Personal Convictions.

It is highly recommended for one to make decisions in life and to be decisive about it. The texture and style rendered in life at a certain point is all determined by the convictions that held us prior to that. I have often heard people who are afraid what tomorrow hold for them. The reason as to why people go to visit foretellers and moreover go to church is all because of insecurity. I am not saying going to church is not a good idea, it is mandatory and the noblest thing to do. I carried out my survey and also the fact that I exist itself is an ultimate reason as to why I diagnosed it that way. Have you ever heard of a statement, “the fear of the unknown?” Believe it or not, but this is universal and irrevocable, no one who has his senses altogether will ever refute this. The most powerful person is the one who has an understanding of what they are doing, one who is confident of where they are herding to. Now the dilemma is most of us folks do not have a clue whatsoever as far as what will become of us is concerned. All we can say when we get in a situation is, “life happened to me.” Most of us allow fate to decide what tomorrow will bring. I have often noticed that due to disappointments in life we are forced to conclude and make this our conviction, “I will just take each day as it comes.” All these statements I am writing I have confessed them at one point in time. Forasmuch as we may be disappointed in life we shouldn’t reach a point whereby we succumb to

pressure. We have to determine within our spirits to fight on no matter what life may throw before us. Sometimes circumstances in life impose this mentality upon us that we can’t do anything about life and we confess that let life happen any how and we will just take it the way it comes. It may seem to be noble but we are just being pathetic, look at it, we can’t afford to be naïve and myopic that way. In us is entrenched the reservoir of power that can stop that pandemic, “life happened to me” and “I will just take it each day as it comes” to a conviction “I will happen to life and I will have it the way I want, I am in control and yes I can make it anyway .”Now we have to come up with measures to rectify or alleviate all those calamities that are meant to jeopardize and traumatize our will to go on. I have already alluded to the fact of the fear of the unknown. People are smart and have got a way of getting to their mark, most folks especially those within the Pentecostal sectors will agree with me that they love a prophetic word. Many a times people will sneak out to visit the man of God such that he gets to prophesy over their lives. “Pastor what is the Lord saying to me this year?” this is how they go about it. Some are not ashamed to go out of their way to visit foretellers to be told what the future holds as a remedy for their fears. A word given pertaining to their future is solace to them. What drive people to inquire about what will become of them is fear of the future. Under normal circumstances what is unknown to you is a monster and therefore is bound to traumatize you. You need not to be under this umbrella. There is nothing wrong in receiving a prophetic word, the bible tells us, believe the prophets and you shall prosper and believe the Lord and you shall be established. But there are fundamentals which we seem to be overlooking here; the truth is you ought to be responsible of what will become of you. Man is a master of his own destiny. You do not need for someone to master your own future on your behalf.

Have you ever realized that all of us go through situations we can’t even comprehend where on earth they emerged from? All we just do is whine and whimper about these things. Yet there is everything that we can do to change our circumstances, this should be a panacea to the bug, “fear of the unknown”. Have you ever realized that people who make it in life be it born again or not are those who believe strongly in something. That strong belief is a conviction, persuasion, a personal stance. A conviction doesn’t just happen to man. It is catapulted deep from within them. It is a result of what is not seen. I can’t call that mere observation but it is birthed out of perception. The word perception has the following synonyms:- insight, awareness, acuity, discernment, observation, sensitivity, view and opinion. Out of those outlined, I love these: - insight, discernment and sensitivity. This to me clearly parades that there is a sea of possibilities but one has to sieve that which pertains to their call. You have to see beyond the natural eye, divide through what you have seen select what is yours using sensitivity as an instrument. This is what I call a deep prophetic insight based on your reason for being.

Those who walk tall in life are not those who are always going to the man of God to receive a prophetic word or a fortune teller, in fact I assure you, they will continue fearing the more and their visits will become more frequent, prolonged and spontaneous because the fears will go on. All those with the remedy to this are those who are aware of the reason as to why they are existing and what it takes to reach there. I will try by all means to be balanced, its not like you will wake up one day and the exact way you are supposed to take is clearly paraded before you. I believe life is a puzzle and would love to argue my way out. I beg to bank into someone else’s conviction because I think it does work. It worked for me, I know it may not work for some but to those of like mind I wouldn’t regret declaring, “You can try this way.” If you do not know what way to take just take any it will get you there. I know it is prone or more so subject to acute debate, I don’t refute that either. All I am trying to put across here is it’s not automatic that one day you will wake up a doctor. It takes them to be born, suck milk, crawl, walk, go to preschool, primary school and other higher levels. Sometimes it will take their results to realize that they are meant to be doctors. Again don’t be too speckital, I am not concluding that your career path is determined by your results. There is more to discovery of dreams than just a slip of results, we talk of passion, opportunities, motivation, the list is just but endless. What I am bringing home is there are certain phases that are necessary for us in order to come to a realization of who we are really in life. There are times in life when we do not know what way to take because you haven’t heard the instruction. That’s when I believe that when you just sit on your butt and decide not to do anything about your situation, no ground will be covered because nobody is going to do it for you. If you don’t know where First Street is just get in any way, read road signs or ask as you go and you will get there anyway. Sometimes in life as we are on the road to establish what we think we were assigned to do acute opposition is inevitable. Now the question is how to keep my cool in the midst of the storm. At the end of the day you don’t mean to jump ship but to stay put in order to attain self actualization because it’s what you intended in the first place. It is a conviction that counts in this place. If you are persuaded of what exactly supposed to do nothing can dissuade you from clinching the mark. It is that conviction that will establish you in times of perils! If you have a conviction it will act as a compass to chart your course even when certainty isn’t so obvious. As I conclude, I intend to make this clear to us; a successful life is the one that is instructed. Get instruction from the source of inspiration. The question that should birth a paradigm shift is, “do you have any personal conviction in life.” It is only that you are fully persuaded of that will cause a defeat of fear and do away with the pandemic of the fear of the unknown. When life happens as it were, you will be in a position to pick yourself up and move on because of the conviction that holds you of who you are. This is a profound blue print. Your proficiency in life is determined by the convictions holding you.