BE RECEPTIVE TO EVERY RIGHT INSTRUCTION AND CORRECTION

HELPFUL TIPS TO ENHANCE RECEPTIVENESS TO RIGHT INFORMATIONS AND CORRECTIONS

I will start with HEARTFELT APPRECIATION OF GOD AND EVERYONE WHO HAVE RIGHTLY INSTRUCTED OR CORRECTED ME AT ONE TIME OR THE OTHER.

Thanks to Divinity for all the people who didn't spare me the truth. In the form of giving me right; tutolage/training, informations, instructions, directions, rebuke, reproof, chastisements, corrections and commendations both formal and informal, spiritual and casual in the open and in the secret, one on one - direct conversation, at a distance, on the pulpit, on social media, via body language, through music, movies and stage dramas, written note/books/magazines/dailies/tracts, tape/video/cd/vcd/dvd and via radio/tv/cable/satellite tranmissions.

I register my sincere appreciation to all of you out there who didn't keep to yourself those words or messages that had made my life better. Not only have you saved a soul (refering to me alone); you have saved generations and nations. For if you failed to reach out when you did, I would have rotten and the glorious destiny of billions connected to my brightness would have been aborted. May you receive the rewards that is due you.

On my own part too, firstly; I appreciate myself for consitent improvement at being receptive to the right informations and corrections which I also owe to God who gave me such a willing heart to learn and to advance well.

Secondly; having taken a clue from the wonders your generousity have wrought on me, I also make a commitment to spare no one of the real truth by consistently informing, instructing, directing, rebuking, reproofing, chastising, correcting and commending them rightly both in the open and behind closed doors regardless of status and circumstances.

And for the person reading this piece, if I may ask: how receptive are you to the right informations, instructions, rebuke and corrections and, how do you treat people who bid to guide you right? Just think about it deeply and make the right amendment if you are found wanting.

Always ensure that you are uncompromisingly disposed to receive and firmly take to the right instructions and corrections in whatever format by whoever.

Be grateful for every right information or rebuke that comes your way.

Likewise, show appreciation to your instructors and whoever chastises and corrects you. You have nothing to lose at all. Being totally receptive to the truth and to humbly accept correction without taking an offence at the other person can only make you.

Bury your ego right now because the next person that will correct you may be the least of your subordinates. Do not be full of yourself.

Avoid overfamiliarity as well. The person that will give you a helpful information or correction may be one of your friends or your spouse or spiritual instructor or customer or just anyone you often come in contact with lest you commonice and consider the person to be regular.

Incase you have problem accepting instruction or correction, reach out for the right help in the right direction. Number one point of call is to commune with God in prayer relating your situation to Him to receive a divine touch and enablement. Then, it will be easy to locate people that could also be of help.

Know that it is not shameful to be rightly instructed on what to do or corrected over what you do/did wrong. While it is brutal not to be informed or corrected when needed, it is worst to only welcome instructions or corrections with no implementation or totally reject them.

Finally, ensure you always share the right information and corrections with others where necessary. But don't be disappointed or descouraged when your kind gesture and generousity at giving instruction or correction is not appreciated by the person in question or others closeby. It is always good, right and required to timely give people the right information or correction if you know better as per the issue of concern.

"He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray." - Proverbs 10:17

"A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed - without remedy." Proverbs 29:1
Suggested quotes: Proverbs 1:20-33 and Job 36:5-33

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#WE ARE THE SOLUTIONS#

NIGERIANS SAVE NIGERIA

                                     NIGERIANS SAVE NIGERIA

The year 1960 marked the end of FOREIGN COLONIZATION in Nigeria and since independence, Nigeria has been under INDIGENOUS COLONIZATION. Then, who will deliver Nigeria from self enslavement as the era of Nigerians leading Nigeria is becoming unbearable?

If the colonial masters are still in-charge and the state of our nation remain the same till today, we would nail them for destroying Nigeria because they are foreigners. But as it is that we are in our own hands since 1960, what else can we say? May be we should apply to foreign nations for re-colonization to timely save Nigeria of possible national collapse since Nigerians have deliberately refused to make Nigeria great. (Laughing)!

Oh! That is just a joke. Foreign aid at building Nigeria is not necessary because we (all Nigerians) are more than able to deliver our country. The only thing that is required of us is to start giving judiciously towards national transformation which is possible through valid attitudinal rebirth and unequaled patriotism.

Let us timely accept responsibilities to heal our land by living the dream of a better Nigeria for all. We are the solutions! Foreigners cannot make Nigeria great if we fail - they are not responsible for our predicaments. We are our own woes, we are our own foes, we are our own devils and we are our own saviours. As the inventors of our national struggles, we are the solutions! The required national transformation dwells in all of us including the cruelest among Nigerians.

Nigerians save Nigeria!

We are the solutions!

Centenary celebration message from:

STEPHEN OLAMILEKAN JIMOH

@NIGERIAGLOWS - making Nigeria a desired nation for everyone on earth.

Join this movement today.

Be a true Nigerian.

You are a solution.

I am a solution.

We are the solutions!

WE ARE THE SOLUTIONS

 

                                         WE ARE THE SOLUTIONS

Across the whole wide world,
in every human kingdom;
People often constitute issues for people.
While the blame always goes to devil;
To God, mankind tirelessly cries for deliverance
without considering their ways.

They proceed with a perverse heart;
Slippery tongues that lie,
Hands that are full of vices.
As their eyes rove with lust,
their legs haste into evil.
And for centuries, transformation is yet to ensue.
Not that God has failed to deliver.
Nor is devil too strong to be subdued.
But we have refused to make a grand change.

Now if we cry Abba Father
calling on God to save us
let us also bear in mind:
We are our own woes
we are our own foes
we are our own devils
we are the architects of our issues
and we are our own saviours.

But, for as long we refuse to change, nothing and no one can change us.
Since we have the potentials to be far better than we are, must we always remain the same for ages?
May we be saved from ourselves by ourselves!

Any society where available resources and opportunities are very minimal as against the uncompromising daily increase of human population without consistent result oriented efforts at creating more opportunities to effectively cater for the ever increasing population; corruption, inequality, injustice, unfairness/favoritism, oppression, sharp practices and all forms of evil are inevitable.

In our own hands lies the solution(s) to our problems as an individual and collectively as a society! 

EMERGENCE OF THE NEW NIGERIA

EMERGENCE OF A NEW NIGERIA  

                               (The worst road at night in Nigeria by the year 2025)

Let it be heralded to the North, East, West and South that the long awaited emergence of The New Nigeria is very much around the corner. That all may be prepared by turning over a new leave and consistently work for the advancement of our great nation not to miss out of the blessedness of newness in this land. For it is only those who faithfully seek the prosperity of Nigeria that will savor the enjoyment when it become in no distant time even, this generation will partake of it.

For those who don’t know, this present dispensation marks the end of every corrupt and evil Nigerians. It doesn't matter who they are and where they are. Are they leaders or followers, are they in the country or in a foreign land, are they in the cities or in the villages, are they religion practitioners or not; there won't be hiding place for them anymore regardless of status, tribe/ethnicity or language. Their evil schemes would have destroyed and rendered them irrelevant.

Then, corruption will be a taboo. Partisan politics, election rigging would become impossible while terrorism, vandalism and kidnapping would eternally lack perpetrators.

By that time, only true well meaning Nigerians would reign supreme in every sphere. Kings would be installed following certified diligent commitment to communal development. Through positive influence alone will people attain significance and maintain their relevance in this New Nigeria.

The end has come to the era of indigenous masters that parade themselves as deliverers but are worst than colonial masters.

Agbara ti bo lowo gbogbo awon to n fi owo Abu se Abu ni alejo. Beeni ko ni si akoso lowo awon ti o n fi eje ati ogo omo eniyan wa owo, ipo ati agbara lati fi je ilu run.

I wrote the above words (in italics) in Yoruba which means; those who take portion of their loot from the treasury to do fake humanitarian services for the masses to sing their praises will no longer have a stake while all ritual killers and every blood monger are banished in the land.

Let those who have ears hear these Living Words from the throne of God to timely make a change before the coming change displace them.  

I see a New Nigeria where candidates would no longer be imposed on fellow citizens as leaders in every political dispensation.

I see a New Nigeria where leaders would emerge based on personal credibility following a good antecedent.

I see a New Nigeria where every citizen would place national interest above personal interest.

I see a New Nigeria where foreign culture and lifestyles that depict perversion like gay marriage, child marriage, and nudity will never reign.

I see a New Nigeria with 24hours stable electricity and portable water supply where good tarred motorable roads link every community together to the least of unknown villages.

I see a New Nigeria where local technology, inventions, goods and services will attract massive global patronages.

I see a New Nigeria where the poorest can comfortably afford family vacation in any part of the world.

I see a New Nigeria where affordable quality health services for all ailments is at the reach of every citizens that no one will have to travel out of the country for any medical treatment.

I see a New Nigeria where criminality is a thing of the past because what make people commit crime is no more like; bad leadership, poverty, covetousness, lack of understanding/poor orientation, godlessness and undue fanaticism.

I see a New Nigeria where there is future for all the children and the hope of the aged will not be cut off.

I see a New Nigeria where our streets no longer serve as habitations for beggars because every disabled and less privileged are duly rehabilitated and empowered for productive living.  

I see a new Nigeria where leaders at all levels will faithfully live up to their oath of office without waiting to be appeased/begged to timely discharge every duty they officially pledge allegiance to or worshiped after the delivery of such services for them to do more.

I see a New Nigeria where divine order is engendered in our polity.

I see a New Nigeria where every citizen counts.

I see a New Nigeria where all her sons and daughters will be proud of.

 

I see a New Nigeria that is a leading leader among nations around the world.
                              (The poorest Nigerian's living room by the year 2025) 

I strongly believe in the prosperity of Nigeria and surely, Nigeria will greatly prosper in my life time even, it will happen in my prime.

May God help Nigeria and may Nigerians help Nigeria I pray in Jesus name.

EVERY NEW GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE A PLUS

                           EVERY NEW GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE A PLUS

We should not only succeed at changing those in government without influencing the incoming leaders to deliver excellent leadership. Every new government should be a plus by improving on the previous at advancing the society.

Considering how many nations have witnessed series of leadership change and government systems without a positive shift in public administration by new set of people that come on-board; I am beginning to think probably the citizens of such nations around the world are only interested in changing people in government based on some unfound differences and they are not truly concerned about transforming their society. Though they succeeded at installing new set of people but there is no tangible change from one dispensation to the other because they usually fail to correct the wrong attitudes of citizens towards national issues as often demonstrated by those who lead as well.

I am of the opinion that every new government should be a plus by improving on the previous at advancing the society. But in a situation where the incoming leaders fail to perform beyond their predecessors, to what benefit is their reign?

As Nigeria is preparing for another election and possible change of leaders in 2015, will there be tangible transformation in government and development of our nation?

Politicians across the nation are grooming and signifying interest to run for different offices. Some are of the opinion that it is the turn of their region/religion to man some key political offices and series of hullabaloo are ongoing about who should contest and who should not in our political parties. While politicians are decamping from one party to another among others, my own concern boils down to the same question above. Assuming a free and fair election is conducted and new leaders are determined, will there be a measurable change in the discharge of their duties? Will there be improvement on areas where previous administrations recorded failure? By the end of their tenure in 2019, will entire Nigerians be convinced of making right choices?

Let me talk in clear terms in this regards. When new leaders emerge in 2015, will all Nigerians enjoy dividends of democracy? Will there be; stable electricity supply, portable water system, security of lives and properties and adequate infrastructural amenities across the nation? Will all rural areas enjoy massive development and be opened to outer world as part of a measure to reduce over congestion in urban areas? Will unemployment and poverty fade out of our land? I trust there won’t be fraud and embezzlement of public funds any longer and Nigeria will become a center of excellence and global attraction as a result of the impact of the new government or what do you think?

However, those who will contest for various positions in the coming national election should be aware right now that it is no longer the old way as usual. Let them ruminate over the above issues to birth a change of attitudes and prepare diligently for quality service delivery eventually they emerge winners at the poll. Likewise, every Nigerian should check his ways not to continue on the path that has always produced unpatriotic and corrupt leaders. When the voters collect bribe no matter how little from a contestant, they have authorized the person to embezzle public fund. We should not only succeed at changing those in government without influencing the incoming leaders to deliver excellent leadership. Every new government should be a plus by improving on the previous at advancing the society. .

Take it or leave it. The conducts of every Nigerian from now forward, determine our take in the next leadership dispensation.