  595. And you must be divided, connected by having a rich

  596. personal life or devotion through the story of the Word of

  597. God and by meditation to stay inspired.

  598. So that brings me to the fourth stimulus of purpose, meditation.

  599. Meditation. The number one thing we mention

  600. is what? Answer me #2 #3 and #4 Moses

  601. told Joshua. This book of the law studies.

  602. Meditate on it day and night. Do what you have learned from

  603. me. And if you do that, what would

  604. be the end result? Good success, Good success,

  605. Success with quality, success that will challenge others.

  606. Now, meditation life is a mixed bag of motivation and

  607. discouragement. In fact, the happenings around

  608. us that motivate joy, they are happy around us that inspire

  609. positivity are not so much available by your personal

  610. meditation. You can sort out issues and sift

  611. out those. That can poison your.

  612. Mind, that's what is one of the things you do by meditation.

  613. Hello. Meditation is not about

  614. negative. Thinking, OK, it's about putting

  615. the old issues around you together.

  616. Are you able to sort them out? The one that will serve like a

  617. poison to your mind. You trust them.

  618. Many of you don't know how to trust negative thoughts.

  619. You dwell on them. And I said to you in life, if

  620. you want. To be among the smartest in

  621. life, then you must engage your mind in meditation.

  622. Meditative people are the smartest people you always

  623. encounter and that is why. When people.

  624. Misbehave. Have you had?

  625. It said. Before in Yoruba, when people.

  626. All the time. Hello my all the time.

  627. I keep on saying it, Are you everybody like they would say in

  628. this part of the world? Everybody.

  629. What do you think? They give you your personal

  630. name. You know why we go there?

  631. Just to distinguish you. And the last?

  632. Before I draw the curtain, today is irritation.

  633. Irritation. As it applied to the.

  634. Regular function. Of the biological system.

  635. So it applied to Destiny Pursuit.

  636. Who said they did Barbados or say they did Barbados or say

  637. they did nothing irritates you. What manner of person are you?

  638. What about? What can say you?

  639. See those people you see as activists?

  640. What inform their passion is irritation.

  641. So more often than not, activists develop passion for

  642. advocacy because they cannot stand up pressure.

  643. They cannot stand up pressure the room you.

  644. Want to sleep is smoky. OK, and you are not even feeling

  645. it and let people begin to ask. You are sleeping in this house.

  646. Am I talking to somebody? AM I talking to somebody?

  647. Do you know if there's? A false man around you, whether

  648. you passive or you don't passive it something.

  649. Will you take your test board? Am I?

  650. Talking to somebody. But why you?

  651. Don't engage your irritation, OK?

  652. Anything, any a life of anything goes.

  653. Please instead of. Lamentation.

  654. Choose Confrontation. And the way you can.

  655. Do that is where you develop your capacity for irritation let

  656. failure. Irritate you?

  657. AM I talking to somebody? Don't be.

  658. Comfortable with failure or failure, they commit an

  659. assignment. To your hand you are not

  660. produced in. Banana Uncle life continue.

  661. You will not see that and say, OK, what do I do differently so

  662. that this kind of failure will know I will not repeat it.

  663. Children. OK, you you break.

  664. Up. OK, I say.

  665. They also broke it last week and that didn't say anything.

  666. No remorse. So instead of lamentation,

  667. choose confrontation. And there is what we are happy

  668. to do that is where you engage in the teacher.

  669. The difference between activity and other member of that is that

  670. order can only more more. Are you with me?

  671. But the activists have. Passion, Passion to make sure

  672. that everything goes well for everybody and I.

  673. Conclude by saying. In life you.

  674. Will experience things that irritate?

  675. You and I call those things garbage.

  676. And you need to manage them because if you can.

  677. Manage your garbage. It will produce garbage.

  678. You know what cabbage is as I'm a church, you know.

  679. What cabbage is? OK, and by the time you use your

  680. garbage as Manor for cabbage, your cabbage will do well.

  681. So engage the things that irritate you.

  682. Turn them to manure that will inspire you to go for greatness.

  683. God bless you. We believe you'll be blessed by

  684. the ministry. Of this message you will do well

  685. to be the duer of all you've heard.

  686. For further inquiry and spiritual help, contact this

  687. number is 08035685882 or worship with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible

  688. Church, adjacent University of Illorin Teaching Hospital.

  689. Occursi Illorin, God bless you.