HEAVEN HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES

For so long I have heard this statement:
"Heaven Help Those Who Help Themselves" but considered it to be a ficticious statement simply because the bible never says so.

But when I took a precocious look at this statement and apply it to life issues,  I discovered it is one of the best statement I have ever heard, because it tends to solve life issues if it can be applied by individuals, groups, organizations, states or countries.

Just the way it is said; that any truth without an evidence is not worth being a truth. So I can boldly tell anyone including you that this statement "Heaven Help Those Who Help Themselves" is a true statement because it is backed up with different evidence.

This statement I think is one of the solution to the problem Africa is facing today if (condition) they can apply it and abide by it.

Now let's analyse this statement and it's application:

HEAVEN (GOD) HELP THOSE(YOU) WHO HELP THEMSELVES(YOU)

From the above, you will discover the word "YOU"  appear twice, which means for Heaven (God) to interfere in earthly(your) matters, you have to first take responsibility(help) for yourself.

If life's equation is hundred percent, you have to solve sixty percent yourself and leave forty percent  for God. This means you have more work to do for Heaven to help you.

This statement I think is what Americans applied that got them where they are today. Understand that America was not built by the Government alone, but by every citizen(individuals) of the country who took responsibility(help) for themselves.

 This shows the important of Unity because when two or more persons agree to do a thing, it prospers because they are united.

The reason an iron chain is strong is simply  because it was made from round interconnected centers.( This shows the power of unity)

"HEAVEN HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES"
requires unity for it to work for any country, organization, state or groups.

For the bible says:

                 Ecclesiastes 4:9 KJV
 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

                     Amos 3:3 KJV
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Waiting for Heaven (God) to help you when you haven't helped yourself is like a student waiting to pass an examination he or she is not prepared for. Definitely the student will fail the examination, because he or she  never helped his or her self through preparation.

So, for you to receive God's(Heaven) help as an individual, organization, state or country, you have to first play your sixty percent role by taking responsibility for yourself.

Decide what to do and do it well  (play your role in life) and God will do the remaining forty percent.

THE ONLY PERSON THAT CAN HELP YOU IS "YOURSELF" AND "GOD". (I .Mac~Jungle On Campus).

Author: Williams E A Peter

the twenty first century gods

MODERN DAY gODS

In the world today, and human being human will always seek a god figure to pay homage to OR serve. This we do consciously or unconsciously. This will then beg the question: who are gods or what are they?

gods are either living beings - dead or alive,  beings of myths etc. They receive from you extreme adoration, awe, reverence, worship, praise, keen followup, and dictate to a very large extent what you wear, the way you speak and act,  and in general the way you live. Without doubt, that person is  a god to you. 

In this modern days, idolatry is the order of the day where man has fallen to an extent of making a fellow man his or her god. Although it happened in ancient time but this day is at the hedge. In this right up, I will be looking at two famous idols and gods worship of our present time. They are

1: the clergy gods (pastor)

2: movie/music stars 

The two above listed are celebrities worshiped in the class of gods. They practically order the course and behavioural pattern of their fans. Their influence on their fans is so powerful that at their say,  they can stair unrest and riotous behaviours

These men (clergy) among whom ninety percent rose from the slum to stardom has congregations that are very massive and on a working day,  they can fill up a stadium to the brim and over pouring. Their voices have been taught to be the voice of God to the people so people do at their command.

Their influence on their congregation and even members not in their congregation is so much so that words will fail us to properly explain it, eg the Pope and several Pentecostal pastors.

I know of congestion where dark skinned brothers are now patronising bleaching mechanism simply because their head pastor, their father in the lord, their so called spiritual head is fair in complexion. 

I know of others who's members and pastors have abdicated their God given speech pattern with the craving to talk like their head pastor or one clergy some where.

I read a story about people who heard a man of God was coming into two,  the people took their sick and dead laid the by the road side the man was to travel.
These man have so much place them selves in a way that people can't help but serve them.  It's as though these men are living in God's parlor why their members living outside God's gate.

On the part of the movie/music stars, ninety percent are very bag influence and have become tools that the system of this world uses to control those caught in the net of these celebrities.

Ninety percent songs released by these celebrities, promotes violence on female, sexual indecency, drug experimentation, focus on immorality and gangsterism. 

These celebrities have secret lives but disguise their crazy career promoting acts as their main life style and people are copying and living it to their own down fall and undoing. The more they showoff, the more you are hooked, why?  This is because psychologically and in the fans subconscious they are high on the fact that they can become those celeb they envy.

The only place not tattooed on their body is their intestines. They give a new definition to materialism with their flashy life and heavy chains on their necks.

These celebrities are now employed by product companies or advertising firm to have a new product trend quickly. All they need to do is give that expensive shirt to Beyonce or Ariana Grande to wear and the sales begins. 

Just as Christians want to be like Jesus and we were told by Jesus to emulate him, so also the fans of these celebrities want to be like them. A lady spent huge amount of dollars and series of surgical sections performed on her just for her to look like Meghan markle.

People sleep outside for days just to see, talk or take a photo shot with a celebrity. Are these not gods? There are people glued to their cellphone because they want to be the first to catch the latest tweet or post by Beyonce, Rhianna, Britney Spears,

According to the Zeus mythology, the gods that is Zeus and his fellow gods thrive stronger when worshiped although I don't know how true that is. We get to see the same play out in the life of  these new age gods, that is pastor's, movies and music celebrities. The system is built to make them thrive in Wealth and materialism as their worship (fame)  increases. While those who worship and follow them remain on their knees.

These celebrities have so much built themselves up in people they will throw decorum to the wind if anyone talks ill of their gods (celebrities).

These two gods itemized, have a tool of influence over their follows. Beautifully enough, each god rose to stardom due to different specific uniqueness they bring to the play.

Ways to know if you are one of the worshipers of human gods 

1: what and who structures your fashion sense?
2: at the say so of the above personality, what extent would you go?
3: what extent will you go to defend them?
4: do you feel the need to serve them or serving them is serving a higher purpose?
5: why did you get a tattoo or other body piercing.
6: who would you give you right hand to see,  Jesus or beyonce.

TO BE CONTINUED

BY. I. MACPHERSON 

AMINA'S TEARS

AMINA'S TEARS 

I am going on a journey I have never been Going to a place I have never seen, scared by what the unknown holds for me Hunted by the clutches of traditions that once bent my mother's knees.

Will I be allowed the courtesy of a last meal, the privilege of my own will? But they just stared as if I am acting a script. Although louder by the minute was my screams against a tradition that seeks the core of my being.

All eyes on me are of those who have been snared emotionless by a custom which has eaten, them from within and their voice silent by society.

Please I am still a teen who has a lot to see, Places to be,  friends to make and enemies too. But they stared as I was led as a lamb to be bled, All because tradition said, to him I must wed. Please comply don't shame our family parents said.

They forget that tradition keeps us focus on the past. They forget that traditions where drawn based on circumstances of old which is no more applicable.

Mama said nothing because in her days, at a much younger age she went through the same. with my pain she can relate Because in her memory, it is like an experience of yesterday. But because history is written on a tablet of Stone no one can erase, I am doom to hang by the same rope of tradition and the same tree of culture others before me dangled from.

Mama's only consolation was "Time heals all wounds" but must I be a victim of it too? I don't want this wound because I might not be strong enough to bear the hideous scar it leaves. Not all scars fades and this is a scar made on a young girl's soul, A scar inflated to cripple womanhood.

To my parents He promised my virginity he won't take until I come age, as if that makes it ok. But that night, like biblical river Nile, My blood turned the white sheet red as he moaned with smiles On his old wrinkled face , I am ashamed For without my consent i have been taken by my father's mate

I showered trying to scrub him off me but every night, he keeps coming back to further dampen my sorrow and take away sleep from my night, his hands are imprinted deep in my soul, that water can not pacify, even the best of soaps were of no help.

I never knew the eyes could run out of tears until mine stopped flowing. How do I speak my pain to those too deaf to listen? Too blinded by the old ways of their ancestors to see me.

I am Amina;

Crying out with a silent but loud voice. Tradition has sold me off into slavery. I am she who has fallen prey butchery of tradition. to the deepest grief, Tradition  has turned my sleep into death, my dream into nightmares. Tradition took my voice when he offered me to a life of wilderness.

I am Amina crying for help

Author: I. Eddyson