FISAYO SPEAKS....: Gifts

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

BETWEEN CHOICES

“We are our choices”

- J.P. Sartre

One of the underlying principles that govern the world is choice. Every man on earth is daily presented with choices. Without fail, we all make choices. And our choices - more than anything else - have the power to affect the outcome of our lives. We are all products of our choices.

Whatever anyone becomes in life, is the resultant effect of choices they made. We all must be careful of what decisions we are making today. We must make choices today, in the light of our tomorrow.

A man in Ilorin, Nigeria who wants to get to Lagos will not choose the Ilorin-Offa road. That road takes him farther away from his desired destination. Are you making choices today that will take you to, or away from your destiny? Our choices have the power to make or mar us. Life always offers us alternatives, and we must always choose. Even in not making a choice, we choose.

There was once a man who was gifted with so much supernatural power. He was a fearless man, a one man army, a deliverer of his people. By his strength and force, he could defeat a nation, a people. He made a choice to be ravished by the love of foreign women (strange women and ungodly women). That was the beginning of his end. Samson’s death came by the hands and tricks of Delilah. Now you may call it love…but the discerning call it choice.

Never make decisions without considering your purpose and the future. Let all your decisions be guided by the power of foresight. Your life is genuinely yours and you don’t have a spare. Value it and guard yourself with all diligence.

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live”

- Deuteronomy 30:19

Be sure to make informed choices; those who don’t, end up being deformed in life.

Fisayo Adeniyi

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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

TAKING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

'You cannot put something on nothing, it will fall, and it will certainly fall’.

The year was 2005, and I was in a cartography class. Our first assignment in that class was to write the above words with a Cartographic pen and template. That was a task. But long after the task, these words remained with me. In that statement, is a wealth of truth.

Today’s world -more than any time ever- demands that you use what you have. It demands that you search within and call upon the unique core brand that God has given you. We all have something we can give. We all have been equipped by God; He hasn’t sent anyone into this world empty. Emptiness is a lack of sight and understanding, not the depiction of a void.

I have heard many complain about their lack of talents and gifts. Why would they have been created empty? Why would the Creator leave them as empty vessels? The parable was told of the King who gave different gifting, and talents unto three of His subjects. He didn’t give them equally, nor did he give them the same thing. In truth, he gave them according to their abilities and capacities- but none could complain he had nothing. They all had something. They were all given enough to make impact. Yet one of them hid all he had. He hid it. He was barren. He lived a void life. (Matt 25:14-30, Luke 19:12-26).

Now He that is full of wisdom made a worthy statement, ‘For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him’ Luke 19:26 (Emphasis mine). How can you take from nothing? Wait a minute, I thought he had nothing! How can you take from he who is barren? Let’s explain this in monetary terms. We all have a way of understanding monetary terms. A man has a balance of $0.0 in his account, but someone withdraws $500,000.00 from that very account. Now, either there is a problem with the bank, or there is some information hidden to the man. He may just lack knowledge of what he has.

The Creator has got no problem. The problem is with the uninformed and misinformed man. It is time to give room and a lot of time for self discovery. You are made for bigger things. You are wired for impact. Quit living on Rejected Avenue, quit racing with roaches, for its time to join the elite class of men who are living in the fullness of who they are. You may not have what someone else has, but you have something! You are uniquely woven to impact your world. You are specially branded by God with your special gifts to be you.

Paul and Peter of old summed it up in two separate letters, ‘For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.’ (1 Corinthians 7:7), and ‘As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.’ (1 Peter 4:10).

You were not put here for nothing and on nothing; God gave you something with which to build your life and the lives of others. It is yours; so discover it…and use it!