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Listen to this: Every mountain top vision must include the valley of service. I need to repeat that again: Every mountain top vision must include the valley of service. There are many other examples. One of them is Saul, the son of Kish who is of the tribe of Benjamin. The journey that brought Saul the son of Kish to his anointing as the first King of Israel was not a search for greatness. It was not a search for greatness. It was not even a search for kingship or dominion. He did not go in search of prophet Samuel to seek special prayers to made a king. It was in search of his father's lost donkeys. That right there is service. He moved from one dry land to another, with no money in his jar and probably no water in his jar just in search of the lost donkeys. That is service. Finally, another example is David. David was not seeking greatness when he went into battle with Goliath. He actually went into the battle arena to seek the welfare of his brothers and deliver some f...

GET HIGH!!! BUT GET HIGH BY GOING LOW By Ishola Emmanuel #INSPIRE SERVICE: THE KEY TO GREATNESS To be great in God's eyes, it is not greatness you must seek. It is service. To be great be lowly. To be great, serve. To be high, go low. You can only go high by going low. Get high by going low. Some people spell service as "serve us" but that is not the correct mindset for true and sustainable greatness. At the root of greatness is service. Service is not "serve us". Service is about serving others. The key to greatness and fulfillment in life is service. The key to your happiness and fulfillment is to serve others. Things will keep coming to you when you do not seek them only for yourself but for others. One example is Joseph - the eleventh son of Joseph. Yes, Joseph became the Prime Minister (Vizier) of Egypt at thirty-three years old yet he did not get to that position principally by seeking that position, rather he got the position by seeking ser...

Is there anything so special about books? Is reading truly important? The answer is yes. Reading is important because it brings information, understanding and illumination. To be informed is to be transformed. It is information that brings transformation and it is what you know that makes you grow. The Biblical Daniel in Daniel chapter 9 verse 2 said: I Daniel understood by books. Paul who wrote almost half of the new testament -13 out of 27 books was also an avid reader. In one of his letters to Timothy, particularly in 2nd Timothy 4:13, he said : "The cloak i left at Troas, bring with you and the books" Just to emphasize the importance of books and reading, i will round off by citing the example of Benjamin Solomon Carson. He was born to Sonya (a school dropout) and Robert Solomon Carson (a Baptist Minister) on September 18, 1951 in the city of Detroit, the state of Michigan and the country of United States of America. Carson lived with his ...

A survey showed that seventy (70) percent of Nigerian secondary schools have no guidance and counseling unit. We have a challenge in our hands because this means that when the choice is to be made as to which department to join when a student gets to senior secondary school one (SS1), they make that choice based on several irrelevant factors like ● The departments which their friends have chosen ● The departments which their parents force them to join ● Other people's wrong estimation of their abilities. For instance, some kids maybe told that on account of their exceptional brilliance alone, they should join science class. ● The department which they feel they would get a lucrative job or career. Eventually, owing to the aforementioned factors, all they get is a job which is entrusted on them and not a job which they can trust or are passionate about. This is why it is extremely important that young people are made to understand that when choosing a career, they ...

Fifty years ago, experts wrote papers explaining why the human body could not run a mile in less than four minutes. Everyone, except Roger Banister, thought that running a mile in less than four minutes was impossible. Roger Bannister changed that popular perception. When Banister broke the four-minute barrier in 1954 on University of Oxford’s Iffley Road Track, other runners duplicated the feat within months. Can I quickly say this to you: Others’ opinion of you should not become your reality. Other’s belief about you should never set a limit on your ability. Don’t follow what the crowd is saying, follow where your cloud is directing you to. You are better than you think and where you are is not who you are!

One of the beauties of life is the inherent ability God has actually placed in you to literally transform your life to your desired state and to turn adversity to advantage. You can only explore and exploit this ability however only when you realize that failure is an integral part of the learning process and if used circumspectly, it will enable you to learn the proper principles that will ensure sustained success. In fact, occasional failures and stumbles may be among our best teachers on the path to success. Therefore, always adopt the Edison principle. The Edison principle was very well developed by Thomas Edison, who after several failed attempts to invent the light bulb said that I did not fail nine hundred and ninety nine times. I only learnt nine hundred and ninety-nine ways it won't work. Turning adversity into lessons and advantages is therefore one of the ways of fast tracking your own success. Walt Disney, American film producer exemplifies this principle. ...

When it comes to personal development, reading is extremely important. You are the same person in five years, except for two things; the books you read and the friends you keep. Think about the changes in your life five years ago and now... One way or the other you will trace the improvements to a piece of information you got. To be informed is to be transformed and to be uninformed is to be deformed. This is where books become crucial; they are a dependable source of information and knowledge gathering which advances your life forward. As American motivational speaker, Alvin Toffler captures the point, "the illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re-learn." You have to keep working on yourself and books in your life's area of calling will help you do this. Motivational speaker,Jim Rohn said: "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a ...