Hidden wisdom?

The proliferation of secret societies and dangerous cults is testimony to the fact that the human mind loves the abstract. There is a pull applied by the abstract on the human. How else would you explain the mass suicides and appartainance to all kinds of weird organizations by folks who are supposedly educated etc. This is what I call the HWE ie the Hidden Wisdom Effect!

And when the woman saw that the tree

The devil is intelligent. He has been around for a pretty long time, during which he's had encounters with all kinds of people from all kinds from background. Unlike man, he is not limited by nationality, boarders or money. The passage quoted above shows how he cons his victim into believing disobeying God, implies acquiring hidden wisdom.Countering God's edict has never and will never be wise but somehow, the devil still continues to deceive throngs into believing there's some hidden power, knowledge to be had by moving contrary to God's holy edicts. How else can you explain:

1. A rapidly increasing surge in deviant behaviour and attitude all across the world amongst all peoples?

2. Massive rebellion (sometimes institutionalized) against Christianity and interestingly against the Ten Commandments!

3. A belief taught (preached) as science that things existed out of nothing by themselves also known as the theory of evolution (or better still, the religion of evolution). Life teaches us that everything that we see was created (LCD, Iphone..anything), or has an inventor. Why is it so difficult for men to figure out the fact that God created them. The same deceiver of old. Worse still it is does who reason logically that are seen as dumb, because. Here is a list of well known scientist that think evolution is crap..List 1, list 2.

4. Massisve increase in teenage and unwed pregnancies, abortion ( it's my body I do what I like with it, lie), suicides and general rebellion against established order.

There is a general unexpressed feeling that we (men) have gotten wiser! What can be further away from the truth.The only wisdom that is worth having is the wisdom that talks about God, and that's to be had in God alone and not in going contrary to His edicts. Solomon was correct in stating that the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom. You're walking on dangerous grounds when your definition of wisdom, omits God the creator.

There's hope for you now, if you do the right thing ie turn from the foolishness of this age and the temptation to rebel against God. Turn over your heart to Jesus and experience true liberty and wisdom. the bible, God's word to His creation says;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) Romans 10v9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

Believe in Jesus, confess His name and receive power to become a child of God.


Innowas good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof ..Genesis 3v6

Rebelution 1.1 - Dear Pop Culture

This is one video clip you must watch. No comment - Inno

For men and caring sisters

I watched a friend die of complications resulting from postrate cancer, reason why I felt led to do some mini research on it and post some prevention tips for whoever cares to read.

The PCF - Postrate Cancer Foundation, lists the following tips for consideration:

Top 10 Considerations for Preventing Prostate Cancer

What can you do about it to prevent or delay the onset of the disease?

1. Eat fewer calories or exercise more so that you maintain a healthy weight.
2. Try to keep the amount of fat you get from red meat and dairy products to a minimum.
3. Watch your calcium intake. Do not take supplemental doses far above the recommended daily allowance. Some calcium is OK, but avoid taking more than 1,500 mg of calcium a day.
4. Eat more fish – evidence from several studies suggest that fish can help protect against prostate cancer because they have "good fat" particularly omega-3 fatty acids. Avoid trans fatty acids (found in margarine).
5. Try to incorporate cooked tomatoes that are cooked with olive oil, which has also been shown to be beneficial, and cruciferous vegetables (like broccoli and cauliflower) into many of your weekly meals. Soy and green tea are also potential dietary components that may be helpful.
6. Avoid smoking for many reasons. Alcohol in moderation, if at all.
7. Seek medical treatment for stress, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and depression. Treating these conditions may save your life and will improve your survivorship with prostate cancer
8. What about supplements? Avoid over-supplementation with megavitamins. Too many vitamins, especially folate, may “fuel the cancer”, and while a multivitamin is not likely to be harmful, if you follow a healthy diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, and healthy oils you likely do not even need a multivitamin.
9. Relax and enjoy life. Reducing stress in the workplace and home will improve your survivorship and lead to a longer, happier life.
10. Finally, eating all the broccoli in the world, though it may make a difference in the long run, does not take away your risk of having prostate cancer right now. If you are age 50 or over, if you are age 40 or over and African-American or have a family history of prostate cancer, you need more than a good diet can guarantee. You should consider a yearly rectal examination and PSA test.

http://www.pcf.org/site/c.leJRIROrEpH/b.5802029/k.31EA/Prevention.htm 


The Mayo Clinic has the following information on it's website also:

There's no sure way to prevent prostate cancer. Study results often conflict with each other, and no clear ways to prevent prostate cancer have emerged. In general, doctors recommend that men with an average risk of prostate cancer make choices that benefit their overall health if they're interested in prostate cancer prevention.
Choose a healthy diet
There is some evidence that choosing a healthy diet that's low in fat and full of fruits and vegetables may reduce your risk of prostate cancer, though study results haven't always agreed. If you want to reduce your risk of prostate cancer, consider trying to:

• Choose a low-fat diet. Foods that contain fats include meats, nuts, oils and dairy products, such as milk and cheese. In studies, men who ate the highest amount of fat each day had an increased risk of prostate cancer. While this association doesn't prove that excess fat causes prostate cancer, reducing the amount of fat you eat each day has other proven benefits, such as helping you control your weight and helping your heart. To reduce the amount of fat you eat each day, limit fatty foods or choose low-fat varieties. For instance, reduce the amount of fat you add to foods when cooking, select leaner cuts of meat and choose low-fat or reduced-fat dairy products.
• Eat more fat from plants than from animals. In studies that looked at fat and prostate cancer risk, fats from animals were most likely to be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. Animal products that contain fats include meat, lard and butter. When possible, use plant-based fats in place of animal fats. For instance, cook with olive oil rather than butter. Sprinkle nuts or seeds on your salad rather than cheese.
• Increase the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat each day. Fruits and vegetables are full of vitamins and nutrients that are thought to reduce the risk of prostate cancer, though research hasn't proved that any particular nutrient is guaranteed to reduce your risk. Eating more fruits and vegetables also tends to make you have less room for other foods, such as high-fat foods. Increase the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat each day by adding an additional serving of a fruit or vegetable to each meal. Eat fruits and vegetables for snacks.
• Eat fish. Fatty fish — such as salmon, sardines, tuna and trout — contain a fatty acid called omega-3 that has been linked to a reduced risk of prostate cancer. If you don't currently eat fish, try adding it to your diet.
• Reduce the amount of dairy products you eat each day. In studies, men who ate the most dairy products — such as milk, cheese and yogurt — each day had the highest risk of prostate cancer. But study results have been mixed, and the risk associated with dairy products is thought to be small.
• Drink green tea. Studies of men who drink green tea or take green tea extract as a supplement have found a reduced risk of prostate cancer. If you like to drink tea, consider choosing green tea.
• Try adding soy to your diet. Diets that include tofu — a product made from soy beans — have been linked to a reduced risk of prostate cancer. It's thought that the benefit of soy comes from a specific nutrient called isoflavones. Other sources of isoflavones include kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils and peanuts.
• Drink alcohol in moderation, if at all. If you choose to drink alcohol, limit yourself to no more than a drink or two each day. There's no clear evidence that drinking alcohol can affect your risk of prostate cancer, but one study found men who drank several drinks each day over many years had an increased risk.

Maintain a healthy weight
Men with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher are considered obese. Being obese increases your risk of prostate cancer. If you are overweight or obese, work to lose weight. You can do this by reducing the number of calories you eat each day and increasing the amount of exercise you do.
If you have a healthy weight, work to maintain it by exercising most days of the week and choosing a healthy diet that's rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
Exercise most days of the week
Studies of exercise and prostate cancer risk have mostly shown that men who exercise may have a reduced risk of prostate cancer. But not all studies have agreed. Exercise has many other health benefits and may reduce your risk of heart disease and other cancers. Exercise can help you maintain your weight, or it can help you lose weight.
If you don't already exercise, make an appointment with your doctor to ensure it's OK for you to get started. When you begin exercising, go slowly. Add physical activity to your day by parking your car farther away from where you're going, and try taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Aim for 30 minutes of exercise most days of the week.
Talk to your doctor about your risk
Some men have an increased risk of prostate cancer. For those with a very high risk of prostate cancer, there may be other options for risk reduction, such as medications. If you think you have a high risk of prostate cancer, discuss it with your doctor.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/prostate-cancer-prevention/MC00027

The following link may also be of help: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001418/

The benefits of a healthy lifestyle cannot be overemphasized. Let us be good stewards of the body God has loaned us.

Inno

Forteh's weekly finds ~ 'Biblenomics' and others!

People, this has been one action packed week.

I watched this movie expounding the glories of entrying innto Havard...almost as if getting there was obtaining a one way ticket to Heaven!

Now someone tell me...who made Havard the reference for education? Or maybe the question I should be asking is, who said University Education is the definition of success...I meditated on these on Monday (June 11) and guess what on Friday, Yahoo carried another hyped 'Havard success story'. Is Havard or someone out there trying to change our thinking? Ok, I don't have anyhting personal against Havard or getting a good education. It's a course I actually champion.  Abandoned Teen Heads to Harvard , is a very inspirational story but what the writer has no knowledge of is the conclusion of the matter. That said, allow me to suggest identifiers for defining true success. True success should have the following characteristics:

- Eternal value quotient (EVQ): We can be high flying achievers but if this does not materialize into positive change which transforms our lives for the better (for eternity), there's something fundamentally wrong with it. You don't need to seek far to discover that God made humans to desire eternity. Some things/activities/achievements are high in EVQ while others are not. Education is good if the focus is not on the education but on the benefits obtained from getting the education. That said, you'll agree with me that good education is one which has the ability to change a man, woman or child positively. This can be found in any educational establishment, anywhere around the world and not in some self promoting elite establishment!

- Values God and morality: Any success that distracts a man from God or seeks to hide or reject God totally is destruction rather than success. God made man, and is therefore better placed to lead man. Sin seeks to destroy man, leaving in it's a place a beast willing to obey the dictates of the first ever rebel...the devil. You can read about his act here.

Everything else (blessings), are just add-ons as a result of being God's glory seeking minded (Mathew 6:33).

Are your pursuits geared towards obtainging true success? 

Now even none bilbe believing folks are using the Bible to teach financial principles:

What the Bible Can Teach You About Investing Today ? Check it out, its a 'wowser'! I call it Biblenomics!

 

And sports make rich...hillarious http://finance.yahoo.com/news/want-a-9--raise--hit-the-gym.html

And this one is a no comment property

http://news.yahoo.com/drastic-measures-china-students-sit-college-exams-053552875.html 

Inspite of what you may think after reading all of this, take sometime out and honestly ask yourself this question. What will it profit me, if I gain all that is achievable here on Earth and wake up to find myself before a God I totally/partially ignored while things seemed to be going good for me.

Inno

Work

If you were asked to suggest a strategy for helping unemployed youth create employment what would be your answer/proposal?

Better still, your strategy should involve a plan for raising funds and should be able to work anywhere around the world...not just in America or Europe.

You're not going to win a holiday trip to Maui or a brand new shiny MacAir. If implemented however, your idea will save many families from want/lack. You will also have the satisfaction of knowing you contributed positively towards the human efforts of helping each other...making life better for some.

You can do it. Submit an idea today.

Blessings
Inno

Week 1 Day 1- Rebelution and other ‘musings’

Somedays you just feel inspired and not on others. I woke up this morning feeling inspired.

A few things happenned yesterday that really got me thinking again... First, I started reading the book "do hard things" by the Harris twin, Brett and Alex ( founders of the Rebelution). The whole idea is teenagers should not buy into the definition secular society seeks to ''slap" them with. Teens can be respobnsible, they can figure out difficult situations and handle difficult tasks with professionalism. Case in point, a few weeks ago, while visiting Leeds, my relative took me to his Local Care Force office where I met this young man, who I estimate  to be between 14-16 years in age. He not only dressed smart, but spoke smartly. first impressions, you couldn't make a difference between him and any other adult working there. I've read a few pages only but really excited about the prospect.

Second, we lost a dear brother. His transition into eternity has been a painful process as he has been sick for quite a long time. As a church we prayed. I believe God can heal, even today. That at least is the promise we get from Him when we read His word, the Bible. Healing may not always occur, in a way we wish but this doesn't mean it's not taken place. As men, we're gifted to see only one side of the story. If we could by some means get the full picture, in every situation, I guess we'd have a better opinion on a huge range of issues. That aside, I was informed about his death around 21h. As I drove to the hospital, my mind couldn't help meditatiing on the conversations we had when he was very much alive. As we all stood around the lifeless body, I saw again the shallowness in things and fighting for things here under.

I asked myself these questions. Who defines success in terms of possession of objects? How can we really consider wealth as having the ability to buy the life we want to live, whereas our lives are so brief? What is the real purpose of life, if at the end we must die? As these thoughts went through my mind, his young widow whom I was holding asked to touch his head...one last time. It was heart breaking. She broke out in tears again...I thought about his young kids..both still toddlers. Somehow I know, God has everything under control.

In the face of this situation possessions mean nothing. Eternity is everything. No matter what we have now, or will have later, in can't compare to eternity. Living your life as if Eternity was a fable is foolishness at the highest level. A true rebelution should focus on making our teens 'eternity' minded rather than temp. pleasures minded. The devil is still the lair who seeks to make us feel that which is important is that which can be had now. The gadgets, the pleasure, the possessions. It's a vain thing to live your life in pursuit of things or pleasure. True peace comes from knowing God and serving Him as He defines and not as you define. Jesus said, come to me...and I'll give you rest.

Rebel against the urges of the temporal, fixate your sight on the eternal!

Peace.

Inno