PEACEFUL ELECTION 2012, OUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY

With just about less than 2 weeks for eligible Ghanians to exercise their franchise in the most anticipated presidential and parliamentary elections, the presidential candidates and their campaign teams are vigorously using diverse methods and approaches to tailor their comprehensive packages of policies to win power; the electorates at the other end of the line have also made an informed decision regarding all that the political parties have presented to them.

In the same vein, individuals, NGOs, churches and other peace-loving group conscientizing, educating and promoting PEACE through different media- radio, television, drama, peace walk and others just to mention but a few.  At the heart of all these is the understanding that, or country Ghana must continue to live in PEACE before, during and after the voting- that is to say " elections is all about BALLOTS and not BULLETS", neither is it about clubs, stones and knives.

It's in the light of this, that I also write to re-echo, emphasize and add my voice to the numerous peace preachers that WE NEED PEACE in Ghana and so you and I as individuals irrespective of who we are (tribes/ethnic; black and or white), where we hail (North, South, East and West) and our political affiliations must STRIVE, HUNGER and THIRST for PEACE, whenever(day/night; raining/not) and wherever (markets, workplaces, schools, pubs, in cars- troski's, cabs and  etc) we find ourselves.

Yes, we are preaching PEACE PEACE PEACE, but it is not enough to just TALK about it, we must BELIEVE in it; and it's not even to believe in it, WE MUST WORK at it. This means the peace we are all yearning for MUST BE PURCHASED AT TOO HIGH A PRICE. If so, then we ( you and I- all and sundry) MUST be at WAR with our VICES (double voting,carrying ballots boxes, insulting and inciting others, abusing powers, rioting, violating  electoral rules and regulations and any form of behaviors that may serve as precursors to cause fear and panic) and be at PEACE with our NEIGHBORS and follow and observe laid down electoral rules and regulations to ensure safe, transparent and peaceful election.

All am saying is let us give peace a chance, because returning VIOLENCE FOR VIOLENCE MULTIPLIES VIOLENCE, just like ADDING DEEPER DARKNESS TO NIGHT DEVOID OF STARS- thus, HATE cannot drive out HATE, ONLY LOVE CAN DO. Nobody can buy us PEACE but OURSELVES. Let us all demand for peace, LOVE ourselves, be PATIENT, HUMBLE and TOLERATE each other because the MOST POWERFUL WEAPON WE CAN BE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE.

We have one Ghana and our banner must be Peace, Justice and Love. Ghana is our home and we cannot afford to strangers in other land.. God bless our homeland GHANA.
                                                                                  ................VOTE FOR PEACE; LET GHANA WIN. THANK YOU.......... Tag ur FRIENDS

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ARE ALL MEN THE SAME? [PART 1]

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. Every individual therefore feels loved, to be loved and be loved because the feeling of being loved is a strong and habitual inclination in persons that promote the good and happiness of one another.
However, individuals’ (ladies’) past experiences in relationships, recent exposures to men, happenings in the pool of love and most importantly the allure of additional benefits most men may be alleged to gain from love without much consideration of the adverse effects on the other parties (ladies) have made the saying “all men are the same” an ugly-attractive proposition in love and relationship alike and so most ladies have difficulty following the intricacies of different and new men and love.

It is against this back drop that I would like to make it known to the ladies and emphasize that all men are not the same. Yes, all men may be the same considering the changes they undergo during their puberty stage: deep voices, broad chest, etcetera and their nature as in carefully and precisely fishing for specific qualities and values about women which they use as precursors to admire, establish contact and eventually propose leading to the door way of love and relationship.
Firstly, I would want our ladies to however note that the sustenance of love, happiness and peace from the genesis to the revelation of every relationship is built on the individuals and their fundamental reasons for being in love, the environment and array of conditions and events that unfold in that relationship. Therefore, the degree to which an earlier sweet-lovely relationship later becomes sour and loses its values should not be attributed to one individual especially the men and also be generalized to be the same in all relationship they have and/or yet to enter.

It’s also a known and well established fact that most men are “dogs” that is, they (men) like chasing and flirting with almost everything in skirt aside the sole person they call their love but not all the men may be ascribed to infidelities in relationship. Remember that, we (men) are borne and raised by different parents, grow in different environment and more importantly belong to different religious denominations and therefore learn and receive different and comprehensive packages of lessons for moral uprightness. So not all the men CHEAT or go behind their lovers because from the earlier age we are taught the virtues of monogamy.

Even though, men naturally are known and always want to be dominant in decision making, most men are however meek, have listening ear and ever ready to allow room for participatory decision making for the welfare of the relationship. Also, some express degree of vulnerability and therefore give you (ladies) the chance to guide and protect us (men), which makes you needed, important and trustworthy.
I do not want to assume that all men from good religious background, of good character and with innocent appearance may be genuine. Though some men may be infidel, untrustworthy, dominant in decision making, liars and whatever your experience may be, always remember that “all men are not the same” because we are all not the same. Let someone love you because you deserved to be loved…….. to be continued 

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Motivational Quotations

                 Motivational Quotations

 

 We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in reliance upon Gods all sufficiency and the Omnipotence of His might......
                                                                     Matthew Henry

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

Storms make oaks take roots.
Proverb 

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder 

And all may do what has by man been done.
Edward Young

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles 

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire 

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

TIMES & SEASONS CHANGE BUT God IS ALWAYS WITH Us.

                                 LEARN TO THRIVE IN EVERY SEASON

 

 To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

To really enjoy the life, you must know how to handle time and the different seasons that you will go through. Change is a constant in life. Every day, week, month and year introduces new things in your life. You will not be on a constant high; neither will you be on a constan

t low. There will be seasons of dryness and seasons of fruitfulness. Each season has its purpose and works to make you appreciate God's grace towards you in different situations. When you are up, He is there with you and when you are down, He also stays with you.

PLACE THE SEASONS OF YOUR LIFE IN GOD'S HANDS. Ask God to transform your attitudes and bring positive results out of negative situations as you travel through life's seasons. Rely on God's unchanging power in the midst of changes you experience in all aspects of your life. Rather than battling the season you currently find yourself in, ask God what He wants you to learn from it, and trust Him to give you the encouragement and strength you need.
Know that, while life is unpredictable, your faith in God will always stand.

USE YOUR TIME WISELY. Regularly remind yourself of how fragile and fleeting life on earth can be, and that every day is a gift from God. Don't fall into the traps of being lazy or too driven, missing out on God's best for you. Ask God to give you wisdom to use your time each day as He would like you to use it, according to His purposes for your life.

Prayer: Lord, I thank you that wherever I am, You are there with me; help me to trust You daily.

Scriptural Reading: Ecclesiaste 3:1

by Dr. MENSA OTABIL

HOW TO HAVE A MEANINGFUL QUIET TIME WITH GOD!

How then can a Christian be victorious? How can one stand still and yet overcome? The fight of FAITH is the struggle to set aside that thoughtful time each day for PRAYER and STUDY of the Word, the Life of Christ, for communication with Him.
Satan knows that and so he makes it impossible for you not to have time to listen to the voice of God.

Relationship comes by communication. Communication comes by spending time together. In relationship, love is spelt TIME. There are three reasons why we need quiet time with God. Rick Warrens in his book: “BIBLE STUDY METHODS” (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI., 2006), gives some wonderful suggestions as to how one can have a meaningful quality time with God.

WHY SPEND TIME WITH GOD? There are THREE important reasons:

First reason is because we need fellowship with God:
We cannot grow to be healthy Christians without spending time with God.
Regular quiet time with God was the source of Christ’s ministry.
No man or woman can be strong in Christ without it. That is the way to abide in Christ: sitting at His feet in Bible study and prayers.

Second, because it is our privilege as Christians:
We give God our devotion during quiet time with Him.
We get direction from Him in our Christian pilgrimage
We gain delight in God—we become His friends—John 15:1-2, 5, 14,15.
We grow more like Him—1 Peter 5:18

Third, because we gain tremendous benefits from it:
Joy—the most joyful Christians are those who spend time with God: Ps. 16:11

Strength—we charge our spiritual batteries during quiet time: Isa. 40:29-31

Peace—we gain the promised peace of Christ: Isa. 26:3, 48:18; Rom. 8:6

Stability—when we spend time daily in prayer, Bible study and worship, our lives become stable: Ps. 16:8-9; Ps. 55:22.

Success—daily meditation leads to success in life: Ps. 1:1-3.
Answered Prayers—in quiet times, miracles can happen in the life of the believer: John 15:7.
Others see and notice the difference in our lives: Acts 4:13.

THE PLAN:
Have a Bible, a notebook, a hymn book
Wait on God by being silent for a minute
Pray briefly, asking God to cleanse your heart and guide you. Read two good passages to begin: Psalm 139:23-24, 1 John 1:9; Ps. 119:18; John 16:13.

THE PROPER ATTITUDE FOR THE DIVINE MEETING:
Choose a quiet place.
Come to God with expectancy to meet Him.
Be reverent before Him.
Be alert. Wash your face and if possible brush your teeth to feel wide awake.
Be willing to obey what He tells you.
Begin with a consistent SEVEN minutes daily and let it grow.
Emphasize quality not quantity.

HOW TO SPEND TIME WITH THE WORD:
• Sing a song after a silent prayer.
• Select the passage of scripture you want to study.
• Pray and read through the text few times.
• Meditate on the text.
• Visualize the scene of the text in your mind. Ask: Who, where, why, and when? Contemplate on the suffering of Christ for few minutes!
• Personalize the text to your own life by these NINE questions: SPACEPET

Is there any sin the text tells me to confess? Is the text asking me to make any confession and forsaking of sin?

Is there any Promise to claim? Is there any promise in the text to claim? Have I met the condition of the promise the text wants me to claim?

Is there any Attitude the text tells me to change? Is the text asking me to make a change in my attitude?

Is the text asking me to obey a specific Command? Is the text asking me to obey a specific command I have not been aware of?

Is the text counseling me to follow an Example? Is the text asking me to do as I have read or not to follow the example in the text?

Is the text challenging me to Pray about something? What is the text challenging me to pray about? Am I commanded to pray for an enemy?

Have I discovered some Error in the text to avoid? Is there any negative thing in the text I should avoid?

Is the text introducing me to a new Truth to believe? Is the text exposing me to a new light or truth to follow as the Holy Spirit promised to do—to lead me into all truth?

Is there Something to praise God for? What is in the text that makes me praise God?

James 4:7-8 gives a candid counsel to all who want to be drawn nigh to God. One scholar, EGW, explains how: “Draw nigh to God by prayer, by contemplation, by reading His word. When God draws nigh to you, He lifts up for you a standard against the enemy! How do we draw nigh to God?
WE do so by secret, heartfelt, humble dependence upon God, making known all your weaknesses to Jesus, and by confessing your sins. By so doing, we draw nigh to God and he draws nigh to us,” (MS 92, 1901).

What is the outcome of spending time with God? The closer we are to God, the safer we are, for Satan hates and fears the presence of God.
When it becomes the habit of the soul to converse with God, the power of the evil one is broken; for Satan cannot abide near the soul that draws nigh to God.
When we draw nigh to God we draw nigh to each other and we become one as Christ prayed. Husband and wife become one. Families become one. Believers become one.

Conclude your devotional time with a short song and prayer of commitment.
There is power in music! Use it in your devotion!

By Dr. Andrews L. Ewoo

JUST 4 LAUGH

                                      

           

                                                  THE MAGIC KITCHEN......... COPIED from myjoyonline.com

 Ikemefuna is a house boy whodrinks the wine of his Boss with impunity then adds water to cover his tracks.
His Boss was suspicious & decided to buy pasties (a French wine that changes color if u add water just like dettol).
Unknowing, Ikemefuna, drankfrom d wine & topped it up with water as usual.
…
Sadly for him, immediately he added water d pasties becamemilky & when d Boss came back & noticed it, he knew he had nailed ikemefuna. Ikemefuna knew he was in trouble & decided to stay put in d kitchen when his boss came home.
The Boss told his wife about what he observed.
“Ikemefuna!”, he called from the sitting room.
He answered: “Yes, Boss”.
“Who drank my pasties?”.
Ikemefuna :No answer.
The Boss asked again: still noanswer.
Then d Boss went to the kitchen 2meet him there:
“Are u insane or what? Why when I call u say “yes boss” but when I ask you a questionu don’t answer me? ”
Ikemefuna retorted, “hmmm oga when u are in d kitchen udon’t understand anything atall, except ur name”
“Is that so?” asked the boss,“Okay, go to the bar stand beside Madam, while I’llgo into d kitchen & then ask me a question”
Ikemefuna accepted. When hisboss was in d kitchen he shouts: “Boss”.
“Yes, ikem” his Boss answers. Ikemefuna then asks, “Who goes into the maid’s bedroom when Madam is not at home?”
No answer.
D boi shouted again: “Boss, I say who dey sneak to d maidsroom when madam no dey house?”
No answer.
The Boss runs back from thekitchen shouting “Wonders will never cease! Ikemefuna, Itis true, when one is in the kitchen, one does not hear anything, except one’s name.”
D wife interrupted, “that’s nottrue. It’s a lie without argument.” Ikemefuna asked ifshe’ll enter d magic kitchen 2be tested. She agreed.
Ikemefuna asks madam, “Who’s junior’s biological father? Me or d Boss?”
Madam: Mad rushed out of thekitchen. “This kitchen needs to be fumigated I can’t understand anything.