Greatness

Principles of greatness

What is greatness? Greatness is been great. To be great is to be exceptionally talented, powerful and influential. God created all mankind to be great but can we say all men are great, no of course all mean are not great. Now why is it that all men are not great? It is because most men do not know the principles of greatness but that few who go far to use the principles of greatness eventually turn out to be great men and women both in our present age and in the yester years. In this article we shall look at those principles of greatness which great men use.

SECRETE LAWS

LAW OF DECISION:

Life does not give you what you deserve, but what you decide, what you want and what you are determined to have nothing less than.
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall anything. Until you know what to reject you can not posses what you deserve.
The rejection of failure is the standing point for the possession of success.

LAW OF DETERMINATION:

Determine in your heart today what grades are unacceptable to you. What you will get from life, will not depend on the options available, but the choices you make.
Everyday you will have the option to choose what is right or wrong, to be great or to be average, to excel or to fail.
There are two path on the journey of life; the path of frustration and the path celebration, choose these day to tread the path of celebration.

LAW OF PRIORITIZATION:

High achievers know what is important and do firs things first.
“Do the right thing at the right time” that is the song of champions.
Whenever there is a clash in your activities, make the decision to turn down low priority one for a high priority one.

LAW OF CONCENTRATION:

To be physically present but mentally absent is against the essence of learning.
Concentration requires the combination of your body and your mind. Bring your mind to class with you.
Concentration is an art of blocking out every side attraction.

LAW OF REPUTATION:

What you are reputed for is what you are regarded for the difference between ‘nobody’ and “somebody” is reputation.
Be known for something great and then you will be somebody and not a nobody or anybody.
You have a name to protect and a good personality to promote live up to it with good grades.
Your reputation is built by what people see you do and hear from you everyday and every minute.

LAW OF CONSISTENCY:

It is things you do consistently that produce results.
Practice makes perfect. Practice how to make it to the top now.
Where you get to in life will be determined by what you do with your mind and time consistently. Consistency build your habits. Habit build your character and character builds your reputation. Build a solid reputation of excellence in all your endeavor.
Make a habit of achieving great results now, as a consequence it will be a lifestyle your children will thank you for in the future.

LAW OF ADMIRATION:

The kind of people you admire will determine the kind people you attract. You will attract not only their persons but also their results.
Choose carefully what you admire, if you cannot admire that result, they don’t deserve your admiration.
Birds of the same feather flock together! Who do you flock with? Can you remember their last achievement.

LAW OF SACRIFICE:

There is always a price for the prize. No pain is gain. The pain of preparation determine the gain of celebration.
Every success has a measure of sacrifice if you are not willing to pay the price, don’t expect to get the prize.
Bad association influence bad thoughts, which influence bad actions that result in bad consequences.
Remember he who laugh last, laughs best.

LAW OF FOCUS:

Focus creates blindness.
Do the things that will cause your desired result to be natural occurrence.
Focus on what you need to do to get the right result.

LAW OF RETENTION:

what you repeat often, you will retain.
A candle does not loose its light by lighting other candles. You don’t loose knowledge by sharing. You actually gain more.
No one cares what you know, until they know how much you care.
Those who learn with the intention of teaching others retain more than those who learn with the intention of merely knowing.

LAW OF HINDSIGHT:

Lesson learnt from yesterday equip you for today.
Lessons from the past can be invaluable treasures for the future.

LAW OF SELF DISCOVERY:

Every notable discovery begins with a self-discovery.
Know what work best for you. The greatest discovery ever made is the discovery of self.
There is no one else like you in the entire world. You are the only true original of yourself.
Appreciate what makes you unique and use it to the best effort to get the results you desire.

LAW OF APPRECIATION:

An attitude of gratitude will get you to the highest altitude. You feel gratitude but show appreciation.
Appreciation is an act of from the heart, let your life show appreciation.
Whatever you don’t appreciate, depreciates.
If you take your education for granted, academic excellence will elude you.
Eventually people will always pay for what you know. And you will pay for what you don’t know.
Your earning power is your learning power. Grab the opportunity to set the right foundation for learning now!
Even with all the money, most people without education still carry the frustration of inferiority complex. Money can buy a degree but it will never buy the satisfaction derived from education.
Never take for granted the opportunity to get a good education.
A good education opens the door to the top. The value you attach to your education, will determine the value it will bring to your life.

LAW OF THE SUPERNATURAL:

Prayerful preparation prevent poor performance. With God all things are possible. If you work without prayer, you will be limiting yourself.
Work and pray. Work without prayer leads to frustration. Prayer without work is self deception. So you work and pray.
“I have held many things in my hand and lost them all; but whatever, I have in God’s hand I still possess” MARTIN LUTHER
”No horse gets any one anywhere until he’s harnessed, no steam or gas drives anything until it is confined , No Niagara ever turns anything into light or power until is tunneled, No life ever does great thing until focused, dedicated and disciplined so said, a Christian writer.”
Matt 5: 16, says “let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven.
Zeal/zest, diligence, sense of responsibility, fear of God are some of the factors that lead to greatness and bring your light of greatness to shine before men.


Ultimately, greatness in life is contingent on many factors, but harnessing and utilizing the available potentialities and experiences of the elder generation is of utmost important.

joke

Two little boys

A couple had two little boys, age 7 and 9 the boys were mischievous and always getting in and out of trouble. The boys’ name were always mentioned in every mischief in the neighborhood.
The parents were at their wits end as to what to do about their sons’ behavior. The mother of the boys was introduce to a clergyman, acclaimed to be an expert in child discipline, with tack record of children, whom he had successfully disciplined. The parents agreed the boys be taken to the clergyman, who consented to speak with the boys, but asked to see them individually.
The 7 year old went to meet him first and the discussion went thus:

Boy:

good afternoon, sir

Clergyman:

God bless you, please sit down

Boy:

thank you, sir

Clergyman:

where is God?

Boy:

no answer from the boy

Clergyman:

I say where is God?(stern voice)

Boy:

silence

Clergyman:

raising his voice and physically shaking the boy, he said, ‘Are you deaf, where is God?
At that point, the boy became visibly shaken and scared and immediately bolted away. One getting home, he locked himself up in the closet. His older brother who saw him ran into the house, went to inquire what happened. The younger brother replied ‘we are in Big trouble, this time. God is missing and the think we did it’!

History of Christianity

The word Christian and Christianity in recent time have been of great interest to me. Since then I began to do endless research about the two word Christian and Christianity.
To understand fully what Christian and Christianity we need to start by defining the two word.

Who is a Christian?
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity.

What is Christianity?
Christianity is Abrahamic, monotheistic, religion based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, who Christians believes is the 1. messiah (messiah is a greek word meaning Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Christians also believe he is the Son of God.

What is a chriatian?
Christian is a wide range of belief and practices found across the world among those who call themselves Christian. The Nicene Creed was established in the 4th century as an expression of Christian faith in the face heresy (heresy means false doctrine, as opposed to Christianity).

What is the difference between who is a Christian and what is a Christian?
The above sound controversial to me hence I want to clear the bleak thing about it.
The word are same but different in meaning the first one that is who is a Christian is a person who adhere to the last one that is what is a Christian in other word what is a Christian can be likened to what is Christianity while who is a Christian is the person practicing it.

Types of Christianity
There are various type of Christianity some of these Christian are explained below.

Active Christians
These types of Christians are committed to attending church, bible reading, and sharing their faith that salvation comes through Jesus Christ. These group of Christians also accept leadership position in the church.

Professing Christians
These types of Christians are committed to “accepting Jesus Christ as savior and lord” as the key of been a Christian, but focus on a personal relationship with God and Jesus more than on church, bible reading and sharing of faith.

Liturgical Christians
These types of Christians have high level of spiritual activity, mainly expressed by attending and recognizing the authority of the church, and by serving in it or in the community.


Private Christians
These types of Christians believe in doing good things, but not within a church context. In the American survey, this Christian group was the largest and youngest segment of the church.

Cultural Christian
These types of Christians do not view Jesus as essential for salvation. They are likely to align their belief or practice with biblical teachings or to attend church. They favor a universality theology that sees many ways to God.

Other countries may not show exactly these varieties of Christian group, especially in country where there is active persecution of Christians.

Christians who have a distinct heritage and come to believe in Jesus Christ may also identify themselves differently. Messianic Jews: these are Christians believe that they are set of Judaism and that Jesus Christ is the Jewish messiah and divine savior. These Christians also seek to live in obedience to the remaining aspect of mosaic law found in the Torah.
As the identification of the messiah with Jesus Christ is not accepted within Judaism, in Hebrew Christians are called Notzirm (“Nazarenes”), originally derived from the fact that Jesus Christ came from the city of Nazareth in Israel. However, Messianic Jews are referred to in modern Hebrew as (yehudim meshihi’im).

Among Arabs (whether Christian, Muslim or belonging to other faiths), as well as in other languages influence by the Arabic language (mainly in Muslim cultures influenced by Arabic as the liturgical language of Islam), two words are commonly used for Christians: Nasrani and masihi meaning followers of messiah.
Where there is distinction, nasrani refers to people from a Christian culture and masihi means those with religious faith in Jesus Christ. In some countries nasrani tends to be used generally for Non-Muslim white people. Another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is salibi; this refers to crusaders and has negative connotations.

The word nasrani is generally understood to be derived from Nazareth through the synac (Aramaic), in some areas of the Arab world, tradition holds the it is derived from nasr (“victory”), and means “people of victory” in reference to the early success of the Christian religion or to the initial Christian Ethiopian support to Muhammad during his early conflicts in Arabia. Nasrani is also sometime said to derive from ansar which means “disciple”. The Syrian Malabar Nasrani or Nasranee people are Christian ethno-religious group from Kerala, in India, possibly Jewish in ethnic origin.

Etymology of the word Christian.
The word Christian comes from Greek word (christianos), from (christos) meaning the anointed one. In the Greek version of the Hebrew bible, christos was used to translate the Hebrew word (messiah), meaning [one who is] anointed.

The first known usage of the word Christian can be found in the New Testament. “the disciple was first called Christian at Antioch. They were disciple and followers of Jesus Christ. The other two New Testament uses of the word Christian also referred to the public identity of the Jews who followed Jesus Christ prior to the adoption of Christianity by no-Jews. The Jewish king said the apostle Paul had almost persuaded the king “to become a Christian,” at the meaning the Jewish Messianic sect following Jesus Christ.
The Apostle Peter encouraged believers who are abused “because you are a Christian,” don’t give it a second thought. Be proud of the distinguished status reflected in that name “Christian”!
The recorded use of the word Christian outside the bible was when Tacitus recorded that Nero blamed the “Christians” for the Great Fire of Rome in AD64.

“Christian” also means a member or adherent of a church or other organized group within Christianity. As an adjective, the term may describe anything associated with or thought to be consistent with Christianity, as in “the Christian thing to do”