STOP
NOISE……AND LISTEN!
Weekly
Motivation for 19th October – 23rd October 2015 by
Ndimofor Aretas
Good Morning dear students;
I
am very happy and grateful for another opportunity to reach out to you in a
special way. Thank you very much for
always LISTENING and PAYING ATTENTION to my presentations. I am sure you have gathered a lot so far and
your life is becoming clearer as we get along.
We
have come to a point where all I can do is show you the door and ONLY YOU are
going to DECIDE to walk through……
When I first talked about this to
one young man, he asked me; “where is the door?” and “where am I going to?”
I
said the door is located WITHIN YOU and you are going to ENTER INTO YOUR MIND through
it.
Dear
students, it is for a good reason that whenever a lesson or an important piece
of information is being delivered to you, there is always a call for SILENCE
AND ATTENTION. When you pay attention
hard enough, eventually you will be able to recall a bulk of what was being
said. The reverse is true in the case
where you do not listen.
Why
am I still insisting on silence when you are all so quiet…? It is because I am encouraging you not only
to be quiet physically, but be quiet in your mind…! LISTEN TO YOURSELF…..!
A
student came up to me and said “Sir, I have been going through your talks and I
will love to follow them by the letter….! But I have this problem…. I cannot
decide what I really want….!
So
I tried to find out if that student ever took out time to be STILL AND QUIET…
and he had NEVER…!
My
dear students, a lot of great things START FROM THE MIND and success is one of
them. You need to be able to THINK…
before anything else in your life. One
of the major causes of failure and frustration is the fact that many of us
don’t THINK FOR OURSELVES…. We let others do the thinking and then allow them
to make certain crucial decisions for us only to later on realise that we had
something else in mind.
This
has been my most challenging write-up so far… BOTH FOR ME AND FOR YOU….
Challenging for me because the main
concept I am trying to make you understand has been summarized in many
different ways in several books… some with hundreds of pages….! I have had to read the few that I could find
many times over to understand it myself….
But I realized that you need to start very small and simple and when you
master the basics, you then grow.
That starting point is to START FINDING AND BUILDING YOUR SELF
CONFIDENCE…. Through Talking and LISTENING to God (THROUGH YOUR INNER SELF)!
The reason I say
that it is challenging for you is because most people find it difficult to BE
SILENT AND STILL….THEY HARDLY LISTEN…!
In this modern
age of noise and busyness, it’s extremely easy to get distracted by external
influences. We hardly listen to OUR
INNER VOICE.
At first this
doesn’t seem to affect us much, or at all. We still continue on with our daily
lives, working and playing, taking care of obligations and responsibilities. As
time goes on, we may notice that we feel a little more “spacey” and a little
less in tune with our lives. Our inner voice (or intuition, if you will) seems
to dim and grow distant so we can barely hear it anymore.
If we ignore
these warning signs, they usually grow in intensity – until eventually we feel
completely out of touch, confused, fatigued, weary, and powerless over our
lives. We realize too late that we’ve forgotten who we once were.
Imagine if you
had a best friend that you never spoke to, acknowledged or spent quality time
with. How would your friend feel about that?
Very likely, he
or she would feel slighted, neglected, and distanced from you.
Most of us would
never dream of treating our friends so terribly. Yet, that’s exactly what we do
to our inner selves. We ignore them completely and then wonder why we feel so
empty and disconnected.
Dear students,
you are still young and NOW IS THE TIME…..!
Drop the MP3 players and phones for a while; turn off the loud music,
the television, the computers, stay away from NOISE MAKERS …all other
distractions….. forget about your troubles for a while….
BE QUIET, STOP
NOISE AND LISTEN….. Listen to your inner voice, listen to your soul …. FOCUS on
what HE/SHE is trying to tell you…..!
I listened to
mine and it had been crying out a message to me for all these years…. When I
listened to it and started reading the bible, I saw it well summarised in some
verses like this one;
Genesis 1:27; So
God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female.
Dear students,
do you really understand what that means….?
This has been one of my most valuable discoveries and
revelations….! It “OPENED MY EYES” so to speak..!
Due to time
constraints, I will explain it fully in my next write-up…. (don’t miss it…!)
I only started
paying keen attention to what God was trying to tell me through the Holy Bible
a few months ago… it has been message
upon message since then…! I have found
MY TRUE SELF…
I have come to
understand WHO I AM and WHOSE I AM….!
Dear students
I’m encouraging you to start now, take a few minutes and LISTEN to your inner
self… there is something it is trying to tell you…. Don’t make the mistakes I
made…! I will soon be 30 on March 31st…..I
am fighting really hard to RECONNECT to my soul…to GAIN CONTROL of it again….
but most of you are under 24… don’t lose your soul...! STAY IN TOUCH WITH IT…!
In
the Bible it says, “What does it benefit
a man if he achieves the whole world but loses his own soul?”
The
happiest and most successful people in the world today are those who are living
IN HARMONY with their INNERMOST convictions and values. The unhappiest people
are those who are attempting to live in contradiction to what they truly value
and believe.
Dear students if
you are still not sure on how to start, I will advice at this point that you
start by praying…. Remember, one of the definitions of Prayer is Talking and
LISTENING to God…. God speaks to us through our inner voice…..
Listen to your
INNER VOICE…. It never lies…!
Somebody
recently asked me how I am so sure….. I explained to him that I was made in the
image of God the Almighty….. right down to each cell or molecule of my
body…INCLUDING MY SOUL… in fact I told him what I am telling you NOW according
to;
Psalms 139: 13: You created every part of me; you put me
together in my mother’s womb.
In some versions
of the Bible like the King James, Psalms 139: 14 says; I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous
are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well.
Dear students,
you have potentials in you that even till you die, you won’t be able to discover
all…! Nevertheless, you can discover and
use a lot of them everyday till you stop breathing… You were made to succeed….! The first attitude I will like you to adopt
from today is that of listening more to your inner self, than to the physical world…
And when anyone
or situation is trying to tell you that you are a failure or that you will
never succeed, listen to that voice inside you…. It will give you a message and
you will shout it out loud enough to chase all obstacles or negative thoughts
that were holding you from your success…
I can already
here you saying this to all your obstacles…..
I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE…..
IN
JESUS’ NAME…..,
AMEN.
By
Ndimofor Aretas
Monday,
19/10/2015
(For the week of 19th October – 23rd
October 2015)
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