Dearest Joyce,
I was just meditating about how inspiring those moments we sat together to deliberate on deep philosophical truth were. This distance between our minds had robbed us of such precious moments but I know whenever I tune to the celestial channel and plug my little mind into the “Universal Mind” there will I find you. So had I done this day and I just want to communicate to you these truth that I’ve just unearthed.
What Is It That You Want?
A man went to Church one Sunday morning and he was asked by his pastor to write down a prayer request of the one singular thing that if God should grant, it will change his life forever. The man thought about for a long while then with a mischievous smile, he wrote down his request on the prayer request form and dropped it at the altar. A week later, he was knocked down by a hit and run driver and on getting to heaven, he vented his anger on the angel escorting him to paradise.
Praying Man
“Why do I have to die now before my time?” he asked with fierce anger
“You prayed for it” the angel replied.
“How could I have asked for death, when did I said such a prayer”
“That day at the anointing service at church, you wrote it down as your singular prayer request”
“That wasn’t what I asked for” the man replied.
“So what is it you asked for?”
“I asked for God to send someone to snatch me from my troublesome wife”
“And God answered by sending death to snatch you away from her”
“But that was not what I meant” the man lamented.
“You never specified,” concluded the angel.
Angels
Taking A Walk
Most times our circumstances overwhelm us that we ask for things, which are to our detriment. Emotions becloud reasoning, if God should answer all the prayers we prayed when we are under the influences of our emotions we will be done for. Other times we don’t know the consequences of the things we desire. To be free from challenges is to die before our time because sufferance is the badge of our race. As long as you are humans you will face challenges, as long as you are an inhabitant of earth you face winter, summer, and spring. Instead, a person should ask for strength, the grace to overcome his challenges.
Another case is that most times we don’t know what we need that is why we should ask the Holy Spirit to make request on our behalf.
Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa
Many years ago, I was opportune to be asked by a patriarch of evangelism and the father of Pentecostalism in Africa what he should do for me. It was a cool Friday morning after morning service at the Church of God Mission Benin city. The sun had just woken up from her bed and her radiant smile beams all over the sky. I stood at the car park waiting for a friend who would give me a ride home when the late arch Bishop Benson Idahosa sent someone to call me.
“Young man, I sent for you because I felt you’re passing through a phase and God want to assure you He is with you,” he had said to me. With tears beaming in my little brown eyes, I looked up to him and said
“Papa, it is true that I am in a dire strait”
“Do not cry my son,” he said reassuringly while giving me a comforting pat on the back.
“What can I do for you?” he finally asked as the pastors with him and security details wondered who I was and what it is we were discussing. That question I couldn’t answer and that incident was forever tattooed on my conscious mind.
In retrospect, I could have asked for a double potion of his anointing like Elisha asked and he would have granted it to me. I would have asked for his blessings or any material thing and he would have given it to me but I was speechless and I asked for nothing.
Now I ask you again this million-dollar question “What is it that you want?”
The reason why most of us failed is not that we lacked talents or opportunities but that we waste our bullets shooting at wrong targets.
I discovered my purpose as I surrounded myself with role models, they began to influence my thoughts, and a dream was born. Through their guidance, I learned I have to unite my purpose and my dreams together. I did and took a step further, I became one with my dreams and purpose and before my very eyes, my life transformed, and I became a wonder even to myself. A life without purpose is a ship without destination no wind is favorable. Many have dreams but no purpose, some purpose without dream. One is useless without the other. A purpose is a life journey while dreams are the destination. Your purpose should be to fulfill your dream. When you discover your purpose and match it with the dream you’ve crafted for yourself you find happiness and fulfillment from life. Purpose and dreams are the stars and moon; they illuminate your life as they do a dark night. The distinction between those who succeed and happy and those who failed and are unhappy is that they discovered their purpose and harmonize it with their dreams then expend all their talents and abilities chasing after it, they have a set target, aimed and shot with the bullets they had . When your purpose is in variance with your dreams, life begins to stink for you; nothing will work irrespective of how smart or hard you struggle. Everything will begin to fall apart and fulfillment will exceed your reach. Then you’ll say, “but I did all the experts recommended” yes you may but one single fact is left out and that single fact is the pillar that holds the building. Review your purpose and dreams, make them harmonize and your hectic work won’t be a work again but a fun filled adventure. Your purpose should be to get to your destination (dream). Where purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable. Many are abusing themselves today, misusing their talents in the wrong field. Just imagine a farmer that sows rice seed in the desert, there is no amount of manure or labor that will make the seeds sprout but when you sow rice seeds in a swamp, you don’t need to labor anymore. Many people are clones of their own parents, an extension of their parents, someone to fulfill their unfulfilled dreams or wishes. Many have been conditioned to live the lives of others but their own. When you live another’s dream who will then live us? Your son or daughter perhaps, Steve Jobs once said while addressing the graduands Stanford some day, “do not spend your life living another man’s life” spend your life living yours. Everybody is created with a unique purpose. Discover it and get the courage to walk that path. It is only in that path that your success and happiness lies. Imagine if Mohamed Ali was to be a musician and Michael Jackson was to be a boxer and Jordan a doctor, won’t they be a disaster? All of these men are talented just as you are, no doubt about that but when that talent is applied on the wrong field as you’re probably doing right now success, fulfillment and happiness will elude them.
Dr. Myles Munroe
Dr Myles Munroe once said that the cemetery is the richest place on earth because buried in those tombs are unfulfilled dreams and abused purpose. People that never knew what they wanted from life and ended up chasing the wrong purpose while their personal dream lay covered with weeds within them.
(This part is of this article is cullied from the book “Principled Driven Life” by Avid).
I asked again as I did before, “what is it you want?”
If God should ask, you from heaven with his majestic voice, “my child, I’ve seen your tears. What is it that you want” what are we gonna ask for? If a genie should offer to grant us one wish what is it gonna be? This was a blank check presented to Solomon. We could ask for material blessing or a spiritual blessing or like the philosopher ask for wisdom.
Genie
If i should have one wish I’ll ask for wisdom because with wisdom, I will achieve whatever it is I desire. My dreams and aspirations will just be a day away. But if I have one wish, I’d ask for you because there is no life for me if it is not with you. In your arms lie everything I desire and the fulfillment of my dream. I’ll wish for you to be my Juliet.
I.A.M 