When it comes to quitting and Africa especially Nigerians, there are many slogans, sayings and motivational messages that encourage people not to quit.I wholeheartedly agree with those encouragements, especially because I
love raising up people to live as overcomers. In fact, I spend a lot of
my invested time helping people not to give up But there are some things that we should quit.I want to share four things you need to quit doing as soon as you can.
1. Quit Beating Yourself Up.
If I was to walk into the minds of young people these days, I would have to
call family and young peoples services to come and arrest them, because most people’s
thoughts about themselves are not kind. Most of their self-talk is
actually abusive. Filled with guilt, shame and regret, we listen to
these thoughts and pound at ourselves in hate, contempt and rejection.
Many people are so familiar with this toxic world of thought that they
don’t know otherwise.God did not design us to bear under these kinds of thoughts. He made our
bodies to live in thoughts based on love, especially patience and
kindness. Thoughts that are unloving towards ourselves become very
deadly. They kill our health and destroy our sanity. Yet millions of
people listen to thoughts that are so harsh and try to do things out of
those unloving impulses.Today, quit listening to any thought that is not kind and empowering towards yourself.
Quit Investing in People Who Don’t Want to Be Helped.
The energy of so many is being wasted as they invest countless hours
into someone who is not interested in changing, but remaining a victim.
Many good intentioned people get sucked into the vortex of victim
community, helping people who are so used to their dysfunctional life
they wont hear about entering into a new life by their own choices. They
choose by their decisions to remain in their junk. Those who live as
victims look to prey off loved ones and friends to affirm their victim
state and continue to pour into that mindset.This means we have to let go of performance, striving and people
pleasing. We have to let go of trying to change other people when they
are not doing their part at all. We cannot take the sins of others into
our own bodies.
Quit Investing So Much Time in Something You Are Not Called To.
When you’re off your gift and calling, it is extremely taxing and
frustrating. This doesn’t mean that living in your calling and gift mix
does not have trouble. There is a ton of resistance that will come
against you breaking into your divine destiny. The problem is I watch so
many people investing in something they are not clearly called to.
The Bible says that your gift makes of a man makes room for him,it brings him before kings,not rogues. The most challenging conversations I have is with people who are clearly
not in their calling. The biggest sign of someone who says they
are called to something, but it is not evident, is really simple: They
are not doing NOW what they say they are called to do. For example, they
say they are musical artists entertaining the youths all over the world, but they
don’t go to where they will entertain the young person right next to them. They claim they
are going to blow to nations, but wont help out in their environment.how many people in your environment know that you are artistic?.The problem is that we don’t value who we are and who we are made to be.
So we often chase something for the feeling and esteem we think that
position will bring. We end up chasing something that is not us.
Quit Waiting for Life to Just Fall on You and Bless You.
The classic mistake among many involves one of the biggest
Christian excuses of all time–“I am just waiting on the Lord.” The
meaning of this phrase has lots its meaning with so many, becoming a
colloquialism to cover up the fact that we are really doing nothing.
Waiting on God is not passive, but very active. We spend a lot of
time growing in who we are, preparing the grid of our lives for where we
see Him calling us and investing in the soil we are in now. Most live
in a world of passivity; waiting for the call, waiting for the money to
come in and waiting for a open door.
