A PRAYER FOR MY COUNTRY

I know its our national Anthem and its a song, but today, i will not sing

We sang it in school, just before every international football match, at our Independence ceremonies, and at some gathering. Again today, I will not sing.

I do not sing, not because I cannot, but I choose not to, for my eyes were opened sometime last year and it has seized to be a song to me since then.

I think about its message, i mediate on its phrases and words and i realize,

IT'S A PRAYER!

You may sing the first verse, afresh in this season on national crisis, LET'S PRAYER THE SECOND VERSE.

Shall we...

O GOD OF CREATION...

DIRECT OUR NOBLE COURSE

My that which drives us, may the burdens and passions of our hearts be filled with nobility, and that which doesn't primarily bring us wealth (though we need it), but primarily brings GLORY TO OUR NATION.

GUIDE OUR LEADERS RIGHT

They make policies, they hold meetings, they talk, and deliberate, but most of it is lead by selfish aims. Lord we pray that you order their hearts, that their thoughts, decisions and actions be for the good our our nation and the common man, even if they don't know it.

HELP OUR YOUTH THE TRUTH TO KNOW

This pray a heavy burden to me personally. Lord, reveal truth to our youths, truth about money, weealth, sex, love, honesty and injustice, truth about what matters most in life, truth about our individual purpose and its impact on our nation.

IN LOVE AND HONESTY TO GROW

Love is the fulfillment of the law, if we have love, we have it all. Honesty makes
me do business without having to read agreements 20times over, or be so skeptical that i can't even do business with someone because of his race or tribe. GROW US IN LOVE FOR OURSELVES, EACH OTHER, AND OUR NATIONS

AND LIVE IN JUST AND TRUTH

Justice, equally for all, justice on the streets (in our dealings with each other), justice in the law courts, but above all JUSTICE IN OUR HEARTS.

GREAT LOFTY HEIGHTS TO ATTAIN

Lord we need not to succeed just to feed our families, but to attain greatness that makes every Nigeria prosperous enough to meet the needs of nations, not just monitory but in terms of leadership, skill, aid and whatever. Give us the burden for GREATNESS and EXCELLENCE in all things, not vain mediocrity and empty, shallow wealth and prosperity, BUT GREATNESS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD!

TO BUILD A NATION WHERE PEACE AND JUSTICE REIGN

Above all, PEACE in our nation, peace in the presidency, peace in the state houses, peace in our corporations and organizations, peace on the streets, peace in the Niger Delta, Northern states and everywhere, PEACE IN OUR HEARTS

AMEN

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE FELLOW NIGERIANS

Live Deliberately

TiOLUWA

THE LIMITATION OF OUR NATION IS THE LIMIT OF MINDS

A young boy with no formal education, not his fault, his parents couldn’t afford it. A good excuse to become a nobody right? WRONG. He got a flare for science and was always playing with chemicals, spending what little change he got from menial jobs on reagents, even though he couldn’t afford most things in life. Rather than wallow in shame and give in to depression, he simply buried himself in his love, spending what little money he could get on it.

This poor young child grew to become a man, he overcame the limitations of his childhood and rejected the obvious fate his background offered him.

HE MADE SOMEBODY OUT OF HIS NOBODY.

And how much of a somebody did he become? He became the inventor of the light bulb, the first man ever to design an electric power distribution system, the owner of over 9000 patented inventions, the key to the electric revolution and start of a new era for humanity.

I wonder, who would have lost out if Thomas Edison refused to become a somebody?
In the same light I wonder who would have lost the most if Ben Cason didn’t build himself and become the first Neurosurgeon to successfully separate Siamese twins joined in the head.

Now I wonder, who will lose if you give in to your fears, frustration and the so called limitations of your environment, getting put down by your background and what you don’t have.

This is the truth, you lose, but more than you, everyone who should have benefited from the impact of your success will be doomed to failure because YOU GAVE UP.

THE LIMIT OF ANY NATION IS THE LIMIT OF THE MINDS OF HER PEOPLE

, the strength of every nation is as great as the boundlessness of the imagination of its citizens.

Every nation has more to lose if you fail to aim for the highest heights possible.
America Benefits more from the success of its leaders than the leaders themselves, Microsoft and the world benefits more from the success of Bill Gates and the entire world benefits more from the zeal and passion of the Google brother, more than they do.


If the political sector lacks leaders, it is because someone has refused to pay the price to be that great leader. If we lack scientist, engineers, states men, daring and ingenious business men, empire builders, industry builders and great visionaries, it is because somebody somewhere, MAYBE YOU, has refused to maximize their potentials and become
ALL THAT THEY CAN BE, TO THE GLORY OF OUR GREAT NATION.

THE WORLD NEEDS YOU MORE THAN YOU NEED YOURSELF.

Live Deliberately.
TiOLUWA