HOW TO LIVE?

One of the most deceitful beliefs with humans is the idea that money can take care of most issues in one’s life.

The deceitfulness of riches is to believe it can make you a better individual. Money can answer many things except who you are. Money lacks the power to solve your character problems, personality flaws and identity crisis.

Money can package you well and make people think and assume all is well with you but I assure you, deep in within, you’ll know you’re still lacking something vital despite all you have. There will be this void money will not be able to fill.

Money lacks the power to transform you, it can only package you well and get you things; money lacks the power to make you a better human being.

To live is different from being alive. Many have a reputation for living but in reality they are just existing. They are bereft of what it truly means to live. Many pass through this world but never truly live.  They go through life without the satisfaction that comes with life. Many live their lives in measures far below what is possible and acceptable. You can live life abundantly and also live life insufficiently. The essence of life, the beauty of life, the fulfilment in life is a life lived in real joy, peace, happiness, fulfilment and with an unflinching courage to face death when it is time to go. Money has no answer for the grave, money has no answer for terminal illness, money has no answer for aging and money is useless after you’re dead, your reputation and legacy is what lives on when you’re dead.

Do you want to live a life of happiness? Do you want to live a great life? Are you tired of pain, frustration, stress, depression, emptiness, contest and competition? Are you tired of your weaknesses, limitations, bad habits and self-hate? Do you want to truly live? I’ll want to quickly share some real keys to living a full life. Living a life of fullness and meaning have got some critical keys, let me share them with you this morning.

KEY ONE LOVE.

Love is the most powerful force in the world. Love is the only solution to humanity crisis. Love is a combination of feelings and/or actions. Love is incomplete at the level of feelings, but is totally complete when there is action even if the feelings aren’t there. Love is primarily how you treat other people. To love others, you must love yourself first. Loving yourself is accepting yourself despite your flaws and weaknesses. If you can’t tolerate yourself, you can’t tolerate others, if you can’t love yourself you can’t love others. If you won’t accept yourself, you’ll be quick to judge and condemn others. Love is treating people right, not as they like. Love is about building people up, not indulging their indiscipline or self-hate leading them to self-destruction. Love is bringing out the best in oneself and others. Love is treating people right even if they don’t like you. Love is powerful.

KEY TWO JOY

Joy is not really a feeling, it’s a positive force that brings calmness and comportment; eliminating guilt, self-condemnation and self-hate. Joy is when there is an alignment between what your Spirit wants, what your soul receives and what your body does. Joy is released when your soul and flesh obeys your spirit. Joy is an energy produced when your tripartite nature agrees as one.

KEY THREE PEACE

Peace is not the absence of crisis or chaos in the world or in your life. Peace is an inner feeling of an assurance that at the end, all thing will work out in your favor. Peace is a product of trust. Trust is an outcome of believe and focus on the positive side of life. Peace is produced through positive expectations, confessions, thinking and actions. When you’re moral and you strife to retain a good conscience, you’ll have peace.

KEY FOUR PATIENCE.

Patience is accepting the fact that everything in life grows. Everything in life takes time. Patience is the ability to wait, ability to delay gratification and tolerate others in their growth processes. Patience is not just the ability to wait, but your attitude while you’re waiting. Patience is the ability to grow into your goals instead of chasing your goals. Patience is taking the time and discipline to earn, rather than rushing to obtain what you’re not ready and thoroughly prepared for. Patience builds in you the capacity to retain.

KEY FIVE KINDNESS.

Being kind is simply the restrain from judging people on a matter before we fully understand or before its fullness of time. Not every divorcee is a bad wife or a bad husband. Not everyone with a child outside of wedlock was promiscuous, not every poor person is lazy, not every cancer patient live a careless unhealthy life; not every HIV/AIDs victim got it through sex. Not every man of God is a fraudster, not every old aggressive woman in the village is a witch, not every step mother is wicked, and not all mothers in law are mean. No matter how bad a person or situation looks, kindness is not judging anything till all the facts are in place.

KEY SIX GOODNESS

Goodness is developing a passion for high quality. Goodness is shunning mediocrity and doing everything with a spirit of excellence. Goodness is not just being nice to people, it’s also being nice to things, being nice to your job, being nice to your properties, being nice to animals, the planet in whole. Treat your clothes well, your house well, your devices well, your shoes well, your hair well, your nails, the interior and exterior of your car. Don’t just respect people, respect things. Whatever it is you choose to do in life, be good at it. Don’t be a mediocre, be good.

KEY SEVEN FAITHFULNESS.

Faithfulness is simply the ability to remain loyal to a vision, ambition, purpose and original intent. Faithfulness is the decision to remain committed despite oppositions, obstacles, disappointments, criticism, great trails and temptations. Please get this, faithfulness is not the commitment to a person or vision that has derailed, faithfulness is the decision to remain committed to an original purpose, intent and vision. Following a derailed person, vision, mission or purpose is unfaithfulness.

KEY EIGHT GENTLENESS

This is simply the ability to remain calm, cool and collected even when everything goes haywire. Being abrasive, aggressive, disrespectful, forceful and noisy makes you look cheap and desperate even if you’re right. Being gentle is not a sign of cowardice, it’s a powerful strategy. Gentility is a powerful key.

KEY NINE SELF CONTROL

Self-control is simply the ability and determination to change yourself. It’s the power to say no to destructive things your body craves for. Self-control is the ability to change yourself when it becomes impossible to change a situation. Self-control is simply positive adaptation.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are the keys to living. Having these keys will bring you what money can never bring you. And guess what, if you have these, all the laws of nature will bow to you ‘cos against these keys there are no laws; even the law of riches and prosperity will bow. Dear friends, it’s time to live.