Equipping young women professionals with young families to find fulfillment, contentment and joy as mothers and home makers without losing sight of who they are as women.

Volume 06, Issue 06: Meditate on Success

Out of a false sense of humility, we sometimes want to shy away from talking about success. Success is not only a good thing, but a God thing. Our maker designed us to thrive. So go for it, be motivated to want to be successful.

What is your success? What does success look like to you? The trouble for most people is that they don’t know exactly what success would look like for them as individuals, or more importantly, what it would feel like personally.

Success is very personal, and is often more than just one thing. One person’s success can be very different from another person’s. Record your success statements. Don’t rely on other people’s success, identify your own and delineate your path towards it.

Meditate on your success. There is a direct correlation between the quality of your thoughts and the quality of your life. What you think determines who you are, where you go, what you acquire, where you live, whom you love, where you work, what you accomplish, what you read, etc.

Your life is a reflection of your most dominant thoughts and meditations. Define your success, and then make it a practice to meditate on it and take the necessary actions. All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is a direct result of his own thoughts – John Allen

As you meditate on your success, be precise and meticulous. It’s not enough to meditate on success generally. You are the architect and building contractor of your future. An architect not only thinks about the frame of the house and the rooms therein, but also the types of floors, the sizes of windows, the location of outlets, and so on. Think specific and detailed. Paint the picture of exactly how you want it to look like. Nothing is too insignificant.

We will never have more or go further or accomplish greater things than our thoughts will allow us. Create an opulent thinking environment in order to create an opulent life.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 06, Issue 05: Get in on the Good Life

Why is it not enough to read a good book once? We certainly can read through the Bible in a year. Why do we have to read the same text year after year, over and over again? We read over and over again to master the material enough to be transformed by it.

Knowing faith comes by hearing, Jesus spent hours teaching and dialoguing with his disciples. He taught his students success principles derived from spiritual laws in order to build their faith in their ability to make a difference in the world. He knew it would take constant exposure to the light to finally turn on in them.

If our success hinges on our thoughts and words, then we must fill our minds with great thoughts. To have great thoughts we must plant and nurture them from what we read and hear.

It’s not enough to hear something important only once or a few times. Like with Jesus’ students, it will take constant exposure to light for it to finally turn on in us. We must keep reading and hearing success principles to fill our minds with successful thoughts.

In the voyage from Egypt to the Promised Land, Joshua and Caleb stood out in their entire generation. Their brethren died in the wilderness while they lived to take possession of the land alongside a younger generation. The secret to their success was adherence to God’s specific instructions to Joshua about how to secure success, prosperity and victory over every adversary.

God instructed Joshua to meditate on his Word day and night so that it would fill his heart, mind and mouth. Then he commanded him to be strong and courageous.

Right from the onset, God made it a priority to address the issue of Joshua’s mind. No other instructions or strategies took precedence over what occupied Joshua’s thoughts.

Until Joshua’s mind and mouth only thought and spoke God’s word, Joshua could not have any hope of being strong and of good courage.

What’s preoccupying your thoughts? Is it making you successful? Don’t be among those who miss out on success for lack of knowledge. Saturate your mind with great substance. Be in the know, unlock God’s secrets for you, and get in on the good life.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 06, Issue 04: Dare to Imagine

How do I look ahead if my targets for 2015 turned out to be a pipe dream? By changing the frequency of your thoughts and words. What are your thoughts chasing after, what are your words gathering to you?

It’s one thing to set goals for the New Year; it’s another thing to realize them. Have you ever wondered what makes some people successful and others not so successful? We limit ourselves by our limited thoughts. We talk of what we want to achieve for one moment, and then spend the next half hour talking about the happenings in life that are keeping us from getting there.

Your outer world is a result of your inner world. We sabotage our success by our own negative thoughts and words.

Jabez did not ask God for more property or greater wealth but to enlarge his intellectual territory, his mental capacity regarding his worth. He asked God to give him a greater capacity for conceiving what he might accomplish on God’s behalf. He prayed that God would give him a greater ability to think big.

Our thoughts determine our destiny. Think about your future regarding what you really want to accomplish and on behalf of whom. Think possibility thoughts. The possibilities in our lives change when our perspectives change.

We were made for more than ordinary lives. We were made to thrive. We have to see ourselves doing more, gaining more, and being more. To do this, we must think beyond where we are.

When I look around me, I see occurrences that are way beyond what I could possibly make happen. They exist because I called them forth with my thoughts and words. Understand that your feet will never take you where your mind has never been.

Like Jabez, we ask God to enlarge our capacity for thinking, to give us bigger thoughts, to see what other people cannot see and hear what other people cannot hear. It is God’s desire that we succeed and prosper. He designed us to create success and abundance in every sphere we influence.

God wants us to live a life of abundance. Abundance is not materialism or consumerism. It is the fact that it is God’s will for us to live without lack – to provide us with every possible thing to successfully fulfill our purpose and maximize our potential.

Your target for 2016, if you can see it in your mind first, you can achieve it. Deliberately envision your life with whatever you aspire to achieve. Fill your mind with great thoughts. Flood your atmosphere with possibility with every word you speak. Dare to imagine!  Dare to go in the direction of your dreams.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 06, Issue 03: Look Ahead

A story is told of Mephibosheth who was born in royalty but circumstances in life dealt him a hard blow that moved him from state house to slum house, from plenty to poverty, and from healthy to crippled. His opinion of himself was that he is a dead dog.

Though he initially saw himself as a dead dog, Mephibosheth took a bold step and accepted the King David’s invitation to live with the King in Jerusalem.

When Mephibosheth started eating at the King’s table, his crippled feet were covered under the table. Don’t let your deficiencies keep you from moving forward. God’s grace is sufficient for us.

Mephibosheth’s feet were not healed, but they were covered. Don’t wait for your situation to change to move in faith to your destiny. The Lord never removes all the obstacles but his grace is sufficient. It may not be comfortable, but take a leap of faith and move to the palace.

Look ahead. Refuse to take no for an answer. See yourself as God sees you. Don’t settle for the successes of 2015. Reach out for the more that God has in store for you in 2016.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 06, Issue 02: Look Back to Move Forward

We can easily move from one project to another without pausing to reflect and give thanks. Look back and thank God.

We have just entered into a wide screen of 2016 with a small mirror of reflection to help us look back at 2015 and before. We don’t want to hang on to the victories of the past. We set our eyes on new successes for the new year. Even so, look back and be grateful. Looking back at the things God has done for us will propel us with gratefulness in 2016.

Looking back helps us remember. We don’t want to forget the benefits God has bestowed upon us. Gratitude requires an appreciation of the positive elements of your situation. Perhaps some things are not working well in your life, but there’s no point dwelling on the negatives. Focus on what God is doing and be thankful. In any set of circumstances, there’s something going for you for which you can be grateful.

Look back and thank God but forget the successes of the past. There’s more to set your eyes on in the new year, more to accomplish. A story is told a young man who used the jawbone of a donkey to kill one thousand philistines. When he finished the mission, Samson threw the jawbone away and moved on to his next conquests.

Although he had great victory with the jawbone, Samson realized it was the power of God that gave him success, not the jawbone. What jawbones do you need to throw away? They may have worked in 2015 but they are not the source of your success. Samson’s destiny was not to kill donkeys. His destiny was to kill the philistines. Because he threw away the jawbone, he fulfilled his destiny.

Discard the jawbones of 2015, those things that worked so successfully in 2015 that you thought that’s all God can do. God will give you new energy, new methods, new strategies, new successes in 2016.

Don’t be stuck with the first breakthrough. Sometimes we hang on too long to the successes of yesterday that we get trapped in one place. Success can become a prison when we convert it to a monument.

The new year is an open door of opportunity. Let not your testimonies be the same year in, year out. Look back to remember the goodness of the Lord but don’t dwell there. Look back to move forward. God is always doing a new thing. Don’t be stuck in the new things of yesterday and miss out on today’s opportunities.

Lillian Chebosi