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Practical examples from personal life

This publication is the response to one of the review questions for a live radio interview on my article: ‘What the Church Refuses to Teach About Christianity;’ the particular question was…

You mentioned praying for greatness as an error, but consider Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4:10, his prayer was not an error; how is that?

At the University, I prayed a lot, led prayer meetings and all, and also did a lot of door-to-door evangelism; especially following up on new members of the main Christian Fellowship. One day, a lady friend of mine told me that back at her hall, one of our junior course mates was giving a testimonial about me, that I was doing well in my course because I had devoted so much time to ‘working for God.’ As much as I gave the glory to God, I also laughed in my head; because that was not the full picture.

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I am certain that if this junior course mate was to be called upon to write an inspirational account of my life, on this particular issue, she would just write that: “And Dave devoted his time to prayer, and doing the work of God on campus so God blessed him and therefore he did well in his Academics.” She didn’t know that in my secondary school, I had read three books that contained Zing4Life! principles on ‘How to study, and how to write and pass exams;’ and I was applying them. She didn’t know that at that secondary level I had also read a book that had Zing4Life! principles on ‘How to read very fast and still get deep meanings from the content,’ and I was applying the principles to my studies. Also, she was not aware of the many hours I was sitting up to read and to work. For most years in my life I have slept for 4 hours a day; and even anytime I was leaving for school, my dad would never tell me to study hard; he would rather say: “Make sure you are the best or among the best; and find time to sleep.” This junior course mate also didn’t know that because my Dad was an art master, most of the instruments we used in the Department of Architecture of the university, I had already encountered them and had used the same types of instruments right from age 5. And so on. All these details would have been missing, so the picture they would paint, would not have been complete. This is very common in Christianity; we tend to give ‘short-cut’ messages and ‘short-cut’ accounts. The Bible is compressed, and thus, sometimes misinterpreted; according to John 21:25 and 2 Peter 3:15-17 respectively.

I believe that God answers prayer (Mark 11:24); especially when we ask in the name of Jesus (John 9:4), and in accordance with his will (1 John 5:14). He always hears us and does his part (1 John 5:14-15; Matthew 7:7-11), and sometimes before we pray or finish praying he has already done his part (Isaiah 65:24). Where we miss it is when we have to do our part by taking the appropriate practical action, and yet we are not and are still making long prayers, or even vain babblings.

Ordinarily, or except by a miracle, God cannot give you a physical or earthly thing; He will answer you with ideas, opportunities and/or directions. As to how you turn them into the physical or earthly things you desire, it takes a lot of diligence; hardwork! Even those who would give testimonies of how God has been good to them, and blessed them with good jobs, promotions, cars, houses, and all that; follow them closely, and you will see how hard they work; they are very busy people. (By the way, those things may not necessarily imply the blessings of God) In any case, as Christians, we should target testimonies that will hit the global scale, beyond those limited to our individual needs. What must be emphasise here is that, you cannot make long prayers, and after that make the last part of Psalm 127:2 your favourite verse in the Bible (He gives His beloved sleep; taken out of context anyway) and expect things to happen for you just the way things happen for those who are working hard; with diligent hands. But let’s remember that, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it;” as Henry Ford puts it, and as Thomas Edison has observed: “Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”


This publication was the response to one of the review questions for a live radio interview on my article: ‘What the Church Refuses to Teach About Christianity;’ for the other review questions and responses you may click here.

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David K Egyir

David K Egyir

EGYIR is passionate about helping serious people like you to escape the most dangerous — common but avoidable — problem most people (rich, poor, educated, uneducated, religious, and non-religious alike) face in life. Also, he designs and builds beautiful, cost-effective and functional buildings, and graphics. And he helps executives, marketers, and business owners to make effective presentations; what you may call winning presentations. He is an Architect, a Designer, and a Life Coach. And an Entrepreneur. Especially as a life-coach, he has been popularly adjudged the best coach for excelling in education, increasing wealth, eliminating stress, and enjoying true fulfillment in life! Egyir understands life thoroughly and shares amazingly liberating insights from a uniquely empowering perspective. He has a firm conviction that, “The greatest tragedy in life is that majority of people have accepted to be less than they were born to be and are thus accomplishing far less than their true capabilities.” To that end, he authored (wrote) Purpose Compass, the exceptional life-coaching book that reveals 4 habits that are currently making your life difficult, or otherwise may soon make your life difficult, but which your parent, teacher, or pastor would dare not talk about; how to escape them and get to live a stress-free life of purpose faster! And 13 other equally amazing books that constitute the Zing4Life! Series. Egyir is also lead promoter of the electronic, trendy and amazing Smart Business Card, the only business card you’ll ever need, for the executive in you! He is a husband, and a father of two. Positionally, he is the Lead Founder and CEO of Seers, Associate of Arthro Synergeio, Lay Preacher of The Methodist Church Ghana, Global Lead Advocate of Zing4Life! and Volunteer Mentor with iMentor Ghana. To see more about him you may click here. #WeAreSeers | To get in touch with Egyir or to follow him on social media you may click here. #EgyirGuidesDaily | To support his writing & life-coaching social ministry you may click here. #SeersFoundation | To be part of Egyir's live sessions online at 20.30 GMT on Sundays you may click here. #TimeWithSeers |

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