LET IT GO!

Let it go for 2008 By T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop Begging people to stay! . Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, Then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ...... LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth..... LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you . LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...... LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents LET IT GO!!! If you! U have a bad attitude....... LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...... LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him...... LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....... LET IT GO!!! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves...... LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed ......... LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2008!!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left .. Think about it, and then . LET IT GO!!! 'The Battle is the Lord's!'

THE INDIAN LETTER
A letter from an Indian mother to her SonMy dear Jagjit, I am in a well here and hoping you are also in a wellthere.I'm writing this letter slowly, because I know you cannot read fast.We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in thenewspaper that most accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved 20miles.I won't be able to send the address as the last Sardar who stayed heretook the house numbers with them for their new house so they would not have tochange their address.Hopefully by next week we will be able to take our earlier address plate here, so that our address will remain same too. This place is really nice.It even has a washing machine, situated right above the toilet.I'm not sure it works too well. Last week I put in 3 shirts, pulled thechain and haven't seen them since.The weather here isn't too bad. It rained only twice last week. The firsttime it rained for 3 days and second time for 4 days.The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a littletoo heavy to send in the mail with all the metal buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket.Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting thegrass at the cemetery.By the way I took Bahu to our club's poolside. The manager is Badmash. Hetold her that two piece swimming suit is notallowed in his club. We were confused as to which piece should we remove?Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it is agirl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle.Your uncle, Jetinder fell in the nearby well. Some men tried to pull himout, but he fought them off bravely and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days.Your best friend, Balwinder, is no more. He died trying to fulfill hisfather's last wishes. His father had wished to be buried in the seaafter he died. And your friend died while in the process of digging agrave for his father.There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.Love Mom.P.S : Jagjit, I was going to send you some money but by the time Irealized,I had already sealed off this letter.

KNOCKED DOWN, NOT KNOCKED OUT!

"To be knocked down is not to be knocked out"

This summarises the football game i watched on Saturday between Bolton and Arsenal.

Bolton had scored a superb header early in the first half while the visitors were still trying to find their rythm.

But as soon as that goal was scored, it was as if Bolton decided to let Arsenal have a feel of the game as the gunners dominated and kept piling pressure on the home team.

How i wish this is our attitude each time we meet an obstacle. How i wish we learn to take the battle to the gates of the enemy each time they strike at us successfully.

A whole lot of us give up at that point when the best thing to do is to rise and fight.

How many times did fail that course before you wrote yourself off ?

How many aptitude tests did you fail before resentment set in?

How many relationships didn't work out before you discovered your gift of celibacy?

How many businesses failed in your hands before you decided to become a house-husband/wife?

What many of us don't realise is that the point of failure should be the point of greatest strength! It should be the time of highest courage! It should be the period of highest optimism!

Arsenal piled up enough pressure on Bolton and within two minutes, they scored twice. When you have the right attitude, you get double for your trouble; you get better for your mess up!

Arsenal went on to seal the win in that match with a third goal... Won't you get back to where you failed and pass before every reasonable doubt? To be knocked down is not to be knocked out dear.

ATTITUDE SERIES 1

I once heard, “ No man is born with a perfect attitude!” At first I disagreed, but after some sane thought, I realized that no statement can be more true.

That fact simply compels us all not to think that someone else is better than us attitude-wise but that such one has perfected his attitude more… The right attitude is built consciously, it is neither inherited nor bestowed on anybody. That is why people whose attitudes are celebrated will even tell you that they still have a long way to go… not there yet.

Also, nobody should give up on his attitude problem, we are all working towards perfection. Run a TH of your character, when was the last time the credit side had an input? Until you move, nothing moves dear.

Let us all do an audit trail of our attitude, pick out the “small foxes that spoil the vine” and consciously, assiduously, and resiliently work on them.

How can a Pastor’s self-control be proved when a “sister” in a micro-mini does not seat in the front pew? How can your attitude be tested when you don’t have an ‘unattitude’ colleague or boss?

Forgive me

Oh me,
how could i do this?
I tot i was more than this?
I just messed it all up?
Why did i break it up?
I'm so sad!
So sad that it will take time to be happy again...
But can i be happy again?
It will take so much more effort...
Or how do i explain it?
That everybody will understand.
Will understand i can do such a thing!






Please forgive me...



...i abandoned my blog!

HIS SUBSET

Light, so bright
Heat, so intense
Fume, so strong
Existense, so real
Arrival, so assured
Life, so sustained
The SUN, so explained
Yet it too, so created
The CREATOR, so AWESOME.

-adeYEMI adeLEYE
08/06/07

YDi and I

My first contact with YDi was that of a challenge: I had completed my secondary school education and had been hit by the normal University Matriculation Examination failure. I had nothing more to do than to visit a couple of friends in Lagos while waiting for the next UME and the release of my WASSCE results.
There was this friend I always visited who almost practically deafened my ears about one so-called YDi. She would start all our discussions and end them with YDi; and whenever I asked her what it was all about, she would reply, “It is where youths like you challenge you. Come and see youths like you preaching on the road without shame. Come and see youths challenging ladies dressed provocatively on the road...” And I also kept wondering if I could do all those things.
The YDi talk got to its peak the day she told me that there was a member who was just out of secondary school (like me) who was earning over Twenty Thousand Naira (as at 1999-2000). I just wanted to come and see the guy that was earning that much without a higher education! I wanted to come and ask him what he was doing to earn that much! I wanted to come and ask him if I could do the same!
But funny enough, I never saw him on my first visit. In fact, I forgot that that was what brought me to YDi. I was carried away by the sight of youths using their talents so well. The drama that day was so funny that I forgot I was in a fellowship. The choir also gave a number; I think there was also a dance by a youth. In one word, I was just too thrilled by what people like me were doing that I completely forgot about the big earner I came to see.
And by the time the Pastor came on to share from the Bible, I was lost in the word. I wondered what YDi members would have become hearing this sort of word every Sunday. I mean, fellowshipping in my local church then had been an endured task and here was I in the midst of lively spiritual beings...
I did not need follow-up to come back the next Sunday. In fact nobody could have followed me up as my house was at the end of the Ikotun-Ijegun axis (Ijagemo). The transport fare was enough to discourage me, but I did not mind spending my entire One Thousand Naira monthly allowance then on going to YDi every Sunday, usually after a long strenuous church service as a worker in my local church.
Let me quickly share a lesson I also learnt which was never taught with mouth- promptness. YDi meetings started at the dot of 2.00pm whether or not we were up to ten! That was the first place I would see a meeting, a ‘church programme’ for that matter start as scheduled. Silently, I learnt to keep to time, and it quietly became my habit till date. Today, when I see youths that do not value time, I just tell myself, “This guy missed YDi...”
Funny enough, the more I came to YDi, the less I saw the lady who introduced me. It was like a substitution reaction! But I never minded because I was getting blessed day-by-day. Before long, I joined to choir...
One great thing that endeared me to YDi is that fellow youths were allowed to come out and challenge you, so it was not theoretical! You don’t hear about a youth doing exploits in YDi, you see the youth live and you are moved to buckle up. You would see yourself and then see a fellow youth that is where you desire to be; something within just tells you that you are sleeping, and can also get there if you would up from your slumber like that youth.
YDi’s Champions Forum was of tremendous impact. It was a customised forum for secondary-school leavers that were still seeking admission into the higher institution. That was like a training ground for soldiers, because I learnt a number of my skills there.
“I am perceived to see far ahead of others, because I am standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Wednesday after Wednesday, undergraduates would come and give us gist about school; I mean that was enough to wake up the sleeping giant inside you! They went further to give us tit-bits on how the university system operates, the course unit system, ensuring success in school, career talk, fellowships, handling relationships et al.
Having not been to the four walls of a university, I was already loaded to succeed because via the Champions Forum, I knew what to do and what not to do in school. Of a truth a number of those things I paid attention to in Champions Forum in 2000 made me an academic god in school eventually. Champions Forum was a total package that formed a vital part of the meal I lived on that made me so fat that, today, people can draw out of me.
As a matter of fact, my admission came late, but I was giving my friends who got into school ahead of me effectual keys to success (I learnt at Champions Forum) that most of them wrote me back to say ‘thank you.’ And before long, I became I student of Obafemi Awolowo University, where I began to put all I had learnt from the forum into practise, and they worked wonders.
It was so exciting to find out that YDi also existed in O.A.U. when I got there. I quickly joined in and became committed. But YDi-O.A.U. was quite different from YDi in Lagos for obvious reasons. While in Lagos, I sat back getting fed, in YDi-O.A.U., demand was quickly placed on me; and I either had to be dedicated or quit.
Before long, I became an executive and I had to come to the front many a time to talk to members. As uncomfortable as I felt at first, I gradually developed confidence and today, I owe my ability to speak eloquently in the public to YDi.
YDi also helped me by celebrating my little successes. For the first time after my UME failure, YDi gave me my first academic award for having the highest CGPA in Camp Joseph 2002. That restored courage in me and also gave me an additional reason to be diligent in school.
So, in school, aside trying to be the best I could be, I did extra work so as to receive the next YDi academic award. The extra work the award caused me to put in culminated into a First Class result on graduation in 2006.
This means YDi played two important roles in making me the First YD with a First Class: One, YDi equipped me through the Champions Forum to succeed; and Two, YDi motivated me along the line to finish tops with the several annual awards.
When God asked me to write The Academic god in 2004, I was a bit pessimistic, wondering what a little boy like me could offer. But God reminded me of Joseph Principle, written by Dr. George, a YDi member, which was so much celebrated by Pastor Joe-Jesmiel Ogbe and all YDi members, and I summed up courage. And of a truth, The Academic god came into existence and has spread far and wide today as a reason of the network I have built through YDi, what more can I ask for?
It is suffice to say therefore that YDi is the greatest singular entity that has made the greatest influence and impact in my life; And Pastor Joe-Jesmiel Ogbe is the greatest man that has made the greatest influence in my life.

The Husband Store

A store that sells husbands has just opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a deion of how the store operates. ""You may visit the store ONLY ONCE! You may choose any man from a particular floor or you may choose to go up a floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the Building!"" So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. . .

On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs and love the Lord. The second floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, and love kids.

The third floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, and are extremely good looking. "Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads: Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead good looking and help with the housework. "Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads: Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead gorgeous, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign reads: Floor 6 - You are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a nice day!

The Robot

One day Kyle's dad brought home a robot. The robot was special in that it could detect a lie and would slap the person who lied on the face.Kyle returned late from school that day and his dad asked him, "Son why are you late from school?" Kyle answered, "Dad, we had extra classes today". Much to his astonishment the robot jumped up and slapped Kyle on his face. His dad told him, "Son this robot is special in that it can detect a lie and will then slap the person who lied. Now come on tell me the truth. Why are you late?" "Dad, I went to a movie" "Which movie?" "The Ten Commandments" Immediately, Kyle got a slap on the face from the robot. "Sorry Dad, I went to see the movie Sex Queen". "Shame on you son, when I was your age I never watched obscene movies or misbehaved" Immediately, the dad gets a tight slap on the face from the robot.Hearing the last sentence, Kyle's mother comes walking out of the kitchen and sarcastically says to her husband, "After all he is YOUR son!!!" To which the robot steps up and gives Kyle's mother a resounding slap on her face! Hnnnnnnn?

A Note From Hell

A man checked into a hotel in Pretoria . There was a computer in his room,
so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife. However, he accidentally
typed the wrong e-mail address, and without realizing his error, he sent
the e-mail. Meanwhile ........somewhere in Cape Town a widow had just
arrived home from her husband's funeral. The widow decided to check her
e-mail, expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the
first message, she fainted. The widow's son rushed into the room, found
his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which Read:

To: My Loving Wife
Subject: I've arrived
Date: June 3, 2005

I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now, and
you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones. I've just arrived and
have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your
arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then!
Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.s. It is damn hot down here!!

Happy New Year

So sorry to my usual viewers that i didn't really live up to expectation in 2007 in updating my blog, it was such a busy year... Can i make a promise to do better this time? Hmm, i keep my fingers crossed!

Let me say a belated happy new year to all and sundry. I hope to see a greater you this new year.

For me, watch out! I have quite a number of things on my agenda:

- Start working

- Do my PG study

- Get engaged to my Miss World

- Publish my 2nd book

- Do at least a seminar in a month

- Become a millionaire...

I'm sharing it here so that you can help me say at the end of the year if i did well or not. I only shared a few here, there is much more.