Haven of rest Evangelical Ministries, Ota Nigeria

I visited Olumo Rock recently to see God's workmanship. A little boy insisted on being our tour guide. I liked him. Feeling lazy, I asked him if the elevator was working, he said No, truthfully. The boy led us through scary paths explaining historic places with stories. There were times he assisted me to climb by holding my hand. You can imagine, small boy holding my hand, when I should be the one holding his hand. Experience is not necessarily by age. Humility will save one from falling. Finally, we got to the top. We asked him if we were going to return by the same route. He responded 'No! there is a stairway' "Common! You mean there are stairs? And you made us climb the rocks, why didn't you tell us earlier? We could have come up through the stairs instead" I queried. With smiles on his face, he said something that struck me deeply, "I intentionally didn't tell you about the stairs. If I did, you'd have preferred to take that route and wou...

A hat-seller who was passing by a forest decided to take a nap under one of the trees, so he left his basket of hats by the side. A few hours later, he woke up and realized that all his hats were gone. He looked up and to his surprise, the tree was full of monkeys and they had taken all his hats. The hat-seller sits down and thinks of how he can get the hats down. While thinking he started to scratch his head. The next moment, the monkeys were doing the same. Next, he took down his own hat, the monkeys did exactly the same. An idea came to him, he took his hat and threw it on the floor and the monkeys did that too. So he finally managed to get all his hats back. Fifty years later, his grandson,Tim, also became a hat-seller and had heard this monkey story from his grandfather. One day, just like his grandfather, he passed by the same forest. It was very hot, and he took a nap under the same tree and left the hats on the floor. He woke up and realized that all his hats were...

I don't know who authored this fantastic piece: it's powerful, full of knowlede, wisdom & educative! Please take time to read it over and over again.... YOU CANNOT GET BY PRAYER WHAT YOU SHOULD GET BY CHARACTER & OBEDIENCE A man’s character is his fate. Heraclitus Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (US), said: “Nothing can stop the man with the *right mental attitude* from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the *wrong mental attitude.” As a clergyman, I have watched pitiably how people self-sabotage themselves by seeking spiritual solutions to character-deficit issues. They look around at everybody as suspects for their predicaments when their greatest demons lurks within them - their character. What we often call our destiny is truly our character, and since that character can change, then destiny can be altered. *Character is destiny* . Is prayer actually EVERYTHING? Many would begin to argue back and forth...