The Empowered Life!: Triggered to Excel by an Excellent Spirit

By Dr Max. Wellspring Oseogena

The purpose of this book is to Activate Your Inner Wind that empowers you for your purpose in life and to allow your prophetic destiny cry out and be actualized.

With 366 thought provoking notes about success, relationships, spirituality, character, vision and the assurance of divine backing. The Empowered Life has tools on-the-go waiting to take your life to the next level of your possibilities.

This book is triggered by the spirit of excellence to provoke excellence in its readers to excel and arrive at their destiny by fulfilling their purpose, birthing their dream, encountering relationships, and provoking results through a healthy knowledge of God and their personal potential for greatness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Aug 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499087819

Dr Max. Wellspring Oseogena

Dr. Max. Wellspring Oseogena is a man endued with prophetic wisdom and godly knowledge with which God has used him to inspire thought provoking change in many through his writings and ministration. He is a man with humanity in his heart. A published author and seasoned minister, Dr Max Wellspring has a divine mandate with an anointing to help others carry out their calling and fulfill their God given destiny. He is a leadership trainer/team builder, a motivational/inspirational speaker, a revivalist, a relationship counselor and a life coach. He has a great passion to see heavens glory replicated in societies and to see peoples destiny fulfilled by grace and mercy. Dr. Maxwell is the president of StayAlive International Ministries. He lives in Johannesburg South Africa.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1    Aspiration, Success, And Empowerment

Chapter 2    Faith, Virtue, Spirituality, And Power

Chapter 3    Relationship, Friends, And Various Dealings With People

Chapter 4    Win Life’s Battles By Winning Mental And Spiritual Warfare

Chapter 5    Vision And Purpose

Chapter 6    Focus And Its Rewards

Chapter 7    On Character, And Miscellaneous Subjects

Chapter 8    Visions And Spiritual Awareness

End Note

To my daughter, Happiness Karabo. Daddy loves you.

And to the memory of my loving parents, Mr. and Mrs. Godwin and Juliana Osokpor. Eternal joy and peace to you as you rest in the Lord’s bosom.

PREFACE

God wants you to live a fulfilled life through the maximisation of your potential, by which His plans and purpose for your life can also be made manifest. He wants you to find purpose in your life or for your potential through you can lead a fulfilled life fulfilling destiny according to His divine design in, for and through your life.

In this book, I give you over 360 empowering topical notes under eight different chapters, where I’ve dealt with different aspects of life. They will inspire you and open you up to the possibilities within you, within life and in God for you. They will help you make informed and empowered decisions and give you strength and wisdom to manage them to fruition, so that you can have good success and sustainable change in any area of life. Be it in the pursuit of personal success, or in leadership, in relationships, or in the area of spirituality growth, virtue and character development, or in areas that concerns mental and spiritual warfare, or just in the matters of your everyday life and in your dealings with people, or in areas and things where you need to stay focused in your life so that you can achieve your goals to actualize your purpose by maximizing your potential: you will find something in this book that relates to where you are or where you are going to in life. And you will find counsel and direction on how to handle some things you are dealing with, by practical advice and pure inspiration that helps you go beyond being just average to becoming a strong and empowered person with an excellent spirit, so that you can be what you were born and meant to be in life by God. God has a good plan for your life, and the Bible says, ‘With good advice wage war,’ and also that, ‘There is safety in the multitude of counsel’

This book promises to release the best in you and will help you to become the best you are designed to be and desire to be.

As you delve into the pages of this book, God will speak to you, inspire you and guide you with pure wisdom and excellent knowledge that comes from the Light of Life that’s designed to ignite you with light and discernment for clarity and purpose, so that you can be all that you are born to be in life in Jesus’s precious name.

Enjoy your reading.

Dr Max. Wellspring Oseogena

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to first and foremost acknowledge and appreciate the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit for the inspiration, timing, and wisdom for writing and putting these notes together as a book. Thank you, Lord, lover, and saviour of my soul.

I would also like to acknowledge these few people in my life, all of whom are board members of StayAlive International Ministries.

Pastor Lily Salem, God bless you for your strength, courage, and encouragement. You are a hard worker.

Elder Killy Van Rensburg, God bless you; you were zealous in helping me from day 1. Like Apostle Paul said to the Galatians in Galatians 4: 15, ‘If it were possible, you would have plucked out your very eyes and given it to me.’ I owe you eternally for you care of me. May God reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

Pastors Charles and Mariaan Flemmer, thank you for the blessing you were in those early days. I love you both, may God grant perfect health to the family, in Jesus’s name.

And last but not the least, I like to thank minister Theresa Ohayon for taking the time out of her busy schedules to read through the final manuscript for corrections before the printing. Thanks a lot. Your contribution was immeasurable.

INTRODUCTION

Writing

Our spirit is inspirational, and writing is therapeutic. Especially when there is no one to tell an inner pain or a matter that disturbs us. Writing becomes a way for you to deal with things externally on paper, rather than deal with them within your soul, where it burns you, and your mind, where it tortures.

Writing is meant to keep your soul pure and sanctified from the issues of life. Because as you write about stuff that hurts you around the same period it happened, it becomes like writing off a pain the way some rich man writes off a debt. Writing empties you of things that hurts you and transfers the pain from you to the paper. I dealt with something like that seven years ago, and I thanked God for that wisdom. Writing when you are hurt is like digging a well: At first, dirty waters comes out, but you have to keep digging and bailing out the dirty waters, and keep digging until you dig and bail and dig and bail, until you get so deep and bail so much till you reach the rivers of living water that lies beneath all you’ve been and come through. And that living waters is what your generation is waiting to be fed with. And this births your purpose or the purpose of your pain/story and then the glory of God who brought you through it all.

So in saying this, it is not all that you see someone talking about and posting on social media that is for consumption or is food for your soul. Some might be dirty waters; at its present state, some are emotional pains and disappointment, and some are wastes. Because feeding only comes from a healed and a vessel whose life is no longer defined or controlled by what they’ve learnt and come from. Feeding carries pure inspiration and data or information to help you and for you to work with after reading. So even though you see the writings of dirty waters, pain, and waste, keep the writer in prayers but keep your own soul and protect your spirit from it, even though your curiosity is very tempted. There is transference of spirit by what you take in, and you must be sure of what you must allow as energy in your life. Because eventually if those who write from the surface of issues and the dept of personal pain keeps writing and yielding to the Holy Spirit, they will be healed, and their tune will eventually change. And what you had consumed in the process you will find was not meant for you or for consumption at the time—but it would have influence things in your life—because you entered into an energy that deletes things from someone’s system, you entered into what someone was using to deal with life and cleanse themselves, you entered into someone’s issues, pains and past mistakes. And you consumed it like a diet for life and wisdom living. And even though some don’t know that it was a process of dealing with life outside of their own temple/soul, some seek support for the mess that is meant to be passing (not to pass over it, but to justify a position), not knowing that there are rivers of living waters in their future, and that they are settling for drama without digging any further simply because the drama got some weak support, and they end up not pressing further into their written future to live out their full potential that fulfils their destiny (Jesus said, ‘I go as it is written of Me in the volumes of the book’).

Some things are to be written without posting or publishing; some are to be written on paper and later burnt after you’ve written it off from your soul and you will begin to feel fresh breathe again. Then from the position of strength, wisdom, understanding, maturity, responsibility, and data (for people to work with), let your writing begin to feed flow. Those who write from this place write many matters and many books. But those who write only from their pain might write one bestseller or a thriller. And that’s the end of the story and drama. It’s a once-off. Why? Because they never trusted God with anything and never reach the river of living waters, but they stayed in the belly of the beast.

At times, after writing something, hold it in a draft for a while to see if it will still hold as true and intriguing even to you after a while, before you put it out in your name and for others to consume. Some people just want to put things out simply because they have written it already, regardless of what is the state of things now or what the present truth or the state of things is. And according to Peter, we are established in and by the present truth: ‘Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth (2 Peter 1:12).’

I remember some paragraphs in a book I wrote six years ago but didn’t publish. Those paragraphs within that chapter of my book had some things I had learnt from what I went through in the hands of an old friend a few years before. It was very painful that I had to deal with it when I was writing on something else at the time, and I got into the zone of that issue and wrote from its lessons and inspiration (though without mentioning names or saying it’s from personal experience). I wrote some good stuff on wisdom and how to relate or how much power you should or can give people around or in your life. But after years of finishing that book, he and I had now reconciled, and we understand each other better today than ever before, and we are in a great friendship now than before. This makes those paragraphs not to feel whole for me to even read, not to talk of publishing it along with the book itself. I now know what I could have done differently that could have avoided how things went then. So from where I stand now those paragraphs are seen as lesser wisdom of self-righteousness, and I don’t have it in me to allow that part to go on print, because the lessons there do not correspond with where I am presently both mentally and emotional; am at a better place in terms of mental and emotional health, perspective and fruitfulness in life. Therefore where I and my friend now are is the present truth that I hold of the matter and of the past. Moreover, I have gained my friend back, and we are both more mature. That’s more important than wanting to be right and look like a wise writer! The Bible says God has committed to us the ministry of reconciliation. But if the more you write the more you widen the gap rather than bridge it, it’s a sign you have not come to the true sense, nor have you been reconciled with inner peace through the Prince of Peace, and you are still seeking from people what they are not primarily meant to give you. Peace!

In John 14:26, Jesus said, ‘Peace I leave with you, My [own very] peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.’

We need to know the importance of therapy through writing and the difference between writing informatively to build and help others and the writing to build support for or to promote pain. Because if the pain gains support, you will never truly write it off to be in a different place in your life, with strength and wholeness, where you can feed and keep feeding your generation!

So yes, people are writing for sure. But you must by discernment see if they have reached the living waters to actually feed and nourish your soul with or if they are writing to deal with their own issues, before you throw your own weight behind it or consume toxins into your system and start malfunctioning yourself!

Chapter 1

ASPIRATION, SUCCESS, AND EMPOWERMENT

1.   My Motivation in All

2.   Motive

3.   As You Aspire!

4.   Calling Out Your Greater

5.   Opportunity

6.   Branch Out Blessings

7.   Finding Unction to Function

8.   The Protocol of the Anointing

9.   To Some Specific People

10.   A Large Heart

11.   Agitation

12.   Preparation

13.   God Will Promote You

14.   Manifest Destiny

15.   Bring On the Heat

16.   Do You Think You Can?

17.   Exposure Determines Expression

18.   You Yet Can!

19.   Live Your Life with Intention

20.   My Persuasion of the Reader of This Note!

21.   A Two-in-One Talk!

22.   The Energy You Bring into Your Work Matters

23.   Desire

24.   Passion!

25.   Strength to Bring Forth

26.   Impartation

27.   Starting Your Month Inspired!

28.   Making Your Way Out of the Shadows!

29.   The Solution Is in the Answer

30.   The Secret of Your Purpose

31.   Activating Your Inner Wind

32.   Your Purpose Is in Your Routine

33.   Power for ’n Power Against!

34.   What Do You Mean?

35.   Courage for Destiny

36.   About Mastering Your Life

37.   It Is Mostly in Your Head

38.   Out of Weakness We’re Made Strong!

39.   Purpose Is not in All Situations

40.   As a Man Thinks

41.   About Your Needs

42.   About Attitude

43.   Openness to the Spirit of Counsel

44.   About Being Emotional

45.   Time and Purpose

1. My Motivation in All

WISDOM is not about being inspirational, but the ability to use knowledge with discretion in order to achieve a virtuous purpose.

Isaiah 50:4-5 stated, ‘The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakened (my ear) morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as (that of) the learned.

The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither (was I) turned away (from it).’

2. Motive

Motive is like a spirit that determines the grace, favour, and the kind of inspiration to which we have access. It can defeat your purpose if your heart is in the wrong place. No matter how smart, hardworking, and skilful you may be. Because the favour your mind and hands enjoy to be productive through labouring is engineered by the purity of your heart!

3. As You Aspire!

As you aspire to rise in life, that’s how much work is required of you to gain the mastery over your personal life, your craft, your emotions, and mastering gentility and the ability to both carry yourself properly and convey what you carry in a manner that only a master of the level you aspire to would do! Why? Because the higher you aspire or rise in life, the stronger the forces you will encounter. And they will be intolerable of your lapses or weaknesses. You are safe where you are now because you have its excellence in you, but you yet dream for more because there is more to your life and purpose than where you are right now, and there is a measure of excellence required for every level.

Aspiration is the call of destiny that cannot go without the excellence that is required to sustain you in it! One thing is sure: you can never fall beneath your level of excellence. That’s why every mistakes or lapse in your life always bring you again to a particular place. And that place is where your real excellence and foundation is! You might even have knowledge beyond the level you keep falling back to. But if you have not made that knowledge part of your character, it is not yet your power and level of excellence! And God can only do exceedingly, abundantly, and above what we ask or think, only according to the power that is at work in us! Excellence or character is your personal grace and power. And basically God won’t take you where grace can’t sustain you! So it is only the knowledge that has built you, not just the one you know, that will keep you where you are going! What you have mastered in your life, whether you aspire or not, is already your self-predicted future. We need to keep exercising ourselves to godliness and building the muscles for the future we admire. The revelation that you have that has no bearing in your life or lifestyle cannot reveal you to or give you a sure future! It is time for you to go to gym with what you know, to develop it as a discipline into your life to make it corresponding as both knowledge and character, so that it can be safely said of you and what you know: ‘And the word became flesh and dwell among us. And we beheld his glory.’ Amen.

Paul said in Philippians 4:9 (KJV), ‘The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.’

Paul said ‘Do’, and in doing, the God of peace will be with you! This means it is by practice or by exercising with what we know or have been taught that we master it or can use it to master our lives. And you never master anything in a hurry. So don’t hurry your life or your craft! The Bible said about giving or using time to respect our craft in James 1:4 (KJV): ‘But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire [holokleros, ‘complete and whole in everything and ways’], wanting [or lacking] nothing.’

About being a master: you need to master your emotions and sensibilities in life, because it is not everything you see or hear that you will like, and so you will need to know when, where, and how to act or respond to life and people! And also, you need to master many levels of your craft so as to know what to pull out of your arsenal at different point in time. And by having many or different levels of the excellence of your craft in you, you won’t overdo or underperform when and where it is or will be required of you. So now, even if there are some things that you might not yet need, as long as it is within your field or links to it in any way, acquire it and have it in your arsenal!

When it comes to excellence and who you are called to be in life, it is all about showing yourself approved unto God as a workman that does not need to be ashamed or be put to shame when the call of duty is place upon you at any time! Arm yourself with this kind of mind as you aspire in life, and you will do well! Because, as you are inspired to aspire in life, you must also acquire knowledge to build your life with, and you must inquire for more information to work with in or around your aspirations! God bless you.

4. Calling Out Your Greater

You do not reach your higher calling in life nor come to the actualization of your purpose in life by using your present position or situation of how things are for you to justify how your operate your life or do your things.

Birthing and purpose have one thing in common, and that is pushing. Just as you can’t give birth without pushing, so also you can’t do anything significant in life without pushing yourself.

You have a higher nature that births your higher calling, and you also have a lower nature that makes you feel at home in your present position or situation, and that makes you make sense of the poor choices you’ve made in the past and are still making to keep yourself stable where you are. But your destiny is deeper than where you are, and the potential to arrive at it is deeper in you as well, needing an empowered mind and perspective in order for it to be able to cry out of your inner belly. As deep calls unto deep.

You are born for greater. Push yourself!

Greater comes to those who are seeking it, going for it, calling it out, working at it.

Something more than this needs to cry out of you today in order to give your destiny its rite of passage!

5. Opportunity

This is what we use in changing the phases, seasons, and story of our lives. And you can only work with an opportunity three ways:

1.   When a good opportunity comes to you, you need to work smart, you need to work hard, and you need to work fast.

2.   This season is full of life and story-changing opportunities for you.

3.   Work out your salvation with holy reverence for God and for your life, and do it conscientiously.

6. Branch Out Blessings

One of the ways to be happy in life is to not live apologetically for and about everything in your life, and to learn to find peace in every opportunity God will be bringing your way to advance you in line with His purpose for, with and through your life.

There are some blessings that are coming out of the branches where fruits are actually supposed to be produced to nourish you and secure God’s purpose for your life.

Be ready and willing to take advantage of the branch-out blessings that’s outside how you think or expect God to be doing it, and that is outside of or in spite of how others feel. This is your year to get a branch-out blessing. You have an unction from the Holy One within you and need not that any should teach you on personal matters of your design, your purpose, and your destiny. And that unction of the Holy One in you is the unction to function with inner peace for all you do. Judge everything you do and get involved in this year by the inner peace you find about it, and run with your destiny by making your life count on earth. If it looks and sounds good or acceptable to others and your unction of peace is not connecting you with it, walk away. But if everyone else says differently and your unction of peace comes upon it and gives you inner peace about it, make the move!

But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things [and can test and affirm all things with your inner truth, spiritual knowledge, and peace concerning them]. I have not written unto you because ye know not [cannot recognize] the truth, but because ye know [can recognize] it, and that no lie [things that lacked inner connectivity with our peace, inner truth, and purpose] is of the truth.

(1 John 2:20-21-, KJV)

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth [guides, convicts, and gives release and peace to] you of [concerning] all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

(1 John 2:27, KJV)

7. Finding Unction to Function

In an environment of assignment, the unction to function comes upon you naturally.

But again, you need to endeavour to find the environments, spots, and personal spiritual activities that call out the deep in you and that unlocks you, that releases you, that is therapeutic to you, and that unifies you with your inner truth under God’s grace, calling, and purpose for, with, and through your life, if you must live ever ready to take on anything that’s thrown at you unexpectedly.

Before any assignment, find yourself through these places, moment, and spiritual exercises so as to bring your life under unction for you to function with.

For a man called Nathaniel in the Bible, it was a spot under the fig tree where he went to meditate and pray; that did it for him. You need to be whole and unified with yourself under God. I call it an interpersonal network that helps you connect properly and flow with the divine within and upon your life.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

(John 1:47-9, KJV)

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

(Psalm 42:7, KJV)

8. The Protocol of the Anointing

The protocol of the anointing is honour. And at times this begins by how you package yourself and how you allow others to handle you. You must set or organize the stage to give grace and flexibility to what you carry or have in your life to prosper regardless of whatever environment you find yourself. Because you determine the grace of your atmosphere in spite of your environment. And this comes first with personal packaging, confidence, and how you present yourself or your message, which in turn influences how others receive or convey you. People won’t treat you below how they already see you treating yourself.

If you misrepresent yourself, you will be wrongly perceived, and then wrongly received, and then wrongly conveyed or handled. This could put a struggle in your anointing, which will then determine the amount of impact you make as well. And because you are judged even more by your impact; a lack of proper impact therefore will determine if doors stay open to you or become closed or if the one you just walked through would lead to more doors being opened to you.

You might be more anointed than your delivery and the impacts you are making, but the lack of the protocol of the anointing, which is honour, might rob you of maximum impact, rob you of results, and consequently rob you of returns as well.

It all begins with how you package and present yourself that sets you up to manifest the full glory of what God has put in your life.

Don’t mismanage God’s grace upon your life after all your secret price, prayers, studies, and even fasting. Package your life too and present to represent yourself well in any environment in the way that allows your grace and gifts to flow naturally to impact others as you would really want it for personal fulfilment and for God’s purpose for your life.

9. To Some Specific People

Something new, purpose-driving, and more exact is about to be infused into your world and sphere by the spirit of God to rescue you from what you have been trying to make sense of all along, to no avail, and it will save your sanity and release your truest potential.

You will have peace about it and will know it is a right move for you to make.

This will take place in the last few days of this year, to jump-start a new season in your life, purpose, and career.

Be sensitive to your inner witness of peace about things this season concerning what will be manifesting around you. Because people will think you are missing it or betraying trust where nothing is truly working for you. But it will be God rescuing you, and it will be the call of destiny upon you!

There is a big difference between the mind of the Spirit and the mind of the flesh:

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession [intervenes] for the saints according to the will of God.

(Romans 8:27, KJV)

Shalom.

10. A Large Heart

And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.

(1 Kings 4:29, NKJV)

Those who want to be featured in the big pictures and great events always give priority to it than their emotions. And for which sake also, they look out for their team members that play important roles in the accomplishment of great events and projects.

Most times, team members don’t have to like one another. But because of what they are a part of or want to be known for accomplishing, they find ways to get along with one another and go past small and insignificant issues to get destiny-defying things accomplished!

At times, to accomplish what you’ve never accomplished before, you have to be willing to get past your emotions and allow grace to carry you to do what has never done before in your human power.

Great destinies are impossible when you associate with or keep putting up with small minds, who don’t mind what they spoil for how they feel.

Great minds and a large heart are the products of great grace and foresight that gives emotional stamina to bear tough and challenging times to keep you persistent for your original purpose! Because when the mind can’t see past a thing it doesn’t want to understand, the emotions kick in to overthrow purpose, possibilities, and a great destiny.

If you have great dreams and a great calling upon your life, it is not enough to just be spiritual. You need to be emotionally mature too. Because the devil will throw everything in your path and in your face that will be very emotionally challenging, in order to derail you from the path of greatness!

The only guarantee that there are no permanent enemies in life is what people accomplish together. For in the celebration of its accomplishment, good friendships do begin, as even those who don’t like each other recall what they came through together to see a good thing through. Because in seeing it through, they had to genuinely have the backs of team members also! And they end up having respect for one another and a good understanding of one another’s positions or points of view in life. This is good for good and lasting friendship.

11. Agitation

It is the pressure of another season of life inside your belly kicking and wanting to be brought forth. It is saying the present season has long outlived its purpose and is overstretching its place in the overall scheme of things and is becoming a situation rather than a blessing in your life.

Agitation is your tiredness of what it is that fires you up for what must be!

How you transit the phase of agitation is what will determine the beauty and colour of the new season being brought forth.

You need the power of prayer, the discernment of who and what belongs or is important for the new season, the wisdom of negotiation, the grace and willingness to incorporate others or to learn new skills to increase your ability and up your game, the skills of implementing and carrying out your new heart’s desire, the courage and drive to follow things through or carry plans out once determined as what should be done, the inner peace to be a player and playing your role gracefully in a way that encourages others to come out and be or do their best as well, and then you need the security to live around or give support to and learn from the light and wisdom of others that you have to work with, because you see and want to achieve the bigger picture.

12. Preparation

It is the greatest sign of expectancy.

There’s nothing worse like just waiting and just hoping for change, even on what’s promised you in the Word: hoping and waiting without getting yourself ready to absorb or without preparing yourself to carry, handle, and advance your life’s purpose and life itself with what’s coming. Because His promises to you are ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’. And it must surely come because He gives you the desires of your heart according to His word. But in what condition or state of mind will the manifestation of the promise and the good of life meet you, since there is a purpose and a responsibility to its manifestation?

The only true hope and future you have with your expectations in life is that you are prepared for what you are expecting and you know what to do with it when it comes.

It is not just enough to pray and expect an answer; you need to know your responsibilities towards the answers you seek, then prepare yourself for it. Preparedness empowers your waiting period and expedites or commands life and heaven to respond to you in good faith!

13. God Will Promote You

Evoke honour. Command it. Demand it! Don’t always try to be understood from the position of a situation. You will at best get pity or nothing from such emotional understanding. And that’s not how God plans for you to be sized up by men.

God doesn’t promote by pity but by honour. And you have to evoke honour to carry it like a presence in your life (you evoke a presence to carry upon your life by Word meditation and by an ignited prayer). You have to command honour by packaging yourself and your things properly. And you have to demand it by an attitude from those who lack respect in themselves and for others. Especially those who don’t even know you and yet want to treat or handle you like those who made the mistake of leaving themselves in their careless hands to be mishandled. Because the more people tolerate their foolish behaviours, the more they gain impetus to mistreat anyone who comes their way. So deal with their ignorant assumption and bad attitude like a bad spirit that’s not acceptable around your life.

While pity might work with deliverance, honour works with promotion. Your life is not about what things looks like. You have to honour the God image in you, and God will back it up with a resounding promotion in the presence of your enemies and those who envy and hate you without a cause.

14. Manifest Destiny

You will not be able to sustain for long or be sustained in life by waiting to be appreciated or by anticipating a recognition for what you carry. Because if you also don’t know how to recognize and move to where what supports what you carry in your life is ready available to help you manifest your purpose and destiny, you might develop self-doubt and sell your honour cheap in a place where you are being tolerated rather than celebrated.

One sign of a wrong place and environment where you will never amount to anything is a place where you are willing to use your gift and service for free that has monetary value elsewhere and yet you still attract envy and jealousy in return for your good work. It means that a prize will never be attached to what you do or carry in that environment, talk less of a promotion manifesting for you through your work there! The health of an atmosphere is first and foremost to the growth and prosperity of those who operate in it.

A seed must find the womb that is healthy and readily ovulating in its favour, before ever talking of pregnancy, carrying to term, and a safe delivery.

The health and receptivity of where you are operating demonstrate and show towards you; what you carry and what you are doing around or for it is more important than your intentions behind what you do around the environment or for a people.

15. Bring On the Heat

The fire in you is meant to carve your path in life going forward.

When the fire in you reaches its crescendo, people will step aside and watch you perform, and life will also respond to your anointing and charisma, as you bring it on and deliver the goods and the possibilities you are born with, by which you are meant to take both life and the people or the industry to which you belong, to the next level of operation and awareness.

If you are still blaming everything and everyone else for your problems or seeing them as the reason why your life is still where it is, it is because the fire in you has not reached its crescendo. Because, truth is, life is tough, and nobody is also born to give you a chance in a competitive world, but the heat in you when at its highest is meant to carve your path, to melt the iron bars around you and to break in pieces the rocks that are in front of you going forward.

When you become too hot to handle, those who would have stopped you or stood in your way will give way as you take your stage, and they will eventually follow your lead. Because you are not asking anything from anybody, but you are placing a demand on your own self and on your own gifting, to bring out what you contain and releasing it with fire, with passion, and with purpose; knowing that you are born with this divine wisdom for the extraordinary and with an invisible substance that needs to be birth forth with power (especially if you are introducing it and yourself to the world first time, where you would be judged and sized up for your performance)!

May the Holy Ghost heat you up, heat up your belly, heat up your wisdom and your gifting to trigger your possibilities so that you might birth your destiny by fire, by force, in Jesus’s mighty name.

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

(Isaiah 28:18, KJV)

When the spirit of truth and of the next level of things comes upon you, you will be in your right mind or the mind of Christ, but you won’t always be sensitive to other emotions, because what’s on you is an overruling power, mindset, and reason that, when its unction hits you, it will charge you up to run through whatever obstacles that is put in front of you from achieving your purpose, and it will also heat you up against whatever thing that is meant to undermine your life and person, melting it like wax or scattering it like chaff before you.

16. Do You Think You Can?

And they [the sent ones] went their way, and found the colt [you] tied by the door without [out of provision] in a place where two ways met [indecision]; and they loose him [deliverance regardless].

(Mark 11:4, KJV)

Look at you, all tied up with indecision because of how it might look, what they might think, and what they may say. Meanwhile, everybody eventually returns home to their own load, and when alone you are the last thing they remember or want to be thinking about when the burden of their own life and responsibilities comes upon them, without you realizing it. Yet with all that you are gifted with and empowered to do, you are still in one spot, all tied up, undecided with your own life and purpose, and full of assumption, thinking of what people might be thinking and saying about you.

In spite of whether that might be truly happening or not, God has also been telling you that it is only His and your option about you that truly counts to who you are, what you can be, what you can do, and what you can become.

In a competitive world, if you wait for others to carve your world for you, they will carve it small and force you to fit into it. But you will start doing what’s best for you when you get tired of where you are, with the knowledge that there is more to and in you, and the knowledge of all you know you can yet do and be.

Nobody was born into this world to give you the permission to live. They think and talk of you for a while and forget about you. For all are burdened with their own lives, their own responsibilities, and their own purpose.

So stop waiting for permission, but rather, let the fire within you pave your path in life in the mighty name of Jesus.

And so now, Satan! The heavens command you to stop your whisper of lies that keep bound, makes unstable and undecided, and loose this reader right now and let him go in the mighty name of Jesus. The Lord rebuke you, devil.

Amen and amen.

17. Exposure Determines Expression

What you purposefully keep exposing your life to will become imprinted upon your life, and this will determine what and how you can eventually be discharging yourself, and what you can consistently discharge will both build your reputation and mark you out from others, and this will determine what you can then access or collect out of life or be made available to you further and/or what you can procure for your personal benefit both in returns and reward.

Expose your life to good information and to good people.

Don’t get wrapped up on rest of the stories of life, because you can be born in the interior by the inferior and still determine how you want your own life to turn out.

Without good exposure to information and good or right people, you will have no meaning in life to express or command for yourself, and you will deny yourself from being trusted to be featured in any meaningful or colourful future building projects and enterprise. Separate your life, your thoughts, and your emotions to good and healthy feelings, words, and people, in spite of all that’s happening negatively around, and you will turn into a wonder to behold and a light of revelation in the midst of a dark and confused world.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and PURSUE IT.

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

(Psalm 34:12-5)

18. You Yet Can!

Nobody who has been in or around a system for some time and has attained levels in it can fall completely to the ground within the same system. This is because of the many layers of foundations of the system that he has developed within himself to operate at the particular level he operates!

There are many levels of operation and many layers of foundations to stand on to look up from and have hope within the Christian faith!

You might not be the best at class 6, but you are too much for class 4, based on the foundation of class 5 within you that puts you in the position to operate in class 6. Because it is only when we have mastered or are overqualified for one class that we are moved upwards to the next level of operations.

It is always the emotions we people attach to any or an error and the wrong judgements we have of ourselves because of an error or a mistake or the wrong judging of people that takes the errors or mistakes we make in our operations and turn it to what takes one to the level of a zero after being a hero at some level within the systems and its operations. And that perspective or way of judging is the worst error in itself.

There are many foundations in your life even now that makes you good for many things in spite of your present flaws and shakings. Connect to those good graces within you, and get up from the level of ground 0, where emotions and wrong judgements have brought you to, and start renegotiating your future from the things you know that you are yet good for in Jesus’s name.

19. Live Your Life with Intention

Life on earth’s region and atmosphere is not programmed to go right on automatic. Somehow the energy of the atmosphere has been and is winding down since the fall of man, insomuch that things are just growing old, decaying, and eventually dying. And we actually expect them to.

So on earth’s region, for things to go right consistently and last as long as our purpose requires them to be for us, we need to be hands-on in and with our lives. We must be deliberate with our interests and actions in going in the right direction with our lives. We must make ourselves do what we need and have to do so as to become and stay what we love to be.

We must lay good foundations for anything we do, because right things are governed by principles and laws, and we must ensure that our covenant with God is well anchored in knowledge, in obedience, and in spiritual aware. So that like a wise master builder, we can easily see where we are missing it when things aren’t going well and then fix it.

It is said in Ecclesiastes 10:18: ‘By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through [the house gets leakage].’ Things wind down naturally on this side of heaven because of the fall. We must live deliberately and with the knowledge of how things work.

There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

Proverbs 30:24-8)

20. My Persuasion of the Reader of This Note!

It is always darkest before the dawn.

Even though you do not understand yourself right now, I, Max Wellspring Oseogena, know that you carry destiny. I know that you are full of purpose and power, anointed for greatness, and will be kissed by grace and mercy to be announced at the top, to be seated where you truly belong in life any moment from now, in Jesus’s precious name.

In spite of the mistakes you might have made and the down times you’ve had and seen, and/or what others might have done to you because of what they think or now see of you, I am fully persuaded of better things concerning you, even though things appear the way they seem to you! Because just when the caterpillar thought it was over, a butterfly emerged out of it.

Glory be to God Almighty for your life. Amen and amen.

Have a blessed day and a blessed remainder of a glorious year. See you at the top!

Shalom!

21. A Two-in-One Talk!

One:

When God begins moving on your behalf, everybody will want to come to the party, including those who don’t like you, because it’s not their choice, but they see it as being in their interest and as their chance also to be blessed by connecting to the favour that has come upon and flowing in your life! And that’s why, the Bible says, he will make your enemies bless you.

Two:

The loving-kindness of God is better than life. And you don’t need people’s opinion in that one. Those who speak ill of you behind your back do so because they don’t like their own life or what they think they’ve got, and while they are busy hating their own life, you are busy acting like you’ve got it all together. So it focuses them to talk about you in an ill way out of envy. This is because, you do have it all together truly, and God has you covered left, right, and centre. And His hand of favour is upon your life, opening good doors for you and advancing you, because you are both grateful for the life he gave you and gracious to others!

Amen.

22. The Energy You Bring into Your Work Matters

To succeed, you have to be saturated by its expectation!

Most people fail because of the energy they work with. They fear to fail, and they worked towards not failing, but they never worked purely to succeed or expected only success as they worked. They do everything in fear of failure, which is a poor trigger for a successful life. And because of the energy of and fear of not wanting to fail as the energy that surrounds all their labours, they fall short of success and what triggers it, which only comes by a pure and positive energy or drive triggering one towards the mark of their high calling in life.

When your inner drive is pure and positive, it affects your perspectives on the challenges that comes with what you do, it releases ideas to get things accomplished in more than one way, it triggers the possibilities within you, it gives you spiritual stamina and wisdom in trying times, and it turns disappointments to opportunity to do things another way.

But working from the fear of not wanting to fail reflects that you are expecting it. When you are met with any form of disappointment, that attitude towards life triggers discouragement and bad attitude towards what’s before you, which drains your faith and energy, and it multiplies more errors in your efforts, which then leads to failing completely in what you do, making you seeking for help. But the pure and positive energy of success says, ‘You got the help you need within you. Because success is who you are!’

Job was a great man, full of good works and deed, but behind all that, the energy was not pure and positively driven. And we know how the story of his life went, as he lamented in Job 3:25-6 (KJV):

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

God allowed what happened to happen and corrected his perspective on life and cleansed his energy. And so we were told that his latter end was far greater than earlier. But he went through all those unnecessary losses and pains in his early life.

Good success comes to those who work towards it, expect it, and feel they deserve to make it like any other person making it out there.

Be success-triggered.

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Joshua 1:6-8 (KJV)

To be successful, you must face life positively, with the right attitude at every turn of life, maintaining your focus and working towards your goals, and you must fail to fear failing, rather than fearing to fail.

23. Desire

There is something about desire that makes some people discover and arrive at their true purpose. It is a compelling drive for purpose. We all have desire, but not everybody is self-motivated, because of that amount of light to walk with that we have differently. But regardless of the amount of light and clarity that people might have, desire is more compelling in the heart of men than light! And you cannot control what people want with religion. Once someone out of respect for what they see in you keeps telling you about a particular thing or disturbance in their hearts that they want or want to change and seek support from you about it and you keep using religion, fear, and guilt to kill it in them. After some time, they will find someone else in your place to talk to about it, and on getting the needed support for what they desire, they will still go for what they want! This is how sheep change shepherds and people change leaders most times!

So, I reiterate, you do not control what people want. If it is not in your hands or power to give it to them but you know how and where, show them! That’s the purpose of the power and influence you are given over them. To help them find fulfilment of purpose and destiny that compels from within. Because you do not know all the plans of God for individuals nor know what drives desire in man. And your responsibility is not to determine what people want but how to help them to arrive at their God-given purpose through desire without infringing on what others already possessed. As that is covetousness. But if it comes out of life and out of God, we are told to covet earnestly the best gift (1 Corinthians 12:31)! Life is a gift from God.

As it is said, if you want something badly out of life, go get it! Period. Don’t live your life wishing you had or wishing you did this or that.

He has put eternity in their hearts [men’s heart], except that [so that] no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

(Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

(Psalm 37:4)

God gives you your heart’s desires, because you have set your love upon Him:

Scriptures said, God shall grant thee the desires of your heart if you put your trust in Him (Psalm 20:4-5).

This in itself implies that if you walk with and love God, He will make choices that will favour you to well-up as desires in your heart as well, so as to keep your walk with Him and your love for Him stable. Thus, the desires of your heart when you set your love upon Him according to Psalm 91:14, are things Himself put in your heart for you to desire so that you can both want and identify or make request things according to what He has designed, prepared and provide for you in your best interest. And it will be easy for you to see it and receive them.

Faith works with love. Thus: you can trust your desires if you’ve set your love first and foremost upon God. And He will give you the desires of your heart.

Desire is the free will of faith. As Jesus said in Mark 11:24, ‘Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.’ This is because, desire is the energy of something outside of you that already exist pulling on you to make the call, make a search, make an inquest, a request, a move, to pray and ask for it IN FAITH.

Desire is your spirit man connecting to something that is readily available or that can be made available to you at the time, if you place the demand without wavering. Complete faith and appreciation must be in place for you to be convincing and then receiving.

24. Passion!

Passion is both the wheels and the oil inside the wheel that makes it flexible to drive your purpose!

You feel passion like an energy that drives you to something, because it is the result of your inspiration for and about life. It is very difficult to exchange for another passion a passion for something you are inspired by or inspired to do. You might give part of your time here and there, but there is one dominant thing that drives and defines you.

Challenges can hit you down, and at some point you feel like you have lost your zest and power for the direction that defines you, but most times in life you find that it finds you again on its own to give your life a reason to live again with a renewed perspective on the same direction of purpose.

So your purpose is not in everything that captures your heart or passion or in all the comfortable alternatives, but your purpose is in what even when you lost it finds you again and again and again and again.

Your destiny cannot be changed or exchanged for mediocrity, because what makes it come true is more true to you than both your human strength or weakness. You might be down now, but it will find you, like I said, again.

Passion is meant to birth through you what you will eventually leave for posterity: your legacy. It is your only faithful weakness.

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you AGAIN, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.’

(John 16:223)

25. Strength to Bring Forth

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

(2 Kings 19:3, KJV)

The children are come to birth. But there is