Understanding the Issues of Life

By James Kweku Saah

To assume that things would always remain the same is naive. Many people have died because they failed to understand the times and seasons of their lives. It takes different preparation and readiness to face each season of life.These times and phases are inevitable; each one of us has passed through one or another of these experiences at a point in time. This book is designed to reveal in practical terms the rudimentary biblical principles that will help enlighten you to understand issues in life. The ultimate aim is to lead you to a more successful life in Christ Jesus. Enjoy the red.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emmanuel Socrates Quansah
• Release date: Feb 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465967329

James Kweku Saah

Bishop James K. Saah is the International Bishop of Action Chapel, Prayer Cathedral, Spintex Road, Accra – Ghana. Bishop Saah is a Bible teacher, a pastor and conference speaker across nations. In Ghana, he preaches and teaches both on television and radio.The Jericho Hour prayer meetings he conducts at the Prayer Cathedral, Spintex Road, Accra attracts international attendance with phenomenal visitations of the Holy Spirit.Bishop Jame Saah obtained a Master’s Degree in Governance and Leadership from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and is the author of four other books; The finger of God, The Road to the Double Portion, The Mystery of Success and Seize Your Moment.He and his wife, Agnes and family reside in Accra, Ghana’s capital city.

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Understanding the Issue of Life

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All scriptural quotations are from King James Version of the Bible unless stated otherwise.

Other books by Same Author

1. The Finger of God

2. Seize Your Moment

3. Give Me Back My Baby

4. Breaking the Power of Offences

5. The Mystery of Success

6. Road to the Double Portion

Introduction

A promising young man who had saved all his lifetime, and was ready to establish his dream business, was approached by a close friend from his secondary school days to stand as surety for him. He was seeking to contract a bank loan to enable him to travel abroad. For the sake of their friendship and perhaps thinking that ‘travelling abroad’ was a guarantee for success in life, the young man willingly endorsed the loan for the friend.

There was a clause in the small print that held the guarantor liable in case of default. However, the young man was not too bothered. Apparently, his assumption was that the friend would immediately pay off the loan once he travelled abroad.

Unfortunately for him, the friend took the loan, travelled as planned and never showed up again. Naturally, when he defaulted on repayment, the bank moved to recover the loan from this young man who had stood as a guarantor. All his lifetime savings had to go into paying off the loan principal as well as the interest that had accrued. His ambition of building his own business could therefore not materialize.

In trying to help someone achieve his dreams, he had endangered his own in the process. A number of important questions come up here.

Did this young man think of the possibility that something could go wrong? Did he know enough about the proposed venture to commit or leverage his lifetime savings?

This is one of many scenarios that confront us in life on a regular basis in life. Most of us have committed similar or even worse mistakes and even paid dearly for having wrong understanding and approach to issues. This is often because we lack a deeper understanding of the issues of life and tend to dwell on our limited perspective. There are many issues in life that we do not fully appreciate till they come to a formal conclusion.

No wonder the Bible says in Proverbs 15:22, "Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counsellors they