MEN THAT TURN THE WORLD AROUND (PART TWO)

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light and Kings to the brightness of your dawn” Isaiah 60:1-3

Over years, men have impacted this world of ours in various ways. History will be slow to forget the lights of Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr, Micheal Jackson, Micheal Johnson, Pele, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Edison, Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkurumah, Iddi Amin, Bill Gates, Aristotle, Karthryn Khulman, Myles Muroe, Ben Carson, Osama Bin Laden, etc. Forgive us if your role model wasn’t mentioned as the list is unending. Some made good impact, others bad and ugly. But the truth remains that like that Bible verse above clearly states, the world of today is in gross darkness. Our big question comes: Can we lighten up the world? Or is our part to live in its darkness as we have met it?

The singular truth remains that God created us to make positive impact, “to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion” (Genesis 1:28). That is God’s 5 point agenda for man and these agenda were for planet earth and not heaven! To enable us achieve these, He created us in His own image with His likeness (Spirit and personality). Today we share God’s big idea for the world. They are:

1.      To extend His kingdom on earth not to set up a religion. It was not God’s idea for us to gather in a hall and clap hands and do all those religious jamboree, no! His idea was and still remains that we receive His light (by being born again) and we go out there and shine. To shine, in this context, refers to reflecting His glory, personality and culture in our society whether as a sportsman, musician, doctor, engineer, force man, lawyer, teacher or even politician. In a nut shell, we have three levels of operation on earth: be born again, identify purpose and impact our world. So let’s find the level we are in and move up! Going to church is like going to the restaurant to eat, we don’t live to eat, we eat to live so lets stop playing religion because that is not our main task rather fellowship with one another is an energizing process.

2.      To colonise the earth with heaven and not to take us to heaven. If God’s sole reason of us getting born again is to take us to heaven, then there will be no to keep us here after we have been saved (born again). Good people, “For this is what the Lord says – He who created the heavens, He is God; He fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited” (Isaiah 45:18)! The earth is our place of primary assignment; no man gets rewarded for sitting mute and waiting for pay day. My dear Christian, stop standing and waiting for Christ to come and take you to heaven, go out and impact your world. “The heaven, even the heavens are the Lord’s: but the earth has He given to the children of men” (Psalms 115:16). The so called ‘sinners’ and ‘devil’s agents’ are not sitting and waiting for hell, they are about their fathers business, infesting the internets with pornography, the media with all sort of corrupt images and sound, the political systems with corruption, the educational system with all forms of social vices and we, the so called ‘elect’, are just sitting and singing, “This world is not my own, I am just a passer-by…”. That is an error! We are no passer-bys, we are fishers of men! The fisherman doesn’t just pass by the sea; he stays on it and makes some good catch. You can take a pause and ask yourself, “How much of heaven have I released on earth?”

3.      To fill the earth with the culture of heaven. A kingdom is not a place; it is a lifestyle, a culture. When the colonial masters came to Africa, they came with their kingdom, tagged it civilization and today, we live the western lifestyle. We even wear suit under the hot sun! All in the name of civilization. When a fellow Nigerian commits grammatical blunder in English, we see him as an illiterate because we now live with the western culture. The same way, just like the Western men infested us with their way of life so also God requires us to influence our world. Not by carrying guns and fighting some damned ‘holy war’. It is simple, just arise and shine! Live a life of purpose not of money. Add value to men’s lives and they will follow you.

In GLIFE Foundation, we believe that we owe our world and God a responsibility to show forth His glory by impacting our world that why we present to you the first edition of our FREE MEGA ICT & BASIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING. The major goal of this program is to raise technologically sound youths with Kingdom leadership values and traits that will take over the various sectors of the society, bringing about social transformation.

HOST COMMUNITY: AKEGBE UGWU COMMUNITY, NKANU WEST LGA, NIGERIA

DATE: 8TH AUGUST – 12TH DECEMBER 2015.

The revolution has just begun and you too can be a part of this change move!

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With the dominance of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in global affairs, it will not be an overstatement to say that ICT compliance is a necessity for every individual who desires to be productive and relevant in our modern day society. The application of ICT currently cut across every sphere of human endeavour and Africa, particularly Nigeria, is not left out of the wave of digitalization. In 2014, Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), the organization in charge of conducting the mandatory entry examination into higher institutions in Nigeria, introduced a computer-based option of testing candidates intending to gain admission into higher institutions. By 2015, as at the time of preparing this proposal, this computer-based had been made compulsory, replacing the analog option that existed the previous year. The country’s electoral system has also introduced the electronic voting system. Corporate organizations are not left out of this computerization process thus making ICT compliance not just an added advantage, as it used to be, but a necessity for being employable in the country. Unfortunately, a field survey done in a selected higher institution in Enugu by our organization showed that a whopping 80% cannot effectively operate basic user friendly software like Microsoft Office (i.e. MS Word, Excel, etc). In the rural area, the case is even worst as the rural dwellers do not even have access to computers let alone knowing how to operate them. This project therefore intends to solve this challenge by providing youths with basic computer trainings free of charge while integrating fundamental positive value orientation in the training curriculum. This addition is aimed at imputing positive value system in participants with the view to reduce corruption and other social vices ravaging the society as well as raise young leaders that are physically, mentally and spiritually sound.

The target beneficiaries of this project are basically youths between the ages of 15-35 years. The main goal of this project is to raise youths with positive leadership values that are ICT literates. This is to be achieved by running a four (4) months free computer training in selected communities. The kick-off community is Akegbe-Ugwu community in Nkanu-West Local Government Area in Enugu State, Nigeria. It is expected that by the end of the first edition of this project, 200 youths from the five (5) villages the make up Akegbe-Ugwu will have been trained to become proficient in computer operation.

The future and hope of Africa and the world at large is in our hands. We will either make it or mar it. It is all the function of choice. Enough of the unnecessary blame game, it is time to step forward and take action. With enough passion and development, we are sure to turn our scars to stars, our shame to fame, and our obstacles to miracles. The change begins with us.

In life, there are various forms of investments we can plunge our time, efforts and resources into but the most profitable of them all is investment in human life. To transform a person’s life to the point that he becomes useful to himself, his family, society and creator is the key to joy unspeakable. True success is helping others succeed. As William Ward puts it, “There are three keys to more abundant living: caring for others, daring for others and sharing with others”. So, would you not rather be a part of this change vision?

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MEN THAT TURN THE WORLD AROUND (PART ONE)

The world is currently in a state of chaos. The same sex marriage issues, terrorism, corruption among many other social vices have engulfed the news. These have further been worsen by the economic down turn of the world system. For instance in a wealthy nation like ours (Nigeria), states can’t even paid salaries and the leaders have lost insight on how to go about these issues. At the national level, political gladiators are sweating it out in severe power tussle, all at the expense of the common good and welfare of the country’s citizens.

At this point, one thing that we cannot deny is that our world is dire in need of is leadership. Yes, leadership! Men and women that can proffer solution and inspire others to do the same. Men that can sacrifice self at the altar of global transformation. The world is not in need of Pastors, Bishops, Deacons, Doctors, Arch Bishops, Honourables, His Excellencies, His Royal Highnesses, Engineers, etc. No, the world is not in need of title holders because we have a lot of them! What we need right now are men that are physically, mentally and spiritually sound, men endued with the Spirit of leadership!

At this point, let us note that there are two spirits that enable and empower leadership- the leadership spirit and the Spirit of leadership. Every man is born with a leadership spirit. That is what the Bible refers to as the spirit of man. Man from creation, is a spirit being that has a soul and lives in a body. It is this spirit that drives and motivates man towards achievement. It is this spirit that drives us to constantly quest for success. Despite how this necessary this spirit is it is not sufficient enough to drive the needed transformation because it is corrupt from birth. This explains why after striving so hard to succeed to no avail, we sought for short cuts. Our Spirit man needs to be empowered by a bigger Spirit, God’s Spirit of Leadership-The Holy Spirit. Even Jesus needed this Spirit of Leadership before He could be born (Luke 1:34-35). He also needed this Spirit to proceed into His ministry (Matthew 3:16-17). When it was time to be raised from the dead, it couldn’t happen without the Spirit (Romans 8:11). Even when God was to create the world, This Spirit of Leadership had to be available before God could speak (Genesis 1:2&3). In Luke 24:49, Jesus instructed the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they had received the power of this Spirit. Peter summarized the awesomeness and efficacy of this Spirit when he said, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost(The Spirit of Leadership) and power: who went about doing good…”(Acts 10:38). Whenever there is a move for positive global impact, it cannot occur without the Spirit of God which is this Spirit of Leadership. When Jesus said to His disciple, “Come and I will make you fishers of men…” what He was actually saying was “Come and I will make you men that will in turn influence men”. In other worlds as fishermen draw fishes out the water so will you be able to draw men not with net but with influence.

Friends, the Holy Spirit which is this Spirit of leadership is the only sufficient requirement for global impact and transformation. The human motivated spirit is only necessary but never sufficient to transform our world! Unfortunately, those of us that carry this Holy Spirit have decided to hide the power thereof. We refuse to participate in societal transformation thereby   refusing our world of this much needed influence of the Holy Spirit just like the teaching of a candle lighted but put under a bushel.  The divine assignment of the Holy Spirit in our lives as Christians is not to give us money, cars, jobs or even to rain down fire on the witches and wizards in our communities or kill all our enemies as we constantly ask in prayer rather the singular work of the Holy Spirit is fill us with divine empowerment that will enable us impose the Kingdom of God on the this earth. He is our light that enables us to arise and shine. It is only the kingdom of God that guarantees the well sought after positive global transformation. Please, it is needful to note that God’s Kingdom here is not referring to host of angels with heavy sharp blades coming down from heaven to declare war on the earth. Rather the Kingdom of God refers to a divine culture and way of life. The Spirit of Leadership is able to transform us and empower us to transfer heaven’s unfailing culture, values into the world. The world system says you need to work hard and gather enough money that will sustain you for your life time as well as that of your descendants but the Kingdom’s culture says you make wealth so you can give back. The world says we lead by ruling, the Kingdom says we lead by serving. The world system says a man’s life consists of what he has but the Kingdom system says No! A man’s life consists of what he is able to give. The world system says , “Do what ever you find, just make sure you get rich or die trying!”. The Kingdom says, “Follow your divine purpose and passion and you will not have to die trying to be rich!”

The revolution has started! God is raising a generation filled with the Spirit of Leadership and you can be a part of it by just believing and accepting the invitation to be a part of God’s family-The family of men that turn the world around!

Countdown 113 days to GENERATION X LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2015! All we pray that God will raise among us, in that conference, men of the Spirit that will turn the world around for the Kingdom!