Emmanuel Afiawari's Inspiration podcast

Consistency brings you through the corridors of many experiences, struggles, failures, indecision, triumphs, etc, and each of these becomes a reservoir of wisdom for future references, not just for yourself alone but for others to glean from. The more you stay consistent at something, the greater your learning experiences which becomes or serves as wisdom to help navigate similar or more complex t...

Consistency kills every trace of confusion in our heads or minds, and helps us focus on the assignment. Too many people are unclear about what they want or should do with their life, time, skills, abilities and opportunities. That you can do many things doesn't mean you should do everything! Consistency clarifies this ambiguous web in which so many people have been ensnared with and trapped in. Co...

Consistency boosts your confidence and builds your resilience. The more you practice at something, the more confident you get walking that path, and in the event that something goes wrong, you've the resilience to bounce back up again. These are reward systems that an idle person may not enjoy. Consistency exposes you to risks and opportunities; risks that develops and matures you as you surmount...

Yesterday, we established that consistency breeds mastery. But then mastery shouldn't be your final destination; you must add excellence to your mastery for you to be able to exchange it as value or revenue. Excellence breeds desirability, expands your reach and gives unsolicited referrals. Excellence puts you in a separate class for patronage. Whilst our focus is not on monetization per se, when...

We're what we repeatedly do. If I'm consistent at nothing, I'd become nothing; if I train or practise consistently, I'd gain mastery in what I apply myself to do. The more time and effort I commit to a venture, the more it becomes a part of me. Routine helps us develop mastery until it becomes an involuntary act. The operating word for mastery is not really passion but consistency. If you're passi...

Anyone who's not ruled by a set of personal time-tested values would become the cheapest person to ever live. When you're not governed by principles, you'd be like a city without walls where anything goes and nothing stays. You'd become a trade centre where exchanges occur but not to your betterment or advancement. Values set the tone of engagements and define your limits to everyone. When you're...

True value is determined by the problems you solve, same way your nuisance rating is determined by the problems you create. Whilst the former is positive, the latter is negative. You should be worried if your life generates more problems than the solutions it crates. Questions exist around you because you're their answers. You were created and built to solve the puzzles of life around you. By the...

We live in a generation with people that have little or no regards for value. Everything is taken at surface value, or worse still, we prioritise the mundane over eternal. Each passing day raises a concern for the gradual but subtle eradication of true values in a mad chase of shadows. The things we pride ourselves in today were things spoken of in hushed tones a few decades ago by the dissidents...

The summary of what God was teaching Abram in our text is to develop seeing eyes. Two critical things to have in this season are eyes that see and ears that hear. Once you guarantee these, there's no limit to what you can achieve. The bible says, "Ears that hear and eyes that see, the Lord has made them both" (Prov. 20:12). Having made both, He wants you to develop the ability to use them to navig...

The importance of having a vision cannot be overemphasised. Vision defines your journey, and points us where you're headed. It points us in the direction of your dreams and helps us have a grasp of what plays out in your mind. The bible says, "Where there's no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29: 18). Many people are in a perishing state today because there's no vision on which their lives and en...

Everyday, life throws at us the challenge of vision, and continues to question our ability to see. Interestingly but strangely ironical is the fact that one can have sight that see objects but lack vision that conceptualises ideas. In this instance, one is grossly deficient because it is ideas that rule the world. So God tells Abram, "For all the land which you see, to you will I give it...," thus...

It's not all life-changing encounters that has a divine angle to it. To think it has to be all divine is to be spooky without any justification. Whilst we do not discountenance the overwhelming effect of divinity intercepting humanity to bring about life-changing encounters, our focus is on these three different areas todays: the people we meet, the books we read and the way we're socialised can c...

Some encounters are triggered by adversity, where one is pushed against the wall with the only option left being to turn to God. When Elijah hid in the cave, he had one of such encounters. Peter, while in prison and waiting to be executed, had an angelic encounter that set him free. Paul and Silas had a similar encounter. This kind of encounter changes the dynamics and trajectory of one's life for...

Great men are products of encounters; encounters that have lived through the test of time; encounters that have been subjected to fire. But rather than get burnt, they were refined, purified and separated for greater exploits. Encounters are no spiritual gimmicks; anyone who makes mockery of the encounters of other people doesn't yet understand spiritual things. Encounters defer in degree and inte...

Everything we do in life is motivated by an end result which could either be altruistic or selfish. The latter is the way of the world, where the operating theme remains, 'what's in it for me?' In all such instances, the focus is on self - what benefits does my actions attract to me. It doesn't really matter if such actions hurt others or ruin their chances. Albeit, this is not the way of God's ki...

The bible lays a crucial foundation of love as the bedrock for every action we take, "For God so loved the world, that he gave...," suggesting to us the criteria for which our every action is weighed and measured. If your action is not motivated or sponsored by love, it falls short of God's standards. All of God's acts towards us demonstrates His love. Whether it is His mercy, His goodness, His pe...

Self-awareness is not a vice to be worried about or dropped but a virtue to cultivate. Self-awareness is the ability to identify and master your strength and weaknesses, and balancing same under control. It's your ability to define your limits while exerting your presence and will with such a dexterity that exudes virtue. The Psalmist acknowkedges that he's mysteriously complex, and thanks God for...

Self-awareness, like self-drive, is a powerhouse! Once you come into this reality of superpower, you become a self-starter, that can do unimaginable and amazing things. At this phase, your life is not powered by the valediction of others or the lack of it. One thing that happens so significantly for you, is that you lose the ability to doubt or second guess yourself. Your joy is no longer triggere...

It is amazing the amount of work put into making us what we are; work done my God for creating us so exceptionally amazing, and the efforts we put in to turn out right. Everyone of us is unique in our rights, and this uniqueness becomes our major selling point and a point of departure from others, giving us some rare advantages. We're so unique even to the point of possessing a distinct finger pri...

Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it. - Psalm 109: 26 - 27

"For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries" - (1 Corinthians 14: 2) "But ye, beloved, building up yourself on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost" - Jude 1: 20

Visibility is the new order for engagements, connections, patronage, collaborative synergy and harnessing great partnership. Imagine for a moment where you're talented and can deliver excellent services but nobody knows you or have seen your product, catalogue or profile. The danger of being in the 'wilderness' are the several opportunities that you could have capitalised on but would have to miss...

Sometimes, life could put us in a state of obscurity, where we start hiding or just completely overshadowed by many events happening in quick turns and successions. The more we try to keep up pace, the swifter the changes occur that tend to leave a part of us dead due to unfulfilled dreams or unmet expectations. More devastating, however, is when these things are beyond our control. In Noah's case...

All of creation was voice-activated. Genesis tells us, "And God said, 'Let there be light, and there was light.'" Each thing God created followed this path, they came into existence, and we believe it. How is it then that we struggle to live in the reality or believe that God has blessed us? Scriptures say, "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,..." So I'm fruitful because I'm...

The Verse we just read begins with, "And God blessed them...," which is a clear indication that except for the activation of the blessing, everything God wanted them to become was almost impossible. The blessing went ahead of them, therefore, the pronouncements that followed could become effective. The blessing at work in your life determines the things God says to you. On a different and more ser...