WHAT DOES THE WORD "SUCCESS" MEAN TO YOU?

The battles against your life are not against your success, but more against you using your success for the right purpose. A Failure in life is not someone who is not a non-achiever, but an achiever who is ignorant of the purpose attached to his or her achievements. The world defines success based on what people have and who they are; success is none of the above. Who you are, and what you have are merely raw materials for success. Success is what one ultimately accomplishes by employing and deploying what one has and who one is. Many people are being distracted by what they have and who they are, instead of focusing on what they can accomplish using what God has given them.

There is a purpose attached to everything; doing business with the consciousness of purpose in view is an evidence of wisdom. Don't celebrate "what," at the expense of "why." Dr Benard Etta

Reading for leading!

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Revelation 5:1. 

John saw "a book" in the right hand of him that sat on the throne. Wow! So, books didn't begin when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press; books have always been in heaven. If you want to send some people out of our present-day churches, simply make reading compulsory. They prefer spending their dime on candles, earth, bottles of oil and water in search for breakthrough, but not on purchasing valuable books. Something needs to change in our Christian mentality! There is so much power in information. If you are not informed, you would be deformed. 

The book John saw was sealed with seven seals. What is the value of a closed book? When a book is closed, everyone is deprived from accessing its content; and as we know, books contain secrets, ideas, cures, solutions, etc., there is just more than enough hidden within books. John wept because no one could open the book nor to read its content. 

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. Rev 5:4. 

It takes an individual who knows the worth of an insightful book to weep seeing a book sealed. I can imagine John wondering about the valuable information in the book, which has been hidden from humankind. This might have been the reason he wept. Whenever I look at Christendom, I'm moved to tears just like John wept. You've to see what I am seeing to weep as I do. 

There is nothing as bad as serving God in the "dark." There is nothing terrible as being sincere, but mistaken. There is nothing as awful as being deluded and deprived of true enlightenment. I can talk and talk and talk. 

Here is the good news! 
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. Rev 5:5. 

"The Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book," but it is important to note that he didn't read the book for us. He opened it, but left the responsibility of reading it for us. "From fry-pan to fire!" If someone careless about a book, how on earth would he or she be interested in reading? 

Between 2001 -2005, I was privileged to teach and raise a generation and by God's grace emancipated them from "vulnerability." My true sons and daughters (Men tees) don't go about looking for prayers. You would never find them in a "fetish home" in search for answers. They don't patronize fake prophecies, dreams and visions. They are enlightened; you don't push them around. They know where there are going to. What was the secret? I simply downloaded from the book and inspired them to seek the knowledge of the truth via reading and other avenues of learning. 

There are several individuals who have succeeded to download from the book Christ opened and some of their insights are published in books. How many of such books have you read? If you sit down with your Bible and quality books written by those with strategic download from the Book, you would not continue chasing the wind. 2015 is here! I encourage you to go for the knowledge of the truth. Don't make yourself a perpetual prayer collector and a patronizer of ignorance packaged in baseless proclamations and "fetish" practices. Invest in quality books and tapes. Buy more books than you buy shoes and dresses. I wish you a blessed year! DrBenard Etta

 

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Wisdom To Turn Trash Into Treasure

The wisdom to turn trash into treasure; to make sense out of nonsense, to transform obstacles into miracles; pain to gain; setbacks into a setup for a comeback is the real measurement of maturity. Sometimes, God may not remove the necessity, but would give you the wisdom to transform it into an invention. When Israel saw Goliath, they saw a problem, but David saw an opportunity for greatness. You can't rise above your perspective and perception of issues. I wish you a blessed week.  DrBenard Etta

 

Don't Mistake Disgrace For Grace!

When it is too easy, it isn't always a sign of God's grace at work; it may also be an indication that the "object or mission" even though fabulous, might be of little eternal consequences.

The ideas, visions, and dreams, which have actually changed the world positively, and impacted time and eternity didn't come easy. The absence of battles may not necessarily be an indication of a breakthrough. It might as well be an indication that the axe head, representing the "edge of effectiveness" is missing.

Why on earth would Hell fight an idea, vision and movement when it's aware it isn't longer a threat? That's why the devil sponsors some churches and ministries since they don't threaten his overall plan.

The bottom line is, when one is no longer a menace (threat) to Hell, Hell will stop fighting the individual, while concentrating its resources to fight those carrying the most dangerous lights, which can destroy its deceptions. May God help us to think deep in order not to mistake disgrace for grace. Ponder to be a wonder!