SPECIAL FEATURE: MAKING GREATER IMPACT

It is gratifying to note that Centre For Victorious Living (CFVL) is one year old this Month, July. This online motivational and personal development blog was set up July last year, 2011 for the purpose of empowering people for victorious living.

Looking back so far, I can confidently say that it has been so good. Of course, there were challenges here and there, but they could not stop CFVL from impacting lives positively.

I give thanks to Almighty God for giving me the opportunity to make positive contribution to the advancement of mankind through the inspirational and motivational articles I write and post regularly on both my free and paid blog – centreforvictoriousliving.blogspot.com and centreforvictoriousliving.com respectively.

My passion, my mandate is to give people hope. Hope is the anchor we need to survive the storms of life. This hope is not mere hope, but hope that is firmly rooted in the Book of God, the Bible. This Book of Life holds the answer to every problem of life. It also reveals to us the mind of God towards us. One of God’s plan for each and every one of us is to have DOMINION over the earth. We are mandated to RULE our world. And to enable us carry out this order, God deposited within us unlimited potentials. We are expected to deploy these unlimited potentials to achieve success, prosperity, and victory.

It is God that gives us power to get wealth. And it is His will that we should prosper. And to prosper, we must align our God-given power with the success principles embedded in God’s Word.

The contribution of CFVL is to teach these Biblical principles for success and victorious living. Every human principles and ideas will fail. Only God’s principles can earn us success and victory. CFVL is here not only to teach God’s principles for prosperity and victory, but to inspire, motivate and give you hope.

God’s plan for us all is to give us a FUTURE and HOPE. As far as God’s plan for us is concerned, we are to prosper and be victorious. If you have not yet made it, it does not mean you will never make it. If you don’t have money today, it does not mean you will not have it tomorrow.

The present unfavourable circumstances have nothing to do with your future. In God’s scheme of things, your past or present failure and defeat do not determine the quality of life you will live in the future.

The economic downturn cannot halt the plan of God for your life. The only person that can disrupt God’s plan for your life is YOU. The truth is, we are the determining factor for our own success in life. 

God has already made the provision for your success and victory. He has given you the power to achieve whatever you want to achieve. He has given you unlimited potentials to do great exploits. It now behoves you to harness these unlimited potentials, while applying God’s success principles in order to achieve your set goal.

The Two-Step Approach

Many books have been written on success, prosperity and victory. These books teach a thousand and one principles. However, if all these principles were to be distilled into a two-step principle or approach, I believe the following could be the best approach:

1.    Use the unlimited potentials God has given you to prosper and achieve victory.

2.    These unlimited potentials should be applied together with God’s success principles in order to achieve maximum success.

  1. Use the Unlimited Potentials Within You

The potentials God deposited in us has been likened to the sea which can never dry. Scientists have made us to understand that on average, we use only 10% of our abilities. The remaining 90% of our abilities we leave unexplored.

An up and coming screenwriter and dramatist once told me after writing a script, which by my opinion is a potential bestseller, that the script was the best he would ever write and that he could not come up with any script that would be better than it.

Just then I replied: “You are not right in saying that you can never produce something better than the present script you have written. The fact is, you can never run out of ideas. And as long as ideas keep coming, you will surely come up with ideas that will surpass the former ones. Similarly, you can never run short of the ability to translate the ideas into reality. If you can write such a great script, you can also come up with better scripts.”

Like this up and coming dramatist, we often fail to make progress in life because of the negative opinion we hold about our abilities.

It is important to note that our attitude – negative or positive – plays significant role in the level of success we achieve in life. Our negative opinion about our abilities, and not lack of abilities, is the factor that is holding us down in defeat.

Doubt or unbelief can be likened to the “Off” button of a desktop computer. When you press the “Off” button, it shuts down the system. In the same vein, when you start entertaining doubt in your mind, or when you start holding negative opinion about your ability, you are shutting down the unlimited potentials within you. Doubt and negative opinion are “Off” button. They shut down your ability when you dwell on them.

The problem is not your ability, but your negative opinion about your ability. The fact is, you can achieve anything you set your mind upon to achieve, provided you trust your ability to carry you through.

BELIEF IS THE ACTIVATOR OF YOUR POTENTIALS. Belief is the “On” button that awakens your potentialities. And it is when your potentialities are awakened that you can become capable of achieving greatness in life.

Never doubt your ability to achieve greater success in life, because God has already given you unlimited potentials. With these potentials, you can live the life God wants you to live.

There is room for improvement and there is no limit to what you can achieve, if you BELIEVE that you have what it takes.

Years ago, an apprentice learning under a great artist once came up with a very good portrait, which his master approved to be good. The boy was so excited about the art work that every day he spent a whole lot of time admiring it.

One day, his master took the art work from him and destroyed it. As he watched his masterpiece being destroyed, he cried.

His master called him and said, “No doubt, the work you did is good, but it is certainly not the best. You can do something better. What is restricting you from doing excellent work is that you kept gazing at this work thinking that this is the best work you can do.”

The apprentice grasped what his master told him and he later became one of the greatest artists of the ages.

What a great lesson for all of us! Regardless of our present level of success, we should not be complacent. We should not rest on our oars. We can do better. We can build bigger and we can achieve bigger.

Your present level of achievement is certainly not the best. You can do better than that. What is actually restricting people from advancing is that the hold unto the belief that the level they are now is the highest they can reach. And because they believe they can go no farther, they are never inspired or motivated to move to higher height. 

Dear reader, if you believe in God’s rich endowment on you; if you believe God has deposited unlimited potentials within you, then you also have to believe that there is no limit to what you can achieve when you tap into these unlimited potentials within you.

Where you are now is not the highest you can reach. You can go higher than that. You can make greater impact. You only need to constantly tap into the unlimited potentials within you. Keep tapping into it. Keep digging your goldmine. You cannot exhaust it. It is not possible to exhaust it.

The more you tap into the unlimited potentials within you, the greater your level of success. YOUR PROGRESS IN LIFE ONLY STOPS WHEN YOU STOP HARNESSING YOUR UNLIMITED POTENTIALS WITHIN YOU.  

2. Apply God’s Success Principles

For real success to happen, you must apply God’s success principles while harnessing the unlimited potentials within you.

Often, the reason for our under achievement is that we use our God-given potentials wrongly. We fail to realise that until we apply God’s principles for success, all our efforts will be in vain.

For instance, the “grab-grab” approach to wealth which characterise the world economy is not God’s way of succeeding in life. The “get-rich-quick” scheme is not God’s way to prosperity either. Attempting to succeed at the expense of others or violating the laws of God and the laws of man all in the bid to succeed in life can never lead to REAL success. Real success must be accompanied with peace of mind. Success with clean hands is REAL success. And the only way to achieve it is by applying (harnessing) the unlimited potentials within you without offending God and man. 

When you have a “conscience void of offence towards God and man”, real success can never elude you.

This is the kind of success CFVL focuses on and preach. There is victory for everyone who practises God’s principles for victorious living. God’s desire for every one of us is that we succeed and be victorious. 

Do you want to be up and victorious everyday of your life? Then follow God’s principles. Obey the laws of God and the laws of man.

The mission (mandate) of CFVL is to teach, guide, counsel, inspire and motivate you to practise God’s laid down principles for all-round success.

As CFVL celebrates its one year anniversary, it is more than ever before committed to constantly bringing your way uplifting and life changing articles for helping you stay motivated. For, it is only when you are motivated that you can actually get up and achieve the great success that God has ordained for you.

Till I come your way very soon, go and live victoriously!